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Branded DHD'S getting update first , huh HTC huh !!! !!!!!!!!!

I find it soooo annoying finding out that branded dhd's are getting the update first (1.84) .. I'm stock with this bloody buggy 1.72 argh.. HTC you f**ked up!!!!!!!.
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Non branded, but still get the update.
Mine is unbranded but still get the updated.
But I think, all branded and unbranded as long its from asian region will get the update.
I'm from asia, my DHD from hongkong.
Just my opinion.

Unbranded and got the update. Am from India.

I wonder how long it will take to reach the u.k then ?? Hhmmm
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dazza_84 said:
I wonder how long it will take to reach the u.k then ?? Hhmmm
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Me too..
Maybe a stupid question, but is there a changelog of 1.84 update? Or is it 1.72 but with SMS notification & SD card fixes?

I wouldn't worry about the delay in receiving the new update from HTC, when the ROM section has some excellent, optimised, images to use.
Setting up your phone (root, downgrading if needed, S-off, Eng-off) to flash ROMs is simple and safe - I managed it without having much Android knowledge simply by using all the guides posted in this forum - I would recommend you go that way.

from what i understand, 1.84 is actually an older build than 1.72 - i know the numbers dont make sense, but i think that is what mike said wo the ACTUAL newest one is 1.72

panyan said:
from what i understand, 1.84 is actually an older build than 1.72 - i know the numbers dont make sense, but i think that is what mike said wo the ACTUAL newest one is 1.72
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Really? Wow..That's confusing

Meh, it might have some older libraries, but it is basically a step forward as it fixes many bugs and so on. It also has better performance, so I do not understand why mike actually said that..

jkoljo said:
Meh, it might have some older libraries, but it is basically a step forward as it fixes many bugs and so on. It also has better performance, so I do not understand why mike actually said that..
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Maybe HTC found some problems with newer libraries, so they use back the older & more stable libraries
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(q) desire hd Vs. hd2

very similar on specs but can anyone that has actually owned or used both give a proper comparison? got a dhd atm but is it worth swapping for multiple os the hd2 can run.
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twiztedvvv said:
very similar on specs but can anyone that has actually owned or used both give a proper comparison? got a dhd atm but is it worth swapping for multiple os the hd2 can run.
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Depends on what ur looking for... if u want to be able to use WM7 and android this is the only device that can run both atm.
The HD is a very good device and runs both OS's very smooth.
If i were u i would stick to your Desire HD as the specs are better and the device will be more supported in the future as the HD2 is getting older now and wont receive any (official) updates anymore.
WM7 cannot even do multitasking untill end of this year... and by then google will release android ice cream sandwich anyway.
I personally would stick to android, WM7 is just not worth it (yet).

ok. thanks very much for your reply.
i was locking more at running ubuntu. the devs on the dhd have done a brilliant job. but its not functional enough for proper use.
have you run ubuntu on your hd2? if so how does it perform for useability? ie. smS, calls and 3g data
thanks
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Sorry, i did not use the Ubuntu build on my hd2 but im interested in experimenting with it too.
I think i just will get a 2nd HD2 as they r very cheap on the 2nd hand market just to fiddle around with ubuntu, meego etc...
Other people can correct me if im wrong but i dont think it would be interesting for daily use (yet) (from the smartphone point of view)

michie said:
Sorry, i did not use the Ubuntu build on my hd2 but im interested in experimenting with it too.
I think i just will get a 2nd HD2 as they r very cheap on the 2nd hand market just to fiddle around with ubuntu, meego etc...
Other people can correct me if im wrong but i dont think it would be interesting for daily use (yet) (from the smartphone point of view)
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yeah i agree. i might get one as a Znd phone to play around with.
thanks for your help
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i think this is unfair since the desire is latest than hd2 but i think if they were made at same period it would be a split since desire is android and hd2 is windows anyways they have the same screen and speed

