A second batch of Gingerbread - P.S.

After Gingerbread's breaking of Netflix on the Evo became widely reported, the app was pulled from the Android Market while Netflix worked to make things right. The odd Netflix behavior that I experienced after updating Gingerbread made me think that I should check the Market for a Netflix update. I did, and sure enough, there it was. I just installed it and gave it a go, and am glad to report that Netflix is fully functional on my Evo again with no weirdness.

A second batch of Gingerbread

As it turned out, my favorite app, Netflix, did not work at all under the update, causing great distress for me and my fellow Evo owners.

I also encountered other problems. The notification icon for new text messages remained in the notification bar even after I read the messages. And last week, my phone stopped updating my Gmail account, for no apparent reason.

As it turned out, the legion of Evo owners out there experienced a host of problems with HTC's first run at porting Gingerbread to the Evo.

Today I learned that those issues may become mere memories. HTC has issued a maintenance release of Gingerbread, labeled 4.24.651.1. I just installed it, fired up Netflix and I am now watching "Twilight Zone" on my phone. Woo-hoo!

However, there is a mystery here. When I open Netflix, a dialogue box comes up that says, "New version of application is found, do you want to update?" It offers two buttons, "OK" and "Cancel." If I click "OK," the next box says "The requested item could not be found." If I click "Cancel," Netflix then seems to function normally. For now, I'm clicking "Cancel," because that works.

Even before I launched Netflix, the phone synced my Gmail, so that problem also seems to ave been solved. Double woo-hoo!

We'll see how it goes from here. For the moment, I am cautiously happy.

Another test

My Evo received an OTA update to Gingerbread last night. I'm checking to make sure that the apps I use/expect to use most often still work okay.

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