how to update our phone? - Samsung Mesmerize

so i came from a samsung captivate and well i went to see on how to update our phone and i dont see any option under about phone to update our phone...... sooo how do i go about doing this? i know there is prob no updates right now but just when 2.1 comes out how do i get it?

icebear8 said:
so i came from a samsung captivate and well i went to see on how to update our phone and i dont see any option under about phone to update our phone...... sooo how do i go about doing this? i know there is prob no updates right now but just when 2.1 comes out how do i get it?
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well our UK friends have to use Samsung KIES so we probably will have to too.

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Looking for stock 1.6 Donut

I posted something on this in general but it doesn't get as much traffic, and I'd imagine the rom would be somewhere in here, but I can't find it. Anyway....
I used to use a mytouch 3G, but have sold it an am unrooting it before I ship. I flashed the original SAPPIMG.nbh, and now it's showing android version 1.5, and says that the system is currently up to date. Is there an easy way to manually update it to 1.6 so this guy gets the most recent version?
I'd imagine if I can find the original Tmo 1.6 I could update it, but I've spent an hour searching and haven't found it. Any advice? I'd like to ship this thing out today, if I can.
factory reset????
I did, and that brings me to 1.5, however it says the phone is up to date.
y r u selling?
Bought a Nexus one.
mikeybags said:
Bought a Nexus one.
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Boo
Nexus two in a few months, just you wait. You'll be like "NOOO!!!!"
This really seems like one of those scenarios where the company will just keep pooping out new phones rather than upgrading the one that exists.
I'm in the same boat. Want to get my mt3g 100% stock and current. Gave it to the wife and do not want to be on the hook for tech support; so back to stock it goes of I can find the right way to do it.
http://developer.htc.com/google-io-device.html
does that help?
Here you can find the official Google rom for 32B: http://developer.htc.com/google-io-device.html
This is not your operator ROM but at least it's a stock rom without root. Hoping this helps
Peace.
psycotic11 said:
http://developer.htc.com/google-io-device.html
does that help?
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You posted while i was reading... Doh!

Random OTA update

I'm downloading a new software update . I had already installed the last update.
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When I say last update I meant the one with the GPS fix.
What else could this be besides froyo ?
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Something funny happen, the update didnt install and now I cant check for another one.
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I changed the date on my phone so now I'm trying the update again.
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It keeps failing, so I dont know what this is .
wrong.........
i tried 4 times, wasted many of my limited data, never get updated. Att sucks.
pobinghun said:
i tried 4 times, wasted many of my limited data, never get updated. Att sucks.
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AT&T doesn't charge you for anything that comes from the update server. You sir, suck. ;-)
i just got my brand new phone in the mail yesterday, im just gonna wait till it tells me there's an update before I download any updates..
link12245 said:
AT&T doesn't charge you for anything that comes from the update server. You sir, suck. ;-)
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It sure does show up under data used, so I assume that it will be counted against you data plan.
Is your phone rooted? Showing symptoms associated with.
AGAIN
Yeah I have no idea what this update is ? This is like the 5th time it failed on me, so forget it.
I am rooted.
When I got the update, I had just gotten the phone. The update went through just fine, the day after I rooted my phone. So maybe rooting had something to do with it. I don't see how that could effect it but maybe.
I think it's time you detach the umbilical cord to the OTA update Update using Clockwork. (Just a suggestion).

Could it be Froyo?

