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Galaxy S ~ Froyo Update

ardyer said:
If they had no intention of updating, why would they waste money putting in extra ram when they could just use 256, charge the same, and increase their profit?
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Why do you assume 256 is cheaper? I mean, it's all supply and demand isn't it, and if there's a stack load of 512 Meg chips going begging, then why fit 256 Meg?
 
sjdean said:
Why do you assume 256 is cheaper? I mean, it's all supply and demand isn't it, and if there's a stack load of 512 Meg chips going begging, then why fit 256 Meg?
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For Mobile phone 256Meg right now is cheaper, since there are a lot of phones that only have that kind of memory and some even at 128MB. The Galaxy S has 512MB it has been confirmed over and over and over again. Samsung will be working to get Froyo ASAP, I may not have links to prove this but yeah, I trust In what I know and understand.
 
2FR35H said:
Oh and Btw its 512MB's of RAM According to GSM Arena
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You're right. It has 512Meg of physical RAM on board. Like the Nexus. But like the Nexus (up until a few weeks back), doesn't have the kernel to cope with more than 256 Meg (shockingly bad coding principles there that uses fixed RAM).

This was confirmed as a problem for pre-release/review units back on 24th May 2010, but Samsung advised:

and the market-ready Samsung I9000 Galaxy S will pack 512 MB RAM
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Samsung confirms that I9000 Galaxy S will have 512 MB RAM - GSMArena.com news

From the quote, one could summise that Samsung were promising a fix to make all 512 Meg usable at release. On the other hand, they were merely promising that the phone will have 512Meg of physical RAM but making naff all promises about the underlying OS Firmware/Android Version/FroYo/Kernel or whatever
 
There is an official twitter feed that states in addition to Galaxy S i9000, other models of Samsung's Android line up will also be upgraded to 2.2. Galaxy S is fast with 2.1, but I cant imagine how fast it will be with the 2.2 Froyo update! :O
 
When 2.2 is actually available for any of the Galaxy S versions on the major US carriers is when I'll be ordering one.
 
FlyPenFly said:
When 2.2 is actually available for any of the Galaxy S versions on the major US carriers is when I'll be ordering one.
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When SGS is actually available for Verizon, I will order one. I'm fine with knowing Froyo is coming, it doesn't have to be available at launch, if there is one for me. So far Verizon is the only major carrier without a leak :/
 
Is there a chance that the phone will be permanently bricked if something goes wrong during the flashing or its always recoverable?
 
hanano17 said:
When SGS is actually available for Verizon, I will order one. I'm fine with knowing Froyo is coming, it doesn't have to be available at launch, if there is one for me. So far Verizon is the only major carrier without a leak :/
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I wouldn't count on a Verizon version anytime soon if I were you. No FCC specs pointing to it.
 
The Samsung Galaxy S had finally been rooted!!!

Credit goes to Leshak, our comrade in Russia. A few had tried and able to get superuser status!

Haha... right now if only we update the kernel version to the 32, voila, we can utilize the redundant ram! :D
 
EarlZ said:
Galaxy S will be 2.2 and I believe samsung will be working on this one ASAP because the the phone comes with 512MB and with 2.1 the OS can only access 256MB.

Android 2.2 Platform Highlights | Android Developers
2.6.32 kernel upgrade
* HIGHMEM support for RAM >256MB

So yeah, thats more than proof enough that we will get 2.2 and get it ASAP.
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First time I've heard of this. Then why does N1 have 512mb and Desire 576Mb RAM?

I even saw a test where N1 had 20 and Desire around 70Mb free when loaded up with same programs. If both have a 256mb limit, there wouldn't be any difference.

So, what's the deal?
 
ivanzorkic said:
First time I've heard of this. Then why does N1 have 512mb and Desire 576Mb RAM?

I even saw a test where N1 had 20 and Desire around 70Mb free when loaded up with same programs. If both have a 256mb limit, there wouldn't be any difference.

So, what's the deal?
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70MB free of the 256MB usable.
 
Right, but they're talking about usable space which doesn't make sense for RAM, only ROM. So...they're wrong about the space thing.
 
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