Once again, HTC Europe has announced the arrival of new firmware updates – but neglected to supply any sort of official information about what might be fixed, changed or updated in the new ROM.
The official releases are for the Legend and Bravo (AKA Desire) and should be gradually appearing on your phones soon, network permitting. Here’s the announcement from HTC’s support site – it’s next to useless, but does at least contain the ROM numbers for your information.
“Update – HTC Legend and Bravo Firmware Over The Air (FOTA) update
In our commitment to providing you with the best user experience, we are pushing out a new firmware update to your phone. Your phone will receive a notification of this update when it is made available. Simply press OK to accept the update via a data connection such as Wi-Fi or GPRS/3G. After installing the update, you can confirm a successful update by confirming the Software Number (From the Home Screen go to MENU> Settings> About Phone> Software information> Software number). The new software number after the update will be 1.31.405.4 on HTC Legend and 1.21.405.2 on HTC Desire.
And at least this gives us an excuse to use a promotional image of the lesser-spotted HTC Legend:
As ever, if you do receive an update, please let us know. HTC’s an IMPENETRABLE WALL of silence, and we don’t have the full suite of Android hardware to test these things ourselves.
UPDATE:
According to a thread on the XDA Developers forum, this update changes the phones’ radio image as well as upgrading a few of the installed apps and fixing a few teeny bugs.
HTC’s 4.3″ dual-core Android model, powered by Qualcomm’s all-new S4 processor. It’s smaller than the enormous One X, but is it as nice as its bigger brother? (SPOILER: Yes it is).
HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
firewall
/ December 1, 2010Hey msg thread is problem but also anyone tried to open accessibility option in
Settings …….I couldn’t check box ..reply please
Meg
/ December 9, 2010So has this SMS thread problem been fixed?! It bugs the hell outta me
ashley
/ December 10, 2010Graeme, I too have the problem of jumping to top of three mid conversation. I thought it was because I had ‘limit to 30′, switched that off, emptied inbox, and it seemed better. But returned again when inbox started filling. It’s incredibly annoying, and I reported it ages ago.
I have found a slightly quicker way to return – reorient handset to landscape then back again. Not ideal but quicker.
Ashley
Luke Cloudsdale
/ December 13, 2010Same, messaging jumps to top of list incredibly annoying, HTC sort it out!
Tom O'Shea
/ December 14, 2010Just updated my HTC legend today to Android 2.2 – 3.15.405.3, because the last update I did had the problem with the message screen where it only showed the first text in a stream so I had to scroll all the way through the texts and it infuriated me but lo an behold the new update now does not let me receive any kind of GPRS signal so no 3G or anything! I have contacted orange and they are sending me a sim update now so hopefully this will fix things. I hasten to add that the 2.2 update version I have listed actually fixed the problem with the message stream and made the phone look a lot nice but I just hope this signal problem can be fixed! has anyone else had this problem at all?
Tom O'Shea
/ December 14, 2010….the sim update didn’t work, it would seem I have a long day on the phone with orange customer services ahead of me to try and fix this problem. I will update on any advancements.
Dave
/ December 17, 2010Just updated my HTC legend to Android 2.2 – 3.15.405.3 and now I have the same problem with no 3G connection, anyone manage to solve this??
Olivia
/ December 19, 2010I updated my HTC Wildfire yesterday, and since then my clock widgets are gone! I still have the boring analog one in the top of the widgets list, but the ones you’re able to customize are GONE. Some other widgets and programs have vanished from my phone and I am really frustrated! I updated to 2.1-update 1. Does anyone know how to get these widgets back? I’ve been searching the Android Market, but the only widgets they have there are ones made by customers and not HTC – and I don’t really want to install anything that I don’t really know who made it and that can damage my phone… :S
Lucy
/ March 14, 2011hey guys to fix the msg problem download the GO Sms app from the market. it fixes it! it was annoying me for so long!
KM
/ April 17, 2011Hi Luxy
Thank you so much the GO SMS app is fantastic. I won’t be going back…and I won’t ever be allowing another software update on my phone!
LizzieA
/ July 13, 2011Just downloaded new OTA update on my Desire S, it’s showing build no 1.47.161.2
Is this right?