HTC EVO 4G Froyo .6 update starts OTA rollout for early adopters
By Sean Hollister 
posted August 10th 2010 11:15PM
posted August 10th 2010 11:15PM
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posted August 10th 2010 11:15PM
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I wish our incredibles had more roms and such :( no themes no roms where's the love?
thats some timing. i just got my replacement delivered today and i was updating to 2.2. so i checked this while i wait. haha.
I installed the RUU last week, same thing, more complicated. Im just impatient.
Apart from being OFFICIAL, what's the differences between the two?
Anyways, kudos to HTC/Sprint for the quick turnaround.
Ever since the Froyo update my apps always run,my task killer won't kill them no more,and my battery dies so fast now. Someone help please
I got impatience and went the xda route. 2.2 IS FREAKING AWESOME! The phone did run smoother with the official upgrade. Wifi is a beast now. 4g is faster and the connection is better.
Got it...HTC rocks! They could have left us 'unofficial updaters' hanging, but decided they would rather have happy customers. Good job HTC!
I got impatient not impatience. Swype errors!
Does anyone know how to get stock android on the Evo with 2.2?
@Gmoney3000 You can just download an alternate launcher from the market to replace the stock one (most popular ones are LauncherPro and ADW Launcher), but that doesn't get rid of Sense entirely... Sense is a collection of improvements or modifications all thru the OS, from the camera app to the calendar to the contacts/people app.
A lot of people think it's just the launcher tho, and that's easy enough to switch. I do prefer those other launchers to HTC's inane/huge "PHONE" button plus the permanent + button for adding stuff to the home screen, that whole element seems like wasted space to me... I do appreciate Sense's other improvements to Android tho, but if you wanna be rid of it entirely you'd have to root the phone and load an AOSP (Android Open Source Project) ROM like Cyanogenmod, which has no traces of Sense.
Seems a lot of people on these comment sections are easily confused about what Sense really is or they've never used a phone with it (and/or without it)... You can't, in effect, just "turn it off" on any phone, you can switch the launcher but that's certainly not Sense in it's entirety.
Why do I have to wait to install until the phone has enough battery, can't they see that it is plugged in
Sweet, needed this, even tho the early release works fine.
Man this is great. I mean, it would be, if you could find any g****mn Evo 4Gs in south Florida! >_
Woohoo!
Install went like a charm, giving my readers this info, thanks Engadget.
http://tech.redwhiteandfat.com/htc-rolls-evo-22-patch-early-adopters/
Its 651.6 not 561.6..to be correct
Hmm applied the update now my camera doesn't work...
Has anybody experienced lag when web browsing on the evo after the update? Was fine before but now there's like a lag almost like you have to press down hard on the screen to scroll I think its cuz of the update anybody else?