Gingerbread 2.3 was here, then gone, now it's back

[Deleted User]

What about an app like App Brain to sync apps? Or the fact that Amazon Appstore also remembers which apps you purchased. Is that enough when doing a factory reset?

 

[NightAngel79]

What about an app like App Brain to sync apps? Or the fact that Amazon Appstore also remembers which apps you purchased. Is that enough when doing a factory reset?

Not if you want to save your actual progress in a certain game (or settings in an app)

Should be Monday, right???

Works for me

 

[holdshort]

Should be Monday, right???

Unfortunately I think I will have a new phone before the 2.3 Incredible update ever happens. Don't know about the rest of you but I am getting impatient for a new phone since this rollout seems like it will never happen. Waiting for the Bionic or the Galaxy S II, even thought about the Droid 3!

 

[BabyBlues]

Unfortunately I think I will have a new phone before the 2.3 Incredible update ever happens. Don't know about the rest of you but I am getting impatient for a new phone since this rollout seems like it will never happen. Waiting for the Bionic or the Galaxy S II, even thought about the Droid 3!

Wow I'm impressed that you could stand a Motorola after having HTC. That's just my opinion though.

 

[FramCire]

Unfortunately I think I will have a new phone before the 2.3 Incredible update ever happens. Don't know about the rest of you but I am getting impatient for a new phone since this rollout seems like it will never happen. Waiting for the Bionic or the Galaxy S II, even thought about the Droid 3!

If you are going to move on because of being impatient, why not root?

 

[parkschr]

If we do get GB, what benefits will we see on the incredible?

What are the positives?

 

[BoulderAndroidFan]

If we do get GB, what benefits will we see on the incredible?

What are the positives?

Good question. For all the hand wringing and anticipation, the upgrade may seem very anti-climactic and bring a host of other issues.

 

[euph_22]

If we do get GB, what benefits will we see on the incredible?

What are the positives?

WHEN (htc has confirmed we are getting it "this summer"), so WHEN we get the update, we will see some improvement in performance, and a few tweaks to Sense, and the android user interface in general. All in all, it will be far less impressive than the 2.2 update.

This covers all the change you can expect in Android, plus anything HTC change in sense

 

[EarlyMon]

Early on, I posted this here, please let me re-present:

‪Android 2.3 Official Video‬‏ - YouTube

Focus first and foremost on that concurrent garbage collector that they say is for gaming.

Garbage collection is a fancy programmer's term. Apps use memory dynamically - take and give ram while running. Garbage collection means manage that process properly.

I 100% guarantee on my Evo and my wife's Shift, it made a big difference for smoothness and battery life, right there.

Depending on your actual personal use of your phone, that difference is going go from subtle to amazing.

The vast majority of you are going to see a very, very welcome improvement in your day to day stuff, because of that one feature.

Promise.

 

[MolBasser]

Where's mah Gingerbread?

MolBasser

 

[EarlyMon]

^This!

 

[Evan2ac]

Hello this is Evan from Verizon wireless NRB,

The Incredible will not be receiving the update this Monday as some are hoping.

 

[mitchellpaul]

Didn't see this coming at all.

 

[NightAngel79]

^This!

Yes that!

 

[pragmatous]

I think it's a pretty safe assumption that when HTC and others have stated there is going to be gingergread for the incredible they clearly (sarcasm - unclearly) meant the incredible 2.

It was stated GB would come out for the incredible in the summer and gingerbread came out for the incredible 2 in the summer. Coincidence? Maybe ... but probably not.

Given there is still 2 months of summer and maybe it can happen but I'm thinking at this point it's safe to assume the incredible is not getting gingerbread.

Why the desire would get GB which has less memory than the incredible and why there is news for desire and not the incredible ( a much more popular phone) is a question people should be asking.

I think that alone is reason enough for my next phone to be a Motorola.

 

[parkschr]

Hello this is Evan from Verizon wireless NRB,

The Incredible will not be receiving the update this Monday as some are hoping.

Thanks for the update Evan.

 

[Kelmar]

Thread cleaned again.

Come on guys, it's pretty simple. Use those same rules that you always hear! Treat others with respect (regardless of if they've earned it or not). If you don't like what a user says, ignore it.

If you aren't contributing, move along (seriously... do YOU want to get banned over something silly???)!


If any questions, feel free to PM me.

 

[euph_22]

I think it's a pretty safe assumption that when HTC and others have stated there is going to be gingergread for the incredible they clearly (sarcasm - unclearly) meant the incredible 2.

