When will it come??
Late April to May was the last I heard, but will it have HTC Sense 2.1?
Read the other numerous threads instead of starting a pointless one
not sure but its good news that is coming soon
I read that it does but not sure how reliable they were
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
I have read http://bit.ly/gSN39i. If the update is allready in the hands of the 3 network for testing, wouldn't it normally be the case that it would now be released to un-branded handsets?
I read somewhere like end of April/May... and in Android community forum a tweet of guy who is working on Gingerbread ROM for HTC desire..not sure how legti this might be...
bobsie41 said:
I have read http://bit.ly/gSN39i. If the update is allready in the hands of the 3 network for testing, wouldn't it normally be the case that it would now be released to un-branded handsets?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yes that is normal.
who knows in this case - everyone seems to have their own answer.
m1l4droid said:
NFC support
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
NFC on Desire? I thought it does not have any hardware for that.
bobsie41 said:
I have read http://bit.ly/gSN39i. If the update is allready in the hands of the 3 network for testing, wouldn't it normally be the case that it would now be released to un-branded handsets?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Some people are sure that 3 network, on twitter, confused the update with the one of the Desire HD..But i hope they really mean our Desire
the os may have support for it - whether the hardware is there or not...
No need to suspect. Just check out the FCC website. It does not.
3 UK stated its end of April/early May.
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App
GANJDROID said:
3 UK stated its end of April/early May.
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The problem is, what 3 UK mean? Desire or Desire HD? Some people asked about the gingerbread update for the Desire HD and they told the same date
andQlimax said:
The problem is, what 3 UK mean? Desire or Desire HD? Some people asked about the gingerbread update for the Desire HD and they told the same date
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I really hope they mean the desire.
Still love my desire, because all those new phones have those touchkeys. (home, menu ...)
Looks like Samsung beat HTC this time, Galaxy S in EU recieved Gingerbread update today.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/16/galaxy-s-gingerbread-update-now-rolling-out-across-europe/
For me this is another important point for decision between SGS2 and HTC Sensation.
bit disappointed that samsung beat htc to pushing out gingerbread, hoping to see the update come soon though, especially with the sign of the leaked gingerbread update
Typed on Motorola Xoom
gingerbread leaked for Desire
I cooked ROM and flashed a2sd works. Updated Radio its based on the old Sense with some tweak. Had old marker but was able to update Vending apk. Unfortunately, because don't post often unless I can contribute I'm considered a new member and am not allowed to post in the development area or upload files. I based by ROM on leedroid's previous roms as in my opinion he is one of the top 2 developers working on HTC Desire ROMs.
Anyhow, his version is set to be out tonight. Search the forum threads. Again not new sense but its gingerbread and its a begining.
Acc to Eurodroid "HTC Desire Android 2.3 update coming in the middle of May" at least for the Three/UK customers. anyway, it will -soon or later- come to all our Desires.
Personally, I will be keep waiting until my contract expiry date comes (~Apr 2012) with better feelings against HTC if I get this eagerly awaited update. Cheers!
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Samsung have just released GB upgrade for SGS in Europe which means they hv taken over HTC in terms of updates. Hope HTC reacts that quickly and will not leave us, Desire owners, alone.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
I keep hoping that with the leaked rom that came out that the proper update/RUU will be out soon...
keep toying between rooting and trying the new rom on my phone - and waiting... at the moment (as I have my xoom to play with too) that I'm leaning on waiting
Related
Hi All, Im a Flash Developer and want to get a phone for FLash mobile dev. I cant get the Nexus One where I live (South Africa) but we can get the Desire.
So my question is this, will the HTC Desire get the Froyo upgrade as soon as the Nexus One does?
Does anyone know how the Flash Player for mobile be rolled out? I can t find anything on it anywhere.
also interested in an answer to this... I know the Desire rom has been ported to the N1 but has the reverse been done and if not is it possible.
Very close to buying a Desire for it optical controller and slightly upgrade RAM but would like the option of moving to a fully functional Android 2.2 if HTC take ages releasing their own update (which is inevitable!)
Micahel
bradleycwells said:
So my question is this, will the HTC Desire get the Froyo upgrade as soon as the Nexus One does?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Going by HTCs previous form, almost certainly not, though given how new the Desire is I would hope that HTC already have plans for an upgrade in the pipeline.
As I see it, the biggest issue with getting any form of Froyo onto the Desire is that we will need a 2.6.32 kernel.
Currently, HTC have not released the kernel source for the Desire, which makes it pretty much impossible for anyone to port the Desire specific parts of 2.6.29 to 2.6.32.
