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Official HTC Droid Incredible Gingerbread OTA

Well the HTC EVO 4G received their official OTA yesterday from sprint and we are scheduled to get it by the end of this month as well which means custom gingersense kernels will come soon after. Just putting this out there for people who want to know the news about the update and yes the OTA will break root.

Right on, which also means that the Unrevoked team will have to work on their root exploits AFTER the OTA to once again achieve root. Hopefully it won't be like the last OTA (or 2 OTA's ago?) where it broke root, and there were nothing but threads about not having it...you'd a thought people were going to die, and all they had to do was wait about a week or so.

My question is, can it put you S-ON? Because even the RUU can't do that. So even if you were on a stock rom, with S-OFF, and received the OTA, you could still root through CWM.
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What does that mean for us that are rooted and running custom Rom's? If I were to just let it run the OTA with root and custom Rom? Would it just overwrite the whole phone with new update and replace everything on my phone with updated stock gingerbread/Rom? Or will I need to restore my stock Rom backup and then unroot the phone to s-on and then let it OTA?

badogg said:
What does that mean for us that are rooted and running custom Rom's? If I were to just let it run the OTA with root and custom Rom? Would it just overwrite the whole phone with new update and replace everything on my phone with updated stock gingerbread/Rom? Or will I need to restore my stock Rom backup and then unroot the phone to s-on and then let it OTA?
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If your already on a custom rom, you wont get an OTA notification.
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if you want the official ota and youre rooted you'll have to wait for one of the devs to get a rooted rom out

It's just mean inc development is gonna go crazy soon....woooopyyyyy!
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vonhinkle said:
It's just mean inc development is gonna go crazy soon....woooopyyyyy!
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its already pretty crazy with the gingerbread leak all gingerbread official will do is give us oc kernel

JoelZ9614 said:
Well the HTC EVO 4G received their official OTA yesterday from sprint and we are scheduled to get it by the end of this month as well which means custom gingersense kernels will come soon after. Just putting this out there for people who want to know the news about the update and yes the OTA will break root.
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but this still will have sense 1.0 right???

1107963 said:
but this still will have sense 1.0 right???
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yea that sucks

Sure, Sense 1.0 is kinda lame. But its probably for the best. It's definitely lighter on resources, and the phone manual would still apply. Not much of an issue since the Inc isn't shipping anymore. But the EVO is. So they might have had to rewrite some of the manual for sense 2.1. But I think it has more to do with available memory. All these gingersense roms are great, but they sure do use a lot more.
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I don't care what people say about Sense 2.1 on the Inc. It's working great for me. The bottom line is that the Inc isn't being made anymore, so there is absolutely NO incentive for HTC to put 2.x Sense on it. If your Inc broke for instance, and you could get an official 2.x Sense'd phone, you'd be more likely to pick up a used Inc as opposed to a newer phone. I've had my Inc going on almost a year, and I can honestly say I don't really need to "upgrade" my phone. I typically upgrade to a newer phone every year..... If I last that long! I had my ATT Fuze (aka HTC Raphael, aka Touch Pro) for like 3 or 4 months before "upgrading". Bottom line is, the Inc is a great phone, it's capable of running Sense 2.x, but HTC wouldn't be doing themselves any good to go through the effort of putting it on the Inc since it's an EOL product.....

