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2.1 ROM coming mid march, pink hero 15 feb.

Although it is still not the updating time, at least we will find out when we can get the officail hero 2.1 rom.
Here is the link for this news
www (dot) plurk (dot) com / HTCHERO
Sorry it is in Chinese.
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tweakers is quoting this site:
http://www.whizpr.nl/persberichten/6679
run it through google if your not dutch
in short, in march the 2.1 update and a pink version of the hero will be coming Feb. 15
also some free widgets from HTC via Android Market like Parkingtimer, Translator and ringtone-widget.

Ran it through google translate and didn't get far, a lot of the page is in flash
What does it say exactly?

What does it say??????????

yeah sure.

Probably just old news anyway

The important part says:
Hero Upgrade Android 2.1 version of the schedule will be announced next week.
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However, I've no idea how "official" this is supposed to be. However, from translating some of the other plurks, it does look like some of them could be official releases from HTC.
Regards,
Dave

foxmeister said:
The important part says:
However, I've no idea how "official" this is supposed to be. However, from translating some of the other plurks, it does look like some of them could be official releases from HTC.
Regards,
Dave
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Interesting

I've got a feeling it will only be out in April. i think this because HTC are releasing new handsets at the end of march?.. so i think they will only release 2.1 for hero after they are out to stop people taking the cheap way out and just buying a hero with the new software rather than the new handsets maybe??

It is saying that HTC will most probably revealed when Hero can upgrade to And 2.1.
However, they are still unsure whether to let HTC Magic and Tattoo To get the same upgrade.
Rest are mostly users of the 2 not confirmed models users grumbling.

joopsg said:
It is saying that HTC will most probably revealed when Hero can upgrade to And 2.1.
However, they are still unsure whether to let HTC Magic and Tattoo To get the same upgrade.
Rest are mostly users of the 2 not confirmed models users grumbling.
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magic geted a new update last days.. 1.5 with sense ...
so if they update the old magic.. i think we will get an update for us hero to...
but.. hey..
they really want old phones with new software? 2.1 ?
i dont think so..

Probably going to be announced in MWC

Rogers Canada have already said that magic users will be getting a 2.1 upgrade. If they get it so will hero owners.

The old donkey and carrot analogy spring to mind as far as updates from HTC go.
I'll believe it when I'm installing it on my phone

2.1 comes in march HTC said in a press report with some new widgets like the Friendstream-widget.

Conduction said:
2.1 comes in march HTC said in a press report with some new widgets like the Friendstream-widget.
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Link?
10char

hxxp://tweakers.net/nieuws/65478/htc-geeft-hero-medio-maart-update-naar-android-21.html It's a dutch forum however but you can put the link in Google translate. There will also be a pink version of the Hero available at 15 februari according to that source.

Go to Tweakers.net and read the article which is posted on 16:48 (I can't post links)

Thanks guys

tweakers is quoting this site:
http://www.whizpr.nl/persberichten/6679
run it through google if your not dutch
in short, in march the 2.1 update and a pink version of the hero will be coming Feb. 15
also some free widgets from HTC via Android Market like Parkingtimer, Translator and ringtone-widget.

New ROM Hero should be available
According to a Dutch site, Mobilyz.com, the new Hero ROM should be released. The only thing is that I cannot find the ROM.
The article can be found here:
http://www.mobilyz.com/nieuws/besturingssystemen/31989/htc-kondigt-update-naar-android-2-1-aan-voor-htc-hero/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Pocketinfo+(Pocketinfo+-+RSS+feed)&utm_content=Google+International
Maybe you have more luck

Waiting for the official 2.1 rom almost drive me crazy!

lots of apps can not run on the 1.5 rom,1.6 rom does not support HSDPA well, meanwhile there is no such official annoucement can confirm whether the magic will be updated to 2.1 or hell not!!!
what the ...!!!

Rogers has long time ago told that their 32A is going to get the 2.1 treatment by mid-summer, and that should quickly give all other rootede 32A an B's the same

cagra said:
Rogers has long time ago told that their 32A is going to get the 2.1 treatment by mid-summer, and that should quickly give all other rootede 32A an B's the same
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Means if Rogers keep his words, it will be only two months to wait? But how can that happen? HTC always tell us that have no plan to upgrade the magic...

xyq105113 said:
Means if Rogers keep his words, it will be only two months to wait? But how can that happen? HTC always tell us that have no plan to upgrade the magic...
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That's wrong.

xyq105113 said:
Means if Rogers keep his words, it will be only two months to wait? But how can that happen? HTC always tell us that have no plan to upgrade the magic...
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Link me to where you see that. I've never heard of that. If it's assumptions, then stop it.

