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Samsung pulls Froyo update for Bell's Vibrant after reports of fried internal storage

<DIV class=separator style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE6YTCFqPp6hPcurxMHjghWIvfrpueI_0WDwyA2LTWf9VljvIOZuBl7GNJ4Y8gduTPU3FQTFiZWFtTju1TVHhYP_vA6-VeNip-PRWByFQC3JayxWGdY-59VEp_gzG2JcWCd5m6-kIsOHM/s1600/bell-vibrant-sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE6YTCFqPp6hPcurxMHjghWIvfrpueI_0WDwyA2LTWf9VljvIOZuBl7GNJ4Y8gduTPU3FQTFiZWFtTju1TVHhYP_vA6-VeNip-PRWByFQC3JayxWGdY-59VEp_gzG2JcWCd5m6-kIsOHM/s1600/bell-vibrant-sm.jpg"></A></DIV>We have no idea why Samsung's having such a hard time delivering its overdue promised Froyo upgrades worldwide for the Galaxy S series, but it's not looking any easier for them this weekend: the only Canadian Galaxy S to get upgraded so far, Bell's Vibrant, has just had its update pulled. Seems a healthy number of users attempting the upgrade using Sammy's Kies desktop software ended up with inaccessible internal storage, which sucks for a variety of obvious reasons -- and that would be the apparent reason for the removal of the update. Here's the official statement: <br /><BLOCKQUOTE>"There have been intermittent issues reported during the firmware upgrade process with Kies for the Samsung Galaxy S i9000M series of phones. Samsung's development team is currently aware of this issue and working towards a solution. Accordingly, The firmware update feature, which affects the ability to upgrade to Android 2.2, is temporarily disabled until a solution is released. We apologize for the inconvenience."</BLOCKQUOTE>Maybe we can just go straight to Gingerbread or Honeycomb at this point?