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Samsung Captivate Android OS 2.2 Upgrade Released Then Quickly Pulled
By Ed Hardy, Brighthand.com Editor | 2/17/2011
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The long-awaited upgrade to Android OS 2.2 (Froyo) for AT&T's Samsung Captivate was released today... only to be quickly withdrawn.
Currently, it's not clear if this system software upgrade was released by mistake, or if a bug was found in it almost immediately.
This is just another blow to users of the Captivate, which was released last summer with Android OS 2.1, even though the latest version of Google's mobile operating system at that time was already OS 2.2.
Although Samsung has committed to releasing an upgrade for this model, and at one point said this would be available by the end of November, users of this smartphone are still waiting.
Since then, Google has introduced Android OS 2.3, which is currently available only on the Samsung Nexus S.
New in Android OS 2.2 (Froyo)
Android OS 2.2 is required for devices to run Adobe Flash Player 10.1, which allows the web browser to fully make use of websites that use Flash for navigation, games, and showing video.
This version of Google's operating system also contains a number of other enhancements, such as faster performance thanks to a new JIT compiler and the ability to store applications on a removable memory card.
In addition, Samsung has promised that this system software upgrade will include a fix for a bug that sometimes causes these smartphones to be unable to get a GPS lock.
source: brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=17530&news=Samsung+Captivate+Google+Android+OS+2.2+Froyo+Upgrade
Also, see:
gizmocrunch.com/android/5414-samsung-captivate-froyo-update
This news is days old and there have been at least 5 threads about this already...mods please close this.
/flameon
something pretty significant has happened (release of froyo source for both epic and vibrant). Both were released pretty quietly and have started seeing some reports of the epics push starting the 21st.
I don't think it will be long before we see the source released for the captivate.
Its kind of weird for me personally...
Do I really care about the official Froyo 2.2? Not really...
Do I want AT&T/Samsung to release it? If they promised it, they should...
I only want to see it release to know that a major company kept their word. Plus, if it helps the devs here release other ROMs based on a true US Cappy build, then I'm all for it.
I'd like to see it released, but I'm not so sure that I'll be rushing back to stock so I can update to it.
And the story is wrong. Froyo was never released... no one downloaded it.
The only thing that was released was some instructional pages.
Posting a story that is wrong is even worse then posting rumors.
This is rather an interesting topic/thought. Right now they are at 2.3 gingerbread for Android on the phones, and ice cream sandwich 2.4 is in the works. Soon after that there will be 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, etc... but.. what happens when they finally hit 3.0? Because 3.0 is honeycomb and is designed specifically for tablets only. I would assume it would not be the same 3.0 as the tablets. They would be completely different releases for sure, they would have to be. For sure the Android 3.0 on the phone would have to be named something else, and would share zero in common with the tablet 3.0 release.
Betcha didn't think about that one. Or maybe you already did? Thoughts on this?
That a good point an the 3.0 is not really a firmware cuz phones are first then tablets are a second thought, I think at least, but I hope they become as seemless as ISO like a little easyer to use but **** what would be the fun in it then
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Google has said that the next version of Android will be Gingerbread mixed with Honeycomb and they will include all the key features from 3.0 to our lovely phones
Oh cool. That sounds pretty awesome!
Honeycomb released on tablets is as stated above....for tablets. The reason they developed 3.0 for tablets initiallt is because tablets have more cpu, ram, essentially way more features. 98%of phones dont have all of these features. If they skipped to 3.0 in phones right now98% of phones would be without support. The smaller incrimental updates of phones will support the life cycle of phones. Old phones slowly dying off from no updates rather than large leaps that would leave them without any updates because of older hardware.
3.0 does have provisioning for phones though. Developers have already stated this. And thats how they are already porting it to some phones
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I've read that 2.4 or Ice Cream Sandwich will attempt to merge 2.3 and 3.0 into phone form and then they'll go from there.
That's what I've heard before as well. But actually I meant what happens in the distant future when they reach the number 3.0 on the phones. Eventually after every new official build of Android, the version number for phones will have to cross into the 3.0 area, but that is already called honeycomb, and is for tablets only. The question is... what the heck are they going to call it or do about it when this happens. This won't happen for a long time though as 2.4 isn't even out yet. You see what I'm saying right? We are waiting for Android 2.4 ice cream sandwich to come out on our phones sometime soon, then we will be waiting for 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, then 3.0. It's kind of confusing to explain I know this, but its an excellent topic. If that doesn't make sense I will have to try harder I suppose.
