yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G2 and Desire Z General] tankmorph:
Before it gets asked...

*#*#CHECKIN#*#*

*#*#2432546#*#*

This will force a checkin for OTA, but its not necessary. All of us G2 owners will eventually get it.

:p
[G2 and Desire Z General] Chuckmoney:
Totally screwed up. At work and can't get at the 1.19rom because rapidshare is blocked. now I'm like 2 hours until I go home with a basically unusable phone with none of my apps.

Edit. Time for TIbackup
[G2 and Desire Z General] G1rome:
Just flashed the update, temp root still works but overclocking not working. Well old scripts don't work to be specific.
[G2 and Desire Z General] AreOh:
I want to use the .zip file and try the update, but I've never done any OTA's. Sucks waiting for the notification to come in on its own.
[G2 and Desire Z General] luis86dr:
Is there anyway to do pauls method without losing all my apps... I'm backed up with titanium but really don't wanna build my launcher pro homescreen again.....took me a while lol.

[G2/HTC Vision]
[G2 and Desire Z General] tak.japan:
how does OTA work if you use it outside of T-mobile network? i got unlocked g2 and using it in canada.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mcp2009:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7776134/PC1....09b_26.02.01.15_M2_release_149459_signed.zip heres my dropbox link
[G2 and Desire Z General] o>c:
I am from Hong Kong and I got it

And the first thing I did was to go to launcherpro setting and hide the wifi calling app which is useless for me LOL
[G2 and Desire Z General] tbssimp:
How do you know when you get the update?

I know this is a dumb question but how do you know when you get the update?

I keep checking in andit says checkin succeeded but nothing else? what will it do when i get the update? Thanks sorry i am new to these phones.
[G2 and Desire Z General] emwonktnoduoY:
From your home screen, press Menu>Settings>About Phone>System Updates

Either you'll get the update or it will say your phone is up to date, which means the update has not been assigned to your device quite yet.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sino8r:
Thanks for mirror!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Chuckmoney:
Thanks sooooo much :D
[G2 and Desire Z General] sino8r:
You could just directly download the ota...
[G2 and Desire Z General] delawhat:
I just got my update about 30mins ago and everything seems to work great so far
[G2 and Desire Z General] emwonktnoduoY:
Or you could do this :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] ggblake:
Yeah I'm in DC and I couldn't wait. Just flashed the update from the link. Connected to the wifi hotspot and made a wifi call already. Nice!
[G2 and Desire Z General] nickbunyun:
umm... Atlanta, GA - 2:16 - no ota yet
[G2 and Desire Z General] tak.japan:
where? onces posted on radpidshare is the current build, it's not the updated one?
[G2 and Desire Z General] tbssimp:
In atlanta as well and same thing no OTA
[G2 and Desire Z General] djunio:
A link to the ota is here. You can download it right from Google and install it. http://androidmixer.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=1441
[G2 and Desire Z General] lalalandrus:
wondering if there is a list of still working modules after ota

vision_oc.ko

cpufreq_conservative.ko

cifs.ko

tun.ko

ntfs_ut8.ko

thanks
[G2 and Desire Z General] SmartHat:
OP has been updated
[G2 and Desire Z General] tbssimp:
was thinking about that but i am really not good with the these phone and fro what it souds like is that its easier to just have it come to your phone
[G2 and Desire Z General] mikeatron:
so wifi tethering doesnt work?

anyway we can block this update? do we just not update? or will it annoy me with messages to update
[G2 and Desire Z General] ishthecommish:
I'm on H with 3 bars. Both iOS devices find the network but can't stay connected to it. Anyone have any suggestions?
[G2 and Desire Z General] ilikepu:
its working

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=827835
[G2 and Desire Z General] wondermixx:
so how big is the OTA suppose to be? im seeing different links to different file sizes.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ditchmagnet:
So I downloaded and installed, and it is working, but there is a message on it that Wi-Fi calling uses your plan minutes? Is that how UMA works on blackberry? I thought any calls made on wi-fi were free with blackberry?

So thats really lame, and almost pointless to have now. I WAS really excited about it.
[G2 and Desire Z General] wayde187:
They weren't free on bb, just enabled you to make calls when there was no signal. I used it on my 8900 because tmobile service is **** on fort bragg.
[G2 and Desire Z General] EfemaN:
Quoted for emphasis. UMA just let people access the T-Mo network through Wi-Fi. I get garbage signal in my dorm on campus, but I always have wireless. I've been waiting like a hound for this.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ditchmagnet:
Ya, I was just reading up on it, and the only way you had "free" minutes was if you also were paying $10/mo for hotspot @home. They don't offer that anymore though do they?

