Future for Optimus 2X - LG Optimus 2x

I'm a bit concerned about the future of this phone.
1. From what I understand, Android doesn't take full advantage of dual cores before version 2.4, do you think 2X will get an update?
2. I've seen news about the Tegra 3 being just around the corner, is there any chance they'll put more focus on that and stop optimizing games and apps for the Tegra 2?
I'm no expert, and don't know a lot about the Tegra chipsets (or chipsets in general) so some info would be nice.
What do you think, is there a bright future for the Optimus 2X?

Chopaan said:
I'm a bit concerned about the future of this phone.
1. From what I understand, Android doesn't take full advantage of dual cores before version 2.4, do you think 2X will get an update?
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I belive it will get it, since it's high-end device I hope that LG will support it.
What do you think, is there a bright future for the Optimus 2X?
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The user response for this product will show how bright future it has, from what I see many people are interested in it, including Paul O'Brien

It should certainly get the next update, and remember that Tegra 2 is going into a lot of tablets at the moment as well. This phone should be fairly future-proof.

Chopaan said:
2. I've seen news about the Tegra 3 being just around the corner, is there any chance they'll put more focus on that and stop optimizing games and apps for the Tegra 2?
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The Tegra 2 was presented a year ago and it's just now that it's actually coming in devices so I wouldn't expect any Tegra 3 until spring 2012 as the earliest.

Piter1225 said:
The user response for this product will show how bright future it has, from what I see many people are interested in it, including Paul O'Brien
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wow Paul O'Brien? Really? Awesome~

yyhoney said:
wow Paul O'Brien? Really? Awesome~
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Yep, will be cool to have Modaco Custom ROM and Modaco Custom Kernel

Tegra 3 (Quad Core Kal-el) has been announced for tablets in Q4 2011.
I think it's pretty safe to say that it'll be delayed just like Tegra 2 until Q1/Q2 2012. Manufacturers and NVIDIA will want to get the most they can out of dual core first, before they introduce new technology into the market, as it'll just cannibalize their own sales.

It was really a very good future if updated because tegra 2 is very powerful

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Android 2.3 for lg2x coming out in june/july 2011

According to the danish lg site, under FAQ of the LG Optimus 2x, they say that it'll be out in june/july 2011. So that seems to be as official they have stated a release date yet
If that's real, than it's a real shame. 6 months to get GB working on their flagship device seems really lame and only shows LG inability to give the updates in a timely manner. In June Android 2.4 will be already launched.
Yeah this sucks ballzzzz
Yeah it seems to be true, but have only been posted (as far as I have checked) on the Scandinavian sites for Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
I also made this post about it (maybe in the wrong section) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034970
EDIT: With a picture btw.
This means Cyanogenmod is again overtaking the manufacturer
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albireox said:
If that's real, than it's a real shame. 6 months to get GB working on their flagship device seems really lame and only shows LG inability to give the updates in a timely manner. In June Android 2.4 will be already launched.
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this is in line with LG italy "our scope is to provide the update in the first half of this year"
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i've just finished a livechat with italian LG support.
they have no info on gingerbread update.
Im glad there are alot of custom roms. LG fails again. superhardware lack of support
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oh my goodness when is the cyanogen gingerbread update .........
hehe who cares? I only care about CM7
The problem is there are a lot of fixes needed even within the LG Android 2.2.2, it's not all about providing GB. The stock LG software is subpar in my oppinion and the problems signaled here and on other forums needs to be addressed by LG hopefully before June.
[email protected], CM7 would be nice but for O2X is in a far from usable state.
If LG launch the 2.3 with the know how demonstrated on 2.2... I don't see how this is a good news...
CM7 is all that mater
maybe LG is waiting for cm7, and get the idea from it
I absolutely agree with the statement "Who cares, I just want CM7".
Then again, LG having the low-level dev access that they have (drivers and whatnot), isn't much easier for them to dev the update than for us to dev CM7? Moreover, wouldn't it be much easier to port CM7 if we had an LG 2.3 ROM?
Cheers.
Shame I switched from Samsung after month of **** firmwares and now the same on lg - now I really consider apple - they know hot to build a kernel to use the hardware
google and android is as it seems incapable of delivereing a kernel for single or dual core
the always bring out new phones and none run well
the lg drives me crazy for 2 weeks - its more lame than my nexus one
69reichertm said:
Shame I switched from Samsung after month of **** firmwares and now the same on lg - now I really consider apple - they know hot to build a kernel to use the hardware
google and android is as it seems incapable of delivereing a kernel for single or dual core
the always bring out new phones and none run well
the lg drives me crazy for 2 weeks - its more lame than my nexus one
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I kind of like LG for the speed, is much faster than the Galaxy S no matter what kernel you had on it, but O2X has other problems like the poor audio quality in calls and still the software doesn't feel like it's the final version, more like a test one. I agree we should expect more because the super fast hardware is there. It's a reality manufacturers don't care about that, they act like sell only the hardware and after that, they wash their hands. At least Samsung continue to support the Galaxy S which will have GB within weeks and in the meantime we have to wait until summer to get our port on O2X. I would never buy Apple, they sell just boring super expensive and locked products, that are still owned by them even after they sell them to you. If you want Android without headaches, the best bet is on the Nexus Phones. But, in the end, you can't have everything I guess...
Wow, that was long... what are we talking about here?
Sounds like the email I recived from LG Sweden this monday which said their devs had started to work on 2.3...... but what...started? Hasn't 2.3 been out for a while??
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Never buy LG 2X, if it´s not CM supported
rori~ said:
Never buy LG 2X, if it´s not CM supported
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it will be supported and if not I still have my Nexus S hehe
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[email protected] said:
it will be supported ...
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yes...I would bet it will ..only thing that counts for me
69reichertm said:
Shame I switched from Samsung after month of **** firmwares and now the same on lg - now I really consider apple - they know hot to build a kernel to use the hardware
google and android is as it seems incapable of delivereing a kernel for single or dual core
the always bring out new phones and none run well
the lg drives me crazy for 2 weeks - its more lame than my nexus one
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Try the Nexus S, being just a single core hummingbird processor, the thing flies
LG Optimus 2x have the potential to be faster then the Nexus S, all you need is just to wait until more developers use the phone