View attachment 300094words in red block mean:"Google had confirmed hero will upgrade to 2.1, but there is no such plan for magic, sorry

xyq105113 said:
View attachment 300094words in red block mean:"Google had confirmed hero will upgrade to 2.1, but there is no such plan for magic, sorry
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Wrong Again.
http://twitter.com/htc/status/9309192395
Straight from HTC

@xyq105113: Please get your facts straight and your charm polished.
First of all: if you never been promised a 2.1 update for your magic i don't see what this complain is about. What will be next? That you want the 3.0 as soon as that will be released. You can't expect that old hardware will support or get updated software just be happy if you do.
Another thing is: welcome to xda developers who actually makes this update possible for you already unless you got an unhacked spl. If that's your problem then maybe a little research before buying or updating official software would have been a good idea.
My guess is that since HTC already announced update for the Hero and for the Rogers magic it will most probably come to all non-google branded magics.
But again i don't get why everyone got that attitude cause they haven't got any updates for their older mobiles.
There is several reasons for not giving updates to everyone.
1) More sales.
2) Less work making new drivers
3) Less support cases cause of people who can't figure out how to update.
4) Less phone replaced cause of people ****ing up under update.
5) Did i mention more sales ?

ronni.rasmussen said:
@xyq105113: Please get your facts straight and your charm polished.
First of all: if you never been promised a 2.1 update for your magic i don't see what this complain is about. What will be next? That you want the 3.0 as soon as that will be released. You can't expect that old hardware will support or get updated software just be happy if you do.
Another thing is: welcome to xda developers who actually makes this update possible for you already unless you got an unhacked spl. If that's your problem then maybe a little research before buying or updating official software would have been a good idea.
My guess is that since HTC already announced update for the Hero and for the Rogers magic it will most probably come to all non-google branded magics.
But again i don't get why everyone got that attitude cause they haven't got any updates for their older mobiles.
There is several reasons for not giving updates to everyone.
1) More sales.
2) Less work making new drivers
3) Less support cases cause of people who can't figure out how to update.
4) Less phone replaced cause of people ****ing up under update.
5) Did i mention more sales ?
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thank u for explaining, but there are still several bugs in those roms, right?
Plus since magic been published did htc ever update our magic once? Even Tatto have its 1.6 sense UI rom, why not update our magic, due to magic is still for sell, it seems no reason not to update magic. What I want is just a official 2.1 rom for my magic after this long time since 2.1 been published.
P.S. I do not consider my magic as a too old hardware to be updated, my BB 8320 still get new roms........

xyq105113 said:
thank u for explaining, but there are still several bugs in those roms, right?
Plus since magic been published did htc ever update our magic once? Even Tatto have its 1.6 sense UI rom, why not update our magic, due to magic is still for sell, it seems no reason not to update magic. What I want is just a official 2.1 rom for my magic after this long time since 2.1 been published.
P.S. I do not consider my magic as a too old hardware to be updated, my BB 8320 still get new roms........
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Many countries got an update for their magic just not an android update but update with Sense and Android market for those without. Think we all would love an official update with the new Sense and Android 2.1 for easy rom cooking to Magic. But i would think twice before updating the RUU if it comes, cause it might be impossible for root it for a while after if it will ever be possible after that update. I wouldn't consider it old yet either and hoping for the update as well. But i'm just happy that i got xda where i can get most of the things i need. But the mobile industry is moving really fast at the moment and i think that HTC decided to put focus on getting market share instead of pleasing their existing customers. Then we can discuss what the smartest move is in this case, but somehow i think HTC know what they are doing at the moment. But again i actually think that non-google branded HTC magics might get the update now that its official that Hero and Rogers magic does, cause with that done it wont require much work to release it for the rest of us.
But maybe they wont cause of the reasons i mentioned last post for not giving us the update. For now we can only hope, and enjoy the work the developers does for us to make it possible to have a good and stable HTC sense rom running Android 2.1

http://androidandme.com/2010/01/phones/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-users-to-get-android-2-1-this-spring/ look at this

as long as i'm using 32a, regardless of any carrier, will i be able to use that official rom on any htc magic 32a?

http://www.androidspin.com/2010/02/...ive-android-2-1-but-some-will-require-a-wipe/
All US android phones to receive android 2.1.

