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Gingerbread incoming?

Lol I am soooooooo glad I dont have to worry about OTA updates anymore. The wait for Froyo update drove me crazy! So I ended up rooting and havent looked back since then!
 
Yeah I'm on O2. It became clear with the sloooooooooooow release of the desire in the first place that 2.2 would have dragged its heals.
 
At first I thought it was a disadvantage rooting because of OTA updates.
But guessing how long people might have to wait for official updates, it's not a disadvantage at all.
The updated ROMs are bound to hit before most people get the official updates.
 
Actually its 8th April but still no ota update, I'm not sure I care too much when it comes now, it will be here when its here, in 8 months I can upgrade and go on a new 12 month contract with o2, then I will get a new shiny phone every 12 months
 
the only thing i am worried about upgrading with the gingerbread is wats gonna happen with the facebook contact syncing issue. is it gonna stay on? or tht option left out entirely
 
1981 said:
the only thing i am worried about upgrading with the gingerbread is wats gonna happen with the facebook contact syncing issue. is it gonna stay on? or tht option left out entirely
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Why would you think that?
 
The gingerbread rom I use syncs with facebook. Its the official facebook app that adds this functionality. If facebook remove that functionality, they're cutting their nose off despite their face.
 
1981 said:
heard somewhr tht after the gingerbread update the phone wont be allowed to sync with the facebook contacts, due to some legal issues goin on between google and facebook.
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BBC News - Google blunts Facebook phone app on Android

Google has stepped up its data battle with Facebook by blunting the social networking site's app on its phones.


An update for its latest mobile operating system will see users' Facebook contacts disappear from the phone's address book.
Google said it took the action as it was no longer willing to exempt Facebook from its data-sharing rules.


The decision has been seen as indicative of growing tensions between the two internet giants.


The contact-altering update applies to the Gingerbread version of Google's Android mobile operating system - currently only available for the Nexus S and Nexus One handsets, which are manufactured for Google.


Makers of other Android-based handsets are expected to make the Gingerbread upgrade available to their users in the coming months.


If those mobiles use the same version of Gingerbread as the Nexus phones, more owners would find Facebook contacts wiped from their address book.


Originally, Facebook's Android app allowed users to populate the phone's address book with Facebook contacts.
However, that data could not be exported from the handset, instead it was controlled by Facebook - something Google has said it can no longer tolerate.


"Since Facebook contacts cannot be exported from the device, the appearance of integration created a false sense of data portability," Google said in a statement.


Facebook contacts will, however, remain accessible via the app.
More than 200 million people accessed Facebook via a mobile device in 2010, according to its own figures - up from 65 million in the previous year.

Google would benefit enormously from being able to export a user's Facebook contacts, said Mike Davis, a senior analyst at Ovum.
"There's an awful lot of information you can derive from analysing a contacts list," he said.
That information could be used to improve the targeting of adverts that Google publishes, he added.
The spat highlights the growing tension between Facebook and Google, said Mr Davis.
But, he predicted that Facebook is "unlikely to buckle" to Google's data sharing demands at this stage.
 
Facebook still syncs contacts with 2.3.3 - working fine in Oxygen

And LMAO at people saying 'Well, it's the 8th and no OTA' like it was ever going to arrive. Until someone at HTC categorically says it's coming I won't believe anything until it's on my handset
 
Maybe because Oxygen, GV and CM7 are built from source, this was already in the builds.

As we're custom, I dare say this issue won't affect us anyway.
 
yea this was discussed on another thread, the 'official' Gingerbread release 2.3.3 I believe, removed the automatic syncing because of the exporting issues from facebook.

HTC will most likely keep the feature due to sense UI, so the official build should be ok when its finally released....same with any sense based roms later on....and also it seems the asop source builds now too lol
 
EddyOS said:
LMAO at people saying 'Well, it's the 8th and no OTA' like it was ever going to arrive. Until someone at HTC categorically says it's coming I won't believe anything until it's on my handset
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Lol true say. But we dont have to worry about stupid OTA anymore :D
 
Usta said:
Carrier software = evil...
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I done away with getting a Carrier branded phone ages back..

IE - vodafone only want you to have what they think you should have...


I shelled out quite a few bob and got my Desire..- AINT regretted it at all ! :cool:
 
yenrod said:
I done away with getting a Carrier branded phone ages back..

IE - vodafone only want you to have what they think you should have...


I shelled out quite a few bob and got my Desire..- AINT regretted it at all ! :cool:
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Fully agree...

:D
 
Does it seem strange that there is so little official info on this? TBH I got my Desire after the generic Froyo release so just had to wait for O2 to do their thing so I'm not sure if was the same then and this is just how it goes. The only info available seems to be coming out of Three, saying it will be pushed during May. I debranded my Desire so I'm just waiting on the OTA (if it'll work) or RUU but there is no info on when this might be, just old confirmation from HTC that there will be an update.
 
Meh said:
Does it seem strange that there is so little official info on this? TBH I got my Desire after the generic Froyo release so just had to wait for O2 to do their thing so I'm not sure if was the same then and this is just how it goes. The only info available seems to be coming out of Three, saying it will be pushed during May. I debranded my Desire so I'm just waiting on the OTA (if it'll work) or RUU but there is no info on when this might be, just old confirmation from HTC that there will be an update.
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Well, not especially. HTC have confirmed it will come. The Desire S has only recently been made widely available and it has been long suspected that the HTC OTA would not release for a while after the release of the Desire S.

The fact that 3 are suggesting they're pushing it out in May or thereabouts further adds credence to what everybody is guessing. It'll come. HTC aren't going to make much of a fuss about it if other handset manufacturer's attitudes are anything to go by. I mean, if it makes you want to keep your Desire that's great but it's not exactly a phone-selling profitable outcome. So it's very much a case of being patient.
 
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