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Anyone think gingerbread can be ported from nexus S

Anyone know if hardware its gonna be the same etc
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barmanham said:
Anyone know if hardware its gonna be the same etc
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more than likely

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put it this way... the G1 runs 2.2, we walk on the moon, we give millions of dollars to Justin Bieber, Obama got elected (had to)
Anything is possible.

Leaked specs show it to be just another Galaxy S phone but with Gingrbread. Also, since it has support for T-Mobile's AWS bands, the modem should probably work, too. It's basically the Vibrant but with a front-facing camera (which we can mod in anyways). I'll be shocked if there isn't a port within days of the Nexus S being released. And hell, Samsung and T-Mo should make the damn firmware downloadable to us! (OK, that last part will never happen...well, not officially
Sources:
http://phandroid.com/2010/11/11/int...s-nexus-s-specs-confirms-t-mobile-as-carrier/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/11/google-nexus-s-is-the-samsung-gt-i9020/
I mean, this is the exact same phone we have but with the front-facing camera installed.

So can we get the rear camera to work with no banding with some firmware from this being ported over? I think that's the best thing of porting over some stuff from this phone.
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DonutYankee said:
I mean, this is the exact same phone we have but with the front-facing camera installed.
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Not directly @donut, but...
The point of it being a NEXUS is that it is the most open phone. The nexus is the android development phone. It is pure android with all support coming straight from google! Everyone should hope this is not just a rumour. This would hopefully get us 2.3 & more on the fast track.
Of course there are specifics that may not translate but here's to hoping : cheers:!

All~G1 said:
Not directly @donut, but...
The point of it being a NEXUS is that it is the most open phone. The nexus is the android development phone. It is pure android with all support coming straight from google! Everyone should hope this is not just a rumour. This would hopefully get us 2.3 & more on the fast track.
Of course there are specifics that may not translate but here's to hoping : cheers:!
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Well said. The phone is real. All we need is to confirm the hardware is exactly the same (except the camera part). If the hardware is the same, that makes things easier. As the ROM chefs/devs here have shown, porting is doable among Galaxy S phones with the hardware being so similar.

I honestly think we will get gingerbread before froyo
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Hopefully this will completely free us from samsung's awful rfs as well.

Its a rumor, but I heard that it was being delayed to put in a dual core hummingbird.
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/artic...cause_android_2_3_not_optimized_for_dual-core
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djkozdefantastico said:
I honestly think we will get gingerbread before froyo
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I usually don't participate in the "When is ______ coming to the Vibrant?" chaos, but I thought that was really funny.
Nice job.

Samsung confirms gingerbread for SGS!

Samsung confirms gingerbread for SGS! I haven't seen a time table for it but I'm willing to bet we will get it by the end of january
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adamw1101 said:
Samsung confirms gingerbread for SGS! I haven't seen a time table for it but I'm willing to bet we will get it by the end of january
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Link plox?

http://phandroid.com/2010/12/08/samsung-on-galaxy-s-gingerbread-possibility-maybe-but-maybe-not/
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adamw1101 said:
http://phandroid.com/2010/12/08/samsung-on-galaxy-s-gingerbread-possibility-maybe-but-maybe-not/
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This was already posted, while it does offer good news its not 100% indicator..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=866053

That was the same link we've been discussing for a bit isn't it? There is no specific announcement there its the same "we'll think about it."
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it is going to happen the nexus one can run it. Our phone is much more powerful that the the nexus S is very similar. They pulled back froyo. All signs point to us getting it but it will most likely take 2 months for binaries to be released and a build to be compiled. And I don't want to hear the nah sayers going on and on that you can't trust samsung blah blah blah... Even noob said we are getting it and I know he is on this inside track.
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adamw1101 said:
Samsung confirms gingerbread for SGS! I haven't seen a time table for it but I'm willing to bet we will get it by the end of january
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lol. More like the end of January of 2012. Its funny that we didnt even get 2.2 before the release of 2.3. Lame samsung and sprint.

