I was waiting for the OTA but for Six months of waiting ive got squat to show for it. Now that Samsung has pulled the update Im ready to be proactive. Anyone have the update or a link to it they could provide?
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I was waiting for the OTA but for Six months of waiting ive got squat to show for it. Now that Samsung has pulled the update Im ready to be proactive. Anyone have the update or a link to it they could provide?
Surprised to see so many people "happy" they were updated or did OTW before it was pulled
Why do you want a buggy OS ?
Samsung
Go there, click the software link, download the zip file. Put zip file (I know I know, it says Mac OS, use it anyway) to your SD card on your phone. Don't unzip it, don't create a subfolder to put it in.
Go into recovery on your phone (after pulling battery and putting it back in) by holding down volume down, camera and power buttons. Use volume down to go to the update.zip option and hit the home key as enter.
I've done this and I get the following:
-- Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
E:signature verifcation failed
Installation aborted
Apparently Sprint has said the OTW will be taken down... either I'm doing something wrong or Sprint has not taken down the OTW but disabled it?
I've done this and I get the following:
-- Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
E:signature verifcation failed
Installation aborted
Apparently Sprint has said the OTW will be taken down... either I'm doing something wrong or Sprint has not taken down the OTW but disabled it?
I've done this and I get the following:
-- Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
E:signature verifcation failed
Installation aborted
Apparently Sprint has said the OTW will be taken down... either I'm doing something wrong or Sprint has not taken down the OTW but disabled it?
Ok am completely new to all this . I downloaded file and connected epic to cpu but can't find a root folder or a main folder. Obviously am not rooted but i don't have folder named main either. So where would i place the zip update?
Ok am completely new to all this . I downloaded file and connected epic to cpu but can't find a root folder or a main folder. Obviously am not rooted but i don't have folder named main either. So where would i place the zip update?
Ok am completely new to all this . I downloaded file and connected epic to cpu but can't find a root folder or a main folder. Obviously am not rooted but i don't have folder named main either. So where would i place the zip update?
second try I downloaded directly from samsung onto the sd card. No moving from my computer to the sd card. it seems to be working now.
I tried the same thing and again got the "Cannot copy update: The path is too deep" error...
Out of curiosity...are you rooted/have superuser access to your phone? Did you root and install custom roms before? Are you installing on top of a stock DI18?
There is no folder named (literally named) "root" or "main". Root folder is like...the top level, as in, nothing higher. When you open up your SD card you are IN the root folder. When you connect your phone to your PC, you would open up your SD card and right then...you are in the root folder. Place update.zip there and you're good to go.
If you see other folders like "DCIM", "bluetooh", "backups", "amazonmp3"...that is your root folder. Don't go into any of those folders, and DO NOT extract the zip file either.
Once you have update.zip there, go into recovery (as stated previously), select the option that contains "update.zip" and hit the home button as your enter key.
Wait for it....wait for it...froyo.
It worked the second try. I dont know if I'm lucky or if It was because I was on stock but froyo is working perfectly for me. Have calender inputs , gallery, ringtones, contacts, all apps that i can tell. Ringer volume is fine, flash works, alarm widget was gone but I now have a clock widget. set new alarms worked fine. Still need to test GPS, bubble txt is not my favorite but dont mind it. And the browser is missing the scroll bar as well as a link to favorites under the menu. that was handy as now have to scroll ALL the way back to the top of page to get to favorites. Overall I'm liking it and glad I made the plunge. Thanks to Everyone here in the forums with advice I wouldn't have even tried without this site.
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