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[Vibrant General] MMcCraryNJ:
Updated with Kies mini. Took me about 10 minutes. No issues, but I was also running completely stock (unrooted, no lag fixes, etc.)

My only question is, will everyone who upgraded this way also receive future T-Mobile OTA updates? Or will they be blocked now since this update wasn't from T-Mobile.
[Vibrant General] vaughnsphotoart:
The process is indeed simple, it just doesn't always work correctly.
[Vibrant General] joonsim:
This is official announcement from samsung. Follow galaxysupport on twitter, then you will know it's official.
[Vibrant General] ShinyBuddha:
I don't think you can. I actually had to Odin back to JFD myself (from JI5 which I updated thru Kies) then I was able to install the JI6 thru Kies. I used this method to do it. Before I did that though, I set my phone into Mass Storage Mode and copied my Download folder, my DCIM folder (aka photos/vids), and any thing else I thought should be saved. I also made sure my Appbrain app had synced all my apps so I could just redownload them again.

Once I did that, I entered into download mode, installed using the Odin 1.3 version instead of the 1.0, made sure there was a COM port in the upper left side (populated by default for me [Win7 Pro 64bit]), made sure I had the pit and tar files and clicked start. It took 2 mins 38 secs and I left the phone alone until it got to the idle screen. After that, I unplugged the USB, popped it into Kies Mode, launched Kies, and installed the JI6 update.
[Vibrant General] 30Glock:
Tried to upgrade, Kies is advising me that my firmware is the latest, So I will assume this is Identical to the Odin JI6 I flashed a week ago.
[Vibrant General] darkknight49:
wouldnt work on my PC. Kies kept force closing so I had to use by girls laptop. worked fine.
[Vibrant General] 12paq:
Lag fixes really made my Quadrant scores go up but lag always came back. Scores stayed high tho. I could have great score and big lag after time.

This new update seems to have less lag and a bit snappier with no lag fix. Time will tell... I'm sure the old lag fixes, Voodoo and OCLF will be tuned and updated for Ji6 if needed.

One thing I have noticed with the new update is Gallery hangs on opening somtimes. That's new.

Bring on Froyo then we'll talk.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
Yes there is.

For starters, they'd have to waste resources to port the drivers to MacOS, which isn't the same as porting a consumer app.
[Vibrant General] f1restarter:
Well since I had update to the JI5 via the "leaked" samsung patch via kies before, I was having constant problems with the mini kies giving me the "unregistered" issue. So after flashing back to the factory firmware via Odin, mini kies updated my phone without any issues. Seems like this is the only sure way of updating to JI6 via mini kies for those that updated to JI5 couple of weeks ago.
[Vibrant General] djeddieone:
Worked for me but had to do a complete wipe on recovery mode

after doing the update on kies mini my phone got stuck at the galaxy s part & went into a black screen with the bottom buttons lighting up but still stuck. i proceeded to recovery mode by pressing the volume up and down buttons together with the power button then did a complete wipe. the phone came back on and i was able to reinstall all my apps that i had before the update good thing I knew how to do that part if not i would have being ****ed!

changes i noticed:

Media Hub Works!

Mobi TV Works!

New HD Camcorder Shortcut added as a app

Samsung created its own task manager to kills apps

I still prefer Advance Task Manager better
[Vibrant General] ULiAsuj10:
Starting to update via kies mini....crossing my fingers...

stock vibrant.....like a virgin..
[Vibrant General] ULiAsuj10:
55% still going...

firmware is being upgraded please wait...
[Vibrant General] Minker17:
So we have no answer for people that are stock, rooted, and getting the Unregistered Device error?
[Vibrant General] ULiAsuj10:
updating update.....sat there on samsung logo for about 3 min...scared the **** of me....

but its back now....relief...gonna check out the versions...now..

just to let people know....my vibrant was stock rom...not rooted no lagfix....nothing

right out of the box
[Vibrant General] Duce HD2:
Does the gps work any better?
[Vibrant General] ULiAsuj10:
IDK will chk that in min...my GPS never locked before...i'll say it works even if it is few miles away..... ;) i'll let you know soon..
[Vibrant General] vaughnsphotoart:
@ShinyBuddha

Not the answer I wanted, but thanks. I will look at going the Odin route.
[Vibrant General] ULiAsuj10:
no still no gps....that doesn't make sense....at all..all this effort for nothing..
[Vibrant General] ShinyBuddha:
See my post in #106 this thread.
[Vibrant General] Minker17:
I would prefer not to have to wipe anything.
[Vibrant General] landlocked26:
+ 1. Updated via Kies mini. Bone stock. Definitely an improvement in the GPS and Nav. Also a huge improvement in battery usage when using GPS.

