Any Android updates of Samsung Gio?

[connexx]

My friend has Samsung Gio with Android 2.3.4
Are there any android updates for this phone or is she stuck at this version?
Just looking for OTA updates or official updates
as we do not want to root and do all that other stuff to put on CM

TIA

[Furry Atom]

No that phone will never officially go past Gingerbread. Ignoring every other issue, it's severely limited by having only 278MB of RAM.

[LouisR]

Yeah, that phone is definitely going to remain with GB 2.3.4, no way a Samsung TouchWiz/Nature UI ICS or JB ROM would fit in there, CM9 and 10 barely do.

You could always try out CM9 and revert to stock 2.3.4 afterwards if you want. You'll have to convert your partitions to ext4 (easy) and back to RFS (a bit trickier) but it is entirely feasible.

Now, is your friend willing to try this? Do you mind playing "tech support"?
(If she's concerned about warranty, unless the thing is *completely* hard-bricked or you've screwed with stl5 and lost your IMEI, it can be brought back to stock. SIM locked back even.)

A few do's and don'ts:

Do:
-If you want to SIM unlock: while on stock ROM, root, get bml5, get the unlock code, perform the actual unlock. AOSP ROMs don't have all the required libraries/apks to do it.
-Have a working adb/Android SDK installation (better yet: add it to the PATH environment variable)
-Make sure Kies is completely shut down
-Get: Odin 4.42, the GIO_v1.0.ops file (Odin is actually picky about how the file is named), the Odin flashable 5660M stock backup ROM, RFS format dumps for the /data and /cache partitions, CWM recovery, an ext4 converter (I'm not sure if the CM9 install script does it or not), CM9 or maybe the CM10 alphas Maclaw has recently uploaded.

Don't:
-Touch stl5. Don't even attempt to read it outside of recovery. You will f*ck up your phone.
-Flash Europe/Asia GT-S5660 basebands.

Good luck,

Louis

[LouisR]

I would also add that it would be very wise to get a Class 10 microSDHC card if you intend to use any of the Apps2SD-type scripts (I recommend CronMod), the difference is night and day.