Posted on 09/24/2014 12:25:11 PM PDT by Chgogal
Me too.
Well now not today does it?
conversely my Android phone is working just fine as i post from it
don’t see you on here yet....
Probably the latter.
When I was on Sprint PCS with a Samsung Galaxy SII, Sprint rolled back the Gingerbread update twice and managed to brick a huge amount of subscribers' phones in doing it. Then about a month later, they came out with the "fix" and had to roll that back too. Bricked as many phones as the first time and if you were lucky enough for the Gingerbread OTA distro to be a success (there was no desktop install then, you may recall) then you found that battery life was halved and they apparently gave up completely on trying to get the GPS to acquire a signal.
... and this was the Android 'update' to a version that had already been released by Google for over a year. By the time Sprint PCS finally released Ice Cream Sandwich (updating from Gingerbread) to the Galaxy II, Jelly Bean had already released to new phones six months earlier. I had a phone made in 2011 that was getting an Android OS in late 2012 that was originally released a year earlier.
This phone went from being pretty reliable phone (albeit with flaky and comically-inaccurate GPS) to a self-rebooting power-starved massive POS in just one "upgrade". Go read the historical forums about what an abortion of a phone this turned out to be for Samsung's flagship line, regardless of carrier.
Sprint blamed Samsung. Samsung blamed Google. Google said "That distro has been out for fifteen months already. Blame Sprint and Samsung", and the final reason for the year-plus delay in finally getting an outdated OS on the Galaxy II was both Samsung AND Sprint glurging up the distro with shitheaps of rotten proprietary bloatware that can't be uninstalled. 800mb of lousy car race game to demo the new motion control feature that ended up not working very well at all.
Google releases Android, Samsung shits it up with ching-chong garbage, then hands that off to the service carrier for them to add even more localized proprietary garbage. If it fails QA, it's back to Samsung and then Sprint tries again. Or you can get iPhone and get the new update on the same day everyone else on the planet does.
Sprint attempted to make things right by offering me a brand new two year contract on the new Galaxy III, but I said KMA and got a new iPhone 5 on Verizon. Fact is that whatever Android version you get pre-installed with a new Samsung phone on any carrier is probably the only one you'll ever get. Don't count on any patches, much less updates. If something doesn't work, the solution is for you to "upgrade" to whatever new whizbang Samsung aigoo-phono-san that they have at your local service provider store. Once the new model is out, the old one you have in your hand is dead to them. DEAD.
Maybe some Finnish college student named Rukki Perkelettavi will post a how-to in poor English on how to jailbreak your Samsung phone to allow you to put a custom-built Android kernel on your phone allowing you to use a newer Android OS, but who wants to do that shit? It's a F'ing *phone*, man, not the year 1991 where I'm setting IRQs and DMA channels to get a new peripheral working with >601kb free conventional memory in CONFIG.SYS on my AT-compatible desktop PC for crying out loud. Again, it's a phone. Don't wanna think about it, just use it.
There's a reason that Samsung has gone from the Galaxy 2 to the Galaxy 5 in the time that Apple has gone from iPhone 5 to iPhone 6, after all:
Ever seen that one Warner Bros cartoon starring Bugs and Daffy Duck where they're competing on a vaudeville stage for applause? Bugs comes out and does fifteen taps of a softshoe routine and receives huge applause, then Daffy tries to one up Bugs with a wild dance routine that only get crickets from the audience. Then Daffy looks back out from behind the curtains and *POW!* he gets a rotten tomato dripping off his beak?
Samsung is Daffy Duck. Trying way too hard.
Why do i need to have a poor finish college student”jailbreak”my never in jail unlocked bootloader from factory android note 3 that i can go to XDA developers forum and flash all the custom OS I want to my heart’s content.
your statement was iphones just work.. but not true.. today
They didn’t today or was the update problem today just Android propaganda
I work as a network engineer for a network security company
To run corporate email and calendar on my phone I'm required let corp it have complete control of my phone... not good...
however my Samsung Note 3 has Samsung Knox2..
what this does is runs a virtual machine phone inside my phone os (same as the virtual machines Mac does with parallels to run a different operating system inside the mac os)
this virtual machine phone that run inside my phone os I can give to all the right to corporate it and use for all my secure applications ... without it interfering with my personal phone...and it passes all the notifications of email and calendar up to my primary phone
.. its outstanding .....can iphone do anything like that visualize a second smart-phone inside the primary smart-phone os?
I didn’t update my 4s to the iOS 8 cause I didn’t have enough memory to add it. Oh, because I’ve ordered a 6+ and by the time it arrives all this update stuff will be fixed and it’ll be ready to go!
Huh???
:-)))
Ditch the Bitch! AT&T SUCKS! Verizon at least has better rates and massively larger coverage than AT&T.
Also, if you work for a large company try going onto Verizon’s website and see if they give a discount. I know many companies that are given a 20% to 25% monthly discount with Verizon. All it takes is a company email address. You sign up at VerizonWireless.com, they send you an email to your work address, you click the link in the email and you’re all set; discount applied.
To access out network servers directly, I just VPN in. Once connection’s established, I can VM any network server I have access to. We’re a UNIX shop.
Our mail is in the cloud. I connect to that without needing to go through a VPN. Enter the SNMP server name and credentials and iOS figures it all out for you.
Whats your IT department say about iOS support across your enterprise? Your company doesn’t have any mobility problems with iOS, I’m sure. What are you trying to avoid?
My Boost service (unlimited everything) is $40/month on my Samsung S5. Since Boost uses Sprint's network, coverage if good.
But it does!
All the trumpeted anecdotes in the world don't change my experience.
I upgraded to the I4 six months ago and still have the I3 I've been using since 2008 in case the I4 goes kablooey.
You have to be seriously mentally challenged at this point after all of the previous mishaps to rush out and grab the latest phone and OS.
As I recall the cancer he had was not usually fatal if treated promptly with conventional methods. He chose several new-agey methods for 6-8 months before seeking tradational treatment. By then it was too late.
No, pancreatic cancer has a dismal survival rate...which may be why he looked to alternative treatments.
I hope they don’t so easily bend and break their phones out of frustration. lol
I wonder if this also affects that stupid “watch” they released.
iBitches
Never install a brand-new piece of software. Always wait for others to beta test it first. And don’t buy a new model of motorcycle either.
Some time back i had them lock me out on my phone while on the road with a password reset.. I had to a full factor reset of my phone while on the road in China!..
Its a major pain to have IT lock down your corporate laptop to the point that you can't do squat..
Its to another level of pain to have them lock down(and sometimes out of) your personal cell phone just to get corporate email on it...
I simply left corporate email off after a while, I was not going to give them those administration rights over my personal devices to have their corporate email
Then the Samsung’s Knox feature came along.. so cool.. just set up in my personal phone the secondary VM smartphone “sandbox” with my corporate email and calendar inside it and give them full admin rights to that vm phone while keeping there paws and eyes out of my personal phone.
Any problems just blow out the vm phone and reset up the email ..it all backed up on the corp outlook server..
All the while never touching my primary phone (and my personal files)...the vm is running on.
If your IT im sure your run VM’s on your PC and servers you know how useful it is to sandbox a virtual machine inside a real machine runing as hypervisor.
and I know you probably seen where some IT guys have to carry two cell phones...a corporate cell phone along with their personal cell phone.
it's super cool to have a corporate smartphone in a vm sandbox inside your personal phone Knox security features is a Samsung concept and it is my understanding Google is adding to all Android will be part of the Android L release.. and are shooting for Android L to be the platform a choice from a security perspective for IT Corporate
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