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[Hero, G2 Touch General] Stafflover:
As far as I know that only affects the radio, so sprint needs to get their drivers for both the phone from htc and the radio from another ''provider''?

Even then Sense ui is supposed to be responsible for the delay.... Sprint still needs that and that comes straight from HTC
[Hero, G2 Touch General] foxmeister:
Actually, the "radio" is part of the MSM7600 SoC CPU that powers the Sprint Hero. The GSM Hero has an MSM7200 SoC CPU, so technically they are different CPUs even though one of the two cores will be essentially the same.

All of the updates are effectively coming from HTC, but crucially Sprint Hero updates have always been sent OTA from Sprint and are not available on the HTC website like the RUUs for GSM Heros.

All I'm saying is that there are good reasons why the Sprint Heros release schedule is different from the GSM Heros. Whilst those of us who have GSM Heros might like to think that we "deserve" 2.1 before those with a Sprint Hero (which was released later), a week or so's difference either way isn't a biggie!

Regards,

Dave
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Stafflover:
A week isn't but NL htc said the end of april...

That's close to or more than a month.

And since they still have to get most of the drivers from htc (and the sense ui)

I can't imagine the rom not being ready at the same time as the sprint one.

And thus I don't get it why we have to wait.

It would be weird if T-mobiles g2 gets an update before non branded hero's

Sprints doing the same thing, or am I forgetting something.

I don't mind waiting, also told htc that. But I do hate getting a release ''date'' and having that rescheduled. If they said you're gonna get the

update in April I wouldnt be pissed.

Edit: I know the update is supposed to be an OTA but if it's not... Will the NL one be the same as the for example UK one?

Last rom upgrade (though a small one not a entire new android version) was the same file for all of us (multilanguage rom?)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] irispen:
at least there are some chef there that can port it to our GSM HERO
[Hero, G2 Touch General] richardmajor86:
i just asked HTC, this was their responce

"Dear HTC Customer,

Thank you for your recent enquiry.

Rom upgrade for your device will be released begining of April. Please visit our web site for any announcments.

Best Regrads,

Lukasz M.

HTC"
[Hero, G2 Touch General] PulpzillA:
I've just emailed them myself i hope your right!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Smallguy17:
Im currently running VillainROM 3.3 (2.1) and I was wondering if I will be able to just install the official 2.1 over it and in the process unrooting my Hero?

Or do I have to install the old official 1.5 and then upgrade to the official 2.1? :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] tkm89:
I'd suggest you wait for one of the devs to release a custom ROM based on the official 2.1. I'm sure there'll be a VillainROM based on the official 2.1 and a Modaco one and many more.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] fallos:
just got email !!!!

2 April in Russia, Estonia, Finland !!!! yeeh , baby, yeeee ! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] PulpzillA:
i still got the standard message of it will be coming soon. when pressed for a more specific date it was sorry we have no more news about it at this time etc.

Anyway if my hero is unbranded is it possible i will be able to get the upgrade on the 2nd April instead of the dates for UK T-mobile and Orange?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Shahpur.Azizpour:
if your hero is unbranded, then you dont need to care about t-mobile or any other carrier schedules. The only thing you need is for HTC to provide the update on their website. Based on my experiences in the past, it was ALWAYS the case that updates for unbranded devices came earlier than any carrier update.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] mircioku:
Update...

look at this:

Thank you for contacting HTC.

Some of the phones in our Android line up including your Hero are due to receive an upgrade, and it is scheduled to be released starting at the end of April. Your phone should be upgraded Over-The-Air. You can expect a pop-up message on your phone when connected to the internet once it is ready. When the upgrade is ready, we will notify you via our website and on various social media networks including Twitter and Face book.

If you have any other inquiries, don’t hesitate to contact us again.

Please note that you can contact us via support line. For further details, please go to http://www.htc.com/europe/CA_Hotline.aspx , you'll find a toll free number that you can dial only from a landline.

Thank you so much for using HTC products.

