WOW!! Rogers (Rogers is a Canadian mobile phone/cable tv provider) has really been failing their subscribers lately. First they have a 911 GPS issue on BOTH the Magic and the Dream. Okay, not a big deal just push a fix and go on right? Wrong!
Rogers tells everyone they MUST install the patch by 6:00am EST on 1/24/10 or their internet access will be temporarily suspended ( http://bit.ly/7umNGy ). Well in the biggest fail of them all they pushed out the fix on 1.5 taking anyone who had custom ROMs back to 1.5. With this they disabled the existing root path eliminating the possibility of putting custom ROMs back on the phone. In a conversation with one Rogers customer he ended up losing at least 3 apps, including Google Goggles.
As a very poor consolation the new 1.5 was pushed with HTC's Sense UI. As nice as the Sense UI is I would be pissed if my OS was downgraded and I couldn't fix it.
Wonder what Rogers subscriber base is going to look like in the next six months.
Hey, I'm the guy who downgraded, but from a Rooted Cyanogenmod 1.6. Important correction Rogers stock OS is STILL (sadly) 1.5. We have a big campaign here to get them to upgrade.
ReplyDeleteHalf of the reason the patch was so urgent was most carriers fixed the 911 issue when they moved to 1.6 in the fall.
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