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[Galaxy S I9000 General] junglist1996:
Ok, I took the microSD card out and played the FLACs directly from my HTPC with foobar2000. Just to make sure, I'm also playing the FLACs now directly from the microSD card on my work laptop with Winamp as the player. I didn't encounter any problem when playing these FLACs from the HTPC and the laptop with two different players so I am quite confident that the files and the microSD card are fine. I think I've also mentioned before that I have already tried to play the same FLACs on the microSD card with CorePlayer on my HTC HD2 w/o any issues.

During the encounter with a certain "individual" yesterday, he has suggested that the Samsung Music Player was poorly written and was maxing out the CPU when I try to play a FLAC on the phone. That was contrary to my knowledge as I don't think FLAC decoding is something that the Hummingbird with 512MB of RAM can't handle. So I loaded TaskManager which seems to indicate that the Music Player was at most using 3% of the CPU while playing a FLAC.

So, from what I have gathered so far:

1. AFAIK, this FLAC playback issue has only appeared on 3 phones (mine, my friend's, and the Samsung tech's) all with stock Hong Kong ROM. No one else with other ROMs seem to have this issue I'm currently experiencing.

2. The same issue shows up on 3 different players I've tried on the Galaxy S.

3. I have used the same microSD card and successfully played the same FLACs on my HTPC, laptop and HTC HD2 with no issue at all.

4. The Sammy tech seems to have acknowledged that there's an issue with FLAC playback on our phones, but doesn't seem to be in a position to do anything to fix this.

Do you guys reckon this issue is caused by the HK ROM? I'm ready to flash to a different ROM (preferably with Chinese handwriting input as I occasionally use that). If flashing is indeed necessary, where can I get some step-by-step guide and more info on ROM selection?

ps. As a thing that's somewhat unrelated to my problem, I want to say that there is massive difference in sound quality between the different players. I was at my friend's place testing the Galaxy S with his two monoblock tube amps hooked up to a pair of B&W 804s. We tried the default Sammy Music Player, Mixzing and some Chinese music player app which the certain "individual" advised me to try. It turns out that the Sammy player sounded the best while there was a very noticeable drop in sound quality with Mixzing. Now how that difference in SQ translates into earphone application is I guess an entirely different story.

After the test, my friend concluded that the SQ of the Sammy player was so close to his HTPC (his main audio source equipped with an X-Fi XtremeMusic) that he is now seriously considering a Wavelength USB DAC to replace the X-Fi...

EDIT: Just found this thread on ROM flashing. Now I gotta find a ROM that fits my requirements.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] d0p3d:
No idea if a ROM flash would fix it, but since it doesnt seem to be hardware related AND the only correspondence in ROM's wich give this problem are the HK ones, I would say its at least worth considering.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] junglist1996:
Well, I ended up flashing to a South East Asian DXJF4 ROM and guess what? I've gone through 4 or 5 FLACs with no problem! So the problem is definitely caused by something on the HK ROM. I guess I should report this finding to Samsung so that they won't screw up the 2.2 HK ROM.

I went with a SEA ROM hoping I can get decent Chinese handwriting input with it. Unfortunately, it uses a different Chinese input from the HK ROM and I'm having a tough time to even write my own name lol. Another thing is I still can't get the Music Player to recognize WAV files

Oh well, at least I've got FLAC playback sorted out and that's the more important thing...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] methosb:
I also have a HK SGS and am having problems with flac files, sometimes they stop, sometimes they skip to the next song.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] paul_73_uk:
I have a UK SGS which started out on JF3 and is now on JG3. I've got one particular FLAC track that stops a couple of minutes in and i have to bump it forward 30 seconds or so and it then caries on. Other than that i've not noticed a problem with FLAC playback on the stock music player.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] flamingpitofhell:
I'm a bit late to this thread but I've had the same problem as the OP when on ZSJF7 firmware. Had to revert to DXJF4.

