Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category

Running stock Android ROM on your Rogers device?

If you, like me, are running a stock Rogers ROM for your android device (HTC or LG) chances are you are running Google Android 1.5. If you are, I need your help.
In the coming weeks, working with @IWMOPS and @GreatBigDog01, we are putting together some material which we would like to share with Rogers. As [...]

Reactions from PodCamp Toronto 2010

Pod Camp Toronto 2010 took place this past weekend at Rogers Communication Centre (RCC). RCC is a facility part of the Ryerson University campus. Ryerson is the university I attended for my Information Technology Management degree.
PodCamp Toronto, also known as #PCTO2010 in the twitter-verse is all about bringing together professionals and hobbyists in one place [...]

Rogers unwilling to provide feature list

This past weekend, Rogers made available an update to the Android 1.5 OS which powers both the HTC Magic and Dream devices. This update supposedly resolved the 911 / GPS bug which was identified several months ago. Why it took Rogers so long to provide a fix for a bug which they were informed about [...]

Rogers HTC Magic/Dream get Sense UI

Yesterday around 9:00 pm EST Rogers released an update for the HTC Magic and Dream devices which fixes the recent 911/GPS bug. You can find out more about this bug in my previous posts. This update does not actually update the phones to a newer Android platform, but simply provides a patch which fixes the [...]

Rogers lost its Magical touch

Last week Rogers announced that the HTC Dream device had an issue with the GPS hindering the ability to complete 911 calls. In a nutshell the issue with Dream was that if the GPS is enabled, users lost the ability to dial 911. As a result Rogers released an SMS message to all of their [...]