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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fatherboard:
Google, as well as Samsung, have the interest that Gingerbread will help selling newer devices (hence, with better/different hardware). Just like with HTC and its HD2 - the device is perfectly capable of running WP7, but since HTC's main interest is producing newer products, they can't continue to support the HD2 and add it an official support for WP7, this might ruin their plans of selling the same product in a slight different variant (HD3).

I bet that Gingerbread will be out only during Q1/Q2 of 2011. By this time, there's no point in delaying the production of a newer "Galaxy" line.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AXIS of Reality:
Incorrect. HTC is not allowed to put WP7 on the HD2.

Microsoft has mandatory design requirements for WP7 phones, which include having only 3 buttons on the front. Older phones, no matter how powerful are not allowed to be updated to WP7, as all phones running WP7 must be released that way including seemingly trivial things like the button restrictions.

HTC and Microsoft have actually commented on the HD2, with it being unsupported due to the button issue. Sadly not HTC's choice.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tigrane:
Don't even dream about an official release!!

It's been weeks, months that HTC released Froyo...

Yet still nothing from Samsung for it's best seller.

The Galaxy S is my first... and last... Samsung Androphone...

I was a 8 years HTC user, I should have stayed that way.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
Windows 7's CPU specs are 1GHZ minimum SINGLE CORE. OSX Snow leopard still runs on a single core 1.5GHZ processor too. The only technical risk to gingerbread on the SGS MIGHT be the RAM, but Google actually has a history of releasing Android to support older hardware.. We have a lot more excess CPU to play with than originally, and even if RAM requirements are exceeded, it is possible that Google are implementing a means of swapping which operates well.

They started rolling it out only in August. So it's only been 2 months. We'll be getting froyo soon, stop freaking out.. HTC aren't perfect either..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsamurai:
I was a HTC user since dopot era and using HTC Touch (still having the box in my storeroom).

Has been playing with Nexus One and HTC Desire, on stock and custom ROM (modaco).

and I still didn't see the point to go back to HTC.

I mean it's just choices.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Unrealwolf:
I think that we will never see official gingerbread - Samsung will be too busy not paying attention to their brand new Windows Phone 7 device to work on the SGS at the same time.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fatherboard:
I heard it as well, and I don't buy this bull**** (and it is). it's nothing more than lame and pathetic excuse.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D0cStrange:
IMHO, Cyanogen will get us a gingerbread version for the phone, i'm not worrying about that, even the hero got the 2.2...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tesmond:
The current rumour is that the to be released i9200 will run 3.0 and have a 4.3 inch screen. I suspect that samsung will leave the i9000 on 2.2 and use android 3.0 as a selling point for their new phone. But lets face it this is just rumour upon supposition....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rasebo:
Why would they make a phone with a bigger screen when they already have a tablet?

Anyhow, the sgs being their best-selling phone at the moment, it would be wise to give those 5 million buyers an OS upgrade if the hardware supports it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snuble:
Or it could be wise NOT to give them an upgrade. Even with a small percentage of errors it will lead to a massive amount of support. Just imagine how they have to be struggling with negative feedback on KIES at the moment.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coradux:
Second that, I wish my phone to be a phone, for bigger screens I have a laptop, or I'll buy a tablet. Anyway, a tablet without front camera it's just crap.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TNStrangelove:
What has Samsung producing a 7inch tablet got to do with whether they will produce a 4.3inch phone or not? 4.3inches is still Phone sized.

I personally would love My Galaxy S to have a 4.3inch screen.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DSF:
And works as a sh*t. I've installed back the official 2.1 update and gived away. And finally switched from htc to samsung (I've been using htc since 2005 or 2006). Tired of them. Inferior hardware, poor costumer support, abusive delayed updates (if any), etc.

Anyway, the samsung goodies may be lost with cyanogenmod :(. I've got the phone a few days ago and I discover touchwiz more useful. It has those really nice touches and cool android enchantments.. music eq, native divx, music share via bt, connectivity shortcuts, media controls, in call controls directly from notification bar, popup list when connecting to wifi, smart dial, customizable app launcher, etc etc.

For me it's way better than htc sense. More practical really.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] allotrios:
May I ask why you want gingerbread?

As far as I see, the features that have leaked so far, wouldn't make a difference on the Galaxy S
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rasebo:
I played with a HTC HD2 and found it to be a wee bit too big for my liking (I also consider it to be closer to a tablet than to a phone). But again, someone with bigger pockets and hands than mine would probably love it, so yeah, I guess it's a matter of personal taste after all.

