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[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
After playing with several DOZEN G2's I'm convinced the "strong" hinge people are lying, or just have a different idea of what "strong" means. Compared to the G1, even the sturdiest G2 hinge is loose. One shake and the screen flops down on all of them without the support of your fingers. It's not a huge issue, but I'm not gonna pretend my hinge is all snappy and firm like the G1.
[G2 and Desire Z General] laff4fun:
WiFi tethering works great after manual OTA update...

WiFi Tethering works great after the manual OTA update (just couldn't wait - thanks to the great people on XDA-Developers!)

Not sure this is the right forum to post this question, so please don't flame me.

I understand that for tethering support, T-Mobile is going to require that you

pay an additional $14.99/month for that privilege...(Right now, it's free...)

My question is that I assume that they can detect when you are tethering through the OTA update method...Can they detect if you are tethering through the Visionary - Wireless Tether route?

Just curious...Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z General] AreOh:
Anyone have trouble connecting today? I just got home and my screen is stuck on "enabling".
[G2 and Desire Z General] tekkaman_01:
For those of you who have this as an error:

E: Cant' open /cache/recovery/command

and then when i try to Apply sdcard:update.zip it goes on to say...

--Install from sdcard...

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

E:signature verification failed

Installation aborted...

Find a blank MicroSD card and only put the update on it, that is what finally allowed my phone to manually update, also if it wouldn't be to much trouble the OP might want to add this to the first page to help more people.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Ryanmo5:
Keep the flaming, off topic ranting off xda as it has no place here. If there is a personal problem then take it to pm guys, let this be the end of it.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Tom in AZ:
Wow, life goes crazy for a few days and so I don't get a chance to log in and see what is going on.... All of a sudden BANG!! 40 pages on a software update!! LOL

My only concern in future updates is that they might find a way to lock the phone down further....

As for the dumb slide/latch for keyboard access..... I have upgraded my phone with a rubber band to hold it shut. How did this pass HTC along with the keyboard not having dedicated number keys we will never know! So much for saving a few bucks! We should have had a forward facing camera as well.

Outside of all of that, this G2 is not a bad phone.

***Update***

Thank you for posting this update instructions and the file. The update went very smooth, and Wi-Fi calling works really nice! I am presently at a hospital and used their Wi-Fi to test it out. The call quality was really nice, actually even shocking. This will help me out a lot at home as my house is in the middle of a dead zone, but I have 3 Wi-Fi Access points inside it.
[G2 and Desire Z General] philosophics:
Just got my update. Everything went smoothly. Nobody has anything to worry about if you just wait for it to come to you...

I was really excited about wifi calling until I got a notification that said

"WIFI calling uses plan minutes"

Didn't we want it cause it WOULDN'T USE OUR MINUTES???

This is crap but oh well, really don't need it anyway so don't care...
[G2 and Desire Z General] potentdro:
Just got a notification saying the update is ready to install.

Do you really need a data plan to update? (can't check right now because battery is low)

Sent From My G6
[G2 and Desire Z General] boloj:
Yeah I saw that too if you look at the faq in the app it says the point of wifi calling is to give you to have service where you have none not to save minutes
[G2 and Desire Z General] Big Dawg 23:
Work up today to update install is available. Will see what it does. As others said Root via VISIONary still works.
[G2 and Desire Z General] bogdan87:
Got mine today.... wifi calling that's about it
[G2 and Desire Z General] Illwun11:
Ok so just like everyone else here I've been patiently waiting for perm root on the G2 Vision. I read up on it everyday and keep up with the discussions, I read something about the ota update a while ago and I got my notification tonight. My questions are should I do the update? Will it make rooting eventually harder/impossible? Should I make a log or some kind of dump of the update?
[G2 and Desire Z General] philosophics:
I just found out the the G2 is getting 2 (yes, two) different OTA's sent out to it by the 8th.

I know not to trust Tmo reps but I still don't have HSPA+ in a city that has coverage...

Updated SIM, re-registered, *#*#4636#*#* to Auto GSM and nothing worked.

They said I have to wait until the 8th and receive the 2nd OTA to see if that solves my problem...

WHAT THE HELL IS IT WITH THESE PEOPLE? 2 DIFFERENT OTA'S JUST SOUNDS SO SIMPLE!

Can someone explain why there will be 2 different OTA's instead of 1 that does everything so I can calm down? Is it because they don't want to stagger their network?

By the way... FALSE ADVERTISEMENT! The G2 is the first HSPA+ device for Tmo but the Mytouch 4G gets to enjoy the speeds first. At least, in my town anyway...
[G2 and Desire Z General] dabido:
got my OTA around 3am pst. nothing major. just a few add ons and nothing amazing. Didnt notice any increase in speed. Visionary does work.
[G2 and Desire Z General] OFinch:
question also reason why ota is great

Just want to say thank you all and the OP for posting this and whoever helped.. Then I'd like to say this update was the best thing to happen to our G2's other than temp root. I was one of the victims that was getting random reboots like 10 times a day.. VERY ANNOYING.. I also stay in a basement and I was getting TERRIBLE reception, VERY ANNOYING. I also RANDOMLY woke up one morning lost all my text, Verry ANNOYING. I even lost my call log randomly one morning. I bought this G2 day 1 it came out but I was having all those problems.. maybe some of you weren't getting these problems. Also I didn't get insurance on my phone so this was starting to really be a big headache. I did factory reset everything to attempt to fix. Keep in mind I pimp'd out my G1 and know how to do all this.. But anyways, I wake up one morning and BAM, this OTA update that I must say has FIXED my phone! no random reboots, nothing. Perfect reception without the wifi calling on, but the wifi calling is the greatest thing for us in a basement lol. So I just wanted to say that because I kept seeing people say the update did nothing lol. You are absolutly wrong and if they want to send out 10 more OTA updates before December, please tmobile, be my guest. It only for the better. Root will eventually be here. Anyways, heres my big question. They say wifi calling uses minutes right? yea it does.. SO does the tmobile to tmobile still work, becasue most of my friends have tmobile and it never affects my minutes. I have 1800 so just wondering? if someone can figure that out that'd be great.. But you guys have a good day and keep up the great work. atleast Tmobile isn't leaving us hanging for those of you saying the OTA sucked. didn't suck for me, fixed my phone! Thank you
[G2 and Desire Z General] Dom18:
Whats so funny is im in a basement aswell and have terrible service and my phone reboots a few times a day, I have the unlimited handset protection so im set, I was thinking my phone was broken until I went on the forums and saw many people with similar problems, im still waiting on the OTA update (to lazy to manual install) and your post has got me very excited to see if my reception improves because I send over 15,000 texts a month and its sucks losing service all the time, thanks for the info mate.

-Dom
[G2 and Desire Z General] misteropinion:
Dom18: Text messages (SMS) don't use WiFi/UMA. Never have, never will. Sorry, man.
[G2 and Desire Z General] memorylasts:
Delete..............
[G2 and Desire Z General] MERKJONES:
Looks like it may have killed my alarm. It didn't go off this morning. And now I'm running late rofl. Feels like the RC30 G1 Android that had a bad alarm. Anyone else having this? I can't be 100% sure because it worked when I tested for 1m in the future, and this is the first I've noticied it. I just applied the update manually yesterday.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Futant:
My alarm went off this morning and I updated manually yesterday.
[G2 and Desire Z General] MERKJONES:
Right on. So it must have been a one-off. Or I smashed the button inadvertantly. There goes that excuse for bein late!
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
They both use the same signal and have identical speeds.
[G2 and Desire Z General] bananaclawz86:
Visionary works after Tmobile G2 firmware update, but OCing doesn't

can someone please tell me where I can find the latest Visionary_co.ko file? I had a current one released back in OCT 22nd or so..and it doesn't work with Gscript lite with the latest kernal update (2.6.32.17-g9ab3677). Not sure if THAT is what updated, but my tmobile G2 phone did a (system update) yesterday and afterwards, despite ROOTING working, the gscript (to overclock) doesn't, when it did BEFORE the update. Is there something I must do in order to resolve this?

Error: stderr: insmod: init_module '/data/local/vision_oc.ko' failed (Exec format error)
[G2 and Desire Z General] joemm:
Please see this post here "[~1.42GHz] HTC Vision/T-Mobile G2 Overclock Module[OTA 11/03 support] ( 1 2 3 ... Last Page)" under andriod dev. , you need to replace the old ko. file on your sd card with the new one posted on the 1st post of the thread I have here. Remember to rename the new ko. file to the same name as the old ko. file you are currently using.

