Anyone else have this? I didn't have a choice to take it because I couldn't download anything from the market till I did. What kind of **** is that?
i dunno
because i have yet to take it, and i can download from market no problem
most of the time though i go online to android and choose the app, then let it auto download to my phone
I didn't take the update either and have no problem downloading from market. Updated my prl and that was it.
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Yea, I did all of those updates right out of the box but I still all day couldn't download from the market till I install the system update. It sucked but hey, here I am, waiting for root.
just take the update. they'll update the update until they actually fix most everything. except the important stuff.
I could do everything except watch The Green Hornet on my phone without the updates. I took it anyways because I don't really need to root my phone right now. I'm going to enjoy it as it's meant to be enjoyed by HTC for right now, then when the bootloader gets unlocked, I'll go ahead and root it when it's caught up to the software update. It'll happen, just give it time.
Not much improvement can he expected yet even if we achieve root... Just sayin this phone is plenty capable already... But then there is root only apps... That does suck not to have
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In about an hour from now retail stores will be open early for this the "official" launch of the Evo 3D. I received mine yesterday morning and spent the next several hours putting it all together, from configurations to apps to screens. I decided not to get the OTA given the bugs reported. I've also read over the various threads, especially the one on bugs. As I type this, with my Evo 3D fully loaded with all my stuff, I must say I am experiencing no real issues of concern, and am but left with two questions for you knowledgeable folks:
1. The OTA doesn't seem to be bugging me, only if I go look for it via Settings will I get prompted to install it. I use Calengoo instead of the stock calendar (including widget) and all seems to be fine without the OTA, and I like having my phone icon on the lock screen, and at this point a hard reset would mean hours of work putting things together and configuring yesterday. So, you people who understand the world of OTA: if HTC fixes the bugs in the original OTA that many of you already installed, will they pull the one I am being prompted to install, and replace it with another one? In other words, if I wait, should this issue be fixed by HTC and I get an OTA prompt in the future that does not have the noted bugs with the pre-launch version?
2. The only issue is the Watch app. Can't watch the pre-installed 3D Green Hornet movie, cycles forever trying to download the license. I understand this has been fixed, also as an OTA. But I cannot seem to get past not accepting the first 26 meg buggy OTA to get to the second 2 meg Watch app OTA. Is there a way to get the Watch OTA without installing the original OTA? Am I missing something?
The only other comment is that even though I haven't been able to see the 3D Green Hornet movie because I don't know how to access the second OTA which apparently fixes the Watch app because I didn't install the first OTA which screws up the lock screen, looking at the samples and taking 3D pictures is going to take some getting used to! Oh yeah, I had already uploaded my 10000+ songs to Google Music Beta. What a great service. No more copying song files and filling up SD cards.
This is a great mobile phone. Although I wonder now that today will bring with it many thousands of new Evo 3D activations, if these OTA issues won't sent HTC off a cliff briefly. I am now about to install the Sprint Airave, for the full mobile experience. Good luck with your new Evo 3Ds...
If I'm not mistaken, which is possible since my 3vo is on it's way, the 2nd OTA is an App Update. The OTA should be accessible w/o the need of the 1st OTA. Or at least that is what I've heard while lurking on the forums. I would also like clarification on this from someone who has the OTAs, or just the 2nd OTA.
Thanks.
BTW 1st post. Time to bash the noob. 0_0
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If I'm not mistaken, which is possible since my 3vo is on it's way, the 2nd OTA is an App Update. The OTA should be accessible w/o the need of the 1st OTA. Or at least that is what I've heard while lurking on the forums. I would also like clarification on this from someone who has the OTAs, or just the 2nd OTA.
Thanks.
BTW 1st post. Time to bash the noob. 0_0
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From one noob (who posted the original questions) to another! That is essentially my question. I would like to have access to the second app update OTA for Watch. But get this recent development: I just went a few moments ago to Settings/System Updates/HTC Software Update and did a check, I am NOW prompted that everything is up to date! In other words, NO OTAs are appearing. What is going on here I wonder? HTC must have pulled the OTA because of the bugs noted, so I guess I'll never see the 3D movie pre-installed. How will life go on?
Scratch that...
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From one noob (who posted the original questions) to another! That is essentially my question. I would like to have access to the second app update OTA for Watch. But get this recent development: I just went a few moments ago to Settings/System Updates/HTC Software Update and did a check, I am NOW prompted that everything is up to date! In other words, NO OTAs are appearing. What is going on here I wonder? HTC must have pulled the OTA because of the bugs noted, so I guess I'll never see the 3D movie pre-installed. How will life go on?
