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Verizon HTC Touch Pro Update Tweaked, Released as MR1 v2.0 (Updated Again)
PCD has posted the official release of the first maintenance release for the Verizon HTC Touch Pro.
The firmware that we posted last week was officially approved, but a last-minute bug was discovered in the GPS system. Hence, PCD has released this firmware update as MR1 v2.0.
You can download the firmware from the page linked below. As before, you will need a Windows XP or Vista computer to install the update. If you install the update we posted previously, we encourage you to update again to MR1 2.0.
Verizon HTC Touch Pro Downloads – PCD
Update: The saga continues. PCD has pulled MR1 v2.0 from their web site, with no reason given. We’ll follow up once there is an explanation from PCD. At this time, we have no choice but to assume both MR1 updates have some issue, and advise against updating. Unfortunately, nobody from HTC, Verizon, nor PCD has provided any comment on the situation.
Update 2: Without any notice, PCD has placed MR1 v2.0 back online for download, at the link above. The date on the release has changed to 06-11-2009. We are unable to confirm at press time if this is the same MR1 v2.0 released yesterday (and then pulled). Even more inexplicably, PCD has declined multiple opportunities for comment on the matter.
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It appears that he download is no longer available.
I downloaded MRI V2.0 last night with no problems. GPS works with Microsoft Live Search but couldn’t get it to work with Google Maps. Didn’t find any other problems.
The update MR1 V2.0 is back up…
i just re installed …works great…fixed the vz nav problem so far so good!
Re-re-installation under MR1 v2.0 (or, I guess, 2.0.1) does fix the GPS issues that crop up after using the device for a day or two.
Be sure to re-download VZ Navigator as well, as it was updated alongside this re-re-release. VZ Navigator now stands at 4.1.6.60
The .nbh files are the same. Only the documentation is different. Same update that was posted before…
There are still some bugs with this update….I installed today and now it will not automatically mark a new message as read when you reply to it. I must now manually touch the contact in front of the message to mark it as read. Very very annoying.
Elijah, that has been a bug for awhile now. It’s pretty common on HTC phones and incoming messages that you immediately reply to (or, open from HTC Home).
It seems that HTC just gave up on fixing it, and has differed that to Windows Mobile 6.5.
Christopher, that never happened on my diamond until last week. Last week it started to make me touch the contact to mark message as read. It started happening after I installed the latest gps hotfix. I’m thinking of uninstalling it to see if that fixes it. Oh, well I guess I can deal with it even though it is really annoying.
It’s sporadic, but it appears the latest HTC Home versions trigger it more commonly… likely because they do not use a MS-clean way of marking the messages as read. It also appears on MS’s end, since this can also happen via the taskbar notification.
Regardless, Windows Mobile 6.5 does take care of this, since it opens up the API for flowing messages much more than 6.1 and earlier.
I have Verizon HTC TouchPro and I’m hoping that there’s by now a workable upgrade for unlocking GPS. Google Maps does not work nor does a Marine GPS package I have which is otherwise wonderful and works on another device I have. Any update since June?
Hey Just get the wm6.5 update done by mighty rom goto http://www.lilrico.com/Mighty/mightyromblog/?page_id=3 and dl Mighty Rom 6 but the only thing to get picture messageing to work you will also have to install this http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=61802&highlight=arcsoft+mms