Suggestion for Incredible Owners

[fezzik]

If you care about the 2.2 update.  I got to thinking about a solution that should work.  In order for it to even have a chance we need to e-mail HTC support and make the suggestion.  The more people who do it the more likely it is but even if it isn't pheasible for this update perhaps it can be put in place for future updates. 

The problem with Android 2.2 update coming for current HTC phones is Sense UI.  Sense is both a User Interface but also a series of additions to Android.  All of the individual pieces as well as the full UI has to be ported to Android 2.2 which requires tweaking and reprogramming some of the things to utilize all of the features possible while getting rid of some things that are being replaced by Stock Android like Flashlite will be removed to make room for Flash etc.  The suggestion that I am attempting to spread is that we request for the few that care and would appreciate it that they make available a Stock Android 2.2 rom through download or going to the store.  it won't be an OTA so part of the delivery scheduling is removed and it won't have Sense so most of the complexity of porting the OS to the phone will be removed.  It might still take a few weeks because it will have to be tested and approved by Verizon but if you take away the complexities that slow the process we should be able to get it more quickly. 

My basic point is Hands-free dialing is more useful to me than any of the Sense extras, and Flash is more useful that Flashlite, and most of the rest of Sense is just eye candy (unnecessary Graphics that make things pretty but don't add substance essentially just taking up system resources).  I wouldn't suggest abandoning Sense there are many that like it.  I wouldn't suggest anything more than The features of 2.2 are more useful and anticipated by me than any of the Sense UI bloatware that I have had to shut off all that I could to save battery anyway, and if it isn't possible to accomidate those of us who are admittedly nerdy tech obsessed or feature hungry/Safety Conscious then that will be considered in future phone purchases.  I expect the Incredible to be amoung the first to be update because of the HTC phones that are currently on the market it is the most popular so more resources will go into updating it first or should anyway.  It isn't just the Incredible that this would help.  Remember the Eris debacle?  How long were they working on the Droid Eris update to 2.0 only to abandon it for 2.1 which still took way too long to get out.    We complained about the Droid but in the grand scheme of Verizon's required testing for software and hardware to be approved it was fairly quick.  All I would like is the option to have it as soon as Verizon will allow it without all the features if I so choose so that I can take advantage of the features of the OS that I will use. 

That is all.  Please e-mail HTC customer service with that suggestion and see if we get anywhere.  As I say they may already be preparing Sense with 2.2 for us but if they can start doing this as general practice then perhaps with 3.0 we won't have to wait 6 months if we don't want to and we won't have issues like what happened with the Eris where it being one of the lesser popular phones and a poor seller was the last in line and likely will never see another update.  How long before we're there too?  How many updates will a phone get?  Will it get a full 2 years well if it is as difficult to prepare an update as HTC is saying then we can safely say that if it has a custom UI then you will be lucky to get one good update out of it.  Will we fall to the same thing.  Just look how many phones HTC comes out with in a year's time each bigger and badder than the last.  With this option phones will go instead of from New and shiney to Obsolete in 6 months to being New and Shiney to old news in 6 months.   There is a huge difference.  If it is obsoleted in 6 months Like the Eris was no updates, no fun, and before your updates you can't install any new apps.  If it is Old news in 6 months Like the Droid did ok so it isn't the top of the heap everyone is talking about it but you still can get updates because they aren't an act of congress to come up with, It can still be fun, Still run new apps and software.   

[dabubbakin]

Think Incredible owners will get preferential treatment due to the shortage?

I wonder if vzw shot a "big red" bullet at HTC for this shortage problem and created a faster update toward 2.2? Maybe that's why were supposed to get that 720p/hotspot update someday? 

I'm sure politically someone got something but the question is what? Probably has nothing to do with this phone.

My guess is that HTC is getting slammed by the customers about 2.2 and they don't have the resources to catch up. Creating new UI's, Phones, pushing updates, fighting legal suites, back orders, shortages,  etc. 

I think this company is in over it's head and it's going to take a bit to dig out. When it does thought.... It'll be huge!

Whats that email link? I'll send them a plea. 

[fezzik]

http://www.htc.com/us/support/e-mail   this will take you to HTC's support page.  I chose product support and gave them a shorter but still rambling version of my argument here. 

[dabubbakin]

Thanks.... I was feeling lazy lol