Android 2.3.4 Update for LG Optimus Black Now Available

For LG Optimus Black users who have been patiently awaiting an update, the Android 4.0 is not yet available. Instead, an update for Android 2.3 Gingerbread has started to roll out and is currently available in India and some parts of Europe. It won’t be too long before other markets will get the update too.

Once users get to update their smartphone’s OS, they will be using Android 2.3.4. While other competitors are already gearing up for the latest Android 4.0 OS, the Ice Cream Sandwich, the Optimus Black is still getting the Android 2.3 update. Even though it is a little outdated, it is still a lot better than Android 2.2 Froyo.

This LG Optimus Black update comes with a pretty decent line of bug fixes and some improvements on features such as widgets, shortcuts, active app management, camera geo-tagging ability, icons, updated calendar, app groups, better auto focus camera capability and more.

Most importantly, LG claims that this new update will promote a better power management on the units and will also provide compatibility with a wider scope of audio file formats such as MPEG 4, H.263 AVC, and AAC.

 

If you’re an LG Optimus Black user, what do you think about the update?

SOURCES ITProPortal


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  • Kris

    Im in New Zealand and have been promised gingerbread for months now…LG has said its this month, then the next etc still no idea. Im sure this is the case for anywhere outside of India or Europe. LG said it would be available 01/12 and its Feb tomorrow! Slack!

    • Apod

      in Europe is not available either. Today I checked again. I called even to LG’s info line. It did not help. They don’t have an idea when. I need to use mpeg4 for IPcameras and still I am waiting…

  • Rajeshmk2011

    my post from http://www.lgforum.com/forum/boards/general/lg-international-non-us-phone-discussions/topics/lg-optimus-p970-android-2-dot-3-4-v20b-india-smartshare-problem

    i am from indai. I have updated my OP Black from android 2.2 v10d to v2.3.4 v20b .The smartshare app is updated and now supports to set “To” device to mobile phone.It works ok.But playing some mp3 files it just keeps buffering and hangs.Then i need to reboot.I spent a bunch of time to figure out why some mp3 play nice and some not.And now i figured out the reason.The reason is the mp3 which are crashing are having stero type channels and those working are
    having joint stereo .The songs which with smartshare crashed, play well if copied directly to sd card.i even installed skifta from market which is dlna certified ..but it also crashes.

    A point to notice is when i was on 2.2v10 i used skifta as smartshare didnt allow to set “To” device as mobile.But in 2.2 v10d skifta did not crash for any mp3 ..Something is broken in this 2.3.4 v20b.

    The type of mp3 channels can be seen by gspot software.

    Also one more point is that when i converted the crashing mp3..stereo mp3 to joinstereo the mp3′s played nicely in 2.3.

    Please fix this.As of now i m planning to rollback to 2.2 again by going to service station as i use this feature too much .

    Also would like improvements in this app like allowing different audio/video player to play video ..as there are nice video player in market ..i use MX Video player ..it as nice gesture controls.

  • Guest

    Good going LG. Take a brand new, state-of-the-art device… and waste time/money “updating” it from an extremely old OS… to a very old OS. Good idea.

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