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[Captivate General] SmoovC:
I too had the same problem: 32 gb SanDisk card installed with 3260 songs and I am not sure how many artists. Coming from an iPhone 3Gs, I was not happy with the native program's GUI, and not being able to sort by artist made searching nearly impossible.

I reformatted the card, and am in the midst of rebuilding some playlists in iTunes, and importing using iTunes Sync (I believe that is the name of the program; I am on my laptop right now). As of now, I have 463 songs, and 3 genres. Music Player recognizes artists, and displays them fine, at this point.

I did find a different music player with (IMO) a better GUI; it is called MixZing. The free version has ads, and after playing with the advanced features like a 10 band eq, I think it is well worth the 5 bucks for the full version.

Just my .02; hope it helps. :)
[Captivate General] dontshakepandas:
I'm using MixZing too. I really like the lock screen widget, and I even bought the full version.

If you want something thats a little more... fun. Try cubed. It has a really cool interface, but I like the usability of MixZing a bit better.
[Captivate General] SmoovC:
I did try "3", and it is fun to play with. I like the functionality of MixZing better for when I'm driving and trying to flip through tunes.

Yes, you are right: the lock screen widget is great; thanks for mentioning it as I forgot that feature.
[Captivate General] caelestis2:
Wow, this problem is devastating. I still haven't transfered and organized all my music but I don't want to use another app. The default one is perfect, I can pause/skip from lockscreen and swipe down the status bar while working with the phone.

But most importantly: The virtual surround sound! I can't let that go and use another application!
[Captivate General] seifer8ff:
I'm also having this issue..my internal card has around 11 gigs of music. I synced using media monkey and set it to embed album art into the tags, could that have something to do with it?
[Captivate General] a_fuegon:
I too am rooted, have 10 gigs of music and album art on my external 16 gig sd card and have no issues sorting by any means via the default music player.

I've installed titanium backup, busybox, rom manager, launcher pro and a few have fun apps. Uninstalled all the AT&T junk. If that helps.
[Captivate General] a_fuegon:
double post
[Captivate General] jollins:
I have about 17GB of music on an SD card, and I ran into this issue. The card was recently formatted, and my Android installation is pretty clean.

I realize 17GB of music is a lot, and I know I could pare it down to work around this problem, but nonetheless I'm very disappointed that Samsung didn't put together a better database system.

Mixzing and Cubed can handle it. The stock music app is really great otherwise, but this issue basically ruins it for me. C'mon, Samsung.
[Captivate General] ScottyNuttz:
I found this post by DLarva in the Vibrant Forum... perhaps this is the key:
[Captivate General] BigJayDogg3:
Even the stock android music player can handle it. I don't think its a database issue but instead a bug in the music player itself.
[Captivate General] Rred:
I just hit the same roadblock.

No one have any definitive answers yet? Besides "Buy an iPod" ?

Anyone know just how many artists it can take before it crashes?
[Captivate General] ScottyNuttz:
There's a workaround... just get rid of/rename your various artist tracks. As long as you don't have too many tracks by "Various Artists", you will not have this issue any more. I have 8 gigs of music on my SD card and no issues with sorting by artist.
[Captivate General] ru_benz:
I have about 16gb of music split between my internal and external SD cards. None of my mp3s are tagged with "Various Artists" in the artist field, yet I still experience the "Not enough space..." error when attempting to sort by Artist. However, all other sort filters work fine.

Does anyone know if the leaked JI6 ROM still has this issue?
[Captivate General] Rred:
Workaround <G> Well, I deleted the soundtrack and collection albums from the microSD card, that works too.

I'd rather not lose the artist names from the MP3 tags but I guess putting "Samsung ****S" in there instead would also serve the purpose.

There must be a terribly small limit (128? 256?) on the number of records/fields in that database, because I really didn't have THAT many artist names. Maybe two dozen primaries, then only 6 discs of "collections", like the 4-disc Woodstock set. Odds are there are 128 artists in all--and that's enough to crash a database?!

ROFL, with tears in my eyes. Was this stuff written by programmers, or Pinky And The Brain? As if it would be SO HARD to release an update? And compete with an iPod?

[LATER]

I think I've just discovered another and greater reason to dump the Samsung/AT&T Music Player: It inserts breaks! Like the Windows Media Player, it is incapable of playing two consecutive tracks without inserting a pause.

If you have ever listened to Simon & Garfunkel, or Pink Floyd, or The Moody Blues, or Jefferson Airplane/Starship....there are many albums that segue from one track into the next WITHOUT ANY BREAK. Now this nasty little cheapware comes along, and to me it sounds just like a skip in an LP, there's a half second of dead silence interrupting the playback. That's just plain nasty, considering all the software has to do is pre-fetch, buffer the next track and keep playing.

