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I just read on Vibrant xda forum that Bhman/Eugene737 just posted a froyo rom on Vibrant yesterday.Does that mean Epic devs bout to have a port for us?
Check out the Vibrant xda section they have youtube video,rom gets 13 on Quadrant.
That would be ridiculous if it was made for the epic, the epic is vastly different from the other SGS phones
thomasskull666 said:
That would be ridiculous if it was made for the epic, the epic is vastly different from the other SGS phones
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Is it that different?You saying that we can't have 2.2 ported minus physical keyboard,frnt camera and flash not working?Besides those things and different file system it is identical phone aint it?
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Is it that different?
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Let see, physical keyboard, front camera, flash, file system, CDMA radio (Vibrant has a GSM radio), 4G radio. Yeah not different at all.
lviv73 said:
Besides those things and different file system it is identical phone aint it?
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Well they both have an AMOLED screen and the Hummingbird processor...
Even if you were to get the Vibrant rom running on the Epic (after taking into account the differences in the file system) the phone would still be unusable. The Vibrant uses a different radio for phone calls, and data (3 and 4 G). So it would be pretty much useless as a phone.
When it comes down to it, this is still a galaxy s phone. But I don't think we should get excited until we see a port onto the fascinate, which is like the only other cdma galaxy s but more intune with the international version
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A_Flying_Fox said:
When it comes down to it, this is still a galaxy s phone. But I don't think we should get excited until we see a port onto the fascinate, which is like the only other cdma galaxy s but more intune with the international version
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When it comes down to it they are both phones so I'm hoping for froyo and iOS being ported early next week
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A_Flying_Fox said:
When it comes down to it, this is still a galaxy s phone. But I don't think we should get excited until we see a port onto the fascinate, which is like the only other cdma galaxy s but more intune with the international version
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Agreed, CDMA is definitely the kicker as we have no way of getting that from a vibrant port. Other than that it isn't that ridiculously complicated to port it to our phone so yes once we see the fascinate get it then we will be on a roll.
Iz it almust HERE yetz!? giggity giggity.
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blulitespecial said:
Iz it almust HERE yetz!? giggity giggity.
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Seems like we don't have much longer to wait.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/21/samsung-comes-clean-with-galaxy-s-froyo-upgrade-dates-all-carri/
But then again... Who knows?
end of November.” now
Late last week, Samsung announced that the Froyo or Android 2.2 update would finally be coming to the Galaxy S smartphone this week.
It seems that this won’t be the case, however, as the firm has issued an update via its official Twitter channel.
Samsung tweeted: “The Froyo upgrade will be available in the UK from early November and we expect all operator versions to be available by the end of November.”
So, early November could mean two to three more weeks before it lands on Kies, the company’s own Windows based upgrade platform, with operators pushing it out after that. The cause of the delay is unknown.
The Froyo update will bring a number of new features to the very popular Galaxy S, including a speed boost, full Flash support and device tethering, along with Google Maps GPS navigation plus voice guidance.
toon_nufc said:
It seems that this won’t be the case, however, as the firm has issued an update via its official Twitter channel.
Samsung tweeted: “The Froyo upgrade will be available in the UK from early November and we expect all operator versions to be available by the end of November.”
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That is Samsun'g official Twitter channel for the U.K. That timing corresponds to a new press release from Samsung for the U.K. The "all operators" referred to, quite obviously, are the telecom operators in that market.
The corresponinding Twitter site for the U.S. says there is no ETA yet.
And the earlier announcemetn you mentioned was also about overseas markets.
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When it comes down to it they are both phones so I'm hoping for froyo and iOS being ported early next week
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Hold up,iOS port?iOS port for what phone?Its closed source so i doubt it be ported,but it would be nice.
Sadly, I just heard from my Sprint insider not to expect Froyo on the Epic until mid-late December.
infamousjax said:
Sadly, I just heard from my Sprint insider not to expect Froyo on the Epic until mid-late December.
