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

Out of curiosity has anyone else been getting that message from Verizon about a software update? I got it again today for the third time. I updated to ICS over the air on the saturday it was released and I am completely stock. It would be interesting to see if anyone else is. Although I didn't read through it I wonder if it could have been about the next update that supposedly fixes the battery life... hmmm
 
Thanks guys... that is a new feature as of recently.... being able to run the beta is excellent. It's a lot better than stock for sure....:thumbup::D
 
MZPilotGuy said:
Out of curiosity has anyone else been getting that message from Verizon about a software update? I got it again today for the third time. I updated to ICS over the air on the saturday it was released and I am completely stock. It would be interesting to see if anyone else is. Although I didn't read through it I wonder if it could have been about the next update that supposedly fixes the battery life... hmmm
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Yes, and I sideloaded ICS. It is a new features list.
 
No ICS for us europeans as of yet. It's the good old tune from motorola. The european droids (milestones) were also months behind or were never updated.
 
I installed the beta and it does appear to be capitalizing I now for me.

The other issue I've noticed is when in the car dock, if I switch screens hitting home won't go back to the vehicle dock screen. I'm pretty sure it did it before.
 
 
skiahh said:
Wow... not sure what to say. The keyboard is pretty much the same size as GB and any phone with a screen this size. Buggy? That's a pretty generic term; can you be more specific about what bugs you have? I'm curious. I don't really have anything I'd call bugs. I've got some concerns, but nothing I'd call "buggy".

I think the response that it's time to get yourself a new phone might be the answer to your problems.
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the keyboard freezes and closes.... with every thing on the phone stock and only one app downloaded.....and it would do this before i downloaded the app.. the phone is fine im not getting rid of the phone it worked very well on GB......i guess what im saying is all the hype for a rom that i dont like and cant get rid of....the other thing that really dont care 4 is that there is no way to turn off the 4g.....which means that the tethering that i pay for is spotty at best because the phone is always swapping from 4g back down to 3g and always loosing connection....maybe the awnswer is to buy a new house............and no matter what android phone u get u are stuck with ics...they will all have it....thanks for the input though






sry i ruined ur group hug :musicus:
 
Big Oil said:
the keyboard freezes and closes.... with every thing on the phone stock and only one app downloaded.....and it would do this before i downloaded the app.. the phone is fine im not getting rid of the phone it worked very well on GB......i guess what im saying is all the hype for a rom that i dont like and cant get rid of....the other thing that really dont care 4 is that there is no way to turn off the 4g.....which means that the tethering that i pay for is spotty at best because the phone is always swapping from 4g back down to 3g and always loosing connection....maybe the awnswer is to buy a new house............and no matter what android phone u get u are stuck with ics...they will all have it....thanks for the input though






sry i ruined ur group hug :musicus:
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switching off 4G has been posted many times

http://androidforums.com/motorola-droid-razr-razr-maxx/578039-network-mode.html#post4626869
 
Big Oil said:
the keyboard freezes and closes.... with every thing on the phone stock and only one app downloaded.....and it would do this before i downloaded the app.. the phone is fine im not getting rid of the phone it worked very well on GB......i guess what im saying is all the hype for a rom that i dont like and cant get rid of....the other thing that really dont care 4 is that there is no way to turn off the 4g.....which means that the tethering that i pay for is spotty at best because the phone is always swapping from 4g back down to 3g and always loosing connection....maybe the awnswer is to buy a new house............and no matter what android phone u get u are stuck with ics...they will all have it....thanks for the input though






sry i ruined ur group hug :musicus:
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With the possible exception of the 3G/4G bouncing, I'm thinking the problems you are having with your phone since ICS OTA might be resolved with a clearing of the cache and/or a good, old-fashioned, Factory Reset .... unless you've already done that :)
 
Mike20878 said:
I checked for updates yesterday and ICS was available. I never got a notification. I installed the update and now I've noticed two changes so far:

My notification bar is dimmer and the icons are smaller, making it hard to read the temperature and my battery life. VZW had me go into safe mode and as it seemed to appear better they feel it is related to an app. I think it was hard to tell as those apps (weatherbug & green power) don't run in safe mode.

Using Swype, typing "i" by itself mid-sentence no longer automatically capitalizes.

They are suggesting I do a hard reset to try to fix the notification bar issue. Has anyone else seen this?
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I didn't think the notification bar was an issue. Everything is just smaller now.

Sent from my iPhone RAZR MINN iOS 4.0.4
 
Haven't rooted ICS yet, but I did have to flash back to an older stock version on GB to get back on the OTA track for ICS.
 
i've read through many of the ICS threads and posts and i STILL cannot understand what ICS does that's spozed to be so great. can someone please tell me what it's supposed to do that's so supercalifragilistic expialidocious??

and now that it's here, the general consensus is, that to get the phone to operate smoothly after updating, that a factory reset is recommended. seriously? i spent months tweaking the phone to get it exactly how i want it, and now in order for the performance to operate correctly after the update, i have to reset it? re-loading apps is only a PITA, but i'm not interested in losing & all my saved personal data - photos, texts, notes, calendars, appointment reminders, etc. Nor am i interested in going through some whole process to save them elsewhere and transfer them all back to the phone. this is bullshit.

For me the entire point of these fancy high-tech smartphones is ease-of-use, and technical superiority - "set it and forget it" - so the user doesn't have to mess with them. Phone AND all updates should work seamlessly and smoothly, without the user having to go through this with every update.
 
"Set it and forget it"?..... You shouldn't even have to set it - the phone should be so smart it will set itself! If you don't want the latest don't upgrade.
 
i don't intend to - but the OTA update has already loaded, and of course it will keep reminding me that it's there, until i install it .... there's another post in here somewhere about how to remove the DL and reminders, and i'll be paying attention to those instructions.

however, i DO still want to know what it is about ICS that's everyone's been so keen on, and why people have been waiting on it with bated breath. as far as i can see it's just a different OS - but i've not seen any real delineation of exactly WHAT is so great about it.

If there's some fabulous improvement it is supposed to confer, i'll consider jumping through the necessary hoops to make it work. but before i do that, i have to know what exactly is supposed to be so great about it, to know if it's worth doing all that.
 
I think one thing to bear in mind is that people who are generally happy with how their phone is performing are a lot less likely to post than people who have concerns/questions/issues.

ICS has worked just fine for me, no resetting involved.
 
MsBlue said:
however, i DO still want to know what it is about ICS that's everyone's been so keen on, and why people have been waiting on it with bated breath. as far as i can see it's just a different OS - but i've not seen any real delineation of exactly WHAT is so great about it.
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The main thing I look forward to is a performance improvement. ICS is a fairly clean code base and any device i've upgraded has improved greatly performance-wise
 
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