yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Thunderbolt General] Dangerous Dave:
Forgive me for not reading all 8 pages of this thread, but here's what I know as fact from my own experience. I'm now on my third T-Bolt in 10 days. First one was a paperweight right outta the box. Got the second one the next day and it was FULL of issues which I won't enumerate now. Software version was 1.12.605.xx (MR1 I think?). Wife's T-Bolt which she's had for over a month was running 1.13.605.7 (MR2?) and she was having little to no trouble with hers. Among the many problems I was having with mine, probably the most worrisome was that we went to Cincinnati for a banquet several days ago. Cinci already had 4G, Dayton was slated to get it in a few days. EVERY TIME we passed a 4G tower (wife was watching them on an app on her T-Bolt), my phone would reboot! I called VZW on 6/15/11 to express my concern that my phone was going to become a doorstop when 4G went live in Dayton the next day. They documented my concerns and let me go. Guess what? They launched 4G a day early and my phone became non-functional for voice or data as soon as it hit. The VZW store couldn't fix it (tower got hit right next to the store and they had NO DATA SERVICE!), so they overnighted me another one. I again expressed my concerns, because by all accounts they had halted MR2 because the latest greatest bug-fix was coming asap. Both my wife and one of my co-workers were having no problems with their stock T-Bolts running 1.13.605.7. I figured if I couldn't get MR2 and the phone didn't come with it already loaded, I was just gonna be screwed again. The new phone showed up the morning of 1/16 as promised and much to my (pleasant) surprise, MR2 got pushed to the phone within minutes of activating it, and the phone has been working well for the most part. Only glitch I've really seen is that when I drove out of 4G area Saturday, neither mine or the wife's phones would resume 4G service until we restarted the phones, but all's good since then. If I'm wrong about the MR1 and MR2 designations, feel free to correct me. If I'm right, then yes, as of 6/16/11, they were still pushing MR2 out. Since HTC is insistent that they're working feverishly on a new-er bug fix to be pushed out asap, I'll remain optimistic that it's true, and if it really does hold things like GB and *working* Skype in it, then I'll be an even happier camper.
[Thunderbolt General] crazyhtown:
LOL...tech support has very limited training and if you got am outsource even less. It is just the mr2 buddy
[Thunderbolt General] microdot:
I am not pissed because i believed the release date like a noob, its more at trolling and creating these fake pics to the point where every tech site out there is writing an article about that. Also saying p!ssed off in a lite sense. Its a phone and a software update. I got bigger worries in my life.

As a side note (i believe its fake) but spelling errors alone are not proof that its fake. How many times have we seen actual best buy adds not only making spelling errors but having wrong pics of devices with the names or advertsing features that doesnt exist. Even the ligit adds are made by idiots at those companies.
[Thunderbolt General] Dangerous Dave:
Hmmm, did you actually *read* my post?
[Thunderbolt General] datbizzyb:
yup

http://www.droid-life.com/2011/06/1...-june-30-includes-skype-and-gtalk-with-video/

gingerbread june 30th
[Thunderbolt General] feedhead:
No

Bonus: Look up the radio number info before long winded fail post.

@datbizzyb - you seriously posted that same 'info' that has been in this thread multiple times? seriously?
[Thunderbolt General] Dangerous Dave:
Let me add to your "thanks meter" by saying "thanks for being a **** about it". I'm guessing you missed the part where I said "feel free to correct me" regarding the release numbers, but rather chose to go out of your way to be an asshole. Amazing what you can learn about a person from one sentence.
[Thunderbolt General] feedhead:
Yes sir learned a lot, you are lazy.
[Thunderbolt General] Dangerous Dave:
I think that's actually the first time I've been accused of being lazy, but I'll consider the source. As for your suggestion that I search for radio numbers, I did that but failed to find a conclusive:cool: answer, just plenty of vague ones. If I go by what I read in my search, then MR2 hasn't

actually been released at all yet? If that's correct, then what's the distinction between 1.12 & 1.13?
[Thunderbolt General] khanam:
Man, what's wrong with all of you? Fighting over something as stupid as whether the next update will be froyo or gingerbread... Insiders (& we know who they are like jcase, adryn, chingy) say it won't be gb, why are you people still arguing about it? These threads seriously seem like 80-85% garbage posts. If you don't know for sure, keep your mouth shut and listen. If you do not know an insider personally then listen to those who do. Jcase etc have no reason to hide anything from us. And do not believe all these strange leak photos. With "extention"????

