Comments on: Verizon Omnia GPS Unlock Update – Promise Broken!

By: kreed

kreed — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:35:58 +0000

Masseur, actually, yes they broke their “promise”. The email that I received didn’t use the wording “targeting”, instead said released by.

The whole reason why I kept the device was because it was going to be unlocked. This was received within my trial period.

The fact they waited until AFTER the 2nd QTR ended, is not excusable.

Now that the have actually released the update, it makes the device more useful, but they still lost out on a number of sales as a result of their failure to release when they said they would.

Will see what the update provides… nice that there is an officially unlocked ROM.

By: Masseur

Masseur — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:32:35 +0000

Well, since they never broke a promise, not sure why you would post lies such as you have. They said they are “targeting” by the end of the 2nd quarter, but if you know anything about programming, it’s exactly that, a target. The web page is already up for the update (someone figured it out) and we are just waiting on the link to be changed to an actual link to the ROM. So we know they are close.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:19:18 +0000

I agree.. I called yesterday and their tech support does not have a clue when this is supposed to happen nor has there been a press release stating why they have not kept up with their end of the bargain.
I feel that fair compensation until they unlock the GPS functionality is to offer their propitiatory software (vznavigator) for free.

By: kreed

kreed — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:38:27 +0000

Wayne, yes I have. In fact if you look a bit further down in my blog you can see that I have been using the “Unofficial” Leaked Rom since early April.

But that is NOT an official Verizon release, it is not supported by Verizon and it does not mean that Verizon has released a fix for the GPS as promised.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:31:08 +0000

Are you aware that there is an unofficial ROM update for the i910 Verizon Omnia that unlocks the GPS? It’s supposedly a leaked version of the gps unlock ROM Samsung was producing for Verizon. I have been running it on my Omnia for a few weeks now.

By: Keith Hathorn

Keith Hathorn — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:45:44 +0000

Not only broken promises, but with this being such a great phone one would think there would be more support not only thru Verizon, but Samsung as well. You can raise that migration tally by two more as I will not be migrating my wife and daughter over to verixon, in fact im thinking its time dare I say it to go with a (iPhone). While I think the Omnia is superior in many ways, and while it may take apple a couple of iterations to get where they are going, at least they get there.