Help What will I gain with further updates?

[JHW]

Folks,

I have a Samsung Galaxy Spica on Rogers / Fido (Canada). It is working fairly well but locks up on occasion (requiring a battery pull to restart) and some applications, notably the camera and the SMS messaging app, are very sluggish.

Wondering if I have anything to gain by updating the phone firmware further. Looking for improved performance / battery life, better touch-screen sensitivity if possible, and more stability. If so, where should I start? Obviously without bricking the phone.

Here are my current settings:

Model number: GT-I5700
Firmware version: 2.1-update1
Baseband version: I570EXXJD1
Kernel version: 2.6.29 root@SE-S608 #2
Build number: ECLAIR.XXJE4

Thanks in advance and Happy New Year.

 

[karfeef]

I had 1.5 on mine, and flashed to 2.1, and rooted. The used the samdroid kitchen, samdroid turbo and some other scripts for soundfix, undervolting etc - and everything is toasty. Tried flashing cyanogenmod 2.2, and whilst it works ok, there were too many bugs with the things i use to keep it, so back to 2.1 i went.