[HTC One X] BarryH_GEG:
This thread is so funny. Because most of you guys are in different time zones, looking at this thread in my morning, its typically grown by five pages overnight. And that's with no additional news about the update. ;)

Let's talk about HTC's "October" comments. Here's exactly what was said. It was published in a press release issued by HTC's corporate office in Taiwan on October 2. So there's no question they clearly said both the One X and One S were "scheduled to being rolling out from October."

The HTC One™ X+ will be available in Europe and North Asia from October and in South Asia from November 2012. North America will make a separate announcement regarding availability of the HTC One™ X+. The Android Jelly Bean with HTC™ Sense 4+ update is scheduled to begin rolling out for the HTC One™ S and HTC One™ X from October.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...ated-android-phone-even-better-172234211.html​

So, pick one (or more) of these possible scenarios for a delay:

Samsung was starting to roll out JB and HTC didn't want to seem like they were behind so they made "October" up (they lied).

The marketing and PR department took preliminary information from the development group and published it without the development group's knowledge (confusion).

HTC's CEO told the development group "Damn it; I want these updates out in October. You said you were close so just make it happen" and made the announcement based on that (ego).

Everyone at HTC thought October was a stretch but thought they could make it because internal testing showed they were really close. Something happened after the Taiwan roll-out that caused more work. (aggressive deadline).

They knew it wasn't done enough for worldwide release but thought they could get at least a handful of regions out in October making their PR statement somewhat true. (stretching the truth).

I don't believe that they outright lied. That isn't the Asian way; especially when the most senior of executive's "face" is at stake. I don't think it was ego because a leaked memo from HTC's CEO telling people "they need to eliminate process" to get things done faster was soft spoken and doesn't strike me as words coming from a top-down tyrant. Holding up our update to sell more One X+'s (a conspiracy theory) can be laid to rest because they wouldn't have tagged info about our update on to the One X+ press release if that was their strategy. So that leaves us with some combination of confusion, an aggressive deadline, and stretching the truth. I think a combination of those three things is why they missed "October."

Let's flash forward to tomorrow; the much mentioned "November 19th."

One of four things will happen:

Taiwan, the guinea pigs, receive another update that's intended to be the final round of testing before worldwide release.

A minor region that's not Taiwan receives the update but its more an expansion of testing and there will be a major delay before the next region receives it.

A major region in the EU receives the update signaling the beginning of the roll-out and other regions follow quickly.

Nothing.

HTC corporate has said nothing since they said "October." So the "official" word stands. JB should have been rolled out and hasn't so it's "late." Once that's happened how late it is kind of becomes secondary; especially if they have a new found commitment to quality. All other dates are from regional office drones via Twitter, FB, chat and e-mail. So, to me, November 19th is just another phantom date. So any of the four outcomes above are distinct possibilities tomorrow.

For those of you new to the update game, let's assume for a moment that it does start to roll-out in volume tomorrow. The forum will go through these phases:

Angry debates over why one region got it ahead of another region.

Dozens of posts saying "I'm in X region and I haven't received it, when am I going to get it."

Dozens of posts saying "I'm in X region, and I just got it."

Massive conversations about how F-d up HTC's update process is because it could takes week for all regions to be updated comparing it to Samsung (who we all know is just as f-d up.)

Dozens of posts asking how to apply the OTA from a released region to a device that hasn't received it yet all asking "will it wipe my device?"

New "WTF?" threads started because people don't like the new treatment of a feature or, based on their individual device's configuration, something stops working so they assume all devices have the same issues.

There's more but you get the idea. Someone God knows how many pages back said it best "you'll get it when you get it." This update isn't the last helicopter out of Vietnam. If it takes two or three weeks for everyone to receive it those on the tail end have no choice but to be patient. No one here can make the process better, different, or faster. God speed to us all. ;)

P.S. - Make sure to save some energy. This whole conversation and process is going to start over with 4.2.