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[Galaxy S I9000 General] LarsPT:
Hi guys!

I've been reading through this topic and now I don't know if I should buy SGS+ or LG Optimus 2X.

Can anyone share their thoughts on this? Both devices are at about the same price right now, and I'm interested in getting the most bang for my buck (350 eur tops).

Thanks!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayiskon:
optimus 2x

duo core A9 cortex processor, tegra2 chipset, ULP GeForce (better than adreno 205 gpu) . 8mpx cam with 1080p .
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LarsPT:
Thanks a lot for your reply :)

I now have two opinions for the O2X.

I have one slight concern, what's your take on hardware longevity? I have a GT540 for... I don't know... about an year maybe? And the digitizer just died, which renders the phone completely useless. I can use it to take calls :)

How's the sturdiness in an O2X? I'm hoping it will live longer, it's quite a big investment (for me). A big plus is that it will be getting official ICS, so that is nice :)

Thanks again!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayiskon:
usually i don't like LG devices, the last one i had was the cookie (kp500) and since then i swore never again !

well u can buy any other device and the digitizer (or any other part) might die on u ;)

one more minus for the S+ is that it's not getting official ICS..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LarsPT:
Thanks once again for your reply.

I must say, except for the digitizer dying, I absolutely love/loved my GT540. Except for the resistive touch screen, for the 150 eur it cost me, it had everything I wanted! HDSPA, Wi-fi, good enough GPS (not too good in cloudy weather though), so, based on that experience, I'm not that affraid on going for the LG... and since it has Cyanogen support as well, and SGS+ doesn't, that is pretty much closing the deal for me!...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayiskon:
for all those who voted on facebook for our S+ to get an ICS port, we got a lil proof that our votes are being taken seriously, see wall posts on http://www.facebook.com/DroidXDA?sk=wall . the problem so far is that the dev does not own the device, and it's taking a lot of time to develop (build from cm9 source, upload to a host for the tester to download, wait for tester's response, it fails to boot, the cycle goes again) . it's just taking a lot of time, so guys from droidxda decided to get a S+ , if u are not able to donate, plz visit their blog and click the sponsor links to support them (it doesn't cost u anything), hopefully they will get the device asap.

p.s. i don't have any relations with the blog or devs, nor do i get any advantage of advertising them, i'd just love (and i'm sure all of u) to see ICS soon on our S+ :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] :
Told the link to xda´s blog to all of my friends to support them in any way.

Answering the question "LG or Galaxy", i want to tell, that i also had an LG Device. And after nearly one year of use i decided to recycle it. Poor quality (display, backcover), every second day it lost connection to sdcard.

BTW, my wife used the same LG, bought it 2 months later, and she had the same problems little bit later than me. Now she is lucky owner of an Galaxy Ace.

Greetings, Martin
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Dutch.ly:
I had a LG device too and did not like it. Poor build quality (cracking noises), bad support and the worst performance overall. I would prefer any phone over theirs especially Samsung or Htc. I got a good view on the SGS+ with some Custom roms (BroodRom and Cranium) and kernels (FeaMod) and tho the (community) support aint (yet) great its a wonderfull device.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tomajdon:
Hi, I recently get my new S Plus from T-Mobile. It's a great phone! But will it have official ICS or an ICS port? I don't really want to hack my phone, but if an official ICS or a port will come, I'd install it!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayiskon:
there is nothing for sure ,but most probably there will be no official ICS update. as for a port it's been worked on.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tomajdon:
Thanks for the info! Now I'm waiting for the port! (I don't care how much will it take in time, just the fact that it will be done, it's enough for me... by now :D )
[Galaxy S I9000 General] genericmann:
Upside-down front camera Skype

When video-calling someone using skype, the other party sees upside-down image of my i9001 front camera. Does anyone know a solution besides holding the mobile phone upside-down while using skype?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayiskon:
as far as i know it's related to skype and not the device, i read some people said on previous versions they had normal cam view.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] YMYA:
so there is any update abt the CM7 or CM9 for the i9001?

should I buy the sgs plus? or buy the i9000?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LarsPT:
I ended up buying the O2X and I'm pretty happy with it.

