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Official HTC Inspire Gingerbread Update Rumor Thread

Holy crap the battery life is amazing compared to before. As an experiment I didn't put it on the charger last night when i went to bed like normal.

At 26 hours unplugged I still have 36% left!
This is with wifi, sync, gps, autobright, and a weatherbug widget on.

Yesterday was a medium-use day, looks like I have 1.5hr display-on time and 12min voice calls. Took about 5 pictures and 3 videos. A bit of web browsing and playing a nes emu was part of that display time too.

When I went to bed it was 45% it only lost 2% in the 7 hours I slept! all the above stuff still turned on too.

7% loss since I woke up was all streaming music in the truck with subsonic.
 
Please answer does anyone know if the OTA or the new download on the htc site fixes the sms bug that was on the leaked version? Also can the people who got the leaked version still be able to get the OTA?
 
demo320 said:
Please answer does anyone know if the OTA or the new download on the htc site fixes the sms bug that was on the leaked version? Also can the people who got the leaked version still be able to get the OTA?
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They are the same thing same version # so no bugs fixed. Someone says htc is working on it.
 
John Redcorn said:
They are the same thing same version # so no bugs fixed. Someone says htc is working on it.
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Ok cool thanks i noticed they were the same but the filesize was different so i though they may have like fixed em without telling anybody. But that sms bug bugs the s**t outta me.
 
OTA finally happened for me in MN! I was checking 6 times a day it seemed like. I'll update when it's finished and I have time to experiment with it.
 
got the OTA this morning after failing throughout the day to get through yesterday. the new app drawer is pretty nice nothing too crazy but still looks good. love the quick settings feature in the notification and....LOUDER VOLUME!!!!!!
 
Mine updated this morning!

I was abit weirded out at first because I was expecting the update notice to say do you wanna update to 2.3.3 .... but instead it said 2.4 something or another... but obviously when all was said and done, it indeed shows 2.3.3 under software info.

Im not sure I'll see any better battery use like some of you have reported, as I already had pretty great battery use. I charge it just every other night. It has been lasting 39 hours, with low to medium use. With my luck, the update will ruin that... lol
 
I couldn't wait, so I downloaded it. Can't see a huge difference yet. The only thing I can even wimper about, is that i can't find the clock widget i had before, it was perfect, and the one I have is almost there, but the customization seems to be gone. Just my issue though. The new look is pretty neat and seems more streamlined.
 
freddyej1 said:
I updated this morning. Does anyone know how or if i could get HTC sense 3.0?
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I don't think thats anything that can be done on an htc build, I could be wrong. But if you're willing to root and flash some roms there are some available with sense 3 built in.
 
John Redcorn said:
I don't think thats anything that can be done on an htc build, I could be wrong. But if you're willing to root and flash some roms there are some available with sense 3 built in.
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Sorry for my silly questions im new to the whole android thing im ccoming from a iPhone 4. Can you explain what's this whole rooting thing?
 
These are not a big deal, but I wonder if anyone else is missing these from their update. I saw some things in YouTube videos that I didn't notice on my phone after updating. I remember hearing of a "tv-off" like function when locking out the phone that was supposed to come with the GB update. My phone locks like normal...all the screen animations are allowed, so I dont know whats up with that. Also, I remember seeing phones with square-shaped icons for the apps,phone, and search buttons on the bottom of the home screens. However, mine are still the rounded-edge ones like before. It says 2.3.3 under my software, and I have the quick notifications function, as well as the scroll-page-to-page app tray...so I know that it did update. The file said it was supposed to be like 269 mb or whatever, but I noticed after downloading to my computer that the file was only 262...any ideas. Your knowledge is greatly appreciated, as I know nothing about android yet.
 
@29mike,
I noticed the same things after updating. I compared it to my Dad's un-updated Inspire, and there is a curve to the menu "button", and the App screen doesn't roll as smooth as before, it is broken up into segments. There is a difference with the Gingerbread. I did notice that the notification icons are different as well. Plus there is a new tab on the pull down menu.
 
29mike said:
These are not a big deal, but I wonder if anyone else is missing these from their update. I saw some things in YouTube videos that I didn't notice on my phone after updating. I remember hearing of a "tv-off" like function when locking out the phone that was supposed to come with the GB update....
Also, I remember seeing phones with square-shaped icons for the apps,phone, and search buttons on the bottom of the home screens.
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about the only actual android visual difference I can think of that us the endusers would see on gingerbread vs. froyo is a new battery usage page. Plus on some phones the The TV off animation, I think it's part of gb, from google, but I've heard most oems take it out.

HTC themselves made some updates, the new app drawer, the quick settings etc. but whatever you saw in the videos that made an htc phone look different than yours was probably just a different launcher or possibly a different rom.

A launcher is what gives you homescreens and app drawer, like explorer.exe gives you your desktop and start menu on windows. Our phones have a launcher built by htc. Replace the launcher with something different like launcher pro or go launcher and you have a totally different looking phone for the most part.
 
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