yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] raiden8383:
If you check out their open source website, you will find Galaxy S' Kernel and driver. I'm not custom ROM developer, and dose not know about that well.

However, other XDA member said that this is enough to port other ROMs such as Sense UI.

According to Samsung Mobile twitter, Froyo will come 100%. Ginger-Bread is not clear.

I will buy Galaxy S. More people means More support from home cooker.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DKYang:
Gingerbread is going to come out next year. Google said they are going to only release an Android update once a year now. No one even knows what Gingerbread is going to offer next year so why worry about an update? Enjoy it now and enjoy it more when it gets Froyo.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ramsey:
Agreed lol!

the 2.1 on the sammy seems VERY usable, yes forever, not just for a year, because it has nearly everything we would need.

the more you get, the more you want.

I question whether people actually sit down and think. Some say "no 2.2 froyo = a failure".. while before it was "no 2.1 = a failure".. and before that no "1.6 = a failure". it's a foolish never ending cycle of wanting more more more even though each version is fully usable.

seriously what kind of comment is that, the phone has everything almost, even if it doesn't according to the person, it has enough for us to use it as a phone and camera and internet and mp3/video.

I hope people will realize what is on the sammy is enough (unless you want to install themes only that's cool).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] latraviata:
Obviously not indicative of whether or not the GS will get Gingerbread, but as for bug fixes Samsung are apparently releasing GS firmware updates in Singapore:

http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=2781948&page=95

From my own limited experience, there were several firmware updates for the Omnia I as well, although never an official upgrade from WinMo 6.1 to to 6.5 even though the phone could run it just fine (probably because they wanted to sell Omnia II instead).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nomedor:
Well, that's what i mean. I also had omnia, it's a very good phone that never got win6.5 officially even though it could.

That's what i'm afraid of with galaxy.

I expect many innovations with every new version of android so it would like to be able to have it in Galaxy s if im going to be an owner.

Lets hope that a great cooker is heading this way :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DCKing:
Well, concerning Samsung's support, I'm pretty sure it's not going to be that bad. Samsung released Android 2.1 for the Galaxy Spica way before HTC has released Android 2.1 for the Hero. It's got a bed rep because of the way they handle the Behold I and II in the US and some Windows Mobile phones, and that's because they apparently don't want to support phones that haven't sold well (and probably because they have to pay for the Qualcomm drivers). Because the Galaxy S is probably going to be rather popular with its worldwide release and runs on Samsung's own hardware, I do think Samsung will supply us with an update, at least to Android 2.2.

As for ROM development: Samsung has provided us with the complete source of Android running on the Galaxy S, so it should be perfectly possible to develop ROMs once the device is rooted (which could even be accomplished with the HTC Incredible) and a bootloader can be used for it. At least, that's how far I've understood it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] S.p.x.:
Their Symbian phones didn't get the same love as well. I am afraid this is not restricted to one part of the world or one phone or two. It's just Samsung providing almost perfect hardware and crappy software.

The orphan approach is what Samsung keep doing. While, the community suppose to be the one adopting Samsung projects. This kinda lame and I really hate it.

Anyway, back to the topic (somehow).

Does anyone of you heard any news about Samsung Galaxy S Pro?

I am trying to hold for 1 month or two before getting my Android and I am not the type who changes his phone according to a season or his pair of shoes. :p

Hopefully, the keyboard version comes sooner than latter.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Wa|t:
The next thing to wow us is probably gonna be phones with screens that can produce 3D effects
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Silverdragondk:
Probably not a good idea to compare how Samsung treats phones with an OS, they have/had to pay for(WM and Sybian) with one that's free(Android). Upgrading those payed for OS' might be much more expensive than the free OS. The higher the cost the less likely anyone would wanna upgrade, no?

Personally I think this is kinda silly. Is there any mobile manufacturer that has a really good trackrecord(aside from possibly Apple)? Seems people moan about the support, or lack of, from all of them...

Regards
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tyj82:
I think HP used to produce quick update for windows mobile devices. However, they are charging for the update. That for windows 2003se to WM5.

