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Official froyo 2.2!!!

Hey forum,
Well its official...i work for at&t and woke up to an email in my outlook that samsung is waiting for the final approval before the end of the month!! It seems the release date has been changing weekly. I originally had asked the head honcho samsung telecommunications rep (whose name I will leave un said) on saturday and didn't expect such a quick response.
Well there you have it forum its on the way!! and the 2.3 rumor is false.
As I'm not suppose to leak this proprietary information....i can't help myself
Coming soon to a captivate near you!
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Is it April all ready?
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Evilspawn said:
Hey forum,
Well its official...i work for at&t and woke up to an email in my outlook that samsung is waiting for the final approval before the end of the month!! It seems the release date has been changing weekly. I originally had asked the head honcho samsung telecommunications rep (whose name I will leave un said) on saturday and didn't expect such a quick response.
Well there you have it forum its on the way!! and the 2.3 rumor is false.
As I'm not suppose to leak this proprietary information....i can't help myself
Coming soon to a captivate near you!
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I hope you don't mind and don't take offense to this ...but...#1 I'm not holding my breath......and really don't care to load any official release that is full of bloat ware and will most likely cause issues when downloading... #2...Have heard this un-official report of it coming soon so many times...I really won't believe till I see it...I am after all from Missouri ya know..
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Evilspawn said:
Hey forum,
Well its official...i work for at&t and woke up to an email in my outlook that samsung is waiting for the final approval before the end of the month!! It seems the release date has been changing weekly. I originally had asked the head honcho samsung telecommunications rep (whose name I will leave un said) on saturday and didn't expect such a quick response.
Well there you have it forum its on the way!! and the 2.3 rumor is false.
As I'm not suppose to leak this proprietary information....i can't help myself
Coming soon to a captivate near you!
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Man, you got me all riled up and ready to update for nothin'. End of the month rumors have been floating around, thanks for the confirmation though.

Mac11700 said:
I am after all from Missouri ya know..
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Hey Mac, I doubt that many people know that Missouri is the "Show Me" state.
And no offense to EvilSpawn, in fact I appreciate that he is willing to share his experience and knowledge with us, but as a fellow Missourian, I'll have to see it to believe it.

Who really cares about gingerbread official?
We will get gingerbread in cm when that comes out
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i would think that if you could show this much, you could paste the text of the email... but even that doesn't prove anything.
After all, Samsung has always said "By the end of the year" so your email doesn't tell us anything new.

alphadog00 said:
i would think that if you could show this much, you could paste the text of the email... but even that doesn't prove anything.
After all, Samsung has always said "By the end of the year" so your email doesn't tell us anything new.
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Actually, if legit, it tells us there will be no delay. I, for one, appreciate hearing that.

No problem guys...I'm just excited hearing it from the source and not a rumor.....they usually fill us in right before so we are aware...none the less atleast it will be an official and not a buggy leak for devs to work with.....and the bloatware? Just remove it
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alphadog00 said:
i would think that if you could show this much, you could paste the text of the email... but even that doesn't prove anything.
After all, Samsung has always said "By the end of the year" so your email doesn't tell us anything new.
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This would be understood if samsung had the ok on the release...but as the email says "samsung is waiting for final approval" meaning there waiting for at&t...so samsung has no blame.
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Evilspawn said:
No problem guys...I'm just excited hearing it from the source and not a rumor.....they usually fill us in right before so we are aware...none the less atleast it will be an official and not a buggy leak for devs to work with.....and the bloatware? Just remove it
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sooo just because it is official means it won't be buggy?? This is samsung we are talking about.....

Evilspawn said:
Hey forum,
Well its official...i work for at&t and woke up to an email in my outlook that samsung is waiting for the final approval before the end of the month!! It seems the release date has been changing weekly. I originally had asked the head honcho samsung telecommunications rep (whose name I will leave un said) on saturday and didn't expect such a quick response.
Well there you have it forum its on the way!! and the 2.3 rumor is false.
As I'm not suppose to leak this proprietary information....i can't help myself
Coming soon to a captivate near you!
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So we will get Froyo in in the next 2.5 weeks? I'm holding you, Evilspawn, to that

Let's hope there's not some reason behind his screen name.