I understand your claims about poor build quality... but this beast comes with Gorilla Glass, the SG+ doesn't. And about performance, O2X's hardware is better than SG+ pretty much everywhere... better CPU, better GPU, so if performance is worst it's a software problem, which can easily be fixed around here ;)

Anyways, I've been "testing" the phone with GTAIII everything stock and it's perfect, so keeping in mind that it can only get better, I'm seriously happy about it :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayiskon:
guys news update from droidxda's FB page about ics (fingers crossed for it to work):

SGS+ News :: We almost to booting stage with now fixing the kernel (we hope it will work out)

S+ also has Gorilla Glass :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wintel_mac:
Correct. Don't know why $amsung does not use this fact for marketing purposes though.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MGUkrMaks:
Dear all, a have a problem, that's driving me crazy ;(

I've tried almost every rom for ma SGS+ already: Stock, Cranium, broodROM, XPPKS Performance, etc ...

But I have still the same bug. My phone reboots or powers off randomly.

Sometimes it's once a day, sometimes it can be 10 times a day. And I's weird.

Is it my problem only, or It's SGS+ fault?

The only thing I noticed, that it's more often rebooted when I answer the call, unplug phone from USB cable, or listen to music.

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wintel_mac:
Do you use an external SD card? Sometimes it helps to format it in phone (which wipes all data from it).

Other cause of this problem may be defective hardware. That's why I don't have an HTC Desire anymore :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dogflyer:
Anyone know how to do this?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MGUkrMaks:
Actually I don't use SD card now. But I used to have it, it was formatted by the phone, so I'm not sure, that it's SD card problem.

Talking about bad hardware, might be a problem as I understand, my warranty is now void, after custom roms :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wintel_mac:
Nope. Only software warranty. Flash a full odin package with stock rom and you're fine again.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wintel_mac:
As far as I know there is no hack available yet. Read somewhere that you can buy unlock codes on the net (10$ or so).

But if this is legal? I doubt it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayiskon:
Update on our ICS project: a WIP (work in progress) thread will be opened soon in our dev section, there should be a nightly build to download which is not yet tested nor confirmed working, so when it comes out logcat and feedback from users will be very helpful. So keep an eye on our dev section and any updates/details from zackconsole.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] blueangelfr:
SE MW600 full features - bluetooth stack

I recently buy a mw600 bluetooth kit, it worth-it, fast forward rewind works, i can see the number calling me but not the contact name.

Is it possible to update bluetooth to one witch support AVRCP 1.4 to support all MW600 features ?

it has be given to display name of contact when receiving incoming call, display id3 tag mp3.

Works fine with my wife iphone 3GS but not with my SGS+

Thanks for aswer
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wintel_mac:
If anybody needs a program to extract those EXT4 images with windows - ext2read is great and does the job. You do not need to run with administrative privileges to extract images (Open - Image).

Beforehand, open the tar.md5 file with 7zip, ignore the error message and extract the system.img.ext4.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayiskon:
shouldn't Winrar do the job ??
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wintel_mac:
Nope. You can extract the img.ext4 file out of the tar.md5 but you can not extract the img.ext4 file with it. There are some proprietary alternatives to this tool but when you can get free and open source software - why not? (I know - windows and running OSS does not fit, too :o)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nikagl:
Thanks! I use DiskInternals Linux Reader, it does the job too but will try ext2read too. And for unpacking boot and recovery image files I use attached unpack.pl script from cygwin (or linux, whichever os I am running :))
[Galaxy S I9000 General] effepas:
Do someone knows if there are Custom Roms avaible for the I9001?

I heard about unofficial portings with problems due to the different CPU respect to the I9000.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] :
every time I touch my back button is lit on a small spot just below this- is this a pixel or did i scrape off the paint ?

sorry wrong thread- how can i delete this question here?^^
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nikagl:
No unofficial portings from I9000 roms, only newly cooked stuff. Checkout the following thread and forum:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1409605

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1270

They contain at least 7 different ROMs...

