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Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don’t escape without notice, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery we could find during the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!

Continue reading Refresh Roundup: week of October 8th, 2012

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If you’re a T-Mobile subscriber and you own the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G, today (or tomorrow) could be your lucky day as it would appear that the much awaited Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for your device will begin rolling out come 3^rd of October. There have been reports that has indicated that the update has already begun to roll out today, but we expect that today’s rollout could be a small one to get things started. If you are one of the lucky ones do let us know in the comments below, if not you can plug your device into your computer tomorrow and download the update via the Samsung Kies software.

Granted this isn’t the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update that we’re sure many Galaxy S Blaze 4G owners were hoping for, but we guess the bump from Gingerbread to Ice Cream Sandwich is still a welcome one. Your handset should be unrooted and running on Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread prior to the update, which will bump your phone up to the latest build of Ice Cream Sandwich – Android 4.0.4. Once you’ve done the update, be sure to let us know how the update is treating you!

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For those of you who own the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G on T-Mobile, it looks like you won’t be left out of the Ice Cream Sandwich train. According to T-Mobile’s customer support page, the update to Ice Cream Sandwich will be coming in the future though there was no specific date revealed. However, folks with the phone should be receiving an update notification today that provides a number of useful fixes for the Android phone.

The list of fixes include: E911 issue over WiFi resolved, echo issues when on Hearing Aid Compatibility call, and an improved Proximity Sensor. As for the Ice Cream Sandwich update, let’s just hope Samsung doesn’t take too long. It’s been doing pretty well with rolling out the updates for other Galaxy S2 phones, so let’s hope this isn’t going to be a problem.

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