Gingerbread (aka Android 2.3) on Evo!

jj14x · Mar 31, 2011

Gingerbread update coming to HTC EVO 4G in Q2 2011, says email from HTC

looks like a HTC rep confirmed (via Email) gingerbread for EVO in Q2 ...
there is still hope

Nayogod · Mar 31, 2011

I use to think that EVO 4G was going to get Gingerbread anything soon but with Sprint and HTC announcing EVO 3D which is speculated to be shipped with Gingerbread, I don't think that the older brother EVO 4G will see Gingerbread anything soon.

archercc · Mar 31, 2011

3volut1on said:
If there's one thing FROYO taught me was not to get too excited about these updates.

Now the new Sense on the other hand...

Really? I thought FroYo was a nice bump and a lot of it had to do with core that improved performance and reliability. I dont really see how even an incremental bump in performance and reliability isnt a huge deal on something like a phone.

If you like games and such 2.3 should matter to you because they have modified the APIs so that games should run better on all hardware.

2.3 means smoother animations/scrolling, more responsive touch and lower CPU usage, which usually leads to better performance and battery.

kilogramz718 · Mar 31, 2011

do you think the Evo will officially be getting 2.3? i hope so cause i would switch back to stock if so i love the way the 3d looks with gb and sense

dan330 · Mar 31, 2011

i was hoping to get it in May... GB with new Sense

but if we have to wait till end or summer..
I guess it is time to try the AOSP gingerbread and back to launcher pro.

drexappeal · Mar 31, 2011

jj14x said:
Gingerbread update coming to HTC EVO 4G in Q2 2011, says email from HTC

looks like a HTC rep confirmed (via Email) gingerbread for EVO in Q2 ...
there is still hope

So, we're talking April, May or June.

mak916 · Mar 31, 2011

I hope we get Gingerbread before the EVO 3D comes out. I want to see how Gingerbread on the EVO compares with the EVO 3D.

Old Shadow · Mar 31, 2011

Without doing a lot of searching, it would be nice for us newbies to see in bullet format the pros of getting GB and the new Sense. What's new for us when these 2 hit our Evos? Many thanks in advance! And thanks EarlyMon for bringing that to my attention.

EarlyMon · Mar 31, 2011

HTC had a nice web portion showing the difference, but for whatever reason, took it down.

Among the features are the ability to track and deactivate your phone if lost, map caching (since overcome by Google's Maps update), more browser windows than the default 4 we now face, and a number of settings that we use HTC widgets for that would now be available via tabs in the notification bar - to name a few.

For Gingerbread - either search earlier in this forum or google for "youtube android 2.3 official video" - I'd post it here, but am fearful it would be too close to repeating just once too often.

The vid shows a lot of features cast in terms of games, but my earlier post stands - better memory management via superior garbage collection as well as more codec updates.

3volut1on · Apr 2, 2011

archercc said:
Really? I thought FroYo was a nice bump and a lot of it had to do with core that improved performance and reliability. I dont really see how even an incremental bump in performance and reliability isnt a huge deal on something like a phone.

If you like games and such 2.3 should matter to you because they have modified the APIs so that games should run better on all hardware.

2.3 means smoother animations/scrolling, more responsive touch and lower CPU usage, which usually leads to better performance and battery.

Really.

I never had performance or reliability issues so maybe thats why. I remember after FROYO thinking "All of that hype for this?"

I'm just chilling back and when 2.3 happens officially, that's fantastic. I honestly couldnt be happier with this phone and have no complaints. It does everything that I need and then some

. I've got all the news apps I can handle - Just finished NUKING NY Times

, Games play flawlessly, email integration is great. However it sure would be nice if the screens and apps scrolled more smoothly like our friends carrying Apple and MS Hardware. Something tells me that we wont be seeing that with this handset as it will probably take a significant processor increase...

lordofthereef · Apr 2, 2011

3volut1on said:
I never had performance or reliability issues so maybe thats why. I remember after FROYO thinking "All of that hype for this?"

