Samsung tech support says GPS and Froyo will be two different updates. GPS will be by the end of the month and Froyo will be "soon as well."
I think with the release of the tablet having 2.2 (already), our phones will have 2.2 by the end of the month as well..
To me it sounds like GPS will be this month and Froyo is getting pushed back.
If they were coming out about the same time why would the release them seperate? Now they have to make 2 GPS fixes on for 2.1 and one cooked into 2.2. If 2.2 was coming this month they would just say that the 2.2 rom is the fix.
Ohh well I hope they release them both this month, that would be awesome.
I am not worried
I would rather them take their time on the releases and get them right the first time, because beyond the promised froyo upgrade we may never see another one
I don't think they ever suggested the two would be rolled into one update. The Froyo update date has never been set for US devices: http://twitter.com/GalaxySsupport/status/21596979525
(Even though that tweet was a while ago, they haven't said anything about an actual date yet.)
This post: http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsung-confirms-galaxy-s-will-get-froyo-in-september/ was somewhat misleading because it only pertained to UK users (notice the twitter account is different).
Update coming in the next week per androidandme! Use this information at your own risk. Could just be a rumor
Sweet. Although mine is working just fine on froyo. If they could only modify the androids to turn on for the alarm....
Oh man this better be right. They did say "by summer" so it should be out sometimes this month.
Hope
I just hope they have some fixes in there and it isn't just gingerbread.
It's rumored. Don't post it as fact.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crt5xhLWmnM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Found this on Mydroidworld. Looks like they have done alot of work! Thanks p3droid for giving us a sneak peek.
I'm.... speechless
Looks like Froyo with an edited build that someone got Netflix to work on. But I hope I'm wrong.
Syn Ack said:
Looks like Froyo with an edited build that someone got Netflix to work on. But I hope I'm wrong.
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We all hope you're wrong, lol.
Native Gingerbread should be coming soon seeing as the Thunderbolt will be receiving it before the end of June. Hopefully we can get that so we can see alot more custom ROM builds being made.
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Native Gingerbread should be coming soon seeing as the Thunderbolt will be receiving it before the end of June. Hopefully we can get that so we can see alot more custom ROM builds being made.
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Ya I heard the TB was getting it June 30th so I would assume roughly a month later for the Charge but I also heard that they were going to just skip giving the Charge GB and go straight to ICS, that's one thing I hate about these cell phone companies, they never give us definite release dates on anything, it's always leak this, rumor that...
Where'd you hear that the Charge would be getting ICS straight from Froyo? It'd be great to get it soon, but I doubt this will be the first phone to get it by any means, and I'm sure they'll have Gingerbread ready before ICS comes out.
Anyway, this is awesome. I knew Samsung was working on Gingerbread, and its already out for the other SGS phones, so it can't be that long. But I'm wondering if TBH got it on there themselves, or if they were able to procure a pre-release build leak. I'm thinking the latter because of the apparently stock ROM otherwise, but then again maybe that was the most stable way to do it.
Its from P3Droid and Team Black Hat, so for those saying its fake, its not. This is great though, apparently that thread worked and they're showing some real interest in this device. With Gingerbread right around the corner, it'd be great to have CM7 to look forward to! Can't wait to see this get out in some build we can use...
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Where'd you hear that the Charge would be getting ICS straight from Froyo? It'd be great to get it soon, but I doubt this will be the first phone to get it by any means, and I'm sure they'll have Gingerbread ready before ICS comes out.
Anyway, this is awesome. I knew Samsung was working on Gingerbread, and its already out for the other SGS phones, so it can't be that long. But I'm wondering if TBH got it on there themselves, or if they were able to procure a pre-release build leak. I'm thinking the latter because of the apparently stock ROM otherwise, but then again maybe that was the most stable way to do it.
Its from P3Droid and Team Black Hat, so for those saying its fake, its not. This is great though, apparently that thread worked and they're showing some real interest in this device. With Gingerbread right around the corner, it'd be great to have CM7 to look forward to! Can't wait to see this get out in some build we can use...