HSPA has nothing to do with ROM version. It's a setting in build.prop. I have HSDPA and HSUPA working on Donut, as do many other people. It's on by default in CyanogenMod and probably some others.
Look in this thread for how: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=595108

are we another day closer to 2.1?

[Q] official htc tattoo android 2.1

is this ever going to happen ? i know there were some rumours going on in march , saying tattoo will get the taste of 2.1 ... everyone said then than tattoo is going to get an update from 1.6 but nothing happened. is there ever going to be an official version of android 2.1 for tattoo ? thx

Give up the hope for an 2.1 update.
There were rumors. But they were nothing more than rumors.
This question was asked and discussed enough in different threads and the most threads came to the conclusion that we shouldn't wait for HTC to give us official 2.1

don't wait for that
sell your tattoo buy wildfire

yatin kumar said:
don't wait for that
sell your tattoo buy wildfire
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and get disappointed again

If you dont want to get disappointed buy a HTC Desire Z

.. and exactly this is htcs strategy. Release no updates for old/low-end devices, so the customer hast to buy a new one, if he wants new software.
It wold be very nice, if they would open the 1.6 cam(fm,..)-drivers to us. So they could be ported to 2.2. But then everyone had a great phone and no one would buy a new/expensive one.
Next time I buy a device, i will think about, if I buy a htc or not, but the other companies do not much better.
greetz hanzsp4m

agreed. hopes for an update for tattoo are futile. Even Eris won't get updates anymore and it's a way newer device. we have a great community, we don't need HTC(except for the cam driver ).

tattoo will no more
greetz hanzsp4m is right
HTC don't want tattoo more
in India they promoting wildfire
shopkeepers suggesting buy wildfire ( hero almost same spec available at higher cost 1/3 more) wildfire don't disappoint you at tattoo price
they should discontinue tattoo

That sounds bad, hope your wrong.

yatin kumar said:
greetz hanzsp4m is right
HTC don't want tattoo more
in India they promoting wildfire
shopkeepers suggesting buy wildfire ( hero almost same spec available at higher cost 1/3 more) wildfire don't disappoint you at tattoo price
they should discontinue tattoo
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ph91ctl said:
That sounds bad, hope your wrong.
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hi
as far as India is concerned hes right the tattoo is end of life and HTC is promoting wild fire i dont think were gona get any update but dont worry we have some great developers and very soon well have what we want
for example i also have a jade(its a WM Phone) never got any update but i have been using WM6.5 for a very very long time and im quite happy with the same
so done worry guys well get a fully working cooked 2.2 rom soom for our tattoo
thanks
hari

share cam and fm drivers
Does anyone tried to ask HTC developers for cam/FM kern modules? If rom cooking is legal thing (isn't it?), then they maybe share those modules for a discounted device. Maybe need enough ppl to ask.
Or just try unofficial way, by getting contact to one of the developers.
Personally i don't wanna sell my tattoo. I like it, however that upgrade is really need (ofc with working cam/fm).

Well i sent message to htc to ask them if there will be any update for tattoo and here is their answer
Dear Mr. Tino,
Thank you for contacting us,
Kindly be informed that for the time being there’s no information regarding any future upgrade for the HTC Tattoo, you can, however, visit the HTC website from time to time to keep track of any released software.
Please note that you can contact us via support line.
HTC Team

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And I've got this mail from HTC:
Currently there is no plan to upgrade your phone to Android 2.1. The result of our analysis showed that an upgrade
to your phone may impact the user experience and we ultimately decided that an upgrade was not recommended.
Your phone will still receive support, and we thank you for your patience and understanding.

