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[Galaxy Tab General] manekineko:
Samsung Offers Android 2.3 'Gingerbread' Upgrade for GALAXY S and GALAXY Tab

SEOUL--(Korea Newswire) May 16, 2011 -- Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a global leader in Android™ mobile devices, today announced the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) upgrade to the Samsung GALAXY S, GALAXY Tab, and GALAXY Ace/Gio/Fit/mini, giving users enhanced performance and an improved user interface.

The GALAXY S and GALAXY Tab are Samsung's intelligently designed smart devices with 1 GHz application processors, giving users an intuitive, immersive and integrated mobile experience.

The upgrade from Froyo 2.2 to Gingerbread 2.3 offers an even greater user experience, with features including:

· Faster Performance – Multimedia content now has a lower CPU consumption rate, while support for more powerful 3D Graphics enables an enhanced mobile gaming experience.

· Upgraded Usability – The user interface has been improved, enabling faster access and control and a more intuitive user experience. Users will also benefit from improved copy-and-paste functionality.

The Android 2.3 upgrade will start with GALAXY S in the UK and Nordic countries from mid-May, and gradually rolled out to other European markets, North America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East Asia, Africa and rest of the world according to the regional plan.

The upgrade will be available via Kies, Samsung's device management software. Kies can be downloaded from Samsung's corporate website (http://www.samsung.com).

Saw it from here on Engadget:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/16/official-samsung-galaxy-s-and-galaxy-tab-getting-gingerbread-up/
[Galaxy Tab General] itsjusttim:
Nice find. But same old news from samsung.
[Galaxy Tab General] cosimoss:
It's updated news. ;)
[Galaxy Tab General] e654777:
Thanks for the news. Still waiting for asian rom roll out.
[Galaxy Tab General] ryn888:
Yeah, i already update my Galaxy Tab Korea Version using Odin.... very fast browser like safari iphone... no lags. Running smooth...
[Galaxy Tab General] orion324:
Still waiting in spain... Thanks anyway...
[Galaxy Tab General] Tarzanman:
Does the rain fall mainly on the plains out there?
[Galaxy Tab General] xrules:
I am too waiting in Spain!!
[Galaxy Tab General] dddnnnggg:
And still nothing for the wifi only version, i guess that they do not include it in the Galaxy Tab Family.
[Galaxy Tab General] APipeDream:
I say December we'll see it.
[Galaxy Tab General] jtskier11:
Ridiculous if thats the case!!
[Galaxy Tab General] daml:
Just remember guys. You buy a device for what it does. Not what it CAN do. Be lucky your getting it at all. Samsung has no obligation to upgrade...
[Galaxy Tab General] Technecium:
Do you work in Samsung's PR department? :D Those guys need a clue.

This is what Samsung needs to learn. That upgrades are part of the life cycle of a device. Particularly a smartphone that has an OS based on linux.
[Galaxy Tab General] alan_g:
Gingerbread will be stale by the time everyone gets it.
[Galaxy Tab General] xbamber:
Got a message tonight via kies that there is an update when I plugged in my galaxy tab but then reported that I had latest firmware. Maybe they are preparing there update for uk... or maybe a blip...

One hopeful uk guy here will try later again and see...

Will keep you posted...
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] permafrying:
so i downloaded bamf 1.6.3 remix then tried to use the desense thing on the page and it worked but it loaded and said there was a problem with the ui or watever and i needed to clear my data, didn think much of it so i hit the feeling lucky button then tried to launch adw as my home launcher and now i cant get to my home screen at all its all black. messaging halfway works and phone calls work if i recieve them or go threw messaging to make the call. tried rebooting into recovery and it tried to load that image file so i pulled the battery and now im just kinda trying to get feedback from someone on how to fix this.

got it to connect to my pc finally should i delete the pg05img.zip file and reboot into recovery?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miketoasty:
I would re flash the Rom. Install adw then use the de sense script.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beastclaw:
You should definitely either delete or rename the PG05IMG.zip so that you dont coincidently flash it in the future. You could try to long press on the screen as if you were going to add a widget and add the market to whatever screen your defaulted in and try to remove ADW and reinstall it and hope that works. Or maybe try another launcher. I use Launcher pro myself and it works fine.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] octomobiki:
yeah, I made the mistake of installing a new radio, leaving the pb05img on the card, then installing a new rom on top of it. When it didn't like the rom (couldn't get to the desktop portion or whatever its called), I couldn't go in recovery from hboot either.

