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[Hero, G2 Touch General] nixgegendenise:
Well, coming out in November 2010 is as good as not coming out at all.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Thiesen:
Please go see your eye doctor... you might have some eye problem I think... :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
Well....it would appear not to be June 01.

So, fingers crossed....it'll be here tomorrow.

BWAHAHAHAHA. :D:D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] bgi_one:
Could You kindly provide reliable, official sources that state these release dates? I haven't seen any other than the june one and I'm quite interested in them.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kadison:
I'd like to see that too.

Before all these rumours which were thrown around, I remember last year HTC were aiming for 1H2010. That is up to the end of June. No-one can claim a reply from customer support can be a reliable date of release.

Before anyone moans - I too am annoyed at the apparent purposeful delay. HTC must have a working ROM for the GSM Hero, but they will drag it out to the very end to make money out of the switchers.

Business is business :rolleyes:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nixgegendenise:
HTC wrote to me, Eclair would come end of April. Then that it would come begin of June. Those were official answers to official inquiries.

And I've been lied to.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] xinos:
HTC just twittered:

There is a maintenance update for those of you with Tattoo on Orange. Hit the link for the download install information. http://ht.ly/1SCfh

They got the 2.1 update? It says it erases al data... Sorry if this has already been mentioned :P couldn't find the other topic about this anymore
[Hero, G2 Touch General] krzyk:
Not yet "there"

Surprise, surprise! My reliable source of news contacted HTC directly:

bit.ly/cRSEDf

And the surprise is that they... guess what... found some last-minute bugs ("deficiencies") to fix :D

P.s. sorry that it's not a hyperlink (my account is new and does not allow links) - but you should be able to open the target page by copying the text...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kadison:
Who wrote to you and where is the reply? Pics or it didn't happen as they say...

If it was customer services then they probably know about as much as us. If you got a reply from someone who is in charge of the 2.1 update and rollout then I might have a shred of sympathy for you and all your moaning :)

Errr...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] bgi_one:
As kadison wrote, answers from customer service aren't considered too reliable, as they rarely have any usefull information beyond simple help. So unless You are acquainted with someone high enough to have access to such information, i feel that HTC representative that have written to You wasn't aware of the situation and his answer was based on what he thought was true, nothing more.

I could go and write somewhere on the internet that I've called HTC and they told me that 2.2 is on the way and is to be released by the end of June... I understand that it's from huge Polish portal, but unless it's an official information confirmed by someone working on this update, it should be considered a roumor...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] 2ma:
no,nothing was released in hungary.

the huawei u8220(t-mobile pulse) got 2.1,but nothing for the hero!

i wrote to htc today,and they answered that the hero will get 2.1 in june...but they didn't say which year!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] krzyk:
I totally agree re. the rumour. I forgot to add "take with a pinch of salt" to my post :) I was rather expressing my (doubtful) surprise that apparently "something" has been found (again) at the last minute that could postpone the release (again). I will believe that they are releasing 2.1 when I see it downloading on my Hero :D

But on the other hand, all "show stoppers" in the IT industry are prone to appear exactly just before the release :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
Hey....its June 02 and I've been asked to update! Scratch that, it was Xbox live. We do actually get updates there! :D

So, nothing out from the HTC chancers today then? :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] gsk93:
i wrote at the end of april to the italian support HTC..

they said that starting from june, anyone with an htc hero, will receive a free update to èclair...

well...it' june, where is our update?:D:(

for who know italian this is the letter they sent me
[Hero, G2 Touch General] idroid84:
can't you people just bloody wait :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] AntonioTrindade:
The problem is that Android 2.2 is already here, and I am still running 1.5...

We've all been promised an upgrade to 2.1 by April and to this date, nothing...

I've been using custom 2.1 ROMs, but reverted back to 1.5 due to battery life issues... With 2.1, I could not get more than 20 hours standby time (Yes, I left my phone still for 20 hours). With 1.5, even with a custom ROM, I am able to get 45 hours using it regularly.

I've read somewhere that the HTC EVO 4G will even get 2.2 before the GSM Hero has 2.1.

