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Official OTA Update Discussion

They will fix it, I know I have doubted above and other places, but it is a driver issue. It has all of the signatures of one, and is a new chip. I just hope they resolve it soon (compiling drivers and having them communicate with the kernel can be a bee-atch, I once spent 2 weeks learning how to do that and doing it, incidentally with a Broadcom wireless card-go figure- in Ubuntu. It sucks, and Broadcom can be notoriously unfriendly towards linux). Sorry I lost hope here and in other places, me Irish got up for a minute there, but reason has returned...

Edit: notice I don't say when they will fix it....
But I truly do think it can be (it will surprise me if not)
 
s.m.knipe said:
They will fix it, I know I have doubted above and other places, but it is a driver issue. It has all of the signatures of one, and is a new chip. I just hope they resolve it soon (compiling drivers and having them communicate with the kernel can be a bee-atch, I once spent 2 weeks learning how to do that and doing it, incidentally with a Broadcom wireless card-go figure- in Ubuntu. It sucks, and Broadcom can be notoriously unfriendly towards linux). Sorry I lost hope here and in other places, me Irish got up for a minute there, but reason has returned...

Edit: notice I don't say when they will fix it....
But I truly do think it can be (it will surprise me if not)
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I commend your positive attitude!! I am trying to stay in the same boat as you, but it gets harder and harder every day!!
 
Cuerbo said:
My phone has locked that fast before and just as fast it has lost its lock. The fact we can't confirm any of his statements and we are trusting what he's reading, leaves me doubtful. A true indicator is when we see folks start posting about the OTA update. That has yet to happen, you can't hide 15K people, trust me they will go online and brag about their update. Especially if that updates resolves the GPS issue.
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You realize not all Captivate owners are on Android forums and are obsessive compulsive about updates on a daily basis right?
 
I received an update recently, cause it now says "firmware version: 2.1-update1"

But the baseband still says JF6 and not JF7
 
Check out my post about the possible GPS update. Links to a site that says its possibly included in the FOTA. Video to prove it shows also.
 
They are wrong. Just like every other flash, it works a little better at first, then goes bad again. I've been running this firmware for about 3 weeks now, GPS is still inaccurate, the only improvement is that it does lock on to the sats a little quicker, but still puts you no where near where you actually are.
 
Infinite-t said:
What I dont know is; will modded phones need to be "rolled back" to stock before updating? This update does not seem to include the promised GPS fix (according to the official changelog from AT&T and the JH7 version people have been playing with for the last 3 weeks.) Will they then be releasing ANOTHER update in the next few days to address the GPS problem to keep their September promise? Or is this JH7 a tweeked version of the older one and they just left out listing it on the changelog to torture us (which doesn't seem likely)?

I guess we will soon really know when people actually start getting the push and posting info on it..
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From what I've been reading, the update DOES check your current version and if it's not JF6 it won't update. How accurate that information is, I don't know, because no one here or on xda so far hasn't actually gotten the update.

For me personally, once I get a message from AT&T, I'm going to flash it back to stock and run the update just to be on the safe side.
 
GodFlow said:
I received an update recently, cause it now says "firmware version: 2.1-update1"

But the baseband still says JF6 and not JF7
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Mine has had that same firmware version from day one, [I'm 99.9% sure] that's the original firmware. FTR, I don't believe you'll see a change of your firmware version in this update (just the baseband/kernel).
 
DT said:
Mine has had that same firmware version from day one, [I'm 99.9% sure] that's the original firmware. FTR, I don't believe you'll see a change of your firmware version in this update (just the baseband/kernel).
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That's possible. Also on an interesting note, the Baseband on the old G1 shows the radio and spl numbers; an update there could be preparing for the later reception of a larger update. Spl is the internal partitioning for system files. That might be nothing, but before flashing certain roms on the g1 and mytouch3g you have to flash an altered spl first to make sure there was room for the larger rom filesystem. Don't take this as prophetic or anything as I am not a programmer or coder, but the baseband was something we had to check before flashing certain roms...
 
Anyone that has received the firmware update. See if you can connect to Kies. Someone on Android Central said that Kies was removed from the usb settings.
 
Downloading the update now and im rooted... downside is i am at work with only edge!!!!!! i will post back in 5 hours once it is done =)
 
Many people have downloaded the update and so far very, very few have better GPS from it. So looks like they did not fix the GPS issue yet
 
SlappyMcgee said:
Anyone that has received the firmware update. See if you can connect to Kies. Someone on Android Central said that Kies was removed from the usb settings.
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+1. I use Kies daily, much more than the GPS update. If this is confirmed I may hold off.

I hope PC Internet is still an option...
 
Please do. See if you can send a pictures message w/o issues or limiting the size of the image. I have a friend that is in a pretty much edge only state (Arkansas) and she hates having to send pictures over edge. Even when she makes them small it still takes forever and sometimes it just fails.
 
OK, de-voodoo'ing, when the phone comes back up (hahaha, hopefully not *if*) then I'll proceed with the AT&T update.
 
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