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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greeced:
I think all us Bell users should band together and threaten a class action lawsuit.

I for one purchased this phone back in August with the complete understanding from Bell that it will be Updated to 2.2 by October the latest. Here we are, the middle of November, and still nothing.

I know I wouldn't have purchased this phone if they didn't tell me specifically this phone would be updated.

Maybe a little fire under their a$$ would force them to release it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaneinOne:
Some people seem to not understand that it's not Samsung but the individual carriers that determine any firmware to be made official. Carriers typically receive the same/similar build around the same time as each other. Differences in quality/suitability and network testing result in the differences of the individual carriers releasing the updated firmware. Blame Bell!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] franckqcc:
Well carriers should only have to personalize icons and little settings to access their services like online-tv, etc, not configuring the whole firmware to make it compatible with specific Samsung hardware.... That's samsung' job to make it works with the hardware....

I mean... If samsung had posted a working firmware for all the variety of I9000 models, less peoples would have fried their phones and we should be able to make it work on our phones and on our carriers with some minors adjustments instead of waiting Bell to do it....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeroculture:
Either way ... Samsung should be lighting a fire under Bell then, as it is their reputation that is getting dragged through the mud. Everyone already hates Bell so they have nothing to lose by taking their time. I for one though will never buy another Samsung phone that's for sure.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samdroid_G_S:
I was also told Oct at the Bell store when purchasing my phone. If nothing shows up in another day or so I'm probally going to flash one of the roms off this site. I'm with bell so if the sd card fails it shouldn't be to hard to get them to replace/repair it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeroculture:
I bought mine in September under the guise that we would get a September update ... then October ... the November. Ugh I would flash another rom right now if I wasn't on the other side of the world. The last thing I need is to be stuck in Asia with a corrupt BELL phone. :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t1mman:
You really think "lighting a fire under Bell" would make 'em move? You really don't know how this company works do you!

The company was built almost like the most bureaucratic and corrupted government of Quebec (I live there, I know what I'm talking about when I say bureaucratic corrupted government...) so, don't expect them to move an inch unless there's a couples of AK47's involved...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xZeDgEx:
Ditto

After mine and my friends both died.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] franckqcc:
Well Bell was so happy to get exclusivity for the Galaxy S... Samsung should let them know that if thay get bad reputation because of Bell' lazyness... they won't get Samsung phones anymore....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] striker456:
Kies says it can't contact the server when I try to upgrade the firmware. good sign?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeroculture:
Oh of course not ... I don't expect Bell to do ****, ever. But, considering the size of both companies, it would be nice to see one of them step up. Wishful thinking I know.

Been doing it for me yesterday/today as well, but I doubt it's because of the update. Probably just because tons of people are looking for something that isn't there. lol
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpaik:
Bell spends little or no time worrying about its reputation. Trust me, Bell has done the calculation and concluded that it's a tiny fraction of its customers who want an Android OS update. Bell knows very well that many customers- maybe the majority - don't have clue about their "phone" OS, let alone an update.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattymon:
Doc's

Just install Doc's Rom. I installed over a week and im very happy with it. 850 works fine and i have had 0 problems with it. You dont have to use ODIN and can use Clockwork mod to install it.

No point waiting for it to come out in Canada. I guarantee it wont be until next year or end of December. Also, CM6.1 is in the works for the galaxy s and that will be leaps and bounds ahead of Samsung's release in terms of performance.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greeced:
You may be right, but it cared a great deal about sales when it upgraded their network due to rogers exclusivity with the iphone, I'm sure they don't want to lose more customers, especially if rogers sends out an update for it's samsung
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Yea but some of us are weary of bricking our internal sdcards.

Aside from odin, users who were on Doc's rom (nothing specific with his rom, just proving a point) still bricked their internal sd even though they flashed through cwm.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeroculture:
Yah ... I decided to wait until today before I said scew it and do it myself ... looks like I'll be spending my day tomorrow playing with my phone instead of working. :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greeced:
I am weary about trying anything that is not a stock update that may brick my phone or cause sd issues.

Some are more brave than me I guess.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobola:
Same,

I got my phone from my frd instead of bell.

So I dont want to risk anything
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ccrows:
Lovely all morning all I've been seeing is no response from server.

Guess I will have to wait a few hours just to find that my version is up to date already... :mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zaidorx:
Do I have a problem with my phone?

Kies says:

Model Name: GT-I9000M

Current Version: PDA:JH2/PHONE:JH2/CSC:JH2

This device's version cannot be updated.

