Samsung I 7500 from India :|

Hi, welcome to the forums!

There is a subforum for this phone, and there a lot of members which will be willing to help you. It has a lot of activity, a few new threads daily.

I own this phone, and I am using Galaxo 1.6.3.2, which is a custom ROM based on 1.6 that has overclocking built in, it works great. There is a also a custom 2.1 ROM called GAOSP in development, a BETA was released a while ago but it doesn't support some things like the camera, so it's not really good for daily use.

As for NPS, I got it to work just fine on Windows 7, but it's a pretty useless piece of software (for the I7500). Lots of people install it just for the drivers, and quit using it after that.

If you are interested by Galaxo 1.6.3.2, check out the Samsung Galaxy forum, and then the All things root subforum. There you'll find information and a nice step by step guide (you might recognize the guy who wrote it ).

Best of lucks with your device.

 

Well, the latest Galaxo fixed most of the bugs, but there is one where sometimes when you unplug headphones the music start or something. I only use Galaxo for the overclocking (614Mhz or even 710Mhz instead of about 500Mhz!) and the added homescreens. Also, the "no-sleep" bug is fixed in Galaxo, it's a bug where the battery drains because the phone won't sleep. I never experienced it, but a lot of people did.

Before using Galaxo, I flashed 1.6 on my device (JC6), and it was alright.

By the way, if you factory reset, you will lose every installed application, SMS messages, call log, contacts, etc, but you will not lose what is stored on your internal SD card, such as your music, pictures, videos, game saves, documents, etc. Syncing your contacts and calendar with Google is a must.

 

I wouldn't want to say this, but it's pretty sure Samsung will never release any 2.x release for the Galaxy. You might get 1.6, I heard they released it in Russia and Italy, but don't take my word for it. The 1.6 firmwares we have come from Samsung, but they have not been distributed via their software (NPS) where I live, so I'm not sure about other places, as I said.

The only issue with Galaxo would be that the Music app might randomly start. However this only happens when you use the music app, and if you put the music volume on mute you won't even notice it. It happened to me once right after I had listened to music, but never again after that.

I did talk about GAOSP, the current ROM that is being worked on by some developers. Well, they recently fixed the 3D! (in the last few days) There's also progress on the camera, and I'm not sure what else is missing anymore.

If you do decide to go with Odin, I suggest finding and downloading your current firmware (should be a .tar). If you have your current firmware, you can always go back and you simply can't mess it up. It's really simple.

Installing Galaxo is simple too, but since you need specific drivers for your computer that's where most people have issues. When I started out, I used Odin, then wrote a step-by-step guide for people who had no idea how to do it (just like I was). After a short while I decided to try Galaxo, so I did, and then I wrote another guide for that, and I've been helping the people achieve this since then, along with the other people on our subforum, which I guess you'll be getting to know soon.

Oh well, I hope that I said something that might have interested you, because you might know all of this already.