Mr. Boom
Android Enthusiast
Hmmm, curious for a first post!
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Gingerbread 2.3 was here, then gone, now it's back
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BoulderAndroidFan
Android Enthusiast
Wow...I can't believe my post about network outtages, vampires, and updates that skipped Gingerbread and went right to Honeycomb were actually taken seriously. Holy smokes, what does a guy have to do to make it obvious that he is having a little fun!?!?
Alright, I stand corrected and feel totally ridiculous falling for the sarcasm! The vampires should've been the dead giveaway...thanks for setting me straight and reviving my sense of humor!
I believe Evan. Why not. We all know he very well could be both honest and forthright. As I said before, even the CEO has no idea until they are very very close. I have an inside source Peter David Foster who always tells me a few hours before the update that it is coming. Look for PDF. He will never lead you astray.
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bowerman
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So what you mean is: You are Evan, and now no one is believing you (except a couple on here), so you made another screen name on here to try to validate your original fairy tail? You know the mods can see your IP right?
So it goes from "It's all ready to go, all signed off, on the deployment servers" to.. "uhhh.. no, not quite, we're doing more testing"
Everyone's known there is a update. The discussion was never about whether there was one or not...
The discussion is when the update will happen... the news release (linked early in this thread) says sometime "summer 2011" Which could mean tomorrow or 2 months from now...
the running joke is Evan has been wrong 3 times? now
His record is on par with the "end of the world" guy at this point
actually is not the issue in this case
LOL I miss the days when I ran a forum and you could just look up folks IP addresses
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bowerman
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actually is not the issue in this case
LOL i figured there was a chance!!!
LOL I miss the days when I ran a forum and you could just look up folks IP addresses
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bowerman
Guest
You can see IP addresses right? I can see them on my website as well as forums i have ran...
^meh the fascinate was probably just getting froyo
^meh the fascinate was probably just getting froyo
yeah and they messed it up aparently. Had a guy bring in his fascinate that bricked when it did the update. He was pretty pissed off, for obvious reasons, and swore it was the last time he would purchase a samsung phone, lol.
The screens look nice on em, but honestly, I haven't been that impressed with any of their phones, tho the charge is sweet looking, and has better battery than the tbolt...I dunno, I just really like that tbolt . Think I'm an HTC fan since I got my inc.
Me too, HTC all the way. Want to see how gingerbread fairs on our device though. Surely there will be some bumps immediately afterwards
The Flatworm
Lurker
The HTC Droid Incredible is such a fine product! I have read many complaints about such things as sound quality, connectivity, and battery life. Of these, I only experienced the battery life problem -- I had to recharge nightly -- but this problem pretty much disappeared when the update to 2.2 "FroYo" nearly tripled my battery life. And its connectivity has been the best of any cell phone I ever had (and I had a fine, fine Motorola E615, one of the best "old-fashioned" cellphones ever built).
When I was updated to FroYo last August everything was nearly perfect and worked just like I wanted it to work. Then Verizon pushed an update in November that was a HUGE backslide, making the little weather widget show my position at some random point about 50 miles south of me (which I solved by turning off Google Location Services -- at no cost whatsoever in functionality), and reverting the default email client to its previous incompetence after it had worked perfectly in the original FroYo. But still it's a wonderful phone.
But I first talked to a third-level Verizon technician back last November about the location problem, he informed me that it would be solved with the release of Gingerbread, which was initially scheduled for December. Then, when months elapsed without the update, I was told "Second Quarter." Then I was told the "End of the second quarter."
The third quarter begins Friday. Still no update. I have read this entire thread and it seems as if we get teased almost on a continuous basis, sort of like those tortoises on whose backs kids sit with hot dogs on a stick -- the tortoises take a step to try to get a bite, and the hot dog moves a step away.
I know Verizon likes to sell phones but I'm still nearly a year away from eligibility for the re-up discount and none of the new stuff seems appreciably better than what I've already got ---- EXCEPT THAT THEY GET THE CURRENT O/S AND THE NEW SENSE.
(Indeed, many of the new stuff is worse, as Verizon seems to have opted to load them all up with unremovable (without rooting) crapware.)
C'mon, guys. My phone still looks and performs like a new phone. Mistreating your long-time customers (I've been with Verizon Wireless since they called it "C&P Mobile" in the Washington, D.C., area, and with Verizon's land-line forerunners since the 1950s). To "orphanize" this fine product when it's still reasonably new is just not right.
When I was updated to FroYo last August everything was nearly perfect and worked just like I wanted it to work. Then Verizon pushed an update in November that was a HUGE backslide, making the little weather widget show my position at some random point about 50 miles south of me (which I solved by turning off Google Location Services -- at no cost whatsoever in functionality), and reverting the default email client to its previous incompetence after it had worked perfectly in the original FroYo. But still it's a wonderful phone.
But I first talked to a third-level Verizon technician back last November about the location problem, he informed me that it would be solved with the release of Gingerbread, which was initially scheduled for December. Then, when months elapsed without the update, I was told "Second Quarter." Then I was told the "End of the second quarter."
The third quarter begins Friday. Still no update. I have read this entire thread and it seems as if we get teased almost on a continuous basis, sort of like those tortoises on whose backs kids sit with hot dogs on a stick -- the tortoises take a step to try to get a bite, and the hot dog moves a step away.
I know Verizon likes to sell phones but I'm still nearly a year away from eligibility for the re-up discount and none of the new stuff seems appreciably better than what I've already got ---- EXCEPT THAT THEY GET THE CURRENT O/S AND THE NEW SENSE.
(Indeed, many of the new stuff is worse, as Verizon seems to have opted to load them all up with unremovable (without rooting) crapware.)
C'mon, guys. My phone still looks and performs like a new phone. Mistreating your long-time customers (I've been with Verizon Wireless since they called it "C&P Mobile" in the Washington, D.C., area, and with Verizon's land-line forerunners since the 1950s). To "orphanize" this fine product when it's still reasonably new is just not right.
I dont really understand what the issue is here. We all have a pretty good idea that the inc is going to get the GB update. I don't think anyone here was even questioning that to begin with were they? No, what we were talking about was WHEN the update will occur. What you said in your post is that "there is an update, she wouldn't tell me when" guess what? We already all knew that anyways, lol.
And as far as it being this month, well there are 2 days left, so it seems pretty unlikely that it would happen in June now doesn't it?
as far as evan, well, a broken clock is right twice a day isn't it?
Its summertime people. Put your phones in your pocket and go outside. we'll get the update when we get it. if there's one thing I learned from following this forum, its that hardly anybody really has reliable inside info. If everybody stopped responding so aggressively to the "trolls" and just ignored what is obviously bs, they'd stop messing with you/us. you're just reinforcing their behavior by giving them what they seek.
And has been pointed out repeatedly, the information could be 100% accurate when posted and it could change. Or they could be referencing out of date material without knowing it. These updates are moving targets.
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novacane (OFWGKTA)
Brilliant
DevinSean
Newbie
I'm aware of that but some people were still saying that it might not happen so I was just confirming it.
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bowerman
Guest
No. GB will happen. Although I highly doubt it will be even close to as god as CM7. I'm sure it will be a laggy spammed up version of GB with sense.