New LG phone LU6200

Nice to see that LG have time to make a whole new phone and put GB on it before they can give it to us even
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/17/lg-teases-lu6200-with-1-5ghz-dual-core-cpu-720p-hd-display-gin/
LG SUCK
Kickasskev said:
Nice to see that LG have time to make a whole new phone and put GB on it before they can give it to us even
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/17/lg-teases-lu6200-with-1-5ghz-dual-core-cpu-720p-hd-display-gin/
LG SUCK
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Based on the article, it's based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon (Scorpion). Since it's based on Scorpion (not Krait), I assume this is a 1.5Ghz version of the 8660 with the Adreno 220.
My guess is that Qualcomm did the GB port for LG for this chipset.
Qualcomm's Android support is miles better than that of NVidia. That may be the reason why the Ox2 shipped prematurely with Froyo, whereas the new LU6200 is shipping with GB.
enigma00 said:
Based on the article, it's based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon (Scorpion). Since it's based on Scorpion (not Krait), I assume this is a 1.5Ghz version of the 8660 with the Adreno 220.
My guess is that Qualcomm did the GB port for LG for this chipset.
Qualcomm's Android support is miles better than that of NVidia. That may be the reason why the Ox2 shipped prematurely with Froyo, whereas the new LU6200 is shipping with GB.
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It's named Optimus LTE. It will go into selling at 26.Sep by LGU+.
It will has GB 2.3.5 and has 1280×720 IPS disply. (Yesterday SG2 got GB 2.3.5).
But LGU+ is only Korean provider. You will see this a few weeks or months later.
I think personally, O2x looks like LG's child by a concubine.
I feel like ****.
kitty's_daddy said:
I think personally, O2x looks like LG's child by a concubine.
I feel like ****.
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LOL, O2X has the blood of LG but yeah you're right. But I don't feel disappointed with the phone. It's just LG and Nvidia has some problems.
MikuSE610 said:
LOL, O2X has the blood of LG but yeah you're right. But I don't feel disappointed with the phone. It's just LG and Nvidia has some problems.
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Yes. it has perfect body but has lack of soul.
LU6200 need help
In fact, there are a lot of people are using LU 6200, but there has been no good ROM, we always hope to Android4, always want to find the managers to our development, but our English is not good, can not register XAD, now I represent, hope the development team can give us the development of CM9to LU-6200, we there are really a lot of people are hoping to use CM9. Now CM9P930 for ROM, our LU-6200 and P930 configuration is consistent, but not to CM9, why? The hope can give our LU-6200 development ROM.

[Q] Would you buy a Tegra 3 device?

