topic Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8 in Android

Lollipop for HTC One 8

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:33:48 GMT

Hi Guys,

Any word on delivery of the Lollipop update for the HTC One M8.

I see that HTC have issued OTA for their unlocked M8s tonight.

Cheers

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

browni — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:48:16 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Hi Guys,

Any word on delivery of the Lollipop update for the HTC One M8.

I see that HTC have issued OTA for their unlocked M8s tonight.

Cheers

@Chris_K is the man in the know!

By tagging him above hopefully he will respond to this thread.

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

Cleoriff — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 00:08:24 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Hi Guys,

Any word on delivery of the Lollipop update for the HTC One M8.

I see that HTC have issued OTA for their unlocked M8s tonight.

Cheers

The latest info we have was posted here early December. @Chris_K felt it would be in the New Year

http://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Android-Devices-Samsung-HTC-Sony/Lollipop-and-the-M8/m-p/825718#M40634

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

Bambino — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 07:35:15 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Hi Guys,

Any word on delivery of the Lollipop update for the HTC One M8.

I see that HTC have issued OTA for their unlocked M8s tonight.

Cheers

If past performance is anything to go by, I would think it will still be a while before O2 release the update. As you have said, it's only just been released for unlocked M8's. If your phone is O2 branded, O2 would have to run tests to make sure the software is compatible with whatever they load onto their branded phones. I believe O2 has released it for their Galaxy S5 phones, so maybe it won't take as long as it's done previously.

To be honest, I wouldn't be in all that much of a rush. The OS is still a little buggy. You can find lots of instances of articles about it if you Google it. Personally, I always think it's better to wait a while until the initial kinks are ironed out.

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 08:03:27 GMT

@Chris_K is the o2 staff member who can advise on plans for release and he regularly updated on here.

This is the reason I think networks should not lock phones, then the software releases can come direct from the manufacturer, less risk of software failures and quicker rollout.

Nice phone by the way.

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

Chris_K — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 10:41:50 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@Chris_K is the o2 staff member who can advise on plans for release and he regularly updated on here.

This is the reason I think networks should not lock phones, then the software releases can come direct from the manufacturer, less risk of software failures and quicker rollout.

Nice phone by the way.

There are benefits to network updates, and sometimes we're even able to get ours out before the open market version - not often, but it does happen and it's great when it does. Sometimes during our testing we discover bugs/issues that didn't turn up during the vendor tests, sometimes we discover issues with the software in terms of performance on our network - we can work with vendors to sort those. Those are just a couple of benefits but I do understand that to many, this won't matter - just wanted to add a view from 'the other side' 🙂

Anyways... Lollipop on HTC One M8. It's happening! We're hoping to receive the update next week - and hopefully earlier in the week rather than later. We'll get our testing & approvals done as quickly as possible (ensuring our strict testing is fully complete and passes) and release back to HTC for launch. All being said, you could be looking at release this month.

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

Cleoriff — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 23:37:47 GMT

Pleased I got that right at least Chris K... Your last update on this indicated it would be the New Year...and so it is

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:06:41 GMT

And possibly this week (?):think_smiley_09:

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

Cleoriff — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 21:15:47 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
And possibly this week (?):think_smiley_09:

You can live in hope @Anonymous Best of luck..(End of the month falls this week after all)

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

Chris_K — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:05:08 GMT

Hi all, this began rolling out OTA just an hour or two ago so for anyone who hasn't yet updated, now's the time! 😉

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:47:52 GMT

Thanks alot Chris

May I just add that O2 have been simply stunning when it comes to releasing updates for there branded phones..

Keep up the great work!

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:09:42 GMT

Thanks for keeping us all updated.

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:06:43 GMT

Anyone having problems with the new install; like Google Chrome retuning "ERR_PROXY_CONNECTION_FAILED" and some apps e.g. Amazon, Barclays not working?

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:49:47 GMT

You're lucky your phone even turns on! I just did the update to Lollipop and have had to take it straight to the O2 shop for repair, as it is now stuck in a reboot loop. I applaud O2 on how quickly they get these updates out to their customers, but something seriously went wrong this time!

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:24:48 GMT

I don't know about being lucky. At least when you take your phone back to O2 as not being fit for use there can't be any issues. Can you imagine the fuss I'll have - £600 phone and I can make calls.

Oh and by the way even O2's own app doesn't work!

Looks like O2's testing process will be up for scrutiny

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

MI5 — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:28:52 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Looks like O2's testing process will be up for scrutiny

Guaranteed to give customers the best possible experience

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:15:48 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I don't know about being lucky. At least when you take your phone back to O2 as not being fit for use there can't be any issues. Can you imagine the fuss I'll have - £600 phone and I can make calls.
Oh and by the way even O2's own app doesn't work!
Looks like O2's testing process will be up for scrutiny

Good point!!

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 00:13:14 GMT

Mine updated fine, however the Smart Lock feature from lollipop is missing and I know HTC included it in their update. So why did o2 remove it??? This is one of the reasons I bought the One m8 and also why I specifically asked the o2 sales guy "This uses the htc releases doesnt it, not o2 ones, to which he told me yeah!" I wear a pebble and was wanting this so I dont have ti use another app or anything (which I cant now as the way the apps got around it has been disabled on lollipop). WELL DONE o2......NOT!

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:25:07 GMT

If anyone has a similar issue this may help. I switched my default G band to N band which allowed internet connection. I have now changed the G band connection settings (to remove the default proxy setting) and can now access the internet via G band. Question remains why was this not a smooth transition after all its only an update to an existing OS?

Incidentally the iPad updated a few hours back to 8.1.3 without a hitch.

Barclays Bank app still doesn’t connect but I guess that’s an issue for Barcalys.

Re: Lollipop for HTC One 8

MI5 — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:25:39 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Mine updated fine, however the Smart Lock feature from lollipop is missing and I know HTC included it in their update. So why did o2 remove it??? This is one of the reasons I bought the One m8 and also why I specifically asked the o2 sales guy "This uses the htc releases doesnt it, not o2 ones, to which he told me yeah!" I wear a pebble and was wanting this so I dont have ti use another app or anything (which I cant now as the way the apps got around it has been disabled on lollipop). WELL DONE o2......NOT!

As an update for anyone finding this thread via a search engine, the option to use the Smart Lock feature must first be enabled in the security menu under trusted sources.