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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 .
Tracey P said:
All that crap I said about VZW, I guess I take it back; the keyboard doesn't rotate, for one. :(

Anyone else run into other bugs w/ the leaked ota?
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The leaked OTA you installed is not the full version. It is never recommended to install 3rd party ROMs as always have a significant number of issues and bugs not present in the official OTA update.
 
jrmckins said:
that sounds dirty
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:D;):p I know!


Evan2ac said:
The leaked OTA you installed is not the full version. It is never recommended to install 3rd party ROMs as always have a significant number of issues and bugs not present in the official OTA update.
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yes, we know that it isn't recommended....however, with the amount of bloat and bugs we get in the official one some of us would much rather go with our tried and trusted devs.
 
Hmmm ... I can ditch Verizon, go to sprint and get a phone with an up to date OS. When this update finally pushes I can switch back to VZW and my dinc and give my kid my sprint phone. All for free .... it's tempting.
 
AppsRUs said:
For a billion dollar company this is pretty pathetic.
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You don't get to become a billion dollar company by pushing out defective software updates, unless you're Microsoft. If you don't want to root, give it a few days, or you can flash the rom.
 
Evan2ac said:
The leaked OTA you installed is not the full version. It is never recommended to install 3rd party ROMs as always have a significant number of issues and bugs not present in the official OTA update.
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Now THAT sounds like a VZW employee talking!

Let me translate for you "It is never recommended to install 3rd party ROMs as all of our bloatware can and is removed, taking away a revenue stream from us. Although completely legal and safe, we want to get as much money out of you as possible, so please, keep the bloat"

MolBasser
 
Evan2ac said:
The leaked OTA you installed is not the full version. It is never recommended to install 3rd party ROMs as always have a significant number of issues and bugs not present in the official OTA update.
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You sure about that? This is the OTA equivalent unless they make last minute changes which is somewhat doubtful. More likely they're having issues with the push process to some test phones and are circling the wagons. Same thing happened last time and the leaked RUU ended up being identical to the OTA. And we got it much earlier last time so there was ample time to make edits, yet there were none.
 
varkie said:
Cool now do a full nandroid backup. I myself have at least 2 copies of every ROM I use backed up.
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I just have one little problem. For some reason some of my games aren't here. Cause I have a folder for my games and only half of my games are in the folder, the rest don't have a picture just a name and that android picture. Games that deleted are Angry Birds, Tetris, Glow Hokey, NFS Shift, i don't know why. But some games stayed like the Impossible game, YooNinja Free, Doodle Jump.
 
The_Horak said:
If they never pushed the update, I wonder where the ROM came from.
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It's from a leak. Somebody gave it to the dev who released it on condition that he releases it as a rom and nothing else (no stripping out the radio or releasing it as an RUU).
That usually happens with updates, and I'm 95% certain it's always done by the carrier/OEM. Let the people who are willing to void their warranty and do their own tech support distribute it themselves, saving bandwidth for people who aren't into DIY. It also acts as a large scale beta test, with a particularly great testing group since the earliest people to install it are probably the users most capable of identifying problems. WIN/WIN/WIN/WIN. There is basically no downside for anybody in this, since the software that gets leaked is basically the same that gets pushed on everybody's phone (hence they aren't losing control of proprietary code).
 
jakob95 said:
I just have one little problem. For some reason some of my games aren't here. Cause I have a folder for my games and only half of my games are in the folder, the rest don't have a picture just a name and that android picture. Games that deleted are Angry Birds, Tetris, Glow Hokey, NFS Shift, i don't know why. But some games stayed like the Impossible game, YooNinja Free, Doodle Jump.
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The games you listed are probably on the SD card. Try running them from the app drawer to make sure they work. If they do, just replace the shortcuts in the folder.
 
euph_22 said:
That usually happens with updates, and I'm 95% certain it's always done by the carrier/OEM....There is basically no downside for anybody in this, since the software that gets leaked is basically the same that gets pushed on everybody's phone (hence they aren't losing control of proprietary code).
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So let's say that there are glitches that are fixed while the update is held up. Chances are good that the fixed OS, as well as any future fixes, will be released as a flash-able ROM, right? Just trying to get a handle on how leaked updates work.
 
RawlingsSc said:
The games you listed are probably on the SD card. Try running them from the app drawer to make sure they work. If they do, just replace the shortcuts in the folder.
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The games that I still have are on my SD card. The ones that are missing are the ones that were on my internal memory. They aren't on my app drawer at all. I am just redownloading all those apps and it seems my savefile is still there.

EDIT: Now I have another problem it says I am running on low memory. While I have 400MB left for apps.
 
jakob95 said:
The games that I still have are on my SD card. The ones that are missing are the ones that were on my internal memory. They aren't on my app drawer at all. I am just redownloading all those apps and it seems my savefile is still there.

EDIT: Now I have another problem it says I am running on low memory. While I have 400MB left for apps.
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1st off, are you sure you're sd card (or emmc/big internal partition) isn't full?
If they aren't, you're experiencing the fabled "low on space" bug. There is a big thread on that in the support subsection.
 
The_Horak said:
So let's say that there are glitches that are fixed while the update is held up. Chances are good that the fixed OS, as well as any future fixes, will be released as a flash-able ROM, right? Just trying to get a handle on how leaked updates work.
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There will 100% be a rom of the official update, whether or not it gets leaked. If there is a major fix, I'd put my money that it gets leaked beforehand. If they just need to patch a couple of bugs, and the patches only effect the targeted systems (ie a patch for an audio bug doesn't change anything in the display or radio code, that sort of thing) it's less likely.
 
euph_22 said:
1st off, are you sure you're sd card (or emmc/big internal partition) isn't full?
If they aren't, you're experiencing the fabled "low on space" bug. There is a big thread on that in the support subsection.
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Nope my SD card isn't full. And even if I take it out I still have the low space thing.
 
euph_22 said:
It's from a leak. Somebody gave it to the dev who released it on condition that he releases it as a rom and nothing else (no stripping out the radio or releasing it as an RUU).
That usually happens with updates, and I'm 95% certain it's always done by the carrier/OEM. Let the people who are willing to void their warranty and do their own tech support distribute it themselves, saving bandwidth for people who aren't into DIY. It also acts as a large scale beta test, with a particularly great testing group since the earliest people to install it are probably the users most capable of identifying problems. WIN/WIN/WIN/WIN. There is basically no downside for anybody in this, since the software that gets leaked is basically the same that gets pushed on everybody's phone (hence they aren't losing control of proprietary code).
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This is completely false.
 
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