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Is it normal that I still haven't gotten any OTA update? Im over in NY and went to stock ROM, went to stock recovery, and unrooted the phone. When is the OTA update rolling out until? Did it stop? I keep getting connection failed when manually looking for a software update.
And I don't want to manually use the LG tool because I am afraid of bricking the phone and don't want to go through the trouble of unbricking it.
I never got the OTA either and it was announced they stopped. The LG updating didn't brick my phone either.
I was actually wondering the same thing.
I called Tmo CS over a week ago, and he swore that I would be getting either an email, text or phone call, letting me know that I would be getting the update. He was nice, but I think he was new (didn't seem all that sharp). I did ask him about the rumor that they stopped the OTA, and he said that there was nothing about that in his system. He said, according to his system, it was still active. I asked him like 3x lol.
I have a refurb, so can't use the LG update tool. I know there is an alternate way of doing it, here on the forums, but I'm just too darn lazy lol. I will be calling Tmo again, in the next few days. If I get any useful info, I will pass it along to you.
I like my G2x, but honestly...between LG and Tmo, this has been one, huge clusterf**k. Thank God for the devs here, and around the net. They have done what LG and Tmo have continuously failed to do...made me a happy G2x owner!
ive had the same issue trying to do it by the phone so used LG tool and .... bricked my phone
i called Tmo and they exchanged my phone at no cost. the new one came with Gb preinstalled.
Why not just screw the OTA and grab one of the great custom, pre rooted roms. I did the OTA thing and had to re root. Ran the official update for two days and got tired of the thing. The custom roms spoil you.
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dalephil22 said:
Why not just screw the OTA and grab one of the great custom, pre rooted roms. I did the OTA thing and had to re root. Ran the official update for two days and got tired of the thing. The custom roms spoil you.
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I'm running EB 2.3.3, and love it. And thanks to EB, I also love my G2X again. But I would like to have the new baseband. And I can only get that from the update.
Really, what I think it comes down to (for me), is that I want T-Mobile to step the hell up, and stop jerking me around. How do you release an OTA...but only to SOME? I've just never heard of such a thing. And how do you release your "flagship" phone, then realize it's got issues, and then try to sweep all the owners of said "flagship" under the carpet...where you don't have to deal with them any more? It just makes me sad. I used to brag to all my friends, how much I loved T-Mobile.
dalephil22 said:
Why not just screw the OTA and grab one of the great custom, pre rooted roms. I did the OTA thing and had to re root. Ran the official update for two days and got tired of the thing. The custom roms spoil you.
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I kind of sympathize, but people recommend custom roms as a blanket solution to random issues way too often. Don't get me wrong, I love EB and CM, and xboarder's rom is fantastic, but the first two don't have a2dp and the latter won't still give you a new baseband. For people like me who have a non-functional gps and rely on a2dp, the official update is pretty critical.
Also, is there any evidence suggesting T-Mobile actually pulled the update? I think I know the post where this rumor started, and for what it's worth, a pretty knowledgeable rep told me about a week ago that the OTA is still rolling out, and will continue to do so through August. If the roll-out is slow, I don't think its too surprising considering what little space lg has to screw up again.
[EDIT] http://www.tmonews.com/2011/08/t-mo...ad-ota-rollout-manual-update-still-available/
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I kind of sympathize, but people recommend custom roms as a blanket solution to random issues way too often. Don't get me wrong, I love EB and CM, and xboarder's rom is fantastic, but the first two don't have a2dp and the latter won't still give you a new baseband. For people like me who have a non-functional gps and rely on a2dp, the official update is pretty critical.
Also, is there any evidence suggesting T-Mobile actually pulled the update? I think I know the post where this rumor started, and for what it's worth, a pretty knowledgeable rep told me about a week ago that the OTA is still rolling out, and will continue to do so through August. If the roll-out is slow, I don't think its too surprising considering what little space lg has to screw up again.
[EDIT] http://www.tmonews.com/2011/08/t-mo...ad-ota-rollout-manual-update-still-available/
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Well here it is posted on T-Mobile Support forum. The post says its created by T-Mobile so I'd say its legit, not a rumor.
http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-2362
G2X CM7
Actually, although EB 2.3.5 doesn't have A2DP, EB 2.3.3 does.
And the mms works SO much better than other ROMS I've tried.
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Yeah, the link I posted above was the same notice from a secondary source.
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Yeah, the link I posted above was the same notice from a secondary source.
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But you called it a rumor. Looks pretty official to me.
G2X CM7
I was trying to root my gf's phone then found out it don't work on 2.3.3! Is anyone working on a perm root for 2.3.3? The temp root don't help me out because she is wanting to flash different roms on the phone.
Is there anyway to get the phone back to 2.2 so I can perm root it?
