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[Galaxy S I9000 General] rkadve:
From India

I own this phone for about a week.

The bugs that I am facing are:

1. Though WIFI is connected, after browsing for few seconds, internet connection is lost. When WIFI reconnected, same problem. I could browse for max 2-3 min at 1 time. My laptop does not have any issues.

2. Once you set an unlock pattern, your device will require the pattern each time you turn it on. If you do not want the device to require the pattern, clear the check box next to Require pattern in Location and security. But this doesnot work.

3. Not able to configure Yahoomail in EMAIL, says Username or password incorrect. Downloaded Yahoomail from market but its not upto the mark.

4. When the phone wakes up, some times the screen is blank for about 4-5 seconds, not always. I always free up the memory every 2-3 hours.

5. GPS is poor.

Hoping that future updates will take care of these & other bugs.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mi4kidzmom:
I honestly think this is a Samsung problem

First I had an iphone3gs great, htc hd2 sooooo slow and laggy, now my touch slide love love love it! It is so super smooth thanks to android, and so far never ever does anything funny or to complain about. My husband also has an iphone 3gs, and maybe it's because he is a heavy phone user for business but it lags allot. He also thinks the quality of the screen, the smoothness of the browser and all other applications is compared to if not better than his iphone. So again from reading many articles and boards where people complain about Samsung I have to come to the conclusion it is Samsung and NOT android. Also my phones processor is slower than 1 GHz snapdragon like I had on the hd2 but it still runs 1000 times faster than my hd2 ever did.

The only reason I am even in this section is because I was actually considering turning in my slide to the new Samsung for tmobile but thanks to you guys this has made my decision for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MacGuy2006:
Unfortunately, I am starting to feel this way as well.

I thought I could live with what I perceived as less polished UI, compared to the iPhone, and largely it has been fine.

But the battery life is just terrible, compared to the iPhone. I am starting to wonder if the people who are happy with the battery life simply have a different standard.

I can't get through a full day, with relatively light use. The battery has been recharged close to 10 times now, so it should be at capacity. I use Google Voice for most of my calls, but it's mostly over WiFi, so it shouldn't be such a drain - it never was on the iPhone 3Gs. The battery issue is something which would make me dump this phone if it doesn't improve soon.

Also, the random lag is unacceptable in a $700+ phone. Sometimes, the email client will show dark screen for a minute or more. If this is related to slow internal memory and can't be fixed by software, I want my money back. I bought the 16gb precisely because I didn't want to deal with SD cards, which introduce their own problems (like getting corrupted from time to time).

The notifications scheme is inconsistent across apps and sometimes duplicative - the phone shows missed calls both on the icon, and on top - I have to clear each separately. Also, I really miss the text notification on the iPhone, where the screen woke up for a few seconds so I could see the text message without turning on the phone. Google Voice voicemail notifications on the iPhone woke up the screen and even showed a transcript!

The overall quality of apps is definitely not as good as on the iPhone, but I hope this will improve.

The Galaxy S has some things which are much better than the iPhone - the screen is gorgeous and the Google Voice integration is much better.

But overall, I am beginning to feel a bit disappointed.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] caelestis2:
If you are going to complain this much go back to your iPhone. But one thing, Google Voice got rejected from the app store so you had to jailbreak your device. Jailbreaking is a really hard task (for developers) and took alot of work, but yet you tweaked your iPhone to get google voice. Why is this not different with android? For more freedom you get a few bugs here and there. The lag is specific to this phone and will be fixed soon. Froyo will come out and fix the battery and increase performance even more. This phone was obviously pushed out fast, but how many phones does samsung have to concentrate on? Many. Apple is a little more polished with theirs because they only have one phone for a year to work on.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tameracingdriver:
+1

My wifi has died on it tonight after putting the custom ROM on, just as I've started to get it how I like it.

This is one hell of an unpolished phone. I've had so many weird problems and frustrating moments with it I really feel like selling it.

It was between this phone and the iphone 4 and now I'm thinking I made the wrong choice. Having the sheer customisability of android is all very well if the thing works to an acceptable standard, but this IMO doesn't.

Starting to look like an expensive mistake :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] al74:
How do you know that? Are you a Samsung spokesperson? People like you promised a fix last week. Update came out and fixed nothing.

Again, care to elaborate how you reached that conclusion? Do you even know when this will happen?

Well. Perhaps Samsung should reduce the number of phones it works on and make sure they actually work.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nicoloco:
jailbreak is hard? That's a good joke this one.

It is so hard to download a binary and to execute it....

And you seem to compare the need to jailbreak for an app that you can live without and this phone that would need to be tweak just to be barely usable??

