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mrqs said:
i just noticed something peculiar: in about phone, i've got baseband i7500xxik4 (i had ik4 before flashing donut)

what up with that?

fw says 1.6, kernel 2.6.29, build donut.xxjb6
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Have you flashed the standard firmware or just applied the galaxo 1.6 update on top of your existing one?

tones said:
This is probably a stupid noob question as this is my first android phone and the first time I have flashed a new firmware.

After flashing the firmware my phone no longer receives any incoming calls. I can still dial out and I am able to use data services.

Any suggestions?
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Again standard firmware or the Galaxo 1.6? I've not used either yet but Galaxo 1.6 did have problems with calls and SMS, it may be that?
 
MichaelW said:
Again standard firmware or the Galaxo 1.6? I've not used either yet but Galaxo 1.6 did have problems with calls and SMS, it may be that?
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Calls are working now... didn't do anything, I think it may have just taken time to register or been a problem with my provider.
 
So.. it was nice to try -and finally have- Donut on our Galaxy, but i'm going back to IK5.
1.6 is still too buggy and slugish. I've also tried gaosp 2.1 (weekly test 7) and feels much snappier and responsive as JB2.

I guess it's just a matter of time :)
 
Alright. Can someone just sanity check this for me before I make a start? I'm going to flash to 1.6, my plan is:

Install the 4.4 recovery.
Take a Nandroid backup.
Odin JB2 onto the phone (after first stripping the CSC).
Install the 4.6 recovery.

Does that sound right? Anything I've missed? I'm not planning on factory resetting unless it comes back unstable, as I've done a couple of earlier f/w updates and never needed to. Anything else I need to be concerned about, Google apps / market access or any of that happy stuff?

(no rush, I still can't find my damn USB cable...!)
 
mongofrye said:
Just got phone today. Off ebay for 280 usd. Nice surpise to see 1.6 came today.

Installed and seemed good. Tried out new gmaps but navigation does not work.

Just says 'searching for gps....'

Anyone else? I think my phone was australian version. I'm in us.
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Initially my phone did this too. I had to leave it in the window for about 15 minutes until the GPS got a fix on it's location.
 
Ok.

Flashed the phone, forgot to remove the cache.img. Sat at the throbbing Samsung logo forever, so I factory-reset it from the Recovery menu. Booted up into a naked OS with some cruddy wallpaper. Figured that was the cache.img customisation, so I've removed that from the .tar and reflashed.

Now it's sitting at the initial "Samsung Galaxy" screen with the progress bar, and doing sod all else. Eep. Any suggestions other than "flash it again"?
 
Well, reflashed it, still the same.

Flashed -again-, with the original .tar (with the cache.img) and it's back as it was complete with cruddy wallpaper. Just done another factory reset for good measure. I do hope it's not going to think I'm French.
 
What were you using to open the tar file and remove the cache.img file?

I believe winzip causes problems with rebuilding the file when you remove it. People seem to recommend jzip but I believe 7-zip also works. Also you do need to just open the tar file and delete cache.img, rather than extracting the whole lot and tar'ing it back up again.
 
Yeah - I used 7-zip (I've used it previously on other firmwares without issue).

Seems to be mostly up and running now. The one thing I -didn't- do, because I'm a fool, is write down the existing O2 UK APN settings.
 
Well bugger me.
"Reset to default" in the APN menu puts it all in for you.

Whether it's on the correct one or not remains to be seen, but it seems to work.
 
Ah, ok. So I'm not about to get a stupidly big data bill from O2 for using the wrong APN then? Cool, ta.
 
hi ppl am new here ........i tried updating with the new firmware all i get is samsung logo flashing i tried it multiple times even with odin 3.98 and the worst part is when i tried resetting (volume down+call button+end button) its showing a warning icon plz plz help dont wanna lose this phone
 
The warning sign is recovery mode. Try This

Originally Posted by Rastaman-FB

Recovery mode

With the phone powered off, press and hold Volume down, Call and End Call/Power
Factory reset

In recovery mode, when the alert triangle appears, press the Menu key
Recovery menu

In recovery mode, press Home and End Call/Power.
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