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ROM and Firmware update

tauran121

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if i do a ROM update and then later update do a firmware update to 2.1 will it delete my previous ROM update or will stay intact with the latest update?
 
ROM update and firmware updates are the same thing AFAIK. Any update available now is just a minor update to 1.5 and it may fix a few niggles but nothing much. An update in the future to 2.1 WILL wipe your phone totally (except the SD card) and remove 1.5 and replace it with 2.1
 
ROM stands for Read Only Memory and in this case refers to the phone's internal memory, where the android OS is stored and so on. When you apply a new ROM you're just wiping the Read Only Memory of your phone and replacing it with a fresh copy that contains newer firmware. So don't think of the ROMs HTC release as being a feature of your phone you can update, they're just containers for new versions of firmware basically.

So like brykins says, the current ROMs available are simply going to give you a slightly tweaked version of Android 1.5. The 2.1 ROMs will replace the 1.5 firmware with 2.1.
 
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