{"id":17773,"date":"2011-01-17T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-01-17T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T16:11:00","slug":"htc-android-smartphones-to-get-fota-on-all-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/17773-htc-android-smartphones-to-get-fota-on-all-operators.html","title":{"rendered":"HTC Android smartphones to get FOTA on all operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaf International Communications, distributors of HTC products in South Africa, has revealed that firmware over-the-air (FOTA) updates will become available to all their Android smartphones slated to receive such upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>Currently FOTA is only available to <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/17487-Android-firmware-over-the-air-live-MTN.html\" target=\"_self\">MTN subscribers<\/a>, and the available updates are only for the HTC Desire.<\/p>\n<p>MTN initially said that any HTC Desire connected to their network would be able to download the updates, but some MyBroadband members reported that this didn&#8217;t seem to be the case.<\/p>\n<p>According to Leaf, getting updates for an HTC Desire purchased from another operator wouldn&#8217;t be as easy as inserting an MTN SIM card. Leaf has to load the unique number of a device, known as the IMEI, into their systems before a device would be allowed to download updates from their servers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If MTN pulled the data (IMEI numbers) from the network database at a time when the device wasn&rsquo;t registered, then the user of that particular device will not receive the update,&rdquo; Leaf explained.<\/p>\n<p>This shouldn&#8217;t be a problem for much longer as Leaf said that they would be launching FOTA for all operators by the end of January 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We will load all the IMEI&rsquo;s of devices we have ever shipped to South Africa but this will exclude all grey imports.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not all HTC Android devices receiving upgrades<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While only the HTC Desire has received upgrades through the locally available FOTA system, other HTC Android smartphones are set to receive updates as well.<\/p>\n<p>Leaf has revealed that the updates for the Hero, Legend and Wildfire will become available at the end of January 2011 as well. The HTC Hero will receive an upgrade to Android 2.1 &#8216;&Eacute;clair&#8217; and the other devices will be upgraded versions 2.2 of Android, known as &ldquo;FroYo.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>FOTA updates will also be enabled for the recently launched HTC Desire HD and Desire Z.<\/p>\n<p>HTC will soon confirm the list devices which will receive Android 2.3 &#8220;Gingerbread&#8221; upgrades, Leaf said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/303275-HTC-Android-smartphones-to-get-FOTA-on-all-South-African-operators\" target=\"_self\" title=\"HTC Android smartphones to get FOTA on all operators\"><strong>HTC Android smartphones to get FOTA on all operators<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of HTC Android smartphones should soon be receiving updates regardless of which cellular network operator they subscribe to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}