I have my phone rooted and no lagfix.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] groaner:
Keis new update this morning.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t1mman:
Whut?

(10 char.)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grashoper:
LOL X2

Nothing here...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grashoper:
Any more info would be cool. What the new version number?? any firmware upgrades after the update??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PermaFried:
no update here.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Videonut:
No update to froyo. By the look of Samsungs canadian facebook page they have no info for us, ppl are freaking and they aren't responding. At least the USA facebook page has a comment that froyo will be available in the States this year. Not very uplifting... :(

My Kies says ver .100 and no update available??? What is yours saying??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dm-digital:
Still shows 1.5.3.10103_100 as being the latest Kies for me
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BottleB:
Samsung website still shows this

Kies Release Note

File	Version	Release Date	Size(MB)

SAMSUNG Kies

(kies_win.exe)	1.5.3.10093_82	14-Oct-2010	126
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3rdcoast:
Has anyone in N.A. especially Canada seen the 2.2 upgrade? With no reliable word from Sammy or Bell or anyone in control I think I'll give up. I finally just got the no update required message so for now I don't think it is happening for us suckers.

I'd suggest that if and when the update rolls out for Bell phones (mine bought from Bell but not SIM'd to Bell) that the title be changed. kies is much too painful to use.

Official update notices mean nothing if the carrier has any say in the matter so it could be a while. Rogers just got their device and claim mid 2011 before updates come to them so that means next December if they are lucky.

no more Samsung for me....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gemini8026:
I sent in a question to their support, asking if and when Froyo would come out....

I expected something a LITTLE better then this!

Ref.: N/A

Good day Jeff,

Thank you for using Bell Mobility's Internet Client Care service.

My name is Malek (Emp# 6004763). I have read your message.

The manufacturer is best equipped to assist you concerning its product

and will be able to provide you with the details relevant to your

question. You may reach the manufacturer at the following coordinates:

Samsung

If you have further questions specific to your account, please ensure

that you include the following information so that we may proceed.

Keep on truckin :s
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t1mman:
Is this through chat or e-mail? Because this dude should know that all support for the SGS is done with the reseller (IE, Bell). And that froyo was sent out to the provider for approval. So it's in their hands now (Bell)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaelstromXC:
Did you reply saying that Bell take part in providing the upgrade by adding Bell software on to the operating system? Therefore, Bell should know when Froyo would be available.

Other the hand, did Bell give you an email or other means to contact Samsung?

We can pursue both Bell and Samsung.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t1mman:
Just got off chat with Bell

Maybee all of us should do the same and get'em moving a little!

BTW: If they say it's in samsung's hands, please correct them and specified that Froyo was sent out to reseller to aprove, so it's in their hands now.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gemini8026:
They gave me the generic link to Samsungs North American site. I wont persue any further on my behalf, as that answer doesnt give me much hope that Ill get a quick reply (that took 3 biz days to get)

Either way, after trying OCLF and Voodoo, im not ready to try out Docs RoM yet, I just never had perfect results from those mods, and im tired of the "hiccups"
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kinghorsey:
No generally the Canadian Bell reps won't comment. I was told it's for "competitive reasons." :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] urself25:
Samsung says in their Press release in October that it's coming. But they haven't given any date.

They are stating to release it to Europe and Est Asia. Where next on the list:

The Android 2.2 upgrade will be available from the mid of October 2010 in the Nordic region and gradually rolled out to other European markets, Southeast Asia, the Middle East Asia, North America, Africa and rest of the world.

We just have to wait a little more and we will receive our Froyo update.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3rdcoast:
I hope you're right. A big selling feature for me was that updates would come from Samsung instead of the useless carriers. Not as good as directly from google but I learned my lesson about carriers. Now people are saying that the carrier still has their finger on the trigger. I guess that is what the code is for, mine is still looking for a Bell version. bummer.

So someday soon could be months from now. Or later today. I'm taking mine back, again. Enough of this subpar piece of crap. Specs be dammed, their software sucks and I've had enough.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pr0cs:
I expect the official 2.2 release near the end of the month or the beginning of December. Everything I've read online (based on their rollout schedule) suggests that Canada will be one of the last regions to get 2.2.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] troy1004:
I flashed docfroyo or whatever last night. Working perfectly, just don't try to recover launcher pro with a backup app.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Once again, i would not recommend flashing anything "non-official" on these i9000M's especially if you don't have a receipt. Wait it out.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] urself25:
The carrier is adding some apps and is testing them on the firmware before release to make sure that they work however, they are not saying anything in regards to if the OS is being release or not.

