Sprint Halts EVO 4G OTA Update Due To Bricking Phones

June 29, 2010

According to MobileCrunch, the HTC EVO 4G OTA update that started yes­ter­day morn­ing soon after resulted in some users get­ting their EVO 4G bricked, jail­bro­ken and stock ver­sions. Sprint and HTC have tem­porar­ily halted the OTA update:

While the vast major­ity of con­sumers suc­cess­fully down­loaded and installed the most recent HTC EVO 4G soft­ware update, we have received a hand­ful of reports from cus­tomers hav­ing some issues with the update. In light of this, HTC and Sprint have decided to tem­porar­ily halt dis­tri­b­u­tion of this soft­ware release until we can inves­ti­gate fur­ther. We expect to be able to resume soft­ware updates shortly.

Give Sprint a call (888-211-4727) and ask for a replace­ment and a credit to your phone bill for the month. You might also give your local Sprint store a try.