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Samsung Acclaim US Cellular 2.2 update

If you use google for your contacts, they are backed up there. So when you put your gmail account in, it will bring your contacts with it. MCB is worthless.
 
Well, google is built into the phone and works much much better. I can go online and edit everything about my contacts, sync up, and its all on my phone. MCB will take all my facebook and twitter contacts and put them in as contacts on my phone. I cant call Krayzie Bone, wish I could, but I cant, I only have him on facebook and twitter. My opinion obviously.
 
I stand corrected on the update. Mac users will need to go to a US Cellular corporate store to have the 2.2 installed on the acclaim. PC users may be able to download the update to their computer and then install on phone. Available Jan 15th.
Not being into facebook or twitter I can't say how My/contacts interacts with contacts. MyContacts works great for me, with online editing, syncing w/phone, etc.
 
i can do without some of the US Cell crapware as well. After the froyo update I may root to remove the stuff I don't want. Than again I believe one of the 2.2 features is actually being able to run on the SD card so it may not be necessary.

Oh well, for now, launcherpro hides the crap I don't want anyhow so I don't even need to scroll beyond the stuff I'll never use and can't(normally) uninstall.
 
my personal experience (with the Samsung Moment on Sprint) is that, when you reflash the phone with 2.1 (rooted or stock), if you log into your google acct and go straight to the market and then "my apps" after google is done syncing, it will show EVERY market app you previously had installed on your phone. Now, it ONLY SHOWS THE FIRST TIME YOU GO TO THE "MY APPS" PAGE!!! if you navigate away from the my apps page (except to check one of the apps you have in "my apps"), all the free apps will disappear when you return!!! So, the best way to get all your previous apps installed is open each one in "My Apps" and choose install. Of course, it's best to do the free apps first, since they will disappear if something goes wrong, but the paid apps wont. Again, this is just my experience with the Acclaim's equivalent on a different carrier, so i dont know if it's always the case. So in short:

-Reflash the phone
-boot the phone
(-I personally suggest enabling wi-fi if a network is available, to make all the following go faster)
-Sync your google acct
-When done syncing, open the android market
-Go to "My Apps"
-You SHOULD see all market apps previously installed on your phone listed, both free and paid
- starting with the free apps, open each app individually and install
-While doing this, NEVER navigate away from the "My Apps" page EXCEPT to choose an app in the "my apps" list!!! And if you need to go back to "my apps" from an app's page, use the back button, NOTHING else! Any other form of navigation will reset the "My apps" page to only show paid and installed apps.
-Again, follow the instructions EXACTLY!!! if you do ANYTHING besides what's listed in the instructions (turn off the phone, boot to recovery to apply a ROM, etc), the "My Apps" page will be reset, and you will have no way to get your free apps list back and have to install them by searching manually! So please, follow instructions!

ONE MORE TIME, THIS IS ONLY BASED ON MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE!!!! I DONT KNOW IF THIS APPLIES TO ANY OTHER PHONE BESIDES THE SAMSUNG MOMENT ON SPRINT!!!! But anyway, I hope this helps someone.

PS: If you have a rooted phone, try "MyBackup Root" (free) or "MyBackup Pro" (paid) from the market... it allows you to backup all your apps and data, INCLUDING market links... that means when you reinstall the backup using mybackup, you will be notified of market app updates, etc just the same as if you manually downloaded them from the market, except much faster, and requires no data/wi-fi connection (unless you decide to make an internet backup instead of an sd card backup).

the difference between "root" and "pro" is that "root" ONLY works on rooted phones, whereas "pro" works on both (when using an unrooted phone with pro, u cannot restore market links).
 
Nice, Ill have to check and see if that is how it is for the Acclaim. I have used Astro to backup my apps and then reload them, havent checked going into the market the first time and seeing if the free ones are there. Interesting!
 
just a note for those who dont have a rooted phone, appbrain/appbrain.com has a nice syncing feature that will leave a record of the apps you have on your phone. it acts like a different kind of browser (thats the only way i can think to discribe it) that is for the market place but one of the perks is that you can sync with the online web site and if you need to start over when it comes to you apps, whether its cuz you reset your phone or reflash it or whatever the case, it will send links to your phone to you of everything you had on it before the re-sync. hard to explain but really simple to use. hopes this helps people.
 
It's HERE!!

U.S. Cellular
Froyo (Android 2.2) is here for the Acclaim! Please visit www.uscellular.com/androidupgrades to find out all you need to know about Froyo and download the Acclaim update today. We'll post all future Android downloads via this site. Thanks again to our great customers for your patience as we worked with Samsung to fix issues found during our testing process in order to provide you with the best possible experience.
 
