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How far will AT&T lag on the Lollipop OTA?!...
Who wants to start guessing how far behind the competition AT&T will be in updating most phones to Android 5?! I'll start the bidding at 3 weeks....do I hear 3.5 weeks?!...
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Who wants to start guessing how far behind the competition AT&T will be in updating most phones to Android 5?! I'll start the bidding at 3 weeks....do I hear 3.5 weeks?!...
tailgunner9
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I say 2 months. Know how AT&T is.
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Busternutt
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Hopefully, long enough that they can fix the battery drain, overheating, and lag that so many Verizon customers are experiencing with 5.0
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garretttv
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there can be stable nexus and dev edition releases for several months,
there can be a stable carrier release.
I say we are 3 weeks behind the first carrier, but that we're still
probably 2 months total away from that.
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Busternutt
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So this article that appeared yesterday on Gottabemobile is just wrong?
"Nexus 7 devices have struggled with video playback and reboot issues, the Nexus 5 had some batter [sic] issues, and the Nexus 6 Android 5.0 release saw complaints about freezing, battery drain, app restarts and reboots, as well as a few other minor problems that should hopefully all be addressed in future updates."
I'm not a power user, but I'd just as soon have a phone that works 100% of the time on Kitkat, than one that is only 85-90% reliable on lollipop.
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garretttv
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just bound to happen all of the time with all releases no matter how much
you engineer them. That's why its called development. Every iOS that's ever
come out has had these types of issues, and it's going to keep happening in
isolated cases until better development methods have been created. I've had
5.0 on my nexus 7 and Dev Ed One M8 for months and had zero problems. These
sites report on a minimally-vocal minority and sensationalize everything
for clicks.
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garretttv
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let alone the update. It's always going to happen that bugs are uncovered,
but that can't be an excuse for dragging the life out of an update. Trust
me, I want it to be right, too, but there's a pattern we've seen for years
on these updates, and it's that ATT takes forever and provides zero status
to their customers.
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Busternutt
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I don't disagree with you about there always being hiccups with any new release. But having been on the receiving end of a bad update that trashed several functions of a device, I'd prefer to have the option of an update, instead of it being forced on me.
One reason I recently switched to AT&T was that Big Red's only response to the problems was "buy a newer phone". What the heck; you're still selling the Galaxy S3 and you tell me I need a newer model phone to run the OS?
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garretttv
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there. Also agree think it would be great if we had the option of if/when
to OTA, or at least to delay it for up to a few weeks.
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GLIMMERMAN76
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you know going in buying a carrier branded cell phone that you are taking a crap shoot if your going to get updates. Hey ATT was actively blocking the OTA for 5.0.1 on all nexus 6's connected to the network. Now it did drop on the 6th of January but it was latter than all other nexus devices. Now you cant tell my ATT nexus from the next as the att boot splash is gone(actually the whole oem partition is gone) and mine shipped sans tramp stamp on the back. I just manually flashed the update to my n6.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/01/21/psa-if-your-nexus-6-has-an-att-sim-card-your-android-updates-are-being-withheld-but-it-doesnt-actually-matter/
If you dont like att's and samsungs update schedule you do have a choice to get a non carrier branded cell phone. My uk s5 has lollipop bugs and all.
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garretttv
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Busternutt
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@Anonymous
While you point out that T Mobile had beat AT&T updating the M8, you fail to mention that AT&T has beat everyone else updating the LG G3.
So much for AT&T lagging behind "everyone" else.
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dario69
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Last time I checked the LG G4 is very far away, in short no threat to sales if ATT releases that update now to the G3. And they benefit from responses like yours defending their stellar update path when in reality they aren't even trying to compete with others to avoid last place. They seem quite content with being last now. I expect that from Verizon, not ATT. I don't expect ATT to be first, they don't have to, but not last. That shows contempt for their customers.
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