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New VZW OTA

felopez

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Apr 2, 2012
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So I guess it's time to eat my own words...When I said I didn't think any more Rezound OTAs were coming, I meant things like a new OS version. But This article from Android Police is interesting. The OTA page from Verizon says that they're enabling Global Roaming. Does this mean a radio version upgrade?

Has anyone who's running stock had it pushed out yet? Or has anyone been able to pull it down manually? What's the new radio version (if any)?
 
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I'm running stock. I live in a pretty rural area with poor service anyway, so I always have bad data connection. Not sure I can be of much help to you guys, but I was having a terrible time before. I hope it has improved.

Since the update my phone beeps when I don't have a mail/text, beeps when I do have a mail/text, and beeps shortly after I get a mail/text it seems to remind me there is a mail/text. It's getting really annoying. It's as if I get a beep to say one is coming, a beep to say one is here, and a beep to say Did you see it. Doesn't happen every time.
 
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I figured out my problem. When the update installed on my phone it set it so that I received a notification when I lost a data signal. Since I live in an area with poor service, I was getting notifications all the time. I turned that off, and everything is back to normal.

Does seem to run a little better. Nothing I can exactly put my finger on. Keyboard is worse maybe.
 
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I checked for it and it was ready to go. I so wish I had waited. So far all I notice is that it wiped my ext SD card. What a fool I am for not waiting to see what others say on this and other forums and to have not backed up over 1,000 pix, videos and all of my music, gone. I can reload my music, but wow almost all those pix gone, It left me with 86 pix. Now I have a new notification up top saying my sd card is blank or an unsupported format, WTH? I can't even clear the stoopid notification. I think Big red fubared me on this and they don't even have a phone I want on the shelf, as my contract was up in March. My #3 Rezzy was working just fine before this update, I have no idea if anything good came out of it, but I'm just plain pissed off!
 
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Got the update today and much to my surprise the Rezound is finally Global, wicked !

Battery life is a little better and I also have a little more memory, nice.

Everything else is in working order. Jelly Bean would be nice but this update just put the Rezound back towards the top tier. For a music lover like myself who also travels, this phone is sugary sweet.

I never get to say this but.... Thank you Verizon, better late then never.
 
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Mid-morning today I was surprised to find my Rezound updating all by itself; I was expecting it to allow me to choose to update when I was plugged in to power or on WiFi. Oh well, it seems to have worked out - Global Roaming on the menu now! Just glad I have the unlimited data plan :)

Does unlimited data cover roaming outside the US? That would be really cool as I have a trip to Canada coming up...

FWIW
DLM
 
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Anyone have any idea why I wouldn't receive this update?

When I try to manually download it, I just get a message that no new updates are available, yet I'm still on 4.03....

I thought I returned my phone to stock, it is S-on, relocked, and I thought it had the most recent OTA update, although I'm a noob in some aspects when it comes to rooting.

I contacted Verizon and they suggested doing a factory reset...
 
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