More, there have been some HTC launches that almost make me sorry for buying the Hero. It cost me more than 450€ and now I see new models for the same price that do so much more and have better support than mine, which is just 4 months old.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nixgegendenise:
We are waiting since April! Eclair was promised by end of April 2010!

I paid 300+EUR and didn't get any bugfixes or anything since November 2009

**** HTC!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
Clearly yes..... :D

When you dance with HTC, waiting is the name of the game :D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] captainstu72:
Well, I decided to contact HTC again, more for the hell of it then anything. I can confirm with gsk93 that they are saying 'starting from june'.

I found an old post that details different dates for different countries and carriers.

So, using my floored logic, nordic countries and russia etc will maybe get it today, with the UK following on the 16th - 22nd, and so on.

yes okay, thats 2 weeks from now, but still, at least they are trying to help and not just saying "your stuck on 1.5, buy desire, we take money, mmmm happy htc"

but thats just my ramblings...

Stu
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nixgegendenise:
The DO say it by their acts. HTC is spitting und kick into our faces. And you still believe them lying bastards.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] captainstu72:
well, if you don't want to have a HTC anymore - please, feel free to give me your phone and when the update comes in 2 weeks, I will happily have 2 2.1 Heros :P

seriously though, if you're that annoyed with htc, get a samsung, you'll find their support is no better, or, get a chinaphone. I'm not sure why everyone is slating HTC, have you had experience with other manufacturers to compare this too?

HTC are a lot better at support then other phone manufacturers I have dealt with.

But hey ho.....
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nixgegendenise:
Bull****.

Other manufactures are honest, Samsung clearly said that Froyo wont be available for i5700. But i5700 at least got Eclair and, that is the proof HTC is pathetic, i5700 was like 100 EUR cheaper than ****ing Hero.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] captainstu72:
I'm not going to get into an arguement... but the first part was sarcasm... So I do not understand your response to that, and the second.... Samsung are not honest in the Slightest, they have promised a firmware upgrade for the Samsung Omnia I8910 HD for over a year, and nothing has materialised. Thus my point, it is the same as HTC.

Have a nice day :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Thiesen:
If you have read these forums then you CAN NOT HVAE MISSED THE VERY SAME reply as everyone else has gotten when in contact with HTC's customer support... and yet you still go ahead to check if it's valid or not... it's getting tedious seeing the very same respone all over the place by now...

Yes, I am ****ing angry with HTC by now.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] captainstu72:
My point was, every other post was quoted as "june" they did not reference starting from june. This means it could be any time from now, not that it will be released on day 1 of June.

Yes, it is getting tedious, but there are inconsistencies to what some have posted, this is another variation, that is why it was posted. I did not post just to say "ARGGGHHH its june, where is it!!!" but more "Well, it is june, you're correct, but they are saying 'start of june' so don't get so uptight already"

I understand people have been waiting for a long time for this update, but I'm in the group of thinking of if it isn't done right, there is no point in releasing it. I would sooner have something later, that was more stable then something sooner, that had lots of bugs and hogged resources with memory leaks. Take Vista and Win 7 for example...

I'm also getting fed up of all the posts saying partial information, there seems to be a lot of twists on the same thing.

I had not intention of ruffling peoples feathers, I was merely trying to put forward a bit of information that had a slightly different point to what I had seen before. So I do apologise if I have caused you some stress.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Thiesen:
It could be released sometime in June... the year 45767345645 for all we know...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] sHaHiN786:
Wow!!! Guys, is this your feminine side kicking in? You guys are nagging, no offence if you're women, point is, you will get it sometime this month, if you don't then send a complaint to HTC, if that won't work, burn there building down, either way contacting Steve Jobs, he'll do it for you with pleasure, after that either buy the HTC EVO 4G or iPhone 4g, up to you.....stop this nonsense, it's dragging, boring and very immature, I own a HTC Hero, on stock ROM 1.5 and I'm waiting....jeeeeez!! For the love of god... :o
[Hero, G2 Touch General] SherlockHolmz:
So basicly you're *****ing about people being *****es for *****ing...

oh the irony.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Thiesen:
I am a god damn ****ing proud *****...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
Morning all....

