really glad that i have this phone but i had the original epic and we all know how terrible updates were on that piece of crap. I swore i would never buy samsung again but saw this and was a sucker. XD
Anyway, i was just wondering when people think the first update will happen as i don't want to go through another original epic 4g fiasco! Really looking forward to Ice Cream Sandwich and hope it comes to our phones before the end of the year, or at least a ROM of ICS comes by the end of the year.
Some say the 19th, but nothing official yet.
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I say never.
Lol samsung and updates
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Samsung doesnt have the word updates in their vocabulary ...
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Samsung doesnt have the word updates in their vocabulary ...
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So true.
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The update will be out when HTC buys out Samsung.
I will call it like I did with the OG epic... February
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The update will be out when HTC buys out Samsung.
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HaHa! HTC is sooooo small in comparison.
Is there a need for an update? Are you having issues? I haven't even rooted yet and things are great since launch day.
And for ICS, I would not say yet, but one issue is we have physical buttons and ICS was partly to get rid of them. Maybe TW will be on ICS eliminating the on screen buttons and then we can get it. I don't yet see a need for it. I was so ready for Gingerbread on the Evo and it was such a let down. I think ICS will be less than we want or need.
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Didn't google just buy samsung?
We need an update bad. This LOS 7 times a day is killing me.
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Didn't google just buy samsung?
We need an update bad. This LOS 7 times a day is killing me.
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G purchased Moto.
When it comes to update only way Samsung will get on it is if owners step up make some noise.
Sprint Community forum has threads on issue that need more users post.
Email Samsung , call tech support and post on their facebook page
No one's buying Samsung. It was just a stupid joke. ;p
Never... We'll probably see an unofficial release WELL before the official release (if ever)
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My wife dropped her Moment yesterday and broke the screen and Sprint is telling me Asurion will have to replace it for the 100 deductible. She will be able to upgrade on Sept 1 so we will be getting her a new phone then instead. The great Devs here have made me LOVE my phone and I wonder if we should just get her an Epic but I am concerned the Dev community will disappear as new phones become available.
Thoughts?
Not yet only somE people will leave but their work is still here
And even sine of the people who levee erroll probably still work on the phone when official gb comes out
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Just get the photon by motorola mobility now apart og google overlord inc. Or the htc evo 3d as updates always go first t evo flagship.
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Yeah if the dev community is important to you, obviously there will be more going on with newer phones. But if she wants a keyboard and you love this phone, at least you've got a bunch of froyo roms already and will have some new gb roms in the near future.
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I'd say wait for SGSII line or the new Nexus. In the mean time, just pay the nominal fee to put your Sprint account in a hold pattern, then just get a cheap pre-paid phone until one of those phones above is released.
I agree^^^^ if you love your epic hold out for the GS2 that community should be fun to begin with and you'll learn a lot more since you'll have the phone since launch day
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I agree^^^^ if you love your epic hold out for the GS2 that community should be fun to begin with and you'll learn a lot more since you'll have the phone since launch day
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The htc community always has the most developers.
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The htc community always has the most developers.
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You mean the second McPhone to the iPhone. HTC is incredibly unoriginal from what I've discovered. Yay, we make the same phone over and over and convince you it's the best!
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The htc community always has the most developers.
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Things change, and the tide is starting to turn.
Yesterday, during an Android gathering in LA, LA Gadgets Examiner confirmed with an Android insider that Google, HTC
and Samsung are doing everything they can to bring Android 4.0 to their smartphones. The EVO 3D and Galaxy S II were
specifically mentioned as scheduled to receive the update sometime next month.<===from talkandroid
Epic touch or att galaxy
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It may be released next month by Google. But the US carriers are going to take a couple months to get them to us, the consumer.
For example, Samsung already gave Sprint the update for our phones beginning of October, but we won't be getting it until December.
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It may be released next month by Google. But the US carriers are going to take a couple months to get them to us, the consumer.
For example, Samsung already gave Sprint the update for our phones beginning of October, but we won't be getting it until December.
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I highly doubt Samsung gave Sprint the ICS update for the SGS2 already.
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I highly doubt Samsung gave Sprint the ICS update for the SGS2 already.
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He's probably referring to the LOS fix.
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He's probably referring to the LOS fix.
