Goodbye, Hayate

My phone got stolen this morning in the Quezon Avenue station of the MRT at around 9:30 AM.

Calling Out To Everyone

Goodbye, my dear Hayate. I don't even have a real picture of you! =(

I'm calling out to everyone who is reading this: if you happen to see a 2nd-hand Nexus One phone being sold (or someone using it), please try to look at the casing at the back of the phone and note if it has the following words etched at the back:

omgayeo
i am STELLAR!

The text should be laser etched on the silver strip found on the bottom part at the back of the phone. If it looks like if that area has been tampered with or if it's covered, then be suspicious! It might be my Hayate!

Another sign that it's Hayate is if it has a small dent on the upper-left (
or right...I'm not quite sure...I'm sure it's on the upper-left) corner of the phone.

Also, my phone was in a black Capdase leather casing for the HTC Desire. Like here (http://www.capdase.com/en/product5.php?cid=1&bid=5&mid=994&pid=6826), except less shiny and I removed the belt clip attachment.

Update

IMEI: 3549 5703 1354 304
S/N: HT9CVP811588

The Nexus One was never officially sold locally by Google so I think there's a relatively low number of Nexus Ones here in the Philippines. If anyone finds out who took my phone or where my phone is, please please please tell me!

It's not really much on the cost of the phone that bothers me about losing my phone, it's more of the data that I had in it plus the sentimental value.

Nexus One Manual Gingerbread Update

Last Sunday, I got a text from a friend, who also has a Nexus One, that he just got his Gingerbread update OTA (over the air). I was ecstatic and immediately turned my phone's wifi on. I was so disappointed not to see any prompt for an update. So I thought I'd give it a few more minutes before becoming totally disappointed. After a couple of games on Kongregate I hopefully unlocked my phone, but, sadly, no update prompt was waiting for me.

I was aware that not everyone gets updates OTA at the same time but I was just too curious and excited (and, fine, impatient) that I wanted my update right now! So I researched on manual Gingerbread updates for the Nexus One. When Froyo came out I also updated my phone manually, so I wasn't really worried about doing the same thing for Gingerbread.

I found this post from dkszone.net and read the comments on the post before I proceeded with following the instructions. I didn't follow their instructions 100% so I'll share what I did for my manual update.