Telstra Wildfire owners received some good news today, with the Telco rolling out the Froyo update for the Android smartphone.
It’s no Gingerbread update, but it’s still going to be some level of consolation for Wildfire owners wallowing in the pit of despair that was Eclair. The update is available over the air, but at 57MB or so on NextG, you’ll want to use Wi-Fi to get the update.
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Ryan Toohey
Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 4:23 PMI don’t have one, but just wondering, if you were to update over-the-air, would that come out of your data usage? or is it unmetered?
ErraticFocus
Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 6:02 PMif i was to import a HTC phone from outside Australia and throw my optus/telstra/etc sim in there and use it how does the upgrade happen then?
johnd
Friday, April 15, 2011 at 7:35 AM“Oh, look. There’s a new version of iOS for the iPhone.”
“When will your carrier release it?”
“What’s the carrier got to do with it?”
Google really needs to fix this. These updates should have the carrier as part of the process.
johnd
Friday, April 15, 2011 at 7:36 AMOoops…
Of course, I mean “These updates should NOT have the carrier as part of the process.”
This blog really needs a comment edit option.
erratiffocus
Friday, April 15, 2011 at 10:29 PMso if i don’t buy local, i may never get an update? FAIL!!!!
erratiffocus
Friday, April 15, 2011 at 10:45 PMahhhh, desire z auto checks and asks if you want a system update, regardless of carrier it seems, yay HTC!!!
Colonel Klink
Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 4:25 PMUpdated to Froyo on Wildfire a few days ago. Web browsing now hangs even more, but battery life appears to have improved. Should have spent the 58 Mb on porn….
Jack
Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 11:35 PMJust downloading, used WiFi and got it really quick, It’s flashing now. Fingers crossed.
Exciting day really, Just about to go Ubuntu 11.04 from my 10:10.
Two Linux in one day.
Ready to stay up all night if I have to fix things, cross fingers I don’t have to but age brings reality into focus!
Jack
Friday, April 29, 2011 at 12:16 AMUpdating to help:
Froyo took about 15 minutes to Flash and reload, almost no user action required except a Google offer to back up to the cloud which I accepted. My pretty heavily tweaked phone (but not rooted, I was waiting for Froyo), with new home screen etc, etc seems all intact and functioning flawlessly. Don’t expect to see much difference but if my phone is any indication you should get a big boost in general responsiveness (eg screen animations are fully played out and work very smoothly). I’m getting a much better WiFi connection which is a surprise. Unlike the post above I’m not seeing much change in the browsing speed, if anything it feels better, perhaps Colonel Klink might try Dolphin Browser mini which is a stunning browser imo.
Really I have no issues whatsoever, Google and HTC have done a fine job, Telstra not so much!