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That is the suck. waaaaahhhhh! (crying)
well noobnl has froyo working with the radio so we should see a cyanogized epic release soon
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well noobnl has froyo working with the radio so we should see a cyanogized epic release soon
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lol sure buddy!
noobnl is still working on the data, sensors, gps... he has the radio interface layer working, but idk if thats the same as saying the radio is working
I just got off the phone with Verizon Wireless Customer Service. I was questioning about setting changes to improve my signal strength. She said there was nothing she knew of. I then asked if she knew if the 2.2 update would bring with it a new baseband to improve the signal strength. She then said, well it is available for download, go ahead and download it and see. However, I am not in an area to do that. I am in Central Ohio, so I really have no idea if it is truely out or not!
Ummm...no. CS are useless.
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Yea most if those people are pretty UN HELPFUL AND STUPID no offense to anyone...
Swyped via Fascinate.
and I was so looking forward to getting to work tomorrow and downloading it. Guess I will just keep dreaming.....
A lot of people are gonna get froyo here and be like....wtf...this is what I was pining for?
The download had been stopped unroll november so I've heard
Swyped via Fascinate.
Yup I've had froyo on the X and the inc and the best thing about it is flash 10.1
Swyped via Fascinate.
adrynalyne said:
A lot of people are gonna get froyo here and be like....wtf...this is what I was pining for?
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I was just hoping for better service area. I live in a fringe area, my wife's D1 has service here, but my Fascinate has nothing. They did offer to knock 50 bucks off the new 3g network extender for my trouble.
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I was just hoping for better service area. I live in a fringe area, my wife's D1 has service here, but my Fascinate has nothing. They did offer to knock 50 bucks off the new 3g network extender for my trouble.
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Unless they have a new network extender that i'm not aware of, the one they were selling only extends voice and not data.
What one were you talking about??
irascible said:
Unless they have a new network extender that i'm not aware of, the one they were selling only extends voice and not data.
What one were you talking about??
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There is a new network extender. It was announced last Thursday and does both 1X and EV
Verizon just released a new version of their network extender that supports 3g data last week. Retail cost of 250 though.
They told me that at the end of September. Do I have froyo? **** NO! will I ever see froyo.? Likely, but only from our developers and not samsung
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ksizzle9 said:
They told me that at the end of September. Do I have froyo? **** NO! will I ever see froyo.? Likely, but only from our developers and not samsung
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It's been said multiple times in the past month that they will be coming out in November.
This from Samsung USA's twitter as well - "yes. all current Galaxy S phones in the USA will be upgraded to Android 2.2 this year."
Actually I'm pretty sure that it W's confirmed that the particular comment you are talking about DID NOT apply to the variants in the states. However I was just being sarcastic anyway. It doesn't really matter to me at this point as froyo from Samsung is literally going to suck ass because the one thing that kills these phones is the one thing a firmware update wont fix, and that's RFS. Anyway, good day sir. Hope you are correct, that way we can get some good froyo ROMS rollin
Edit: actually, I don't recall that anyone anywhere has stated specifically that our phones will get it in November. And I am positive that u will find nothing specific to the fascinate. Anyway. Not flaming, just stating the facts.
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Edit: actually, I don't recall that anyone anywhere has stated specifically that our phones will get it in November. And I am positive that u will find nothing specific to the fascinate. Anyway. Not flaming, just stating the facts.
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"The Galaxy S series will be getting 2.2 Froyo in November, starting in Europe and over time pushing west." - Not sure if this includes the US, but I assume it does. Paraphrased.
edit: Unfortunately I can't read. Your post said this already, so I guess I'm part of the redundant department of redundancy.
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Actually I'm pretty sure that it W's confirmed that the particular comment you are talking about DID NOT apply to the variants in the states. However I was just being sarcastic anyway. It doesn't really matter to me at this point as froyo from Samsung is literally going to suck ass because the one thing that kills these phones is the one thing a firmware update wont fix, and that's RFS. Anyway, good day sir. Hope you are correct, that way we can get some good froyo ROMS rollin
Edit: actually, I don't recall that anyone anywhere has stated specifically that our phones will get it in November. And I am positive that u will find nothing specific to the fascinate. Anyway. Not flaming, just stating the facts.
