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Gingerbread 2.3 was here, then gone, now it's back

When will VZW push a fixed GB OTA

  • 10/11/11

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 10/17/11

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 10/24/11

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 10/31/11

    Votes: 3 2.8%

  • 11/07/11

    Votes: 2 1.9%

  • 11/14/111

    Votes: 22 20.6%

  • 11/21/11

    Votes: 6 5.6%

  • Don't care (rooted already, etc)

    Votes: 23 21.5%

  • Before Christmas

    Votes: 12 11.2%

  • Never, the lobsters ate all the testers so it got cancelled

    Votes: 11 10.3%

  • It isn't coming at all now

    Votes: 13 12.1%

  • Any minute now

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Immediately after Jimmy Hoffa's body is found

    Votes: 4 3.7%

  • The day after the apocalypse

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Sometime after the sun goes supernova

    Votes: 9 8.4%
  • Total voters
    107
  • Poll closed .
droid x is a newer phone than the incredible... of course it is more likely to officially get gingerbread than the incredible. But unofficially the incredible has had gingerbread for months. HTC has never even confirmed that they are going to release gingerbread for the incredible. It's more up to them than it is to Verizon.
 
i think the Incredible is in HTC and Verizon's rear view mirror...:(
 
Now there's stories of the Xperia X10 getting the Gingerbread love. If that's true, man is that a kick in the nuts for Incredible owners.
 
thread resurrected from the dead. if we see an update to 2.3 it wont matter much to me unless it includes sense 2.0 then i might think about going back to stock, but i love my CM too much.
 
WBMc36 said:
thread resurrected from the dead. if we see an update to 2.3 it wont matter much to me unless it includes sense 2.0 then i might think about going back to stock, but i love my CM too much.
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i agree, but even then, I'd probably get tired of sense 2.0 that after a while.
 
Everyonen should relax its all just rumor... we've been down this road before.
 
And honestly gingerbread doesn't really bring anything special to the phone. If anything just hope that gingerbread brings along sense 2.0 with it.
 
blkbeltkid17 said:
I dont know why we care the dinc is post its shelf life why would we get an os update when the phone is dead lol
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We care because no everyone is month to month or on a one-year contract. If GB comes out in Q2, as rumored, then that should be the last major update for a great phone on a 2-year contract.
 
blkbeltkid17 said:
Yeah true I think more people are wanting sence 2.0 more then gb
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It's true. Only things that I saw in GB that we'll benefit from in the new Sense (if it's not already included in their internal build) is the move to SD feature. Yes, I know we got that in 2.2, but you just have to use CM7 or another GB build to see what I mean. There's a new tab that shows all apps that CAN be moved to the SD card, with checkboxes, which makes it much easier than going through your apps to figure out on your own which can and can't.

Also, GB uses a better file system and has better garbage collection, so we get another performance boost. Not as dramatic as the JIT changes in 2.2, but still appreciated.

Our version of Sense was only ever ported to 2.2. "New" Sense was ported to 2.2.1, and it seems like a more updated version is coming to 2.3.x, and THAT is the build we will be getting. I'm just hoping they finally merge their portrait/lanscape Senses. I hate that phones like the Evo Shift (Desire Z) get Landscape while phones like the Thunderbolt (Desire HD) do not. Yes, even if we don't have a slideout keyboard, we have a use for landscape Sense. Give us the option!
 
Amen goon sir... If the roumors are true I will prob unroot and try out the offical gb although I have been on gb for about 3 months now
 
blkbeltkid17 said:
Amen goon sir... If the roumors are true I will prob unroot and try out the offical gb although I have been on gb for about 3 months now
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Don't bother unrooting. I maintain my own custom ROM over at XDA based on the stock ROM, and I plan to have the GB build out before Verizon even does their OTA, so long as there's one leak at least a week before the OTA.

And even if I fall through, we have many talented developers capable of doing at least the same.
 
alarson83 said:
The benchmarks that have come out for the gingerbread updates for droidx and droid 2 would say otherwise.
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Most of the benchmarks changes are due to the standardized file system. The Cyanogen(mod) team showed several months ago that this artificially inflates benchmarks, specifically, Quadrant.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you go off the score given by the free version of Quadrant, you are misinformed as that score is essentially worthless as a benchmark comparison between multiple phones. The paid version is better, as it gives you a better idea of what each component is doing, but even that benchmark is flawed (the OG Droid's CPU beats the Droid 2 and Droid X by more than 2x, despite the OG Droid's CPU being the same CPU as the other phones, at a lower clock speed).

Android benchmarking software isn't mature enough yet to be as worthwhile as PC benchmarking suites. And, even though mature benchmarking suits have been debated as to their usefulness and accuracy. Android benchmarks are pointless.
 
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