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**** OFFICIAL **** ICS COMING SOON thread... Post all questions and info here!!!!

Kelmar said:
If you look in the All Things Root forum there are directions. Note that doing this may brick your device and render it useless and that it also voids your warranty.
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i did a little research and took care of it.

only thing thats pissing me off is that wifi networks keeps popping up, when i turn it off. besides that, i love it. facial unlock is awesome
 
vnyislesv said:
rooted, downloaded/installed ICS, all of the above is fixed, face lock set up. man, im 1 happy person today!
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What was the issue with the wifi setup?
Any other pros or cons you can give us? I'm trying to figure out if this is worth the upgrade from .173.
 
Downloaded ICS last night it is awsome love it makes the razr so much better

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It was my first time took about an hour had to root then get the leak but so far well worth it

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Well...GB is working fine but, like most others, I am also anxious for ICS.

That said...I'll wait for the OTA even if its this time next year.
 
Ridgerunner665 said:
Well...GB is working fine but, like most others, I am also anxious for ICS.

That said...I'll wait for the OTA even if its this time next year.
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By this time next year I'll have the new iPhone. I'm sick and tired of androids delayed updates. It's ridiculous that some phones are 2 versions behind ics.
 
Gravytrain said:
By this time next year I'll have the new iPhone. I'm sick and tired of androids delayed updates. It's ridiculous that some phones are 2 versions behind ics.
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I just want something that works myself...it doesn't have to be the latest and greatest.

To me, these phones are much the same as PC's.

I liked Windows XP, never owned a Vista machine (heard they had issues), Windows 7 is pretty good IMO...

The moral of the story...as long as it works when I get it...I'm happy.
 
Hypo Luxa said:
*sigh* I go through this every single time I get a new phone! For once I would like to see event dates and not have to deal with all the hoax announcements (Best Buy) and rumored release dates that end up being wrong because the release dates are big secret. Come on, I'm not asking for an exact date.. just tell us "Ok, we are running the soak test between this and this date. If there are no issues deployment will begin within two weeks. We will announce a new estimated soak date if issues do crop up."

I figured the BB one was a hoax from the start.. come on.. Best Buy announces it but no word from VZ or Motorola? Just a tad suspicious.
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Not sure, but this is beginning to seem more like a Verizon thing, not Motorola. I say this, mainly because this has been happening to me since I was on the BlackBerry storm. There would be rumors, innuendo, lies and leaks, just like on the android side. and guess what? Verizon blocks everything they possibly can, but reaps the benefits of customers buying their products in hopes of a newer operating system that actually works. Unfortunately, it never arrives, and a newer, faster product hits the shelves in the meantime. Like the earlier post said, carrot dangling in front of the horse....
 
Gravytrain said:
By this time next year I'll have the new iPhone. I'm sick and tired of androids delayed updates. It's ridiculous that some phones are 2 versions behind ics.
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Thinking of jumping ship as well, the iPhone that my boss uses has had five updates since he's had it. My droidx had two in that same time frame. the RAZR, none....
All the time, we hear about updates and such, but there is pretty much nothing to do but wait and have the carrot dangled in front of us. Its almost as bad as being on a BlackBerry again, same stuff, different device. Same carrier, though....hmmmmmmm?
 
Bugly said:
Thinking of jumping ship as well, the iPhone that my boss uses has had five updates since he's had it. My droidx had two in that same time frame. the RAZR, none....
All the time, we hear about updates and such, but there is pretty much nothing to do but wait and have the carrot dangled in front of us. Its almost as bad as being on a BlackBerry again, same stuff, different device. Same carrier, though....hmmmmmmm?
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The reality is that it's a lot easier to update one or two phones compared to over twenty per manufacturer. That's why HTC had slimmed their line of devices down with the One series. If all you care about is staying up to date, buy new phones when they're released every other week. As soon as you make your purchase, you're already behind the curve. It's just how technology moves.
 