Looks like I'm going shopping...and then doing a little root & spring cleaning with the trash, unless Samsung fix this all in the Froyo release.

"Dear Samsung and AT&T: Grow up! There's no excuse for this kind of software getting onto the market in this day and age. You can and MUST do better."
[Captivate General] Kubernetes:
Yeah, it's pretty sad that Samsung's programmers couldn't even make a basic music player, even though it seems like it's just a tweak of the stock Android player. Personally, I don't want to have to rename dozens of music tracks on my phone (and thus mess up sync with music on my laptop) just to make a basic music player do a simple thing like list by artist.

Luckily we can get 3rd party players, which is what I did.
[Captivate General] charging rhinos:
Fixed mine after I was getting that same error.

Evidently, when I installed that game, H.A.W.X. from the market, it installed a 3 folders that had dozens of audio files that were added to the SD card. They showed up in the library under the 'Unknown Artist' label. I installed MixZing to see if the files were corrupted or something. They were fine. I then used the MixZing interface and deleted the three folders from that program, and now everything is working like a charm. I imagine I could have deleted them with any file browser with the same effect. Must be something wrong with the way that it reads the ID3 tags or something. Maybe they were tagged with an older format tag or had symbols that the player can't recognize and sort in them.

Well, whatever the cause, it's working fine now.
[Captivate General] tokyogtr:
FIXED

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=840016
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TwikZ:
I'm having a big problem with my G1. :( I can't turn it on anymore. It doesnt respond to the charging or the usb anymore. I tried pressing the Home+Power button, but still can't make it work.

So please anyone.... :(
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ljnick19:
I wish I could help you. The EXACT same thing happened to mine about a month ago. The last thing that I did to it was upgrade my cyanogen to 2.1 or 2.2, cant recall. Either way, I hope you get some constructive feedback! I am certain we are not the only 2.

I did see when I searched early on that it is something that could require send-off to HTC. Nothing free, of course, but you would at least get your phone back up and running.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moderndrummer:
Sorry if this has already been answered.. I would like to flash some custom rom but in order to do so I have to upgrade my firmware version (which is I9000XXJF3 at the moment.) I have a rooted device and I have successfully flashed ROM manager and recovery image - ClockworkMod). But I believe it is not possible to use that tool in order to flash Samsung firmware upgrade. Am I wrong?

I cannot use odin as I am not a windows user. and Odin drivers are not at all installed on my vmware fusion XP virtual machine.

Is there ANY other way to do firmware upgrade without using Odin?

any help appreciated.

And a huge thanks to all the community.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CamonZ:
I haven't found a way. though I do have a copy of windows laying around for testing web apps which is how I ended up flashing my sgs.

It'd be interesting if someone knows the protocol Odin and Kies use to connect with the device or at least maybe generate a common effort to reverse it so we can build drivers and a flash utility for other platforms
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jodue:
as far as i know, this it is not possible at the moment. i am no windows user myself but i managed to get odin running with a windozeXP running on a virtualbox under a ubuntu 10.04 guest os.

yeah, it's a pain in the ass but as soon as standalone custom roms appear we won't need odin any more. flashing out of the recovery makes much more sense!

you could try to sniff the traffic on the usb port to reverse-engineer the protocol, but i guess it's not worth the effort because of the reason i stated above...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unfnknblvbl:
That it does, but that never stopped fastboot from being your best friend if anything went wrong. It's a pity Odin isn't as simple as fastboot, or that the SGS isn't fastboot-compatible. Sigh.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moderndrummer:
true. any clue when such roms are hittin the road?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jodue:
very true! fastboot is (was) indeed a fine (backup) tool!

i hope soon. samsung put the source on their site but nothing yet. makes me wondering ... i am currently trying to compile the kernel myself but it doesn't work out of the box with the information they provided, the build scripts are a little messed up... but i think it can not be long before someone cooks something up. there are also rumors that someone of the cyanogen-mod team started with the sgs :)

edit: i downloaded the source again today. it's some mb's bigger and this time it compiles like my gentoo in the good ol' day's :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moderndrummer:
waiting for your efforts.. and those of all others struggling to get a full rom cooked.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moderndrummer:
Any news??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrwookie6379:
Paul @ MoDaCo said his next release would be a version that didnt use Odin for flashing so try checking there....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
Search the forum here, there's a guy posting an ALPHA of some cross platform thing to replace Odin in just the last day or two. Last I read (yesterday or the day before) it was still windows only for testing, but he may have an OS X version out sooner than later.