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It was a direct quote from Samsung's Twitter. What else could "yes. all current Galaxy S phones in the USA will be upgraded to Android 2.2 this year." mean?
It can't mean ANYTHING else other than the Samsung Galaxy S phones released in the USA with all the popular carriers.
tekkitan said:
It was a direct quote from Samsung's Twitter. What else could "yes. all current Galaxy S phones in the USA will be upgraded to Android 2.2 this year." mean?
It can't mean ANYTHING else other than the Samsung Galaxy S phones released in the USA with all the popular carriers.
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True. And this is all moot speculation anyway. When Froyo was debuted at I/O, afterwards Google tweeted about the rollout occurring over the next few months. less than 15 hours later I pulled down a rooted OTA courtesy of Cyanogen. lol.
It should be sometime between now and Christmas.
tekkitan said:
It was a direct quote from Samsung's Twitter. What else could "yes. all current Galaxy S phones in the USA will be upgraded to Android 2.2 this year." mean?
It can't mean ANYTHING else other than the Samsung Galaxy S phones released in the USA with all the popular carriers.
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It never actually said US. that is the point I'm trying to make, it only said UK. I'm not at all trying to start a flame war just trying to keep you from getting high hopes only to be let down. I hope that u r right. Man do I ever hope that u r right.
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It never actually said US. that is the point I'm trying to make, it only said UK. I'm not at all trying to start a flame war just trying to keep you from getting high hopes only to be let down. I hope that u r right. Man do I ever hope that u r right.
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How is this only the UK? They may not have said November, but by the end of the year is fine by me.
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@hometheater321 yes. all current Galaxy S phones in the USA will be upgraded to Android 2.2 this year.
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Gosh man. I'm not trying to start a fight nor am I saying u r wrong. However as I have stated multiple times. NO WHERE does it say "Verizon Wireless is pleased to announce that the android 2.2 froyo update is available for ur fascinate" nor have any of their tweets mentioned it.
Edit: all galaxy s variants doesn't mean fascinate. Call Samsung itself and ask they will tell u they know nothing.
Edit: sorry just saw where u said end of year. Not November. All good. Last Samsung phone ill ever buy.
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So i was reading this blog and bam i finally got slapped with a pretty cool rumor that got me a little excited so i wanted to share because of all the 2.2 questions maybe this will shed some light
http://an.droid-life.com/2010/12/06/samsung-phones-to-get-gingerbread-first/
Rumors are not post worthy.
adrynalyne said:
Rumors are not post worthy.
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Beat me to it. I'd highly doubt we see an official version of 2.3.
scriz said:
Beat me to it. I'd highly doubt we see an official version of 2.3.
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I'm beginning to doubt I'll see 2.2 by the time my two-year contract runs out in 2012..
I heard from this guy that he saw Elvis at a truck stop yesterday. thought I'd let yall know
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Highly doubtful.
Epic just upgraded to 2.2, and Vibrant was scheduled last week but got postponed a week. If we were going to see 2.3 instead, then we'd have to wait months...first Samsung would release to International Galaxy S, then give it to all the carriers who then make modifications.
At this point all the carriers have been working on 2.2 so I doubt they would drop doing their work on this to skip over froyo.
i wouldnt be surpised if we skip all updates straight into 3.0 after all not the first time samsung ****ed us(all galaxy s will get 2.2 SHORTY after release).
At this point, I don't have too much hope for 2.2. I've seen in the past with other devices and OS that VZW skip a release or two because it failed their internal testing or something. I wouldn't be surprise if 2.2 was like that
I'm not worried about updates anymore...
I'm just waiting for my contact to end so u can leave Verizon.
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iTz Nicholas72 said:
I'm not worried about updates anymore...
I'm just waiting for my contact to end so u can leave Verizon.
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Really miss t-mobile.
How about class action suite? ;-)
CNemo7539 said:
How about class action suite? ;-)
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For what? The fact that I miss t-mobile?
iTz Nicholas72 said:
I'm not worried about updates anymore...
