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Ice cream sandwich!!!

dachillfx

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First of all, with hopefully less than an month to go, Ive noticed not too much has been said about Thunderbolt getting this prestigious update,lately.I'm personally looking fwd to this because,my Bolt's only handycap has been it will not charge fully. Only get about 77-80% tops. I to am looking for and watching for the next Big Thing. Being that my Bolt with it"s trusty and still to this day handy kickstand, does everything i want and needs it to do, also runs Market apps pretty well. Looking fwd to ICS and the new Sense 3.6, to carry me until Oct when I will be eligible for an upgrade to hopefully the Next Big Thing. The Desire HD misfortune caused a scare but it seems we are still in contention of receiving ICS Love. Anyone else feeling the excitement? Could be like having a new device...ICS Sense 3.6. (Bloatware removing capabilities)If Biggie Red does not screw it up. I want all their apps gone. Peace Thunderbolt Fam...
 
I can't bring myself to be excited until it happens. The Desire issue has me nervous: HTC Thunderbolt Ice Cream Sandwich Update Officially in Trouble.

There is a lot of speculation without getting the complete facts. HTC has now provided an explanation as to why the Desire HD updated could not be made (HTC explains decision to drop Desire HD Ice Cream Sandwich update | Android Central). As you can see, the problem has to do with the partition in the storage which is too small for ICS. The Desire HD only has 1.5 GB of storage, while the TBolt has 4 GB of storage. Hopefully the partition space is large enough for ICS on the TBolt. At least, there is more room for it than on the Desire HD. The issue is neither RAM nor CPU-related based on this explanation, so until they say the contrary, I will continue to wait for this update.
 
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There is a lot of speculation without getting the complete facts. HTC has now provided an explanation as to why the Desire HD updated could not be made (HTC explains decision to drop Desire HD Ice Cream Sandwich update | Android Central). As you can see, the problem has to do with the partition in the storage which is too small for ICS. The Desire HD only has 1.5 GB of storage, while the TBolt has 4 GB of storage. Hopefully the partition space is large enough for ICS on the TBolt. At least, there is more room for it than on the Desire HD. The issue is neither RAM nor CPU-related based on this explanation, so until they say the contrary, I will continue to wait for this update.
Very good point. Thanks for sharing that bit of info. It allows me and the rest of the Thunderbolt Fam to keep hope alive. We have one month to go and hopefully we will see or start hearing positive reports that the update does indeed exist and will eventually come into existence. The Rezound seems to be on time as far as their update timetable. Let us all hope that August finally has an holiday to be celebrated, Ice Cream Sandwich and Sense 3.6...
 
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Sure thing but damn, are there like ten people on these Android Forums now? I mean if you guys really want to keep up, this isn't the place, no offense to mods whose jobs are to keep this sort of treason talk out, but you guys probably go to XDA too so.. lol

Lol, yeah, this forum seems kind of dead. But this rom is awesome. The only issue I can find is mms isn't working
 
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There is a video from Android Central:
HTC ThunderBolt with Ice Cream Sandwich - YouTube

Too early to know about battery life, though.
I remember HTC claimed Thunderbolt would never see Sense 3.0. What could be so different that we can receive 3.6? I ain't mad at em though...btw I checked the video,now let's hope it gets here quickly. My upgrade will be in Oct. So it should hold me over until then. Hopefully there will a beast of an device possessed by Big Red by then, preferably by HTC. Hopefully with a kickstand... Ya feel me?
 
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I've been running the stock HTC ROM for almost 24 hours now, and I can say that it's a massive improvement over 2.3. I can't compare it to the 'bolt's stock ROM since I've been rooted almost from day one, but the battery life seems to be improved, the performance is definitely improved - I was amazed at how fast Titanium Backup loaded everything from the OS compared to how long it took on GB ROMs. TwistedUmbrella has a great ROM, now that the ril is out, I'm looking forward to, and hoping that Twisted completes the ROM. I tried the 3.6 for a little while, decided it wasn't anything I haven't already seen in other ROMs with 3.5, etc. and just went back to TSF Shell (which is ~$17 but worth every penny, and a subject for a different thread).

TL;DR It's a great upgrade, noticeably better battery life and performance - like having a new phone.
 
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