Android 4.0.4 ICS for DROID RAZR and RAZR MAXX Now Available for Download

I am not liking this ice cream sandwich at all. I have only had my Droid Razr a week and this update rolls out. Had I known about these up coming changes I probably would not have purchased a smartphone. I was getting to know my phone quickly until this update moved easy to access settings around and flat out deleted others.

Since i have updated to 4.0.4 version, my phone is Slower, battery doesnt last as long and the signal is terrible. Need a better version.

I agree with you on that one my battery, signal, and it is way slower. I had what I considered to be the perfect phone until this rolled out

I agree... battery life is affected. The phone is now a little sluggish too! Typical symptoms of an upgrade not thought out properly!

Loving ics so far, fun and efficient features. Interface is much cleaner and phone is slightly faster. Can't wait for jelly bean!

My phone jusat, updated to this. I would avoid it, if possible. Terrible, jStust terrible. Stupid thing won't even type right now, cursor jumps all over, pages, close and move around randomly zooming. About to throw phone through window.!

I couldn't agree more. I HATE this upgrade! The functionality of my phone has decreased, not improved. Everything is slower and you are correct, it does not type correctly and the cursor randomly jumps all over the place. Is there any recourse?

I might have found a solution: are you swyping when it does that? Go to system settings, language and input, click on the gear symbol to the right of Swype, click on preferences then UNcheck "show arrow keys". The software upgrade added arrows just above the keyboard that allows you to move about in your text to easily add or delete something anywhere. Nice feature but bad placement. I found while swyping I was constantly touching those arrows which made my cursor go someplace random. It made me crazy. It is much better since I turned off that feature! Good luck!!!

I agree..I can't get my email (comcast) working properly, it's slow as heck and absolutly horrible.

Signal strength has decreased, and I have problems with dropped calls. Seems to be in one area. Possibly problems switching between towers. Spelling does not correct automatically now. Other than that, I love it.

I am extremely unhappy with this so-called upgrade. The functionality of my phone has decreased, not improved. It no longer types accurately, the cursor randomly moves all over the screen, it is slower to respond, emails don't come through, Yahoo IMs arrive hours after they were sent, I could go on and on. Do we have any recourse?

Can someone PLEASE tell me how to turn of backround data! i cannot find it anywhere not with this update.
And why did they eliminate the Task Manager?

In other words, I want to shut off ALL background data in one click just like earlier version. Not individual apps. Obviously a ploy to keep certain apps (like theirs) running in background.

I am asking how to shut off ALL background data in a single click as the previous version allowed. Turning off background in specific apps is not acceptable. They are certainly doing this to keep their apps running in background.

I hate the update. Seems very buggy on my once fabulous moto razr.

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ah, yes, my keyboard sucks now, too! cursor all over the place and cannot move it with your finger!

To turn off background data goto your menu, select data push the menu key again and select "restrict background data" follow the instructions

Anyone have an idea about how to drop back to the previous version? Hating 4.0.4 ICS

This there ANYWAY to go back.....I HATE this new upgrade,, Texting is smaller keys...Cell service has been up and down all day....4.0.4 GO AWAY !!!!!!!!!!

hate the update! want to roll back immediately. everything is worse now. texting doesn't work properly; now I send gibberish. phone history is now lame. harder to work my phone now. HATE it.

I hate Ice Cream Sandwich for several reasons! It is slowing down my Razr Maxx's Google voice commands. For example, when I open the text and wish to speak the message instead of type it, it appears that it has received my voice, but it just sits there forever and does nothing. I hate the power options widget because it takes up an entire row of the screen, and we should be able to peel out what we really need. I had to separately download a WiFi and a Bluetooth widget and I use those instead. Ok, I haven't had many screen locks, but I still have them. My husband and I both downloaded the Jeanne app, which is one of the Android copycats of Siri. It takes several minutes for it to process a command from me, whereas my husband who has the Droid 4 (NO Ice Cream Sandwich) can use the app just fine and get almost immediate responses, I have given up even trying to use it. Are there any steps being taken to remedy these kinds of problems in the 4.04 Ice Cream Sandwich? I am very unhappy with it and wish I could go back, but apparently that is not an option. Please advise.

The worst thing about this update for me is the texting. it used to be a lot more intuitive. It would anticipate not only the word you were typing, but would guess the next word in the sentence. Now it's as bad as my old thunderbolt. I hate this upgrade.

I agree with others who say this update is not working properly. It is sluggish and my microphone on keyboard rarely works anymore due to no connection. Is there a way to go back to the previous version?

Agree the update has slowed down my phone quite a bit. Battery life is not what it once was and the voice recognition takes forever to load. Switching from browser to app screen takes forever now. This update is a PoS.

The only problem I have with the ICS Update so far is the elimination of the stock task manager. That was very handy on my Droid 4.

My husband and I have the same phones purchased on the same day. When the update posted on his phone he downloaded it right away and now HATES his phone layout. Also, he noted the battery does not last. He now has to carry a charger to work, which is crazy since the MAIN reason we finally went from our OLD FLIP phones to the RAZR $$$ was because of the LONG BATTERY LIFE. I still have NOT downloaded the software to my phone and only charge my RAZR about once a week (we don't use the wi-fi much). Anyhow, I hope this helps someone in making a decision to download the new version or not, the only problem I have with my phone is every 24 hours it still ask me whether I want to download the new software. At this point I haven't found a way to reject the new software all together.

way slow . can i get back to the version before I got update.