RUMOR: Sprint HTC Hero Getting Android 2.1 On April 9th
Posted on 26 March 2010 by androidfever
File it as a rumor and tread carefully as you direct your eyes at an alleged screen shot of an internal Sprint document suggesting there will be a “maintenance release tentatively scheduled for April 9th”. It doesn’t say 2.1 directly, but the anonymous tipster suggested that the problem with picture thumbnails solved by the update weren’t the core purpose, and that 2.1 will be pushed.
We wouldn’t be surprised considering just last week a similar rumor pointed at the broader range of “April”. It’s just a picture of a text document and could be easily faked, but I think there are a boatload of Sprint-toting, Hero-rocking, Android-loving readers who want ANY possible morsel of information as to win their Sense-packing robot phone will get the call to the big leagues.
[Thanks Anonymous Tipster!]
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lol of course it would
i just tried to update my phone. and instead of saying no updates available it said can not complete update at this time try again later
I really need this update. With all these other sweet phones about to come out I may have to say peace to my sprint hero but I still think the update is gonna be sweet. I hope the lock screen is similar to the droid I was playing with one today @ work
phone companies need to take a cue from crApple.
They know how to do a launch/OS update. None of this drip feed rubbish or shifting of dates every other day.
Either put out the update or pick a friggin date and stick to it. These phone manufaturers/operator are pathetic and could not organise a pissup in a brewery.
I am still waiting to here whats happening to the Liquid upgrade…Acer did not even notify people of any patches to their current shitty handsets!
that’s strange because when i had my hero i never had picture mail issues…and yeah the april 9th deal is for that…the picture mail issue…on that notification it was just addressing some issues sprint has with picture mail there past few days from what i heard months?
@asqwerth: the issue with G1 was ROM size (the part of the mtd ["disk"] that will hold the system image from the update), not RAM. Cyanogen was able to get the 2.0.1 and I believe even 2.1 AOSP versions running on a G1, by pruning a lot of excess fat from the image. It’s also possible to rearrange the way the NAND is partitioned, to give the system partition more disk space.
Either way, I’m pretty sure that the G1 issue with 2.1 was solved, either by Google or the community, though I don’t recall if there was ever a “plan” to rollout a 2.1 update to all G1s.
@James, I thought it had been confirmed that G1 would not be getting Android 2+ because it just did not have enough RAM.
Better not update the Hero and NOT the Moment. Sprint will have a lot of pissed off customers.
Ok so last week I spoke to someone at Sprint that said the there’s a update for picture mail coming an it’s part of a major update (2.1?). People complained about the iPhone mms not working for 2 days. If this wa apple they would of fixed it the same week. Sprint and htc r slow as heck with this. I need 2.1 an a smooth os.
The argument is still the same, because Hero runs the oldest version of Android from all phones ever sold. No phone goes under 1.5 and all the phones you have mentioned are above.
Que bien llevó esperando estó por mucho tiempo.
Estoy impaciente por saber que traerá de nuevo esta actualización.
Gracias
@james dont forget the droid too lol everyone bashing sense ui cause it wont get updated as fast well wheres there argument now…
Funny how one of the qualms of going with a SenseUI phone is the lagging updates to the new versions of Android, but none of the Google Experience phones like the G1 or the mytouch have been updated yet either (and may be behind the Hero if it gets 2.1 in early April). What are the folks at T-Mo waiting for?
if this was vodafone australia it would be released on april first
can anyone remember how many hero 2.1 update rumors there have been since the phone came out? the last one i remember before this one was for March 26th.any guesses on how many more there will be before April 9th? ill say 3 more.