Sent from my thunderbolt
[Thunderbolt General] sinik420:
Haha this was my thought while I was reading this post. Although I can't say anything as I'm on 2.3.4 lol
[Thunderbolt General] happimeal:
What I find a little amusing is the fact that everyone is saying we cant wait for the GB update, when, umm, we have a pretty good working version of GB on our phones already, with a full sense 3.0 port, which is more than the official release of GB from HTC will even come with.

Ok, its gotta a couple bugs, blah blah, the official releases's from HTC have bugs too, right out of the box, so with a phone only a few month's old, and we already have more cool stuff on it, then will ever be "officially" release, I would say were doing pretty well.
[Thunderbolt General] khanam:
Yup, completely agreed. Been on GB ROM and radio for weeks now. By the way, happy fathers day, people...

Sent from my thunderbolt
[Thunderbolt General] C@rn@ge:
At least they are being consistent...
[Thunderbolt General] Dangerous Dave:
I just came here to share what first-hand info I had, and to try to get some info from those who are more current than I. Instead I got some guy who spent more time busting my balls than it would have taken to answer my question.
[Thunderbolt General] Kc0r8y:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Leak...derBolt-bringing-Gingerbread-and-more_id19680
[Thunderbolt General] brent_strong:
So, if I'm rooted now, what would I need to do to go back to stock with this update? I'm not gaining much being rooted and I think I'd prefer the stability of stock.

Will I get an OTA notification and can I just install it like normal?
[Thunderbolt General] dhemke17:
Don't promise what you can't deliver! I love krispy kremes. Lol
[Thunderbolt General] thunderbread:
I need me the donut app! Lol
[Thunderbolt General] dre4402:
Whether its mr2 or gb ill be happy when a dev get it and tweak it ill just check tomorrow when i get to work since i work for vzw sooo. My .02
[Thunderbolt General] satseaker:
Even the guys at vodafon/vzw mother co/are sayin its fake,they aint got much to do with it but insiders sometime release **** that was meant tp set them up

sent from my motorola V60 runnin' bamf gb sense 3 pr 4 for the TB
[Thunderbolt General] yareally:
yay, link bait. You guys know these sites thrive on this stuff for ad revenue and a boost in the google searches, right? If you ignore it (by not clicking on it), they will be forced to go back to writing real content that is worthwhile or shut down. Either option is fine with me.
[Thunderbolt General] oxidant11:
Considering the mr2 hasn't even came out (cancelled too), I doubt we are going to see it anytime soon, what I dont get is why this thread is here? We have gb...I have had it for a good month now, and who wants gb from HTC anyways, the devs are so much better, one more thing not all VZW reps are clueless, I'm one and I can say maybe 3% percent of us are good lol.
[Thunderbolt General] satseaker:
Why, offical release,that way the devs would have more than just a leak to work with

sent using a nokia 3660 Eplus Handy!
[Thunderbolt General] wcfarris:
Ya know... I used to enjoy reading XDA threads. I've been reading for the most part since I got a DInc last year in June. I know not to always trust anyone you get on the phone. I even addressed that in the first post of this thread.

However, thanks to the ability of the internet to make people anonymous, this has basically turned into 10 pages of flaming each other. For God's sake, just get over yourselves.

I heard some information, I posted it, some people said it's wrong and other places are saying it could be right. That's all that needs to be said. Nothing is concrete, but there's always hope. Even if it's just a radio update that can fix the reboots/shutdowns, that's better than nothing.

Now quit trolling, get out of your mom's basements, and enjoy this wonderful thing called "the sun". Maybe you've heard of it. It's kind of a big deal.
[Thunderbolt General] nbdysreal:
It might be possible that there is truely a gb OTA coming. A few sites are popping up today stating this for June 30th being the hard date. Don't know if they're right, but just sharing what i found.

http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2011/06/20/htc-thunderbolt-ota-gingerbread-update-hitting-junes-end/

Edit: FWIW, Also found another with a variation of the same pic

http://htcpedia.com/news/rumor-gingerbread-hitting-htc-thunderbolt-june-30.html?l_page=1&p_page=1
[Thunderbolt General] KidJoe:
I'm sorry, but Please read those "articles" closer... again, ALL of these articles ARE POINTING BACK TO THE SAME source... that first AndroidAndMe article...

So, as I said back in Post #41 and 56 of this thread...

Just because AndroidCentral, PocketNow, DroidLife, and now phonesreview.co.uk and htcpedia.com, are pointing to THE SAME SOURCE... I don't think that helps PROVE the OP is right.