I'm not sure about the rest of you Captivate owners, but mine has been undergoing a serious update for the past 2 hours. The first update I noticed was to Kies Mini from v10082.8.1 to v1.0.0.110104.1. I couldn't upgrade using Kies mini. Instead, Kies mini simply updated itself.
After seeing this, I performed a Phone update from my Captivate itself and it's still going at it.
Let us know if it is froyo
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not to burst your bubble, but it probably isn't, for like the millionth time if official Froyo is released you will hear about it, stop being so optimistic whenever a kies update comes out. Trust me when this thing hits it'll hit hard, you won't not know lol
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phoney_stuff said:
I'm not sure about the rest of you Captivate owners, but mine has been undergoing a serious update for the past 2 hours. The first update I noticed was to Kies Mini from v10082.8.1 to v1.0.0.110104.1. I couldn't upgrade using Kies mini. Instead, Kies mini simply updated itself.
After seeing this, I performed a Phone update from my Captivate itself and it's still going at it.
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My Kies mini updated sometime last week to:
SAMSUNG Kies mini Application v1.0.0.10104_1
It might be in preparation for the froyo update but not here yet.
Nope!
Just attempted OTA and no new firmware and then did Kies mini and latest is jh7 sorry.
phoney_stuff said:
I'm not sure about the rest of you Captivate owners, but mine has been undergoing a serious update for the past 2 hours. The first update I noticed was to Kies Mini from v10082.8.1 to v1.0.0.110104.1. I couldn't upgrade using Kies mini. Instead, Kies mini simply updated itself.
After seeing this, I performed a Phone update from my Captivate itself and it's still going at it.
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Many posts about Kies Mini update last week.
When Froyo does drop you'll see all kinds of articles on the regular internet sites.
Added: I'm still betting on St. Patrick's Day!
those #'s refer to KIES software versions.
It is simply and update for your Kies desktop software......nothing to do with firmware for your smartphone.
I'm still going for Christmas - although they had said by end of November... so we still have what? 2 more days at this point
avgjoegeek said:
I'm still going for Christmas - although they had said by end of November... so we still have what? 2 more days at this point
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Actually - the date for US has always been "by the end of the year" as reported by SamsungUSA twitter and facebook. It was the international Galaxy S (i9000) that was end of November. Many sites interpreted that to mean us to as our phones are also "Galaxy S".
My bad... false alarm. Nothing to see here. Move along.
I'm still puzzled why both Kies mini and my phone took ages to do whatever it did. Whateva! I want some Froyo!
Well all signs point to very soon. Samsung said we would get it by the end of the year, which means in less than a month. There was also a tip a couple weeks ago that Captivates running Froyo out of the box would go on sale on the first Sunday in December and the OTA would begin rolling out possibly the Monday after (12/6).
Can we all agree to post news about a Froyo update AFTER you actually get the OS on your phone?
It seems like every other day someone posts news that they have been notified/downloading an update.
skinien said:
Can we all agree to post news about a Froyo update AFTER you actually get the OS on your phone?
It seems like every other day someone posts news that they have been notified/downloading an update.
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THIS is the best advice anybody has given on the oft repeated subject - +2 for this person...
Speaking of the new version of Kies... Since mine upgraded, it won't let me check for updates while in debug mode. When I take it out of debug mode, my PC doesn't see my phone... Any ideas?
You're chasing after a Unicorn people.
MikeyMike01 said:
You're chasing after a Unicorn people.
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Not to mention stock froyo would be a Unicorn with half a horn
gk527 said:
Speaking of the new version of Kies... Since mine upgraded, it won't let me check for updates while in debug mode. When I take it out of debug mode, my PC doesn't see my phone... Any ideas?
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What os are you running? If it Win 7 x64, this is what I run, then you could try a fresh install of Kies. Scrub the system of all things Samsung (apps, drivers, etc..) and then do a fresh install of Kies. Let it install the drivers. Once complete reconnect phone and let Windows reinstall drivers for device. Then see if you can get the computer to see the phone.
If that doesn't work, there was a post about a patched .dll that worked for some. Search for "Kies doesn't recognize my phone".
cappysw10 said:
What os are you running? If it Win 7 x64, this is what I run, then you could try a fresh install of Kies. Scrub the system of all things Samsung (apps, drivers, etc..) and then do a fresh install of Kies. Let it install the drivers. Once complete reconnect phone and let Windows reinstall drivers for device. Then see if you can get the computer to see the phone.
If that doesn't work, there was a post about a patched .dll that worked for some. Search for "Kies doesn't recognize my phone".
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I am running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Thanks for the information. I'll give it a try.
alphadog00 said:
Actually - the date for US has always been "by the end of the year" as reported by SamsungUSA twitter and facebook. It was the international Galaxy S (i9000) that was end of November. Many sites interpreted that to mean us to as our phones are also "Galaxy S".
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Maybe their "by the end of the year" is lunar calendar year... which will put the release at 2/2/2011.