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Nononono I was reading somewhere, I think it was an Android Forum, they were talking about the Charge not getting Gingerbread and just going Froyo > Icecream, I'm not saying it was going to get it first I meant it wouldn't be getting Gingerbread, it's not confirmed information at all but Gingerbread isn't confirmed either so that's why I'm a bit skeptical
I can't wait to get Netflix to work.
Anyone get Netflix to work on 2.2.1 EE4?
I have read several forums where people have been told by Verizon and/or Samsung reps. that they are not working on gb for the Charge and that they plan to just skip to ICS...although this info is probably coming from some tech support guy in India who can hardly speak English so who knows. I'm just happy to see that SOMEONE is working on getting this thing up-to-date, even if it isn't the corporations that should have released it with 2.3 in the first place...
Well we have a gb leak so they must have been working on it.
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Looks like Froyo with an edited build that someone got Netflix to work on. But I hope I'm wrong.
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Wrong it is in fact and actual GB build for the Charge. I did not see that actual device in the video but I have in fact seen the file and watched it be flashed to a Charge. Its coming just a matter of when the release hits. Word I've gotten is hopefully around Aug time frame.
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Ya I heard the TB was getting it June 30th so I would assume roughly a month later for the Charge but I also heard that they were going to just skip giving the Charge GB and go straight to ICS, that's one thing I hate about these cell phone companies, they never give us definite release dates on anything, it's always leak this, rumor that...
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Completely inaccurate. ICS is not even going to be ready for til 4th Qtr to start with. And as for GB it will for sure be coming to the Charge and in the not to distant future like I just stated.
Not sure why anyone would think that the release of Gingerbread on the Charge will somehow fall into some kind of lockstep timing schedule (30 days after) with the Thunderbolt, when the Thunderbolt is an HTC device and the Charge is Samsung. Two different companies, two different set of internal developers, two different business models etc, etc.
We might get GB next week, or next year, or never, I don't know, but I do know that the release of GB on the TB has nothing to do with the release of GB on the Charge.
Sad that GB is over a year old now, and we're still getting Froyo on the "top of the line" devices and still stressing over when, if ever, we'll get it on three month old devices.
I doubt that any vendors besides the one creating the next Nexus phone has ics. It's nearly half a year away from announcement. Anyways, P3Droid is completely legit. He released gingerbread for the fascinate last week. He ran a video much like that one and people said that he was running froyo and being skeptical. I was running that gb build on my fascinate until I broke it and purchased a charge. If he says he has it, he has it. He apparently has a leaker and I thank God that he does.
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I doubt that any vendors besides the one creating the next Nexus phone has ics. It's nearly half a year away from announcement. Anyways, P3Droid is completely legit. He released gingerbread for the fascinate last week. He ran a video much like that one and people said that he was running froyo and being skeptical. I was running that gb build on my fascinate until I broke it and purchased a charge. If he says he has it, he has it. He apparently has a leaker and I thank God that he does.
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Glad to see the Fascinate finally got a real GB. Took Sammy many many months to even give us Froyo which we had a working copy of in January.
I am wondering when we will get a leaked version of this?
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Sad that GB is over a year old now, and we're still getting Froyo on the "top of the line" devices and still stressing over when, if ever, we'll get it on three month old devices.
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You mean 6-8 months old, nowhere near "over a year" old yet. It came out around November-December of 2010, or 6-7 months ago. No need to over exagerate.
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Well we have a gb leak so they must have been working on it.
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Explain. IRC?
The Charge had a GB leak. That is how TBH got a hold of it. I'm thinking other Devs could possibly get a hold of this leak if you know where to look....
But anyway, When I had my DX, TBH was the first to publish a ROM with the leaked GB kernel. They know what they are doing for sure.
I recommend following P3Droid on Twitter. He ususally drops info on a daily basis that I find very interesting. He mentioned weeks ago running netflix on the Charge via Twitter.
Anyone have a date for gingerbread release for droid charge?
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You will not find anyone on here with a definitive release date. We just got our first leak of gingerbread a few days ago. I would put my money on August-September, but who knows. Why wait? Just flash the rom today!