I can live without google voice but it is a little bit more difficult when you have to wait 20s to open each mail

With the iphone I had thousands of mail in my inbox and no lag at all.with the samsung I put only 3 days of mail as it looks like it is already too much.

Now iphone is iphone and I don't like what's around like itune so I wanted to change but I think it is normal to compare my new state of the art phone to my old iphone and expect it works a least as fast.

And about froyo....for the moment I don't see it coming. Does it mean we need to wait months to be able to use it?

Now the fact is that I enjoy this phone because it's new to me all this android stuff. I just hope that a new rom will fix this lag issue soon...if this is possible of course
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MacGuy2006:
No need for fanboy-isms. I am just comparing phone to phone, and trying to be objective as to what works and what doesn't. Since I have experience with both, and have both at my desk, it's somewhat of a valid comparison. And no, for now I am hoping to work through the issues and keep the Galaxy S. But if I have to spend all my effort to keep it going, like I used to do with WM6, at some point I will dump it.

I chose to purchase an Android because I like the ideas behind the platform and thought that at this level of maturity I will not have to dedicate my waking hours to flashing and reflashing to fix issues. I also like many things about the Galaxy S and the the OS. But, jailbreaking takes 2 minutes for the end user, which is what I am. In a way, the iPhone was boring, because it just worked. But too much phone excitement is not good either, if one has a life.

Well, maybe Samsung should focus on making less models, but better quality ones. Nowadays, I do expect a device which costs over $700 to just work. And for its battery to lasts at least through a full day of normal use.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AshMa:
You should install a free app from the market called SMS Popup. On the HTC Evo, it works well but because of HTC Sense, you end up having to tap in 2 places to terminate the new message icon. Not sure if it will do the same with Samsung TouchWhiz and I'm sure a future version of the app could fix it. Anyhow, you install it and it will wake your phone and display the text message along with the option to delete or reply to right within the popup. Looks just as nice as what I'm seeing on my 2 day old iPhone 4.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ConceptVBS:
What you've essentially done is change a computers' BIOS program ( the fundamental operating code that runs the OS on top) to a different, customized version which was tested by perhaps a few handful of people ( if that).

The best best is to wait for an official firmware upgrade from Samsung to fix those nagging issues that you seem to be having and hope that the fixes are for your specific problems.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MrNetwork:
These comments have been interesting. I have an Eris on Verizon and I'm not going to switch carriers. The Eris has had so many problems since the 2.1 update that I'm really looking for a new Android device. Based on the comments here, I'm going to have to think twice about the Fascinate.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] caelestis2:
Oh holy hell, do you not even bother to read these forums? How uninformed can you be about the product you bought?

I did not conclude by deriving anything. I am not a samsung rep. It has been determined that the cause of the slowness and low benchmark is the slow application data being saved to internal storage. It should be saved to the NAND but samsung decided against it. You can hack it right now and fix the lag. RIGHT NOW.

Why would samsung reduce the amount of phones they make? They are a big manufacturer right now because they make a lot of hardware. The LCD of the iPhone IS MADE BY SAMSUNG. Apple pays them for the screen and for apple's sales a portion of the money goes to samsung. You do not know any economics.

Again, someone who doesn't bother to read. I put in to parenthesis that its very difficult

---->>>>(for the developers)<<<-----

to make a jailbreak. They did all the hard work for you. On the samsung you have to do some work yourself. But the phones both had problems that needed to be solved. That's my point.

Lets stress this last statement to address the next. Both phones have problems. You cannot open your email as fast as you would like. But how about videophiles? They have to wait 30min to an hour to re-encode their favourite videos to fit the iPhone. Where one phone has its strengths the other has its weakness. You seem to be a pessimist who can only see the glass half-empty. That's what annoys me and makes me grind my gears.

Froyo is only out for the Nexus One so far! Google just finished it! Now samsung has to fit it onto their phones. You give them no time and credit at all.

Disliking something just because it is new or different and you can't understand it is very American. I'm surprised to see your flag.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MrNetwork:
If you have time, can you explain the tern NAND and what you are saying should have been done.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] caelestis2:
http://android.modaco.com/content/s...298/got-the-stalling-problem-rooted-try-this/

I see no problems with speed after the fix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RYugWwN4R4
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mengan:
My Galaxy S is as fast as that guy's

Youtube: /watch?v=rAE_zKAtMvg

You just need to spend some effort reading, tweaking and flashing your phone to make it work better. But the reward is so much better than the Iphone as you get a totally customized phone suited exactly for your needs.

