MotoLife Announces ICS Schedule

[EnergyPlus]

Surprised nobody has posted this. Endgadget today announced that MotoLife has released a partial schedule for the ICS update. Unfortunately, while many products are sceduled to have ICS either in Q1 or Q2, the Bionic is amongst those devices that Moro says "will get i but they gave no date. Arrrrrggghhh!

 

[alexfisher]

Bionic ICS update looks like it's scheduled for a Q3 release; however, that could be when VZW gets a hold of it so we may get it for Xmas if we've been good all year

 

[doogald]

Bionic ICS update looks like it's scheduled for a Q3 release; however, that could be when VZW gets a hold of it so we may get it for Xmas if we've been good all year

No, Motorola is still giving no date for the Bionic ICS update. They say they will have details later. Where are you seeing Q3 for the Bionic?

 

[SleepyTheDon]

I dont see the bionic getting it Q1 and thats going to be a bad move on Moto/Verzion if newer phones get it 1st

 

[bbycrts]

I dont see the bionic getting it Q1 and thats going to be a bad move on Moto/Verzion if newer phones get it 1st

It's pretty normal for the newest hardware to get the fun stuff first. Since they're still current devices, I would be annoyed if I paid $299 for the Razr Maxx and my buddy paid $99 for a Bionic on the same day and he got his upgrade first.

I never expect an update. Makes it easier to handle when they announce they're not going to do it after all.

I learned that when I used to be a WebOS fanatic. I got out just in time.

 

[ngc457]

Android is fantastic better than iphone and winmobile7 in every way but 1. That is updates. Wish Google would come up with someway to make phones update like winmobile7. Winmobile7 phones have many manufactures but when an update is released by Microsoft boom there it is. They have it right when it comes to updates.

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[doogald]

Android is fantastic better than iphone and winmobile7 in every way but 1. That is updates. Wish Google would come up with someway to make phones update like winmobile7.

They have - they are called Nexus phones. Unlike Microsoft, (with the exception of the Nexus handsets that they contract for when they update Android) Google does not specify precise hardware specs for their software - OEMs are free to make devices that offer specific and unique to that manufacturer features, something that WP does not have. Android has been out for three years plus now and everyone was fully aware of this shortcoming of buying a non-Nexus phone at the time that they bought their Bionic.

I think that you are also forgetting that WP had some update problems of their own. See Windows Phone 7 update pulled for Samsung handsets following reports of bricked handsets

 

[renegademoose]

It's pretty normal for the newest hardware to get the fun stuff first. Since they're still current devices, I would be annoyed if I paid $299 for the Razr Maxx and my buddy paid $99 for a Bionic on the same day and he got his upgrade first.

I never expect an update. Makes it easier to handle when they announce they're not going to do it after all.

I learned that when I used to be a WebOS fanatic. I got out just in time.

I would be annoyed if the phone I got at the time was the "flagship" device for a company, was quickly replaced by a smilarly specced phone a few months later, and then pushed back updates wise because it is the lonely middle child. Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.

 

[pharologst]

As for myself, based on all the software issues we've all had with the bionic since its issue, I'm NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO THE ICS UPDATE!. I just know it will screw up on a number of things that are working just fine on my Bionic right now. Unfortunately, VZW/MOTO control the issue/install of updates and I'm not looking forward to having to wait yet again for updates to the ICS to get it to work properly. I may be a bit of a pessimist here, but i think I'm more of a realist based upon VZW/MOTO past practices. CROSS YOUR FINGERS.

 

[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).

:0)

 

[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]

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).

:0)

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

Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk

 

[luke31]

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

Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk

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.

 

[mud.pony]

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

 

[little812]

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

http://rootzwiki.com/index.php?/topic/8794-Bionic-Safestrap-(Bootstrap-/-Recovery)-[12/14/2011]

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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]

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]

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.