I have several tracks that do this as well - doesn't matter which firmware the phone's running on (haven't tried JG5 yet). There's no problem with MP3 playback.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Will.1:
Westone 3's??? Nice OP :)

btw i saw on another forum a similar issue of FLAC tags not being read. Has anybody found a solution to that, cuz that sucks big time, having hundreds of files in "UNKNOWN" is a real pain. I'll keep looking.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
I have a problem with the FLAC tags, I have the Korean Galaxy S SHW-m110s I haven't tried to reupload since getting to firmware updates. I did dl flac tag conversion software that mostly improved this, but for whatever reason the last letter cut off and now I've just thought of also adding a space after the last letter...hmm...anyways...I'll put new FLAC on the phone and hope there is a better answer to this.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] flamingpitofhell:
Where'd you download the conversion software from? Even if the last letter's cut off it's better than nothing :p
[Galaxy S I9000 General] telios:
The FLAC problem seems fixed in the latest offical ZSJG4 firmware from Kies. I already listened for 8 flac songs without stop or program crash.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] canto0:
After reading the previous post I also decided to update the firmware via Kies,

and yea it seems flac is playable now !! *happy* =)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] The.Opethian:
Because of this I am currently transferring my FLAC Type O Negative collection over and am hoping that I am one of the lucky ones.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] junglist1996:
Good stuff. I have resolved the FLAC problem with the South East Asian DXJF4 as mentioned in my earlier post. However, the Chinese handwriting support seems to be horrible so I'll probably change to ZSJG4 when I get home tonight.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] elbasso:
I'm on JM2 and get small interrupts in my FLAC playback. Just a hiccup of maybe a tenth of a second. Happens every other minute. Is anyone familiar with this?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] canto0:
well i get a slight hip in a few songs at places where it used to crash but sometimes it doesnt do that, maybe its using too much cpu? or something not too sure
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JohanBerts:
I'm also running JM2 and got hickups in the playback of FLAC files. Very annoying :mad:. It does'n matter which Music player I use, i've tried Samsung stock Music Player, MixZing and Meridian. The hickups are always in the same place in the songs.

Regarding the tag information there is a application on market called Extended Media Scanner that solves part of that problem. It will scan the FLAC files and import the tags into the standard andriod media database. Then you can use "any" Music Player to listen. It doesn't read handle genres or album art though.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] arj03:
I had the same problem. In the mean time I have upgrade firmware and applied lag-fix. Will retest and see if it happens still. This problem is really annoying, together with the fact that the built-in player won't scrobble to last.fm
[Galaxy S I9000 General] junglist1996:
Yeah, I also have this issue where the song would sort of "skip" for like 1/10 of a second with the old DXJF4 and the current ZSJG4. At least I went from completely broken FLAC playback with the old ZSJF7 to occasional skipping I get now. Anyway, I note that ZSJG4 w/ lagfix "skips" less than stock DXJF4, and I notice it tends to skip more often if I'm also doing something else (e.g. browsing websites with multiple tabs open). I suspect this has something to do with buffering which would hopefully be fixed in the official 2.2 ROM.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
does the lag fix helps to prevent the skipping on the FLAC playbacks?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JohanBerts:
No, not for me anyway. I have applied the lag fix, and is still experiencing skips.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Samga:
My SGS with XXJM1 produces the same dropouts, mostly in the last quarter of a song.

No CPU peak (tested with Usage Timelines).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] arj03:
Yeah JM5 with lagfix using 3 player also fails :(

:mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ctesias:
my experience with flac in galaxy S

I just got an Adroid phone (converted from WM6.1) and am a devoted audiophile. I was having similar problems as the original author on this post -- Both Andless and Meridian would not play flac files, while the same files were playable on my computer and former WM6.1 phone. I updated the phone via Kies to the 2.1 update 1 and installed Mixzing and the flac files now work fine. Not sure which ROM version I have, but doing this fixed the problem for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sonci:
Doesn`t make sense playing lossless, when you hear a terrible hiss in the background,

especially with good earbuds..

