After HTC announced it’s plans to deliver the HTC Hero’s Android 2.1 firmware, consumers have been waiting for the update. Last week, HTC finally delivers it’s promise to OTA the HERO firmware (android 2.1) to it’s south east asian customers (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia etc).
Some readers have been feeding back to me in social media, forums that they have been waiting for 3 to 4 days, the update just didn’t “pick their handset”. My suggestion to them were, wait for another few more days or download the firmware and update it themselves.
The most absurb resolution was to bring the system date to 2011. Reports elsewhere indicate that it helped. So, one of my readers actually tried that but 2 days have passed with no updates (power up/down). The last thing he did was that he set the calendar date to 2013! Guess what, after the OTA update came almost instaneously! He finally got his new helicopter view HTC Sense.
So, if you are still waiting, you can Flash Forward to 2013 and I bet you should be able to download the firmware over the air almost immediately.
Post your findings in the comments section or in the forums.
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July 7th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
IT WORKED !!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks from Norway.
July 10th, 2010 at 9:45 am
Worked for me too. Thanks for the information!
July 11th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Worked (singapore/usa)! Best advise i’ve ever read abt the 2.1 update anywhere!
July 13th, 2010 at 10:46 am
awesome….it works….what an idea
July 20th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
hello,
I have fast fowarded my date to 2013 and turn on and off my aeroplane mode on HTC. Guess what ? I got the update .. notification instantly … almost immediately
July 20th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
that is goood:)
August 2nd, 2010 at 6:32 am
Thank you for the good article, I’m very excited. I’ve had my phone for simply over a month now and am in reality playing all of the unfastened apps from the android marketplace, having the ability to have the web and navigation at my fingertips all the time. The only not up to idea characteristic is the image/video text messages, as they aren’t downloading properly.
October 31st, 2010 at 5:37 am
Setting the system date to 2013 instantly provided the update. Thanks!
November 5th, 2010 at 3:36 am
Worked fine today, kept all my history and sms. No problems at all.
April 16th, 2012 at 9:16 pm
Im going nuts this evening.
July 6th, 2012 at 6:35 am
Like+
July 9th, 2012 at 4:45 am
Cool…
August 27th, 2012 at 5:03 pm
It’s amazing how much HTC is behind in updates. I have a Motorola and get updates instantaneously. I would highly recommend not using HTC in the future. I’d even use Apple over them! Ick!