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[Galaxy S I9000 General] austinchimp:
This is a thread that could become irrelevant at any time with the release of a new firmware, but..

In people's experience, which if these firmwares is faster, more stable, and less laggy?

I have a Galaxy that I upgraded to JM2, but I'm not playing around with it much as it's a present for somebody - I just wanted to have it up to date when I give it to them.

So I haven't seen the difference in daily usage. Any thoughts?

On just playing around on the home scree, adding and removing widgets, they both seem pretty fast.

Thanks guys
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mikebeecham:
I've not really benchmarked the different roms to be honest, but I have JM2 and have noticed that the phone lags a little when opening, closing and working within various apps.

3Banana notes is quick for me, whereas Seesmic lags when I hit 'compose' for a new tweet. The default media player is pretty snappy opening, as is the market, but other apps are slow...

Not sure whether it's a phone thing, a rom thing or an app thing.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] OrionTC:
i flashed from JF3 stock to JM2 and notice its a little quicker in day to day activitys but i still get the app lag when opening certain apps like mentioned above.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kalpik:
I think no firmware so far in entirely lag-free! You DO need the sdcard fix!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lenrek:
I don't apply any of the firmware updates, but just SD card fix. Rarely notice big lagging now. :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] achio1115:
For me, JM2 gives me the best performance. I'll give it a day or 2 to see if I even need the sd card fix. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] azreil24:
I ran the Quadrant Standard bench on JM1 and JM2. While the JM1 got a 940 result the JM2 gets only 880 points, and it sims a little slower than the JM1. Even the accelerometer turns the image after a longer period. Both have a very good memory management, sometimes I get 270 MB free out of 326MB, and it stays in the range without the need of a reset after a long period of use.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mikebeecham:
I have heard the card fix really works...but the process seems very complicated to me. Perhaps I'm just a numbskull, but I dont understand how to do it...

...I dont want to do stuff that will brick the phone, unless I really know what I'm doing?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Robin.B:
I think you have the memory bit wrong - it's showing 270MB USED out of 326MB (at least for me... I've never seen it dip below the 200s.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TMW597:
I just upgraded from XWJG5 to XWJM2. Good thing I ran Titanium Backup first! I didn't realize the flash would wipe all of my data. So far so good.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Ancient_One:
If you use a kill application the best I have seen so far is around 93MB free as Task Manager restarts by default.

The built in kill application on JM2 only kills battery hog applications which are running not the run of the mill applications running in the background.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TMW597:
Yes, I did notice the native Task Manager.

I have noticed with this firmware that the MarketEnabler is not working. I can't download some of my paid apps.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Rithina:
Use Eris Market fix from the market

Sent using Samsung Galaxy S
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TMW597:
I wish it were so easy. I have never had success with Eris. I have had success with MarketEnabler, but the latest version may need an update to work with the latest firmware. Very frustrating though. Fortunately for me before I did the firmware upgrade I used Titanium Backup. Had I not I would have no Slingplayer or other paid apps on the SGS right now.

Back to Eris, I installed it last night well before midnight, cleared the cache, did the reboot and waited until this morning it being a new day, and still no luck.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ikenley:
Hi All,

So I updated from JG5 to XM1 then XM2. Moving from JG5 to XM1 was very laggy and seemed that XM1 might have been on the Alpha release level, it was good but too buggy.

I then upgraded to XM2 from XM1 and found significant improvements. Then I started to notice things that would normally work would not. The GPS didn't work, the market didn't work, titanium back up, kept getting interrupted during restore even when using after a clean reboot. Browsing through the phone was generally slower and menus would take a while to load.

XM2 seems great on first boot, but after you start loading some of your apps in and customize it to work the way you want it to, then you have problems.

I went back to JG5 as it is far more stable and reliable. I might wait till Froyo before I flash again, i've probably done 12 different flashes in the past 2 weeks.

Let me know if anyone has had better luck with XM2.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] m3keni:
on my part.. i can say that JG5 is still the fastest and operates more stable than JM2 at stock settings no rooting done.

installed samset 1.6 and seemed to get abit slower in opening applications..

..will go back to JG5 for now.. hehehe

|| disclaimer: other users may experience differently. ^_^ ||
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
Im wondering why the phone is reporting more than 256MB usable since the current kernel version only allows upto 256MB
[Galaxy S I9000 General] riz157:
I found JG5 more stable whereas I have encountered few issues with JM2, market behaves strangly installed apps not showing status installed. More bugs in JM2, more lagging and apps taking longer to load like sky news i think I will go back to JG5.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Johnutz:
JG5 is an official firmware? I mean App market will work without Eris Fix ?

Thanks !
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Johnutz:
Is JG5 an official firmware on which App Market is working without Eris fix ?

Thanks !
[HD2 General] tomzern:
Hi!