Evilspawn said:
atleast it will be an official and not a buggy leak for devs to work with.....and the bloatware? Just remove it
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Thats why I'm waiting for it

I would love to know which "buggy" froyo leaks people on the forums are talking about. The worst 2.2 beta that I have put on my phone is 1000 times better than the "final" builds that Samsung has put out. JH7 in particular is pure garbage (maybe not with bugs but it's features are neutered).
Bottom line, if anyone is still waiting for Froyo you deserve to wait as long as it takes them to crap out your bloated AT&T neutered froyo. I'll eat my keyboard if they put usb tether back in and don't cripple wifi tether so you have to pay for it.

stone_phalanges said:
Bottom line, if anyone is still waiting for Froyo you deserve to wait as long as it takes them to crap out your bloated AT&T neutered froyo. I'll eat my keyboard if they put usb tether back in and don't cripple wifi tether so you have to pay for it.
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I, along with most people, are excited for the official release because that means source code follows shortly after. When the source code is released it means all sorts of stable roms, and tweaks to existing roms.
I really don't see why you and other people get so heated over other people wanting this released. I imagine by your attitude that you're running a custom rom. If that is the case there is no doubt you have flashed multiple beta releases of multiple roms and have had some issues along the way.

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nybmx said:
I, along with most people, are excited for the official release because that means source code follows shortly after. When the source code is released it means all sorts of stable roms, and tweaks to existing roms.
I really don't see why you and other people get so heated over other people wanting this released. I imagine by your attitude that you're running a custom rom. If that is the case there is no doubt you have flashed multiple beta releases of multiple roms and have had some issues along the way.
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QFT
It's amazing how people are not able to see that an official release is beneficial to the custom ROM community as well.

nybmx said:
I, along with most people, are excited for the official release because that means source code follows shortly after. When the source code is released it means all sorts of stable roms, and tweaks to existing roms.
I really don't see why you and other people get so heated over other people wanting this released. I imagine by your attitude that you're running a custom rom. If that is the case there is no doubt you have flashed multiple beta releases of multiple roms and have had some issues along the way.
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It's really not that I have a particular disdain for the official release but honestly I'm just an end user I don't have a huge problem with a memory leak if the browser is fast and I don't care about quadrant benchmarks etc. I don't really know what those things are or what they measure. What I do care about is removed features and willful crippling of the OS. The source code just means the rom devs will need to put out a few crappy buggy versions of their roms while they try to figure out how to "fix" all the crap samsung and AT&T broke. I saw it with JH7 I don't think froyo will be any different.

Donatron said:
QFT
It's amazing how people are not able to see that an official release is beneficial to the custom ROM community as well.
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Thank you...that was my point
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Update delayed.

Just read on twitter the update has been delayed to an unspecified date.
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miketoasty said:
Just read on twitter the update has been delayed to an unspecified date.
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Who posted it?

It's on droid life.
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Betting we get 2.3.4 on CM7 working flawlessly before this pushes...

deltwalrus said:
Betting we get 2.3.4 on CM7 working flawlessly before this pushes...
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One can only hope.

Shocking... :-|
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same old verizon. We are going to release it, with a big NOOTTT at the end. I can't believe they can't make up their minds about update, why even announce you are going to release it if you are having second thoughts.

Maybe they finally decided that the rebooted actual do happen! Maybe they are going to fix them before releasing a new update.... Nah.
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Thank God for rooting and custom ROM's. At least the dev's around here all care about pushing out quality updates for their stuff in a timely manner. Verizon can suck it.

TheStick13 said:
Thank God for rooting and custom ROM's. At least the dev's around here all care about pushing out quality updates for their stuff in a timely manner. Verizon can suck it.
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Quality or lack of is what I would assume the reason behind halting the update. At least Verizon Cates about pushing "working" updates.
I would rather wait for them to bang out the issues as opposed to them dropping every little piece of garbage that gets coded.
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lol, I'm sure there was a legitimate reason for delaying it. You guys act like they delayed it for no reason other than to make people angry.

