yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Rawat:
Nah, it's samsung's replacement for the search button that's a Google requirement. They don't have a button for it, so they assigned long-press menu for search, whereas on the Nexus One, it'll make force the soft-'board to come up.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pafh99:
yes it works...

At first it didn't worked for me also, because I understand bad.

Not pulling down. Go to the upper of the screen, press till the botton of the dropdown curtain appears, but don't slide it down. Once that appears the BAR move left or right your finger, and it will adjust.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Ah yes, I got it to work too. The trick is not to pull it down but just to make the curtain barely appear before you slide.

Thanks for your excellent explanation.:)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] appelflap:
Thanks, didn't know this one. Very useful and now I can get rid of the google search bar on the desktop too :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xfox:
when receiving a call press the volume down button to mute th ringer

old but cool
[Galaxy S I9000 General] terrorblind:
I have no idea if this is standard knowlegde.

but you can zoom with the volume +/- in camera mode

-TB-
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jodue:
hm, interesting!

i experienced a change in brightness (i have set it to the lowest possible to save battery as i find it is still more than bright enough) sometimes. i always wondered why it changes the brightness although i have turned "auto brightness" off in the settings. obviously i did it by accident when opening the notification pull-down... so, a nice feature on one side, but it happens by accident too often and it's getting on my nerves! does anybody know if we can turn this feature off?

cheers jo
[Galaxy S I9000 General] quinckekorotkoffqk:
when watching videos u can change brightness right there .go to settings >brightness> adjust it.:)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mitch9294:
Are you using another home launcher like Launcher Pro?

This feature mad my decision to ditch LP and go back to TW:D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] schordi:
You can actually use the same trick when in "Messaging"!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] stp:
screen shot

hold back button (the right one) and press home button (the middle one) to make a screenshot. will be automatically stored in " /mnt/sdcard/ScreenCapture "

i´m using froyo, don´t know if available in eclair
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beards:
No... It's only in Froyo (and rooted phones I think).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bayerischbeer:
No need to root
[Galaxy S I9000 General] padlad:
If you are on Eclair it needs to be rooted.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Piny12:
That works with every launcher. It's a system-wide feature. You don't need to have TW for it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] praveen6585:
I don't know if anyone has noticed this feature but in the Contacts if you tap once on the alphabet list on the right side you go to that letter but if you keep the alphabet pressed and drag to the left you get another sub-menu with the second letter (vowels) for shortlisting.. its like a second level for reaching the contact you wish to get to..

Of course typing the name using the keypad is always there but i just thought of mentioning the feature!

BTW the same feature is available in the music player as well
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beards:
I said only in Froyo AND rooted phones.

That is totally different to Froyo WITH root.

Thank you. Exactly what I was saying. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] iamcanadian:
That's neat!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] android53:
Pinch to zoom in froyo camera app
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Naounmai:
Cheers!

SO here goes my contribution! :)

Well, this might be more like a security flaw (a HUGE one, i guess) than a hidden secret.

I discovered this accidentally yesterday, and replicated it immediately, and again (actually, 5 times, just to be sure), and it worked everytime.

This was tested in a Galaxy S phone (specs):

Model Number: GT I9000

Firmware Version: 2.1-update1

Baseband Version: I9000XXJM1

Kernel Version: 2.6.29 umts_scm@S1-BUILD05 #2

Build Number: ECLAIR.I9000XXJM1

Clean phone. :)

This is a unlocked phone (not locked to any operator), so i don't know if it works on a rooted/altered phone.

So here it goes:

Basically what it happens is the following: When you shutdown your phone in FlightMode (switch off the phone via power button) if you switch it on again, it starts up in Flight Mode again, but NOT asking for your PIN number. Im my particular case, i just had to clear my unlock gesture and away i was, snooping around music, messages,mails accounts, facebook/twitter feeds, etc et al, and beeing able to connect to a pc in Mass Storage Mode and copying stuff around (just for testing). Kies even recognized the phone, but alerted about the Flight Mode beeing activated.