It's called Heimlich or something along those lines...one of the Norse gods as he explains it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
Ah, found it browsing, it's Heimdall, and here's the thread.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benjamin Dobell:
Yeah Heimdall not Heimlich ;)

I actually made the first alpha release a while ago and have posted several updates since then. Anyway I'm releasing alpha 6 now (still Windows only). Once I can get some testers to test the Windows alpha 6 I will be making a official beta release for all platforms and I'll be releasing the source code.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chapsticky:
????

I new to flashing roms to the Vibrant, but WTF is odin, the only I can think of right of bat is a norse god or something like that.
[HD2 General] extrapurifier:
Hi Folks,

as described in the subject my problem is, that the display won't turn off after calling some one. This happens during a few days and I dont know why (I tinker a lot of :-).

Could anyone tell me, how to activate that the display turns off if I put the phone to my ear during a call. Thanks in Advance!
[HD2 General] nessqn:
Are u using any screen protector?
[HD2 General] extrapurifier:
No, no screenprotecotr any way. I think that is a registry setting which became wrong on my HD2 and I dont know which it is ...
[Vibrant Android Development] JWhipple:
Will having Root and/or ClockWork Orange recovery installed prevent OTA updates from happening or working?
[Vibrant Android Development] tissimo:
No they're don't change the rom in any way, so ota updates should come through still.

Sent from my SGH-T959
[Vibrant Android Development] rexrbgh:
So as long as you use the stock Rom, you will still receive OTA updates?
[Vibrant Android Development] JWhipple:
Thank you tissimo - and hello from a fellow Brevard County member! (live in Merritt Island, work in Melbourne)
[Vibrant Android Development] bromat80:
Tissimo, sent you a message regarding this same issue. Haha, (in Port St John)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sprockethead:
Am I supposed to go back and erase all of my apps from internal storage after they are moved to the SD card? If so, how?

I just don't understand why I only have 200MB out of 1GB available. All of my apps are on the SD card now.

What do I need to delete out of the internal memory?

Any help is MUCHO appreciated.

tia
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talz13:
You don't actually have 1GB of usable storage space by default. It's split into partitions, and the user storage is only ~512MB or less (I can't remember how I saw what the internal storage was split up as...)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBiles:
"ONLY 200MB"

How much do you need?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sprockethead:
I get your point. :) You get the point of my questions though, right?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clamknuckle:
If you have a fast SD card, you can move the dalvik cache to the SD card and free up another 60 megs or so.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mecha2142:
You'll never see most of that gigabyte on your phone. Ever. I think the maximum you're allowed for apps on the internal flash storage is 350 megabytes. Even with Apps2SD, I think the dalvik cache for all of your apps is still stored on the internal memory, which would occupy some space.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sprockethead:
I don't know what the heck I'm doing is the problem. Once I figure it out, I'll post some stats for new guys like me.

I've formatted my card correctly. Now I'm just trying to figure out if I'm supposed to wipe my system and reinstall in order for the apps to get "moved over" or not. I'm curious as to whether My Backup Pro or Titanium will "restore" the apps to the SD card now that I'm formatted correctly.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aridon:
I believe the "moving" is not really moving it happens on install. So yes starting fresh is probably the best way to go.

There is only like 350mb or so of user installable space. Depending on rom it could go up a little but its close.

Also remember, not every single portion of the app gets installed on the SD. Some files still need to be stored on nand, just less. Much less depending on the app.

Just make sure you have a decently fast sd card if you want to move dalvik there. class 6 or better imo. It will work with a slower card but it could slow things down.

Froyo requires ext4 partition btw. Not sure what rom your using.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sprockethead:
^^ Thanks for the info. I'm using Fresh 1.0.1, which is good because I don't even know how to make Ext4. I'm using Amon RA to partition and the only upgrade option was from 2 to 3. I didn't see anything about 4.

I'll wipe clean and see what happens.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sprockethead:
Oh, one more thing that your post made me think of. The whole reason that I'm doing this is so that I don't have to re-install apps every time I wipe and install a new ROM. I figured that the new ROMs would just find my apps on my SD card.

If this isn't the case then it is not worth it to me. Meaning, if I still have to re-install all apps each time I wipe the device there is no benefit to me.

So: is that the case? Do new ROMs just "find" the apps on the SD card?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexnaoumi:
hi, i just had an idea and idk if this has been posted before, so if it has been posted, im sorry.

instead of using terminal emulator, is it possible for me to go into the .zip of the ROM and delete the apps i do not want in the /system/app folder? i want to know if it will "screw up" the ROM and make it unflashable in my hero's recovery. it takes me too long to remove all the apps i want in terminal emulator and think it would be faster doing it the way i described.

