OK ... let me start over with my original response ...
"Yes I agree with every point you made in your original message."
With regards to this message ... please keep in ming that I am a Fierce supporter of the Bionic and want to see it flourish ...
(1) Verizon treats it as a "phone" and not a "computer". They don't see that it can take HOURS to recover from a factory data reset. They need to change their perception. (This was reiterating your point.)
(2) Thank you ... I missed that transposition and have corrected it.
(3) I don't want to separate Motorola and Verizon on this. Here's why ...
Why isn't Verizon making 5.9.901 available? Why should customers care if Motorola or Verizon is responsible? I paid Verizon $300 followed by $120/mo and there is some software going out to some Verizon customers and not other Verizon customers (like me). I fail to see why this is not a Verizon issue. I think the segregation of Motorola and Verizon is in the way.
I think the mere fact that typical end users (not software dudes and not testers) are being backed into installing "leaked software" that they assume total responsibility for supporting is an indication of how flawed this situation is.
I didn't buy this phone in a Motorola store. I don't get a monthly bill from Motorola. I have to conclude that this is a Verizon problem.
... Thom
1) I still don't see the difference in treating it as a phone versus treating as a computer. I've seen people spend hours and even days, weeks, months! trying to fix a problem that a simple format and reinstall would have fixed. yeah, it takes time to get all the apps back, and such, but that is what backups are for.
I realize that this quasi supports your argument, but here is the thing: We don't have an established way of backing up apps and data without being rooted - otherwise we can only get those apps which we install ourselves, and their data. the apps that come with the phone are naturally going ot come back - but the
data that gets added to the phone in those apps is not easily replaceable. Anyone who has had to factory reset knows that most times after signing back in you don't have your WiFi APs, your Various Google Accounts and services, your email, etc.
If VZW were truly treating this as a phone and not as a computer, they would not give a rat's derri