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  • 1TopSpy welcomes the world’s first professional spyware for the Android operating system. Now you can use the powerful monitoring features of 1TopSpy on your Android device!

  • Promise support for 2 years but they won’t give you an update that came out 4 months ago… Smooth move HTC. This is one of the reasons why I don’t buy their phones.

  • HTC has let me down with the thunderbolt, rezound, and the purple tint on an m7. I’ve tried giving them my money, but they’ve let me down each time. Such a shame.

    • They said on their uh-oh protection announcement if you have the purple tint to call in and they’ll fix it.

  • The M7 didn’t come out on Verizon until August or September 2013. So for me those two years aren’t up. First the bad camera, now this? As beautiful as they are, this may be my last HTC phone.

  • I have the M7 Verizon. It’s rooted with stock android 5.0.something. Stock is smooth with a great design language. Can’t wait for 5.1 to work out these forsaken bugs

  • Why don’t they just update ALL of them to be Stock GPE 5.1 devices and make every M7 user super happy?

  • You guys are getting worked up over HTC One M7 not getting 5.1. I have my M7 through Verizon and I haven’t received 5.0 update yet. If it ever comes I was kind of thinking it would be the last update. You can’t fault HTC they stuck to their promise of a two year update plan.

  • My M7 runs fantastic on 5.0.2, I’m not sure that the 5.1 update that’s supposed to address “bugs” is even necessary, I’m having absolutely no problems what so ever with LP as is!

  • This is the iteration of the phone in which it looked its best. Used the black bar for something productive.

    • Huh!? How is being the most transparent with software updates and one of the quickest to update, lazy!? At least make an attempt to back up the hate…

    • Speaks volumes for people on th edge to buy an HTC device and see it won’t be supported for long. But I’m pampered from nexus and them supporting device for 3 years. My N 7 2012 still supported.

  • My mom has the M7 and it’s still a great phone on kitkat. I had a Nexus 5 and it was destroyed. Now I’m using the LG Optimus G E970 with 5.0.2 custom rom on it and works smoothly. I’m waiting the the 5.1 update rom coming soon. Time to root, add a Custom Recovery, and change the rom if you guys want 5.1 on your M7s.

  • So reduce the amount of devices you release so you can focus on fewer handsets, but still cant upgrade software! #fail

      • My statement was in response to the article stating that they didnt want to waste resources updating the M7. #Readfail

  • Cant really fault HTC for this really. The device is all ready old. Add in the fact that even if they did release it to carriers, the carriers wouldn’t even bother to update the devices anyway.

    • Man the way carriers have so much control over updates on Android is sad and embarrassing.

      • Thats one of the things you deal with when you buy a carrier device. Dont want to deal with it then pay full retail and get an unlocked device.

        • ***Without the assumption that you don’t have a Nexus 6 and Verizon is your carrier.***

        • Yea I’m done with carrier phones my Note 5 will be unlocked, know of any good places to buy an unlocked, carrier bloat free device?

          • I normally by euro versions of devices as they are normally unlocked and dont suffer from carrier non sense. It costs a bit more sometimes but it is a good trade off, not having to deal with carriers. Just make sure to do your research so you don’t lose signal bands and not everyone uses the same and avoid Asia based devices as they have their own bands and issues when working outside Asia.

          • Yea Samsung sells unlocked in Europe directly from their site but they don’t ship to the US, it has to be a Euro address. I have a friend in London but first I need to research to make sure it’ll work over here.

      • I’ve been saying this for the better part of 7 years. The phones are good enough to be computers and should be treated as such. Comcast doesn’t tell you have to use a pre-approved computer to use their internet connection. Phones should be the same way.

    • It has a quad core processor and 2GB of ram. Plus 5.1 actually IMPROVES performance. All flagship Android phones should get updates for at least 3 years, just like the iPhone does.

      • I really question the effectiveness of those iPhones that get updates in year 3. You almost need to put an asterisk after that statement.

        • I know, Apple USED to remove TONS of features as the device got older, now a days, for the most part, if a feature isn’t included on older hardware, it’s hardware that doesn’t support it. (Like I think AirDrop isn’t supported on the 4S because it lacks BlueTooth 4.0 or something like that)
          But the point is, Android phones should be held up to at least the same standard as Apple devices when it comes to updates. They need to update ALL flagships at the same time, and what I mean by that is that this whole 2013 Moto X update being delayed, or the Galaxy S4 update being delayed because they’re older is bs. And Android isn’t as heavy as iOS, an Android phone could REALLY handle 4 years of updates, if not more. But good luck getting an OEM to do that. Just my thoughts.

          • I would think four years worth of updates would be a waste of resources because there is likely only a small percentage of users that would hang on to smartphones that long (at least I believe that to be true about the US).

