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Android 4.4.4. coming soon

ironass

ironass

Extreme Android User
UPDATE: Android 4.4.4 has just been released for the Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition, GT-i9505G. Firmware build I9505GUEUCNF3.


Android 4.4.4 OTA rollout to Nexus devices begins with Nexus 5

Since the update from 4.4.3 to 4.4.4 appears, according to the above article, to be only 2.5MB, it should easily be incorporated into the existing 4.4.3 builds and not delay releases. See post #69.

It seems that hardly has Android 4.4.2 almost finished rolling out than Android 4.4.3's imminent release is announced.

The 4.4.3 update is mainly a bugfix one and the Nexus and Google Play devices should receive it this month, followed by the Galaxy S5 and S4 International editions, unbranded, and then the carrier based firmwares will come afterwards... before 2015, according to these articles...

Android 4.4.3, KitKat Update Release Date for Samsung Galaxy S5 and Galaxy S4 to Land May 2014

Android 4.4.3 KitKat Release Date Firms Up


(I'll believe it when I see it. ;) )
 
ironass said:
It seems that hardly has Android 4.4.2 almost finished rolling out than Android 4.4.3's imminent release is announced.

The 4.4.3 update is mainly a bugfix one and the Nexus and Google Play devices should receive it this month, followed by the Galaxy S5 and S4 International editions, unbranded, and then the carrier based firmwares will come afterwards... before 2015, according to these articles...

Android 4.4.3, KitKat Update Release Date for Samsung Galaxy S5 and Galaxy S4 to Land May 2014

Android 4.4.3 KitKat Release Date Firms Up


(I'll believe it when I see it. ;) )
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Will the Galaxy S3 get it? :D
 
more pastel? more iOS 7 and Win8 like? no thanks. i think Android 4.3 will be the last version i use until Google stops going the flat design route. i was there when flat design was all computers at the time could pull off. i really don't want to relive the days of AOL and Windows 1.0, or *gasp!* the Prodigy Service. all of those used flat designs.

Think i will hold out until i know if we will ever see the reality of 3-D holographic UIs similar to the computers that Tony Stark used in the Iron Man movies.
 
nickdalzell said:
more pastel? more iOS 7 and Win8 like? no thanks. i think Android 4.3 will be the last version i use until Google stops going the flat design route. i was there when flat design was all computers at the time could pull off. i really don't want to relive the days of AOL and Windows 1.0, or *gasp!* the Prodigy Service. all of those used flat designs.

Think i will hold out until i know if we will ever see the reality of 3-D holographic UIs similar to the computers that Tony Stark used in the Iron Man movies.
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Why don't you like it? It looks a bit dated (galaxy S4 and S3 having those ice cream sandwich colours in the settings...)

It's more colourful now :P
 
not really. KitKat removes tons of color. all the notification icons go from a nice, nature-organic looking green to all white. among various others. the stock UI on a Nexus reminds me of Prodigy Service or OS/2. those who didn't live the days of early GUIs in the 80s-90s wouldn't care and to them it's new and fancy. but then the rehash of 1970s fashion in 1998 was 'new' to anyone who didn't live in the '70s. it was just hip and new or trendy.

I don't really care. then or now. i prefer my phone to have a UI that fits the capabilities. i am not using a PS/2 or a TRS-80. i don't want flat design again. i like my beautiful display.

people complain about the greens used in TouchWiz. but that is what made ICS and JB work for me, i never liked Holo Blue or the bottom task bar (the tablet UI had the back button on the far left bottom, which caused issues since that is where the on-screen virtual button was on my pinball games). i really like how TouchWiz gave me that green icon theme up top--one of those old Gingerbread features i liked. i also like the status arrows on my wifi icon.

Going from a super high definition million-color UI to a flat, 16-color UI that reminds me of the old computers from the 80s-90s would be to me like going from a high definition flat-panel LED HDTV to a CRT Television from 1976.
 
nickdalzell said:
not really. KitKat removes tons of color. all the notification icons go from a nice, nature-organic looking green to all white. among various others. the stock UI on a Nexus reminds me of Prodigy Service or OS/2. those who didn't live the days of early GUIs in the 80s-90s wouldn't care and to them it's new and fancy. but then the rehash of 1970s fashion in 1998 was 'new' to anyone who didn't live in the '70s. it was just hip and new or trendy.

I don't really care. then or now. i prefer my phone to have a UI that fits the capabilities. i am not using a PS/2 or a TRS-80. i don't want flat design again. i like my beautiful display.

people complain about the greens used in TouchWiz. but that is what made ICS and JB work for me, i never liked Holo Blue or the bottom task bar (the tablet UI had the back button on the far left bottom, which caused issues since that is where the on-screen virtual button was on my pinball games). i really like how TouchWiz gave me that green icon theme up top--one of those old Gingerbread features i liked. i also like the status arrows on my wifi icon.

