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News about update <Announcement on friday>

The webpage doesn't link to either samsung or T-Mobile US's sites. It just says Samsung has officially confirmed it. It does contain a link to TMobile UK site where a T_Mobile Rep is saying it will be released in two weeks.
I understand it's for Galaxy s(i9000), but it does also say "release will be available in two weeks for all networks"
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/and...ayed-on-all-networks-due-this-month-50001015/

I believe this. It makes sense. Can't wait
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rajkumar484 said:
The webpage doesn't link to either samsung or T-Mobile US's sites. It just says Samsung has officially confirmed it. It does contain a link to TMobile UK site where a T_Mobile Rep is saying it will be released in two weeks.
I understand it's for Galaxy s(i9000), but it does also say "release will be available in two weeks for all networks"
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/and...ayed-on-all-networks-due-this-month-50001015/
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And here we go again.
The first sentence says "could" not "will". And "all networks" in this article refers to T-mo UK, Vodafone, Orange and O2. Not T-mo US, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon.
This article doesn't provide any real updates for US users.

^^^^^^ this!!!

Well that's a site I could trust but it is stol unclear if it is for tmobile US cause it is Uk based.
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There is a Samsung Tweet saying soon for froyo Galaxy S. No word on Tmo US. Very vague again. Tmoble US silent again. Slow again. Nothing again.....
Same rumors again...
Same old is getting very old.

File under "I know a guy..."

you'll get ice cream on top of froyo from Tmo as an added bonus.

I got froyo last night at the android bbq its nice

Soon sounded good back in August.

AustinKnight45 said:
I got froyo last night at the android bbq its nice
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Can you prove it??
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Can you prove it??
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he never said for what phone.

He had the kind you can eat, not for his phone.

Also didn't say if it was a froyo for a phone

Damn, I knew I shouldn't have thrown out that invitation to the BBQ.

You know it is sad when you call Tmobile to ***** about no 2.2 on the vibrant and they suggest XDAdevelopers ...
No updates just called them to ***** .... Made me feel better

From T-Mobile Twitter:
"We continue to work diligently with Samsung to provide improvements. We plan to have more information to share this week. ^CG"

Put it this way. If europe gets froyo, developers will get a working froyo to work with. In any case if this happens, froyo roms with no bugs will be swarming the site. That's great news, even if official is not coming out.
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Two weeks seems about right if the following is true,
http://www.talkandroid.com/16111-insider-tip-froyo-coming-to-captivate-and-vibrant-really-soon/

scrizz said:
he never said for what phone.
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I have a vibrant but at the bbq this weekend everyone got it , as a sick joke they gave everyone tcby and said it was froyo we were all happy to receive it but ya not 2.2 for are phone one day will get it for are phone just sit back and play with the hacks on here for lag and gps and before you know it will get it.
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Galaxy S Gingerbread update soon. Due at end of March!

According to Android Central: http://www.androidcentral.com/european-galaxy-s-gingerbread-update-coming-end-march
Link to Samsung Romania post: http://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileRomania/posts/189412624430604
A post on Samsung Mobile Romania's Facebook page seems to suggest that Romanian Galaxy S phones (and presumably other European models) may see an official update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread by the end of March.
Translated into English and cleaned up a little, the post reads:
"The update to version 2.2.1 for Galaxy S will be available until 20 March, and Gingerbread (2.3) until the end of the month."
Our Romanian is a little rusty, but we think it's safe to assume the last part of that statement means either "it'll arrive by the end of the month", or "it won't arrive until the end of the month". Either way, it looks like the European Galaxy S could soon claim bragging rights as the first non-Nexus phone to get an official Gingerbread update. HTC has announced that Gingerbread will be coming to some of its older phones, but these updates aren't due until sometime in the second quarter.
Samsung Romania also adds that two of its budget phones, the i5500 Galaxy 5 and i5800 Galaxy 3, will be updated to Froyo by Mar. 20 and Mar. 31 respectively. [Samsung Romania Facebook via Crave]
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still doesn't help us with key mapping because it's not source.
But good to hear either way.

for Europe

geoffcorey said:
still doesn't help us with key mapping because it's not source.
But good to hear either way.
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There are ways around it. Whitehawk has everything working properly except GPS in the Gingerbread leak we had

Emama said:
for Europe
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Yeah but now the we have that universal kernel, isn't good news for any Galaxy S variant good news for us as well?

thegreatcity said:
Yeah but now the we have that universal kernel, isn't good news for any Galaxy S variant good news for us as well?
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The universal kernel is for 2.2 and 2.2.1 ROMs only.