Well, I am trying to sell my G2 to get a MyTouch4G, so this at least makes my CL ad look better!
[G2 and Desire Z General] EfemaN:
Nope. They removed the hotspot@home feature and made UMA a free service.
[G2 and Desire Z General] SmartHat:
The wifi calling is a useless feature for most, but it will allow one to get service / coverage where there is no network coverage otherwise.

I'd say the best use I got out of it when I used my BB to make calls using my flight's wifi a good while back (bad call quality) but texting worked fine, if I recall correctly...

You'll be billed for the minutes you use Unless you get an additional Plan so you can make Free Calls over Wifi... I know T-Mo loyalty can offer you that [@ a 'grandfathered' price.]... unless something changed.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ggblake:
So...if you have unlimited minutes and data will you still be charged for wifi calls?
[G2 and Desire Z General] chrapojr:
Any way to get Wifi calling working while using ONLY wifi and not the mobile network?

When I travel international with my BB, I would disable the mobile network altogether to avoid any roaming charges for even being on a roaming network. I would keep Wifi enabled and UMA would allow me to send/receive calls and SMS when in the hotel, office wifi, etc.

on the G2, when I'm in airplane mode with wifi then enabled (the only way I know to totally turn off the mobile network), Wifi calling says it's not available in airplane mode.

I need an app to allow me to turn off the mobile network radio without going into airplane mode so the wifi calling app still works.
[G2 and Desire Z General] SmartHat:
there's no such this as Untld. data w/ T-Mo anymore ... they've joined every other carrier by capping our "Unlimited" internet... but if you have Untld minutes you should have problems.

I would still verify w/ them though, wouldn't want to receive an unfairly Inflated bill.

If anyone gets official word on the issue, please do post

^ you can do it manually by

1- going to the Dialer

2- Type in *#*#4636#*#*

3- Go to phone information & scroll all the way down

4- Tap "Turn OFF Radio"

This will NOT effect wifi and you can turn on the Radio back ON by repeating steps 1 to 4.
[G2 and Desire Z General] jmd1981:
So, what exactly does a blank screen with a picture of a phone with a red triangle and red exclamation point inside it mean?
[G2 and Desire Z General] ilikepu:
recovery mode

to flash anything hold vol up and power to get into the options
[G2 and Desire Z General] cparekh:
I think anycut will let you do that.
[G2 and Desire Z General] jmd1981:
Thanks! Didn't know what I was supposed to do there. :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] cparekh:
Same with me. Don't pull the battery. The green refresh logo is supposed to be there, and it takes a couple of minutes to go away. Be patient.

To summarize. I used Paul's method to flash back to stock. Then I applied the OTA update, then the phone takes a long time to actually boot back up. It is not bricked.
[G2 and Desire Z General] v8pwrdz28:
I'm not updating til I here if they slipped something into the update where they can tell if u r tethering or not. I don't need the update since I'm temp rooted anyway
[G2 and Desire Z General] ilikepu:
yea i learn the the friggen hard way wit my wife's mt3g slide
[G2 and Desire Z General] Chuckmoney:
I'm really confused at these directions, where do I put the rom/extract fastboot to, and where do i type those commands?

Nevermind. I followed these instructions in the other thread and it worked perfectly
[G2 and Desire Z General] Hosermage:
If I understand it correctly, as soon as you turn on wifi calling, you will stop receiving calls from regular radio. I noticed the cell connection disappears from the task bar. But it can't work when you turn on wifi hotspot.
[G2 and Desire Z General] funkadesi:
Does it enable cellular radio for calls when you go from Wi-Fi Calling to >> Enabling Wi-Fi tethering...?

I would try this, but I am at work and no Wi-Fi here.
[G2 and Desire Z General] papeshfoo:
Thank you sir, I was sick of waiting!
[G2 and Desire Z General] KeithRVA:
My battery life after OTA seems greatly improved. Charged it up to 100%, have had wifi hotspot on and streaming Netflix to my iPod for the last 30 minutes, and the G2 battery is still at 100%. This is either a bug or wifi hotspot burns almost no juice.

Update: system says 33 minutes since last unplugged, I am now at 98% battery and I've been using wifi hotspot the entire time. This is amazing since before OTA I would burn 8% just sitting idle for 30 minutes.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Hosermage:
Here's what happens...

