So Samsung is gonna get dibs on gingerbread after all - Epic 4G General

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/11/exclusive-samsung-flagship-phone-with-gingerbread-and-huge-di/
Even though I wana steal that Super AMOLED 2 screen
So hopefully we gonna get it either from Samsung or off that device lol

I think I'm liking theepic too much to switch....but who knows
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sadly enough i do have to say this phone is enough to make me switch carriers

I like sprint and the epic, but this phone is hot
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If yu guys read below in the update it states this isn't a sammy phon but some others company's voip hanset. Would be nice...

Lol. Am I the only one who ignores rumors until there is hard evidence that product X actually exists?

asj2583 said:
If yu guys read below in the update it states this isn't a sammy phon but some others company's voip hanset. Would be nice...
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exactly what I came to say

hydralisk said:
Lol. Am I the only one who ignores rumors until there is hard evidence that product X actually exists?
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Cause we are that bored >.> lol

asj2583 said:
If yu guys read below in the update it states this isn't a sammy phon but some others company's voip hanset. Would be nice...
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If you click the link about the VOIP handset you see that just the side view pic is from that.... i think someone wanted to show the "sleekness" and since it is not a finished product they "borrowed" another picture
So here's hoping it is real

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Froyo delayed until 2011 for SGS

I really hope this is BS, cause the site looks shady. The text looks like it was translated from something. Can anyone confirm this?
http://www.bulletinblips.com/2010/11/samsung-galaxy-s-will-not-be-updated-to.html
Are you serious? The grammar-level of that blog post makes the average youtube comment read like Shakespeare..
lol, i got a chuckle myself. The subject line is like those random facebook spams with the double vouls.
*vowels
This is most-likely a Google Translate (or similar) job. Hence, the grammatical oddness.
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As horrible as the grammar/translation is, it wouldn't surprise me if it were true.
ydoucare said:
As horrible as the grammar/translation is, it wouldn't surprise me if it were true.
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Seems like Samsung noticed Noob left and said **** we ain't got anyone else to develop froyo for us.
Always thought they did **** like that...Because you know they have their eyes on xda and sdx to see what the devs are doing.
Thats obviously from across the pond, with the translation creating the grammatical errors, and it mentions Vodafone which is Uk's and Spain's largest carrier, and it refers to our cell phones as terminals lol. At the end, it mentions that it may not be true for its United States users, so I really doubt it pertains to us.
I think where just waiting on sprint. I believe samsung did there part and no where for sprint to finish there part. There has been 3 froyo leaks already. Its just a matter of time
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And Samsung says.
King Kong anit got **** on me.
**** this **** im jumping off the epic for an evo..
| guess we can never expect to have 3.0 then
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**** this **** im jumping off the epic for an evo..
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dont let the door hit ya .. i for one will never downgrade to an evo.. have u ever used an evo after using your epic? screen size is great but thats where the pros over the epic stops. plus im running the leaked froyo fine on my phone..
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dont let the door hit ya .. i for one will never downgrade to an evo.. have u ever used an evo after using your epic? screen size is great but thats where the pros over the epic stops. plus im running the leaked froyo fine on my phone..
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Damnit, I cannot wait to run Froyo. Hurry up Samsung.
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Damnit, I cannot wait to run Froyo. Hurry up Samsung.
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I can't wait either. But I figure once it does, it will give us renewal feeling of happiness with our phone.
The beta runs great. It's a real pleasure using Froyo on the Epic. I find myself using my PC less and the Epic more.
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The beta runs great. It's a real pleasure using Froyo on the Epic. I find myself using my PC less and the Epic more.
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You got me ready to cancel my contract with 5 months left. And join in this epic fun lol.

