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OK...definitely NOT from LG. And even it came I think most folks would it avoid another LG ROM like the plague.
That said, looking for thoughts from Devs and other if they think Ice Cream Sandwich is going to happen for our beloved phone.
I'm hoping at least the Cyanogenmod team can continue working on the G2X when ICS comes outs.
nNidia might be another issue, hopefully that can be overcome?
Whoa, deja vu ...
If it gives back my beloved LG Camera app I'd consider giving it a shot.
If cyanogen gets its hands on it yes! Lg will not put out nothing else for this phone, only thing you got was half baked gingerbread!!
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You can have your original camera back using 2.3.3.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1166531
I like my gingerbread soft and warm lol.
ICS Advantages??
Just curious - will there be any real benefit to G2x users if IceCream Sandwich is made available by developers? If so, what would some of the main advantages be??
Thanks
LG has announced the 2X and other high end LG smartphones will be getting ICS. Since the G2X is a 2X device (G2X is the name T-Mobile gave to it) I think we have a very good chance of LG dropping ICS for us.
That's promising!
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LG has announced the 2X and other high end LG smartphones will be getting ICS. Since the G2X is a 2X device (G2X is the name T-Mobile gave to it) I think we have a very good chance of LG dropping ICS for us.
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P990 even cannot , message from LG-
Dear , We will not be introducing Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich updates on LG Optimus 2X P990. Keep watching this space for further updates.
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What a shiiit job for even a dual-core phones they did, LC, damn you!
I Wish you will be kicked away from the phone market.
Seeing how slow is going the GB update, I don't even think about ISC...
First at all we have to find answers for this question:Is 3D Optimus able to update to Gingerbread in future?
Knowing LG I bet they're wasting their time THINKING about if they want to work on a gingerbread OR ICS release. In fact... they're probably not even thinking about their 3D phone in the first place.
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I hope cyanogen will release a 4.0 rom.
The platform (TI OMAP4 4430) is very similar to Nexus prime (TI OMAP 4460)
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I hope cyanogen will release a 4.0 rom.
The platform (TI OMAP4 4430) is very similar to Nexus prime (TI OMAP 4460)
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and same gpu SGX540
Omg, so there is a hope?
Yeah, arcee said his first cm9 device will be the 3D
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yes optimus 3d will get ics later after the long waited gb but the lg x2 wont get ics http://www.androidmemo.com/2011/10/lg-optimus-2x-get-ice-cream-sandwich-ics-update/ that becouse the 2x was released right before lg signed for a new promise from the google contract that all phones after that signature will get the newest update norwegian source you get here http://www.amobil.no/artikler/lgs_toppmobil_faar_ikke_android_4_0/103304 easy to transelate via google
the contract name are Android Update Alliance that lg signed after the lg 2x
Well you made my DAY!!!! YAY ICS!!!
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Well you made my DAY!!!! YAY ICS!!!
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well technically speaking our phone was also released before lg signed anything (they signed in august and o3d was released in july)... but we can hope for the best
Check the page on gsmarena.com
Cannot post the link due to forum spam protection, but there the quote;
Update:LG Mobile posted a reply to the same question in Facebook with the following:
We do have a plan to update Ice Cream Sandwich.Now we are working on it! When the date is set we will let you know through Facebook! Please check our wall regularly! Cheers.
The above post comes a few days after the initial negative response regarding the major OS update. It appears that the consumers' feedback has finally struck a cord within the company.
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If they keep their speed we all have the next phone when it comes out anyway. YAY ICS 2013!
got a doubt, in what fb site are you checking this??
can't seem to find anything interesting about gb @lg mobile
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well technically speaking our phone was also released before lg signed anything (they signed in august and o3d was released in july)... but we can hope for the best
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But the Thrill was released after that and if the Thrill gets it then the O3D will get it...identical hardware.
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alankstiyo said:
got a doubt, in what fb site are you checking this??
can't seem to find anything interesting about gb @lg mobile
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Just copy paste the message he got and google it...
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CallMeAria said:
But the Thrill was released after that and if the Thrill gets it then the O3D will get it...identical hardware.
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It is like saying that if they release a pink 2x called ladies phone today then 2x will get it cause it was released later... the thrill is o3d with different carrier firmaware and different radio activated through kernel
We will get Gingerbread 21 november and i think we will get Ics later
I think we get update to ICS.
[LG Official Statements on Ice Cream Sandwich OS Update]
LG firmly denies the rumors that claim LG will not be providing the Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) OS update for the LG Optimus 2X. These rumors are NOT true. LG is currently in the process of planning the ICS OS update for the LG Optimus 2X as well as other LG high-end smartphones. Detailed information on the ICS OS update schedule for specific models will be announced, once the ICS OS is publicly released by Google. Please stay tuned for more updates from LG.