1. turn on wifi calling, and now my mobile signal goes to zero (from the widget)

2. turn on hotspot, the wifi-calling icon goes away and my mobile signal now show bars, however, now my wifi connection is off also.

3. after turning off hotspot, wifi turns on and wifi calling resumes.

I'm getting inconsistent results between turning on the hotspot via the settings menu and via the switch pro widgets. When I turn off hotspot through the widget, it doesn't automatically turn on wifi.

Another annoying thing... SwitchPro Widget keeps making my hotspot name "PROVAAP" even after I saved my own parameters.
[G2 and Desire Z General] xomikronx:
Sounds like a bug.

Btw, can someone clarify.....so will using wi-fi calling still use our minutes?
[G2 and Desire Z General] The Great NY:
why is this so much bigger of a file than the one in the first post? this one is 123mb and the one in the first post is 36mb
[G2 and Desire Z General] KeithRVA:
Possibly a bug, but my curvefish battery widget and TMo's My Device app both say the same thing: 91% battery after 48 minutes using wifi hotspot continuously! I hope this isn't a bug, wasn't too impressed with G2 battery life before ota.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rkendry:
I've reading the pages of this threat and I don't see this answered. Do I have to have tmobile's data plan to get this update? I just have wifi right now and I have't gotten the update.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tvachon:
I go into recovery mode and I get a phone icon with a seemingly red ! inside a triangle. This happens immediately when I go into recovery mode

Anyone else seen this?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Crey23:
VISIONary works......GSCRIPTS doesn't

OK SO I did the manual upload, and so far so good....the phone is working just fine. The only thing is the GScripts DO NOT WORK. I read in the dev forum that it has to do with the new kernel, and that the scripts need to be updated.

We'lll just have to wait and see...
[G2 and Desire Z General] KeithRVA:
Hold Volume Up + Power Button when you see this.

Suggestion to the OP, this should be in Post #1.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tankmorph:
When you turn on WiFi Calling, it pops up in the Notification bar and states "WiFi calling uses plan minutes". Have you tried it yet?
[G2 and Desire Z General] popokrew:
You have to press vol up and power at this menu to give you the option to update.zip from sdcard.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tvachon:
Yes, this would have been nice
[G2 and Desire Z General] tankmorph:
Screen lock sounds now work w/the OTA.
[G2 and Desire Z General] fryrice8850:
still nothing here in MA
[G2 and Desire Z General] Hosermage:
So, I think the switch pro widget's hotspot switch is broken. I just tried another "hotspot toggle" free app and it works just fine. It even has an option to turn wifi back on when you turn off hotspot.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ThaGeNeCySt:
I haven't seen anyone else speak on it but... does OC still work with the kernel without the use of those scripts?
[G2 and Desire Z General] JRG1392:
Has anybody noticed any changes besides tethering, wifi calling, and lock screen sounds?
[G2 and Desire Z General] KeithRVA:
YouTube update doesn't crash anymore.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mattstrike:
In case people want another set of clear instructions on manually updating, you'll find one at Android Central. (Sorry, I'm new and I can't post the url)

My heart was racing (my first Android phone), but it was really very simple - just take the time to read what's on the phone's screen - there are instructions… And for anyone thinking the update isn't working - be patient, even after the green progress bar finishes, it still takes some time for it to complete. My phone rebooted itself 2 or 3 times and it was finished.

Hope some of this helps.

Cheers
[G2 and Desire Z General] kcm117:
IF you're still waiting for OTA, you can update manually

For those of you who dont want to wait for it to be pushed to your device, androidcentral has a guide on how to install manually. I did this and it works fine.

http://www.androidcentral.com/manually-updating-t-mobile-g2
[G2 and Desire Z General] infinitron:
Does anyone who has used wifi calling before know if it is possible to use wifi calling to call the US from a foreign country and only use your standard minutes? I'm traveling to asia and want to know if I can call the US without incurring any extra charges.
[G2 and Desire Z General] csharpe72:
It looks like Car Home has been updated to let you add your own shortcuts!
[G2 and Desire Z General] barnesk9:
Yes you'd need to have T-mobile's data plan unless you installed it on your own
[G2 and Desire Z General] kcm117:
Correct. My brother in law had wifi calling on his t-mobile blackberry 9700. He went to the Bahamas and just used wifi calling there, it used standard t-mobile minutes and did not charge long distance or anything.

