FYI.. LG says they will update Optimus to GINGERBREAD

[Sparty73]

My phone is not rooted but I may do it in the future. Why would doing an OTA now be a problem if I want to root in the future?

An OTA may close the current hole in the code that allows for rooting.

As things stand now, you have a reliable root option, with multiple ROMs and apps developed for the current platform. Once an update is installed, especially a major one such as Gingerbread, that ability to root will have to be rediscovered all over again.

 

[HeXDeMoN]

He is just saying if there is a update you may not be able to root it until someone finds a new method. So dont update it if you plan on rooting it at least until someone finds that new method.

 

[trekkie1701c]

Because the phones are not meant to be rooted (aside from the "pure Google" phones, from what I hear). That means that in order to root them, we have to exploit a security vulnerability. If we can exploit it to gain root access, so can someone else, and that does leave a potential for abuse. On top of that, rooted phones allow users to do things that can brick their phones, which the users often cover up as "I was accepting an OTA update and this happened" (just look through the forums if you don't believe me). So carriers will want to remove the ability for us to root.

Thus when you get an OTA update, they may have fixed the exploit we were using to root the phone, and thus you won't be able to root.

 

[Luckywuffboi]

anyone have gingerbread yet?

does any of the optimus S users have gingerbread yet?

 

[ltrz]

Nothing. Totally confirmed but looks to be maybe early feb.

Sent from my LS670 using Tapatalk

 

[tawright915]

can you please list the steps to take to stop your phone from receiving the OTA updates?
And is this already set in ThunderROM 1.6.2?

 

[weenerdog3443]

Its early feb I want my gingerbread

 

[coadman]

can you please list the steps to take to stop your phone from receiving the OTA updates?
And is this already set in ThunderROM 1.6.2?

My question also, I am running stock, but want to keep the "root" option available for future considerations. When OTA updates come, do we have a choice on the phone, to accept them, or not? Or is it automatic?
thanks,
Jim

 

[O.a.T.]

My question also, I am running stock, but want to keep the "root" option available for future considerations. When OTA updates come, do we have a choice on the phone, to accept them, or not? Or is it automatic?
thanks,
Jim

You should have the option to accept or not, just as you did the v9 upgrade that came out. Remember?

 

[coadman]

You should have the option to accept or not, just as you did the v9 upgrade that came out. Remember?

Nope, don't remember, only had my phone for about a week.

 

[Nick7]

The automatic updates don't automatically install. They download to your cache partition and prompt you to install when complete. You can say "no."

 

[zcostilla]

Its early feb I want my gingerbread

I popped into my local Sprint store on Monday and asked about Gingerbread update for the Optimus S, and she gave me a deer in the headlights look. She looked in the playbook that they use for supposedly insider information not released to the public, and said that there wasn't anything in the works. Then she said that she doubted a "low end" phone like the optimus would get Gingerbread before the "high end flagship phones" like the EVO.

So then I asked about the fact that LG supposedly wants to stay ahead of the game to remain an up-and-coming player in the android market so their goal was to provide better support, and she blows me off like that's a novel idea that will never see the real world.

I think she just didn't like not know all of the answers. She didn't even mention the update their pushing now, so I doubt her playbook is useful at all.

 

[krakmunkey]

I popped into my local Sprint store on Monday and asked about Gingerbread update for the Optimus S, and she gave me a deer in the headlights look. She looked in the playbook that they use for supposedly insider information not released to the public, and said that there wasn't anything in the works. Then she said that she doubted a "low end" phone like the optimus would get Gingerbread before the "high end flagship phones" like the EVO.

So then I asked about the fact that LG supposedly wants to stay ahead of the game to remain an up-and-coming player in the android market so their goal was to provide better support, and she blows me off like that's a novel idea that will never see the real world.

I think she just didn't like not know all of the answers. She didn't even mention the update their pushing now, so I doubt her playbook is useful at all.

Since when are sales persons ever helpful with high level technical questions. That goes for any store on just about any product. Thats why forums exist.

 

[digitallove]

where oh where is our gingerbread? have there been any updates on the timeframe or anything?

 

[trekkie1701c]

http://forum.androidcentral.com/lg-...t-pilgrim-awesomeness-gingerbread-teaser.html <- Some of our rom cookers got bored and made us a Gingerbread house if you don't want to wait

 

[mgsfoxhound2]

yes Optimus V is out now but for now only at radio shack for $150 awsome deal since the specs are the same as optimus S and V even uses the same cell towers Sprint!

 

[KMfiremedic111]

"Then she said that she doubted a "low end" phone like the optimus would get Gingerbread before the "high end flagship phones" like the EVO. "

High end flagship phones? They haven't even got 2.2 yet!!! Someone dropped the ball big time by not giving those phones an update to 2.2 asap. I strongly believe we will get 2.3 on the Optimus S soon enough. It is such a popular phone that we will at least get a couple or a few more android and firmware updates before the Optimus S gets "old" in terms of cell phones and they simply stop updating their "older model" phones. They can't update them for ever, but we will get taken care of for a little while longer.

 

[sabauman]

"Then she said that she doubted a "low end" phone like the optimus would get Gingerbread before the "high end flagship phones" like the EVO. "

High end flagship phones? They haven't even got 2.2 yet!!! Someone dropped the ball big time by not giving those phones an update to 2.2 asap. I strongly believe we will get 2.3 on the Optimus S soon enough. It is such a popular phone that we will at least get a couple or a few more android and firmware updates before the Optimus S gets "old" in terms of cell phones and they simply stop updating their "older model" phones. They can't update them for ever, but we will get taken care of for a little while longer.

The EVO is selling with 2.2 now.

 

[outdors21]

The Samsung Epic still has 2.1.

 

[digitallove]

http://forum.androidcentral.com/lg-...t-pilgrim-awesomeness-gingerbread-teaser.html <- Some of our rom cookers got bored and made us a Gingerbread house if you don't want to wait

I'm still not brave enough to root my phone :/ but I remember someone saying early feb and... it's mid feb. oh well.