[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] br0adband:
Jelly Bean 4.1.2 is available as an OTA for the Galaxy Express, mine updated yesterday and it works fine but I've noticed an issue with GPS fixing - with ICS 4.0.4 on it (factory stock AT&T ROM) the GPS would pull in like 22 satellites and that's from inside my apartment which is on the top/3rd floor of my apartment building here in downtown Las Vegas, and get a solid fix in under 3-5 seconds almost always.

Now with JB on it, I'm lucky to get 2 or 3 satellites in the first minute alone, and a fix takes a very long time so, again, I sure wish there was someone that cared about this phone. It's got what appears to be decent hardware, it's pretty damned fast, but it's all but ignored here and anywhere else that I've searched for info at.

Was hoping someone would find a way to do a backup of the pure factory stock 4.0.4 so I could roll back to that but now that's just not possible, and since this phone was given to me by a friend (at an AT&T store, even) I'm not sure if I take it in and complain that they'd replace it or flash it back to ICS if they're even capable.

But I like the phone, I really do, I just wish someone would put some interest in it. I know the source code for ICS is available but someone mentioned some parts were missing, not sure about how accurate that is, and I'm not a developer of any kind whatsoever. More than likely if I made some feeble attempt to get the SDK and then compile the source code Samsung has provided I'd just brick the thing and then be really pissed - even if I did get it for free. :)

So I'll just hang on to it for the moment, hoping someone decides to spend some time with it (would love to roll back to ICS, honestly, the GPS matters to me and right now not getting a fix in < 5 minutes is damned irritating.

I installed a system monitor app (nice one called - go figure - System Monitor, more info at: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cgollner.systemmonitor) and was pleasantly surprised to see it offers a cool overlay ala S3 style CPU monitor gadget (not a widget, it floats above everything else) and I started up a video with MX Player and noted that one of the CPU cores stayed offline for the entire time but the one active core never downclocked lower than 1.1 GHz.

I then cleared everything from RAM and closed all apps with Task Manager (hold Home, etc) and then ran just the System Monitor with no other apps running and just watched it for 5 minutes straight - that one active core never ever went below 1.1 GHz even though the app plainly shows 384 MHz min/1.5GHz max which is correct for the stock kernel and the Snapdragon CPU (if rooted getting 228 MHz or something might be possible, I don't know).

But 5 solid minutes I watched it and it never downclocked under 1.1 GHz, could be the reason why the battery life ain't all it should be I suppose. I disabled airplane mode for the screenshot, I don't even have service right now (getting it tomorrow on the 1st of the month) but the T-Mobile microSIM is activated and will connect to their Yahoo summary page, and it's pretty snappy but I can't run any speedtest yet. :(

/me hopes someone will take an interest in this rather solid device...

If it turns out to have some funky new Samsung lockdown on it or partitioning scheme, so be it, but it would be great to see what this thing can really do considering it's got real LTE support from the gitgo (and it works with T-Mobile 4G LTE here in Vegas too).

Here's to hoping... :fingers-crossed: