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Help Is this MR*3*?

Possibly...
One of our resident gurus 'tweeted' the other day about an update in the works and to tell people to get their root done now because all of the currently known temproot holes have been patched.

It could be gingerbread.. but I doubt it.
 
WormDoes said:
The next update will be gingerbread. It's currently in phase 2 testing at Verizon
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Ah.. kay.
What 'phases' of testing are there?
I guess this is good news, and since I just dropped my bolt on the FFC I should try to get another one since it's all blurred now. :eek:

Does that mean Google video chat? :D
 
LoyalServant said:
Possibly...
One of our resident gurus 'tweeted' the other day about an update in the works and to tell people to get their root done now because all of the currently known temproot holes have been patched.

It could be gingerbread.. but I doubt it.
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A) I saw that thread
B) I'm chicken$%^t - not rooted, probably never will be
C) I'm confused as $%#@!!!

I swear - like 3ish months ago - that HTC issues something saying that they would NOT lock the bootloaders (ala Moto), or, am I imagining things?
 
DILands said:
A) I saw that thread
B) I'm chicken$%^t - not rooted, probably never will be
C) I'm confused as $%#@!!!

I swear - like 3ish months ago - that HTC issues something saying that they would NOT lock the bootloaders (ala Moto), or, am I imagining things?
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The bolt has a locked bootloader.. yes.
It was locked from day one, and that was before this policy of theirs was in place.
AFAIK it was carrier dependent?
You can rest assured that Verizon wants it locked.
 
Something else to consider: if you have insurance for a replacement, someday your replacement might not be rootable.
 
LoyalServant said:
The bolt has a locked bootloader.. yes.
It was locked from day one, and that was before this policy of theirs was in place.
AFAIK it was carrier dependent?
You can rest assured that Verizon wants it locked.
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Yes the bootloader was locked, but not signed and encrypted like the Sensation and E3D are. While it was the most locked down HTC to date (at the time) it was still cracked in 2 days, IIRC. The bad PR that this bootloader situation has caused has been thrown directly towards the carriers being the ones to blame.
 
I wish they would sell phones set up like the Nook color--put an OS on the SD card, BAM, risk free alternative. No voided warranty, etc. Saw a friend's this afternoon running Froyo (Honeycomb is out there, too, but sucks down more battery supposedly). Take out the SD card, restart, BAM, vanilla Nook. It can be rooted, too, but why bother? Froyo was running like a champ on it. I had screen size envy, lol.
 
brizey said:
I wish they would sell phones set up like the Nook color--put an OS on the SD card, BAM, risk free alternative.
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It's not in there best interests to do so.
They want to control every aspect of your^H^H^H^Htheir device.

Until someone important or has a lot of cash gets them dragged into court and forces them to stop locking devices it won't happen.
 
"Some of the fixes are to include an issue with SMS/MMS messages going to the wrong contact"

Man, how many times have you sent the text to the wrong person because of this? Even did it on my D1.
 
brizey said:
I wish they would sell phones set up like the Nook color--put an OS on the SD card, BAM, risk free alternative. No voided warranty, etc. Saw a friend's this afternoon running Froyo (Honeycomb is out there, too, but sucks down more battery supposedly). Take out the SD card, restart, BAM, vanilla Nook. It can be rooted, too, but why bother? Froyo was running like a champ on it. I had screen size envy, lol.
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That would be too much common sense. Not to mention another thing is make the skin ability to be uninstalled and installed through the market. They wont do that though because they know how many would uninstall it which idk why they care to be honest. They are making the money so who cares about skins lol.
 
mattbirk said:
"Some of the fixes are to include an issue with SMS/MMS messages going to the wrong contact"

Man, how many times have you sent the text to the wrong person because of this? Even did it on my D1.
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thats good to hear....as i am pretty sure that was one of the fixes in 2.3.3.
so this probably IS going to be gingerbread. that would make me happy. i need my replacement ASAP so i can get this thing rooted. i was kinda underwhelmed by my wifes Dinc2 GB update. no screen off animation, no overscroll glow, choppy scrolling in lists.
 
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