I have bad experience with HTC. They take forever to update.

Another phone I have is O2 XDA mini. I never have any update since the device release.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] S.p.x.:
1- It called Symbian

2- It is open source = Free = Your argument isn't valid for it

3- Agree
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mykenyc:
regardless of the fact i see no reason for them not to upgrade to gingerbread i doubt very serious there would be much hardship, also knowing me if/when this come to t-mobile and i get it i know it will be rooted so im not worrying about updates on a company end.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Silverdragondk:
1 - Apologies. I guess I didn't really press the "m" when I typed Symbian.

2 - It wasn't always, which is why I wrote "have/had" and included it. I don't even know, if Symbian was free when Samsung used it in the Omnia HD...

3 - Good! ;)

Regards
[Galaxy S I9000 General] v1rtu4l:
it was not free that time ... symbian is gone open source and "free for use" from symbian ^2 while the i8910 hd did use symbian 9.4 s60v5 (comparable to symbian ^1)

but of course there are always people that will use their unfounded opinion to have something to complain about
[Galaxy S I9000 General] OrionTC:
imo it would be pretty stupid for google to make 3.0 incompatible with the current high end android phones let alone the last years android phones. phone companys/google are already under enough fire for not supporting many of last years models with current OS.

i hope 3.0 will be a UI overhaul/polish rather than expanding on the features/speed, maybe then HTC/moto/samsung will release phones with standard OS.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] S.p.x.:
@mykenyc: The only obvious reason I can think off is $$$[Profiting] reasons otherwise, there is no point in not supplying the latest OS while your hardware support it.

@Silverdragondk:

1- It is ok

2- It wasn't

3- Excellent ;)

@v1rtu4l: I hope you don't refer the complaining part to me. :)

@OrionTC: Do you know where I can obtain the change log for Android (next version?). I hope they are into using X11/X-server. At lest it is more Linux standard.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] latraviata:
I think that's a gamble you can't avoid, no matter what manufacturer you go for. From what I can see, Samsung, HTC, SE and so on are all pretty much the same in terms of upgrading some phones and not others. The more they have customised the UI and the more different models they have in the market, the more effort it is and the longer it will therefore take to upgrade them all. Not to mention that it is probably in their business interest to sell new phones, rather than upgrade existing ones for free.

Google and Apple have it comparatively easy in that the UI on their phones is plain vanilla and they only have a very small number of phones models to upgrade. So if you want a guaranteed upgrade, your best bet is to go with N1 or iPhone. But then it is still a bit of a gamble if and when the apps you use will also be upgraded for the new version.

Personally I'm not too bothered about support beyond Froyo (although I'd like to know what improvements Gingerbread will bring before I make a final decision). For the time being, Froyo seems to offer enough functionality for me to finally move to Android and in 1-2 years' time hardware development will have moved on so much that I want a new phone anyway. But right now I'm most interested in user reports so I can decide if I should consider this phone in the first place.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JaGuR:
I thought, that after FROYO, google, have set it up, that, you can upgrade most of the funtionality of Android, with out effecting the manufacturers UI's.

My thoughts they were seperating all the major functionalities, so you could just upgrade them, from the market place, and not have to wait for the phone makers to release the updates :/ ??
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Polarfuchs:
Like: making Android a Kernel :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ewingr:
Looks like AT&T's latest release of an Android phone, the HTC Aria, is going to be locked to only loading apps from the Android Market. I presume custom roms then become more important (at least for AT&T customers).

I may have to give up and move away from AT&T. Not too sure how long it would be before a new rom or root would be available.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] OrionTC:
how can google allow such things? open is supposed to be open
[Galaxy S I9000 General] v1rtu4l:
open != warez
[Galaxy S I9000 General] NickeMan:
This is typical for U.S carriers.

