MotoLife Announces ICS Schedule

[ngc457]

The camera has been a problem with most phones with ICS roms. The ICS roms for my incredible the camera would not work. I wonder why it is so hard to get the camera to work? I wonder what kind of hoops manufactures have to jump through to get the camera to work?

[mbentley3]

Originally Posted by LDubs

Just go ahead and root, install safestrap, and fire up either ICS4Bionic or Axiom Bionic (ICS-based). No waiting needed (though camera doesn't work yet).

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The only reason i havent installed either of those is because i need my camera. Cant wait till they get it working though, im sure it will be long before verizon gives us ICS

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[luke31]

Originally Posted by mbentley3

The only reason i havent installed either of those is because i need my camera. Cant wait till they get it working though, im sure it will be long before verizon gives us ICS

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That's the beauty of Safestrap... it's basically like dual booting, with one partition having your stock rom and the other having your experimental one. It really is having the best of both worlds.

[MetalNdn]

Tell me more about this safestrap? Im a rooting/ ROM newbie and im curious now.

[little812]

Originally Posted by MetalNdn

Tell me more about this safestrap? Im a rooting/ ROM newbie and im curious now.

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[sbudaj]

They are talking about OS 5 at Mobile World Congress and we don't even have ICS yet. What's up with that???

[doogald]

Originally Posted by sbudaj

They are talking about OS 5 at Mobile World Congress and we don't even have ICS yet. What's up with that???

Major Android releases have always come about 10 to 12 months apart. Eric Schmidt mentioned ICS at Mobile World Congress last year at just about the same time after Gingerbread was first released, before it was released on any other shipped phone as well, though of course they were also pushing Honeycomb on tablets at the same time.

Anyway, that's just the way it's always been - a new Android release on a Nexus-ish device, OEMs scramble to get it working on existing handsets with customized frameworks, Google is already planning their next Android release. The world moves fast; Google should do more to provide all of the OEMs with new releases before open sourcing them, but they don't seem to want to.

[Arelunde]

The sad thing about the Bionic is that it was theTRANSITIONAL Moto device between 3G and LTE/4G. It was the first Moto 4G device that appeared after a long, difficult road to launch. It tapped the very first 4G capabilities. Then Moto gets involved with a Google merger. Bionic is now the Moto "Great Grandfather" of 4G devices. How many Moto devices have been launched since the Bionic? Four? Five? I've lost count - and that's only Motorola. The fact it's still included in the ICS scenario is surprising... And I suspect as time goes on, increasingly unlikely. It seems it was a dinosaur at launch, with some of it's many issues resolved over time, yet - too much time??

ICS may turn out to be an impossible dream for the Bionic. Yet, the Bionic is now seemingly reaching it's potential as a vast improvement over early Android smartphones such as the Droid X (which I LOVED!!)

So ... Is there an ICS future for Bionic? I sure hope so.

[doogald]

Originally Posted by Arelunde

So ... Is there an ICS future for Bionic? I sure hope so.

The Bionic hardware is so similar to the Razr (everything but the display) and the Droid 4 (the display - same res, same technology) that I can't believe that Moto/VZW will not have an ICS upgrade - especially after promising that it would. If they do the other two - and they have said that they will - there is no reason why they wouldn't upgrade the Bionic - anad, again, they have said that it will.

[skycross]

Once I got a transformer prime I haven't been as worried about the ICS update for my phone. Now I spend all of my time on the ASUS. I think ICS will be nice on the bionic but it wont be night and day different. There is still only so much you can do at 4.3". JMO.