Re: Android lollipop for HTC One M8
Snn5
Legend

I have no issue if the software can be removed.  In the end, all of this is to pad a pocket and doesn't benefit the consumer very much.

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Re: Android lollipop for HTC One M8
Tidbits
Legend

I am just pointing out the manufacturers charge for these options. Samsung during the whole Galaxy S problems admitted they charged carriers for options and slying said all manufacturers do it.  Let's say they make $5 per devices(could be more could be less) for adding "bloatware". You sell 30M units. That's $150M extra money for the manufacturers.

Sony AOSP project(backed by Google) showed that carrier testing and such took only a week. The longest phase was licensing(FCC, Bluetooth, and WiFi). That portion alone too up to 1 year depending on how fast manufacturers were able to rewrite the RIL/HAL. To shorten this process as of 4.0 Google distributes the PDK which contains the final version of the HAL to give manufacturers a head start. Since these reports and what Manufacturers have admitted to lately makes it hard for me to blame carriers when it shows they are more hands off that everywhere else claims they are completely hands on. Google even backed off blaming the carriers for everything.

Re: Android lollipop for HTC One M8
GalaxyClass
Master - Level 1

The FCC can take months just to study and approve the data supplied from the manufacture of the device. Carriers are at the bottom of the food chain and they only sell you a product and network.

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Re: Android lollipop for HTC One M8
GLD1980
Enthusiast - Level 1

By the time we receive our carrier ota update of 5.0.1, 5.2.0 will be out on newly released products.

Go Hawks!

Re: Android lollipop for HTC One M8
Tidbits
Legend

Depending on when the device is released and when they started development devices released may still be on 4.4.4 instead of 5.0.X Samsung, LG, Sony, Motorola, HTC and a slew of manufacturers have done it.

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Re: Android lollipop for HTC One M8
Not applicable

GLD1980 wrote:

By the time we receive our carrier ota update of 5.0.1, 5.2.0 will be out on newly released products.

Go Hawks!

Not Verizon's doing

Go here HTC Software Updates | HTC United States

0 - Evaluation

1 - Development

2 - Integration

3 - Certification

4 - Complete

Verizon HTC One (M8)

This device is in the 2 - Integration stage of the Android Lollipop Release.

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Re: Android lollipop for HTC One M8
Zorknoft
Enthusiast - Level 1

Come on VZW! Since when do you let Sprint beat you to a punch? This was ready for unbranded devices over a month ago!!

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Re: Android lollipop for HTC One M8
Ann154
Community Leader
Community Leader

The update has moved into stage 3 of the development process. Sprint might have gotten through the certification step faster.

I'm most definitely NOT a VZW employee. If a post answered your question, please mark it as the answer.

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Re: Android lollipop for HTC One M8
jayhsee
Enthusiast - Level 1

Mo Versi says on Twitter that it is in the Verizon lab for certification and they are looking at rolling it out during the first week of March.

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Re: Android lollipop for HTC One M8
jrh4054
Specialist - Level 3

I don't know why everyone here is so anxious to get Lollipop.  Check the Samsung S5 chat board to see all the problems it caused S5 users.  It rendered my Asus Nexus 7 tablet nearly unusable by making it terribly slow and locking up all the time.  I might suggest waiting to install it for a while to see what problems those who did install it are having.