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HTC confirms Gingerbread update for Desire will be trimmed to avoid memory issues
Only days after avoiding another PR disaster, HTC has confirmed that the Desire will indeed be getting the Gingerbread update so many are lusting after. Their initial, now-retracted statement claimed that due to memory concerns it would not be able to optimally run the update. Unfortunately for them, many in the Android developer community called them out, as the Desire has been running custom Gingerbread ROMs for months.
HTC released a statement yesterday on their Twitter and Facebook pages stating:
“To resolve Desire’s memory issue and enable the upgrade to Gingerbread, we will cut select apps from the release. Look for status updates starting next week. We apologize for any confusion.”
Certainly welcome news, and proof that companies can appease their customers if the need is great enough.
However, there is some merit to HTC’s initial claim that the Desire can’t optimally run Gingerbread, and it’s due to partition sizes on the phone. Like the Nexus One, the Desire came with around 100MB of free app space, even though both phones had more than 500MB of ROM available for the operating system. Because HTC’s Sense Gingerbread ROM is significantly bigger than its Froyo ROM , it wasn’t a feasible update, as it would be on newer devices with significantly more ROM storage such as the Incredible S. By removing certain built-in Sense apps (likely things like Locations, their custom navigation software) and allowing users to download them from the Marketplace, they are lowering the overall size of the ROM without encroaching on the user’s app storage.
In terms of performance, however, we know that the Desire, like the Nexus One, can run Gingerbread just fine. Let’s hope Telus approves the update sooner rather than later!
Source: Phandroid via Facebook
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Even once they release it, wouldn’t it have to be tested/certified by the telcos? I’m thinking we’re looking at a Q3 or Q4 release now.
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Only thing missing is the Gingerbread update for Galaxy S phones in Canada. Come on Telus, Europe did it, you can do it too! (and Bell & Rogers as well, for my many friends on these networks)
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I agree and if telus does not upgrade the galaxy s my future phones will be anyone who provides a non branded phone like nexus.
Were is the government on this. I bought the phone and I should be allowed to do what I want without a company making it obsolete.
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too late HTC, rooted and flashed cyanogenmod onto it last night. got tired of waiting for the update, and now I’m wondering why i didn’t root earlier. one day in and i don’t miss sense at all.
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I think HTC is full of it. They probably were just trying to see how many dummies would buy a new phone.
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Why can’t they just relocate these apps to the SD card if needed? Install gingerbread and sense cores onto the ROM and the apps all to SD card?
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What a disastrous way to do updates… so fragmented…!
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