Very important to all captivate owners!!! Read!

EDIT: Yes I know that this has been a long standing issue...but I never heard of it until it happened to me!!! So no need to come in and comment like 4 or 5 others felt the need to do with "lol this is old news u r teh dumbz hurr" I just wanted to bring this up to any new captivate owners like myself :]
If for some reason you have a hankering for some stock 2.1 from your captivate like I did for whatever random reason tonight......if you see an an OTA (Over The Air) Update for your captivate....DO NOT DO IT!!!!!! I say this because I did this tonight thinking that MAYBE this was some form of a 2.2 silent update push..or hell just some bugfixes would have been nice...so i went ahead and downloaded it, it prompted for a restart so it could flash it......and when it attempted to flash...it got about 50% and failed! Well at this point im thinking...awesome...ATT at its finest. So it said it was going to reboot back to android, I waited patiently...waited.....it hot about 3 minutes with phone in hand and screen off when i feel 2 *buzz* buzz* ! I think to myself HOORAY! its okay ....well i was wrong...that was my Captivates last words so to speak. I have tried plain powering on the phone....trying to go into recovery, trying to go into download mode even using a JIG to get back into download mode.....nothing the screen is blank completely, seems as if its not even getting power. :\ I am now the sad owner of a Captivate shaped door stop /facedesk .....Thankfully i yelled at the ATT people on the phone tonight enough to get a replacement phone lol! I am greatfull for this and felt as if i should pass this along to you guys until this gets sorted out. And no im not the only one thats had this problem
http://forums.wireless.att.com/t5/Samsung/Samsung-Captivate-Bricked/td-p/2008787/page/2
thats just one of many threads where this has happened. I dunno if this is new or old news...but Still i thought that i should put this out here.
Bryan
I think this is a known issue. Many phones had this happen with the release of JH7. It was provably just the JH7 update that got pushed to your phone. I wouldn't get my hopes up
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bradleyG said:
I think this is a known issue. Many phones had this happen with the release of JH7. It was provably just the JH7 update that got pushed to your phone. I wouldn't get my hopes up
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this wasnt a post about me getting my hopes up for a 2.2 update lol. This was a warning to those who dont about that fail update thats messing up a ton of phones. ;D
blackberry,iphone captivate, whatever. i have learned NEVER EVER do OTA update download it from phone authors site or whatever no matter what phone it is OTA is spelled BRICK....
I didn't received any ota from att but last year I forced update my phone and it works fine with me though without any issue. I think its the same ota update but I manually force to update my phone lol
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leo5111 said:
blackberry,iphone captivate, whatever. i have learned NEVER EVER do OTA update download it from phone authors site or whatever no matter what phone it is OTA is spelled BRICK....
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I'm of the assumption that a OTA bricks less than 0.1% of the devices that attempt an update. Granted that may be a large number if the number of devices are large..but not much of a chance to brick in the big picture
JH7 pushed to mine flawlessly when i got my phone last month, no issues at all.
HaiKaiDo said:
And no im not the only one thats had this problem
http://forums.wireless.att.com/t5/Samsung/Samsung-Captivate-Bricked/td-p/2008787/page/2
thats just one of many threads where this has happened. I dunno if this is new or old news...but Still i thought that i should put this out here.
Bryan
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That thread started in September, that's ancient in tech years.
bradleyG said:
I think this is a known issue. Many phones had this happen with the release of JH7. It was provably just the JH7 update that got pushed to your phone. I wouldn't get my hopes up
Sent from my SGH-I897 using XDA App
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+1 Still betting on St. Patty's Day release, office pool ya know.
Razzman said:
JH7 pushed to mine flawlessly when i got my phone last month, no issues at all.
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+100 Mine got the OTA fine and it was even rooted on edge service. Meh, who can tell why some did brick and others didn't. For sure I'll never do another OTA again. I love my 1007 build too much to return it.
HaiKaiDo said:
If for some reason you have a hankering for some stock 2.1 from your captivate like I did for whatever random reason tonight......if you see an an OTA (Over The Air) Update for your captivate....DO NOT DO IT!!!!!! I say this because I did this tonight thinking that MAYBE this was some form of a 2.2 silent update push..or hell just some bugfixes would have been nice...so i went ahead and downloaded it, it prompted for a restart so it could flash it......and when it attempted to flash...it got about 50% and failed! Well at this point im thinking...awesome...ATT at its finest. So it said it was going to reboot back to android, I waited patiently...waited.....it hot about 3 minutes with phone in hand and screen off when i feel 2 *buzz* buzz* ! I think to myself HOORAY! its okay ....well i was wrong...that was my Captivates last words so to speak. I have tried plain powering on the phone....trying to go into recovery, trying to go into download mode even using a JIG to get back into download mode.....nothing the screen is blank completely, seems as if its not even getting power. :\ I am now the sad owner of a Captivate shaped door stop /facedesk .....Thankfully i yelled at the ATT people on the phone tonight enough to get a replacement phone lol! I am greatfull for this and felt as if i should pass this along to you guys until this gets sorted out. And no im not the only one thats had this problem
http://forums.wireless.att.com/t5/Samsung/Samsung-Captivate-Bricked/td-p/2008787/page/2
thats just one of many threads where this has happened. I dunno if this is new or old news...but Still i thought that i should put this out here.
Bryan
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August called it wants its omg failed update back
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Razzman said:
JH7 pushed to mine flawlessly when i got my phone last month, no issues at all.
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Yup... This, but then my phone was new and unmodded at the time.
Thx for the info
viperrepiv said:
Thx for the info
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No problem
I know its easy to flame. But we were all new once.
smokestack76 said:
I know its easy to flame. But we were all new once.
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Join Date : March 2010
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cappysw10 said:
Join Date : March 2010
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July 2010 for you. You are new as well