todd3835 said:
I don't care what people say about Sense 2.1 on the Inc. It's working great for me. The bottom line is that the Inc isn't being made anymore, so there is absolutely NO incentive for HTC to put 2.x Sense on it. If your Inc broke for instance, and you could get an official 2.x Sense'd phone, you'd be more likely to pick up a used Inc as opposed to a newer phone. I've had my Inc going on almost a year, and I can honestly say I don't really need to "upgrade" my phone. I typically upgrade to a newer phone every year..... If I last that long! I had my ATT Fuze (aka HTC Raphael, aka Touch Pro) for like 3 or 4 months before "upgrading". Bottom line is, the Inc is a great phone, it's capable of running Sense 2.x, but HTC wouldn't be doing themselves any good to go through the effort of putting it on the Inc since it's an EOL product.....
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I got my Dinc in September and can honestly say this is the longest of any phone i had. My wife has drawer dedicated to my old cell phones. So i have to go back to my stock rom for the over the air. Thats the only backup ive never used.
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I got the incredible on release day. I'm itching for the Samsung charge!
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JoelZ9614 said:
Well the HTC EVO 4G received their official OTA yesterday from sprint and we are scheduled to get it by the end of this month as well which means custom gingersense kernels will come soon after. Just putting this out there for people who want to know the news about the update and yes the OTA will break root.
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Actually if I am correct HTC only said summer release for Droid Inc. I think Thunderbolt is next in line.

cstrife999 said:
Actually if I am correct HTC only said summer release for Droid Inc. I think Thunderbolt is next in line.
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No they said by the end of Q2[which is the end of this month]

Does anyone know if the new Gingerbread with Sense running on the EVO has a better email client than the stock GB mail client (which bites)? I use SkyRaider 4 with Sense 2 on the Froyo platform, but MIUI on the GB platform with LauncherPro to make it as Sense-like as possible. Since the GB mail client neglected the 'Search' functionality, I had to buy the Enhanced Mail client (I'm and Exchange user), but there is no scrolling widget for this. A Sense-based GB rom with a Sense-based mail client would solve all my problems. Bottom line, has anyone seen the Sense Mail client on the new GB-based EVO?

RyanTX said:
I got the incredible on release day. I'm itching for the Samsung charge!
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Got mine during the first release week. Keeping my eyes peeled for the SGS II only because it's the only thing that looks interesting to date.

So basically we all want something thats not going to happen?

rfarrah said:
Got mine during the first release week. Keeping my eyes peeled for the SGS II only because it's the only thing that looks interesting to date.
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what are you gong to do with an sgsII flash touchwiz over and over? lol

Evo official gingerbread rom?

I was wondering if there is a rom based off of the update today? Maybe with bloatware uninstalled but fast?
Evo 4G
Cyanogenmod 7

Keep checking the dev section one will pop up sooner or later. I check at least every hour or two lol. Im sure something will come up in the next few days.

Synergy is supposed to be updated sometime tonight by virus

What is this Synergy rom I've been reading about? I googled it but came across a thread in the dev section for the incredile only.

Synergy is a Sense 3.0 ROM collaboration created by Virus, Myn and other developers. In a nutshell, it will be a better version of Virus' Kingdom ROM. Right now, it is not open to all users... but will be in the near future.

That's what I'm waiting for. I did flash the rooted stock today after it was released but I want some sense changes.
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Anyone know a good one now?
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phatmanxxl said:
Keep checking the dev section one will pop up sooner or later. I check at least every hour or two lol. Im sure something will come up in the next few days.
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every half hour here, lol.
i'm really hoping avalaunch gets his worked out and updated...

taadow1030 said:
Synergy is a Sense 3.0 ROM collaboration created by Virus, Myn and other developers. In a nutshell, it will be a better version of Virus' Kingdom ROM. Right now, it is not open to all users... but will be in the near future.
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You can get the nightlies from Myn's download site. I just flashed the latest one a few minutes ago; it's smooth as butter. I wish the rotation was 3D and not slide, but it's all good.

gingerbread release here

i take no credit, just passing this on
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/fascinate/8081-gingerbread-fascinate-release-thread.html

First reply, that's what's up.
First off thanks for posting this here.
Second, wondered what made him have a change of heart?
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No thanks, I'll wait for the Dev optimized version. :/

AlgorithmX said:
No thanks, I'll wait for the Dev optimized version. :/
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Agreed
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he said on twitter that fassy owners emailed him and that changed his mind, didn't want to hold it out from the rest of us because of an argument

doctorj1 said:
he said on twitter that fassy owners emailed him and that changed his mind, didn't want to hold it out from the rest of us because of an argument
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He'd already said that others were going to release it anyways, so... take from it what you will.

