Last year I bought a Samsung Galaxy Portal, which runs Android 1.5. I was fairly impressed, particurly with the Gmail contact sync as well as geeky things like geotagging photos, and latitude.
I had problems getting it to talk to my computer. After a bit of research I discovered that it will only talk to Samsung's "New PC Studio" if USB Debugging is turned on, and will only show up as a USB drive if it is turned off. When connected to Ubuntu it doesn't seem to matter.
Trying this with the version of "New PC Studio" showed that it recognised my phone but it wouldn't actually do anything with it. I wanted to upgrade my phone to a newer version of Android so I can play with some of the new features so I did some more research. After trying a couple of versions which people had suggested I found one which worked - 1.5.1.10064_2 (I actually installed 1.4.0 IL2 which upgraded itself), but you can download 1.5 from Samsung now). I tried updating the phone, but for some reason the phone rebooted during the upgrade and the upgrade didn't complete. PC Studio told me to press the volume down, power and camera buttons to do a restore, but this turned the phone on and everything seems fine. Now if I load PC Studio and go into the upgrade option it says I need to restore my phone, but since it's working fine I reluctant to do that. I'll come back to this another day.
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