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Gingerbread 2.3 was here, then gone, now it's back

When will VZW push a fixed GB OTA

  • 10/11/11

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 10/17/11

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 10/24/11

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 10/31/11

    Votes: 3 2.8%

  • 11/07/11

    Votes: 2 1.9%

  • 11/14/111

    Votes: 22 20.6%

  • 11/21/11

    Votes: 6 5.6%

  • Don't care (rooted already, etc)

    Votes: 23 21.5%

  • Before Christmas

    Votes: 12 11.2%

  • Never, the lobsters ate all the testers so it got cancelled

    Votes: 11 10.3%

  • It isn't coming at all now

    Votes: 13 12.1%

  • Any minute now

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Immediately after Jimmy Hoffa's body is found

    Votes: 4 3.7%

  • The day after the apocalypse

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Sometime after the sun goes supernova

    Votes: 9 8.4%
  • Total voters
    107
  • Poll closed .
I did it this morning. The upgrade ran with no problems. It wiped out a couple of apps, but I reinstalled them and they were intact with no data lost. Phone seems to be running just as well as before over all, much faster in some cases. No reason not to do it IMHO.
 
jreagan said:
Like others above, I've been dismissing the 'update' for most of the day as I was using the phone. Now, I have time for the upgrade at home on the charger. So I press "update now" and nothing. No reboot, no download, no upgrade. The system says I'm now upto date at 2.2. No more nags to upgrade. Don't they test these things?
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Same here
 
Same for me. Downloaded. verified. I hit the install button, and nothing. Same thing happened when it first rolled out.

I did flash back to unrooted Froyo for this because i wanted the damn satisfaction of having an update on my phone! Not sure it can be called an update anymore.:rolleyes:
 
OK I finally found a reason to register.

I started lurking these forums when looking for info on the Froyo update. Those were good times.

When Gingerbread started making an appearance my girlfriend, who got her Incredible about a year after me got the update first.....so unfair...so I decided to grab the RUU. I had done the same with Froyo and everything was fine. Then they pulled the gingerbread update and I had check in on these forums less and less often (I miss Evan)

So this morning at about 5:30 EST I'm woken up by my phones brightly lit screen. I set it for desk clock night mode at night so it is dim and I had received an update available message that lit up my phone. I happily accepted and pondered signing up on these forums to report findings as I drifted off to sleep.

I played around with my phone today and it does seem somewhat quicker as well as better battery life by the end of my work day. After work I compared my phones "new update" with my girlfriends "original update" and check the forums to see people discussing a re release of the gingerbread form. Here are the differences I see:

Mine: Girlfriends
kernel 2.6.35.10-g5e15ac4 2.6.35.13-g55a06e5
build 4.06.605.2 4.06.605.3
software # 4.06.605.2 4.06.605.3
PRI version 1.28 002 1.70 002
plr version 52501 52078

So in my uneducated opinion my girlfriend's phone looks like a newer build.

Am I missing something ?
 
Fubo said:
OK I finally found a reason to register.

I started lurking these forums when looking for info on the Froyo update. Those were good times.

When Gingerbread started making an appearance my girlfriend, who got her Incredible about a year after me got the update first.....so unfair...so I decided to grab the RUU. I had done the same with Froyo and everything was fine. Then they pulled the gingerbread update and I had check in on these forums less and less often (I miss Evan)

So this morning at about 5:30 EST I'm woken up by my phones brightly lit screen. I set it for desk clock night mode at night so it is dim and I had received an update available message that lit up my phone. I happily accepted and pondered signing up on these forums to report findings as I drifted off to sleep.

I played around with my phone today and it does seem somewhat quicker as well as better battery life by the end of my work day. After work I compared my phones "new update" with my girlfriends "original update" and check the forums to see people discussing a re release of the gingerbread form. Here are the differences I see:

Mine: Girlfriends
kernel 2.6.35.10-g5e15ac4 2.6.35.13-g55a06e5
build 4.06.605.2 4.06.605.3
software # 4.06.605.2 4.06.605.3
PRI version 1.28 002 1.70 002
plr version 52501 52078

So in my uneducated opinion my girlfriend's phone looks like a newer build.

Am I missing something ?
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Are you sure the update installed? Your build number matchs the leaked version JUST before the one that was pushed out in Septemeber, and is being re-pushed now.
 
TonyNewShoes said:
Not, It messed my phone up, first it force closed everything then on reboot it force closed HTC Sense. Then it erased everything in my phone, total hard reset itself, now my weather icons on the clock dont work. And this is only three hours after I updated it. Dont upgrade to Gingerbread for incredible 1.
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Got my clock/weather widget to work again by disabling the fast boot option in the application menu. Go figure. Works great now.
 
I was on 2.2 and got the 2.3.4 update today and have not found any problems as yet. It even started Launcher Pro as my default launcher without having to reset it as the default. I haven't found any deleted apps. I did have to re-log in to my default homepage in the browser but all of my default apps like Handcent SMS are still the default. I am at 450MB free memory with no out of memory errors so far. The phone seems a little snappier but that may just be my imagination. Anyway I am looking around and have found nothing is much different except the dialog boxes that pop up from different programs seem to be a smaller, tighter looking font. So what exactly was all the fuss over Gingerbread anyway? Can anybody tell me that? Seems just like Froyo to me...
 
