acoole

How do you flash to Android 2.1 on a T-Mobile Samsung I5700.

iKelvinn

Your device only can be flashed if you're sim is unlocked.
if it is follow this tutorial; Sameer Prabhakar - Mad Ramblings: Samsung I5700 (Galaxy SPICA) Android 2.1 Flashing Guide (Updated)

acoole

I don't want to pay to take off my sim lock but I want 2.1, if I attempt to flash the firmware while I have a sim lock on, will it brick?

iKelvinn

I don't think it will even work, but no I don't think it will brick.
But in the guide says clearly it needs sim unlocked.. so yeah..

acoole

The guide is wrong, it worked fine, however I've downgraded back to a newer version of 1.5. The 2.1 beta seemed horribly laggy and slow. So I'm going to wait it out for the 2.1. I DO NOT recommend upgrading seriously, it's a nice preview of 2.1 but I believe it's a long way from finished, it's extremly slow, 1.5 is nice and smooth whilst 2.1 is as slowwer than a cheap touchscreen phone.

iKelvinn

I already upgrades mine i didnt notice any different between 2.1 bera and 1.5 it can be slow because of the samsung home (pantheon) but i already rooted it and replaced with the standard android home

acoole

Even then, it's still not perfect and since I use my phone heavily I really want a more stable base. I was hoping it would be the actual OS just released early but by the looks of it it's not quite finished.

Gurdeep.Singh.Mander

I totally agree with you on that! Its far from a finished product. I, at first, was very keen to flash my device to i570EDDJB2, but couldn't seem to do that for some reason. Now, when I've finally managed to do it, I immediately removed it from my device and reverted back to i5700XEIL5 (i5700DDIK2 - original). Following are "few things" those I found wrong atleast with i570EDDJB2:

-- Home screens lag horribly, while we swipe.
-- Free memory, at fresh install, remains 40-50MB even after task-killing (70-80MB with v1.5)
-- Very small-size handle for pull-up menu. Thumb doesn't land easily!
-- The UI that samsung designed from Camera App look ugly (sorry sam!) and custom looks are not native to Android at all. (I don't know if it's possible either.)
-- I experienced some color-banding particularly with android widgets. Don't know if it's specific to i5700 display only.

I totally missed out butter-smooth transitions of my good 'ol cupcake, could not miss it out for more, and dropped back to v1.5 finally

I believe it would be much better if samsung enable v2.1 to run on i5700 only functionality-wise, and leave-alone the UI part atleast. We don't want v2.1 struggling along custom-UIs all the time, which are good for nothing. i5700 is not a power-house. Its only +128MB of RAM and Plain Vanilla is what we expect.

iKelvinn

It is because the home screen from samsung (Pantheon) it sucks and eats memory thats why we should use the normal home from android 2.1

The camera app design is the one from android lol. samsung didnt make it.

Last edited by iKelvinn; March 2nd, 2010 at 01:48 PM.

Gurdeep.Singh.Mander

Thats what m saying lol!

Thats from samsung. Samsung made that design, and to confirm that see other models from samsung. Those all have a similar design, no matter whether they r symbians, java, or whatever! Take S5230 (java phone) for an example.

Get your facts straight!

Last edited by Gurdeep.Singh.Mander; March 3rd, 2010 at 01:12 AM.

finalmoksha

I am currently using a modded ROM from forum.samdroid.net. It is simply awesome. No Pantheon, Live wallpapers, wysies phone.apk and contacts.apk and great animations. You guys might want to try it out if you dont mind using the google translate service .

skyline21

did you install lkmod on a t-mobile phone uk ?
thanks

finalmoksha

No, I have an unlocked Spica.

skyline21

do you know how to backup my current rom?
as i would like to try the v2.1 rom

Gurdeep.Singh.Mander

one more eclair ROM (I5700XXJBA ) published by samsung-firmware

iKelvinn

to backup your data you need to have root access


That one was bugged I believe..

Last edited by iKelvinn; March 4th, 2010 at 08:30 AM.

acoole

Your right, I believe that is the bugged one.

And skyline, I didn't backup my T-Mobile 1.5 firmware so I'm now on a some other 1.5 firmware, I'd reccomend you back your 1.5 up so you don't lose any features, and if you do manage to back it up, could you please upload it and send me a link, as I'd love to have my old 1.5 back

skyline21

does anybody know how to backup your firmware a this is all that is stopping me trying the update

i have found some instructions but i dont know if they work
using a terminal or adb shell
dd if=/dev/bml5 of=/sdcard/factory.rfs
dd if=/dev/bml4 of=/sdcard/zimage


is this correct????? are these all i need to backup

Gurdeep.Singh.Mander

Hi all,

Just flashed to the latest I570EXXJC3. For the record, the files those I got out of the package were not as friendly as we used to use with other ROMs. So, quickly figured it out that this is a single package and we need to check "One Package" checkbox from Odin to continue flash. Flash was like a charm and interestingly the performance is way much faster from the previous leaked ROM. Still exploring...

Update :
-- No Setup wizard at startup.
-- Cam-app has 'auto focus' ON; by default this time.
-- 'Spare Parts' app missing
-- (now posting from i5700); No separate keyboard other than a android one.
-- About phone >> Firmware version lists '2.1-update1', Baseband Version lists 'i5700XEIL5'

Last edited by Gurdeep.Singh.Mander; March 6th, 2010 at 01:40 PM.

acoole

Cool! Any chance you could tell me whether or not the scrolling between the home screens is smoother now? As I'm hoping it will be the same speed as 1.5 soon or at least by the official release.

Gurdeep.Singh.Mander

This is what I was more concerned about. Luckily, this time the swipe experience is way too cool. Home screens scroll fast (just slightly slower than v1.5, ya slightly!), menu transitions are fast, overall everything good! Definitely, this is not a ROM you use for a week and then fall back to v1.5. There's still room for few if not many improvements, for a day-to-day use, this ROM is the best out there I would say.

acoole

You couldn't post a youtube video or somthing of you just generally using the phone(and the awesome sliding experience!) because I don't want to flash again until everythings great and It'd really help me decide

Thanks,
Andrew

Gurdeep.Singh.Mander

@Andrew

Ya sure! But m afraid the quality would be not that good. I do not have an proper equipment. I tried and end up having blurry video

iKelvinn

Reason why you should switch to 2.1:

Blue tooth file transfer
No lag at typing on the keyboard
More applications
New version of Google Maps
Easier to get root; Sameer Prabhakar - Mad Ramblings: Rooting & other goodies on the Samsung Galaxy SPICA I5700 (2.1 Firmware) - Updated
Live Wallpapers
The sexy lock screen
and much more lol

Last edited by iKelvinn; March 8th, 2010 at 04:30 AM.

allanmk

Hi' I just flashed to I570EXXJC3 from i570EDDJB2 and when i check my firmware version (*#1234#) the phone says:
PDA: I570EXXJC3
PHONE: I570EDDJB2


It seems to be working as it should but how do I upgrade the PHONE to I570EXXJC3 as well? Have I forgot to an option "check" in odin? I of course chose the "One Package" option and used the new spica ops.

acoole

Gurdeep, I don't mind about the quality, as long as it's 24 frames per second I should be able to recognize the speed.

Thanks

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