Wow F U samsung

assuming this is true
http://phandroid.com/2010/12/08/samsung-on-galaxy-s-gingerbread-possibility-maybe-but-maybe-not/
There standpoint on Gingerbread for their flagship phone, basically a big F U to their customers
“Such a review will be based on various factors including, without limitation, the overall effect of such Update to Samsung products, the system requirements, the structural limitations, and the level of cooperation from the component suppliers and the software licensors”.
“If Samsung decides to make the Update available to the users after such consideration, Samsung will use its efforts to develop such Update, which may be released to the users upon successful completion of such development”.
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are you kidding me..its the same damn device (EDIT: as in the other galaxy s phones)
bobdude5 said:
assuming this is true
http://phandroid.com/2010/12/08/samsung-on-galaxy-s-gingerbread-possibility-maybe-but-maybe-not/
There standpoint on Gingerbread for their flagship phone, basically a big F U to their customers
are you kidding me..its the same damn devices
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While I am not siding with them - they really aren't the same devices. If they were we could easily port vibrant and captivate roms. There is clearly work that has to go into each variant of the SGS line. It would probably make the LEAST amount of sense for the Epic to not get 2.3 officially. Primarily because of its 4g Radio and Front Cam - features that the others lack- even though our device is probably the most complicated to get working right.
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While I am not siding with them - they really aren't the same devices. If they were we could easily port vibrant and captivate roms. There is clearly work that has to go into each variant of the SGS line. It would probably make the LEAST amount of sense for the Epic to not get 2.3 officially. Primarily because of its 4g Radio and Front Cam - features that the others lack- even though our device is probably the most complicated to get working right.
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Dont forget landscape mode for the keyboard, led light too....
Well oh well eventually we will get gingerbread on our devices and if not im sure ill have a new phone next year anyway so froyo will hold me over til then...
In my opinion this is a conflicting report with what that one leak tweeter/w/e he was said. Samsung didn't say no, they basically said "Um, well, uh maybe?" so it has, at least in mind, just as little credibility as some guy saying we were getting it. Just have to wait and see.
This will help....
http://www.androidcentral.com/will-my-phone-get-gingerbread
this is conflicting
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This will help....
http://www.androidcentral.com/will-my-phone-get-gingerbread
this is conflicting
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Here we go with the rumors just like the date of the release of the epic....
davidrules7778 said:
Here we go with the rumors just like the date of the release of the epic....
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i agree it all is still rumor, but it doesnt hurt to have some hope...
merry christmas
spdwiz18 said:
i agree it all is still rumor, but it doesnt hurt to have some hope...
merry christmas
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Having hope means you can either be:
Hope for X
1) Let down horribly - No X
or
2) Content - X
Having no hope means you can be:
1) Pleasantly surprised - X
or
2) Content - No X
Hope is stupid. Its math.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kern...ng.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/2.6.35-samsung
