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HTC Evo 4G OTA SD Card Bug Fixes May Block Rooting Hack feature

Previously i had posted about HTC EVO 4G SD card bug and its fix but  those users who have this issue may want to consider this before going for a update. According to the hacking team named as Unrevoked, the OTA fix may not purely fix the software glitch but instead, it may potentially prevent the smartphone from being rooted, eliminating all the possibility of full control over the smartphone.

Rooting is the process that will provide full administrative rights for Android (or Linux) based smartphone that will eventually give them full control over the phone with ability to unlock their phone full potential. Unless you are just normal users that would like to use your smartphone in simple way, else this is the essential steps that you don’t want to get limited by accepting the OTA patch right now. Especially for Sprint carrier service’ users that could potentially activate the 4G hotspot capability by rooting the smartphone, besides other capability such as installing customized or unsupported third party apps, which could be easily more value added as compared to inconvenience of unable to access SD card which claimed to be the only fix of the OTA.

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No actual change log with related to the OTA software patch yet, those developers that are working on rooting the smartphone are in the progress of understanding further in deep and may be able to figure out the way to root the phone again after OTA fix in short future.

HTC Evo 4G Experiences SD Card Storage Bug + Fix

It’s been two days or so when HTC EVO 4G smartphone was available but some early users, especially those that have got their hands on this awesome smartphone  during developer conference two weeks ago have experienced some glitch or issues related to its 8GB SD card bundled with the phone package.The scenario what happened was when the users tried to save captured photos into its external storage in SD card which lead to “insufficient permissions” error displayed on its screen. And to certain extend, some users did realize that their Evo 4G cannot access the SD card storage at all.

Unfortunately, the issue has just been spotted few days before its official launch that will definitely need some quick resolution before mass shipment out to consumers.While trying to take photos from the camera and saving them directly to the microSD card, they received an error message saying “insufficient file permissions”. Some Google I/O participants also faced the same issue. There’s also a group of apparently proud HTC EVO 4G owners who are not able to access the SD card at all.

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The root cause is still unknown but it seems that recycling the power sequence or switching the card out helped to eliminate the phenomenon. Some did point the finger to the ‘defective’ batch memory card manufactured by Sandisk but it is likelihood that the issue could be due to software glitch that can be easily be fixed with necessary software updates without any hardware tweak.

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Both HTC and Sprint spokesperson acknowledged the issues and is currently testing some resolution that is expected to be available soon.If you are the one of them, you need not worry. Sprint has analyzed the issue and is already rolling out an OTA(over the air) update to fix it. If you didn’t get an ‘update available’ notification, you can manually update your HTC EVO 4G to resolve SD card problems.

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To do that follow the following steps:
  • Press the Menu button on the phone
  • On your Sprint HTC EVO 4G go to ‘Settings’ icon.
  • In the setting menu go to ‘ System Updates’ by scrolling down
  • Then tap on ‘HTC software update’.
  • Press Check now
A guided tour will start to help you with the rest of the update process.Note that it is a 13MB OTA update. But you might not need to worry since you will be able to make/receive calls during data transfer. If you are a potential EVO 4G owner, you need not worry. Just go ahead and buy the phone because you’ll be able to fix the issue at no effort at all. Just follow the above steps once you have the phone.

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