Bugly said:
Thinking of jumping ship as well, the iPhone that my boss uses has had five updates since he's had it. My droidx had two in that same time frame. the RAZR, none....
All the time, we hear about updates and such, but there is pretty much nothing to do but wait and have the carrot dangled in front of us. Its almost as bad as being on a BlackBerry again, same stuff, different device. Same carrier, though....hmmmmmmm?
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Wow, this us just a ridiculous comparison. The Razr has had three updates to GB, which have really been performance tweaks. The blackberry comparison is way off the mark. Having owned several "effing" BBs I can say with 100% certainty that BB updates were absolutely critical to getting those POS "smartphones" to work properly at all. Be thankful we are NOT on a BB update cycle!

So far the Razr updates have brought some useful functionality, but in general there hasn't been anything broken about the phone. The Droid X updates were fixes, not so much enhancements. So to seriously whine that Moto hasn't done updates to GB while they are also rolling out a major change to ICS is just ignoring reality.

Additionally, it is quite clear Google screwed the pooch here. ICS was their big ballyhoo, and was launched in an incomplete state. You don't need to look at Razr ICS to see what a mess things are, look at the GNex. ICS is frankly still a work in progress, and nearly 7 months after the big unveiling, is still having issues.

Finally, how many of those fruit phone updates have been for functionality versus bug fixes? And why won't the port Siri to the older 4 models that are hardware capable.

Pick your poison, but to imply any of these hardware guys or carriers are better than three other is somewhat short sighted.

And I, for one, am not willing to take a step backward to "upgrade". ICS has to be as rock solid as GB before I'll go to it.
 
Gravytrain said:
By this time next year I'll have the new iPhone. I'm sick and tired of androids delayed updates. It's ridiculous that some phones are 2 versions behind ics.
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Are you aware that only about 4% of all Android smartphones are running ICS? There is likely a reason for this. Similar to Honeycomb on tablets, ICS is not being quickly delivered to handsets because it's a work in progress... and requires significant tweaks to the underlying code in order for it to run. Google made significant changes to the OS from what was found in Froyo and Gingerbread. Why? To create a fast, efficient, and compact OS that ran equally well on smartphones and on tablets. This was likely not an insignificant undertaking...

So now hardware manufacturers are having to re-write all of their low level code to create a working hardware abstraction layer between the hardware and the OS.

Bugly said:
Thinking of jumping ship as well, the iPhone that my boss uses has had five updates since he's had it. My droidx had two in that same time frame. the RAZR, none....
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I received my Razr on release day. Since then there have been three updates pushed to the Razr. Not sure when you got your Razr...

Oh and a note too all... let's not lose focus on the intent of this thread. We don't want things deteriorating... so lets stay on topic and focused. OK?
 
The leaked Stock ICS rom is taking the galaxy nexus for a run for its money! You still can get it now Almost 0% bugs. Link is here [How-To] Sideload The Ics Leak! Updated 4-5-12 - DroidRzr.com takes less then 30 mins.







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If ICS was released based on the current leak, a lot of customers would probably jump ship to an iPhone ;) Reason being the current build is NOT install over the current rom friendly. This would result in a lot of calls and ticked off customers having to start from scratch.

No such issues with the iPhone, unless jail broke.

Most customers simply want to update over the current OS build with no starting from scratch. My guess as other folks is June before we see an OTA.

The current wrong assumption of a release is about 100% Engadget's fault.
 
Time to resolve yourself to the fact that your NEXT phone will run ICS and that by the time you get it, you'll want whatever comes after that.

Nonsense that it was promised last year when we bought these things, I'll remember for next time.

As I have said for years, if someone ever gets a network stood up to rival verizon, they will loose customers in droves. They have been an arrogant company since I got my first bag phone in or around 1989.
 
Will it be possible in ice cream samich to turn off the mass reply option. Its a Failure feature. Nothing like having a friend send you a picture that he sent to 20 other people only to reply to it not knowing its a mass txt and replying to all 20 of his friends only to recieve. "Whos the * is this"
 
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