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Why the "ICS" update may not be a good idea

Hi - I was looking for threads on this subject to try to decide what to do with my son's Bionic and this lapdock.

His Bionic is stock and he LOVES using it with the lapdock. It is not the fastest but as we have no home internet, it works just fine for him. He also uses Docs to Go for a Office suit.

All is good for him with the lapdock.

I heard a rumor that ICS may be pushed to Bionic users soon and got worried and thought I'd better check things out ahead of time because of the problems I had with ICS upgrade and Webtop 3.0 on my Razr Maxx.
I have an Atrix 4g lapdock that I use with my Maxx. The Atrix and the brand new Bionic lapdock work exactly the same for my Maxx with adapter cables.
I was excited about the ICS upgrade; I had been told by Motorola the upgrade would fix the evbridge loop problem that I encountered with the Maxx and the lapdock. (evbridge ran all the time and I had to shut phone off to get service to stop)
Well…imagine my horror when I upgraded to ICS and then went to get on the Internet with my lapdock and there was no firefox! Yipes! Yes, you can use Chrome, but … the Web3.0 forces the viewing area into letterbox and the resolution on the Atrix and Bionic lapdocks is terrible! Everything is pixilated and fonts are stretched. There is one adjustment that I could find on the Maxx that stretches or shrinks the viewable window on the lapdock. To get fonts back into proper size, you have to shrink viewable area until it isn’t a whole lot bigger than the phones screen.
Webtop 3.0 you also lose all the little extras that you become used to with Webtop2.0 File Manager was a big loss to me. You still can find and move files from USB, but you have to have the correct file manager downloaded. Some file managers won’t see the USB.
Also, I use Docs to Go and Google Docs for a lot of writing projects. Ack. Resolution is terrible on Docs to Go. Yuck.
For ME the ‘upgrade’ to ICS was a terrible mistake!
I spent hours on the phone with Motorola trying to find a solution. They ultimately told me that they couldn’t help me. Webtop 3.0 is all there is now. No going back to 2.0 or GB.
I find that people who LOVE webtop 3.0 either didn’t use it before or don’t have lapdocks. For people like me, who have no home internet, who don’t need a full featured laptop, who aren’t speed demons, will miss webtop 2.0 and will have to resort to rooting and theft of wireless tether.
So…I need to find if what I suspect is true. When the official ICS upgrade is pushed to my son’s Bionic, will he lose webtop 2.0? Will webtop 3.0 work just as awful on his Bionic (or my Atrix) lapdock? If so, I will root his Bionic, and refuse the upgrade to ICS.
It should be noted that I do not have a lapdock 100 or 500, so I can’t say how the resolution will be on those lapdocks with Webtop 3.0. I got the Bionic/Atrix lapdocks because they had the larger screens 11.6” (and not letterbox)
 
I've used the webtop mode without a lap dock, and it looked pixelated when i tried using the mirror mode injury.

Since i am on an ICS leak, I'll try to go to a VZW store and see if they will let me test my phone with a lapdock and see if we have the same problems, but from reports that i have seen, we do not.

Also, the BIONIC ICS upgrade had between delayed for at least a couple of weeks in order to iron out wrinkles that you RAZR folks faced so as to make our transition a lot smoother.

Also, just a request, but when you go to make a post, could you not include the color tags? If you're pasting from Microsoft Word, see if you have a paste text only without formatting option, because the black text is impossible to read in Tapatalk with a dark background.
 
this is an option. You could have your son flash the 6.7.232 ICS leak and test out the webtop 3.0. 6.7.232 is the latest leak that you can go back to gb with. If he does not like it he can go back to gb and then not except the update for ICS when it comes.

Just an fyi. If you decide to try this you son will have to set up his phone over again when (or if) he decides to go back to gb unless he roots his phone and makes a backup nandroid of his 5.9.905 system. The process of going back will wipe everything from they phone except what is on he external SD card.
 
^^^^^ Definitely the way to go if you want to test drive ICS and think you may not want to take the OTA when its pushed out for one reason or the other.
 
Alright, just for giggles, I tried the .232 ics leak. Like I suspected, I hated ics especially the new webtop. Yes, everything was faster including webtop! I definitely have to stay on GB. I totally love webtop 2.0 even though it can be a bit lagey.

Anyways, just thought I would drop in and mention it. :)
I just got done reflashing back to gingerbread .905
 
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