What I did was...

remove the memory card, go into hboot, choose recovery, once in recovery I put the microsd card in from under the battery WHILE the phone was still up and running (needed a knife to do it)

Then mounted the sdcard within CWM and chose my backup.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] cruisx:
Hey Im trying to implement a reboot in my app for root users but the code below does not work. The SU prompt pops up but when i allow the action nothing happens, it will not reboot. Any ideas why?

try {
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("su");
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("reboot");
} catch (IOException e) {
}

Iv also tried this but it does not work either same result, su prompt shows, i allow it and it doesnt do anything.

Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{"/system/bin/su","-c","reboot"});
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] magictwins:
If I still charge the battery when it says charged for a while, Battery health will turn to "Over voltage" (from "Good"). Then If I reboot the phone, it's back to "Good", but practically the voltage doesn't drop after rebooting.

You can check the Battery health in Battery Information by entering *#*#4636#*#* in dialer
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] ryronz:
If you've installed a custom ROM (can't remember specific name) or installed any other ROM while <100% battery this will show. Nothing to worry about it :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] slayaman22232:
Is there any way to change the way the on screen click noise sounds to something else? Thanks
[HTC Inspire 4G] di11igaf:
Try /system/media/audio/ui. Not sure what the ogg files are called in sense roms but in mine they are keypressxxxxx.ogg. Replace them with whatever sound you want.
[HTC Inspire 4G] slayaman22232:
Thnx ill try it.
[Fascinate General] dppatel:
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:D
[Fascinate General] xHoLyx:
It's now 16th of May! How much more middle of May can you get?
[Fascinate General] TheSonicEmerald:
LOL at that.

Samsung's gonna take a while, and the 'official' news hasn't really worked out in the past either.
[Fascinate General] xHoLyx:
True. It might even take couple weeks or months, but always good to hear some news.
[Fascinate General] Falcyn:
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.
[Fascinate General] dnoyeb:
not to mention the last official word we had on froyo said november... got it in april...
[Fascinate General] ace5198:
must have been a typo, them ment the middle of may next yr
[Fascinate General] neh4pres:
With us being cdma we will most likely be the very last to get it

Sent from my frozen yogurt filled fascinate
[Fascinate General] nitsuj17:
id assume it wouldnt come any earlier than late Fall for this phone...by which time many of us will have long jumped ship
[Fascinate General] D_Steve595:
CDMA plus Bing plus hardware differences. This'll be a fun wait.
[Fascinate General] CamdogXIII:
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.
[Fascinate General] Apodidae:
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.
[Fascinate General] yutsoku:
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
[Fascinate General] kamileon:
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.
[Fascinate General] imnuts:
Samsung puts everything together and sends it to Verizon. AFAIK, Verizon does nothing with putting the ROM itself together, just final testing.
[Fascinate General] xwhofarted:
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!
[Fascinate General] DirgeExtinction:
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
[Fascinate General] mzrdisi:
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.
[Fascinate General] jimmy2179428:
Hey some news is better than no news!
[Fascinate General] Legato525:
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.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ivanzoz:
Has anyone had a problem with the keyboard locking up. For example I would be texting and all of the sudden a key that I need to press is not responding(and only a couple random key will freeze never everything), then I will delete all the way(it just happened on the "a") past the beginning of the word and it will work again. This is the only one thing that I don't like about this rom, if this will get fixed then I will be extremely happy. Has anyone encountered this problem, is there a fix?

Thanks ahead of time
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dj1337:
I thought we already got the new Gingerbread update called JVH.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/16...axy-s-and-galaxy-tab-getting-gingerbread-up/

Edited with ccorrect link.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Scared27:
The article says mid-April
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jaksau:
The more the merrier ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dj1337:
I swear they just changed that. May was written everywhere in the article just a few mins ago.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dj1337:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/16/official-samsung-galaxy-s-and-galaxy-tab-getting-gingerbread-up/

Here it is.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jaksau:
It still is May.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rschenck:
As this is finally stated in a real honest-to-god press release from Samsung (and not on the Facebook page of the assistant receptionist for a Samsung retailing in Kazakhstan), I think this time the date can be believed...however, isn't it ALREADY mid-May? So it is rolling out any day now?

Also, looking at the list of phones Sammy is updating I think I understand better why they pulled the mid April update. Beyond needing a little more baking, they also wanted to roll out the Gingerbread update to all their relevant devices all at the same time to reap the PR noise (such as the Engadget article). Consider the mid April release a limited test run in a couple markets, I guess.

