Giskard, I cannot thank you enough. After being stuck on 4.06 for about two weeks and suffering from a relentless "low on space" notification, missing apps on my SD card (unmount/mount trick didn't work), and my phone refusing to install or reboot after claiming to find the 4.08 update, I was finally able to get it to install. My dinc is noticeably snappier and no low memory notifications to be seen. Also, my phone now recognizes all my apps on my SD card. Can't tell you how many dead ends I ran into when trying to track down a solution to this mess. As someone else has said, I joined this forum just to express my appreciation. Thank you!
A few notes from my experience:
- In order to get my phone to accept the update, I had to free up 500mb of internal space to be able to download the update. I see that others were able to download it with less space free; not sure why I couldn't. Others may have to do the same... don't give up, and keep moving apps to your card or delete and download again later... you'll eventually get this to work!
- When dialing the "checkin" number to force a search for an update, I would only get the "check in successful" notice... as others have said, I had to manually change the date on my phone to finally have success in "finding" the 4.08 update. Some have been able to change the year from 2011 to 2012... when I did this, my phone would switch it back to 2011 within a few seconds, even with automatic date updating unchecked. I was able to find someone that had success by just changing the day of the month... I changed the date to 12/30/2011, and my phone finally left it unchanged. I dialed the "checkin" number, and was able to successfully download the update on my first attempt.
Hope my notes can help someone out. Giskard, again, thank you for providing the information that seems to elude HTC and Verizon still...