It get's worse, of course, if you gave the generic "swype to unblock". That, is Doom.Of course, it might not me impossible for someone to loose or get his phone stolen.

Anyway, if you switch off Flight Modem it ask again for your PIN number, but the harm is done. And serious harm.

If anyone can replicate the same thing happening, please report the findings & conclusions :)

And now the hidden feature (i guess):

You if think that startup/shutdown sound is REALLY annoying, you just have to switch off/on your phone in Silent mode (I found the sound files, deleted the logoff sounds, but was unable to delete the logon sound for permission reasons). I found out this by just plaaain luck :P

Cheers everyone!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] thurtig:
Flight Mode security bug confirmed on Nordic Froyo. BAD!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hol17:
It's not a bug; consider this:

Activating 'flight mode' is deactivating all OUTBOUND/INBOUND connections (network, wifi, etc), meaning you never actually use your SIM card and therefore Android would never need to ask for your SIM code since YOU ARE NOT USING IT. It's not a bug, it makes perfect sense; your pin number is not meant to lock your phone, it's meant to lock your SIM card so others can't use your SIM card. You use the 'grid' lockscreen to lock your phone, not your SIM pin.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Maddmatt:
It's not a bug. The PIN is for the SIM card, not the phone. A thief could just as easily remove the SIM card from the phone to gain access to it, and the same should apply for all phones that have the ability to work without connecting to a cellphone network.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andrej.marinic:
anyone know any other cool stuff?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ock:
Very useful for long lists :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] d3a:
clicking on any profile picture in contacts or messaging or other places will bring up a menu to text, call, email, find them with maps, or look at their contact details. Slide across in this menu to see the other settings. Nice touch!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] silverstorm:
In the stock web browser address bar, type about:useragent and then tap 'go' button and you'll see a hidden menu to change your useragent to 'Desktop' and other modes. This helps you access certain websites that would otherwise prevent you seeing the real normal website because it knows you're viewing it from a mobile handset.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] deezy7:
That's CRAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZZYYYYYYY!!! Lol, this just blew my mind!!! I don't know why, but I thought it was the coolest tip in this forum lol. This one and the volume to zoom in camera. Thanks!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] emms:
Quick reboot - hold in power key and dont let go when the menu appears hold down home button for few seconds phone will quick reboot. This also works if you missed 3 button combo on startup and your not keen on pulling battery
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dinged:
LauncherPro like thumbnails for homescreen selection **FROYO Only** - To see a "thumbnail of all your homescreens" on 1 screen, "pinch with 2 finger"...then SELECT the homescreen you want to go to.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Cypher_X:
If you put your finger on the screen and slightly move up. .. The notification bar dissapears. Do it again and it will come back :)

Send from my SGS running Doc's JPO V7.5
[Galaxy S I9000 General] android53:
Isn't that just ADW?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] silverstorm:
Haha, I think you're using a 3rd party launcher mate, that doesn't happen in stock TouchWiz
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Cypher_X:
Excuse me!.... Your right. Using adw at the moment.

Send from my SGS running Doc's JPO V7.5
[Galaxy S I9000 General] emms:
Quick change simcard without reboot.

Remove back cover and using your finger nail or

Spare simcard pry the bottom right corner of sim and lift it up gently just above the battery. Now slide out the simcard holding it roughly in middle and put in new one. Phone will give error message sim removed reeboot phone. press ok and hold in power key and enable airplane mode then disable it a second later. New sim will register within a few second and your good to go.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] CommanderTux:
This will happen even without using the home button. So keep holding the power button will reboot the SGS!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] channer:
Changing the brightness on your screen quickly. If your power control is not available from your screen, you can adjust the brightness of the screen by pulling the notification bar down quickly from the left side, down, then push it back up on the right side making a "V" shape. This works vice versa to make the brightness drop down.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beards:
Why bother pulling down the notification bar when all you need to do is swipe the bar from either left to right or vice-versa.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Unrealwolf:
There is a up to 5 fingers multitouch in JPO Froyo Dialer. Don't know what it could be used for though.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] stockfeed:
Got one, multi touch in the gallery, you can pinch in a folder and spread your fingers apart, expanding some of the pics in that folder, I'm on froyo.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] a67543210:
If you have more than 100 programs like me, you quickly notice that navigating from the first page to the last will take some time.

