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Froyo for Galaxy Tab but not SGS ?

I just found out today from various pages online that the galaxy tab is already selling with froyo. Now my understanding is that most of you might already know about it ? When samsung postponed their 23rd sept. release for froyo on the SGS, I was still optimistic hoping that the update would be worth waiting for and solve a majority if not all of our problems with the phone, including lag, whenever it came. But now I learn the update does already exist, but only for a newer device! What am I, as a customer supposed to make of this ? If there already is a froyo firmware existing with the samsung's TouchWiz UI, WHY is not brought to the SGS yet ? Earlier I sympathised with samsung thinking that they're putting decent effort in the froyo update before releasing it to end users. But if this is the scenario, I am very upset....

Mod request: Please move thread to I9000 General section.

Froyo IS coming to SGS, it will be available from this week onwards starting with T-Mobile as you might have already seen on all android forums, blogs and websites.
Galaxy Tab is a big product for Samsung, since it's initial firmware is based on Froyo, I’m pretty sure Samsung is putting a lot more effort into getting Froyo out on the Tab compared to having it on the SGS. Its perfectly understandable. Without Froyo they cant release the Tab, but SGS still functions with 2.1.

I know that. Isn't the hardware on both devices the same ? So why wasn't there a simultaneous release of galaxy tab with froyo and froyo for galaxy s ? What takes things so long for SGS ?

I dont know for sure, but most likely the hardware is similar (if not the same). But the firmware has few differences, for example Samsung had to modify it to fix screen scaling issues for 1024x600; and if you have seen some of the Galaxy Tab demo videos, you might have seen that some of it’s UI components are different too (video conferencing interface, eMail client, etc..). Maybe Samsung is putting most of their developers on Tab's firmware development giving less priority to SGS.

Yes well, this is exactly what I'm saying is wrong, for a company like samsung. Especially in this case for nearly identical devices...
As far as the resolution is concerned, being an engineer, I can say it's not that big an ordeal to scale it down. And if you're saying that the galaxy tab has more components/apps out of the box, then that would logically imply that froyo for galaxy s should have arrived first, as it would require lesser development time. Instead, we're seeing months of delays! How is that justified ?

Prasad007 said:
I just found out today from various pages online that the galaxy tab is already selling with froyo. Now my understanding is that most of you might already know about it ? When samsung postponed their 23rd sept. release for froyo on the SGS, I was still optimistic hoping that the update would be worth waiting for and solve a majority if not all of our problems with the phone, including lag, whenever it came. But now I learn the update does already exist, but only for a newer device! What am I, as a customer supposed to make of this ? If there already is a froyo firmware existing with the samsung's TouchWiz UI, WHY is not brought to the SGS yet ? Earlier I sympathised with samsung thinking that they're putting decent effort in the froyo update before releasing it to end users. But if this is the scenario, I am very upset....
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That would be wonderful if the Tab was already selling. Any idea where to get one right now?

I think samsung has some stability problems with TW crap he loads into SGS. Tab is cleaner (no TW), thus didnt require so much TW porting (and all apps developed for Tab are with 2.2 in mind).
Thats one side, because core system aint close to perfect too.

I see. But the tab has TW 3.0 as well from what I've read in this forum. Your other point however, makes a lot of sense..

[Q] SGS I9000 gets update to Gingerbread!!!!!

Maybe it is old news already but this is what I saw on a Dutch website and I'm happy: SGS I9000 gets update to Gingerbread!!!!!
You can find the news on Tweakers.net
Can anybody confirm?

Couldn't you use question marks (?) instead of exclamation marks (!) since your asking a question?
To answer you question, Samsung are sending mixed signals much like LG. Samsung are most likely looking at the cost/benefit of upgrading the Galaxy S. Obviously, the Galaxy S is more than capable of running Gingerbread.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/09/samsung-undecided-about-gingerbread-on-galaxy-s-google-says-har/

Is it true that Samsung will not upgrade the GT P1010 (wifi only)

I read in a forum that Samsung have stated that there will not be a 2.3.3 Update available for the Galaxy Tab P1010 (wifi only).
I do not know if that is true, the guys from the original thread have been given the same BS answers or a negative one from The Samsung Support from various locations.
Do any of you guys have any idea or have heard anything about this issue?
Thanks.
P.S. I am never buyng Samsung again.

Well the Wifi version is an inferior version of its 3G cousin dues to its lesser CPU/GPU. They are probably trying to get the update to work with those different parts.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/04/wifi-galaxy-tab-running-on-an-older-cpu-than-its-3g-siblings/

I guess that most of the P1010 users are familiar with that, but i do not think that is enough for Samsung to spare us this major upgrade.

It SHOULD not be. I agree with you.
I also posted over at the Galaxy Tab Forums for you as well.
Let us hope that Samsung sees the errors of its ways.

this news sucks
i bought the gt p1010 cause it is ideal for when it comes to school stuff
this news really saddens me

[Q] will official ICS come on GT P7300 (india) ?

i have recently bought GT P 7300 INDIA for around 27000 INR well it has a good processor so are there chances that samsung will release official ICS for the tab
And also please suggest me stable ICS rom if any...
Currently m on 3.2
Thanx in Advance

As you are likely aware Samsung has not released ICS for the Galaxy Tab 8.9 as yet. When it will come is unknown, although they are committed to releasing it.
However there are a number of people with ICS ROMs that work extremely well on the 7300, which has wifi and 3G. However, none of the ICS roms have the camera working, front or back. The manufacturer of the camera has not released the software driver to the developer community, so until Samsung releases the official version, or until someone gets a leaked camera driver, you will not have a camera.
I have been using Galaxian AOSP for about a month. It is here:
[AOKP-R29]Galaxian-Soup[GT-7310/7300]
There are a few bugs, mostly with wifi sometimes needed re-setting after coming out of sleep, and also the camera. Other than that, I'm very happy with it.
Harry

i have asked the customer service,but they told me no ICS update now and they don't know the date of update

[Q] ROMs for the P7510?

Does anyone know where I can find roms for the 10.1 wifi-only P7510? All the roms listed seem to be for gsm/cmda or for the smaller (7") wifi model. I had an old ICS build at one point for my tablet, but I can't seem to find that one anymore either.
Alternately, does anyone know if I can use other roms on the P7510?
Thanks!

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Does anyone know where I can find roms for the 10.1 wifi-only P7510? All the roms listed seem to be for gsm/cmda or for the smaller (7") wifi model. I had an old ICS build at one point for my tablet, but I can't seem to find that one anymore either.
Alternately, does anyone know if I can use other roms on the P7510?
Thanks!
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Dude, your in wrong forum.
If you want 10.1 roms go to the 10.1 forum. This is the P1000 forum (first 7" tab) and is a completely different device.

given the name of the forums...
Samsung Galaxy Tab -->Galaxy Tab General --> [Q] ROMs for the P7510?
That's completely misleading.
Thanks though.

agent0014 said:
given the name of the forums...
Samsung Galaxy Tab -->Galaxy Tab General --> [Q] ROMs for the P7510?
That's completely misleading.
Thanks though.
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How is it completely misleading? Its you who is completely confused.
The P1000 was the first Galaxy Tab, It was/is just called "Galaxy Tab".
What you have is a newer model called "Galaxy Tab 10.1" which is a completely different device. Also, you obviously didn't even bother to look properly or you would have seen the other Tab forums.
There is more then one Galaxy Tab so obviously there is going to be more then one Galaxy Tab forum, pretty much common sense really.