Over the weekend, Justin from the Telstra Twitter team announced that the Froyo update for HTC Desire owners wasn’t going to be an OTA update after all. Turns out, all that 2.2 goodness is just too big, so instead the OS update will be made available from HTC’s website for download.
As to when it will be made available… well, it’s already been a few days since the last tweet. Let’s hope for any minute now…
UPDATE: The update now rests in Google’s hands, according to this tweet from Telstra’s Craig Middleton:
FroYo passed Telstra testing last week & is with Google for the final engineering OK. Release will follow in a few days. Thx 4 patience.
John Roundhill
Monday, October 18, 2010 at 12:08 PMGoogle would have a stronger platform IMHO if they were a little less open and stopped the Telcos from adding in more and more “stuff” to the point where it is too large for an OTA update. I wonder how much longer we will have to wait?
Anthony Mcintosh
Monday, October 18, 2010 at 1:38 PMyou could just root your phone and have it now without all the telstra crap, Just sayin.
Dave Ingram
Monday, October 18, 2010 at 2:41 PMWhy is the Telstra update so big? My UK sourced Desire updated just fine over WiFi to Froyo 2.2. It was a 130MB or so file, and a few weeks later there was a 30MB update to 2.2.
Froyo 2.2 is very nice, and the improvements to the UI are not really noticable until you use a friend’s Telstra phone and realise they are not there.
Rossco
Monday, October 18, 2010 at 3:51 PMIf you want Froyo on your Telstra Desire without all the Telstra bloat, go here: http://www.t-mod.org/ Very easy if you follow the instructions and good support on Whirlpool, can’t go wrong imo.
Mark
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 1:04 PMIf Telstra is planning to supply this download from their site, then why the hell does this have to come down to us from Twitter and Facebook? Seems like someone is missing their gonads…. Promises made and promises broken….. nothing different for Telstra.
gonzo
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 3:50 PMI just purchased a NextG Desire from Telstra. I thought long and hard about going for the iPhone because of problems that will stem from the fragmentation of Android.
The stupidly angular and slippery design, un-upgradeable memory and soldered-in battery of the iPhone that pushed me back toward the Desire. I’m almost certain I will soon root my phone to escape from Telstra purgatory.
Both the hardware mfgs and Telcos are in great danger of killing the goose that otherwise is laying one giant golden egg. Jobs is all over this vulnerability. Google keep snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. This is truly a fascinating moment in the history of mobile computing.
LUCARiO
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 5:00 PMseeing this im really tempted to root my desire, but i dont know if i really want to. it does mean that i can get rid of all the crap on my phone that i don’t use, but is there any benefit of not rooting it? and are there any dangers to rooting it? warranty wise. bit of a noob question, but i’m really not keen to lose warranty haha
Monteh
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 6:09 PMI recently rooted my HTC Desire and flashed it with a the T-Mod ROM. Possibly the best decision I made in quite some time.
Pretty easy to do, but requires a little bit of effort.
Although yes, rooting (my that term sounds so creepy in Australia!) your phone followed by flashing it with an unofficial ROM does void your warranty.
Chino
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 3:14 PMIs this out yet?? what is the hold up Telstra / HTC?? Please dont make me regret getting rid of my iPhone 3gs…..
mars_panas
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 6:27 PMWhat is going on?? Far out just release it geez
androidfan
Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 11:38 PMummm telstra? …. a few days has passed now… where is froyo 2.2?
Dars
Friday, October 22, 2010 at 9:22 AMThis is starting to get a bit ridiculous now…I have been waiting for this upgrade forever! Unfortunately I can’t root my phone as it is a work phone…
Impatient
Friday, October 22, 2010 at 11:58 AMFFS! Hurry up Telstra!!!! It’s been sooo long now. Also It has been a few days since they said it would be ‘a few days’!!! where the hell is it?!
Dan
Friday, October 22, 2010 at 12:23 PMTelstra you need to release this now…
max
Friday, October 22, 2010 at 2:16 PMThis week on punked…Telstra string Desire owners along into thinking they will get 2.2
Yorik
Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 12:46 AMTelstra. Slow, expensive, deaf, hopeless. Just another dissapointment to add to the increasingly long list.
Thanks Telstra, you’re becoming consistent in one thing. FAILING TO DELIVER!
luises1
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 4:59 AMFew Days?, I do not understand their announcement, I want to use my blotooth with sipdroid and must have froyo. They seem to be frozen with de release.
max
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 6:17 PMMy daily routine – Check HTC site for froyo,then come to this site and then check Telstra Twitter..I do this at least 20 times a day!!! Hurry up Telstra!!!!!!
Waiting
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 8:22 PMYeh seriously, where the F*** is this? not even any updates since this tweet, that I can find.
Do we get an sms to let us know with instructions(for those that may need them). How big will this be? What stage of developments/approval is it at? So many questions, zero answers, what a crock, first and last time I purchase a telstra branded phone.
max
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 6:53 PMIt’s out! …bout time !…better late then never
John Poot
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at 12:32 AMHeh – so an Android Phone ‘requires’ a Windows Op system to be upgraded.
Maarvellous – yet another egregious insult to us by Tel$tra. The Network is obviously too unreliable for OTA:-)
That’s rooted.
And I’m rooting.
John Poot
Saturday, October 30, 2010 at 10:54 PMWhoa!!!
This morning, HTC came up with an OTH Update.
Really. Mind, it was recommended that said update be done with WiFi, and therefore NOT the mobile network.
So rooting delayed – for a while.
Update performed flawlessly – Bonus: All data I had on the device remained intact.
Guess I wasn’t the only squeak from the vicinity of the wheels. But whatever the reason, thanks to HTC.
Tel$tra? Hmm – don’t know what happened there – but the disclaimer on the mobile network matter may be relevant:-)