Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging to get updated. Every so often, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and such a lot of of them are floating around that it is simple for a large chunk to wander off within the mix. To ensure they do not escape abruptly, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery from the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. In the event you find something available to your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and tell us. Enjoy!
Official Android updates
The head story this week revolves across the HTC Thunderbolt’s long-awaited Gingerbread OTA update. It was finally rolling out, which was exciting news for owners of the device — until it needed to be pulled attributable to some rather significant bugs. The most important of all of them was that voicemail notifications not worked properly; video chatting through Google Talk was also slightly tousled to boot. No word on once we can expect to peer it come again with those bugs fixed. [ Droid-Life ]
Unfortunately, the Thunderbolt is not the only phone falling victim to pulled revamps; the LG Optimus S on Sprint had its Gingerbread update kiboshed, though users have had two weeks to get it — numerous time for anyone to experience a few of the bugs, which included the telephone not charging, the SD card not being recognized when the phone’s connected to the pc, no access to data services, and predictive text at the virtual keyboard stopped working. It’s disappointing to look this happen so soon after the Kyocera Echo update went through an analogous debacle. [ SprintFeed ]
LG Optimus 3D: V10K firmware update, enables phone to transform OpenGL-capable 2D games into stereoscopic 3D. Note: this still runs Android 2.2.2, so we’re still awaiting Gingerbread. [ AndroidCentral ]
Motorola Xoom WiFi: Android 3.2.1 is starting to roll out. [ AndroidCentral ]
Dell Streak 7: Honeycomb update rolling out now to unspecified regions [ AndroidCentral ]
Asus Eee Pad Transformer: Revamped to Android 3.2.1, adds other bug fixes [ AndroidCommunity ]
Casio G’Zone Commando: Gingerbread rolling out now [ Droid-Life ]
Motorola Droid 3: Minor maintenance refresh; enhances Google Talk with video chat support, several other fixes. [ PhoneDog ]
T-Mobile Samsung Nexus S: OTA install (with approach to manually install) to Android 2.3.6; doesn’t seem to break tethering. [ 0 AndroidCentral 0 ]
Unofficial Android updates, custom ROMs and misc. hackery
The Android 2.3.5 ROM for the worldwide Samsung Galaxy S II leaked early this week. [ 1 Pocketnow 1 , 2 SamFirmware 2 ]
Now you can download the Android 2.3.4 SBF for the Motorola Droid X2, 3 courtesy of XDA 3 . [ 4 Droid-Life 4 ]
When you’ve got a Sony Ericsson Xperia-branded device from 2010 or 2011, CyanogenMod7 support will commonly come included as component of an upcoming update. Ten Xperia devices may be added, though a timeframe for release wasn’t announced. 5 Check here 5 to peer in case your device made the list. [ 6 XperiaBlog 6 ]
Other platforms
7 Check here 7 to determine in case your phone is able to receive Windows Phone Mango.
The ultra-rare 8 AT&T HP Pre 3 8 just received an 9 OTA update 9 to two.2.3.2207, right after a brand new webOS Doctor became available for a similar refresh. [ 0 PreCentral 0 ]
Refreshes we covered this week
1 Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update now rolling out 1
2 Easy methods to force Mango for your phone immediately 2
3 Samsung Taylor receiving Mango? 3
Samsung Zipel oven takes instructions out of your Android phone
White House gets behind online ‘bill of rights,’ companies to adopt ‘do not track’
