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HTC releases Android 1.6 (Donut) Rom for developers

A couple of days beodre we see the first Android 1.6 phones hit the market HTC posted the first official Donut Rom for all you Android dev (you need to have an…

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A couple of days beodre we see the first Android 1.6 phones hit the market HTC posted the first official Donut Rom for all you Android dev (you need to have an Android Dev Phone or any other cracked/unlocked HTC android device).

The system images provided on this page are designed only for installation on devices that meet the following requirements:

•HTC Dream hardware platform only
•Device must have the original factory bootloader (hboot 0.95.3000) or a development bootloader that supports fastboot
You cannot flash these system images to other hardware platforms or to a version of HTC Dream hardware that doesn’t have an original factory bootloader, unless the device bootloader supports fastboot (fastboot is described in the next section). Additionally, you cannot flash these images to a retail devices such as the T-Mobile G1 because the images do not have the appropriate cryptographic signatures.

Head over here for more info and download links

Source: HTC

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