The T-Mobile G2X (LG P999) and its international version, the LG Optimus 2X (LG P990), are receiving CyanogenMod 9 builds so if you own one of the aforementioned devices and you were waiting for Ice Cream Sandwich, here it comes. However, as Ricardo Cerqueira points it out, these builds are not supported "and updates may or may not happen in the future". Before you rush to the source link to download and apply the custom ROMs you should know that there are a couple of things that are not working. There is no acceleration for media neither for video decoding nor encoding and applications ...

Frustrations with LG's G2x on T-Mobile had been nearing a head last week, with news of a lawsuit accusing LG of failing to live up to its warranty obligations by continuing to fail to repair glitchy smartphones. The handset's saving grace had long been seen as a coming update that would address these problems once and for all, breaking the cycle of device resets. Late in the week that update finally arrived, but only reached users who side-stepped T-Mobile and turned directly to LG's PC-based update software. Then we heard about new G2xs coming with all the updates already installed when ...

The T-Mobile G2x is a great phone, but its had its fair share of problems. T-Mobile was fairly quick to acknowledge the existence of the issues, but slow to announce any plan to fix them. So slow, in fact, that a lawsuit was filed to force them to act. Apparently that move worked. Not long after the lawsuit was filed, LG quietly released a Gingerbread 2.3.3-based update which should address the majority of the concerns with the stock ROM. There are some caveats: - The update itself is almost 180MB - If you've rooted your phone you'll lose it if you install this ROM - It's not (yet) an OTA ...

After LG released its Optimus 2X in the States as the G2x on T-Mobile, we started hearing tales of various problems with the phone. Some users seemed to skate by just fine, but others reported their smartphones being plagued by resets, among other bugs. While T-Mobile initially distanced itself from such reports, it later confirmed that it had received complaints from "a small percentage of customers", and that they should be addressed in a future update. We're still waiting for both that and a Gingerbread update to arrive (assuming they aren't combined into one), but at least one G2x ...

There's been a cornucopia of promises related to the Gingerbread update for the LG-made T-Mobile G2x, according to which it will arrive this summer. Users are patiently waiting for the release that will also fix some serious bugs with the smartphone in addition to updating its platform version to the latest Google Android Gingerbread. Unfortunately, instead of the update, users are only getting promises of an update with information coming further down the pipe. The LG Girl has tweeted (and then LG themselves retweeted) that the Gingerbread update "is a huge focus" but there's no more info ...

The T-Mobile G2x, really your Magenta version of the LG Optimus 2x, is a great smartphone with good performance thanks mainly to its dual-core 1GHz Tegra 2 processor and graphics chip which returns out-of-the-box benchmark results of around 2,500 in Quadrant. If that's not enough for you, there's a custom kernel floating around with which the T-Mobile G2x has been overclocked to 1.5GHz -- really a 50% increase in clock speed. This returns scores of 3,264 in Quadrant and if you want this to be your smartphone, check out the source link for more details. One word of note though (besides the ...

The T-Mobile G2x -- getting its Android Gingerbread update this summer -- sales were halted because of what initially appeared to be some software problems and bugs but Magenta was quick to react and stated that there were no problems with the smartphone except for the fact that it is extremely popular. According to the internal carrier screenshot above, T-Mobile is likely to increase the price on the G2x starting today. The reason states is "because inventory constraints" -- which might be related to the smartphone's popularity -- but might as well be Magenta having no other option but ...

After the G2x disappeared from T-Mobile's site yesterday, rumors shot up that numerous reports of buggy software and spontaneous resets had driven the carrier to halt sales while a solution to the problem was found. As it turns out, there was nothing so dramatic going on behind the scenes, and T-Mobile later revealed that its actions were due to supply problems, not anything like a recall. We've since seen some additional statements by the carrier, and while it seems to be in denial about the scope of the issues the G2x is facing, it has admitted that a software patch is in the works. The ...

T-Mobile's G2x, the carrier-branded edition of the LG Optimus 2X, got off to a bumpy start, with confusing information from T-Mobile about the possibility for supporting AT&T 3G bands. Since then, we've seen work progress on CyanogenMod 7 for the smartphone, as well as the arrival of a leaked Gingerbread build. All of a sudden, though, the phone is gone from T-Mobile's online offerings, sparking rumors that the carrier has halted sales due to any one of several issues users have been reporting with the Android handset. The supposed problems with the G2x, ranging from software glitches to ...

According to a snapshot of a coupon book from Costco, there will be plenty of discounts coming your way between May 12 and June 5, ranging from $30 and going up to $250 off certain smartphones. AT&T and Samsung have announced the Infuse 4G at yesterday's event and the Android smartphone will be available on May 15, for about $200 on-contract. You'll get $30 off the subsidized retail price at Costco for features like 1.2GHz Hummingbird CPU, 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen, 8.9 millimeters thickness and 4G capability. The same way you'll get up to $150 off of Verizon's Motorola DROID 2 and ...

As T-Mobile prepared to launch the LG Optimus 2X on its network in the US as the G2x, we were excited to learn that it looked like the carrier-branded smartphone would actually improve upon the original, adding in extra support for additional 4G bands, setting the G2x up for compatibility with T-Mobile, AT&T, and European networks on the 2100MHz band. T-Mobile's website has been saying so, anyway, for the past month. Turns out it's all a big typo that T-Mobile never thought to correct, and there's no support for AT&T broadband, after all. It wasn't until sales of the G2x actually started ...

Google Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread is bringing screenshot support as we told you at the beginning of March and phones running the latest build of the Google platform will be able to take advantage of the feature via applications utilizing the new feature. According to IntoMobile, the T-Mobile G2x -- that is the Magenta version of the LG Optimus 2X -- is capable of taking screenshots right out of the box. The combination used to achieve this is very Apple iPhone-like: taking a screen grab is as easy as holding down the Power and the Home buttons. This is also valid for the LG Optimus 2X. ...

Last night in New York City T-Mobile threw a pretty nice launch party for the new "T-Mobile G2x with Google by LG" phone as well as the G-Slate Honeycomb Android tablet. We got to meet up with Stephanie Duchaine, also known as the LG Girl, and were able to convince her to make an appearance on our own Pocketnow YouTube channel. You'll see her demonstrate some of the cool things that come with the G2x. Yes, it is a vanilla version of Android, but naturally T-Mobile bundles a few goodies with it. The first 25 buyers of a T-Mobile G2X and G-Slate at the T-Mobile Herald Square location (34th ...