Sent using my Vibrant
[Vibrant General] malaise:
ok, i had problem with the mtp device driver due to files over 16 characters. once i erased those, kies mini recogonized my phone right away. i needed to charge up the battery, so i unplugged it and plugged into the wall charger. now kies mini wont recognize my phone is plugged in, even though the mtp application says connected. i reinstalled mini, and still no luck. anyone have any ideas?
[Vibrant General] ShinyBuddha:
Try putting your phone into debug mode.
[Vibrant General] malaise:
debug mode got kies to recognize. now can i run the upgrade from debug mode? or do i need to get it to recognize in the kies usb mode?
[Vibrant General] Charpie:
If you had keis open when making your changes, it should just recognize it and run from there.

Glad I read the faq about how to get your phone into debug mode. updating now
[Vibrant General] rajkumar484:
does this have 2.2 Market?

The market that came with this update has update all/automatic update features..

Is this the 2.2 Market?
[Vibrant General] ShinyBuddha:
If it has update all and/or two tabs at the top of the app page (about & comments) then yes, it is 2.2 market.
[Vibrant General] ShinyBuddha:
You can leave it in debug mode and update from there.
[Vibrant General] malaise:
as far as i can tell this update did nothing for my gps. when i go to navigation, it just sits on seaerching for gps. and gps test now shows only 1 sat in view. was totally expecting at least some improvement, but i guess this is normal?

edit: is there still a way to get to the supl settings throught the dialer?
[Vibrant General] Dammit2Hell:
Has anyone figured out the errors yet? I had tried on Win7 x64 and kept getting "minilauncher application has stopped working" errors which would cause Kies to crash. Tried to run as admin and in compatibility mode. Tried on a 32b Vista machine and kept getting "Unregistered Device" errors. I wandered over to the Captivate forums and found this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=798365 I tried that and got the same results on the Vista machine. I tried it on my Win 7 machine and now I get unregistered device instead of a crash.

For the record, I went from a stock vibrant to the JI5 leak via kies...odin back to JDF and got the OTA JI6
[Vibrant General] ShinyBuddha:
Can you confirm the update on the phone is JI6? (Just curious) Setting -> About phone.

Oh, and you are outside right?

Leave the GPS Test app open for at least 4 minutes. The GPS almanac needs to update itself. If you don't see any birds by then, reboot the phone and do the same thing with the app again. That should fix it for you.
[Vibrant General] riwoz:
Just updated using this, and I have a problem.

Updating was ok, now I have stock ji6. However, when i tried to root with the update.zip linked through the bible directory (by justadude), it successfully roots. However, whenever I try to use superuser, it force closes and does not work. Trying fix permissions in rom manager does not work either. Downloading a new busybox through titanium backup does not work as superuser force closes on me. If I flash the clockwork manager and try to reboot into clockwork recovery through rom manager, superuser force closes. I tried manually rebooting into clockwork recovery, but it does not enter, and simply cycles through the vibrant screen until I stop hitting volume up/down, thus letting it boot into startup normally.

Any ideas on how to fix this problem with superuser?
[Vibrant General] inverseflux:
I did both yes.

Reverted back to JFD via Odin and updated via Odin to JI6. All I could tell from it was slightly increased battery usage, WAY better GPS recognition(similar to JI2(odin flashed) and JI5(samsung kies)).

Last night, I Odin'd back to JFD again and ran the Kies Mini update and am running on that now. Again, only "issue" I see so far is The Sims 3 parse error and slightly increased battery usage. GPS is solid. MMS/SMS solid. Phone calls solid. New camera app is slick. UI seems streamlined and less clunky switching screens.

From what I could tell and this is just me, take everyones information into account before doing anything... and know what you're doing before you try it.

I feel like I finally got what I f@#$%& paid for... just the way it is sometimes.

:cool:

On a side note, I also feel it does need to be said here: the DEVs here have definitely put in the time in and to keep me happy/occupied(BUY THEM BEVERAGES and DONATE!!!!) in the meantime with some cool twists on the whole phone 'concept' for me. I see a lot of people posting about OCLF this and Eugene that... if you didn't give them at L E A S T a dollar... you're doing it wrong and are a leech... :D

I've tried every ROM from froyotest cases, jane4, Vibrant9, to Bionix 1.x - only ROMs I've not tried are Bionix 1.8 and Xipher_Zero's spin on Frankin-Twiz.

