Well, Samsung has finally announced the list of phones that will get 4.4 and the S3 is on the list. Now we just wait for Verizon to send it out to us.
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/02/18/samsung-confirms-list-of-phones-and-tablets-to-receive-kit-kat-updates-begin-today/
Here's to to hoping for a new exploit and a way to flash custom roms again.
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All of the AOSP roms are on stable versions of 4.4.2 by now. Unless you love VZW bloat go check one of those.
To everyone about to post anything along the lines of "lol touchwiz sux" move along. Most of us know it already.. and for one reason or another we got stuck on 4.3. I know I'm looking forward to 4.4
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Dadud said:
To everyone about to post anything along the lines of "lol touchwiz sux" move along. Most of us know it already.. and for one reason or another we got stuck on 4.3. I know I'm looking forward to 4.4
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I don't like the look of it but my phone runs better on it. I've tried everything but nothing beats Beans 20. Hopefully 4.4 touchwiz will be as stable.
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I'm just hoping some sly samsung dev "accidently" left an exploit to allow custom recoveries
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Don't want it if it is just going to break FoxFi...
I'll believe it when receive it
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End of March if I had to guess
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All of the AOSP roms are on stable versions of 4.4.2 by now. Unless you love VZW bloat go check one of those.
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Doesn't help those that took the 4.3 OTA. I agree that 4.4.2 AOSP ROMs are rounding out very nicely. Although TW has the benefit of all the phone's hardware working correctly.
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Doesn't help those that took the 4.3 OTA. I agree that 4.4.2 AOSP ROMs are rounding out very nicely. Although TW has the benefit of all the phone's hardware working correctly.
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Could we keep this thread limited to talking about Verizon and Samsung bring 4.4.2 to the S3 and not arguing about different ROMs. If people want to talk about different roms then they can go to the other threads for that. Thanks!
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Except camera and signal strength tend to be hit and miss on aosp ROMS at least for me anyway.. I highly doubt Verizon will bring us 4.4.2
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It's cool that they made it official.
International first and then the trickle down will happen.
I say August for Verizon.
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Verizon always takes a while to get OTA. But good thing s3 not getting left behind
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If Sprint rolled 4.4.2 out to the S4 already then I would guess Verizon will soon too. Then say another month and Verizon could roll it out for S3 in April or May. That's just my uneducated ghess
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Well, Samsung has finally announced the list of phones that will get 4.4 and the S3 is on the list. Now we just wait for Verizon to send it out to us.
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/02/18/samsung-confirms-list-of-phones-and-tablets-to-receive-kit-kat-updates-begin-today/
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So, how do we got to know that they have released the list of new phones?
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So, how do we got to know that they have released the list of new phones?
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What?
Just a wild guess but I suspect this will be the LAST upgrade for the S3 which is getting a little long in the tooth now...
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On carbon nighties and it is running pretty smooth except the camera to video issue.
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Just a wild guess but I suspect this will be the LAST upgrade for the S3 which is getting a little long in the tooth now...
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Your spot on about that man. It will sadly be our last update. But none the less the S3 is a solid phone
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Don't know if anyone was aware of this yet or not.. Hoping for a port soon.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...bar-and-google-now-available-to-download-now/
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Sweet.I'm one of the few who actually likes the new touchwiz and the features have really grown on me.
I agree. I came from sense and touchwiz is much nicer imo
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Don't know if anyone was aware of this yet or not.. Hoping for a port soon.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...bar-and-google-now-available-to-download-now/
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This I'm interested in!
I personally like the TouchWiz interface but also really like Jellybean and a smooth functioning Google Now
Keep hearing end of August so this looks promising. Also no one who's using the beta build mentions a speed increase. We all can assume its going to have a huge speed increase like on the Nexus.
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Keep hearing end of August so this looks promising. Also no one who's using the beta build mentions a speed increase. We all can assume its going to have a huge speed increase like on the Nexus.
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Ya end of August for international version. After Christmas for us.
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Ya end of August for international version. After Christmas for us.
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:laugh: Yea, hopefully Samsung can tell Verizon to move it with this. I'll be surprised if a update doesn't come out before to fix any issues or if the JB update will include them. This phone is great but, their are a few issues I hate. One being the music popping.
Wait so if this comes out for the INT varient is it really that hard for developers to just transition it over to our verizon model?
I was hoping they'd add a couple unified widgets to it with the update.
I love this phone (features, screen, battery), and Touchwiz isn't as bad as people make it out to be..... but..... Is it too much to ask that they add a contacts widget (so that I don't have to use a different syncing app) and a social feed widget that go along with the email and calendar widgets? I miss having a unified feel across the board like on sense. It seems that no matter what widgets I download and install from the market, they look horrible next to Samsung's calendar widget which I've grown to like a lot.