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I was trying to root my gf's phone then found out it don't work on 2.3.3! Is anyone working on a perm root for 2.3.3? The temp root don't help me out because she is wanting to flash different roms on the phone.
Is there anyway to get the phone back to 2.2 so I can perm root it?
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Yes they are, but for more info, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=xda:+evo+shift+2.3.3+root
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Thanks but I have googled it and everything it pulled up was already looked at by me so it's not that I haven't searched. Just haven't heard of anyone making any leaps towards perm root. The fre3vo temp root don't help me much.
I found this guide.... http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Evo_Shift_4G:_Full_Update_Guide I'm guessing it isn't for the 2.3.3 OTA updated Evo Shift 4G or is it?
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I found this guide.... http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Evo_Shift_4G:_Full_Update_Guide I'm guessing it isn't for the 2.3.3 OTA updated Evo Shift 4G or is it?
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Umm, last I knew the revolutionary guys were working down the phones just like the twrp guys... I could be wrong but i say very soon we should have something
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i posted it in one of these many threads here last night that i asked agrabren about it and he said he cant do anything cause he doesnt have one to work with and hes one of the main ones that did fre3vo but hopefully one of thems looking into it for us
My g/f got me a Motorola Photon and I rooted getting it ready for when more development comes as way of roms. She had 2.2 on hers and I asked when she updated it and she said she didn't. She got her phone last December so she had to update it to 2.3.3 right?
Anyways I heard sprint can rollback to 2.2 but they usually won't because they don't want people going back so they can root their phones.
I have a friend at Radioshack, do authorized retailers have the ability to rollback to 2.2?
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My g/f got me a Motorola Photon and I rooted getting it ready for when more development comes as way of roms. She had 2.2 on hers and I asked when she updated it and she said she didn't. She got her phone last December so she had to update it to 2.3.3 right?
Anyways I heard sprint can rollback to 2.2 but they usually won't because they don't want people going back so they can root their phones.
I have a friend at Radioshack, do authorized retailers have the ability to rollback to 2.2?
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i tried to see if the sprint store here could roll mine back cause the tech person has a shift also and even she said they cant roll em back cause shes pissed she took the ota and got stuck on 2.3.3 too.
I Highly doubt ANYONE will get a perm root for 2.3.3 for sometime.... its already been out what a couple of weeks now. so im updating my phone because this gingerbread update is bugged like crazy... constant crashes after leaving every app. not receiving any calls or txts half the time, and WIFI is broken.
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I Highly doubt ANYONE will get a perm root for 2.3.3 for sometime.... its already been out what a couple of weeks now. so im updating my phone because this gingerbread update is bugged like crazy... constant crashes after leaving every app. not receiving any calls or txts half the time, and WIFI is broken.
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Revolutionary already said they are working on it on twitter, and update been out for couple weeks, WEEKS means not very long, give it time, it will happen.
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Revolutionary already said they are working on it on twitter, and update been out for couple weeks, WEEKS means not very long, give it time, it will happen.
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i know. but im going INSANE!!!! after ever damn app i close the white screen with the green HTC comes up for like 1 min. then the loading of the home screen. i see the damn thing at least 200 times a day. im already looking towards a new phone all together... dealing with that for a few weeks gets irritating extremely fast.
It is really annoying. I am just going to wait for root, put CM7 on it, and give it to my Mom or something...
I hate to see the root issue keep getting sugar coated by people that already have root, including me. Just to be brutally honest, its been 2 and a half months since the Shift was updated and I really haven't seen much evidence of any one working on root. I do remember one tweet from about month ago mentioning the Shift but beyond that its been pretty quiet. I'm not saying its never going to happen, and for all I know someone is working diligently behind the scenes, all I'm saying is don't get too high of hopes that its going to happen soon..... Hopefully I'm wrong though.
If people were paying for this I would see more of a reason for people to ask all the time. I know I am new to these forums but even I get annoyed with it. I want my Shift rooted just as much as the next guy. It's free, get over it.
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Im sure people would pay for it. People have offered to donate phones and such plus once a device is rooted developers can create root only apps.
Most of the devs do it for the challenge tho... Not everything is about money. That said im sure anyone that came out with a perm root would get donations for doing so.
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im giving it one more week from today. if not im sticking to the GB updates till they decide to catch up.
well hopefully all of you have learned from your mistakes and won't take a OTA update ever again if your phone is rooted
My photon is rooted. My girlfriend mistakenly hit ota update on her shift before I told her what rooting and custom rims do.
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My photon is rooted. My girlfriend mistakenly hit ota update on her shift before I told her what rooting and custom rims do.
