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[Galaxy S I9000 General] zeu569:
Yes its brilliant isnt it? I used to be with a provider which only offers 2100Mhz WCDMA and my reception was barely useable, i switched over to Telstra 850mhz and wow what a difference. I used to think they were just an overpriced network which offers the same as everyone else but Noooo i was wrong. Their coverage and network is brilliant. I get reception in elevators, underground car parks and usual places i normally start to lose reception with the other networks. I have used 4 of the major ones in AUS and Telstra stands out as the best.

At home i get 2mbps on my previous network, i get 3mbps with 850mhz. At work (one hour away from home) i get 0.5mbps on my previous network, i get 5.3mbps on 850mhz.

And no im not affiliated with Telstra in any ways :-)

I just hope the service doesnt decline when more and more people start using them for their great coverage.

As far as i know stability and coverage also depends on the number people locked into a tower at the same time (the ratio i guess).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] oswade:
Theres a reason you get better coverage. You have to pay around twice as much for the same value on any plan with telstra (compared to say optus and other competitors).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zeu569:
To be honest they are not twice the amount as they used to be. They are a little more competitive now with their cap plans. Sure it may still be a little above the other providers but you are paying for the service.

I've been on 3 since they came to Australia, optus for 1, voda for 2 and with Telstra for only a month and i certainly feel that the others dont even come close to Telstra's coverage and speed. And i have been "anti-Telstra" for all these years due to the fact they have been so much more expensive than the others. I guess it comes down to "you get what you pay for".

In saying that i did read that the lower the frequency the better the penetration through walls, building etc... so that's probably also why 850 band has better reception.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] oswade:
Well I agree with most of your points, but as you say, they're only "a little more competitive" nowadays.

Just to compare some real figures, looking at the telstra website, the cheapest they appear to be offering galaxy s is at $99 or $80(not sure about this second price plan, the website is extremelt unclear).

Wheras you can get it with virgin mobile on the $39 easy cap, and optus on the $49 extreme. So it's not an exaggeration to say double the price, around 2 grand for 24mth contract.

I did read in the paper that they are becoming more competitive price-wise, but obviously this is a change that won't occur overnight.

That being said, I apologize for taking this a bit off topic. Telstra does provide fantastic coverage, and for that I commend them. I do wonder, coming from a technically uniformed perspective, whether this is actually due to the lower 850 band, or if its just due to better infrastructure (of which I do know that telstra has the best).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tony604:
Yeah, thats why i had to downgrade. I couldnt get by on just 1900. I was getting poor reception and at times losing reception in places i used to get good reception.

Does anyone know if its possible to flash different modem firmwares without flashing the OS as well? Or do you have to flash the OS&modem firmware always together? I would think that it would be possible since they are two seperate pieces of software
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zeu569:
Try this - Its a post i wrote on Whirlpool Forums.

http://whrl.pl/Rcv3ri
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ccrows:
In Chicago I need the 850 band for 3G, that's why I had to get the i9000m from Bell.

I tried the i9000 version but could never connect to the 1900 band, all I could get was EDGE... :mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] spark001uk:
Sorry yes my mistake, that's bands V and VI. And yes quite right, by the laws of radio waves a longer wave is more penetrative than a shorter one.

Is that on your SGS or a dongle?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] NolFito:
Thanks for the information mate, I'll consider them in the future thanks to this :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zeu569:
Its on my SGS running the Speedtest.net app from Android Market.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] strongbad1905:
hey im in the same boat i called samsung on friday and they say they are having trouble on their site and servers..... so doesnt look good for us for now he said to keep on nz samsung mobile site

cheers
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bahathir:
Updated my wife's. SGS unbranded OXA ,from JM1 to JPO using standard Samsung Kies, several hours ago. Location, Malaysia.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jpnu11:
Me too, I'm in South Africa and also no update. Seems like us peops in the southern hemisphere are last on the waiting list. :p
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ruslanoid:
i like to be prepared... so lets say i get the update, reghack or not... what happens next? will the phone just work? are some other actions needed after that?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] NolFito:
Updated to 2.2 Australia unbranded using the registry trick. Some apps are not showing on the market, including Wolfram Alpha which I paid for, and Battery snap. Weird....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] saintblu:
did you update from kies or through registry hack ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] yud:
a few ppl mentioned it's best to factory reset before and after the update.

doesn't this mean reinstalling all your apps, reloading all data and redoing all settings? or is there an easier way?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] spark001uk:
It does if you ask me, i mean there are one or two backup apps out there, but if an app has an issue on a newer fw version then you can get all sorts of problems. I prefer to start from scratch!

