Vibrant update pops up in Kies, GPS apparently fixed

By September 29, 2010 9:31 am EST Comments

UPDATE: Not a lot of info here, but T-Mobile announced via their Twitter account, in response to a user, that it’s best to wait for the update OTA:

“An OTA update will be announced soon. Please do not install the kies update due to some known issues.”

END UPDATE (Thanks, Jon)

If you’re a Vibrant owner that is not using Samsung’s syncing and update app, Kies, now might be the time to download it. Users are reporting the availability of software update JI5, which, while still Android 2.1, contains a number of fixes, including a major improvement in GPS performance! Media Hub, is on board as well. That’s pretty much all the information we have at the moment, but if you get the update, let us know what your experience is like in the comments.

Download Kies here.


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Thanks to Scott for sending this in!

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8 inch gps crv

Kies keeps closing the update on an error on me.

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Nandyn

Do not install from kies. The version that is available from samsung via kies is the version that has bricked internal test phones at t-mobile HQ. Samsung is releasing knowing it can brick your phone just so they can tell people they kept their fix by september promise.

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Deejee23

I have had the update 1 for weeks, maybe months... This is not something that is new to me. I checked Keis last night and there wasn't an update.

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Derail Doax

I was having this problem till I read you can't be running any alternate launcher. So I disabled LauncherPro and sure enough it could see my Vibrant. But it still says there is no update for my version. So its pointless, although having a Samsung made iTunes style sync program sounds awesome. I'm going to keep Kies just for backing up and syncing.

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Prashant Patel

Kies can't connect to the phone. Kies said it's unsupported for this phone. Booooooo!

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JonW

Per T-Mobile via Twitter: From T-Mobile: @jammallnyte73 An OTA update will be announced soon. Please do not install the kies update due to some known issues.

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Carlos Colon

Kies keeps closing the update on an error on me. I don't know if it's compatible with Windows 7 and that is the reason, but I can't upgrade because it force-closes.

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Anthony Martinez

Will this Work with root, or do I need to unroot?

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Sandovalbryan25

I will have to try later tonight

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Ddddd

Ok so I attempted to update and it said there isn't one available so whats going on here?

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radr

It would be nice if i could even connect kies to go give the update a shout but the only way kies will see my phone is when i select mass storage. then it tells me it can not use this method. but when select samsung kies it wont see the phone connected! WTF

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Ishman Allen-litchmore

Is there an update for the i9000 to?

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Yoyo

it should work with root if that's all you are is rooted and not running any custom rom...

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