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[G2 General] Aja82:
Maybe a stupid question but.... What so great and special about 4.4 and why are people already bashing LG?

The videos I've seen and the personal testing of Nexus 5 with 4.4 did leave me with an pure "meh...." statement. The Dalvik vs ART is'nt even noticible yet imho although I guess it will be more so in the future. That what was I was mostly wanting to test/see.

The "rom" itself was alright.... Nothing more nothing less. Much of the LG skin/implementation is better/more practical though in my opinion....

Just my thoughts... :cyclops:
[G2 General] RedMist:
Virtually Nothing.. My Nexus 7 updated yesterday, and virtually no difference.

Turned on ART. No noticeable difference.
[G2 General] Xenovias:
Number :o

Higher number is cool :eek:

4.2 LG is fine, lot of cool feature here.

But 4.4 will come to this phone indeed,

Can't wait 4.4 LG with ton's of feature and 4GB size stock rom :laugh:
[G2 General] SuperSport:
You can find something to bash about EVERY OEM, but each has their strengths and weaknesses. They all fail on updates at one time or another, and they all succeed at one time or another.

As far as what is better about 4.4? It was Super Tiny to flash. I hope this translates to more storage space and quicker running speeds. I'm running AnTuTu Benchmark now. On CleanRom XE I was getting 35500ish.

EDIT: On 4.4 I'm getting 30352! :rolleyes: Strange, because it feels faster. Maybe without all the Eye Candy it runs faster. Maybe with the Eye Candy put back in by LG it will run slower? Hmmm.... Will see... I still like higher numbers. ;)

EDIT, EDIT: I don't know that there is ANY tweaking done yet on this ROM either. Maybe with some mods, it will run faster too. I assume CleanRom was modded quite a bit.
[G2 General] eggman89:
Even Samsug Galaxy S3, a phone released 18 months ago, is on 4.3 right now. Yes, a last generation phone is on higher ANdroid that LG's flagship.

And Samsung has promised 4.4 update for SIII.

http://www.sammobile.com/2013/11/22...-january-s-iii-and-note-ii-before-april-2014/

So Samsung has updated its phone from 4.0 to 4.4 . 4 iterations . And here we are not even sure if our flagship phone will get one version of update. WTF LG? Wtf
[G2 General] InfinitiGuy:
The S3 I own never got 4.3, it's still at 4.12. The G2 has been out for maybe 2 months? I'm sure it will get 4.4 which right now is only available for the Nexus line officially in the next few of months. I just moved from a Nexus 5 to the G2 and honestly I don't see why everyone is so concerned with 4.4. It's not that big of a change and it looks like the LG UI already has some of the nice features of 4.4 like transparent navigation and notification bars. I am really liking the G2 UI over the plain Nexus 5 4.4 stock look.
[G2 General] blair287:
Did you build that yourself or is it uploaded somewhere?
[G2 General] desalesouche:
did myself
[G2 General] hellot1M:
When I went to the lg city tour on the 8th they told us they have a 4.4 update being tested internally and will have them pushed to the carrier before the end of the month. At that point its up to the carrier when the update gets released. He said for sprint we should see 4.4 before or during Q1 next year. As early has christmas

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BTW they are testing the 4.4 update on both the optimus g and g2
[G2 General] NaveenKumarXDA:
^^^^ Without carrier ? I think it should be coming out in next month like international version.

What a joke. Keep dreaming
[G2 General] GeknGekn:
It's already confirmed that the G2 will get KiKat within the coming month + - 15 days so why are you people still behaving like spoiled retards? If you want to have a 100% reliable update schedule you can start believing in God cause it just ain't gonna happen. At least give LG the benefit of doubt and start mouthing off after Christmas. By the way I'm on KitKat now and yes I'm one of those who prefers vanilla and it's freaking great, I prefer the G2 now over the N5 :)
[G2 General] azharisadig:
Just found this

LG G2 Android 4.4 update now via custom ROM

Source: http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2013/11/22/lg-g2-android-4-4-update-now-via-custom-rom/#readsoruce_top
[G2 General] simon_lefisch:
Already posted that a few pages back. Still a few bugs, but overall a great ROM. MMS not functioning atm however it's being worked on.
[G2 General] azharisadig:
Thank you... Will post updates later, this thread moving very fast...
[G2 General] Ltilt2:
Everything works for me, no issues here. I'm LG800 don't know if that makes a difference. Did you check your apn settings?

