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CM team providing Jelly Bean for several devices: Leave ICS ask for Jelly Bean for R

The ICS version of Android has been a pretty strange one from the point of view of upgrades from manufacturers and also of the hacking community that are making custom ROM’s for Android phones, like the CyanogenMod team. That’s because ICS was a huge overhaul of Gingerbread. This is the reason it has taken (some) tablet manufacturers a couple of months to upgrade Honeycomb to ICS, but it has taken at least half a year to even start seeing upgrades from most manufacturers for smartphones. It even took Google itself 4 months to upgrade the Nexus S.
The ROM community didn’t have it any better, and it has taken them until recently to even get in the RC stage for their ROM’s. The camera app has been the hardest to fix for CM9/ICS because Google completely replaced the camera framework, to make it faster and more advanced, and this means that all phones needed new drivers for the camera so the app can work. This means that all the developers making ICS ROM’s had to rewrite the drivers for the new camera app. It’s one of the main reasons why it has taken so long for an ICS ROM to become stable (the same goes for manufacturers).While CM9 will only support a few dozen devices, there are many more developers who are making ROM’s for their own specific phone model, and they are basing those ROM’s on CM9. Why? Simply because of it’s cross-compatibility for many other devices, and its extra features and performance tweaks compared to stock Android.
Google I/O is tomorrow, and we’ll most likely see Android 4.1 not only announced, but also released, which means that the CM team will have no time to rest and will have to get started with adding the Android 4.1 improvements to CM9, or whatever they will be calling it (CM9.1, CM10 ?). They’ve already reached the RC1 stage for several devices today, and this version is coming for more next week.The RC1 stage is the one after beta, so unless some last-minute bugs show up before the stable release, it should be released a few weeks later.
The list of devices currently supported include devices such as the
Samsung Galaxy S,
Galaxy Tab,
Captivate,
Galaxy S II,
Galaxy Note,
Nexus S,
Galaxy Nexus,
LG Nitro HD,
Optimus Sol,
ASUS EeePad Transformer,
Transformer Prime,
Sony Xperia ray,
Xperia mini,
Xperia active,
HTC Sensation and many more..

Hold your horses buddy, we need to have stable & working ICS in the first place to even think about getting Jelly Bean.
Let's also see what Jelly Bean is all about. Some of the speculations are Google's own Voice Assistant, Chrome out of beta, UI changes.

according to gsmarena Android 4.1 is not a big upgrade from ICS they are just replacing the Stock Android browser with Google Chrome as default browser....
Lets wait see what's new in 4.1......

'cooleagle' said:
Hold your horses buddy, we need to have stable & working ICS in the first place to even think about getting Jelly Bean.
Let's also see what Jelly Bean is all about. Some of the speculations are Google's own Voice Assistant, Chrome out of beta, UI changes.
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Yes dear I m on hold by last 6 months now my horses really want to fly.. so its time when we can ask them to make If we are donating for the same then we can ask for Jelly bean also..what do you say..??:victory:

mj.vikram said:
according to gsmarena Android 4.1 is not a big upgrade from ICS they are just replacing the Stock Android browser with Google Chrome as default browser....
Lets wait see what's new in 4.1......
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Yup dear, if its like that..then why not we ask for jelly bean for our ROYALE device...??

kataria.vikesh said:
Yup dear, if its like that..then why not we ask for jelly bean for our ROYALE device...??
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Buddy we will leave it to Epsylon let him decide what is the best he can give us, any how it will take some time to Google to release 4.1 source code....

mj.vikram said:
Buddy we will leave it to Epsylon let him decide what is the best he can give us, any how it will take some time to Google to release 4.1 source code....
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hmmm..now again waiting..:angel:

what if we SGR users get Jelly Bean update, officially ??? lets wait buddy

Hmm... Yes... Its just a minor upgrade....
However....it will be possible to port JB, if we get ICS successfully working....
All hopes on Epsylon.....
Fingers crossed.....
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I am a noob here... but....I am a geek.... ;-)

chandrus1983 said:
what if we SGR users get Jelly Bean update, officially ??? lets wait buddy
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till now we dont have ICS..bt we are hopping that, may JB come in our device..
any angel will come from XDA & TADAA..we will get JB..:laugh:

chandrus1983 said:
what if we SGR users get Jelly Bean update, officially ??? lets wait buddy
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Our Device is having Nvidia Tegra 2, Nvidia is very slow in providing the required drivers so i don't think we will be getting official ROM based on Android 4.1 because we will be getting official ROM by end of next month :fingers-crossed:...
But who know Samsung may provide us 4.1 directly ......

