Comments on: RUMOR: Sprint HTC Hero Getting Android 2.1 On April 9th

By: boriqua2000

boriqua2000 — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:25:37 +0000

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.

By: bill

bill — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:29:34 +0000

if this was vodafone australia it would be released on april first

By: James

James — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:17:43 +0000

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?

By: leo

leo — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:32:19 +0000

@james dont forget the droid too lol everyone bashing sense ui cause it wont get updated as fast well wheres there argument now…

By: Ricardo e

Ricardo e — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:12:07 +0000

Que bien llevó esperando estó por mucho tiempo.
Estoy impaciente por saber que traerá de nuevo esta actualización.
Gracias

By: furret

furret — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:37:33 +0000

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.

By: Drizz

Drizz — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:34:59 +0000

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.

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:27:57 +0000

Better not update the Hero and NOT the Moment. Sprint will have a lot of pissed off customers.

By: asqwerth

asqwerth — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:20:32 +0000

@James, I thought it had been confirmed that G1 would not be getting Android 2+ because it just did not have enough RAM.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:30:42 +0000

@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.