This press release are good news for many, I am sure. Me, I will continue rocking the CM7 2.3.4 goodness, thank you very much.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alexgogan:
For the last week have been getting the message to upgrade my firmware to PDA:JS8 / PHONE:JPY / CSC:JS5 (O2I) but keeps on failing, so hopefully it will be sorted this week...;. but BTY is the 16th not the middle of the month?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mstrandbo:
But it rolled out several days, almost weeks ago? :s

Ah, maybe for XEU and others? Since XEE and NEE got JVH already.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] got-petrol:
Let's hope its soon xeu
[Galaxy S I9000 General] amwebby:
The Nordics got it two weeks ago now, with no apparent problems. Why are we still waiting for a UK rollout?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kunjar:
Patience is a virtue young grasshopper
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Lynchy30:
The article says "after encountering a little hitch with its mid-April Gingerbread delivery"

Maybe the hitch was the UK not being able to get it ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] yken:
Is JVH Beta then?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Davith:
Well no, if it's still on Kies for XEE and NEE.

It'll just be deployed in other countries as well. Scandinavia has always been the first to get updates.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cldwar:
Samsung shd giv a schedule on which date which countries will get the update . . .
[Galaxy S I9000 General] surrealjam:
Is it possible they meant to state "Mid June"? It seems very odd to announce a release past the middle of the month for the middle of the same month?!

Just a thought.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rschenck:
NO thank you. NO schedule. Then we will have an entire forum of threads like "Samsung say we gets the gynjerbrot on tuestag, now he wendstag, where my *&^%$%& udate. Me in Outer Vulgaria, my kies he explod and kill my cittykat can i still updatify? help me pls yes? EDIT...Oh hai I no have galazy my phone by Nokia...when I get ginjerbread???"

You know its true...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Fuctifino:
LOL! Brilliant 10/10 :D

I've just spat tea all over my monitor while reading your post :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eeyunopper:
You make me piss rschenck :D :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tatsuya79:
I find this offensive to Outer Vulgarian people, they are humans like you and me. :mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rschenck:
Tell that to Inner Vulgarians
[Galaxy S I9000 General] electrotune1200:
You think that's good?

You should check out his CM7 flowchart instructions... :p
[Galaxy S I9000 General] marv101:
Has anyone failed to notice that we're already in mid-May...? Let's hope it's rolled out in the next couple of days!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] got-petrol:
is I realy mid may
[Galaxy S I9000 General] got-petrol:
According to this

http://www.eurodroid.com/2011/05/up...id-2-3-update-to-begin-in-late-may/#more-5268

Its late may
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xefe:
here we go again
[Galaxy S I9000 General] devonblue4u:
No joke. :p
[Galaxy S I9000 General] amwebby:
The late-May bit seems to be about the carrier specific upgrades. Let's hope the unbranded ones start tomorrow as has been suggested on another thread.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] t1mman:
It' not the name of the month, it's the word...

You "MAY" get a late gingerbread update

:D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MCOGW:
There's hope ;)

Some more fresh GB (Sweden & Norway) arrived @ Kies:

TDC (Sweden):

From: JPF / JPP / JP3

To: JVH / JVO / JV3

ODK (Sweden):

From: JPF / JPP / JP4

To: JVH / JVO / JV3

TEN (Norway):

From: JPA / JPP / JP3

To: JVH / JVO / JV3

I guess it's the same build like the first JVO/JVH Release (XEE & NEE, CL184813)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] amwebby:
When was this? Today?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ryann0:
This pleases me
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ryann0:
Surely if you are on XDA and looking in this forum you do not need to be concerned with release dates? Or are there still regional 'gaps' in the dev section?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MCOGW:
Yes.

Meanwhile we'd call it yesterday ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] theskymoves:
Well hopefully the source will be out and devs can start updating custom roms.

I doubt that many people here run off Kies updates somehow (except for testing).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alexgogan:
heheh that sounds more like it for Sammy!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alexgogan:
well for over 10 days now been getting in Keis the upgrade to PDA:JS8 / PHONE:JPY / CSC:JS5 and its failed every time (BTW) still using stock until get the time to rebuild this piece of crap pc running win7ul 64 not going to mess with my Sammy
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Furry Atom:
JS8 is froyo.
[Atrix 4G General] androidfusion:
I was just wondering for those that have the Bell version of the Atrix, how many of you guys are experiencing muffled outgoing voice quality?

I am so far on my second one and it is still muffled regardless of what noise suppression option I use.

I am thinking of exchanging for a third one but I'm not sure if I will just get another dud or not.

For those that do not have this issue, what is the manufacturing date on your Atrix? I think its that date on the side of the box. Both phones I have gotten had the date 3/1/2011.