Yesterday I had to soft reset my HD2 and when I turned it back on, the screen with the clock and quicklinks and the slider between different pages at the bottom were missing..The only thing I see when I unlock the screen, is the same background picture that I use on my lock screen. What has happened? Isn't sense booting as it should?

Thanks,

Tomzern
[HD2 General] DN41:
go to settings, more, today, elements.

which one is marked there?

htc sense should be the only one.

DN41
[HD2 General] tomzern:
Thank you DN41;)

HTC sense was the only one marked, but I changed it to windows standard, and back to HTC sense, and everything was back to normal:)

Problem solved;)
[HD2 General] DN41:
it's a pleasure.

DN41
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c0mput3:
Hey All :D

I have a requirement for setting up a dual boot on the HTC Hero using the SD Card for the 2nd OS.

I've looked around and have come across the Dual Booting for the Windows Mobile and Android on the HTC HD2 and was hoping somebody might be able to point me in the right direction archiving this on an Hero.

I'm not looking to run both OS at the same time, ie not running Ubuntu/Debian via a loop device.

So if anyone knows of any good guides for editing the Boot.img, i thinking that where the magic gonna happen, i might be wrong, please i would very much like to hear from you.

Many Thanks

c0mput3
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dormantlemon:
ubuntu in its present form simply will not run. cmd based linux is a possibility for many mobile devices, as has been prooved by cmd linux on iphone os.

I wouldnt know about how to go about this though.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bonesy:
Speak to kendon over on Villainrom forums.I think hes probably the one to talk to as im sure he said ubuntu is possible
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c0mput3:
Many thanks Bonesy, checking that now. =)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bugmenotatall:
Status?

... and what was the end result?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChrisBurr:
There is a thread on the villianrom forum for running ubuntu/debian alongside android though I'm still waiting for a new SD card before I try it. I would link but its still down, any ETAs for it being back up yet, I understand it might take a while? :(
[Captivate General] rob989_69:
My phone has been working fine, up till last night. All of a sudden when I plug it into USB I get an error that there was a device malfunction. In dev man there's a Microsoft WPD FileSystem Volume that windows says cannot start properly, and a unknown device under USB.

I've system restored, I've power drained, I've tried on 3 pc's. Same thing. All pc's are running windows 7 64 bit.

Any ideas?
[Captivate General] trexxxxx1:
Maybe reinstalling the samsung drivers from the website. Maybe a driver got corrupted. Other than that I don't know. Bring the phone back get a new one faulty device.
[Captivate General] rob989_69:
Tried reinstalling drivers. Problem is I can't even reflash because I can't get the phone recognized to use the stock rom.....
[Captivate General] Battlehymn:
if you are getting the same result on multiple PC's then the odds favor that your phone is the problem, and not the computer or drivers.

Have you tried different USB modes?

Have you tried a factory reset?
[Captivate General] rob989_69:
Trying the reset, we'll see. I'm desperate now. Yes, I've tried Kies and mass storage. I don't even need to select one though. (I have it set to ask) I get the error as soon as I hook it up..

Update: Reset didn't do it.
[Captivate General] bhanuteja:
The Same thing happened to me, i tried Factory Reset but it did not work.
[Captivate General] rob989_69:
Good luck, I'm about at the point of giving up. I'm trying my work PC tomorrow and if it doesn't work, I'm off to the ATT store.
[Captivate General] bhanuteja:
I called ATT cust Care, the lady did not understand what the problem was and said that i should contact Samsung rather than calling ATT to resolve the issue.
[Captivate General] orlandoxpolice:
thats some good troubleshooting right there
[Captivate General] rob989_69:
:confused:
[Captivate General] shawnchalfant:
Driver issues, I had the same problem with windows 7. Use that usb view program and disable the htc drivers and samsung something usb bla bla drivers. Then replug and use the notifications to mount the sd card. It's hit or miss for me too.
[Captivate General] rob989_69:
Downloaded USBdeview?? Seems to be what you're talking about. Disabled, all samsung devices, there were 2. Plugged phone in. (I know longer get the mount options) soon as I hit mass storage on the phone though it throws the same error.

Then uninstalled the two devices, same thing. So I uninstalled ALL non HID devices, same thing. Gives me the error, throws an unknown device in dev manager, if I try to update/reinstall the driver it tells me the best one is already installed. Tried uninstalling it and reinstalling from add/remove. Same thing.

I'm thinking this is something with the device, not windows. It seems like the OS is somehow corrupted and not allowing windows to see it/load it.??? Sounds weird but 3 computers and 2 days solid of trying to fix this have gotten me no where.
[Captivate General] modest_mandroid:
Are you guys using Win7 x64 or 32?

