World of Leion

I have just traded by HTC Hero for Samsung Galaxy S 2 or 3 weeks ago. So far it is still easy to adapt to the new interface. In fact, I do not miss the Sense interface much. There are pros and cons from both vendors but I am still loving SGS. All the more now that the official Froyo Android 2.2 upgrade has been delivered to this phone.

I received news last night near midnight that Froyo was available and wasted no time. Boot into windows and looked for Samsung Kies to download and install. Downloading a 135mb file at 800kB to 1Mb per second still took a considerable 2 or 3 minutes. The wait was unbearable… When I finally fired up the installation, the installation got stuck at a .NET 4.0 framework part. The good thing is that there was a warning message stating that this part may take a long time. It took like forever before the KIES was properly installed.

The good thing is that detecting my SGS and installing the firmware was a breeze.  Well, 30 minutes is a breeze compared to the .NET part.

The new firmware is I900DXJPA.

The upgrade did not mess up my installed applications, contacts, sms or call logs. The bad thing is that some of my installed apps are not 2.2 ready. I have thought that there was something wrong with the upgrade and did a full reset and I realised this halfway when I am reinstalling my apps. Not a big issue. Just some save games got resetted. Not really a big deal here. The one thing I am not happy is that the linking of my google contacts with the facebook contacts was not saved. This is the part where HTC has done better.

I notice there is an new app called Press Reader. I assume this is a Samsung app as I do not recall having saw this in 2.2 Hero roms before. It does not launch, only say Service will be available first. I guess can only wait to see what is does.  There is a similar app like this for iphone. Seems like this is a port over from iphone.