pegasus21

Maybe we'll have to ask Fatal1ty who did the custom cooked rom what's causing the market problem.

kam187

Does it work with his rom? Maybe someone who has it working could post they build.prop

If you're sure it works with his rom, i can extract it from there otherwise.

Last edited by kam187; August 29th, 2009 at 11:42 PM.

kam187

Ok so "tmeu/kila_eu/dream/trout:1.5/CRB17/146733:user/ota-rel-keys,release-keys" doesnt work.

Could someone who has it working either send me their build.prop or do:

adb shell getprop > test.txt

And then paste the line [ro.build.fingerprint]:

Please don't post the whole file becsause it contains your serial number and SIM serial number etc!

pegasus21

Did you also see a market-enabler?
market-enabler - Project Hosting on Google Code
Market Enabler - xda-developers
http://androidforums.com/htc-magic/7903-market-enabler.html

http://strazzere.com/blog/?p=255

It doesn't work on the Hero since there wasn't any busybox on it. Since the app uses grep

Last edited by pegasus21; August 30th, 2009 at 03:01 AM.

n8schicht

Hello guys

Can somebody please give me a hint? Odin has detected my phone and I wanted to upgrade my bootloader, but all it does is counting up the minutes (10 minutes now), and the only output I have is

<1> Added!!!
<1> Detected!!!

That's all. It seems like something is preventing Odin from starting. What can I do? Did somebody have the same problem?

EDIT: Never mind. In Download-mode it's working. I was using Recovery-mode instead. All my bad ...

Last edited by n8schicht; August 30th, 2009 at 02:40 PM.

anyfoo

Thanks a lot, kam187, that really sounds great.

But before I try it out I have one concern: I'm not too comfortable in flashing my phone with a firmware that's just out there on the net without any sign of its integrity.

After all, I will enter delicate informations like account passwords into it and send them over the internet, and especially with Linux it wouldn't be too hard to modify the firmware in such a manner that some of it will be intercepted and sent to malevolent third parties.

So, is there any possibility that we could prove the integrity of those files?

Maybe with MD5 or SHA1 sums of the files that we could check against any authoritative source, or at least some Italian users could check them?

Thanks for the great job!

mrbrdo

I noticed a problem with the italian firmware. My APN (for 3g access point) settings are lost, but I can't manually add an APN.
When I go into settings (wireless controls - mobile networks - access point names), press menu and New APN, then it shows "Edit access point" for about half a second in the title and then just returns to menu. So I can't add an access point
What should I do? I also didn't back up my old firwmare (yeah i know, stupid).
EDIT: factory reset fixed my problem

Last edited by mrbrdo; August 30th, 2009 at 05:20 PM.

Erly

Thanks kam187, with your files I could finally do a succesful update. But I noticed that I can't put the home screen in landscape, does this happen to anyone else?

mrbrdo

Erly: this is normal, it was like this for me in older firmware also. also you can't use landscape keyboard on the google widget or menu. i think that's just how it's made

Erly

Thanks for the fast reply mrbrdo. I thought I used the Home screen in landscape mode with FF Firmware but maybe I dreamt it xD I haven't slept very much this week and I'm a little groggy these days.

Last edited by Erly; August 30th, 2009 at 05:51 PM.

kam187

First thing i tried! It doesnt work - to show the missing apps at least. You can install busybox in the normal way since samsung doesnt have it either.

When you do an update from NPS it downloads a tar file which is temporarily stored on your computer. This is the tar file I used to make the above files.

