Am wondering how long we will have to wait before seeing the next software update for HTC Desire? Right round the back of Froyo?...
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I believe there's currently no news on this one, only guesses and rumors.
HTC have said the next update will support DivX:
http://androidcommunity.com/htc-desire-getting-divx-support-after-update-20100304/
And there is also this:
http://www.coolsmartphone.com/news5725.html
I'm on T-Mobile and going to Settings --> About Phone --> System Software Updates and clicking "Check Now, finds nothing. I think it's because the update was only needed on some Mobile Branded versions.
HTC also said that windows mobile 7 would be a free upgrade for the HD2.
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We're talking about the Desire not HD2 .
That's the problem, were also talking about HTC!
DIVX support you can get via 3rd party, its the other fixes we need not the extra features.
A|ex said:
DIVX support you can get via 3rd party, its the other fixes we need not the extra features.
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The only app that supports DivX is XyFlash and the HTC Video Player is simply better. I'd like it included but agreed some of the other bugs/problems need fixing first.
I've sent HTC countless emails about the DivX and 720P update around the internet and all i've managed to get them to say is that it's just a rumour. They did not make any official announcements.
That's a pity. I'm sure 720p was even mentioned in the "original" HTC press release.
The Desire especially really needs to support DivX/Xvid. It's a Media Phone! HTC actually need to work on a Video Player. The Music Player is good but Video is lacking.
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http://www.youtube.com/GoogleDevelopers
going through demos as we speak.
Everyone you MUST WATCH that keynote! It's amazing! And sooooo funny
That android intent looks fantastic!
Key announcements :
Speed, a lot faster.
Wi-fi teffering
Cloud push message ( basically button on your browser to whatever is
on your web page, sends straight to your phone, works with navigation too)
Browser speed inhanced 2/3 times with java script
more to come
Improved voice search.
Improved translation.
Flash 10.1 support
App storage on sd card, plus can manually move to sd card, or
froyo puts it in which one you want. i.e. if finds your interage storage is slow will move it on sd card
auto update apps all together. via a update all button or a auto update button in settings.
improved search on apps and within apps
p.s. I love him ripping it out of apple/ ipad
Is sounding good, once out I think I'll unroot and just stick with this as all I rooted for was A2SD!
a list of changes - http://gizmodo.com/5543323/
Good they've included the official Twitter app - hope HTC stop using bloody Peep!!
Jammy sods ! All get a free htc evo i want!
Its meant to be out for N1 today!!
or is that not true as I read it on a site that reported the announcement.
if its out today then hopefully someone can start to work on the port to Desire!!
If it's out I'd imagine HTC are already working on it - as a prefered partner I assume they'd have it by now...
EddyOS said:
If it's out I'd imagine HTC are already working on it - as a prefered partner I assume they'd have it by now...
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well HTC are slow at updates so would like a ported N1 rom for now till 2.2 with sense is out.
If it's already loaded on the Evo 4g they al got for free :-(, doesn't that mean its already ported to htc sense UI??? Shouldn't it be able to work on our desires as well???
With very little, if no, work yes...I'd imagine!
damnit, flash 10.1 public beta is available, but will only download for android 2.2 devices
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html#android
Yer, never mentioned anything to do with announcements,
other then some of the ad stuff.
The music streaming from the Pc is cool
check out the videos of flash, the framerate is awful
It is still BETA ... it is not using hardware acceleration is not enabled.
samac92 said:
check out the videos of flash, the framerate is awful
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Anyone still watching ?
Google tv is looking good, when its actually working that is.
Plus, i so want that android teady!
I saw a bunch of news articles about it, but dont see any way to enable it in android 2.2
Wanna link us to these articles? And do some fact-checking to make sure you're not confused in regards to the teased features for Gingerbread that were shown at Google I/O?
drmacinyasha said:
Wanna link us to these articles? And do some fact-checking to make sure you're not confused in regards to the teased features for Gingerbread that were shown at Google I/O?
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http://www.slashgear.com/android-2-2-froyo-gets-remote-app-installs-itunes-streaming-2086419/
That was the first one I remember reading. Am I reading it wrong?
From what I understood, those demonstrations were of tech that's to be in Gingerbread, or just flat-out hasn't been released yet. Don't hold your breath waiting...
I still think it's crap how google got everyone so excited with all the cloud features for froyo(like OTA app sideloading) then didn't really deploy them...
They didnt mention gingerbread. And they demonstraited it on a n1 which doesnt have the hardware for gingerbread. Im pissed this feature hasnt been added.
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I think there is a lot of this in the framework for FroYo, but what they showed were more demo level, and they are going to let developers implement these things.
Kinda like the HDMI port on the EVO, the API is there, developers just need to use it.
Buy J. River Media Center and install their free Gizmo Android app. Music streaming and more to your phone.
to the OP or others that said they are pissed... you may be pissed now but i assure you after reading a few things, the future is looking bright!!!!! as f*ck!!!!
I blv google has come to the realization that it cannot fully compete with iphone smart(coughdumbcough)phones as well as microsoft smartphones for the simple fact their proprietary music software pwns all just about in respects to itunes and zune... however with google's purchase of simplifymedia and the already implemented cloud servers... its no doubt in my mind in short time we will rule. Hell Apple aint dumb, Itunes will see cloud computing too.
