It's official - No OTA ICS for Stratosphere :/

[rickhamilton620]

I know I don't have one anymore but still, it's kind of a slap in the face to all of the people who bought this device last year. Ice Cream Sandwich Coming to Many Verizon Wireless Smartphones

It's frustrating because the Nexus S can run it and it's pretty much the same phone inside save for the wi-max radio. Hopefully you guys will figure out a way to get it onto the Strat.

They haven't announced 3G device availablity yet but the DIinc2 and Rhyme aren't 4G and are confirmed in the same press release, so it looks like I won't be getting an official build no matter which device I owned.

Edit: gah, didn't read the whole thing. They'll update the list as more devices are announced apparently. Sorry!

 

[MofoMan2000]

Edit: gah, didn't read the whole thing. They'll update the list as more devices are announced apparently. Sorry!

Good God, man, don't DO THAT to me!

Still, I'm a bit pissed at Samsung at this point for the lack of support for this phone. We haven't even gotten an OTA MR update, much less ICS. For a phone released in OCTOBER last year, that's ridiculous. I know it's not the Galaxy S II, but for 's sake they should have made it one.

 

[anon(94115)]

i said this before about the list....

Really Samsung isnt going to upgrade any of their phones at all? Obviously the list is very incomplete....

 

[ShadowAlpha]

If I root the phone anyway to upgrade to ics?


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[MofoMan2000]

I wish, but they've got their damn "super proprietary and confidential very hush hush" RIL software which we'd need in order to make our own upgrade. I gotta say, for a phone with an unlocked bootloader and that's more than happy to take a custom firmware, this is quite aggravating.

 

[cheburashka]

Good God, man, don't DO THAT to me!

Still, I'm a bit pissed at Samsung at this point for the lack of support for this phone. We haven't even gotten an OTA MR update, much less ICS. For a phone released in OCTOBER last year, that's ridiculous. I know it's not the Galaxy S II, but for 's sake they should have made it one.

actually Stratosphere is just Big Red's version of Sprint's Epic 4g, and there will not be any more updates for Epic, so...

sorry but no ics for either of us. yes there is definatelly a huge lack of support from samsung. i was considering upgrading to AT&T Note, but as of right now it seems their Note will not get ICS untill (end of?) Q3 and by that time the internets will be buzzing about Jellybean.

 

[chase2hoop]

Really? It's one of the 2 4G slider phones on Verizon, and it's not getting ICS!?!? I mean, it is a very capable device. Another thing, does this list from Verizon cover all phones that are ever going to be updated to ICS? It could just be a Q1 Update list. If that's the case, We could be getting ICS, just later than everyone else. Fingers, Toes, and Cables crossed!

 

[moonoverparma00]

Im runnng cm9 on my epic 4g and it runs extremely well. There is no reason that these phones couldnt get ICS.

 

[wewantutopia]

Perhaps, but we wouldn't have LTE

 

[wewantutopia]

hmmm... I did just read that the Charge will get CM9 so maybe that'll help us