AlgorithmX said:
No thanks, I'll wait for the Dev optimized version. :/
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Also agree. Let TSM get their hands on it first
After running stock for a few days (during that whole ZOMG my 3G is gone fiasco) I was about ready to throw it out the window.

After a whole days worth of prepubescent tantrums. I don't want to touch this. I think I'd rather rock Adryn's froyo SC than a P3 GB leak. Haha.

If owners were going to release anyways then i'm sure its all about where the credit goes. That's why P3 released IMO. I am glad, however, that he chose the side of advancing the android os rather than holding grudges.

I don't flash any ROM anymore that isn't deodexed (theme-able), debloated (though I do like the TW video player and Media Hub), and de-Binged (though I still find Bing to be useful, that doesn't mean I want it built into my ROM). Therefore, like some of you have already said, I will wait until it's released as a custom ROM by Nitro, TSM, or one of the other devs who have worked on the Fascinate for more than a week or two.
[EDIT]: Oh, yeah, forgot to mention - I am also going to wait for a voodoo kernel (actually I forgot that this would install a new kernel). That looks to be a much longer wait than for someone to de-B it (deodex, debloat, de-Bing) it, since, as I understand, no kernel source has been leaked. It took a couple of months, as I recall, after the DL30 leak, for a Froyo voodoo kernel to be released. That was because no kernel source had been leaked, only the functional ROM build. The voodoo kernel was based on the official ED01 release after Samsung posted the kernel source.
Another Fascinating post by my XDA app...

Save yourselves the trouble and do not flash until there is a less buggy and de binged version. At the very least we know that there is a Fully Functional GB rom on Verizon for the Fascinate.

I am very surprised. I didn't think samsung would develop gingerbread this fast. They took almost a year to put out froyo then 2 months later we have gb.
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Avelnan said:
I am very surprised. I didn't think samsung would develop gingerbread this fast. They took almost a year to put out froyo then 2 months later we have gb.
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EC09 is the build number, meaning most likely that a second dev team was working on GB while froyo was being finished up.

Avelnan said:
I am very surprised. I didn't think samsung would develop gingerbread this fast. They took almost a year to put out froyo then 2 months later we have gb.
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Actually, this is an old engineering build. I heard about it a while back, just never got to see it.

I wonder how long till we get an OTA of Gingerbread?

I would imagine it will be a little while. Verizon is notorious for continually pushing things back, and I don't see why this OTA would be any different.

What exactly is so great about gingerbread?

[I9000M] Bell Gingerbread Update coming Early summer

For your information
Bell will be releasing the update early summer for our dearly beloved device!
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woo hoo!

Good to hear that they are going to keeping the phone up to date. I switched to custom ROMs months ago and haven't looked back. ;-)
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I'm on JVP but I will switch back to stock for I9000m when it's out.
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Ah, this is what I've been watching for. I would like to know what they mean by "early summer", though - we're already 2 1/2 weeks into summer.
Would have been nice if they'd ever released the 2.2.1 update, but anyway, I guess I'll probably stop pursuing FW flashing for now, since updated stock was mostly what I wanted. Then again, I would like to root and do so other stuff...
Thanks for the heads-up.

Thanks for letting us know! The wait since official release of Gingerbread for Galaxy S was rather long and I was tempted to just go for Cyanogen Mod, but the advantage of stock firmware is the full hardware support.
Besides some of the apps from Samsung such as the music player, video player, the camera... are pretty good (and not available for CM7). Also I quite like that a Canadian version of swype is included in the stock fw (can we get that on CM7?)
Of course I don't like the bloatware that Bell includes, and there's a lot to like about CM7 such as the wiimote support, lots of small improvements & settings, the original gingerbread look & feel...
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I hope it's 2.3.4 so we don't suffer from the battery drain.
I don't mind the bloatware since it's minimal, and stock rom is the only place I can find my beloved french-canadian swype
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Awww... I was about to give up waiting for it and flash Faryaab's F1 Galaxy S2 V6 ... the video made it look amazing!
To wait or not to wait ... that is the question!