BTW lol @ your phone model, i've never heard of Smasung, i hope they're better than Samsung! Mind you they wouldn't have to try hard right now!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beards:
Well, I had to factory reset due to Kies bricking the phone but in fairness I was going to do it after the upgrade anyway.

What I did prior to the upgrade was use MyBackup Pro and make a backup of both the Applications and Data.

After I got the phone working I performed a restore of both Apps & Data.

The Data restore was qiute painless, restoring all my Contacts, SMS, Phone & Calendar data. It was though supposed to also resore the Home screen but it missed quite a bit of this.

The Applications resore though was a different matter.

It loaded all the Apps back into memory and I reinstalled one by one which took around 30 minutes... Total time taken at that point was something around one hour.

However, when I went to the Market and clicked on Download to see if any of the Apps required updating I noticed it did not show any and I mean any apps installed.

Luckily I also have AppBrain installed and after connecting to the AppBrain server I managed to obtain a full list of all the Apps and reinstalled them all again.

This took another hour but at least everything was back to how it used to be.

Next time I shall try Sprite Backup to see how it handles resotoring Apps & Data.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tony604:
Yeah, i tried that before i downgraded. Didnt work for me :(

Thanks anyways
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bahathir:
Nope :). Everything is at standard. No reg and hosts hacks. My wife's SGS unlocked unbranded OXA, is also still 'virgin' :)

Updates history:

JF3 -> JM1 -> JPO

All are done using standard updated Kies.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] saintblu:
Really ?? I live just next to your country and nothing is available :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ccrows:
I know the short answer is that "Google doesn't care", but they should make it a policy that if ANYONE want to use their OS that they MUST OFFER OTA.

Sure there are few positive things about upgrading through an app, but in the end OTA IMO would cause less headaches for everyone...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beards:
I agree. OTA in this day is a must. Everyone is fighting for our money to use their servers so I can not see any reason why Google could not provide the same, only free (for a limit of say 5GB).

What bugs me though is at least HTC do provide a method to save your home screens or have a better implementation on home screen control. Touchwiz has many failings and looking after it's user base is one shortfall.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] seby79:
Anyone from Romania was able to upgrade to Froyo without using any hack, just using the KIES?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TMReuffurth:
What i would like to know is, if OTA is in any way hardware related. Meaning that a device needs a special kind of hardware spec to have OTA enabled. I just find it strange that some devices have this feature and others like our SGS with all the hardware doesn´t. So if this could be implemented via software why the hell it´s not in the new 2.2?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Rat2000:
I am on Orange branded sgs and the updateis not yet avaible.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beards:
That's what we are saying; Google has left it to individual manufacturers and carriers to implement OTA. HTC offer it but Samsung don't.

Here's an example:-

HTC Desire on T-Mobile carrier gets it's updates OTA

Samsung Galaxy S on T-Mobile has to go to Kies on a PC and suffer all manner of issues and problems (like I myself found).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Qukel:
Mybackup Pro will only restore market links if you have rooted your phone and under settings tick Use Root Features and tick Restore Market Link. After upgrading your phone root it and use Mybackup to restore all your apps including market links.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] yud:
Can anyone comment on how Sprite Backup manages market apps? And restore of apps in general?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] .IC3M4N.:
Same here Orange branded sgs. No update yet. Waiting...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] thequinox:
This may seem like a silly question... but why are we all waiting for Kies? My last phone was an HTC Magic, and I just upgraded to this Samsung. Back with my Magic, when a new ROM was officially released, someone would pack it up into an update.zip and then we simply flashed it from the recovery. It was online for everyone literally days after release, and moving between ROMs was a simple and painless procedure.

I must be missing something though, as this doesn't seem to be the case here. Why is this so much more difficult with this phone?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bratescu1977:
I have a sgs unbranded and no uptade with keys.

