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Gingerbread to come out at end of march

i had talk with a guy working in samsung and he told me that Gingerbread will come out of testing in march/april i hope it will be available in april

This is good news!

But we know the update politics of Samsung. I think it would be around September ;-)
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I can't wait!

I think it will come with Galaxy S II, not our I9000

@ragin: i dont think they meant gingerbread release in general, because its already available with the nexus s.

another one saying same old **** we wont get gingerbread its on nexus so we may get ice cream which is cross between 2.3 and 3.0 its ice cream sandwich 2.4 but only if we are lucky there is now galaxy s 2 so the end is coming

colind said:
another one saying same old **** we wont get gingerbread its on nexus so we may get ice cream which is cross between 2.3 and 3.0 its ice cream sandwich 2.4 but only if we are lucky there is now galaxy s 2 so the end is coming
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You saying that we won't get 2.3 is just as helpful as the OP's post - zero facts, just I think, he said, she said etc.

i dont think we will get it either, i think samsungs main focus now is the Galaxy s2,,
its typical of samsung to ditch its old owners and favour the new ones.. But if it wasnt for us Galaxy S1 owners,,, there would be no Galaxy S2....
Hopefully Cyanogen Mod will be stable before this 'gingerbread release' and thats exactly what im gunna use.

In my region we don't even have 2.2.1, I dare not think so far as yet.
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well 2.2.1 with speedmod and voodoo sound my phone is finally doing everything i wanted/needed of it with good battery and performance. so i am happy for the moment.. will be picking up an sgs ii hopefully bootloader will be unlocked or i may be selling it quick.

I believe we will get the 2.3. I've been running 2.2.1 since 27/12/10 so march/april would be about right for an update.

It does make sense that samsung would give us gingerbread. Afterall, right now, they are heavily promoting the galaxy S, even on the dawn of the galaxy S2 arriving. I'd say we'll be supported for some time to come.
i9000/JPY. fast n lagfree. good times.

What a bunch of useless haters are you!
Why don't you take the time to look and see how much devices HAVE 2.3 before dissing Samsung...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Android_devices
And the only way HTC has more devices with update is because of Nexus One, similar hardware = easyer update... But then, the desire (to name this one) just got 2.2 in the US...
Galaxy S, with a pretty much different hardware got it faster!

It's just hear say. I'll believe it when I see it.

What i don't understand is where are the leaked firmware like there was with froyo

got-petrol said:
What i don't understand is where are the leaked firmware like there was with froyo
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Perhaps not ready for this particular device yet? Or they are keeping an extremely tight lid on it?

well as stated i honestly dont believe we will get official upgrade as nothing showing on open source or samfirmware they said in dec it will be out in feb here we are at the end of said month still no gingerbread think we may get ice cream 2.4 but much later in year ----looks as though cynagenmod 7 nearly there so be only way to get 2.3 been watching tried earlier release very stable so now waiting on codeworks as be waiting long time for samsung nw they have a new babie sgs 2

kunjar said:
Perhaps not ready for this particular device yet? Or they are keeping an extremely tight lid on it?
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if samsung was going to update the phone past froyo why havnt the said it is getting ginger bread officaily to sell more galaxy s..if any body replys that samsung india twitter said it is.. they said ginger beard was going to be releaed for our phones i dont wait a beard on my phone and dont thing any body else does

If SGS is to get Android 2.3 it will be a few months after the release of SGSII. Because 2.3 is a selling point for SGSII. But SGSII really need Android 2.4 to get better dual core support. And 2.3 really isn't that big an upgrade.
So I would suggest that you forget about 2.3 and enjoy your great and fast SGS with 2.2.1 for now.
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No official gingerbread

samfirmware just tweeted some bad news, it looks like samsung has stopped working our vibrant t959 we wont be getting gingerbread from them .

NO GINGERBREAD FOR THE VIBRANT?? Oh dear, oh dear! 1 year old device. No subversion updates? Ffffuuuu!
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Seems like Samsung is a retarded company. Didn't the vibrant sell the most out of the US galaxy s versions? Not giving support to such a huge user base is terrible PR move.
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Can they really be so stupid to make vibrant the only phone that will not get gingerbread, even low end galaxy phones will get it in time. I just cant believe this, no more Suxsung for me.

