Verizon Wireless has released an update (EE4) for the Samsung Droid Charge with glitch fixes and improvements.
The most important fix is that Samsung Droid Charge owners will be able to create mobile hotspots, a feature that was lost in May.
The Samsung Droid Charge is part of the Verizon Awesome 4G-Threesome of LTE smartphones and is the only smartphone with a Super AMOLED touchscreen.
Features of the Samsung Droid Charge update include a better battery life for calls, call return, sending unwanted calls directly to voice mail, better 4G connections, enhanced browser, email/calendar sync improvements, GPS improvement and restoration of mobile hotspots capability.
Verizon refers to the update as a "mandatory system update." The software
size is 8.8MB and takes 2 to 5 minutes to download and 2.5 minutes to
install. You will receive s notice of the update, or you will not be
able to get the update over-the-air (OTA) while roaming.
As with
all Droid Updates, make sure that your Droid is at least 40% charged, and
back up your data first. You will not be able to make emergency calls
during the update.
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Here's the full changelog of the update:
- Improved battery life when placing a voice call.
- Easily return calls within the call log entry by pressing the phone icon.
- Outgoing calls from the Visual Voice Mail application will be placed properly.
- Pressing and holding the '1' key will automatically route the user to the Voice Mail service (*86).
- Audio has been adjusted to avoid 'No Audio' or 'Screeching Sounds.'
- Accurately detect and connect to the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE or 3G network.
- Enhanced browser performance.
- A new Email folder structure set up so that, when a subfolder exists under a current Email folder, an arrow will appear to the right of the folder icon. When a user touches the arrow, the folder system will expand to show all subfolders available for selection.
- When an Exchange password has been modified, the device will direct the user to the password screen to adjust the saved password accordingly.
- Improvements in the Email and Calendar sync.
- Restoration of Mobile Hotspot capability.
- When in USB Mass Storage mode (UMS), the Droid charge will be recognized immediately when plugged into a PC.
- Samsung Droid Charge recognizes ringtones purchased from the Verizon Wireless website.
- Improvements in GPS performance.