Gingerbread impressions/tips/problems NON ROOTED STOCK ONLY

[Evo_Savant]

Mine has been doing it as well. I changed my home page from google to yahoo, and problem solved! (WTF)

I'm thinking that Google's little Les Paul anniversary animation thingy might be the cause of the the stock browser crashing...

 

[Gekko]

I'm thinking that Google's little Les Paul anniversary animation thingy might be the cause of the the stock browser crashing...

yes. for shiits and giggles i tried twice playing the "guitar" on my EVO under the "Classic" Google.com and it crashed the browser both times.

 

[BamaInArk]

I'm fairly new to the EVO, coming from the Moment. After waiting a few days I decided to update my phone today. I've had it right about two months now.

I'm not a super phone user so don't have all that many bells and whistles loaded on my phone.

What I did was backup all my data on the SD card to my computer then erased my SD card. I then updated my phone with the new software and after update was finished I did a Factory Data Reset on the phone. I then pulled the battery.

I then began making all the setting changes to my phone again. Google resynced all my contacts with no issues. Voicemail seems to be working with no issues. I just went back to the Market and downloaded all the apps I use again. I have no paid ones. I use Handcent for texting but didn't really care about saving previous texts.

The only thing I'm noticing now is a "possible" slowdown with my 3G speeds. I say "possible" as I'm not sure what it was before I updated. I was just reading the thread about fixing the 3G slowdown and that got me noticing.

I don't use an "N" router here so that issue is not a problem for me. Matter of fact I get great wireless "G" speeds.

Again I'm not really a "power user" with my EVO so YMMV.

 

[sleepy3103]

In our case, hard reset means the same as factory reset - I prefer to use the latter term because it's clear.

When we want to refer to unconditional ram clearing, we refer to what you call a hard reset in your field by its action name: a battery pull.

Not trying to be a pain, but when did everyone start referring to a factory reset as a hard reset? I worked for at&t tech support, helping people with phone issues. A hard reset, witch means hardware reset is like u said to clear memory cache. Soft reset was leave battery in and power off then back on. Factory reset, well we know what that is.

Sorry for all this but its confusing to me and I'm sure others as well. I've seen plenty on here and other forums refer to a battery pull as a hard reset as I do.

 

[mamalovesmac]

So I did the update on the 6th. Did my husband's the following day. He has the new keyboard(for texting). I have the old one. What gives?

 

[5280ME]

I'm thinking that Google's little Les Paul anniversary animation thingy might be the cause of the the stock browser crashing...

Yep! I was over on the Xoom forum when I saw a thread about being able to play the google thingy, and put 2 and 2 together. . .

 

[EarlyMon]

Not trying to be a pain, but when did everyone start referring to a factory reset as a hard reset?

Some time ago, when you could get to the factory reset function by a combination of button presses at power-on.

As I said, I prefer to unambiguous about it, but not everyone has a tech background, and once an idea hits the internet... well, you know the rest.

I avoid the terms soft and hard reset for that reason. If described as cycle power, battery pull and factory reset, there's no questions.

And you may be surprised to find that others you've corresponded with don't use the term hard reset as you do.

I've been all through these forums - what I'm describing isn't my personal idea - it's a symptom of what's out there, in our forums and many others.

It is what it is.

 

[sleepy3103]

Some time ago, when you could get to the factory reset function by a combination of button presses at power-on.

As I said, I prefer to unambiguous about it, but not everyone has a tech background, and once an idea hits the internet... well, you know the rest.

I avoid the terms soft and hard reset for that reason. If described as cycle power, battery pull and factory reset, there's no questions.

And you may be surprised to find that others you've corresponded with don't use the term hard reset as you do.

I've been all through these forums - what I'm describing isn't my personal idea - it's a symptom of what's out there, in our forums and many others.

It is what it is.

Its cool, to me it could just get confusing to people but hey whatever. All great info though, thanks for the info on doing a reset to fix issues, I've started backing up stuff already that way I can get it done.
I'm thinking of starting fresh instead of backing up everything. Might just copy the important stuff to the PC, sync with Google and reinstall only what I actually use one by one.
I might format my SD card so that starts over fresh to. I've heard that's bad for them though, any thoughts?

 

[jiggy79]

A relative of mine attempted to download the gingerbread update but it failed and stop at 85% and now my relative can no longer download the update from HTC. Does anyone know a link to download the non rooted gingerbread ota update?

 

[thomasanderson]

When I restart my phone now, it takes about 5 minutes to boot up, as opposed to the 1 minute it took on Froyo. This update is the worst! And im still losing like 1mb of memory a day with no idea where its going. Ive used cache cleaners, checked every single app through the manage applications in settings and I have no clue at all. Started at 87mb before update, 84mb after update. Im at 72mb today. No new apps installed. Even uninstalled a few non Gingerbread compatible apps(that sucks in itself). I learned a very valuable lesson from this update.

