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Beware !!!!!

DO NOT UPDATE TO ICE CREAM SANDWICH IF YOU HAVE A RAZR OR RAZR MAXX !!!!! IF YOU DO YOU WILL BE THE PROUD OWNER OF A $300 PAPERWEIGHT. IF YOU DO MAKE THE FATAL MISTAKE OF UPDATING TO ICE CREAM SANDWICH DO NOT BOTHER CALLING VERIZON OR GOING INTO A VERIZON STORE BECAUSE YOU WILL BE WASTING YOUR TIME.

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commonsense101

beware its OTA and will come to the phone

beware about 500,000 people have gotten it without issue

beware clueless people on the internet

Anubis7120

Oh yes I'm clueless, that's why there are multiple posts with ICS issues for the Razr. Ok <Keep it clean!> commonsense101, since you are so versed in ICS on a Razr please tell me how to adjust the volumes separately for the phone ringtone, text ringtone, and notification ringtone. Oh <Keep it clean!>, please don't waste my time by telling me to go to Setting / Sounds / Volumes because that doesn't work. And yes it's OTA but you can hit cancel when asked if you wish to update, which several friends have chosen to do until the bugs are worked out.

I suppose the 11 people I known who have Razr's, two of which work in an Information Services Department and have computer degrees, are also clueless. <Comment deleted per the TOS.>.

<Personal attacks against users and rude language are not tolerated per the .>

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Anubis7120

Thanks Jim,

Yeah I'm clear. Verizon is no help. Since my last post is being moderated I'm assuming commonsense101 got his/her feelings hurt, even though he/she thinks it's ok to offend me by calling me clueless, or Verizon got offended and doesn't want it's customers to know the truth.

spurs21

I wonder if they'll push it out to the phones for those who haven't updated . My daughter hasn't updated her Maxx yet, I told her not to yet till she has time to learn all the differences in the OS from gingerbread. I personally have had minimal issues, but all in all ICS is working well for me.

mortb

I've had ICS for about a week now. Have had no problems at all, and in fact, I really like ICS. It allows me to do several things that GB did not. The way you load apps onto the various screens is a breeze. Setting up folders on the home screens is so much easier. I also like the way they bunched various topics in Settings. My speed seems a bit faster and my battery appears to last longer with ICS. In short, you can check me off as being a happy camper.

smashogre

I'm one with continuing radio issues but that in no way detracts from the overall sweetness of I.C.S.

Here's a little tidbit I REALLY like, you can "stack" or group the row of favorites on either side of the app drawer icon, that is so simple yet so handy! I have multiple applications I use for work, both to manage our network completely and for communication and testing - now they're right there on any screen.
I likey!

CTRaider

What is the "radio issue" you speak of?

I too have had no problems with the ICS update (did it manually when the OTA first became available).

I do feel for those that have problems though. I've been in that boat before. :-/

smashogre

The radios just randomly stop working. I don't know if it's authentication or transmission/reception. 4G indicator will be solid blue with full signal strength indicated and then the next instant, still indicating nothing wrong, your connection will be gone...a moment or two after that the 4G and signal strength will turn white then the 4G disappears completely. Then a moment later all is well again. This also causes issues w/WLAN connections, when the radio is cycling or doing whatever it is that it does, WLAN will be up/down as well.

abbitha7

I have ICS, haven't had any problems so far. I'm still learning about all of the things it can do. Maybe you just have a bad phone.

Duewester

I like the new bottom row in it's entirety. I used to fiddle with the most common apps I use all the time. I would move icons on pages to either side of the home screen. Now I just "Stack" them.

smashogre

Nope not unless I got 4 bad Razr's and now have a bad Maxx as well.

smashogre

@Duewester - that one of my favorite changes they've made. Simple but very effective!

Jakeman1

I have to tell you I updated our Razr Maxx to ICS and have had NO issues at all with it. Battery life is the same or better (once I stopped exploring). Responsivness is better, the Camera is faster and very few to no Data Drops.

smashogre

Oh I'm not complaining. It just is what it is. If they don't come out with the I.C.S. patch soon enough I'll get an Incredible 4G or something. VZW has been, overall, a good company and I (usually)have very good success if I do need support which is rare.

0416jack

I totally agree. The guy at Verizon who responded to my question basically was having the same problems with his Droid RAZR. Extremely short battery life (5 hours without use of phone!), heating of screen, long charge time (like 12 hours!) duplicated downloads of email.

This was a complete disaster! Verizon should have made sure Google ICS was right for their phones. And worse, they say they can't give me back the old operating system! What a screwed up company!

0416jack

Aren't you lucky! The rest of us are stuck with a piece of junk!

0416jack

I guess I'm one of the other "non-500,000" who got it and got burned. So is the tech at Verizon who is having the same problems with his phone.

Your "put downs" aren't appreciated and should have been monitored by the Verizon Moderator.

Jakeman1

A question to ask yourself (if you are experiencing this issue as described above.

1) are you in a 3G or 4G area? If you are in a 3G area one of the issues is that your phone is searching for the 4G link and it will continue to search every few minutes until it connects to 4G.

Prior to ICS you could go into the network settings and change that to CDMA (3g) only but with ICS, it only gives you a few choices.

Global

LTE/CDMA

and I believe Automatic so you cannot go in and change it to CDMA only. There are some ways to try to force it to CDMA only, some apps, and a manual setting but I have not tested these and am not sure if not having the option in the Network Settings you can even use one of these to change it.

If not the way I see it is either Verizon needs to get on the stick and get 4G out everywhere, or they need to have an update to ICS to put CDMA back in so you can change it until Verizon catches up with their 4G installations.

commonsense101

If you haven't noticed, everytime you call tech support they seem to have the same issue, or same phone you do..its call customer service

nyrazr79

For me the worst part of all of this is that the flash player isnt supported on any browser Ive downloaded yet. Flash might be on its way out but its still incorporated into 90% of web pages

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