Another phone gets Gingerbread

[Bateluer]

http://an.droid-life.com/2011/01/10/android-2-3-now-available-on-your-iphone-3g/

Irritating for those poor bastards with Samsung phones stuck on 2.1.

I hope that title didn’t make you throw up a little bit in your mouth, but sadly it’s true. Using OpeniBoot, you can successfully dual boot iOS as well as Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). Obviously this is annoying considering that Gingerbread only comes on the (after CES) old-school Nexus S. (Sorry early adopters!) Head on past the break for a video of oil and water mixing.

 

[zerocool84]

If you really want to get technical, there are 2.3 ROMs for all the Galaxy S phones to get 2.3 but they are not official just like this one is not official.

Please people, stop buying Samsung phones.

 

[Bateluer]

Please people, stop buying Samsung phones.

Worth repeating.

 

[vshah]

imho sony ericsson is worse. the x10 is still on 1.6. and a locked bootloader.

 

[Raduque]

Please people, stop buying Samsung phones.

Worth repeating.

Worth thirding.

Now Samsung and T-Mobile have found a NEW way to screw over Samsung owners - they're releasing a new Vibrant with a "4G" radio, a font-facing camera and 2.2.

Done with T-Mobile as soon as October rolls around.

 

[ponyo]

Worth thirding.

Now Samsung and T-Mobile have found a NEW way to screw over Samsung owners - they're releasing a new Vibrant with a "4G" radio, a font-facing camera and 2.2.

Done with T-Mobile as soon as October rolls around.

I can only laugh because it's so sad. I'm likely done with T-Mobile and Samsung as well come renewal time. By then AT&T should have decent LTE coverage. I'm still hardware whore so I'm sure future Samsung phones will tempt me but it's got to be amazing for me to bite.

 

[Puddle Jumper]

Please people, stop buying Samsung phones.

Samsung isn't that bad, they may be slow to release updates but their phones are easy to root, difficult to brick, and offer top of the line hardware that in many cases you can't get anywhere else. I'm not saying they are perfect but for some of us Samsung's flaws are easier to live with than HTC's or Motorola's.

 

[Bateluer]

Samsung isn't that bad, they may be slow to release updates but their phones are easy to root, difficult to brick, and offer top of the line hardware that in many cases you can't get anywhere else. I'm not saying they are perfect but for some of us Samsung's flaws are easier to live with than HTC's or Motorola's.

This implies that they eventually release updates. This has not been the case.

HTC likes to rehash hardware over and over and over. Motorola build very good hardware, but their locked boot loaders ruin the phones for me.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

This implies that they eventually release updates. This has not been the case.

HTC likes to rehash hardware over and over and over. Motorola build very good hardware, but their locked boot loaders ruin the phones for me.

I still don't get exactly what a unlocked bootloader lets you do.

 

[Bateluer]

I still don't get exactly what a unlocked bootloader lets you do.

Use the kernel of your choice and utilize the onboard storage for custom recovery. Also makes using overclocking, voltage adjustments, etc, easier because you're not using some jury-rigged method. With Moto's boot loaders, you can only modify the /system partition, which is why the roms for the Droid 2/X have been in the dark ages while the Droid 1 is still thriving and going strong. All the Froyo builds for the D2/X use the Moto kernel because they have no choice, any GB builds will be using a kludge with GB /system and a Froyo kernel until a Moto GB build or kernel leaks.

 

[SunnyD]

Worth thirding.

Now Samsung and T-Mobile have found a NEW way to screw over Samsung owners - they're releasing a new Vibrant with a "4G" radio, a font-facing camera and 2.2.

Done with T-Mobile as soon as October rolls around.

And still, I get far better coverage with T-Mo at my home than I do AT&T or VZW... and I like my vibrant. Plays backgammon on the shitter just fine for me (though I'm still wondering where the promised 2.2 update is...).

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Use the kernel of your choice and utilize the onboard storage for custom recovery. Also makes using overclocking, voltage adjustments, etc, easier because you're not using some jury-rigged method. With Moto's boot loaders, you can only modify the /system partition, which is why the roms for the Droid 2/X have been in the dark ages while the Droid 1 is still thriving and going strong. All the Froyo builds for the D2/X use the Moto kernel because they have no choice, any GB builds will be using a kludge with GB /system and a Froyo kernel until a Moto GB build or kernel leaks.

But overclocking and underclocking is already easy on the Droid x. Its just one app.

Also, the ROM scene for the X is doing great. I'm personally using GummyJar which has been flying along with very very few issues. There are decent number of other ones that make the phone extremely fast and responsive. I don't know how much better an unlocked bootloader can make this because its already extremely fast and streamlined.

 

[NYHoustonman]

Please people, stop buying Samsung phones.

Yep :\. I got the Fascinate for free, and it's a great phone after some tweaking, but the fact that Samsung continues to ignore this user base (a surprising number of people I know also own Galaxy S phones) is a huge turnoff.

 

[Bateluer]

But overclocking and underclocking is already easy on the Droid x. Its just one app.

Also, the ROM scene for the X is doing great. I'm personally using GummyJar which has been flying along with very very few issues. There are decent number of other ones that make the phone extremely fast and responsive. I don't know how much better an unlocked bootloader can make this because its already extremely fast and streamlined.

You might be singing a different tune as GB builds get more polish for other phones, while you're on the X with Froyo or a GB kludge with a Froyo kernel. Something I should have added to my first response, when you cannot change the kernel, you become extremely dependent on the manufacturer/carrier for OS updates. With an unlocked phone, so long as the hardware can handle what you're trying to do, it can be done. If Moto decides to not make a GB build or an Ice Cream Sandwich build for the X, you're stuck using a kludge or buying a new phone.

Edit - 1 more thing, I love gadgets, so its highly likely that I will purchase new ones well before my existing one is fully beyond its life span. But its my choice when to purchase a new device, that decision shouldn't be made for me by Verizon or Motorola.

 

[Brian Stirling]

Worth thirding.

Now Samsung and T-Mobile have found a NEW way to screw over Samsung owners - they're releasing a new Vibrant with a "4G" radio, a font-facing camera and 2.2.

Done with T-Mobile as soon as October rolls around.

Hard to match the Asians (Japanese, Koreans, etc) with hardware but they suck with software. That and documentation!


Brian

 

[zerocool84]

Samsung isn't that bad, they may be slow to release updates but their phones are easy to root, difficult to brick, and offer top of the line hardware that in many cases you can't get anywhere else. I'm not saying they are perfect but for some of us Samsung's flaws are easier to live with than HTC's or Motorola's.

Yes Samsung is that bad. They still continue to release phones with tons of bugs and take forever to fix those bugs. That's not even counting the slow OS updates.

 

[foghorn67]

Hard to match the Asians (Japanese, Koreans, etc) with hardware but they suck with software. That and documentation!


Brian

But their GPS. Is it the chip or the drivers/software?

 

[GhettoFob]

But their GPS. Is it the chip or the drivers/software?

I think it's both: linky

With that said, the GPS works way better now that I've rooted my Vibrant and installed a custom rom.

 

[amdhunter]

Samsung Epic owners are crying in a corner somewhere. lol