Sprint reminds you it is working on Epic 4G Froyo update

i will believe it when i see it. based on Samsungs inability to update it’s touchwiz UI with latest version of android, i have become a serious skeptic.

im already running a 2.2.1 custom rom on my epic though

I’m sick of all this BS about why we should/should not have the update by this point.

Bottom line is that it should be out… plain and simple. They’ve had over 6 MONTHS to implement it. Samsung’s been in charge of working on the update and they’ve done a HORRIBLE job of getting it done. Chalk it up to horrible programmers, bad management, incompetent QA testers, and/or whatever the case may be. But, Samsung’s competition has left them in the dust in terms of supporting their smartphones AND user base. And the funny thing is that Samsung doesn’t seem to care. They only pretend to care now because the rhetoric has drummed up against them and they feel they NOW need to respond to it.

What’s even more sad is that a small, UNPAID group of motivated phone enthusiasts on the XDA forums can take an unfinished update, improve it, and release it to a group of other phone enthusiasts and have it WORK. Granted, I’m sure everything isn’t 100% on it (I haven’t done it, because I’m waiting for the OTA version), but it works! WHAT THE HELL, SAMSUNG?!?! Why don’t you try to hire these guys or at least give them a build to beta test?

this the ugliest, crappiest phone on earth. OF COURSE its on Sprint. perfect match for it.

Andrew wtf man? You make it seem like it’s the carriers fault for all of this, like they’ve been holding it back all this time. From the reports, samsungs history, and they way it’s playing out – samsung is the only one to blame here. Which isn’t a surprise to anyone I hope.

And uhhh, how much “rigorous” testing needs to be done when FroYo has been out FOREVER?

I mean are there that many issues with 2.2 on the Galaxy S line of phones?? What gives? Just sounds like excuses to me.

I’m not sure why you repeatedly name-dropped Sprint when this is all about Samsung. FroYo is 2.2, and I’ve fucking had it on my Droid 2 for a while now. So what, precisely, are you talking about?

This post should have been about bashing Samsung for waiting until Gingerbread was released before finally bothering let Froyo out to play. It should have been praising HTC and, to a lesser extent, Motorola.

Instead, you’re calling out the carriers? The carriers don’t make the updates. The handset manufacturers do. They do so according to some rules that the carriers set, but these aren’t new rules. They’ve been dealing with this for a while. As a matter of fact, T-Mobile has been dealing with this since Android started. It would have been embarrassing if they weren’t the first ones to come out with something.

For the tl;dr crowd: This post should be clowning Samsung, and no one else.

GIVE US A DATE !!!!
and
GIVE US THE OPTION TO UPDATE PLAIN ANDROID DIRECTLY FROM GOOGLE WHEN RELEASED !!!!

Sprint’s/Samsung’s failure to provide the PROMISED support have permanently scarred their reputation and will hurt future sales.

Just so all of you are clear. Carriers are just as responsible as the handset manufacturer. Samsung will ultimately be the one putting the OS on the phone, but each carrier has to be able to handle the software. They have to work collaboratively to do so. Does anyone know where in the process Sprint keeps getting stuck? No! But I suspect that it has more carrier problems than manufacturer problems. Remember that would be two phases of coding, testing and deployment.