[ubuntu-uk] HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

[Mark Fraser]

On Tuesday 25 May 2010 15:54:36 David Jones wrote:
> On 25/05/2010 15:50, John Matthews wrote:
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> 
> > Hi Everybody,
> > 
> > thank you so much for your help. That worked, I was able to upload the
> > pics to my HD via the filesystem using the USB. It still means though
> > that you have to use windows for updates and things, yes?
> > 
> > John
> > 
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> > Ubuntu User #30817
> 
> I've had a HTC Magic running Android for about 12 months, in all of that
> time, I've only ever connected it to a windows machine to transfer
> e-books to it.
> 
> Any updates/application installs are done over the air using the phones
> normal 3G internet connection.

That's not entirely true. If you need to upgrade the ROM in your phone then 
you'll only be able to do it from Windows - this is the page for the HTC Hero 
ROM update http://www.htc.com/uk/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=283&cat=2&dl_id=671

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