You can quickly navigate to any page just by clicking on the small dots that appear at the top of the screen. They are also numbered. The screen number you want to go to appears when you click on it.

Secondly, you definitely want to use Swipe as your input method if you will be doing alot of postings, facebookIng etc from your device. After some practice, you will be OK.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Grashoper:
This doesn't work for me. Using stock 2.1 on Bell. I wish it did tho!! I have yet to figure out a way to switch the browser to desktop mode... Kinda sucks sometimes!

Any other ways to do it?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Maddmatt:
You need to go into your settings after doing that.

But it's better to get the Dolphin HD browser and install the Desktop Toggles addon. Much more convenient.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Grashoper:
I'll try that... I'll also try the Dolphin browser... i had it installed a while back, but didn't put it back on when i had to get my phone replaced. I always found it slower than the stock. Maybe I'll try it again. Thanks for the reply/info.

EDIT: I just tried entering the about:useragent in the address, the about window popped up, click okay, it disappeared, went into settings, and still don't see anything to change the agent to desktop.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jutezak:
On 2.1 it is about:debug I think. A javascript console appears, but after that in settings you can change the user agent.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Landorin:
Very useful list, thanks! Made me kinda wish I had read the manual after all.

Maybe someone can answer my 2 silly questions:

1) Since Froyo I can either have the phone on vibration or low sound without vibration. Any way to silence the phone complete (no sound, no vibration) while it's running?

2) How do I move apps between the different screens (1,2,3,4,5 etc) within the apps menu? Some of my frequently used but only recently installed apps are added on the last screen but would want them on the first one.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] padlad:
1. Go to: settings > sound > vibrate and choose 'only when not in silent mode'

2. Go into apps and click settings button and choose edit, then press and hold the icon, you can new drag and drop it wherever you want.

Hope this helps ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] respider:
cant do this

doestn work with launcher pro?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] padlad:
Yeah it does.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tailung:
I can confirm that this screencapture combo works on unrooted 2.2 also
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Grashoper:
YEP.. that worked.. Thanks!!! i use accuweather.com a lot, and it now loads up the proper desktop version of the site instead of their bare bones mobile site!! perfect!! Thanks again.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] aditya104:
Thats really cool. Definitely a hidden.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Riverriz:
I like this one. Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] silverstorm:
I think these are Froyo only:

- Press menu soft key when in stock Video Player to access Add Bookmark option which allows you to set 'jump' points to any desired point in the video

- Press the lock button in camera or video app to deactivate the touchscreen, so you can film or watch movies and not worry about accidentally pausing.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] silverstorm:
Text reflow in stock browser:

This only works if 'Auto fit pages' is ticked in the browser settings.

'pinch' to zoom in the desired level of text size, and instead of panning, double-tap immediately for the text to refit the screen. Then you can just read scrolling down instead of constantly going left to right.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] silverstorm:
Hide images/videos:

If you don't want any images or videos to appear in the gallery or video player, put them in a folder and make sure the folder name begins with a period (.)

e.g. ".confidential"
[Galaxy S I9000 General] android53:
Camera lock and text reflow were in eclair
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hemmers:
I imagine this is a common android feature but if you hold down the menu button on while on the homescreen a google search box is brought up :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Riverriz:
Ok this is another one which you guys probably already know but no-one has mentioned.

Basically when browsing through music player you can just click on the album art to play the song and stay in list view instead of clicking the song title to play.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] matthewpitman:
can anybody add to this:confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] miro666:
On stock TouchWiz too, but not all, in two rows, abot 4 homescreens on display, other sliding down...