I would assume it would be the same for Asia, maybe just double check with t-mobile first.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mdayjr:
Ok!! Downloaded the manual update from the first post and WOW!!! Wifi calling and tethering. Signal seems stronger but the real test is when I get back out on the road. No more memory though.Not the 4gb as advertised. No big. Sucka still hauls ass.:D
[G2 and Desire Z General] ThaGeNeCySt:
Yup... OC no longer works.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Flippy125:
You have to reinstall vision_oc.ko for it to work.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ShaunMichael80:
Its legit...i just got mine in my notifications with an android icon
[G2 and Desire Z General] xomikronx:
Actually a new module had to be written for you to OC with the update.....

Waiting for new module before I update..
[G2 and Desire Z General] theratdude64:
I duno how valid these are, because speed tests can be random... but Sitting in the same spot I did 2 before, and 2 after to see if it was noticeable

Before:

1648 down 1339 up

1132 down 1329 up

After:

2576 down 1283 up

1942 down 1290 up
[G2 and Desire Z General] starfcker69:
I just updated manually. Still no LED notification (battery indicator at top) :mad:
[G2 and Desire Z General] mattstrike:
It certainly is!

I'm on my AndroidAP hot-spot while typing this on my MacBook Pro. Sometimes I really, really love technology!! :cool:
[G2 and Desire Z General] ditchmagnet:
Has anyone noticed crappy Quadrant scores now? I am only getting 1493 after restarting my phone with the update. So no longer can I OC (for now), but I am getting worse benchmark results.

-NVM. I was looking into it, and I guess thats about right. I guess I'm just in paranoid mode, LOL
[G2 and Desire Z General] Hosermage:
nice! I was wondering why G2 can't get the updated Car Home as stated in the google mobile blog.
[G2 and Desire Z General] greensnow:
i just downloaded this file to my sd card and its in the "downloaded" folder...is there a way i can move it to the root of my sd card in astro or linda file manager so I can apply it?
[G2 and Desire Z General] yayitzben:
Open Astro and browse to the download folder. Hold your finger on the file and when the menu pops up select "edit" then "move" then browse to the sdcard and hit the "edit" button on the top left and select "paste". You can also rename it to update.zip this way by selecting "rename"
[G2 and Desire Z General] theratdude64:
Just in one test so far... but my gps seems better. Anyone else?
[G2 and Desire Z General] pierrekid:
Updated mine about 2 hours ago here in miami. All I have to say is wifi calling is amazing! No longer am I stranded in my gf apt without service to call or recieve txts. Works perfectly.

Also I've def seen increases in my speedtest.net scores. Got 14.52 down/ 1.89 up so the hspa is def connecting a lot more effieciently than before. This phone with this update if by far the best android/ any phone on the market!!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Crey23:
Ok...not a very scientific find here....but ussually I do not get more than a few bars on edge at my desk.....I am getting 1 to 2 H bars....that is certainly an improvement....I have not tested them out to see if I do actually have signal though....
[G2 and Desire Z General] greensnow:
thank you sir...updated perfectly!
[G2 and Desire Z General] luis86dr:
Getting failed because of google goggles. Tried pauls tip on removing and flashing the stock rom but fastboot isn't being recognized by my windows. I extracted it tried to open the windows-fastboot exe and a black box ops up and disappears quick. Tried to run the commands paul listed in start-run-cmd but its saying not supported or some crap... any ideas. Really need wifi calling asap for work.

[G2/HTC Vision]
[G2 and Desire Z General] drumking:
Has any one got the OTA from Washington state or the Northwest?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Wranglersm:
OC does not work after ota, though if you got it (and use it) Visionary will still root your phone.

Wifi calling had always and continues to use your mobile minutes (unless you paid for an @home plan which no longer exists). Making UMA was exclusive to (and still looks to be) T-mo, so the fact that you can make wifi calls for free to me is pretty cool.

Also remember that unlike UMA calling on BB, there is no hand-off from wifi to cell or vice-versa. If you make a wifi call and leave the signal area your phone will drop the call.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Hosermage:
BTW, overclock is now working with the newly compiled kernel:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8996021&postcount=794
[G2 and Desire Z General] wiimonkey9:
The OTA works great for me.

Wifi calling works good.

Tethering works good.

Temp-root and overclocking works good.

