I have a similar thread, and seeing the nature of this one, I thought I should mention my experiences. My first Shift began to be unmanageable and hideously frustrating after downloading Gingerbread right after it came out. I was finally given a refurbished pre-Gingerbread Shift, since my first one appeared to be demon possessed. Things were fine, but every few days I got the message asking if I wanted to update. I went in and asked the Shift guru at my Best Buy if this was a Sense update I was being asked about or Gingerbread, whose mere name causes me to injure myself. He said he thought it was Sense, but afterwards, not only had my Sense updated, but my Android version was now the Gingerbread version by version number. I am having those ridiculous loading problems again. When I hang up after a phone call, it goes back to the HTC loading screen, and also after I properly exit many other apps. I called HTC, but got the same worthless answer as 6 weeks ago, check our website. I would stay away from the update like I should have until you see Gingerbread Fix in 6 in. high letters in this forum.