HTC Desire: official FroYo update
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abortrephraseThe official update from HTC came out over the past few days. It's not being made available OTA, if you want it you'll have to grab it from the HTC support site. Given that this wipes all data on the phone it's probably a good thing it's not OTA...
The first big downside is that you can only install it from a Windows box. I believe there are leaked copies floating about that'll install from Clockworkmod Recovery, but I just opted for using Boot Camp and doing it the "official" way.
Initial impressions are good. It's FroYo with Sense on top, as you'd expect. My one big annoyance with the 2.1+Sense build -- the use of the system-default input method for the PIN unlock screen -- has been fixed, it now uses a dialpad-style keyboard, just like stock Android.
Not noticing any obvious differences in Sense from what was previously running on the phone.
The official install process blows away the recovery partition, so if you were using Clockworkmod Recovery you'll need to re-do that. Unrevoked^3 works just fine.
I did however get a bit of a scare after installing Clockworkmod Recovery: the phone was working Just Fine, then I rebooted into Recovery, did a nandroid backup, and rebooted. At this point the phone got stuck in a reboot loop.
Tried a few things to fix it, including removing the SD card and removing the SIM. The fix turned out to be to boot into Recovery again and restore the phone from the backup I'd just made. Now it's working properly again. Weird and scary, but at least it's working.
The first big downside is that you can only install it from a Windows box. I believe there are leaked copies floating about that'll install from Clockworkmod Recovery, but I just opted for using Boot Camp and doing it the "official" way.
Initial impressions are good. It's FroYo with Sense on top, as you'd expect. My one big annoyance with the 2.1+Sense build -- the use of the system-default input method for the PIN unlock screen -- has been fixed, it now uses a dialpad-style keyboard, just like stock Android.
Not noticing any obvious differences in Sense from what was previously running on the phone.
The official install process blows away the recovery partition, so if you were using Clockworkmod Recovery you'll need to re-do that. Unrevoked^3 works just fine.
I did however get a bit of a scare after installing Clockworkmod Recovery: the phone was working Just Fine, then I rebooted into Recovery, did a nandroid backup, and rebooted. At this point the phone got stuck in a reboot loop.
Tried a few things to fix it, including removing the SD card and removing the SIM. The fix turned out to be to boot into Recovery again and restore the phone from the backup I'd just made. Now it's working properly again. Weird and scary, but at least it's working.
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Re: This is why Android seems scary to me
Date: 2010-10-29 11:20 am (UTC)Not in the United States:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Skype-Released-For-NonVerizon-Android-Phones-110739
Verizon: 3G only burning your minutes.
Everybody else: WiFi only, not available on the road.
Re: This is why Android seems scary to me
Date: 2010-10-29 12:01 pm (UTC)I'm pretty sure sipdroid doesn't give a damn. It's open sauce, they don't have to care about commercial deals. Not that I've had a whole lot of luck getting it to work reliably with my SIP provider...