Comments on: RUMOR: Sprint HTC Hero Getting Android 2.1 On April 9th

By: M

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:25:16 +0000

WTF? April 28th… Nothing. Keep writing awesome articles.

By: NoneYa

NoneYa — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:56:51 +0000

Just attempted the firmware update…

Still nothing…

By: jack

jack — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:47:13 +0000

well, april 9 is here and still no update. color me NOT-surprised.

By: Claudio

Claudio — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:05:43 +0000

Does everyone realize, that in less than an hour with a usb cable. you can root the phone and install a 2.1 rom and it works great. I been running google maps navigation since i bought my phone.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:00:52 +0000

I am about to just go Root my phone or install the leaked 2.0 and say screw Sprints software if they can’t get the programmers to move their asses and getting this update pushed to us…

By: rich

rich — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:10:59 +0000

All I think is they want us to buy the new phone coming out. So, with that said their making us hate the hero that way we buy the Evo. Just give it a thought and it will all add up trust me..

By: smacky32

smacky32 — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:35:27 +0000

To the guy who comment about Sprint losing NFL l, but now we got ESPN with is a whole lot better, u can watch all sports including the NFL

By: Michael Hile

Michael Hile — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:20:23 +0000

I just got off the phone with Sprint, after a long talk with the HTC Tech. He told me the delay was with Sprint and not HTC. Not surprised to hear someone blaming someone else. Anyway, Sprint did give me a definiteve date of April 9,2010 for out update. Said we will receive infor via our phones. Guess we will still have to wait and see.

By: tim

tim — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:54:51 +0000

why do we even bother with sprint it a fact that they don’t care about the update or their custumers.would jump ship but will get the same results no matter where u go so that being said.I want to leave a word of warning to those who are waiting for the EVO wait for the later version are you will be sorry i can’t even tell people to get sprint anymore they are starting to suck big time. I hope someone from sprint reads this and response,because this is so messed up the way we are being treated.U R REALY STARTING TO SUCK BIG TIME.

By: Slayer86

Slayer86 — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:51:22 +0000

Woopty freakin doo… I’ve been reading this tripe sense Dec. (It’s coming soon. It’ll be out next month.) Blah blah blah. You wouldn’t buy a used car just cause the salesman says it runs perfect, would you? So why believe this dribble? Sprint will release 2.1 when they feel like it. Which sould be around the time the new Evo will be launched. Hmm… funny how that works out.

By: faebo

faebo — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:54:02 +0000

I kno some inside info and i can deffinitely say that FOR A FACT this FIRMWARE update set for april 9/10 is NOT for the android 2.1. It is however a fix for a pic mail issue that many hero users have been experiencing for. the past month. It will also fix issues with battery life and intermittent unable to send text (for those of you who still havent downloaded handcent sms or adv task killer). But dont be discouraged b/c the os 2.1 update is comming extremely soon.. start to look. for it late april and it will be for both the hero as well as the moment. Sprint should also get the nexus one right when or right before it releases the htc evo 4g… so now at least we’ll have options.

By: thither

thither — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:27:30 +0000

@Petros: Sprint themselves have actually been pretty responsible about not officially announcing any update dates (except for the “first half of FY2010″ announcement). It’s sites like this, frankly, that keep reporting bullshit rumors as though they were fact, but half the time when you look into the source it’s just some random guy on a forum who talked to first-tier Sprint tech support. Frankly, it really sucks and I wish the Android blogger community would start exercise a tiny modicum of discretion about what they publish. Some information belongs in a forum.

By: Turtle

Turtle — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:55:33 +0000

I can 100% verify the authenticity of this memo as I used to work for Sprint on their network and know for a fact there’s terminology in this memo that an outside person wouldn’t have a clue. See the “CTMS” acronym? That’s the internal ticking application we used in Sprint to create & track issues – everything from network to individual customer phone issues. When we were just Nextel we used “NTM” developed by Oracle and in the merger there was this tug of war between previous individual company cultures over which we’d wind up using in the end. CTMS won out.

The only possible fault here would be if an internal employee thought it’d be fun to joke around and include that acronym in a faked memo just to screw around with people. IMHO that’s too much forethought just to fake something for fun.

By: damien

damien — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:54:00 +0000

its not the nfl mobile app that update comes out 3/31 to cover college football as well. Actually almost all there apps are being updated this week ie. navigator just got an update too. which leads me to believe that if they are rolling out updates to there apps this week and next wed. april 9th could be a good date for OTA. However it is Sprint we are talking about.

By: Simon Belmont

Simon Belmont — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:43:54 +0000

This would be great news if it’s true. Some how, I don’t know if it is though.

It mentions there is an update for the HTC Hero on April 9th, but it doesn’t mention the Samsung Moment. Wouldn’t Sprint be releasing the updates for both phones in tandem? The lack of the Samsung Moment being mentioned (especially given it doesn’t use Sense UI, so it should be ready before the HTC Hero), really has me worried. I’ve read elsewhere that this is just an update patch to fix an MMS issue.