Heelfan71 said:
lol, I'm sure there was a legitimate reason for delaying it. You guys act like they delayed it for no reason other than to make people angry.
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most definitely, maybe they realized the new radio was causing random reboots and thought that it might not be such a good idea to push that to the mass public...go figure

People are machines programmed to believe in their own importance above all other things. It follows that any event which (they believe) inconveniences them is, by necessity, either a conspiracy or a purposeful act of G_d. Anything else would deminish their perceived importance. Remember friends, the best way to find the center of the universe is to look in a mirror... now where is that sarcasm punctuation mark on my keyboard...

All I can find is that SAME article (Repeated over and over on a couple different websites) with that SAME screenshot, but no hard proof. @VZWSupport on twitter is still telling people it's rolling out so until something is proven to me that it is delayed, I'm gonna sit here waiting for my phone to update.

Dilpickle1 said:
All I can find is that SAME article (Repeated over and over on a couple different websites) with that SAME screenshot, but no hard proof. @VZWSupport on twitter is still telling people it's rolling out so until something is proven to me that it is delayed, I'm gonna sit here waiting for my phone to update.
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The screenshot is from verizon wireless and says its delayed. Also if you call tech support, they will tell you its delayed. How much more proof do you need?
You might be waiting a while..
Also to add, (pls take it for what you will, I trust my source and have no doubt there is some truth to this).
Verizon has delayed the tbolt OTA and a few others (over 10 others) due to issues with verizons system. There has been no mention of the tbolt ota or others having issues themselves. The biggest concern is not letting all the OTA's roll out to close together because it will jam the system. They are discussing which OTA's should go first by necessity and/or importance. They also say that LTE has been an issue and is part of the issues with verizons system.
So it seems that if the ota does roll out in the near future, it will not be changed (also since this is considered a maitenance update, they usually stay seperate from major updates such as o/s ones).

Evo get's Gingerbread 6/3/11... TBolt must not be far behind.

http://phandroid.com/2011/06/01/htc...ers-android-2-3-gingerbread-update-scheduled/
I look forward to the official update so the devs can get to work and this whole Ginger radio thing can be put to bed.

You would think so but you never know with HTC. Here is for hoping though.

bigd5783 said:
You would think so but you never know with HTC. Here is for hoping though.
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Very true. However, they at least have the sense overlay done (or so it would seem), so that leaves the LTE radio... that's about it.
*raises a glass to HTC*
Don't let me down *****es.

I am so jelous.
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Gingerbread will come out after the maintenance fix update that verizon & HTC are working on. The maintenance update is scheduled for this month so hopefully not to much longer for ginger...

Jrocker23 said:
Gingerbread will come out after the maintenance fix update that verizon & HTC are working on. The maintenance update is scheduled for this month so hopefully not to much longer for ginger...
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You say that pretty confidently. Do you have a good source of information? Just curious if you've got inside knowledge or if this is coming from the internet rumor mill.
Either way I hope you're right. I can't wait for some GB action.
Thanks!

Let's hope they fix it because my Bolt has been a turd. 5 random reboots yesterday.

playbeasy said:
You say that pretty confidently. Do you have a good source of information? Just curious if you've got inside knowledge or if this is coming from the internet rumor mill.
Either way I hope you're right. I can't wait for some GB action.
Thanks!
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I can say that it does come from verizon and its not your everyday cs rep or a store employee. I have known the person since I'm 5 (41 Now) and they have been with verizon 15 years and has worked his way up from tech to a nice position.
I can also add that they were looking into making the maintenance update part of the GB upgrade but were having issues with it so as of now they are two seperate ota's.
Im sure some of the devs here can check and see if this has any validity. I cant get him to confirm a GB date but he said nothing will be set for GB until current issues are dealt with..

Jrocker23 said:
I can say that it does come from verizon and its not your everyday cs rep or a store employee. I have known the person since I'm 5 (41 Now) and they have been with verizon 15 years and has worked his way up from tech to a nice position.
I can also add that they were looking into making the maintenance update part of the GB upgrade but were having issues with it so as of now they are two seperate ota's.
Im sure some of the devs here can check and see if this has any validity. I cant get him to confirm a GB date but he said nothing will be set for GB until current issues are dealt with..
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Where have you been all my (Android) life?!

miketoasty said:
Where have you been all my (Android) life?!
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In my pants...

