New phone needed..

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Hi People..

I'm in the market for a new SIM Free handset.

Prefereably an Android based phone, as my GF's phone is awesome (Samsung Galaxy Portal). I've got a crapped Nokia 5330 XpressMusic. It's playing up, and waiting for a replacement; just wanted a newer.. better overall phone.

Budget £250~

TIA,

Jake
 
Just get a Galaxy Portal too, it's an excellent phone bar the 3D performance.

Its a world apart from the cheaper phones.
I'd disagree, having a Galaxy Portal myself I have to say the performance of the desire is only really incrementally better than the Samsung bar the 3D issue which doesn't really affect me on a day to day basis.
 
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Where's the best place to get handsets only? I'd prefer to buy it in a store so I can have it instantly.. (the Galaxy Portal I'm referring too)
 
Play.com and Expansys both sell a lot of decent handsets. I'm assuming posting that is OK as OCUK do not sell phones.
 
You're not going to get a particularly good price from a store, you can get next day on auctions if you look around. I assume you want to get one with 2.1?
 
I bought one for £165 + RMSD on the bay. Brand new.. unlocked. Didn't look if it was 2.1.. is it upgradable to that?
2.1 isn't officially out as an upgrade yet in the UK but phones from 3 have it, you can flash it yourself though if you're up to it, 2.1 is so much better than 1.5.
 
I got my new phone, The White/Green Galaxy Portal.. Awesome phone.. been getting used to it.

Now.. I need help in rooting it.. as I've seen Equk make his phone faster and among other things etc. I've looked on SamDroid forums, but I can't make sense of it.. Any tips or links?

Thanks.
 
What firmware is on the handset? Version number etc? This is the guide I followed for rooting: http://forum.samdroid.net/f28/spica...sd-busybox-wifi-tether-etc-04-15-2010-en-624/

It may not work with the firmware on your handset so make sure you have JCE or above, if not you'll have to flash one of the firmwares from samsung firmwares. I rooted with JE1 fine.

The main things you need to know really is that you need odin to do this, there are some guides on using odin on the samdroid forums, it allows you to flash files to the phone when it is in "download" mode. Then you boot into recovery mode and apply the update zip to finish it off.

Guide on odin here: http://forum.samdroid.net/f26/i5700-how-flash-your-phone-odin-113/

Does that make sense? Make sure you ask here or over on the samdroid board before flashing everything to make sure you're not making a silly mistake, don't want to brick your phone.
 
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Thanks Skyfall, very helpful.

I've got 2.1-update1 and baseband i570EXXJC1 and Build Number ECLAIR.XXJCD.

Not sure if that's applicable.
 
That's what I was looking for, I think you should be able to root it using the method in the thread I linked, but I would probably ask in that thread or another on the samdroid board to see if anyone else has successfully rooted using JC1.
 
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