We will get ICS later on who knows when though...
Source:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/02/optimus-2x-to-receive-ice-cream-sandwich-update-lg-confirms/
http://m.engadget.com/default/artic...onfirms/&category=classic&icid=eng_latest_art
They say that they are in the process of planning the ICS OS Update for the LG Optimus 2X as well as other LG High-End smartphones. I would like to assume that we are included in that high-end smartphone area.
Lest hope
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The only difference is the radios. There's nothing particularly sacrosanct about "official" ROMs as opposed to dev-created ones, and with an ICS O2X ROM devs can use the drivers on the G2X. That possible lack of driver support was the only thing that was ever stopping ICS on the G2X in the first place.
LG Announced today thru PC Mag that we will be getting I've Cream Sandwich for sure. Probably by the end of November. Good news.
Well I dont want to sound mean but, didnt they promise Optimus 2x gingerbread for a year now? So I will believe them when I see it done! Other than that Great news to look foreword to.
BTW, CM will have it out for us before LG will!
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CM will have it out for us before LG will!
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Probably with less problems, too.
Remember Gingerbread when it was released... the Dev Community had it released on all phones before any phone manufacture did.
You forget to think that ICS will go through a few revisions before reaching a stable version that will be ported to other phones.
BTW... link?
probably the end of November 2012...lol :-(
"LG Mobile
[LG Official Statements on Ice Cream Sandwich OS Update]
LG firmly denies the rumors that claim LG will not be providing the Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) OS update for the LG Optimus 2X. These rumors are NOT true. LG is currently in the process of planning the ICS OS update for the LG Optimus 2X as well as other LG high-end smartphones. Detailed information on the ICS OS update schedule for specific models will be announced, once the ICS OS is publicly released by Google. Please stay tuned for more updates from LG.
Thank you very much."
straight from their fb page! So the p999 will definitely be getting this update, which who knows maybe it will be a better experience than 2.3.3
jetbruceli said:
Well I dont want to sound mean but, didnt they promise Optimus 2x gingerbread for a year now? So I will believe them when I see it done! Other than that Great news to look foreword to.
BTW, CM will have it out for us before LG will!
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ummm..... the O2x gingerbread update is out and available via the LG updater.
Should be out By Summer based on the 2.3.3 for the G2x.
PCMag Article
player911 said:
Remember Gingerbread when it was released... the Dev Community had it released on all phones before any phone manufacture did.
You forget to think that ICS will go through a few revisions before reaching a stable version that will be ported to other phones.
BTW... link?
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395732,00.asp
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395732,00.asp
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Nothing in that particular article about the end of November. Oh well, I believe in cyanogenmod.
wakeboarder8156 said:
"LG Mobile
[LG Official Statements on Ice Cream Sandwich OS Update]
LG firmly denies the rumors that claim LG will not be providing the Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) OS update for the LG Optimus 2X. These rumors are NOT true. LG is currently in the process of planning the ICS OS update for the LG Optimus 2X as well as other LG high-end smartphones. Detailed information on the ICS OS update schedule for specific models will be announced, once the ICS OS is publicly released by Google. Please stay tuned for more updates from LG.
Thank you very much."
straight from their fb page! So the p999 will definitely be getting this update, which who knows maybe it will be a better experience than 2.3.3
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Honestly, if LG reads this thread they'll think we don't even care if they release it or not. Come on guys, I for one love the fact that LG is stepping up to the plate to update the phone for us.
Whether it was due to our complaining, the hate posts on their FB page, our forum, Google pressure, or just the social responsibility of LG, it's acceptable by me.
I'm grateful for it and enthused by it. Anyways, back to the fact, it'll probably take them a while to release it, probably by like next April, but it's still an update.
I take back my post on their facebook page now. They seem like they care after all, even if they are slow, it's not like they've been huge players in the mobile industry as far as I know. So let them gain some momentum here.
barqers said:
Honestly, if LG reads this thread they'll think we don't even care if they release it or not. Come on guys, I for one love the fact that LG is stepping up to the plate to update the phone for us.
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Don't worry. LG is not reading this.
who cares?
- If LG does eventually put out an upgrade... it wont be untill Summer if that soon
- It will most likely suck like their GB update did.. ( froyo kernal? cmon )
- Before an official release... you STILL wont have drivers to make the phone function correctly because of NVIDIA
this is why i switched to a SGS2 hercules ....im done with LG and NVIDIA ... G2x had great potential... but i am done and will no longer buy from either company when it comes to phones
It's too bad ATi never made a phone and never will, I would have bought one if they did. Unfortunate thing now is that AMD killed ATi, otherwise it probably could have made a phone that would crush the Tegra 2, just like they do with desktop/laptop GPUs. Anyways, I knew this would happen, apparently I was one of the only people that could spot that the other facebook response from "LG" was a fake :/
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clninja said:
who cares?
