New OTA (leak?) download link here and instructions

[BoNg420]

Meh, bricking my phone is not worth having videos of my cats in HD

Well that's fine and all, but its as simple as not installing the update.zip twice to not brick your phone.

 

[sloan31]

As I'm new to android and the whole rooting scene in general, I think I'll wait on this. However, I see nothing wrong with posting this info, especially with a disclaimer. If someone chooses to follow it that's on them, no one is forcing this option down anyone's throat.

 

[mwirtz]

this isnt by chance the new froyo leak is it....? my guess is prolly not, but im hopeful!

 

[xwera43]

Verizon tier 2 tech told me tonight that they have yet to receive the update from HTC and there will NOT be an OTA update until it passes their testing. Since they've not gotten the update from HTC, no OTA date is set from Verizon.

X

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[Qazme]

Well that's fine and all, but its as simple as not installing the update.zip twice to not brick your phone.

Yeah so either brick your phone or have possibly a phone you can't revive because the radio got installed but not the rest and now you can't flash back because your phone 'has a newer radio' than the RUU currently does. This potentially leaves you with a dead phone either way. I think I can wait when and if the some of the devs come out with a safer update. They have been warning against people doing this because of the potential repercussions only one of them being bricking your phone.

But if you trust an unknown update from an unknown source with no idea what it could do to your phone by all means go a head!

Verizon tier 2 tech told me tonight that they have yet to receive the update from HTC and there will NOT be an OTA update until it passes their testing. Since they've not gotten the update from HTC, no OTA date is set from Verizon.

X

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Yeah cause everyone knows that the techs on the phone know all about the internal workings at Verizon. Take it with a grain of salt dude, they have yet to be right with any information I've ever heard them give out.

 

[BoNg420]

Yeah so either brick your phone or have possibly a phone you can't revive because the radio got installed but not the rest and now you can't flash back because your phone 'has a newer radio' than the RUU currently does. This potentially leaves you with a dead phone either way. I think I can wait when and if the some of the devs come out with a safer update. They have been warning against people doing this because of the potential repercussions only one of them being bricking your phone.

Its as simple as following simple instructions, if people can't follow them, then its their fault for messing up their phone. Seen tons of people post in here saying they didn't get the radio installed, obviously they installed this in Clockwork recovery and not stock recovery. That enough says enough to me. There is a way to go back anyways.

 

[Adrynalyne]

You can rollback fine, unless there is a communication problem between your eyes and your brain. There is a thread for it if you need to rollback, and its linked all over the place.

If you are willing to root and install other roms, then this should be no different. If you install it twice over itself, then shame on you, you were warned.

 

[trock70]

Yeah so either brick your phone or have possibly a phone you can't revive because the radio got installed but not the rest and now you can't flash back because your phone 'has a newer radio' than the RUU currently does. This potentially leaves you with a dead phone either way. I think I can wait when and if the some of the devs come out with a safer update. They have been warning against people doing this because of the potential repercussions only one of them being bricking your phone.

But if you trust an unknown update from an unknown source with no idea what it could do to your phone by all means go a head!



Yeah cause everyone knows that the techs on the phone know all about the internal workings at Verizon. Take it with a grain of salt dude, they have yet to be right with any information I've ever heard them give out.

Werd

 

[Qazme]

Its as simple as following simple instructions, if people can't follow them, then its their fault for messing up their phone. Seen tons of people post in here saying they didn't get the radio installed, obviously they installed this in Clockwork recovery and not stock recovery. That enough says enough to me. There is a way to go back anyways.

I agree it is, but the thing is you guys are reading how to do it, but you aren't reading what the issues it may cause may be. That's all I'm saying.

You can rollback fine, unless there is a communication problem between your eyes and your brain. There is a thread for it if you need to rollback, and its linked all over the place.

If you are willing to root and install other roms, then this should be no different. If you install it twice over itself, then shame on you, you were warned.

Tell that to the people, who did follow the directions and have messed up phones. That are not working with the update, and that they can't roll back because the radio did get installed. What went wrong? Who knows. It's careless actions of other people posting things that devs specifically asked people not to post that causes issue somewhere down the line.

Each to his own enjoy your update and hopefully you'll have no issue in the future, keep your fingers crossed.

 

[Adrynalyne]

Really? Who? I see 1000x more success than failures, and I've not seen one person who couldn't roll back, who tried.

 

[Qazme]

Really? Who? I see 1000x more success than failures, and I've not seen one person who couldn't roll back, who tried.

Not going to argue. I have my point of view you have yours. You should hang out in IRC is all, information in forums is a limit view dude.

 

[Adrynalyne]

Broaden your horizons to other forums would be my advice to you.

 

[_JKK_]

Broaden your horizons to other forums would be my advice to you.

I know what you're talking about.

My view is that it's a week or so for the rumored (by BGR, I might add; a little more reputable than Michael Weston, with absolutely NOTHING against him). I can wait that long.

 

[Adrynalyne]

Certainly nothing wrong with waiting. Just don't let the fear mongers scare you off because they don't understand the precautions or how things work.

 

[_JKK_]

Certainly nothing wrong with waiting. Just don't let the fear mongers scare you off because they don't understand the precautions or how things work.

Well, waiting. And I'm using Cyanogen. So it works out.

 

[Adrynalyne]

I'm just waiting for a working camera. Then I will be more than happy to install CM 6.

 

[_JKK_]

I'm just waiting for a working camera. Then I will be more than happy to install CM 6.

That's true; having no camera is kind of annoying. Hasn't bothered me yet, though.

I'll probably have stock rooted back for the camera. Never know what you'll need it for on a weekend

 

[Adrynalyne]

Me being a Dad, yeah, its a must

 

[_JKK_]

Speaking of pictures (and I know you've used the leaked OTA) does it improve much in the way of actual speed of the camera app? I love the pictures it takes, but I think it's just a bit on the slow side.

Thoughts?

 

[Adrynalyne]

It improves focusing speed, adds face detection. It deals with some other things too like metering.