hanzsp4m said:
.. and exactly this is htcs strategy. Release no updates for old/low-end devices, so the customer hast to buy a new one, if he wants new software.
It wold be very nice, if they would open the 1.6 cam(fm,..)-drivers to us. So they could be ported to 2.2. But then everyone had a great phone and no one would buy a new/expensive one.
Next time I buy a device, i will think about, if I buy a htc or not, but the other companies do not much better.
greetz hanzsp4m
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Nothing to add!
mobas

yatin kumar said:
greetz hanzsp4m is right
HTC don't want tattoo more
in India they promoting wildfire
shopkeepers suggesting buy wildfire ( hero almost same spec available at higher cost 1/3 more) wildfire don't disappoint you at tattoo price
they should discontinue tattoo
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Back in June I purchased Tattoo believing Roumors.. here in India the retailers too promised me that HTC is coming up with updates. I purchased it and got rid of it within the first month. Purchased the Desire and the very same day 2.2 update was available
When HTC came up with Desire HD and new Sense UI I knew HTC would do exactly the same to Desire as it had done to its other phone. Desire Z and Desire have almost all the same specs infact Z has slower processor. But HTC has so far not released a comment if Desire will get the upgrade.
Long story cut short.. when HTC launches new phones it conviniently forgets to serve old customers.. but who the hell cares as long there is XDA team.. I am running RCMixHD v.14 on my desire and really dont care if HTC will provide an official update.
So all my friends using Tattoo just give up the hope of 2.1 from HTC. Root your phone and flash a custom ROM and dont complain if u brick ur phone
Good Luck.
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AMOLED Desire HBOOT 0.93 S-ON
Radio: 32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27
Recovery: Clockworkmod 2.5.0.7.
ROM: RCMixHD v0.14b

dimitars84 said:
And I've got this mail from HTC:
Currently there is no plan to upgrade your phone to Android 2.1. The result of our analysis showed that an upgrade
to your phone may impact the user experience and we ultimately decided that an upgrade was not recommended.
Your phone will still receive support, and we thank you for your patience and understanding.
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maybe they have problems with camera too on 2.2??

I couldn't care less about HTC giving the Tattoo an update, but they could at least have helped giving us a working camera!

Stunned by htc Support
I've contacted HTC Support for Tattoo upgrade and they promised me that their technical team is working on it "very closely" but release plan is not available. I contacted them quite a few times now... and really stunned by their idiotic answers...
I've posted my conversation with them on a blog stunnedbyhtcsupport[dot]wordpress[dot]com [I couldn't post the link as I'm a new user] (You can visit my homepage)
You can see how stupid answers they are providing to their customers...
I've given up all hopes for any official support for Tattoo now and I've purchased a Motorola android device. Will never come back to HTC.

cmpk.mj8 said:
I've posted my conversation with them on a blog stunnedbyhtcsupport[dot]wordpress[dot]com [I couldn't post the link as I'm a new user] (You can visit my homepage)
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Really HTC support is crap...

HTC ignores its user
Thanks to HTC. Such ignorance can not be overlooked. I had a similar experience with Nokia. Now I will bought a Samsung, I'll see if they are more honest.

When will Gingerbread hit DHD?

OK, this question is ought to show up at some point:
Nexus One will be getting Gingerbread over the next few days - What about DHD?
I know it typically takes HTC a good few month to adapt new version of andriod, but for a sparkling new flagship device to have an obsolete OS before its publicly available in large quantity, its a bit silly.

It should be, and there should be no reason why it shouldn't
HTC is usually the one that updates most of their phones early compared to Sony Ericsson or Samsung

At a wild guess it will be Q1 next year.
At any rate there is nothing wrong with the DHD shipping os. If gingerbread will bring some new features then all good but since I don't have those features now I don't miss them
I have not noticed any bugs, instability, or lag in the DHD either.
I guess what I'm saying is that I'm happy to wait. After using sense ui I find AOSP android to be a little too bland for my tastes, so I certainly won't be switching back to my Nexus One as my daily phone just because of Gingerbread.

Just read in a couple of places that Htc people have confirmed that the Desire HD is going to be updated with gingerbread. Just mailed them asking for an exact date though i think they will provide me with a very vague answer.....just hoping the update comes sooner than i think it is going to...

