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[Galaxy S I9000 General] exjc1986:
Thanks for the reply!! The reason why i started this thread was to get the feedback from people who have updated their phones via Kies and not via flashing roms... Its possible that the firmware for international version of I9000 differ from each other depending on the region, so its possible that not everyone is experiencing the same performace boost...

So I just want a review of sorts from people who are already using it!!! :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JJEgan:
As their is no current Kies release for Gingerbread and the initial release did not spread very far not many have the Kies firmware . Most of us have the unofficial 2.3.3 .

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hadji1:
always try to :

compare stock to stock roms and not custom to stock roms..

so u ll see that a late custom Froyo 2.2.1 Rom is far better than stock Gingerbread by all means..and thats normal due to developing. But the truth is that stock Gingerbread is way better than stock Froyo. Its faster..less laggy than Froyo and the first custom build in 2.3.3 are very promissing..its a a matter of time :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dna1982:
the newer the better... I think...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] elhennig:
Official? As far as I know the GB version are only leaked firmwares made by Samsung!

Still I gave it a try....

I am running the XXJVK and the lag was not as big as with original froyo even when I was running stock kernel on RFS. Obviously Samsung has improved a few things in the filesystem driver.

Now I use supercurios GB kernel (Gingerbread-GT-I9000-stock-from-sources-kernel+hacks). It includes root access (have to install superuser app, however), lagfix and cwm. For better sound I bought supercurios Voodoo Control Plus app

I am very happy with this firmware: First of all the phone seems much snappier compared to Froyo running speedmod kernel K13. Also the battery life has improved significantly!

The Quadrant benchmark results in values between 1500 and 1700.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hold3n:
froyo much stable than ginger.. js8 is fantastic!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JJEgan:
2.2.3 better than JS8 but now back to stock ready for SGS 2

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ryann0:
I personally think Gingerbread feels better, especially the ROMs which are born from it :)

2.2.1 always felt like it was missing something
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Irwell:
I'm loving my Galaxy S even more since the switch to Gingerbread. I think the main thing I noticed before I flashed a mod was more speed.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sargorn:
I've been on JVB for a while now. It's not without it's bugs, but I wouldn't downgrade back to Froyo though.

It's generally faster, and the battery life has been very good compared to froyo.

That said, I'll be flashing the next release of gingerbread. It's not as 'complete' in terms of bugfixes as the later froyo releases. (Which given the amount of froyo releases and the time frame, is understandable).

Hopefully next release is a 2.3.4!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JJEgan:
Yes but Froyo was a full release 2.3 is beta .

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dsmaori:
I made the change last week and loved it for about 1 day. It is much faster and better graphics however my wifi, internet and gmail are now no longer working and it appears I have to re-teach the swype texting. If anyone can help with these I'd really appreciate it orI think I'll try to change back to 2.2 however I can't find the links for the 2.2 firmware now...help!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tatsuya79:
Still some bugs to fix in Gingerbread but a lot of improvements you don't see at first.

One I didn't hear about (usually it's about web stuff or games) but I noticed is audio latency.

If you tried a virtual keyboard like xPiano on Froyo you got about 40-50ms delay which made it hard to enjoy.

On Gingerbread it feels like it is now in the 10-20ms range, quite great.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tkalli:
I have tried various GB ROM's with various kernels.

GB is buggy as you all know.

It is limited as far as kernels and themes, but more are now available.

However, I always end up flashing back to 2.2.1(Froyo)

Tricky103's Laila's Rom ZSJPG (Latest speedmod kernel k13e) is the best ROM and kernel I have used.

Fast or Faster than GB and great battery life.

Everyone likes something different, so only you can decide which

ROM you like.
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[Galaxy S I9000 General] jangyelo:
Been using darky's RC5 final. Overall definitely snappier and standby battery life is a huge improvement.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bobloblawsum:
i've been using JVB for almost a week now and noticed a fair few bugs that make me want to flash back to JS8 2.2.1

I have been having some random resets, usually while starting the stock music player, which has been frustrating. The social hub also forcecloses quite a lot seemingly randomly. Another thing is that when i receive a call, just before there is any evidence a call is coming through, the whole phone freezes and gets scrambled in places for about 5 seconds.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Mouse at Large:
This topic is interesting for me as I have a bit of a dilemma.