That's really my only gripe on an otherwise great phone. Still looking forward to seeing what JB brings.
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Ya end of August for international version. After Christmas for us.
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Ha that sound's about right. But I think that since we have the unlocked bootloader , devs might be able to get it to us before verizon. IDK.
I'm looking forward to this. I'm also one of those people that like TouchWiz. Way better than the motoblur I had one my droidx.
Ive become dependant of the smart alert feature, somi definitly wouldnt mind a port haha
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Wait so if this comes out for the INT varient is it really that hard for developers to just transition it over to our verizon model?
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Probably not hard at all, especially since we can unlock our boot loaders now.
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I don't mind TW either but at the same time I loved the pure OS feel of ICS on my GNex.
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There's features in Touchwiz that are not on stock Android that I have grown attached to, one of them is direct call.... Major win
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JB isn't even out officially for the Verizon. I wouldn't hold my breathe on it.
is anyone working on a port?
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There's features in Touchwiz that are not on stock Android that I have grown attached to, one of them is direct call.... Major win
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Probably not hard at all, especially since we can unlock our boot loaders now.
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There international GS3 runs Exinos 4412. The use variants run MSM8960. Could be decently hard to get full hardware support.
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There's features in Touchwiz that are not on stock Android that I have grown attached to, one of them is direct call.... Major win
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I agree, the direct call was great. I also liked that you can take a screenshot by swiping your hand over the screen. And the little notification that there's a missed notification when picking up (causing a short vibrate). The missed notification one allowed me to turn off the LED all together and use that to let me know there was something on the phone
Android Central reporting Jellybean 4.1.1 has leaked for the T-Mobile version S3. This should get interesting!
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-411-jelly-bean-t-mobile-samsung-galaxy-s3-leaks-out
Specifically for the T-Mobile S3 not VZW. But keep your head up, maybe big red will get it soon!
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Specifically for the T-Mobile S3 not VZW. But keep your head up, maybe big red will get it soon!
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Yeah saw that but one leak may lead to another!
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Specifically for the T-Mobile S3 not VZW. But keep your head up, maybe big red will get it soon!
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Lol.. If by "soon" you mean next year. VZW is notoriously bad about taking forever to release anything.
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Yeah saw that but one leak may lead to another!
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you saw that part, but still chose to post in the Verizon Development section?
Will the leak include a major upgrade to the modem? I we can only hope!
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Agreed.. please either change your thread title or note something in your original post noting it's for the T-Mobile. It more or less has little relevance to our device.
To change the thread title, choose to edit your post, hit the "Go Advanced" button next to the "Save" button, and then change the Title towards the top.
Bah this just gets me more anxious, i like the new touchwiz, and theres no JB roms with it, so i cant wait for a leak for i535 or even a synergy version of stock jb.
What's different on the VZ version other than the radio?
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Agreed.. please either change your thread title or note something in your original post noting it's for the T-Mobile. It more or less has little relevance to our device.
To change the thread title, choose to edit your post, hit the "Go Advanced" button next to the "Save" button, and then change the Title towards the top.
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Taken care of and sorry guys for misleading the group.
I hope to god this gets ported over to the VZW model soon! Im rooted and unlocked just because I knew Verizon was going to take their sweet little time getting jb and ive been waiting for a leak like this.
invisiblek already has it booted on our device.
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invisiblek already has it booted on our device.
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Really so he has jb over TW like in the leak? If so that would be amazing where can I find the link to that? And is everything working properly?
I would assume that the radios and whatnot would have to be spliced in to make sure everything works with our Verizon bands but I'm sure the devs will have it sorted in a day or two.
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yea its broke folks... boots up and thats about it!
Yeah I wouldnt bother, myself at least, since it's not a full jb rom. Someone dropped the ball.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1853337
They are working on a port. Boots but had sms issues.
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Im surprised incubus got it working decently so fast!
Yeah. Less than a day. I bet it will be stable and a dd in a couple more days.
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http://androidheadlines.com/2012/12...mas-present-jelly-bean-update-on-its-way.html
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We can hope. I doubt it will be 4.1.2 but you never know with VZW.
Where in that article does it say 4.1.2????? I only see it mention 4.1. How do you jump to the conclusion that it will be 4.1.2?
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Where in that article does it say 4.1.2????? I only see it mention 4.1. How do you jump to the conclusion that it will be 4.1.2?
