Fix coming 6/15.... or now

plim · Jun 14, 2011

Romikemi said:
Just think of the lost Angry Birds stars. Gasp.

There are multiple angry birds score/star backup programs. One of them is actually a cheat program that lets you alter your saved score/star count (not sure why you'd want to do that =P)

Angry Cheaters (older versions didn't do rio - not sure if it's been updated since)
AngryBirdsBackup (does Rio)

Useful when transitioning from one phone to another...or for doing a full wipe.

nateap87 · Jun 14, 2011

why aren't more people installing this? i installed the update on mine and it's been great so far!

Striker951 · Jun 14, 2011

Romikemi said:
It causes a data wipe. That can't be recommended to non-root users. Once you root, you've got Titanium and you can 100% get back upright and locked.

Just think of the lost Angry Birds stars. Gasp.

What does it mean to be rooted?

ekyle · Jun 14, 2011

Everyone is 100% sure this is the build coming out tomorrow? Do I need to be on .*13 to do it?

plim · Jun 14, 2011

nateap87 said:
why aren't more people installing this? i installed the update on mine and it's been great so far!

fear of wiping your phone...

it's a tedious ordeal to set your phone to its current state without root & titanium backup

Herschey · Jun 14, 2011

mimedic said:
Thx still get white screen with hboot and so on
Will wait for OTA I guess

make sure you rename it PG05IMG

I had the same problem until I renamed it. Once I did it recognized it and took off.

nateap87 · Jun 14, 2011

plim said:
fear of wiping your phone...

it's a tedious ordeal to set your phone to its current state without root & titanium backup

yeah i agree but i just had such a horrible experience that a fresh start was very tempting. also, the battery lasts sooo much longer without the random reboots killing my battery

Pretkomel · Jun 14, 2011

ekyle said:
Everyone is 100% sure this is the build coming out tomorrow? Do I need to be on .*13 to do it?

I do not believe it is coming out tomorrow.

ekyle · Jun 14, 2011

Pretkomel said:
I do not believe it is coming out tomorrow.

Yea, can't always believe the documentation, right? Haha, especially when it comes to HTC. I'll watch out for reports of people getting it tomorrow before I download MR1 and install it. I'd rather avoid the random reboot issue if I could.

snoopy2699 · Jun 15, 2011

Well I updated my software this morning but know its not the new update. It's dated March 1st and I do not have the option to turn LTE on/off.

Hopefully I do not start having random reboots because my TB was working fine. So far so good (2hrs in).

Romikemi · Jun 15, 2011

plim said:
There are multiple angry birds score/star backup programs. One of them is actually a cheat program that lets you alter your saved score/star count (not sure why you'd want to do that =P)

Angry Cheaters (older versions didn't do rio - not sure if it's been updated since)
AngryBirdsBackup (does Rio)

Useful when transitioning from one phone to another...or for doing a full wipe.

Since not everyone probably caught this...

Google removes malicious Angry Birds apps from Android Market ? Cell Phones & Mobile Device Technology News & Updates | Geek.com

dweber77 · Jun 15, 2011

So no OTA update as of 9:00am in North Carolina. But then again it seems the check for new updates is flooded with requests or down as I got an error 4 out of 5 times. So I could be wrong.

ekyle · Jun 15, 2011

snoopy2699 said:
Well I updated my software this morning but know its not the new update. It's dated March 1st and I do not have the option to turn LTE on/off.

Hopefully I do not start having random reboots because my TB was working fine. So far so good (2hrs in).

Mine downloaded MR1 all on it's own this morning. I deferred installing it until I see people getting MR2. A coworker called VZW last this morning after his phone rebooted itself and the CSR asked two coworkers about the update. One said today, the other said the 30th.

plim · Jun 15, 2011

Romikemi said:
Since not everyone probably caught this...

Google removes malicious Angry Birds apps from Android Market ? Cell Phones & Mobile Device Technology News & Updates | Geek.com

yikes! i did *not* know about that. sigh, looks like angry cheaters did get removed. but angrybirds rio backup (by ANTBEE) is still there.

mdeblaz · Jun 15, 2011

jcase posted on Twitter yesterday that the MR2 is delayed... if not cancelled altogether:

TeamAndIRC ✔ jcase
Looks like MR2 delayed, possibly canceled for yet another new build

I believe it and wouldn't expect an OTA to be released at least until July... if not later.

