I’m blogging this so that hopefully it will help people without them having to look to far for an answer.
Okay so you got the coolest phone on the planet the HTC Magic running the Android system from Rogers Communications but when you text message it’s not in the right order?!?!? It’s showing that any message sent to you is coming from eastern standard time and for you that could be 1 hour off or up to 4 hours off. You can’t find any reason for your HTC’s Magic Thread messaging to be messed up. Now you’ve scoured your phone for some setting that you must have made a mistake on, you have found nothing.
Now you are scouring the web finding forum after forum complaining about this and how evil Rogers is. Calm down you finally hit the right place and no Rogers is not evil they actually have the solution on their website and my wonderful wife found it for me as I was in the same position as you.
What you need to is upgrade your rom on your phone, it was a glitch but a fix has been released so here are the steps to getting your phone issue resolved.
*Warning this is going to remove all your applications from your phone so write them down so you can get them after. It also wipes contacts but if your using google contacts your phone will pick them up again when you connect your account.
- go to - https://your.rogers.com/web_auth/downloads.asp?product=Wireless
- Select Software from first drop down, select HTC from second Drop down
- For your magic first get the HTC Sync 2nd bullet in the list save it to your computer and run it. This is used to connect your phone to your computer. After this is installed and running plug your phone into your computer with the usb cable it came with.
- Now on your phone you may get a notification that requires you to HTC sync with your computer, make sure you do that so that your phone and computer start talking.
- Next download HTC Magic Software and save it your machine
- Run the application you have just downloaded now at this step it takes about 10 min to update and you can’t disconnect your phone or let your computer go to sleep as it can mess up and potentially break your phone, as it will mess up the install ( you’ve been warned )
- From here on out follow the prompts and your phone will have it’s rom updated and now your messaging is fixed.
- Final Step go get your favorite applications from the Android Market Place and re-customize your phone.
It reads more complicated than what it is but if you have trouble you can always have a CSR from Rogers help you as they were helpful with us looking for and finding the solution. Or leave a comment and I’ll do what I can to help you.
However as a warning anyone leaving a comment saying that their screen is black and they haven’t tried turning it on yet I have a solution immediately – Take the phone and accessories and put them back in the box and return it to your local rogers and tell them this phone is to complicated for you. I’m just joking i’m sure everyone in the world has gotten that email forward about the CSR with the guy and the computer that wasn’t plugged in.
Good luck and keep on enjoying your Android HTC Magic (Google) Phone.