samsung already created a gingerbread kernel 2.6.35...
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Having hope means you can either be:
Hope for X
1) Let down horribly - No X
or
2) Content - X
Having no hope means you can be:
1) Pleasantly surprised - X
or
2) Content - No X
Hope is stupid. Its math.
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wow.... thats optimism for you...
noobnl said:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kern...ng.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/2.6.35-samsung
samsung already created a gingerbread kernel 2.6.35...
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Likely for the nexus s?
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While I am not siding with them - they really aren't the same devices. If they were we could easily port vibrant and captivate roms. There is clearly work that has to go into each variant of the SGS line. It would probably make the LEAST amount of sense for the Epic to not get 2.3 officially. Primarily because of its 4g Radio and Front Cam - features that the others lack- even though our device is probably the most complicated to get working right.
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But its not only our device. Theyre talking about their whole galaxy s line. Samsung says we will think about it, while htc says we're working on it.
I love my phone but damn you samsung. If only htc had super amoled screens, and put decent camera sensors in their phones..I'm really considering that HTC Knight
This may very well be the last straw that makes me sell my Epic. While I realize that Samsung doesn't owe me anything, until people quit buying their phones, they'll keep jerking us around. HTC, here I come.
live2ride96 said:
This may very well be the last straw that makes me sell my Epic. While I realize that Samsung doesn't owe me anything, until people quit buying their phones, they'll keep jerking us around. HTC, here I come.
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LOL. I thought it would at least be a few days after Froyo's release before we got these posts about Gingerbread.
live2ride96 said:
This may very well be the last straw that makes me sell my Epic. While I realize that Samsung doesn't owe me anything, until people quit buying their phones, they'll keep jerking us around. HTC, here I come.
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lol trading my epic for an evo this weekend!
I have 2 people wanting to trade their Evo for my epic. Samsung doesn't support their products as well as HTC, and it sucks. For some reason, I think they would rather put out new phones with Gingerbread and make you buy the, than give you an upgrade.
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For some reason, I think they would rather put out new phones with Gingerbread and make you buy the, than give you an upgrade.
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Uh, Let me take a wild guess. Could it be . . . . . . for PROFIT??
spdwiz18 said:
This will help....
http://www.androidcentral.com/will-my-phone-get-gingerbread
this is conflicting
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I like the confidence of this link
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ill never buy samsung again
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Yes, yes, for profit. We all get that they're in the business of selling phones, not giving free updates. That's why I read an interesting blog about paying for OS updates a little while back. I'd gladly pay a few bucks to get honeycomb or ice cream on a 6 month to year old phone and to have them out in a timely fashion. Then Samsung and all the other manufacturers would have an incentive to actually put out updates for phones as well.