In the meantime... you all should look into either mspot (music only) or zumodrive (media video included). Its basically an alternative (IMHO) until google gets its service up and running. It syncs the music on your computer to the cloud and lets you access it from within your android app. Damn near instant with cloud computing
did i mention how much i love clouds?
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'nuff said
gmelchert said:
They didnt mention gingerbread. And they demonstraited it on a n1 which doesnt have the hardware for gingerbread. Im pissed this feature hasnt been added.
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What makes you think it doesn't have the hardware? 1Ghz CPU, 512MB of RAM are the only requirements for 3.0 that we've heard of, and the N1, EVO, DX, Incredible, and Desire all match those requirements.
I think screen size is also a requirement for gingerbread. At least 4" I believe.
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I think screen size is also a requirement for gingerbread. At least 4" I believe.
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3.5", not 4". N1 has 3.7".
I think most of those features are in Froyo, but there are still a lot of frameworks outside of the OS that need to be implemented. The Android Market is still being redesigned to work from the web. Froyo has the ability, as you can see with Chrome to Phone, but the web side of things isn't ready for the public yet. As for media, I think Froyo may have it, but Google is probably waiting for their music service to be ready (which is on its own timeline) before they launch the media features. Remember, they want to sell music through the Market in the near future, and the media features mostly have to do with that. It probably won't come until Gingerbread is released, but most likely 2.2+ can use these features when the "other half" is ready.
Patience is a virtue.
HTC Desire software updated statement Sam Mostyn - UK Comms 10/08/2010
Weve listened to feedback from customers on a number of points around the recent 360 Android 2.1 update and made some changes to the roll out plan.
The Android 2.2 update for Vodafone HTC Desire users will be based on the HTC open market version of the software and we will customise it to ensure our network settings are installed.For customers who have downloaded the recent 360 update for Android 2.1, we can confirm that the Android 2.2 update will remove the 360 applications and will leave the homepage and bookmarks on your current settings.Customers who want to access the 360 services will be able to do so once the Android 2.2 compatible version is available and, in the meantime, can now download apps like 360 People from the Android Marketplace. We plan to make the 360 apps available in a separate update for the HTC Desire at a later date, giving customers the choice to download it.
We will let you know when the date for delivery of the Android 2.2 update is finalised and subject to testing,we expect this to be in 7-10 days time
Apologies if the format is weird but I just copied and pasted
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Sounds like complaining actually did the job! I did not think Vodafone would budge on that.
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Yes and rightly so
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I amn't on Vodafone UK but this is good news. Installing bloatware before you get your phone is bad but ok. Installing it AFTER you get your phone and releasing it at the same time a major System update was expected so as to get as many people downloading it as possible was a bad move.
great news i think..accept when i downloaded it i went out of my way to flash the rom and get different roms installed.. now how do i go back to what it was like before lol
Well done to everyone that complained i know i did
It does say towards the end that they are going to make another update after 2.2 that has the 360 junk in it so we can choose if we want it or not... im a little confused
so the 2.2 update will clear the voda branding... then shortly after there will another update "2.2 update 1" or something like that, that will put the branding back on?
Whats the point in that, it said we'll have the choice to download it or not, but if we dont and eventually 2.3 comes out will that bypass the 2.2.1 branding update?.
because i asume having an update that you dont install, it will keep showing up eveytime i check for a software update & i'll reject it
so when 2.3 comes out it will still be there as i wouldnt have installed it
so eventually we're going to have to install it to get past it to future updates.
Or have i misunderstood the whole thing?
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Vodafone are a money making machine, one way or another they will look to put added 'value' onto all their handsets, they will just change their T&C's for new android handsets allowing branded apps etc. in future.
You can also bet that they will not be spending much time releasing updates if they are not seeing any financial return from them. Don't be surprised if the 2.2.bloat release is the last you see for the Desire.
Personally I've just jumped off the Vodafone wagon (well, for software updates anyway), they tell you anything to get you to commit to a contract, my salesperson categorically stated that OTA updates will be directly from HTC and not have any Vodafone intervention - silly me for believing that!
Now I'm happily flashing ROMS after Unrevoked and love my Desire again, only wish I had done it sooner! Gingerbread is on my Christmas wish list
Its been 10 days now anyone know/heard anything?
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They've said on their forum that it'll be late...
Orange HTC Desire Froyo Update??
C'mon Orange! At least let us know what timelines we're talking about here. If Vodafone can sort it out, why are you leaving us hanging!!?? Also - please follow Vodafone's lead and not include all your bundled 'Crapware'!! Its annoying and pointless.
whoop whoop! even this doesn't give me back the time I wasted on debranding and rooting! well, still waiting for this!
OTA froyo installed from Vodafone
Posting this using my PC WiFi tethered to my HTC Desire
The 360 update icon hasn't disappeared - though the splash screen seemed not to be the Vodafone one anymore - will need to do some further tests.
What else should I look for to show if the bloatware is gone or not?
Cheers
Just updated mine now need to test it!
