Vodafone Froyo Upgrade for Desire - At Last

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For all the Vodafone users with a Desire.
The 2.2 upgrade is at last available.
Vodafone are doing a staged roll-out, however if you manually check for updates it is available from now.
Upgrade should be vanilla.
Slow upgrade at the moment due to high server load - 90mb+ download, so use WiFi if possible.
 
Yer - sorry.
Some of us "poor boys" cannot afford to buy unlocked phones.
Even if we can, when it works out around £75 cheaper to go for a contract over an unbranded phone we like to save our money.
Sorry that all of us network purchasers are losers.

With that out the way, it has definitely been confirmed as a Vanilla update - so none of the 360 branding that plagued an update a few weeks ago.
 
stoofa said:
Yer - sorry.
Some of us "poor boys" cannot afford to buy unlocked phones.
Even if we can, when it works out around £75 cheaper to go for a contract over an unbranded phone we like to save our money.
Sorry that all of us network purchasers are losers.
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Have you finished?

Unbranded unlocked phones are generally provided on contract by people far cheaper than jokers like Vodafone.

It is not the case that unlocked phones must always be purchased outright at vast expense compared your 'cheap' Vodafone contract.
 
Yeah I just did the install, didn't have 25mb free, now where is the downloaded file stored because it's asking to re download it. I dont wanna use up another 90mb on my mobile data.
 
Not available for me yet - its asking me to upgrade to 1.19 first :(

This is the broken build that duplicates all your texts, right? Will 2.2 then fix this or am I going to have to lose all my text messages by upgrading to 1.19, having it ruin everything, delete them all, then upgrade to 2.2?
 
Robbie G said:
Have you finished?

Unbranded unlocked phones are generally provided on contract by people far cheaper than jokers like Vodafone.

It is not the case that unlocked phones must always be purchased outright at vast expense compared your 'cheap' Vodafone contract.
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What are you blabbering on about now?

My Vodafone Desire is completely unbranded and unlocked - sadly it does have a Vodafone specific firmware which has delayed 2.2, but it isn't branded in any way nor is it locked.
 
[TW]Fox;17219784 said:
What are you blabbering on about now?

My Vodafone Desire is completely unbranded and unlocked - sadly it does have a Vodafone specific firmware which has delayed 2.2, but it isn't branded in any way nor is it locked.
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Voda specific fw means its branded whether its covered in voda branding or not, if it was unbranded you could use generic fw on it
 
tom_e said:
Voda specific fw means its branded whether its covered in voda branding or not, if it was unbranded you could use generic fw on it
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I'm sorry but that just isn't the case. Go and study the concept of branding, you'll notice that something being branded and something being operator specific are two seperate things. Granted it is almost always the case that operator specific firmware is branded, but not all the time.

There is NO branding on the Vodafone specific firmware on the HTC Desire, with the exception of the botched 1.24 firmware they released.

'Branding' isn't a technology term.
 
[TW]Fox;17219767 said:
Not available for me yet - its asking me to upgrade to 1.19 first :(

This is the broken build that duplicates all your texts, right? Will 2.2 then fix this or am I going to have to lose all my text messages by upgrading to 1.19, having it ruin everything, delete them all, then upgrade to 2.2?
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I believe that 1.19 is not the update that "added features".
You should be able to safely install that and then up to 2.2

I did my upgrade without doing any kind of backup first and all my phone numbers, text messages etc are still there.
 
I'm not sure this is working :(

I just downloaded (again) and installed it, after several reboots it finally came up and said congratulations you've been updated to version 2.10.161.2
 
[TW]Fox;17219784 said:
What are you blabbering on about now?

My Vodafone Desire is completely unbranded and unlocked - sadly it does have a Vodafone specific firmware which has delayed 2.2, but it isn't branded in any way nor is it locked.
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[TW]Fox;17219884 said:
I'm sorry but that just isn't the case. Go and study the concept of branding, you'll notice that something being branded and something being operator specific are two seperate things. Granted it is almost always the case that operator specific firmware is branded, but not all the time.

There is NO branding on the Vodafone specific firmware on the HTC Desire, with the exception of the botched 1.24 firmware they released.

'Branding' isn't a technology term.
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[TW]Fox in anal hair-splitting shocker :rolleyes:. He does a business degree and thinks he's Charles Saatchi.

A quick Google reveals that many people refer to the Vodafone firmware as 'branded'. Branding is not just slapping stickers all over everything, it's a process. Would have thought you'd have learned that :confused:.

Branding: "The marketing practice of creating a name, symbol or design that identifies and differentiates a product from other products". The Vodafone firmware is designed by Vodafone to be different to the generic firmware, therefore it's branded :o.

As far as I and many others are concerned, a handset counts as branded if it has a different firmware to that intended by the manufacturer, meaning that you have to wait for the operator to release an update for, rather than obtaining the generic manufacturer's version immediately on release.

If you'd rather people used the term 'containing operator specific firmware' rather than 'branded', maybe you could start an internet campaign.
 
Robbie G said:
A quick Google reveals that many people refer to the Vodafone firmware as 'branded'. Branding is not just slapping stickers all over everything, it's a process. Would have thought you'd have learned that :confused:.
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I have. Obviously, you have not.

Branding: "The marketing practice of creating a name, symbol or design that identifies and differentiates a product from other products". The Vodafone firmware is designed by Vodafone to be different to the generic firmware, therefore it's branded :o.
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Perhaps you'd like to list the differences? There are no visible differences. It is unbranded.

An example of branded firmware would be that on, say, the Nokia N97 or the 1.24 release of the Desire firmware. This is different to the generic firmware, it is not simply the generic firmware with different internet APN's.

Vodafone are even on record as publically stating the Vodafone specific version of, say, the 2.2 update is merely the Generic firmware but with the Vodafone APN's preloaded. If you think this is branding then, well, I can't be bothered to argue it with you.

There isn't a Vodafone logo in sight. Anywhere.

As far as I and many others are concerned, a handset counts as branded if it has a different firmware to that intended by the manufacturer, meaning that you have to wait for the operator to release an update for, rather than obtaining the generic manufacturer's version immediately on release.
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Branded firmware is firmware which is branded by the network operator. Not all network specific firmware is branded.

Clearly this is all too much for you, but then I've no idea what you are doing in this thread other than creating arguments anyway. You don't appear to have a Vodafone Desire?

Love the reference to my educational background though, even though I never state 'I am right because I have xyz degree' and the only reason you even know what degree I have is because when people specifically ask, I tell.
 
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