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All Things Froyo

i wont say it works for all

but i flashed darky 7.7 and in the xda forum thread for darky 7.7 for captivate someone posted gps fix...i got best gps ever..with most smooth and stable rom....

I agree with someone posted above about assonance...good rom..but it cant beat darky.....best rom developer

should give it a try
 
Hi guys, I've tried the rom cook, but most of them are errors, sometimes crashing, then go back to using the stock 2.2 rom UCJI6, but now I can not root is, how do you know any solution please help, my many thanks.
 
Well, I did it, I'm now running Assonance 5.2. But I'm too tired to play with it much, tomorrow is another day! :)
 
viny2cool said:
i wont say it works for all

but i flashed darky 7.7 and in the xda forum thread for darky 7.7 for captivate someone posted gps fix...i got best gps ever..with most smooth and stable rom....

I agree with someone posted above about assonance...good rom..but it cant beat darky.....best rom developer

should give it a try
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I flashed this rom also with the gps fix last night and I love it. The only thing is I changed kernals and I dont like that part. Going back to origional 7.7 kernal.
 
s.m.knipe said:
Apparently Samsung at least responds with more than a "canned" response to Vibrant owners complain and/or ask about Froyo...

Samsung ?Hears? Your OTA Requests For Vibrant, Promises More Info But No Date | TmoNews - Unofficial T-Mobile Blog - News, Videos, Articles and more
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That article is 3 months old and references the GPS update with nothing about Froyo. :p

Maybe you meant this one?

http://www.tmonews.com/2011/01/samsung-wants-you-to-have-froyo-on-your-vibrant/
 
Two Brand New Tweets from Samsung. On a Sunday no less:

We are working to make the Android 2.2/Froyo upgrade available to all U.S. Galaxy S owners as soon as poosible

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We want Galaxy S owners to have simple/reliable upgrade. We're runing tests due to complexity/unique functionality.

HMMM
 
I think they meant the JH7 one that only fixed some people's gps', but I thought the Vibrant got an OTA fix to address the gps problems around the same time that worked better than our own JH7 one. I think they are just flat out mistaken, I can't even find that tweet in @SamsungMobileUS 's timeline. I could be wrong though...
 
At any rate, and my reason for posting this is that this seems to indicate that we will find out more this week coming up...
 
mttfrog13 said:
I now must admit that I completely regret not returning this phone within my 30 day return window and getting a wp7 which is supposedly getting a huge update in January bringing a lot of the basic functionality that was missing at launch
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So you'd ditch one phone that hasn't gotten a promised update for another phone based on a promised (but not here yet) update?

mttfrog13 said:
Why do people keep saying this when someone complains we don't have froyo. The reason I don't flash a rom is because I'm a broke college student and I can't risk turning my phone into a $500 paperweight.
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Agreed. The canned answer on here should not be "just flash a buggy hacked unofficial ROM on if you want Froyo" anytime someone complains about the promised-but-not-here-yet official, certified Android 2.2 for the Captivate. Hacked ROMs have issues, aren't as trivial to install as official updates, carry significant risk and void your warranty. This isn't XDA and so such is not an appropriate or reasonable alternative for the average user who wants to play within the rules.
 
South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is readying the release of a platform upgrade for the Galaxy S owners on the US market, the company confirmed several hours ago via Twitter.

We're referring here to the Android 2.2 Froyo OS update that was expected to land on handsets ever since the end of the third quarter of the last year, and which is still missing from the Galaxy S units sold in the United States.

However, it seems that there shouldn't be too long before US customers would have the chance to install the new Android flavor on their devices, as the company confirmed.


 
good news i guess. Although froyo still isn't out and neither is kies air for the us galaxy s variants. Haven't seen much from the official samsung twitter account about the galaxy s and froyo. From what I've heard, froyo was delivered via kies internationally. They probably have been taking extra time to deliver it OTA. I still haven't been able to get kies working with my phone.
 
They were spamming that message on the Twitter to everybody who was complying about the Froyo on Dec. 31st. Just simple copy&paste to get rid off ppl :P
 
I am a Computer Engineer who has been working with home PCs and devices for the last 30 years. In all those years I have never dealt with any program that pissed me off more than Kies.

I have been trying on and off for 5 months to connect Kies to my Captivate. I have tried Win 7, Vista and XP all with USB and failed miserably every time. I can connect in mass storage mode, but not Kies mode. I can drop and drag files using WIFI, but not KIES!! Now I have the new Kies and was even able to pair my phone with the computer over Bluetooth......and of course it will not connect with Kies. I get a message stating "Device denied request for connection".

I am so close now! Someone please help!
 
US based Galaxy S phones will not work with the normal Kies program, you have to use the Kies Mini which is strickly firmware and nothing else. Also with that it can only be through USB, make sure you choose the option for Kies mode on the phone when it gets plugged in.


Also maybe I am stating the obvious but.... are you using any other launcher other than the Touchwiz launcher? If set the Touchwiz launcher as your default turn the phone off then on again, the plug it into kies mini it should recognize it


Kies is weird even Kies mini, no matter what you have to be in samsung's crappy launcher for it to recognize it.
 
More Froyo hopes and dreams. Not that I'm not glad to see some kind of info, but I'm not going to hold my breath either.
 
speedfreak32 said:
Maybe this is why the update is taking so long, all of the 12 and 13 year old developers are busy using tweeting and not adapting froyo for our devices.
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Totally, and like any good science fair project (which is about the quality we are receiving from them), they waited until the night before and have stayed up late playing on the internet...
 
John I said:
I am a Computer Engineer who has been working with home PCs and devices for the last 30 years. In all those years I have never dealt with any program that pissed me off more than Kies.
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I'm no computer engineer but I know my way around computers and technology very well and I couldn't agree with you more. I've done all the research(which means searching google) I could about this issue and it seems the only fail proof way some people can get kies working is to do a hardware reset and then connect. I've read this in the xda forums from people internationally trying to update to froyo and from people in the states just trying to connect to kies for its features. I myself cannot connect to normal kies or kies mini. I figured that whenever I update to froyo, I will want to do a hardware reset anyway.

It would still be nice to check out the features of kies right now though. I've tried all different combinations of captivate specific, generic galaxy s, kies and kies mini and I haven't been able to get anything working. John, have u tried kies mini?
 
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