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Look what showed up on my Nexus One when I do the #*#*2432546*#*# sequence this morning! The Android 2.2.1 aka FRG83D update!
In order to speed up contacting the Google servers, start the Google Talk application, as this connects the phone to the Google servers.
A method to design records so that they're allocated on a specific byte boundary, such as 16 bytes, 512 bytes, 4096 bytes, etc.