Real Ice Cream Sandwich

[sparker781]

So when this phone is released are we going to be treated to the REAL ICS? I mean without Verizon's input?

Thanks

 

[tntdroid]

Don't understand the question. Were getting the real ics. Verizon is adding two Verizon apps we can delete.

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[420board]

You mean this?

 

[420board]

Don't understand the question. Were getting the real ics. Verizon is adding two Verizon apps we can delete.

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*disable*

 

[JediJesus95]

I'm sure once we root we can load a pure ICS Rom without of Verizon's two apps.

 

[philly]

I'm sure once we root we can load a pure ICS Rom without of Verizon's two apps.

lol.. you shouldnt have to load a pure rom, onto a nexus.

 

[Premium1]

lol.. you shouldnt have to load a pure rom, onto a nexus.

Well technically it is still a pure rom since it does not seem like they hardwired those apps into the os.

 

[philly]

Well technically it is still a pure rom since it does not seem like they hardwired those apps into the os.

im just referring to his plans, I agree with you it is a pure rom out of the box..

I do hope verizon didnt mess up the updates directly from google.. which I doubt will be the case.

 

[whiteshadow001]

im just referring to his plans, I agree with you it is a pure rom out of the box..

I do hope verizon didnt mess up the updates directly from google.. which I doubt will be the case.

None of the other carriers mess with updates for google phones. Verizon is no different, they just paid a lot of money to get their branding and just 2 apps on there. Google has them by the pants now

 

[revickulous2001]

None of the other carriers mess with updates for google phones. Verizon is no different, they just paid a lot of money to get their branding and just 2 apps on there. Google has them by the pants now

Verizon is in complete control of this situation. Not Google. That being said, there has been no official confirmation that Google will update this phone directly. However, several insiders have hinted that this is the case.

 

[Sentrix]

It's two apps... you can disable them in settings and never see them again.
I actually use My Verizon though to check my bill and what not. It's useful.

Backup Assistant is useless though.

 

[whiteshadow001]

Verizon is in complete control of this situation. Not Google. That being said, there has been no official confirmation that Google will update this phone directly. However, several insiders have hinted that this is the case.

If they are in complete control the VZW nexus will get updates very very slowly

 

[terpitude71]

*disable*

delete works too, if youre rooted

 

[tntdroid]

delete works too, if youre rooted

thats what im saying. delete them after rooting. got to unlock and root. all the cool kids are doing it

 

[420board]

delete works too, if youre rooted

He never mentioned root and so as a stock option you can only disable. It will still have the data on your device, it will still have it listed in the app settings menu, and it can be re-enabled at any time.

I figured if people are going to root they know what they can and can't do with their device.

 

[ragnarokx]

I used to always delete apps with Root Explorer, but I've switched to using the built-in disable feature. Very handy. I've never ran out of memory on my internal storage, so disabling works just as well as deleting for me.

 

[SchroederNexus]

I can't wait to have the phone so I can get off these forums for a while, if I go the rest of my life without hearing the term 'bloatware' I'd consider myself lucky.

It's two apps - probably wasting about as much space as games that people download and then never play.

 

[sparker781]

That what I meant. No bloatware on the device is all I wanted to hear wasnt going to be there. Thanks for summing that up wasnt sure how else to put it.

 

[CynicX]

Verizon is in complete control of this situation. Not Google. That being said, there has been no official confirmation that Google will update this phone directly. However, several insiders have hinted that this is the case.

I believe so. It doesn't have touchwiz so it won't get updates from Samsung obviously and Verizon doesn't build Android so I think besides testing prior to release its coming from Google.

I also think we will get updates slower then the GSM model since there are hardware differences. But we should get them long before skinned versions of ICS are being pushed.

Verizon and Google did a pretty good job with Honeycomb.

 

[Premium1]