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[Xoom General] Digital Man:
Still waiting here in NY. Was excited for a minute when I saw the update icon, then realized it was only for flash 10.3...oh well.
[Xoom General] rog32:
Still waiting in Michigan
[Xoom General] Trumps:
Still waiting in AZ.
[Xoom General] dubsjw27:
Just out of curiosity, is it possible we are missing the update if us 3g owners are leaving the wifi on and hence not connected to verizons network? Long shot I know, but I think I will turn off wifi overnight tonight. I know my xoom is connected to wifi 23 hours of the day during the week.

Sent from my Xoom
[Xoom General] elcap373:
Wow, according to some estimates there are only a handfull of us that bought this thing. You'd think Moto/Google/Verizon would treat there few clients better!

In Seattle still waiting...
[Xoom General] mched:
Still waiting in California...
[Xoom General] stinkyjoe:
I'm in detroit, too. As if the indignity of living here wasn't enough! I haven't gotten the update and more importantly haven't gotten the invite, and I'm way more interested in the invite!
[Xoom General] mobilehavoc:
No. Its coming from Google so it doesn't matter. Wifi Xoom owners have already started getting the update. I'm hoping they do a big push tomorrow. Want to play with it over the weekend.
[Xoom General] ShinySideUpAZ:
both of my non-activated 3g units are sitting in Arizona without an update. They are on my wifi 27/4.
[Xoom General] kfeltes:
Owned mine for 4 hours - no update yet.. Wth? This thing is going back. :-)
[Xoom General] rjoudrey:
If it's first come first served it will take about 3 years to get yours! :o
[Xoom General] luckie19:
impatiently waiting, web browsing pissing me off cus of the leek.
[Xoom General] p-slim:
This is so unfair :(
[Xoom General] elcap373:
Just got updated here in Seattle
[Xoom General] nonstop14:
Guess they released another batch. Seems to happen around midnight eastern. Just forced mine to check again. Nada. :mad:
[Xoom General] slack04:
Did you use the "change the date" trick, or did it just happen? Very jealous...
[Xoom General] p-slim:
Just got updated. Did the time trick and it finally worked. Cali
[Xoom General] coldbeverage:
I have the 3g version but only use it in wifi. No update yet. Am I screwed?
[Xoom General] slack04:
Nope. Most of us still haven't gotten the update yet. Google is playing this one pretty careful (in case there's a problem, they don't want to brick everyone's devices all at once). Can't say I blame them, but by now it should be pretty apparent. Meh. What can we do but wait...
[Xoom General] Skully1983:
North Palm Beach, FL.

Purchased mine day one at Verizon. No update yet. Really looking forward to the built in USB host functionality. Should be cool to see what some of the developers create now that you will not need to be rooted for it to work.
[Xoom General] elcap373:
Are they doing this one Zoom at a time? User 48, OK now user 49, download complete, OK now user 50.....

For Gods sake just push the damn release all button!
[Xoom General] uultramann:
Also In Seattle.

No update yet. :mad:
[Xoom General] CEOGUY:
I'm on 3g and still waiting....
[Xoom General] airchicken:
Will there also be an update for German users soon? Or is it just for those US guys...
[Xoom General] lordao:
Got mine in the US but I am in the UK now, still no update for me even after trying the date trick.

Lordao
[Xoom General] JasonU:
3:25 am Central time, I just woke up early and checked. It was waiting for me. Upgrading now...
[Xoom General] Croolis:
mine updated ..

this morning at 8am update was waiting :) popped up automagically!

US Wifi-only Xoom in Malta (Europe)
[Xoom General] ariurban:
I have a 3g Verizon xoom completely stock in Calif. And still no update yet :confused:

Tried the date change/reboot method to no avail.

hope I'm doing it correctly..
[Xoom General] Mooem7:
No update or music beta invite here in Orlando, FL. Wishing I had an available host cable. :(
[Xoom General] BiGMERF:
I did the date trick late last night and it came through
[Xoom General] ruinah:
no update here for me (on any of the Xooms we have). I did the set date forward, nothing. Rebooted, etc. Hopefully it gets updated today at some point. I've had devices that do OTA for years and have never been in the last wave of any of those updates. I even signed up for the MFN the other day hoping that may help.
[Xoom General] mpmorph:
Still waiting in Clearwater, FL. Mine is stock. I've been holding back on rooting the darn thing, buy my patience is running thin!!
[Xoom General] Testingchip:
No go so far for me in AL. Unlocked but unrooted 3g.
[Xoom General] slowrey:
Still nothing in Austin, TX. Ordered from Motorola launch day and on Verizon's 3G network.
[Xoom General] RadDudeTommy:
I completely agree
[Xoom General] mixpix405:
AL here too, no update yet.

Fully stock 3G xoom, no 3G service.

**jams thumbs in eyes**
[Xoom General] LIH:
still nothing
[Xoom General] fauxreal:
No love here in Minnesota either.
[Xoom General] Arun01:
Nothing here in Georgia either.3g Xoom too.this sucks!!!
[Xoom General] ruinah:
What i don't get are the arguments about bricking the devices, so it's a slow rollout. I haven't seen any threads anywhere on bricked 3.1 updates (other than maybe people who rooted and didn't know what they were doing). I just don't get the holdup.
[Xoom General] djtullox:
Nada in Chicago. 3G bought on launch day w/ data plan.
[Xoom General] slack04:
I'm with you mostly, but it's still only been 48 hours. It's irrationally cautious, but i'd guess that google ran the numbers and decided that it would cost them less in the long run to be careful than to pay for an insurance policy on a few hundred-thousand $600-$800 devices. I agree with the folk who say that google should have set it up so that power users could load it, but I assume they want to make hacking a more difficult process (and releasing tools to load the firmware from a PC would surely be easier to hack...). I think their biggest mistake was announcing the update.

Also: still waiting with stock, unactivated 3g in oregon...
[Xoom General] DANOinSD:
no update

Nada here from so Cal either, been trying the date trick excessively, but nothing. Got my 3g late in april.
[Xoom General] Booh72:
In so far Ukraine XOOM 3G with stock still waiting too...
[Xoom General] mobilehavoc:
This sucks. Having it by weekend looks less and less likely. :-(
[Xoom General] inspiron41:
Too bad google hasn't figure out how push out the updates faster than apple. That would certainly make a lot of android users happier.
[Xoom General] ddavtian:
San Francisco bay area, next to Google offices, stock 3G, bought on the launch day, no update.
[Xoom General] slack04:
You should go walk next door and bring them our "push the button, google" petition.
[Xoom General] SquareBare:
Still waiting in NC.

BTW can anyone tell me why the hell our worthless US carriers are pushing out this update instead of it coming directly from Google itself?

I thought this was MY Xoom, not Verizon's XOOM. Why do they have to have all the updates go through them?
[Xoom General] Sergeantfour:
I was under the impression from my conversation with the Verizon people that the update is manufacturer released. So either they lied, Google is releasing it, or Google gave it to Moto to release.
[Xoom General] slack04:
It does go through google. This is the line that comes up in the logcat (after doing the date-change trick):

I/CheckinTask( 247): Checkin success: https://android.clients.google.com/checkin (1 requests sent)
[Xoom General] atoy74:
Wonderful. I guess I'm relegated to watching videos of 3.1 until I get my update - http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/13/android-3-1-on-the-motorola-xoom-hands-on-video/
[Xoom General] skullvet:
I am pretty surprised that it is still being rolled out so fricken slow. There haven't been any reports of major issues at all. Still have not received mine, 4g from Motorola.
[Xoom General] Lobout:
No luck here in beantown either
[Xoom General] bikrmd86:
nothing here in Connecticut
[Xoom General] mobilehavoc:
Don't have it yet either but I noticed my Xoom is now checking for updates every 2 hours or so instead of just twice a day. Hopefully its gearing up to get it soon.
[Xoom General] skullvet:
As I crossed midnight eastern time I forced a check and am finally getting the update. Now I just need my google music invite and I will be good to go.
[Xoom General] ShinySideUpAZ:
Just got the update on both my Xoom's. Also the date change trick does work.
[Xoom General] Botero:
Same here. Sweet. About time!
[Xoom General] bguzmanz2:
the change date does work, i just changed the date to monday and it immediately said there was an update. it was freaky but cool.=) downloading now
[Xoom General] Sergeantfour:
I'm getting it, too! I think this may be the final push.
[Xoom General] fatimusprime:
Got it too, FINALLY!
[Xoom General] Ryououki:
Finally got it as well!!
[Xoom General] bikrmd86:
just got mine too
[Xoom General] darkcr0ss:
I have just received my update ahhhh excited! !!
[Xoom General] Coldheat1906:
Just got mine also!!!!!!!
[Xoom General] damoah:
Me neither. I keep checking but nothing yet
[Xoom General] lordao:
Just got mine

Lordao
[Xoom General] khov07:
Just got mine right now, and I can already notice significant performance tweaks and lots of little UI tweaks as well. Nice!
[Xoom General] slack04:
Looks like they opened the floodgates!