Short cut:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=813681
[G2 and Desire Z General] pdxmatts:
I received the ota today. I powered off my phone to unroot. I clicked on the ota and it did nothing and then a pop up said system is up to date. It didn't update anything. Anyone else have this happen? Still says 2.2 in about and no longer gives me the option to update.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Illwun11:
Is there any confirmation that this update won't make it harder for perm root than it already is?
[G2 and Desire Z General] joemm:
2.2 is froyo that doesn't change, the build number changes from 1.19..... to 1.22..... with the update
[G2 and Desire Z General] ZeroSX:
This. I'm waiting on IRC to clear it before I update, root > lolwificalling.
[G2 and Desire Z General] philosophics:
G2 vs Mytough 4G

Duh mang, not what I was saying...

It's great that the actual point of my post was left out...

Again, why are they pushing out 2 different OTA's in one week?
[G2 and Desire Z General] khaosxiii:
I'm not redy to flash this one either - couple of questions:

-How do i make the screen go away that keeps asking me to update every 5 minutes?

-I'm attempting to extract the two files that we want here and install them manually

\system\app\MS-HTCVISION-KNT20-02.apk - took this out, put it on the SD and installed w/o issue (wifi calling) - Wifi Calling aspect taken care of

now ... where is the stock Wifi Tethering App at?

Would love to install all aspects of this update manually if possible and wait for a root update exploit ...
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
You said mytouch got to enjoy the 4g speeds first. Which is wrong. The rest of ur post hasn't been confirmed or reiterated by anybody else so I just figure you're wrong about that too.

Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using telepathy and unicorn dust!
[G2 and Desire Z General] thenefield:
Has anyone noticed that after updating, video playback is no longer working. I tried to play video I had previously recorded. I could hear the sound but the screeen stays blank. wtf tmobile?

I also then tried to record a new video and it played back very choppy.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Futant:
My videos play fine. Are you using Movies to play them back?
[G2 and Desire Z General] bogdan87:
Hotspot available with update!!!! I just notice it!!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] swags:
Text messages do work through the WiFi Calling app. It was a complete lifesaver for me today while running a symposium in a building where I have no cell service.
[G2 and Desire Z General] LEM-:
Has anyone else tried this successfully? Is the app all it needs, or there's something in kernel to enable this function?

I am too a bit nervous about accepting OTA before any word from the fine folks working on the permanent rooting that it won't make things worse, but I would love to have Wi-Fi Calling for now...

As per description above I extracted the named file from archive and installed it on my phone - no problems. That is no problems with installing. Ran the application and slid "on/off" switch to "on". The app gets stuck on "Please wait while connecting to T-mobile network" and nothing happens. No failure message, nor Wi-Fi calling, it just sits on that screen... And yes, I have a strong wi-fi, sitting no more than 10' from the router, so the signal is not a problem. Rebooting didn't do anything either....
[G2 and Desire Z General] potentdro:
I guess you dont need a data plan to update after all.

Made a short call using wifi. Works great.

Only thing that sucks is that my room is not in the wifi range. May have to to update my router's firmware to Tomato
[G2 and Desire Z General] ozamora:
Any idea if wifi calling during weekends will be deduced from the unlimited pool instead of the peak pool?
[G2 and Desire Z General] LEM-:
Oh well, if we could only cp things to system/* (that is, permanently)... So even if it worked for you... I guess we could have done something ugly, like running Visionary on boot, then launching a script to put those files in place, but.... yeah... :/

So, any word from the "rooters" as to the safety of this OTA? I've been lurking around a few forums here and there, but haven't heard anything definitive yet... If somebody hears something, please be sure to post in this thread!
[G2 and Desire Z General] epeets:
just got the update today, phone seems snappier now. Nice update! Have no real need for the wifi calling right now but I'll play with it of course.
[G2 and Desire Z General] philosophics:
You obviously read over the words regarding my AREA! I never said ALL mt4g's had it first. Please read the entire post before posting wasted space. Don't assume you know either...

Thank you!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Dom18:
I knew text worked through Wifi already, but thanks Swags for backing me up with it, and I got impatient with OTA so I did mine manual and now I get alot better service in the basement and other places were it was lacking, now for the perm root so my G2 can be cool like my G1.
[G2 and Desire Z General] nickbunyun:
Out of curiosity.. did anyone in Atlanta receive this update?