SGS is not an audiophile device. (in fact its a phone)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Samga:
There is no hiss with my i9000 (Samsung MP3-Player on JM1, Sennheiser HD 650 / Phonak Audéo).

@sonci: under what circumstances do you hear what kind of hiss? FW? Player?

@Ctesias: what build number / base band version do you have?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] fullerms:
I used to get random pops and crackles playing FLAC using the default player on JG4 firmware. This was on quite a few albums which used to play well on my PC. No problems after I upgraded to Froyo on ZUJP2 and now JPM.

Try a different player to check if that changes anything. I installed cube player, and am loving it :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eeyunopper:
Flac playback sorted

I seem to be one of the unfortunate few who have had issues with FLAC playback (breaks in songs, usually in last quarter of song). I tried encoding with FLAC 1 or 8 (using winamp), copying albums as individual files or one big file (using Foobar), on internal or external card, with card almost empty or card almost full, always the same, pretty much gave up hope. Just upgraded to 2.2 (I9000XXJPP) via Kies, and installed WINAMP Beta.... Works perfectly, no dropouts yet, 4 albums so far... Haven't tried them with the stock player yet, don't want to jinx my luck :)

Now I need a 32gb card.........
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dangermind:
I had exactly the same issues with .flac files.

after i installed Darky's rom v9.5 Extreme edition, all problems where gone. i can play flac files on the background while playing a game and beeing on msn at the same time!

If Darky can do this, why cant samsung? with original stock rom it plays flac. but if you do anything else on your phone the sound gets choppy or you get a force close..

I would really reccomend you all to try Darky's rom :D

Phone: Samsung Galaxy S I9000 8GB

Rom: Darky's V10.0 RC6

Kernel: Dark Core 2.2

Battery: 2 Day's approx. on average usage.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bbluee:
I have played flacs on froyo 2.2 and on gingerbread jvk and on darkys rom 10 rc5. Everytime i did not experience any problem. You may check the bitrate of your flacs. It can co to 9 mbps. I had only with 1.5 mbps.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] shadowmike:
does anyone have a backup of original sd card contents
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Evolution-22-:
I would like this also =)
[myTouch 3G Slide General] shadowmike:
no one ?? :confused:
[myTouch 3G Slide General] jnight666:
Here you go.

http://www.mediafire.com/?8672h22vgkbeobd

Just be glad I made a backup.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] shadowmike:
OH im very glad... Thank you much sir.

Off topic. think my driving record is bad because i have 666 in my drivers license number
[myTouch 3G Slide General] topper4004:
what are the "original sd card contents"?
[myTouch 3G Slide General] falken98:
It is what is on your SD card when you take your new phone out of the box before you go all adding and deleting files from it. :)

Edit: and if you wondered exactly what it was... junk that needs deleted. :D
[myTouch 3G Slide General] shadowmike:
why yes it is. just a whole **** load of junk. I just wanted the myfaves icons as they finally put some good ones on the phones. and not everyone in my contacts has a facebook account so id like to have some nice generic photos for the contacts.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] topper4004:
haha OK, that's what I kinda suspected.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] han-shinbi:
thanks was looking for this!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madman8784:
just looking for a good .torrent downloader app, one that downloads the torrents to the phone and not remote to your computer. Trying the bittorrent app right now, and it seems to be a little crappy. when i start a download it only connects to about 4 seeds and only goes about 3 kb/ps with WiFi. Do I have to change something in my settings to download faster?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EtherealRemnant:
There are a few torrent apps in the market. Just search for torrent.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RikusHaven:
How about trying out aBTC? I however think setting up a remote is much better.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tundricles:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.transdroid
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] awesomerobot:
definitely the wrong forum for this, btw
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nol3n:
Andtorrent is the best for this.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geams13:
I was in the same boat as you a couple weeks ago. I didn't want a remote downloader. I found a beta version of an app called dTor. A quick google search of "dTor android bittorrent" should bring up some more info for you. Also, check out BluePlanetApps on twitter. That's the developer.