They'll probably reserve evens (2.x, 4.x) for phones and odds (3.x, 5.x) for tablets. After everything settles down maybe a year from now and they're looking for the next overly huge release they'll probably switch phones from 2 to 4 and tablets from 3 to 5 at roughly the same time.
All speculation. It's what I would do at least.
Who says Ice Cream will be 2.4? I've read 2.4 will be Gingerbread just how 2.0 and 2.1 were both Eclair.
Plus they jumped straight from 1.6 to 2.0
I bet Ice Cream is 3.1 or 3.5 or something.
They probably won't continue with 2 different versions of Android and just release one version that scales the layout depending on screen size/resolution.
They want to be standard, as much as they can ... so yes.. it would make "sense" to have one OS and scale it for all platforms, however all platforms would have to be of similar high spec .
But look at windows 7 , there are 6 versions of it... all with bits taken out, all with bits added.
You can go from Windows 7 starter up to Ultimate / Enterprise the server 2008 ..all have the same " shell " , and this is what I think Google is wants.. a common shell / look .
Its just a version number...
All software is version-ed. For instance, Android OS for smart phones is version-ed as 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 etc. Generally for any software, a major release will have a version change like 1.5 to 2.0. And, any subsequent minor revisions will have version changes such as 2.2 to 2.3.
Android for tablets is version-ed 3.0. But, I think it doesn't necessarily have to mean that Android OS for phones will culminate into the Android OS for tablets over a few revisions.
For all we know, Android OS for smart phones could be version-ed 2.3,2.4...2.9,2.10,2.11... Only Google knows
Software Versioning & Android OS
First a couple info tidbits:
@MWC2011 Keynote info provided:
A. Gingerbread & Honeycomb to be combined into "I" release.
B. Fragments UI likely incorporated into "I" along with prior release compatibility
C. Six-Month Release Cycle to commence with "I"
As for the versioning of G-A OS.....
It has typically followed the external scheme
Major.Minor.Revision
If you, as a SW Dev Corp, follow typical software versioning practices then combining the 2.x and 3.x could be considered Major warranting the next numbering sequence 4.x
If, however, you are not actually adding new functionality nor testing the version at the production level (new major version) then you usually use Minor and might use, for example, 3.1 (presuming the H release at 3.0).
Of course Software Versioning is arbitrary in that there are no hard and fast rules exactly defining what a SW Dev Company "must" follow regarding versioning.
They could also use the "dot 5" schema sometimes used when it isn't quite considered a totally new production level version. MS did this with NT 3.5; more or less.
I wouldn"t lay odds either way except maybe to say I would expect the 2.x versioning sequence to end at the "I" release.
My "guess" going forward would be:
J-Jelly Bean as Android 4.0 instead of "I" [Hopefully utilizing full multitasking along with SMP advancement....an engineer can dream] which would likely mean just two 3.x releases...H and I
JMHO
joeyklatzko said:
Who says Ice Cream will be 2.4? I've read 2.4 will be Gingerbread just how 2.0 and 2.1 were both Eclair.
Plus they jumped straight from 1.6 to 2.0
I bet Ice Cream is 3.1 or 3.5 or something.
They probably won't continue with 2 different versions of Android and just release one version that scales the layout depending on screen size/resolution.
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Good point. I remember when they decided that 2.0/2.1 Eclair will not have a name change, so that is very possible what you are saying because it's been done before in this situation. That's a valid point.
Everyone is saying that Google will want to release one version of Android for both phone and tablet. I thought about that, but wasn't so sure. But, now it seems like the best choice by far when you think about it and have lots of good valid points from others. I'm on you guys side for sure! Good stuff, good stuff.
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hi! i am new here!
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Hey! Welcome.
http://t.co/BYWw0A2j
See list at link above.
Thunderbolt not listed! Lets hope the dev team shows up HTC yet again.
I'm not surprised, considering we *just* officially got Gingerbread. I'm sure ICS roms will pop up within days of its release though.
It will be interesting to see what they do with Sense on top of ICS though.
even if it was listed for early 2012, we'd never get it before 2013 anyway
meh...who cares.
The Devs are 100 steps ahead of OEM anyways...
