Old factory images removed, nothing to worry about.

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

I've just removed a handful of factory images from
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

Don't worry, though, the sky is not falling. The latest Gingerbread
and the latest IceCreamSandwich are still available for each device
(as released to consumers).

As a bit of background: Google has several mechanisms to distribute
such files. The mechanism I'm using was appropriate for the
hardware-specific proprietary binaries as I had them starting in 2010,
but not for so many factory images that I've been adding in the last
few months (in numbers, a single factory image takes 2.5 times as much
space as all the proprietary binaries combined across all devices, all
vendors and all versions). The total filesize that I was distributing
through that service was causing problems, so I've had to remove the
less critical files.

I'm planning to transition those factory images to a service that's
more appropriate for the characteristics of those downloads, and once
I can do I hope to restore all the archived images on that service. I
don't know how long that'll take.

Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for understanding.

JBQ

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[stack]

Hello JBQ,

Is there anyway to get a hold of a 4.0.3 factory image for the Galaxy
Nexus? I am in need of the 4.0.3 "yakju" factory image for Galaxy
Nexus "maguro" (GSM/HSPA+).

Thank you,

Simon

On Apr 25, 7:10 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru <j...@android.com> wrote:
> I've just removed a handful of factory images fromhttps://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

There's never been any such thing. Yakju got updated from 4.0.2
straight to 4.0.4.

JBQ

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[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

Yes, it worked well enough for AOSP, but not for consumers. I normally
set up AOSP so that it recognizes the radio and bootloader of the most
recently released consumer version (and matching factory images).

Note that this page
https://source.android.com/source/build-numbers.html has some of the
information. It doesn't go into the gory details, but in this case
it's got enough to show that Galaxy Nexus didn't get 4.0.3.

JBQ

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:23 AM, stack <simo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, OK.  I have a 4.0.3 AOSP build, so I thought there was a 4.0.3 factory
> image.  I already have the 4.0.2 image.
>
> Thanks for the info!
> Simon