I'm seriously thinking of buying the 5" version of the media player BUT I noticed it comes with FROYO?? Has there been any official upgrade OR some kind of stable ROM for it? A simple response and maybe a point in the right direction for the ROM would be AWESOME and much appreciated. THANKS!
I just bought one (USA) and it came with gingerbread.
ambrice said:
I just bought one (USA) and it came with gingerbread.
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Thanks a ton!
HemiDroid03 said:
I'm seriously thinking of buying the 5" version of the media player BUT I noticed it comes with FROYO?? Has there been any official upgrade OR some kind of stable ROM for it? A simple response and maybe a point in the right direction for the ROM would be AWESOME and much appreciated. THANKS!
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I don't know where you got that information, but the US 5.0 has Gingerbread, and there is a custom ROM as well in the development section of this forum.
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dunca123 said:
I don't know where you got that information, but the US 5.0 has Gingerbread, and there is a custom ROM as well in the development section of this forum.
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No the international/Europe version came with Froyo 2.2 as did mine when i brought it (Uk) but there is now a official update for Gingerbread by Samsung for this device
the USA version came shipped with Gingerbread from day one
I need advice about which galaxy player to buy? The 4.0 looks nice, but maybe I should wait for the 4.2, or get a 5.0? I'm confused.
Either 4.2 will come ready with gingebread but hasnt got much hardware improvements so theyre equal.
Do you think the 4.2 will get ice cream sandwich?
Whowantstobeme? said:
Do you think the 4.2 will get ice cream sandwich?
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Yes, if you read the other (new) thread about the 4.2 device, you can see that it will be launched with android 2.3
I got the 5.0 because I already have a 4.3" phone.
The 4.0 has a better sound chipset and replacable battery. The 5.0 has a bigger screen and seems to have slightly more developer attention.
Rueben_ said:
No the international/Europe version came with Froyo 2.2 as did mine when i brought it (Uk) but there is now a official update for Gingerbread by Samsung for this device
the USA version came shipped with Gingerbread from day one
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Is this through kies as I pluged mine in today to check and it tells me I am still on the newest version which is 2.2.2 asked Samsung UK about gb and they said they have no information as to when it will be available for it. Mine is the 5.0
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Take this with a pinch of salt as it's far from official but:
Gaurav Hasabnis, an industry analyst and contributing editor of Fonearena.com posted on Twitter: “Something gonna come in Jan 2012. #sgs2 users gonna rejoice!”, followed by a second tweet: “Soon Mali400 gonna be in full use.”
The mentioned Mali 400 is the name of the GPU on the Samsung Galaxy S II. Rumors states Ice Cream Sandwich will utilize the the full potential of high-end smartphones better than previous Android OS, which leads us to believe that the ICS will be making its way to the Galaxy S2.
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hell yeah .. now this is what i call awesome news
Hurray...I said January last week....
Hope this is true.. SGS2 will rock the smart phone business more!!!
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Thank you for the heads up. Hope GS2 will not take a long time to upgrade like the Samsung did for Galaxy S.
seems to match up with this
http://www.lifeofandroid.com/news_detail/ice-cream-sandwich-to-debut-on-android-handsets-in-weeks/
The worldwide release of Android 4.0 will begin in time for Christmas with Google’s Nexus S smartphone meaning the new OS should be broadly available for all compatible handsets by early 2012.
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Hope this is true and not a rumors........waiting
They hvn't even released the 2.3.4 update in India.Jan 2012 s too early a date for us i guess .
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If they won't release it officially, I'm sure we'll get a custom rom with 4.0 running as soon as the Galaxy Nexus is launched But good news, anyway!
Just think. If it's January 'officially,' then it could be December (or earlier) for us!
That's a great news. Though I think we'll get ICS unofficially before that. Anyone?
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Why do I all of sudden get the feeling we're not far away from getting ICS onto our beloved S2s....
(can't wait)
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Why do I all of sudden get the feeling we're not far away from getting ICS onto our beloved S2s....
