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Rogers Dream 1.6 Update

I was so glad to see the news about the new carrier this morning. Still wondering about Dave, too.

I might just try to take advantage of the fact that I have a friend who gets to offer Telus Employee family and friends deals. He might be sorry that he extended the invite so far because I've got lots of questions for him.
 
mjschmidt said:
@Jag: welcome to the thread! Sorry you got sucked in to this like the rest of us.

As for rooting the phone, there are threads in this forum that will show you step-by-step how to root (even some that say it's very easy. Apparently there is a one-click app that will do it).

It would be preferable to keep this thread on topic of trying to get 1.6 out of Rogers, but feel free to create a new thread in the Rogers sub-forum dedicated to the cause of rooting Rogers phones.

P.S. Good luck on your exams! :-)
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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I'll keep this thread on topic.

Also, I forgot to point out in my initial post that I bought the phone in mid-October. When I spoke to the tech support guy then, he said the update would be out mid-late November. Obviously that hasn't been the case.

It sucks because my family and I have been loyal Rogers customers since as far back as I can remember. We have all of our essential services (home phone, internet, digital cable, wireless phone) set up with Rogers. We have 4 family members all on a family plan together with Rogers for our wireless needs. I can't believe Rogers would go and screw their loyal customers like this.
 
I decided to register after following this thread for the last couple days. I upgraded to the HTC Magic on the first day they came out. As a programmer, I was intrigued by the open source nature of the OS. I have rooted and installed a custom ROM, but there are little things broken on many ROM's. I would much rather an official update from Rogers.

I was always under the impression that there would be updates, but knowing Rogers I was not expecting speedy action. I hope this Simon guy is mistaken.
 
zortoflaven said:
I decided to register after following this thread for the last couple days. I upgraded to the HTC Magic on the first day they came out. As a programmer, I was intrigued by the open source nature of the OS. I have rooted and installed a custom ROM, but there are little things broken on many ROM's. I would much rather an official update from Rogers.

I was always under the impression that there would be updates, but knowing Rogers I was not expecting speedy action. I hope this Simon guy is mistaken.
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I hope so too but he insist that he can obtain information that others couldn't because he's acting on behalf of Mr Nadir.
 
I have just sent this tip message to the Boy Genius Report:

There is a growing thread of angry Rogers android customers here:

http://androidforums.com/rogers/10647-rogers-dream-1-6-update.html

It seems we are being given the run around when we ask about a 1.6 Donut update. Our American brothers have been running 1.6 for some time now. Many users have been in contact with seemingly top people at Rogers and no one can give us a straight answer. Some customer service reps are even telling people that 1.6 is already available to download. The link they provide it to a security update they released in August for 1.5. This is not acceptable.

A representative of the CEO of Rogers replied to a user and told us not to expect the 1.6 update as he thinks we want it just to hack our phones. This is absurd, of course.

As a reader of the BGR, I think it might be worthwhile to inform your readers of this and help with our fight to get Rogers to give us a straight answer.

Thank you for reading.

Andrew
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I always check the BGR daily and they were the first to inform me of the Android phones coming to Canada. I hope they can post a story about this to help our cause.
 
zortoflaven said:
I have rooted and installed a custom ROM, but there are little things broken on many ROM's. I would much rather an official update from Rogers.
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Do you know if it's possible to return to factory (Rogers) ROM after you root it? I always assumed it was a one way trip...
 
I told this simon guy that I just got this phone 2 months ago and now you're telling me it's obselete?? He said well.. any computer you get now, 2 months from now will be obselete. This is ridiculous. I told him we are strictly talking about software update not hardware update. Then i said why do we have to ask for firmware update when our neighbour state already got theirs and was pushed out by their provider without the consumer asking. He said, you know that US market is big right? Another BS.
 
The Cell Phones Etc. blog has posted a short story about the problem, and referencing this thread. You can read it here:

Rogers still mum on Android 1.6 Update issue



Rogers still mum on Android 1.6 Update issue

Adding comments to the story will help with indexing on the search engines and keep it front and center. Make sure in your comments you include the words Rogers, Android, 1.6, and the type of phone you have. We want people researching future purchases to find these things.
 
mjschmidt said:
The Cell Phones Etc. blog has posted a short story about the problem, and referencing this thread. You can read it here:

Rogers still mum on Android 1.6 Update issue



Rogers still mum on Android 1.6 Update issue

Adding comments to the story will help with indexing on the search engines and keep it front and center. Make sure in your comments you include the words Rogers, Android, 1.6, and the type of phone you have. We want people researching future purchases to find these things.
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Done and Done!
 
Just sent a heads up to TechCrunch.com about the whole Rogers thing. I figure the more places we can get to write about it the better right?
 
Sounds like collectively we have hit up all the major tech sites :) Would be nice just to get a solid answer from Rogers, even if that answer was "no update". :(
 
Hey y'all, I decided to join as well after checking up on this thread for the past couple of days! [and cause it seems you need a little more female presence ;) ]

I bought the HTC Dream the DAY it came out after following the G1 in the states for awhile. My initial excitement took a serious hit after they dropped the price by $50 in the first month (and wouldn't credit my account) and then even further the next month (maybe it was just a sale at best buy, but it hurt you know?).

Now with things like google goggles, turn-by-turn navigation and the google maps update we 1.5 users can't get, I'm pissed. I love android but Rogers needs to figure out what's up. I haven't thoroughly read this thread but I'm sure you've heard that Telus apparently has sole rights on selling the Droid here in 2010? Besides making me tear up just a little, maybe having an AWESOME (and up-to-date) android phone on one of their competitors will push them to finally do something...well hopefully :|

I love the pressure you guys are putting on them! Thanks for the hard work so far =)
 
Interesting! Twice now I have tried to post in the Futureshop forums about this, and BOTH times they deleted my post!

I received the following message:

"I
 
mjschmidt said:
This is the thread in which I tried to post: and just FYI, these rogers phones work with Fido right ou... - Communications - Future Shop Community Forums

I started a new thread here: Rogers might not update Android phones above 1.5 - Communications - Future Shop Community Forums

We'll see how long it lasts or if they ban me. ;-)
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Looks like they deleted you again!
They must have left out of their guidelines, "Anything that may affect our sales." What a piece of work.
 
ace862 said:
Nope!
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:) you should use pyschology reverse. Say something nice like

I love htc magic because it doesn't come with firmware 1.6 and I don't have to deal with uncessary pograms like VPN. Even though it runs slower than 1.6 but speed is acceptable .. lol
 
Here is the response I got from the Future Shop forum mod:

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ElizabethS
Date: 12-11-2009 06:20 PM
Hello ace862

Your post: Information on Rogers HTC Dream and Magic , has been removed from the board as being off topic, and a violation of our guidelines. You can review the full text of our guidelines here

Our forum boards were created for the discussion of products sold by Future Shop, and for Future Shop's services. A list of urls to articles critical of a company's products does not qualify as related topics.

If you wish to start a thread to discuss a particular product, please do so by supplying information, your opinion, or asking a question which will allow other users to reply and/or comment.
Regards,
ElizabethS
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