If the original AndroidAndMe.com atricle are wrong/false/a fake, then so are the rest of the sites that are re-running the story and using only AndroidAndMe as the source.

That being said, JCASE and the other insiders who have said the next update won't be GB have been pretty accurate so far, so I have no reason to doubt their word this time....

However they are only human, so only time will tell if our regulars with the inside track are again right, or if some unknown/unidentified source has better intel.

I don't think there is anything else for us "regular people" to do but sit back and patiently watch/wait to see...

If another INDEPENDENT and VERIFIABLE source pops up to state GB is coming on June 30, then I think we can start talking again...
[Thunderbolt General] BeastieBoyy:
im sure thats all it is
[Thunderbolt General] lippstuh:
so what if its right or not its just news. Its so funny you guys argue how real it is. who cares lol, wait 10 days to see what happens.
[Thunderbolt General] ThatFool:
just got off the phone with Verizon tech support. Still saying an update is coming out at the end of june but not saying wether its GB or not
[Thunderbolt General] stkiswr:
Verizon told me honeycomb was coming to the tbolt and it offered an app that u had to rub your crotch over it to unlock. Something about new scrotum detection technology
[Thunderbolt General] KidJoe:
Sorry, since you quoted me, not sure if you are agreeing with what I posted, or pointing my post out..

I just think its ridiculous to post links to more articles which say the same thing and are pointing back to/citing the SAME SINGLE ARTICLE as source, as if to say "yup its true because these other site also posted it.."

No matter how many times its repeated, its a single source which has yet to be verified or confirmed, so its not really "news" is it? Now if these other sites/stories posted that they got confirmation from Verizon, or some other second source, that would be news and interesting to read.

As for "waiting".. Agreed... I said that is all there is left for us "regular people" to do.. :D
[Thunderbolt General] FreemanB:
I'm married, so I'll just have to rub it against my wife's purse. *badum tish*
[Thunderbolt General] nbdysreal:
KidJoe, no need to get all bent out of shape about me posting two links. I agree that if it comes out cool, if not oh well. The devs haven't led us wrong so far. I just found some "articles" and felt they should be shared. Take them for what they are worth. We will find out soon enough.
[Thunderbolt General] MoxJr:
lol now posted on Engadget.... someone is slow
[Thunderbolt General] mb02:
What they are worth is nothing. If news articles are all pointing back to a single news article, which has no source or basis for its information, then they are all basically taking a dump on a plate and serving it to the masses to get traffic and ultimately money (internet "news" authors are paid by how much traffic their articles get). The internet has destroyed good journalism...
[Thunderbolt General] treyatl2006:
Are you all sure... This was just leaked from Verizon employees...
[Thunderbolt General] jimmydene84:
That's old, and already proven a hoax
[Thunderbolt General] Dangerous Dave:
...said the guy with 9 posts. And BTW, thanks to our Thunderbolts, we can read this forum outside your mama's basement. :D
[Thunderbolt General] treyatl2006:
ok cool. Hopefully HTC and Verizon doesn't make us wait too long. It seems like almost every major device is upgrading to Gingerbread really soon.
[Thunderbolt General] MoxJr:
where is the proof?
[Thunderbolt General] Zinsko:
Seriously anyone could have made that picture in the little pain application on there computer a lot of copy paste you know. I seriously don't ink Verizon is in any hurry to fix this issue because if they are then it would have been done already. Just don't get you're hopes up Verizon has let many people down many of times. Guess we just have to wait and see.
[Thunderbolt General] yareally:
In the thread you didnt read.
[Thunderbolt General] MoxJr:
no proof found, learn 2 read
[Thunderbolt General] CanesDrew:
There is no proof either way. It's all speculation. Everyone is operating off a "hunch" that they're right. I hope and pray that we get this update as described on June 30 or before but NO ONE knows. :rolleyes:

I went the root route and tried Gingerbread. It's great. Sense 2.1 is great. Parts of Sense 3.0 are even better. If you're in that much of a hurry for 2.3.4, just root and flash a ROM.

Me, personally? I un-rooted and went back to stock firmware. It took up too much of my time flashing ROMs and tinkering. But if that's your thing, go for it.
[Hero CDMA General] coffeehandle:
hey my HeroC's

just letting you know im off to a new device (Speedy)

But i wanna thannk ANYONE who helped me personally in this

forum.