Still wish I knew how to create a custom backup to "Odin Restore" my phone to make testing a lot easier on me. Either that or AVD test these ROMs...

Anyway, I digress...

Still rolling unrooted for now, since I'm happy with the device again. I'm sure it will last for another day or two...

:cool:
[Vibrant General] malaise:
ok about phone confirms baseband T959UVJI6, and build number ECLAIR.UVJI6

i was outside for a minute, but did maybe didn't leave it running long enough due to not knowing about the almanac update deal. i will try now and report back in a few minutes.
[Vibrant General] chronos7:
For some reason I couldn't get kies mini to work on win 7 so I downloaded it from pc that's win xp and it worked.
[Vibrant General] gsokrispy3130:
Ok did it, non-rooted nor lag fix, everything went through fine for win 7 64bit.

I notice a few things 1) gps is a little worse inside at least, before it would put my lock on the corner of my street so one house away, after update its putting me 3-5 city blocks away. 2) before I had the 'grip' issue, hold it at the bottom and the signal strength went byebye, now it maybe drops a bar but stays lit. Havent noticed anything else and my quadrant score was still in the 800's.

now I have a question simple question and didnt want to start a new thread about it. In video player what the hell is that square with a box around it do, i press goes to arrows but i dont notice any differences.
[Vibrant General] malaise:
just walked back out there, and phone had 8 birds in view with a lock on 6. now that the gps almanac is updated, will the phone now find the birds more quickly? btw thanks for the answers shinybuddha.
[Vibrant General] ShinyBuddha:
Yes. The gps locks will happen faster now that you've updated the almanac. The almanac essentially just records where the sats are right now and where they'll be for, I believe, 6-8 hour intervals. If you haven't used the gps in a while it will always take longer to get a lock since the software has to find them again.
[Vibrant General] wergeld:
I am trying right now:

Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit.

Uninstalled Kies (full one...that took waaaay to long to uninstall btw).

Rebooted

Installed Kies Mini. Was prompted to reboot so I did.

Now on the part where you plug your phone in and let it install the drivers. Seems to be taking a long time on CDC(i think that was it) part.

Completed.

Unplugged phone like it said.

Started Kies Mini. Plugged in phone and selected Kies from phone menu.

Kies Mini is still saying to "Please connect your mobile phone" and my phone says "Connected" in the MTP Application window.

Unplugged phone and followed troubleshooting at bottom of page:

I enabled USB debugging and plugged in phone. I did not select Kies on the phone. Some more drivers got installed. Kies Mini now sees my phone and is giving me the option to Upgrade Phone.

It finished downloading the binaries from the net.

Now it is downloading on my phone with the "under construction' Android picture..

....

~80% done on phone.

done...

Configuring firmware

done

Rebooting...some really quick text i could not read...done

rebooting again...loud ass tmobile boot up sound.

at pretty pulsating galaxy s logo....

Kies Minie says upgrade complete...wait until idle screen is shown.

Still on flashy galaxy s logo...

And...booting up!

Idle screen and fulling up.

Total time...10 minutes. =)
[Vibrant General] badwolf42:
Setting my phone to USB debugging mode made it work. It wouldn't 'see' the phone until I hard set the USB mode to Samsung Kies and set the usb settings to debugging. Then it worked great!
[Vibrant General] badwolf42:
Yes, the loud ass t-mobile sound is enough reason alone to install a mod. Why would they make it so that I have no choice and my phone plays ON MAXIMUM VOLUME, one of the most annoying sounds ever? Good luck not waking everyone on the plane around you, or not drawing attention if your phone force reboots.
[Vibrant General] sstei003:
market doesnt work

i successfully installed ji6 with no lag fix but rooted. everything else works fine so far but i cant download anything from the market. It just hangs on the downloading bar forever. Any one else having this problem?
[Vibrant General] allthrottle:
Installed the update via kies mini last night. The phone was rooted, startup/shutdown changed, lockscreen changed to stock android, launcher pro as default. Went ok, stuck on galaxy s screen for a few minutes, then booted like normal.