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vikramjatt11 said:
It may be released next month by Google. But the US carriers are going to take a couple months to get them to us, the consumer.
For example, Samsung already gave Sprint the update for our phones beginning of October, but we won't be getting it until December.
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I bet if that update was for the IPhone Sprint would have rolled it out already and wasted no time in supporting it.
Now I am talking about Apple updates here not Samsung. Just saying that if Sprint would have gotten a update from Apple the Apple users would have gotten it already. Unlike all the other users who has to wait and wait and be treated like a red headed step child.
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I bet if that update was for the IPhone Sprint would have rolled it out already and wasted no time in supporting it.
Now I am talking about Apple updates here not Samsung. Just saying that if Sprint would have gotten a update from Apple the Apple users would have gotten it already. Unlike all the other users who has to wait and wait and be treated like a red headed step child.
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The difference is that Apple sends updates directly. Samsung goes through Sprint. Sprint doesn't have much of a say as to when an Apple update gets released.
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He's probably referring to the LOS fix.
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Yes, I meant the LoS update, not the ICS update, lol.
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You never know, it could be ICS. The Galaxy Nexus has ICS and it's Samsung. It's not too far fetched to say that Samsung has an ICS build for our phone already.
..... Even if they said next month expect it 2013 ... This is samsung.
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That was also before they made the promise to deliver the updates to devices that can get them in a reasonable time.
The moment got 3 or 4 updates in it's lifespan. It actually had 2.1 before the Hero.
The Epic got boofed sure, but still, I think this one will be different, and I think the Epic is the reason they didn't go with a whole new form factor.
Hopefully Samsung will follow HTC's lead. HTC announced 8 devices today that will be getting ICS in early 2012. 2 Sprint phones are on that list. http://tinyw.in/Fw1H
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That was also before they made the promise to deliver the updates to devices that can get them in a reasonable time.
The moment got 3 or 4 updates in it's lifespan. It actually had 2.1 before the Hero.
The Epic got boofed sure, but still, I think this one will be different, and I think the Epic is the reason they didn't go with a whole new form factor.
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Yeah the keyboard really screwed us
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Oh my epic has been so jealous. The other day I got a nexus s 4g for my gf and put ics on it. Man I cant stop using her phone and she does not understand what she has in her hand. Using this makes you see how much touchwiz sucks and there is no need for it anymore.
If Google was not whoring itself to anybody and had standards we would probably all have this already.
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Agree... For this to be the best phone on Sprint and one of the best phone on Android, Im surprised we dont have it yet.
I wonder if there will ever be a day when all high end android devices get updated at the same time.
I guess thats what the Nexus brand is for though...
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Oh my epic has been so jealous. The other day I got a nexus s 4g for my gf and put ics on it. Man I cant stop using her phone and she does not understand what she has in her hand. Using this makes you see how much touchwiz sucks and there is no need for it anymore.
If Google was not whoring itself to anybody and had standards we would probably all have this already.
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Sigh......
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Sigh......
The worst part is Google has the nexus but by the time we get if we do it will be September. What's even the point of making ics look the way it does if nobody will see it. When apple has an is update the world knows. Google I would say either does not care or handles it in the worst way.
Average consumer will use android and because of all the crap that the carrier and handset makers do they leave with a bad impression. Its just sad its like Google is its on worst enemy.
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Agree... For this to be the best phone on Sprint and one of the best phone on Android, Im surprised we dont have it yet.
I wonder if there will ever be a day when all high end android devices get updated at the same time.
I guess thats what the Nexus brand is for though...
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You're really surprised the E4GT doesn't have ICS yet? Do you know how long it took gingerbread to get to the original Epic?
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Oh my epic has been so jealous. The other day I got a nexus s 4g for my gf and put ics on it. Man I cant stop using her phone and she does not understand what she has in her hand. Using this makes you see how much touchwiz sucks and there is no need for it anymore.
If Google was not whoring itself to anybody and had standards we would probably all have this already.
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I'm sigh at yet another ics thread
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You're really surprised the E4GT doesn't have ICS yet? Do you know how long it took gingerbread to get to the original Epic?
