Another Cheap Android Phone - £79.99

[Fonefixer]

Mitre: LOL I have a lot less hair than that!

Browser not working? hmmmm. odd. Tried clearing the cache?

Im looking into the issue Andrew had yesterday, ive just flashed a colleagues handset and it misbehaved. Im going to speak to someone to get the bootloaders removed and try flashing it again, its certainly the bootloaders that causing the issue, trouble is you have to remove them and rebuild the tar file with the correct md5 hash or ODIN will fail it.

[andrewW]

If you remove the bootloaders will this JPQ Froyo version then be the same as the one we have already flashed?

[Fonefixer]

It apparently has updated system app versions but the biggest change is the bootloaders. The Kernel version is also updated but the bootloaders must be flashed in order to update it correctly.

In between boring meetings today im going to do some research on this, as its my last week at this job I have a lot less than normal to do and the guy who's taking over doesnt need training thank God!

[andrewW]

OK Thanks!

[Mitre]

wipe cache wiped data its the same green bar gets halfway along top then phone vibrates and goes to home screen
maybe its conflicting with another app?

[Fonefixer]

Mitre: It might be, just flashed jpm on the one im playing with here and its fine. Ive not heard of conflicts with opera, do you have the option to disable addons on yours? if so try that. What else do you have installed? might give me a clue.

Andrew: The guy at R&D I was going to ask to redo the firmware for you is out of his office (typical - I never do that *ahem* do I smell something? ) Ive emailed him and asked him to look into it for me, thought it would be easier to call his office. Ill post back here when I get a reply. Ive just flashed the one I have here with a few program adjustments and it still wont play ball. Dont like being beaten!

[Mitre]

yeah i pretty shure it worked when first installed it opens at google search page then goes off anyway i wait for updates on here befor i try to flash anything cheers

[bloggs]

I've downloaded a copy of firmware I5800XXJPQ via samfirmware.com. You can find it here: -

http://hotfile.com/dl/121469351/5800b97 ... Q.rar.html

As usual the password for the rar file is samfirmware.com .

Is this the same thing you're having problems with or is it a different package? I installed this one last night and everything seems to have gone okay. I've just restored my apps/data with Titanium backup and, so far as I can see so far, I haven't had any problems.

Maybe I've done something wrong

Eddie

[Fonefixer]

Hi Eddie,

Thats the Samfirmware one which should be identical to the one I gave Andrew but he had bootloader issues (Mine come direct from Samsung) - I was having the same issues flashing direct from USB. If the Samfirmware one has the bootloaders included it will have updated the kernel, what kernel version is yours running now?

If I flash the one I have here with the approved jig (called an "anyway box") it works fine. Im just studying the error logs from the usb flash to see where it fails, it seems to be failing on the secondary bootloader so what im trying to get now is the tar file with the bootloaders removed and the md5 hash corrected (or ODIN will say its a bad file). As you will have seen from certain forums flashing Samsung bootloaders can cause issues including loss of IMEI, im lucky in that I can rewrite the IMEI at work.

I noticed you use Titanium backup, have you re-rooted your device after the upgrade? ( I believe it needs root to work)

Have you noticed an improvement with JPQ? If so, what?

[bloggs]

The phone shows firmware 2.2, baseband I5800XXJP4, kernel 2.6.32.9 and build number FROYO.XXJPQ.

This is the content of the tar file

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27/05/2011  07:09           262,144 boot.bin
05/04/2011  05:54        13,737,984 cache.rfs
27/05/2011  07:09       212,742,144 factoryfs.rfs
27/05/2011  07:09             3,883 logo.png
10/12/2010  13:11        16,777,216 modem.bin
27/05/2011  07:09           785,116 Sbl.bin
27/05/2011  07:09         4,308,792 zImage

IMEI is still there (phew!) I waited 'til some people had reported that was okay because I'd heard it could be an issue.
The first thing I did after loading the new firmware was root it with SuperOneTouch. Can't imagine using an Android machine without root

I can't say I've seen any major improvement over JPM, but then I've only been using it for an hour or so. I haven't used the GPS yet, which was my main motivation for trying this version. I'd read that the time to lock had improved, but then I've heard that before!

Eddie