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?

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

We have no idea why Samsung's having such a hard time delivering its overdue promised Froyo upgrades worldwide for the Galaxy S series, ...

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