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New gingerbread leaks out ep1w.....

Hopefully we get this build ota soon...p3 droid says it is the official build of gingerbread for our phone. He says there are no known issues after 30 days use.

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WCMack

Dear DC5,

I don't mean to be argumentative, but I read his post and I would not really say he said it was the "official" build. In fact he used the word "unofficial" and I would think that any leaked version of the OS would have to be considered that; the only "official" version will be the one that Verizon/Samsung releases.

Having said that, it is probably pretty close to the real thing I would guess. I am too much of a choir boy to risk my warranty on an in-the-wild download of a new version of the OS. Especially since I really don't have the experience of flashing all this software into the phone, and one mistake puts the phone in brick mode, as I understand it.

Anyway, good luck if you decide to take the plunge!

DC5_K20Z1

Oh no I'm not downloading it...I'm waiting got the official ota update. In a few different forums people asked if this build was the official and thats what people serum to think is that on his page there was official build....but he said unofficial as it has not been released yet so it is unofficial....but a few different people on a few different forums seem to think this could be the final build....but yea it very well might not be either.....I'm just reporting what others have been talking about.

WCMack

No worries. I just did not want people to take the word "official" too seriously. There are so many of us waiting for the next iteration of the OS to see if it solves some of the problems people have been having. If they felt an official version was out, but had not received it OTA, there would be tons of posts here asking why.

trparky

Actually, it's pretty darn hard to hard-brick this phone. And by that I mean being unable to recover it.

The reason is that no matter what you do you can always get into Emergency Download Mode. You do this by turning the phone off and then holding down the Volume-Down Rocker Switch while powering the phone on and keeping the Volume-Down Rocker Switch depressed until you have the screen with a big yellow triangle in the middle. The reason is that this mode is hard-embedded into the phone's core SoC (or System on a Chip) in ROM (or Read-Only Memory). You have to do some really bad things do mess with that part of the phone.

When most people think of bricking a phone, it really isn't bricked. It's more like a soft-brick as versus a hard-brick. A hard-brick would be messing up the Emergency Download Mode which as I said above, it's pretty darn close to impossible to mess that part up.

Once getting into Emergency Download Mode, you can always use a tool called ODIN to reflash the core ROM along with the partition data file (a PIT file) and get back to a working phone in under ten minutes. This is the same process that Samsung does when they have to fix phones but they use slightly different software tools to do this process.

WCMack

Dear trparky,

That's nice to know. But it doesn't change my mind. I guess I am just too conservative when it comes to messing with a relatively new phone. I understand the process, but I am not ready to try it.

Thanks.

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