New phone update available!!!

Just thought I would run the LG software update wizard on my PC, with the phone plugged in. My G2X is INSTALLING IT RIGHT NOW!!!
OH PLZ PLZ PLZ let this rock... Has anyone else seen, done this yet?
I just took a screenshot and added it! I'm backing up my phone now... Will post, but it's lookin like Gingerbread is OFFICIALLY HERE.
WOOT!!!!
DAMMIT... it changed it mind, and says my phone is up to date... Sorry guys. What a damned beating.
Let is know if you do actually get the update.
But, I'm a little wary that there is actually one. I've had this same update screen come up on me twice within the last couple of weeks, and it ultimately came back and told me that I had the latest version. I just checked again and it says that my phone has the latest version.
The Cell phone is the latest version already. So you don't need to update.
Please update the moment you're finished.
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Mine says I have latest version, don't need update. Are you pulling our legs?
I'm SO sick of this crap... Yeah.. as you can see from the screenshot, it said it was an OS update. I just backed everything up, I hit continue, and BAMMM. Your phone is up to date.
Camille68 said:
Let is know if you do actually get the update.
But, I'm a little wary that there is actually one. I've had this same update screen come up on me twice within the last couple of weeks, and it ultimately came back and told me that I had the latest version. I just checked again and it says that my phone has the latest version.
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there's something there. I check every morning and this was not available this morning. someone will post something I'm sure..I'm downloading ..lets see
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I'm SO sick of this crap... Yeah.. as you can see from the screenshot, it said it was an OS update. I just backed everything up, I hit continue, and BAMMM. Your phone is up to date.
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test run? Like I said...I actually did this this morning....this was not available....
I'm prolly grasping @ straws now... But I have rooted my phone. Is anyone out there 100% stock? If so, try this update.
Izzydroolin said:
I'm prolly grasping @ straws now... But I have rooted my phone. Is anyone out there 100% stock? If so, try this update.
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I'm 100% stock, never rooted. And, like I mentioned, I have gotten that screen before (twice), but then it comes back and says that there's no update. I didn't get it today, though.
DAMMIT! Wasn't LG supposed to give us some details on this "In a few days" well over a week ago?!

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