Nefser

Just looked for the nth time at the Samsung website to see if the software had been updated...and it has.

Downloaded and now installing: New_PC_Studio_1.3.0.IJ1.exe


I purchase my phone from O2 UK, and I can't remember where I saw how to find out the system information, but I have v II4 and I know the CSC version is different than that. I had thought perhaps that could be causing part of the problem of the NPS software not linking properly...until I heard loads of other people having the same problem.

Now (as the web site says to back up your phone) I'm getting nervous about how to ensure it doesn't mess up my phone.

(As it connected, it says i7500 only supports 'Update Device'.) Bah.

Link for software:
http://www.samsungmobile.co.uk/support/softwaremanuals/softwareNpsUpdate.do

Last edited by Nefser; October 14th, 2009 at 05:41 PM. Reason: Added link

kam187

LOL, Samsung wins again :P

Nefser

Thought I'd add current version details:

CSC ver: I750002UII3
Ver: I7500XXII4/I7500XXII4

Update version is the same. Sooooo, they couldn't make the the I5 update available with the IJ1 version of the software?

Hmmm.

Was going to wait until NPS worked to see whether to go down the self-update route. Seems like I might be trying out the compcache version this weekend (assuming it'll be available).

I understand that perhaps Samsung wants to not be on the bleeding edge. Just because the i7500 is a fairly new phone and an early Android one at that, doesn't mean they want to aggressively push to get 1.6 onto it. But regardless, I would expect at least a portion of regular updates (or notifications of what they might deliver and when) to tweak/enhance the performance/battery life and fix bugs.

Last edited by Nefser; October 14th, 2009 at 05:57 PM.

kam187

I5 is only 1 build away from I4 tho. Its probably an O2 thing. The networks in the UK are a bit anal about handset testing.

Rastaman-FB

my contact states that ii4 is the latest o2 accredited version and they have not accredited i5 hence its not available for update

qwerty100

Download the latest NPS (1.3.0.IJ1) , see top post for link.

Install it,
1st time I tried to run it it uninstalled the (v. crap)old version
2nd time I tried to run it it installed OK

Let it run (didnt need a reboot)

Plug phone in -> STILL missing 1 driver, though you dont seem to need this.

Eventually came up with a message saying the only supported feature is upgrade.

Select upgrade, goes away and installs more drivers. Downloads a file (which interestingly seems to get stored in "C:\Documents and Settings\<YourUserNameHere>\Application Data\Samsung\New PC Studio\I7500XXII4-PDA-CL63810-REV5(O2U).tar" (Its also deleted after the process, but I did get a copy after download finished, before the install, its about 120Meg)

Click the update button, Update Icon shows on phone, ran through to 90% quickly, and then stopped, but did carry on, took about 45s in total

Phone reboots, Shows a picture of a box, with an arrow and phone, possibly signifying first install from manufacture type of operation??

Phone reboots again, and then does normal boot but hangs on the "android" logo for a few minutes, and then boots up normally.

and then its updated. It has kept all my apps and data OK.


If you type *#1234# in the Dialer App to get current versions

Before Update
-------------
PDA I7500XXIH6
phone I7500XXIH6
CSC I7500O2UIH2


After Update
------------
PDA I7500XXII4
phone I7500XXII4
CSC I7500O2UII3



Hope this helps, fingers crossed my battery now lasts longer...

Povester

Excellent! I am downloading IJ1 New PC Studio now and will try it on my H6 Galaxy and see what happens. Hoping it works.

pan

Blimey - it actually does work!!

Of course, only time will tell whether there is any improvement, but at least this part of the nightmare is over.

I thought one of the new features to be introduced with this update was the facility to switch on and off Wi-Fi, GPS, 3G and Auto-sync in an easier way than before, but I can't see any difference...

Rastaman-FB

well done, is there any way you can upload that file so i can pull it apart and host it for people who want to flash back to the latest CSC?

pan

There's now an app in the programs menu called 'Switchers' which does this.

Povester

Finally updated from H6 to I4. Had a slight hiccup, the update failed 1st time giving a binary update error. I had to remove battery and basically start again. Worked fine the 2nd time around.

Do you think it's worth performing a factory reset? I recall people who updated through Odin needed a complete reset to avoid problems they had

Rastaman-FB

yes as its pretty much the same method that it uses to update

boomtopper

I originally flashed mine via Odin to II5 without the CSC, and saw that NPS was working. So I decided to flash to the original O2 firmware with Odin so that I could use NPS. This worked fine and I've used NPS to upgrade now. One thing is missing now on the phone. It seems like the virtual keyboard has gone. If I click on a text area the keyboard does not come up and if I go into input methods it does not show anything. Does anyone have any ideas about this?

Rastaman-FB

did you do a factory reset at any point during this
if you hold down the menu key for 3 seconds does it pop up?