Yeah, we just got the first leak, but it is not yet that stable or usable daily for many people. I would expect we'll get the official version some time in the next month, though they may make us wait a little longer if they have any issues. I would expect a stable working build from our awesome devs a bit sooner, as they'll be stripping out most of the bloatware, that tends to delay development. No way to put a timeline on that, as the devs have other lives and real jobs, haha, and we don't know how difficult the remaining bugs are to overcome.
Just try the stable Froyo roms out now and see which you like best and stick with that until you hear something more. Check here as often as you like, as we'll most likely hear about a stable release (from the devs or official) before anywhere else (cept maybe rootzwiki...).
Or just flash the leak and deal with the issues if you're feeling adventurous and don't need a reliable phone for the next few days.
Thanks cruise?!
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Stable
Very stable. Running for 2 days with no problems at all. Netflix also works but HDMI does not so far, other than that, its awesome GB2.
add all the mods and it takes care of a lot of the problems people were complaining about.
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You will not find anyone on here with a definitive release date. We just got our first leak of gingerbread a few days ago. I would put my money on August-September, but who knows. Why wait? Just flash the rom today!
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you know...the Gingerbread Leak from the other day is far from a fine tuned build... I flashed it the day it hit the TBH app, and had a terrible time with radio connectivity and battery life...
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Yeah, we just got the first leak, but it is not yet that stable or usable daily for many people. I would expect we'll get the official version some time in the next month, though they may make us wait a little longer if they have any issues. I would expect a stable working build from our awesome devs a bit sooner, as they'll be stripping out most of the bloatware, that tends to delay development. No way to put a timeline on that, as the devs have other lives and real jobs, haha, and we don't know how difficult the remaining bugs are to overcome.
Just try the stable Froyo roms out now and see which you like best and stick with that until you hear something more. Check here as often as you like, as we'll most likely hear about a stable release (from the devs or official) before anywhere else (cept maybe rootzwiki...).
Or just flash the leak and deal with the issues if you're feeling adventurous and don't need a reliable phone for the next few days.
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oops...this is what I was referring to...but clearly I was way late, lol
I'm surprised there is no official GB considering EP1W is supposed to be "official"
EP1W has been around for quite a while (even before we got our hands on the leak). If it is indeed the official version, I'm surprised it hasn't been pushed to our phones already.
ya it does seam kinda odd. kinda makes me think that the "official" leak isn't so official. rather an almost final official build.
It's AN official build, but we won't know if it's THE official build until things start rolling out OTA.
Even if it is the official build, they tend to go through massive amounts of testing before they become available as final internally, and then the OTA process starts.
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It's AN official build, but we won't know if it's THE official build until things start rolling out OTA.
Even if it is the official build, they tend to go through massive amounts of testing before they become available as final internally, and then the OTA process starts.
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Yeah I am gonna guess that this is not the final version. The thing that I wonder is just how much is gonna change. i didnt have the leak on my phone for long, but it was really good. The radios I have had on since they were ripped individually and they are really good (disclaimer: my radios were good before now the signal is stronger)
Verizon and Samsung are probably doing extensive testing on the build because they don't want to pull a fascinate again. It cost Samsung millions.
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It's AN official build, but we won't know if it's THE official build until things start rolling out OTA.
Even if it is the official build, they tend to go through massive amounts of testing before they become available as final internally, and then the OTA process starts.
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^ This.
My guess is that it's being tested. First, it gets Samsung's approval. Next, it gets Verizon's approval. Finally, it's scheduled for OTA and rolled out.
Both Samsung and Verizon are notoriously slow to move these processes along. But, having said that, Verizon does have the most reliable network in the USA and I think some of that has to do with their scheduling of roll-outs.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the latest iPhone 5 rumors are saying that October 4 is launch date. Verizon has to assume a big spike in network traffic as a result. It's very possible that they're holding OTAs until after they see how the network handles a true iPhone boom (since their launch of the iPhone 4 wasn't exactly a boom to the network).
I still think it is before the i5 rollout, but it is looking more and more that my prediction will fall short