azichek said:
lol. More like the end of January of 2012. Its funny that we didnt even get 2.2 before the release of 2.3. Lame samsung and sprint.
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This isnt 3.0 it is a build upgrade from 2.1 a totally new build takes about 6months and upgrade is about 2 months.
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We will probably get it around the time that 3.0 comes out or 3.1 usually how it works. 2.3 comes out now..sprint releases 2.2 to epics... at least we get updates faster than most US carriers do. Look at evo. Sprint plz OTA 2.2 already.
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azichek said:
lol. More like the end of January of 2012. Its funny that we didnt even get 2.2 before the release of 2.3. Lame samsung and sprint.
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We are actually getting 2.2.1, not 2.2...2.2.1 came out at the end of september, and Galaxy S would be the first to have it...Motorola is working on 2.2.1 as well...

gTen said:
We are actually getting 2.2.1, not 2.2...2.2.1 came out at the end of september, and Galaxy S would be the first to have it...Motorola is working on 2.2.1 as well...
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Droid already has 2.2.1 - boss man got it last thursday OTA i think. He isn't rooted.
Droid X went live on the 10th as well.

All in all google is going to greater lengths to help push out the updates faster. Its one of the biggest gripes with android. Look to the gingerbread update to change things. After gingerbread android os will be much more uniform.
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Kcarpenter said:
Droid already has 2.2.1 - boss man got it last thursday OTA i think. He isn't rooted.
Droid X went live on the 10th as well.
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Hmm...I guess I missed that since I was fairly busy this week..ok then ...up for second place before the EVO gets it samsung? lol
adamw1101 said:
All in all google is going to greater lengths to help push out the updates faster. Its one of the biggest gripes with android. Look to the gingerbread update to change things. After gingerbread android os will be much more uniform.
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I expect things to change greatly once 3.0 comes out..this is when release cycles for android will slow down thus giving manufacturers more leeway..

Agreed. I think they are planning on phazing out UI overlays as well when 3.0 comes out. No more motoblur, sense, tw, etc. For the tech geek we like it because we port things over from other platforms. But the Ios boobs they just want something shiny and homoginized, and that's probably the demographing android wants to really take on
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adamw1101 said:
Samsung confirms gingerbread for SGS! I haven't seen a time table for it but I'm willing to bet we will get it by the end of january
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Utter misinformation.
As of today, Samsung's U.S. Galaxy S support site on Twitter still denies that there has been any such announcement.
@JoeBatson no official statement about updating US Galaxy S line to 2.3 has been made & we aren't prepared to discuss this at this time.
about 2 hours ago via CoTweet in reply to JoeBatson
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I think we will see Gingerbread in the form of a flashable rom before we see an official release, if we even see one. I hope we do.
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If sprint pushes gingerbread by end of jan I will **** a brick.
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Craigmier said:
If sprint pushes gingerbread by end of jan I will **** a brick.
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If Sprint pushes gingerbread by the end of january, I will eat the brick.

Does he relize we don't have 2.2 official yet?
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muyoso said:
If Sprint pushes gingerbread by the end of january, I will eat the brick.
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If we don't get gingerbread before you can buy a honeycomb tablet or phone, I'll throw a brick.
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I think there may be a way to get FROYO/Gingerbread on Fascinate

Ok I was thinking to myself & reading through all the forums & thinking the only thing stopping us from rocking out froyo/Gingerbread action on are samsung Fascinate's is the kernel issue right ?
off the beaten track but need to read to understand the train of thought:
Well being a former 2 week droid X owner & me being the modder I am I rooted it & as many of you Know the droid X has a locked bootloader but that has not stopped a well known android developer by the name of Jrummy to Develop a app to Overclcok the Droid X even with the locked bootloader but still the system is reading that the phone is still running a 1ghz speeds
Main Idea :
Well I was thinking why cant a more experienced dev than myself as I just started out as a developer a more experienced dev develop a app along the same lines to trick are fascinates into running Froyo/Gingerbread roms but still using the kernel we currently are using I am guessing the kernels might need to be tweaked but I think this is possible I believe if a more experienced dev contacted Jrummy he would give the source code to them to develope off of I am not sure but pretty sure he has it @ GITHUB

Thanks for this, it was a long day and I needed the laugh...
Guessing your about to get clobbered, if I were you, I'd duck.
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No.
We need the RIL

nmyeti said:
Thanks for this, it was a long day and I needed the laugh...
Guessing your about to get clobbered, if I were you, I'd duck.
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your a ****, stop trying to be cool on the internet.