Romania
[Galaxy S I9000 General] redcrash:
Available in Spain

Dear XDA-Forum users and other visitantes,

I'm glad to tell that the spanish KIES has told me to upgrade my unbranded Samsung Galaxy S i9000! KIES is downloading from the servers... So I hope that the whole process will end soon ;)

Here's a screenshot

Regards.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] giandadu:
same here from Holland

Kies said to update... And yes i have froyo now:):)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] redcrash:
Hooray! It is Froyo!

Build Number: FROYO.XWJPA

Kernel: 2.6.32.9

BaseBand Version: I9000XXJPP

FW version: 2.2
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rainpaint:
Anyone of you please can check with *#1234# what it says? Thanks...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] redcrash:
Mine says:

PDA: I9000XWJPA

PHONE: I9000XXJPP

CSC: I9000XEFJP3

Build Info: 2010.10
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rainpaint:
So it's a specific csc for Spain....good...many thanks.... y muchas gracias! :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bahathir:
What is your SGS's product ID ?

From the registry,

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Samsung\Kies\DeviceDB\1]
"Model Name"="GT-I9000"
"DEVICEKEY"="XXXXXXXXXXXXXX_MODEM"
"DatadbPath"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\Application Data\\Samsu
ng\\Kies\\00000001.dat"
"ModemName"="SAMSUNG Android USB Modem #2"
"ModemPort"="COM9"
"ModemCID"="1"
"NAME"="GT-I9000"
"TYPE"="PHONE"
"CONNECTIONTYPE"="MODEM"
"HARDWAREID"="\\\\?\\USB#VID_04E8&PID_6877&MI_00#1000063732DA_00#{2C7089AA-2E0E-
11D1-B114-00C04FC2AAE4}"
"USBHARDWAREID"="USB\\VID_04E8&PID_6877\\1000063732DA"
"IsComposite"="true"
"PhoneNumber"="XXXXXXX"
"TEMPORARY_IMEI"="false"
"IMEINUM"="XXXXXXXXXX"
"CheckLock"="FALSE"
"CONMODES"="AT,MTP"
"SoftwareRevision"="I9000XXJPO/I9000DBTJP3/I9000XXJPP/I9000XXJPO"
"HIDSWVER"="I9000XXJPO/I9000DBTJP3/I9000XXJPP/I9000XXJPO"
"ProductCode"="GT-I9000HKDDBT"
"DEVCONINFO"=" MN(GT-I9000);VER(I9000XXJPO/I9000DBTJP3/I9000XXJPP/I9000XXJPO);HI
DVER(I9000XXJPO/I9000DBTJP3/I9000XXJPP/I9000XXJPO);PRD(GT-I9000HKDDBT);SN();IMEI
(XXXXXXXXX);PN( );CON(AT,MTP);LOCK(FALSE);SDP(CACHE)^M
#OK#^M

So, my wife's SGS Product Code is GT-I9000HKDDTBT

Samsung Kies' info

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Samsung]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Samsung\Kies]
"AutoScanCompleted"=dword:00000000
-DELETED-
"LocalVer"="1.5.3.10103.100"
"BinaryDate"="2010.11.05"
"IsWebInstalld"="0"
"IsCreateIcon"="1"
"IsexcuteMS"="1"
"Installresult"="1"
"InstallPath"="C:\\Program Files\\Samsung\\Kies"
"WorkingFolder"="C:\\Program Files\\Samsung\\Kies\\"
"Language"="en-GB"
"Region"="MY"
"TimezoneVer"="20100730"
"ServerUrl"="http://msupdate.emodio.com"

TQ.

p/s: Here, we have quite open market, where most of the phones (brands and models) are unlocked version.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] chiffa_ua:
Optus Australia confirmed via Twitter Froyo release on 15th October. One more week to go *envies heavily to UK & European lucky Froyo users*
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ikenley:
You mean 15th November right?

Three (3) just said that when they have information they will post on twitter.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] chiffa_ua:
Telstra keeps silence as well.

* Yeah, 15th November, my bad.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bratescu1977:
Nothing in romania?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pakojones:
Hi,

May I ask you where did you buy the phone?, Fnac?, is it unbranded?

I say this because AFAIK the code XEF corresponds to France, and Fnac is a french company, maybe they are selling french phones in Spain :-|

I bought an unbranded SGS on the Fnac and I don't know what is my original product code because one upgrade to a leaked froyo changed it to KOR :-(

Cheers!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] redcrash:
Oh! Really? Is it a french device? I didn't know!