(can't wait)
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hehehe i think so so, come on Intratech lets be having it mate
Wow this is great news. Now android is a step closer to WP7 and iOS in handling resources. +1 HW acceleration
Even if we are not getting the official update, i am sure xda developers will cook one for us.
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Wow - official in 3 months? Testing should be out soon - shouldn't it? =p
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They hvn't even released the 2.3.4 update in India.Jan 2012 s too early a date for us i guess .
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Didn't Samsung drop development of 2.3.4 as they started 2.3.5
I still haven't got any official updates from 2.3.3 on a SIM free handset here in the UK.
Samsung UK have also tweeted that there is no time frame for getting ICS on the SGSII (read in to that what you want)
Think custom roms will be the only way forwards on ICS for some time.
Well that announcement is about Official release, NOT unofficial one. 70% users use Official ROM and like them, existing use this and that. Without a Stock ROM there won't be any Custom ROMs? Would there be?
Count me in those 70%.
We'll sure have some custom rom runnig ICS before the official one but I wonder what they'll do about touchwizz...
Looking forward to it
I know this might be old news, but this came out today. A leak to the ICS 4.0 for AT&T GS Note.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500186
Nice for them but IIRC we can't run Gnote roms. Although, this does mean that a version for our device MUST be on the horizon.
It's got the exynos processor, right?
I thought the English version processor was changed to ours?
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I thought the English version processor was changed to ours?
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Yes, it does have Snapdragon.
Im pretty sure that is the leak for the Chinese version of the phone, which is not compatible with the European version. And that has the 1.4 gHz Exynos
i don't understand how there are so many roms leaked for ATT version of s2 and now there is a rom leaked for Note which just got released in US. Why not for t-mobile s2?
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i don't understand how there are so many roms leaked for ATT version of s2 and now there is a rom leaked for Note which just got released in US. Why not for t-mobile s2?
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Ics rom that was leaked? It was for international version not att version
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i don't understand how there are so many roms leaked for ATT version of s2 and now there is a rom leaked for Note which just got released in US. Why not for t-mobile s2?
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All signs point to Samsung not having worked on this device until the finished the international S2.
This is for inter version. On another note xboarder gave his ics rom preview to skyrocket forum and I must say after flashing it I can't wait. Even tho alot of things aren't working it is just beautiful and fast. Link is in our general section. Also works on our device.
You didn't bother to watch the video at the bottom of the first post...did you?
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Please post all relevant information to the us note in the AT&T note section please!
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I know this might be old news, but this came out today. A leak to the ICS 4.0 for AT&T GS Note.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500186
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Where did it say it is for AT&T Note? If past history told us anything, AT&T ROMs have different button layouts than internation version. Not to mention the radio chips and CPU/GPU are completely different.
First post is misleading.. and the att sgsii doesn't have any ics leaks.
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OP is clueless to say the least. This thread should have been closed instead of moved.
I am a little new on this whole development stuff, but I was curious if cyanogenmod 9 will be available to the 4.0 galaxy player. I have researched ice cream sandwich and it does indeed, look very interesting and it looks like it has some very nice features. If someone could give me a answer, that would be great I have a completely stock US version Galaxy Player 4.0. I know it would require root, and I am willing to if i need to.
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I am a little new on this whole development stuff, but I was curious if cyanogenmod 9 will be available to the 4.0 galaxy player. I have researched ice cream sandwich and it does indeed, look very interesting and it looks like it has some very nice features. If someone could give me a answer, that would be great I have a completely stock US version Galaxy Player 4.0. I know it would require root, and I am willing to if i need to.
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It's not currently available, but tdmcode is working on it.
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It's not currently available, but tdmcode is working on it.
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Thanks, but i just tried to flash steves kernal using ODIN, and im pretty sure i accidently opened the TAR using notepad instead of 7zip. Now all i see is a hazard symbol with a phone and computer on either side? What does this mean?