I had some problems with the app while it was in beta. The developer said that it was running fine for everyone except three people with EVOs. We all sent him various logs and I believe he got all the bugs worked out (guess that's the point of beta, right?). Ironically, it sounds like there's a chance the full version will be released today.

Despite the problems that I had, I thought it was a great app that did exactly what I was looking for. If the developer got those minor bugs worked out, then it's going to be a winner.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
Swarm will be on the market soon!

http://swarmbt.com/

Here's a screenie...I got lucky to be a beta tester...offical market release should be very soon. Like within days.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikevember:
Swarm is in the market now for $4.99 I am checking it out now. I tried dTor but it would force close on boot. This one appears to be working. The 10 peers max is definitely a downer though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PC-48:
So I have a rooted Evo and am wondering how the heck do I open up a shell? I'm trying to see if I my Evo is properly rooted and it says I need to open up a shell so I can check for this. I'm guessing it's like opening a Linux terminal but I have no idea how to do this on my phone and it seems like it's a fairly common thing. Should I have access to an adb shell after rooting? I am new to all of this so please go easy on me...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
Just try downloading an app that requires root... like Titanium backup or wifi tether... all on the market...

or goto your tools folder from the SDK..with your phone plugged into your computer...on charge mode.... from a command prompt type "adb shell" and then if you get a "#" you are rooted.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
that is for the terminal emulator for your phone. Or just grab it from the market:

'Android Terminal Emulator' by Jack Palevich
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PC-48:
Ok so I downloaded that app using the barcode scanner and it runs so I must be properly rooted. I'm just wondering what the SDK is that apristel mentioned. I'm guessing Software Development Kit but I don't have one of those that I am aware of. I used the Terminal Emulator and typed in adb shell and it responded with "adb: permission denied". I'm just trying to learn about how all of this stuff works, Thank you for your help so far.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] midri:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

After you install that you will be able to open command prompt (windows) and type adb shell (when device is pluged in and in usb mode) to get shell access via your pc.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PC-48:
Ahh! Ok it's all starting to make sense now. By "usb mode" do you mean the Disk drive option or is it the Charge only option? I'm talking about the Connect to PC options...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vbyt:
I think he means usb debugging mode and charge only.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
Yeah thats exactly what i meant. thanks for clearing that up.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Hi fellow Samsung Galaxy S owners,

I'm at the verge of buying my first Android phone now. However, I still have a few things to confirm.

I've ruled out Evo completely as it does not work in most part of the world, despite the gorgeous screen size that I absolutely would love. I want something that is at least four inch in screen size, gives me good visibility under bright sunlight, comes with at least 16 GB internal memory, front camera, and something that runs Froyo 2.2 ( in other word, the vendor must already have that ready for upgrade now).

Is Samsung Galaxy S the one?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] leoon:
It has everything u wanted apart from the 2.2 update which is expected to be released in ~4 months.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Thanks leoon,

Do we have any official statement yet from Samsung guaranteeing that they will release an update in 4 month's time?

The next question is, in the event that they abandon the phone and refuse to issue any upgrade, is there already a good cooked Froyo that I can use now?

I understand that there is a great performance improvement moving from 2.1 to 2.2, so am really keen to get on 2.2 ASAP.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Dexter666:
It is confirmed officialy about korean version 2.2 so we can be sure about others also.

SGS is much faster than evo, I don't understand why you even consider about it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MacGuy2006:
Maybe, if you are into 3d....

But in normal use, the EVO feels faster (I just played with one for a while last night).

The Evo exhibits no lag at all and feels peppier than my SGS.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Is SGS really faster than EVO? Any link that I can see the benchmark comparision?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kanwal236:
the sgs is much stronger in graphics

cpu wise they are about the same, can't say how much the same cause i don't have one xD

but i'd rather have the hummingbird processor

+ this screen :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ivas75:
Froyo (2.2) has already been announced for Asia. It will come in early August. Samsung said that International users will follow soon.

