Lovin me a cupcake

Apparently, I’ve had cupcake available to install on my Android phone (TMobile G1) for a bit now.  I’ve been getting a bit frustrated because my wife has had hers for a week or so already and mine was nowhere to be found.

However, I decided to prompt the system to check for an update using the Settings | About Phone menu and guess what, there it was waiting for me to download.  Why hadn’t TMobile notified me?  I think I know the answer.

I hit the download button and up popped the progress bar… but nothing happened. Tried again… no luck.  It says the file is 32MB and I know I’m tight on app space, but they can’t honestly expect to download this into app space, could they?  They must use the SD card or the OS partition…  right?

Nope.  Apparently they use app space to store the downloaded update.  After I opened up 40MB of space in my app space and returned to check for updates, it downloaded on the second try. As soon as the update was downloaded, I received the standard update notification that you would receive had TMobile sent the file to me directly.

So, apparently, if you haven’t received your cupcake update, you might want to free up some app space memory.  About 40MB should do.  You can always reinstall your apps after the update.  And that’s what I’m off to do right now.