Hey everyone,
well since you all heard about the new devices of MWC '12,
would you buy one of these? (android phones.. not wp lol)
Many of them were Tegra 3 based and we all know that tegra 2 had a really bad support..
Would you maybe even buy another LG phone?
well nvidia+LG sucked really bad thats true..
but the hardware for the low price was a great point on the o2x..
maybe if nvidia is going to release their drivers (blahblahblah dreaming), LG wouldnt be a bad choice.
So.. again im asking, would you guys buy one of the new Tegra 3 devices?
Thanks in advance
Definitely no. Never Nvidia again.
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You know what... I said that I wouldn't a few days ago, and my next phone would be an OMAP based device, but I reckon I would get a Tegra 3. They are a pain in the arse for not helping developers, but to be honest, I have found the stock based ROM's just fine for my usage in general.
My decision will likely be based on price/performance though, and if I can even afford a £400-600+ phone at the time (it's a bloody lot for a phone in my view).
Enough with LG.. the worst ever in smartphone.. we should have a 2.3.7 GB, instead V20q 2.3.4.. will buy Samsung Smartphone after this.. "the 1st worse dual core smartphone"
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With respect, just because it's not the very latest release doesn't make it a bad phone. It's a very capable phone at present.
On the plus side, at least it got more support than the Optimus 3D *crazy*
But anyway.. it's off-topic, the question was about Tegra 3.
Mmhmhmm......NO!
i had too problem by july until a month ago with this stupid phone...
next phone will be an HTC,like my previus nexus one and htc magic(no problem and very good support for community),samsung use cheap and poor materials for their phones
After weeks of trying different ROMs just to get at least a good balance on battery duration, definately not. My new gadget now is the Galaxy Note
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definitely no, i will stick with o2x for a while and buy ps vita for games. honestly wtf we need quad core and uber gpu in a phone beside few boring but graphic wise good games? it reminds me mpx hunt in the compact cameras market.
I don't think so. Tegra 2 is fast enough for me right now and probably years to come O2X is just awesome. Lots of ROMs to choose, that's super fine for me.
Tegra 3 is cool for games! Well, I'm not a mobile-phone-based gamer though
I dont think so. I will try to avoid LG and Nvidia, especially combined.
Nvidia again? No way! They don't help the community very well, and so i wont help them getting my money.
I'm not jumping on the hate bandwagon like everyone else, so yes I would buy one. ICS isn't out yet? Boohoo..
big O...
nOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I won't mind getting a tegra 3 device as long as this time it will be usable without rooting and flashing. The p990 has great hardware and subpar software, without CM7 I'd have tossed that thing out of a window already.
That being said I really hope nvidia comes to senses with their open-ness
OP, Y U NO put a poll?
blakki73 said:
Definitely no. Never Nvidia again.
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+1
And I mean, no nVidia *period*. I already got disappointed with computer hardware made by them, now it's AMD/ATi all the way
Never again if they are still so closed
For me there is no speaking of 'buying another LG' because I got this O2X as a gift.
I will buy the best smartphone that is out by september 2012 ('cause that is when my carrier subscription will end)
Mungulz said:
I'm not jumping on the hate bandwagon like everyone else, so yes I would buy one. ICS isn't out yet? Boohoo..
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Hi Mungulz, what you call a hate bandwagon, others would call a consensus of opinion. XDA is primarily a site for devs, and users who like to go beyond stock, and make technology fit their needs, and not the other way round. So its not surprising that that bandwagon would like access to the hardware. In future I will avoid NVIDIA. Simply a matter of needs, not hate.
Have fun. Anil.
PS. There is no need to cry, the ICS bandwagon is out and already too far in the distance for you to see. Stay where you are, and in a few months the LG ICS bandwagon will arrive.
Definitely not. Who'd need a high-end phone anyway, unless you'll run office apps and compile a program on your phone, O2X is enough.
Not a chance, i wouldnt even keep it if given one id sell it and buy that new galaxy s3 i think its being called also quad core.

LG to roll out ICS to some devices??

