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epic update

How come the epic which released only weeks ago has a new update but we cant get an update for the cap. to get a freaking GPS lock. This is soo gay Samsung!

Could also be att I bet
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well, i really think samsung is not the responsible for this lack of updates, i would point att

+1 vote for ATT

Samsung has acknowledged an issue with the Galaxy series having issues with getting GPS fixes. It was reported on Engadget that the Epic 4G does not suffer from the same major GPS flaw, and a software update is being tested that will resolve it for the rest of the lineup.
While I currently have Verizon, I was an AT&T user for several years, and I remember how they drug their feet with Windows Mobile updates as well.

I am going to hold off pointing at AT&T until the Vibrant gets an official update (not just a leaked firmware). Once T-mobile has an update to push out AT&T should as well, and then it will be on their head. Until then it is Samsung's fault, and I think (hope) that they are waiting to batch it with the update that turns Media Hub on (one update is better than two).
I just hope it comes soon...
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samsung infuse info

ok heres the deal im thinking of buying this phone by tonight and i was wondering what you guys recommend me if to buy it or does this phone has as much problems as the Samsung galaxy s vibrant i know its not in the galaxy s family but it is still Samsung. so what do you guys think should i get it? sorry if it was asked before ill be honest i didn't do my research to see if this was already asked or mentioned in this forum like i said i wanna make the decision by tonight. thank you in advance.

i've had the phone for about a month now and i couldn't be happier. Like most people have said, its ultimately an upgraded captivate with an amazing screen. I haven't had any bugs with it. It seems that the GB roms send to suck up the battery a lot faster though which prompted me to downgrade back to a froyo ROM (infused 1.6).

First droid, wife has iphone 4. This is way better! Worse pixels and you can see it on text and other things. I love it and don't think id go back. Iphone 5 is coming soon, so the droid that has to.compete with that will be epic, dual processors and all that. As of today tho i love mine
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I'm loving my Infuse even though there's only like three ROMs. xD
I'll be putting out a custom ROM and Kernel soon though!

I wasn't sure about the infuse at first, but after all the gb roms and now the Cam fix with kernel and modems I love it.
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What phones will be getting ics?

I was reading an article about ics and the article said ics will be released to older phones too. Is that ganna be last year's phones like the galaxy s and evo or older phones like the hero?
But another article said most gingerbread phones will get ics.
Do Yall think the galaxy s will be getting ics? Specifically the epic? Seems how we're never going to get gingerbread. Stopped development right at the final stages of testing. **** sprint.
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ICS Getting Closer

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/08/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-ics/
Looks like its coming pretty soon. Maybe some awesome devs can work some magic and get us ICS before AT&T does.
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That's Awesome

So the original s2 and international only? Hope the skyrocket international comes along beside it so someone can port it to att for us.
Was really hoping for this to be att news. But I guess I should have less faith in them.

We have a different processor and gpu in our Skyrockets than the international version. Not sure if ICS for that device would help a lot for rom development on ours, but then again we have some amazing devs here on XDA

Or not...
They updated their article:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/08/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-ics/
Update: Samsung's just tweeted that March 10th date is (sadly) wrong. It added that once the upgrade schedule is concrete, it'll confirm through its dedicated Twitter account.
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Really is anybody here going to buy a Galaxy III or IV or XX after this.
I am sick of Samsung.
I am sure they will do well 99% of the people have no clue, but me I am getting only Nexus Devices go forward.

Is it me or is samsung acting like a bunch of monkey flinging poo

AstroDigital said:
Really is anybody here going to buy a Galaxy III or IV or XX after this.
I am sick of Samsung.
I am sure they will do well 99% of the people have no clue, but me I am getting only Nexus Devices go forward.
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Ditto. My Skyrocket is only a few months old and it's going to be 'old tech' as soon as the HD hits.

Update recalled. Or delayed which ever you prefer.
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My next device is going to be the next Nexus device. I'm tired of this carrier and OEM bull****.

AstroDigital said:
Really is anybody here going to buy a Galaxy III or IV or XX after this.
I am sick of Samsung.
I am sure they will do well 99% of the people have no clue, but me I am getting only Nexus Devices go forward.
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As long as LG isn't the one to get it.....my wife's (after I pawned it off on her) Thrill is still yet to be updated to Gingerbread.
Comparing Samsung to others like Motorola and HTC, they are all the same. At least they have been pushing updates for bug fixes and such. The Thrill has yet to get even ONE update and they have major rebooting issues along with others. I would buy another Samsung. Would prefer they were the ones to get the next Nexus phone again.

