Telstra's HTC Desire finds itself

David Heath
Saturday, 01 May 2010 13:32

Your IT - Mobility

Released a little over a week ago to raving reviews, the HTC Desire was found to have been shipped with a tiny software problem - the GPS didn't work.  An overnight software update has fixed the problem.

Released to much fanfare on April 21st, brand-new users of the HTC Desire started reporting problems with the GPS location system in the phone - basically, it didn't work.

There was a brief flurry of discussion centred around some phone working and others not until people determined that those seeming to work were relying on cell-tower triangulation, not GPS.

By last weekend, Telstra had acknowledged the problem and said a team was working on the problem.

At around 3:00pm yesterday (Friday 30th), Telstra issued a broadcast SMS to all owners of the HTC Desire:

Thanks for buying the HTC Desire. This week you will receive an important software update that sets up GPS on your device. To install, simply follow the prompts in the notification. To install the update later go to Settings>About Phone>System software updates>Check now. For support visit www.htc.com

At about 8:00pm, "Peter@Telstra" posted on the Whirlpool forum an update for all HTC Desire users.