I suspect the same too.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anwark76:
I am using Doc's Froyo 7.6.2 on my Bell Galaxy S as well. Works fantastically well as long as you follow instructions. I am done with waiting for official firmware.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
The issue isn't that they don't work, ofcourse they will work.

Issue is, they enable a hidden "timer" if u will which usually around a month's time cause your internal sdcard's to corrupt. Don't hold me to this though, for sure theres some people who haven't had issues even with numerous flashing, but according to the consensus, majority of those who flash ANYTHING eventually get a bricked phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3a:
my stock phone with nothing flashed got the internal SD issue... got it back a few weeks ago and its running like a champ now.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Yup, flashing only speeds up the eventual brick.

Im basing this on the data collected through the survey ofcourse. There seems to be no relation to bricked internal sd's, their's occasional people like you who bricked theirs w/o modding anything, but in general those who flashed a leaked firmware or a lagfix seem to get theirs bricked.

Im referring to Survey
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aquenne:
The response I got from the bell chat:

you: Also, do you have information on when the 2.2 update will be available for the samsung galaxy s?

Chrissy: No we don't as it is not yet compatible. Sorry for this.

you: could you expand on what you mean by compatible?

Chrissy: The technical Solutions team will have more information regarding this as it is a very technical issue.

you: where would I get that information?

Chrissy: Technical Solutions department
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snuff96:
I wonder if maybe the internal sd cards are malfunctioning even with the official patch, nd theyre too worried if it gets released they'll have a couple thousand dead phones. Why did they make so many versions of this phone?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pr0cs:
You aren't going to get ANY good information from bell chat. Those people follow a script which you definitely be deviating from when talking about OS upgrades. Best you can hope for is to call their technical support and get someone who is actually in Canada working at Bell (ie: not outsourced).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dm-digital:
Failing internal SD cards is a hardware problem and not caused by flashing new ROMs. If a phone has a bad internal SD it will fail at some point no matter what. Flashing a new ROM may reveal the problem quicker but it won't create it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stan28:
Don't get your hopes high. Whoever that posted this insider info is BS. I will patiently wait for Aery to finish the port for cynogenmod rom.

Sent from my GT-I9000M
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t1mman:
Did you ask how to get in touch with them?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aquenne:
Yes, I actually initiated the chat on a totally seperate topic, but decided to ask that as well.

The number for the Tech Support group, sometimes called "Data Support", is:

1-877-328-2123
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pada:
Suprise

Seems like everyone expected this ! Now there already talking about Andriod 2.3 release. I don't know what you gain by doing a non stock update? I doubt Flash works ? That was a big promise. I'll take small consolation in the Heresay that Bell has one of the best implementaions for the Galaxy. If not only to avoid Upgrade stress.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PermaFried:
anyone tried the kies registry patch tool?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadoslayer:
You've got to be kidding me right? An internal "timer"? And you're basing that on a poll of a few people who lurk on these forums? Now thats a stretch. Only 486 people voted in the i9000m SD poll, and out of those 158 said they had firmware issues. Add a margin of error in there to weed out the newbs that have no clue how to flash their phone, and the other bunch that didn't bother to make sure recovery worked, and there you go. Also, take into consideration that the poll doesn't take into account build dates, so for all you know it was just one bad batch of phones. A timer... lol.

There are plenty of people who have a i9000m and have flashed unofficial firmware without any problem what so ever. If someone is so horny for the "official" 2.2 from Bell, just install jpo install the bell mobility app apk and be done with it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Are you familiar with analogies ? It would be foolish to consider an actual timer, ofcourse, i was refering to the fact that atleast for me, my first 2 phones both died around the month mark. They were both flashed with odin, hence with my 3rd phone i have grown to accept that it is a issue and i'd rather wait it out than be happy for a month and then be apart from my phone for 2+ weeks as it gets repaired (been there, done that).

With my previous statements i was trying to avoid a situation where those w/o receipts would end up with a bricked phone. As for build dates, you can see i added that later on. Im basing it on this survey Link
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AvatarReborn:
I take it you are not using Bell as your provider ?? I'm pretty sure they don't ask for bill of sale for those that got the phone on a 3 yr contract. That would be stupid !
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Nope im using it with Fido. They do ask for a receipt ofcourse. Trick is to tell them ur using it as a tablet. After that its smooth sailing. Im not scared of bricking it because of "maybe bell might not give me a replacement", no they've done it twice already im sure they'll abide by the warranty the third time. Its just im sick of loosing all my files and starting fresh and not to mention the 2-3 week waiting period.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PermaFried:
You DO NOT have to have a receipt if you bought the phone from bell and are on a contract.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AvatarReborn:
Thank you confirming that ! Thought that was case !
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aridoasis:
I bought mine outright at bestbuy without a contract. when I brought it to bell and said I was using a turbo sim hence no need to unlock. they were gonna take it in except the receipt I had was so faded. the rep phone their service center and said to take the phone in, and they'd base the warranty from the manufacturing date. 10 days after, I pick up my repaired phone.