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If I'm not mistaken does it even matter? I thought the x.x.2 update was basically patches for the nexus 7 with an update for power management and then just very minor updates to the rest
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If I'm not mistaken does it even matter? I thought the x.x.2 update was basically patches for the nexus 7 with an update for power management and then just very minor updates to the rest
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What makes it important to us, is the changes Samsung made to the TouchWIZ framework in 4.1.2:
Multi-View Multitasking - The ability to run two different apps simultaneously on one screen.
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What makes it important to us, is the changes Samsung made to the TouchWIZ framework in 4.1.2:
Multi-View Multitasking - The ability to run two different apps simultaneously on one screen.
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Do any of the US variants even have that? Pretty sure they reserved that for just the international version and the note 2 because of the quad core.
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I saw an article from tom's hardware about the Samsung suite pack. It should be released later on. The international one, I believe is what got the updated features.
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Do any of the US variants even have that? Pretty sure they reserved that for just the international version and the note 2 because of the quad core.
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Well, we don't have any 4.1.2 US variant builds yet (even leaks), so it's hard to say whether or not we will get the Multitasking built in. What is likely though, is that we will get the framework changes that support it (even if Samsung doesn't provide the actual application to do it). In that case, it will be a simple port to get it up and running.
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Well, we don't have any 4.1.2 US variant builds yet (even leaks), so it's hard to say whether or not we will get the Multitasking built in. What is likely though, is that we will get the framework changes that support it (even if Samsung doesn't provide the actual application to do it). In that case, it will be a simple port to get it up and running.
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Thanks for clarifying :thumbup:
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I don't believe it will come for vzw...
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Do any of the US variants even have that? Pretty sure they reserved that for just the international version and the note 2 because of the quad core.
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I'm pretty sure we'll get it. There's lots of stuff in the framework that's associated with the multi-view feature such as images and XML files so it's a safe bet that it'll come to the US variants.
Regarding multi view, scott on the clean rom forum said its definitely in the framework, but its "turned off" in almost 180 something files, he said it would be painstakingly time consuming , byt someone with the time and knowledge could definitely turn it on.
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I highly doubt that it will come to Verizon anytime this year... which is a shame
LOL Verizon getting 4.1.2
WOW you have your hopes high, they still haven't released 4.1.1. and I'm using a leaked version and there are still bugs in it. I highly doubt we will see 4.1.2 before April.
LOL at some of the funny comments - I'm sure if its coming to the US, Verizon will get it too - seriously - I can't stop laughing.
Yeapppp! Still don't even have jellybean update. Lol
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4.1.2 is unlikely. Support docs have started shipping out, and K3 is the official Verizon build #, so the K3 we're seeing around here should be what's pushed out via the OTA when it starts:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...ly-bean-update-support-docs-for-galaxy-s-iii/
Friday for 4.1.1 But maybe we can get the leak of 4.1.2 this year.
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Friday for 4.1.1 But maybe we can get the leak of 4.1.2 this year.
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You realize there is only like 2 weeks left in the year?
It was told that 412 will release 2nd week of january.So for the leak 2 weeks is enough if that is real.
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It is from an 'insider" but it's good news. Not holding my breath but better than nothing.
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/03/1...-galaxy-s3-and-note-2-to-receive-android-5-0/
Doesn't mean we (Verizon) will get it
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At worst though, we'll get a port well before the Verizon update comes out.
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At worst though, we'll get a port well before the Verizon update comes out.
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Sadly, that is always the case.
Hey at least we get to extend the life of our phones to another flavor of Android!
In any case, shame on Verizon in advance...
Thanks to our talented developers, the fear of not getting an update fails to seize me
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That's good news. If it comes out on one of the US variants a port will bring it to the other versions.
Either way it's good news all the way around whether if T-Mobile, Verizon, or At&t get it first.
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I honestly don't care if Verizon doesn't let us get it. I'd rather run custom ROMs anyway.
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Thanks to our talented developers, the fear of not getting an update fails to seize me
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This! X 100000
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I honestly don't care if Verizon doesn't let us get it. I'd rather run custom ROMs anyway.
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Correct me if I'm wrong...but isn't it easier for devs to develop on official OTAs rather than porting something over?
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Correct me if I'm wrong...but isn't it easier for devs to develop on official OTAs rather than porting something over?
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Actually it is easier to develop from AOSP. It is also easy to port from the same phone but different carriers. The difficulty comes from porting from one device to another.
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I honestly don't care if Verizon doesn't let us get it. I'd rather run custom ROMs anyway.
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Ditto. Waiting for big red and ota's is like waiting for wet paint to dry in a moist room.
