6.12.173 update is now official

[cbreze]

@fragdroid,
Excellent tip. Thanks!

 

[Giantbear]

the update remained after the reset and all i did was the reset. I was lucky, i only had the phone for 24 hours so it wasnt that big a deal for me. 24 hours after the reset and it still works

 

[mike145]

Downloading now, fingers crossed.

 

[HTTR]

Downloading now.....

 

[MZPilotGuy]

Downloading now as well. NOVA here

 

[HTTR]

Update successful..VA here

 

[Bodycount]

mine hit late last night around 2am. downloaded and installed. looking good so far. added bloatware. looks like I need to freeze a couple more apps. already restored root access.

 

[zalex]

mine hit late last night around 2am. downloaded and installed. looking good so far. added bloatware. looks like I need to freeze a couple more apps. already restored root access.

how did you restore root?

 

[HTTR]

***Update*** after update NO 4g or 3G. (Wifi was fine but no other connection) Called Verizon, power off, pull IM card, power on. Iniitally this did nothing, for about an hour .(did this all while driving talking on one phone and working on this phone) .The plan was for them to call me back and we would do a full factory reset.

I let the phone sit for the ride to work (30 mins). Just checked and full 4g connection! Not sure why, but if you have this problem, you may want to wait it out a bit to see if the system update takes a little while.

I am stock, non rooted

To Verizons credit, they were helpful, professional, gave me a time and called back at that time and advised that they will call me back in an hour before the techs shift ends to make sure that there are not any outstanding issues. Well done from a customer perspective.

Whew!

 

[socobandit]

Got the update this morning... SE PA. Added some extra bloatware, restored root and froze all of that. Not a huge difference..change to menu at homescreen and icons are different in settings. Don't have 4g where I am, but 3g is working just fine so far. Quadrant scores bumped up a little, nothing major. Don't have a corporate exchange email, but regular email and gmail work fine.

 

[you2]

Well the update finally arrived (for me) this morning. Was kind of large; not sure that it did much for better or worse.

 

[iploya]

Mine is downloading now...

 

[cbreze]

I seemed to have lost my LED notification. That's different.

 

[Bodycount]

how did you restore root?

Used the app Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper before I upgraded.

It backs up your root access in case you ever lose it. While rooted, I patched. It was not in root afterwards. Went into that app and retored root access from the backup.

 

[lowboydrvr]

***Update*** after update NO 4g or 3G. (Wifi was fine but no other connection) Called Verizon, power off, pull IM card, power on. Iniitally this did nothing, for about an hour .(did this all while driving talking on one phone and working on this phone) .The plan was for them to call me back and we would do a full factory reset.

I let the phone sit for the ride to work (30 mins). Just checked and full 4g connection! Not sure why, but if you have this problem, you may want to wait it out a bit to see if the system update takes a little while.

I am stock, non rooted

To Verizons credit, they were helpful, professional, gave me a time and called back at that time and advised that they will call me back in an hour before the techs shift ends to make sure that there are not any outstanding issues. Well done from a customer perspective.

Whew!

Make sure that Data is enabled. I have seen reports where it was turned off after the update.

 

[mike145]

I have noticed battery life is a lot better after the update.

 

[Bodycount]

This update downloads two new system apps.

MOG
Slingbox

Both are pay per month services. Slingbox looks cool but I'm not paying $10 a month to watch my cable TV on my 4 inch phone screen.

Both apps are now frozen

 

[zalex]

Used the app Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper before I upgraded.

It backs up your root access in case you ever lose it. While rooted, I patched. It was not in root afterwards. Went into that app and retored root access from the backup.

balls. i was stupid and didn't use the app. think i have to flash back to an older version and try again right?

 

[Bodycount]

balls. i was stupid and didn't use the app. think i have to flash back to an older version and try again right?

Im sure if you wait a little bit someone will come out with a new root file to download.

 

[Greeny173]

I received the update this morning and installed it. Everything that was in the leak and I was satisfied with is in the update. Now if ICS is as good as we are expecting it to be, then everything will be right with the world.

 

[BeastMD]

***Update*** after update NO 4g or 3G. (Wifi was fine but no other connection) Called Verizon, power off, pull IM card, power on. Iniitally this did nothing, for about an hour .(did this all while driving talking on one phone and working on this phone) .The plan was for them to call me back and we would do a full factory reset.

I let the phone sit for the ride to work (30 mins). Just checked and full 4g connection! Not sure why, but if you have this problem, you may want to wait it out a bit to see if the system update takes a little while.

I am stock, non rooted

To Verizons credit, they were helpful, professional, gave me a time and called back at that time and advised that they will call me back in an hour before the techs shift ends to make sure that there are not any outstanding issues. Well done from a customer perspective.

Whew!

Check that cellular data is on, after the last update my smart action to turn it off when in wifi got reversed and would turn it off when I wasnt on wifi.

 

[edstewbob]

I got the message "The software update failed!" after doing the OTA today. I temp removed root with RootKeeper and did the Uninstall Recovery for Safestrap before downloading the OTA and then uninstalled Safestrap completely after the first failure. During the upgrade after the initial reboot the progress bar goes about 1/3 of the way, shows a triangle with an exclamation point inside of it, and then reboots and the error message appears with no other error details. I have a stock RAZR with the latest 6.11.748 installed with no deleted or frozen bloat. The only things I did were root and installed and ran Safestrap. I pulled the log with Log Collector but it looks to be only a log since the last reboot and not during the update when the error occurred.

Any ideas or recommendations?

 

[chris4x4]

I got the update late last night, and installed. 3g to 4g handoff is much quicker. Signal stregth seems to be the same. I like the colored Icons in the menu, but thats about the extent of the things I have noticed yet.

 

[MZPilotGuy]

Everything seems to be good with it from my experience, one thing I have noticed though is when I am on wifi, and cellular data is turned off via smart actions, all of my signal bars go away. I tired making a call and it slowly comes back to threee bars. Has anyone else seen this? While I was in a 3G area the signal was great and the hand off to 4G was very quick.

 

[socobandit]

Just noticed...notification led no longer works..think I read elsewhere in this thread I'm not the only one. Is there a setting for it maybe?

Oops...nevermind...I had the screen still powered up..newb mistake.