New Firmware from Kies

I got the latest kies, I connect but it tells me my JF4 is the latest...?

i do hope they're not relasing JG4 as an update here in europe... running beta jm5 and it works great so far. So it should be at least jm5 for us european user

So did you see the notification in Kies?  If not, bring it down to Plaza Sing to update.

There only difference I see in the new firmware is a new task manager built in, but does not automatically kill task like most task managers found in market.

yes its newer and they follow the alpabetical order somehow

i'm from Singapore. i tried to install it three times, thrice it only download half way and stopped with an error(MSC Thunder Firmware update has encounterd a ploblem and needs to close.) ... u know why?  

i finally sucessfully installed the new firmware using another laptop thats newer than me desktop in office and home.

seem pretty fast and interesting...new things to explore.

but everything is a new... the apps and games i installed in the previous version were gone...and need to reconfig my setting and find them again in the market...

NEW finding:
there's a new window showing Activie apps.

any new finding can post here...

Hi,

Did a firmware update from JF3 to JG4 and all has gone smoothly except for a few irritants which I wish I knew earlier. So hope this "Task-to-do-before-updating-your-Galaxy-S" helps.

1. Backup you contacts via Kies. It can thankfully restore it from PC back to your mob without any issues

2. Backup you SMS's using SMS Backup and Restore or some other Android app. Kies CANNOT  restore your SMS's from PC to mob....Grrr  ... and I tried looking for a format converter to convert from kies .sme format to xml but no luck. Thankfully i had an older backup but i have lost a good bit...
The data backup should be in /sdcard/SMSBackupRestore i.e. on your internal 8/16gb storage

A bit of ranting - personally i think Kies is a useless crap program. It seems to be good only for backing up contacts and firmware updates. And it really makes me miss Nokia's Ovi suite. Despite all the other faults of nokia sw and hw this was one really well integrated package that exemplified ease-of-usage esp with backup and firmware updates. But i digress...

3. Backup all your other imp data via other means onto you sd card  or onto the web (calendar sync with gmail, colornote, pics, music, videos,etc)

4. Copy all this data backup and any other data that you want to save from your  8/16gb  internal SD storage as well as external microSD Card to your PC via Mass storage mode.

5. I did a complete (umount and) reformat of my internal 16gb and external 23gb microsd card. I dont think this is strictly necessary but then there was quite a bit of app crap lying about so thought it best to start with a clean slate.
Note that to connect to Kies it seems that one has to unmount the internal sd card. In my case i had to do both int and ext before things worked. In any case I had backed up all data before hand.

Finally start the firmware update via Kies ....

Just a few points I observed about the firmware and its after effects -
- all my previous apps disappeared . Was expecting this but when i first tried the App Market I found that the download list displaying my previous app list and AT THIS POINT I could install them. However when I subsequently closed the app market and reopened it the download list only showed my currently installed apps.
- the update did retain my mob network settings and data (egde/3g) settings. however wifi access points, bluetooth devices were lost

Things are running faster but then these are early days...

HTH