If anyone plans on suing samsung, this time it better be real.. Samsung is stupid.
Neveragain# crusade should now commence...
Edit* on second thought, maybe I shouldn't jump to conclusion that we won't get gingerbread just because there's no leak, yet, or because of leaks.. . Samfirware don't even have a leak for the fascinate and it sure is getting gingerbread based on the leak that came from somewhere else..

well samssung sucks (( never samsung phones in my hands

Mine already has gingerbread
And even with the so so battery life its still better than any firmware that samsung actually released. I never use GPS so that's a none issue for me.

F#%@!!!!
And I was waiting so patiently for the last 6 months
Oh well, If I want official leaks, I'll be sure to get a Nexus next time.

HTC here I come.......

dardani89 said:
Seems like Samsung is a retarded company. Didn't the vibrant sell the most out of the US galaxy s versions? Not giving support to such a huge user base is terrible PR move.
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yea i feel your pain guys .. I only have a captivate ..
you guys need to understand tho , motorola and many other companies have device that came out this year and dont even have gingerbread , samsung is doin a fair job at updating there device , imho I think its more of a carrier thing , witch phone get there updates or not , seeing how most of the SGS family got Gingerbread already .. its not like its hard fo rsamsung to release this update , most likely it will be magically leaked at one point Im sure ..

http://www.gizmocrunch.com/android/4305-samsung-galaxy-s-android-gingerbread
what happened to that?

^ honestly, i can live without gingerbread... But the idea that the rest of the US versions are getting leaks here and there and not our device seems unfair... But seriously, the hell with the leak as long as we'll still get a taste of gingerbread later when it's all baked and ready...
To leave the vibrant out in the cold with support is wrong, the least samsung could do is be fair about it..

**** them.
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And yet the dumbshits STILL want to reward Samsung by buying the SGSII or the Hercules.

Samsung doesn't update their year old phone, people then proceed to buy the newest and latest. While keyboard warriors rage away on forums Samsung is looking smugly at their bottom line. Seems like it is working, they are selling tons of S2's last I heard.
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And yet the dumbshits STILL want to reward Samsung by buying the SGSII or the Hercules.
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XDcdn said:
Samsung doesn't update their year old phone, people then proceed to buy the newest and latest. While keyboard warriors rage away on forums Samsung is looking smugly at their bottom line. Seems like it is working, they are selling tons of S2's last I heard.
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Sadly.
Others like me are going to get other phones. Samsung has a long past of ****ing up Android phones, just look at, well, EVERYTHING they've released before the SGS2. Just one issue after another that was never fixed or updated.

I would be lying if I said I was surprised.
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I think there's still a possibility of it coming, is SamFirmware an official Samsung twitter?

I do believe samsung builds alot of the hardware within most all phones so they are still making good no matter what brand you buy :-/
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This is the way I see it.
They're Flagship device is running the latest version of android.
Last years flagship device was running the latest version of android. If they updated last years device Samsung would loose money. Not everyone has the money to buy a galaxy s 2, and Samsung knows that. Now if both devices had the same OS version out of the box but one was significantly cheaper what device would your average consumer choose? Common sense guys

Sad news guys.....!!!! No more official Update for galaxy 3

No more official update for galaxy 3 sad.
http://www.fonearena.com/blog/41362...i-models-getting-gingerbread-update-soon.html

Hmm let me see. Look what I found in Galaxy 3 Development forum. See here.
I would advice you to read everything in that link and then post.

not at all surprised, everyone knew this.

Nothing new there. I think almost everybody here knows this.

We dont need one. As we have great developers here ;-)
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Even galaxy fit is getting gingerbread but why galaxy 3 don't get it?

We're getting 2.3.4 via Cyanogenmod so please help Sebastian!

But cynogenmod will take time to be stable with all working. Atleast another 2-3 months looking up on the progress. No offence just saying it.

GryTEcHoG said:
Even galaxy fit is getting gingerbread but why galaxy 3 don't get it?
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galaxy fit was launched with 2.2 and our g3 with 2.1 so we got our 2.2 and fit will get their 2.3
what samsung does is it ignores its low budget phones and gives them one ****TY BUGGY UPDATE to keep our mouths shut.

[email protected] said:
galaxy fit was launched with 2.2 and our g3 with 2.1 so we got our 2.2 and fit will get their 2.3
what samsung does is it ignores its low budget phones and gives them one ****TY BUGGY UPDATE to keep our mouths shut.
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hi
to my knowledge In India the G 3 is end of life as per the talk i had at the samsung show room at Bangalore so not surprised that we wont get off update
but why worry we have some great developers here im a 1000% sure they will find out a way to get it for us.
HTC tattoo is a far less powerful phone and im running 2.3.3 & with every thing working on it Yes camera,blue tooth,wifi,GPRS, everything working fine
& iv been using it for more than one month (the phones in India are only 2G)
so for us it should not be a problem its just a question of time that's all

GryTEcHoG said:
Even galaxy fit is getting gingerbread but why galaxy 3 don't get it?
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Galaxy fit is new. They have to upgrade it at least once. From froyo to GB.

