Android 2.3 code hits the net

[Posted December 17, 2010 by corbet]

The Android 2.3 code is being posted in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) repositories. It would have been nice to see it while it was under development, but this is far better than nothing. "Even though Nexus S is designed to be suitable for AOSP work, there are some caveats. I very strongly recommend against trying to use Nexus S for anything related to AOSP at the moment. Trying to unlock or use your Nexus S for AOSP work could easily turn it into a Nexus B (where B means 'brick'); I have two of those, they're not very useful."

Android 2.3 code hits the net

Posted Dec 18, 2010 0:29 UTC (Sat) by me@jasonclinton.com (subscriber, #52701) [Link]

The posting has been completed. JBQ is asking that people whom are only curious hold off a few hours or days to keep the kernel.org servers from buckling under the pressure: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/android-building/6l3gO_...

Kernel.org is already under a lot of load: http://twitter.com/#!/warty9/status/15892347757789184

Android 2.3 code hits the net

Posted Dec 18, 2010 1:28 UTC (Sat) by karim (subscriber, #114) [Link]

Very much looking forward to getting my hands on it.

Android 2.3 code hits the net

Posted Dec 18, 2010 4:10 UTC (Sat) by davide.del.vento (guest, #59196) [Link] (1 responses)

Isn't it supposed to be fully unlocked?
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/12/wait-is-over-ann...

Android 2.3 code hits the net

Posted Dec 19, 2010 3:48 UTC (Sun) by swetland (guest, #63414) [Link]

Nexus S is fully unlocked -- no network/carrier lock, and the bootloader supports "fastboot oem unlock" which allows you to flash your own OS builds.

JBQ's use of "brick" was unfortunate here -- the main issue is that the original factory system images are not available for download yet, so if you flash a custom build that doesn't work there's not a trivial way to restore to the original build.

We'll be getting this resolved soon.

The Cyanogen port appears to have wasted no time updating to 2.3

Posted Dec 18, 2010 17:37 UTC (Sat) by busterb (subscriber, #560) [Link] (2 responses)

http://twitter.com/cyanogen/status/16080425965330432

The Cyanogen port appears to have wasted no time updating to 2.3

Posted Dec 18, 2010 18:07 UTC (Sat) by karim (subscriber, #114) [Link]

That was fast.

Gingerbeard

Posted Dec 20, 2010 22:54 UTC (Mon) by ldo (guest, #40946) [Link]

Must be a result of turning Scottish aye.