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Your phone appears to be telling the truth in stating that there are no updates available for it. Mapping that fact to a statement that "your phone is up to date" in the message title is perhaps u...
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#2: Post edited
by
Canina
·
2021-08-26T19:08:12Z (about 3 years ago)
- Your phone appears to be telling the truth in stating that **there are no updates available** for it.
Mapping that to "your phone is up to date" in the message title is perhaps unfortunate, but doesn't change the fact that no updates are available and that the phone is plainly telling you as much.- A quick web search for the make and model pointed me at [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Desire_610), which in turn pointed me at [the manufacturer's product page](https://www.htc.com/us/smartphones/htc-desire-610/) on their web site, where I quickly found a list of [software versions used by their various phones](https://www.htc.com/us/support/updates/). That, in turn, lists the HTC Desire 610 as "Latest Android OS" version "4.4", and "Latest ROM #" version "1.54.502.16". The Wikipedia page for the specific model also specifically mentions that it runs Android 4.4.2, which matches the OS version claim made by your phone.
While Wikipedia claims that [Android 4.4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history#Android_4.4_KitKat) had a final release 4.4.4 in June 2014, the fact that a more recent Android 4.4.x was released by Google is **no guarantee that HTC ever provided it as an update to your particular model.** Such is life in the Android ecosystem: if you want to be sure to benefit from Google's updates without having to rely on another company to pass those updates along to you, then you need to, at a minimum, buy a Google-branded phone. And even then, it's doubtful that they would support updating a seven years old phone to the latest version of Android; it probably wouldn't have all the hardware features nor the raw performance (at a minimum, memory and CPU) to run the newer version acceptably well.
- Your phone appears to be telling the truth in stating that **there are no updates available** for it.
- Mapping that fact to a statement that "your phone is up to date" in the message title is perhaps unfortunate, but doesn't change the fact that no updates are available and that the phone is plainly telling you as much.
- A quick web search for the make and model pointed me at [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Desire_610), which in turn pointed me at [the manufacturer's product page](https://www.htc.com/us/smartphones/htc-desire-610/) on their web site, where I quickly found a list of [software versions used by their various phones](https://www.htc.com/us/support/updates/). That, in turn, lists the HTC Desire 610 as "Latest Android OS" version "4.4", and "Latest ROM #" version "1.54.502.16". The Wikipedia page for the specific model also specifically mentions that it runs Android 4.4.2, which matches the OS version claim made by your phone.
- While Wikipedia claims that [Android 4.4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history#Android_4.4_KitKat) had a final release 4.4.4 in June 2014, the fact that a more recent Android 4.4.x was released by Google is **no guarantee that HTC ever provided it as an update to your particular model.** Such is life in the Android ecosystem, where Google provides updates but phone manufacturers are the ones to pass them along to their users. Also, even if updates are provided for a while, not only might a seven years old phone not have the hardware to run the newest version of Android acceptably well, it's also quite possible that the manufacturer isn't inclined to spend of their own money on giving you *less* reason to buy a new phone (ideally buying it from them, of course) by supporting such software upgrades for an extended period of time.
- If you want to be sure to benefit from Google's updates without having to rely on another company to pass those updates along to you, then you need to, at a minimum, buy a Google-branded phone. Failing that, both between different manufacturers and within a single manufacturer's lineup, I would expect a high-end phone to be supported with software updates for longer than a mid-range or low-end model.
#1: Initial revision
by
Canina
·
2021-08-06T09:39:12Z (over 3 years ago)
Your phone appears to be telling the truth in stating that **there are no updates available** for it. Mapping that to "your phone is up to date" in the message title is perhaps unfortunate, but doesn't change the fact that no updates are available and that the phone is plainly telling you as much. A quick web search for the make and model pointed me at [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Desire_610), which in turn pointed me at [the manufacturer's product page](https://www.htc.com/us/smartphones/htc-desire-610/) on their web site, where I quickly found a list of [software versions used by their various phones](https://www.htc.com/us/support/updates/). That, in turn, lists the HTC Desire 610 as "Latest Android OS" version "4.4", and "Latest ROM #" version "1.54.502.16". The Wikipedia page for the specific model also specifically mentions that it runs Android 4.4.2, which matches the OS version claim made by your phone. While Wikipedia claims that [Android 4.4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history#Android_4.4_KitKat) had a final release 4.4.4 in June 2014, the fact that a more recent Android 4.4.x was released by Google is **no guarantee that HTC ever provided it as an update to your particular model.** Such is life in the Android ecosystem: if you want to be sure to benefit from Google's updates without having to rely on another company to pass those updates along to you, then you need to, at a minimum, buy a Google-branded phone. And even then, it's doubtful that they would support updating a seven years old phone to the latest version of Android; it probably wouldn't have all the hardware features nor the raw performance (at a minimum, memory and CPU) to run the newer version acceptably well.