YAY glad i held of flashing for this long. Will go Official and see how it works. I want it mainly for drivers and CSC as i love using DOC's ROM. Hopefully he will add some of the new features to the kitchen if not already there.

bossman74 said:
I don't mind the bloatware since it's minimal, and stock rom it's the only place I can find my beloved french-canadian swype
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I think the same!
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Yea french canadian swype is must have, I don't want to see an azerty anymore!
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Nice I'll wait for this now as well, heck I held off GB for this long what's a few more weeks. Realized yesterday I have over a month of uptime right now with 2.2.1 JS8, so no hurry to switch.
What made me a bit nervous about custom GB is flashing the bootloaders. It doesn't seem like there's a problem with ones from other regions but with official release so close I might as well wait, go back to to a stock Bell 2.2 ROM and flash the GB bootloaders the 'right' way.
Also kernels and the like for 2.3 seem to be just maturing, I love speedmod with BLN and CWM on my phone right now. Seems like everything but BLN is in speedmod for GB now maybe it will come soon.

we're already in early summer...
i wonder though how much of an improvement it would be over JVQ if at all. I held out sooo long from flashing with ODIN but couldn't stand the lag of 2.2 and flashed JVP and then JVQ a couple of weeks ago; 2.3.4 JVQ seems much quicker than KC1.

mk_ln said:
we're already in early summer...
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Well like I've read in some comments on MobileSyrup, summer is 3 months. Early summer is June 21 to July 20th, Mid summer would be July 21 to August 20 and late summer would be August 21 to September 20. We still have 2 other weeks of Early summer then.

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we're already in early summer...
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I wouldn't expect it before at least july 14th.
On that date, the SGS2 will be available at Bell stores ... with GB already loaded.
It wouldn't make sense for them to make GB available for the SGS before the SGS2 comes out IMHO...

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Also kernels and the like for 2.3 seem to be just maturing, I love speedmod with BLN and CWM on my phone right now. Seems like everything but BLN is in speedmod for GB now maybe it will come soon.
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See that's why held off going to GB, my phone is in the best state it could be in and having anything less is unacceptable. Gingerbread has come a long way since released by Samsung but still not like the Froyo we have today and all the features/enhancements the devs has made.

bossman74 said:
I hope it's 2.3.4 so we don't suffer from the battery drain.
I don't mind the bloatware since it's minimal, and stock rom is the only place I can find my beloved french-canadian swype
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Yeah... I definitely worried about that too. It needs to be 2.3.4!
I can't wait for the update, but hopefully they do it right and not effff up things royally like the Froyo FW that killed many Internal SDs... (including mine)

Pfft, Im glad I didnt wait for official releases, takes donkeys ages to roll them out, I would have wanted to toss this phone if I was stuck on Froyo all this time

and we continue to patiently wait?

bossman74 said:
I hope it's 2.3.4 so we don't suffer from the battery drain.
I don't mind the bloatware since it's minimal, and stock rom is the only place I can find my beloved french-canadian swype
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I modded a JVP rom with an updated Swype keyboard with fr-CA support if you are interested.

Frozen Rom 1.3 (no rom out yet) disccussion and other roms! Share your thoughts!

Anyone else out there excited about this fantastic news and are just trying to wait patiently for it?!?!
What made you originally go to the Frozen Roms?
How have they helped you?
What are your opinions?!?!
Lets talk!