Hooray! Is there a download for Mac computer users? I expect that I'll need to make a trip to a US Cellular corporate store.
 
kmf said:
Hooray! Is there a download for Mac computer users? I expect that I'll need to make a trip to a US Cellular corporate store.
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The download on US Cellular's site looks to only support Windows 7, Vista, or XP service pack 2.

Looks like you may have to make that trip.
 
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I just finished flashing my Acclaim. It was a fairly simple process. Couple battery pulls, put the phone into download mode, plug/unplug the usb cable a couple times and it's done.

All my Apps, contacts, etc. were reloaded automatically after the flash. Wallpaper stayed the same too, but my widget setup on my home screens needed to get resetup. Probably due to going from 3 home screens to now 5!

I'm in the process of moving my apps to the SD card right now to free up some space on the phone. I'm happy to see Myspace, Twidroid, Facebook, and The Weather Channel preloaded apps removed!
 
androidguy22 said:
I have no use for apps like these either. Were you able to remove them because of the update? How did that work?
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They were automatically removed as a result of the update.

And I should add that my Acclaim is a lot less laggy than it used to be after flashing to Froyo. I was also able to gain back a massive amount of internal phone storage moving apps to the SD card. The phone in general seems a lot less glitchy than before so i'm pretty happy so far with the update!
 
I really like 2.2 . Some of the differences I have noticed are:

-They seem to have fixed the random search function
-5 home screens instead of 3
-phone, browser, and all apps buttons added to the bottom of each home screen
-the alarm clock app is now built into the clock and you can have more than 3 alarms
-several of the useless preloaded apps were removed but some of them are still there
-the app to sd card function is nice but it only works on downloaded apps, not the preloaded ones.
-Seems to run smoother and less glitchy
-we can now rotate our phones to the right, the screen will auto rotate to the right and left. But not upside down

I was also wondering if somebody that still had 2.1 could download the Quadrant Standard benchmark app and run it to see if there is any performance difference or not. I have ran the benchmark several times on my phone and im consistently getting 279-281. Just wondering what the difference is if any at all.
 
I can't get my Froyo update to finish...and I don't have a Mac

But I save the file to my desktop, launch the program, pull and put back in the battery, etc. Basically, I do all the steps from Samsung's website (How Do I Update The Software On My US Cellular SCH-R880 (Acclaim) Phone To Android 2.2 Froyo DL25 Build?)

However, the step where I click "Start Software Download," the progress bar just stays at 0% and doesn't load. Nothing happens, and my USB connection and everything seems fine.

Any suggestions of what I can do or change?
 
How does the camera seem to do now?? I remember waiting forever for my camera to come up once I hit the icon. That is a main reason I let it sit on the shelf the past few months. Does it seem faster??
 
fatphatboy88 said:
I was also wondering if somebody that still had 2.1 could download the Quadrant Standard benchmark app and run it to see if there is any performance difference or not. I have ran the benchmark several times on my phone and im consistently getting 279-281. Just wondering what the difference is if any at all.
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Sorry, updated already, but my score was only 276. That said, I have Lookout Security installed and wonder if it is possibly a bottleneck. Just for comparison, I ran this on my stock 2.1 Mesmerize and its score was 895.

@troysfon: My camera opens fairly quick with Froyo, quicker than I recall under Eclair.
 
4968collac said:
I can't get my Froyo update to finish...and I don't have a Mac

But I save the file to my desktop, launch the program, pull and put back in the battery, etc. Basically, I do all the steps from Samsung's website (How Do I Update The Software On My US Cellular SCH-R880 (Acclaim) Phone To Android 2.2 Froyo DL25 Build?)

However, the step where I click "Start Software Download," the progress bar just stays at 0% and doesn't load. Nothing happens, and my USB connection and everything seems fine.

Any suggestions of what I can do or change?
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Off the top of my head, I would try rebooting your PC and performing a battery pull on your phone, both to dump memory, then try again.

If this does not fix the problem, check out your anti-virus software and firewall as possible cuprits.
 
does anyone know why the notication for messages goes away if you just go to the message home screen instead of actually looking at messages?

for example getting two messages from two different people and only checking one of them. On 2.1 it would keep a notification there for messages that haven't been read yet. Is there anyway to do that with 2.2 and the Acclaim?

thanks so much!!
 
4968collac said:
I can't get my Froyo update to finish...and I don't have a Mac

But I save the file to my desktop, launch the program, pull and put back in the battery, etc. Basically, I do all the steps from Samsung's website (How Do I Update The Software On My US Cellular SCH-R880 (Acclaim) Phone To Android 2.2 Froyo DL25 Build?)

However, the step where I click "Start Software Download," the progress bar just stays at 0% and doesn't load. Nothing happens, and my USB connection and everything seems fine.

Any suggestions of what I can do or change?
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im havin the same problem.
 
mine wouldnt update from my computer either, I just took it to the store and got them to update it for me. It literally took less than 2 minutes start to finish in the store and I was on my way.
 
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