I'm currently running a stock 2.2.1 ROM (XXJPU) with the Voodoo 5.5.3 kernel and oc @ 1.2MHz using Tegrak.

The phone seems fast, stable and responsive with a quadrant score generally around 1700.

So, should I upgrade to a stock 2.3.3 (probably via an Odin flash rather than Kies) and if I do, what improvements would I expect to see?

Bear in mind that I don't want to lose the Voodoo sound and unless there is a compelling case for upgrading to 2.3.3 I'll probably stick with the current config and wait for the next GB release :p

Regards

Mouse at Large
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eloisant:
I'm really happy with JVB for the battery life, and the fact that you can apply a mod to get the CRT off animation. It may sound stupid to flash a firmware for a stupid animation but I'm really a big fan of that CRT effect :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] exjc1986:
Thanks for the Info guys, i'm currently running Froyo 2.2 + SpeedMod Kernel 13E.... Phone is usually fast but custom launchers crash a lot, not sure why... Touchwiz is stable though, however Touchwiz sucks big time...

Using Zeam right now, just love this launcher... Hopefully an official gingerbread update comes out soon... :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] devonblue4u:
Same problem with social hub and the phone. I'm using the KC1 modem with JVB, and maybe that is the cause. Also the Bluetooth handsfree is a hit-and-miss proposition. It does't automatically go to headset even though is say it's paired. You have to press headset on the phone after you answer the call. I especially miss this feature while skiing, and the damn thing is in your pocket and you have gloves on. And since the handsfree is a motorcycle intercom, it's going to continue to annoy me through the summer.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] chrisjcks:
Other than a different notification bar and better battery life, i notice no difference

Infact, the normal use of the phone such as scrolling through the apps, texting, etc etc all feels a little snappier on froyo 2.2.1

Gingerbread is a beta at best, im glad it was pulled and im hoping they will speed it all up before release.

... Just my thoughts
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alexis33640:
I think Gingerbread is the best with the touchwizz 4!!
[Desire HD General] mrflatout:
This desire hd was my first htc device, i've been waiting a while to be able to upgrade to a htc device having read how good the old desire (with htc sense) was. I am not a rooter so just wanted a stock phone with standard ui. I took delivery of the phone the third day it came out through vodafone (non branded.. thank god), initially i was impressed with the sence ui as this was my first android and htc phone. I was also impressed on how quick they released a couple of "fixes" for the phone.. that is until 1.72 !!!!!!!.. i installed this the first time i recieved the ota message.. around the end of nov beginning of dec. Like alot of users at the time i wasn't initially impressed with the "auto" setting on the camera/video, but (thankfully to the excellent guide posted on here) this was mostly fixed (the only problem being that by the time you set the camera up the picture oppurtunity may have passed !!!). As a casual camera user this didn't really bother me, HOWEVER the screwed up sms/ringtone/notification tone/sd card reading faults do!!!!!. since the begginning of december i cannot count the amount of missed/never recieved sms messages, htc knew about these problems and now almost 4 MONTHS later they still haven't seen fit to make the newer 1.84 available to unbranded phones (although it does improve certain parts of the phone i know it also adds a few new minor bugs), the point is sms is prob the most important and most used part of modern day mobiles, so surely it would make sense (pardon the pun) the address the most commonly used parts of their "flagship" phone!!. The returning to the default (and mostly unaudible) ringtone and message/notification after charging the phone is really winding me up!!!. It seems to me they've been concerntrating so much on their new "flagship" phones they've left us desire hd users behind. They seem happy to just sit back and let the rumour mill spread the news about upcoming updates, having us guessing when the 2.3 gingerbread is coming (and all of us hoping all the bugs will be fixed in it, although they haven't even comfirmed this!!!!), instead of this as a large company, they should make a official announcement to its customers.:mad:
[Desire HD General] Mr_JMM:
Yeah, because that tale is only true of HTC!!