Also, it's not a universal kernel, it's a universal settings.apk that's been fixed for us.
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geoffcorey said:
still doesn't help us with key mapping because it's not source.
But good to hear either way.
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Doesn't matter, it means there is a good chance that we will get it, but probably not till 2050
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zer0nine said:
According to Android Central: http://www.androidcentral.com/european-galaxy-s-gingerbread-update-coming-end-march
Link to Samsung Romania post: http://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileRomania/posts/189412624430604
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That's great and all - really it is. But didn't the first Froyo releases already come out in Europe by September? Yet the Vibrant didn't get Froyo for another 4 months...

so what this means is... a year till we get gingerbread?

reuthermonkey said:
That's great and all - really it is. But didn't the first Froyo releases already come out in Europe by September? Yet the Vibrant didn't get Froyo for another 4 months...
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I don't really know the history of the Vibrant, (Picked it up off Craigslist 2 months ago) but this at least gives me some hope.

God, getting Gingerbread on the Vibrant would be AMAZING. It would increase the speed, and once the source is released, we would see some awesome gingerbread ROM's for it.

Just one gingerbread leak for vibrant, then we will be back in business.
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iynfynity said:
Just one gingerbread leak for vibrant, then we will be back in business.
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Seriously. All they need is the driver sources + the kernel and CM7 would become amazing.

Hopefully somebody will be able to port it quickly if T-Mobile foes not roll out the rom in the same timeframe...

Tmobile said they would be more up to speed on updates. Take that for what you want it to mean.
That is all I gotta say about this subject.

ELStiko said:
Tmobile said they would be more up to speed on updates. Take that for what you want it to mean.
That is all I gotta say about this subject.
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+1. This was released by T-mo after 2.2 was released on kies for the vibrant. So hopefully we'll get gingerbread alot faster than froyo. And hopefully the first of the U.S galaxy S phones to be updated again.

If the Vibrant gets an official Gingerbread update EVER I will buy a Galaxy Tab immediately.
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Gingerbread for i9000 is released

Officially.
I hope we get a leak or something soon.
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Hopefully ours is on the way soon.

Lets give it till 2012!

2012 is my vote too.
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I'd go for 2012 too. but that's the end of the world.
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iynfynity said:
I'd go for 2012 too. but that's the end of the world.
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well, duh, if they wait till the world ends then Samsung doesn't have to do anything; they've got this all figured out

Not bad Samsung, two updates in less than a year. They even beat HTC at their own update game. The HTC Desire still has to get Gingerbread.

apparently it's only for europe as per this blog post and I saw a thread somewhere that says that after upgrading, the phone won't get recognized by KIES anymore. So be careful while you update..

aliwaqas said:
apparently it's only for europe as per this blog post and I saw a thread somewhere that says that after upgrading, the phone won't get recognized by KIES anymore. So be careful while you update..
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Samsung :facepalm:

Good job samsung releasing gingerbread when they had to put touchwiz on top. I guess we should not blame samsung for what the US carriers are doing to us to push new phone sales.
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XPLANE9 said:
Not bad Samsung, two updates in less than a year. They even beat HTC at their own update game. The HTC Desire still has to get Gingerbread.
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Well, Froyo for the base GalaxyS came out last year. September to be exact. It's not like they just released Froyo 2 months ago... It just took until February for them to port it to most other "custom" GalaxyS devices (like the Vibrant).
Hopefully it won't take as long for the porting process to work again.

I know I saw somewhere that T-Mobile said that they would be faster when it comes to updates. Hopefully this is true, and we get Gingerbread. I don't care if they put touchwiz on there, because as soon as the source code is released, HELLO custom ROM's, and CM7 stable.

If they just put it on mini kies then all will be great if they do release it to the vibrant thats how we will be able to get it anyway.

For the US versions, see u in 2012

Ginger bread 2 months after they release S2 here I figure that would be August or Sept............ but then, i am an optimist

pfft... 2012 guess is too inaccurate
I have insider info that they are going to release it at 11:59:59:999
And one milisecond after they release the earth will get sucked up by a black hole...
And it turns out that the update was an accidental leak, and that all the bricked vibrants caused the black hole... due to all the Samoled screen displaying black

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/16/galaxy-s-gingerbread-update-now-rolling-out-across-europe/

krackers said:
pfft... 2012 guess is too inaccurate
I have insider info that they are going to release it at 11:59:59:999
And one milisecond after they release the earth will get sucked up by a black hole...
And it turns out that the update was an accidental leak, and that all the bricked vibrants caused the black hole... due to all the Samoled screen displaying black
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That last part was amazing..
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Soo I heard eugene is porting this over for us, he almost has recovery working!

official 2.3 in vibrant 2014

G2 Android 2.3 Confirmed For Q2

i didnt know if anyone has seen htc confirm we are getting android 2.3 officially in q2 so i emailed them and this is what i got in response.
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Lol that's great but I wonder what they will change from the leak Rom. The leaked Rom works pretty good
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lainvalenajr said:
Lol that's great but I wonder what they will change from the leak Rom. The leaked Rom works pretty good
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idk but i havent even seen any pics or videos on youtube showing the leaked rom. wish someone would do it so i can check it out.. lol