Last edited by Rastaman-FB; October 15th, 2009 at 06:25 AM.

boomtopper

When I hold the menu no keyboard appears. But I had not tried a factory reset :P. I'll try it just now

EDIT:
Looks like the keyboard is back with a few new features! Thanks Rastaman-FB

Last edited by boomtopper; October 15th, 2009 at 06:35 AM.

qwerty100

Arrgh, also have the same problem now...... NO KEYBOARD.

Note this seems to be a common bug...

Introducing: Better Keyboard for Android Better Android Apps

I have just fixed it though by doing the following.

1 reboot (didnt seem to help)
2 Settings->Locale & text, selected Samsung Keyboard (guessing this may be the KEY step here)
3 Didnt change anything, pressed back
4 Select Locale, Select English(UK)

and it seemed to come back, although now looks quite different from what we had before.....

boomtopper

The new keyboard seems more responsive and has a button to turn T9 on or off. It also lets you choose the language from one of the buttons on the keyboard. The keyboard can also let you select from a list of emoticons, which is very useful. I wonder if the new keyboard is becuase of the CSC branding? As it was not in II5.

Last edited by boomtopper; October 15th, 2009 at 08:51 AM.

Ferox

Where can i get the original o2 firmware? I also updated to II5 without csc using Odin!

boomtopper

Sephail put it up on his site here. Download the IG8 version that has this CSC I7500O2UIG5.

paulobrien

Could someone post a Nandroid backup of the new ROM or even better a copy of the TAR file?

Thanks.

P

Last edited by paulobrien; October 15th, 2009 at 09:47 AM.

Rastaman-FB

dont get it from sephail site, hes asked people to mirror it as it hammers his bandwidth

you can get it from here as i have tons of bandwidth
Index of /files/i7500/

as soon as someone gets me the ii4 i will upload that aswell

MichaelW

Is the CSC (cache.img) file the same across different rom versions? I.E. can I take the cache.img out of that IG5 file and copy it into the II5 one?

KlaymenDK

Yeah, it's rather nice. What surprises me is that Samsung has somehow succeeded in toggling the GPS state without going into the Settings! I do hope this means that other togglers can also (soon) do this...

Do you mean to say that the T9 dictionary is not bound to the language of the OS? I would love to have a native dictionary while keeping menus and such in English!

__________________

Last edited by KlaymenDK; October 15th, 2009 at 10:58 AM.

boomtopper

Well I just had a look at it. And changed the language into german. The dictionary then instead offered up words that where german to what I was typing. Exited out of that and the rest of the android system was still in english.

danimar

I would love to have that keyboard with the T9 button to switch languages, is it part of the O2 branding? or could it be extracted as an apk?

Rastaman-FB

that wont work im afraid

Bomberman

Already on I4 - should I expect NPS to not see my phone still? It sees the storage as 'Android' now which is new, but still no phone

Edit; Ignore me, borked install/uninstall. Had at least 3 instances of everything Works as expected, returns correct numbers

Last edited by Bomberman; October 15th, 2009 at 02:57 PM.

john_o

brilliant another O2 UK H6 user upgraded to I4
of note my keyboard only started to show after Id been into Gmail.
all other 'fixes' going into locale settings etc didnt work for me.
thanks for the heads up.

roll on donut

chistery

Downgraded to IG8 but still couldn't update in NPS? Any other o2 users managed it?

Clandes

One question for those who have upgraded with IJ1 and you have no more updates...

Which is the message that NPS says when you have no updates?

The reason I'm asking this is cause I'm from Spain (and my 7500 too) and the older NPS version always said "device not supported" but this new version says something diferent but similar.

IJ1 in english language says me something like "this device is not supported. No updates are supported." but in spanish it says something like "not supported. No more updates available."

I want to know if my spanish phone is still "not supported" or it "means no updates available".

So... what's your message? thanks

Note: I don't know what is samsung doing but in samsungmobile.es IJ1 does not appear and NPS didn't detect the update. I installed from an exe and everithing went fine. My phone came with H2 and has FOP CSC

Last edited by Clandes; October 15th, 2009 at 06:33 PM.

pergentino

When I install the NPC in my Win7 x64, the instalation shows that was problems with driver.

Anyone in here had that problem ?

sephail

Okay, please mirror this:

http://sephail.net/projects/samsung-i7500/firmware/I7500XXII4-PDA-CL63810-REV5(O2U).tar

kam187

Yeah you'll get a load of errors. Just click past them. Turn usb debugging on and plug the phone in. You'll need to point it to c:\program files\samsung\nps\usb drivers and it should find the drivers.