I'm getting a T-shirt: I survived updatepocalypse and all I got were these lousy resizable Widgets!
[Xoom General] mixpix405:
Finally got my update!

Now I've got Google Music, Movies, AND Android 3.1

That, friends, is what they call an Androidgasm.

I do notice the sarcasm, but just for discussion's sake: Lousy? I LOVE the resizable widgets! Makes my "email and calendars" homescreen page look so fresh and so clean-clean.
[Xoom General] Pihrana:
Got mine too. South West Michigan. Looks like Friday 23.59 EST was the roll out for me... hoping all Xoom owners have got this update as it certainly makes a very nice improvement :-) Finally happy...
[Xoom General] CEOGUY:
Just. Got mines 30 minutes ago
[Xoom General] LIH:
its not sarcasm, its a play on an old t-shirt tag line: "my [family member] went to [vacation spot] and all i got was this lousy t-shirt"

...and i woke up to my fresh update. so happy...
[Xoom General] Mizex:
Just finished my update! It was waiting for me when I woke up.
[Xoom General] mobilehavoc:
Same here. Loving the update so far.
[Xoom General] slowrey:
Mine was waiting for me when I woke up in Austin, TX.
[Xoom General] mpmorph:
In clearwater, FL updated this morning at 2am. Still figuring out what the fuzz is about. Flash works fine in my dolphin HD browser but not in the stock browser. The movie thing is cool but most of those movies are in my Netflix queue, I am not paying for that crap. Google should have challenged Netflix and offer a monthly service.
[Xoom General] Lobout:
Got mine this morning
[Xoom General] pecosROB:
Got mine on Saturday when I went out of town. I wonder if anyone in my area has it since I got mine while away from home...
[G Tablet General] forgiventhief:
Viewsonic announced it's Honeycomb tablet @ 7 inches. Which means they have the HC source code... which means they hate the gtab community.... because we don't get it, even for modding purposes.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/12/viewsonic-7x-shrinks-honeycomb-to-7-inches-for-the-tiny-handed/
[G Tablet General] adampdx:
They don't hate the Gtab community. Don't try to anthropomorphize a corporation because you will only end up sad and depressed. All Viewsonic wants is to make money by putting out products and then putting out more products. We are numbers, not faces.
[G Tablet General] forgiventhief:
Fair enough. I suppose I am a bit idealistic that they would continue to support something older. Perhaps more my frustration is the lack of source code when it could be given... but that it an entitlement mentality I suppose.
[G Tablet General] snapz54:
stop caving because one person says something!!!!

and to the user that commented to the OP, thought the info you stated (numbers, not faces) is true, STOP ACTING LIKE IT'S ACCEPTABLE.

To many 300 to 500 dollars is a lot of money and the company has a moral obligation to support it for a reasonable amount of time. This was in no way accomplished by viewsonic. Horrible business ethics and I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER VIEWSONIC PRODUCT. you vote with your purchasing power and viewsonic lost mine, my family's and my friend's votes.

as an aside, I suspect seeing all the progress made viewsonic might try to "save the day" and eventually release something for our g tab honeycomb flavored. I'm not fooled and you shouldn't be either. Your support should be for the devs like roebeet. If your running honeycomb and you haven't donated to him or the adamdevs you should feel worse than viewsonic.

vote with your money, I VOTE FOR OUR DEV COMMUNITY!

(before I get any posts about talking about donation, donation doesn't imply 3,000 dollars. Even if it's only a dollar, it says something.)
[G Tablet General] schettj:
You do realize viewsonic just slapped their name on the Malta, right? You're mad at the wrong company.
[G Tablet General] goodintentions:
Doesn't matter, though. As soon as VS slapped their name on it, they've adopted it.

The way VS is treating the gtab is worse than just numbers. They have intentionally ignored it, not giving it any press or anything at all. There isn't even a direct link to the gtab from their main website.