Used Google Translate, maybe someone speaking korean can shed some light?
http://translate.google.com/transla...&u=http://www.lgnewsroom.co.kr/contents/12232
Got this from lgnewsroom.co.kr
I really don't want to produce some hype out of this, but maybe our LG P990 is also targetted to be upgraded starting today?
Old news: It's about Optimus Vu and LTE. Nothing for our 2X yet...
And the sad thing is that we have not even seen a leaked ics version yet...
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In June I am not hoping for any update, but I hope that by August, I officially ICS on my phone.
Or ask too much from LG?
It'll be easier to just change phone and never buy anything from LG again.
feribalint said:
In June I am not hoping for any update, but I hope that by August, I officially ICS on my phone.
Or ask too much from LG?
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yes. you ask too much
when we get a leak of ics, we will know that the official roll out will start in aprox ~3 months. so far this aint lookin too bright
Incer said:
It'll be easier to just change phone and never buy anything from LG again.
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I would change LG to NVIDIA in the above statement, as none of the Tegra 2 phones so far (LG P990, Motorola Atrix ME-860, Samsung Galaxy R GT-I9103) have official ICS ROMs.
akyp said:
I would change LG to NVIDIA in the above statement, as none of the Tegra 2 phones so far (LG P990, Motorola Atrix ME-860, Samsung Galaxy R GT-I9103) have official ICS ROMs.
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there are tegra 2 tablets that are running ics dude. its not nvidia's fault that lg is slow. although yes, i would prefer TI omap or even exynos cpu in my next phone.
Tegra 2 tablets are a different breed than smatphones. It's still LG fault.
Rz
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xilw3r said:
there are tegra 2 tablets that are running ics dude. its not nvidia's fault that lg is slow. although yes, i would prefer TI omap or even exynos cpu in my next phone.
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Tablets have a different tegra 2 chip, they have for example neon support. LG's faults are their false promises.
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When did they originally said they would release ICS?
arkara said:
When did they originally said they would release ICS?
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at first they said Q2 2012, but surprise surprise now they say it will be Q3 2012 ( september or something)
I would say we all unite and beat all LG employes in they headquaters with they own phones!
xilw3r said:
there are tegra 2 tablets that are running ics dude. its not nvidia's fault that lg is slow. although yes, i would prefer TI omap or even exynos cpu in my next phone.
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YES TABLETS!!!! is that a phone... no it isn't.
chances that LG will ship ICS update to O2X
With the current phase manufacturers are shipping out devices I simply can't believe that LG would be putting any effort to upgrade Optimus 2X to ICS in Q3/2012.
They will have already too many devices announced/in the pipeline at Q3/2012 where they will focus their development resources that they will not definitely to sacrifice any resources to platform they will not use anymore. And that's sad & irresponsible and eventually this kind of behavior will really hurt the whole Android story. Too many manufacturers are selling stuff they will discontinue supporting while people are still on the contract with their carriers. And honestly HW on Optimus 2x could live for ages if you just look on the HW spec.

