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frr_185

I've read about gingerbread but don't know what it is?

What is it and what does it do?

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gina7289

June 16th it will be coming.

Dnakaman

gina7289 wrote:
June 16th it will be coming.

And where are you getting this information from?

From everything that i've read and heard, the next OTA will be to fix the issue with the radio and the random reboots. Gingerbread is still a ways off.

Can you tell me your sources for this information?

gina7289

Tech support Verizon wireless

gina7289

All I heard was that the update will be more then just the fixes listed. He said it would be gingerbread. The hot spot won't be removed as mentioned in update.

Ann154

Disbeliever, I am.

gina7289

Should I ask a few people? I know there doing 4g network adding more cities ad well as a Google update aka gingerbread. Doesnt gingerbread fix the rebooting as well as the 3g switch.

gina7289

Don't u think we deserve gingerbread?

Ann154

Verizon turning on the 4G LTE network in several cities on June 16 is in no way related to any system updates for the Thunderbolt phone.

Personally, I think it would be ridiculous to push a system update on the same day/time as lighting up towers. Remember the LTEpocalypse...

gina7289

I am just saying what they said.

gina7289

Even if it ain't this week when the EVO 3d comes out HTC will have the gingerbread. Isent it coming out soon for Sprint. Just a thought.

Karuk

Does anyone really believe that Gingerbread will be released in 2 days?

The dev community will have a working version of Gingerbread long before it is released. At this point they are working with an Alpha release. I believe we are a few weeks/months out.

Ann154

Nope, in two days... Nope still don't think so.

The support page for the last update is still on the VZW website. I will believe that something is coming when that changes.

frr_185

I read about it in the forums and did a search for it in the Android Market.

Dnakaman

frr wrote:
I read about it in the forums and did a search for it in the Android Market.

I'm sorry I probably made this thread go in the wrong direction with my initial post.

To answer your original question, Gingerbread is the next software upgrade slated to be available for the Thunderbolt. (Google decided to use dessert names that started with the first letter of the build - Ie Donut was D, Eclair was for E, and Froyo is for F - which is what you are currently running on your Thunderbolt).

Gingerbread (Build 2.3.3) I believe first was made available on the Nexus S (Google phone) late last year. Some phones coming out currently will be shipping with it and as said eariler, the Thunderbolt will be updated at sometime via an OTA (over the air) update.

The reason for my first post was that the person who responded to your inquiry first stated that it was going to be available today. That is why I was questioning where this info came from, since there is no indication from any sources that Gingerbread was going to be released today.

I have heard that there will be an update soon (possibly starting today), of an OTA that was going to be pushed to fix the reboot issues (which was a result of the first OTA pushed just after the Thunderbolt was released).

Gingerbread will basically give you some new "eye candy" with sense 3.0 elements (they are really cool looking). So at some point (hopefully soon), they will push the OTA out for the Thunderbolt.

Hope that helps answer your question.

Ann154

The most recent update to the Thunderbolt was a maintenance release (MR1) and was not Gingerbread. It updated to radio and a few other things.

Ann154

@frr
Here is a pretty good article explains what improvements were made from FroYo to Gingerbread. It goes into the development community too, but the first part explain the differences well.

http://m.androidcentral.com/ask-ac-why-was-htc-desire-gingerbread-update-cancelled-and-what-can-users-do-now

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