I think it's just a part of the (black) paint behind the light that is gone (scraped off). The buttons are not pixels as far as I know. I have some of those spots too...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayiskon:
Head out to our dev forum (for i9001) and u'll see what is available. Don't even look at any of the i9000 roms coz u're gonna brick ur phone, already seen ppl do that.

Probably the paint.

Edit: Sorry i'm on mobile haven't seen nika already answered ! ^^
[Galaxy S I9000 General] effepas:
Thank you all for your help (it's hard to be a noob)... :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] vakya:
Hello, you need a forum of their own. Certainly not let me write to the development forum until you write a few comments. I have to comment on a forum from another phone to write on mine :)

Hola, necesitamos un foro propio. Por cierto no me dejan escribir en el foro de desarrollo hasta que no escriba aquí algunos comentarios. Tengo que comentar en un foro de otro telefono para poder escribir en el mio :)

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Very good news
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AngelowDoom:
I9001 SGS+ bad Norwegian translation

Hi

My mom was on vacation in Spain and got her old phone crushed, she bougth a new cheap phone to have until she got home. Fustrated about lack og Norwegian language on the cheep crap phone, she wanted to change it, after much consideration the SGS+ was chosen since it was discontinuing and on a very good sale.

But in much fustration the android version she got on the phone, have a very poor norwegian translation. So now she got a phone with 1/3 norwegian language and 2/3 english, not very good for a older woman with poor english skills.

Anyone got any good solution on this problem, iff there is a newer bulid who can be innstalled? when plugged into Kies it says it has the newest one, but if there is a way to maybe get a even newer bulid that Kies can offer i would love to know about it and how to go about to install it.

Tnx
[Galaxy S I9000 General] deanfield:
Can i9001 flash from 2.3.3 to 2.3.6?

Hi, everyone. Just a quick question.

I currently have the 2.3.3 firmware with my i9001. I want to know whether I can flash to the lastest 2.3.6 stock rom for i9001?

Thanks a lot.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayiskon:
of course u can ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] deanfield:
I9001 can't scroll smoothly(sudden stop) in the default browser.

Hi, guys. I got a problem here with my i9001.

When I scrolling up or down the page in the browser, it will suddenly stops. I need to scroll the page several times to go to the bottom of the page.

This only happens in the default android browser. In all other apps, like opera browser, android market etc, I can scroll all the way down until it finally stops.

Do you guys have this problem as well?

Thanks a lot.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayiskon:
no need to double post, u already asked that here , i use dolphin so i can't help u with that, when someone who knows the answer comes by, they'll help u with that issue ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] deanfield:
thank for your help! cheers!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayiskon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzYQ6YtepU

the God of all launchers, release date is 29.2. !
[Galaxy S I9000 General] deanfield:
Hi, rayiskon. I just saw your signature that you are using the same phone i9001. Do you have the same problem, as I described, when scrolling down the page in the browser?

Sorry about my poor english, do you mean that you are using orange dolphin? But I don't think this problem is related to network.

Thanks a lot.

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Fantastic launcher! Concern about the battery usage.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayiskon:
no mate , i use "dolphin mini" browser and i've never had the problem u mentioned, it might be related to the stock browser, but i don't use it , mainly coz it doesn't have an Exit option and clearing cache and all history while exiting :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] deanfield:
Thanks for your help.

I also tried other browser like Opera mini and it doesn't have that problem. However, opera mini browser always brings me to the full site instead of mobile site of some website. So I want to keep using the stock browser.

Do you mind to try the stock browser on your phone to check if your browser has the same problem? Really thanks for your help.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayiskon:
i tried it and it scrolls fine, try going into app manager , the "All" tab , navigate to Internet and clear all data (u will lose ur history and stuff like that, but it'll bring u back to default options) , so it might help u get it working as it should.

p.s. dolphin mini or dolphin HD always open mobile pages when available, and they are quick and responsive, so if ur problems don't solve out, try one of those browsers, they are free on the market ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] deanfield:
I cleared all data of the browser but it still doesn't work.

