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Android 2.x on Galaxy

you guys. what do you think about the idea of bombarding samsung support with lots of emails regarding our most favorite issue, which is us being stuck at 1.5? i'm not talking about massive email sending by using some tool or bot, just normal mails from real users and many of them. if that doesn't stir some things up, it will make me feel better thinking about those assholes drowning in our pointless spam. a simple question of "will samsung i7500 be updated from 1.5?" is sufficient, i'm sending mine right now, join me if you still have a little faith :)
 
I have no problems with gps on 1.6. Not with the Stock Rom, nor with Galaxo.

Anyways. The point is. Dont waste your energy to write samsung mails. They dont care.
 
porga said:
1.6 which has GPS problems, which is most usable option on this phone...

Grrrrrrr
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for a small minority of people in comparison to the huge amounts of people that have downloaded and installed galaxo

check how many downloads drakaz.com and the official mirror has had on 1.6.3.2
 
i got and answer, nothing too interesting

I cannot confirm dates for the release of a higher version of the operating system for this model of phone, but please check our website for information on future events and upgrades.
I can state that the unit will not be upgradeable to Eclair (2.1) or Froyo (2.2) as the chipset does not support this. Of course it is possible that other aspects of the handset do meet the minimum requirements.
 
could you reply asking about a clarification to the "chipset" and refer them to gaosp, which to me looks a lot like
 
inFECT said:
I have no problems with gps on 1.6. Not with the Stock Rom, nor with Galaxo.

Anyways. The point is. Dont waste your energy to write samsung mails. They dont care.
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Right! Move to Motorola or HTC.... Better support than Samsung....Don't trust Samsung anymore..
 
it's getting a little more interesting... here's their reply

Thank you for contacting Samsung Electronics regarding the GT-i7500. I regret that you feel my previous reply was incorrect.
I will escalate this to our Product Specialist for clarification. You can expect a reply within 3 business days.
 
new answer

With regard to your enquiry, I have received a reply from the Product Specialist. This is the full response.
'The information we have available is that the Galaxy will only be updated to 1.6.
It may be possible to update further, however the chipset of the handset would
struggle with this update and would lead to more problems when using the handset.'
 
ask them to tell the product specialist that froyo's JIT compiler makes it much lighter than donut and the chipset shouldn't have any problem running 2.2 :)


saying the galaxy's hardware can't handle the update just isn't plausible - i'd want them to either do it or admit that they're simply dropping support for a less-than-a-year-old device for no other reason than to save costs and focus on selling new devices
 
Yeah I think they've probably dropped it completely now. We haven't had any further firmware updates since March. :(
 
samsung are lazy, they dont want to keep making stuff for what they deem as a legacy handset and will make excuses thinking that you know less about the handheld and chipset than them.
if they keep mentioning chipset i would advise them that its the same msm7200a that is in the hero
 
ok guys, this is the last answer, i'm not planning to write to them again, there's no point

Whether or not this handset will be capable of supporting v2.2 remains to be seen, as we do not have access to it as yet. The product specialist's comment about issues surrounding the use of v2.1 may be something you feel isinaccurate, but even if the handset is capable of supporting either OS version, there are no plans to incorporate either version in the Galaxy. Any attempt to install anything other than v1.5 (Cupcake) would automatically void the warranty.
 
pikacz said:
Any attempt to install anything other than v1.5 (Cupcake) would automatically void the warranty.
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Oh noes!! I haz voided mai warranty??

Screw you Samsung. Frankly, I'd rather have a phone with the capabilities Google intended in the OS than some crippled piece of crap you've tossed over your shoulder in less than a year.

Which is why I flashed mine to Galaxo just yesterday.

And to you, Samsung, I say GOOD DAY, SIR!

ABCDawg
 
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