I chose SGS over Desire for its screen, better processor and GPU, better looks. I come from a series of iPhones (2g, 3g, 3gs) and I don't miss them at all.

SGS has some lags from time to time, but nothing really frustrating.

I use it all day and the only con is the battery duration. It needs recharging every single day (from 18-24 hours of usage).

One more thing that i don't like so much is the application for exchange email, but I'll look for a better one.

Other than that and of course the lack of paid applications due to my location (Greece), android and SGS fulfil my needs.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] miker71:
Why did I choose the SGS? (previous I had a Nexus One, previous to that iPhone 3G)

1. 4" screen

2. Better quality touchscreen than N1 (no axis swap bug)

3. PowerVR GPU
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
So, other than Nexus One, nobody has froyo 2.2 yet? I didn't want Nexus as the hardware is outdated by now, but its main attraction is the ability quickly keep up with Google's latest firmware.

BTW, to Dexter666, the key attraction of EVO to me was the 4.3 inch screen size. I was hoping that they have a GSM UTMS version. But since they only have CDMA version, the use is very limited, hence it's greatest weakness. It is not possible to use it even if we want to in Australia and most part of the world.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hassan:
Also don't forget it has best video player compare to any other android handset as well as music player.

Support for almost all the native video codes, in DIVX & MKV up to 720P. No need to wait for any video player. ;)

Music player with EQ. SRS WOW 5.1 through headset. Best screen to watch high quality videos.

Look at other forum section where owner of other (HTC) android handset always asking for good video player. I use to be among them once,

not any more though. :D

It hold batter 3G signals then my N1 and Desire and good battery life too :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] aaronu:
HD video

I was considering getting the desire but felt like it was a little old now and the new iphone 4 might have had to be my option though I so didnt want to go there! Then the SGS came out in the UK just last week and it had HD video capture an excellent screen and 2.1 so I was so there, had it for 5 days now and it has to be said it is one massive jump from what I had with the G1. The video capture might be the best in the mobile space! I compared it with my mates iphone 4 and the audio is crap on his in comparison... basically he is a massive apple fan boy but was looking at this phone with real envy as the screen did look better on a quick comparison!

couple of bugs with the clock, and browser but im confident that these are just teething issues with my hand set as I dont see many people talking about it on the net (yet)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] retro-man:
I always had Samsung phones before and my Omnia i900 with WM had to be replaced. I went for the specs (the speed/sound/screen) and the look (and no I'm no iphone fan, just incase ;)) Never had experience with android but I must say I made a good chooise.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Dexter666:
Power of Searching button @ youtube :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilx_cpGZczM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ6i1RAJwD4

and mine is actualy a little faster.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Billus:
Since your from Australia, the Optus plans for this phone are dirt cheap consider what you get. You pay what, $800 give or take online for the 8gb model, $850 or so for the 16gb (used to be a lil more pricy, add $50 or so) when you buy outright. Great caps, coverage is okay and decent data. Phone is fast, customizable and fun to play with. Typing is also really easy and the screen has awesome quality. Loving Vilingo for when I drive.

It was a pleasant change from Windows Mobile.

Edit: I also have to say, I ordered this phone online and got it within a day or two (ordered Monday night, received it early Wednesday morning). Optus staff are great and very helpful. Had to transfer my number and I got a very nice lady to sort out my issue within a few minutes. Very happy with this phone. Touchwiz UI is good but I did change mine.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kramiz:
Was going to get the HTC Desire, but it was not available anywhere. So I ended up getting the Galaxy S instead, just waiting for the delivery to arrive. :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] emelie:
why sgs?

android, super amoled, touchscreen quality, 1ghz, gpu, microsdhc, presumably good coverage in these forums ;)

disclaimer: not all of those might be unique to this device