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Skyrocket ICS question

un4givn

un4givn

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I have a question concerning the ICS and the Skyrocket. I am trying to decide if I should wait for the Galaxy Nexus to come to att (if it does) Or try the skyrocket knowing it will receive ICS. My problems stems from the fact that the skyrocket has the buttons as part of the phone on the bottom and ICS has the same buttons as part of the OS. Has it been confirmed that phones with the physical buttons when ported to ICS will have the software buttons taken off.

Maybe it's just me but I find that as a deal breaker if I have two set of the same buttons on my phone. It would be such a waste.
 
I believe Google said that you can opt to use the physical buttons or use the on screen ones if you choose to. If you choose software buttons, the hardware ones will become unusable and will never light up.
 
I'll check out Verizon's model and decide if I want it when it hits at&t. Going off sammy's update record, you probably won't see ICS until June the earliest.
 
The only difference is this: three of the software buttons will become physical buttons
You lose button number 4 (I think it was displaying current running apps) which no one needs anyway since you can double click on one of the other buttons

I got this info from looking at ICS release videos
I am very happy with this buttons-transition to ICS

JD
 
un4givn said:
I have a question concerning the ICS and the Skyrocket. I am trying to decide if I should wait for the Galaxy Nexus to come to att (if it does) Or try the skyrocket knowing it will receive ICS. My problems stems from the fact that the skyrocket has the buttons as part of the phone on the bottom and ICS has the same buttons as part of the OS. Has it been confirmed that phones with the physical buttons when ported to ICS will have the software buttons taken off.

Maybe it's just me but I find that as a deal breaker if I have two set of the same buttons on my phone. It would be such a waste.
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My opinion is that the Nexus is an inferior phone to the Skyrocket (and not because I am a Skyrocket owner). It lacks external storage and it has an underperforming 5 mpx camera. Yes, it has ICS, but ICS should be available to Skyrocket in a few months. Now, my own impressions with ICS is that it would not make much of a difference for most users. The UI refinements are nice, but do not expect a dramatic increase in capabilities. Actually, some of the improvements you are even unlikely to see because of Touchwiz!!
 
JayC said:
Its not Samsung.....its the carriers.
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In terms of ICS, it is not really the carriers. ICS was only finalized a few days ago and it takes time to write all the device drivers for each phone. In addition, the UI of these phones (Sense for HTC, Touchwiz for Samsung) also need to re-worked to be compatible with ICS. This takes time and testing
 
It has already been confirmed by Samsung that ICS will become available in Q1 for the skyrocket. Therefore the wait is not that long away.
 
brandon0221 said:
It has already been confirmed by Samsung that ICS will become available in Q1 for the skyrocket. Therefore the wait is not that long away.
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It was confirmed early this past summer that the infu se would have gb by the end of august they still have not received the update



As much as I hope you are right...i would not hold my breath
 
ad2435 said:
Will ICS on skyrocket allow me to remove the ATT bloatware or will the bloatware still be there?
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If you go with the official OTA then no, it will be like every other update, bloatware and whatever else they decide to put on it (such as CIQ). Rooting and flashing something debloated is another story, as always. While I wait I've flashed a debloated stock version, the ICS hacks aren't nearly good enough yet.

Besides the usual delays there has to be a strategy of timing. Until the new Nexus is out everywhere they want there won't be an ICS update for anything else. But I'll guess that devices such as the previous Nexus S have a perfectly good ICS waiting because no doubt they developed it on that device. They didn't develop ICS all at once on a device that just came out.
 
Personally, I currently own the Skyrocket (White). I don't see what the Nexus has that the Skyrocket can't do... It's a great phone, and also is benched the fastest LTE phone on the market.. (As it has the 1.5ghz Snapdragon) not the standard 1.2ghz Xenose
 
Considering we're in the last month of Q1, has anyone heard any ICS update? I bought this phone with the understanding that ICS would be imminently available. I'm feeling duped.
 
readytoeatICS said:
Considering we're in the last month of Q1, has anyone heard any ICS update? I bought this phone with the understanding that ICS would be imminently available. I'm feeling duped.
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There was no understanding of ICS being imminently available. I read all the published literature. By the time ATT releases it to us it should be quite stable. Our version of Gingerbread is very nice and fast - and we have LTE available.

Frankly I'm in no hurry to upgrade.
 
If you're like me and you have to have to most recent anything the flash one of the cm9 nightlies i've been running on for about 2 days now and been stable with no issues so far.
 
vracer said:
By then, the iPhone 5 will be on the horizon.
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The what?

The phone that's already out-dated?

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I just updated both my skyrocket with ICS and my samsung infuse to gingerbread today and i have no problem at all.
 
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