Guys, want gingerbread(android 2.3) on g3?

Guys,samsung is telling that g3 can't get GB(gingerbread) but as all you know cm7 is working for us (still in alpha stage)
but if we want official update we should Petition
if u want to join it on facebook
ask it to join this group-here the link---http://www.facebook.com/pages/Petition-for-GingerBread-firmware-for-Samsung-G3/222461904484097?ref=ts
and also plz like this page---http://www.facebook.com/groups/gbsg3/?notif_t=group_activity
we need minimum 2000 members
then people this time is for Petition GingerBread firmware for Samsung G3
plz join it if u want 2.3
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pvg777 said:
Guys,samsung is telling that g3 can't get GB(gingerbread) but as all you know cm7 is working for us (still in alpha stage)
but if we want official update we should Petition
if u want to join it on facebook
ask it to join this group-here the link---http://www.facebook.com/pages/Petition-for-GingerBread-firmware-for-Samsung-G3/222461904484097?ref=ts
and also plz like this page---http://www.facebook.com/groups/gbsg3/?notif_t=group_activity
we need minimum 2000 members
then people this time is for Petition GingerBread firmware for Samsung G3
plz join it if u want 2.3
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If Samsung claim it's a lack of hardware in our phone, then why does the Galaxy 5 which is a pile of junk get it? I know: Samsung don't want the 'lower end' phone to beat the higher one...

Not again.....Don't you all grew tired of the petition thing already?.....
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hillbeast said:
If Samsung claim it's a lack of hardware in our phone, then why does the Galaxy 5 which is a pile of junk get it? I know: Samsung don't want the 'lower end' phone to beat the higher one...
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Samsung is such a crap
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hillbeast said:
If Samsung claim it's a lack of hardware in our phone, then why does the Galaxy 5 which is a pile of junk get it? I know: Samsung don't want the 'lower end' phone to beat the higher one...
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ya but we will not give up this time is for telling Samsung that we want GB to G3

hillbeast said:
If Samsung claim it's a lack of hardware in our phone, then why does the Galaxy 5 which is a pile of junk get it? I know: Samsung don't want the 'lower end' phone to beat the higher one...
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Been there, done that
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vivekmishra said:
Samsung is such a crap
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we know samsung(samsuck) is crap but we want GB too so plz help us

Get over it. It's not gonna happen and samsung won't listen :/

we've spoken with Samsung and their answer was "there is no gingerbread upgrade planned for gt-i5800"
i think ive posted this answer a month ago in "General section" also Samfirmware not interested to port it either. They usually work with Samsung releases via Kies.
i still have the SG3 and im thinking to sell it

Samsung is soo gay man. :[email protected] Our phone does have the hardware. Those guys just don t want to give it. :-x

samsung are crappys......they r lazy....they r ****s.....coz.....actually the thing is they too might be knowing we g3 is capable of eating gbread but they are lazy to prepare 1 for it.....and a big thing is they do everything just for themselves i mean they think just of getting more money and not about the so called "welfare" and happiness of customers......when we'll spoil their name then they will come on track......

Yes yes. Efforts are required. There's no harm in giving it a shot. Right guys?

I completly agree with hillbeast.
They are making such claims because everything is marketing and profit. If you want gingerbread you'll have to buy another, more expensive, device.
Hardware can run it. One man army (marcellusbe) can make it (port it) but samsungs overpaid programmers can't...

i don't want gb...
i want ics (go marcellusbe please try)

Yes we also want ics
But samsung, if you think you'd not bother many people if their g3 won't get 2.3 or higher your wrong! I know allready 5 people with a g3 outside this forum while I just know 2 with a gs and 3 with a gs2...

No, ICS will be portable in 6 months when Google release the sources, but i think that ICS is crap. I want to have cm7.

serious, whats the "BIG" advantage of having gingerbread over froyo? what could we do with our g3 that we cant do know.

it's faster and i like updates but you're right.. ice cream sandwich is waaay cooler and i think it works faster..

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Is Gingerbread finally coming to the G3?