Thanks.
I got the Galaxy player 4.0 yesterday and it got rooted using this toolkit (DooMLoRD's Easy Rooting Toolkit [v4.0]) no problem .
This morning I found out about the 4.2 model so I returned the 4.0 (unrooted smoothly!) and got myself a 4.2.
I just got done trying to root it using the toolkit and it did not work. According to SamSung, the 4.2 runs the same version of Android (2.3.5) as the 4.0 but apparently whatever tweak they got on the 4.2 is preventing it from being rooted using the same method.
Anyone has any idea what I might try next to get it rooted?
Thanks!
this is Q&A not development
moved to general - this isn't development
same problem
hey i am going to get the 4.2 because it looks really nice but when i get it i want to root it right away and get 4.0 fresh on it. I know it just came out 5 days ago but is there no way to get it rooted?
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hey i am going to get the 4.2 because it looks really nice but when i get it i want to root it right away and get 4.0 fresh on it. I know it just came out 5 days ago but is there no way to get it rooted?
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By 4.0 you mean?
android 4.0 ics. i was assuming that there could/would be a rom made with 4.0 on it. either way, can it at least be rooted on 2.3.5?
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android 4.0 ics. i was assuming that there could/would be a rom made with 4.0 on it. either way, can it at least be rooted on 2.3.5?
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Actually it is running 2.3.6 and so far from what I have read, it is much harder to root due to the exploit that was used on the 2.3.5 or earlier has been patched.
I guess we'll just have to wait one of the developers come up with something for this player.
I might just end up returning this player and get an used Galaxy Skyrocket and use that for a media player. It has more storage (16GB), slightly bigger screen (4.5"), better camera and of course LTE when I need to use it as a backup phone.
K I got it now and there is no other page with any information on rooting the4.2 so if a developer sees this could you please start looking into rotting the 4.2
I just talked to a rep from Samsung and she said they have started development on android 4.0 for the 4.2!
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Are you serious?! all i could get out of them is that they have no idea when they were doing anything! thats incredible! yay !!!
But sadly that probably means we won't get it til early nxt year....
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its better than nothing
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I saw that in my country the stores sells sgp with android 3.0,where can i update to 3.0? And if i update to 3.0 my erygit rom will be deleted?
Thanks ahead!
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kfirbep said:
I saw that in my country the stores sells sgp with android 3.0,where can i update to 3.0? And if i update to 3.0 my erygit rom will be deleted?
Thanks ahead!
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Which country is this? I've only ever seen the sgp sold with 2.2 or 2.3. Try updating through kies, and yes flashing a new rom will remove your old one
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Which country is this? I've only ever seen the sgp sold with 2.2 or 2.3. Try updating through kies, and yes flashing a new rom will remove your old one
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The country is israel. And all the players 5.0 4.0 3.6 are being sold now with 3.0 android version
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The country is israel. And all the players 5.0 4.0 3.6 are being sold now with 3.0 android version
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Do you have any specific reason why you want to upgrade to 3.0? There are plenty of 4.0 (ICS) roms in the development section. If you want tablet ui there is a tablet mode rom too.
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Do you have any specific reason why you want to upgrade to 3.0? There are plenty of 4.0 (ICS) roms in the development section. If you want tablet ui there is a tablet mode rom too.
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No there isn't a specific reason just to have newer android version
I saw the roms with ocs but the camera isn't working and the flash in the browser and i use these two a lot!
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Are you sure they're being sold with Android 3.0? Android 3.0 is for tablets, and it specifically wasn't made Open Source by google so that people wouldn't try to bring it to devices under 7" screen size (10" originally).
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Are you sure they're being sold with Android 3.0? Android 3.0 is for tablets, and it specifically wasn't made Open Source by google so that people wouldn't try to bring it to devices under 7" screen size (10" originally).
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+1, the only 3.0 related to these players I can find is BLUETOOTH 3.0. Are you sure the website didn't just use a crappy translator program, or are you sure about the legitimacy of the site/place you saw this?