You are a lucky one indeed then. I don't know how I would live without being able to place apps to the SD card (a froyo feature).

EarlyMon · Apr 2, 2011

Everyone's mileage varied - quite a few found Froyo to be ho-hum, while many of us found it a huge performance increase.

EarlyMon · Apr 4, 2011

Just saw this in the parallel thread for the Incredible - if they're getting by summer, we must be.

http://androidforums.com/htc-incred...on-rumor-discussion-thread-7.html#post2524892

rob129 · Apr 9, 2011

why is it that all the lower end android phones get GingerBread before us EVO owners?

kwmetalfan · Apr 9, 2011

What low end phones are getting gingerbread?

rob129 · Apr 9, 2011

OOOPs I mean Froyo.

kwmetalfan · Apr 9, 2011

The evo has been on froyo for well over 6 months now. It was one of the first to be updated

dan330 · Apr 10, 2011

rob129 said:
OOOPs I mean Froyo.

So.. does that mean your evo is still on 2.1?

Androidalltheway · Apr 10, 2011

I would say that it is obsolete now, most people will upgrade to the evo 3d in June when its released because b that time all sprint premier customers have their full upgrade, mine is 6/1, to me they missed the boat on the evo update, should have been updated a few months ago. I am guessing the evo 3d comes out in june cuz the evo 4g came out june of last year, so it would only make sense...

dan330 · Apr 10, 2011

Androidalltheway said:
I would say that it is obsolete now, most people will upgrade to the evo 3d in June when its released because b that time all sprint premier customers have their full upgrade, mine is 6/1, to me they missed the boat on the evo update, should have been updated a few months ago. I am guessing the evo 3d comes out in june cuz the evo 4g came out june of last year, so it would only make sense...

obsolete is not the right term!

once the e3d is released....evo will not be top dog, that is true.

but to say the og evo is obsolete... is just ignorant! (by they way.. you might want to look that up too.)

SamuraiBigEd · Apr 10, 2011

Androidalltheway said:
I would say that it is obsolete now, most people will upgrade to the evo 3d in June when its released because b that time all sprint premier customers have their full upgrade, mine is 6/1, to me they missed the boat on the evo update, should have been updated a few months ago. I am guessing the evo 3d comes out in june cuz the evo 4g came out june of last year, so it would only make sense...

It is far from obsolete, and many of the Premier customers lost their early upgrade due to recent changes of the Premier Rewards Program.

IFMISM · Apr 10, 2011

SamuraiBigEd said:
It is far from obsolete, and many of the Premier customers lost their early upgrade due to recent changes of the Premier Rewards Program.

Luckily I am not one of them. I called to check because i thought that was messed up how they got so many people on the plan they wanted them to have, then changed the requirements of a premiere customer. Either way I am good though. I am going to wait untril the evo get gingerbread before i jump on the evo3d. I usually get 2 new phones a year, but after owning the evo it has been a wrap.

SamuraiBigEd · Apr 11, 2011

IFMISM said:
Luckily I am not one of them. I called to check because i thought that was messed up how they got so many people on the plan they wanted them to have, then changed the requirements of a premiere customer. Either way I am good though. I am going to wait untril the evo get gingerbread before i jump on the evo3d. I usually get 2 new phones a year, but after owning the evo it has been a wrap.

Yeah, I got to keep mine, running two simply everything plans.

frankiepapa · Apr 11, 2011

It's somewhat ironinc I guess, with all this talk about an upgrade to GB and new Sense, over the past couple of weeks, it seems like my EVO has been working better than ever. The battery has been lasting longer than it really ever has, I have noticed that over the last few weeks the pictures I have taken have been very clear and bright and the phone volume seems to be real good as well along with a few decent apps I have loaded have been quite good. With this, I can agree with many of the members that I am not dying for the update as I was with Froyo and will most likely keep the phone well past my upgrade in June!!

EarlyMon · Apr 11, 2011

HTC EVO 4G, Thunderbolt Getting Gingerbread

Gingerbread (aka Android 2.3) on Evo!

Are you excited for Gingerbread?!?

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