Good luck with your new Samsung / LG / Motorola / Sony Ericsson what ever you decide to go with next. I'm sure they are all completely fault free and a quick Google search would show no results what so ever of similar stories.

Good bye for now, but I'm sure we'll see you soon on the [whatever device] forum shortly.
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
Yes in an ideal world HTC would have fixed these issues by now, but we don't live in an ideal world. The solution is at hand though through custom ROMs, or if you don't want to go that root simply downgrade back to your original ROM via an RUU. I don't think manuacturers in general have much interest once they have your dough and in fact HTC are one of the better ones with froyo making it officially onto the magic before samsung got it to the captivate.
[Desire HD General] firkosa:
I've used 3 android phones before my dhd and wow what can I say , try Sony Ericsson x10 :)) , you will see what is lack of support and lack of custom roms ...

So be happy you have the best phone available on the market.
[Desire HD General] mrflatout:
I know that no smartphone is perfect, but surely htc could have worked on a ota that rolls back to the previous less problematic software version (after all some of the users on here have managed it!). All the smartphone makers are guilty of releasing buggy phones and then releasing fixes throughout the products life (which seems to be getting shorter and shorter lol ), but what would happen if you bought a tv from a shop and everytime you switched it on you have to retune the channels back in. Thats how it feels everytime i take it off charge, i have to change the ringtone (searching through all the mp3s on my phone to find it), then run the star wars soundboard (sad i know but r2d2 is a really loud notification tone) select the sound to act as a notification tone (which it no longer does!!.. but if i dont do this process first the notification tone isnt even seen in the notification sound setting .. i then go into sound settings change the notification to r2d2, i then have to go into compose message, then sms settings and select notification sound settings again for it to change, so that means i have to go through three different processes to set the notification tone everytime i recharge. The settings of the ringtone and notification tones weren't a problem in the first few weeks of getting the phone before the 1.72 update :(.. also forgot to mention i dont recieve a notification tone or light most of the time while the screen is switched off.. when i unlock the phone i have to check the messages to see if i have recieved any.. just plain weird lol... thank god i have the best smartphone on the market :p
[Desire HD General] AndriodLover:
I agree with u , 1.72 is extremely buggy. From deleting sms , no notif, random reboots etc. What really gets to Me which I don't understand is why release 1.84 to branded phones but not unbranded phones. HTC released the buggy update to both branded and un, but decided to release 1.84 to bran users and leave unbranded users stock with this crap.
[Desire HD General] Basil3:
I got my dhd as soon as it came out, and despite having put custom ROMs on 3 previous HTC phones, I decided that the dhd was perfect as stock. With the initial teething problems rooting the dhd, I decided I wasn't going to bother.

This was, however, before I did the update to 1.72, and all the problems that came with it.

What did I end up doing? Rooting my phone, removing all the problems and drastically improving performance and battery life. I recommend you do the same, it would be a shame to not take advantage of what this community has to offer.
[Desire HD General] MrKaon:
I own unbranded Desire HD from orange UK, it had one ota and currently has 1.72 on it, its perfect, I mean really perfect, everything works superb. Never try to root never gonna do as well.
[Desire HD General] AndriodLover:
Wow , I never thought I would hear someone say 1.72 is perfect !!!!!!
[Desire HD General] tolis626:
SMS bug?Try Handcent SMS,Go SMS or Chomp SMS,all available in the market.In these you can even set your own music for notification! :p You'll have to turn off stock SMS app's notifications though.

Ringtone?Try this.Select your ringtone through the music app.Then go to settings and choose it from the ringtones list,it'll be there.Works perfect since I did this.

