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lol, very true. Though, I asked about it on XDA and their explanation was that it shipped with Dalvik as default to cut down on app issues and end user confusion. I guess you just switch the runtime later if you wish. Then again, who knows =p

Interestingly, while looking through the RDFs, I noticed that the JVMVersion is listed as Dalvik and not ART. Not really sure what to make of this as I thought 5.x was fully implementing ART?

RDFs are, essentially, a description of what the final product will look like. Each time a new build is created for testing they create a new RDF. If you look through the various RDF versions you'll likely notice little to no difference between them - so they really don't give you much info about what changes are made - just what the final product will look like. What the new RDFs DO do is let us know that Sprint and/or Samsung are actively updating/testing builds which, hopefully, means we'll get an update sooner than later. Internet Explorer is the best way to view the RDFs. It has the ability to decode the RDF and display it in a table for easier viewing. Hope that helps!

And yet another RDF update (best opened in IE:) http://device.sprintpcs.com/Samsung/SM-N910P-SPRINT/OB6.rdf

Seems they've added more bands to their list, though still no band 41: GSM: Quad band(850/900/1800/1900MHz) CDMA: 850/1900MHz UMTS: Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 LTE: Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29, 40

New Sprint RDF update - they skipped OB4: http://device.sprintpcs.com/Samsung/SM-N910P-SPRINT/OB5.rdf

Interesting that Samsung is going with 5.0 for some devices and 5.0.1 with others.

Note 4 Snapdragon variant now receiving Lollipop in Germany. http://www.sammobile.com/2015/02/13/galaxy-note-4-snapdragon-variant-sm-n910f-galaxy-note-3-lte-get-lollipop-update/

And Lollipop is now available for the Note 4 in South Korea via Samsung Kies: http://www.sammobile.com/2015/02/12/samsung-galaxy-note-4-gets-the-lollipop-update-in-south-korea/ As a note, both the Polish and Korean releases are Exynos only releases. Hopefully we'll see some Snapdragon releases soon.

hah, I just spit out my burrito =p

Yeah. I'm hoping that they've taken the time during the delay to fix whatever problems the S5 folks were having so that the Note 4 release is better received.

Looks like Samsung is now starting to release OTAs of Lollipop for the Note 4 - in Poland. It appears the delay is over. http://www.sammobile.com/2015/02/11/samsung-starts-lollipop-update-galaxy-note-4-sm-n910c-in-polen/

and another rdf update: http://device.sprintpcs.com/Samsung/SM-N910P-SPRINT/OB3.rdf There definitely appears to be some active testing/development going on on between Sprint and Samsung.

Try opening it in IE.

Not sure if they're still delaying or not, but this is a recent build based on Samsung's build number convention.