It was stated GB would come out for the incredible in the summer and gingerbread came out for the incredible 2 in the summer. Coincidence? Maybe ... but probably not.

Given there is still 2 months of summer and maybe it can happen but I'm thinking at this point it's safe to assume the incredible is not getting gingerbread.

Why the desire would get GB which has less memory than the incredible and why there is news for desire and not the incredible ( a much more popular phone) is a question people should be asking.

I think that alone is reason enough for my next phone to be a Motorola.

This post seriously depresses me. How can our society's basic reasoning skills be so terrible. You say yourself that Verizon has 2 more months (an eternity in the lifecycle of phone software) to deliver us Gingerbread this summer. And you're somehow convinced it won't happen even though nearly identical phones by other carriers (which is the key here) have either recieved the update (evo) or have been promised the update (desire). Sprint has shown itself to be less thorough than verizon in QA testing updates. Which means they are usually a bit faster than Verizon in pushing out update. Add to the fact that Sprint still sells the Evo, and that Verizon can't/won't push out 2 updates simultaneously.
So here is what might have happened. The Incredible update might have trailed the Evo by a couple weeks (about what the Froyo one did). If HTC finished up the Incredible 2 update in the mean time, Verizon could have scheduled that first. If that was delayed for some reason, that would have pushed back our date. So it's pretty easy for a 2 week difference to become 4. In all honesty, based on the froyo update we can reasonably expect gingerbread anytime now.

Oh, and HTC did not mean the Incredible 2 in that statement. How do I know? Because the Incredible 2 hadn't been released when they made that statement. And it's one thing for a (supposed) Verizon employee (or his boss) to mix up the Incredible and the Incredible 2 in the spur of the moment while posting on an internet forum or in a meeting. It's complete different for an OEM to mix up 2 of their products in an official statement.

 

[Medion]

I think it's a pretty safe assumption that when HTC and others have stated there is going to be gingergread for the incredible they clearly (sarcasm - unclearly) meant the incredible 2.

It was stated GB would come out for the incredible in the summer and gingerbread came out for the incredible 2 in the summer. Coincidence? Maybe ... but probably not.

Given there is still 2 months of summer and maybe it can happen but I'm thinking at this point it's safe to assume the incredible is not getting gingerbread.

Why the desire would get GB which has less memory than the incredible and why there is news for desire and not the incredible ( a much more popular phone) is a question people should be asking.

I think that alone is reason enough for my next phone to be a Motorola.

I understand your frustration, but you are using that frustration to jump to some pretty wrong conclusions.

Both HTC and Verizon have stated that the Incredible will get Gingerbread. A test version of the update has leaked. It takes Verizon 6-8 weeks generally between receiving the update from HTC and releasing it to our phones. Given the build date of that last leak, we do NOT want GB to land now, or we'll get a buggy version.

Also, you're incorrect on the popularity of the Incredible relative to the Desire. The Desire was HTC's best selling phone for 2010. It's global, whereas the Incredible was a customized version of the Desire for one carrier only. Given that the Desire was more popular in terms of sales, as well as it being the baseline model, it makes sense that it would get GB first. The only shocker was the Evo 4G getting GB before it.

 

[beefyy]

Thanks for the update Evan.

how funny would it be if the update actually came tomorrow????

 

[NightAngel79]

how funny would it be if the update actually came tomorrow????

Patience is a virtue. I'm confident we will get it eventually. That is enough for me


It would be nice though

 

[MolBasser]

Hello this is Evan from Verizon wireless NRB,

The Incredible will not be receiving the update this Monday as some are hoping.

LOL.

MolBasser

 

[MolBasser]

And while we're at it, where's mah ice cream sandwich!

MolBasser

 

[FramCire]

Can we go lawyer and stipulate a few facts.

1. Incredible will get gingerbread.
2. Most likely in next 3 months
3. While it will be beneficial, it probably won't blow most people away.
4. People will complain despite it is our 2nd major.update and coming months after.EOL
5. Speculation can be numbing or entertaining. Your choice.

Now how about for kicks everyone picks a date and see who comes closest. I got July 11th

 

[euph_22]

Can we go lawyer and stipulate a few facts.

1. Incredible will get gingerbread.
2. Most likely in next 3 months
3. While it will be beneficial, it probably won't blow most people away.
4. People will complain despite it is our 2nd major.update and coming months after.EOL
5. Speculation can be numbing or entertaining. Your choice.

Now how about for kicks everyone picks a date and see who comes closest. I got July 11th

July 18th (I watched the price is right as a Kid...I know the tactics ).