DesktopDevin
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Will there be anymore OTA updates at all to the droid? I have been waiting for the OTA's to stop before I root my droid again. (Also the wife will get pissed if I lose her progress on angry birds before she is finished!)
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Android's Law Plagues Us All
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nakhleh926
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you can backup angry birds with titanium backup
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DesktopDevin
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Even better yet have her get her own damn droid and keep her mitss off mine! LOLdancedroid
nakhleh926
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Well by that logic, how many people want to shell out a few hundred bucks for a new phone every two years? it's not like your Windows XP stops working when Vista came out? the actual difference is that mostly everything you used on XP will work on Vista. Your phone, that's another story. they do it because they're forced to because their phone does become obsolete. the d1 isn't "obsolete" only because it has an unlocked bootloader. if it was locked, you really think anyone would care about it? specs wise it doesn't hold a candle to any of the newer android phones out there. its already reached EOL with both VZW and Motorola and it's been what? a year and two or three months?
i guess people dont value their money as much as i do? haha...i know if my droid's bootloader was locked and the last update i got was froyo in august with EOL soon after that, i'd be pissed off. that's less than one year for a phone that i'm stuck in a two year contract with. i don't have that issue obviously because i can flash custom ROMs...but i wouldn't want to be in the shoes of X users who may not even get GB and definitely won't get anything beyond that...and if they do get GB at some point, their phone will already be eclipsed by all the 4g devices out there
the problem there is the bootloader will never be unlocked haha
Froyo is the latest, other than the Gingebread roms out there. I haven't had a single app that's stopped working. I keep hearing about all these issues but I've just never seen or experienced them for myself. The D1, unrooted, is still a perfectly capable phone until you start loading it up with programs and widgets beyond its admittedly limited ram. But I don't think that's a problem for most users who probably still use the phone primarily for calling, texts, email and some light browsing.
People keep talking about obsolescence...what isn't working on the D1? It's a 15 month old smartphone now well behind the tech curve, no different than a 15 month old PC. And, again, hardly anyone bothers shelling out the money to upgrade Windows. And when I do get a new phone, the D1 will continue to serve me well as an alarm clock, mp3 player and occasional wireless device. I mean, there's not really anything I do or need to do that the D1 isn't fine for. No, unrooted its not for powerusers (and even then), but most people aren't powerusers.
nakhleh926
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watch motorola do it on purpose after everyone upgrades, lol.
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hahaa, that would be funny...well not really, but you know what i mean haha
Yes, sadly my bootloader will never be unlocked. Maybe one day a year or two a kexec kernel overlay. But thats not what scares me about my droid 2 and its whole 3 month sale time before it was replaced by the droid 2 global. What scares me is breaking it and having to get a global or an r2d2 (no offense to either owners). I can still run roms, I can still overclock, but if I got a global, I would have a whole 1 custom rom to choose from. If I got an r2d2 replacement, my phone would look terrible. I like having a physical keyboard but I'm trying to use the on screen keyboard as much as possible so when the day comes I wont be too sad about breaking my droid 2. I dont like that my phone was obsolite before it hit the shelf, but its better than the moto backflip i came from, waiting 8 months for 2.1 while running 1.5 with no root in sight until a couple days after I bought the d2....anyways, I bought my droid 2 to hack it, I had such a bad experience waiting to hack my backflip that i will never again buy an android phone unless it has a large dev following, so i guess I'll be rockin obsolite phones the rest of my life.
are you kidding? how quickly we forget all the issues that were happening when the froyo ota was released, or even when the froyo source was released and people were making custom ROMs. Sure froyo cusom ROMs are polished now, but that's because devs have been working on custom roms and updates to their apps since like may when people first started putting froyo on their phones. i'm sure for people who got the ota and haven't rooted their phone, they still have issues with stuff.
look at the GB roms. there's not one that works perfect yet, and there's plenty of apps that don't work on GB that worked perfectly on Froyo. one GB rom will have the keyboard backlight, but not have a working camera. Another GB rom will have the camera working but no soft key lights. another rom will have the camera and the lights working but 3g doesn't work. i'm sure they'll figure it out eventually, but don't argue that OTAs are seamless upgrades because they're clearly not.
you may not have had a single app that stopped working, but don't say you haven't had countless updates to your apps that address Froyo issues (you can't say that, because I've seen the updates myself haha)...even to this day, you'll still get some maintenance updates addressing issues with Froyo on some apps.
the d1 is only still around because of the dev community. it'll stay around until its hardware just cant support android software anymore, and even then devs will make roms and themes for it based on previous versions. you think the X is going to have the same longevity? the few "custom" ROMs that we see for the X are pathetic at best, and a pain in the butt to even flash. i mean really? a bootstrap "recovery"? no thanks. the x still remains "current" only because it's fast on its own, stock and these so called "custom" roms just add a little pizazz that it doesn't even need. the d1, stock, is slow as all hell. maybe those who've never rooted and overclocked don't notice it because there's nothing to compare it to, but i know there's no way i could go back to 550 clock speed, and spend 9 seconds for my screen to wake up when i get a call :icon_eek:
honestly, this gets really annoying to me. my solution is that i will never get a 2 year contract again. its 1 year contracts from here out for me. because if a phone becomes obsolete in 8 months, i only have to wait 4 more before i can get the next new one.
its really annoying, but at the same time it means they're improving phones, so shorter contracts will basically solve the problem
its really annoying, but at the same time it means they're improving phones, so shorter contracts will basically solve the problem
yeah shorter contracts are definitely the way to go. 2 years is wayyy too long when you get about 5-10 new phones released a year (maybe more). couple that with the lack of support and it can get annoying having to spend money every 2 years only because you can't upgrade your phone, regardless of how capable it is spec-wise
iNfAMOUS702
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Even iphones have a longer eol than us =\
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TheOldFart
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Just because a new phone comes out 4 months after one buys a phone does NOT make the first phone obsolete. The Droid came out Nov 2009. The Inc came about 4 months later. That did not make the Droid obsolete. It was just another design. Even saying that the Droid 2 made the Droid obsolete is a weak statement. It was just an upgrade/downgrade, depending on your view of the changes. I bought my Droid the first month out and I don't consider it obsolete at all. It still does what I want and I still haven't seen another phone on Verizon that I would rather have. Obsolete is when the phone no longer works on the system or doesn't support significant new features. The Droid is not in that category.
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