"Oh, here's a nice phone. Let's strip out features and lock it down"
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Cooki3s:
http://twitter.com/PaulOBrien

Looks like Paul from modaco has the Galaxy S, here's to hoping he can get it rooted.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kolyan:
we need 2.2 on this phone.....i am not going to downgrade from nexus 2.2 to sammy 2.1

2.2 is a big upgrade for android
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Toss3:
The CEO of samsung already confirmed that we are gonna get froyo. When is another matter.. :p
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kolyan:
yeah when is a big question as well. if its coming in a month or two, or it will arrive when i will be running 2.3 on Nexus already
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Toss3:
Well you really shouldn't buy a phone based on what it could do in the future, but what it can do right now. Just look at all of the fools who bought the HD2 for WP7. :p The phone is already great running 2.1 and is going to be even better with 2.2. If you are in need of froyo then get a N1, simple logic.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Silverdragondk:
From what I've read on Danish tech sites, the Galaxy S should receive an upgrade a month after the (official) Danish release, which is end of this month. By my calculation that would mean end of July or early August upgrade to Froyo.

regards
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DAKIDD236:
http://twitter.com/SamsungFirmware/status/16322835266

They are flashing 2.2 as we speak :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BasieP:
@live.com

right. and you believe that?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kolyan:
thats probably some bull

and to above post, I already have Nexus, trying to decide if I should get another Nexus for my gf or give her mine and get Galaxy S for myself....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] HazzBazz:
what...theyre not...
[General Topics] Fif23:
On every page of this forum you have at least 1 post about a cracked screen of an Iphone/HTC and all those glass touchscreen devices.

It is my observation that these phones aren't made to be carried in a pocket and used every day, they are more like laptops that must sit in a well protected bag, that is also inside a bigger bag, that is in the back of the truck.

Ebay is full of replacement parts for all various phones because this is a well known problem.

The screen cracking, statistically, is just a matter of WHEN, not if.

It's going to drop sometime.

I have come to this observation after researching the purchase of a new HTC HD2 which is absolutely amazing in it's features and looks, but I am not going to spend any money on something that is going to break when I drop it.

So what do you think ? Do you agree with the above ?

Does anyone here have a glass-phone for over 2 years without it snapping ? (2g/3g iphoners ? )

How is the HTC HD2 in resisting drops , how many times have you dropped yours ?
[General Topics] §venn:
I have to disagree with the statement. A glass touchscreen phone is made like any other phone, to have in your pocket. The touchscreen is just sencetive, if you are somebody who doesn't watch after your phone. Then it might happen, but if you are carefull with your stuff then the chance is like 5%. You might be unlucky once, if you don't watch out and hit a corner of a table ... but you know "**** happens".

I've got a HD2 myself and the screen is still fine. Ive got it since November 2009 (the first release) and when I bought it i had a insurence on the phone. You know just in case it might happen, you never know when you first get a phone and you have to get used to it. But now after 8 months i canceled the insurence for the phone (yearly contract).

I've dropped the HD2 a couple times, 2 times in pouche, or whatever it's called (that's been delivered with the HD2). And a few tiem on a carpet, from 1 meter. It was fine. Also i hit a corner of a table once (pretty hard), but i was lucky i guess. It didn't break. So you just have to be unlucky for one time to break it. But that's with all the phones. If you buy one of 100$ with a hardware keyboard, then it might break aswell .. you never know.
[General Topics] jdwrrzmm:
I'll gladly trade the chance that it might crack from a drop for the scratch resistance. I could never apply screen protectors well.....
[General Topics] Fif23:
Why, is the HD2 especially scratch resistant ?

How come ? It is an actual feature in the HD2?
[General Topics] sirphunkee:
The glass used in the HD2 is treated to make it even harder, and therefore much more resistant to scratches. I believe it's hardened with a carbon-based substance (tho I could be wrong on that one), but either way it's harder than most materials you're likely to come across in normal daily use. It's not impossible to scratch it, just very difficult ;)
[General Topics] ugmeme123:
how about the HTC desire? is it resistant too?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] der_bert:
i want to save a file to the / directory of my phone.

when using adb in recovery mode with $su and mount -a, it seems as if i'm able to us cp to move a file to it, ls shows the file afterwards.

but after booting, the file is gone.

i tried it with a update.zip, same result.

anybody has an idea why this is so and if there is a solution to my problem?

thanks
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] androgiallo:
use root explorer from the market....you can simply copy the file you need to the "/" directory with this app!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Brut.all:
I think / is in RAM. There are system and data partitions on internal flash, but there isn't / one, right?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] der_bert:
@androgiallo i don't know about root explorer, bur SU File Manager & Terminal couldn't do the trick ...

