Comments on: DROID 4 Soak Test Set to Begin, More Than Likely Ice Cream Sandwich

By: Alias73

Alias73 — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:00:00 +0000

Totally agree! WTF happened to the ICS update for the BIONIC! Motorola and Verizon are assh*les!!

By: ThinkOpenly

ThinkOpenly — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:42:00 +0000

I sure hope the update makes all the Droid 4 wackiness go away (touchscreen goes berserk, have to touch icons 2 or 3 times to launch, …)

By: Brian Cohen

Brian Cohen — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:08:00 +0000

Ya I am having the same problem!!! I never should have updated GB with that last update a few months ago. Everything was fine before then, now I have problems with the keyboard backlight not coming on when it is supposed to and the LTE connection not holding…

By: Diablo81588

Diablo81588 — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:57:00 +0000

Its almost exactly the same phone minus the physical keyboard you moron..

By: skates

skates — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:34:00 +0000

By people who read this site which is an extremely small percentage of Verizon Droid users.

By: Fly_Dog

Fly_Dog — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:50:00 +0000

Sorry, accidental dislike. I couldn’t figure out how to undo it. The count went to 2 when I clicked again.

By: Story_Ninja

Story_Ninja — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:16:00 +0000

I am actually really happy with my droid 4. I got it because I couldn’t give up a physical keyboard. I get why lots of the community on this site passed on the phone, (locked bootloader, Custom Moto Rom). But in all honesty, It is still the most powerful Qwerty keyboarded phone on Verizon. I went to the Droid 4 from the OG Droid. And for me it was like a Quantum leap. Not big into flashing my own ROMS. All I wanted to do was be able to root it. I played around with the Galaxy Nexus but I found that the build quality was not up to what I was used to with the OG and I couldnt type as rapidly as with the physical Keyboard. I look forward to having ICE Cream sandwich and Im Glad that Droid-Life Still covers the phone even though it’s not widely supported or appreciated by the Dev Community.

By: Dave Russell

Dave Russell — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:50:00 +0000

The issue is they use a stock 3.0.x kernel that is hardcoded for 1GB devices. If they wanted to redo the kernel from the ground up, yes, they could do it. But they chose to use an unmodded OMAP kernel directly from TI themselves.

By: Dave Russell

Dave Russell — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:48:00 +0000

My theory is they had problems with the RAZR rollout, perhaps they are getting the D4 out of the way because if it DOES go wrong, a smaller number of devices will be affected. Usually, these odd delays mean that Motorola is upgrading their internal infrastructure to support pushing a large update to a larger number of users. ICS is the biggest update they’ve ever attempted to push en masse. Could be the D4 release is a “soak test” of sorts for the more widespread Bionic push.
Doesn’t affect me, as I am on the 6.7.238 leak – but feel sorry for those who CAN’T install leaks on their device because ICS really is a significant improvement.

By: sk102704

sk102704 — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:34:00 +0000

According to the poll Droid Life did last week the Bionic is currently 4 times more popular than the Droid 4. There goes that theory.

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:06:00 +0000

Probably going on development of ics on how popular the phones were, and the d4 is similar to the razr, just sucks that they are doing this one phone at a time for everybody it seems. Surprised Moto doesn’t come out with a tablet slider, a tablet with a built in sliding keyboard would be pretty cool I think.

By: RobMorris

RobMorris — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:55:00 +0000

Are you on the ICS update?

By: jason

jason — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:53:00 +0000

Not my Rezound.

By: Heartless12

Heartless12 — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:31:00 +0000

Rolmfaoo

By: RobMorris

RobMorris — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 02:38:00 +0000

I keep steady LTE signal on my Rezound