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OTA update surfacing for Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE

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Sprint is in the process of rolling out an OTA for owners of the HTC EVO 4G LTE device. The update will push your device to software version 3.16.651.3. The update brings in some enhancements and fixes, but nothing extremely major.

Enhancements/Fixes:

– Proximity sensor improvements while on a call or listening to voicemail

– Ability to output audio/video to HDTV (and other external displays via MHL cable)

– WiFi Connection improvements

– Bluetooth compatibility improvements

– Android process/application shutdown resolved

Adding in the MHL ability to the device is a pretty sweet new function. For those of you that have never used it, it lets you put your devices screen on an external HDMI compatible device, like a TV. Letting you see the screen on a grand scale, watch movies and play games if you wish. Of course there are some apps that restrict HDMI output though. Like HBOGO, last time I checked anyways.

As with all updates, don’t expect to see it right away. It will roll out in stages to all currently active and stock devices. You can check for yourself under ‘About Phone’ in the setting menu. You might get lucky and pull it up. Just be sure you are charged well over 50% and have a Wi-Fi connection available to pull it in.

Via Sprint

 

zAcHcOmA with some additional items:

This OTA is still Android 4.1 and does not change the latest 2.09 Hboot, which can be S-OFF’ed via Dirty Racun. This OTA also brings a new firmware update, which updates the radios and NV among other things. If you have S-OFF and would like the latest firmware, you can flash the firmware ripped from this OTA (minus the Hboot, kernel, touchscreen driver, and stock recovery) by Captain_Throwback from his repository. The latest firmware version is 1.12.11.1210. To flash:

  1. download the file to the root of your SD card and rename to file to PJ75IMG.zip
  2. turn off your phone
  3. hold volume down and power to get into the bootloader
  4. it’ll read that there’s an update file in there and ask if you want to update, click volume up to confirm

The touchscreen driver update was killing touchscreen response on non-stock ROMs and recoveries, so that’s why it was removed from the flashable firmware. The only way to get out the soft-brick was to use an RUU to get back to completely stock and start over. If you’re HTCdev S-ON with the 1.12 Hboot and have a custom recovery and would like the new radio, those will posted shortly at the repository like the others are shortly I’m sure. So as of right now the only way to get the latest radio is to be S-OFF (on any Hboot) and once you update your firmware, you cannot go backwards in version.