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My 5 reasons to not update to stock FroYo :-(

Hi ppacie,
I've tested FroYo for the I5500 (the phone for the European Market). Already tried lots of ROMs for different sub-markets : Swedish, British, Belgian, Italian, Romanian and noticed these issues with all of them. This makes me think that it is no different for other 2.2 ROMs around the world. Didn't tested the I5500L 2.2.1 ROM however. Maybe some of these bugs are not persisting there too.

So sad that FroYo has so many nice features, but Samsung did not polished its ROMs yet. I like the tethering support, the built-in task manager and some other...

The safest choice to avoid some of these bugs should be to test the Motafoca mods of FroYo. At least compass has been fixed there.

How about the firmware update and the Mac - I'm also using a Mac, but used VMware Fusion and update was smooth ;)
 
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It's Latin American version for Argentina. I was asking for it because this http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-europa-5/321656-manual-device-cant-updated-workaround.html
If you upgrade your phone to a newer version of its firmware and later decide to go back, you could always get a 2.1 from some of the public archives already available at the topic that I've left above or at samfirmware.com but if you do not reflash to a firmware intended for you product code your phone will not be possible to update again with KIES, but only with ODIN.
 
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Tbh i havent experianced any of these issues sooo
nor have I!
But that doesn't mean others haven't.....

In saying that though, I did purchase the phone with 2.2Froyo on it already, I would have preferred to get the phone with Eclair and upgrade myself at a later date....even if it was just to see the difference between the both (I'm a nerd like that) but the seller insisted on upgrading
I wouldn't mind rooting my phone though for full customisation capabilities!
 
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