@Brut.all to be honest, i don't know what you're talking about ... does your reply mean it's futile or rather that there might be a solution?

btw, thanks for maps[brut] and even more for apktool.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Brut.all:
I mean "/" isn't persistent - I think it is created in the RAM when you turn on your device, then you could change its contents, but after rebooting it's gone.

For sure there is a way to install something there. If I'm right about that RAM, then there should be somewhere some image of initial contents of "/" partition (they are copied to RAM at boot) - probably in boot.img . So it's possible, but not that easy as just copying a file to "/".

These are just my guesses, maybe I'm wrong.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Brut.all:
Ahh and why do you want to place some file to "/"? Why not to e.g. /data/?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] der_bert:
i use a keyfile for my password manager and i have to enter the path to it manually every time i open the database, so i want to keep the path as short as possible ...
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mrono:
Mozilla Fennec v1.9.3 Official Pre-Alpha

Check out the Development site https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android

or directly download it here: http://bit.ly/fennecapk

System Requirements

Fennec requires Android 2.0 or later.

Installation requires about 30 MB of available internal storage.

We are using these devices for development:

* HTC Google Nexus One

* Verizon Droid (Motorola Milestone)

Other users have successfully installed Fennec on these devices:

* Acer Liquid E

* HTC Desire

* HTC Droid Incredible

* HTC EVO 4G

* HTC Legend

* Motorola Milestone (Droid) from Expansys + AT&T

* Samsung Galaxy Spica

Current Fennec builds will not run on these devices:

* Android SDK emulator

* HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1, Android Dev Phone 1)

* HTC Droid Eris

* HTC Hero (T-Mobile G2 Touch)

* HTC Magic (T-Mobile myTouch 3G, T-Mobile G1 Touch)

* HTC Tattoo

* Samsung Moment

Thanks to interone in the vogue forums for bringing this to my attn. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=699207
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TheBiles:
So how is it? I don't want to download 30MB for a horrible browser.

-------------
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Harfainx:
I would like to try this out, but the download link isn't working.

It tells me I don't have permission to access it.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mrono:
I actually haven't tried it yet lol
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] kpoz:
I have the EVO 4G, and the application froze twice, resulting in a force quit notification both times. The home page would load, however touch input was not recognized.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] seriousblack25:
mine just stays on a blank black screen...uninstall:mad:
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Fadakar:
This is entirely unusable, who reported that this worked on an EVO?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Aridon:
Its pre alpha. Works in that stage is it installs and you get something, anything when it boots.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] aquakevem:
It takes a few seconds to launch. But it works pretty well for me. It can load a none mobile Facebook page in under 4 seconds, 3G speeds. Everything works without any lags.

-------------------------------------

Sent via the XDA Tapatalk App
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] danknee:
Works on my Evo. It is a bloated nasty pig though. I uninstalled and am waiting for the beta.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] aquakevem:
Works pretty good on my EVO.
[HD2 General] Skelator:
Hi Guys i hope somebody who knows about capacitive touch screens can help me! I have taken my HD2 apart to fix a smashed camera lense. On removing the back cover i used a small screwdriver to prise off the back case and unclip it all round. It came off with no problem, i fixed the camera and put it back together. When i turned the device back on the touch screen isn't responding to my finger on any screen. Like i turned the touch screen off! The hard buttons still wok but nothing from the screen. Nothing looks damaged (I.e the glass isn't smashed). I seem to think i might have damaged something when prising the cover off with the screwdriver. Please, any suggestions would be really helpful!!!
[HD2 General] Skelator:
Can anybody out there help with this? I am currently without a phone :-(
[HD2 General] lfotiou:
I have exactly the same problem, but it happened from nowhere. I didnot unscrew anything. Please Help
[HD2 General] sea_man:
Check the flex cable.. this part are very delicate.

