DROID BIONIC Jelly Bean Update
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That's what I'm talking about...
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SamuriHL
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I usually don't comment on roms, but, I think there's some big time misconceptions going on here. If you are running a JB rom, there *WILL* be issues. Period. The reason is simple...the issues you see are kernel related. Without a native kernel updated for JB you get all the problems. Kexec could fix this but it's VERY difficult work and with JB just around the corner there's not a lot of benefit to doing it. This is the problem with locked bootloaders.
OK, its been 5 days since the last update on the testing debacle. Any updates (and others besides Sam are free to chime in!)?
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Depends on what your perspective is. For Bionic, nothing's changed. I said end of this month at the earliest. Those who disagreed with my prediction have now changed their tune and are agreeing. For D4 we've heard....nothing at all. No new build, yet, no soak or release. The RAZR, otoh, is where the concern should really fall. All I'll say is this....it should be noted that the soak email went out a week and 2 days ago. Since then, nada. If that doesn't concern you, well, you've not been playing the game long enough.
I was just thinking that i was concerned about this. I've now been playing the game long enough.
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I was just thinking that i was concerned about this. I've now been playing the game long enough.
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Then you are on the right track.
Then you are on the right track.
I definitely know I'm concerned. And I haven't been playing long at all!
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I'm concerned as well. But I'm happy that I side loaded the Dec 24 release of 4.1.2. Having been Samuri-schooled from these forums, I did an FDR and have had no problems. I hope that my fellow RAZR owners and Bionic and D4 owners get JB soon.
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Slightly older post, but...
I'll take your guesses over many people's facts.
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2 of those hold true (d4 and razr). Bionic is bumped up to 20. It's making progress. Once it's done testing, then we are 2 weeks minimum from a soak/release.
I hope for a day that the OS manufacturer will actually be able to support their OS, or device maker their device, without the middleware provider getting in the way. Microsoft doesn't have to push its patches to Dell, who has to get approval from AT&T, before someone can get the patch on their PC. Nor does AT&T have a right in that scenario to tell me what I can and can't do with my computer. Why are smartphones treated so differently?
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The claim is that they are concerned about the network stability. Google did a million dollar study to show that this is total and complete BS. There is no proof, for example, that rom users jeopardize network stability, and those roms obviously don't go through the "rigorous" (cough joke) testing that VZW puts official updates through. VZW would prefer that you never find out about that study. The real answer, of course, is politics. VZW likes to maintain "control". This, of course, is coming to an end. Big changes in the industry are coming but it won't happen overnight. I've warned you all to get used to buying unsubsidized phones....you'll see why soon enough. Watch T-Mobile closely over the next few months. 
The claim is that they are concerned about the network stability. Google did a million dollar study to show that this is total and complete BS. There is no proof, for example, that rom users jeopardize network stability, and those roms obviously don't go through the "rigorous" (cough joke) testing that VZW puts official updates through. VZW would prefer that you never find out about that study. The real answer, of course, is politics. VZW likes to maintain "control". This, of course, is coming to an end. Big changes in the industry are coming but it won't happen overnight. I've warned you all to get used to buying unsubsidized phones....you'll see why soon enough. Watch T-Mobile closely over the next few months.
I do worry about that day. If I have to buy unsubsidized, I am probably not going to be having as nice of phones as I'm used to.
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That all depends. T-Mobile will allow you to spread the cost out over several months. So you don't necessarily have to pay for it all at once.
Hopefully big red will do the same, or even better, T-Mobile will come to BFE.
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