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Yeah, my wife was a lil hesitant about custom rims too... ;-p
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fallnSaint said:
Yeah, my wife was a lil hesitant about custom rims too... ;-p
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I think all wives have an issue with custom rims lol
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Long story short, I had to call att warranty department to get my phone replaced due to my speaker starting to go out. So when I called it in on the 8th (September), which was the last day for my warranty, I flashed back to stock, restored product code, backed up entire sd, and upgraded to official froyo. So since that time I have been on stock patiently waiting my new phone to come in. I've been on customs so long that I forgot how slow and unresponsive stock is. I remember that as I got spoiled with customs that I felt that those roms were starting to feel slow themselves and that although they're faster then stock, maybe it's more of a placebo that I really think it's that much faster then stock. Alas, I was mistaken. All in all I just want to say thank you to the devs of this great community. Being on these custom roms we sometime take for granted that your work, and although not always perfect, it is still far more superior then anything the stock experience can offer. If you don't feel this way right now, just go stock for almost a week and you'll feel my pain. :¬[
Thanks again xda devs.
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I'm in the exact same boat; broke my captivate I got last year, almost bought an iphone (wtf was I thinking), but instead decided to call insurance and get a new captivate; amazing how big a difference the ROMs make, the stock is such sh*t (not to mention how far behind the captivate was on updates ;[ )
Finally got my replacement in. It's a 1010 so ill miss my 1007. Oh well. Time to get rid of this 3e recovery and flash.
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...almost bought an iphone (wtf was I thinking)...
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God! Don't even MENTION iPhones in this company! I've spent the last several DAYS trying to get sh*t off my dad's iphone (songs and the like) so he can put them on his new Captivate.
The changes you have to go through--and programs you have to download--to be able to do what you can do with an Android just by rooting it and getting a decent file manager leaves me speechless... or at least the many words I've used would be incredibly inappropriate on a site that doesn't specialize in murder and mayhem. I've used curse words over the last three days that I didn't even know I knew.
I'm not close to be anything like a real geek, but I swear, I can't imagine why anyone would want a phone from a company that makes it so hard to adjust and take items you actually purchased off of (can you say "DRM"?). The only good news is, my Dad likes the Cappy enough that we will likely never see an iPhone in this house again.
Thank Heavens.
I completely agree with you, I try my best to remember on a daily basis how great-full I am for the Dev's and XDA.
After making sure I have a way to get back to kb2 and backing up my old phone I just half an hour ago flashed miui. Good bye slow stock . I used to stay away from this rim because I heard of bad battery. But with a galaxy s 4g 1650 mah battery I bought from a friend for 7 dollars, it's not so bad
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kevalin said:
I've used curse words over the last three days that I didn't even know I knew.
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It is not that you didn't know that you knew them so much as you did what I do somedays. You went thru everyone that you knew and then started to join them together in new combos and when you had done every combo you could think of you started inventing new ones. Most people do that instead of running head first into a wall repeatedly or jumping into traffic. I must say both of those would be better than an iphone
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My husband rooted his phone, but otherwise had stock Froyo ever since he got his phone. He used to make fun of me for constantly trying new roms out. But he started getting more and more pissed off with his phone and how laggy and unstable it was, and a few weeks ago I offered to flash him a custom rom.
He uses his phone much much more, and I hear a lot fewer curse words out of his mouth now that he isn't cussing at his phone anymore.
Word that homie. I would die without my roms. To me Roms are the number one biggest reason why i like android over iPhone.
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I agree with that, after I flashed cm7 and was on that for a few days. I deleted my froyo backups. No point in going back, been flashing nightlys now. Can't do that on a non-android phone
I will always keep my stock nandroid just incase I have to warranty
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I still haven't gotten the 4.0.4 update for my NS4G. I realize the update could take anywhere from a few days to a month but I'd love to have it now. I'm gonna be unrooted for a while for a few reasons but I do miss ICS.
I tried doing the *#*#CHECKIN#*#* thing and I didn't really do anything.
Have you tried clearing the data for Google Frameworks Services? That might work; it updated my Xoom from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4 a bit early. I flashed the leaked OTA build the day it came out, but I'm interested in finding out when the OTA actually starts rolling out since I've still not heard of 1 single person that has received it. Imma subscribe to this. Let us know when you do get it. Quite honestly, the sdk port builds rather sucked, then 4.0.3 was better, then 4.0.4 IMM26 was pretty good, and NOW IMM76D is flawless! I haven't found ANY errors! The wait is worth it. You'll be surprised just how great it is! Although I hope Sprint isn't lying about pushing the update...
Yeah i haven't seen any confirmation from anyone.
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Still no luck. I will say though I forgot how smooth gingerbread was.
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I'm also waiting.
I was comfortably running CM9 and decided to go back to stock to see what the official update had in store. Starting to feel like a mistake but I do agree, Gingerbread is one smooth cookie.