It was a gift and I didn't bother to ask where it was bought, sorry :S

So it looks that Froyo is available in France not in Spain right now... what a pity! Spanish (in fact, all SGS-i9000) users have been waiting too long for this. And now I can't even wait for android 2.2.1 or even 2.3.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Rat2000:
In Romania it will only be avaible afther 11 november. Samsung Mobile RO announced that it will be betwen 11 to 30 so...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mammenj:
Before installing, do a registry cleanup using ccleaner, restart and install the new version.

I found that kies doesn't cleanly uninstall. Good luck!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wolas:
Lithuania no still nothing

Lithuania (middle of europe) still nothing is it normal or it is becase of lithuania is small? Havent modified anything in my phone yet.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eurocat63:
Check this tread and wait a litle:

http://www.youmobile.org/blogs/entry...rldwide-Dates-

paskaityk ir pakentek truputi ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pmos69:
Those dates are not (enterely) correct.

Example: France / GT-I9000HKDXEF got the update on Nov 8.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AlCaTrAz86:
Go hire LINK

You will find some interesting romanian stuff !
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ccrows:
Nothing available for the US yet...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LuffarJoh:
I have made an android app where you can check for new firmware on fus. Check it out: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=9133275
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Vostradamus:
Official update through kies available in Italy for unbranded phones :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] seby79:
How is the application working? Because on my phone after around 1 minute it says that the program is not responding and I have the option to force close the app or to wait...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zoko:
Official update through kies available in Portugal for branded phones (TMN)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TMReuffurth:
Really, and my Kies doesnt work... Tomorrow i install it on a diferent pc to try it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] prutty:
So in Romania for Orange, is there something new?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ccrows:
Still no update for i9000m.

Seriously WTF!

Why so late behind EVERYONE else?... :mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Jayanth.M.P:
Indian froyo update is pushed fwd by a month. source -- Official Samsung page facebook.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xZeDgEx:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/10/bootlace-lets-you-install-froyo-on-your-iphone-without-a-compute/

The iPhone gets Froyo before most Galaxy S users.. why am I not suprised. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] seby79:
I have checked last night and no update available for Orange branded phone. :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ccrows:
Why would it be pushed back again?

Seriously they slowed down after the Nordic countries, but then they decided to give the green light to continue to roll out through Europe. :confused:

Is there a new bug/problem?... :mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] prutty:
no froyo 12-11-2010

today, 12-11-2010, at 9:00 in the morning, there is no froyo for orange galaxy in Romania...:mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andrewluecke:
*Sigh* Don't read too much into it. Remember, carriers must also test the updates before deploying. They must also comply with local laws and regulations
[Galaxy S I9000 General] almaalma74:
Bullsh*t, and whats up w/ independent iphones when came out the new ios 3.0, ios 4.0 at same time in world, or at there is fw update at nokia every months ...

who did investigate that... nobody..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ccrows:
How does Nokia factor into any of this?... :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bratescu1977:
I am from romania but the phone is from italy. I am on froyo since yesterday.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] t.kuschan:
T-Mobile Germany Froyo

Here is some Info about the Froyo Update for all German T-Mobile Users who are just waiting for an Official Release...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] OzzieB:
Can anyone from Ireland confirm if its out yet?

I am still not getting the update from Kies..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Joval74:
Meteor definitely, Vodafone maybe... 3 no.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sahiltyagi:
Link pls
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jonlewi5:
Well that was a let down, update went through bit im still on 2.1 :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] maesebit:
I have the leaked JPO, and I get this upgrade shown if I change in the Registry the KIES Local Ver. to the latest and the Software revision to a previous one.

However, I'm still don't know wether to update or not.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] psp888:
Yes you have a branded phone. You have o2 dome wallpaper and o2 links in your browser.

look at a earlier post if u want to install this unbranded firmware
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jian:
A UK handset is branded if its does not have the standard product code of XEU. Whether you actualy see branding on the handset is irrelevant. Yours is branded by virture of the O2O code.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] fulcrum1971:
Kies updated but no Froyo yet in India.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neils76:
I'm on Virgin Mobile uk contract, and also believe my phone to be unbranded/unlocked.