So June 03 is here.... I'll wager it doesn't happen this week, taking us to June 7 at the earliest.

The good old HTC chancer machine rolls on:D:D:D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
I notice the other handsets are getting much HTC update love these past few days.....Quere-O is noticeable from its absence in the current update push.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
Seriously people, this is getting boring. All I see is a bunch of girls crying coz the big bad HTC won't give them an update. Yes I was waiting for 2.1, just to see it come to fruition, I'll never use a stock rom personally but it will be nice to see an 'official' 2.1 for Hero purely too see what our talented chefs can do with it.

HTC as a company are a bunch of *****, we all know this, is there any point sending in more contact forms regarding when the update will come when they obviously have no clue and are feeding you a bunch of crap because of the lack of information? How about grow a set and stop complaining. I've been dealing with HTC for a very badly botched repair and have ended up completing the repair myself because they can't get a clue as to how to actually fix whats going on with their own devices and won't authorise decent repair centres. I've had a cry over it to people, but there comes a limit.

If you're so upset, do something about it yourself, start learning about rom development and do what HTC aren't doing, and do it better. There are so many other ways to turn this blatantly purposeful delay on their part into something better for yourself or the community.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
Is there an ignore function on this forum? ahhhh, found it :):p
[Hero, G2 Touch General] DaanJordaan:
No...... :D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] sHaHiN786:
Are you sulking? Cos' it looks as though you are, I'm just stating facts, to stop nagging about it, and do something about it rather than sit and moan about it, far from irony, go grow a set of cojones pendego, then maybe you'll understand what I'm stating here. :p
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
Hey all,

appr the long awaited update is here. It you are Taiwanese of course ;)

Matter of time now. Thank fook these HTC chancers will finally permit this 400 quid brick to run apps I have needed for the past 4 months.

DAMNED YOU HTC :D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
Is it still June? Has Europe got an official 2.1?

What a crock of **** these HTC chancers are :D:D:D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] BorderlineVX:
Real men wait - forever :)

Smart men head over to the dev forum, root their Hero in 2 min and enjoy the great work of the ROM developers. I tell ya I wouldn't trade my current ROM against any official Eclair Update, even if it still has minor quirks.

The slot for me to wait and look forward to an official upgrade has been long gone.

BorderlineVX
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
Which rom do you suggest I have a go for?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] BorderlineVX:
There is no "best" one - it just depends on your taste. It's mainly either Vanilla (original Android as published by Google) or with Sense, the HTC UI additions. The latter sometimes offer more comfort but at the expense of speed. Personally I am using VanillaEclair 3.3 RC2 at present. It still has some bugs but for me it's close to perfect and it saves a huge amount of battery time compared to other ROMs. But whatever, I have tried about 6 different ROMs by now. Once you rooted your phone you can always boot into recovery mode and install the ROM by just selecting the file provided by the devs. Usually no matter of more than 5 min. Highly addictive :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
Thank you for the response. I really should get around to rooting my 1.5 G2, I have free time now so I need to go and hunt down a faq.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ddotpatel:
Use BTDAG's guide linked in my signature.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
Is a 1GB microSD big enough to root/backup/flash/goldcard thingy or do I need to wipe my 16GB one?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ddotpatel:
Yeah I reckon the 1gig should be fine.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
10 days into June now and still no official eu update.

We truly have been SHAT on. Never, ever, ever again HTC - you will regret this decision longterm :D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] sebxd:
Tsss bull****...why everyone can't wait in silence ?

If tawain had his update that means that we are going to have it in a few time …

When i think that french people are known for being impatient and always complaining themselves ^^ xD
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
I love the ignore feature on forums :D one click and the pain disappears :p

So, HTC - today? Tomorrow? Next month? 2015? :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] JW 301:
It's june 18, see other thread for sources
[Hero, G2 Touch General] d8611:
Ahhh...one week more.....so stupid :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
1 more week. HTC have a sign outside their office

'Bellends please pay £400 and wait indefinitely you ***** - love team HTC'
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
Still June? oh yes.... bloody joke :eek:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Emogi:
OMG I hope so, been waiting like forever. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] bluesax:
It's been like a century.

