Android upgrade drama at Vodafone and T-Mobile

Posted on 12th August, 2010 by

BBC News - Vodafone backs down in Android row

Vodafone (a major UK mobile phone network) have backed down after pushing what looked like an Android operating system upgrade for the HTC Desire phone, but was in fact a set of branded applications and bookmarks (including one for a dating site) which couldn’t be removed from the phone. Users were expecting an upgrade to version 2.2 of the system itself; Vodafone will now deliver a barely changed version of that in a couple of weeks.

I’ve been waiting for an upgrade to my HTC Hero (T-Mobile G2 Touch) for months now — T-Mobile have been saying that an upgrade to Android v2.1 (not even v2.2) would be coming real soon now since about February I think. Then they said that it’s being pushed out “over the air”, but the stock version of Android that came with the phone has had the function to check for system updates removed. I’ve been told (by third parties on the T-Mobile forum, not even by an official announcement from the company) that I’d have to install a more recent release of the old version of Android, then it would let me upgrade to version 2.1 automatically. That’s pretty pathetic.

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  • SulemanC

    Yep. I’m still waiting too. I went into the T-Mobile shop after it was announced (on the T-Mobile forums - how ridiculous!) that the android update is finally available for the Hero/G2. I went into the shop (since the update has not been pushed to my phone) and was advised that although the update is out there, wait until the end of September before you bother us about the fact that you have not received it yet. Lesson (for me) is that I will not buy a mobile phone rebranded phone like this again. Extra delay is added to any update which is rolled out by the networks while it is retested for the rebranded phone.

  • MAHS

    I got fed up waiting for the OTA update.

    So i went to XDA-Dev, updated both my firmware and rom and debranded the handset so its a generic HTC branding. I did it on my Orange [uk]Hero

    http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=714855

    its so simple and easy. trust me you wont regret it.