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I think someone who's gotten it should post the update.zip for everyone who's impatient lol
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Quick update. I finally got the OTA today on the school bus coming home. I was listening to some music from Google music and I was waiting for the next song and it took forever. Unlocked my phone and there it was, asking me to update. Pretty happy.
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I got the update this morning. Must have downloaded over night.
I'm sorry I know this has been posted before but December is pretty much here when is the release coming and why Verizon why? WHY !!!!
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Its coming on Tuesday. I know this because a friend of a friend told the cop that gave me the ticket for driving while talking on my cell phone. Its how it came up.
.... Or you can go to the Dev section and put it on your phone now.
LoL - "jelly been" HA!
PS... sorry for being an ass.
Tomorrow
If I tell you, I have to kill you
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Verizon usually trails general release of Android by 3-6 months. If it comes before the end of the year, it'll be extremely fast.
Yeah, Verizon...um.....yeah.
I had a Galaxy Nexus from Verizon & it never received the "official" 4.1.2 update from Google. Supposed to get all updates since it was a Google phone, but since it was Verizon, I gave up on them & installed all updates through custom roms. I suggest you give up on Verizon & do the same. Unlock, root & rom your GS3. Jellybean is great on it.
I agree with Chocu1a, JB is awesome on the Galaxy S3. I just recently took the plunge, this being my first Android device, it was surprisingly easy, considering some amazing devs on xda made it so easy to do. It makes a great phone better.
As for Verizon releasing JB, I could imagine June 2013 would still be a little soon. Haha. I can't deny their impeccable service though, that LTE screams.
VZW SGS3 Rooted, Unlocked, CWM6, Stock JB ROM.
Yea I gave up too. I recommend flashing taste of beans 3.5. Has the 4.2 keyboard which is miles ahead of the touch wiz keyboard. Rooting and flashing is a simple process and you get a nice adrenaline rush on the first boot.
Maybe Google will team up with Dish network and everyone can ditch Verizon. Here's hoping.
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You can flash the latest stock K1 jellybean update if you dont want a custom rom. Take the time and do some research in the dev section...so easy my 1yr old can do it!
sebastianraven said:
Its coming on Tuesday. I know this because a friend of a friend told the cop that gave me the ticket for driving while talking on my cell phone. Its how it came up.
.... Or you can go to the Dev section and put it on your phone now.
LoL - "jelly been" HA!
PS... sorry for being an ass.
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Lol it's ok because it's BEEN awhile lol
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Isn't it time for some idiot to post that the Verizon CSR they spoke to, that sounded really knowledgeable, (LOL) said they heard it was going to be released in a week.
I spoke with a reallly nice Verizon CSR, and she told me for sure it will be coming out soon. Lol.
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I was told by a very knowledgeable CSR that my JB update was pushed yesterday.
It's fast very fast.
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The most honest answer I've gotten from a CSR was they don't know. However, they usually get an email from Verizon telling them its coming about 2 weeks (and at least 1 week) prior to the release. They haven't gotten the email so probably not soon. Not particularly helpful but honest.
After the S4 releases on Big Red for a few months and they feel like throwing the S3 a bone.
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This reminds me of when the epic touch 4g came out I went to the sprint store to look at it and when I spoke to the CSR about how the 3g speeds were he said "I've had all of them and sprint is by far the fastest".
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Is the leaked Jb with touchwiz 100% stable? And by 100% stable I mean just as stable as ICS touchwiz was, No "oh everything works except bla bla bla bla bla bla and bla"...
Hi, I have a Verizon S3 flashed to Boost Mobile. I tried to gain root by flashing a stock rooted Rom and messed up the flash. I had to take it back to be flashed again Now I'm more cautious before hand. I should have backed it up before attempting it, I know I know lol can anyone shed some light on how to update a flashed phone as well as how to root it. I could really use the help
Also after I messed up the boost flash I paniced and flashed a sprint kernel hoping this would fix the problem. Since then anything that I've tried to view including taking camera shots and web browsing if done in landscape mode will be upside down, any remedy for this problem? I know now... root first, flash later.
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Forgetfull said:
Is the leaked Jb with touchwiz 100% stable? And by 100% stable I mean just as stable as ICS touchwiz was, No "oh everything works except bla bla bla bla bla bla and bla"...
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Yes everything works lol. The last leak is probaly gonna be the OTA anyways. Just odin the K1 release, no need to root or unlock.
I heard that Verizon had scheduled the Jelly Bean release for Friday in New York. However the police felt that dropping small candies from a great height onto the tourist in time square might be dangerous so the whole thing was scrapped. Verizon is going back to the drawing board and we should be hearing new details about a release in 7 to 357 days.