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Bug fixes or 4.04. My money’s on bug fixes, but the stock ICS ROM is stable as hell, so I don’t know what bugs they would be fixing. Maybe they are adding face unlock.
Great… wifi people already have ICS and now they’re getting a maintenance upgrade and us poor scrubs on Verizon are still waiting for base ICS. [sigh]
Good, they better fix all of the bugs that ICS introduced (AKA random restarts). It was supposed to be our savior from Honeycomb.
I have no problem at all with my Xoom running ICS at all. I wouldn’t mind seeing the Jelly Bean though hehe. But anything is fine with me :)
I agree with @Magus2300:disqus . What’s the deal with ICS for the 3g/4g owners? I feel so cheated my Motorola. First, it didn’t have 4g, then the SD slot didn’t work, then, we were supposed to be the first device to get ICS…well, I guess some of the Xoom owners are happy.
I am still happy with my device, I just don’t like how Motorola has left us hanging. This may be my last Motorola device.
You need to take it up with your carrier about 3G/4G updates…Motorola is almost guaranteed to be bound to carrier contracts about it. They cannot update your device because it has to have carrier approval/cert that it behaves on their network as they expect it to.
There was even talk that VZW blocked the SD rollout for everyone, don’t remember seeing anything corroborating that though.
schubb, you are right about waiting on the carrier, but the carrier needs a working version from the manufacturer first to test it.
SD card slot was an issue with google’s honeycomb and had to be reworked.
Exactly right. Nothing rolls out to a carrier network unless approved by the carrier. For that matter, nothing gets developed for a carrier network unless the carrier plans for it. Motorola does not build phones/do software updates on spec. They don’t commit the resources until they know there’s a payback.
VZW could have a variety of reasons for not wanting ICS on these devices ranging from strategic business reasons to simply not having the testing bandwidth. But f you want ICS, bug VZW. Motorola has no control over whether or not you get it,
Guessing it’s bug fixes. ICS has been very stable for me, but there are a few minor bugs that I’ve encountered. Upon exiting Gmail, it occasionally displays a message saying “Gmail has stopped working”. Doesn’t actually harm anything, but it’s a bit annoying. There’s also a problem with the corporate email widget not refreshing properly for incoming messages. Again, not a disaster. But I’m guessing that a few minor things like that might get resolved.
Overall, VERY happy with ICS.
glad i waited 10mo to cop it..IMO…
XoomWifi+ICS+NovaLauncher+32GB mSD = BEST TAB OUT
very very few bugs on my stock ICS Xoom. have to assume its 4.0.4.
It’s a bug fix. My ICS Xoom has multiple crashes of widgets on a regular basis. Gmail widget crashes daily. I can’t run the CNN widget at all because it constantly crashes
I bought my WiFi Xoom in February and still can’t pull the ICS update. So maybe they’re holding me up until this fix is incorporated?