I'm just waiting for my contact to end so u can leave Verizon.
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Seems this is becoming a common sentiment. Go figure, right?
It seems as if Verizon is putting all of its eggs in the Motorola basket. They get updates/fixes galore.
I will be furious if the Fascinate goes the way of the Droid Eris (what I JUST upgraded from). Fortunatley, instead of burning an upgrae, I bought off of Craigslist.
maybe we will at least see a 2.3 leak one day!
We're going to get 2.3 eventually.
You guys can't blame Verizon for us not having froyo. If t mobile is so great why don't the vibrant have it? And sprints testing is poopoo, if you read about their new froyo, I don't think anyone is impressed
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Yeah I absolutely love the irony of everyone jumping ship from Verizon when the other devices haven't got Froyo either. When T-Mobile gets Froyo onto the Vibrant we shall see. The Epic is different hardware (different enough that Samsung probably shipped different drivers/RIL). This entire attitude of "verizon sucks" is just laughable at this point.
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No, I really do miss t-mobile and their 4g with gsm.
RacerXFD said:
No, I really do miss t-mobile and their 4g with gsm.
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T-Mo sucks and has the spottiest data coverage of any carrier I have ever used. I can remember driving down the highway, using my Nexus One in the car cradle, and having to wait for Google Maps to load up my current location because the buffered map areas couldn't keep up since the data connection kept going up and down. I could get across the city so quick on the highway that the network could not seemlessly handle me moving across the network so fast. Verizon has been a breath of fresh air compared to T-Mo, and the only thing I miss is the control I had with my Nexus One. That said, the screen on this phone is nice and is really the top of the class. We will get 2.2 soon enough, and with the proper foundation, I would think creating 2.3 ROMs will be an easy prospect.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/16/official-samsung-galaxy-s-and-galaxy-tab-getting-gingerbread-up/
the part that applies to us in that article is that the north american versions will get gingerbread after mid-may update for europe
dppatel said:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/16/official-samsung-galaxy-s-and-galaxy-tab-getting-gingerbread-up/
the part that applies to us in that article is that the north american versions will get gingerbread after mid-may update for europe
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It's now 16th of May! How much more middle of May can you get?
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xHoLyx said:
It's now 16th of May! How much more middle of May can you get?
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LOL at that.
Samsung's gonna take a while, and the 'official' news hasn't really worked out in the past either.
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LOL at that.
Samsung's gonna take a while, and the 'official' news hasn't really worked out in the past either.
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True. It might even take couple weeks or months, but always good to hear some news.
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The OP didn't say we'll get Gingerbread in mid-May, he said Europe will get it in mid-May and we'll get it after them. That doesn't mean we'll get it in mid-May, or May at all.
Engadget phrased it better, though:
"The company has this morning released word that it intends to update its entire Galaxy S family line, starting with models in the UK and Nordic countries from the middle of this month. The rest of the globe, including North America, will follow suit "according to the regional plan."
Obviously, we have no idea what the "regional plan" is -- so there's no saying when we or any of the US carriers will actually see Gingerbread.
not to mention the last official word we had on froyo said november... got it in april...
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It's now 16th of May! How much more middle of May can you get?
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must have been a typo, them ment the middle of may next yr
With us being cdma we will most likely be the very last to get it
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id assume it wouldnt come any earlier than late Fall for this phone...by which time many of us will have long jumped ship
CDMA plus Bing plus hardware differences. This'll be a fun wait.
As far as I remember, the samsung dev team tried to unify the devices under froyo a lot more than they were under eclair. For eclair they had a team for each phone, then for froyo they had one tam for all phones. I can't remember where I read it, but maybe that fact will speed updates.
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You also have to take into account that most of the Galaxy S lineup consists of the i9000 series (GSM). Once Europe is updated, the i9000 series on AT&T will probably be next.
There hasn't been any word for the i500 timeline yet.