My phone has HSPA 90% of time..

I have 2-full service..

I've done the *#*#checkin#*#*

does the checking successful

still no update.. :/ i told myself ill wait for Tmo to see how long it'll take for the update..
[G2 and Desire Z General] misteropinion:
I won't gainsay your personal experience, but if that's so, then it's certainly an unexpected extension of the SMS paradigm. I wonder how it can be gamed into a tool for world domination...
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
I assure you I read your entire poorly worded post.

Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using telepathy and unicorn dust!
[G2 and Desire Z General] cdaw784:
hi i got the OTA update this morning and was gonna install it after work. but when i was looking at my phone to download it, it disappeared. i checked in system updates to. its just gone. any help?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Blakeman:
Be patient. It'll come again.
[G2 and Desire Z General] edwill44:
Nope I haven't seen it yet....
[G2 and Desire Z General] pdxrealtor:
Portland Oregon. Nothing here.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ZombieUsr:
If you dont want to wait for the OTA...go to androidandme.com and just download the file and install it. What I did...works fine
[G2 and Desire Z General] SmartHat:
Edited OP with the Hotspot info that was requested.

Also is there a way to disable the "Wifi Calling" process?

It's consistently running (even after multiple murder attempts)

& @ZombieUsr: No need to try to leech traffic for your website when there is a dedicated and simple instructions in the OP...
[G2 and Desire Z General] wanjae:
I got it (here in Atlanta) the morning the updates started. Someone (in some forum) mentioned the updates were going out based on the date your SIM was cut. If this is the case, it explains things, as mine was well over a decade old.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ~~Tito~~:
Hey guys its safe to install the OTA, me and a guy on the#g2root channel on irc successfully downgraded to the stock rom. It is not safe to install newer ones lol. Check the android dev section.
[G2 and Desire Z General] rakjer:
Phoenix. Got mine release day early AM. Wife still hasn't got hers yet. :pShe doesn't care though:p
[G2 and Desire Z General] nerminator:
Anybody else having any issues using the wifi hotspot? Every time I enable it, my phone sees it fit to reboot....

Everything else besides tethering seems to be fine. I updated manually about 20 minutes ago....
[G2 and Desire Z General] LEM-:
Thank you for sharing this information!

Now we are just moments away from discovering a path to permanent root in stock version - because I am about to accept the OTA, and everyone knows how much I'd hate to roll back/wipe my phone. So it is going to happen!

Wait... where's the update? It's been bugging me all this time to accept, and now that I'm ready to, it's no longer there? Not through check updates nor through *#*#checkin#*#*???? Well, well, well... I'll give you another chance, but if nothing happens quite soon - manual update will have to happen!
[G2 and Desire Z General] xblue95:
Can someone please tell me what the Baseband, Kernel and Build info are for new OTA Update and Pre-Update info. I think my phone updated itself without me authorizing it, I kept hitting the "update later" button but never told it to update. Now when I go into "System Updates" it says it's up to date. This pisses me off, I was holding out a little longer to see if we got root.
[G2 and Desire Z General] LEM-:
Read my post right above yours. Same exact thing happened to me. I kept saying "later", until, I guess the phone gave up on me and thought that I maybe don't really want it, or at least not for a while, so it erased the pre-downloaded update until better times... I ended up updating manually as per instructions provided in OP and all is well now. My current (post-update) info as per about screen:

Baseband: 12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26_M

Kernel: 2.6.32.17-g9ab3677 htc-kernel@and18-2 #1

Build: 1.22.531.8 CL277427 release-keys

P.S. A quick way to check if you've got the updated version is to look into your applications drawer. If you have "Wi-Fi Calling" application there - then you've been updated, if not, then you still have the original version.
[G2 and Desire Z General] j3.cole:
Manualy updated.. Wifi Tether looks good. I sure wish I could hit more than 3mbs with hsdpa though
[G2 and Desire Z General] xblue95:
Thanks LEM-, I was freaking out a little, I didn't really want to update yet, was waiting to see about root. All of a sudden it stopped asking me to update, then it said I was up to date. I guess it gave up on me like you said, it didn't update by the way, my #'s look lesser than yours.
[G2 and Desire Z General] luis86dr:
Yeah I second that. My hsdpa speeds are sucking. I get about 3 mbps.... makes me pissed when I see people hitting double that.