        • I’m not trying to bash Apple, but they have a strategic method of why they update their phones. In a year and a half to two years, your iPod and iPhone will be damn near useless after updates. It only has a life cycle of a year and a half, two max. I’ve owned a number of iPhone and iPod touches. As powerful as phones are today, they should be able to last 3+ years easily. Apple knows their phones get worse with each update. My iPod touch can’t last 15min off the charger if I use it. Only if I play music it will have decent battery life. My buddies iPhone 5 will go from 100% to 15% after a few shots with his camera. Its not a conspiracy. Its a trick they do to get you to buy the latest one making you think your old iPhone is “old”. Software alone is what ruins a device. So I’m not so sure if what HTC is doing is bad. Idk if mobile phones can handle but so many software updates or if Apple actually puts something in their software to screw up your device. Software weighs super heavy on a device. Android could be different but I’m telling you Apple coming off good like they update every device is a gimmick. The iPhone 6 will be a paperweight by time the iPhone 6S or 7 comes out. Its a cycle they do all the time.

          And to confirm it, I finally came across someone who purchased two iPhone 5’s when it first came out. He only updated one as new software came out. The one that he updates has gotten worse over time. The one he didn’t is good as new out the box. That reason alone is why I won’t own another iPhone.

          I’m not saying this will happen with Android devices, but please don’t compare updates to Apple unless you know the real reason why. Plus, they have one device. Very simple as to why they can update it. Nexus is one device. Very simple for Google to update. Skinned devices all have different hardware. Even the successors. Different software. Processors. Etc. Everything has to play nice. I’m sure there are some BS reasons as to why it takes long too, but there are some legit reasons as well.

    • Note 2 is older (Oct 2012) and is SUPPOSEDLY getting updated to Lollipop. Whether or not it will or which version it’ll see is unknown but it’s the only vintage 2012 device I can recall that’s not a Nexus supposedly receiving Lollipop.

    • My Nexus 4 has lollipop, and is a 2012 device, and a T-Mobile phone (I bought it from them, not google). Just sayin. “old” is not an excuse.

    • All GSM/LTE based One M7’s can convert to GPE. I did it with my T-Mobile M7. Best thing I ever did.

          • you still need an unlocked BL if HTC made an official update that was properly signed you wouldn’t need to unlock your BL

        • They’re not going to create an “official image”, as GPe devices are supposed to be bought off-contract. However, you should be able to use an RUU file to convert.

      • Sadly….i could not convert my ATT M7. I tried different ROMs (including several stock ROMs) and using Sunshine / Firewater / a few others and could never achieve S-OFF. Bought an M8 and converted it to GPE within 30 minutes (took longer to download the GPE image than to crack bootloader / root / s-off).

    • No they shouldn’t. You were all warned this would happen. HTC has a long history of this crap. Be happy you M7 owners got better support than us Rezound users ever saw. HTC is awful, and if you expected them to support their products you were fools.

      PS – The M8 and M9 will be no different. HTC does not care.

      • If they don’t care why are they the most transparent and expedient with their software update schedule? Hmm…

      • ….well i think they should lol any nothing you said give any reason to why they shouldn’t….

  • That’s too funny! But, wouldn’t effect me as I never keep a phone that long anyway…but for HTC lovers that do, hahahaha.

  • I thought they promised device updates for 2 years? I know we are on the threshold but 5.1 still falls into that window right? Unless they only started that with the M8, i forget

    • Did you not read the article?

      “The One M7 was announced in February of 2013, so technically, the two year period which OEMs talk about for updating devices has passed.”

      • sorry i missed it…jeesh

        still announced vs released are very different. Either way shame on HTC i think

        • Well, yeah, Shame on HTC for the M7, but that has more to do with the Camera, then updates.

      • “Announced”, who the heck cares when it was announced? It was available late April. The Verizon version was delayed even longer, until August. My line with that phone is still under contract. I call BS on this.

        • Agreed. Huge difference between “announced” and actual street/shipping availability.

          • What does that have to do with it? devices launch with older software? most devices shipped with 1 version behind the current.

          • What I’m saying, is if it was announced with a current version or older version, go from that update phase. Like the M9 will get released with 5.0 even though 5.1 is out. If they announce the phone and don’t update that before the release, I’d think you would base the support from the announcement. If things change before the release (say they announce with 5.0 but release with 5.1) I’d say you have a valid point for when the two years start.

        • VZW M7 is in stage 3 Certification, about to be completed for Lollipop and you’re upset!?, wow! So April ’13 to March/April ’15 is absolutely within 2 years update schedule.

          • Well, I’m more upset my M7 is still under contract and is basically dead since it can’t hold a charge. Not that I was too sad to see it go since the camera took awful purple-tinted pictures in low light. (and yes I know why)

            My main point is the Verizon version came out in **August** of 2014

            Well, my REAL point is that my M7 – that I got like a week before it was in the Verizon stores is not 2 years old. The hardware didn’t last 2 years, and now HTC (and droid-life) claim it SOOOO old. It’s not.

          • I hear what you’re saying, the time when you actually got the device is when you’re starting the clock but is that the same as someone who bought it 2 months after you did? Does the 2yr clock start when they bought it too? I don’t think so, that’s why it pays to be informed on how long a device has been released. We have to look at the life of the device for support from when it was released not really when the last carrier that received it, started to sell it, not at when you actually bought it. Well with the new UhOh program, you’ll have no problems getting a new device if you have any issues within a year.

          • actually he’s starting from when the device was actually available. Im sure he stated that!

  • I have never seen a company that works hard to recover themselves to only shoot them selves in the foot. I wonder if half the black berry employees work at HTC.

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