I bought my HTC Hero off ebay, I got it right after they were released in the UK. Will the update that Orange released work for my phone or is that specifically for phones on the orange network?
teffy27 said:
I bought my HTC Hero off ebay, I got it right after they were released in the UK. Will the update that Orange released work for my phone or is that specifically for phones on the orange network?
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If yours is white or brown/black and unlocked, you can get the update from the HTC site.
The Orange update is only for BRANDED Orange phones.
Its for Orange branded handsets.
If your's in a generic HTC Hero, then the generic HTC firmware update should work.
Enter your serial number in the appropriate place on the updates page to find out if its compatible.
If its a T-Mobile Hero, you will have to wait...
Most likely - since you got on on e-Bay - it will be a generic. I'd suggest that you flash it with one of the MoDaCo ROMs that also roots the phone (a lot of the utility apps require root access). Besides, the MoDaCo releases help free up on-board memory for running apps.
Yes - I have a white generic Hero bought through e-Bay.
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Do the orange or t-mobile handsets come with branded ROMs? I want to get a black unlocked t-mobile Hero but I don't want some daft t-mobile ROM. I saw my friend's T-Mobile Diamond and nearly puked at the colorscheme.
don't worry, the T-mobile one has only got a link to the t-zones page in the browser and a t-mobiel logo on the front.
that ****ty pink colour is nowehere to be seen from what i've heard.
Saw one that a colleauge had bought and convinced me to get mine cos it wasn't really changed any.
Nope, just the start up logo on the Orange is included within the Hero, Android and HTC logos and a few links to Orange World etc that are useful.
Not keen on the black T-Mobile... looks cheap upto the Graphite one on Orange...
Thanks guys. Just bid on an apparently unlocked Orange Graphite Hero. Can't wait
Is there any update 2.1 for HTC HERO AT&T? mine is not sprint provider =(
You can just flash unbranded rom.
I bought my Hero in a Mobistar-box in august 2009. My hero didn't support the htc.com-updates because it was branded by Mobistar.
They said it's up to HTC, HTC said it's up to Mobistar.
Rooted that same day
Hi,
any one has idea that Carphonewarehouse UK sells SIM free HTC Mozart, would this be on Orange software or on Original HTC softwares?
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Hi!
I got my Mozart 7 from CPW and it has orange branding and it's locked to orange as well.
*is quite easy to debrand the Mozart 7
Hope that help
Carphonewarehouse provides just the same phone as you would get from Orange directly, same orange box with orange software on the phone.
However, if you get it from O2, it will be HTC software loaded phone with just locked to O2 which O2 can unlock for you for £15/- straight away.
cheers....
hey guys.
I don`t know if this is the right place to post this, but I was wondering what are the main difference between htc one international version and developers edition apart from the the 64gb storage difference and the bootloader, I am not going to use this phone in usa but am ordering it from htc usa store or amazon.com.
I would really appreciate it if anyone can provide me with some info.
thanks
I think your describing the dev edition with the 64gb and unlocked bootloader.
It's unbranded and has a cid with all 1's it receives updates straight from HTC sooner than branded devices
Sent from my Tricked out HTC One
Squirrel1620 said:
I think your describing the dev edition with the 64gb and unlocked bootloader.
It's unbranded and has a cid with all 1's it receives updates straight from HTC sooner than branded devices
Sent from my Tricked out HTC One
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The dev edition isn't SuperCID
It's BS_US001
.. and definitely has *not* received updates faster than intl variants. it just got it's first official update from 1.29..3 to 1.29...16 around the middle of May, well after others reported getting .16 and even .17 . That is the only update that has ever been released for that phone (so far). meanwhile certain parts of the world are already getting 2.17.xxx
Hello mates
I'm lookin forward to buy my first huawai device, but I'm not sure where I should buy the device. Let me explain this a litte bit more:
I could buy the Mate 20 Pro directly from Switzerland, for a very good price. But I also coud buy the device from Germany, also okayish price.
Now I'm not sure if it is a difference if I buy a non branded device from one of these countries, in the term of how I receive Updates.
In the past I used a Samsung Device bought in Switzerland, and my German Neigbours got their updates Months before it was availible in Switzerland.
Do you know if Huawai also uses different Region Updates, or is there someone, who owns the device from switzerland/germany who is at the newst version, were they released on the same date?
If you're in CH , buy in CH for the guarantee. As for the updates, they are really random on Huawei. I got my M20P friday (from CH), I put my SIM inside and got the -.122 (two patches) directly. Some people who got their phones in the UK, but live in the UK, depending of which SIM they put inside they did or didn't get the last update. For example people who had an EE or O2 SIM didn't get the update, they then swapped to a Vodafone SIM and got their update right away. There is THREAD discussing this.