Hero worship

[dakegra]

apparently HTC are pushing out the Android 2.1 update to the HTC Hero in Europe *right now*


*waits*

they've been promising this for months now. As I'm on Orange, I bet I have to wait another couple of weeks...

Comments

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

I clear off my SMS messages regularly anyway. Presume I can re-download the apps from marketplace.

If you go to
http://www.htc.com/uk/support.aspx

you'll see the announcement of the FOTA update to 2.1, in two parts. Does the update you pointed me to replace those two updates?

*scratches head*

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's interesting. It appears that the allowable orange firmware updates don't update the Android OS, just the base firmware. The update I applied back in April is "Firmware version 1.5" (which is still Cupcake) but the build is 2.73.61.66, which is a kernel bugfix. So it looks like Android 2.1 - as in, proper Eclair - isn't going to be deployed on Orange yet. I expect there will be a package installer for Orange, and if you drop your S/N into the download page it'll tell you to bugger off.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

yeah, I've got firmware 1.5, but an older build (2.73.51.5)

Weird though that the HTC site shows the Orange ROM update via your link, but not if you search for it from the top level site.