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New “Official” Rom Released for Omnia i910

Received email this afternoon…

Thank you for your interest in adding open GPS to your Samsung Omnia from Verizon Wireless. To download the software that will add this feature to your phone, go to:

http://support.vzw.com/phones/index.html?p=4366

Once you download the new software, your Omnia will be equipped with not only VZ Navigator but will also allow you to use other navigational services that you obtain from third party retailers.

Verizon Wireless
Customer Service

Note was sent by Stephen Schwed…

I flashed one of my Omnia i910’s last night. Smooth install, took longer to download the software than to do the flash. Flashing took aprox 7 mins.

GPS is unlocked and it appears that the aGPS functionality is there unlike the Rom upgrade for the Samsung Saga.

Not a lot of additional changes noted, but I don’t have service on that phone to really check it out. Will flash my main phone Friday sometime after I make sure I have copies of everything. I want to reload everything from scratch to get the most out of memory etc.

 Thank you for your interest in adding open GPS to your Samsung Omnia
from Verizon Wireless.  To download the software that will add this
feature to your phone, go to:
 http://support.vzw.com/phones/index.html?p=4366

Once you download the new software, your Omnia will be equipped with not
only VZ Navigator but will also allow you to use other navigational
services that you obtain from third party retailers.

Verizon Wireless
Customer Service

Omnia Software, Samsung Omnia SCH-i910
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5 comments

Jackg posted on July 23, 2009:

I tried the above link and get “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.” What gives?
kreed posted on July 23, 2009:

Link was messed up in the blog entry. Fixed.
Michael posted on July 27, 2009:

I clicked on the link but am not seeing anything that I can download — is the link still working?
kreed posted on July 27, 2009:

The download link is at the bottom right side of the page.
kreed posted on August 8, 2009:

I updated my primary phone about a week ago. Works basically the same as before, but the GPS is unlocked.

There is some aGPS functionality, but it doesn’t necessarily extend to 3rd party programs.

I don’t use GPS often, but it doesn’t take too long to lock.