Gotta remember, the Galaxy S is the i9000 we just have a variant. It would be nice if we got it on the i500 but I seriously doubt it, especially since it just said galaxy s not the galaxy s line. Which means fascinate, epic, vibrant and captivate were not mentioned in the press release. In fact they went out of their way to even mention specific models. "GALAXY Ace/Gio/Fit/mini"
I guess I'm being pessimistic seeing how we were treated over Android 2.2
Well I read in the article on android central it said Galaxy S line, where the press release from Samsung said galaxy s.
Another thing to remember is its being released by Samsung, we will still have to wait for VZW to get there hands on it, and bloat the hell out of it, before they release it. And im sure this is on the back burner for them at this point so I dont see an ota being pushed out anytime soon.
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Well I read in the article on android central it said Galaxy S line, where the press release from Samsung said galaxy s.
Another thing to remember is its being released by Samsung, we will still have to wait for VZW to get there hands on it, and bloat the hell out of it, before they release it. And im sure this is on the back burner for them at this point so I dont see an ota being pushed out anytime soon.
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Samsung puts everything together and sends it to Verizon. AFAIK, Verizon does nothing with putting the ROM itself together, just final testing.
this is XDA! once the Devs get their hands on a leak we will have a few roms before any official 2.3 comes out. Much like most of us had 2.2 WELL before the official came out!
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Samsung puts everything together and sends it to Verizon. AFAIK, Verizon does nothing with putting the ROM itself together, just final testing.
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While that may be true, since most of the US Galaxy S variants have some form of bloatware, wouldn't that mean carriers tell Samsung what extras to add before it's finished?
Bow chika wah wah
I highly doubt Verizon updates the Fascinate to Gingerbread. If they do, I'm going to say, early 2012 if they decide we are worth it.
Hey some news is better than no news!
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I highly doubt Verizon updates the Fascinate to Gingerbread. If they do, I'm going to say, early 2012 if they decide we are worth it.
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Maybe I am wrong, but verizon can dictate software under contract, but I don't think they can stop samsung from updating their products. If samsung programs it I think they would be none to happy if verizon refused to push the update.
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According to this article, AT&T promised GB for their entire Android selection. Aren't the Captivate drivers same/similar with Vibrant's?
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HTC Inspire™ 4G
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According to this article, AT&T promised GB for their entire Android selection. Aren't the Captivate drivers same/similar with Vibrant's?
List of devices getting GB:
HTC Inspire™ 4G
LG Phoenix™
Motorola ATRIX™ 4G
Pantech Crossover™
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No, Cappy is most closely related to the i9000. Which is why they've had GPS on Gingerbread for months and months.
Guys, are you 100% sure that the Samfirmware tweeting is true?
you know, I thinked myself about this! We didnt got anything official from Samsung or T-mobile itself.
so i think there is still chance that we can get GB for vibrant
and by the way, I found something here:
http://www.youmobile.org/blogs/entr...ead-2-3-3-update-Release-Status-for-Countries
i dunno is this info is right or not but the US still pending.
what do you think about this?
Isn't the NS and Vibrant just about the same phone? Why don't more devs base their ROMs on the NS drivers and stuff? That question may not be the correct question, but I think it's understandable.
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Isn't the NS and Vibrant just about the same phone? Why don't more devs base their ROMs on the NS drivers and stuff? That question may not be the correct question, but I think it's understandable.
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If they were as similar as you're thinking they are, then we would have more roms based from them, but as you can see, there's nothing.
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laylovj said:
Isn't the NS and Vibrant just about the same phone? Why don't more devs base their ROMs on the NS drivers and stuff? That question may not be the correct question, but I think it's understandable.
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While they physically look the same the internals are quite different.
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kiaksar2142 said:
Guys, are you 100% sure that the Samfirmware tweeting is true?
you know, I thinked myself about this! We didnt got anything official from Samsung or T-mobile itself.
so i think there is still chance that we can get GB for vibrant
and by the way, I found something here:
http://www.youmobile.org/blogs/entr...ead-2-3-3-update-Release-Status-for-Countries
i dunno is this info is right or not but the US still pending.
what do you think about this?
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T-Mobile nor HTC didn't tweet the T-Mobile G1 wasn't going past Donut and the original myTouch 3G was getting FroYo