Galaxy s will have 2.3

According to the samsung facebook page it says they will get 2.3. They even talked about some of the improvements.
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I'm not trying to hate but I dont believe a word samsung says anymore
Samsung lies.
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mikey7436 said:
According to the samsung facebook page it says they will get 2.3. They even talked about some of the improvements.
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Do you have a link to their page or posting?
**** samsung
Vibrant + Nero + SuperIO Kernel + OCLF
it looks like i'm getting my 2.3 most likely from supercurio that guys a mad man ;p
willsnews said:
it looks like i'm getting my 2.3 most likely from supercurio that guys a mad man ;p
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Id rather not.
They don't have drivers for half the things that make this phone a smartphone.
Also can u post a link to their facebook thing? Id like to see it too.
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xriderx66 said:
Id rather not.
They don't have drivers for half the things that make this phone a smartphone.
Also can u post a link to their facebook thing? Id like to see it too.
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This lol. All the 2.2 roms depended on Samsung's leaks as a base to have full functionality.
This would be exciting if we had received 2.2 back in September, when it was promised. Samsung is a joke, but we all know that already.
mikey7436 said:
According to the samsung facebook page it says they will get 2.3. They even talked about some of the improvements.
Really? I just scoured their page and nothing was mentioned.
You just looking to troll?
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frawggy said:
mikey7436 said:
According to the samsung facebook page it says they will get 2.3. They even talked about some of the improvements.
Really? I just scoured their page and nothing was mentioned.
You just looking to troll?
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Or maybe you can't find it.
Stop calling others "trolls" because theyre new to the scene k?
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Where? http://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobile?v=wall
I don't see it. And if it is true, I'm guessing it'd take til June of 2011 to get it in the Galaxy S. Which then would be delayed to July, then August, then September.....
I really think Samsung does it on purpose. I've gone through so many scenarios as to why they are delaying FroYo for so long, and I just cannot reason it. I am certain it is on purpose. Why? That's the one million dollar question. Could it be to sell more Nexus S'? Could be. But no one knows for sure except Samsung...
I just don't see how a company as big as Samsung can't devote the manpower to put this thing together and up and running months ago.
xriderx66 said:
frawggy said:
Or maybe you can't find it.
Stop calling others "trolls" because theyre new to the scene k?
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Maybe you weren't around to see the stupidly ridiculous amount of Froyo threads before the leaked builds started coming out. Maybe you're right and he just didn't find it, but we've all heard the same things before, by trolls and Samsung.
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Bernardos70 said:
Where? http://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobile?v=wall
I don't see it. And if it is true, I'm guessing it'd take til June of 2011 to get it in the Galaxy S. Which then would be delayed to July, then August, then September.....
I really think Samsung does it on purpose. I've gone through so many scenarios as to why they are delaying FroYo for so long, and I just cannot reason it. I am certain it is on purpose. Why? That's the one million dollar question. Could it be to sell more Nexus S'? Could be. But no one knows for sure except Samsung...
I just don't see how a company as big as Samsung can't devote the manpower to put this thing together and up and running months ago.
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Because Samsung never have to made products that needs long term commitmenets. They make TV, Monitors, and Flash Disks, and dumb phones which were all sales are final kind of product; as long as there are no large manufacturer defect, it's pretty much end of support - minus some lemons.
They did have the omnia series, but they develop the OS in house, but was also slow as hell to push out updates. That's the only counter argument I foresee.
Overall, Samsung is just very bad at software, kind of like Sony before PS3.
Tip! Only believe what Google says!
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According to the samsung facebook page it says they will get 2.3. They even talked about some of the improvements.
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According to Samsung, we will have 2.2 by the end of September.
wow! we all have this phone and are apart of this site. doesnt that stand for something? like the people who have this phone and know nothing of the mods or roms here really do love this phone. they might not be enjoying the luxuries that we have but they are content. besides if i can enjoy gingerbread on this phone before i upgrade it to something newer in the future, cool! if not i will enjoy all of the spectacular work that has been shared by the devs of this community!
mikey7436 said:
According to the samsung facebook page it says they will get 2.3. They even talked about some of the improvements.
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what year did they say 2013? As others have stated Samsung has failed to deliver on 2.2 I think 2 or 3 times now and keep pushing it back.
Why would anyone have any faith that they are going to release 2.3 when they can't even get 2.2 out?
lol imagine if samsung gave us straight 2.3 and skipped froyo
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lol imagine if samsung gave us straight 2.3 and skipped froyo
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if i was samsung i'd do that.
Froyo is just known to everyone now, theres hundreds of roms that have Froyo, might as well go on to Gingerbread.

