AT&T issuing update for Motorola Atrix 4G, HSUPA restrictor-plate removed

By on Apr 29, 2011 at 5:20 PM
mobile April 29, 2011

Here’s some good news on a Friday afternoon. Over the next few weeks, AT&T will begin pushing out an update for the Motorola Atrix 4G. The software bump — which was first spotted by Droid Matters earlier today — will, most notably, remove the uplink speed restrictions currently present on the dual-core handset. Here is AT&T’s official statement:

Today, AT&T began to deploy an update for the HTC Inspireâ„¢ 4G that provides, among other features, the addition of enhanced uplink speed technology. (HSUPA).

An update that adds HSUPA for the Motorola ATRIX 4G has cleared testing and will be deployed soon.

Both updates will roll out to customers of both phones over the coming weeks.  Users will get a message on their device notifying them of an update and to connect to Wi-Fi to download it.  After downloading it, the user needs to only allow the update to automatically install.

There you have it. The handcuffs are being taken off your Motorola Atrix 4G. Enjoy.

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  • Anonymous

    what about the Inspire?

    • Yohoyo

      Read it again

    • http://twitter.com/drumboy_ Aaron H

      You can post a comment but you can’t read? Well thanks for the Friday laugh.

      • Anonymous

        yup, didnt read the whole thing. your an easy laugh huh aaron. u know whats funny? that you have a womans name = Erin

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EYNBXWB4IVBBFUIRWENYZW7V5M Zero Hero

        Good call resort to insults since you say “the whole thing” and it was in the first line of AT&T’s statement. I think you may have contracted the disease called ignorance.

  • http://twitter.com/Jerrysonline Jerry Schindel

    Any response to the number of people that are having Voice quality issues where it sounds muffled. Seems a a lot of sites ran this story. I call Motorola and they can’t confirm if it’s a software or hardware problem. They are still testing phones. Will the software update fix this?

    • Mark B

      I think the ‘muffled call’ issue is really a non-issue. My brother and I have the same phones. Don’t drop the phone away from your face when talking. He does that and it causes the muffled sound. When he returns the phone to a place closer to the hole he’s speaking from, the muffling mysteriously vanishes!

  • Anonymous

    About time…now if only they can do something about that bootloader…such an awesome phone, being crippled is just sad…shame on u Moto…shame on u AT&T.

    • Midnight Oil

      Yeah.. AT&T is gay.. Gay for caps.. Gay for dropping calls… Gay for no side loading on Android.. Gay for looser 4G speeds.. About to make TMO Gay.. Gay for too many reasons.. Fuck them gay fags!!

      • Anonymous

        My comment was in no way intended to be for any gay bashing. On another note, i have AT&T and a Captivate that im very happy with. I live in a big city so coverage is lovely for me. I would of have an Atrix but i leanred about the encrypted bootloader so i said no thank u (which was Moto’s idea i believe.) I agree the caps do suck (which doesnt affect me) and the pricing is a bit high if u ask me, but its the best company where i live so im fairly happy with them. Anyways stop with the gay bashing dude…that is not cool.

      • Balls across the nose

        You might as well go work there too faggott!!

      • Anonymous

        actually at&t doesnt use caps. everyone drops calls. only nerds care about the side loading. nobodies 4g is actually 4G. u must be gay cuz u bash them so much. come out of the closet and stop suffering and go join the gay parade. bet u live in san francisco too. haha

  • Scott

    Returned my Atrix. Bought an N1. No upload problems here. Screw phones that carriers can mess around with!

  • Michael E Marzett

    I just installed the update on my Inspire 4G and it’s still slow as hell uploading. .25 Mbps Up. 2.03 Mbps Down. Ugh.

    • Whoru

      Where are you? You may not be in a 4G area.

      • Anonymous

        shouldn’t matter for upload….

      • Whoru

        Ofcourse it does.

      • Anonymous

        No, it doesn’t since HSUPA has been rolled out onto the network for at least 2 years now…..

      • Whoru

        @ zephxiii,

        HSUPA and HSDPA have been rolled out to the network for years now, your right . 4G speeds are only experienced if there is enhanced backhaul supporting the software. This includes HSUPA, and HSPDA. SO, they WOULD have to be in an area that has that backhaul, AKA a 4G network area. This is copy and paste from their web site.

        “4G Evolution
        AT&T has deployed HSPA+ to virtually 100% of our nation’s fastest mobile broadband network, which enables 4G speeds when combined with enhanced backhaul. We are rapidly expanding enhanced backhaul to cell sites throughout the country, adding new cell sites weekly.”

      • Anonymous

        Talking about HSPA+ is one thing, but HSUPA and HSDPA (HSPA) are different. We’ve gotten good HSPA speeds for at least a year now (3mbps or more at times). HSUPA has has good speeds for longer than that. Most areas already have a good chunk of backhaul already installed, “enhanced” backhaul is just up another level.

        Hell I live in a small indiana town, and i’ve seen speeds up to 5-6 on my iPhone 4. There is nothing on the map about us being an official 4G area.

        Performance really depends on the balance of site traffic/resource availability. You could have all the backhaul in the world but if the radio resources or over saturated (which I see a lot at times) you aren’t going to see HSPA+ like speeds anyways…and that seems to mostly be AT&T’s struggle.

  • noemail@4spam.com

    do not care until the bootloader gets unlocked ….

  • http://theworldgadget.com Erwin Januarisman

    salute for AT & T for its new innovation

  • Jimbo

    Great for AT&T, but yeah, no unlocked bootloader, no buy.

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