Given that the Nexus One and the Desire are very similar, it is likely that their aren't too many differences in the kernel source, but the current lack of the code for the Desire means we just don't know.
Regards,
Dave
Flash Player
Im happy to run 2.1 on the Desire, but I'm really getting it for Flash.
So does anyone know how Flash will be installed on the OS? Will it come with the update or will it come as an application that one can install?
Maybe HTC aint released the kernal for this very reason, that they dont want people to port over 2.2 from N1 ROM update.
According to a user in a german forum, HTC will release an update to 2.2 one month later: http://translate.google.de/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.android-hilfe.de%2F307474-post57.html&sl=de&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8
I hope it's true
As far as I know Adobe will release Flash for Android in multiple ways and one of them is through the Android Market for all compatible devices.
So even if the Desire wouldn't get 2.2 for some time, Flash 10.1 should be available for the Desire from start (as HTC has marketed the Desire being Flash 10.1 ready).
Anybody got any real evidence of how this will happen?
Will be really cool if all devices get it as an install through the market but this is all still pure speculation?
Why is all this so tight lipped, we all know Flash Player is coming, why does it matter how it is coming?
Gotta love all the conjecture on these forums.
Not sure if this helps, but my desire HAS flash support. It works quite well though streaming video doesn't seem to work. Download video works most of the time (i.e. youtube etc.).
That's Flash Lite. This will be full Flash.
The Professor said:
That's Flash Lite. This will be full Flash.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yep, which the world is dying for
bradleycwells said:
Hi All, Im a Flash Developer and want to get a phone for FLash mobile dev. I cant get the Nexus One where I live (South Africa) but we can get the Desire.
So my question is this, will the HTC Desire get the Froyo upgrade as soon as the Nexus One does?
Does anyone know how the Flash Player for mobile be rolled out? I can t find anything on it anywhere.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It will be awesome to get froy one month after its release, but since i'm also from the good old South Africa i must inform you that even if HTC releases the update we (South Africans) have to wait for leaf and our "wonderful" network operators to test it as well...thats now unless you root you phone and get a ROM from XDA
Wouldnt it be a liiiiiiitle too strange if we Desire users wont get it... I mean if u compare Nexus One with Desire ther isnt realy much difference ore am i very wrong :S
now the kernal has been released, it may be possible for them to port over the current 2.1 N1 ROM to Desire. If that works then they can do it for 2.2.
Zhor said:
Wouldnt it be a liiiiiiitle too strange if we Desire users wont get it... I mean if u compare Nexus One with Desire ther isnt realy much difference ore am i very wrong :S
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No your right except for the fact that the nexus uses googles UI (user interface) and rhe desire uses htc's Sense UI, so the qeustion is not if it will work but when will htc port it to their UI...or thats how I understand the situation.
Just got a reply on a email I sent to HTC regarding the update to 2.2 (Froy) for the desire
This is the reply I got:
"Good Day Thank you for contacting HTC Support. We have received your email regarding the availability of the Android 2.0 software . We are still awaiting for feedback from Google SA on the (TA ) of the Android 2.0 version . Should you have any other queries please feel free to contact us again . Kind Regards HTC Support"
Not sure if this only counts for SA but doesn't really sound like the guy knows what hes talking about because i specifically asked about Android 2.2 aka Froy. We already have Android 2.0...
wihandw said:
Just got a reply on a email I sent to HTC regarding the update to 2.2 (Froy) for the desire
This is the reply I got:
"Good Day Thank you for contacting HTC Support. We have received your email regarding the availability of the Android 2.0 software . We are still awaiting for feedback from Google SA on the (TA ) of the Android 2.0 version . Should you have any other queries please feel free to contact us again . Kind Regards HTC Support"
Not sure if this only counts for SA but doesn't really sound like the guy knows what hes talking about because i specifically asked about Android 2.2 aka Froy. We already have Android 2.0...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Its little bit weird to ask about updates on system that was not even announced.
Hi
Does anyone know if android 2.3 is arriving on the HTC Desire?
if it does when?
-Frederik Thorsted
Within next few weeks, , hopefully before x-mas
Thank you very much
Maybe sooner if someone does a quick port of the sdk emulator image
oldsoulsong said:
Maybe sooner if someone does a quick port of the sdk emulator image
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sources will be most likely released before a "quick port" of sdk emulator image.
will it be an official update?
jazha said:
Within next few weeks, , hopefully before x-mas
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Gingerbread ROM will be released within two weeks for the Nexus One..I'm sure that someone of our fine devs will port it to the Desire..But so far HTC made no announcements regarding an official Gingerbread update for us.. Anyway, -my beloved developers ( )- some guys have uploaded some gingerbread stuff ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=863317 ) but I dont really know what this is..Will we get a custom ginger anytime soon?
so we still dont know if desire will get gingerbread officially from HTC??
unfortunately the desire won't recieve the official release...market reason...