michie said:
Depends on what ur looking for... if u want to be able to use WM7 and android this is the only device that can run both atm.
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WM7 does not exist. Its WP7!
michie said:
The HD is a very good device and runs both OS's very smooth.
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You mean the HD2!
michie said:
If i were u i would stick to your Desire HD as the specs are better
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They are barely different. Basically the same with small differences.
michie said:
and the device will be more supported in the future as the HD2 is getting older now and wont receive any (official) updates anymore.
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Who cares about official updates when you have a dev community as big as the HD2 on XDA?
michie said:
WM7 cannot even do multitasking untill end of this year...
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No such thing as WM7.
michie said:
and by then google will release android ice cream sandwich anyway.
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And I 100% guarantee you that ICS will be available on the HD2 before the DHD
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I personally would stick to android, WM7 is just not worth it (yet).
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Nah, sell the DHD and get a HD2, basically same hardware and much more choice

TheATHEiST said:
WM7 does not exist. Its WP7!
You mean the HD2!
They are barely different. Basically the same with small differences.
Who cares about official updates when you have a dev community as big as the HD2 on XDA?
No such thing as WM7.
And I 100% guarantee you that ICS will be available on the HD2 before the DHD
Nah, sell the DHD and get a HD2, basically same hardware and much more choice
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Doesnt matter how its called, everyone knows what im talking about + i did mean updates from rom cookers OR official updates, thats why i pu it between ().
Besides if HTC doesnt release official updates the community wont have updated kernels to work with.
The point of my post was : why sell the HD if you can have both

A surprise I found. BEE vs BUZZ.......

While I was surfing the internet aimlessly as usual , I thought to check gsmarena.com for the latest mobile news...etc
I found something interesting, In the CDMA Wildfire (AKA, Bee) I pressed the compare button and chose the normal GSM wildfire (buzz). In the android version the buzz was upgradable to android 2.2 froyo BUT THE BEE WAS UPGRADABLE TO 2.3 GINGERBREAD !!
Aren't they supposed to be the same phone but with different radios ?
A message to HTC: WTF ?!!!!!
Another thing, anyone knows what's the HTC sense version of the gingerbread bee ? Any RUUs available ? maybe it will be easier to port it from an almost similar device
If u wanna check by yourself, click here

Man. I am surprised. Did not even know that a cdma wildfire existed till now. Great to see an upgrade of 2.3 sense upgraded os.
Sent from Hell!!

.xxx. said:
Did not even know that a cdma wildfire existed till now
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Oh yes, we know everything lol.
Just kidding, but we find out a lot of stuff by accident - like with that guy with the unkown HBOOT version... (in the end his screenshot made it clear)
lo2ay said:
BUT THE BEE WAS UPGRADABLE TO 2.3 GINGERBREAD !!
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so let's dig on that one - very interesting indeed

eventcom said:
Oh yes, we know everything lol.
Just kidding, but we find out a lot of stuff by accident - like with that guy with the unkown HBOOT version... (in the end his screenshot made it clear)
so let's dig on that one - very interesting indeed
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these bees surprise me more and more. even though i am in the uk i am actually considering getting one of these just to f**k with it and see what it can really do. maybe even be able to port a recovery and cm7 to this device. cant be that hard surely. and ive seen the prices used on ebay for about £30 or so but they wont post outside the us :/ i am aware that the call/text functions wont work outside the us but the wifi would still work so maybe i could get this mysterious gingerbread update as well. thoughts?
oh, and ive only been able to find one ruu and i tore it to pieces only to find that its stock 2.2.1

