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***Official Samsung Fascinate 2.2 Speculation Thread***

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Where will i go now if its released, all this built up rage from months and months of waiting and complaining....oh i know! "Official Samsung Fascinate 2.3 Speculation Thread" lol.....thats right, NOW I WANT MY GINGERBREAD AND EAT IT TO!!
 
Wait does this mean we get Google Search as an option or our we stuck with Bing, i remember awhile ago saying that we would have the option to toggle search engines.
 
So for us rooted uers, we'd have to flash the stock 2.1 rom and then upgrade to the official verizon release?

I think I'll wait to hear the reviews before I even do...
 
Bungalowbill said:
OK, I'm going to make it happen. I have a long history of buying electronic and audio equipment that seems to be the best decision, only to have it outdated within days. A recent example - I purchased a Pioneer VSX-1020 THREE DAYS before they announced the VSX-1021 (it adds Airplay).

I just found a deal on a Droid X. It should be in my hands by the end of the week. This action ensures that the Fascinate will have Froyo by month-end. Doubt me if you must, but in the fatal last words of many a southern redneck I say:
"Hey guys, watch this!"
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Told you this would work! As luck would have it, my daughter's Droid died and I gave her my Fascinate. Now I'll have to pay up big time to get it back.
 
holla!!!!

so now what am i gona do when i go online? checking this thread was numero uno!!

i say lock this monster after the rollout is finished!!

lock it up!!!
 
Ok. I know I'll be checking periodically tonight to get the update as I speculate most of you will also be doing. I CERTAINLY wont be waiting patiently for it to "pop" up.

Anybody wanna start making guesses what time they will make it available? I'll place my bets at 3am.

Takers??
 
I will miss this thread. Without it I would have just blindly loved my 2.1 stock SF. I sure hope 2.2 dosn't mess up my love affair with this phone.
 
I will wait a few days to update to this. Every single OS update that has been put out for the Galaxy S devices including the recent Gingerbread has been pulled after a day or two do to bad things happening to peoples devices. After its been out a few days and verified to be ok I will update.
 
nunyazz said:
Come out Come out, where ever you are, all knowing Tarrant.....
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Erm, if you scroll back a bit, you'll see that I was the first to post the announcement from VZW. :P

Perhaps I'll join the Gingerbread speculation thread in a reversed role. "Guys, relax, we're going to be getting 2.3 -any- -day- -now-, I can feel it!" ;X

If anybody wants to try on my devil's advocate hat next round, you're welcome to it: it's one size fits all.


Having said that, there was a reason for doing what I did, and it has nothing to do with you guys. It was about stirring the pot as vigorously as possible until VZW took notice. ;) Whether they did or not, who knows, but.. sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures, and I was happy to oblige.
 
Streetdoc740 said:
Ok. I know I'll be checking periodically tonight to get the update as I speculate most of you will also be doing. I CERTAINLY wont be waiting patiently for it to "pop" up.

Anybody wanna start making guesses what time they will make it available? I'll place my bets at 3am.

Takers??
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I think you better just sleep on it and we will get when we get it got it? LOL Still dont know if it will start out in different places or just all at once. I think maybe they do at night when the flow of data through the air is reduced in middle of night??:p
 
FragDroidX said:
I will wait a few days to update to this. Every single OS update that has been put out for the Galaxy S devices including the recent Gingerbread has been pulled after a day or two do to bad things happening to peoples devices. After its been out a few days and verified to be ok I will update.
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I don't think you need worry about that, 2.2 has been out for while in other places.
 
Tarrant said:
Erm, if you scroll back a bit, you'll see that I was the first to post the announcement from VZW. :P

Perhaps I'll join the Gingerbread speculation thread in a reversed role. "Guys, relax, we're going to be getting 2.3 -any- -day- -now-, I can feel it!" ;X

If anybody wants to try on my devil's advocate hat next round, you're welcome to it: it's one size fits all.


Having said that, there was a reason for doing what I did, and it has nothing to do with you guys. It was about stirring the pot as vigorously as possible until VZW took notice. ;) Whether they did or not, who knows, but.. sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures, and I was happy to oblige.
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Just as a timeline reminder for frequent visitors of this thread, I will simply link your first post, your first self-introduction to this forum (at least under the "Tarrant" name) here.

That post includes the following statements:

The fact is the Samsung Fascinate is -not- going to be upgraded to 2.2. Period.

Sure, sometimes development gets delayed for whatever reason, and sometimes those delays can be significant. But almost 9 months for a massive corporation to simply port an existing, completed package over to new hardware? Sorry, I don't buy it.

At this point, you're probably itching to point out that "well gosh, what about that leaked firmware?"

I propose to you that what was leaked was a version of 2.2 for the Fascinate that had been progressing before it was abandoned entirely. There's -absolutely- no reason to believe otherwise.
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You also later insinuated that I was a Verizon employee for posting a lot of strong evidence refuting your post here and here.

After that, I spend a considerable amount of time compiling and linking quite a bit of evidence and signs that it was coming, and put most of it in this post here. Included in that post was this specific response for you and anyone else interested:

It's up to you. You can choose to believe or not believe indications I get from my sources. You can choose to believe or not believe indications that are over on XDA, if you ever keep tabs on folks over there. You can choose to follow twitters or IRC of all the dev's and others "in the know" on the Fascinate's latest. I have followed this industry for years, and I have actively modded and tweaked this phone since its release, actively following the latest here, on XDA, and a few times when I've had the chance on IRC.

I believe Froyo is coming, and I've personally seen and played with plenty of evidence. There are more test kernels, there's advertising that's been released showing the Fascinate with 2.2, there are other leaks coming out that people are playing with and testing, and this device overall has a considerable following. In addition, it took FOREVER for Verizon/HTC to finally release 2.1 for the Eris. It was a truly similar situation, and also a pretty popular phone. I have no reason to expect anything different this time with a Verizon/Samsung combo. The Eris had variants on other networks - of which Verizon was one of the last (possibly the last?) to get a Hero variant. The 2.1 update was a long time in coming, although I don't know when it hit the other networks. I wasn't quite as into this stuff back then as I am now.
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Despite my efforts, and the evidence and efforts of others, you continued to post this and this.

Including your answer to another member here:

If you want 2.2, you'll need to take one of the unfinished but mostly functional leaked versions and push it to your phone yourself. There will be no support from Verizon or Samsung on this.
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What you call a "devil's advocate hat" I call something else entirely, but I'll leave it at that. I'm pleased to see the overwhelming evidence in favor of a very late, but still official 2.2 update, shall soon come to pass. And remember, Berizon being a month or so later than the other U.S. carriers for an update (and often even later for actual phones!!) is not in any way out of the ordinary. It's just very disappointing for them to be so late on a phone so popular and successful.
 
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