LG's L40(kitkat) vs P900(ICS).. Cheated by LG

I was reading in news about LG's new low end phone L40 which is going to be launched with kitkat version of android . Here is spec of L40 phone
the L40 has a 1.2 Ghz dual-core processor a smaller screen at 3.5-inches. It also has 4GB of internal storage, but RAM is lesser than the other two(L series phone) at 512 MB. The camera is only a 3-megapixel unit, while the battery size will vary according to markets. The two battery sizes are 1,700mAh and 1,540mAh.
And they are neglecting our P990 which has similar specifications. They should have upgraded our phone first to kitkat which was their flagship phone first.They can not say it doesn't have hardware to support it becoz they themselves are releasing kitkat on same hardware.
BTW wats the point of releasing L40 when they had already release same spec phone few years back ?
gagan97 said:
BTW wats the point of releasing L40 when they had already release same spec phone few years back ?
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Money Money Money :thumbup:
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gagan97 said:
I was reading in news about LG's new low end phone L40 which is going to be launched with kitkat version of android . Here is spec of L40 phone
the L40 has a 1.2 Ghz dual-core processor a smaller screen at 3.5-inches. It also has 4GB of internal storage, but RAM is lesser than the other two(L series phone) at 512 MB. The camera is only a 3-megapixel unit, while the battery size will vary according to markets. The two battery sizes are 1,700mAh and 1,540mAh.
And they are neglecting our P990 which has similar specifications. They should have upgraded our phone first to kitkat which was their flagship phone first.They can not say it doesn't have hardware to support it becoz they themselves are releasing kitkat on same hardware.
BTW wats the point of releasing L40 when they had already release same spec phone few years back ?
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Would you buy it? I mean, seriously dude, it's about selling. They are going to make a few millions on that L40 just because it's brand new, has kitkat and has a screen size like older iPhones. If they would update the "unupdateable" Tegra2 powered, 2-3 years old 2X, then everyone would go around buying second-hand, used 2Xs for 40$ on eBay, instead of going for their new phone.
I'd rather say Google cheated everyone, because Android updates life cycle is too short. There is a bunch of "old" phones with very capable hardware to run KitKat 4.4 and phone manufacturers won't ever update them because they just don't have any legal obligation to do so, we only have to hope their "goodwill" to release drive sources, which isn't the case for our 2x since nVidia and LG don't give a %#@!.
It's kinda sad me to see how a very capable phone gets obsolete by force due the lack of system updates, and I'm not talking only about our O2x.
This also raises other important topic, such as about electronic waste, people are wasting their 2 year phone because they are stuck in Gingerbread limbo.
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I'd rather say Google cheated everyone, because Android updates life cycle is too short. There is a bunch of "old" phones with very capable hardware to run KitKat 4.4 and phone manufacturers won't ever update them because they just don't have any legal obligation to do so, we only have to hope their "goodwill" to release drive sources, which isn't the case for our 2x since nVidia and LG don't give a %#@!.
It's kinda sad me to see how a very capable phone gets obsolete by force due the lack of system updates, and I'm not talking only about our O2x.
This also raises other important topic, such as about electronic waste, people are wasting their 2 year phone because they are stuck in Gingerbread limbo.
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+1, i think the best manufacturer were we can go is sony?? :noidea:
as i can see today sony is the only manufacturer that providing at least the sources for old phones?
I think it's worse that they wont give out all the code needed to optimize and improve the Tegra2 cores for O2X than updating it themselves.
(since they obviously aren't very good at it)
NoDze said:
Would you buy it? I mean, seriously dude, it's about selling. They are going to make a few millions on that L40 just because it's brand new, has kitkat and has a screen size like older iPhones. If they would update the "unupdateable" Tegra2 powered, 2-3 years old 2X, then everyone would go around buying second-hand, used 2Xs for 40$ on eBay, instead of going for their new phone.
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Well they could at least give out a stable ics ota
The official ics update is crap as hell totally unusable, i would have sold this phone but thanks to the wonderful devs of this community I'm still using it ?
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gagan97 said:
I was reading in news about LG's new low end phone L40 which is going to be launched with kitkat version of android . Here is spec of L40 phone
the L40 has a 1.2 Ghz dual-core processor a smaller screen at 3.5-inches. It also has 4GB of internal storage, but RAM is lesser than the other two(L series phone) at 512 MB. The camera is only a 3-megapixel unit, while the battery size will vary according to markets. The two battery sizes are 1,700mAh and 1,540mAh.
And they are neglecting our P990 which has similar specifications. They should have upgraded our phone first to kitkat which was their flagship phone first.They can not say it doesn't have hardware to support it becoz they themselves are releasing kitkat on same hardware.
BTW wats the point of releasing L40 when they had already release same spec phone few years back ?
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That L40 is dumb but no doubt like the L3 it will be a great kids phone.
But our P990 will not get love from LG mine is 2 years old now and it was the last of them to be seen here in New Zealand, most people will break or loose the phone by now why develop for such a small audeince, dont forget our phone only have about 384mb of ram and they do not support NEON instuction either it was meant to be over at 4.2 but TonyP and pengus got us a bit further.
Even if you look at the specs i dont think the L90 would be a good replacement for the P990 mainly because of the price im guessing it will be more than the Nexus 5 which cost now the same amount as the P990 cost me two years ago.
The only thing I guess which create prob in devlopment of official kk is tegra 2.
I do have a 4x and lg has stated that 4x wont get any any further update cause it has tegra 3 and is stuck at jellybean forever!