 

[jarablue]

You know, after all this bullcrap, I think the shelf life of any phone is what was installed when the phone was bought. They can't even get the updates right on old hardware.

What a great tactic huh? Use the phone for 1 year then buy a new one. Don't even bother updating to the latest software cause it won't work.

Great.

 

[EarlyMon]

Its cool, to me it could just get confusing to people but hey whatever. All great info though, thanks for the info on doing a reset to fix issues, I've started backing up stuff already that way I can get it done.
I'm thinking of starting fresh instead of backing up everything. Might just copy the important stuff to the PC, sync with Google and reinstall only what I actually use one by one.
I might format my SD card so that starts over fresh to. I've heard that's bad for them though, any thoughts?

SD cards are flash memory (just throwing that in for everyone's benefit) and flash memory has a limit on how often it can be formatted.

That said, it's not uber-fragile to it, just not something you want to do often. For best results, use either the format built into the phone or a separate, stand-alone flash formatter. The one built into the phone works great and will pre-build the required folders expected by Android.

A relative of mine attempted to download the gingerbread update but it failed and stop at 85% and now my relative can no longer download the update from HTC. Does anyone know a link to download the non rooted gingerbread ota update?

I couldn't find one on XDA. Sprint used to keep a download copy on their web, but I've not seen that lately. Follow directions here to attempt to force the update, and check back there to see if a download becomes available -

Support - Article

You know, after all this bullcrap, I think the shelf life of any phone is what was installed when the phone was bought. They can't even get the updates right on old hardware.

What a great tactic huh? Use the phone for 1 year then buy a new one. Don't even bother updating to the latest software cause it won't work.

Great.

Surprised you had no issues with the Eclair -> Froyo update - most of us here did. Anyway, try this -

http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-sup...how-fix-froyo-gingerbread-any-rom-update.html

 

[dr g]

Mine has been doing it as well. I changed my home page from google to yahoo, and problem solved! (WTF)

I'm thinking that Google's little Les Paul anniversary animation thingy might be the cause of the the stock browser crashing...

yes. for shiits and giggles i tried twice playing the "guitar" on my EVO under the "Classic" Google.com and it crashed the browser both times.

What symptom/behavior are you seeing when your browser crashes? I wonder if this is what is happening when my tabs get "dumped" (looks like the browser re-starts). The only difference is when my tabs get dumped the active page comes back as the only tab, whereas if you actually kill the browser, it comes back with the home page.

 

[Gekko]

What symptom/behavior are you seeing when your browser crashes? I wonder if this is what is happening when my tabs get "dumped" (looks like the browser re-starts). The only difference is when my tabs get dumped the active page comes back as the only tab, whereas if you actually kill the browser, it comes back with the home page.

it goes back to my phone's home screen. then if iclick on browser app icon it goes back to my browser's home page (cnn.com).

the Android Browser does not like that classic mode Google.com "guitar".

 

[Gekko]

You know, after all this bullcrap, I think the shelf life of any phone is what was installed when the phone was bought. They can't even get the updates right on old hardware.

What a great tactic huh? Use the phone for 1 year then buy a new one. Don't even bother updating to the latest software cause it won't work.

Great.

this is so false. we've had three complete new OS updates for the EVO - Eclair--->Froyo--->Gingerbread and each one is better on the EVO than the next. i think that's amazing that a 1 year old phone can get 3 major OS updates in a year and be running the latest and greatest OS 1 year later after introduction. i'm having no problems here!

 

[EarlyMon]

this is so false. we've had three complete new OS updates for the EVO - Eclair--->Froyo--->Gingerbread and each one is better on the EVO than the next. i think that's amazing that a 1 year old phone can get 3 major OS updates in a year and be running the latest and greatest OS 1 year later after introduction. i'm having no problems here!

Before arguments start that the Evo came with Eclair, here's the history:

1. Rev 1.32.651.1 - Shipped ROM, Elcair
2. Rev 1.32.651.6 - launch-day OTA (June 4, 2010)
3. Rev 1.47.651.1 - June 28, 2010
4. Rev 3.26.651.6 - Aug 2, 2010 - Official Froyo (.3 leak on July 30)
5. Rev 3.29.651.5 - Sep 22, 2010
6. Rev 3.70.651.1 - Dec 15, 2010 (two update leaks prior to that)
7. Rev 4.22.651.2 - June 3, 2010 (update leak in April)

Stellar update record compared to other brands and models.