/me tired of waiting...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Rones:
It has arrived!

I have an unbranded Hero (NL) (won by HTC in July 2009).

I put the date one month ahead so I got the update immediately!

Good luck guys!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
The pre-update that is.... Not the 2.1 update.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] JW 301:
I got that one (same description) yesterday on T-Mobile G2 Touch (DE) and couldn't install it. (see other thread)

do I need this update or will the other one work as well? will it be available to install via pc?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Gazaman:
Well I've just noticed something quite strange. I just got an android notification saying there was 4 updates available. When I selected it, I was taken to my downloads in the market and 4 of the apps that I have indeed do have updates available. Now I have never,ever seen this before and I thought this was only available on 2.1.

Has this notification always been there or is it a new feature?

Gaz

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[Hero, G2 Touch General] olafos:
It's a new feature... I've seen it discussed in the Sprint Hero (CDMA) forum a while ago (quite a while before their 2.1 update) where a guy mentioned he didn't get em but his wife did. Considering that they pushed a hell lot more updates OTA to the heros in the US it's no surprise that it made it into this prep update for 2.1
[Hero, G2 Touch General] malarcy:
I got this as well - but before I got the "youtube" update - so must have been in there already.

Wonder why they never woke it up before.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Gazaman:
Is the youtube update just for t-mobile users as i'm on orange and haven't seen any update prompts?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] mateash2002:
what I did (and I read this from another thread) was change the year to 2011 and you should get it straight away. it doesn't matter what network u on
[Hero, G2 Touch General] theodore80:
I also did the date trick but it won't install if CyanogenMod is applied.

It boots on the Recovery Mode and fails applying the update.

Did anybody get a workaround this?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
Has any of this back to the future talk got 2.1 out for us Euro heads?

If someone could fly to 2012 and let me know if the HTC bellends have seen us poor early adopting saps worthy of a soon to be redundant 2.1 update.

I am sat here with a brick that will not bluetooth correctly and will not run the apps I have needed for months. We are on a 'free' and 'open' OS, yet these cynical twats will not update the hardware.

Very, very frustrating. Rooting and cooking should not be needed :mad:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Gazaman:
Doing this doesnt bring up any update prompt. Maybe i havent noticed it?!

How can I check if I have had it?

Thanks

Gaz
[Hero, G2 Touch General] malarcy:
In my case the following "changes" happened after the update:

1) In settings, About Phone, there is a new System Software Update menu option.

2) My build number changed - I am on a G2 with stock ROM - my build number is now 2.73.110.91 it was 2.73.110.26.

I have 2 mates with Orange branded UK Heroes - one running on TMOB the other on Virgin (he's in AUS) - both have tried the date switch thing and neither have been offered the update as yet.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] terwax:
Go back to exact date. restart, then change the month on month forward, not the year. WOrked like 10 times for me...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Gazaman:
This doesnt work after trying several times. I have since heard that it isnt available on orange yet so i'll just have to wait.

Gaz
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
Well everyone. Its the fabled, magical, June 18...

and guess what.... :D

We truly all are a bunch of HTC chunks. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] catolh:
Well, i got this from HTC:

Translated via google (couldn't be bothered)

So, basically.. The end of June, we got the first one as promised yesterday (so before the actual set date)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
I still have had no updates. 1, 2 or 27. Nothing. From my perspective we are where we were in July 2009.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
Hey BELLENDS, just over 6 days to go in 1.5 land.

I've rooted and am deep in 2.1 land; the rest of you I pity.

Lads, I just don't think its coming.

