What are the odds of Android 2.2 (Froyo) on the Galaxy?

porga · Jun 24, 2010

FadeFx said:
kindof funny to read galaxy s users want samsung to be quick with the update to froyo.... we will see if they get better support from this heap of morrones...

Yes, it made me smile when I read comment about Galaxy S and upgrade....

Yathushan · Jun 24, 2010

I should hope we get froyo on the galaxy because I think I read earlier that drakaz was considering moving to 2.6.33 which I know is gingerbread's kernel. But I just heard that cyanogen will be providing froyo to the G1.
8 Android phones will get FroYo early thanks to CyanogenMod – Android and Me

So i think that we should get froyo as well. Unless drakaz plans to skip it altogether and go to Gingerbread. Anyways even if he does not I will be happy with eclair on my phone.

500ef · Jun 24, 2010

From drakaz's twitter ( drakaz (drakaz) on Twitter )

drakaz

Beta2 (not released yet) performances are nice (not better as Galaxo, but admissible). ADW, TetherWifi, O/C, 3D, video playback...

drakaz

Gaosp Froyo port will start after BETA2. Don't know what we can expect from Froyo on our galaxy...let's see !

porga · Jun 24, 2010

Aldough I would like to see froyo on galaxy (especialy if it is faster than eclair) I think that eclair fuly funczional port is priority at this moment, dont you agree?

mikeh36 · Jun 24, 2010

Yes and no Porga. Yes it would be nice but depending on the code changes and how much work Drakaz is going to have to put into it working on eclair may not be worth it. If, for example, the bluetooth code is radically different in Froyo from Eclair and it's going to take a lot of work/time to get it working in Eclair and then a lot more work/time to get it working in Froyo it makes sense to work with the Froyo code and just do all the work once.

porga · Jun 25, 2010

Afrer all, Drakaz will decide by himself anyway. Im Just scared if he stucks somewhere with code transfer to Froyo, that we might not see fully functional Eclair neither Froyo at the end ....

DemonDomen · Jun 25, 2010

Is the main problem the fact, that we don't have all the source code for the Galaxy?

If yes, why don't we start spamming Samsung?

Yathushan · Jun 25, 2010

Lol remember who you are trying to spam here its Samsung. They will just ignore what we are sending them.

However, I feel its worth a try though, as we could ask them for the entire source code for all the drivers saying that we rather take matters into our own hands than rather keep complaining to them. This would work out better as we would have everything we need to keep us going for a while.

MichaelW · Jun 25, 2010

They are possibly not allowed to distribute the driver source code.

DaSchmarotzer · Jun 25, 2010

MichaelW said:
They are possibly not allowed to distribute the driver source code.

Possibly? I'd say probably.

Anyway, some people tried spamming them like months ago to no avail.

500ef · Jun 25, 2010

From drakaz's twitter:

drakaz
Public BETA 2 under testing.

So, as He said before, as soon as Beta 2 is launched, he will start working on Froyo's port.

I agree that is a risk of the development get stacked somewhere between eclair and froyo. But what other choices do we have, besides waiting and cross the fingers for drakaz success doing Samsung's job?

beboo · Jun 26, 2010

Meh, don't believe it but...

All US Android handests set to get Android 2.1 upgrade? | T3 magazine

...you never know.

informale · Jun 26, 2010

Old news! >> Mon 1 Mar 2010

flyingmachine · Jul 1, 2010

hoping for FroYo is is one thing, but i just want to know if you can upgrade from 1.6 to 2.1 on the i7500? I'm new to Android OS and was considering getting myself a used i7500 ($200). Will i be able to upgrade that to 2.1?

dryhte · Jul 1, 2010

flyingmachine said:
hoping for FroYo is is one thing, but i just want to know if you can upgrade from 1.6 to 2.1 on the i7500? I'm new to Android OS and was considering getting myself a used i7500 ($200). Will i be able to upgrade that to 2.1?

Probably not officially, but a community effort is on its way (GAOSP) that looks promising.

Xenon · Jul 12, 2010

Just read today that they've (Cyanogen) ported 2.2 to G1 (the first Android phone).

bitxboi · Dec 14, 2010

Vodafone UK has announced FroYo for the HTC Magic, I guess this could help us getting FroYo as well?

r3dpuma · Dec 14, 2010

Dont think so, Samsung forgot about about their FIRST android phone appearently. Lucky for us that we have drakaz.
Maybe they will relese gingerbread for i7500 since it has better system management and ram management. *joke*
Ps: Magic has way more ram than we have.

bitxboi · Dec 14, 2010

r3dpuma said:
Dont think so, Samsung forgot about about their FIRST android phone appearently. Lucky for us that we have drakaz.
Maybe they will relese gingerbread for i7500 since it has better system management and ram management. *joke*
Ps: Magic has way more ram than we have.

I can understand the Samsung part of your argument, but hardware-wise HTC Magic and Samsung Galaxy are almost identical, so it could be great to port.

Magic has not more ram than the i7500, you are thinking of the Hero

mikeh36 · Dec 14, 2010

It doesn't matter one way or the other. Samsung as already stated that they're not going to do anything more with the I7500. Drakaz is the only option.

r3dpuma · Dec 14, 2010

I see you are right, some gsm site said that it has 288 ram.
Anyone, a port would be better than the drakaz version? I dont know i`m not a programmer/developer. All i know i learned here and on drakaz forum .

bitxboi · Dec 14, 2010

by the way, Drakaz uploaded GAOSP NIGHTLY's latest version yesterday. Does anyone have any experience with it?

r3dpuma · Dec 14, 2010

Here the New GAOSP-2-12132010 NIGHTLY (Page 1) - GAOSP - Development - Drakaz's Android stuff

DaSchmarotzer · Dec 14, 2010

bitxboi said:
by the way, Drakaz uploaded GAOSP NIGHTLY's latest version yesterday. Does anyone have any experience with it?

There's a huge thread about Nightlies in the all things root subforum. Here's the link for the replies about the newest nightly.

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