why no word

why no word form xda about what they and samsungjohn talked about? just curious
I would like to know as well
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Well, agree the way XDA blew up on john they maybe trying to find a different way to approach the situation.
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why no word form xda about what they and samsungjohn talked about? just curious
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i have talked to him on gtalk and i can't tell you what the big announcement was all about because he ask me not to leak anything he said, i can tell you the future is bright
noobnl said:
i have talked to him on gtalk and i can't tell you what the big announcement was all about because he ask me not to leak anything he said, i can tell you the future is bright
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Ah man come on tell us. Hope its something other than froyo because at this point froyo is not even worth mentioning as an announcement. So come on tells us I treat you to a chesse steak with the works.
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i have talked to him on gtalk and i can't tell you what the big announcement was all about because he ask me not to leak anything he said, i can tell you the future is bright
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Can you at least tell us when we should expect to get the announcement?
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He said Monday but forgot to mention which year.
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dito33 said:
He said Monday but forgot to mention which year.
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I still call bs on this matter. He could mean Monday feb 21 2199
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I still call bs on this matter. He could mean Monday feb 21 2199
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Doubt it, that's a Thursday
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i have talked to him on gtalk and i can't tell you what the big announcement was all about because he ask me not to leak anything he said, i can tell you the future is bright
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no Offense noobnl you respected very well here, but thats almost as bad as saying " have an ETA for Froyo yet but we’ll be tweeting the moment we do"
I'll hold my breath on this big announcement... I'm sure I'll be dead soon.
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i have talked to him on gtalk and i can't tell you what the big announcement was all about because he ask me not to leak anything he said, i can tell you the future is bright
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I like how he says, "...what the big announcement was all about...", implying there will not be an announcement now.
No offense meant, but all the secrecy going around this rumor is kinda building up a paper castle.
SamsungJohn works for Samsung, not Sprint. He can't offer us anything that affects Sprint (our contract holder) unless they've worked out a deal before-hand and, even then, Sprint would be the face of the offering. Why would Sprint's partner, Samsung, skip them completely and go directly to the customer? These aren't appliances.
I doubt they worked out a deal beforehand because the whole XDA debacle would have never happened. It would have been presented behind the scenes well before we ever caught wind of it.
So, yes, I'm curious, too, but don't get your hopes up too much. Remember, "HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT" doesn't mean the same thing to one person as it does the other. Expect crap but hope for diamonds and somewhere in between lies the truth.
Noobnl speaking makes me think a little bit. When he says "future is bright"....well I'm encouraged.
My first thought? Xda will act as samsungs beta grounds...which would mean full disclosure.
I'm imagining us receiving full device driver source code...
Think about...we could theoretically port every android update on our own. Which honestly would be nice, and really, a win-win for everybody..
Samsung wouldn't have to put in the man power or money to update our phones, and we would still have access to every current update...samsung would then have a bunch of happy customers without breaking a sweat...
Because I mean really, wouldn't we all be happier with the source code over an ota anyday?
I think I might have the nail on the head...
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noobnl said:
i have talked to him on gtalk and i can't tell you what the big announcement was all about because he ask me not to leak anything he said, i can tell you the future is bright
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Hearing this statement out of Noobnl is awesome news, maybe Samsung will eventually manage to redeem themselves after all. I have been hoping that they would get smart and figure it out, sounds like maybe just maybe they did. I'm cautiously optimistic but I want to believe we are in for some good things!
noobnl said:
i have talked to him on gtalk and i can't tell you what the big announcement was all about because he ask me not to leak anything he said, i can tell you the future is bright
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fixed
I have talked to him MSN Messenger and I can't say what the big announcement was because that would make too much sense and ruin the constant "wtf is going on?" aura that surrounds the Epic support from Samsung and Sprint, I can tell you that eventually something will happen.
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Noobnl speaking makes me think a little bit. When he says "future is bright"....well I'm encouraged.
My first thought? Xda will act as samsungs beta grounds...which would mean full disclosure.
I'm imagining us receiving full device driver source code...
Think about...we could theoretically port every android update on our own. Which honestly would be nice, and really, a win-win for everybody..
Samsung wouldn't have to put in the man power or money to update our phones, and we would still have access to every current update...samsung would then have a bunch of happy customers without breaking a sweat...
Because I mean really, wouldn't we all be happier with the source code over an ota anyday?
I think I might have the nail on the head...
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I was just funning with noob earlier , I agree with you 100%
There's no big announcement. Otherwise it would have been made.
Ha,noobnl,vague as ever,gotta love it...
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Hehehe I just love sitting here eating my popcorn and watching all these folks jump at every thread or rumor.
Most just get more pissed and more cynical. I don't know why they would let it affect them this way.
<continues to eat popcorn>

