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Re: Android for Sprint HTC TP2 links for an old newbie!

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Originally Posted by martian63 View Post
4. The startup also gives you an opportunity to run Update. It automatically downloads all updates and installs.

I do not know if this update is for zImage as well as for Module and data.img. Should I not run this update?

If I'm to manually update,

1. Do I need to run all updates sequentially from FRX01 to FRX03?
2. In order to update, do I just unzip/extract the files and replace the old zImage,Modules and data.img with the new ones?
So that tool updates zImage/modules (kernel) and rootfs. It does initrd too, but that probably isn't going to get anymore updates.

It does not update the system.ext2 (system image) which is basically the build you're running. You can download it from xdandroid.com, and no - you can go straight to FRX03 - just one thing to be wary of, is when you go between system images you sometimes need a new data.img - if you've run Android before, you'll have a data.img file that has all the apps and customizations you've done. You may need to delete this file if you're moving between system images (ie FRX01->03), initial boot will create a new one for you.

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Originally Posted by dcurry View Post
I used the startup utility that opened when I clicked on the Android shortcut on the start menu. Overclock was not enabled. And now the program that loaded when I clicked on the .cab file won't uninstall. I would caution anyone looking for a simple, pre-packaged program to run Android on a Sprint CDMA TP2: this doesn't appear to be it!
I kinda wish the CAB file was never created - this project is for testing, it's not meant to replace WinMo. The compressed RAR/ZIP builds are really simple to use (extract to your SD...grab correct startup...run haret...) and you actually get to see how the file structure looks so you can manually update and at least partially understand how it should look

With that said, again... This project is for testing. It's not meant to be easy, it's not meant to replace WinMo. Have fun with it, enjoy it... but don't dog on it because it's not "easy" enough for you. If it were up to me, it would probably be much harder to install Android - some have taken pity and tried to make it easier for noobs, just to have this kind of reaction from them.
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