http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for Samsung BlackJack hits today http://www.engadgetmobile.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgetmobile.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 23rd 2008 1:05PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/
I’ll believe it at 5:01 when my download is in progress. No actually, I still won’t believe it until my DL is done, and the install is complete.]]>Jan 23rd 2008 1:20PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 23rd 2008 7:05PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/]]>Jan 23rd 2008 1:32PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 23rd 2008 1:39PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 23rd 2008 5:10PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://ars.samsung.com/customer/usa/jsp/faqs/faqs_view.jsp?SITE_ID=22&PG_ID=557&PROD_SUB_ID=558&PROD_ID=751&AT_ID=83176
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I'll download it just because, but seriously, this kind of still pisses me off.]]>Jan 23rd 2008 4:33PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/The link you see here is still the old link to WM5...Ha Ha
Note: Prior to 5PM EST, you'll be redirected to an old Windows Mobile 5 update for the phone. Hang tight, folks!
So that still does not answer my question about Vista..]]>Jan 23rd 2008 4:57PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/
http://ars.samsung.com/customer/usa/jsp/faqs/faqs_view.jsp?SITE_ID=22&PG_ID=557&PROD_SUB_ID=558&PROD_ID=751&AT_ID=83176

so vista is still screwed.]]>Jan 23rd 2008 10:33PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 23rd 2008 5:14PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/
The cooked ROM's are pretty good, however I did have bluetooth issues with it, which unfortunetly is a deal breaker (WA just passed the "no cell phone use" law).]]>Jan 23rd 2008 5:16PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 23rd 2008 5:57PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 23rd 2008 11:53PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/
Great job Samsung - you update all kinds of information on the BJ software download page to say that WM6 is available now, but then don't bother to update the link to the software. ]]>Jan 23rd 2008 6:10PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 23rd 2008 6:15PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 23rd 2008 6:34PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 23rd 2008 7:19PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/
But on the bright side, I was able to completely erase everything on my Blackjack for nothing! YAY!]]>Jan 23rd 2008 10:31PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 23rd 2008 11:09PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/]]>Jan 23rd 2008 11:28PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/
http://www.samsungwireless.com/techtrain/tekweb/support/downloads/SGH-i607%20WM6%20Upgrade.zip

If you get anything else, don't waste your time.
]]>Jan 24th 2008 12:44AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 24th 2008 4:33AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/]]>Jan 24th 2008 9:50AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 24th 2008 2:14PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 24th 2008 2:52PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 24th 2008 9:34PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 24th 2008 10:03PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/
Also, free ROM memory is like 30MB after the upgrade! Now I can finally install J9 to the ROM. WOOHOO!]]>Jan 27th 2008 9:21PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 24th 2008 10:06PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Other than that everything seems to be much snappier and quicker to load. Oh i noticed the right softkey does not change when an event such as new email or voicemail has occurred. I cant find the config for it so if anyone does let me know.
Oh and ringtones have to be less than 300k in file size which is kinda annoying.]]>Jan 25th 2008 11:00AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 25th 2008 3:56PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 26th 2008 4:10PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 27th 2008 3:10AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Jan 29th 2008 5:17PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/
The tech said that everything's provisioned properly on their switches, so it might be a bad SIM. I went to the local ATT store, had them replace my SIM, but the problem still exists. The store techs tried several things to see if they could ID the cause but no luck. Right now, I have a ticket open in their engineering group to get this looked into.

Will post a follow-up if anything changes.]]>Jan 29th 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/
Sounds like you have at least 2-3 hours already invest. Thanks for your efforts.

Please keep me (us)updated. ]]>Jan 29th 2008 5:23PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/
The L1 technician did some research, came back and said the the OFFICIAL release date of the WM6 upgrade will be 02/04/2008, and that the version released on that date would resolve the SMS/MMS issues.

L1 suggested that I re-install WM5 in the meantime to regain SMS functionality. When asked where I should procure the WM5 installed, since the Samsung website no longer has any links to the WM5/ATT build, he said, "his supervisor said that the WM5 firmware from Microsoft's site." I asked for a URL on the Microsoft site that linked to the Samsung-specific version of WM5, and he tried to find it, gave up, and transferred me to L2 support.

L2 technician said the L1 guy was full of crap regarding the 02/04 date, and that the WM6 build that was released is all that there is. He suggested downgrading to WM5, then reinstalling WM6. Unfortunately, L2 couldn't provide a URL to download WM6, and he didn't know what might happen if I attempted a WM6-to-WM6 reinstall. Said the only other options are to send phone in for Samsung to reflash to WM5, or ask an ATT store tech if they can reflash it to WM5.

End of call.

Bottom line - if you have a copy of WM5 updater for the i607, downgrade, try WM6 again, if it still has problems, re-downgrade and live with it.]]>Jan 29th 2008 6:04PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/
I did a hard reset of the phone, and let it re-format itself. You can do this by:
1 - turn off the phone,
2 - push the nad-pad in the UP direction,
3 - turn on the phone,
4 - press 1 at the prompt, followed by "y" to start the re-format
5 - reboot the phone
6 - test the crap out of the SMS]]>Jan 29th 2008 7:04PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/
It's been approximately an hour. Still SMSing successfully?

(...or are you spending your time reinstalling all the software you just blew out with the hard re-set?)

Remember: One step forward and two steps back!

]]>Jan 29th 2008 8:07PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/
Sigh...]]>Jan 29th 2008 11:25PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/
Finally got everything working. The Internet connectivity issue is fixed by going to...

Settings -> Connections -> Menu -> Advanced

and setting BOTH Internet connection & WAP connection to "MEdia Net"
]]>Jan 30th 2008 1:25AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/
Also, I have checked & rechecked the settings. All appear to be in order.

It seems as if these features have just been "disabled".

I did read on another blog that another user was having the same problem in EDGE. Once in a 3G environment, that user noted the problem went away. I will be stuck in an EDGE environment for the next few days. Thus, I am unable for that amount of time to test this theory.

Does anyone have any comment on this network variation theory?

]]>Jan 30th 2008 3:30AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/
For me, the real test will be if they continue to work after several days.

The one thing that I did notice was that ActiveSync briefly flashed a connection error message when I did a manual update after arriving the EDGE area. But the error message went away in about a quarter of a second, and was replaced by a normal status indicator. So it seems like the radio isn't making a seamless switch between modes.

I'd seen a quasi-similar problem with the original WM5 firmware, but that one required me to re-boot the phone in order to get incoming calls and data after going from a 3G-to-EDGE areas, though I could still make outgoing calls. That was annoying as hell.
]]>Jan 30th 2008 12:08PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/Feb 5th 2008 12:57PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/23/windows-mobile-6-upgrade-for-samsung-blackjack-hits-today/
https://www.wireless.att.com/support/deviceConfig.do?content=KB85556.html]]>Feb 23rd 2008 3:36AM