Are there any possible remedies to this problem?
[Atrix 4G General] mblakev:
I am suffering from muffled call quality, but I'm on AT&T. Ive never had this problem on my other phones in the same exact area. I would like to know whether or not it effects all phones, and if I should exchange it.
[Atrix 4G General] crashingout:
Casing

My buddy bought an atrix the other day and he said he could hear me clearly out of my atrix but his was horribly muffled, but then I asked him what case was using, I had him remove the poorly designed case I think it was the bodyglove model,so if anyone is using a poorly designed case and they have this issue consider this variable. As soon as he took off the case his voice was perfectly clear and before it was muffled and unclear
[Atrix 4G General] wirednix:
I can only speak on behalf of my AT&T Attic experience, but im sure it is not too different in the voice quality issue.

This 'muffled' voice issue is a well documented and widespread issue. You may want to check out the motorola forums, where there exists a thread with hundreds of replies about this issue.

I experienced this poor call quality with 2 Atrix phones. Only on my second exchange (3rd phone), did I get a unit that did not suffer from the call quality issue. As a side note, turning off noise suppression did nothing to aleviate my call quality problem (as it might be suggested by some).

This issue has also been discussed in length here on XDA.

My advice, keep exchanging units until you find one that does not have the muffled call quality. (Talk about QC on Motorola's part!)

Good luck!
[Atrix 4G General] androidfusion:
I guess I'll try exchanging for a third one and hopefully third is the charm.
[Atrix 4G General] GuestK0050:
I've had this problem intermittently since February 22nd. I kept it, thinking a software update would help. The last update did not help. Here's what AT&T did for me. Nothing. Because it was intermittent, I couldn't reproduce it on demand so they wouldn't warranty it. They wanted a hard reset, I had already done that and it didn't help so I refused to do it again. I have two of these and made it pretty clear the other one didn't suffer the issue. You gotta love these "scripted" calls where these people aren't allowed to use their brains and just provide some good old fashioned customer service.

So I had to send it back directly to Motorola for repair. That means no phone in the mean time.

AT&T should decide if they will warranty products or not. Pretty half assed experience. But I suppose I'll do better by sending it directly back to Motorola.

-James
[Atrix 4G General] mudd_cat23:
I had the same problem done many test on with different cases and then done some researching after doing all that i found a setting on the phone. and it fixed it. Settings/ Call settings/ Noise suppression/ then choose off. i have done several tests with the 3 different settings and that seemed to fix it now everyone i talk too says they hear me clear again.
[Atrix 4G General] dosmac:
I have had this issue since I got the "phone". I say "phone" because it's basically unusable as a phone, unless you use speakerphone and hope they can make out what you're saying, good luck trying to give a chinese order. Took me 15minutes last night because my bluetooth headset was in the truck. I went through 3 different people trying to give my order to before one guy could FINALLY understand me after practically having to scream my credit card number at him 16 times. Once you pair a headset and use it however, it's fine.

There are hundreds of people complaining about this and Motorola just keeps telling people they fixed it in the latest update (two updates ago).

Do some google searches for "atrix call quality" and the like, you'll actually be surprised at how many people have returned phones and went with something else entirely. Getting a new phone does nothing to solve this issue for most people. Sadly, the majority of consumers don't realize their phones are affected and just chock it up to just phones generally being bad, not realizing how good it *SHOULD* sound.

EDIT: Forgot to mention I have an AT&T Atrix and bought it directly from them.
[Atrix 4G General] wirednix:
Not all Atrix units are affected by this problem. I returned my phone twice and only on the third phone, did I not have any more call quality issues with the "muffled" sounding voice calls.

BTW, as a side note, the first two phones were from the same batch of phones(same store, etc..) The third, and finally usable one, was from a different batch.

My guess is that entire manufacturing batches came out with this problem.
[Atrix 4G General] dosmac:
So, then this is looking more like them denying a quality control issue :/ great. Is it hardware causing this issue? Or just oversensitive noise-cancellation software? I don't think Motorola even knows.. haha
[Atrix 4G General] HHawk:
Thanks for the tip. Highly appreciated. Didn't know this was possible.
[Atrix 4G General] wirednix:
I would venture to say that it's either hardware or a deeply rooted software issue. If it was just a SIMPLE software problem, then flashing different SBFs would technically get rid of the problem, maybe? Have you checked out the thread on the Motorola forums? It's insane.

Anyways, yeah. It's a major QC problem. I had other problems: 1. My LED flash would turn on, stay on for about 10 secs and then one of them would start flashing and eventually turn off. 2. Another problem with the phone's LCD behaving really erratically at different times of the day. 3. The muffled voice. All these are hardware problems that should not have made it out of the factory.
[Atrix 4G General] jank0023:
Did you get your warranty replacement phone back yet? Did it fix the problem? I just sent mine in today to get warranty replacement, this better fix the voice problem...do not want to have to send another one back on my dime!!!