I would never touch IOS4, the limited and locked down nature of that OS sickens me.. .eww
[Galaxy S I9000 General] caelestis2:
Thank you. I would never get an iPhone 4 because of it's problem with the holding and that apple doesn't care to fix it. The other iPhones were fine until my father got very frustrated with updates breaking his phone's jailbreak and stopping him from doing it again! :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] al74:
Writing "holy hell" in a nasty tone won't make you right (well, perhaps if you wrote it three times). Paul's hack is less than perfect so please don't tell me that there is a fix right now, and by explaining the problem you didn't answer my questions: 1. How do you know that a formal fix from Samsung is coming and 2. How do you know that Froyo will fix all that crap. Please share...

So Samsung makes money of Apple, perhaps if they spent less time on quality control on Apple products and more on their own phones this wouldn't happen. I never heard this argument: we make so much more products than the other company, so it's OK that our products are rushed to the market with problems we are not as quick to fix. Awesome, or as you say: holly hell...

As a side note, we all know these die hard Apple fans and it's relatively new but we already met the die hard Android fans. However, I never thought that Samsung has them. Good for Samsung. Next thing you know we will all see Choi Gee-sung presenting Samsung hardware a-la Jobs.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] caelestis2:
Okay, whatever, the iPhone4 is perfect. We should all return our galaxy S's and just get the iPhone4 because it's awesome and was perfect all the way from the first version. Yeah... iPhone4 rulez. Who needs to make calls? I got a smooth UI and brag about it to everyone I know. No competition to it, we already invented everything ourselves.

Has anyone seen futurama and the eyePhone parody?

Exits thread never to read it again.

P.S. Holy hell, holy hell, holy hell. I never expected to see people who would go into a forum for a device on xda-dev and complain about a phone that has fixes available. Why even come to xda?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ConceptVBS:
I'm sorry to say but you will encounter people complaining about their phones all the time whenever something new launches. So you might have to wait, perhaps, forever, until your "perfect" phone with no glitches/errors/lags appear. Which will be never.

Products are made by humans, humans make mistakes or dont test things enough.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MacGuy2006:
Huh?! You make absolutely no sense.

If the internal storage is slow and causing the lag, it makes the phone a dud. As I mentioned before, I spent the extra money for 16gb precisely so I don't have to deal with SD cards and the frequent data corruptions I had to deal with when I was using WM. The same kind of SD card issues which many EVO owners experienced recently.

Not sure if this is your first smart phone and you are in love, or if you have some other issues, but you need to chill. And your "American" comment is plainly stupid.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MacGuy2006:
Thanks for the pointer. I just installed it and hopefully it will address my gripe.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nicoloco:
Oh funny I didn't read this post ...

My bad for the fact that it's hard for the dev ... It must be true. Even if I would thought that it is easier for several developers to crack one phone than for several to develop on several phone like WM and Android. But I don't know ...

Now one more time I like when people are comparing stuff that should not be compared

I am talking about basic feature like : making a call, sending a text, opening a mail and you talk to me about jailbreaking the iphone to install google voice ( how mandatory is that ??) and to watch movie

You can't say youhou this phone is awesome it can make me coffee when the others can't ... oh yeah by the way you can't make a call but what do you want ... all the phones have their weakness :)

For me watching movie is not the first use of a phone ( especially with its battery life) I prefer one more time to call my friends, send them some text, surf on the web, send some mail. So if my phone can do that well then I care about music and video.

It's been now a week that I have this phone and I would say that my main problems with it are now the low battery ( better than the first days but still ) and the lag. I know, I coul root my phone, install a new ROM, install a new stall fix ... uninstall it when I want to install bigger app like games or google earth and then reinstall the fix .. But strangely enough i don't have just that in my life, I have a work, a wife , trainings ...

oh by the way, about your comment on American people ... what's the flag for those who LOVES something just because it's new ??

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Now mythoughts after 1 week for usage.

I think the battery life is better than it was. I managed to spent a full day (14hours) before it was empty. Yet I was carefull not to use it too much.

I'll do a test today using just mp3 to see if I can reach the 7h30 announced

Apart from this, the new firmware I put JFF is better obviously but there is still some serious lag issue. I will keep on looking with SystemPanel if I can enhance this or with some other agresive autokill settings.

I find the volume when I receive a call pretty low. Even with the earphone I have some difficulties to hear anything.

On the other side, surfing on the web and watching movies is really nice and I really like that.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TexUs:
Honestly if this thing will really sell for $350 here in the states, I'd say it's the best feature-price ratio out there.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] riz157:
I must confess this is one of the worst android handset I have owned purely because if the lagging and freezing, the only compliment is the video playback is brilliant and the camera is pretty good even thogh no flash is included.