Ehh, what news?
And have been waiting for 1.3 for months now. They may as well just hold out for official release of Gingerbread and convert their work done-to-date to that new build.

nikon120 said:
Ehh, what news?
And have been waiting for 1.3 for months now. They may as well just hold out for official release of Gingerbread and convert their work done-to-date to that new build.
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Sure we have been waiting a while, but it will be worth it, and who knows how long we may wait for GB, ya know? Plus personally I think EC05 is the most stable build to work with and the newest so that's probably why. Although it would be great if we could see SFR for Gingerbread... whenever that happens, not counting on it though, I'm just happy with SRF 1.2 right now waiting for 1.3 lol.
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I just wonder who's gonna post the srf 1.3 thread, I would say mysteryemotionz but he hasn't been around since late august. My guesses are that chris41g is gonna take it over.
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Will source be released with it too??!! Lol
Waiting for this is like our gb. When it comes it comes. Till then, just wait.
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Waiting is all part of the game. I really do feel it will be worth it. Is the wait worth it to you guys?
Have you tried other roms? If so which and did you like them?
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SRF 1.3 is in the works, I know that for a fact. JohnCorleone has been testing, and chris41g has taken over Mystery's job.
Be patient. Right now, there are many great roms out there. Not trying to hate on SRF, but it's not any better than some roms we already have. Take the iPhone for example. It's popular because of the name, but there are many other phones better than it.
Same thing with SRF. It's popular because of the name, but there are so many froyo roms that are just as good, if not better, than it.
I understand you're excited for 1.3, but it's not going to bring anything revolutionary for the Epic. I'm sure there will be more tweaks, new kernel, and new theming, but that doesn't mean it'll be the best.
I apologize if I brought you down in any way or made SRF sound bad. It's still one of my favorite roms and I am looking forward to 1.3 but in the mean time, try out the ones we have now.
Also, seeing you only have 3 posts here, welcome to the Epic 4G XDA community. Once again, sorry if I scared you a bit
Just wanted to inform you

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Waiting is all part of the game. I really do feel it will be worth it. Is the wait worth it to you guys?
Have you tried other roms? If so which and did you like them?
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Yeah i've been waiting months as well. But then Era roms have kept me cozy. I'm not hyped as I was before but looking forward nonetheless
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omair2005 said:
Yeah i've been waiting months as well. But then Era roms have kept me cozy. I'm not hyped as I was before but looking forward nonetheless
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What do you think of the ERA roms? Are they just as good? What's the diffrences between the current SFR and ERA?
Just curious, I haven't run any era roms on my epic.
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DANG ! I saw this title and headed straight over to DEV section to DL = bummer
EDIT - Epic Revolution and UrBan Regeneration R both great ROMs

Ty
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Loved sfr 1.1 and 1.2, but when the first gingerbread with netflix released I went to them. Haven't really found a way to get everything from gingerbread back to froyo so I'm still running constantly rebooting gb leaks.

ERA AOSP v4 ftw!!!

I've used them all, and I'd have to say, IRA Rebirth is on my phone atm is it's running better than it EVER has, hands down. I've never had a ROM increase my battery life, but it is noticeably better.
It's worth a whirl. That said, I'll be rolling 1.3 when it hits, and will go from there.

I know it's coming out, but you got my hopes up for it being out right now..

malcolmXman said:
ERA AOSP v4 ftw!!!
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FRANKENSTEIN v4 ROCKS !

MeetFace said:
I've used them all, and I'd have to say, IRA Rebirth is on my phone atm is it's running better than it EVER has, hands down. I've never had a ROM increase my battery life, but it is noticeably better.
It's worth a whirl. That said, I'll be rolling 1.3 when it hits, and will go from there.
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Is it just battery life that you were aiming for when looking through roms?
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That's a MAJOR part of it. Themes, theme-ability, speed, stability, features stock doesn't have, etc etc.

ugothakd said:
That's a MAJOR part of it. Themes, theme-ability, speed, stability, features stock doesn't have, etc etc.
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Would you be opposed to sharing a screenshot of your phone? I'm just curious as to how your set up is and I'm curious of the theme as well. Pardon my curiousity. Lol.
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Am I the ony person who thought this was an announcement thread?