diff --git a/framework/assets/www/cordova.js b/framework/assets/www/cordova.js
index 45c1943a..0e43a232 100644
--- a/framework/assets/www/cordova.js
+++ b/framework/assets/www/cordova.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // Platform: android
-// 3.5.0-dev-81f9a00
+// 3.5.0-rc1
 /*
  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
  under the License.
 */
 ;(function() {
-var CORDOVA_JS_BUILD_LABEL = '3.5.0-dev-81f9a00';
+var CORDOVA_JS_BUILD_LABEL = '3.5.0-rc1';
 // file: src/scripts/require.js
 
 /*jshint -W079 */
@@ -825,6 +825,7 @@ channel.createSticky('onNativeReady');
 channel.createSticky('onCordovaReady');
 
 // Event to indicate that all automatically loaded JS plugins are loaded and ready.
+// FIXME remove this
 channel.createSticky('onPluginsReady');
 
 // Event to indicate that Cordova is ready
@@ -1245,6 +1246,111 @@ channel.join(function() {
 }, platformInitChannelsArray);
 
 
+});
+
+// file: src/common/init_b.js
+define("cordova/init_b", function(require, exports, module) {
+
+var channel = require('cordova/channel');
+var cordova = require('cordova');
+var platform = require('cordova/platform');
+
+var platformInitChannelsArray = [channel.onDOMContentLoaded, channel.onNativeReady];
+
+// setting exec
+cordova.exec = require('cordova/exec');
+
+function logUnfiredChannels(arr) {
+    for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; ++i) {
+        if (arr[i].state != 2) {
+            console.log('Channel not fired: ' + arr[i].type);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+window.setTimeout(function() {
+    if (channel.onDeviceReady.state != 2) {
+        console.log('deviceready has not fired after 5 seconds.');
+        logUnfiredChannels(platformInitChannelsArray);
+        logUnfiredChannels(channel.deviceReadyChannelsArray);
+    }
+}, 5000);
+
+// Replace navigator before any modules are required(), to ensure it happens as soon as possible.
+// We replace it so that properties that can't be clobbered can instead be overridden.
+function replaceNavigator(origNavigator) {
+    var CordovaNavigator = function() {};
+    CordovaNavigator.prototype = origNavigator;
+    var newNavigator = new CordovaNavigator();
+    // This work-around really only applies to new APIs that are newer than Function.bind.
+    // Without it, APIs such as getGamepads() break.
+    if (CordovaNavigator.bind) {
+        for (var key in origNavigator) {
+            if (typeof origNavigator[key] == 'function') {
+                newNavigator[key] = origNavigator[key].bind(origNavigator);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    return newNavigator;
+}
+if (window.navigator) {
+    window.navigator = replaceNavigator(window.navigator);
+}
+
+if (!window.console) {
+    window.console = {
+        log: function(){}
+    };
+}
+if (!window.console.warn) {
+    window.console.warn = function(msg) {
+        this.log("warn: " + msg);
+    };
+}
+
+// Register pause, resume and deviceready channels as events on document.
+channel.onPause = cordova.addDocumentEventHandler('pause');
+channel.onResume = cordova.addDocumentEventHandler('resume');
+channel.onDeviceReady = cordova.addStickyDocumentEventHandler('deviceready');
+
+// Listen for DOMContentLoaded and notify our channel subscribers.
+if (document.readyState == 'complete' || document.readyState == 'interactive') {
+    channel.onDOMContentLoaded.fire();
+} else {
+    document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
+        channel.onDOMContentLoaded.fire();
+    }, false);
+}
+
+// _nativeReady is global variable that the native side can set
+// to signify that the native code is ready. It is a global since
+// it may be called before any cordova JS is ready.
+if (window._nativeReady) {
+    channel.onNativeReady.fire();
+}
+
+// Call the platform-specific initialization.
+platform.bootstrap && platform.bootstrap();
+
+/**
+ * Create all cordova objects once native side is ready.
+ */
+channel.join(function() {
+    
+    platform.initialize && platform.initialize();
+
+    // Fire event to notify that all objects are created
+    channel.onCordovaReady.fire();
+
+    // Fire onDeviceReady event once page has fully loaded, all
+    // constructors have run and cordova info has been received from native
+    // side.
+    channel.join(function() {
+        require('cordova').fireDocumentEvent('deviceready');
+    }, channel.deviceReadyChannelsArray);
+
+}, platformInitChannelsArray);
+
 });
 
 // file: src/common/modulemapper.js