See?No need to root! ;)

Although I'd recommend root,custom rom,overclock/undervolt,happiness! ;)
[Desire HD General] AndriodLover:
I had to result to go sms pro a while ago , not getting notif drove me mad lol. I do Wana try out custom Rom etc but I really don't have anytime on hand. But hopefully as soon as HTC release the update and dev start cooking roms based on that il try and make some time :) , il try the notif sound , thanks :)
[Desire HD General] ivolol:
I recommend you try rooting and using a custom ROM like RCMixHD, the true power of the DesireHD is only unleashed by letting developers get it working to its true potential.
[Desire HD General] eTiMaGo:
That's the beauty of Android... if something does not work quite the way you like, it's not thaaaat hard to change it or tweak it... try doing that with an iPhone :D

Personally I rooted and went to CM7 less than a week after getting the phone... I don't know why, I just can't get used to Sense, everything is too big and not space-efficient, my eyesight is good enough!
[Desire HD General] uros0104:
Dude, why would you buy an Android phone and then use stock ROMs? It's like getting a Ferrari to drive only to the store with it... Root it, install a custom ROM, play with it a bit, learn something new, you can get it to work however you want it if you put in just a little bit effort...
[Desire HD General] paul c:
this is my 3rd HTC manufactured phone (2x WM before this), and I really can't complain about the out-of-the-box OS/hardware.

Some minor gripes, but nothing is perfect.

I have rooted, S-eng'ed so I'm ready to move into the custom ROMs & kernels (still finding my feet with Android, it was second nature with WM) - however, for me the stock ROM is aceptable. My motivation is to get better engineering from our expert ROM chefs - & better battery life - but the brute power of the DHD bulldozes most of the OS inefficiencies.

But the recommendations here are the way to go, I chose Android since there IS great potential to improve the base product, through custom ROMs and apps such as Handcent:

root and flash a custom ROM! (spend some time getting familiar with the process, there are tutorials aplenty here, it's almost impossible to brick your phone)

over/underclock as needed

look for alternative apps that resolve your problems with the system apps (Handcent for SMS; Ringo for ringtone management etc)

& read, for example, some of the posts from the unhappy Galaxy users in their sub-forum here, and how Samsung set up that phone... you will see that the grass is not greener on the other side.
[Desire HD General] mrflatout:
thanks for the advice guys.. im gonna give the official 2.3 ota a try (when it finally surfaces) and if its no better im definatley gonna custom rom it. I would never really consider this but it does seem the way to go to get the full potential out of the hardware... after all i cant make it any worse than it is now.. unless i brick it of course lol:p
[Desire HD General] olyloh6696:
You think HTC is bad at customer support? Haha. Good luck with the other manufaturers, samsung etc.

They are even WORSE
[Desire HD General] dr.m0x:
Tip for the op - try separating your posts into paragraphs next time. I really can't be ****ed even reading your rant.

Sent from my Android baby.
[Desire HD General] olyloh6696:
+1

I struggled a bit reading it aswell :p
[Desire HD General] Va_Alexander:
There're a lot of bugs in HTC but for me know there is nothing better, firstly i was thinking about iphone but later when get used to all features of HTC i don't want to leave it! You should spend more time with your phone to feel it.. ;)
[Desire HD General] ErOR22:
Why put up with those problems?

If you read up and understand prior to flashing customs roms you'll be fine.

It will solve all your problems and plus you will get a nice speed improvement and responsiveness.

Then you will realize how really awesome this phone is, this is my first HTC device too but I know it won't be my last :-D
[Desire HD General] ralflau:
If you know how to root your dev, how to flash a rom and how to install/uninstall apps, you will find the funny of htc, and i think you will enjoy it like us.
[Desire HD General] clouds5:
At least with the DHD you can do something about it when there's a bug. There are so many phones out there with which you're just helpless when there's a problem.

My friend has an iphone 3GS and after the update to 4.0 last year his battery drained over night. There was nothing he could do about it until half a year later apple released a new version which improved the situation.

With the DHD you have a huge very competent community that gives you support 24/7 and lets you customize your phone just the way you want. I'll take that over any company anyday.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigD18t:
Hi all, i have just recieved my x10i from Ebay, it was bought as locked from the desciption, but it turns out its not, its locked asking for a security question or account, both of which i dont know the answer.

