Bgrngod

I'm still mourning the loss of my Speedlink headset from a few months back :(

It's tough seeing new stuff come out and being stuck not knowing which way to go after having such a great headset for so long.

They could always just make the damn update file available to DL/SD update? I would enjoy going through another manual update again as to trick myself into thinking I know what the fuck I'm doing after going through all the effort to get the last one installed on Friday.

@JS It's kinda messed up that I'm more excited by your response suggesting cool new monitors than I am about the post above yours suggesting nuclear fusion.

@ElectricBuffalo

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Here are the step by step instructions I JUST went through, thanks for
Esteban Ballmero's help.

1) DL the zip file from the article link.
2) Rename the zip file to update.zip
3) Move the update.zip file to the root folder of your SD card. If you plug your phone into a USB cable tethered to your computer, this should be the first folder (On my computer it mounted as E:\) Just drop it in there.
4) Disconnect your phone from your computer
5) Power down the phone by holding the power button and selecting Power Down.
6) After it has powered down hold the Volume Up button down (not the down button. Hold the Up button Down.) With this held down, hold down the power button. Keep them both held down until you see the white background screen with text of different colors on it.
7) Use the up and down arrow keys to navigate to Bootloader.
8) With Bootloader highlighted hit the power key (it acts as an enter key in this menu).
9) At the next menu wait a few seconds. The screen will flash across some text about trying to load something.
10) Once you can navigate again with the volume keys, go to Recovery.
11) Hit the power key when Recovery is highlighted.
12) Wait for the phone to displays a small image of a phone with a red triangle and exclamation point.
13) Hold down both the Volume Up and Power buttons AGAIN.
14) Keep them held down until you see more options come up. One of them should be "load from zip file: update.zip" something to that effect.
15) Navigate to it with the volume keys. Hit the power button to select.
16) It'll start doing it's thing and will take awhile to finish.
17) Eventually you will see more options to select and it will say it succeeded at something.
18) Select the restart option.
19) It'll take it's time doing more stuff again.
20) It will eventually reboot on it's own.
21) You will think you are all done since you will see the unlock screen. Try to unlock it, or wait a little bit, and you will see an HTC screen.
22) Click through the "Your stuff is updated" prompt (not exact text)
23) It will show a progress wheel and counting percentage.
24) Wait.
25) Go through the "tutorial" stuff.
26) Wait some more (Loading..)
27) You should be done.

This may not be PERFECT. But it's a lot better than the 4 "steps" the article suggests.

@Essenobi Eh no. The volume down button is only used to navigate selections. It is most definitely Volume Up being HELD down.

@Esteban Ballmero

Dear Engadget-

More like this.

-Bgrngod

@Tim Heckman And, the only way to get out of this screen is to yank the battery.

@Tim Heckman This doesn't work at all. There is no "recovery" option that comes up after holding down the up arrow when booting up. There is a "bootloader" option that when I select it shows a few other options. One of these is is bootloader, but selecting it takes me to a screen that shows a small version of my phone with a red triangle/exclamation point over it. Just... sitting there......

I am relaxed. I curse in all modes of comfort.

The fuck is with these instructions for install? I'm in recovery mode and have NOTHING that looks like "update this shit with a zip file".