Most of us probably ran GB within a month of owning the phone IF you got it at release...and now OEM just put it out.
I'm sure ICS from OEM will be bloated anywho, I'd rather have a fit and trim ROM.
yeah who gives a crap about OEM anything anyway. it's all about what the devs give us.
even if i/we move up to the rezound or whatever, we're just going to root it a.s.a.p. and load the first ics rom we get a hold of.
if you're even concerned about getting an OEM anything then what are you doing on XDA.
I don't understand why people complain about their gingerbread upgrades and such. My CDMA Desire was released on US Cell in August 2010. We didn't get Froyo until Feb 2011. We still don't have the Froyo kernel source so there are no unofficial gingersense ports.
The GSM Desire was released in March 2010, got Froyo over the summer of 2010 and got gingerbread earlier this year. Talk about unfair.
The CDMA one was released 5 months later and got support for it dropped about 6 months after release.
This is why I am switching to verizon for the Rezound.
con247 said:
I don't understand why people complain about their gingerbread upgrades and such. My CDMA Desire was released on US Cell in August 2010. We didn't get Froyo until Feb 2011. We still don't have the Froyo kernel source so there are no unofficial gingersense ports.
The GSM Desire was released in March 2010, got Froyo over the summer of 2010 and got gingerbread earlier this year. Talk about unfair.
The CDMA one was released 5 months later and got support for it dropped about 6 months after release.
This is why I am switching to verizon for the Rezound.
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I think it's mainly because it was a "flagship" phone and was promised to be getting GB from launch but it took roughly half of a year, and was buggy upon its first release, while other phones had received GB already. That, plus people like to complain ... it's also kind of the nature of the smartphone biz, there's a shiny new one coming out every few weeks, so it makes things appear to get outdated more quickly.
yeah I saw this earlier today and got a little discouraged but then I realized that once ICS gets released, there will be much better ROMS than HTC's stock one
This shows just how much we NEED the devs!
Yeah I prolly wouldn't run an official ICS for my bolt now that I am rooted, so far all the roms I have ran (3 now) have been better than stock, but I am lucky person for what I have seen and not had any issues with my phone even stock.
I'm running the rooted, debloated stock rom and it works just fine. Most htc widgets/ apps are either frozen or uninstalled and MS 3D is on top. Also using Imoysen's kernel. I find that it runs about as fast as any of the custom ROMs I've played with without having the custom aosp rom problems of no gps and no nfl app.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/android-building/T4XZJCZnqF8/WkWhGUYb4MAJ
Hi! We just released a bit of code we thought this group might be interested in.
Over at our Android Open-Source Project git servers, the source code
for Android version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is now available.
Here's how to get it:Follow the instructions at
http://source.android.com/source/downloading.htmlCheck out the
'ics-release' branch:repo init -u
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-4.0.1_r1
That's it! However since this is a large push, please be aware that it
will take some time to complete. If you sync before it's done, you'll
get an incomplete copy that you won't be able to use, so please wait
for us to give the all-clear before you sync.
This is actually the source code for version 4.0.1 of Android, which
is the specific version that will ship on the Galaxy Nexus, the first
Android 4.0 device. In the source tree, you will find a device build
target named "full_maguro" that you can use to build a system image
for Galaxy Nexus. Build configurations for other devices will come
later.
Unfortunately we still don't have our Gerrit code review servers back
online. That remains our top priority though, and we hope to have them
back soon.
This release includes the full history of the Android source code
tree, which naturally includes all the source code for the Honeycomb
releases. However, since Honeycomb was a little incomplete, we want
everyone to focus on Ice Cream Sandwich. So, we haven't created any
tags that correspond to the Honeycomb releases (even though the
changes are present in the history.)
JBQ, on behalf of the AOSP team.
--
Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru
Software Engineer, Android Open-Source Project, Google.
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It looks like the HoneyComb source was released also. Will this help any active HoneyComb ROMS?
Getting some real support for the Tegra in the Gtab is all I care. Might as well just skip HoneyComb and go straight to ICS.
I thought I had a much longer wait for this, can't wait for the CyanogenMod 9 builds.
Yes, it will help. I hope that people can post the rest of the ICS posts under this topic because with the release of the Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich source codes noobs are gonna go crazy.
Noob here and yes I am going crazy.
Woooooo!!!!
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HwyXingFrog said:
Getting some real support for the Tegra in the Gtab is all I care. Might as well just skip HoneyComb and go straight to ICS.