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Are you sure they're being sold with Android 3.0? Android 3.0 is for tablets, and it specifically wasn't made Open Source by google so that people wouldn't try to bring it to devices under 7" screen size (10" originally).
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+1, the only 3.0 related to these players I can find is BLUETOOTH 3.0. Are you sure the website didn't just use a crappy translator program, or are you sure about the legitimacy of the site/place you saw this?
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Yes I'm sure. The store is BUG so as you can understand the store is reliable.
I didn't saw it over the Internet i got their magazine and saw it.
I took a picture of the magazine most of the details are in hebrew but they wrote android 3.0 in english so you can recognize it
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Are you sure they're being sold with Android 3.0? Android 3.0 is for tablets, and it specifically wasn't made Open Source by google so that people wouldn't try to bring it to devices under 7" screen size (10" originally).
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This is correct. No handset device (and the SGP 5.0 and 4.0 are closer to handsets than tablets) was ever offered with Honeycomb.
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Yes I'm sure. The store is BUG so as you can understand the store is reliable.
I didn't saw it over the Internet i got their magazine and saw it.
I took a picture of the magazine most of the details are in hebrew but they wrote android 3.0 in english so you can recognize it
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No they didn't... Android 3.0 is nowhere in that picture in English.
Bluetooth 3.0 (which has nothing to do with Android 3.0) is.
Entropy512 said:
No they didn't... Android 3.0 is nowhere in that picture in English.
Bluetooth 3.0 (which has nothing to do with Android 3.0) is.
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They wrote android 3.0 in english in the third line.
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kfirbep said:
Yes I'm sure. The store is BUG so as you can understand the store is reliable.
I didn't saw it over the Internet i got their magazine and saw it.
I took a picture of the magazine most of the details are in hebrew but they wrote android 3.0 in english so you can recognize it
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I still think someone screwed up (the guy that wrote that add, most likely), looking at that picture the camera and the UI are identical to the Gingerbread releases, unless you can go to the store and look at a display model and take a pic of the system info showing 3.0 honeycomb, I just can't believe it.
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I still think someone screwed up (the guy that wrote that add, most likely), looking at that picture the camera and the UI are identical to the Gingerbread releases, unless you can go to the store and look at a display model and take a pic of the system info showing 3.0 honeycomb, I just can't believe it.
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Maybe you right...
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Android 3.0 requires a minimum 7" screen size and that was only possible once 3.2 was released, see article below
http://betanews.com/2011/07/27/7-in...honeycomb-thanks-to-new-layout-system-in-3-2/
+1 for the mistake in the ad...
That UI looks GB all the way.
I have devices with HC and, although not an expert, I can tell that what the picture shows is not a HC UI.
Plus I have hardtime believing that Samsung developed a HC build just for the Israel market.
If camera issues are keeping you from upgrading to ICS, you should stay with the Eryigit rom. I have that rom loaded on my other players and it's a good rom.
BTW, if you upgrade to any version of any rom, you will loose your current rom... to answer one of your questions.
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+1 for the mistake in the ad...
That UI looks GB all the way.
I have devices with HC and, although not an expert, I can tell that what the picture shows is not a HC UI.
Plus I have hardtime believing that Samsung developed a HC build just for the Israel market.
If camera issues are keeping you from upgrading to ICS, you should stay with the Eryigit rom. I have that rom loaded on my other players and it's a good rom.
BTW, if you upgrade to any version of any rom, you will loose your current rom... to answer one of your questions.
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Ok thanks man.
I didn't thought it is just for the israeli market i thought almost all the countries has this update.
But it seems to be a mistake
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The screenshot shows a Froyo (Android 2.2) homescreen. When I bought mine it came like that.
MajinZERO said:
The screenshot shows a Froyo (Android 2.2) homescreen. When I bought mine it came like that.
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Could be...What is for sure is that we are not seeing HC... ;-)