sling-shot
Wise Old Owl
Just completed the 4.3 update now. Following points were noted:
1. It seems to be a pretty big update available only through PC Companion. My guess is above 500MB.
2. The update seems to happen through a flashing process.
3. My Windows XP system went into a repeated hard lock at the beginning of actual flashing/updating. We have to download the update with the phone on and connected. Then for the next step the phone has to be switched off and connected while holding the Volume Down button pressed. At this point I got "SEMC Flash Device connected" message and system went into a hard lock. Only a physical power button reboot worked. This was solved by rebooting and running this in safe mode with networking.
4. It is advised to take a backup prior to beginning the update. However according to the message flashed by the inbuilt backup utility after updating, backups across different android versions are not compatible. I do not know what is the point of doing it then. However luckily in my case everything went smoothly and I did not get an opportunity to test this out.
5. I was expecting the internal memory usage after this update to go down as many applications have supposedly been uodated to latest in the ROM thus reducing redundancy. But I have yet to see any benefit there.
6. The keyboard has improved a LOT.
7. Battery icon now sits upright in statusbar saving some pixels.
8. Applications list / Menu has undergone some changes. I do not like the fact that they have now taken away the option of listing them according to reducing frequency of usage. Now only 20 most used applications are listed in one page. Alphabetic order and own order are still available. There is an "Installed" order which I guess means most recently installed.
I may update this post later.
1. It seems to be a pretty big update available only through PC Companion. My guess is above 500MB.
2. The update seems to happen through a flashing process.
3. My Windows XP system went into a repeated hard lock at the beginning of actual flashing/updating. We have to download the update with the phone on and connected. Then for the next step the phone has to be switched off and connected while holding the Volume Down button pressed. At this point I got "SEMC Flash Device connected" message and system went into a hard lock. Only a physical power button reboot worked. This was solved by rebooting and running this in safe mode with networking.
4. It is advised to take a backup prior to beginning the update. However according to the message flashed by the inbuilt backup utility after updating, backups across different android versions are not compatible. I do not know what is the point of doing it then. However luckily in my case everything went smoothly and I did not get an opportunity to test this out.
5. I was expecting the internal memory usage after this update to go down as many applications have supposedly been uodated to latest in the ROM thus reducing redundancy. But I have yet to see any benefit there.
6. The keyboard has improved a LOT.
7. Battery icon now sits upright in statusbar saving some pixels.
8. Applications list / Menu has undergone some changes. I do not like the fact that they have now taken away the option of listing them according to reducing frequency of usage. Now only 20 most used applications are listed in one page. Alphabetic order and own order are still available. There is an "Installed" order which I guess means most recently installed.
I may update this post later.
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