Good luck with that :D:D:D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cbailey:
Only a few days left in June......ooooooo the tension :D
[Hero, G2 Touch General] polakscot:
Hmmm there might be a delay seeing all the problems that t-mobile users have had applying update 1. I hope this isnt the case though.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] JW 301:
I hope not... but as far as I know, the problems are solved by now. At least for me, they are ;) (t-mobile germany)

It was just an error that occured to T-Mobile while copying the last update from HTC servers to Tmob servers
[Hero, G2 Touch General] polakscot:
And release :D
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] atcmehdi:
what is the best dialler PROGRAM for TD2
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] Bruce Inman:
it depends on what features you are looking for.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] mitsi:
For me, I prefer Iconsoft Phonex. It is skinnable, it doesn't have the slide to answer on an incoming call, it is fairly ram neutral (if you disable the HTC dialer), it has full screen images of the caller on an incoming call, it does not hide the keypad on an incoming call (unless you want it to).

The disadvantages are that if you do disable the HTC dialer, on some roms the bluetooth icon no longer appears; it doesn't link to the Manila contacts buttons; you may need SSMAHO to link the call history to Phonex instead of HTC dialer. However, I think Phonex is good enough that I don't use the HTC contacts tab....
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] dr.saad:
any idea about this guys ?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] Mutchilly:
Dialer

I use Inesoft address book.

Very easy and big numbers on the dialer for fingers.

Don't know about any bluetooth icon showing on the dialer .
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] mitsi:
No, none whatsoever.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] chikoo:
+1

V2.2 has Slide to answer. Check the options. You can have V1 (non slide 2 answer or V2 Slide to answer)
[Desire General] simon12:
I have discovered that if I leave some emails in the inbox for more than a few days, they all of a sudden disappear. After the first time, I tried keeping some as an experiment and today the ones I had kept from early this week have now gone. And they are not in the Trash folder.

I'm using POP3 not imap so they should be stored locally on the phone.

Any ideas?
[Desire General] foyrtcw:
When in your inbox press Menu>More>Settings>Send & Receive and then change the Download Options to however long you wish to keep emails for.
[Desire General] simon12:
Ah! I thought that was for how many emails you wanted to download, not how long you wanted to keep them for. Thanks!
[Desire General] Tungsten c:
in my phone the emails all of a sudden disappear but I don't see the menus options as described running gingerbread 2.3.6
[Desire General] MatDrOiD:
So ask in Section for Samsung Epic!
[HD2 General] ingresqr:
Hi Folks,

I rushed down here for help on what to do. My HD2 refuses to boot beyond the white screen with HTC on it. it happened suddenly. The phone frooze after a call and I did a soft reset and then it goes harewire refusing to boot.

I'm disappointed and confused at the same time..should a mobile device this expensive cause me this hassle? 'll appreciate a way out of this.. suggestions are welcome. What can do to restore my HD2?:confused:
[HD2 General] djchubbs:
have you flashed a new rom at all?
[HD2 General] SilencerNL:
hmm, have you tried a hard reset? (you will lose all data!)
[HD2 General] williammuny:
the same happed to me two days ago. I was playing around with the phone(making some screenshots ) when the phone become very very slow. with difficulties I managed to soft reset, but when it tray to restarts it stooped to the white logo. :confused:

the solution to me was a ROM Upgrade from official HTC site.

I was in:

R 2.05.51.05m2

G 15.28.50.07w

D1.48.71294

before the update. also have installed :

Co0kie's Home Tab - Extended QuickLinks, Appointments and More

CHTEditor - Co0kie's Home Tab Editor

NETCFv35.wm.armv4i.cab

NEW 100% BATTERY INDICATOR [1% increments]

HD2/Leo 3D Driver Patch

Duttys_Task_Manager

a lot of analogs clocks and planets and i think every kind of emulator and game available for the phone :D
[HD2 General] Damitu:
Just to let you know, my phone did this as well and, long story short..

the problem was the battery..if the pins get bent or damaged

the phone will only show the "pre boot screen" .
[MDA Compact II Software Upgrading] ivanish:
Hello, I have a problem with rom update,

On half update my power was gone, on startup appers only splash screan...

What to do and how?

I used this method:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=513426
[MDA Compact II Software Upgrading] scootie:
Hi!

Charge the battery in bootloader mode and flash an official ROM.After that (charge your battery again)you can flash cooked ROM.

BR

Scootie