I already downloaded dolphin and it work perfect! Thanks for your help!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alexandrumit:
Need simtoolkit

Hello, I have a galaxy i9001 and i installed cranium RC8 ROM (2.6.35.7-Cranium-OC/UV). In menu, i don't have SIMTOOLKIT application, and I use that every day, because I have a dual-number sim-card.

Can you please help me install Simtoolkit on my device? or recommend another custom ROM which has already simtoolkit installed. I already tried broodROM, and cranium. Or tell me how to swich numbers with something else, if is possible.

Thank you
[Galaxy S I9000 General] change63:
I think it should work when you make a backup of the sim toolkit in your old rom, then in Cranium you could easily restore it.

Or try out Cymod, i have an apk for my sim installed ^^
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wintel_mac:
OMG! FIrst nightly ICS for our device! http://droidxda.blogspot.com/2012/02/devromi9001ics-nightly-buildpre.html#axzz1nX06OwVF No time to test, need to sleep :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayiskon:
Thanks wintel for posting in general instead of spamming in dev section, some of the other users should look up to you. ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wintel_mac:
It is said to be a build by arco68 who is building for galaxy w. Need to weite some exams now, would love to test instead :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pl_:
I have got an minor but kinda annoying problem. SGS+ is running on latest stock (2.3.6) and I like launcher7 so i decided to make a black status bar mod fitting the launcher in UOT Kitchen.

Everything is fine now besides a bug I could not find a solution for.

I made screenshots to make it easier to understand (sorry for my english..). The first screenshot shows 2 notifications. In the second, one of the notifications went away as supposed. But as you can see the old appeareance when both of the icons were there is still visible in the background (but transparent).

I wondered this being a bug or feature, nevertheless it is getting annoying :D Any solution for this? I hope this is a known problem. Later I will try reflashing.

Thanks in advance :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 30adi:
.

hi all,

i have flashed my galaxy s + with cranium rc8 rom and do have a problem; when i press home button nothing happens. button is working, does respond when pressed, but does not have a function. anybody an ideea?

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S I9000 General] shahbaz5588:
has anyone tried or had a look at this..

[MOD] beats audio cwm flashable zip

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1511335

i flashed it already and havent found any errors, but there seems to be (or might not be) some affect to the sound quality... just need someone to verify
[Galaxy S I9000 General] HectorLPA:
Hi all guys. I have a very annoying trouble with my sgs+. I have it 2 months ago, and my sgs+ keeps with random reboots. I have installed 3 diferents roms (2.3.4, 2.3.6, broodrom rc2) and my sgs+ keeps rebooting 2 or 3 times per week, has someone had this kind of problems? any solution?

sorry for my english.

thanks in advance
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayiskon:
i doubt that the lib files for a Motorola phone would also work on ours. and even if they did this sentence says it all "You need high end headphones to tell the difference so please don't complain that it's not working for you." , whereas for example on HTC Desire (and probably other HTC devices) beats actually noticeably boosts ur music, so i guess it's a placebo effect, just like the sony bravia engine.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wintel_mac:
Did you do a full hard reset which wipes away everything on both /data partition and internal sd card? Might help. Also if you have an external sd, copy all your data to a pc and format it in phone. If those tips don't help I would claim warranty at Samsung. (reflash STOCK before you do this!)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nail16:
I want to update my recovery.img, which is currently feacore v1.2 to v1.4 but without flashing the kernel i.e boot.img (i have flashed v1.4 before through cmw i know how that works) but i want to do this using adb. is this possible?, if possible then please show me how, cause i don't know much about adb.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Elmar.Zeinalov:
Good day everyone.

I searched this forum several times but couldn't find any solution for my problem.

So, my camera seems to lag... It's only smooth when I focus on the lightsource. I've tried acer camera app and it worked perfectly fine untill it started to force close. My sister owns a Galaxy Wonder and there's the same problem.