And where did you get this information? Unless you can provide a source nothing is definite yet
matt95 said:
unfortunately the desire won't recieve the official release...market reason...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
bit of a bold statement.
seeing as the nexus 1 and nexus s cpu speed is the same spec i see no reason why HTC will not upgrade at some point the 3 desire phones as these are there flagships. by not upgrading the standard desire they risk losing people who must have '2.3' to another brand. My view is in early 2011 they will roll this update out to all 3 and also bring the standard desire up to the HD and Z in sense terms. i believe they held this off for marketing reasons. Juts my view mind.
bobbysixkiller said:
bit of a bold statement.
seeing as the nexus 1 and nexus s cpu speed is the same spec i see no reason why HTC will not upgrade at some point the 3 desire phones as these are there flagships. by not upgrading the standard desire they risk losing people who must have '2.3' to another brand. My view is in early 2011 they will roll this update out to all 3 and also bring the standard desire up to the HD and Z in sense terms. i believe they held this off for marketing reasons. Juts my view mind.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
My thoughts exactly, if not, someone will eventually port .
Yes.. My feeling is that the desire will get the new Sense along with Gingerbread release.
Well.. even if they dont release it officially for Desire, they will have to release it anyway for the Z/HD and our mods can port it in no time. Our Desires dont have the hardware limitation (especially internal storage with A2SD/D2SD). Then we desire users can flash those roms and show the finger to HTC...
We have the mods... they are our gods!!
Market reason?
With the 2 years warranty there must be not only assistance in case of broken phone, but also the confirmation of continous upgrading with new software, bugfix until the 2 years are passed and 'til the phone risk not to support th upgrading.
This should be the real 2 year warranty so much declared in the instructions and things like that
bobbysixkiller said:
bit of a bold statement.
seeing as the nexus 1 and nexus s cpu speed is the same spec i see no reason why HTC will not upgrade at some point the 3 desire phones as these are there flagships. by not upgrading the standard desire they risk losing people who must have '2.3' to another brand. My view is in early 2011 they will roll this update out to all 3 and also bring the standard desire up to the HD and Z in sense terms. i believe they held this off for marketing reasons. Juts my view mind.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
according to an article I read on pocketnow, HTC comes out with 2.3 in March of 2011.
EddyOS said:
And where did you get this information? Unless you can provide a source nothing is definite yet
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
my dad is the managaer of HTC italia company...he told me that...but he wasn't sure...but i hope it wll release it!!!
matt95 said:
my dad is the managaer of HTC italia company...he told me that...but he wasn't sure...but i hope it wll release it!!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Removed personal attack
Daniele De Grandis
Country Manager, Italy
HTC Europe Co. Ltd.
He has no child.
Removed personal attack
alwayslearning said:
according to an article I read on pocketnow, HTC comes out with 2.3 in March of 2011.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I hope it comes out before
well, there's still hope: http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...d-android-2-3-update--913929?src=rss&attr=all
and for the "quick port", it indeed came quick: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=863884
ecitron said:
Edited
Daniele De Grandis
Country Manager, Italy
HTC Europe Co. Ltd.
Edited.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i'm joking guy...come on sorry hihi...however i hope that gingerbread will be official on our Desires too!
From this Italian news:
http://translate.google.it/translat...di-gingerbread/2102/&sl=it&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8
Yes HTC have confirmed that their newer handsets will receive gingerbread. That defiantly means desire z and desire hd whether our desire is included no one knows, but let's hope so.
I'm hoping.
It'd be nice if I had it for my birthday ;p
Lothaen said:
I'm hoping.
It'd be nice if I had it for my birthday ;p
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm hoping too.
HTC listen us, please!
O no please. I thought it would before Xmas.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Froyo update was done rather quickly (about 3 months) compared to previous phones. This happened because there was a commercial pressure to spread Flash on Android phones. Gingerbread doesn't offer any value added feature to Desire. We don't have front cameras, game controls, etc...
Hope they do it in three months but I don't believe it. Specially because of the new Sense.
I am hoping it comes together with the new sense
shockem said:
I am hoping it comes together with the new sense
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
me too xDDD. i dont live, if htc desire haven't htc sense xD
That's great news, can't wait to test some new roms
Latest info from twitter, if anyone was interested.