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Is it even possible to do that on our g2's just curious wish I knew how anybody mind explaining.? Thanks.!
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would also like to know.
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well i know a browser called skyfire allows you to watch hulu on flash enabled devices pretty well but as far as netflix, i've never been a subscriber so i have no idea.
dietotherhythm said:
well i know a browser called skyfire allows you to watch hulu on flash enabled devices pretty well but as far as netflix, i've never been a subscriber so i have no idea.
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Nope, no netflix. Netflix claims they can't because the content providers require DRM and there just isn't any on Android.
Ahh the price of freedom
Netflix said there will be a app coming after the new year, they said that a little while ago
I remember trying skyfire but it didn't work. Well Netflix doesn't work tryed that. Hopefully Netflix pulls it together I was watching it on my friends iPhone 4 and it looked good. Hopefully we will have it after new years late Christmas present haha.
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Netflix is slated to release for our phones in the coming months i believe. Hulu can be played on our phones via a modified browser.apk i remember seeing these floating around in the nexus one forums. I'm sure you could find it there or somewhere here. However using the modified browser.apk will not allow you to play netflix because the desktop netflix client is based off of microsoft silverlight and not flash.
Hope this helped.
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Netflix is slated to release for our phones in the coming months i believe. Hulu can be played on our phones via a modified browser.apk i remember seeing these floating around in the nexus one forums. I'm sure you could find it there or somewhere here. However using the modified browser.apk will not allow you to play netflix because the desktop netflix client is based off of microsoft silverlight and not flash.
Hope this helped.
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Thanks it helped a lot I'm going to look in the nexus forums. Yea Netflix runs off silverlight. Well hopefully Netflix gets there grove on soon.
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You guys don't even need to hit my thanks button because this helps no one.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406507,00.asp
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Old knews but still very unfortunate Flash works quite well on Android and html5 still isn't ready for the big time and there is a lot of flash still out there on the web
godutch said:
Old knews but still very unfortunate Flash works quite well on Android and html5 still isn't ready for the big time and there is a lot of flash still out there on the web
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I don't understand when companies do stuff like this. I try to keep my company in as much as possible. I even endorse upcoming projects and products just for advertisement.
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pretty stupid... but I'm sure, there will be another app, that will run flash things..
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pretty stupid... but I'm sure, there will be another app, that will run flash things..
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On linux there where a few alternatives but they just sucked....slow, buggy, missing many flash features etc...
When you upgrade to JB from ICS if you had flash installed you still had it. Or you could sideload the app.
ste1164 said:
When you upgrade to JB from ICS if you had flash installed you still had it. Or you could sideload the app.
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probably yes but I have seen flash break many times even after minor android point releases, so by 4.1.2 it could be even, reduced to iPhone level
Its not the worst thing ever. I never have had a need for flash on my iPhone (obviously) or my android devices.
It's very old news, there's no flash in Chrome for android. This is actually very good news imo. Web developers, myself included, spent years creating crazy hacks to make things work in ie6. About 4 years ago a small group realized that as long as that happened there was no incentive for ie6 users to upgrade. Slowly it became more common to display a warning to ie6 users only using...
<!--[if lte ie6]-->
This has resulted in a huge reduction in use of ie6.
Flash is as dead as ie6 but as long as browsers keep supporting it people will keep using it. Advancement in web development technology has always been hampered by the idea that we must keep supporting old technologies.
Adobe are leading the way in html5 authoring tools and feel the alternative already exists, I agree.
HTML5 is absolutely ready for primetime. The W3C's definition that it isn't has to be seen in context, it's not fully defined so officially it is not ready, real world usage is effective though as most elements are defined and it adequately replaces flash and xhtml. So far, all browsers with no flash support are pretty good with HTML5 so its simple enough to code fall backs both ways so some see flash and some see html5 depending on capability. I recently created a video gallery for a client that does this, as a result the video player falls forward (as it were) to HTML5 when the browser is capable, thus videos can be viewed on iDevices and Android.
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You guys don't even need to hit my thanks button because this helps no one.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406507,00.asp
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Like has been said, old news, but still pretty damn awesome! *dances anti-flash dance*
Hope flash can now finally go and die.
somehow i agree with adobe dropping flash. flash doesnt run well on mobile phones, and it's laggy even if it does run.
shiningarmor said:
somehow i agree with adobe dropping flash. flash doesnt run well on mobile phones, and it's laggy even if it does run.
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But html5 is even laggier, try for yourself on your desktop with youtube videos. You can enable html5 or flash in the "try something new"(or something like that, mine is in dutch( menu all the way at the bottom of the main page
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But html5 is even laggier, try for yourself on your desktop with youtube videos. You can enable html5 or flash in the "try something new"(or something like that, mine is in dutch( menu all the way at the bottom of the main page
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Not true, as a programming language html5 is way more efficient than flash (or actionscript). But just because it is a good language doesn't mean you can't write bad code in it.
Also, I for one have not had any issues with the implementation at YouTube.
Html5 working great on my pc on youtube.
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Html5 working great on my pc on youtube.
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That's cause youtube converted over to HTML5 but so many other sites didnt
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