Google is just progressing too hastily
This was sent from a Galaxy Ace.

guys sammy is not even providing ICS to us than thinking that they will provide 4.1 update is just day dreaming , we should rely on devs not samsung.

CallMeVentus said:
Google is just progressing too hastily
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yes you are correct at least they should give one year gap between each major update in the mean time they should only release bug fix's.....

CallMeVentus said:
Google is just progressing too hastily
This was sent from a Galaxy Ace.
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buddy can u tell how u used HTML in ur sig

xlm13x said:
guys sammy is not even providing ICS to us than thinking that they will provide 4.1 update is just day dreaming , we should rely on devs not samsung.
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Samsung is giving us ICS, thats more than enuf for dem....
It means that samsung has done their job, they have followed all d norms (like google says to update each fone once in a life tyme). N providing JB to R is more than a favour..And sammy wont make any extra favour specially to R.
It can offer such favour only to s2 s3 and Note etc..
so rely only on dev

vipul12389mehta said:
Samsung is giving us ICS, thats more than enuf for dem....
It means that samsung has done their job, they have followed all d norms (like google says to update each fone once in a life tyme). N providing JB to R is more than a favour..And sammy wont make any extra favour specially to R.
It can offer such favour only to s2 s3 and Note etc..
so rely only on dev
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Yes dear, they are doing like a formality & due to norms of Google..but what if any phone is getting many updates like S2 & S3(may b get JB)..??

kataria.vikesh said:
Yes dear, they are doing like a formality & due to norms of Google..but what if any phone is getting many updates like S2 & S3(may b get JB)..??
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Yes s2 and s3 do deserve...coz
1. They were/are flagship product
2. Millions of user, larger user base.
3. tons of business due to these product.
4. People have paid more that 30k
5. Plus not from a company point of view, but they have greater dev support (its all interlinked... flagship == larger support)
Wat else do you want ??
Does R stand anywhere there ??
:silly::silly::silly::silly:
More Over remember one thing....once s2 is updated to JB, then samsung wont even consider s2..
I mean SGS2 would be treated d same way as SGS was treated by not updating to ICS.
Samsung is money minded and doesn't care about its customer. s2 will get updates till s3 doesnt takes off pretty well in all countries and carrier and den tata bye bye s2..!!

xlm13x said:
buddy can u tell how u used HTML in ur sig
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I'm not , only Admins can use HTML
This was sent from a Galaxy Ace.

mj.vikram said:
Our Device is having Nvidia Tegra 2, Nvidia is very slow in providing the required drivers so i don't think we will be getting official ROM based on Android 4.1 because we will be getting official ROM by end of next month :fingers-crossed:...
But who know Samsung may provide us 4.1 directly ......
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[Q] where & how to update 2.3.5 to ANY jelly bean

hi everyone
i am new to this and always will be.
I have searched the forums but i lack the attention or technical know how to digest the information. On YouTube there are videos that says "how to update any phone t jelly bean" but they all want you to contract to a prepaid service of some kind
When i had my iPhone i found websites where you just download this APP, double clicked it and it updated everything for you
SOMEONE SOMEWHERE must be able to develop a generic app which will update any phone no what size, configuration or OS is on it ... c'mon techies n geeks ya letting us all down
I am looking for something similar ... pls help me
PLS REPLY to me personally and not on the forum ... there's just too much info and threads and i can't make heads or tails of it
Many many thanks

