i will admit that i don't understand how all of this works, but i can also tell you that my front facing cam worked fine from the day i bought it.....so i guess i don't understand why there had to be "workarounds" that the apps supposedly used, if i could use the cam on the stock app??? there was also a leaked skype that worked great prior to the mr2 update, so why can't the developers (since skype and verizon don't care) created a version to work with mr2? again, i don't know much about this stuff.....except that a few weeks ago there was a version that worked fine (without GB) and now there's not.