Some news about the common questions..

[kam187]

A user from android-hilfe (the german android forum) appears on another english forum i'm on. I asked him some questions, and answers based on what they have been saying over there and rumours. Remember it came out in germany first so they have a huge galaxy user base:

(kam187 @ Aug 22 2009, 14:02)
That forum seems very active, but its all in german

Maybe your could answer a couple of questions for us english people!

- Is there any rumour of when a new firmware update will be available? (eg did anyone from that forum email samsung or O2 and get any news)

End of August is expected. Presumably when the Galaxy starts in the UK btw.

(kam187 @ Aug 22 2009, 14:02)
- Is it possible to downgrade to the old firmware yet (I saw some firmeware downgrade project but the translation was pretty bad)

I'm not quite sure, but I don't think so. Both firmware versions are just different shades of bad! But I for one wouldn't want the old firmware back. After some time, the battery really does seem to last longer now.

(kam187 @ Aug 22 2009, 14:02)
- Any news on the missing apps problem? I read that the new italian rom doesnt have this problem, but an itlaian user on here says he does.

It's solved! Apperently by Google. It doesn't seem to be directly related to the firmware, but to a misconfigured filter in the market server

 

[DrCereal]

Thanks Kam! Can I ask you what other android forum this is?

 

[kam187]

Its modaco. I'm just not sure if i'm allowed to post cometative forums or not. Well its dead over there so i guess it doesnt matter!

 

[DrCereal]

Thanks man. Yeah, it looks pretty dead over there. There doesn't seem to be that much activity over here. I wonder where all the English speaking Galaxy users are hanging out... Lately I've been forced to use google translate and my own very broken German to get my galaxy news fix.

 

[qqtba]

Thanks, again!

I really wanted to hear somekind of confirmation about the battery. Hope it doesn't take too long for Samsung to release a all-around better firmware.

You really have contributed a lot to this forum