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Everything works for me, no issues here. I'm LG800 don't know if that makes a difference. Did you check your apn settings? Also you might want to check Houstonn's thread in the Original development forum.
[G2 General] simon_lefisch:
How did you get gummy to work on your phone? It's only for vs980 (vzw).
[G2 General] Intub8:
Moto x has it already.
[G2 General] InfinitiGuy:
And Motorola is owned by who again?
[G2 General] AL_IRAQI:
+1

Now we are 3 :D
[G2 General] mhoss48:
I dont two, but i freaking want open GL3.0. gaming is sure behind both Xperia Z1 and Note 3 on the G2.

Sent from my LG G2
[G2 General] therethere:
Two solid reasons why i want kikat. there are more.
[G2 General] Xenovias:
Count me in

Custom based on stock + xposed + custom kernel is enough for me.

Trim? Art? I didn't see any noticeable performance when i compared to nexus 4.

Ok n4 little bit faster about milisecond, but it's because running stock android
[G2 General] :
+1, Now we are 4

Google needs to up the game with a real change

I do love lg's stock rom, its awesome for me
[G2 General] Dri94:
Kitkat was an incremental change. Google doesn't need to up its game. It is the game. Ios7 was playimg catchup with android. Windows is gaining but not a contendor and has a different target market. Kitkat is all that it was supposed to be. An update to let lower end phones have the newest os without a huge cost to performance. It had a lot of under the hood improvements that some want but others won't notice. It was what it's meant to be.
[G2 General] compumasta:
Even if the next version is 4.5 and not 5.0 that will likely be fine. Google knows they will have to change the architecture of Android going forward as has been discussed here. 5.0 would be the place to do it, ideally. That would explain the more incremental updates of late as well.
[G2 General] player911:
LG has a 4.4 rom on the G2 and Nexus (AOSP) versions.

I don't see any official 4.4 love from any other manufacturer (HTC or Samsung) for their phones yet outside of the Developer Editions, in which Google Updates.

I don't see how any manufacturer is any better then any at this point. Samsung released a 4.4 in Poland for the Note 3 (no carrier branding) and HTC released an update for the HTC One in France that also lacks carrier branding.

Thus far we have 4.4 leaks from HTC, Samsung, Sony, and LG... with none officially released outside of Developer Editions (Developer Edition of G2 = Nexus 5).

Why is everyone in a tizzy? Carrier branded devices are probably looking at March, like LG said.

Here's an update written 10 hours ago about where the noted companies stand on their updates:

http://www.knowyourmobile.com/andro...id-44-kitkat-htc-samsung-sony-lg-update-plans
[G2 General] android404:
There's about one billion android users and less then six million xda members. That's 0.6%. And believe me, of the remaining 99.4%, less then 0.1% care about which android version their phone will be running half a year from when they buy it. I bet most regular users couldn't tell you which version they're running right now.
[G2 General] Perilla_:
Why are you here then?

An example, with 4.4 apps have better access to the current notifications, and apps like lightflow works better, a lot better.

Another one, if an app is in full screen and the notification bar is hidden, you can swipe down and get notification bar.

I want 4.4.
[G2 General] prking07:
Check again, samsung started to roll out 4.4 for their Note 3,
[G2 General] Xenovias:
1.Because i want to post something ;)

2.Didn't use lightflow so no comment

3.Something like this?

Afaik even 4.1.2 or ICS (not sure) LG can do this too

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[G2 General] votinh:
My brother currently on the Sammy SGS4 AT&T and he curses Sammny everyday for not release the official 4.4.2. He said "this is his last Sammy, next would be HTC or LG"

Other brother owns a HTC One and he constantly curses HTC for not let him have the 4.4.2 soon enough. He said "HTC is dump and can't keep up with others like Samsung or LG"

I told them a month after getting my G2, I got an update from D80010d to D80010o. They love LG but I told them "there are too many whiners like you guys on the LG side"
[G2 General] trunks527:
Been running a modded cm11 on my G2. Runs great.
[G2 General] Perilla_:
I can't do that right now :/ Anyway it was just another example.