Gps locks on to 6-7/11 satellites within 5 seconds, 9-10 in under 15 seconds. If it stays this way and doesn't drop them while I'm driving, I'll be completely satisfied(with the gps).

The phone seems to have dual personalities though. It feels more responsive overall, but will freeze up for a few seconds when I go from pandora to home, or email. It doesn't happen often, but it does hang for longer than it did pre-update. I'm glad the battery notification changed, but I hope any future updates change the icon used.

To answer the question about the market not working; I just downloaded a heartbeat app and it worked without any issues. Maybe a reboot or clearing the cache might help.

Sent from my Vibrant using the xda-app.
[Vibrant General] trunkstar1:
So, if you had to choose one method for updating to JI6, which would you recommend?
[Vibrant General] STi489:
I didn't use this kies mini..but one posted on tmo...there were 3 diff kies mini's..can anyonw confirm it updated correct one for vibrant...T959UVJI6?
[Vibrant General] adamboyd83:
I was thinking of restoring back to an old nadroid from Bionix then giving this a shot. I know the baseband will still be the same from bionix(ji2 I think) It should still update right?
[Vibrant General] rajkumar484:
I noticed this

But it went away after couple of tries... I used titanium backup to install many apps that i had before ODINed back to stock to do this update...

Those apps were not listed first and Market was FCing.. then it got fixed after a reboot i guess.
[Vibrant General] vaughnsphotoart:
@shinybuddah

Thanks for the advice. I used odin to get from ji5 to jfd, then used mini kies to update to ji6.

@minker17

This is the only solution I have found for getting around the ji5 problem with mini kies you and I both had.
[Vibrant General] Dammit2Hell:
So far I have tried a Win7 x64 and 32b Vista & XP. All of them give me unregistered device errors. It's weird. Everyone else had problems with Kies and I was fine, now I can't get this damn mini to work.

EDIT: Just to add. I went from stock (everything) to JI5 Via Kies. The used Odin to get back to stock. I got JI6 OTA.
[Vibrant General] okvasnikov:
it works

My phone was running stock ROM. It was rooted with one click root program and I renamed annoying startup/shutdown sounds. I never removed any crapware.

Yesterday I downloaded and installed Mini Kies to XP computer.

In order to update with Mini Kies I did following:

1. placed T-Mob startup/shutdown sounds back;

2. unrooted using Terminal Emulator;

3. removed SD card;

4. deleted 12 GB folder with Music from the phone;

5. connected USB cable to PC and clicked Update in Mini Kies;

It worked!!!

I used latest one click root program to root it again.
[Vibrant General] blanked:
Updated through mini kies... no GPS sats are locking :mad: The compass works now, but who cares when you can't lock to any satellites...
[Vibrant General] 1337jam:
I uninstalled all the crapware, rooted, and tried to update through kies. .everytime it keeps trying to load the mtd drivers and it hangs for 3 min and then says can't install drivers... I've used XP,7 32bit and 64 bit... is the uninstalling of boatware goingto cause me hang ups or am I doing something wrong?
[Vibrant General] Xanthony:
Anyone notice that Kies usb tethering no longer works after update
[Vibrant General] Tarzanman:
I think its just buggy crapware. My phone has been stock since day 1. I followed all of Samsung's instructions (including the troubleshooting which suggested a factory reset) and Kies mini still won't see the phone.

The only time Kies recognizes the phone is when I put it into USB Storage mode (at which time Kies Mini tells me to switch USB mode)
[Vibrant General] ShinyBuddha:
Odin1.3 to JFD then use Kies Mini to get JI6 (or just Odin JI6 directly). Directions are in the first thread in this section (Tips/Tricks) or in the Vibrant bible thread.

I've heard that a few people have that issue; but of course they're the only one's who post. I think most of the people have it working fine (myself included).
[Vibrant General] MUSASHI66:
Installed Mini Kies on my 32 bit XP netbook, followed the procedures from the link (battery had to be over 50% to begin the install), and it worked like a charm.

Locked on to 9 satellites indoors! Navigation, Places, Latitude, Task Manager and a few more apps. Sweet!

I also installed Kies on my 64 bit Win 7, no issues.
[Vibrant General] Telanis:
Same here. Stock and rooted, except with GPS files from the Captivate. Everything else works -- mass storage, MTP, tethering with the full UK Kies. Full Kies also crashes when I try to update using it.
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
go outside?

the gps is pretty iffy indoors
[Vibrant General] millerliteguy:
Mini Kies keeps crashing..Help!!