I could SHA1 the tar file, and you could download that, extract its images and compare to the same images you extract from the above files i guess. But there's no real way for you to be sure the tar file itself was legit since we need to rely on a 'internet' user in italy to grab the file for us.

spupuz

in any case the update was fine for me but still have the market with not all the application visible

dreamer81

Just flashed my XXIIF to latest H7.. worked perfectly.
I'm now going to install my apps and stuff again!

photon00

Followed Kam187's instructions and install went sweetly. Seeing improvements instantly. Wifi never really worked before, does now! Speed improvement too. Just hope the battery life gets better. Thanks loads Kam!

gie62001

kam could you help me somehow
i reflashed my galaxy with the all in one file you made and it wiped out data completely and the phone is faster indeed,got all the apps back and H7 firmware and the same boot screen of samsung not Ga!axy or something like that but the problem now is that ive got Ndrive again but now it seem to be either spanish or portugal or even italian version.i went to locale and text made sure i put english but still the same,hmm wat do i do?or should i reflash with some other CSC file? thanx ohh by the way noticed one more thing camera picture quality worsened, i mean more blure and at first thought the lense was dirty but it wasnt but the flash timing is improved indeed but think that something wrong with camera now especially the middle of image geting all blurred
thanx

kam187

Hmm I guess it can't find your locale for some reason. What is NDrive anyway? Try this..

Uninstall NDrive, reboot, setyour locale to the correct language (I guess it is already). Then mount the internal SDCard onto the computer and check if there a NDrive folder on it. If there is delete it (or move it as a backup to your desktop). Then reinstall NDrive.

Most apps store their extra data onto the internal storage, so it may be picking up old settings which conflict with this roms locales.

That's strange. I just tried the camera in low light and I'm seeing something similar. Hopefully they'll fix it. I really wish they update the android camera app, its sooo basic.

Oh and can you put a few new lines/use the enter key in your posts to make paragraphs. It makes them easier to read!

kam187

Missing apps fixed

samsung galaxy apps missing

You'll need to root your phone, and then edit you're build.prop file (its in /system/build.prop)

PS. Hi to the guys at android-hilfe who are following our thread :]

Last edited by kam187; September 1st, 2009 at 02:11 AM.

Andronix

I went from G6 to H7 via Odin and my thoughts are:

- much better battery life, something like 50%
- browsing experience is better because pressing screen to slide doesn't trigger links
- unlocking screen is easier and faster

If you're unable to enter "download mode", make sure you're not connected to PC via USB

Will keep you updated if I find something else...

mrbrdo

Something weird happened to me today... I'm not sure exactly why or when, but my phone book now only goes up to K (including), the rest is not there anymore... So I have all contacts I had before, but only up to the K letter. A contact starting with K is the last entry in the phone book (alphabetically).
Does anyone know what could cause this? Might it be a bug in the firmware (got H7)?

Note: I went to gmail on the PC, and under contacts I have those same contacts (only up to K). Anyone knows why this happened, and how to fix?
I added most the contacts by import from SIM. But I also manually added one starting with P, and it disappeared aswell. Also, I did use APNdroid to disable net access most of the time, and also the sync widget to disable sync most of the time (i did turn it on a couple of times of course).
Basically I want to avoid this in the future, what was the cause?
Also, when importing from SIM, many (i think all) contacts had every phone number entered twice (twice for call and twice for SMS). What the..?

Thanks!

Last edited by mrbrdo; September 1st, 2009 at 09:00 AM.

Andronix

I don't have that problem, but then again I'm not using sync services. I use vCard IO to backup/import all my contacts.

mrbrdo

I think it didn't sync fully to google contacts and something went wrong. I imported from SIM again and synced fully now. However I still have duplicated phone numbers which sucks! Is there any automated way of removing the dupes? I have like 300 contacts...

also, isn't the amoled screen of the galaxy supposed to be great in sunlight? i tried it in the sunlight today and i could see almost nothing, mostly green/black color.. is it possible my brightness sensor doesn't work? or do you have to enable that somewhere?