If one wants to appreciate android then try HTC desire, droid x Evo or HTC incredible they all beat iphone in pretty much in all respect bar the obvious apps and music player. Samy GS is a huge let down don't think i will buy samsung again in a rush.

If samsung can ifx the lagging, screen freezing, gps and keyboard issue then it would be a fantastic device..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pika007:
Have you even tried to update your firmware?

Also, i indeed heared about lagging and the GPS has some issues, but.... freezing? keyboard issue?

I have no idea what are you talking about, and i have the feeling i'm not alone.

Aside from you, even google yields no results.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nicoloco:
For me a freeze is a big lag :D

And i must confess that sometimes the behaviour is more a freeze than a lag.

For instance when an app hangs I tried to goback or to go home and nothing happens for a while. It looks like there is no more memory.

When I go in SystemPanel I can see that there ie only around 30MB left ( how much do we have by the way ? It looks like 256 only)

For the keyboard, maybe he is refering to the issue with the swype ad the JG1 ? But this issues is specific to this rom , whti a specific CSC I think ?? There is already a fix for this.

For the GPS, I did some test and it doens't look that bad but honestly for the moment all the test I did are in the city with tall building everywhere so I didn;t expect much.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pika007:
The galaxy S has 512MB ram (confirmed several times, the device was already taken apart by several techblogs etc.), but for some reason we can only see 256 at the moment. From what i understand it has something to do with the current system kernel, and we'll be able to see full 512mb in froyo.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nicoloco:
Thanks for the info.

I knew it was supposed to be 512 but I wondered why I had 120MB and systempanel was saying that is was 50% of the memory !!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] riz157:
I agree probably has alot to do with ram issue, I'm currently on jf3 which I thought was the most upto date. Yell me I'm right. Having owned desire I really miss trackball is there any work around this?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tameracingdriver:
Well after my somewhat downbeat postings on page 4, I decided to stay from scratch and rebuild my phone with jg1 and the r2 rom, and I have to say I've had a couple of trouble free days and the phone us running very nicely (no lag fix either just autokiller on optimum). Everything works (though have not tried gps yet) including some market apps that would just crash. If things carry on like this, I'll be happy. Also if it stays like this, my next update will be froyo unless some other rom comes out that somehow offers far better performance than I have now, but that seems fairly unlikely till froyo.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xManMythLegend:
Ok I went ahead and purchased some extra space ((20 gigs))

Im uploading albums as I type and realize now 2 issues. Ive searched but but there doesnt seem to be a clear answer.

1. Where exactly ((and what exactly)) is physically stored on my SD card ?

Is it the full pic or just a thumbnail. I have "original size" set in Picasa so now im worried the Cache will engorge my SD card.:eek::mad::eek:

2. I know there is currently no feature that allows me to manually select specific Albums to sync. But has there been any word from Google this is being worked on ?

I just read calendar has added this in Froyo.:confused::o
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orris:
First, I tried searching and couldn't find anything or just missed it.

When I upload videos to YouTube it will keep timing out and saying that it will retry in one minute. I also found that if my screen turns off while it's doing that, it sometimes won't continue. Anyone else have this issue or have a way to fix it? I have to keep the screen on by sliding my finger down the screen and having to click the uploading video to get it to retry.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orris:
No one?

gd,mgfn,gms
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orris:
Is this the Q&A forum or just the Q forum? Maybe someone will answer that.

I just want to know if anyone else has that issue and if anyone has an idea to alleviate it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
I don't have 4g but I think it may have happened a few times to me on 3g. I usually prefer to stay on wifi, especially if you are uploading something and the 4g signal goes out for a split second, it could end the data transfer.

Sorry I cant help!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orris:
Hi, thanks for answering. I have great 4g service where I live and usually have 2 to 3 bars all of the time. I was thinking maybe it would time-out a lot for some reason. But, thanks again.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evoxsin:
Never

I still have never been able to upload a video on any network 3/4g or wifi. It always times out. Maybe it's an unpublished bug(won't be the first)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orris:
Hm. I wish someone would chime in that has done the 4g time-out hack to see if they have the same issue.
[Dash 3G, Snap ROM Development] Mr. Clown:
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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] mileskb:
My other half noted she had voice search (we both have Tilt 2's bought on the same day, same store etc..) She thought I installed it. I don't remember...

Bottom line... She has Google Maps version 4.1 and I have 4.0. I want 4.1, but when I go through the m.google.com/maps link, I only get 4.0.

The voice search works great on her tilt 2 :(

Could someone point me in the direction of the cab for 4.1.x

Thanks in advance...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stcardinal:
When I try to go to that url, it gives me a 404. Anyone else know where I can even download google maps?