Is there any way to get around this ?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaisan1:
There is nothing much you can do.. just repair it through seus or pc companion! Or via flashtool..!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigD18t:
All done thanks, had to factory reset and update is sues, just need to unlock the network lock now :rolleyes:
[Legend General] Roy_Drage:
Just looking for a heads up before I go ahead.

Friend sold me his UK vodafone HTC Legend at a good price.

I'm on T-Mobile.

I can connect to the net etc and my T-Mobile SIM works fine.

My friend hasn't reset the phone though and his Google Account is still the default one on the phone. I try to remove his Gmail account but it says the only way to do this is to reset the phone then add mine as a new one.

Wondering if this will re-lock the phone though?

Appreciate any help :)
[Legend General] Asovse1:
No, rooting and flashing various ROMs won't either. Besides, in the rare event it DOES lock, just buy a cheap code online and you'll be set. Again.
[Legend General] Roy_Drage:
Thanks.

Went ahead and performed a factory reset. All came back fine, still unlocked. Although to my surprise it turned out this phone is actually a German HTC Legend.

Struggled a bit to get it back to English and I had to manually input all the internet and picture messaging settings but all working now :)

My understanding of German phones is that some Carriers sell their phones as unlocked to begin with. So in reality, there was never any chance of this phone locking itself as it wasn't locked to begin with.
[Legend General] marclh1992:
Also, once you unlock a phone, it is permanently unlocked.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reaper7881:
Hi i was wondering if it is possible to dual boot on the htc desire. (Two different roms)

Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mortenmhp:
Well technically yes and there was also a mod once which would let you boot a second Rom from the sd-card.

But since the desire has such a low internal memory there will never be space for 2 roms, and running one completely from SD-card is very baggy, so there is no official way, but if you are good enough at coding yes you will be able to.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reaper7881:
Even tho i have a class 10 card will.it be laggy
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AuroEdge:
I like being able to sync people into my phone's contact list from Facebook. On the Fascinate is there an advantage to using the Facebook App to do this instead of the built in TouchWiz Contacts Sync?

I've read somewhere that Contacts Sync causes a battery issue
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] achandler2:
Yep....the facebook app allows you to do just that. The first time you login it will ask you to sync your facebook contacts to your contacts, list
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Agent240913:
How can I get sprint vm app again? I'm on cm7

Thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
-Flash a sense rom

-Verify the app works [have someone leave you a voice mail]

-Backup the app and data in titanium backup

-Flash to your backup of CM7

-Restore app and data ONLY

If it doesn't work, use google voice.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plainjane:
You'll also need to grab the vvm.apk from /system/app on the Sense rom. Titanium doesn't backup system apks, only data. Then install the apk normally on CM7 (via a file manager) and restore data with Titanium.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evo4gfan:
is this a data enabled based application? the downfall with voice is that you have to have data enabled to get it on the spot, is this the same for svvm?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstalford:
Get a flashable zip of a sense ROM, unzip it, then go to system>app and get it out of there. You will need to back up the app data in a sense ROM though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fixxxer2008:
i know most of the devs said in order to have custom kernels for the new sense leak we have to wait for the official release or source to drop. i guess my question is, why not take the current shipped kernel and tweak it a bit and add sbc mod to it for the time being?

is this even possible and if so is anyone like toast/netarch working on this?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsmith675:
at this point i think it was said that the current kernel was very incomplete so devs are waiting for htc to drop the KERNAL source code
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirmx:
Mainly, the 2.2 kernel is based on 2.6.32, while the 2.3 kernel included with the last leak was based on 2.6.35. Two different trees totally. With no source for the newer kernel yet, it's almost impossible to do anything... at least easily.

It's easier to just wait for HTC to drop their source for the .35 kernel they are going to use, then the devs can go to town on it fixing what's broken as usual. ;)

I'm not a kernel expert, so there may be things I left out or assumed.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbrawley1:
3 months later and still no source code :eek::eek:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metalfan78:
3 months? Its only been a little over a month since the official 2.3 update

We're comin from a pure power source.