Add to that the fact that VZW hasn't updated their PDF file here - Software Update: HTC Thunderbolt™ Available Starting 5/13/11 - with information on the new update... it will be a while. I think they typically put the PDF up about a week or so prior to actually releasing the OTA.

SeekerOfTheWay · Jun 15, 2011

mdeblaz said:
jcase posted on Twitter yesterday that the MR2 is delayed... if not cancelled altogether:

I believe it and wouldn't expect an OTA to be released at least until July... if not later.

Add to that the fact that VZW hasn't updated their PDF file here - Software Update: HTC Thunderbolt

slimjoe · Jun 15, 2011

Hopefully that means they're rolling it into the Gingerbread update if they're still trying to meet their previously announced Q2 date.

Dark Jedi · Jun 15, 2011

Even if they killed it. The update works and i have no more issues with this phone. I am glad I updated it. I was about to demand a charge if this didn't come along. So I mustache been crazy lol.

robrecht · Jun 15, 2011

Tweet by jcase: New Thunderbolt firmware has hit Verizon, i think our "MR2" has been canceled.

McLabia · Jun 15, 2011

Ive been reading Jcase's twitter tryin to find out whats up with the next build. One of the posts said that they werent going to have a new leak.

"
@TeamAndIRC ✔ jcase
@d1g1K won't be any early more leaks due to past fiasco."

Wanderlusterer · Jun 15, 2011

So there's no specific time frame for the update:

Verizon: No specific date for ThunderBolt update | Android Central

ALSO, Monday of this week I received a call from HTC and spoke with a software engineer. He was returning my calls from HTC's technical support line and was calling me to ask a few questions about my phone. This is EXACTLY WHAT HE SAID, "We quite frankly, don't know exactly what's causing the phone to reboot at this time. We don't understand why it's just the Thunderbolt and not any of our other 4G devices. Right now we don't know if it's the firmware, the radio, or possibly a bad chipset." *please note: I have this man's conversation recorded as well as additional contact information for record*

His conversation was probably the strangest damned conversation I've ever had. He seemed more concerned with what Verizon was doing for me in the process; "What are they doing to compensate you?" My reply was that Verizon wasn't responsible for the problem and that HTC was and that shouldn't be his concern.

Seems to me as if HTC really screwed the proverbial pooch on this one. I think it's probably one of the reason's why the MR2 has been scrapped as of right now.

I have too much invested in this phone however, to just turn it back in for another one or to find a suitable replacement at the moment.

WuBoy · Jun 16, 2011

I don't see why he would say they don't know what's behind the random reboots. The random reboots are most certainly caused by the last OTA. People didn't start complaining about it really until that rolled out. I had never had any reboots and then I DLed that update and now I have reboots. I never put it on my wife's phone and to this day she's never had a random reboot.

TxGoat · Jun 16, 2011

Seems like this phone is outright cursed.

Shel · Jun 16, 2011

WuBoy said:
I don't see why he would say they don't know what's behind the random reboots. The random reboots are most certainly caused by the last OTA. People didn't start complaining about it really until that rolled out. I had never had any reboots and then I DLed that update and now I have reboots. I never put it on my wife's phone and to this day she's never had a random reboot.

Maybe, but I did the update, and I've had perhaps five reboots total! We're talking one reboot, then two, three days go by, then another reboot... then a few more days go by.

It's not really even a big issue for me, but I can understand if the phone constantly reboots, it's a MAJOR problem.

My only point is... why does my phone have almost no problems, and other people's TB have major problems? Some people report not having ANY reboots!

It's not as simple as you make it out, I don't believe....

Yeahha · Jun 16, 2011

WuBoy said:
I don't see why he would say they don't know what's behind the random reboots. The random reboots are most certainly caused by the last OTA. People didn't start complaining about it really until that rolled out. I had never had any reboots and then I DLed that update and now I have reboots. I never put it on my wife's phone and to this day she's never had a random reboot.

But what within the last ota caused it? They know it was in the last ota but they do not know what it is exactly. If a car manufacturer knows something is causing many of a specific model to crash they don't recall the cars and say well something is wrong they try to find the root of the problem recall for that reason and fix the issue

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