There's no app that will update it for you sorry
Also what kind of phone do you own?
Depending on your phone there may be options to achieve and upgrade to jellybean via ROMs or possibly ota (depending on your phone)
A good step would to be root first as you'll need it to achieve custom ROMs and recovery options
Like I said first state your phone model etc
So we can help
P.s hit the thanks button!
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I didn't want to state my phone as i thought they were APPs out there that can update any phone to jelly bean
but the phone i have is the 5.3" blu studio phone
whiteboi-hakz said:
There's no app that will update it for you sorry
Also what kind of phone do you own?
Depending on your phone there may be options to achieve and upgrade to jellybean via ROMs or possibly ota (depending on your phone)
A good step would to be root first as you'll need it to achieve custom ROMs and recovery options
Like I said first state your phone model etc
So we can help
P.s hit the thanks button!
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Got a model number to go with that? Also
I'll look into it for you after work see what I can do for you
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You can't update any phone to jellybean, too many devices to create a single solution. You also appear to have a non brand phone which makes the chances of having a jellybean ROM drop down to 4%
And... I doubt a third party app could even update the iPhone... without it being from Apple
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Yea I just searched ya phone it is unbranded
So the chances of a jb upgrade will be slim
In your case very slim but rooting will still be possible for you again I'll keep looking after work to try help you but don't get your hopes up for a jb upgrade
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hey many thanks man
i thought it was like a hard drive, u format it & put the new OS on ... job done
if u do upgrade jelly bean to the blu studio 5.3 then a lot of people will be very interested - the blu studio was quite popular
i'm not rich but i will pay you/contribute ... just give me your paypal name ...
as i said im not techie so i will need proof ...
whiteboi-hakz said:
Yea I just searched ya phone it is unbranded
So the chances of a jb upgrade will be slim
In your case very slim but rooting will still be possible for you again I'll keep looking after work to try help you but don't get your hopes up for a jb upgrade
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juzdownit said:
hey many thanks man
i thought it was like a hard drive, u format it & put the new OS on ... job done
if u do upgrade jelly bean to the blu studio 5.3 then a lot of people will be very interested - the blu studio was quite popular
i'm not rich but i will pay you/contribute ... just give me your paypal name ...
as i said im not techie so i will need proof ...
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The issue is the drivers, BLU is not a popular brand so the likelihood of a developer taking the time on the port is slim. Not to mention VERY time consuming on a device that has BROAD support. Typically devices like HTC, Samsung, Motorola (the ones that aren't Nand Locked) will receive ports fairly quickly, while obscure devices MAY never get them.
Now on with the specs. The BLU Studio 5.3 features a an ARMv6 CPU, clocked at 650MHz, a PowerVR SGX531 GPU, and 512MB of RAM. There is 200MB of built-in memory
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You may lack hardware support in all honesty, ICS is optimized for dual core devices, though it does run on the HTC EVO 4G (keep in mind that while this is a single core processor it is also a 1 GHz single core, and pretty powerful for a single core device)...If I were in your shoes I would either,
A) Buy a new phone, one that has more community support, if you want Jelly Bean, or
B) Find a bad a$$ Gingerbread ROM for the phone you have.
If a lot of people would be very interested perhaps they can learn to port JB...there are tutorials for the basic port.

Buying a new phone has always been an option for me but ...
there's not many 5inch+ phones out there that has dual sim options
this 5.3" blu motion phone does everything easy to use, great size and large screen for GPS and not to mention cheap as chips
I don't really care about the other bells n whistles i like a phone with a big screen
if someone gave me the iPhone5 i'd put it on eBay in a heart beat ...
... heavens knows why you would want a small phone ...
if anyone knows where i can get a 5inch+ phone with two or more sim slots and with JELLY BEAN
do let me know
ItzCrooK2UxD said:
The issue is the drivers, BLU is not a popular brand so the likelihood of a developer taking the time on the port is slim. Not to mention VERY time consuming on a device that has BROAD support. Typically devices like HTC, Samsung, Motorola (the ones that aren't Nand Locked) will receive ports fairly quickly, while obscure devices MAY never get them.
You may lack hardware support in all honesty, ICS is optimized for dual core devices, though it does run on the HTC EVO 4G (keep in mind that while this is a single core processor it is also a 1 GHz single core, and pretty powerful for a single core device)...If I were in your shoes I would either,
A) Buy a new phone, one that has more community support, if you want Jelly Bean, or
B) Find a bad a$$ Gingerbread ROM for the phone you have.
If a lot of people would be very interested perhaps they can learn to port JB...there are tutorials for the basic port.
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juzdownit said:
hey many thanks man
i thought it was like a hard drive, u format it & put the new OS on ... job done
if u do upgrade jelly bean to the blu studio 5.3 then a lot of people will be very interested - the blu studio was quite popular
i'm not rich but i will pay you/contribute ... just give me your paypal name ...
as i said im not techie so i will need proof ...
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No worrys me and my brother on the case
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I have that phone too.
But I bought it under the name 'Simvalley SPX-5'.
Mine is branded.
So is it possible to get Ice Cream Sandwich?
My brand is: yusu
Found it at 'BuildInfos'.

Do you think the new change of ownership of Motorola will affect the speed of an upda

I don't even think this device will see kitkat officially now thanks to lenovo taking over.. am I wrong?
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stevie13.xo said:
I don't even think this device will see kitkat officially now thanks to lenovo taking over.. am I wrong?
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Unless a Motorola insider will speak up here, which is very unlikely, this thread is bound to be filled by pure speculations.
Let's wait a few months, then we'll know...
(Btw., in regard to CM and CM derived ROMs, we don't necessarily need the official kitkat for Q, a Razr HD kitkat release could be enough for us, depending on the modem/ril compatibility of that speculative release.)