A special thanks to Duce (for being a general BadAss), Laie, (for helping me with, Data2ext, and general things) and of course all the Devs, who made flashing ROMS exciting. If i forgot anyone, sorry.

But hope all you guys develop this mother to its extreme.

Ill be checkin in and out.

Happy Rooting!!
[Hero CDMA General] c00ller:
Have fun with the new Speedy. My gf got that phone while I still had my Hero and it made me REALLY jealous, lol. You won't be disappointed, and now in the Evo Shift Development forums they already have a fully rooted version of the Gingerbread OTA that was released today!
[Hero CDMA General] coffeehandle:
yeah i know man!theyre great. Plus we got NFX on our side :p
[Hero CDMA General] laie1472:
Man you leaving to lol. Na jk have fun man its been a blast. I thought you were getting the 3d??? And whats the speddy??

#Root/Hack-Mod_Always*
[Hero CDMA General] c00ller:
Speedy is just the HTC code name for the Evo Shift 4G lol.

It's like how HTC Supersonic was the code name for the Evo 4G.
[Hero CDMA General] laie1472:
Oh. Ha man I did not know that. Lol. I was gonna do a search for speedy lol. Thanks man.

#Root/Hack-Mod_Always*
[Hero CDMA General] Riff76:
Enjoy the Speedy, just got it for the wife recently. Only rooted it but haven't put any roms on there.
[Hero CDMA General] coffeehandle:
To be honest, I'm getting so sick of these monsters of phones. Like EVO, the 3d, the photon, inspire, and other HTC phones. The shift is compact enough but has a solid punch.
[Hero CDMA General] unCoRrUpTeD:
I said the same thing last year. The phones are big. But after messing with a coworkers day after day, I really like the size. Plus dual core and sense 3.0. I couldn't pass this one up. Did I mention Windows 8 will have support for ARM chipsets. I'll be triple booting Android, ubuntu, and Windows. At least hopefully.
[Hero CDMA General] il Duce:
And you'll be sharing, and you'll be legendary :)

@coffee - google htc kingdom or hero 2, monster specs, 4 inch screen, coming soon?
[Hero CDMA General] coffeehandle:
Haven't heard much from the release date =\ ill see if I can scout around.

@uncorupted, the specs for sure sound amazing, but NFX has a really nice port of Sense 3, not official but still enough not to be swayed by the 3D
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sabandija:
I need the original ruu for my tmobile g2

its for guarantee issue the touch sensor for home, menu ,back. Dont work and some place in lcd.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spastic909:
Did you even bother to look? Go to dev section and look at the top.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sabandija:
I already looked but only i can find is the ruu for dz

and i dont know if i can use with my g2?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smokeuout:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=970809
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raitchison:
That's just for radios.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smokeuout:
My bad..thought I got a link off that page to it.
[Off-topic] netstat_EVO:
Any XDA members planning on attending defcon this year?
[Off-topic] dexter93:
Maybe.... Will you pay me the air tickets?? :P

@m1ldroid: its a security conference... The worlds biggest hacker party!

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Off-topic] netstat_EVO:
Hrmmm, Greece to Las Vegas .... something is telling me that would be financially irresponsible on my part lol :)
[Off-topic] netstat_EVO:
C'mon... SOMEBODY from XDA besides me has to be here.
[Off-topic] Doombadger:
I'm not
[Off-topic] netstat_EVO:
That really contributed. Thanks.
[Thunderbolt General] CARLITOZ18:
I want to root my thunderbolt but idont know how to use adb theres other app o r something more easy
[Thunderbolt General] g00s3y:
I suggest you learn, it isn't hard at all, and will help you out in the future.

http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=how+to+use+ADB

Rooting is very simple and is basically a copy and paste operation by following this thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=996616
[Thunderbolt General] the kid escobar:
You need to learn or you will screw yourself over later
[Thunderbolt General] Rngrrymd:
Go to YouTube and lookup Nat3mil. He

has great step by step videos of the whole process. U'll need to spend some money in Market too for ROM Manager, Root Explorer and a few others. Get the MR2 radio not MR1. Good Luck!
[Thunderbolt General] elliott35:
Use the google machine! One click root. It does the adb for you in 3 steps.

THUNDERBOLT
[Thunderbolt General] coliny59:
Is the process the same with a stock mr2 ruu? From what i understood update using the other mr2 radio leak then update to one of the the roms.
[Thunderbolt General] CARLITOZ18:
..

