Friday, June 3, 2011

HTC EVO 4G: Gingerbread Android 2.3 Official

What a great day it is to be an EVO owner. Today you can manually update your EVO to Android 2.3. On 6/6 a notification to the update will be pushed out. Here is the release info:


HTC Evo Maintenance Release - 4.22.651.2 Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)

Enhancements/Fixes:
- SMS are intermittently sent to wrong and seemingly random contact
- "Me" instead of "Yo" in SMS thread conversations when set to Spanish
- Unable to stream media thru some applications after updating to 3.70
- Email attachments are not displayed in the mail client
- Multiple Gmail accounts no longer sync after FroYo update
- Fix for battery discharge issue
- Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
- Downloads management- The Downloads application gives the user easy access
  to any file downloaded from the browser, email,or another application

Note: HTC Sense updates are not included in this upgrade

Important Notes:
- The new software version is: 4.22.651.2
- Beginning 6/6, a notification will be sent to devices in stages. All devices
  should receive the update notification within a 4 day period.
- Beginning 6/3, customers may manually check for and apply the update
- Refer to the HTC EVO Maintenance Release Blog for more detailed install instructions


Let me know how it goes!