Samsung is reportedly going to upgrade its Galaxy series of smartphones to Android 2.3 Gingerbread platform by the end of the year.The Mobile Indian quotes a Samsung executive as saying the upgrade should be available within six to eight weeks from now. According to the Samsung executive, the Gingerbread update will be rolled out for entire Galaxy series of smartphones. The development comes days after LG announced Gingerbread update (Android 2.3)for its Optimus smartphones. Sony Ericsson also started rolling out Android 2.3.4 update for its Xperia-range of smartphones.
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http://www.thinkdigit.com/Mobiles-PDAs/Samsung-to-roll-out-Gingerbread-update-for_7854.html
What do you think? Will our G3 be in the list of phones getting GB?

Hope so.If we will get update it will roll out after new year in february or something.But if we get it it would be realy good
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Yeah i think it will come. But i also think that CM7 is better;p

i doubt it. still hope it will come but why would they come back at their decision to not roll out GB for the g3?
still crossing fingers though.

hasjee said:
i doubt it. still hope it will come but why would they come back at their decision to not roll out GB for the g3?
still crossing fingers though.
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Because htc and sony did it...

I hope so but I think that phone is too short of everything to work smoothly.

The phone could easily run gingerbread and Samsung isn't really doing it for the customers anyway. It's doing it because the optimus and xperia range of phones are all being upgraded to gingerbread and Samsung doesn't want to look like they don't care about their customers.

Well I believe that history is repeating itself
When Samsung was going to release the 2.3 update for galaxy s and other at that time it released the froyo update for us. It may be that now ICS is coming up so they want to release an update here just for the sake of name OHH WE HAVE I UPDATE FOR EVERYONE!!

let the hopes never die my friendsssss
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Samsung is going to ensure that all Android 2.2 Froyo running smartphones — Galaxy Fit, Galaxy Pop, and Galaxy Mini will get the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update before the end of this year. Apparently Samsung aims that all Android smartphones in India should run Gingerbread update

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Edit : Samsung Quotes....
Samsung is going to ensure that all Android 2.2 Froyo running smartphones — Galaxy Fit, Galaxy Pop, and Galaxy Mini will get the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update before the end of this year. Apparently Samsung aims that all Android smartphones in India should run Gingerbread update
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Where did you see that quote?

kyrillos13 said:
Where did you see that quote?
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http://www.themobileindian.com/news...tphones-to-get-Gingerbread-update-by-year-end
At the bottom of the news....check it bro...

raja4sure said:
http://www.themobileindian.com/news...tphones-to-get-Gingerbread-update-by-year-end
At the bottom of the news....check it bro...
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Hm yes... Samsung :S

turboblaz said:
Hope so.If we will get update it will roll out after new year in february or something.But if we get it it would be realy good
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it seems the update is coming around the end of december.
kyrillos13 said:
Because htc and sony did it...
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and LG too..
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I hope so but I think that phone is too short of everything to work smoothly.
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our G3 can easily run gingerbread and it will be smoother than froyo. phones with less specs are running GB

if the android os itself would be so demanding then phones wouldnt be able to handle apps on top of it.
g3 would probably be able to run icecream sandwich too but we will never be able to get it officialy.

mehh..
I have no doubt about g3 handling gingerbread, have seem the current CM7 port run on it.
but since the statement was made by an Indian Samsung executive, and clearly mentioned the newer mid-range (pop, fit and mini) that came out with the 2.2 out of the box, I am afraid samsung might decide to forget about the g3's which seem to be discontinued in the indian market, as this is clearly a strategy to sell more mid-range phones to the indian consumers, what with the launch of icecream sandwich, froyo would seem too outdated out of the box unless an update was promised.
Well no harm in remaining hopeful, but i am still taking this with a pinch of salt.

Dont think that gingerbread is going to come.... froyo update took much longer to come than promised and if gingerbread is going to come, it'll probably b very late

I believe Samsung will only release gingerbread to the galaxy phones that are currently being sold (tab, ace, mini and such), not to the old ones (3, 5...).
But even so, maybe it is still of some use if developers can put their hands on some drivers for hardware in those models that were also used on the old ones.

Does this mean we will get touchwiz 4.0? It is so much better than the crappy one we have and it's a lot faster and hardly any lag.

Smonic said:
Does this mean we will get touchwiz 4.0? It is so much better than the crappy one we have and it's a lot faster and hardly any lag.
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I dont think so beacuse tw4 is only for armv7
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turboblaz said:
I dont think so beacuse tw4 is only for armv7
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If only we could get hardware updates!