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Ditto on that. Honeycomb really is (was) the Vista of Android.
well
I hope we get a smooth running build of one of the two. I am currently running Vegantab and its pretty smooth but it might freeze here and there or hang on the browser, etc.. Its still my daily runner.... So again, I simplty hope we get a very stable ROM egardless of which. Plus, as HWYxingfrog said, some actual tegra support would be great...
Woot
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ICS source released. Will gtab be getting it?
I hope so and will support the devs who are!
please keep topics like this in this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1346829
It will help....but keep in mind that there are still no hardware drivers/kernel for the Gtablet beyond Froyo (OS 2.2).
The same issues getting Honeycomb running will be present with ICS though more insight in to the OS will be available with the source. Still no Nvidia "Harmony" kernel or drivers though....
Y'all work on this...
I'll be in Skyrim!!!
I would be surprised if Nvidia released anything for the Harmony board. Considering they already have an HC 3.2 image for Ventana, my guess is this is were all their efforts will go. Afraid we will be stuck with ported versions with no supported drivers.
what happened with the .36 kernel and all the current development for gtab?? are the devs going to have to start all over? why no update for gtabcomb? it ne'er came out of beta? hmmmm...why develop for transformer and galaxy tab if;they already have stable version of os?
jedibbq said:
what happened with the .36 kernel and all the current development for gtab?? are the devs going to have to start all over? why no update for gtabcomb? it ne'er came out of beta? hmmmm...why develop for transformer and galaxy tab if;they already have stable version of os?
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It's still being worked on. IF you read my posts in this thread I've posted basically all the recent updates the devs have made with the .36 kernel.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1231577&page=10
jedibbq said:
what happened with the .36 kernel and all the current development for gtab?? are the devs going to have to start all over? why no update for gtabcomb? it ne'er came out of beta? hmmmm...why develop for transformer and galaxy tab if;they already have stable version of os?
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Allow me to disavow this uninformed complaining. Thanks for all the hard work devs.
The HC roms run pretty smoothly for the most part, is the release of the source code going to help the development of ICS roms? I know itll help but I mean will it make it easier then it was trying to get HC on the G-Tab
I remember something about nvidia/vsonic (cant remember which one) saying they wouldnt release something for honeycomb since google didnt release the source code..
So i xpect they at least release driver specs or source this time
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brettdwagner said:
Allow me to disavow this uninformed complaining. Thanks for all the hard work devs.
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not complaining just asking legitimate questions.. supposedly even though google sort of released the code for honeycomb its still up to nvidia to release drivers.without those no working ics rom for gtablet
jedibbq said:
not complaining just asking legitimate questions.. supposedly even though google sort of released the code for honeycomb its still up to nvidia to release drivers.without those no working ics rom for gtablet
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Double question marks "??" and "hmmmmm..." don't typically accompany legitimate questions.
"Why isn't this out of beta? Why are they working on other devices and not mine?"
Has anyone noticed any differences between the OTA ICS updates for the Thunderbolt and Rezound, respectively? I'm just curious because the former received 4.0.4 , while the latter received 4.0.3. I realize the Bolt received the update almost six months after the Rezound but just was curious.
nokiabolt said:
Has anyone noticed any differences between the OTA ICS updates for the Thunderbolt and Rezound, respectively? I'm just curious because the former received 4.0.4 , while the latter received 4.0.3. I realize the Bolt received the update almost six months after the Rezound but just was curious.
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Correct, their update was more equivelant to our much outdated ICS Leak that we saw before we got our official OTA.
The leak was also 4.0.3
The main differences can be found here: LINK
As follows:
4.0.3 16 December 2011
Numerous bug fixes and optimizations
Improvements to graphics, databases, spell-checking and Bluetooth functionality
New APIs for developers, including a social stream API in the Contacts provider
Calendar provider enhancements
New camera apps enhancing video stabilization and QVGA resolution
Accessibility refinements such as improved content access for screen readers
Changes between the two revisions of Android below...
4.0.4 29 March 2012
Stability improvements
Better camera performance
Smoother screen rotation
Improved phone number recognition
Oh yeah I knew about that, just was curious if there was much changed by HTC with Sense from 4.0.3 RZ to 4.0.4 TB.
Thanks for your help, Santod. I need to update my friend's bolt to the new ota debloated.
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