If I were I'd point out that your is possessive and that you should be looking for "you are" or you're...
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writing a kernel module from scratch and writing a kernel from scratch are 2 completely different things
not feasible, even in concept

nmyeti said:
If I were I'd point out that your is possessive and that you should be looking for "you are" or you're...
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I think that you just proved karallam's point

Noticed that did you?
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nmyeti said:
Thanks for this, it was a long day and I needed the laugh...
Guessing your about to get clobbered, if I were you, I'd duck.
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+1. This has to be the funniest thing I've read today. Thanks for the laugh. You do, however, deserve an A for effort.
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lol...........

Actually he is half right. Punk.kaos currently has froyo and ginger running on the eris? He also apparently had froyo booting on the fascinate as well. And there is no source for the eris for either? Any clarification on this would prove to be very educational for all....
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It's a nice thought, and one day we might see it. One thing is YES GB as well as FROYO have been seen booting on the Galaxy S phones but they have been GSM based phones not Verizon CDMA phones which have a totally different system writes.
Best bet would be to check on the IRC channels and see whats going on there, and see how things progress, great idea but not anytime in the near future, welcome to Samsung.
Cheers.

denonlake said:
Actually he is half right. Punk.kaos currently has froyo and ginger running on the eris? He also apparently had froyo booting on the fascinate as well. And there is no source for the eris for either? Any clarification on this would prove to be very educational for all....
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I came from the eris to the fascinate, and yeah there are now a ton of eris roms running froyo on the 2.6.29 kernel. And as I understand it, kaos is also working on gingerbread for the eris as well, and has a gb rom running (tho it still has problems). But to get to the point where the eris is at now, as far as it being able to run froyo perfectly with no bugs or glitches, it took a pretty long damn time. Its not nearly as simple as fooling the system into thinking that we're running a 2.6.32 or .35 kernel, unfortunately. There were tons of things that didnt work at first. In fact, almost nothing worked at first. But kaos and the other devs kept at it, and with each new release, they'd fix 1 or more of those things broken. Of course, they had help from a bunch of hero devs that were simultaneously working on getting froyo to work on the cdma hero.
My point is, however, that our devs are already working on this, but right now there are still some huge issues that make the roms/kernels far from ready for public release. But there is no reason to fear, as the devs will continue to do their thing, and even if samsung puts off releasing froyo for another year, I promise you that before too long the devs will have found a way to give us what we want.. namely, froyo and gb!
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Froyo boots fine on the Fascinate..as long as you don't want phone functions.

adrynalyne said:
Froyo boots fine on the Fascinate..as long as you don't want phone functions.
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so does gb for that matter

adrynalyne said:
Froyo boots fine on the Fascinate..as long as you don't want phone functions.
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Pshhh who wanted a phone to talk on anyways?

wilshyre said:
and even if samsung puts off releasing froyo for another year, I promise you that before too long the devs will have found a way to give us what we want...
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If samsung does that im gonna start boycotting their phones...

jt1134 said:
so does gb for that matter
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So, does this mean you're part of supercurio's big SGS powwow?

That's awesome. We can use string and tin cans instead...

Since the epic 4g is cdma. Does their froyo help us at all?

Still no signs of Android 2.3 for our beloved "Vibrant"?

