Patience Stretched at HTC Thunderbolt Gingerbread: Update Delay:

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!

The Thunderbolt has good specs, a good screen, and great build quality. However, if you don’t plan on rooting, I’d probably be best to get something else.

The Thunderbolt has good specs, a good screen, and great build quality. However, if you don’t plan on rooting, I’d probably be best to get something else.

I see a class action lawsuit in the near future against HTCVerizon for people like me that paid $300 for this phone. (no gingerbread and 3-4 hour battery life is unacceptable for a $300 phone). Any attorneys listening?

Rooting will help the phone’s battery life, google up “htc thunderbolt one click root” and it’s a simple to use program for windows pc. there is nothing easier you can find to root with than this. it just takes about 20-30 mins to complete but it’s stupid easy.

you can even look up how to do it on youtube. You have to be rooted to get rid of Blockbuster.apk and the other verizon bloatware. By default those files are in “R/O read only” mode. Being rooted allows you to mount your thunderbolt’s file system into “R/W read write” mode allowing you to delete the unwanted .apk’s and .obex’s.

By the time that update comes out, Verizon/HTC will be bringing out the TB 3D. Verizon is known for rushing mofo’s when making quality phones to compete with other carriers. Look what happened to the first touch screen BB (Storm). Now the same thing is happening with there first 4G LTE phone. And they wonder why so many people root their phones

I hope HTC knows that no one is going to buy their stuff if they always have bugs with their products. Maybe some people need to be fired so the company can move forward because it seems to be moving backward if anything…Gingerbread was the only thing that the HTC Thunderbolt owners have been looking forward to and now they feel like throwing their phones in the trash because like WTF Wirefly sells my phone for cheaper than what I bought it for. So what I get unlimited data but I barely ever go past 1.5 or 2 GBs ever. This is just ridiculous, I seriously just want a full refund for what I paid and I want a chance to get the Bionic or something that is actually worth getting. If they are having this many problems with something then maybe they should have even released the phone…like where is the skype video chat we were told to have?? This phone was promised to have skype video chat and WHERE IS IT??? I am tired of waiting I bought the phone it said it in the store that it had and now it probably won’t ever have and I think we should all just take some kind of legal action against them because this is getting way out of control. They act like we are nothing but we aren’t we are the customers and yes we do have some power of our own and it is getting close to the time when we need to use it.

And when we get GB, We’ll want Ice-Cream Sandwich!

This is just the way it works people.

First, what is so important about Gingerbread? It does very little to change the functionality of the phone. The bugs (for most, at least) were fixed in the software update, so why is it so danged important to get Gingerbread? I mean, really! I have a Thunderbolt and it is a great phone. Considering the 4g LTE radio chip alone costs HTC $40, the price is fantastic. It’s a solid phone, and does most things beautifully. The Sense interface, to me (coming from a pretty good Gingerbreaded Droid X) is much more important to the user experience than Gingerbread will ever be.

My phone is stable, solid, well built. My HTC extended battery and cover makes battery life not just acceptable, but fantastic! Yes, it cost $46.00, but worth it to forget about battery management tricks. I don’t even think about battery issues any more, and I use my phone, both voice and data, a LOT.

I really don’t care if my phone EVER gets Gingerbread. 4G is why I wanted this phone, and it is everything it was supposed to be. I will upgrade my phone in another 2 years if there is something I feel I need and am not getting with the TB. Otherwise, it seems well-built enough to keep for as long as I want feel like it.

The price of the phone is really inconsequential. The cost of the service is what matters. It is far, far more expensive to actually USE a phone than to own one.

A cellphone, even a smart phone, is an expense, not an investment. Go look at the price of ANY used phone on eBay and you will see just how much a two 2-month old smart phone is worth.

i have a rooted htc thunderbolt and it’s got stock froyo but i removed all the verizon bloatware. i can easily get 22-28 hours of life with gps radio on and on lite-use. i don’t have all that other non-sense going on in the background. the benefit to Gingerbread will be it’s speed and stability enhancements as well as cooler features and bug fixes and higher technologically advanced rom capable of doing stuff froyo cant do well or at all. embrace the rom updates, don’t hate them unless they’re blocking things like tethering and such.

I’m so disappointed that I’m considering leaving and joining Sprint! o_O yeah its that bad, thank you Verizon and thank you HTC.. I used to be your biggest supporter, now you suck! Oh and the update we received recently didn’t fix jack $hit all it’s done for me is screwed up my data receiver, now I find my phone on 3G or nothing at all.. Places where I had 4G all of a sudden fade in and out and I have to restart my phone to fix it.. Bull$hit I’m done FU Thunderbolt, FU HTC, and finally FU Verizon

I am so friggin peeved at this whole corporate wireless service scamming you into a device with all the jarggin and gimmicks of what the device is and can do. My Thunderbolt worked flawlessly the first 1-2 weeks then it went to crap fast as each day passed. How does that happen????? Skype worked perfect the day I bought it(no longer), Gps was fast and flawless (now slow to respond even with July 9 update), echo in background, delayed voice. I have been to Verizon store and all of the so called techs are completly worthless. I swore before this contract I would never do it again, well this is the last time, I am so done with being roped into a device that never lives up to it’s hype. If any of you think it will be better with next device that is the corporate worlds hope. They behave as “There is a sucker born everyday” The only true way for users to get what was promised is to tell them to go screw at the end of the commitment you made to them.

I really like Sense, but HTC makes garbage. I’ve owned an Eris(major problems), an Incredible(not as major), and the Thunderbolt.(MAJOR PROBLEMS to put it lightly) I will NEVER buy another HTC product again, and really want my $200 bucks back that I spent on this paper weight. Why would we expect them to upgrade the os if they can’t even get the phone to work properly? It’s like they don’t even know how their hardware works.

That’s odd that you have a working Thunderbolt. Most people don’t. We want Gingerbread because we are hoping that it will make our massively overpriced phones work the way they advertised. I’m sure it will fix as much as the last update, which is nothing at all. There should be a lawsuit against HTC.

I bet those ones work. Ours don’t. See the difference?

Sign me up!

This was my first HTC product, and it will be my last. Motorola is not perfect, but my experience with past Motorola products like the first Droid, and the Droid X beat the crap out of the Thunderbolt.