Gr8Danes said:
As long as LG isn't the one to get it.....my wife's (after I pawned it off on her) Thrill is still yet to be updated to Gingerbread.
Comparing Samsung to others like Motorola and HTC, they are all the same. At least they have been pushing updates for bug fixes and such. The Thrill has yet to get even ONE update and they have major rebooting issues along with others. I would buy another Samsung. Would prefer they were the ones to get the next Nexus phone again.
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I traded my Thrill for the Skyrocket because of this. SO glad I don't have that paper weight anymore. At least we know ICS is coming, and it's about ready. LG was just playing with our emotions.

I said the same thing about only getting Nexus, but I was unimpressed with the specs of this last one and my NS4G had horrible reception issues because of a ****ty antenna.
Add to this the fact that they omit an SD card slot <--That is the biggest deal breaker by far! I like being able to take all of my files with me from phone to phone and not have to spend hours transferring files when I get a new phone.

Its basically just the carriers, if you want to get updates and have an amazing phone get the international version! I would speend 300 bucks more to pick up a of gs2 when it first came out. But I get a free phone anyway. Same thing for the gs3 the galaxy devices are pretty dang good! I mean the gs2 is still on of the best IMO. Or at least just got past after a year of it being out. So grab that extra. Money and go for it
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Same here, I'm getting a nexus device, I'm done playng the waiting game with Samsuck
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It sucks that they're taking so long. But, if you want to stay w/ GSM, I think the SR is still the best game in town ICS or not. Battery life on the Nitro and Vivid aren't nearly as good. And when I played w/ them at the store, they weren't nearly as responsive as the S2 (i777 or SR). The Nitro's screen was nicer, but wasn't so much nicer that I'd give up battery life and performance (and LG doesn't do much better w/ updates either). Nexus is cool, but if you don't wanna pay $6-700, value external storage, and LTE, that's off the table, too.
Samsung should've been happy w/ the original S2 (still one of the best phones available right now). They didn't need to release so many versions. I had in mind before buying this phone that the i777 will get ICS before the SR (either thru XDA or official) since the hardware is nearly identical to the international version. But, LTE was more important to me than ICS.
We can keep waiting for that perfect phone, or be happy that we have an awesome phone right now.

nexus devices are always inferior then the latest phone of that year...For example...Nexus S was inferior then SGS and now Galaxy Nexus in inferior then SG2....
I agree with above poster...with so many devs working for our phones, I think I would always go for a better hardware then the one which will get updated quickly.
I am using Samsung Captivate now, I am already running ICS (almost stable). it was one of best smartphone hardware wise 2 yrs ago..so its still getting development really good.

Waiting for official updates is dumb. The devs is where the good stuff comes from. ICS will be on our SR's from our devs loooooooong before Samung or ATT gets it to us. Standby for the good stuff. It's coming.
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So there's no XDA release of ICS yet for Skyrocket?

Not a fully functional or stable one.

[Q] Official ICS update from T-Mo soon?

The interwebs today are a'blaze' with a rumored August 15th release of a Blaze Q - essentially a slider querty version of our blaze with a 720p display - that will launch with ICS. I don't care for rumors too much but I'm hopeful that the official T-Mo ICS for our blaze to be around August 15th - or about a month from now since the 2 blazes are rumored to be almost identical. Nothing official from T-Mo and as of today the support page still says release date TBD. Will we finally be getting ICS?
Source article for my speculation:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_...le-could-debut-galaxy-s-blaze-q-on-august-15/

That's too long lol plus we need source which comes out up to 30 days after T-Mobile update :/
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This is pretty much a failure on Samsung's part. This phone should have came with ICS too, honestly. Or at least it should have been released already.
Hopefully we can have an unofficial port of CM9 or JellyBean since the source was just released.
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Bulletblitz27 said:
This is pretty much a failure on Samsung's part. This phone should have came with ICS too, honestly. Or at least it should have been released already.
Hopefully we can have an unofficial port of CM9 or JellyBean since the source was just released.
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cm9 in time jelly bean it's eh also maybe since from api 15 to 16 wasn't that big of a jump

It could be sooner. I can't imagine T-Mo selling any Blaze 4g's on GB at all right next to the ICS Blaze Q's. Unless T-Mo is shipping all of their Blazes back to Samsung they need to have both of them running ICS by the 15th. I just don't see another price drop happening since the Blaze just dropped $50 not that long ago and is only 4 months old.
Ironic thing is by then we'll all likely be running a CM9 port from you and won't care until source is released
:good:Thanks for all of your great work ericmm!:good: We're all happy to have a great dev here!