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I tried the update again and indeed was just prompted to install the FOTA update 1.13.651.7 (26.59 MB). If I hit CANCEL, which I have done since getting the Evo 3D yesterday, that's that, no option to install the Watch App OTA update. Perhaps some of the learned folks here can help me in my confusion...
Should I do the update? I was worried about the unlock bootloader.
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if htc unlocks the boot loader you will have to OTA update anyway ....
i did it 5 minutes after i walked out of sprint store because the rep told me i had to have it to get netflix. netflix still doesn't show up in market. i had to get an apk and load it myself. if it is locked already what is an OTA going to hurt?
The problem here is if HTC doesn't unlock........Anyone who has taken the update may have unknowingly patched an exploit that our devs are using, attempting to gain root access.
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i did it 5 minutes after i walked out of sprint store because the rep told me i had to have it to get netflix. netflix still doesn't show up in market. i had to get an apk and load it myself. if it is locked already what is an OTA going to hurt?
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If they only 'unlock' (or stop crypto-signing) the bootloader that doesn't guarantee us anything besides that. So we might still have to root the OS, which that OTA is likely a patch against (in addition to other things).
Or they are just going to 'unlock' the bootloader and give us s=off and then we can go wild and not worry about it.
I'm not taking that chance...
...besides, if the devs here get root before HTC--or HTC flakes out--I want in, and declining OTA's is a great way to insure the best chance for root in that circumstance.
Besides, my phone runs great and I haven't missed a single feature....a few FC's here and there, but, big deal....
The way I look at it, if you buy the phone a week from now, it'll already have the OTA on it out of the box anyway. Root will happen eventually, and people won't stop hacking the phone if they can only root 3vo's that came out in the first week of production. No dev is going to want to publish a root that only works on the first week's production. That's like saying "look at me... I have a small p3n15". They won't give up until every OTA is cracked.
Mike
There is another possible benefit. I am not sure which version the engineering bootloader is, but generally, those are a hot commodity. It may be that the official unlocked hboot will have its own limitations. An eng hboot may be more desired. In today's EVO 4G, you cannot downrev to an eng hboot after you have acquired a certain version.
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The way I look at it, if you buy the phone a week from now, it'll already have the OTA on it out of the box anyway. Root will happen eventually, and people won't stop hacking the phone if they can only root 3vo's that came out in the first week of production. No dev is going to want to publish a root that only works on the first week's production. That's like saying "look at me... I have a small p3n15". They won't give up until every OTA is cracked.
Mike
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Yes
I did no worries
I got the update not long after I left Sprint from purchase. I didnt think anything of it and took the update. Like one member has said, Netflix was not available to me until after I did the update.
If I'm in a bad situation with gaining root doing this update, oh well. Something is bound to happen after some time. No worries here.
I did both updates as soon as I pulled it out of the box.
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I did all of them hoping HTC keeps their word
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i didn't wanna but i had to
I did! Not worried about root, it will happen when it happens. Meanwhile, I'm great with the phone as it is, especially since you can get rid of a lot of the sprint bloat and move most apps to the sd card.
I ran it as soon as I activated the phone in hopes that it included the unlocked bootloader... needless to say, I was disappointed
Hi everyone. I got an X2 a few months ago and it has Android 2.2.2 installed. I used gingerbreak to gain root access and then froze all the extra bloat with Bloatfreezer. This morning I woke up to a message about an update to 2.3. I have a few questions about this..
Do I have to?
Can I use gingerbreak after the update and redressed all of the bloat?
I've been wanting to try one of the custom roms floating around on here but I just haven't had the time to do it. Is the update going to ruin my chance to do that for a while?
One last note, I have used this site in the past to help root my D1, but I still don't really know what is happening on my phone when I root/flash roms/etc. I know its unlikely that someone could teach a whole programming lesson on here, but a sticky for people new to it explaining what is actually happening would be a great help.
Sorry for the long post, thanks for the help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193818
I asked mr clown to add this to the roll up sticky I don't think he got around to it yet, if you follow these directions you will have rooted 2.3.3, there is no gingerbreak app that works on this update, you MUST follow these directions to get root on gingerbread.
Edit: you do not HAVE to update, and I can't answer your other questions without some serious talking out my @$$
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Thanks for a quick reply. I'd rather stay where I'm at right now but it told me on the popup message that I had an hour until it would update. Do I have to postpone every hour now to avoid update?