About lightflow.. How you set your notification led colors?
[G2 General] bobsie41:
HTC released kitkat on the developer edition in November officially. The developer edition has HTC sense installed and has nothing to do with the ge version (Google edition ). ;)
[G2 General] prking07:
The swipe down notification. Bar on full screen apps is on stock lg 4.2 roms out of the box, no need for 4.4.
[G2 General] Perilla_:
Wow, working now, maybe I didn't swype "fast enough".
[G2 General] votinh:
So where did you get the idea of 4.4 ROM would have this option and not the previous one?
[G2 General] p2cactus:
Finally a reality check. If you want to read about how slow Samsung is go to the S4 forums. If you want to read about how HTC is slow check out the One forums. This is life on carrier branded, custom versions of Android.

Sent from my Sprint LG G2.
[G2 General] prking07:
Like i stated before, samsung is already pushing 4.4. Doesnt matter anyways, 4.4 doesnt bring anything groundbraking. Dont mind having it, but wouldnt get upset by waiting.
[G2 General] ripbabey:
I understand why everyone would be upset waiting for 4.4. I had my og up until 2 days ago. When I gave them my og for the g2 I felt like I gave them a better phone. Not in terms of hardware but in terms of all the features and on kitkat. I was using beanstalk 4.4 . So now I feel horrible sitting on 4.2 . I have flashed some of the roms on here and they are all buggy. So I'm stuck at stock which is not a big deal. I expected this cause I got the og last January and there was nothing out. No one was doing anything till jellybean rolled out and than it was like finding buried treasure in the Rom market. So I'm betting that once kitkat hits a g2 devs will be all over it and be happy: -)
[G2 General] matheus_sc:
Dont have all of kitkat, art not present, no great thing come With kitkat for touchwiz
[G2 General] gm007:
http://www.christiantoday.com/artic...till.waiting.lg.g2.confirmed.for.q1/35486.htm
[G2 General] jiteshj:
I think this thread is for kitkat for G2 and not for Note 3 or S4

So stick on the topic
[G2 General] RayTrue04:
It is but when you get ppl who start pointing at other manufacturers to defend LG's March timeline by saying false info like so is Samsung and HTC you will get those ppl who would point out facts of how wrong you guys are. Both Samsung and HTC are aiming to have 4.4 by the end of this month. Their only aiming at March for their older devices unlike LG who won't even be updating the LGOG although it's still a nice piece of hardware..
[G2 General] sergiubsergiu:
I think i read that OG will get the update and Also ogp so let's stop with the OT... And share any new news about the g2 update

Inviato dal mio LG-D802 utilizzando Tapatalk
[G2 General] misskiller:
I hate kitkat's some part of white style...

来自我的 LG-D802 上的 Tapatalk
[G2 General] bobsie41:
Not forgetting that LG couldn't be bothered to supply a 4.3 update.
[G2 General] Perilla_:
I thought I had it in my old nexus 4 with 4.4, but was earlier.

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I was using the white style since... 4.0? I feel as if google copied me lol

I never liked the turquoise style...
[G2 General] 4ex:
Is there a officia release date?
[G2 General] goodmamba:
Android has become a mature OS and also the LG's UX is so deep and optimised/customisable that any android update will have minimal impact in the overall perception of the user experience on this phone.

To be honest, except the white icons on the status bar and few apps with immersive view, no major changes are expected. Just chill out.
[G2 General] player911:
Yea it isn't a big deal. You can get immersive view and kitkat status bar icons now with root and Xposed without having to flash anything.
[G2 General] Dri94:
What exposed mod gives immersive view?
[G2 General] android404:
You can get immersive by hiding status and navbar and calling them with a swipe with "smart statusbar" and "Auto hide soft keys"
[G2 General] albsat:
I wonder if flex version will be getting kit kat before g2.
[G2 General] MarkyG82:
I'm not one to bi#ch and complain but that would suck.
[G2 General] Fir3blade:
Another reason for me not waiting for Kitkat is, that Xposed Framework isn't working with.

Via LG G2
[G2 General] vPro97:
Xposed works with kitkat, but doesn't work with ART.
[G2 General] Fir3blade:
Ah ok, then I got this wrong...

Then we should be safe, because it seems that ART isn't implemented in LGs KitKat update.

Via LG G2
[G2 General] Bramzzz:
Seems that LG has finally released KitKat for the masses, according to this article they've said the update for the International version will rolled out at the end of this month. Sorry, but th article is in Dutch

http://nl.hardware.info/nieuws/38625/lg-bevestigt-uitrol-van-android-44-kitkat-voor-g2
[G2 General] vPro97:
But that source relies on the tweet from Saudi Arabia which later was falsified.
[G2 General] happyantix:
Thats just quoting the same source that then took down the twitter post and reposted saying march
[G2 General] Bramzzz:
Sorry guys, just came across it and wanted to let you guys know... Every little news helps, too bad I was being trolled :crying:
[G2 General] vPro97:
Your contribution is appreciated ;)
[G2 General] player911:
Doesn't LG already have 4.4 OTA rolling out for the Korean model?