The gtab is doing way better than other "real" VS devices. It's the number 1 seller on amazon for goodness sake. I'm still baffled why VS isn't putting more energy into the gtab. It's like they don't even wanna mention it.
[G Tablet General] zack407:
I think it is a way to get more people to move to their ViewPad line and off of the GTab. I will not switch to their new line just because they put 3.0 on it. Our Devs will get a port over to the GTab and it will blow their new line out of the water. Shady tactics if you ask me.
[G Tablet General] schettj:
But they don't have any code... they have no development resources. They have a brand name. Whooo.

Seriously.
[G Tablet General] schettj:
Yes, it was for the week it was on blowout $280 clearance. Look, it's a great bit of first gen tegra2 tablet hardware with a dreadful screen that would make it unsellable at any price other than "half of what everyone else charges".

That's dropping under $200-$225 now, which is probably well below the breakeven point. So enjoy it, and support the hackers hacking away, but forget about any serious support for it from VS. You'll be much happier.
[G Tablet General] TJEvans:
yes, the code for our G-tabs belongs to Malata, but so does the code for the Vega and the Adam. They are rumored to be at least getting official GB roms WITH hardware acceleration. VS is to blame for not providing us with that as well. If they do, but are keeping it hush-hush, I'll change my opinion.

Of course, Vega and Adam are running on the new 1.2 bootloader (always have been). Now VS teases us with an update that they pull, that is on the 1.2 bootlaoder? In essence, VS provided our devs, very briefly, with the tools needed to port any updates from Adam or Vega. So, while not actually giving us what we've requested, they are letting other companies, and third party developers do their work for them.

It may be that Malata has abandoned VS for their lack of support for the G-Tab, so Malata cut them off from future development releases.
[G Tablet General] adampdx:
I didn't say it's acceptable. In fact it makes me just as mad as it seems to have made you and I have made my opinion on that fact known many times on this board and the Nvidia developer board. I'm just saying that the people who want these updates are currently in the minority. I agree that we should get updates but we have to realize that might not happen. In fact I'd much rather use homegrown software from the fine developers on XDA, Cyanogen, and any other dev website that's working for better things for the Gtab than anything Viewsonic/Malata/Nvidia puts out anyhow.

This whole frequently updated software thing is new to the world. I mean think about Apple and Microsoft. Microsoft updated like once every five years. Apple was better, but in both cases users were made to pay for the updates. Now we buy these devices and expect free software updates indefinetly? Sounds good to me, but what about these companies? Where is the money for them? What incentive to they have to churn out more software at no charge to the customer? I'm just saying that there are two sides to this argument and both should be represented.
[G Tablet General] schettj:
What color is the sky in your world?

The problem with Android is exactly the problem Google is trying to get a handle on....

Fragmentation.

When you leave updates up to the the hardware manufactures, you're guaranteed to screw your customers. Because the only way the HW guys make any money at all is by having the customer buy new hardware to get the shiny new features.

Hopefully Google will be able to beat these guys into submission, but I do feel for them... they thought they were getting in on a great thing with a cheap OS for their hardware, and instead they were turned into commodity manufacturers delivering Google ad revenue to Google. Ah well.
[G Tablet General] TJEvans:
But it's these updates that custom rom devs use to get the information they need to make their roms. If we ever get official hardware acceleration it will be bundled into one of the officially released updates. The drivers can then be added to existing roms, or future roms. The bottom line is that we NEED official updates if we are to ever get the G-tablet to reach it's full potential.

These companies, namely VS knows that they put out a crap product, in regard to software. In fact, they, at one point, directed their customers HERE for support for their device. They released a product in which the hardware outclassed the software. What we paid for was hardware, plain and simple. only recently have people actually said they're using stock firmware and it doesn't suck. Prior to the latest updates (3588 and later) I would suspect that everyone that bought a G-tablet, including myself, KNEW that they were going to have to flash a custom Rom. Just a few days ago, another 850+ G-tabs were sold on Woot, again. At one point it was the top seller on Amazon. VS has to save a little face and continue to support their software, and yes, provide updates.

Fortunately for VS, Notion Ink seems more interested in updating their product for us...of course, VS had to sneak in the 1.2 dev branch that's shared by the Adam.
[G Tablet General] snapz54:
some good points have been made, but none of the ones supporting VS have been valid.

slapping your name on something instantly slaps responsibility on you, this "passing the buck" mentality is a big part of whats wrong with the world. Everyone can blame someone else and nothing gets done.