About 30 posts down this list is one titled 'how to stop autoupdate' its got ways there
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I accidentally updated. I had the phone turned sideways and rotated and then pushed the update later button but after it rotated it was actually the update now button. I decided to let it play out, but after all is said and done, I still have the super user icon on my phone. None of the apps which require root will function but I do have the super user icon present.
Is that just a glitch?
Will it still root properly?
Is there another way to check for root access?
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I accidentally updated. I had the phone turned sideways and rotated and then pushed the update later button but after it rotated it was actually the update now button. I decided to let it play out, but after all is said and done, I still have the super user icon on my phone. None of the apps which require root will function but I do have the super user icon present.
Is that just a glitch?
Will it still root properly?
Is there another way to check for root access?
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Super user icon is stuck now, only way to root is to flash back to 2.2.2
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And you should definately do that in my opinion, carrying the superuser icon with NONE of the benefits of being rooted? No reason for that IMO You've rooted previously so you might as well go do this right, follow the step by step intstructions on sbfing back to froyo and hitting up P3s prerooted update file, and as for explaining the stuff how technical do you want it to get... the basic idea of rooting is that its giving you access to the "root" of your phones directories/controls kinda like an administrator on the computer, the flashing/sbfing is simply swapping one or more sets of your phones programing out for another,
their are a couple boring vids on youtube that can show you the ropes of what this development actually is if you can watch a couple times without falling asleep
Yep, you have su apk, but it's not going to work.
You're going to have to sbf back to 2.2 and do the ginger break, etc process to get 2.3 rooted on your phone.
Thanks for the responses. I think I'll give this a go tomorrow. To be clear though, now that there is an sbf, there is no real danger of permanently killing the phone right? Hopefully I wont need it, but it helps knowing that I can't completely screw things up.
mikeb210 said:
To be clear though, now that there is an sbf, there is no real danger of permanently killing the phone right?
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There is always a chance that you will be the first person to hard brick your phone, but if you soft brick yeah you can sbf back. Like I said if you hard brick you'd be the first person on these forums to do it
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This morning, Oct 18, 2011, my HTC EVO 3D alerted me of a new update available. I wasn't quite sure if it was a software update or Android update as it only said "Update". The information provided talks about 3D games and so on. The file/update was around 36MB. I downloaded via Wi-Fi and when I'm about to install. I clicked OK. It showed "Shutting down" then after a couple of seconds. I saw a blue(can't remember) triangle caution/warning sign with a little android guy on the screen with no progress bar what so ever. It hanged there for almost 4 minutes. So I started doubt if everything went right. I went ahead and took off the battery. I'm not sure if I updated it fully or correctly.
My phone info:
HTC EVO 3D x515m GSM
Rooted
Now the phone is fine but I don't feel so good now. I feel something inside has broken. I also did a search later and found that Android 4.0 is out. The demo video looks great. I'm not sure if that's for HTC EVO 3D also. But if I want to upgrade to that or make any update, can I unroot my phone then reroot after the upgrade? What do you recommend for a rooted user?
So far I only root it to use Simba and Titanium Backup (but I haven't backup anything yet cuz I think MyLookUp can backup everything I need or Titanium Backup can).
I'm a little worried as the phone is my favourite so far. Please help me find a next step to be up-to-date with the updates.
Regards
First: That's the normal install screen for when it's turned off. I'd have given it like 10-15 mins. If it was just a program software update then you really couldn't have broken much. No worries there.
Second: ICS is released, but it's not available on the Evo3d (Unofficially or officially). You'll know when it is, forums will be on fire with "How to install" threads. And if you're looking to install it over the air, you may be waiting a few months, since HTC would have to get it working, and they're slow asses.
Third: If you install a major update (Like upgrading the Hboot to 1.5, probably ICS when it comes out too) you'll lose root and S-off and be unable to re-root and S-off till people find a new exploit to give it to you. Don't accept OTA's or bad things can happen.
Last: If you want to keep it up to date, AND keep root/s-off you need to learn how to flash roms, and follow the development section. People will take the HTC approved OTA updates, clean em off, and you can install them without losing root.
If you don't trust yourself to play around with roms, then you're kinda stuck picking between root and being up to date.
Thank you so much for your reply. You've cleared all my confusions in just a single post
Go into Settings> System Updates> and turn off Automatic Updates to keep your phone from auto-updating like that.