Just got a reply from htc ... as expected
With regards to your reply,
Kindly note that we cannot comment on speculation or rumor, but we’re excited about our upcoming products and encourage you to visit htc.com for more information.
For more support information, you can contact us by phone: +20-238-272-843
http://www.htc.com/www/support.aspx or you can go to:
http://www.htc.com/mea-en/selectcountry.aspx, select your country and then click on the Support tab.
Thank you once again for your continued patronage.
Sincerely,
Hasnaa
HTC

this is their official reply from the HTC UK fastbook account
We are excited about the OS update coming for Android, and will definitely have some phones running this OS, we do not have a specific timeframe for new phones or updates at this time. Please stay tuned though.
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Update on Desire Z getting official GB ....

this is the transcipt of chat between a guy named Hemant Tailor and HTC customer service UK. he posted on the HTC uk wall... im just copy pasting here....
Hemant Tailor
Conversation with HTC UK support on chat...not looking good for 2.3 update on Desire Z:-
Please wait while we find an agent to assist you...
All agents are currently busy. Please stand by.
You are currently at position number 4 in the queue.
An agent will be with you in a moment. Thank you for your patience.
You are currently at position number 4 in the queue.
You have been connected to Georgina.
Georgina: Hi hemant, thank you for contacting HTC Support.
hemant tailor: hi gina
Georgina: Currently we do not have a date for when this is going to be released
hemant tailor: i thought it was gonna be by the end of the month
hemant tailor: ....
Georgina: We do not know
Georgina: when we do we will inform all customers
hemant tailor: is scheduled for the desire z
hemant tailor: will the desire z get the 2.3 GB update???
Georgina: it will we just do not know when
hemant tailor: Not impressed.....bye
Georgina: Thank you for contacting us, I hope you have a great day
guys we are just **** out of luck.... all HTC care about is to kiss sprint customers ass... nothing else.... providing updates to Evo Evo 3D and Merge... thats their world... all the other ppl dont matter
Edit: just did live chat myself.... here it is....
Ian: Hi Muneeb, thank you for contacting HTC Support. How may I help you today?
Muneeb : hello
Muneeb : i want to know when should we expect gingerbread update for desire Z
Ian: The update to 2.3 should be available later this year.
Muneeb : previously it was told that the desire Z should get update before end of june . that no longer holds true correct?
Ian: I apologise I am unable to confirm this, I would advise you to look on our website for any updates as to when this is released.
Muneeb : okay.

Eh, I'm a bit more optimistic. These days, updates and such hardly ever come out at the planned release date. It makes sense from their standpoint to upgrade other phones too. There are so many more people on the Evo than on the G2/DZ for example, so it makes sense to upgrade the devices with the most users. Even if we don't get it officially or it doesn't come for a long time, we will still get custom ROMs with the updates.

the Dev community is the only reason im still using my desire Z . but this is definitively my last HTC device for sure..... i rather go with a developer edition phone (nexus series) next time.. or get myself nokia powered windows phone 7....(if they bring out some really really sweet hardware like the Sea Ray)

I can't live without the HTC Dialer. I like the Mail app much better too than stock. And there is massive dev support; I don't really see a downside to a HTC phone.
I am happily running Virtuous Unity 1.26 and its pretty near perfect!

You think HTC is bad with updates? Good luck with any other brand, much much worse.
Sent from my HTC Desire Z

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You think HTC is bad with updates? Good luck with any other brand, much much worse.
Sent from my HTC Desire Z
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Not to mention that HTC don't seem to tell the customer service anything regarding future updates. This has happened time again.
Ps, I've also had the "updates from other brands" rant many a time.. HTC are one of the better ones.

This is a bit of a letdown, but I know we'll get some nice ROMs for the Desire Z, so I'm not that worried.

Is it true that, from a developers point of view, being able to use an official HTC gingerbread rom will make for a much more stable foundation for future custom roms? That's always been the main reason why I've been hoping HTC release this update even though we currently have custom gingerbread roms.

Actually i am starting to lose faith about Htc's software division.
I credit them for making incredibly good phones, but their software division seems not to be the best. For example: They said on their Facebook page that they had abandoned the work on getting 2.3 on the old Desire, and when alot of people (including me) commented on that post about that people at XDA-Developers had gotten 2.3 to work on the old Desire several months ago, then Htc went out with "We WILL release 2.3 for the Desire, we started working on it again"
That made me doubt their competence in the software area...
and also i read that: Htc are only obliged to send out OTA updates the first 18 months after a product is released, so if the model you bought is more than 18 months, then you shouldn't be so sure to get any updates at all =/
btw, why wait for an official 2.3 when there is several good working 2.3 roms here at xda?