NPS update will work on win 7 (it did for me on win7 with the very first NPS and FF -> G8).

kam187

Also check my post here to see what drivers you should see in device manager:

i knew the nps was bad, but wtf

You may need to do the last step where you look for the storage device and change it to composite device.

wallace3d

Some info that might interest people,

I just got my Samsung i7500 Galaxy phone from O2 UK online 2 weeks ago (Fri 2nd Oct)
and after reading this thread this morning I checked my firmware and it seems my phone shipped with this new firmware already installed.

PDA:I7500XXII4
Phone:I7500XXII4
CSC:I7500O2UII3

I already had the switchers app when I got the phone but didn't think of checking my firmware until this morning when I read through this thread.

I haven't tried the Samsung software that came with my phone yet, I've just copied my stuff straight to the sd memory using windows explorer.

Thom

I also just bought a Galaxy from O2. i also have:

PDA:I7500XXII4
Phone:I7500XXII4
CSC:I7500O2UII3

is this one of the versions that has the problems with battery life and the keyboard lock? if so, i'd like to upgrade before i put anything on the phone. problem is, there are so many versions, how do u know which versions contain what? here is one list i saw:
CSC Firmware
I7500BOGIG8 I7500XXIG8
I7500ITVIH2 I7500XXIH7
I7500MSRIG6 I7500XXIG8
I7500O2UIG5 I7500XXIG8
I7500O2UII3 I7500XXII4
I7500TWOIG6 I7500XXIG8
I7500VIAIH4 I7500XXIH8
I7500VIAII5 I7500XXII5

should everyone who bought from o2 select the 4th or 5th item above since it has "O2U" in the CSC name? what is the significance of "G", "H", or "I" in the next to last byte? does the first item, with both names ending in "8", contain more fixes than the others?

Thanks!

Rastaman-FB

ill put this up now

Rastaman-FB

there is not much difference between ii4 and ii5 other than the keyboard afaik
getting hold if ii4 was important as if for any reason any of us wanted to give the device back or had a problem we could flash it back to the o2 uk csc version and they would be none the wiser. it also means if we want to get future updates we can flash from our custom roms back to the csc and well be able to receive the latest o2 uk csc via nps.
II5 is the latest one doing the rounds and it has the same lock button wierdness that ii4, h6, g8 had. the only ones that had the lock sorted was h7 and h8 which are bot ok with battery but not as efficient as the i4 and i5 it seems.

if i were you i would stay on the CSC and if you want improvements get odin and get on the new compcache galaxo/galaxhero rom as its amazing

Last edited by Rastaman-FB; October 16th, 2009 at 07:02 AM.

Rastaman-FB

this has now been uploaded to
Index of /files/i7500/

well done sephail for your hard work

kam187

I7500BOGIG8 I7500XXIG8

BOG - region
BOG - Bogues telecom, france
ITV - Italy
MSR - Malaysia?
O2U - O2, uk
TWO - Not sure
VIA - O2, Germany

G - Month of build, A= january, B = Feburary and so on. So I=September
8 - is the build number.

And a special build date of FF is used for the very first firmware released on the galaxy.

rosmond

Thanks qwerty100, worked for me

Last edited by rosmond; October 16th, 2009 at 03:48 PM.

gravity

I'm so pleased that Samsung have finally sorted this out. I've just upgraded, no problems, slight shame you have to do a factory reset to get it to complete, but hey, small price to pay.

rosmond

I didn't do a factory reset and all seems to be OK, or have I missed something.

mikew22

Is anyone else still having problems, or am I just doing something daft!!

Im am o2 UK user, phone is running H6 version which Ive not changed at any point.

I can download and install the new NPS fine, version number matches with this thread.... but then I still have no options to upgrade.
Phone is still not recognised when I go through the update icon, on the "communicator" page.

What am I missing?? Where should i be looking to upgrade??

Thanks

T1m0thy

It worked! Glad Samsung finally sorted that out!

Has anyone else noticed that if you long press the Abc button on the new keyboard you can change the input method to a 12 keypad. Was that there before the update? If it was i never noticed it and have been using other keyboard apps just for that feature lol.

jwk

Can anyone upload the NPS file anywhere ? Im trying to download it from the above link but it's been at it for 3 hours now and i've only got 5mb.

Maybe samsung are cutting costs again and implemented the 28.8 modems in case too many people want their phones to work properly.

*sheesh*

Anyway, thanks if you can, np if not.

cheers

Meh

You need to make sure usb mass storage only is unselected.

Go......

-Settings
-About phone
-Additional settings

Uncheck Mass storage only.

Then try again and it should let you update.

mikew22

Thanks for that

Meh

No worries, the setting is in a dumb place in the menus, dunno why they didn't put it in the sd card/phone storage settings section. Good luck with updating, mine went smoothly enough and the unlock is way better. Shall wait and see ref battery life but mine has been fine since ditching the case the phone came with anyway

rosmond

New_PC_Studio_1.3.0.IJ1
New_PC_Studio_1.3.0.IJ1.exe

This is the version I used and it worked OK.