Meaning LG beat HTC, Samsung, and Sony to the punch.

The international rollout would be the second wave. 3rd wave probably getting pushed through to carrier phones.
[G2 General] Homero2:
Sorry for the intrusion, but I saw that LG has released sources par KitKat wing version Korea of the G2, and I seemed appropriate to communicate it in this thread.

[KitKat] LG releases sources LG-F320 | V20a & V20b
[G2 General] goodmamba:
Lg might release the Kitkat for LG G2 in the latest week of this month (January) according to International Business Times.

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/535406/20140122/lg-g2-android-4-kitkat.htm

Oddly enough, they don't cite any source.
[G2 General] 3ryce:
Lol. That would be surprising but I'm still banking on end of March.
[G2 General] geonahta:
"LG Saudi Arabia has given hints on the much awaited update timeline." As we know that source has revoked the rumor they started.
[G2 General] Perilla_:
Anyway, ART is an OPTION, you can use it or not.
[G2 General] mhoss48:
Translation: the update is coming in March as a deadline and it might come earlier.

Sent from my LG G2
[G2 General] Life Engineer:
This is my 1st post in here about this issue.

I know the phone is good on 4.2.2 and it works fast and well.

But that's not the issue here.

IMHO there are 2 issues here:

-1st: Why did LG release the phone on the first place on 4.2.2 while 4.3 was already out for like couple of months or more.

-2nd: Why other manufacturers are much faster at updating their devices than LG?

HTC one started with 4.1.2 and now it's already getting 4.4.2 and was already released long time before LG G2.

Samsung galaxy S4 started with 4.2.2 and now it's already getting 4.4.2 and was also already released long time before LG G2.

So you see what's happening here?

Both these examples that I gave were updated incrementally (4.3 and 4.4) while LG wanted to skip directly to 4.4. This means that LG G2 should have been updated to Kitkat a while ago.

I love my phone, but this is getting frustrating.

It's not the NEED for an update, it's the fact that you FEEL that you really own a flagship phone and that its manufacturer always CARE and make sure to provide you with a premium product and software.

I now feel like if LG really doesn't care about its customers and even about its own image!

How would they compete with Samsung or even HTC with such an attitude?!

Luckily the hardware resembles to Nexus 5 hardware so we can enjoy future updates of android (in case I kept the phone).

It is my first actual LG phone (besides Nexus 4) and might be the last...
[G2 General] skr_xd:
This is not new to LG. I had few LG flagship devices in past and it is true that they are the least supported and less updated comparing to HTC and Samsung. BUT, their software is less buggy especially comparing to Samsung's. I'm happy with that.
[G2 General] Mastrox:
Well, with 4.3 (not even 4.4) there is support for BLE and TRIMM. Is not so minimal for me...

The phone is great but i really miss the BLE, hope will be update soon :fingers-crossed:
[G2 General] matheus_sc:
I dont have any htc, but touchwiz is much more buggy, lag and worse, even With 4.3, i dont try 4.4 because i sell device before. Major thing dont come With 4.4 in touchwiz, art os not present.
[G2 General] Life Engineer:
Neither it will be available on LG too...
[G2 General] Sid_dominic56:
You say Samsung Galaxy S4 is already getting 4.4.2, its absolutely wrong. There has been a leak but no official kitkat release yet, my wife owns a Samsung Galaxy S4 and believe me I check all over the internet for any news about kitkat update for either LG G2 or S4 but sadly there is no update as of now.

As far as updates are concered LG have been the worst, I agree. We got a flagship phone and not even 1 major update since then. Whereas Galaxy S4 got 4.3 really soon after we got the device and now will probably get 4.4.2 before G2 does.

Don't talk about HTC about updates I hate them for that, I saw in your signature that you owned a Desire HD, so did I. I guess you remember they were going to give us ICS but then cancelled the update.

