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Help When will the Boost Mobile Moto G get the Lollipop update?

Well you can say its time for a new phone but keep in mind the following... Only 30% of the Android ecosystem is running 4.4.X and only 8% of those handsets are 4.4.4. So you're already at the top of the ecosystem. Personally I'll wait for the OTA (Maybe even hold off till the next update. There's lots of reported issues across several hardware variants.)
 
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Well you can say its time for a new phone but keep on mind the following... Only 30% of the Android ecosystem is running 4.4.X and only 8% of those handsets are 4.4.4. So you're already at the top of the ecosystem. Personally I'll wait for the OTA (Maybe even hold off till the next update. There's lots of reported issues across several hardware variants.)
Really? The numbers are that low? Wow.
 
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I somehow find it hard to believe that it was a boost moto g. As far as I know and could be wrong the boost variant wouldn't need to update the moto updater as the update won't come directly from moto. It will be pushed thru boost/sprint as a carrier update. I may be wrong though.
Yeah because so far with what I've been reading, there's a soak test in India and they are getting the update for the update services
 
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As I said before the lollipop update for the boost version is not coming from moto. It is a carrier branded handset. The update will be coming from sprint/boost. The Motorola update tool would be useless here. Also it will probably get the update later than the others to because it will go to sprint first sprint will add there stuff to it and then release it. A carrier branded handset doesn't follow the same rules as an unlocked device. You can't compare what one got over another. Totally different ballgame.
 
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Yes moto sends it to sprint then sprint releases it. Thats how carrier phones work. Thats why when you look at the update page on the moto site it says clearly at the bottom "pending carrier participation". Go through your all apps list and see how many either say boost or sprint on them. Youd be surprised how much they actually add to the software.
 
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