... then it means generic update comes even earlier ! tweet
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
I'm not going to get my hopes up...
First they said late April - early May... then they changed it to mid May...
Now that mid May is here they prolonged it to late May...
I wonder what they'll say at the end of May... early June maybe...
No one ever keeps their word...
3 UK said they received the HTC Desire stock Gingerbread ROM back in March, this means HTC has the WWE ROM ready but they didn't released it until now, and who knows when they will... if ever. Not to mention the fact that the Desire will not receive the Sense 2.0/2.1 update together with the Gingerbread update. I mean, was that so hard, they had the time, and I'm completely sure that the Desire hardware supports it. But they just don't want to, it's all a marketing plan.
All the members of the Desire family should've got the Sense 2.1 update, but NO.
Now Google comes up saying they will somehow try to convince the phone manufacturers to update their devices in a timely manner, yeah right...
well.. agree with you.
the reason underlying why HTC hv not released gb for desire yet may be thinking of giving an advance to Desire-S, imo..
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
iLHaNroID said:
well.. agree with you.
the reason underlying why HTC hv not released gb for desire yet may be thinking of giving an advance to Desire-S, imo..
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Luckily the devs here are at least as good as HTC
who needs official gingerbread whe you have almost perfect cooked roms..
snakeeyes21 said:
who needs official gingerbread whe you have almost perfect cooked roms..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I agree, alot purer roms with less rubbish from networks
snakeeyes21 said:
who needs official gingerbread whe you have almost perfect cooked roms..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
it's just easier when stock ROM has everything you need...
iLHaNroID said:
well.. agree with you.
the reason underlying why HTC hv not released gb for desire yet may be thinking of giving an advance to Desire-S, imo..
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
or the bugs still present in the rom, eg compass being broken on gingerbread
Who actually cares about the compass in all honesty?? I don't think I've ever used it except in Google Maps - which works fine
Compass is broken on many different devices (but maybe not on all devices of the same type), anyway without compass navigating is pretty tedious
Not only compass, but also GPS drivers, 2 sec answer delay fix, maybe better graphics libs.
2 second delay is fixed in the Sense ROMs
EddyOS said:
2 second delay is fixed in the Sense ROMs
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Good to hear -
I guess desire is on its way out as a "cutting edge" device. Still pretty sure we'll get most of the new features via custom ROMs (i'm running baadnewz's sense 2.1/3.0 rom and it has lots of the "new" sense already...), but there's no point waiting for your carrier to release updates for a phone thats been in the market for well over a year. I'm with telstra (australia) and i rooted and got froyo running a good two months before telstra released it.
Reply's I had from 3uk,
End of May with sense 2.1. Fingers crossed.
tinky1 said:
Reply's I had from 3uk,
End of May with sense 2.1. Fingers crossed.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think its a 'believe it when we see it' kind of thing though
Lothaen said:
I think its a 'believe it when we see it' kind of thing though
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Same here, hence crossed fingers.
From 3uk blog
Moderator: Johanna on April 20, 2011
We’ve been told by HTC that the Desire HD and Desire will have Sense 2.1 and not 3.0, but the Sensation will have Sense 3.0.
maybe that's the reason it's late again - that they've decided to include sense 2.1 in it
To be honest, I can't see them putting sense 2.1 on desire, space is to precious, unless they implement some sort of a2sd+
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
I have an unbranded device and it says no update available here in Germany. however, according to this page (http://top10.com/mobilephones/news/2011/06/android_2_3_gingerbread_htc_desire_desire_hd_t_mobile/) UK based T-mobile customers can update.
I must say I'm a bit peeved that a carrier update is before an unbranded one - after all thats one of the reasons I bought unbranded!
This update is for the desire hd, and for this phone the rom for unbranded phones is rolled out since beginning of april:
http://techie-buzz.com/mobile-news/htc-desire-hd-incredible-s-android-2-3-gingerbread-update.html
Remember, you are in htc desire section here.
You are quite right..I was far too eager to see an update for my desire...oh well its time to wait and watch again!
mesaka said:
You are quite right..I was far too eager to see an update for my desire...oh well its time to wait and watch again!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You should do womething about the threadtitle, or else this thread will be flooded by people who can't read through 2 posts..
You got my hopes high lol...
Thought that it is for the desire.
fregor said:
You should do womething about the threadtitle, or else this thread will be flooded by people who can't read through 2 posts..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I concur
Sent from my Xoom using XDA Premium App
I wait gingerbread update