Going from a super high definition million-color UI to a flat, 16-color UI that reminds me of the old computers from the 80s-90s would be to me like going from a high definition flat-panel LED HDTV to a CRT Television from 1976.
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Oh, well I agree in that sense... I'll miss the colours :(

They got rid of the wifi arrows? I really liked those... aww
 
androidlover9 said:
Oh, well I agree in that sense... I'll miss the colours :(

They got rid of the wifi arrows? I really liked those... aww
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According to Google they used more CPU cycles (and therefore battery life) than they were worth.

In stock android the arrow bars are still present in the quick settings menu. So you can still see it when you want to, but it doesn't eat battery when you don't

I'm not sure what Samsung's implementation does
 
As usual, Google justifies the changes (loss or arrows, loss of transparent bars in the Nexus 10) with a BS excuse. especially if ROM devs can do better. Google just flat out became lazy. and like Apple, they take things away and give us less and less choices with every new version. the only method to revert back involves rooting and Xposed modules, which, sadly, become more necessary with each new release of Android.

Google's reasoning for their stance on removing SD cards and getting other makers of Android devices to comply (they got Motorola for now, Samsung is next) is also BS.
 
Rxpert83 said:
According to Google they used more CPU cycles (and therefore battery life) than they were worth.

In stock android the arrow bars are still present in the quick settings menu. So you can still see it when you want to, but it doesn't eat battery when you don't

I'm not sure what Samsung's implementation does
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Kinda stupid... is there any way to get back the colour after you did the update?
 
nickdalzell said:
As usual, Google justifies the changes (loss or arrows, loss of transparent bars in the Nexus 10) with a BS excuse. especially if ROM devs can do better. Google just flat out became lazy. and like Apple, they take things away and give us less and less choices with every new version. the only method to revert back involves rooting and Xposed modules, which, sadly, become more necessary with each new release of Android.

Google's reasoning for their stance on removing SD cards and getting other makers of Android devices to comply (they got Motorola for now, Samsung is next) is also BS.
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Didn't Lenovo buy Motorola?

And why is Google trying to ruin Android kinda like how Apple (somehow) made iOS 7 even worse?
 
good question. i have no answer. i suppose they're following instead of innovating. Seems Google and Apple ran out of ideas so they go out and copy Microsoft or something. Android 4.3 is the last good version. Kitkat, or Android 4.4 is more like them trying to make a low-resource, extremely limited, colorless UI to make all the phones, low end to flagship, have consistency or to reduce fragmentation. Google lately seems to have this hatred of people using different versions of Android. it reeks of Apple with the 'one size fits all' mentality.
 
nickdalzell said:
good question. i have no answer. i suppose they're following instead of innovating. Seems Google and Apple ran out of ideas so they go out and copy Microsoft or something.
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Oh man... Windows 8 SO ugly! those tiles, that bland font in the apps... ugh... but I use the desktop all the time so I forget about the horrendous start menu.

I have a theme on chrome that makes the top three buttons (minimize, restore down, close) shaped like the ones on windows 7 :P

Project butter is not so buttery anymore... (ahem, S3...)

Hopefully Android 5.0 (or 4.5) will be something a bit more colourful.

Come on Android Lollypop, you can do this! XD lol.

Lolly pops are usually colourful, so, what the heck? XD
 
i think i will wait until i see what comes after Flat Design. i can only hope Flat Design is a passing fad. i know Windows 8 started the whole thing. surprised everyone loves the flat UI because that was the number 1 complaint about Windows 8.

i also think Key Lime Pie was a better name than KitKat. KitKat reduces Android to a toyish candy to me.
 
nickdalzell said:
i think i will wait until i see what comes after Flat Design. i can only hope Flat Design is a passing fad. i know Windows 8 started the whole thing. surprised everyone loves the flat UI because that was the number 1 complaint about Windows 8.

i also think Key Lime Pie was a better name than KitKat. KitKat reduces Android to a toyish candy to me.
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Yeah, all the other names sound devine, kit kat is just uncreative :P
 
Google gave a stupid reason for the name too. 'no one has heard of Key Lime Pie'

Oh really? i might live in the Southern USA, but i haven't met one person who hasn't heard of, much less eaten Key Lime Pie....are people really so dense to believe Google's excuses? i mean come on! everyone was calling it Key Lime Pie or using the acronym KLP for a long time before Google made KitKat official.
 
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