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On October 30th the long awaited G1 with Android OS hit the UK. Those of you who are in the UK with a G1 will be pleased to hear there is a new update available for the handset. The RC8 update is reported to combine both the RC29 and RC30 updates that the US users have received.

Many users with the new firmware have reported the text entry bug has been squished and the G1 runs with a much cooler temperature.

If you’re in the UK and you’ve got the new RC8 firmware, let us know what your experience has been and what changes it’s made to your G1 by leaving us a comment!

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A very strange Android bug has been discovered in firmware RC29 and below which takes all text entered in to the phone as a system command. For example, if you were to type the word ‘reboot’ in to your G1, the phone should reboot, as it did for one user who spoke out about the issue — “I was in the middle of a text conversation with my girl when she asked why I hadn’t responded. I had just rebooted my phone and the first thing I typed was a response to her text which simply stated ‘reboot’, which, to my surprise, rebooted the phone.”

If you’re worried your phone might be effected, check out your build number. This can be found by going from the home screen to Menu -> Settings -> About Phone. If you see this: kila-user 1.0 TC4-RC29 115247 ota-rel-keys,release-keys then you need to update your firmware — your firmware must be above RC29 to be fixed of this issue.

Google are currently rolling out firmware update RC30 which will fix this issue and a few others. If you’ve encountered any strange Android happenings when typing in text, leave a comment and let us know!

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