I am trying to update my Vibrant and finally got all the drivers installed and working and now I get this error after I pug in my device "MiniApplication Launcher has stopped working" then I'm forced to close it...Help!!!

I'm on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
[Vibrant General] Telanis:
Read the thread -- 3+ of us also have this issue, and it's unresolved. Try in Windows XP if you can.
[Vibrant General] Bendezium:
I'm on Windows 7 Home 64bit upgrade from Vista

I was getting no recognition at all from kies that my device was plugged in. After fooling around for a bit I successfully upgraded by reseting defaults in application settings for ADW, switching USB debugging on, loaded the stock home screen, powered off the screen and then plugged the device in.

After that my upgrade was successful no problem.

EDIT> GPS still not working for me, just from the initial test. Definitely odd, but it positions me directly at my old apartment which is 3 miles away
[Vibrant General] presence06:
So I finally got my phone connected to my computer but when I open Kies and it detects my phone the app crashes... says "MiniApplication Launcher has stopped working"

Windows 7 32-Bit
[Vibrant General] Telanis:
I'm trying in Windows XP Mode (virtual machine) inside Win7 and it's working so far. Might be a good method if you can't try another computer.
[Vibrant General] tissimo:
Just updated mine, and worked fine with Win 7 64 bit.
[Vibrant General] presence06:
Trying to load it up on Win XP VM.
[Vibrant General] Telanis:
Kies mini didn't crash for me, but the update failed after download with no reason given. It then said I had to connect in Kies mode instead of USB debug, which was weird because others have done it with USB debug, and it didn't require it at first ... and I forget how I previously made Kies mode work with the VM, currently the connection attempt is infinite. bah. hopefully you have more luck
[Vibrant General] Telanis:
lol one more quick disconnect/reconnect of the cable worked! trying through full UK Kies in the VM...

Edit: fahk, still failed! "could not convert to upgrade mode"
[Vibrant General] presence06:
lol. It's downloading now through the VM. so hopefully it goes all the way..
[Vibrant General] bigtom624:
I was able to get the update on my HP Laptop running Windows.7 64 bit after I turned on USB debugging. As soon as plugged in my phone with Kies Mini open the update popped up and I was able to download it. Try it this way it definitely works. I tried to update at least 10 times before I did it with the USB debugging on.
[Vibrant General] DHarr20:
i am not even able to update. every time i try to connect to kies it stops working and closes....i am frustrated
[Vibrant General] presence06:
I got it to go through and install. Once back up and running noticed it was a bit sluggish, like scrolling in applications and such.. Also why the hell does Media Hub run as a service in the background?
[Vibrant General] Telanis:
Yeah I tried with USB debugging my first time and several after, no go. Just because it works for you doesn't mean it works for everyone. This seems especially true with the Galaxy S line...

However I did figure out why the update failed in my VM. After the binary dl finishes, Kies tells the phone to go into update mode. The phone drops the connection when it does this and then immediately reconnects, but Virtual PC doesn't automatically re-attach it to the VM. So you have to watch for that and quickly re-attach it yourself.

I now have JI6 :)
[Vibrant General] importbeats:
Force Close error after update

I've looked around all over and still can't find any fix for this. Does anyone have any info about it?

Getting "Force close" pop-up error that never ends. Shows "Sorry! The process android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."

Basically, you can't use the phone at all cuz this keeps coming up a few seconds after you hit "Force Close".

Tried rebooting... nothing. Now I'm looking into options to flash with Odin or something. I don't know what that will do, or if I can even get into it, because once the Force Close error pops up, you can't do anything. I can struggle my way into Apps and hit "Files" but nothing comes up because the error causes anything you try to launch to not start up.

Help help help!

Stock Vibrant - Lagfix/Rooted (was... until i updated to JI6 and this happened)

FIXED!

Okay, so the only thing I can figure out to do is to reflash with Odin. I flashed back to stock, then flashed to JI6, and now everything works fine.
[Vibrant General] ryan562:
did you disable your lagfix before performing the ji6 update? if not, that's probably what's causing those errors and FC's. try going in to recovery and doing a factory wipe. if not, i'd suggest odin is your best bet. flash back to stock jfd build via odin. then perform the update again via kies mini.
[Vibrant General] Jhnboy:
I clicked update on kies mini (phone was connected) but no agreement or box popped up.

Clicking update does nothing for me even though my device is recognized ... :(