Last edited by mrbrdo; September 1st, 2009 at 09:31 AM.

spupuz

but i do not won't to root my phone :/

kam187

Then you'll need to wait for google to put the fingerprint on the whitelist

Sauriann

...cant connect my phone to NPS(1.1.0 IB5).
Can I update my firm. ( i have I7500XXIG8 version) and make my phone connected to NPS. I also have problems when i want to use phone like modem (must try 15 times to connect).
Phone is from Telenor Serbia

lazarus101

What are the consequences if I install this H7 firmware? I understood that it will perform a hard reset that's not too bad cause I only have the device from friday so i won't lose too much data.
I bought my Galaxy from Germany on ebay, it has firmware FF I didn't updated it yet because I heard the update from NPS is causing random reboots, the firmware available in the NPS is I7500XXIG8. with the current firmware the only problem is the batterry life, I have to charge it every day. I'm a bit disappointed with this device. One of the reasons for which I've chosen this device instead of an HTC was the battery life who theoretically should be longer 'cause it has a greater battery capacity and the AMOLED screen is said to consume less power, one of my friends has an HTC Magic and his battery lasts for 3-4 days with 3G, background data, google sync, the device also seems to run faster and it was cheaper...
So what do you say? should I install the H7 firmware? will i be able to install future upgrades through NPS? And regarding the battery I've read somewhere that it improves after 5-6 charging cycles, is this true, should I leave the battery to drain before charging it again, or charge it with the device is powered off? Does it matter?

Last edited by lazarus101; September 1st, 2009 at 04:20 PM.

Sauriann

I dont have radom reboots problem with I7500XXIG8, maybe becuase it is my base band version (not updated to)...

dwedel

I've just updated to I7500XXIH7 firmware and it seems a bit quicker, mostly hoping for longer lasting battery as 1-1,5 day is quite annoying on a brand new phone.

And syncing my google mail/contacts took a long long time after applying this patch, even over wireless with 12 mbit available for the Samsung, so have patience :-) (works quick after the initialization though)

But great info, keep up the good work kam187

Last edited by dwedel; September 1st, 2009 at 05:45 PM.

mrbrdo

dwedel: use APNdroid and AutoSync OnOff and Wifi Toggle Widget to disable wifi and 3g (!!! by apndroid it helps A LOT). after that battery life is great! at least for me.. almost two days and i'm still on 90%
of course you can enable it any time from the app when you need it

Andronix

I didn't bother with NPS, it's broken. I used Odin updater to upgrade from G6 to H7 without problems, there is a howto guide somewhere on this forum.

lazarus101

I've updated from FF to H7 and everything seems OK, I'm surprised how fast the update went It now seems to run a bit faster, I hope the battery life will be longer

Later edit:
the battery problem seems to be solved!!! in 4h 30' I only lost 3% of the battery with EDGE connection,
auto sync disabled, and had a 5 minutes call, 2 received texts, 1 sent and played Labyrinth Lite for around 10 minutes.

Last edited by lazarus101; September 2nd, 2009 at 04:49 PM.

Sauriann

is any difference between I7500XXIG8 and H7 which firm is last vesrsion

Andronix

H7 is latest fw atm.

zukbang

I can't extract this H7 file...
gt-i7500tvih7-pdagnu.tar gets error...anyone have just this file?? I need to upgrade my firmware. please help.
thanks

Andronix

who said you need to exctract anything?
i used guide from this thread by kam187.

zukbang

it was my computer...I got everything worked out.
now, I just need to UNLOCK it. darn it! I just found out that reflashing doesn't work...

anyone can guide me with this?? it is locked Bouygues.

any legit site for unlocking??

thanks

Andronix

Legit site would be Samsung service But usually they'll told you that you'll lose warranty.

zukbang

you meant the samsung service give out unlock code??
I never heard that before..

Andronix

Well, you can always try to call and ask them

Last edited by Andronix; September 3rd, 2009 at 03:25 AM.

dwedel

Thanks mrbrdo, the apndroid seems to do the trick with the battery, only lost a few % last night, normally it's been 25-40% over night.

