does anyone know if this update is just for sprint? i just got my hero for orange (europe) and i think i may be having the same issues as you guys explain.

I just got the latest HTC orange ROM upgrade which is:

ROM version 2.73.61.5

I’ve looked under ‘about phone’ section in the settings menu but i cant find the option to check for latest firmware or software.

Does anyone know if this fix you guys got will be released by HTC? or is it just specific to sprint?

Thanks

* broken app icons are fixed. This issue was also known as the boot caching issue
* broken app names are somewhat fixed. Some of mine weren’t but I reinstalled them and so far they display correctly
* reportedly, the major battery draining 100% awake SMS and letting the phone go to sleep after boot bugs are fixed.
* not receiving SMS when low on space is reportedly fixed
* memory leak related to bluetooth is reportedly fixed
* daylight savings time calendar issue is reportedly fixed
* the stereo headphone issue is reportedly fixed (not sure what it was exactly)

Improvements

* the phone is a lot snappier – the lag is pretty much gone in a lot of cases but it’s still there in others, especially in the Phone app and the browser. For example, I killed the browser and started it again – it took 20 seconds before google.com was loaded, 10 of which I spent staring at an almost completely white screen
I have a feeling it is due to fixing something with the cleaning up of the old uninstalled apps. My theory is that the Hero didn’t uninstall the apps properly, perhaps leaving their cache behind, thus slowing down more and more as I tried out more and more apps
* Update: I just charged the battery and I think the battery charged a lot faster than before, which is a really good sign
* loading of app lists seems to be a lot faster. By that I mean any time the phone shows a list of installed applications, it seems to show up a lot faster than before (Add shortcut, Manage, etc)
* reportedly, improved camera quality – I’ll have to do some tests to validate this one

New Features

* app search – if you push the search button from anywhere inside the Market app, it now pops up the app search dialog rather than the regular google search
* there are 2 new icons during a phone call: mute and speaker. I took a photo of this, which you can see below
* the green Android dude looks more 3D-ish now – a minor but nice UI change

Miscellaneous Notes

* the update did not fix the all-day event 1 day too early notification problem
* I did not find an update for the voicemail app that some people mentioned (mine is at v5.0.0.32)
* the “linked program is no longer installed on your phone” problem that I’m having with my Twidroid shortcut every time I update it is still there (it goes away after phone reboot)
* the haptic feedback (vibrate on press) in the Phone app is now permanently on, even though I turned it off in the keyboard settings. I am fairly sure it’s either a bug or a new “feature” that we didn’t want, as it doesn’t respect phone-wide settings

What’s New

Fixes

* broken app icons are fixed. This issue was also known as the boot caching issue
* broken app names are somewhat fixed. Some of mine weren’t but I reinstalled them and so far they display correctly
* reportedly, the major battery draining 100% awake SMS and letting the phone go to sleep after boot bugs are fixed. I’ve gone ahead and uninstalled HandcentSMS to see if my visual voicemail notifications will come back (they seemed to have gone away after I switched to Handcent)
* not receiving SMS when low on space is reportedly fixed
* memory leak related to bluetooth is reportedly fixed
* daylight savings time calendar issue is reportedly fixed
* the stereo headphone issue is reportedly fixed (not sure what it was exactly)

Improvements

* the phone is a lot snappier – the lag is pretty much gone in a lot of cases but it’s still there in others, especially in the Phone app and the browser. For example, I killed the browser and started it again – it took 20 seconds before google.com was loaded, 10 of which I spent staring at an almost completely white screen
I have a feeling it is due to fixing something with the cleaning up of the old uninstalled apps. My theory is that the Hero didn’t uninstall the apps properly, perhaps leaving their cache behind, thus slowing down more and more as I tried out more and more apps
* Update: I just charged the battery and I think the battery charged a lot faster than before, which is a really good sign
* loading of app lists seems to be a lot faster. By that I mean any time the phone shows a list of installed applications, it seems to show up a lot faster than before (Add shortcut, Manage, etc)
* reportedly, improved camera quality – I’ll have to do some tests to validate this one

New Features

* app search – if you push the search button from anywhere inside the Market app, it now pops up the app search dialog rather than the regular google search
* there are 2 new icons during a phone call: mute and speaker. I took a photo of this, which you can see below
* the green Android dude looks more 3D-ish now – a minor but nice UI change

Miscellaneous Notes

* the update did not fix the all-day event 1 day too early notification problem
* I did not find an update for the voicemail app that some people mentioned (mine is at v5.0.0.32)
* the “linked program is no longer installed on your phone” problem that I’m having with my Twidroid shortcut every time I update it is still there (it goes away after phone reboot)
* the haptic feedback (vibrate on press) in the Phone app is now permanently on, even though I turned it off in the keyboard settings. I am fairly sure it’s either a bug or a new “feature” that we didn’t want, as it doesn’t respect phone-wide settings

..and there you have it…don’t get frighten when your phone stays on the HTC screen for a long time its just loading and there will be another short loading once you unlock the phone..

Just got the update. Took about 20 minutes. You have to wait forever for the phone to restart. You have to wait for a while on the “htc” screen. Wait it out.