Tell HTC how happy you are with the locked bootloaders

Hey guys,
here is HTC Facebook page.
Looks like it is starting to pick up with people complaining about the bootloader being locked.
Maybe we can all jump on there and let them know how happy we are that they are doing this, along with what other phones we will be buying now.
Hit thanks!
Couldn't you just have posted this in here?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094253
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dirkyd3rk said:
Couldn't you just have posted this in here?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094253
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lol some one is cranky
dirkyd3rk said:
Couldn't you just have posted this in here?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094253
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He did the right thing.
CheesyNutz said:
lol some one is cranky
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Lol, maybe...... happens when you don't get any in the morning.
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dirkyd3rk said:
Lol, maybe...... happens when you don't get any in the morning.
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lmao well that'd explain why you're usually a ****
OH SNAP
Lmfao.......
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conqu1stador said:
lmao well that'd explain why you're usually a ****
OH SNAP
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:rolls eyes: im not usually a ****, just sometimes ..... *bastard*
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conqu1stador said:
lmao well that'd explain why you're usually a ****
OH SNAP
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LOL...
Thanks guys.
Its not like i put it in the Dev section... Jeeze
conqu1stador said:
lmao well that'd explain why you're usually a ****
OH SNAP
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Men who live in chocolate factories with bunch of little orange dudes shouldn't point fingers.
tejasrichard said:
Men who live in chocolate factories with bunch of little orange dudes shouldn't point fingers.
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Hahahahahaha im done!
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lmao...wtf is really going on lol
Well. I posted. Think ill post again. This really pisses me off.
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tejasrichard said:
Men who live in chocolate factories with bunch of little orange dudes shouldn't point fingers.
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Damn you, Tejas!
*shameface*
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Off topic: Im also sad because my 1yr old LG 46" LCD went out this morning. Sucker just shut off while I was watching it, doesn't show any sign if life. Glad I bought the bestbuy blk tie they will swap it out. Still pissed though. Grrr
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I just checked the HTC fan page. Only one post on that entire first page is NOT about the locked bootloader. That's just amazing to me. Question is, will HTC listen to what the customer wants?
SilverStone641 said:
I just checked the HTC fan page. Only one post on that entire first page is NOT about the locked bootloader. That's just amazing to me. Question is, will HTC listen to what the customer wants?
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yeah i saw the page too but they won't change it before launch... something made them do this to the 3d. basically i think htc is saying them do not support flashing custom roms.
ill stick to my new nexus s 4g thanks!
Here is what i wrote,
Signed/Encrypted bootloaders... Come on HTC... This really pisses me off. Think about it, really, what are you losing here? Almost nothing. It is the persons choice to root, so you lose no quality control.
But back onto the actually point. Signing/encrypting bootloaders or other functions of a device that a consumer owns was considered a radical idea. It was frowned upon and was thought of as childish. And that is how you guys are acting, childish. You lock down your phones because your scared of what.... progress?
I understand there are some problems for you with rooting. For example, free wireless tethering, ability to use leaked ROMs and other factors. But this is such a small hand off to wage war with developers. Microsoft did it, Sony did it, even Apple did it.... Look were they all are now. The hackers do everything they can to make sure they can hack and DOMINATE the devices they lock down. In Microsoft's and Sony's case, there is a difference in reason, piracy. Now, tell me, if I can already install any app on my phone, what piracy are you protecting users form by not allowing them to do anything custom with their phone?
You have brought the whole world a step backwards, as a lot of people believe in your philosophies, and eventually will standardize them. What this about to start is enormous, there is no problem right now for you because people aren't even trying to hack your gay signature checks. Why? Because those developers DONT BUY THAT PHONE. ------->DONT<---- Buy that phone. Now, once that this standdard is implemented with every single modern phone, you guys will be tormented by the constant stream of hacks and exploits the a full force of developers can bring. You will be stressed to the point as the iPhone jailbreaking scene replicates itself to Android devices.
I mean come on HTC, do you really want to start all of this? I wouldn't. By not locking down your devices, you gain more customers(even though its a small percent that would leave because of your decisions), you gain a better view from people as a good company, and you get the benefit of geeks saying good things about you on their blogs. Yes HTC, thats were all the reviews come from, US. We will spare you no mercy in our reviews if you condemn us to this treatment any longer.
On a final note, i hope to rethink your decisions to sign/encrypt bootloaders and other parts of the phone. The whole point of Android is to be OPEN, not CLOSED. Thats what makes it different. The point is to be open, no matter what COST or FACTORS convince you otherwise. I do not even want to buy the HTC Evo 3D now because of your changes. Now HTC, rethink what you have done, please, and see if you can change it before it gets out of hand. In the end, you are the company that gets to make the decisions, but we are the consumers who buy your products.
Thanks so much for a great ride so far HTC,
You will be missed
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HTC responded back.....
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Update on Bootloaders Thanks so much for providing feedback, we hear your concerns. Your satisfaction is a top priority for us and we're working hard to ensure you have great experiences with our phones. We're reviewing the issue and our policy around bootloaders and will provide more information soon...."
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So does this mean the Evo 3d can never be rooted? Or does it just make it more difficult ?
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