- If LG does eventually put out an upgrade... it wont be untill Summer if that soon
- It will most likely suck like their GB update did.. ( froyo kernal? cmon )
- Before an official release... you STILL wont have drivers to make the phone function correctly because of NVIDIA
this is why i switched to a SGS2 hercules ....im done with LG and NVIDIA ... G2x had great potential... but i am done and will no longer buy from either company when it comes to phones
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You obviously never owned a SGS Vibrant.... still running Froyo 2.2 forevermore. Every company does the "shove it out the door and fuggedaboudit shuffle"...
If it used ATI drivers you'd be better off with NV and froyo kernel.
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Actually i did own a vibrant....ditched it for a g2x so i got back 2 back screwed
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clninja said:
Actually i did own a vibrant....ditched it for a g2x so i got back 2 back screwed
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You and me both sir.
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Why stay Here
I don't understand the people who post they are finished with LG and/or the G2x and has had enough. Trade it in for another phone that they say they are happier with, works better than and all that but stay here in the G2x forum to complain. If their new phones are all that much better why aren't they in their NEW forum helping others and such.
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I don't understand the people who post they are finished with LG and/or the G2x and has had enough. Trade it in for another phone that they say they are happier with, works better than and all that but stay here in the G2x forum to complain. If their new phones are all that much better why aren't they in their NEW forum helping others and such.
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LOL True that!
http://www.facebook.com/notes/lg-mo...40-ice-cream-sandwich-upgrade/316431148368212
looks like the Opitmus 2X and other high end smart phones. So we will see it, one way or another.
We will know more some time in December.
I hope LG releases it for us but they never say g2x
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In some markets, like Canada (Wind) the P999 is named the Optimus 2x. I think we will be fine.
lanlee212 said:
I hope LG releases it for us but they never say g2x
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I dunno, it's mighty conspicuous they did not say G2X....
Specifically, on Facebook it says:
"We are initially announcing LG Optimus smartphones that will have Ice Cream Sandwich OS upgrade!"
Then on the actual article it says:
"Optimus 2X, the Optimus Black, the Optimus 3D and the Optimus LTE."
That CLEARLY leaves out the G2X.
They are only focusing on the O2x because they originally said it wasn't getting ICS because it was out "before" the Google Update Contract. It was all over the web and now LG publically announced it was a rumor and said they are working on it.
We'll get it eventually. The G2x isn't that old yet. It technically should have been launched with GB. The GB update was promised Day 1 as "GB isn't finished yet, so we'll just launch it with Froyo to make everyone happy". GB update = doesn't count.
So there is no reason why 6 month old phone won't get updated. Probably won't be speedy though.
@above: Optimus 2x = G2x
Same line of hardware. Tmobile has to officially release the update for us... so it won't be announced via LG.
By the summer
player911 said:
So there is no reason why 6 month old phone won't get updated. Probably won't be speedy though.
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Had the same theory with the Samsung Vibrant. Galaxy S phone, right? So when Galaxy S phones worldwide got Gingerbread, the Vibrant should, too, right? Nope, it was different due to T-Mobile radio and T-Mobile didn't care to push an update. So every Vibrant user is still rocking Froyo while the rest of the Galaxy S world is running official Gingerbread. And don't say Cyanogenmod - support was so bad thanks to lack of closed driver support that CM9 is dropping support for the Vibrant completely, and CM7 never ran right on it.
TerryMathews said:
In some markets, like Canada (Wind) the P999 is named the Optimus 2x. I think we will be fine.
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True. My phone is a 2X from wind but it is a p999.
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@above: Optimus 2x = G2x
Same line of hardware. Tmobile has to officially release the update for us... so it won't be announced via LG.
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That's not completely clear. As I recall, the Gingerbread update was originally directly from LG via their updater, and the OTA from T-Mobile followed that.
I am so tired of saying this, but here I go again. The G2X is an Optimus 2X device. To LG it is a 2X. The Optimus 2X line includes the P990, SU660 and the P999. The G2X badging was only for T-Mobile to continue their line of "G" high-end Android devices (i.e., G1, G2, G2X). It was easy for them and LG to just add a "G" to the front of the 2X name. That is why the P999 in Canada is a 2X. Only T-Mobile is allowed to use the G2X name. It is a proprietary name for T-Mobile only. It will get ICS so stop fretting about it already.