Got latest Kies this morning, but still get usual Firmware Upgrade message... 'This device's version cannot be updated'

I tried regedit to change product codees etc. but made no difference (when Kies starts, it just fills in the reg fields again)

Only diffrence seems to be Kies now working much better and quicker (I use it to sync with Outlook 2010 calendar & contacts)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xavierzutafun:
Thank you both (jian and psp888). As I have already installed the most recent Kies, I will just wait for O2's update (whenever it will come).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Aweb:
Same here. Could you please tell me what you changed? Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] morvaeldd:
I have managed to take snapshots before they enabled Froyo and it was 4 days between release of JM1 between XEU (21st August) and XEO (25th August). I hope in case of Froyo it won't be more than this.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] salmanslick:
wow i m refreshing this topic offf the hoook
[Galaxy S I9000 General] madpete:
Im in the UK and have a CPW code, upgraded no probs with the latest kies.

Is anyone else finding this build to be a bit slow and memory intensive?

Seems slow to respond compared to the JM1 eclair I was running, also available mem keeps going sub 200mb where as in eclair its was around 270mb.

Havent done a hard reset though, maybe I should?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pele78:
LMAO !!!!!!

we in teh same boat... my screen is just flashing more times than i flash my phone and thats a hell of a lot lol
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ksh20480:
Kies updatin in India...doin dat rite now....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virtualsk:
Let me know, if you have froyo update for india.... I am in office , and USB is blocked so can't check it ... Version has to be JPA i guess.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 2dorr:
I am gonna update to JPA from JP6. This is in Romania and with the latest KIES I have the update available.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] salmanslick:
goood luck :) don't forget to come back and let us know how the new firmware feeels :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virtualsk:
So, you can update JP6 to JPA ...thats nice to hear ... :) I do have JP6 installed ...from India.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] salmanslick:
i got jp6 from reg hack :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Odia:
Nope even the MD5 sum matches the leaked version.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Kevin65:
I'm coming from scandinavian version (I9000XWJP6/I9000XEEJP4/I9000XXJPM/I9000XWJP6 / GT-I9000HKDXEE) over Kies and the new one feels very smooth, I like it :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pele78:
im gonna go nuts ! even though im not gonna rush into updating yet, but i just want piece of mind LOL

wtf is going on ?

*checks to see if im still on earth*
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ancrost:
I updated Kies and then plugged my phone in,and this is what comes up.

kies updated to this 1.5.3.10103.100

and then this notice comes up,

(Current Version :PDA:JM1/PHONE:JM1/CSC:JM1

The latest version is already installed on connected device)

Don't think the update is available here ,UK.

I have PAYG using O2.

Ann
[Galaxy S I9000 General] prutty:
did you get froyo in romania?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MihaiNicanor:
What product code do you guys from Romania have on your phones (the ones who received the update via KIES) ?

ORO .. CNX .. HAT .. or the generic one ?

registry hack or not ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Will.1:
Nope, no option to upgrade here in France ffs

XEU - JP6 / JPM / JP4
[Galaxy S I9000 General] artuzzo:
No upgrade in Holland too...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neils76:
I think all we have in UK is an updated Kies. My version doesn't give me option of froyo update... just usual message 'This device's version cannot be updated'

Virgin UK contract (using T-Mobile network)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bigdyl69:
I'm on Orange UK with an unbranded and unlocked SGS from Phones4U and its just updated through Kies from JM1 to JPO, all seems to be working fine
[Galaxy S I9000 General] artuzzo:
i have froyo sinds the registry hack + voodoo. Are the changes in the registry a problem for a new (original) froyo upgrade with KIES?:confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ludovicianul:
Official update or through reghack?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] igniztion:
GT-I9000 XEE from Norway:

Got upgrade in Kies to:

PDA:JPA / PHONE:JPP / CSC:JP4

I was on the previous update from Kies that got pulled with JP6/JPM
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mobydeek:
Im using Modaco ROM r3, JG5... 'This device's version cannot be updated'

Where can I get the JPO files to use with Odin?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nesx87:
What will happen if i do a hard reset after i updated? And how do i do that? I want to get rid of some lagging that i didnt have before. Some tasks are snappier. E.g. Messaging. . And handcent sms etc. But applications list feels a bit laggier
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beards:
Unfortunately I won't be able to check or install the Froyo until Sat evening at the earliest.

Interested to hear what you Guys are finding with the 'Official' Froyo?, as in GPS/WiFi/Lag/etc?