I've had nothing but trouble with x64 and the samsung drivers. I can get the device to mount as a mass storage device if I uninstall all of samsung's drivers, and I have never been able to get the phone running in debugging mode (drivers always fail, adb shows nothing is connected). I can't even get the drivers working properly under WinXP 32bit running in vmware on my Win7 x64 computer.

The drivers work perfectly fine on my laptop running 32bit Vista, though. Installed the drivers, plugged in the phone, everything runs great.

Have not tested with a linux livecd, but I suspect it will also work fine.
[Captivate General] rob989_69:
I've only tried on 64 bit so far. I do have an Ubuntu box I could try it on I guess. Let's see....
[Captivate General] rob989_69:
Well... Nothing. I can't figure out how to get it to work in Ubuntu. Not sure it will. Honestly I just installed it and have yet to spend any time with it.
[Captivate General] bhanuteja:
I use Win7 64 bit, tried it on Win XP but still have the same issue.
[Captivate General] rob989_69:
I'm wondering if it's the cable now. If I turn the phone off, then plug it in, as soon as the battery icon pops up I get the message. Nothing in DM though.
[Captivate General] shawnchalfant:
32 bit, used samsung drivers from their site, all the ones from here. As long as I get a connect once in a while I'm fine. I use my method which works for me. Oh well nothings perfect.
[Captivate General] shawnchalfant:
I grew up with rabbit ears and 4 head VCR's with bad tracking.
[Captivate General] rob989_69:
Yeah, unfortunatey I can't even get it to work once in a while......
[Desire Themes and Apps] prove:
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[Desire Themes and Apps] Skilling:
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wheresmydroid
[Desire Themes and Apps] Desire_this!:
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[Desire Themes and Apps] andrei_:
I'm using LookOut on the market (backup, locate, erase, siren, antivirus). The good thing about it is that it's free.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Ronok:
I've tried Lookout, but it doesn't seem to work for me. It can't find my phone or trigger the siren, even with wifi and gps turned on.

The only free program I liked is AntiDroidTheft. Very minimalistic tracking and sim change notifier. It can also take a picture remotely and upload it to your account. But of course that's useless when your phone is lying down. The only downside is battery usage.

There should be an app with the possibilities of AntiDroidTheft and Lookout combined and without the battery drain. You should also be able to change the update frequency remotely and the app should enable the GPS only for a few seconds.

I'm waiting for Mobile Defense, but at the moment it only works in the US.
[Desire Themes and Apps] blenaerts:
al iets gevonden ? zoek er ook naar eigenlijk, en whereismydroid werkt helemaal niet met base :(
[Desire Themes and Apps] blenaerts:
do you have an url ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Some of you are aware of how "paranoid" I am, and refuse to have my Calendar and Contact synced via google.

Just before I did my firmware upgrade today, I used an application in the market place called MyBackup, but I carefully avoided choosing to backup to local (SD card) and not Online.

After I flashed the new firmware and made the restore, I discoverd to my horror that all my contacts are now having the symbol "g" within a square, which I understood to be indicative of the fact that these contact are now also stored in Google's server somewhere, and none of the contact are coming from my phone! So, MyBackup restored my entire contact database from my phone to the cloud rather than my phone? There is not single contact entry on my phone now. Everything I have is shown to be from Google.

Anyone knows how the hell could this happen? Is MyBackup a sneaky program which steal all these information and put it to the cloud without my consent?

I'm really really pissed:mad: :mad:

Now I'm forced to put in dummy tel number and address, birthday to all my contact and let Google get the false data, before abandoning Google phone platform all together. THIS IS EVIL, SNEAKY, UNETHICAL !!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] flamingpitofhell:
You really are paranoid :D.

I don't think MyBackup Pro actually stores all your contacts on some Google server - I think the app just assumes they are Google contacts. I've stopped using it for backing up contacts for a different reason: because it duplicates everything when restoring it - a real PITA. And by everything I mean everything - linked contacts become multiple independent contacts, some of them without any details and impossible to delete without a factory reset. I'm actually using Kies for that now (ironic, no? ;)).

Do you have a Google account for using the phone with? The simple thing do is to log in there and check whether your contacts are actually in there. If not then they probably aren't.

If you are that paranoid perhaps put the phone into airplane mode when you backup? :p
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Darkstriker:
I think you are being a bit paranoid here. Besides google might just keep changelogs on the contact which would render you attempt with dummy info useless.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
I just checked. I don't see any entry under contact when I signed in. Whew!

But please explain to me why all my contacts now are displayed under the google heading? (You know the display option in contact lets us select contact on the SIM, Phone, or Google?), now all my entries are under google. Yet, I don't see any thing there (yet?)

According to this thread, I think there's still a possibility that my details has already been taken without my permission, although it's not reflected in the contact list in google account.

I'm confused...

To anyone of you thinking that I'm paranoid, one day you will know I'm right. The world just isn't as innocent as you think.