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nvidia drivers are closed source and they do not update the drivers any more - and the tegra2 does not even support neon-instructions - thats why LG stopped developing
and because the phone now really is too old - i mean, a 3 year old smartphone is already a dinosaur, what other company still develops updates for such old phones?
my next phone will definitely have NO nvidia chip in it, and will be manufactured by sony because of their full open source approach.
akash.mahadeshwar said:
The only thing I guess which create prob in devlopment of official kk is tegra 2.
I do have a 4x and lg has stated that 4x wont get any any further update cause it has tegra 3 and is stuck at jellybean forever!
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i bought O2x to my girlfriend last summer,and that was BIG mistake, she need phone,fast,and...luckily we have our developers that make awesome stuff but still, and than i bought to my self O4x, another mistake...i think that that is last tegra device i EVER buy,this is just unforgivable, devices with a lot potential don't receive updates that they deserve ,i won't put so much blame on lg, because htc one x even won't receive kitkat, because of nvidia(nvidia shame on you,you better stay away from smartphone scene,just make people angry) ...except if K1 go open source,than maybe can be an option for buying,but after that i doubt....almost dead in my book,just sad
akash.mahadeshwar said:
The only thing I guess which create prob in devlopment of official kk is tegra 2.
I do have a 4x and lg has stated that 4x wont get any any further update cause it has tegra 3 and is stuck at jellybean forever!
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In a nutshell, LG + nVIDIA = terrible mistake, total disaster for android.
This is probably the worst combination in android world. LG for its extremely slow system updates schedules and nVIDIA for dropping the support for past SoCs too soon and won't even bother releasing proper documentation or blobs for futher development.
F. Gacrux said:
In a nutshell, LG + nVIDIA = terrible mistake, total disaster for android.
This is probably the worst combination in android world. LG for its extremely slow system updates schedules and nVIDIA for dropping the support for past SoCs too soon and won't even bother releasing proper documentation or blobs for futher development.
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well the annoying thing is that they both are the best companies. LG and nVidia did the gratest things, LG invented the first dual-core phone (our O2X) and the first 4K TV, nvidia invented first 3D Vision on PC's and so on..... They are grate companies but when it comes to who gives less f***ks LG and nVidia are the first :laugh: and they are terrible at software developing. :crying:
Agreed, I have owned my last nvvidia phone.
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The only direct responsible for this situation is nVidia. Those who were in active in this forum the last couple of years know perfectly well how it all went down and, even though it was LG the one who should push updates for the o2x, its always been nVidia that obstructed development efforts due to its notorious closed-source policy. In the end of the day, its perfectly understandable for a company to stop supporting a 3-year old device, considering the silly pace in which mobile tech evolves. Keep in mind that the o2x hasnt been the worst of examples in this area. Even though it still holds the record for longest update holdout (16 months to go from Android 2.2 to 2.3 - even mentioned in Wikipedia) it has seen 2 major OS updates: 2.2 to 2.3 to 4.0. Direct competition doesn't differ too much in this sense (SGS 2.3 to 4.0.4 to 4.1, HTC Thunderbolt 2.2 to 2.3 to 4.0) with some 'flagships' that year seeing much less (see Droid Bionic). We should really be grateful that some amazing devs happened to join this forum and dedicated lots of time and knowledge to maintain this phone and get it where it is right now. It's been some time that i dont use my o2x (passed it on to my gf - still runs great) and moved to an iP4s due to Google's frustrating incapability to write a decent low latency audio API (Apple is the undisputed king there). So even though im not planning to move back to Android before this embarrassing situation is resolved, Im absolutely convinced that ill never, ever buy an nVidia powered phone again, no matter what they come up with. So yes, once more: nVidia, F**k You!
oh no
Not only lg even htc ndivia powered device such htc one x didnt get kitkat update, they have twice power engine than o2x. I think owner of htc one x cry louder than us thanx to nvidia :crying:
This isn't the first time that LG cheats his users.
Just remember the Optimus 3D updates...
Listen to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36yNWw_07g
Linus Torvals complained about Nvidia because of the lack of their support for Linux and Android. I think it was a good opinion that he said what he thinks about that company. For computers, AMD and ATI have a great support for Linux, which is really nice. Too bad I noticed too late what a fault it was to buy an Nvidia pc, too.
BS86 said:
my next phone will definitely have NO nvidia chip in it, and will be manufactured by sony because of their full open source approach.
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Does that mean that you'll get a lot of more or less bug free custom ROMs for them? I'm looking forward to buy a phone which will have better custom ROM support in the future without all those nasty bugs which are related to closed source drivers and hidden hardware information like with this phine (camera bug in 4.4, bluetooth call bugs, gps fix problems caused by software). I am really tired because of all that. I never found any very smooth ROM without all those problems.
cRaZy-bisCuiT said:
Does that mean that you'll get a lot of more or less bug free custom ROMs for them? I'm looking forward to buy a phone which will have better custom ROM support in the future without all those nasty bugs which are related to closed source drivers and hidden hardware information like with this phine (camera bug in 4.4, bluetooth call bugs, gps fix problems caused by software). I am really tired because of all that. I never found any very smooth ROM without all those problems.
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every manufacturer unfortunately has some closed source parts, some more, some less, but some can't be avoided - but yes, sony has the best open source approach and therefore the best custom rom base

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