...Isn't it that our razrqcom devices are already sentenced death ever since Google acquired Moto?
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Sony killed this handset

Many months on and still no significant update for this supposed 'mid range' handset with an aggressive carrier bootloader lock policy. I am so utterly disgusted by Sony for dropping all support for this handset early that I will never buy a Sony handset again. Its no wonder they only ever report losses when they offer this quality of service.

BunnyKillBot said:
Many months on and still no significant update for this supposed 'mid range' handset with an aggressive carrier bootloader lock policy. I am so utterly disgusted by Sony for dropping all support for this handset early that I will never buy a Sony handset again. Its no wonder they only ever report losses when they offer this quality of service.
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please provide the link of this news
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david makarove said:
please provide the link of this news
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What? Its not news, its fact. No 4.4 is insulting, no 4.3, which the Xperia M has and is a virtually identical handset, is disgusting. Aggressive carrier boot loader lock means users who purchased through carriers can't even update the software themselves. As such, there is little to no active development team here beyond a few loyal enthusiasts. Compare that with the Samsung series phones, which all have complex active communities, this phone is dead. No real updates, no support. Released April 2013, release, dump, move on and screw anybody who bought the thing. The xperia L could have been the definitive mid-range handset, but instead they have treated it like dirt. And what did Sony, in their infinite wisdom give us? AOSP sources with broken bluetooth and GPS. Geewiz, thanks Sony.
My Mother-in-laws carrier purchased Samsung S3 mini is smoothly running KitKat,
My Old phone, a 1st generation ZTE blade released the end of 2010 still has an active CM11 maintainer.
thats how insane this situation is.

Yeah, you're saying right.. We have only one major update.. from 4.1 to 4.2. They released broken AOSP source. Okay, our great developer Varun.chitre15 and other devs fixed it. But what about people with locked bootloader? Anyway, I think for many users this will be last smartphone from Sony.

aleksander002 said:
Yeah, you're saying right.. We have only one major update.. from 4.1 to 4.2. They released broken AOSP source. Okay, our great developer Varun.chitre15 and other devs fixed it. But what about people with locked bootloader? Anyway, I think for many users this will be last smartphone from Sony.
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BunnyKillBot said:
No 4.4 is insulting, no 4.3, which the Xperia M has and is a virtually identical handset, is disgusting.
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Even Sony Xperia E1, a phone with a 1,2 GHz dual core processor yet only 512 MBs of RAM is running 4.3 and according to their website (at least in my country), there's a Kit Kat update planned for it. Why can the E1 handle 4.3 (and possibly 4.4 too) and the L not? Because of a slightly faster processor? I don't even know what their excuses are anymore

Empu said:
Even Sony Xperia E1, a phone with a 1,2 GHz dual core processor yet only 512 MBs of RAM is running 4.3 and according to their website (at least in my country), there's a Kit Kat update planned for it. Why can the E1 handle 4.3 (and possibly 4.4 too) and the L not? Because of a slightly faster processor? I don't even know what their excuses are anymore
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I read somewhere that sony said how xperia L wasn't strong enough to support kitkat roms.
LOL in their faces.
No comment....
Other then slick design they really have nothing else to offer for their mid range devices.
Its a shame.....and dissapointment.
We won't be getting kitkat update for xperia L.....its final.

I know that Sony have not been the best at updating their mid range devices but if you look on the bright side; the people who can unlock their bootloaders have official cm thanks to varun. Also there is amazing development going on for our device. But the people who can't unlock their bootloaders, they have every right to complain. I am just sharing my opinion. Thanks.
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adil089 said:
I know that Sony have not been the best at updating their mid range devices but if you look on the bright side; the people who can unlock their bootloaders have official cm thanks to varun. Also there is amazing development going on for our device. But the people who can't unlock their bootloaders, they have every right to complain. I am just sharing my opinion. Thanks.
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Sony should at least bring 4.3 (same as the M)

There is new rule in this life
" never buy Sony phone if the phone doesn't have good developers "
Sony update all z phones to KitKat and SP with them
That's mean one thing
Sony only care in money
They only care update expensive phones to make people buy them
i think sony developers team in the company must be changed
Thanks
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david makarove said:
There is new rule in this life
" never buy Sony phone if the phone doesn't have good developers "
Sony update all z phones to KitKat and SP with them
That's mean one thing
Sony only care in money
They only care update expensive phones to make people buy them
i think sony developers team in the company must be changed
Thanks
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Agreed with that...:good:

Xda Dev r best.that's way we have stable kitkat.

