I'm on T-Mobile UK hero and initially declined the prompt to download the update to backup. Did the moving the date forwards trick (thanks for that, forum in general
) and was prompted, downloaded, updated, phone went through the yellow bar process and restarted a couple of times and does now have the "System software updates" and "check now" options in settings.
Despite all this however the phone still shows my firmware version as 1.5. Should it not be 2.1-update1 ?
Clicking the "check now" button says there are no updates available for my phone.