[...] Android 1.6 on this device just fine for many months. Rogers has now been telling us that they are willing to upgrade our phones to HTC Magic devices, and that they will be updating the Magic phones to Android 2.1 sometime in [...]

hey guys!

if anyone is interested in a SAFE was to upgrade to Android 1.6 for their Rogers HTC Dream, check out this link

http://upgrade.android.32teeth.org/

it is a step by step process. written for those of us who are NON TECH and want to upgrade our phone!

i did mine last night following the steps to the letter and it was super easy and done in less than 30 minutes!

SO I am a rogers customer with a Dream… called to upgrade to Magic. Suddenly there is an ISSUE where Dream and Magic users can not call 911 if they have GPS enabled… SO… THEY ARE NOT CURRENTLY PROVIDING THE FREE UPGRADE BECAUSE THEY DON’T WANT TO GIVE US A FAULTY DEVICE!!!

I have been told to “not worry” Rogers will decide what to do and that I will not receive the free upgrade to Magic as there is an issue with the device.

Oh, but I should have a nice day :)

Nice block Rogers…

[...] this week we reported that Rogers Wireless would be upgrading the phones of customers who purchased a HTC Dream. Rogers made this decision after they revealed that they [...]

Ha, if you lived in canada you would sign up for rogers?

Sorry I have to comment on this.

Up until a little while ago you had no choice. Rogers was the only gsm provider

I know there are many people out there that would love to tell you how lame rogers is and I’m surely one of them but I’ll try to keep this professional and in reference to this article.

In my opinion this is rogers escape plan and a bad one albeit, to quickly satisfy the dream owners how haven’t received a single important update since they got the phone. They were to lazy or unprepared (as they usually are for tech upgrades) to make there “proprietary rogers platform” 1.6 for there dream and now there just upgrading people to the magic for a small fee. Not that great a deal if you don’t have a contract with them or like your hard keyboard. Yes thats right. Rogers tack on new contract terms when you upgrade. And did anyone else read the term “limted”. Looks like you only have so long to do your upgrade.

Don’t get me wrong, its better than nothing, something rogers again is known for. Doing nothing. But I think instead of forcing people to the magic, they should just release a version that will run on the dream.

So with that being said and having played with the n1 literally yesterday hehe tres cool, stock android. 2.1 isn’t that great. Yes its new and compatible and is a great improvement but if you compare it to cyanogen’s latest rom there’s nothing new.

**** I use cyanogen to get the bits and pieces of 2.1 while only staying at 1.6. Its not that hard, and if you follow the tutorials anyone can do it. I have the same updated maps, google nav, searching features of 2.1 etc. Its great and its always being updated, by very skillful gents. I use a tmo g1 and love it ever so much now, things are far faster, more responsive and I can install as many apps as I feel like.

I know this doesn’t work for everyone so I guess its just a rant. But please don’t tell me rogers is amazing and imply it has some sort of caring relationship for its customers.

Believe me, they don’t

If the battery life in the G1 bothers you, try out one of these: http://www.seidioonline.com/product-p/bacy26tmg1-bk.htm

I got one for mine, and now I can go 2.5 days or so on a charge, with the GPS on all the time and using WiFi at home.

Do you know who else should do this? T-Mobile.

so when would the android 2.1 be coming out for the mytouch

I am on rogers and I get 6GB of data a month for $30 on my dream, same for my fiance on her iphone. This deal is offered quite often from rogers.

Yo check this out for root:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Full_Update_Guide_-_Rogers_Dream_EBI1_to_CyanogenMod

These are the steps i followed.

Also search for the amon_ra 1.5x 32a recovery image. Its better than the cm recovery image.

I’ll have to read some reviews of the magic to see if its even worth it.