Regards
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TylerMD:
I think that appelflap was talking about this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731462
[Galaxy S I9000 General] C.Flat:
LOL at #1. That's why my phone's brightness randomly went all the way up a few times :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hedehode1:
This is not good feature but on my stock lockscreen if i push the menu button unluck. i don't konow may be this is a bug. i don't like this.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hedehode1:
for taking a screenshot hold down back button and press home button. screenshot image will be sd_card/screenshots
[Galaxy S I9000 General] matthewpitman:
Do you mean it unlocks if you press the menu button? This doesn't happen on mine
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hedehode1:
yes it is. i installed aosp losckscreen (theme i guess) over Darky's Legendary Steel Edition v4.1.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] digitall1982:
in default music player holding hardware volume up button you got voice info about playing song, artist and album
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neo_galaxy:
Pinch on Home or App Screen

You can pinch on the Home screen or the App screen to switch to an expose style display mode of all your Home/App screens...

Then you can switch to that screen by tapping on it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hedehode1:
You can use rightand left gestures in stock music player for change forward and previuos track.

And you can change the radio station with touch on station number ruler.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TechKidTarek:
how do you take screen shots
[Galaxy S I9000 General] GOTFrogqc:
Only work on home screen, cant get it to work in any apps
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hedehode1:
Actually you can take.

push the home button down and do not up. last used programs windows will be shown, do not care it, push back button and close. navigate where you want. push the back button and do not up. release home button and push again.

that is it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] betoNL:
Wow...and I thought I knew all the hidden stuff,,,

Where is the "thanks" button ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pr3torian:
Unlock Phone with Menu button

If your phone is in standby with screen turned off, Press Home (or Power) button to make the screen to turn on and then press Menu, this will unlock the phone.

Tested on Froyo JPY.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] snapper.fishes:
Er.... NO

This was a very old bug. It has been fixed long since then.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] freewish:
Very interesting

Why this don't work in darkys rom? is there any other app/way can do this?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] from.insider:
Guys,

You may interested http://www.samsunggalaxysforum.com/tutorials/how-what-where/

So far the best for Galaxy S. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Coolgreek:
Very very good stuff there indeed!

Any other feature running on Gingerbread?

Also the announcing artist-song by pressing the volume up button doesn't work on me (Juwe 4.2 Gingerbread rom).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mzone1510:
The song title announcement by pressing the volume key does not work for me on i9003...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] coolfx35:
oh thank you!!! very good source.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] grifter024:
Is it possible to listen to slacker or pandora in the car THROUGH your phone?

I was looking at some posts and it gave me the idea to listen to it in the car which would be cool.

Would this be possible by just running slacker/pandora and then just letting it play?

Thanks.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Miami_Son:
I don't see why not. If you can stream it to BT headphones, it should stream to your BT car radio. One way for sure is if your car stereo has a 3.5mm phono jack. You can hook up with a cord and playback that way if BT doesn't work.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] grifter024:
Car doesnt have bT and the AUX is there BUT we would need to go to dealership to make it actually work...no connection ;/ ...so I'm going with a FM transmitter (No tape deck either ) haha...thanks for the reply.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Miami_Son:
A BT-capable radio is less than $200 and provides the ability to make/answer phone calls hands-free, something most states are requiring by law these days. My Sony MEX3700BT works great and also has a USB slot on front for thumb drives as well as a 3.5mm mini jack for corded connection.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] fone_fanatic:
What car and what stock stereo do you have? might be able to help you out, i work a lot on cars and stereos.