I remember when i was looking for a way to get gingerbread on my wildfire (LOL it seems like it was the stone age then ) I read that someone had his wildfire on gingerbread out of the box.
Till yesterday i was saying "either he's a complete noob or an epic troll" .
Now I knew what he means, he had the Bee an he didn't know the difference between the Bee and the Buzz.
I'm in a quest for finding a gingerbread RUU for the bee. Will report if i find anything
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lo2ay said:
I remember when i was looking for a way to get gingerbread on my wildfire (LOL it seems like it was the stone age then ) I read that someone had his wildfire on gingerbread out of the box.
Till yesterday i was saying "either he's a complete noob or an epic troll" .
Now I knew what he means, he had the Bee an he didn't know the difference between the Bee and the Buzz.
I'm in a quest for finding a gingerbread RUU for the bee. Will report if i find anything
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i was also looking for gingerbread RUU, but i don't know how I finished on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1025330
can someone port this to our Willy??

Ask to koolsava it's good for porting rom or to thamal / elia122.
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Just out of interest how many bee users do we have hiding around here that would want cm7?
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Can't find any GB RUUs..
Anyone had any luck finding one ?
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rajko666 said:
i was also looking for gingerbread RUU, but i don't know how I finished on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1025330
can someone port this to our Willy??
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SFM is already the base of our sense 2.1.
However the bee is probably not upgradable to gingerbread, look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1395647

So it's a gsmarena typo?
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lo2ay said:
So it's a gsmarena typo?
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Probably yes (and no-one did really care as there aren't that many bees out there). In the end we only could find out by getting hands on a RUU...
Swyped from my HTC Wildfire (Buzz)

GSM arena has typos in many low-end devices that don`t bring traffic.

eventcom said:
Probably yes (and no-one did really care as there aren't that many bees out there). In the end we only could find out by getting hands on a RUU...
Swyped from my HTC Wildfire (Buzz)
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yes. we should find ruu and make something from it

Fulfen said:
yes. we should find ruu and make something from it
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yes, but the doubts grow that it even exists...

i have our answer guys although, its not the one we hoped http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1958777

Time to port?

Is already the base of our sense 2.1 or is new?
Is already the base of our sense 2.1 or is new?

johngfd said:
Is already the base of our sense 2.1 or is new?
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the bee`s version is technically older as the buzz recieved more updates.

Let us petition HTC to bring KItkat barebones to the Legend

Its all in the Title

If im correct they stop suport in 2.1, why do you think they will give us 4.4?

Im sorry to have to say this but there is no way HTC would even care, nor would we get enough people to actually make this possible. But we do have some devs currently working on 4.4 for the legend.

Temporeiches said:
Im sorry to have to say this but there is no way HTC would even care, nor would we get enough people to actually make this possible. But we do have some devs currently working on 4.4 for the legend.
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Thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1905588&page=28

Yeah, im not saying that it is impossible, in this case we are lucky we got a developer who is working on a KitKat port, but it is not officially from HTC and this is what the thread is about i guess.

Temporeiches said:
Yeah, im not saying that it is impossible, in this case we are lucky we got a developer who is working on a KitKat port, but it is not officially from HTC and this is what the thread is about i guess.
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I was just giving the link to the thread confirming your post .
But it is true that HTC won't do anything more for the Legend (which is normal regarding its age).

mr.death7 said:
I was just giving the link to the thread confirming your post .
But it is true that HTC won't do anything more for the Legend (which is normal regarding its age).
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Ok. Thank you, I wanst meaning to sound harsh sorry if i did

Temporeiches said:
Ok. Thank you, I wanst meaning to sound harsh sorry if i did
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No problem .

it would be awesoe but htc is more interested in you buying a new phone than upgrading a 3-4 years old one

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Its all in the Title
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I don't think HTC legend can support KitKat. Will take ages to boot up.