About the LG G2, its a great phone. LG has done everything they could with this phone to win a lot of customers(previously I hated LG) but now with the updates they seem to be doing everything possible to lose a lot of customers that they won. They haven't even updated LG G2 to kitkat and they are planning to release G3 in may, for f**k sake you released a phone 5 months ago which you didn't even update and you want to realease another one. Its a really terrible strategy.

I hope, not just LG but all of the major companies improve their software updates, it seems like all of them don't really care much about their customers once they sell their phones.
[G2 General] Life Engineer:
Well I agree on most of what you said except the fact that NOWADAYS HTC has the fastest updates!

They promised so when they released the HTC one and they are delivering their promises!

Imagine it was launcher on 4.1.2 and now it's getting 4.4.2 while we are still on 4.2.2 being launched before our G2!

THAT is AMAZING!

As I said, I agree the phone runs great but that's not the issue here!

In case HTC releases a good HTC one successor which hopefully some new SMART features like LG and samsung have done on their phones, I will be sold!
[G2 General] Sid_dominic56:
Yes you are right, Samsung and LG are not even close to the kind of premium quality HTC products deliver. I am talking about the overall experience. If I specifically talk about build quality then even Desire HD had superior build quality than S4, HTC has been known since beginig to give premium feel to their products even if its their lower-end phone.

Only reason I didn't get HTC One was that I knew another phone is coming pretty soon, most probably that one would set a new benchmark for another series of flagships. But common man now G3 is also coming soon, I just got G2 a month ago for the reason that nobody was expecting a new phone in the series to come from LG for at least 10-12 months.
[G2 General] youngpic48:
4.4 has been on the Korean G2 since beginning of January. Not much difference save the white icons and transparency with 3rd party launchers. Everything else looks and feels the same. Complaining about LG cause they don't update a flagship fast enough is crazy cause every OEM takes forever to update.
[G2 General] Cst79:
Really, the only reason LG would release a G3 is a psychological one, to make people buy because something new is out. Aside from the build quality (which I suspect will be a higher-end, possibly metal, finish) there is no new technology to be embedded in a high-end phone at this time, unlike the S4 and HTC One which are quite outdated. The G2 has the Snapdragon 800, optical image stabilization, a great screeen, the G3 will probably bump the processor speed a little and change the packaging and that's about it.
[G2 General] SquireSCA:
95% of the people screaming for the Kit Kat update, only want it so that they can brag to their friends that they have the "latest and greatest"... If you handed them a phone with Kit Kat and didn't tell them, most of them wouldn't even know that they had it. LOL
[G2 General] Sid_dominic56:
Yes, but still I expected to be using th latest phone from the company at least for another 10 months or so. Anyway, I will stick to the G2 for another 2 years at least. I love my phone. :)
[G2 General] Billy Madison:
yeah, force stopping helped a tad bit. but maybe if phone would lay idly more standby would eat up same amount of battery. I've used it for 5 ours.

so probably it is buggy and inefficient modem driver of LG for kitkat by now, that's why KK still is not available for international D802
[G2 General] kolembo:
Actually not looking forward to KitKat just yet. If it doesn't make a difference except to give more license to a few Google Apps to drain my battery further, why bother?

I am quite happy how things are at the moment - what's the one AFTER KitKat? Wake me then...
[G2 General] Billy Madison:
We should wait and see. If the upcoming update for Optimus G E975 will be 4.2.2 then indeed, G2 won't get other than 4.4 or 4.4.2. But if Optimus G will get 4.4 than in February '15 G2 will be updated to latest Android of '15

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I'd rather say 95% of Samsung fanboys screaming for the Kit Kat update only want it so that they can brag on the forums that their beloved Samsung is updating ROMs and other brands just "lags behind and lacks support and ignore customers and blablabla"

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He is Polish and stop being rude to some guys that don't speak native English. "LG czeba care" means "LG needs to care" I think
[G2 General] citytrader:
This a forum in english, nobody is rude if its asking for clarification of what it is written. Its time to learn english for someone that

wants to write in this kind of forums ;)
[G2 General] hamad138:
Does the f320 have 2600 or 3000 mah battery?
[G2 General] Billy Madison:
2610mAh
[G2 General] gm007:
Wrong forum.
[G2 General] ChrisM75:
Just a little word about things like TRIM and other additions made since 4.2.2..

Just because stock Android doesnt have it, it doesn't mean OEM phones dont. OEMs can add pretty much any feature they like at any time and some older phones already have TRIM support, its just that Google didnt add it natively to Android until 4.3. Does the G2? I don't know, but it might.