Forum member mistadman, from our much prized xda-developers forum, has put together a recovery tool for the Dell Streak. It was designed to look a lot like the standard stock recovery and offers some nice features:
- Landscape
- Capacitve buttons
- First stage of the two stage camera button working
- Signature verification setting survives reboot
The design was based off of Clockwork recovery that most rooted phones are familiar with. The project is still in development and mistadman is looking for suggestions and help with the project. If you are interested, head on over to the forum thread at xda-developers and get to helping if you are so inclined. You will also find the download file available there as well to give this a test.
On a personal note though, does anyone out there have a Dell Streak? What have you thought about the device?
Source: xda-developers
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I have a Dell Streak – O2 branded but unlocked with a Rebel Simcard and used on the UK Three network. It is running Android 2.1 and has had its build.prop file patched to enable the GPU accelerator (disabled by default by Dell for some stupid reason). With the GPU accelerator enabled none of the issues and faults reported by those with stock 2.1 are apparent – they were previously. And so my Dell Streak behaves exactly like any other well behaved Android 2.1 device will do.
I love the 5″ format – it seems large but is a perfect balance between phone-sized screen and tablet-sized screen. Unlike the 7″ and larger behemoths the Dell Streak represents an ideal middle ground. The larger screen is great for all the usual “computing” activities. And the handset size is not too large to be a very practical mobile telephone.
Apps written for the smaller handset screens look and function perfectly on the 5″ Dell Streak screen. There is no distortion or pixellating, it is all pretty much perfect.
As a mobile phone the Dell Streak works very well indeed, pulling in the weakest of signals effectively. It also transitions effortlessly between 3G and 2G networks as it happens. Although as Three switch off 2G access the device has to seek out 3G only – and that it does very effectively.
Mobile data speeds are very good indeed – with the Dell Streak operating at up to HSPA mode.
Sadly the Dell Streak has been poorly presented and promoted. I do not know why Dell decided against issuing a simple update to Android 2.1 to switch on the GPU accelerator. If they had done this then there would not have been half the anxiety caused among its users. Everyone would have been very happy – whereas the issues with 2.1 have caused people to regress their handsets to Donut (1.6) which is crazy.
Early reports of Froyo (2.2 ) on the Dell Streak are encouraging. I have seen nothing bad reported. Now we have to wait for the operator-specific version (O2 in this case) to arrive in the hope that the branding does not ruin the Froyo update. Only time will tell, but for now we wait … and wait … and wait.