heard a rumor that from next version, Android upgrades will become independent of manufacturer. in other words, upgrades will be available to all devices directly from Google (providing the device has version 4.0 and above and that the hardware can support the new version).
any truth to that statement? or just a wishful thinking?
looks impossible to me.
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I complained at the HTC support about the long time missing update to Android 2.1 for the Hero.
They told me that for the Hero a Android "update version" is neccessary and that this" update version" is only available since April from Google.
The Android version 2.1 released in January is not feasible for the Hero.
Is that true? Are there several versions for Android for the several mobiles?
My understanding was, there is only one common Android operating system (of the version 2.1 for example) and this is the same for all mobiles. HTC then "only" builds some additions e.g. the Sense GUI on top of it.
Are they trying to play games with me?
(I hope my English was good enough to express this a little bit complicated stuff. I apologize in advance )
By the way: they also told me that this update for the Hero "will definitly be released from June on"
I was trying to come up with the list of phones that are available for sale today with ICS 4.0.
Not thinking of phones that have been promised at a later date or phones whose manufacturers have said they are rolling out 4.0 update in March, May, 3Q or whenever. I'm not referring to custom ROM's either.
So if I were to think of phones that are sold with 4.0 or have an official update already -- the only one I can think of is
Galaxy Nexus
Are there others?
Nexus S? We had a official update from Google but was halted for an unknown reason.
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It's a simple question, but without a simple answer. With all of the OEMs in the Android environment, none of them have ever released a phone with vanilla Android without the direct partnership (or prodding) of Google in some way.
Most everyone agrees that the OEMs want to differentiate themselves from the competition and this is how they go about it, but why hasn't one ever released a phone without additional "features" or UI overlays? It doesn't make sense to believe Google isn't somehow leveraging their brand recognition of the Nexus line when dealing with OEMs.
Has an OEM pushed out a vanilla Android Jellybean device (or ICS) not in the Nexus line that still comes with Gapps?
Edit:
Meant for Android General, not Nexus 7 forum.
The LG G2X was pure AOSP and not a Nexus, I'm sure there are other examples. But your specific question is about Jelly Bean, which is probably still too new for a manufacturer to release a phone with a vanilla build. Either way, you are certainly wrong in assuming no OEMs have released a pure AOSP device that wasn't a Nexus.
There's a world out there of stock Android phones non Nexus.
Mostly low end phone though. Also the first Android phones like the G1, mytouch 3g, Motorola Droid, etc. were all stock.
Still phones being released quite lately (t mobile prism, zte avail) are stock.
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In the old days OEMs rrleased with stock android both my htc magic and motorola milestone came with stock android (1.6 and 2.0 respectively).
But these days most phones have very simlar hardware and with so many phones on the market the only way they can stand out is to include there own UI or enhanced apps. Since HTC released there first version of sense there has become a big market for companys to build and change android to make it "better" (some cases done better than others)
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they're certainly allowed to. it's the OEMs who choose to much their phones up with their custom crap.
And Carriers who don't the same looking phone on store shelves.
sent from my Nexus S ?
If you look at the Asus Padfone and those from Acer, they all come with vanilla Android. So yes, they are allowed to
Sent from that Atrix... Motorola, where's my ICS?!
I have always been fascinated by android and I have this thing going round in my head> why are there so many versions of android and why can't we update to higher version using hotfixes or updates?
Please dont tell me because its embedded xD
caponer said:
I have always been fascinated by android and I have this thing going round in my head> why are there so many versions of android and why can't we update to higher version using hotfixes or updates?
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Because (apart from nexus devices) it is down to the manufacture to support there devices for as long as they see fit.
With new versions of android come the need for new drivers and kernel changes, which 'android' as a base does not supply this is down to the device manufacturers. That coupled with the fact that most slap there own skin on android (which makes releasing updates alot slower) and that manufacturers want you to buy a new phone ever couple of years most devices are only ever supported for between 1 and 2 years.
Plus some devices simply are not up to running the newest versions of android
I see
They haven't brought nexus here so far. So frustrating
Will there be an update??? Verizon vs985
Android N official
I doubt it....
I don't think it'll happen through the carriers.
I was wondering how long it would take before someone asked. Everyone was surprised to get Marshmallow, especially as fast as we did, but pretty much unless the OEM makes an official announcement everyone can find, I always figure wait six months and if an update doesn't come, then it likely won't. I doubt it in this case, two years of updates is about standard and with 48A, they actually went 2 years and several months.
Effectively, no.
Why?
Because, Qualcomm has pledged no support to providing additional chipset drivers for SD800/801 devices since they don't conform to Google's standards and such which apparently is a CTS (conpatibility testing suite) making sure devices are ready for the Play Store. There have been articles floating around suggesting the same and the GPU in the phone is partly to blame. Any custom support would likely happen sooner than later but if you're betting your cards on official support, I don't think that's going to happen.
Try a quick Google search and you'll probably understand in better detail as to why.
Here's a great recent article talking about Qualcomm not supporting our SoC (System on Chip) for Android Nougat, that @nagi_007pk mentioned:
From Store to Shelf: An In-Depth Capitulation of Why MSM8974 Devices Are Excluded from Nougat