There is some interesting discussion going on XDA Forums that caught our attention. According to XDA member, EyesLikeOlives, he/she recently had a discussion with some Sprint rep who declared HTC EVO 4G is “downgrade –able” from Android 2.2 Froyo to Android 2.1 Eclair.
Here is the excerpt from the original post:
…Spoke with a customer service representative from Sprint while moving my replacement HTC EVO 4G from one phone line to the other and asked if he knew of a way to "down-grade" from Froyo to Eclair. His response was this:
"I checked the information regarding the degradation of HTC Evo software, you can visit our Sprint store to change the software of your HTC EVO to 2.1 . We will change this for you without any cost."…
We really don’t know if the above mentioned discussion/proposition holds true for rooted HTC EVO 4G owners running Android 2.2 Froyo. Some of the members at the Forum are apprehensive of the situation and claim it as “You heard what you wanted to hear and this will never happen actually”.
We previously heard that Sprint will launch an OTA update that will “Fix” the rooted HTC EVO 4G handsets and will revert them back to stock Firmware and this might be Sprint’s chance to unroot and downgrade your handset accordingly.
In case your Froyo update is giving you a hard time or you just loved the Eclair part then you can simply visit your nearest Sprint outlet and get your firmware downgraded to Android 2.1 Eclair without paying any extra dime.
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