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can anyone confirm using a Verizon nexus on sprint. Ill give up 4g for it
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Don't envy
Fataldesain said:
Oh my epic has been so jealous. The other day I got a nexus s 4g for my gf and put ics on it. Man I cant stop using her phone and she does not understand what she has in her hand. Using this makes you see how much touchwiz sucks and there is no need for it anymore.
If Google was not whoring itself to anybody and had standards we would probably all have this already.
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I was trolling through their forums and they are waiting for the OTA for ET4G so they can have ICS with Touchwiz.
Get MIUI and use the black ice theme, pretty much ics minus multitasking c:
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Just played with a Galaxy Nexus. It must have been the special laggy edition. I wish my phone was that choppy.
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Get MIUI and use the black ice theme, pretty much ics minus multitasking c:
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Until aosp roms support 4g I can't use them. The 3g in my area just does not cut it.
To op, there are ics themed launchers in the market. The source was released, so in a few weeks expect to see a ton of launchers based on the actual code.
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Just wondering when sprint is going to push the Jelly Bean update to the GS3. I have a friend who got it a couple weeks ago on T-Mobile. Also anybody in the STL area know when we're going to get LTE from Sprint. And how to change Mobile Network to LTE. I have it set to CDMA/LTE I guess that if it's on LTE it will say 4G instead of 3G?
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Rumors say Q4/early 2013 for jelly bean
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To my knowledge no galaxy s3 has gotten the official jelly bean update, i don't think the international had gotten it, and i know no US variation has gotten the official update.
Everything that's it had been out are leaks or ports.
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Hmm when is the s4 coming out?
That is a plausible answer
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I have come to the SIII from an EVO 3D. With all of this talk about when jellybean will come out reminds me of ics for the 3d. So knowing sprint and how history repeats itself, get comfortable folks. It will a while. Not being pessimistic, just realistic to sprints delay habits. Took them greater than 8 months for ics once promised.
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xCovErtWolFx757 said:
Rumors say Q4/early 2013 for jelly bean
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They are wrong
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Bdozier said:
I have come to the SIII from an EVO 3D. With all of this talk about when jellybean will come out reminds me of ics for the 3d. So knowing sprint and how history repeats itself, get comfortable folks. It will a while. Not being pessimistic, just realistic to sprints delay habits. Took them greater than 8 months for ics once promised.
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Sprint doesnt ebven have the update yet. It is still in testing in samsungs hands
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from what i read it will not resemble the smoothness the gnex jellybean has and look like there's not to much to be excited about. Appy geek app for all the info and video of the official jb I'm not impressed.
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xCovErtWolFx757 said:
Rumors say Q4/early 2013 for jelly bean
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Damn!That long?
They need to fix Media Scanner issue,it keeps running and getting phones hot,with no permanent solution.
lviv73 said:
Damn!That long?
They need to fix Media Scanner issue,it keeps running and getting phones hot,with no permanent solution.
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My phone does not have that issue.
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My phone does not have that issue.
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You probably have few media files.Put some avi,mkv,mp3,ogg files and you most likely will.
Google "Ics Media Scanner" and see how many people have this problem,not just on our s3 but on every android phone running ics.
Oh and consider yourself lucky,you might not have it now but but it doesnt mean you want get it later.
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Damn!That long?
They need to fix Media Scanner issue,it keeps running and getting phones hot,with no permanent solution.
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Long. Man that's early! E4GT took a year to get ics
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xCovErtWolFx757 said:
Long. Man that's early! E4GT took a year to get ics
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Yeah i know i got one,lol.That was short compared to og Epic which took almost 2 years to update to gb and its still on gb.
I think i like my Epic Touch little more than my S3 but its crippled because my son threw it in the toilet,so i let him have it,it just needs to be pluged in but everything still works.
From what I'm seeing from the developers, the Sprint Samsung Galaxy s3 will have a functional (not official) jelly bean rom very soon. In fact, it seems they are very very close. The only things that are not working yet are screen rotation, mms, and some browser issues. Seeing how quickly every other issue has been resolved, I wouldn't be surprised to see a working jb rom this week.
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From what I'm seeing from the developers, the Sprint Samsung Galaxy s3 will have a functional (not official) jelly bean rom very soon. In fact, it seems they are very very close. The only things that are not working yet are screen rotation, mms, and some browser issues. Seeing how quickly every other issue has been resolved, I wouldn't be surprised to see a working jb rom this week.
