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hi, are there any new official roms for the HD? i just got mine on orange and i wanna get any update out of the way so i dont loose my settings and stuff by having to flash it soon lol.....
There is no official update for the moment - just one version and it's on your phone ......
Slightly off-topic but is it normal for HTC to release upgrades for their products with new and improved features and applications? Or do they save these for the next product range and just send out the Hot Fixes to fix bugs?
With 16 months to go before my Orange upgrade it would be good to look forward to some HTC goodies.....but I am in a dream world?
Well I flashed to an Official ROM v1.19 WWE released in Asia.
The ROM feels quicker especially TF3D, more stable, bug fixes, minor software updates etc. No added features though but XDA will give you all the goodies.
Fantastic community!
HTC should be contributing some of their funds to XDA as it provides the best customer service.
I really wish HTC would issue some more official ROMs with all the software updates, rather than a few untidy patches.
I think HTC shoul extract Touch Flow a little from the hardware and giv all the new version to older phones, too.
It is a SMARTPHONE and has the ability to get enhanced.
Like apple does with the iPhone
I don't own this phone yet, but I have a question about OTA updates:
who releases them? the carrier, the phone manufacturer or google?
My problem is that I'd like to know if buying this phone (or any other android based phone) now will let me uses future versions of google android.
yelo3 said:
I don't own this phone yet, but I have a question about OTA updates:
who releases them? the carrier, the phone manufacturer or google?
My problem is that I'd like to know if buying this phone (or any other android based phone) now will let me uses future versions of google android.
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OTA Updates are provided by Carrier or Google & not Manufacturer in case of HTC, HTC has said, they will be providing Updates In an different way like they provide to Other HTC Devices...
OTA updates are most likely 40-60 Mb...
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thanks for the quick answer. Now I'm starting to better understand, and I will ask you another things:
- can OTA updates move from 1.5 to 2.0 (and so on) when it will be released?
- how can I get OTA updates directly from google and not from the carrier?
(I don't think that carriers will keep releasing updates for old phones. I'd like to keep the phone for at least 3 years, while always having the latest software version)
yelo3 said:
thanks for the quick answer. Now I'm starting to better understand, and I will ask you another things:
- can OTA updates move from 1.5 to 2.0 (and so on) when it will be released?
- how can I get OTA updates directly from google and not from the carrier?
(I don't think that carriers will keep releasing updates for old phones. I'd like to keep the phone for at least 3 years, while always having the latest software version)
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You can get OTA updates to any software version. When 2.0 is released, it will most likely be pushed OTA. As far as 2.0 (Donut), its release date has not been announced, but some are expecting it 2H2009, most likely 4Q.
Who you receive your OTA updates from depends on who you purchased your device from (or, which ROM you're running). Google pushes OTA updates to their developer ROMs. T-Mobile pushes updates to their retail devices. &c. Also, not all devices/carriers/updates run on the same cycle. T-Mobile UK received the 1.5 (Cupcake) update about 2 weeks before T-Mobile US did, and both of those pushed updates were after the ADP OTA update.
I'm running the Daldroid ROM (in South Africa on Vodacom (Vodafone))
Is there any way to figure out whether the ROM is configured to get OTA updates? and/or which servers it's trying to get them from?
J.
So I have to trust my carrier, and to hope that he won't stop releasing OTA updates after, say for example, 1 year.
I can't really understand why this thing works in this way: in computers updates are deployed by the program company, not the manufacturer.
So I have to trust my carrier, and to hope that he won't stop releasing OTA updates after, say for example, 1 year.
I can't really understand why this thing works in this way: in computers updates are deployed by the program company, not the manufacturer.
By owning a flagship android device, we always want the latest and greatest software available for this device, but there are only limited number of software engineers that work on android updates for LG flagship devices (around 300-400 engineers) depending on region, so they are not able to provide the users with all the minor android updates Google decides to release. Therefore, they turn their attention on major updates, instead of minor ones to keep their user base happy. Keep in mind that LG honors your device eligibility for upgrade to 24-27 months before dropping support and that we can't always get what we want.
My question to you is... If LG was reconstructing their plans for android updates, which one do you prefer?
1) You want all the minor android updates that Google releases to be released for your LG G3 and receive major ones later.
2) You want faster release of major android updates to the most current version.
To clarify: Choice 1 gives you more frequent small updates and Choice 2 gives you less frequent, but large updates. When your device approaches the support-end date, choice 1 will be one major update behind choice 2 because engineers working on every android updates and won't be able to release the major one in time.
This is a really hard one to call. Recently I received the 20f update from 20e on my D855. It was only a 12mb google patch but didn't change the android version the phone was on, in fact I don't know what it changed! Obviously it fixed or improved something but it would be nice to know what!
I think it is a matter of priority, if we receive a major update, for example going from 5.0 to 5.1.0, which not only has performance improvements but cosmetic and feature additions then I would like to receive this type of update as soon as possible helping my device stay at the cutting edge.
But if this update breaks something... like my wifi becoming unstable or system programmes force closing all the time, I would expect that to become the priority no matter how small the patch update may be!
So to reiterate, my first choice would be option 2 bringing in a touch of option 1 if required!
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This is a really hard one to call. Recently I received the 20f update from 20e on my D855. It was only a 12mb google patch but didn't change the android version the phone was on, in fact I don't know what it changed! Obviously it fixed or improved something but it would be nice to know what!
I think it is a matter of priority, if we receive a major update, for example going from 5.0 to 5.1.0, which not only has performance improvements but cosmetic and feature additions then I would like to receive this type of update as soon as possible helping my device stay at the cutting edge.
But if this update breaks something... like my wifi becoming unstable or system programmes force closing all the time, I would expect that to become the priority no matter how small the patch update may be!
So to reiterate, my first choice would be option 2 bringing in a touch of option 1 if required!
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I have to agree with you. I wish there was a happy medium between the two.
I wonder why people are no discussing that Google has taken off these two useful features from Lollipop update?
Is it only me or everyone who updated their phones to lollipop don't have these features on their phones?
It is Samsung fault, not Google
@daemon21 wonder why they did this. Is there any hope for these features comming back to note 3 in further updates
Read on redmondpie
I seen it includes redesigned navigation bar, new emojis and security patches..
Hope Asus works off the latest build and we don't get stuck with just 6.0
Also wondering if this release will delay the release of 6 for our zen2s
Depends how far off 6.0.0 is, if it's like 2 months off I doubt we'll get 6.0.1.
asus provides us with security patches regardless of the version, and the nav bar tweaks are for tablets. So basically it's just the emojis. won't be much of a difference if we get one or another