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Go into Settings> System Updates> and turn off Automatic Updates to keep your phone from auto-updating like that.
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Thanks, I just updated that setting. I never knew it was there, by the way and the way it's written on mine doesn't seem like that option exists on that page lolz but it did and changed it .
Well with the new HTCDev unlocker tool. I am not so sure i want to root my phone just yet. From the videos i have watched you have to be connected to the net and have to receive a token during the root process. Could this possibly be a method that can void your warranty without a workaround? Would it be smarter to wait for a Dev community method?
I only ask this because, well i have the rooting/flashing itch. I am still funbling around with my phone and getting to know it. Yes people, i am one of those guys, the one who really misses the 4th menu button. So would it really be worth flashing while I am still getting used to the phone. Don't get me wrong the phone rocks even with 3 buttons, but is it worth rooting right away via the HTC Unlocker?
From what I understand, any root method will void your warranty. I have never had an issue getting a rooted phone replaced at Sprint. I always flashed a stock rom before taking it in.
Any root will void a warranty, HTC just has a way to track it with HTCdev. A community method just makes it easier to get away with..
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Kcarpenter said:
Any root will void a warranty, HTC just has a way to track it with HTCdev. A community method just makes it easier to get away with..
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Thx... appreciate the response, its exactly what was on my mind... Except my missing menu button..
Purchase insurance on your phone and you shouldn't have to worry about your warranty. I had my original Evo replaced after it had an unfortunate collision with a wall and the screen no longer worked. I took it into the Sprint store to try and get it repaired, but they told me they couldn't and to file a claim online. The next day, I had a 3D in my hands. My 4G was rooted with S-OFF, but of course they couldn't tell since the screen didn't work.
I am going to hold off for a while on Rooting. I have a feeling there will be a few OTA updates to fix minor things and don't want to have to go back and forth to get updates. I was 100% set on rooting until I found out that foxfi works out of the box! no need (for now) for me to root!
How did you install Foxfi? It says the app is not compatible with my 4G LTE and shows the phone greyed out.
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I am going to hold off for a while on Rooting. I have a feeling there will be a few OTA updates to fix minor things and don't want to have to go back and forth to get updates. I was 100% set on rooting until I found out that foxfi works out of the box! no need (for now) for me to root!
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Why would you have to go back and forth? Someone always releases a rooted stock rom within hours of it's release by HTC, all you would do is either flash that or wait for the developer of your rom to update to the new OTA. As for OTA's, if and when we have a root and s-off method it's not only possible but likely that you wouldn't be able to use it if you updated your phone. Within weeks of the s-off on the EVO 3D there was an OTA patching it. I haven't rooted yet but I wouldn't accept any OTA's just in case. I still may return my phone due to data issues.
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I am going to hold off for a while on Rooting. I have a feeling there will be a few OTA updates to fix minor things and don't want to have to go back and forth to get updates. I was 100% set on rooting until I found out that foxfi works out of the box! no need (for now) for me to root!
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You could still get the update even while rooted.
I'll probably give it 2 weeks to make sure the hardware is okay.
Need to root for some privacy apps.
I can hear Pandora/Facebook/Twitter sucking my contacts, web history, and phone number without my permission as we speak.
I used the HTC unlock method on my 3D and didn't hesitate to do it on my new Evo LTE. It was well worth it.
For what it's worth, I had to bring my 3D in to sprint to have the touch screen replaced when it randomly went bad and they never said anything about my phone having an unlocked bootloader... They don't care.
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mugsaway said:
How did you install Foxfi? It says the app is not compatible with my 4G LTE and shows the phone greyed out.
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You have to go directly to foxfi to get the APK a google search will bring you there. It is not in the market. It works fine on my phone, now I wait for second round LTE then I can get better speeds.
Edit: found this, may help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26554223
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My og evo was rooted and I was very flash happy with it. But the last 6 months I had it I actually got sick of flashing (gasp). I think the constant need to re setup my phone just got old. As of now I have no plans of rooting it. I like it the way it is. I've gone "iphoney" and just want it to work lol.
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Tnman7 said:
I am going to hold off for a while on Rooting. I have a feeling there will be a few OTA updates to fix minor things and don't want to have to go back and forth to get updates. I was 100% set on rooting until I found out that foxfi works out of the box! no need (for now) for me to root!
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Devs here are usually pretty good at baking in the ota's into their roms in a quick manner though.
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