iOS updates and Android updates are really apples to oranges.
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I don't see anything wrong with that since we pay a lot of money for premium phones like the Droid and monthly fees to Verizon. Add all that money up over a year and see how you feel.
I did on my Maxx and there are some noticeable improvements and speed ups.
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I'm kinda dreading getting an update because I'm about 98% certain that it will break something that I am currently enjoying.
Understated & very true. What's I find astounding is that dealing with one operating system on only a single brand of phone is they routinely push out flawed updates with alarming frequency. As example, unless recently patched, there is a serious exploit in Messaging that renders the app useless by someone sending a text containing a specific character string. I won't post the string for obvious reasons but it's available on Twitter & some websites or at least, was. FWIW, I learned of it from a victim. If this were Android I suspect it would be front page news.iOS updates and Android updates are really apples to oranges.
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Understated & very true. What's I find astounding is that dealing with one operating system on only a single brand of phone is they routinely push out flawed updates with alarming frequency. As example, unless recently patched, there is a serious exploit in Messaging that renders the app useless by someone sending a text containing a specific character string. I won't post the string for obvious reasons but it's available on Twitter & some websites or at least, was. FWIW, I learned of it from a victim. If this were Android I suspect it would be front page news.
If you're 98% sure 5.1 is going to break something you should read up on it first to make sure. But it's a 100% sure things will eventually break staying on KitKat as the devs use API's in the newer OS versions.
I don't see anything wrong with that since we pay a lot of money for premium phones like the Droid and monthly fees to Verizon. Add all that money up over a year and see how you feel.
That's always true but this is an Android forum, so...
Am I really making it sound like that or am I just being a vocal consumer?
They don't but it sure would be awesome if I had that power!
I think people understand they have free will, at least I hope they do
For someone who claims to find updates very unimportant why do you care so much and are so vocal on a thread about updates?!?
Sometimes that works but it's more effective when large groups let companies know their displeasure. In fact usually to be effective it helps to let a company know as a group your displeasure before you take your money elsewhere.
I noitced the same with ART when I had my Maxx. Which makes it more perplexing that it doesn't work right on the Turbo.
ART on the Turbo was a nuisance for me because 110 applications would be optimized every time I restarted the phone.So lollipop runtime is ART, and the standard setting on our phones is Dalvik. Just wondering if any of you have already gone in developer options and switched to ART, if so what's your take??
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Beat me to it!June 10th people...June 10th...FINALLY!
http://www.idigitaltimes.com/droid-...date-confirmed-device-will-receive-ota-446485
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ART on the Turbo was a nuisance for me because 110 applications would be optimized every time I restarted the phone.
See, and that's weird because I also switched over to ART on my Maxx, and I didn't notice any difference speed or efficiency at all. I was told that it was because KK was still made to run Dalvik, but once you had ART on LP, which it was designed to run on, that that is where the difference would be noticeable.
I'm doubting that June 10th date. No leaks of a soak test (you just know some people can't help themselves), and I find it highly unlikely they would roll it out without one. I suppoose they could cram one in between now and the 10th,. but...
I'm fairly certain it wasn't placebo effect that ART ran more smoothly (as in more qwuickly...not that it corrected fthings that didn't work right or anything like that) on my Maxx. I didn't notice any significant battery savings myself.
Even on the Turbo, while I set it back to Dalvik because of the re-optimizatiuon issue at reboot + Google Maps crashing in ART recently, I noticed that my weather app from the Command Center widget opened much more quickly with ART set than it does with Dalvik. It tends to hang a bit with Dalvik, so again, not a placebo effect.
Yea buddy! Checked the news and it sounds official, 5.1 will start OTA rollout for us on June 10!