OK so after I got home and update has been applied, tried the *228 to "program" your phone via VZW.

Once done, got really nervous after reboot.

What happened? Well, I got the default bubble wallpaper at first, then it reverted back to my wallpaper. OK so far, then the warning of location being used came up, slected OK. The phone completed booting with my wall paper and then mounting SD (great..) then preparing SD.

All said, it came back OK.

I did notice when rebooting, the "eye" animation with the two dots move much faster, then froze after this first reboot, but came up fine.

Noticed when powering off, new colorful power off button selection and airplane mode radio buttons.

Rebooting now works faster and once again the "eye" and two dots move much faster at bootup. Faster to get to the home screen.

My Market is the latest and did not see anything related to Sprint.

However, under Phone/Hardware the screen is like all others: 4.3.

So, all in all, it's working, no other issues yet.

Deanski
 
Imagine my delight to wake up this morning to find my phone saying it needed me to update it. I assume it was Gingerbread, the install was about 83 MB and I am still on 2.2.

Long story short. Didn't install it. Kept telling the reminder popup to "wait till later" and when I finally got ready to install it tonight? The installer is gone! my phone says its up to date, but it still says Version 2.2.

Help! did my phone update? Or did I miss my window (Which would be weird).
How do i go about a manual d/l if needbe?
Thanks!
 
Deanski said:
My Market is the latest and did not see anything related to Sprint.

However, under Phone/Hardware the screen is like all others: 4.3.Deanski
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If it says 4:3 then your market is Sprint most likely, go to market and then click apps icon then scroll about half way down you will see Sprint, click it and there Sprints apps, LOL
 
Deanski said:
Rebooting now works faster and once again the "eye" and two dots move much faster at bootup. Faster to get to the home screen.Deanski
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Powering down and rebooting are like the Razor commercials, fast as lightening. I just put a new fully charged battery in my incredible, first I powered off, I swear within 2 seconds of hitting Power off this thing is off, changed the battery, Powered back on and it boots up within seconds. It's amazing the difference this update made.
 
teslas said:
Imagine my delight to wake up this morning to find my phone saying it needed me to update it. I assume it was Gingerbread, the install was about 83 MB and I am still on 2.2.

Long story short. Didn't install it. Kept telling the reminder popup to "wait till later" and when I finally got ready to install it tonight? The installer is gone! my phone says its up to date, but it still says Version 2.2.

Help! did my phone update? Or did I miss my window (Which would be weird).
How do i go about a manual d/l if needbe?
Thanks!
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Does anybody know how to solve this issue? Same exact thing happened to me. I wanted to hear some stories before I updated and now I'm not seeing a way to update at all.
 
Did Verizon pull the update again? My phone stopped bugging me to update. I did manage to pull the update out of cache before it disappeared. This was it's file name:
6f37e6f6b9ab.OTA_Incredible_C_Gingerbread_S_VERIZON_WWE_4.06.605.3-3.26.605.1_release_210690.zip (92,031,344 bytes)
 
UnplugMe said:
Can anyone verify that installing the Gingerbread update alleviates this Low On Space warning?

I've spent hours reading and am getting contradictions, some say yes, some say no. I have a headache.

As I understand it, once I upgrade to Gingerbread, rooting the phone becomes much more difficult and complicated, and will prevent me from doing so if I need to.
I'm not an advanced user, just a middle-aged lady trying to learn how to fix her phone.

I'd really like to know if it's safe to accept the update. And if not, can I permanently delete the nag alert?

Thanks for any help.
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I'm still unable to fix the "low on space" problem, even with tons and tons of space in the card, internal storage, phone storage and RAM.

THIS:

196MB used/552MB free on internal storage
2.2GB used/5.5GB free on SD card
546MB/748MB available on phone memory
121MB used/228MB free on RAM

...means "low on space"??????

I even went as far as deleting the data from virtually everything and several apps that I don't use, and the error keeps reappearing.

Upping the frustration level is this: I just got the notification saying an official system update was available for download. "Good," I thought to myself, "perhaps Verizon or HTC fixed the low on space bug". So I proceed to update.

Instead, after the prompted reboot, the phone says there's not enough space... to perform the system update! And now the system update is gone, it won't update, and won't let me try a second time.
 
Yesterday, I got the update for 4.06.605.3. Upon auto rebooting, the device hung at the "eye". After waiting numerous minutes, I pulled and re-inserted the battery and it came up cleanly. Overall, everything was fine. In fact, the battery life seemed significantly better today. The only issue I saw was that one of my apps was gone (no apps were on SD). I re-downloaded the app from the market, and now it's fine. In fact, the locally saved settings were still there! I could be missing other apps, but nothing I've noticed.

Tonight, I got the update for 4.08.605.2. Once again, upon auto rebooting, the device hung at the "eye", and once again, pulling and re-inserting the battery let it come up cleanly. So far, everything seems fine (hasn't been long), and I don't see any apps missing this time.

The only bad news is that my screen magically shrank back down to 3.7". I was really enjoying the upgraded 4.3" screen, especially since I got this upgrade while keeping the small/trim Incredible form factor. ;)
 
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