For the slow google sync I can't blame the new firmware anymore as Gmail appearantly had troubles that evening I installed the new firmware.

bitxboi

hmmmm...by baseband version is I7500XXIG9, and of course, I cannot connect my device to NPS properly, as it's not a 'supported device'.
The battery life problem is still there at my version, so I'd like to update it, preferably via NPS (all respects to your fantastic job kam187, just a case of preference). Is there going to be a solution to the device supporting soon?
Is the H7's camera problem solved? I wouldn't like to solve some issues, but gain some others.
Otherwise the phone is fantastic, and I'm really loving it. If only the battery could last longer!..!
Thanks in advance.

Shads

Cracking job on all the files, have now got H7 installed and running - however just because i was curious I tried going back to stock uk g6 and the files linked do not go back to this but sets it to g8 and it loses the O2 APN settings. Is all well and good now as I have gone back to H7 but when the next updated uk firmware comes out I am worried that I will not be able to sync to the official version due to my phone being different to the standard official settings

Can you help with this Kam?

Sauriann

to kam187 :

can you please post screenshot of Odin Multi D. just before you need to click on start to upgrade firm. Do I need to check something in options?

misshollyoaks

i am a complete technophobe...i've bought the samsung i7500 sim free from a uk site but it has no android market.
but i have no idea how to update the firmware as is being talked about here! can somebody give some pointers?

thanks

Andronix

Which part you don't understand from this post
new firmware from samsung new pc studio
?

mrbrdo

hey misshollyoaks. My friend had the same problem (no Market) - with upgrading to H7 that solved his problem. Maybe you can try this. I was not able to update with PC studio, so maybe you will need to use MultiOdin (google a little). That is the way I used and it worked perfectly. It's not so hard to update with MultiOdin, just find a guide for it (it's almost one-click).

BATTERY PROBLEM SOLUTION: Basically in 99% of cases the battery problem (lasting only 1 day or so) is caused by 3g! So basically you have 2 options to solve it:
1. Disable 3g in settings (then the phone will still be able to connect but only with 2g-EDGE which is a bit slower).
2. Install APNdroid - this is a free program (available in market) you can put on your desktop to enable/disable 3g with 1 click. Only enable when you need internet access.

I tried the 2nd solution and my battery now holds for probably around 5 days (depending on how much calls are made).

Last edited by mrbrdo; September 4th, 2009 at 09:28 AM.

Shads

Thats the thing on the first day I had the phone i did indeed have 3g enable most of the time and it lost power by 4:45pm. The second day I switched it off along with background data and it was down to 15% by 4pm so only a slight increase. However today I have been running it the same as yesterday (2g and no background) and it is still currently at 63% so a massive improvement.

However I got this phone as a top end gadget with all the bells and whistles and now find that I have to cripple it a bit to get it to last a day. I'm hoping that once the battery has been run through it paces and charged a couple of times this will improve a lot more (already it is showing signs of this so fingers crossed)

misshollyoaks

Andronix - i don't really understand anything.
i can download the I7500XXIH7.rar file from megaupload but then it all goes pearshaped....
i have no idea what to do from here on in as my laptop won't even open the file..
please help!

Bozzy

Im assuming you havent extracted it from .rar,(do not extract .tar file within the .rar) if so go here WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files download that program and extract the i7500xxih7.rar and then follow kam187 instructions again, if you need more help please be more specific

misshollyoaks

thanks bozzy - have extracted the files now using that link.
i have selected the boot, phone and pda however once i click start it's telling me to 'check image files'
am i missing something?

edit: i missed the ops file. so fingers crossed it will work now!

Last edited by misshollyoaks; September 5th, 2009 at 08:43 AM.

synchromatik

hey thnx a lot, i got it in first attempt , it is very simple procedure ... touch is visibaly improved, im testing battery life now , turned off all bg proceses, wifi , 3g and sync stuff so we will se how long does it go.

thnx a bunch