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Actually it is easier to develop from AOSP. It is also easy to port from the same phone but different carriers. The difficulty comes from porting from one device to another.
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We don't all want AOSP. We know its easier because devs get full control of the ROM, unlike having to deal with an issue on touchwiz.
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Well that's good, makes the wait for my contract to be over and getting the GS5 much shorter. I hope we get an official version but first I want the real 4.1.2 with all those god damn features the worthless new update doesn't have.
can't wait
years itypsva
This is gonna be epic in my opinion Rumors were being thrown around saying that there is a possibility that we (GS3 users in general) could get Smart Stay for like videos as seen with the GS4 and maybe Smart Scroll too.
Excuse my ignorance, but what is great with 5.0?
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Excuse my ignorance, but what is great with 5.0?
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Nobody knows yet. Hasn't been announced, but hell... Any update is a good update in my book. Even if the official OTA sucks, our devs can turn it into something awesome.
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Excuse my ignorance, but what is great with 5.0?
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5.0 is a major O/S upgrade for Android called Key Lime Pie (currently we're Jelly Bean 4.x). Here some details what's in the new Operating System:
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/ph...ime-pie-release-date-news-and-rumours-1091500
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5.0 is a major O/S upgrade for Android called Key Lime Pie (currently we're Jelly Bean 4.x). Here some details what's in the new Operating System:
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/ph...ime-pie-release-date-news-and-rumours-1091500
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Seems like a lot of speculation at this point.
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Couldn't have said this better myself.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/04/android-4-3-arriving-for-galaxy-s-3-and-galaxy-s-4-in-october/
Please, please,please Verizon don't screw this up!
Even if big red puts us on hold, maybe someone will get a leak.
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We will have 4.3 either way. Whether it's official Verizon or not, we got it.
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These types of announcements are almost always indicating the proposed release dates for the international version. The US variants are usually a good 6 months or more behind the international version on getting the same update.
4.3 is all over the android development threads.
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4.3 is all over the android development threads.
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That is AOSP we are talking about Touchwiz.
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That is AOSP we are talking about Touchwiz.
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my bad
I don't want any of that Touchwiz 4.3 garbage.
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I don't want any of that Touchwiz 4.3 garbage.
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Then just install cm10.2 http://get.cm/?device=d2vzw
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I don't want any of that Touchwiz 4.3 garbage.
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No Crapwiz on my device
Samsung 4.3 & Google Android's 4.3 are not the same. I don't expect anything too awesome. It will be Samsung & Verizon's modified firmware.
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U guys are gonna be waiting so long. I'm gonna guess April 2014. Vzw doesn't give a crap about the s3 any more.
October is only for the i9300 model, not ours.
Verizon updated the tbolt to ICS. They will update the s3.
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Verizon updated the tbolt to ICS. They will update the s3.
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The question is, when? If it's June 2014, most already will get tired of waiting and will either go AOSP or upgrade to another device.
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The question is, when? If it's June 2014, most already will get tired of waiting and will either go AOSP or upgrade to another device.
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I'm using the CM 10.2 nightly from last night with the dkp kernel. The CM stock kernel works great, but dkp gets me better battery life.
It's to the point that I'd rather keep my S3 over getting an S4.
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I'm using the CM 10.2 nightly from last night with the dkp kernel. The CM stock kernel works great, but dkp gets me better battery life.
It's to the point that I'd rather keep my S3 over getting an S4.
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My CM experience was limited to my previous phone, OG Epic on Sprint. Thanks, but no thanks - staying with TW, as I like my phone as problem free as possible (app bug issues in Android are bad enough). Before someone starts saying that their CM in GS3 runs perfectly - it has never been my own experience. I can live with slightly worse battery life provided everything else works as intended.
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My CM experience was limited to my previous phone, OG Epic on Sprint. Thanks, but no thanks - staying with TW, as I like my phone as problem free as possible (app bug issues in Android are bad enough). Before someone starts saying that their CM in GS3 runs perfectly - it has never been my own experience. I can live with slightly worse battery life provided everything else works as intended.
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Agreed, after all it is in the end a phone..and it is no good if it doesn't work 100% when needed.
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Verizon updated the tbolt to ICS. They will update the s3.
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Lmao, by the time VZW released ICS for the HTC Thunderbolt, it was already outdated due to Jelly Bean 4.1.2 and 4.2.2. I seriously wonder how much money VZW loses by spending too much time doing quality testing on their updates.
On the other hand, I hope Samsung can leverage their bargaining power and "push" Verizon to get the software released. Then again...Samsung's not in any hurry since they'd rather users go and buy the S4 if they want newer software.