Oh come on Samsung, its big time we get to taste the Android Gingerbread OS for our Galaxy S Vibrant. I have a Galaxy S I9000 and I got Gingerbread update in the month of Apr-May. But Samsung has not even released Android 2.2.1 for Vibrant. Did they forget this model?
Edit: No doubt I love the amazing Cyanogenmod 7 on my Vibrant but I'd love to see the 2.3 update from Samsung (some TouchWiz love LOL).

basically they abandoned us after froyo lol

Mann get over its not coming if they promise ICS I'm good
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Jasonhunterx said:
Mann get over its not coming if they promise ICS I'm good
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Don't hold your breath on that one. I think the Vibrant is dead, at least in samsung's eyes. There have been multiple leaks for Galaxy S4G, another today for the Epic and i believe the others have also seen leaks, and and still nothing for the Vibrant.
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What really pisses me off, is samsung email is MUCH better than stock.
Email http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5001/5345412768_415ac72a2c_z.jpg

I think they forgot about us, or stopped caring.

Z-Boy said:
I think they forgot about us, or stopped caring.
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T-Mobile doesn't want to cut into upgrades. Since the Vibrant 4G is out and is the current model, the original Vibrant is deprecated. It is pretty obvious, as no other carrier has been denied a Gingerbread version for the Galaxy S except for T-Mobile.

Although GB would have been nice, I am not missing anything on 2.2.1. What about you guys? Any killer apps or features that makes GB more desirable? Don't tell Crt animation and over scroll glow

archie53 said:
Don't hold your breath on that one. I think the Vibrant is dead, at least in samsung's eyes. There have been multiple leaks for Galaxy S4G, another today for the Epic and i believe the others have also seen leaks, and and still nothing for the Vibrant.
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Ikno but its great how similar our phones are so we should be able to port or help devs make roms 4 uz
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rakeshchn said:
Although GB would have been nice, I am not missing anything on 2.2.1. What about you guys? Any killer apps or features that makes GB more desirable? Don't tell Crt animation and over scroll glow
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Its the little thing like a faster, smother scrolling and improved gps no needs to use lag fix etc that make it worth upgrading. And ofc we all love to upgrade that why we are on XDA .

lotherius said:
T-Mobile doesn't want to cut into upgrades. Since the Vibrant 4G is out and is the current model, the original Vibrant is deprecated. It is pretty obvious, as no other carrier has been denied a Gingerbread version for the Galaxy S except for T-Mobile.
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The 4G isn't much of an upgrade for current Vibrant owners imo. I don't see why we couldn't get the software it's not like it would give us a FFC or 4g(maybe). I guess for those of us smart enough to root and flash that we survive with better roms anyway. We probably should have seen this coming. I mean the only way possible to get froyo was to update via kies which hopefully won't brick your phone.

Flash miui or cm7
probably better than stock gb anyway
Vibrant+MIUI

Why complain about what you dont have when what we do you have available to us great.( no not perfect but still great)
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Flash miui or cm7
probably better than stock gb anyway
Vibrant+MIUI
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Way ahead of you buddy.

The only thing is that the developers need the GB source to make it more stable :/

Tigerbalm306 said:
The only thing is that the developers need the GB source to make it more stable :/
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right, I dont really use official roms,
but it is still needed for our great dev.

Emama said:
right, I dont really use official roms,
but it is still needed for our great dev.
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It doesn't matter if you use official roms or not.
without the source, battery is ****.

Conspiracy nut time lol. Maybe it's a way for samsung to keep the devs here from making a perfectly stable rom so we would have to upgrade later . End Conspiracy.

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It doesn't matter if you use official roms or not.
without the source, battery is ****.
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That's what he said...
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i have had so many phones including real gb phones and i always go back to my vibrant. who cares. just rock your vibrant for another 6 months and upgrade to whats new
unless sgs2 drops

Where's teh Gingerbread?