Respect & Regards,

HTC Team
[Hero, G2 Touch General] pauliusba:
So now it the end of April?.. damn...i cant wait anymore...ill root now. Damn u htc.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] StrongOneX:
Omg that was exactly what i wrote in the first post! Cmon the release will be 2 april
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nixgegendenise:
Very easy. HTC is screwing with us. It is just the next lie.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] zemerick:
It's up on HTC website now.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nikiforos:
I couldn't find. where exactly is it ?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] zemerick:
I can't post links :( . . It's under the hero's download section of HTC's website. I'm downloading now.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nikiforos:
you should wait until the devs release a rooted rom. it might un-root your device. could you pm me?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] zemerick:
I'm not worried about losing root. I don't run a custom rom and only a few of my apps require root. (Wifi Tether). From my understanding they have fixed that in the 2.1 update. Regardless, I don't use it enough to worry as I'm sure there will be a root available for 2.1 within hours of the release.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kadison:
Here it is on the US website http://www.htc.com/us/support/hero-sprint/downloads/
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Davith:
You're talking about the Sprint Hero 2.1 update right? If you have a European GSM Hero you don't want to install that.

edit: kadison beat me to it.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ddotpatel:
U know its not for GSM dont you?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nixgegendenise:
But only Sprint Hero, NOT GSM hero.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] bluesax:
So..is it a matter of days or hours for the GSMs?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kadison:
Hah we should be so lucky! More like weeks.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] 2ma:
or years...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] SherlockHolmz:
http://tinyurl.com/y3j7ptb

Funny :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] orouborus:
personally i do not think that they would update hero. it has been so long and not even a single update was given. i think they wish for us to buy a new phone instead of supporting older versions. i hope in wrong though.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kadison:
There was a minor one last year, but it was for performance and not an OS update.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] chrisbramm:
Haha that is brilliant

Tapatalk on my Hero :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] sprinkles:
me too. i have the european version. anyone have any insights/ideas on where to find 2.1 for an unlocked device?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nixgegendenise:
Never. HTC will never update to Android 2.1. NEVER.

They will lie, again, this time they will say: "We skip the update to Android 2.1 and will DIRECTLY offer you Android 2.2" and the same idiots as before will believe these f*cking liars!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] olafos:
No, if you check my older posts you'll see I was quite the sceptic regarding the update. I didn't believe it will actually come. But now, seeing that both Eris and Sprint Hero got their update, I see no reason why HTC wouldn't give us the same (GSM adapted) upgrade. I heard it's harder to distribute for the GSM version, because several types of models (or chips or ID or whatever) are being used and it takes a while to offer an update that's working for all European customers.

I'm sure it's around the corner, at least we know that they updated the american heros which is a lot more assertion than we had 1 month ago.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nixgegendenise:
Let me help you and give you a reason: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=685154

Usual lies of businessmen to force us to buy Legend / Desire.

I'm sure, we will never get Android 2.X
[Hero, G2 Touch General] olafos:
How is that a counterargument?

The Sprint Hero was a non subsidized device in the US, so by your logic, they should have pursued the same tactic there. Yet, they got an upgrade yesterday. So I'm calling BS.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] DSF:
Now with Android 2.2 released.. who wants Android 2.1? :(

Damn HTC... We get 2.1 when others get 2.2 :|. This sucks..
[Hero, G2 Touch General] olafos:
Come on, hardly anyone else will get 2.2 soon! Only Nexus one for now (and even they have to wait till June). I don't expect other or new devices to get 2.2 before August/September.

I mean, we have a one year old device and we get updated to the same (some minor things like no live wp) Android + Sense UI as the newest HTC devices right now. I think that's pretty sweet (if they actually update).

Don't get me wrong. I'd love to see 2.2 on the Hero (btw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Bir6OldNM) ... or further updates for that matter, but I'm totally fine with the 2.1 update for now. I just wished HTC would actually publish it already.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] mirok:
I'm not waiting 2.1 official, I'm waiting for 2.2 cooked :)

For the start, most of the stuff 2.2 is bringing we have already seen on hero cooked roms working like a charm :)

Applications on microSD, Just In Time compiler, Tethering, nice OpenGL tweeks... list is very long. I have seen so many good cooked 2.1 roms and I don't really need official one.

On other hand only advantage offical rom have is handling wavesecure (if the phone is rooted, you can flash a new rom and wipe wavesecure). I think I can live with that :).