Who wouldn't love the latest and greatest?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkyy:
Never, never, never.

Samsung will NEVER release a good working Froyo version for us GT-i9000 users.

I will give everyone here 1 Euro if they will release a (more or less) bugfree Froyo version...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zhite:
Too true....

Earlier version of Official Froyo will be buggy ..i believe.

Then i think.. after december 2010 version will get better...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlowRain:
I'm going to assume 'No'--that way I won't be disappointed if it doesn't come. If it does, I can be pleasantly surprised. I have an i9000 on order, which I should be able to pick up tomorrow night, but I bought it with the knowledge that 2.1 does what I need it to do; 2.2 will be a bonus when (if?) it comes.

Be content.

(Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised. - David Mamet, The Spanish Prisoner)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h.robert:
There is not such bug free product!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prasad:
Very well said, friend! :-) If only XDA had a facebook-like 'Like' button... :-D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
I doubt Samsung will bother porting Ginger Bread as its so far away, 1 year is like 2 gens in phone terms (good example is look at all the dif Galaxies out since first one back in July) But i'm sure hackers/modders will port it over if theres demand still
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hydrostatic:
No, probably Galaxy S doesn't have enough ram. With Froyo it only has about 300 MBs of memory available for programs. Samsung has lied us about the amount of memory. When HTC says that a device has 512 MB, it really has it. That's not the case with Galaxy S.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3885u:
IMO Samsung probably didn't lie to us...maybe it's just because a software/firmware problem...I still put some trust in Samsung and hopefully he's not make us all dissapointed with that RAM controversy...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Unrealwolf:
I am quite upset about the fact that we have very little RAM compared to HTCs, Motorollas and even Acers too, but Samsung did not lie to us about this, device physically have 512mb RAM, as it was advertised. Moreover, to prevent further customer upsets they are now lying about RAM vice versa - they advertise Tab, which has physically 640 mb, as 512mb-device, and one of the new Galaxy S-ses (one with two screens) as 325-mb RAM containing gadget, which, i suppose, really have the same amount of ram that we have.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thecresta:
Again with the RAM issues! :rolleyes:

I can't see us getting Gingerbread, but there is no point speculating at the moment.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kramerty88:
And that is where you are wrong... I have spoken with the general manager of samsung netherlands and he has told me that samsung is already checking what has to be done to get 3.0 to the galaxys. In their next MR they will discuss this further and he will keep me posted. Aside from that he stated that the chance that it will come to the galaxys is so far 90-95%.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kramerty88:
No, also htc doesn't give all 512, but "only" 380..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
So in other words, even Samsung don't know, and Samsung probably have access to the Gingerbread technical data (which we don't). So really, nobody can possibly know..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sargasso:
I am dutch and not so sure that we as a userbase are big enough to influence any decision made by Samsung headquarters. Nor do I know of any corporate manager admitting his kung fu is weak.

Having a phone that can keep up with the pack by continues support by its manufacturer is nice. If its by an active community its even better.

As so little is released on gingerbread I still don't know if it contains desirable features. Anybody?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cantIntoCode:
Gingerbread features have yet to be set on stone. All we can do is wait on Google to do there part.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snuble:
Think I read some android/google leader saying that "android have now caught up with the competition and future releases will be more innovative". Also said something like "whether or not its called 2.3 or 3.0 it will bring new things to the table". Its not word by word quotes, just from memory and can't even remember if I read it in english or my native language...

Edit: Found it: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370464,00.asp
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hydrostatic:
Ok, thank's for clearing that out.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marcelo Reis:
First I would like to know where is the official 2.2 promised for last month. I DO NOT BELIEVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENT FROM SAMSUNG ANYMORE. My SGS has the best screen in the world, and that is all!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
Every software development company occasionally pushes back launch dates. EVEN HTC. It's simply because there is no reliable way to measure how long development takes (it's a matter of best guess)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r3loaded2010:
I think this thread is essentially pointless until Google actually releases Gingerbread. The only thing we know about it so far is support for high-res displays on tablets.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exadeci:
According to SGS specs (better than most of the phones) it will be able to run gingerbread but Samsung has not decided if they will update it or not. But anyway if they don't some guys here will. Like r3loaded2010 said thread pointless for now
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
Unless Google have announced the exact requirements, I don't believe we can say even that for sure.. But yes.. This thread = pointless.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n1kon:
yeah? and heres a picture
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rudi_za:
It could be much worse, you could be a X10 owner running 1.6 and waiting for 2.1 :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xfox:
I think there will be anew version or two befor we see ver.3
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marcelo Reis:
I bet it is still going to need a lag fix.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dckiwi:
Gingerbread

Well, that's froyo done and dusted...

anyone care to speculate on when/if gingerbread/honeycomb/ice cream will be released?

