Has anyone contacted HTC to see if they are going to customize WM 5.0 for the actual vendors?
From my conversations with both our AT&T corporate rep and Siemens, it sounds to me like AT&T gets their updates from Siemens and that Siemens gets their updates from HTC directly.
Because of this, it makes sense to me that someone with some type of contact within HTC could find out if HTC plans to manufacture the device in the future with WM 5.0 and if so, if they are going to make an upgrade kit available to current owners of their devices.
I am just wondering.
Here's a name and a number, give it a try!
Russell Lin
QA Engineering Manager
713-219-6111
Cruzzer - THANKS!!!
I have a call into him now! I have also discussed this more indepth with both Siemens support and Cingular R&D.
Both see to think that there is already an HTC version in production, however, neither Cingular or Siemens will give me any more information than that.
I will let you know as soon as I find out anything else.
- Will
Hi community!
Maybe the information below is already posted and I was to silly to find it in the forum, anyway:
Today (28. September) I asked HTC if there will be a Windows Mobile 6 Upgrade for the P3600 as I'm planning to get on and I always like to have an original backup ROM.
There simple statement in a longer e-mail (I'm not posting it here as there a confidential statement there...):
Trinity won't be updated...
Of course this doesn't exclude updates "endprovided" by network operators (see the trinity wiki) but I don't like this future view...
So ROM chiefs: go on cooking the best WM6 ROM!!! - Thanks for your effort!
Yes, that's the way HTC treats its customer.
We all may remember this, when the time will come to buy our next phone.
Actually your topic has already been reported, with the complete copy of HTC's mail, and some analysis of the reason why they carry out such a poor policy.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=318225&page=43
I will add one more reason:
Now that they have launched their new P3600i, they don't want people to stick to their 'old' p3600 any longer... and granting them with a brand new free wm6 upgrade, wouldn't have dissuaded them enough from doing so.
Has anyone heard anything about the update HTC is suppossed to release in march for the kaiser? I read about it on Brighthand.com but march is almost over.
http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=13829
Who said anything about March ?
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Who said anything about March ?
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that was the estimate given in another release that i read somewhere as well. i think the link is on the classaction website.
im getting anxious too... this phone is nearly perfect, especially with duttys latest hit
http://tiltsite.com/2008/02/more-on-the-htc-video-driver-issue/
TiltSite says march. Im getting super excited for this I've been checking TiltSite everyday hoping for the update.
HTC WM6.1 upgrade
I wrote and asked about an upgrade WM6.1 for Elfin, and this is what they wrote back.
Dear taninpv
Thank you for contacting hTC International.
With regards to your query, kindly be informed that the tentative launch date will be somewhere in may 2008. Do keep abreast of our website, where we progressively update to inform our users of any promotion, development, and updates.
Thank you for your continuous support of our products and services. Should you require further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us again.
We look forward to be of service to you again.
Best Regards,
Han
Customer Service Executive
HTC Corporation
Customer Service Hotline (Singapore): 1800 238 7788
Website: www.asia.htc.com
lol !!..
march? may?... 2008??...
ok my prediction is for june 2009 =)!
there was a fix planned before the end of march wich gonna improve speed and ...
"New driver end of March"
A response from Peter Chou himself (CEO of HTC) has surfaced saying they hope to release a driver at the end of March. Examination of the e-mail and its SMTP headers verifies with very high certainty that this e-mail indeed originated at HTC Taiwan. Ofcourse we have also written our own e-mail to Peter Chou to ask for confirmation.
Taninpv said:
I wrote and asked about an upgrade WM6.1 for Elfin, and this is what they wrote back.
Dear taninpv
Thank you for contacting hTC International.
With regards to your query, kindly be informed that the tentative launch date will be somewhere in may 2008. Do keep abreast of our website, where we progressively update to inform our users of any promotion, development, and updates.
Thank you for your continuous support of our products and services. Should you require further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us again.
We look forward to be of service to you again.
Best Regards,
Han
Customer Service Executive
HTC Corporation
Customer Service Hotline (Singapore): 1800 238 7788
Website: www.asia.htc.com
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hmm, i think that elf isn't the same device like kaiser. correct me if i am wrong.
Hi there,
quick one to introduce myself. I'm with the xda-zone.de since jan 04 and really do enjoy the community there. I started using pocket PCs with the Himalaya, Alpine, Universal and since yesterday, the HTC Diamond when its release has been with T-Mobile Germany.
First action was to flash Bepe's 0.54 Rom on it to make it faster and stable. Big Thx to the cook!
I additionally ordered the email flat rate option to my contract which lets me send and receive also attachements. This service requires the t-mobila application "t-mobile email pro" which was deleted through the flash..
May somebody could be so kind and send it, if avaiable? That would be nice. I appreciate your help on this...
Regards,
prince
I just called HTC europe and they told me an update for s730 is in progress.
they didnt tell me when but sometimes this coming months.
Wicked!
gr. Rob
Wicked! Why didn't you ask when?
gr. Rob
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Wicked! Why didn't you ask when?
gr. Rob
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i did ask but she didnt know exactly when.. she said in the coming month or 2
Unfortunately I was told the same thing ("about a month or two") about 6 months ago.
HTC support is very disorganized, and even to get that out of them I had to go through about 5 different people, who all spoke very broken English.
I will not be buying another HTC product; ever.
np247 said:
Unfortunately I was told the same thing ("about a month or two") about 6 months ago.
