Uh-oh! Orange’s official representative on Twitter has just issued a little bit of bad news for HTC Desire owners who bought their phones through the network – the Android 2.2 update for the popular Android phone has been pushed back until mid-September.
Apparently there’s been a delay in getting the update from HTC, whatever that may mean. Someone didn’t check their emails? Here’s the little announcement:
“Android fans there has been a delay in receiving the 2.2 Froyo update from HTC, & we now expect it to be available mid-Sep. Apologies”
And as a quick follow up:
“would like to point out the delay on 2.2 Froyo is not related to Orange services on the device”
Here’s a picture of something orange and not very happy:
Bad luck, Orange users. Perhaps spend the weekend reading up on the “debranding” process?
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gurpreet
/ August 29, 2010I think its better to root your phone.
And get rid of orange shit.
And install foryo ota on it.
Turbohobbit
/ August 30, 2010I debranded last Wednesday and I can honestly say I’m darned glad I did.
markyboy
/ August 30, 2010Can you give some details on how you debranded ??? i keep reading nightmare stories of people having problems doing it with Orange handsets
Turbohobbit
/ August 31, 2010Sure. Read through this thread: http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/148932-froyo-ruu-update-available.html
I can do it, anyone can!
MarkG
/ August 31, 2010Just to point out to people, you don’t need to root the phone, you just need to debrand it…
Debranding means you lose all the Orange customisations, and can run the standard HTC releases of firmware. Rooting is something additional to this. (and mosre risky).
Debranding is just a case of crearing a goldcard and then running the HTC RRU update (the update you do from your PC), having the goldcard in your phone whilst you do this, prevents the downgrade and phone branding mismatch checks.
Gary C
/ August 31, 2010That caught me out, too. All I did was goldcard my Desire and all of a sudden the 2.2 ROM was installable without any rooting whatsoever. So easy. Still made my heart pound, though!
Bulman
/ August 31, 2010I wouldn’t be too dissappointed if you cant get 2.2 yet.
I got it as an over the air update from HTC and now I seem to have lost all my previous e-mails and new ones seem to self delete or are viewable for a few seconds only. Strangely the only 1 email that is in my inbox is from HTC regarding my message 10GBCW36ENA000224, which has no written info, so it either isn’t working or HTC didn’t bother to write anything in reply to my 2.2 issues? Also noticing forced close on certain websites such as BBC news when clicking on certain stories such as ‘Vettel’s errors ‘rule out title’. Perhaps Orange are aware of some problems and are doing their customers a favour. I would happily have 2.1 back for now as at least it’s reliable for basics such as e-mail & internet.