is this :

http://img.diytrade.com/cdimg/92507...creen_Full_LCD_for_HTC_Touch_HD2_HD_2_LEO.jpg
[HD2 General] marco97xr:
same problem

ive got the same problem, mine just stopped working, i performed a soft and hard reset, removed the battery still nothing. it worked for a moment but once locked it stopped working again, only the hard buttons.
[HD2 General] saru56:
same problem but it works on and off. basically the screen will respond until the phone is put into hibernate. the after that id have to push the phone button and end button back and forth until it responds
[HD2 General] datafoo:
Same Issue independant of ROM

Same issue here.

Funny thing is it started a week or two ago randomly out of the blue.

Same scenario:

lock the phone can't get touchscreen to respond for unlock

Judging by these posts everyone started seeing this about the same time, maybe it's a software issue or background app .

Help!
[HD2 General] tractatus:
I have same problem. It can work for a couple of hours or in 1-2 days then just stop responding, almost every time when in hibernate. Lets just hope it's not hardware failure.
[HD2 General] otacon:
This started happening to me this morning. Out of 50 tries, managed to unlock the phone three times only. This happened out of the blue, right after i removed my phone from the charger.

Have soft reset, hard reset, reflashed ROM, but the issue still remains.

I really really hope this is not a hardware issue.

Does anyone out there know how to solve this? My phone is virtually unusable right now...
[HD2 General] dio62000:
Same problem here, I've been testing for about 2,5 months now and today I've sent mine back to HTC :(. I think it's a hardware problem, tried everything from hard resetting to reflashing. When I press the HTC logo and keep it pressed the screen does respond again. Conclusion: hardware problem.
[HD2 General] tractatus:
You're probably right.

I've also tried everything. But kind of strange that if I lock when not on home tab it seems to work. And the screen, almost always, reacts as it should as long as I just dont' lock it.
[HD2 General] aeromarknyc:
I just started to get this issue. touch screen works fine until it hibernates. reflashed, still happens. found this in my search:

htcphones.net/htc-hd2-problems-with-touchscreen/
[HD2 General] aeromarknyc:
just got off the phone with tmo. they are sending me a new one.
[HD2 General] MartinXDA:
Yeah, it happened to me as well. I opened a new thread like a month ago explaining the problem: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=710282&styleid=15

and I contributed in another one concerning the same issue here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=708530

Summing all up, it ain't caused by a software or a ROM of some kind (at least in my case) because soft and hard resets didn't solve it nor did the flash of a stock ROM. The most probable cause is a digitizer (touchscreen) defect that appears randomly and totally out of the blue. The only thing to do in my opinion is to send the phone in for repair, which I did. It came back with a check mark on "calibrated screen" checkbox. As of now phone's working fine and I hope they solved it even though I read of other people who have had their leo's screens completely replaced..

A curious side note: htc care reset to zero my phone's call duration timers..
[HD2 General] dio62000:
I'm not sure if it's the screen. In my case I think it's the connector from the screen to the motherboard, because pressing the housing seems to help.

But let's see if HTC is able to repair it, I hope they are, because the problem is so random they might not even see it :rolleyes:
[HD2 General] otacon:
After losing functionality on my touch screen for a week, finally decided to send it in. Took the trouble to revert my HSPL to original and Stock Rom.

Repair should take about a week. Now I'm stuck with an ancient Nokia 6230i for this week. I feel so lost without my ppc. Have had one for as long as I can remember.

Hopefully the phone comes back okay...
[HD2 General] tractatus:
I've had so much problem with the screen not responding so I did all backup then reflashed, hard reset to put the device back to stock. Did this during the weekend, I even fired up my old iphone 3g to have as backup phone.

All set today to go to the store and have it repared under warranty.

But since Sunday evening it works perfect. I've been testing it a lot and the screen has not stop responding even once.

This might be just temporarily but does anyone else experienced something like this?
[HD2 General] dio62000:
Mine sometimes worked well for hours... days... but eventually the problem came back.