Samsung Galaxy S Market Icon Upgrade

crazybaldhead

Hi folks,

Hope someone can help. My mother has a Samsung Galaxy S (in pristine condition I might add) and now wants to start using Viber etc as my sis is in foreign shores. I have set her up with a google account, however when I tried to log in to the account it says it cant contact the google servers.

Im assuming the phone is not up to date as it is the Market Icon rather than the Google Play Icon that is on the phone. I have read online about flashing or rooting the phone, which I have no idea how to do.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Ta

Ste-

crazybaldhead wrote: »

Hi folks,

Hope someone can help. My mother has a Samsung Galaxy S (in pristine condition I might add) and now wants to start using Viber etc as my sis is in foreign shores. I have set her up with a google account, however when I tried to log in to the account it says it cant contact the google servers.

Im assuming the phone is not up to date as it is the Market Icon rather than the Google Play Icon that is on the phone. I have read online about flashing or rooting the phone, which I have no idea how to do.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Ta

If the original firmware is still 2.1 as was on the s before it got upgraded to 2.2 then later to 2.3 the market won't update to the play store. Try going into about phone and try update firmware in there before going to rooting and flashing. Altho personally custom roms on the original s are the way to go.

Hope this helps.

crazybaldhead

Thanks for that, not giving me the option to update on the phone.

Could you recommend somewhere to get that done?

Ste-

Best off doing it yourself. Google and xda are your friends. You'll need Odin most likely tho. There's even a port of kitkat for the galaxy s. Not used it mind you. Upgraded to a s3 and now on the nexus 5.