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I am so tired of saying this, but here I go again. The G2X is an Optimus 2X device. To LG it is a 2X. The Optimus 2X line includes the P990, SU660 and the P999. The G2X badging was only for T-Mobile to continue their line of "G" high-end Android devices (i.e., G1, G2, G2X). It was easy for them and LG to just add a "G" to the front of the 2X name. That is why the P999 in Canada is a 2X. Only T-Mobile is allowed to use the G2X name. It is a proprietary name for T-Mobile only. It will get ICS so stop fretting about it already.
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I guess I just get so nervous because I had the same story with the Vibrant... I hope you're right.
Anyway, I did get a response on LG's facebook that I made a few days ago. Not much info there.
Alvin posted to: LG USA Mobile
Hey LG, since the P990 gingerbread update included the proper LG Camera, is there any way maybe just maybe you guys could push out a fixed LG Camera (NOT AOSP) for the P999 G2X? Many of us bought the phone for the great camera software which you took away with the Gingerbread update!
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LG USA Mobile: Hey Alvin, we hear you. Unfortunately we don't have any information on the G2X updates. When we do though, we will be sure to share it with you. Thanks for your patience.
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CM7 ran smooth as hell on my vibrant. Still is now and my son is using it.
O2X=G2X
If o2x gets official ics I'm 100% sure g2x will have a fully optimized ics rom.
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masteromixes said:
CM7 ran smooth as hell on my vibrant. Still is now and my son is using it.
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It ran smooth, but GPS was flaky (you couldn't turn it off, or it wouldn't turn back on until you rebooted) and the battery life was pathetic compared to stock.
lotherius said:
Had the same theory with the Samsung Vibrant. Galaxy S phone, right? So when Galaxy S phones worldwide got Gingerbread, the Vibrant should, too, right? Nope, it was different due to T-Mobile radio and T-Mobile didn't care to push an update. So every Vibrant user is still rocking Froyo while the rest of the Galaxy S world is running official Gingerbread. And don't say Cyanogenmod - support was so bad thanks to lack of closed driver support that CM9 is dropping support for the Vibrant completely, and CM7 never ran right on it.
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Agreed but this obviously isn't Samsung. We've already had an update and have NO reason to suggest we won't be getting more updates.
NVidia and LG have closed drivers but that doesn't stop development. Everyone labels LG as being a bad manufacture based on bad experiences with Samsung.
While I would like more "openness" around the device as a whole, I do ultimately blame NVidia. Even on Desktop Linux boxes, NVidia is hush hush.
IMO, looking at LG or any other manufacture, it doesn't really pay-off to release source code within the first year. You have to think that manufactures have to warranty the devices for a year and people boinking their hardware over some poorly self-compiled driver only costs them money.
I predict we'll get an official ICS upgrade and be shut down. The question is if we'll get a new kernel or if they still pimp that Froyo version!
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Agreed but this obviously isn't Samsung. We've already had an update and have NO reason to suggest we won't be getting more updates.
NVidia and LG have closed drivers but that doesn't stop development. Everyone labels LG as being a bad manufacture based on bad experiences with Samsung.
While I would like more "openness" around the device as a whole, I do ultimately blame NVidia. Even on Desktop Linux boxes, NVidia is hush hush.
IMO, looking at LG or any other manufacture, it doesn't really pay-off to release source code within the first year. You have to think that manufactures have to warranty the devices for a year and people boinking their hardware over some poorly self-compiled driver only costs them money.
I predict we'll get an official ICS upgrade and be shut down. The question is if we'll get a new kernel or if they still pimp that Froyo version!
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ICS cannot run on the old kernel. It will have to be a new kernel, and more than likely, a new baseband also (as Qualcomm is continually updating the baseband code to finetune it, so there is no reason for LG not to improve the device with a baseband update also).
I've long figured that while there was a small chance LG wouldn't release ICS for the G2x there was a much bigger chance they would.
Here's my logic: The launch of the phone was a disaster from a PR perspective and left a lot of people considering other manufacturers for their next phone. As a result LG has a lot of ground to make up in terms of consumer trust. In terms of repairing their reputation releasing ICS for the G2x would go a long way to rebuilding the trust they lost. As long as LG's beancounters determine that the money put into developing ICS for the G2x is worth it LG will do it.
Lets just hope its not a half ass build like the gingerbread build was...
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Lets just hope its not a half ass build like the gingerbread build was...
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Why do people on this board whine about this phone so much? There was nothing wrong with the Gingerbread build. It is a very stable and fast stock Android build. If you don't like it install one of the custom roms based on it or CM7.
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Why do people on this board whine about this phone so much? There was nothing wrong with the Gingerbread build. It is a very stable and fast stock Android build. If you don't like it install one of the custom roms based on it or CM7.
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1. There is a difference between whining and making a statement
2. Check the sig. 2 steps ahead of you