Samsung Europa/i5550/Galaxy 5

Will it be up to each carrier in Ireland to roll this out or can Kies just do it? Also if i upgraded with the unofficial one and it works great, should i upgrade with the official one or is it the same thing?

shadowninty wrote: »

the leaked official one may have been improved since, so best to upgrade

cool il upgrade when the official release is out, how can i back up my apps as i lost them all when i upgraded last time, is there a way to prevent this?

Just to say.. I love this phone. My needs were Google services, mail and very light web access, along with simple Market access, in a *small phone under 120 euro.*

I got stung once with data use before discovering the ease with which you can restrict access on 2.2.

I've migrated from a Nokia 6230, so the camera isn't something that's dissapointed me too much, you get a lot of features in a tight package.

The screen resolution is low, but given my needs, it isn't something that bothers me.

Noticed yesterday that there is a firmware update for the phone via Kies. Tried to update the phone, followed all of the prompts, and left it there for about 1.5 hrs with the downloading screen on the phone. Got fed up & disconnected it. It didn't update so I tried again later. Same thing happened.

Has anyone else tried to update? or can anyone offer guidance?

El Pr0n, that looks a bit over the top for the phone you intend to root. Some of the advice on that page is for more advanced phones.

I would suggest visiting xda-developers and reading up on the SuperOneClick thread. 1.7 works perfectly with the Samsung Europa.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682

It is a one click solution to Root the phone and installing SU (Super User).

I rooted my Europa with the above link. Please read what the app developer is saying at the start of the thread, particularly the advice written in red.

You NEED to put your phone on USB Debugging mode
You NEED to install make sure the Android drivers for your phone are installed
Make sure you DO NOT mount your SD card.
If you still can't get something to run, try doing it in recovery mode.

You will need Samsung Kies installed before using the above.

http://www.samsungapps.com/about/onPc.as

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EDIT: Just to say, Rooting isn't some magical be all and end all, you'll still have a phone whether you Root it or not. If you have to ask yourself\you're not sure why you need to Root, then don't.

Amalgam wrote: »

I got stung once with data use before discovering the ease with which you can restrict access on 2.2.

Seems I got stung too, for a little bit of internet radio...
is there a way of controling the data tranfer, and have it cut off at e.g. 45 MB (if I have an allowance of 50 MB a day) to protect me from robbery?

Thanks for useful hints!

Just tried updating to the latest firmware using kies. How long should it take?

Kies has finished but my phone has a yellow android symbol in the style of a roadworks sign and says downloading

Is the official 2.2 available yet on Keis for the i5500 ?

Is your phone sim free or from a particular phone company?

As far as I can tell, from the Samsung forums, Kies has been pushing 2.2 out to the Samsung Europa since about March 6th.

Major Problems, as in Ive resorted to myother old phone as my alarm!
When I unlock my phone it goes off-must be a problem with the settings but clueless

gimmick wrote: »

Any of you have problems with the alarm on this phone? For me, it seems to forget to go off some mornings, while others there are no problems.

Now I realise that when it forgets to go off I get some valuable extra rest, but I think my boss will not be too understanding should it keep happening.

Yeah this has happened to me, I have the alarm set for Monday to Friday, every now and again it picks a random morning not to go off.

Zonda999 wrote: »

http://it.paperblog.com/samsung-corby-i5500-disponibile-android-froyo-22-342534/

Good new folks, sounds like the Europa is finally getting Froyo(The froyo SDK was released last MAY, i might add... :rolleyes:). Doesn't seem to be here yet though, plugged my sisters i5500 into kies and nothing is coming up. It'll probably become available for us when the Galaxy S gets Gingerbread here, which should be in the next 24 hours surely

i think it depends what network you're with and if they are gonna release it, i'm with o2 and they wont release it

ya can download the european froyo and flash it to the phone and its realy easy
download odin http://www.4shared.com/file/J-WSCJSX/odin_v428_and_ops_file.html and the euro froyo http://hotfile.com/dl/103739297/0756f29/I5500XWJP9.rar.html

make sure ya do a backup with kies first

turn off the phone and pull the battery for a few seconds, put it back and hold volume down, the power and select buttons till a yellow android figure appears, connect to a pc and start odin

make sure auto reboot and protect ops are ticked, click ops and it select it, it's in the same folder as odin
all the other files are in the second download
click boot and then select BOOTLOADER_I5500XXJPF.tar.md5
click phone and select MODEM_I5500.tar.md5
click pda and select PDA_I5500XWJP9_CL880109.tar.md5
click csc and select I5500OXXJP3_CSC_OXX_CL832222.tar.md5
efs doesn't matter

the first box on the top should of turned yellow when ya connected the phone so click start and then wait, the phone might restart once or twice but wait until the yellow box turns blue i think and it says pass

the phone will probably boot in german but look for the settings icon, little blue gear and go into that and look for sprache or spruche and select english

its much better on froyo