Check on Monday for the s4 4.4.3 update on Verizon!!! Just heard some insider information!!!
How accurate is your information?
Haha! I guess we'll find out Monday!
Actually the main reason that I asked was because the version number that the original message said was 4.4.3. To my knowledge the KitKat update that we are all waiting on is 4.4.2. Actually that would be nice if we got 4.4.3 since all the other S4's have 4.4.2.
Yes it would be nice. The 4.4.3 updated version is supposed to be released soon to everyone else as well. I believe it's supposed to fix some bugs found on 4.4.2.
This link contains some info of update. It is mentioned for Nexus devices too. I'm sure other devices will have similar update specs.http://www.inferse.com/14362/android-4-4-3-kitkat-update-for-nexus-4-nexus-5-nexus-7/
your 1st post with insider info.........
Well it's Monday! My S4 still hasn't seen the 4.4 update.
Then again I guess the insider news didn't say what Monday?
I am not holding my breath for any update from Verizon at this point. The S5 has kit kat and they want everyone to buy that one and sign up for another two years of shotty customer service and decreasing signal reliability. When they point out that the S5 has kit kat and says that the S3 and S4 doesn't, has to tell you something right there.
Well, I am going to get an S5 but I am waiting for the S5 32 gb version which may be out in a few weeks as they did with the S4 I have now, but there will be no new 2 year contract. We may or may not have KK on the S4 by that time. If they don't bring the S5 32 gb to VZW I will just wait for the Note 4 and see how I like that other than the larger screen.
Not me! I won't buy another phone from these SCUMBAGS anymore. Trying to force people into buying a new phone to get the latest firmware is pathetic. If someone wants the new model, then they will buy it.
Verizon has really lost respect from a great deal of it's customers. They really showed just how much they care about updating their devices that are only one year old. By the time they milk this S5 release out and hold off on S4 4.4 update, the S4 will be two years old.
Buying a new phone just to get a minor OS upgrade is foolish.
All smartphones get updates just like computers but it's up to the individual to choose to update or to pass, The best place to find out if updates are doable and safe to get is through media, social channels any place that puts out information on the update.. I usually hold of about 3 to 4 months to update my Droids..
Wow! Yeah that does sound like it's worth that price tag then. Toshiba Sat and Harmon/Kardon speakers, sweet! Hopefully at least 500GB-1GB drive too?
But yeah, I got this S4 to replace my RAZR Maxx XT912. I still have the RAZR Maxx as a backup, but the S4 was a totally different experience for me. I was always a Moto lover with phones due to their great, long lasting performance and outstandind durability. The S4 seems a little more fragile than the XT912. But it does contain some newer technology the XT912 didn't have.
I've only had this S4 a few months already. But I still would like the newest Android OS on it. Especially with the other carriers same model phone already getting the update.
We'll just have to see when it arrives for the S4!.....on VZW!
I don"t know if this means anything or not, but I was to the software support page a little bit ago, and the mk2 page, which is the version we are on now, was gone, and the information that was there was for a older software version. I would hope it is this way because they are updating the page for the kit kat update, but I am not going to get my hopes up. This is Verizon we are talking about.
radar320, I have noticed the same thing with Verizon's software update page. One day it will show the MK2 update and sometime later it will change to the MI1 update. It seems to shift between theses two updates.
I was doing a little investigating on Verizon's update site (the one that list all the phones and the last time they were upgraded). It seems that there is at least one phone in Verizon's inventory that got an upgrade to KitKat (besides the ones that came with it pre-installed). The HTC One was upgraded to KitKat on 2/6/2014 according to this site.
And? They have still not updated our phones beyond a month now since the last other major carrier updated. It all points to them trying to make a profit off the angered customers in hopes to force us to buy the GS5. It's utter greed and Verizon is laughing at us all.
Too funny. Now there is announcement that Google is coming out with 4.5 or may skip directly to 5.0. Now we'll have to wait months or years before SG4 and SG3 get an upgraded.
I for one will no longer play this waiting game with Verizon and their crappy customer service and coverage that seems to be getting worse as time goes by. I am leaving in July. Good riddance Verizon.
I was going to post this, but someone started a new post with the information that I had discovered. There are a couple of websites out there that are suggesting that the Verizon S4 will be getting the KitKat update starting on Friday, May 2. See this post: https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/821621?sr=stream&ru=3355976.
That would be nice if it can be true. Lol. We've heard so much speculation of when it might come for the past two months, and look where were all at still.
Thanks for the link. I will give at look see too.