Thanks to all now my phone is rooted :-) it took me about 3 hours
[Thunderbolt General] elliott35:
Lol what took so long

THUNDERBOLT
[Thunderbolt General] Digbob:
congrats bro!
[Thunderbolt General] stkiswr:
I followed the 9 step guide posted on YouTube and it performed flawlessly. 0 issues at all!
[Thunderbolt General] angryfist:
I knew nothing about ADB but rooted my phone in about an hour.
[Thunderbolt General] itsmejson:
congrats :) I'm planning to upgrade this

weekend to the thudnerbolt and will be looking

to root my device as well ;)

I've been searching to get the answer to my wifi

question but i can't seem to find a definite answer.

- after rooting, what do you use to get wifi tether?

pdanet, android wifi tether any others you'd recommend?
[Thunderbolt General] daytonahemi08:
Nice I'm waiting to root my phone like I did my DX with just an app :P
[Thunderbolt General] stkiswr:
Pretty easy to do and if you watch the video and do it step by step you can't go wrong...so easy a caveman could do it.
[Thunderbolt General] Rngrrymd:
Congrats Carlito, welcome to the rooted world. You'll never go back.

Coliny, once I rooted I got Rom Manager immediately and a few other root apps. I flashed the radio after flashing new rom - worked fine.
[Thunderbolt General] tn8shooter:
I agree. Learning how adb works is a huge help when it comes to problems down the road. Not hard to understand the basics.
[EVO Shift 4G General] Whosdaman:
http://briefmobile.com/prices-drop-for-the-nexus-s-evo-and-evo-shift-at-sprint

Starting 6/24:

Nexus S 4G - $149.99

EVO Shift 4G - $99.99

EVO 4G - $99.99
[EVO Shift 4G General] craven667:
hmmm i kinda want a evo lo shift dont have good signal here
[EVO Shift 4G General] DWake014:
Gf just got her nexus s today, 50 more bucks down the toilet :/
[EVO Shift 4G General] dfin13:
I was interested in the Nexus until I saw it has no notification light (no microSD doesn't bother me so much). How very iPhone-like. Sucks, it looks sexy .. err .. for a phone that is.

Edit: Hmmm, just saw this app to help with the LED omission: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=730692 ... how does your gf like that Nexus?
[EVO Shift 4G General] retiredhp2200:
Good thing I thought to check over here before picking up a Shift on Monday... Guess I'll be waiting a few more days to pick one up.

Woot for saving money :D
[EVO Shift 4G General] DWake014:
The nexus is pretty awesome, makes my shift look tiny after I had been setting hers up. They have a one click root process which is awesome but their development is way behind ours. The graphics benchmarks on the phone are ridiculous stock, I haven't played dungeon defenders on her phone yet but it will probably be way smoother than the shift.
[EVO Shift 4G General] dfin13:
Hmm ... I wish the Sprint stores had one that actually functioned so I could handle it properly instead of just holding a dead phone. I've got an upgrade override due to the whole Silver/Gold Premier debacle, but it has to be this month. I'm so used to my original Evo that something lighter and thinner might feel too foreign to me. At least the Shift has some heft.
[EVO Shift 4G General] skyheli:
Done.... $50 + taxes credited to my account. Thanks for the alert......
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qbaq:
Hi i have cracked screen in my NEW (!) desire :(.

There is only a small hairline crack visible in the glass underneath the outer cover of the phone (i assume it's the screen - as seen on the famous tj's tear-down photostory :) ). The outer glass is completely intact (how the F#$% did that happen?).

When the phone is on the screen is all green, yellow - like a leaked lcd.

So here goes my question: how do i check/know if the digitizer is fine? Or will i only know it after i replace the AMOLED screen?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dexter93:
No expert here, but as far as I know digitizer has to do with the touchscreen, so I guess that if your touchscreen works(font mean the display) the digitizer works too...

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qbaq:
Heh,

that is exactly the problem that i don't know if it works. Phone boots normaly, but i can't see anything on the display so i can't see if the digitizer works the straight-forward way.

I think the only way to check that would be to connect the phone to the computer somehow and see some "telemetry" - i was hoping for a suggestion in this area :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davebugyi:
You can try to use adb logcat boot up your phone and try to push various buttons (blindly :D) if logcat shows interactions, digitizer should be fine.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qbaq:
i tried to connect to logcat but it's impossible if the "usb debugging" feature is disable in the phone.

Nevertheless i replaced the display and the phone works perfectly now :D

(note to self: do not boulder with your desire in your pocket :P)