I think we will probably see gingerbread within the next 12 months... at least on some devices. As for sgs, maybe alphas or betas within that time.

Anyone got any good leads?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
Are you crazy? Froyo isn't even out for rest of world yet and for those who are brave enough to install leaked copies theres still heaps of bugs and optizmiations to go. If anything it will be third parties like Cyangenmod and his crew to port it over. Samsung is way too slow to do anything and even if they will they'll just drop SGS users and port to whatever their flagship device is on next round of hardware
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dckiwi:
Haha free to dream right? I have installed froyo, changes are all good, but I'm like "next!"

Sigh...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] salmanslick:
hahaha i m like "next " tooo froyo is boring me now
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsamurai:
You may start the thread after google finalised gingerbread, waste of time having this thread for the time being. Fyi Froyo on SGS yet to officially announced by Samsung. So technically, it's yet to start.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vigge_sWe:
Well' it's being rolled out in kies right now, wouldn't that mean it's official?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sciacallo010:
Gingerbread was annunced for galaxy tab wich have the same hardware of the sgs so it's very possible that they'll release also for sgs (or maybe someone else will port it)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adisanu:
I don't think that Samsung is slow on updating firmwares. I think that Samsung put in SGS lots of hardware components that are not quite standard in Android world so they had to build drivers like hell.

Lately it seems that every hardware vendor makes sure that it's component is compliant with Android. This is happening with Qualcomm, intel and all the chipmakers that have smartphone ambitions.

If Gingerbread is not that different from froyo at it's very core ( like froyo was comparing with eclair ) it will probably be rolled out quickly.

If it is different . .. it will probably never be on SGS.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rasebo:
That's how I feel about it, too.

FYI: http://www.samsungmobile.com.sg/news-events/pressReleasesView.do?pressNo=4464
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linuxluver:
G'bread SDK out soon

The Gingerbread update to the Android SDK is supposed to be released soon. If you have the Android SDK installed you should be able to get your first look at G'bread on your Windows, Linux or Mac PC in the emulator. :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dadyal:
windows phone 7 in galaxy s
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssj4Gogeta1:
You do understand that you can't compare processors with different microarchitectures/ISA's just by looking at clock speeds?

The 1.5GHz that Snow Leopard runs on is an x86 out-of-order processor, which will generally be much, MUCH more powerful than an in-order ARM core running at the same clock speed.

So it's possible that two different single-core CPU's run at 1GHz each, but the first has 5 times more performance than the second. It's not just about number of cores and GHz. Compare, for example, a quad-core Phenom II and a quad-core i7. i7 is much faster.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dckiwi:
That's another good lead... I think we'll see this pretty soon on some devices.

GB via the SDK is another quick win. At least to get a good look at the UI, etc.

The future is bright :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tesmond:
[Q] Chances of Gingerbread Android 3.0?

The SGS was released with 2.1 and does not yet have an official (not pulled) 2.2. It seems likely that within the next 2-3 months 2.2 will be on the SGS officially in all regions.

The Galaxy tablet came with 2.2 installed and apart from the form factor I have read has very similar internals to the SGS.

A number of manufacturers and rumour sites are point to Gingerbread (Android 3.0/2.5) being a significantly superior OS for tablets, my expectation would be that Samsung would work on bringing this to the Galaxy tablet so that it remains competitive with all the Gingerbread tablets released 2011 by other manufacturers.

Given the slow 2.2 switch over I would be surprised to see Gingerbread on the SGS, as I would expect a new range of top end Gingerbread phones to be released by Samsung in preference.

If the Galaxy tablet obtains Gingerbread, what are the potential development roadblocks to porting that firmware to the SGS should Samsung abandon further development on the SGS? Or would it theoretically be a relatively simple task for a competent Dev on XDA?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TrOjAnUK:
This is Development NOT Q&A
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AyeGee:
Can you please post your source?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
For future reference : Link
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike.sw:
isn't Gingerbread is for tablets mainly?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cantIntoCode:
I'm sure it just brings better support for tablets.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pele78:
never lol'd so much today LOL
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
1) This is a dupe.

2) How can we possibly predict something?

But sure, lets say there is a 100% chance Samsung will provide all versions of Android for the next 10 years..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rkantos:
Getting Android 3.0 to Galaxy S from Samsung? The chances?