I have to very seriously re-evaluate whether I would want an Android phone. It's way too open, anyone can take information from me, since there is no QA done on the market place applications.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Oooch:
Think someone's had a bit too much wacky tobacco. :D;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rodneym13:
GOT you info

I could be wrong but all my contact say Google except the one i use my HTC Sync to transfer my work email from Outlook.

By the way i can see all of your contacts. You were too late!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andrewluecke:
Ok, for starters,

1) The [G] means they have been imported into your Google account. Probably, as mentioned by your backup. Go to Google Contacts and you can wipe them. But no, I don't believe they took them without your permissions.

2) What makes your email addresses so valuable? Do you honestly believe Google cares? Hahaha... Clearly, you don't know anyone who works at Google. I met a bunch and they really are all legends, and they know your rights. They are normal people, not politicians. This is in comparison to Apple people I know, who I post stuff to on their facebook wall, they remove it secretly and tell me by email that they didn't want their manager to see it.

3) If you are concerned about privacy, why can you trust the "MyBackup" program. did you install an applications which isn't open source?

Perhaps you should get a dumb phone or hack up your own firmware and remove Google's services?

You should also consider avoiding entering ANY google account if you don't trust them. Why did you enter them in the first place? To enter the market where Google could track your downloads, your location and your firmware? Seriously, I strongly urge you to sell your Android phone if you don't trust them. Instead, get a dumb phone. I however believe my contacts list is useless to Google, so have no problems sharing information with them ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
i don't know about that backup program you are using.

however, if you are concerned about the contacts @ google.

just login to your google account, and select DELETE all contacts, in your account.

then it'll be all gone

you can do the same for all the emails too.

once deleted they will no longer have your data on their servers.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] damianarnold:
It's BackupPro when it restores the contacts it assigns them as Google. I made the mistake of backing-up and restoring contacts with this and spent the next hour wondering how I've got contacts with 3 Google entries when I was expecting only two.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bookwormat:
I have no problem syncing all my data with Google's servers, but I want to remember everyone that the right of privacy is an absolute requirement for a working democracy.

If eaglesteve does not want his data being stored at a central repository then he has every right to freak out when it appears as if his contacts were synced with Google's Servers.

Of course, if he should believe that Google is after him personally, well, then this is probably a bad sign of paranoia ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] INeedYourHelp:
I thought the same until I saw he's in Australia.... the government over there is screwed up big time. The crap they are trying to do to their Internet is appalling.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xefe:
I'm also paranoid about the same...i did this to solve (ive not an english firmware so will try to give simmilar instructions):

go to contacts -> menu -> more -> import/export and save all contacts to a vcard on SD, and connect to pc and save that vcard on pc.

Go into settings -> privacy -> "erase all data" (dunno how its called on english firmware)

then i chose to erase data on SD also after unmounting it.

After that i restarted phone without simcard and with volup+home+power i cleared cache and hard reseted it.

After that the phone boots with factory settings and without simcard and keep it that way and connect to internet via wireless after booting.

Then i checked if i had no contacts, there were none so all okay... went to menu, definitions -> "accounts and sincronization" and i added my google account, but i unchecked first the auto sync and data in second plan above (the options above, dunno how they are called in english firmware). Then the google account was added. Then i disabled wireless and checked the options i disabled in last step (the auto sync and the other), i opened the google account i added in last step and disabled all syncs there (sync calendar, contacts and gmail).

After that i went to contacts and restored all contacts via the vcard, all are stored on phone after that (via the same import/export option).

As a final option i went to my gmail and deleted all contacts synced... now the phone is not syncing with google in any way but i can use the market because i have a google acc added...

dunno if i explained myself well, it worked for me that way.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kevo:
I'd love to hear some worst case scenarios of what you think might happen if mr google checks your contacts and finds your mate Fred's email address.

And also why you'd think anyone would want to know your contacts.

are you worried that your network provider has a log of who you called and when?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andrej.marinic:
if they find Fred's address, Fred is effed.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xefe:
well.... i dont like to give my info/data away, just really when needed.... some years ago maybe not, but today, google and other companies have so much info about so much people around the world, and you dont even know if they use it or not, you are not there to check... they can for example see the places you visit more because of gps tracking, if people in some zone visit shoppings a lot and at what times, who your friends are and if they use android and gmail also (by contacts), and assemble strategies for their business based on that, because all we are giving is free info about what we do, who we are, who our friends are....that, for business activities is very valuable. And im not talking about gmail, with all valuable info about everyone, they are able to see all your info since you have all stuff stored on their servers and they dont need to tell to you anything about it and you dont even know they maybe will do it... i may be wrong, but thats my point of view, i didnt had that oppinion since a friend i have, erased all his mails from gmail telling me "google can use all my info for marketing purposes or another stuff"...

They give us free services, but there is no such things as free services... we pay with info to improve their business, thats my point of view...