Comments on: Samsung Galaxy Spica/Portal 2.1 On The Way!

By: pg

pg — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:14:27 +0000

thanks so much ltemby. it took a lot of searching to find someone who actually knew how to help

By: Ltemby

Ltemby — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:19:55 +0000

Hi all
Here is the solution for connecting your Sasung Galaxy Portal to Kies

Make sure Kies is open and your phone is connected to your pc before doing this.
1. On your Samsung Galaxy Portal phone go to Settings>Applications>Development
2. Select USB Debugging (put tick in box) various driver will load on your PC.
3. Now in Kies look at the top left hand corner and you will see the Kies logo and a drop down arrow click this and select driver recovery and let it all load and keep the phone connected. Once you have done this your phone will be connected to Kies

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:51:31 +0000

When i plug my samsung galaxy portal into my usb drive, it doesnt recognise anything

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:56:21 +0000

UK user of i5700 on T-mbile. Ive just (26th May, 4.50pm) spoken to Samsung mobile dept, they said they ARE planning to upgade current users, if the user wants, they dont have a release date for official update, but the guy took all my details and said i’d get an email as soon as release. Fingers crossed it wont be long!

By: DET

DET — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:58:22 +0000

Have just spoken to Samsung (21/5/2010) and, after being on hold for a long time, have been told that there is now no plan to upgrade existing 1.5 users, although 2.1 will be available to new buyers!

By: CL

CL — Mon, 03 May 2010 09:18:45 +0000

Official android 2.1 is already available in Singapore. Got the Galaxy Spica updated with the official software at Samsung Service center. Can’t get the NPS working so went to the service center and got it done. Advice for those who are still trying with the NPS just go down to the service center or wait until someone find a way to get the NPS working.

By: Dan Andrei Grigoroiu

Dan Andrei Grigoroiu — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:10:04 +0000

Hello,

I bought on 24th April 2010 a Samsung Galaxy Spica I5700 from a Vodafone Romania. When I got home I noticed that I cannot connect my phone mobile with my PC after installing Samsung New PC Studio. The program can only see my Micro SD Card. After a while, I discovered a setting in the phone’s menu: “USB connection mode is mass storage only” and it was selected. So I diselected it and tryed to connect to the PC again. Now the program keeps blocking and it won’t recognize the device. Also, I cannot use the phone’s Bluetooth option, so I can’t send or recive any files from other devices. Can you please help me?

By: Harry Barracuda

Harry Barracuda — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:52:48 +0000

There is an option in there somewhere to “Only use phone for Mass Storage” or something, but I can’t get to it to uncheck because I have no f**king connection thanks to this piece of shit phone and the shit software that comes with it.

By: john

john — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:14:17 +0000

i have the latest version of the pc studio but when i connect my phone it doesnt connect to the phone and ums composite F appears

By: Attila

Attila — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:23:05 +0000

Hi,
I’ve just checked the PC Studio 7 (Samsung_PC_Studio_7.2.24.9.exe). This seems to be the Samsung branded version of the Nokia PC Suite. So I think that is only useful with Samsung phones with Symbian OS.
The other PC Suite (New_PC_Studio_1.3.0.IJ1.exe) can recognize the Spica, but only if the USB debug mode is on.
But the update of firmware is still unavailable.

By: LORD DUKO

LORD DUKO — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:03:38 +0000

All are multilanguage hence you can use English in German firmware as well.
Right now NEW PC studio 7/Kies do not support Galaxy spica, we are hoping that in 2nd quarter some update of this software will be available and we will have official Eclare rom to upgrate the firmware to, till then you can wait or search for Mr prabhakarans webpage where he has explained how to upgread to leaked 2.1 ROM

By: Dschi

Dschi — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:52:56 +0000

@Greenthy
i have absolutely no idea
since i wasn’t able to upgrade my phone the official way i used odin with the original 2.1 version to upgrade – worked pretty fine
only thing was that i had to set up my APNs to get the 2G/3G connections working properly.
i’ve also read in this forum that the APN settings ain’t working for all carriers – i was just lucky to have an orange device where this was possible.

anyway, this 2.1 version i used is the german one …

By: Greenthy

Greenthy — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:47:41 +0000

Will we be able to download the 2.1 from the german site or will that force us to use german as language on the OS ? :)

By: Dschi

Dschi — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:41:46 +0000

i’ve just read in a german forum that the software you need for the update is new pc studio 1.3
i installed it and – at least – it shows me that the phone is connected… still not able to upgrade
error is something like “this device doesn’t support andy update”
someone in germany already managed to get his spica to 2.1
afaik this device was unbranded/unlocked
i’va the orange austria lock/branding so that might be the cause of the problem…
i assume that if i’d be able to upgrade the phone it would be unlocked/unbranded aswell and orange wants to suppress this … just my opinion on that

By: Sujoy

Sujoy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:55:36 +0000

The Samsung New PC Studio 7 is not available on Samsung’s website yet. I have been trying to search for it. Do you guys have a direct download URL from Samsung’s mobile website.

I am based in the UK, and any news on the definite date for UK rollout of the Eclair upgrade for the Portal will be highly appreciated.

Cheers!