Help firmware I7500XEFJB2

[master darko]

Yep, I'd expect to have to enter these myself, I always have done. The problem is that when I select the screen to edit Access Point Names it comes up blank - totally black with just APNs at the very top.

Yes, it comes up blank because it doesn't have APN settings for your country. Hence you need to add new APN, rather than edit what is there.

At that blank screen, with APNs written at the top, press menu and select "New APN" and enter your settings then...

 

[hagi]

The APN screen is black but you can add new ones from the Menu, not very intuitive but it was the same for cupcake based firmwares.

D'oh, there it is as well! Another great usability feature

 

[MichaelW]

Good news! Shame it's not 2.0/2.1 but hopefully this will help GAOSP even more, I think I'll personally hold out for that too.

What is the firmware version on this then? Can someone post the info from the about phone menu?

 

[master darko]

Good news! Shame it's not 2.0/2.1 but hopefully this will help GAOSP even more, I think I'll personally hold out for that too.

What is the firmware version on this then? Can someone post the info from the about phone menu?

*#1234# and I see these:

PDA: I7500XXJB6
Phone: I7500XXBJ2
CSC: I7500XEFJB2

JB6 = Feb 2010 Version 6
XX and XE are European land codes and apart from APNs it means nothing really.

 

[abesh]

@master darko Yeah face the same issues with Google Voice Search

 

[hagi]

Good news! Shame it's not 2.0/2.1 but hopefully this will help GAOSP even more, I think I'll personally hold out for that too.

What is the firmware version on this then? Can someone post the info from the about phone menu?

Firmware Version: 1.6
Kernel Version: 2.6.29 root@sep-53 #1

 

[MichaelW]

Firmware Version: 1.6
Kernel Version: 2.6.29 root@sep-53 #1

Excellent so it is 2.6.29

Just noticed Drakaz had already posted that too, and confirmed that HW3D is in this firmware so should work fine for GAOSP. Also bluetooth should apparently be fixed for GAOSP too!!

I think the main thing left to sort out is just the camera now (and a few other bugs too though).

 

[master darko]

@master darko Yeah face the same issues with Google Voice Search

Im wondering if Voice Sarch is incompatible with one of the many apps I installed before it. Other than that I cant see why it wouldnt work... Its a Google app on Google's OS, it should fly....

 

[lazarus101]

Excellent so it is 2.6.29

Just noticed Drakaz had already posted that too, and confirmed that HW3D is in this firmware so should work fine for GAOSP. Also bluetooth should apparently be fixed for GAOSP too!!

I think the main thing left to sort out is just the camera now (and a few other bugs too though).

Well, first Samsung has to release the kernel sources and I don't think they will do this before the update is released officially

 

[MichaelW]

Well, first Samsung has to release the kernel sources and I don't think they will do this before the update is released officially

Of course yes, it still could be a couple of months before they release the source, we just don't know yet

 

[benner]

bluetooth still gives me 'paired but not connected' with my computers. i will try to connect to my wife's phone later and see if that works.

 

[hagi]

bluetooth still gives me 'paired but not connected' with my computers. i will try to connect to my wife's phone later and see if that works.

Just watched it repeatedly connect and disconnect to my macbook pro.

I'm also seeing the google voice search issue - it varies between just failing to start, or accepting my voice input then crashing out.

 

[master darko]

Just watched it repeatedly connect and disconnect to my macbook pro.

I'm also seeing the google voice search issue - it varies between just failing to start, or accepting my voice input then crashing out.

Here is what I did to test Voice Search app. I restored the 1.6 firmware to the factory defaults and only installed Google Voice Search and phone and the app worked fine. I voice searched multiple things and google search results opened over and over without (m)any problems.

Then I decided to install apps one by one and test Voice Search between installations and see how it works. Next app I installed was a Google Map update (to 4.0) from the Marketplace.

After the Maps update and phone restart, Voice Search no longer works as it either freezes or simply doesnt start.

 

[Rastaman-FB]

im currently in the process of mirroring these files
I im also uploading 2 more versions of odin
3.98 and 4.03 (which was used with spica)

 

[abesh]

@hagi, @master darko What version of the Voice Search app are you guys using ? I'm using 1.3 however aTrackDog shows that the current version is 1.5. Maybe we will not face issues with the newer version ? But then again the question remains, how do we get version 1.5 ?

 

[Rastaman-FB]

Odin and donut mirror here
Index of /files/i7500/donut/

 

[mogden]

@hagi, @master darko What version of the Voice Search app are you guys using ? I'm using 1.3 however aTrackDog shows that the current version is 1.5. Maybe we will not face issues with the newer version ? But then again the question remains, how do we get version 1.5 ?

"Google search by voice" is in the market for this firmware - but version 1.4.1. I am also having fun with it - it did one search then refused to do any more.

 

[Kouske]

how is the unlocking? is there sliding needed or it's like 1.5?

i'll skip donut because i believe musty and drakaz & Co. soon will have fully functional eclair (bluetooth data fixed recently, camera near, 3d from donut).

i'm with you on this one. gaosp FTW!!

 

[Rastaman-FB]

i'm with you on this one. gaosp FTW!!

3rded
this is good though, the drivers they need should be available soon

 

[MichaelW]

Looking at the most recent source http://opensource.samsungmobile.com/download/OpenSource/GT-I7500_OpenSource_Update3.zip

That's for firmware IK2 so November 2009. The zip file is dated 22nd December 2009, so we've probably at least a month to wait

 

[Pennywis3]

Im curently using IK5, its the third or even forth ROM im using.
Still don't see why we need to remove the AMSS and Cache.img files? I don't think i ever removed them before.
Is it necessary to remove them? What happens if i don't?

 

[Riksu8]

1. Market downloads - originally showed all my previous downloads as normal, but after locking and unlocking the screen, the market only shows the 4 I had managed to redownload (not a biggie).

Just FYI, I had this too. All my old apps showed up in the Market's Downloads list and I couldn't download anything, it just kept saying "Starting download.." until I cancelled it. This happened many times even with the screen locking and closing the Market app in between tries.

What got it working for me was emptying the Market app's cache (Settings - Applications - Manage applications - Market - Clear Cache), for whatever reason it had survived two factory resets as well as a transfer through these firmware changes: IK5 -> JB2 -> L3 -> JB2. Yeah.. dunno what happened there.

 

[gie62001]

hi huys
could anyone of you help me. my phone is sitting here in download mode and i extracted tar file but its not like in old versions of firmware where you have CSC, PDA, phone and other stuff? its got amss, cashe, kernel, recovery. so how do i odin this one? i saw people writing that they remover amss and chache? so how do i do it and then put it all back into .tar? will winrar be enough? please help me coz i want to intall it before i go to work which is in few hours
thanx
or could you just make file that i could just odin?

 

[davyu]

hi huys
could anyone of you help me. my phone is sitting here in download mode and i extracted tar file but its not like in old versions of firmware where you have CSC, PDA, phone and other stuff? its got amss, cashe, kernel, recovery. so how do i odin this one? i saw people writing that they remover amss and chache? so how do i do it and then put it all back into .tar? will winrar be enough? please help me coz i want to intall it before i go to work which is in few hours
thanx
or could you just make file that i could just odin?

Do not unpack the 'tar' file.
Choose it as the 'one package', and also check the 'one package' optin.

 

[gie62001]

and forgot to add that i dont want csc so if anyone can remove it please and forgot to add that i dont want csc so if anyone can remove it please