Been using multiple GB 2.3.3, and 2.3.4 roms, including alpha CM7, with very little issue. I would expect official release soon if I didn't know Verizon so well.
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The EVO has been out a longer than the thunderbolt, and its just now getting it. I'm not saying it will take that long for the tbolt to ft GB, I'm just saying don't get your heart completely set on getting it real soon. Who knows these days really..
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I hope it doesn't have the issues the Droid X has with the ota update that rolled out.

jakkzen said:
I hope it doesn't have the issues the Droid X has with the ota update that rolled out.
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All updates have issues so it's going to be pretty much unavoidable. Factory resets can generally clear up most of them though.

G2x Getting ICS official :D

Read this post
https://www.facebook.com/LGMobile/posts/354073154604011

Sounds bush ....but well see

Mastermind_hassan said:
Read this post
https://www.facebook.com/LGMobile/posts/354073154604011
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Yeah, comments on someone's facebook post is far from official. LG even referenced a page that contradicts its own statement. I will just chalk this up to a dumb pr rep and forget this ever happened
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I don't know why you guys are so pessimistic. They're the same phone, only different partitions. Do you really think they'll release a rom for one phone then say "Eh changing the partition table is too much work even after recreating all these drivers and framework. "?
I mean they could, but I really doubt it.
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redmonke255 said:
I don't know why you guys are so pessimistic. They're the same phone, only different partitions. Do you really think they'll release a rom for one phone then say "Eh changing the partition table is too much work even after recreating all these drivers and framework. "?
I mean they could, but I really doubt it.
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The problem is t-mobile and not lg. T-mobile has to install there own apps into the rom and do there own beta tests. That cost money which I'm betting t-mobile isn't willing to spend
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It's pretty much all on tmobile for sure stupid bloat ware
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redmonke255 said:
They're the same phone, only different partitions. Do you really think they'll release a rom for one phone then say "Eh changing the partition table is too much work even after recreating all these drivers and framework. "?
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which other phone are you talking about?

spitswap said:
which other phone are you talking about?
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LG Optimus x2 and G2x are the same phone just different partitions and are in different country's

Let's just encourage LG. With some encouragement they might do better. After all 2.3.4 was a really good update
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I seriously doubt they would go through the trouble of releasing 2.3.4 GB and then release ICS same quarter. The rep never stated that ICS would be released 2nd quarter, they said "an update" will be released 2nd quarter. Well, that update is already here and it ain't ICS. With the G2x being end-of-life, we're lucky to have gotten that, not at the fault of LG but because T-Mobile isn't going to dish out extra money for a phone they no longer sell. They want you to buy the new stuff and renew your contract. It is doubtful that an official ICS update will be released for the T-Mobile G2x simply for this fact, though I guess not impossible. Once the O2X gets its update the developers will have all they need for a "complete and stable" ICS ROM. Who here is going to stick with a stock ROM anyway? Not many.

Either way, even if they just release a P990 (O2X) version that's good enough. They release the source code here:
http://www.lg.com/global/support/opensource/opensource.jsp
When it's released, so the dev's can just modify what's needed from the O2X and make it work for the G2X (like they've done with other ROM's), so don't get your knickers in a knot!

loganmc10 said:
Either way, even if they just release a P990 (O2X) version that's good enough. They release the source code here:
http://www.lg.com/global/support/opensource/opensource.jsp
When it's released, so the dev's can just modify what's needed from the O2X and make it work for the G2X (like they've done with other ROM's), so don't get your knickers in a knot!
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That source is absolutely useless and big time incomplete. They have a lot of binaries and other files they intentionally leave out so it will not build.
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I'm losing hope...

Old news they've putting that link up for months, I'm thinking since November they've been telling people that.
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psychoace said:
The problem is t-mobile and not lg. T-mobile has to install there own apps into the rom and do there own beta tests. That cost money which I'm betting t-mobile isn't willing to spend
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What about the P999 on Wind? I don't own it, but as far as I know it doesn't have the T-Mobile stuff. If it's available for that you can easily put it on a G2x.

from now on I will know to get a PURE Google phone like the Galaxy Nexus. this way we will receive all updates when they come out.

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The rep never stated that ICS would be released 2nd quarter, they said "an update" will be released 2nd quarter.
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THIS. This all day.
Some people just know how to word things. What to say, what to leave out.
How to be just vague enough.