Who needs 2.1 official rom when 2.2 will be well cooked any day now ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] orouborus:
i just emailed htc and they said they are planning to release the update by early june. hope its true. :D but i wont hold my breath. :p
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nixgegendenise:
They won't. It's just another lie like the one that Eclair for GSM Hero would be released end of April.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Thiesen:
You're not the 34542342534253245'th people to do that... you're the 8.5*10^4434534523532425th to get the very same answer from HTC f'ing mailbot system...

I thought that these guys or these where slow... but they're NOTHING compared to HTC.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] orouborus:
true true. they said it would come out feb, then april now june. :confused: somehow i fel they wont update it
[Hero, G2 Touch General] SherlockHolmz:
2 days left til june... lets revive this thread.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] stanleyxu2005:
HTC is fooling us. There will never be an official update for Hero anymore.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] JW 301:
yeah, that's the reason why they released it for Sprint Hero and Droid Eris...

no, seriously, won't you guys stop repeating the same "HTC is fooling us" phrase please?

we heard it and we understand you are angry, and of course it's not good from HTC, promising for so long but not delivering. but for now we don't know anything

so please stop spamming this against every post here... thanks ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] 87Vortex87:
With the arrival of the new Stock ROM root access will probably be lost right? So it's better for us Hero users to root and not update to Android 2.1 right?

P.s.: I'm new in the custom ROM world, so getting familiar with the basics.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kerzo:
If you want to keep root then I wouldn't update with the official ROM straight away, I'm sure some of the guys on here will have it cracked within hours/days so you will have an optimised version of the official ROM shortly afterwards.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] pulser_g2:
Indeed.

See http://www.villainrom.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28 for the little warning I wrote a while ago.

I have been informed there WILL be a new SPL in the ROM, so don't flash the HTC release. A rooted version will be out very soon after.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] wywywywy:
With so many quality Eclair rom releases in the last month or so, I don't think many people care that much any more.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] rfgamaral:
I wouldn't be so sure...

I, for one, care... I'm waiting for the final version as none of the available ones are good enough, they all have some problems.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] bebou:
+1 **** HTC costumer services
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nixgegendenise:
They are patheticly bad. You cannot rely onto these Custom ROMs.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] wywywywy:
They are definitely not pathetically bad. In my opinion they are quite good for what they are, although of course not as good as stock roms.

If they cannot be relied on, then the only option is stay with 1.5, which I personally (as well as many here so it seems) do not want to - 2.1 is much improved over 1.5 afterall.

On the other hand, it is not like HTC's release schedule can be relied on either! >_<
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nixgegendenise:
I really appreciate the cookers' work but... the outcome ist not good enough, which is not their fault, but only HTC's, the biggest liears on the face of teh Earth.

For me, the most important things for a ROM are:

1. Reliability of GPS

2. Reliability of GPS

3. Reliability of GPS

4. Battery lifetime

5. Stability of the system

6. MMS

And, literally, there hasn't been one single Custom-2.1-ROM which came even near to my satisfaction.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
I beg to differ on the point of there being no decently reliable custom 2.1 ROMS. I've been using VillainROM 6 for a couple weeks now and its stable and fast as help. GPS works reliably, 3D gallery rotation is fixed, camera is perfect, live wallpaper work etc. It's the best 2.1 Rom going IMHO.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Seelbreaker:
Well we can only wait...

Anyway... just send them an "I'm pissed of E-Mail" -.- to make me feel better...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nixgegendenise:
Important:

The first e-mail is never read by a humen being but you only get a automatic response. You HAVE to reply again to really write to a person.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] android-jaya:
well try Feeyo's CronosDroid..
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nixgegendenise:
Don't!

Phone module crashes like all the time.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] android-jaya:
i've been on it from the beginning, and the latest release has never crashed on me.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nixgegendenise:
The latest relase? Wonderful. So there are only 99 other bugs.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] garrilla:
When ever I look on these threads I'm always reminded of 'video-driver' issue with the HTC Kaiser. There was always rumour and innuendo that the driver was close to being released, maybe just a month or two away, and nothing would ever come. I remember petitions, letters of complaint, and even a a class action against HTC.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
I agree entirely!

