TELUS HTC Desire HD update to Android 4.0 cancelled, down to 'poor device performance during testing'

By Richard Devine  | Jul 14 2012 | 10:10 am  | 27 Comments

Android Central

TELUS has been pretty good as far as information surrounding their devices update schedule to Ice Cream Sandwich. There's another update now doing the rounds, and sadly it brings bad news for owners of the HTC Desire HD. The update for the Desire HD has been cancelled "due to poor device performance during testing." 

While it's sure to be a bitter blow to owners of the device eagerly awaiting their turn to upgrade, if performance is an issue then it's the right decision to make. An update isn't worth waiting on, let alone accepting, if it doesn't make for a good user experience. 

Additional Android devices featured on the latest documentation still shows August for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 with the 10.1 also slipping to August after we'd previously seen late July for the tablet. Also, there's prospective August 7 in market date for the LG Optimus LTE. 

Source: TELUS via Mobilesyrup

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Brainfart says:

I hope this doesn't mean that the Thunderbolt will get cancelled also. I was really looking forward to this update to tide me over until I can upgrade my phone.

DestinedtoGame says:

I went through 7 of those. They sent me a refurbed Rezound for 33 bucks by the 8th. So call and keep on complaining!!!

Synycalwon says:

Be careful what you wish for, Thunderbolt works very well on Gingerbread. I'll take that over a borked one running ICS. Look at it further, if ICS does come to it, you can be sure it won't exactly be bug free and will most likely need a subsequent OTA. How long will that take if they even do it? Are you willing to deal with that? Guess my point is; be happy with what you have and look for a new OS on a new phone. :)

firewire says:

Lol stock android runs smoother than anything. But HTC is stubborn with their corporate decisions to put skins on the phone and there you have it ...

OmahaBrotha says:

This news certinaly doesn't bode well for the Thunderbolt. If HTC can't get it to run with Sense then they can at least send out code for guys like Cyanogenmod to make a build for the 'bolt.

crxssi says:

Yep. 768MB of memory is just not enough for Sense and ICS. It is bad enough with 1GB of memory. A single core 1GHz Qualcomm Scorpion CPU doesn't help matters much either.

Richard Devine says:

You say that...yet the HTC Desire C (our review will be up soon) runs ICS, Sense 4.0 and only has a 600MHz Snapdragon CPU and 512MB RAM. And it runs it pretty well

crxssi says:

Really? Are you sure it is not Sense 3.5 or whatever they call the "limited" version now? This is an official update from HTC?

gagdude says:

Dude. The Desire C came out of the box with Sense 4 and ICS.

crxssi says:

LOL! Sorry, I am not familiar with that model.

Adam Sawyer says:

noob

randyw says:

Thats Bull. My Inspire runs a Sense 4 port with ICS very well and it's the same phone as the DHD. Runs very fast and very smooth. There are several Sense 4 and even Sense 3.6 ports of ICS avalable on XDA. And they all run well on the DHD and the Inspire 4G.

shahravi94 says:

Hope this doesnt hold true for the international version as well... as long as it comes out on any of the desire hd variants we will have the drivers necessary to get full sense 4.0 working ports on the desire hd.

ljnecesito says:

Htc and Samsung are the same they will promise an update like the value pack for gt p1000 but the waiting will take forever.

TLB69 says:

Is anybody really surprise by this?

heathroi says:

No because it was going to difficult to get ICS and sense to run on memory available. However now might be time to root and flash aosp custom rom. Ics runs well on its cousin, the inspire, without sense.

wade_county says:

@crxssi The Desire HD & Incredible S is running a 1st gen Snapdragon. The Thunderbolt & Droid Incredible 2 runs a S2 Snapdragon. The Incredible S is running ICS with Sense 3.6 just fine and just like the Thunderbolt & Droid Incredible 2 it has 768MB. I have a feeling it has to do with battery life, Desire HD has 12XXmah battery.

JayND says:

The Incredible S and DROID Incredible 2 are the same phone. They're both running the s2

wade_county says:

Actually, I was wrong thinking the Desire HD and Incredible S was running a S1. Its indeed a S2 but an older version compared to the ThunderBolt and the Droid Incredible 2.

MSM8255 - Desire HD and Incredible S
MSM8655 - ThunderBolt and Droid Incredible 2

http://is.gd/PaGKz8

horacenick says:

HTC has already released a statement saying that's incorrect. While Telus may have canceled it, HTC still intends to release the upgrage, rumored to be released on July 25.

experiment626 says:

Can they do that?

yankee_vb says:

Source?

jwojtanowski91 says:

The thunderbolt will be my last htc device of it is not upgraded. Is has more than enough to run ics. Such bull.

jwojtanowski91 says:

The thunderbolt will be my last htc device of it is not upgraded. It has more than enough to run ics. Such bull.

delta7 says:

I agree, I have the evo design and I don't know if I'll get another htc device after this, the upgrade path is just plain pathetic.

cypis says:

Oh please.. DHD has same spec as Desire S and Incredible S which got ICS updates with sense 3.6! What a liars.

randyw says:

The DHD is still on HTC's update list. It is Telus that stoped the update. Not HTC. They just want you to upgrade your phone. HTC blog page is full of Very angry folks with DHD's asking what is going on but so far nothing from HTC.