We all have the right to complain when the almost same specced and even lower end device Xperia M gets a 4.3 update, while we're stuck with a version still full of the bugs that still hasn't been fixed. A very capable phone, but they are all too busy with the flagships and the new sh*tty new mid-range devices that doesn't really differentiate them from other OEMs.

to win money to buy a new phone, do not expect updates from Sony

Lollipop fpr g pro 2 feb

Hi guys i have thid information from a very relaible source [my cousin] who heads development team for gp2 , he has conformed lg will push lollipop to all the promised devices starting February and roll out to end by march 31. Gp2 will get it by end of feb ...
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do you know if it's 5.0 or 5.0.1?

Sorry not sure about it...
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ray-lee said:
do you know if it's 5.0 or 5.0.1?
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Must be 5.0.1, since this version would age considerably by then, Perhaps it doesn't matter for LG G Pro 2 as it would be the last official/community update and there wont be a successor to it.
On a general note, Kitkat performance is sluggish especially in UI transitions on G Pro 2.

Lollipop, it would be the last official/community update and there wont be a successor to it.
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Are you kiddn' me ? what the F..... is wrong with LG ? we bought a brand new phone that's barely one year old and after this update we should never except anymore Update ?
all the update goes to G3 and those who has more money to buy that.. shame..

This is all unofficially so,calm down
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Everything begins with a speculation, from religion to science. Well, G Pro series hasn't been an economically viable proposition for LG, perhaps that might contribute to rumors.

Well!
Pro 2 is still a solid and high performance phone even after 10 months. :good:
The Lollipop update is certainly the most welcome as I intend to keep using the Pro 2 until a later date in 2015. :fingers-crossed:
Quick quick! LG, push harder and faster like the K-Pop !

kelvintisw said:
Well!
Pro 2 is still a solid and high performance phone even after 10 months. :good:
The Lollipop update is certainly the most welcome as I intend to keep using the Pro 2 until a later date in 2015. :fingers-crossed:
Quick quick! LG, push harder and faster like the K-Pop !
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haha kelventi bro good to see u here apart from HWZ

anirudhks said:
haha kelventi bro good to see u here apart from HWZ
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Yoo!
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It shoots 4k videos, Qualcomm 800 SOC, but my experience is generally contrary. Scrolling whether be it menus or Web page is not a smooth affair, it's quirky most of the time. The only feature that is on par with competition is its camera blessed with OIS and presence of SD card slot that's absent from many high end devices.

glasseffects said:
as it would be the last official/community update and there wont be a successor to it..
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I really doubt that. LG is not so communicative about updates.
But even the G2 received everything up to 5.0, and all the updates were done well. (they work, they make the phone better, not worse.)
I think the G Pro 2 will also get 2 years of support. (And I hope we will also get CM12 by then.)

I would like to see that, but for most of us, but by the time Google's update cycle iterates, an eternity would pass for G Pro 2.

Sources say Android 5.1 is due Early 2015. So I suspect we will get a few more versions before the device goes end-of-life.
But I agree. LG should be much more open with their updates.

Words like "early" are replete with ambiguities. I have a Moto G 2013 and it's still awaiting Lollipop update despite Motorola being exclusively vocal about its update schedule. Pronouncement of update is entirely different from getting it.

anirudhks said:
Hi guys i have thid information from a very relaible source [my cousin] who heads development team for gp2 , he has conformed lg will push lollipop to all the promised devices starting February and roll out to end by march 31. Gp2 will get it by end of feb ...
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that's a great news for us... i'm just hoping we could have twrp too & xposed running in lollipop by that time ^^
thank you for dustre.. i like it! :good:

surprise surprise
now that we have a hands on with leaked Lollipop for the GP2 lets see D838 can enjoy a V1 of the Drake Series the first flavor of Lollipop

anirudhks said:
now that we have a hands on with leaked Lollipop for the GP2 lets see D838 can enjoy a V1 of the Drake Series the first flavor of Lollipop
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But the leaked image is NOT the final version. It contains a few bugs.

h8Aramex said:
But the leaked image is NOT the final version. It contains a few bugs.
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yes it does , but defnitely better battery and standby than kitkat .. thats a great work by L G