According to a news piece on German Android site Androidpit.de today, the extremely long-awaited European HTC Hero Android 2.1 update will start its official roll-out from June 18.
The report, based on an apparent phonecall to HTC, claims June 18 is the date the Android update will start arriving through over-the-air upgrades via the networks in Germany – so feel free to start planning your HTC Hero firmware update all-night party.
Of course, we’ve already reported that HTC has labeled June as the date for the arrival of the Hero 2.1 update, so believing this specific new claim doesn’t require much of a leap of faith – especially as an extremely similar Hero OS update has already hit Taiwan.
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chris
/ June 13, 2010Ever since I bought my Hero in Switzerland last December, two bugs really got on my nerves. It crashes (doesn’t wake up – need to remove battery) more than once a week, and every morning when I leave the house and WiFi, it is incapable of switching to 3G (it took me 2 weeks of lost time until I read somewhere that the only solution is to toggle airplane mode). The only reason I didn’t return it (apart from being without a phone for a few weeks!) was that I was repeatedly told since December that an update was just around the corner. That makes 6 months of hoping and continual disappointments over delays. I feel like a donkey following the carrot on a string held just in front of his nose…
Mick
/ June 14, 2010@Moush
It’s really simple … there is no “upgrade anger” … we just want to use our phone ! For exemple … your seaching an app on the web, and you found one that match exactly what you want … so you decide to download it from the market … but *ouch* this wanderful app. need 1.6 and greater … and your really frustrated !
75% of my time when I found a cool app. it ends like this !
That’s the big problem.
Mika
/ June 16, 2010Iteresting enough, I am no longer HTC user altough I do own one. Got sick up with the HTC support or more exactly lack of it. Releasing the 2.1 update in US and Taiwan but not in Europe was the last straw. From here on I’m sticking with Nokia and Microsoft, both Maemo (MeeGo) and Windows Phone 7 looks very promising!
Mikkel Caira
/ June 17, 2010OMG. You can already get “part one” pf the update now!.
Go to Menu -> Settings -> Date & Time (Turn off automatic & then set date to 2011) Then the update box should popup! ;D
I did this trick in denmark and i got update “part one” ;)
monkey
/ June 19, 2010Apparently they let monkeys opperate these phoines.
About the hero calendar. When you add an event, just select none for the reminder… this actually means no reminder, duh, what a suprise. And you can alos set what the default reminder time is, none, 5 min, 10 min, 1hour, 24 hour, etc.
Wireless WILL automatically reconnect if you select the right tab from the settings.
Leepierre
/ June 20, 2010Sooo… as it seems 18th passed, no 2.1… will never trust htc anymore. bunch of douchbags.
btw, the “first part” should be this “FOTA” update on the htc site? i´ve read a lot of posts from people, who tryed to update and the phone just hanged up…
i´m considering to root my phone, but then i lose guaranty.. which i want to avoid till i dont find out, if i should blame the phone, making my sd-card all the time damaged… ahhhh. life is difficult with htcs….
boyan
/ June 28, 2010got it….secon part….J recived the first part on junt 19th , and secon today…exelent…update did not erased any data on the phone , and J still got my phonebook , messeges that J have sent and recived….
boyan
/ June 28, 2010J forgot …J’m from Serbia and J’m using Telekom Serbia network