But, I don't think HTC ever agreed a vid driver would come out for the Kaiser.

However, it has reminded me, NEVER to purchase HTC again.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] soggybiscuit:
yet here we are waiting again...

I had the Nike with the same issue. Most disappointing phone ever.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] 4thfloorcaveman:
It's getting warmer...

htcsource.com/2010/06/2946/

Is there still people on the official rom, who will notice this?

perhaps it's just in Taiwan, but it's a nice start - they run gsm as well don't they?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] JW 301:
Well, I still use official 1.5 ROM.

And as far as I could see on HTC Taiwan support page, it is the preparatory update, the 2.1 will follow shortly after. So 2.1 is still not published
[Hero, G2 Touch General] 4thfloorcaveman:
nah, but the guys at villainrom.co.uk apparently got their grubby hands on the gsm release :D

yay
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Thunderglaive:
Yah I know ^^ It's awesome! They have plans to release it TODAY
[Hero, G2 Touch General] JW 301:
For those of you who are still waiting for an official update in Europe:

Some German sources now named June 18 as possible release date

Source: http://www.androidpit.de/de/android/blog/392360/Offizielles-Datum-fuer-das-Hero-Update

(by the way, does anyone know anything about the update for T-Mobile G2?)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] olafos:
I don't take this date serious at all... the statement that "google will update ..." sounds too fishy and uninformed. I hope the update arrives earlier.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] JW 301:
okay, here some new information:

after contacting HTC earlier this week, i got the usual response of publishing the update somewhat in june, no exact date known blah blah...

now today, i called T-Mobile Germany Support to ask about the update, as they had promised me to publish 2.0 in april (rubbish, it was always 2.1 if you ask me).

the lady in the customer support had to ask the technical support and came back with an answer about a minute later.

she said, the G2 Touch would get the update to 2.1 in calendar week 25/26, that would be between the 21st of june and the 4th of july.

expecting the unbranded HTC update to arrive earlier, I think the 18th of june date is very likely.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] bluesax:
quietly patient...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] elmoono:
Hero update over the air is now listed at htc support page - but mine is not getting it - on orange last official. more patience required!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] pietplakpleister:
I just put the date 1 month forward. Than i got a messege that there was a update. ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dmorovi4:
hi, am new to all this stuf , and i have one quick question?

Can i install via notebook the new german update on my G2 on T mobile Croatia?

Will it works?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] stambuk:
brijem da možeš, probaj :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Eddie1506:
English please ;)

And no, he can't, as rom versions probably will not match.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kernal panic:
Nothing on Orange UK. Seems to be a pattern forming there...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] JTHM:
Yeah, only SIM-free and T-mobile getting the first part of the update ATM. The HTC C/S chap I spoke to yesterday couldn't give a date for when we'd be seeing the Orange update but he thought it would be soon.

Orange are almost always the last, or one of the last, to put out updates on their phones (if they do it at all) ...one of the reasons I've gone SIM-free on my last two phones and will go SIM-free on my wife's next time.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Jahei:
Note that you need to have latest downloadble firmware on Hero to get the OTA updates. (Date: 2009-09-11 Rom version: ROM version 2.73.405.5)

The factory shipped ROM-version doesn't popup any OTA updates, as far i tryed

to change date & year and restarting the phone.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] djbj2003:
I did what Pietplakpleister said, and got the message with the Youtube update, so I clicked download, and then I wanted to exit another program, but just as I pressed the back-button, the download had finished and the "update now"-message came up, so I closed the update :(

So I'm kinda lost, anyone know how to find and run the update manual? I already tried rebotting the phone, didnt work :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] JW 301:
Set the date of your phone to one month or year in the future, then the update notification will show up again
[Hero, G2 Touch General] chemical1979:
German HTC Hero GSM (unbranded) received Update Notification today, so they're rolling out the updates over the air in Germany already.

I didn't start the update yet, tho.