Its now october and we've yet to see any official gingerbread and sources, I've lost all respect to samsung and there dev team. They've had 2 chances for an ontime release and failed both. Our latest leaks are crap with reboots and other difficulties. Even after about a half a year a major company cannot put out and release a quality piece of gingerbread.
Flame all you want, call me a troll for all I care, I'm tired of this ****.
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Competely agree. I like the hardware, samsung software support is terrible compared to htc and moto. Disappointed that samsung does not want to continue to support their hardware. Can't say I am jumping up and down to buy another samsung product (except maybe nexus) when my contract is up in a few months.
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They release the best hardware then get lazy with the software, lol
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Does anyone even know why they're taking so long to get it to us

At this point I hope we don't get gingerbread. Much rather wait another month or two and get ICS. That would be the **** if at the Samsung/Google event on Oct 11th they announce ICS builds for all of their Galaxy S and Galaxy S II phones.

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Does anyone even know why they're taking so long to get it to us
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there samsung, all the reason you'll ever need.

Not a good enough reason. If you notice the dfferent versions of GB they've went through you'll understand that for every GB version 2.3, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, and 2.3.4; Samsung took a month to two months of testing and improving. GB been in the works since april/may starting with 2.3 and now we're at 2.3.4. And from the looks of it they're in the last month of testing and improving GB

Even though 2.3.7 is out apparently lol.
I however, could have misread.
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Its now october and we've yet to see any official gingerbread and sources, I've lost all respect to samsung and there dev team. They've had 2 chances for an ontime release and failed both. Our latest leaks are crap with reboots and other difficulties. Even after about a half a year a major company cannot put out and release a quality piece of gingerbread.
Flame all you want, call me a troll for all I care, I'm tired of this ****.
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It's October 3rd -- give it some time. It's obviously late, *****ing on a forum is not going to make it come quicker.

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Even though 2.3.7 is out apparently lol.
I however, could have misread.
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Only Google's baby get the latest and greatest. . . . . it sucks the epic is a foster child who adoptive parents only want a check for it's stay

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Even though 2.3.7 is out apparently lol.
I however, could have misread.
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All the builds 2.3.5 and up are Nexus only fixes that were released due to bugs I believe. We won't be needing those fixes, but HEY Samsung, we will be NEEDING ICS (yes, we know u lurk around this place!) :O
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masaidjet said:
Only Google's baby get the latest and greatest. . . . . it sucks the epic is a foster child who adoptive parents only want a check for it's stay
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And anyone with CM7 on their device. I have 2.3.7 on my mytouch 4g right now

muyoso said:
At this point I hope we don't get gingerbread. Much rather wait another month or two and get ICS. That would be the **** if at the Samsung/Google event on Oct 11th they announce ICS builds for all of their Galaxy S and Galaxy S II phones.
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HA! Then we would have it by October 2012!
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masaidjet said:
Only Google's baby get the latest and greatest. . . . . it sucks the epic is a foster child who adoptive parents only want a check for it's stay
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Because Google's baby don't have touchwiz crap and blocked access to Kies. Don't be down on the Epic when none of the US Galaxy S series have gotten GB yet.
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It's all really simple if you think about it.
Icecream sandwich isn't out yet. Therefore we don't have gingerbread. The general rule of thumb with these phones has been always being one release behind.
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If I wanted to be locked in to a manufacturer's software release schedule so I could ***** about delays on forums, I would have bought an iPhone. Instead, I bought an Android phone and have had Gingerbread for months.

I'm pretty happy with Froyo... ACS made it manageable.

josidhe said:
It's all really simple if you think about it.
Icecream sandwich isn't out yet. Therefore we don't have gingerbread. The general rule of thumb with these phones has been always being one release behind.
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I could actually believe this. If you think about it, it encourages people to upgrade. Then the ones they know aren't going anywhere yet get the update after they sell their latest and greatest
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I'm pretty happy with Froyo... ACS made it manageable.
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Manageable Lol. My first cell phone came in its own backpack that had to be unzippered to raise an antennae and I still couldn't make a call unless I was in the middle of a big open area without so much as a friggin tree within 100 feet, and your ACS Froyo Epic is manageable. Haha that's funny sh*t right there.
Sorry couldn't resist, Flame on.
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