It wasn't until that first week of August that we as a community listened to the voices in the wilderness (aka many other helpful posters here), warning to simply backup/factory-reset/restore on every update - that we had to learn for ourselves through trial and error on the major Froyo update.

Hope this helps. Also note, 651 seems reserved to this phone (noting earlier revision question on Sense).

PS - Forgot to mention that the early .3 Froyo adopters got a maintenance release to bring us to .6 - even though the .3 wasn't intended for the public.

 

[Gekko]

Before arguments start that the Evo came with Eclair, here's the history:

1. Rev 1.32.651.1 - Shipped ROM, Elcair
2. Rev 1.32.651.6 - launch-day OTA (June 4, 2010)
3. Rev 1.47.651.1 - June 28, 2010
4. Rev 3.26.651.6 - Aug 2, 2010 - Official Froyo (.3 leak on July 30)
5. Rev 3.29.651.5 - Sep 22, 2010
6. Rev 3.70.651.1 - Dec 15, 2010 (two update leaks prior to that)
7. Rev 4.22.651.2 - June 3, 2010 (update leak in April)

Stellar update record compared to other brands and models.

It wasn't until that first week of August that we as a community listened to the voices in the wilderness (aka many other helpful posters here), warning to simply backup/factory-reset/restore on every update - that we had to learn for ourselves through trial and error on the major Froyo update.

Hope this helps. Also note, 651 seems reserved to this phone (noting earlier revision question on Sense).

coming from Palm PDAs and Treos (which were great little devices for their time) which got pretty much no real OS updates by device or even over many different device generations over YEARS - i think the dizzying speed, innovation, and intensity that Google and its partners bring is absolutely amazing and it makes me appreciate Android that much more. maybe it's a matter of perspective. i would not want to be in the business of having to compete with Google Android right now. these guys and their partners are relentless and showing no signs of slowing down. they never sleep - and it's great for consumers!

 

[strawmanl]

Forgive me if this has been covered. Since I and my wife updated to gingerbread when exit certain applications it takes us to a white htc screen and then "loading." This slows down the ability to use the phone considerably. Is there a work around or is this just now a known issue? Been searching the forum for answers but I must not be using the right search terms.

 

[aeiou]

That is the Sense UI reloading itself. And it's driving me crazy!!! almost every time I hit the home or back button out of an app it reloads Sense. Anyone else with this problem or hear of a fix?

running stock EVO 4G with the new gingerbread update 2.3.3

I'm still having this issue (the white screen with the green HTC). Has this been resolved? I also noticed that sometimes when I go to text, there is a slight light blue coloring on the bottom left side of the screen when i use Swype. When I switch keyboards it goes away. SMH!!!

 

[capt-capsaicin]

I have been living with the OTA gingerbread update for two weeks now and I am getting random Sense restarts upon closing applications. I have been trying to recreate the steps that cause the Sense restart but I am unable to do it consistantly. Anyone else having this problem. It seems to happen after I have been using an app for awhile and then use esveral taps on the backup key to exit the app at which time Sense restarts.

 

[aeiou]

Forgive me if this has been covered. Since I and my wife updated to gingerbread when exit certain applications it takes us to a white htc screen and then "loading." This slows down the ability to use the phone considerably. Is there a work around or is this just now a known issue? Been searching the forum for answers but I must not be using the right search terms.

LOL, I just posted about this and didnt see yours. Havent seen anything on this yet though

 

[aeiou]

I have been living with the OTA gingerbread update for two weeks now and I am getting random Sense restarts upon closing applications. I have been trying to recreate the steps that cause the Sense restart but I am unable to do it consistantly. Anyone else having this problem. It seems to happen after I have been using an app for awhile and then use esveral taps on the backup key to exit the app at which time Sense restarts.

Happens to me whether I hit back or just hit home. Driving me crazy. If you take the battery out and restart, it goes away for a while, but then it just comes back.

 

[capt-capsaicin]

LOL, I just posted about this and didnt see yours. Havent seen anything on this yet though

I didn't see yours either! That's funny. I forgot to mention that I get that white sense boot screen.

Were you running a launcher before the OTA update? I was running Go Launcher for a week before the OTA but I uninstalled it because in was running slow.

 

[strawmanl]

I didn't see yours either! That's funny. I forgot to mention that I get that white sense boot screen.

Were you running a launcher before the OTA update? I was running Go Launcher for a week before the OTA but I uninstalled it because in was running slow.

I wasn't running any launchers. It's really frustrating!

 

[jiggy79]

A relative of mine attempted to download the gingerbread update but it failed and stop at 85% and now my relative can no longer download the update from HTC. Does anyone know a link to download the non rooted gingerbread ota update?

Hello can anyone help my situation?