Doesn't mean much to me when I had it for months now
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Desire HD apparently getting theirs OTA now. Surely ours should not be far behind.....Surely?
What it means when ours is released is hopefully rmk40 will release an official virtuous 2.0 rom. It might also move us closer to the point where they release the kernel source and we can start seeing overclocking kernels for Gingerbread sense roms. (and trackpad wake etc)

According to Engadget:
"That just leaves the Desire Z and original Desire, both of which should be joining the party by the end of June. "
So more or less two months later. No matter, maybe they will make even more fixes and changes for us. (Maybe a version of Sense 3.0 for our "weaker" phones - but I doubt that)

cartman09 said:
According to Engadget:
"That just leaves the Desire Z and original Desire, both of which should be joining the party by the end of June. "
So more or less two months later. No matter, maybe they will make even more fixes and changes for us. (Maybe a version of Sense 3.0 for our "weaker" phones - but I doubt that)
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The only reason they are saying end of June, is because HTC said it would happen by end of Q2. So it can happen anytime between now and the end of June.

True. But I rather expect the end of June and be surprised than the otherway around

cartman09 said:
True. But I rather expect the end of June and be surprised than the otherway around
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Haha, set you expectations low, and never be disappointed, eh?

Anywhere soon is good for me Even though I'm already using a better ROM than what they'd bring out haha (TrollogenMOD ) Also... It won't take as long as it took my Hero to get 2.1 I bet

cartman09 said:
True. But I rather expect the end of June and be surprised than the otherway around
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This sums up pretty much every expectation in my life lol.

Given the track record with everyone involved regarding prompt releases (Google, T-Mobile), it'll be at least November before it's actually available. How many months were us old Dream users waiting on Cupcake? Donut? Eclair (which turned out to be vaporware for the Dream)?

blackknightavalon said:
Given the track record with everyone involved regarding prompt releases (Google, T-Mobile), it'll be at least November before it's actually available. How many months were us old Dream users waiting on Cupcake? Donut? Eclair (which turned out to be vaporware for the Dream)?
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there is no way it will be november since we already have a leaked version for the stock gingerbread rom and it seems to work perfect... i dont see a reason for it taken to long to be released.

s10shane said:
there is no way it will be november since we already have a leaked version for the stock gingerbread rom and it seems to work perfect... i dont see a reason for it taken to long to be released.
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Lol yea. Well as a remember the motorola cliq toke like 8 month to get updated to 2.1 which really made me mad since that phone is so hard to root.
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lainvalenajr said:
Lol yea. Well as a remember the motorola cliq toke like 8 month to get updated to 2.1 which really made me mad since that phone is so hard to root.
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yeah but htc and motorola are a big difference when it comes to updating there phones lol..

I was gonna say they same thing. Eventually I just bought a g2 and gave the cliq to my wife lol
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Not yet, but i saw that Desire HD and Incredible S had already be update by OTA, so maybe release for G2 in Q2 recently?

I'm glad I recently got rid of my Cliq.

Mog said:
I was gonna say they same thing. Eventually I just bought a g2 and gave the cliq to my wife lol
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wow thats messed up to pass the cliq down to ur wife.. lmao i wouldnt even pass it down to my gf lmao.. i sold it for like 120 dollars to someone by where i lived lol

Wow, a lot of G2 owners here that came from the Cliq. I gave my Cliq to my dad after I got the G2. I remember Motorola's definition of "coming soon" for the Eclair update. Lol
Luckily we had developers like J_r0dd and HandlerExploit working on the Cliq back then.
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Another warranty exchange got me 2.2!

Hey guys, for any of you who received a warranty exchange G2 with 2.3.3 from Tmo recently you might want to try getting another exchange if you want the 2.2 build for rooting purposes. I saw the article on Tmonews stating that Tmo was internally calling the Gingerbread release an "error" so I figured I'd give it a shot and go for another exchange.
Anyway, long story short, I got my phone today, it came with 2.2 and I'm a happy camper with a rooted G2 once more!
(And this time I rooted with Adb instead of Visionary like I did the first time! A big thanks to the folks at XDA for creating such a great rooting guide, and a big thanks to the kind folks in #g2root who were willing to take the time to help a relative noob through it!)

My replacement is coming today. I lost all hope that it would come with 2.2 but this has given me hope! Ill **** my pants if it has good ol crappy 2.2 on it!
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Just got my g2, got froyo yippee skippy!

xsteven77x said:
Just got my g2, got froyo yippee skippy!
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Sweet! That's awesome!

crappy? 2.2 was fine

Naa I don't like all the white from froyo. Plus apps load 367894937743 times quicker on gb from my experience. System wise froyo and gb feel the same, but not app wise.
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Just got my g2, got froyo yippee skippy!
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How was the battery life compared to Froyo? Cause I bought a brand new G2 and the guy said it was a replacement phone. The battery life sucks for me and I don't even have the data hooked up yet. Was it significantly better w/ Froyo? Tmo is willing to send me a new replacement but I'm not sure what to do yet.