[efjay]

lastdon, on Aug 6 2008, 02:52 PM, said:

efjay? on your F8 you have power savings? where what menu?
I'LL TELL YOU WHAT EVERYONE IF YOU HAVE VISTA dont try it.

I even noticed with my DSL MODEM when flashing, after going through the initial reboot, it wont wakeup the pc to recongnize it.

Vista might be the issue at hand.

Wifi powersave settings are in Wireless manager > menu>wifi settings>>menu>advanced.

[tropolite]

There's a few more widgets available - a cool Phone Book one with pics - a block of 4.

Scrolling in the phonebook is great! Great!

[Kings Lee]

Successful upgrade from F2 to G4!

My PC:
Windows Server 2003 SP2
ActiveSync 4.5

The steps:
1. Install the Samsung USB driver
2. Reboot
3. Removed most devices that is connected via USB, such as bluetooth dongule, card reader, etc...
4. Connect Omnia with PC and wait for activeSync to get connected and sync finished
5. Start the upgrader executable
6. Checked the two boxes and click the button
7. Click ok then my Omnia reboots into the black background white text "Samsung Omnia" screen.
8. 1st file download starts, it finishes quickly
9. 2nd file download starts, it takes a little bit time, and a progress bar should should on Omnia's screen (green color)
10. 3rd file download starts, seems to finish quite quickly
11. Then the computer will find a new hardware, Samsung CDMA modem, and installs the driver for it, and it should complete automatically
12. After a while, 4th file download starts, afterwards the upgrader will say download finish
13. Omnia will turn off itself... perhaps wait a little while before disconnecting Omnia from PC, as I am not sure at first about what my Omina is doing
14. Then try to turn on Omnia by pressing the power button for a few seconds
15. Luckily my Omnia turns on!

Difference noticed so far:
1. After the animation logo, there will be a Samsung logo in black background for a few moments when start up
2. Storage memory free: 42.76M, Program memory free: 57.79M free
3. More widgets in Samsung widget today plug-in
4. Samsung today 1 plugin
5. One Chinese input method (haven't try yet)
6. Takes a little longer to start up, and make a little "beep" noise after animation and sound


Kings

This post has been edited by Kings Lee: 07 August 2008 - 03:03 AM

[starbuck123]

tropolite, on Aug 7 2008, 02:57 AM, said:

There's a few more widgets available - a cool Phone Book one with pics - a block of 4.

Scrolling in the phonebook is great! Great!

Hey tropolite, are having problems with your touch feedback? After I flashed my phone to G4, the feedback only works on certain area of the phone like the menu.

BTW, the OS I used to upgrade the phone was windows XP pro.

This post has been edited by starbuck123: 07 August 2008 - 03:11 AM

[loonsy]

efjay, on Aug 7 2008, 01:35 AM, said:

At least you didnt get bricked. I think the evidence is mounting that this update is not ready for prime time and should at least be approached with the knowledge that you could very well end up with at worst an unusable device or at the very least a failed update. I think I will be waiting for G10 before I update

Hiya efjay, did the update on another computer. Everything went smoothly, only difference I have is it only downloaded 4 files instead of 5.

So far quite happy with the new rom, extra widgets, extra programs, faster response (not so laggy).

Will continue testing the new rom, and update on any new findings.

[starbuck123]

loonsy, on Aug 7 2008, 03:10 AM, said:

Hiya efjay, did the update on another computer. Everything went smoothly, only difference I have is it only downloaded 4 files instead of 5.

So far quite happy with the new rom, extra widgets, extra programs, faster response (not so laggy).

Will continue testing the new rom, and update on any new findings.

Is your feedback/vibration working after the upgrade?? See 2 post up. Does it work when you use the keyboard?

[tropolite]

starbuck123, on Aug 7 2008, 04:37 AM, said:

Hey tropolite, are having problems with your touch feedback? After I flashed my phone to G4, the feedback only works on certain area of the phone like the menu.

BTW, the OS I used to upgrade the phone was windows XP pro.

Hi Starbuck - Yeah, not too sure on that - I seem to think its for the scrolling response. It could also be that 4:55am and I haven't gone to bed yet - and I've got an Exchange 2007 training course to do in a couple hours! D'Oh.

Some more new bits...

A business card reader!
Better File/Folder management options
Notes
Tasks (was that there before?)

This post has been edited by tropolite: 07 August 2008 - 03:34 AM

[loonsy]

G4 update:

Previous ROM G2


New additional applications

New additional widgets for Widget plugin

New Today1 plugin

New clock application

New calculator application

New business card scanner

New chinese input phonepad


Settings options changes

Vibetonz option for manner title now changed to call alert, vibration options from 20 dropped to just 5 with this ROM

Screen text size option seems to have smaller font now

Power option now has WiFi power saving mode option

Screen rotation animation changed


Other changes

Overall speed and responsiveness enhanced

Overall better calibration of accelerometer


Should be fixed

Default windows menu still do not finger scroll
(easily fixed till next update by adding ftouchflo 1.41 from xda-developers)

This post has been edited by loonsy: 07 August 2008 - 03:32 AM

[efjay]

tropolite, on Aug 6 2008, 03:22 PM, said:

Hi Starbuck - Yeah, not too sure on that - I seem to think its for the scrolling response. It could also be that 4:55am and I haven't gone to bed yet - and I've got an Exchange 2007 training course to do in a couple hours!  D'Oh.   

When u say scrolling response is that because scrolling has been implemented everywhere now?

[lastdon]

efjay, on Aug 6 2008, 01:57 PM, said:

Wifi powersave settings are in Wireless manager > menu>wifi settings>>menu>advanced.

hmm u mean the settings that allow u to shut off the device after 10minutes or something?

i have"

turn on available network notification

and turn off wifi if not connected in: