Hello again, and Merry Christmas!
I still check the Huawei board regularly "for old time's sake" but find I jump out of my skin if there's anything here. A month ago it wasn't great, but thanks for your kind message at the time.
I don't know what to make of this. The "_F" bit isn't new, as that was part of the title when I used the upgrade in early Nov 2012, but it seems to have had a slightly different release date (2012-08-01 according to some upgrade instructions which I printed as a PDF at the time), so I guess it isn't exactly the same version. Ha! Just investigated, and the instructions are still on the VF website HERE - they are dated 2012-11-01, when VF actually released the upgrade, so the upgrade you've been offered was in theory issued before that.
B936 certainly didn't seem very stable, on the showing of all the problems that were reported, but those who moved on to B952 when that later became available seemed on the whole to fare better, so I think I'd want to be sure that there was a further step available before taking this one.
Also, like you, I have a phone that runs along nicely on GB, even if it is a bit limited in terms of available apps, and I'm reluctant to put that at risk, especially as I suspect that the upgrade works best on a phone that's "new out of the box" rather than one that has been out in the real world for a year and more. Also I'm increasingly of the view that you expressed a month ago, that the phone is just too low in memory and processor power to cope all that well with the upgrade. I rather suspect that VF never really decided exactly why the upgrade was so hit-and-miss - they must have lab-tested it before release, and had satisfactory results, so why was there such a problem when we all tried to use it for real?
I'd certainly recommend caution, and see what thoughts others come up with, especially if buying a new phone at the moment isn't really a viable option.
EDIT: I've just checked, and I'm being offered the upgrade - I wasn't sure what to expect, as there was a stage when those (like me) who had used the downgrade option from B936 to B895 were unable to get back up to B936, while those who had never retreated could upgrade to B936 and then on to B952. But I've also had time to think further about it, and I'm staying put where I am! It's a nice little phone, it does all of what I need and most of what I'd like, so it seems silly to put that at risk. When it's really on its last legs, I might try the upgrade if it's still on offer, and see what happens!
All the best!
Annie.
I just followed the instructions in the PDF that came inside the ZIP from the Huawei site. The PDF is really clear as long as you're prepared to ignore section 1.1 "The Following Versions Can Be Upgraded". I just followed section 4.2 "Normal Upgrade" and ended up with ICS. The Gingerbread menus were close enough to the screenshots in the PDF to figure out which GB options to follow. Here's the link again.