anactoraaron said:
It could be sooner. I can't imagine T-Mo selling any Blaze 4g's on GB at all right next to the ICS Blaze Q's. Unless T-Mo is shipping all of their Blazes back to Samsung they need to have both of them running ICS by the 15th. I just don't see another price drop happening since the Blaze just dropped $50 not that long ago and is only 4 months old.
Ironic thing is by then we'll all likely be running a CM9 port from you and won't care until source is released
:good:Thanks for all of your great work ericmm!:good: We're all happy to have a great dev here!
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lol thanks and it's erik* lol sorry that and clean dev threads are my only pet peeves lol

anactoraaron said:
The interwebs today are a'blaze' with a rumored August 15th release of a Blaze Q - essentially a slider querty version of our blaze with a 720p display - that will launch with ICS. I don't care for rumors too much but I'm hopeful that the official T-Mo ICS for our blaze to be around August 15th - or about a month from now since the 2 blazes are rumored to be almost identical. Nothing official from T-Mo and as of today the support page still says release date TBD. Will we finally be getting ICS?
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Man I hope you're right. Still running unrooted, stock ROM, but using Holo Launcher just to get the ICS-like experience haha
Hoping I can grab the official ICS if/when it comes out so I can root and get rid of some bloat and enjoy Google Chrome

I'm getting anxious. I at least want a set date!
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spartanerik said:
Man I hope you're right. Still running unrooted, stock ROM, but using Holo Launcher just to get the ICS-like experience haha
Hoping I can grab the official ICS if/when it comes out so I can root and get rid of some bloat and enjoy Google Chrome
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You cab root now and there are a couple great roms out for this phone as we speak! I'm running dark knight build 4 and it is amazing
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Relay 4g officially announced
...and it's identical to the Blaze minus ICS and the slider keyboard. Rumors had this device to based on the SGS3 with a S4 chipset but it is in fact what I thought it would be... an S3 with 5MP rear/1.3 MP front cameras, 4 inch SAMOLED display, 42Mbps '4g' from TMO.
Source article: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57...y-s-relay-4g-to-hit-t-mobile-in-coming-weeks/
So since these phones are nearly identical it would appear ICS will be released for us this month alongside the Relay.
I would also guess the delay has to do with the Apple lawsuit and Samsung needing to comply with their 'software enhancements' that were found to be infringing.

anactoraaron said:
...So since these phones are nearly identical it would appear ICS will be released for us this month alongside the Relay....
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That's a big assumption. Usually they avoid upgrading a phone's OS when they have a nearly identical phone coming out because it can hurt the sale of the new phone.
Having a new phone that competes in the same space as the Blaze 4G is not a positive sign for us.

megatherian said:
That's a big assumption. Usually they avoid upgrading a phone's OS when they have a nearly identical phone coming out because it can hurt the sale of the new phone.
Having a new phone that competes in the same space as the Blaze 4G is not a positive sign for us.
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I'm not so sure. I believe the ONLY reason the Blaze was on the short list for the ICS update is because Samsung was planning on re-using the hardware from the Blaze to make a slider phone (aka the Relay) and put ICS on the re-released device. It just doesn't make any sense otherwise for this device to be getting the update.
Even if Samsung snubs us on ICS the Relay is so similar it may be very possible to develop ICS for the Blaze based on the Relay source (which from what I understand would be easier than porting the current GB source).
EDIT: I can find no information that the Relay will have a 720p display like was rumored. So the display will likely be the same as the Blaze too.

Doesn't the Relay use an s4 processor and the Blaze uses a s3? Wouldn't that make it harder to port
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Read the link I posted on page 1 from cnet. It is in fact an s3.
There is a link to the official TMo announcement that tells all the specs... I will post the link in a bit.
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anactoraaron said:
Read the link I posted on page 1 from cnet. It is in fact an s3.
There is a link to the official TMo announcement that tells all the specs... I will post the link in a bit.
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S3 processor 100%
link http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/articles/t-mobile-announces-samsung-galaxy-s-relay-4g

Damn it sure is
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The s2 source is closer to the blaze than the relay will be ....still requires a lot of work to kernel to just get a booting kernel.
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erikmm said:
The s2 source is closer to the blaze than the relay will be ....still requires a lot of work to kernel to just get a booting kernel.
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If helped don't be afraid to hit the thanks button it doesn't bite lol
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I will take your word for it... you know way more about it than I do (I'm just a noob after all lol). Still, from just looking at the specs everything about these phones (the Relay and Blaze) look exactly the same- same S3 @1.5, rear cam @5MP, front cam @1.3, same SAMOLED 4" 480x800 (driver may be slightly different), and perhaps the radio is different as well but it could be the same (after all they were calling this phone the Blaze 4G Q - there may be nothing different at all under the hood). I know the display is different for the S2 for sure along with the cameras.
I just wish things like this were simple (although I know they never are).

Stooopid question I'm sure, but how is it I can put ICS roms on my old Mytouch 4g and HP Touchpad, but not this phone?

managerisk said:
Stooopid question I'm sure, but how is it I can put ICS roms on my old Mytouch 4g and HP Touchpad, but not this phone?
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Well I would say it's because you haven't made an ICS rom yet
Seriously if it were an easy thing to do, everyone would be making roms. It also depends on how many devs get the device in question among other factors.
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