Official Sprint EVO 4G Gingerbread update

[FractalSphere]

I saw this article on GoodandEvo.net ...

Gingerbread update coming to HTC EVO 4G in Q2 2011, says email from HTC

...that I very much hope is true! I'm hoping for a Gingerbread Sense ROM, or even just a rooted stock-evo ROM after this comes out.

 

[midmofan]

Very good news, now have to find out how to handle this with my rooted evo. Just did the unrevoked3 root to activate tether and give superuser to some other apps but kept everything else the same so wonder how big a deal it will be.

 

[garbagefairy1967]

Very good news, now have to find out how to handle this with my rooted evo. Just did the unrevoked3 root to activate tether and give superuser to some other apps but kept everything else the same so wonder how big a deal it will be.

Same here, I'll keep checking back to see what everyone does with rooted phones =]

 

[saleen2002]

hope its soon i am done with the latest froyo update!!

 

[superstarpage]

Dear Android GODS, please update my phone. I am going crazy waiting and waiting. I will always be faithful to the Android System. This is all!

c:

 

[snowwy66]

oh my hell. once you all get gingerbread. you're all going to be dieing for honeycomb.

LOL.

 

[FreudSlipped]

oh my hell. once you all get gingerbread. you're all going to be dieing for honeycomb.

LOL.

Nah, we're already lining up wish lists for Ice Cream!

 

[MannyZ28]

Something tells me that this will coincide with the release of the Evo 3d?

 

[trinamorgan88]

Something tells me that this will coincide with the release of the Evo 3d?

If the EVO doesn't get Gingerbread, that's another reason for me to get the EVO 3D. But that is what Sprint want, so I[m going to give it some time.

 

[Cares]

I sincerely doubt they are going to ditch support on the Evo 4G in less than a year. It will get Gingerbread without a doubt in my mind.

Sent from my HTC Evo 4G

 

[trinamorgan88]

I sincerely doubt they are going to ditch support on the Evo 4G in less than a year. It will get Gingerbread without a doubt in my mind.

Sent from my HTC Evo 4G

I'm thinking your right. HTC has a good record with updates. Just waiting to see what happens.

Sent from my HTC EVO 4G using Tapatalk.

 

[bberrynewbie84]

This will fix the audio problem while recording on the evo i hope

 

[PookiePrancer]

The problem with the official update is that you're still going to get Sprint's bloat/demoware. I rooted specifically to get rid of that junk, and thanks to xda, I'm never going back to stock.

 

[bberrynewbie84]

I agree 100%

The problem with the official update is that you're still going to get Sprint's bloat/demoware. I rooted specifically to get rid of that junk, and thanks to xda, I'm never going back to stock.

 

[Verdes8891]

As long as they never release a software that will have a hardware requirment that is higher then what our EVO's have, then they should continue to get the software updates

 

[EVO-lutionary]

The problem with the official update is that you're still going to get Sprint's bloat/demoware. I rooted specifically to get rid of that junk, and thanks to xda, I'm never going back to stock.

As soon as HTC releases a Sense/Gingerbread ROM you will start to see a rash of updates. The lack of such a base ROM to work with is why you don't see WARM/FRESH/Sprint Lovers etc running 2.3. For now(on the EVO) only ASOP roms can run Gingerbread and they are all flawed(gps issues, reboots, etc). Even the best of the ASOPs have issues. That's why I run Warm 2.2. This will go away once HTC releases a Gingerbread ROM for Evo(which I hope will include Sense 2.0). This is very exciting news!

 

[Telperion]

CM7, for me, has not a single issue. Everything works.

 

[EMT J]

Something tells me that this will coincide with the release of the Evo 3d?

I think we will get gingerbread, but a good while after the 3D comes out. Sprint and HTC undoubtedly want the 3D to be as big a hit, if not a bigger hit than the original Evo was. They also want a lot of current Evo owners to get the 3D and if gingerbread and/or the new sense is available around the time the 3D is out I think a lot of current Evo owners would stick with their phones. If the timeline follows the original Evo and the 3D is released in June, I figure the originals won't be updated before October or November.

 

[EVO-lutionary]

For me i get a ton of random reboots, my launchers work at best half the time, I lose GPS every 2 or 3 days and have to boot into a sense rom to do the GPS fix and there's still no HDMI last time I tried it. Also I love the sense Clock(not widget but the actual clock app). Also while most HTC apps can be easily replaced 3rd party, there are some(such as the clock application) that can't be. The videos dont look as good when recorded either. As a whole, CM7 is just buggy. Which they know, that's why its an RC and not a Final. They are doing good work but as yet, they haven't performed as well as Warm or Evi or many other HTC-Based roms. They are nearly there tho.

 

[EVO-lutionary]

I think we will get gingerbread, but a good while after the 3D comes out. Sprint and HTC undoubtedly want the 3D to be as big a hit, if not a bigger hit than the original Evo was. They also want a lot of current Evo owners to get the 3D and if gingerbread and/or the new sense is available around the time the 3D is out I think a lot of current Evo owners would stick with their phones. If the timeline follows the original Evo and the 3D is released in June, I figure the originals won't be updated before October or November.

There is another argument to be made, however. It could be said that HTC will want to push 2.3 for Evo out before hand to both test it on the OG Evos first and also to show that they do in fact upgrade phones for their customers, in order to entice new customers. Maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.