SefEXE said:
THIS. This all day.
Some people just know how to word things. What to say, what to leave out.
How to be just vague enough.
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OP says ICS update.
Rep says there will be an update.
Rep links to a post about ICS.
I think it's safe to assume they were talking about ICS.

redmonke255 said:
OP says ICS update.
Rep says there will be an update.
Rep links to a post about ICS.
I think it's safe to assume they were talking about ICS.
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And yet they can never actually say "T-Mobile G2x".
But don't get me wrong, I'm all for an update.
It's just nowadays... I'll believe it when I see it.

I'll believe it when I see some source on my desktop.
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Motorola updated their Android software upgrade page...

...And the Photon Q is still slated to get Jelly Bean (4.1)! Though it doesn't have an estimated time like some of the other more 'popular' devices they have.
https://forums.motorola.com/pages/00add97d6c
Link^^^
Posting this here just to fill everyone in on Moto's latest decision.
Without a time estimation other than the 'it will get it', I'd say we're looking at June/July or later.

Good news. Hopefully they work out the major bugs that they have.

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Good news. Hopefully they work out the major bugs that they have.
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What bugs? Mine seems to work pretty good.

i always buy the phones that get neglected i guess we may have to wait a bit. i agree tho ^, my device is running great, no problems, and loving the keyboard. great battery life too, since i switched to CDMA-only anyway.

I've been checking the phone for updates every day since I got it two weeks ago.

penroid said:
I've been checking the phone for updates every day since I got it two weeks ago.
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Don't hold your breath, lol.
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yogi2010 said:
i always buy the phones that get neglected i guess we may have to wait a bit. i agree tho ^, my device is running great, no problems, and loving the keyboard. great battery life too, since i switched to CDMA-only anyway.
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Ha, dude, I hear ya. I've had the exact same problem. Only phone I got that was well supported was teh original Motorola Droid. Since then, it was Droid Charge, which was ignored by everything, HTC Rezound, which had decent enough support, but nothing great, and now this thing. I just can't get a break.

Still waiting for a new OTA. Have been switched back to the Evo Shift for more than a month now. I may just go with a Galaxy Note 2.

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Ha, dude, I hear ya. I've had the exact same problem. Only phone I got that was well supported was teh original Motorola Droid. Since then, it was Droid Charge, which was ignored by everything, HTC Rezound, which had decent enough support, but nothing great, and now this thing. I just can't get a break.
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Lol, I find it kind of irksome when the carrier gets you on a 2-year contract, and then stops updating the device after 7 months. That's basically what happened to the Sidekick 4g and the My touch 4g Slide.

Just received notification as attached..did anybody receive it also? Not JB i guess..
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Just received notification as attached..did anybody receive it also? Not JB i guess..
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Yep, i just got it too. It's only 8.17 MB so probably too small to be JB. Hopefully it will fix up a few things..

That's the little "overall device stability" improvement update Sprint has begun to push out.
I'm rooted, unlocked, and modified, so I won't get it. Can y'all report back on any stability improvements?
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After update it, not much differences that i felt..but will get back to report if i find something good
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Update failed(

I just got a notification for an update for today too (77.8.14.XT897.Sprint.en.US)
According to the release notes it's "Various fixes and enhancements to improve overall device stability." I'm willing to be there's some other stuff in there to make it harder for us to actually *use* our phones. (like how the one from November silently broke bluetooth tethering...)

dpwhitty11 said:
That's the little "overall device stability" improvement update Sprint has begun to push out.
I'm rooted, unlocked, and modified, so I won't get it. Can y'all report back on any stability improvements?
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here it is if you wanna have a look:

FXZ here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2095536

Just got the update as well.
I'm unlocked, rooted, deOdexed, & modded so I don't want it (unless anyone can confirm it won't affect any of that).
Any quick way to do away with the notice and have it not come back? Maybe edit the build.prop?
I'll peek around in the build.prop in a bit when I have time to see if anything jumps out.

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here it is if you wanna have a look:
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Yogi that say .10 does anyone have a Zip flash-able upgrade to .14? I am getting the upgrade note, Also I know(belive) we can fastboot restore stock recovery, is there a flashable zip somewhere containing this aswell?, Thanks in advanced

Just installed here too. Verified still 4.0.4 so no JB. Nothing obvious for sure and it seems to be running the same to me.