[G2/HTC Vision]
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
Better than 3g... I get between 3 and 6mbs depending where in my city I am. If I'm outside I always get 5mbps or more.. I just ran speed test in my living room and got 4.5mbs. Albany, NY.
[G2 and Desire Z General] thundertroy:
It works like a charm. :). Kept all my data and everything! Thanks for the link.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Ciborg54:
i have not gotten any notifications at all... i've had my g2 since 10/4
[G2 and Desire Z General] tv2177:
I can't wait anymore, so I just manually OTA myself this afternoon. I am experiencing slightly better reception here.
[G2 and Desire Z General] asarousi:
it won't let me update

E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command

and

E: failed to open /sdcard/update.zip (No such file or directory)

and

E: signature verification failed

i swear I followed the directions to a T
[G2 and Desire Z General] Crey23:
Funny, they said till the 8th...came and went and still most G2 users are without an OTA....why is it that TMo can't keep their word??? Then again, who am I kidding, the looose hinges are design elements....

I guess I just need to drink the cool-aid and shut up :-/

I was not about to wait for it...I downloaded it myself....
[G2 and Desire Z General] Hawon:
I'm still waiting... sigh. When will I be able to get it??
[G2 and Desire Z General] drumsforjs:
I just got my ota message.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sstmcarr:
Just talked with tmobile. Update is now pushed out till the 15th.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Conspicuous:
I had that problem, I just renamed the file to 'update.zip' instead of 'update' and out worked.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Conspicuous:
I had that problem, I just renamed the file to 'update.zip' instead of 'update' and it worked.
[G2 and Desire Z General] burton14e7:
I keep getting signature verification failed. Could this be because I perm rooted with the pre-ota.ko ?
[G2 and Desire Z General] philosophics:
UPDATE-11/09

So I had a fun time with 611, made my way up the chain to discover that the G2 is technically not capable of HSPA+ speeds right now...

HTC and T-Mobile are apparently working really hard on another OTA that should be coming out next month and this OTA will fix the issue.

From what was explained to me, it's a well known issue they aren't ignoring. So I wasn't lying when I posted about there being 2 OTA's for one individual device.

If you don't believe me, call 611 for yourself and spend 5 HOURS explaining the same thing 18 times...

This all started cause I held a Mytouch 4G and it was connected to HSPA+ but the G2 in the other hand was not.

Valid reason, no?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Crey23:
Nice find!!!! This explains so much about the poor speeds that most are experiencing
[G2 and Desire Z General] hoetel4dawgs:
just got the ota message from tmo today...i did the permanent root last nite should i still do the update or is that going to mess it up
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
But does it explain people getting obvious HSPA+ speeds? I feel like if your consistently getting over 4mbps (up to 12mbps in Philly) then you're def getting HSPA+..

On 3g I don't think I ever broke 2.3mbps on a clear day standing on my roof.
[G2 and Desire Z General] michagol2:
Wait before you do it because the manual build is the same on this thread. I updated last night and am having big trouble trying to re root...cant temp or perm root right not, still trying to figure it out. Note I was in the same situation as you. Basically when I go do the perm root solution visionary still believes that I am already rooted no matter what I do. (uninstall superuser, trying different builds of Visionary, uninstalling SU reqd apps, re applying the update on this thread and so on. Did not try the rage root method though.

Mike
[G2 and Desire Z General] wilnotdie:
From what I've been reading...in your situation, the rage method is your option. It seems to work for others with same issue.
[G2 and Desire Z General] hoetel4dawgs:
thanks...i will wait for now...i was afraid this would happen i shoulda just waited to do the perma root
[G2 and Desire Z General] jaroque:
When I try to update the OTA manually, I'm running into an assert failed on bcm4329.ko. Any ideas?

rooted w/ rage, Bacon Bits 0.3.
[G2 and Desire Z General] burton14e7:
I got the automatic update this morning and got the same signature failed message as the manual update I tried last night. hopefully the custom roms will include the ota.
[G2 and Desire Z General] firebert:
finally got my OTA update this morning. It was sent somewhere between 3 and 7AM and I installed it while I was brushing my teeth:D