yeah i installed a sony xplod stereo for my brothers car which he got for around $70 and it had BT, Aux in, and usb.
[Captivate General] labbu63:
i have a question we all know the t-mobile vibrant comes with a movie avatar to be exact does the captivate come with any to witness its awe inspiring screen
[Captivate General] angermeans:
Yeah I searched this out as well and it seems that the only "premium features" that ATT blessed us Captivate owners with is the ATT crapware. They took our FM radio and replaced it with that ****ty ATT subscription app that has less features then Pandora. Another example of how ATT loves its customers! Oh well atleast they let Samsung give us a great high end Android phone like the Captivate.
[Captivate General] PhonePhun:
I made an .mp4 of Avatar just for this phone and it looks soooo nice!
[Captivate General] labbu63:
lol so no movie or nothing now im upset
[Captivate General] m_1000rr6:
Just for shizz and giggles... What format is Avatar in on the Vibrant?
[Captivate General] ihtanni:
The Vibrant comes with a trailer that's .3gp and the movie appears to be DRM'd and is .dcf - my boss is on T-Mobile and gave me copies of the files. Trailer is 3 mb, movie is 1.4 gb.
[Vibrant General] farrisizdaman:
The spinning purple one on the nexus. Where can I get it? Any help would be great
[Vibrant General] Jon C:
I was wondering the exact same thing. It's quite ironic that this phone didn't include it.
[Vibrant General] raduque:
Galactic Core Free doesn't show up in the market, either. Galactic Core Donate does, though.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] drkbrneyesdiva:
I have the Sprint HTC Touch Pro 2. I get 2 error messages but I am not sure where I need to go to get the help. One error message states "fail to find the rootfs on sd card". Second error message states "missing android" when the phone is restarted with the Gen.Y DualBOOT v1.0.6.0.

Can someone please help me? I am trying to get this working on my phone.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stylez:
Use pre-existing thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=623792 rather than starting new on that note thread closed.
[Nexus One Accessories] MvP77:
http://cgi.ebay.com/2-BB99100-Batte...Accessories&hash=item563e33cf53#ht_3132wt_911

Has Anyone tried these, im thinking bout grabbing it.
[Nexus One Accessories] rashid11:
see my really old post on the same :)
[Nexus One Accessories] mandible:
I had got Battery + Dock Cradle Charger HTC Google Nexus One US from eBay seller e-plus168 with shipping for $31.45 that came from HK 1 month ago. works well. I just switch battery once a day. I don't even tell which battery that I'm using is original. And the stand is a USB dock too. A good one to have.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jmz:
So, I figured with Android getting ported quite nicely and is fairly well along, we should start working on getting it flashed directly to NAND. Eliminate Windows Mobile all together. So here are my notes. All this stuff combined in some order and sense will make it able to flash NAND with Android. But for some reason I just can't piece it all together and make the puzzle fit. I am posting this in hopes that someone with enough skill can take the information and build what is needed.

Working Tinboot - This is what the core of NAND android flashing is.

NBH for installation (Examples) - Needed to install android. Flash nbh, install android, reboot

To test all of this we need the RESUMEADDR of the HD2. Then we can pass RESUMEINTOBOOT to haret. Then we can check if there is enough low-level hardware support to even boot Android yet. This can be gotten by using haretconsole. But I have yet been able to get the RESUMEADDR because of issues with my computer.

Thanks goes to dzo for pointing me in the right direction for all of this.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] zarathustrax:
They still need WinMo to boot to initialize some of the hardware... that's why most winmo phones that have android ports can't flash to nand yet... and the couple that do have flashable roms took a long time to develop.

What's the big deal about flashing it to nand anyways? Do you really want to take away your phones ability to run 2 os's to make it just another android phone that doesn't run it as well as a native android phone? Flashing to nand doesn't improve performance much, if any. Some people think that haret emulates android and thatg winmo is still running in the background, but that's not true. HaRET shuts down the windows kernel and starts the linux kernel. The only speed increase that you would see is the difference in data transfer speed from the nand or memory cards to ram, which would probably only be noticeable during certain tasks, but probably even then wouldn't make much of a difference.

I would prefer to have a dual-booting powerphone than to make it just another android phone that doesn't run as well as native android phones. If I wanted just android on my phone, I'd get an android phone.