I rarely use camera, but it surely wasn't that way from the start... Nothing helps: wipes/formats/hard reset/flashing all kinds of roms...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wintel_mac:
push the new feamod 1.4 image on your /sdcard, maybe unpack zip on your computer and copy over usb mass store mode or even adb (adb needs to be in your $PATH variable):

Change your working directory where you unpacked the cwm 1.4 zip and have recovery.img, then push image to phone:

adb push recovery.img /sdcard/

you then have to get a shell on your phone:
adb shell

test if you are already root, if not you will get root:
su (check phone if you have to accept the su request!)

if you want to make a backup of your recovery:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13 of=/sdcard/stock-recovery.img

copy zeros to recovery partition
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13

copy cwm 1.4 to recovery partition
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13

just to make sure, type:
sync

then exit
exit

Shutdown your phone and restart into CWM.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nail16:
What do you mean to copy zeros to recovery partation?

and one more question how do i create a .sh file which does the same?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wintel_mac:
When you dd an image, you basically write all data in the input file to the output file (as Unix treats devices like files). Now let's say you have an image that is smaller than the existing system on that destination partition. So you only overwrite parts of it and not the whole one. There are bits left in the file system of that partition of the old system. This may lead to problems but not necessarily. To be sure, take the input from /dev/zero (really only zeros) and make a clean partition mmcblk0p13. Then write the new image into this clean partition and you are safe.

By shell script, do you mean to run it on your computer or on your phone?

If it's on your computer, it should be like (untested but should be correct):

#!/bin/sh
adb push recovery.img /sdcard/
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13 of=/sdcard/stock-recovery.img
adb shell dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13
adb shell dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13
adb shell sync

I don't know if it works though, as you have no interactive shell on the phone in which you can send a su command.

If you already pushed the file onto you phone manually, then you could use a similiar script on your phone but leave out the 'adb push' command and without 'adb shell' as you obviously already have an shell interpreter.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nail16:
Thanks again for the reply, I really was thinking of running the .sh file fromy my phone thats through the update-script of my custom rom which i'm building just for learning how stuff works, there are many roms which use this method to flash recovery and boot img.

but my question was how do i create a .sh file in windows 7

Plese don't get annoyed by my questions :) my second question is how do i create an update-script along with its binary for zip packages i searched the forum and found a thread but it was to creat update scripts without its binary .

so when i tried to flash the zip package CMW gives me an error stating that the update script is no longer supported. All this while i was using the update script generated by disxda's kitchen

Basically I want to creat a custom rom from scrath without the kitchen and learn during this process.

when i dd zero i keep getting an error it says "write error:no space left on device
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wintel_mac:
Well you can create sh scripts with notepad++. But make sure you get unix lf (linefeed, new lines) instead of windows carriage return linefeed (crlf). Google about it. Otherwise your scripts may not be executed correctly.

For you update binary... go to the 9001 development board here and search for all in one package (aio) by crybert. Extract it and analyse its commands and structure. Also search here or google edify scripts.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wintel_mac:
Oh and the dd error is perfectly normal while dding zeros. As you did not specify a count to easily delete the whole partition, it goes on until the very end of mmcblk0p13. And then tells you it cannot continue. But this must not happen when writing back the new recovery.img.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Rutgar:
Is it possible to deodex my xxkq6 rom with my MAC?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wintel_mac:
You could get Virtual Box and install and apropriate operating system virtually. Don't know if there are any native mac os x binaries for deodexing. You can try windows 7 for 30 days without the need to enter a registration key legally. http://techdows.com/2011/07/downloa...h-sp1-iso-official-direct-download-links.html
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Aronka:
yesterday I have tried to deodex my SGS+ XXKQ1 but it stuck on Maps.apk, I've got an exception!

what could be the problem?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wintel_mac:
Leave it with .odex file. There are usually some dependencies that can not be resolved. May happen to Phonesky.apk (new market) and YouTube, too.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayiskon:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23176270&postcount=36