Very, very slim.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] green0153:
I really hope they do a good support for this phone.5+ million units sold.They are stupid if they don't.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrIGGI:
yep. Very, very slim!

But let's hope the best for cyanogenmod or a port.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SkinBobUk:
Going by the level of support Samsung have provided so far id say there is more chance of anjelina jolie teleporting into my bed naked within the next five mins.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cantIntoCode:
Ahh.... only if eh? (:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dupel:
Yeah, only fixed pretty much every bug that we had and released (or leaked, but for all intents and purposes it is the same for us) at least 3 firmwares a month.

And there was a topic about this just YESTERDAY.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RyanZA:
Apparently, from sources rumored to be from inside Samsung, we should actually expect to see Gingerbread test roms around January - and that they are actually working on Gingerbread already. I'm not sure if I totally believe this, but the rumor mill says you have hope! :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ibanez33:
That sounds positive and I would assumed as much as I would have thought they would definitely be making for the galaxy tab..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MCOGW:
Considering the current situation, this may seem really strange.

But I can confirm this...;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brunes:
It doesn't seem strange to me. In fact maybe they are just going to skip Froyo, which would make sense, since Gingerbread is very close to being gold (they put up the statue, means release is imminent). Why work so hard to put up an out of date release. Gingerbread has some key features the SGS could use, like video calling that works both with other phones and Google Talk.

I would gladly skip Froyo in Nov if it meant the SGS could be one of the first devices with Gingerbread in December or January.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamtheater39:
Gingerbread around the corner... o.O

Hey guys! It really burns to know that Gingerbread is on its way and Nexus One gets a free ride all the way up to glory! Is there any hope for our SGS' to get some gingerbread goodness?!

Link - http://www.androidcentral.com/another-shocker-nexus-one-will-be-first-get-gingerbread-maybe-week
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xZeDgEx:
It will probably be out before we all get froyo the way things are going. I think its unlikely we will see gingerbread. They will release new phones and dump the current ones.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Going by how late we got froyo, id say we'll get it end of next year :P

Our best chance is :

1. CyanogenMod comes to our phones (Stable). Then the moment source for gingerbread drops, we'll have it

2. The rumoured "Nexus 2" is true and an aosp version of our phone does drop into the market.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamtheater39:
Looking at Samsung's aggressive plans of getting every second person on planet earth to buy one, they better give us an update to gingerbread! Frankly, I too am banking on CM for our SGS...when compared to Samsung....they suck at making software anyway :-/

Here's the link -

http://www.androidcentral.com/another-shocker-nexus-one-will-be-first-get-gingerbread-maybe-week
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Emexrulsier:
Wouldn't it be great if once a phone had reached an "expired" life (when for example galaxy 2 is out) Samsung would release their previous phone software as a package to put on your device so the community could keep the phone alive.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] celeronix:
They are not so stupid to do that.

I'm pretty sure we'll have Gingerbread someday.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Davith:
I also believe we'll have Gingerbread someday. There are just too many Galaxy S phones scattered around the world for Samsung to drop them. They'd be shooting themselves in the foot if they did.

Plus they don't actually have to release something good. They could do the same thing they did with Froyo and give us a poorly optimized firmware while saying 'Hey, you wanted Gingerbread, there you have it'. I don't even think the average consumer would complain.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dewimagica:
Gingerbread Confirmed : Nov 2010

Well here's what i found .. According to this news Ginger bread is about to release on nexus One and we are still waiting for FROYO.

News Link
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pharaohdk:
whine whine booohoooooooooooooo
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
Hasn't Froyo started rollout for some carriers though? Carriers are part of the problem. At least Samsung aren't Sony Ericsson..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] forgetmyname:
Froyo 2.2 has been available on Samsung Keis at least since last Friday : Open Keis -> Upgrade. Its not difficult.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omnia-one4all:
[Q] gingerbread

Would it be realistic possible to port 2.3 to the galaxy from nexus one ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tinzy71:
Waiting guru answer ...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RyanZA:
The main problem will be the closed source modules. If the kernel hasn't changed, then I guess they will just work, but otherwise I think it may be difficult.

At any rate, Samsung seems to be working on porting Gingerbread anyway, so hopefully we will end up with some test releases shortly. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omnia-one4all:
Thanks ryanza :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glukosio:
I hope that Samsung release Source Code quickly because I want it!!! But they have not yet released official froyo... I hope...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cthulhu501:
I hope we have 2.3 shortly, because the hardware of Galaxy S is one of the better, and only his software integration by Samsung fails...