Remember the Android software update which dropped yesterday for the Samsung Vibrant that was supposed to fix the known GPS issues? Well, it looks like T-Mobile would rather you wait for the official OTA that should be coming out soon, as the Kies update seemed to have some issues.
Samsung is said to have removed the Kies GPS fix, so don’t think you’re doing something wrong if you’re not prompted to update through Kies. T-Mobile will announce the availability of the official GPS fix update soon, but the MyTouch 3G and Slide were also supposed to be updated “soon” in June, so take that at face value. We doubt it will take jtoo long, but we do know that T-Mobile can be a little slow to roll when it comes to their launch estimates.
We’re still not sure what issues the Kies update had, but we’re not really willing to find out. My Vibrant review unit has been one of the buggiest phones I’ve probably ever touched in my life, so I’m not really willing to sacrifice any more functionality from this phone any time soon. While it’s unlikely, it would be great if T-Mobile sent out an OTA that had the GPS fix along with some Froyo. We can hope.
So if you’re experiencing problems with your Vibrant after updating through Samsung Kies, you may want to call customer service to see what they might be able to do for you. If you’re rooted, however, hopefully you backed up your ROM before the update was applied. If not, there’s a decent number of ROMs out there that you can install if your Vibrant is really suffering. Hopefully T-Mobile will be pushing out this OTA sometime soon to take care of the issues that some of you may be experiencing.
As for now, we suggest you use the manual fix that we posted a while back still. It may not work for everyone, but many people have reported that their GPS has improved after using it, so give it a go if you haven’t yet.
[Via: Twitter]