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Those issues should be fixed soon. A birdie told me the update hits user trials in upcoming weeks
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I love how this phone is the same on every carrier
The cm10 nightly ROMs are becoming quit stable. Jellybean butter.
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Long. Man that's early! E4GT took a year to get ics
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November 2011-July 2012 = 8 months. Really 7 since VZW didn't get gnex till December. Two thirds your quote.
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Yeah i know i got one,lol.That was short compared to og Epic which took almost 2 years to update to gb and its still on gb.
I think i like my Epic Touch little more than my S3 but its crippled because my son threw it in the toilet,so i let him have it,it just needs to be pluged in but everything still works.
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Dec 2010 to Nov 2011 = 11 months. Less than half your quote.
Not saying your point isn't valid but you don't do the argument any favors with such hyperbole.
The code differences between jb and ics are much smaller than gb to ics. They'd better have JB out before end of year. No excuse otherwise
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Thanks for the answer guys. Not looking for a rom really since I haven't rooted my S3, yet... When I for my OG Evo I immediately rooted and flashed. It really needed to run better though. I stock sense for the OG Evo sacked. It was laggy and such. But so far. My S3 has been running like a top. Don't see a reason to root and flash, flash yet..... Although being able to tether for free would come in handy. BTW answered the LTE part of my initial question. No news on that one either huh?
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Disclaimer:this is coming from an employee at a smallish Sprint store, so please know that it's far from confirmed.
So yesterday I was at the Sprint store upgrading to the S3, and I was asking about the S3's JB update. After he told me that it's for sure coming soon(non help on when), and while he was porting my sister's number to my E4GT, he started to tell me that the E4GT would be getting JB, and that Samsung had told their store this information. The lady at the counter next to his had agreed with that he had just told me. I was given no time frame either, just that the device will be getting it.
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This is general uninformed employee hearsay that happens on absolutely every phone in absolutely every sprint store
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This is general uninformed employee hearsay that happens on absolutely every phone in absolutely every sprint store
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I was kinda thinking that. The same guy and lady both said that Sprint would not be getting the Note 2, when they've personally announced that they are and even had a hands-on with the Sprint device in new york. I would make a way better Sprint employee that that guy. But I'm only 16, so that's a no for two years for me.
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I hope it happens, but Sprint is probably telling them that to make sure the S2's keep selling
When JB arrive to Epic Touch, i think all of us will be in the galaxy 3 or note 2 forum postin LOL
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It's coming for the E4GT, all the rumors from reliable sources point to it.
Your backup source should be the fact that the phone just started rolling out for Virgin and Boost.
(Meaning they're not going to EOS it anytime soon.)
^ this guy knows his stuff... if he says its gonna happen. It means its gonna happen.
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Sprint will tell you any phone in there will get JB so they can make those sells.
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they say anything to sell phones
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Sprint will tell you any phone in there will get JB so they can make those sells.
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...And if you assume they are right you're also the fool. Hopefully lesson learned next time
Seriously, it's a point of competition against Apple. You'll probably see even longer support as they get closer to a standard build for most phones; one of the biggest reasons for delays on our device is the fact that more changes are needed.
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This thread lost all credibility in the first paragraph. S2 to s3 really? What's the point it's the same phone. Go return and wait for the new nexus or note 2. No reason to blow a 2 yr upgrade on a same generation phone.
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jamesey said:
This thread lost all credibility in the first paragraph. S2 to s3 really? What's the point it's the same phone. Go return and wait for the new nexus or note 2. No reason to blow a 2 yr upgrade on a same generation phone.
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I for one think it is a completely different phone. It has a whole different feel from the S2, it's faster and lighter, bigger screen, that physical home button. My sister had me use her upgrade on the first to buy a new phone anyways so she would get my S2. So I still have my own upgrade to use, which probably will go towards the Note 2. On AT&T. I'll be switching once my contract is up in December.
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Then you aren't using your upgrade.....
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Then you aren't using your upgrade.....
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This
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Always remember this. Unless that Sprint employee also follows the XDA forums, you probably know more about what's going to happen than he or she does.
That said, I do think this phone will see official JB.
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