One change that I really like is that there is now a sound when you unlock and lock your phone. It is the small things that make my day :p
[G2 and Desire Z General] Hosermage:
Hm... I don't hear any thing when I unlock, it just vibrates... did you have to turn it on somewhere?
[G2 and Desire Z General] mdayjr:
There's a cool little widget app in market called "HotSpot Toggle" that will activate/deactivate wifi tethering without having to go into wireless networks settings to turn it on. (note; once you get your update)

p.s. I never had an unlock sound. It has always vibrated.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mdayjr:
There's a cool little widget app in market called "HotSpot Toggle" that will activate/deactivate wifi tethering without having to go into wireless networks settings to turn it on. (note; once you get your update)

THIS REPOST WAS AN ACCIDENT
[G2 and Desire Z General] mattstrike:
Huh - another change since the OTA - Goggles finally installs successfully for me. Not the most exciting news, but I do like the app. Happy to see things tweaked and fixed!
[G2 and Desire Z General] AreOh:
I've never done any OTA's before, so do I d/l this on the computer, hook the phone up via usb, then drag to the 'root of the SD card'? Or D/L from the phone and move it there somehow?
[G2 and Desire Z General] GoT_VtEc?:
Can anyone with the update confirm whether or not the update helped with random reboots and dropped calls?...did the radio version update as well?
[G2 and Desire Z General] flarbear:
The 123Meg file is the original G2 stock ROM for people who uninstalled Google Goggles using the special "goggles uninstaller" app or procedure. It is only needed if you did that uninstall so you can get back to the stock state to apply the new OTA update.

The OTA update file is only 36Meg or so.

Note that reinstalling the stock ROM with the 123Meg file will wipe your device back to its factory settings (apparently, I haven't tried it but people have warned about that).

But, installing the OTA should not affect your downloaded apps, home screen setups, or system settings.
[G2 and Desire Z General] g1junky:
WOW!

Thanks for F'n Up my G2 T-Mobile! i received the update and let the phone complete it and when it booted up my G2 started vibrating for no apparent reason every 20 seconds! Am i the only one with this issue?
[G2 and Desire Z General] papeshfoo:
Its in the settings somewhere, I dont remember where, but I know I had it checked when I first got the phone but never had sound...now it works every time.
[G2 and Desire Z General] papeshfoo:
Damn, that blows...

BTW, your in Joliet? I thought I was the only one from this crap hole on here...haha, small world!
[G2 and Desire Z General] flarbear:
According to the official announcement on the T-Mobile forums it was supposed to address the reboots and enhance radio function. The new radio has an updated version number:

http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/T-Mobile-G2/G2-Software-Update/td-p/531373
[G2 and Desire Z General] rmcsc:
Oh, please. My GPS was terrible. I'll update after installing.

Raúl Colón, editor general - Android Puerto Rico

Enviado desde mi T-Mobile G2 utilizando Tapatalk Pro
[G2 and Desire Z General] g1junky:
nope lol im in chicago i just forgot to change my location
[G2 and Desire Z General] papeshfoo:
ahh Gotcha..so I guess I am the only one from this crap hole...haha
[G2 and Desire Z General] g1junky:
lol joliets not so bad
[G2 and Desire Z General] GoT_VtEc?:
Cool thank you bud guess its time to update :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] dilfatx:
Install update without wiping anything

Download zip file then rename it to update.zip and place in root of sdcard

Hold volume down and power then select recovery

Select install update.zip

Once completed your phone will reboot and after it turns on you will get notification saying congratulations you updated phone.

Notice that all your apps and settings remained in tact.

Worked for me.
[G2 and Desire Z General] nycjv321:
so tethering is free right? other than that the upgrade works great! lol.. :D
[G2 and Desire Z General] innerlight:
Has anyone I'm wisconsin gotten the update yet?
[G2 and Desire Z General] d-que:
7:55pm nothing ohio
[G2 and Desire Z General] shibby80:
yes i can finally talk on my phone inside my apt this rocks
[G2 and Desire Z General] xile6:
y not manually update?
[G2 and Desire Z General] rmcsc:
Updated manually, everything went fine.

It doesn't matter *where* you live. All that matters to the update servers is that you have an uninterrupted connection to the internet, be that WiFi or using the phone radios.
[G2 and Desire Z General] innerlight:
I guess for me because when I had the g1 and cupcake was released I got it on xda instead of waiting for the update to hit my phone. Its not the same as waiting. I hope we midwesterns aren't one of the last to get it.
[G2 and Desire Z General] TheMercuryMan:
Dont forget when the phone/red exclamation point shows up hit vol up and power to get to the update. I sat there for 15 min wondering wtf was going on :p
[G2 and Desire Z General] f4phantomii:
Yep....I think that's step that's left out of the original instructions that should be there.