so, no, you don't need to have a bell contact. it's with how you weave your story and be nice to the rep. funny thing is that I was on an i9000 rom and i9000 shows up on the boot cycle instead of i9000M, and they didn't even question it.

and yeah, checked a few mins ago - sucks that we still don't have FROYO.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brunes:
I would not even bother waiting for Bell. I have been running Doc's Froyo from the Android Development forum for almost three weeks now and (now that I have solved the battery issue, and it had nothing to do with the rom), I have been totally happy with it. Everything works 110% and the ROM is CRAZY FAST compared to the Eclair that the phone comes with.

Don't bother waiting. There will be nothing significantly different in Bell's Froyo than Docs, if anything it is likely to be slower and more filled with Bell bloatware like the stupid PVR app that is useless unless you have that special ExpressVu reciever.

Also Doc's ROM lets you totally get rid of the TouchWiz junk if you don't want it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Some of us are waiting for different reasons as described previously.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaelstromXC:
Sorry about going off topic

What was cause for the battery issue?

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I am skeptical about flashing custom roms. Despite there isn't any proof of custom roms killing internal sd, the survey shows there is some correlation. Maybe our sample is not big enough, but I would not want to risk that (especially i have the screen protector on the phone and it would be hard to keep dust off it after peeling for RMA)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeff260z:
Still nothing in ontario?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nightmare56:
if you don't mind can you explain the "im using it as a tablet part"? So you had no receipt and told them you bought the phone straight out without a contract? and this was at a bell store? I have read the survey thread, but you were helping another member so im not sure what your own case was.

Thanks, i bought mine used and using it on rogers so im trying to find out if i can ever get a replacement if anything ever goes wrong.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9101762&postcount=26

does that apply if i don't have a receipt?
[Networking] cl4yd0h:
I have successfully tethered my epic to my computer and can download at about 40kbps from the device. (Even 3g in my area is poor)

Now that is not really that important to most people but considering my max download speed with my DSL is 130kbps it makes a huge difference.

Now hypothetically with both DSL and PDAnet connected I should be achieving somewhere around 160kbps.

I am using Vista and both connections are active and show up in the Network Manager but It doesn't seem I can "combine" the bandwidth of the two. I have tried "Merging" the connections and also "Bridging" them.

For example I'm downloading a steam game right now. Its at a steady 128kbps I can look at the status of each of the connections and it doesn't seem I'm pulling anything from the phone. But when I disconnect the DSL I can pull 40 from the phone.

I know its slim pickins on both ends but any extra bandwidth I can get will help. Why can't I combine the bandwidth of the two successfully?

By the way, this is my first post here. I got my epic about a month ago and have been lurking ever since. I look forward to hanging around here more and thanks for any suggestions in advance.
[Networking] nadcicle:
You are going to need to share that connection via wifi to a wireless adapter hooked into a dual wan wireless router with your dsl hooked into the other wan input.

While hooked up you will most likely have to disable dhcp and somehow manually configure the ip's on both connection to the router with load balancing enabled.

In my opinion this is hardly worth any of the trouble and alot harder than what I think you would be willing to want to deal with in the long run.

I would consider possible upgrading your dsl a little faster and just consider your cell connection a convenience for when you need it elsewhere other than home.
[Networking] cl4yd0h:
Yeah doesn't sound worth it...

1.5mb DSL is the highest available connection here which is what I have.

I've been complaining for 3 years about it heh..

Thanks man..
[HD7 General] FooisM:
I've got the HTC HD at the moment, and the camera quality is ok, but only if you can hold the thing 100% still for the whole 3 seconds while pushing and holding a button.

Would love to see some examples of the HD7 :D
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] zyryck:
Thank you very much but why deleting all the keyboards ?
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] ttxdragon:
Not everybody wants to keep any of them. I personally only keep the JP one (and install swype per custom-folder) because I haven't looked for a better JP one yet. And as a little hurdle for those that don't care to read. This is supposed to be configured to everyone's own needs, not to what I dictate, else it would just be scripts without a config-folder :p