I started it, and it fetches: http://liveimage.htc.com/OTA_Hero_HTC_WWE_2.73.405.93-2.73.405.5_release7sd65upagwzkrpms.zip (4,3MB)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kernal panic:
Last time there was a major update it was the T-Mobile guys that had to wait. Hopefully we won't be as long as they were the last time.

I certainly try to avoid getting Orange branded phones as they often ruin them. The Desire is a case in point.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] jvltg:
I set the date one month forward and got the update. After it downloads, the same update message pops up again. Upon selecting UPDATE NOW again, the phone restarts and the update installs itself.

Looking at the phone status, the Build no. now matches the one on the HTC website (2.73.405.93), however, the firmware version is still 1.5.

So now I'm confused. Is this just the preparatory update that was mentioned in some of the previous HTC statements or is this Androd 2.1? Everything else looks the same, except for a new option in the Status menu entitled "System software update" which gives you the option to manually check for system updates.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] JW 301:
it's just the preparatory update, the 2.1 should follow in a few days or about a week (latest possible date would be june 30).
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dmorovi4:
Im little confused. My rom version come whit my phone (g2) and it is 2.73.116.61. Is this good rom , i didnt found any new rom to download for my phone, not from t mobile croatia, not at htc site.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] elmoono:
Can i take the orange wait?! anyone got the update on an orange rom? if so which version where you on sept 09 or april 10 release.

Orange wont tell me a thing - rang them. Got a horrible feeling this will drag on. So tempted to sell hero and tytn 2 to fund a desire!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] RuFfEnd:
I'm on Orange, but not an Orange branded Hero, just did the date trick suggested by many others and the update downloaded.

now just waiting for the 2.1 update to be released!

we're getting there.........very slowly.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kernal panic:
Hmm....that's a thought. I am on the Sept 09 release. Never bothered with the latest. I have not got the update. Anybody on the April 10 Orange release get it?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dreamxcape1:
Hey guys,

I got the OTA notification as well. When i try applying the update, I get the verification error. I'm using a rooted hero, with the WWE ROM (2.73.405.5). I used fleshrec and amon-ra's recovery image to root it.

I've got a coupla queries about this.

1. Am i getting the verification error because my hero is rooted?

2. And if i use the RUU .exe for the official WWE 2.73.405.5 ROM, will i be able to 'unroot' my hero?

3. If I've unrooted and applied the above official ROM, can i still use the fleshrec and amon-ra root method to root my phone again? (Without updating to 2.1)

Thanks for any help. I'm kindda new to this.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Ampicillin:
If you are using Root than don't apply Official 2.1 Update .. you need to Run Official RUU & you can able to unroot your phone .. and later you can install it on your phone .don't Run latest Offical RUU

Note:- yes official WWE 2.73.405.5 ROM Can unroot your phone. & you can able to install recovery file or can root it .. but Remember recover file don't work above 2.73.405.5 RUU..So, don't install Latest RUU Hope it Helps

If you want to use official Update 2.1 than i would suggest Run WWE 2.73.405.5 RUU Once it will unroot your phone & you can able to install 2.1 OTA Updates But once you applied official 2.1 update most of guys complaining that they are not able to root now or can't install Recovery file ..
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dione1200:
This is interesting:

http://www.htc.com/no/SupportViewNews.aspx?dl_id=961&news_id=671

Update:

This is another minor update. After running the 100 mb download i am still having 1.5, and i had to reinstall the the 4 mb OTA update that came 2 days ago.

So the wait is still on.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Corax71:
I just tried this, and it still is 1.5...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Alexander13:
The update serial number doesn't look like the 2.1 s/n. Maybe it's the 1.5 rom with the small recent update?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Roelle:
ROM update!

Hello!

Interesting? I think confusing:confused: just updated OTA 2.73.405.5 to 2.73.405.93, without problems or reset phone, whats the 2.73.405.6_R fore?

Still ver 1,5?, Dont get it, can anyone tell what/why that 2.73.405.6_R rom come out today?

In advance thank you :)

Roelle
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Roelle:
Update!

Hi again!

Just talked with HTC Denmark. If you already have updated OTA to 2.73.405.93 or 2.73.405.94, you DON`T need 2.73.405.6_R , just wait for Android 2,1 OTA , should be out in the week to come ;)

Roelle