HTC support is very disorganized, and even to get that out of them I had to go through about 5 different people, who all spoke very broken English.
I will not be buying another HTC product; ever.
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frankly .ur reply made me sick.
do u mean u a going to buy another brand who hires good english speaking workers?
after all htc is the brand from taiwan. they speak chinese.
Depending on which departments he was at broken english might not be a good thing. Their offices in Taiwan yes broken english is understandable. But their main customer support line should have a few people if not everyone who can speak english decently. Europe and the North American region have a fair ammount of people purchasing their devices who speak english in one of its flavors.
I think that the language issue hit more upon that user due to the lack of informative people he kept getting transferred to time after time.
(At least I hope that's all it is )
any updates for now?
I'm looking for original S730 ROM.
I have WM6.1 by Alcaline but
-I can't synchronize ActiveSync (corp policy WM only)
-Internet shring don't work
-often freeze
I want rollback to original ROM but can't find it.
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I'm looking for original S730 ROM.
I want rollback to original ROM but can't find it.
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I was downgrading a week ago (for the same reasons). ROM is in Wiki (see bottom of page), i used RUU_Wings_HTC_WWE_1.31.405.1R2_radio_sign_25.62.30.03_1.58.17.02_Ship.
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frankly .ur reply made me sick.
do u mean u a going to buy another brand who hires good english speaking workers?
after all htc is the brand from taiwan. they speak chinese.
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ur = you are? or did you mean you're? your perhaps?
If I spend a large sum of money on a cell phone, with a warranty, I expect the company to honour it. Being given the run around by people reading off screens with no follow-up is bad customer service. Them not being able to speak passable English is also annoying. Nothing sick or inappropriate about that one champ. If another brand offers me better support, and cares after the customers after the purchase, I will (and did) go that route.
Also, in Taiwan they speak both Chinese and Taiwanese. I visited almost a year ago with some of my co-workers. Just an FYI, bud.
np247 said:
Unfortunately I was told the same thing ("about a month or two") about 6 months ago.
HTC support is very disorganized, and even to get that out of them I had to go through about 5 different people, who all spoke very broken English.
I will not be buying another HTC product; ever.
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yeah, don't trust the date
I was cheated once and now I won't believe any rom release dates anymore until it is actually released on their site
Email from HTC Support:
"Good Day Thank you for your inquiry about the HTC S 730. Currently there are only plans to upgrade the following devices to Windows Mobile 6.1: HTC TyTN II (Already Available) HTC Touch Cruise HTC S730 There are currently no plans to supply this update for any other handsets. When the update is available it will be in the Support section on www.htc.com under Downloads. Please not that the download is only available for HTC branded handsets, i.e. handsets that are not from a network provider such as Orange, T-Mobile, O2 etc... Please do not reply to this email as this email address is not monitored for replies. Best regards, Tebogo Ndlela HTC Europe"
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Email from HTC Support:
"Good Day Thank you for your inquiry about the HTC S 730. Currently there are only plans to upgrade the following devices to Windows Mobile 6.1: HTC TyTN II (Already Available) HTC Touch Cruise HTC S730 There are currently no plans to supply this update for any other handsets. When the update is available it will be in the Support section on www.htc.com under Downloads. Please not that the download is only available for HTC branded handsets, i.e. handsets that are not from a network provider such as Orange, T-Mobile, O2 etc... Please do not reply to this email as this email address is not monitored for replies. Best regards, Tebogo Ndlela HTC Europe"
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Funny. I was given the exact same reply yesterday.
Only thing that bothers me is that the upgrade for the TyTNII has been released some time ago (correct me if I'm wrong) and the upgrade for the Touch Cruise has also been released several weeks ago. They don't mention the upgrade for the Touch Dual which has also recently seen daylight. So I hope they know what they are talking about. Anyway it gives some hope though.
I doubt it'll be any better than Alcaline's excellent version.
The cooked are crap only the SMS chat owns
Official new ROM out
So, the update file is finally posted on the HTC web site.
I installed, and it seems to run fine, but too early to give a final opinion. Memory management 'feels' better.
BTW: Where in the version numbers does one see it's really 6.1? And is there a list out there of improvements over 6.0?
Hi Hfrank,
version number: start -> settings -> about -> in top of screen.
Is there an sms-chat in the update?
"About" only shows: Windows Mobile 6 Standard
CE OS 5.2.1622 (Build 18128.0.4.4) - so not easy for someone like me to see the exact version (if I didn't know better I'd think OS 5.2 means WM 5.2, not 6.0 or 6.1 .
"Is there an sms-chat in the update?"
Haven't found one yet.
The more I think about it, it seems this is a bugfix update, but not update to 6.1...?
Hi
There isn't coming any 6.1 update for this phone. On the swedish site www.mobil.se there was a couple of weeks ago a chat with Christer Högström from HTC.
I asked him when the 6.1 update was to be released and the answer in swedish was:
"Det var planerat att uppgrader S730 till Wm6.1 men med den minnes kapasitet som finns på produkten blev det lite svårt att ge kunden en bra upplevelse. Där emot kommer vi med en Standard uppdatering till S730 om ca 2 veckor som förbättrar radio stabiliteten."
Quick translation: It was planed to upgrade s730 to WM 6.1 but with the memory capacity on the product it became hard to give the user a decent user experience. But we will come with a standard update that will improve radio stability.
Heres is the chat: http://www.mobil.se/ArticlePages/200810/28/20081028094638_MOB813/20081028094638_MOB813.dbp.asp
Sorry guys!