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official verizon ruu

It makes your phone unrootable (If you don't get what root is, think of it sort of like a jailbreak for an iPhone/iPod, and it lets you do a lot more things with your phone). There isn't anything inherently wrong with the RUU. But it will become much harder to root. You might not care now, but if you change your mind down the road, you WILL regret it.
 
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There is nothing "official" about the "official 2.1 RUU", BTW.

Straight up, it's a leak.

It may well be that it is used by VZW techs, and it most certainly did come from HTC, because it passes crypto checks performed by the phone, but it was never publicly released by VZW or HTC's distribution partner (PCD phones)... the way that the MR1 and MR2 RUUs were.

Official? Hardly.

There is thread over in the root section that describes how to manually download and perform the OTA2.1 update - let me try and find that, and I'll post the link.

eu1
 
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no, not web, from your home page. Google navigator is talking turn by turn GPS I think/hope :)


Indeed it is.

Perhaps the OTA has not been pushed to your number; I believe that is the only time the "menu > settings > about phone > system updates " is functional. I don't know what the status is anymore with regard to Verizon pushing the OTA update. Manually updating may be the best option at this point.
 
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I think that was a suggestion to call the customer service and request they push the update to your phone number. I have also read that they (customer service) do not have this ability. I have not read about anyone being successful that way.

could do nothing for me over the phone. told me the locations to where i can get the 2.3.6.605 version. is that what I want?

not fully clear what the difference is if I do the update vs me taking it to a store and having THEM do it.
 
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