The consequences in some small part are now realized. Myself and others will not support viewsonic in any capacity in the future. Actions like this catch up with you, VS is a horrible company that saw an opportunity to make a quick buck without a moments thought of how it might affect anyone.

stop supporting these type of actions, they are wrong.
[G Tablet General] Zaphod-Beeblebrox:
So you bought an $800.00 xoom?
[G Tablet General] schettj:
That would be "don't buy the product"

Since I wanted a device I can experiment with, and didn't want to spend more than $280, this was the only device available.

I bought it knowing what it was. An orphan device with no significant Vendor support.
[G Tablet General] ninditsu:
i thought google said they aren't going to release honeycomb SDK? so doesn't that mean manufacturers are not allowed to release it?

but i guess if we buy the next VS tablet. we can port a honeycomb rom from that to the gtab.
[G Tablet General] Papa Midnight:
You're confusing SDK (Software Development Kit) with Source Code. That said, up to this point, Google has been reluctant to release the Source Code for Honeycomb for - what I can only assume is - the purpose of reducing hardware fragmentation and QA purposes.
[G Tablet General] adampdx:
Ha! :) Always good to get a laugh out of these heated discussions. As far as fragmentation goes, I agree. It's a problem that Google created and now they're trying to fix. I'm not sure I can imagine a world where there are several hundred different pieces of tech floating around from different manufactures that all use software provided by a singular, separate company. Oh, wait...that sounds like WINDOWS. He he... I wouldn't dare compare our beloved Google to the likes of Microsoft. Never. :)
[G Tablet General] xanadu1979:
Thank you. These things are on clearance for a reason. A lot of people here have unrealistic expectations. Companies don't make money by pouring resources into devices that nobody bought. I remember buying an Atari Lynx back in the day and only had it for about a year before everybody stopped making games for it and they were pulled off the shelves. I never once thought that Atari hated me.
[G Tablet General] linuxboxsolution:
I don't understand why you bash viewsonic so bad here OK there stock from sucks but they do support there product there last update was only least month it takes time to develop a quality full release as you see most cuapstome ROMs don't make it past Beta before going to the next android release If it was simple everyone would be building roms
[G Tablet General] TJEvans:
At this point, the only developers NOT building Roms are Viewsonic/Us Merchants/ Malata, what have you. I don't know the specifics of their workflow, but somebody in the pipeline should be updating the G-Tablet faster than "amateur" rom makers are on this and other sources. As was mentioned, the Adam is rumored ot be getting an official GB update sometime soon, that includes hardware acceleration. They are part of the Malata brand line, and directly portable to the G-Tablet. Which means that this could also be true for us, but there hasn't been a peep from VS about this. b If one Malata product can get it, then it's logical to think that all compatible ones can as well.

VS's last update was a month ago, but it was also PULLED after 24 hours. They released something to shut us up, then took it away just as quickly. If copies of it hadn't been saved, who knows if the HC port would even be a reality now. Suspiciously, what they did provide was a way to port roms from other tablets that use the new and sometimes hated 1.2 bootloader.
[G Tablet General] goodintentions:
It's the total media blackout that makes us think VS hates us. That update a month ago was pulled 24 hours after it was put up.
[G Tablet General] Metal_in_Silk:
I doubt they bother to hate us, seems to me they just flat don't give a rat's a$$.

Imho.

It is what it is. I love my gtab (thanks to the devs) and if I had to do it over again I'd still buy it in a skinny minute (knowing what I know now).

Another product from Viewsonic? Not likely. This level of support really is unacceptable.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D3luSi0n4L:
Hey I see that Samsung has started rolling out Gingerbread to Galaxy Tabs through Kies, but is Sprint updated? They do not support Kies so will it be offered as an OTA update?

Thanks,

D3luSi0n4L
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] masbret:
Apparently, the update has started to roll in Europe (Italy) but not in the US yet. My guess is that the US phone companies will need time to add their software and UIs to 2.3 before updating their customers. We might not see this update for months...
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D3luSi0n4L:
Hmm alright well thanks for the reply! Sucks to see the quick update experience ruined by Sprint ID in my case. I'm just using my tab over Wifi so I can't even use ID =P

Anyway thanks again!

Sincerely,

D3luSi0n4L