Could this be real? Official Oreo for the M9

https://yescrowd.optus.com.au/t5/Blog/Android-Software-Updates-22-01-2018/ba-p/377413
https://ausdroid.net/2018/01/23/htc-one-m9-optus-set-receive-oreo-update-soon/
News article and link to the source. I have my doubts and i'm trying to not get peoples hopes up here but if this is legit then I guess we have a reason to celebrate maybe

Don't be a tease[emoji14]
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We live and see it

Hope so....won't root until confirmed

eskimosound said:
Hope so....won't root until confirmed
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I'm not rooting my M9 anymore. The phone works just fine and I'm known to stuff things up by rooting, after all I don't plan on ever changing rom, Nova launcher does what I need, and as for adds.....oh well.
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2ISAB said:
I'm not rooting my M9 anymore. The phone works just fine and I'm known to stuff things up by rooting, after all I don't plan on ever changing rom, Nova launcher does what I need, and as for adds.....oh well.
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I love rooting just to install sun dreams SRom...he's now not doing them anymore so that combined with the fact I want Oreo and the M9 is so wonderfully fast might stop me.
I will certainly wait until the Oreo update....to be fair though my favorite so far has been Jellybean!! Nougat is dull, I can't stand the Sense icons...thank goodness for the Theme app.

eskimosound said:
thank goodness for the Theme app.
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Too bad substratum doesn't really work on this phone. Or was it just me?

mrbtree98 said:
News article and link to the source. I have my doubts and i'm trying to not get peoples hopes up here but if this is legit then I guess we have a reason to celebrate maybe
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Found the source. Seems legit ? since i cant post urls yet just google optus
Android Software Updates-22-01-2018 and there is a 8.0 update listed under htc one m9

I wonder how much lag it's going to create..
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Janith said:
Found the source. Seems legit ? since i cant post urls yet just google optus
Android Software Updates-22-01-2018 and there is a 8.0 update listed under htc one m9
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I posted the link to both sources right above what you quoted

Guys, please don't put your hopes too high and take this rumor* with not only a grain but two hands full of salt.
HTC (like all big OEMs) officially supports its devices for 24 months after their market release. The M9 is getting three years old, soon. In other words, it's more than unlikely that HTC will provide any further updates for the M9. Especially since the EOL phase got reached almost a year ago and not just recently.
In addition, why should a carrier branded device get a major android update the unbranded European version or the dev edition doesn't get? Don't forget that these two versions normally got their updates around 3 months before the carrier branded ones. If the Optus variant really got android 8 at then end of February or the beginning of March then SKU 401 and 617 would already be running this newer version since somewhen between late December and mid-January.
Disclaimer: Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see the M9 getting another major update. However, chances are more than high that the whole thing is just a canard.
* Since this info is nothing more than that.

If a specific career device gets an update, would it be possible for all other variants to run it (ported version , may be?)?
Or, would it be possible to port it to other varriants?

thilak devraj said:
If a specific career device gets an update, would it be possible for all other variants to run it (ported version , may be?)?
Or, would it be possible to port it to other varriants?
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It depends. Theoretically, it should be possible, but some carrier specific feature might not work for other carrier. That is, if the ROM is still compatible with the old firmware.

shaqman89 said:
It depends. Theoretically, it should be possible, but some carrier specific feature might not work for other carrier. That is, if the ROM is still compatible with the old firmware.
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Apart from the carrier specific features, the rom still should work , right? That is software for literally the same hardware..

https://www.androidauthority.com/htc-one-m9-update-783984/
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I asked HTC on Twitter, here's their answer

lucyr03 said:
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hi ...why sygic apk not work on this rom ( HTC One (M9): S.Team S8.0 X5.5.8 ZX3.02) ?
help me. tnx

abbas_392003 said:
hi ...why sygic apk not work on this rom ( HTC One (M9): S.Team S8.0 X5.5.8 ZX3.02) ?
help me. tnx
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I don't know, I don't use this app and I'm not the rom developer.

Test, sorry please ignore this.
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thilak devraj said:
Apart from the carrier specific features, the rom still should work , right? That is software for literally the same hardware..
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In general term yes.
Note that carrier specific would sometimes means ril+modem. So in such cases, the port could work but leaving phone and data capability out.