**if this question sounds extremely stupid, then im sorry, im still somewhat of a noob at all this rooting stuff**
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bombaatomica:
The zip's have to be signed in order to be flashed. You cannot just open them, modify them, rezip and install. Find out how to sign the OS zip and you can modify all you want.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexnaoumi:
thanks for answering, thats all i wanted to know
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] H4k3r4r34l:
make a bat

open note pad and paste this:

adb remount
adb shell rm system/app/*Stock*
adb shell rm system/app/IM.apk
adb shell rm system/app/*Facebook*
adb shell rm system/app/Flickr.apk
adb shell rm system/app/Sprint_Navigation.apk
adb shell rm system/app/Sprint_NFL.apk
adb shell rm system/app/Sprint_Nscar.apk
adb shell rm system/app/HTCNew.apk
adb shell rm system/app/com.htc.TwitterWidget.apk
adb shell rm system/app/com.htc.FriendStreamWidget.apk
adb shell rm system/app/com.damaged.DConfig.apk
adb shell rm system/app/HtcTwitter.apk
adb shell rm system/app/HtcFacebook.apk
adb shell rm system/app/FriendStream.apk

the add or remove lines accordingly, substitute one apk for another if you want then save as a .bat file (mine is named removeapks.bat) place in the tools folder if you wish, flash a rom once booted run the .bat file and poof theyre gone
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] winged2point0:
There's a tool written in Java that makes signing zip's really easy. It's included in a suite of apps called AndroidMod.zip

Once you have it, the syntax to sign the new zip is simple. Just:

java -jar signapk.jar testkey.x509.pem testkey.pk8 Inputfile.zip outputfile.zip
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lohp75:
Or you can get "root manager" from market which does a lot including removal of unwanted system apps.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kys89012345:
I think Fresh Pre kitchen does it also.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mimmy721:
Titanium backup is what I use. Haven't had any trouble using it.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jnow2:
I like Root Manager also because there is a "multi-select" option so you can select all of the files you'd like to delete. For the "/system/app" folder you can mount as "read/write", then delete the files. I then reboot into recovery, wipe the cache and Dalvick cache, and reboot. I've had no issues doing this. It's not so much how you delete, rather than what you delete. The forums here at XDA (as well as others that you can Google) that tell you what apps are safe to delete and which should remain untouched. As long as you don't delete an apk that is critical to ROM, you should be okay.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lennykravitz2004:
Since this is my first post, and I cannot post links, do a search on "modaco zipsigner". This is the utility I found for re-signing zip files, and it has worked flawlessly for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ngkkv:
Hi, I wanna know what is the resolution to set the wallpaper of galaxy S as to make it the same screen even though I navigate across page 1 to 7 in my idle screen mode.

and what resolution to set if I want the same wallpaper still even when I'm navigating through the 7 pages.

The other question being, for applications, can there be more than 5 pages and for the idle mode, can there be more than 7 pages?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Arkymedes:
Device resolution: 480*800

Wallpaper resolution: 960*800

If I'm not mistaken these are the values

Your other question I didn't understand. What do you mean 5 pages for applications? If "idle mode" you mean home screen, then maximum of 7 pages. If you mean lock screen, then no, only 1 page.

Edit: Never mind, I got it I think. Pages for applications you mean like the iPhone right? If so, there are no limits since this is based on the amount of memory that you have and obviously the amount of applications installed.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ngkkv:
yep.. so 7 pages max for idle mode/home screen. and I have not tested the max number of pages for applications but for now it seems it only have 5 pages :X. thanks for the answer!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Arkymedes:
Substitute your Launcher for something else like LauncherPro in the Market and you will not have the 5 pages limitation (if there is any, I didn't test it myself)

I'm not used to this "pages for applications" thing because it's a copy from iPhone user interface and not Android.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ngkkv:
hi guys, i tried using a 480*800 wallpaper but it didn't fit?The orange window came out asking me to select region.. but I wanted to have the entire picture as a wallpaper.. how do i?? does the order matter like 800*480 or 480*800?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] violinbf:
This phone has been on the market for some time now and there are almost no custom Roms for this phone. There are certainly no Froyo roms. Is there a problem with development? Did samsung release all the drivers needed?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
there are in fact many custom ROMs already.

but the guys making the custom ROMs are waiting for Froyo to be released, before they go crazy on it (same here)

Samsung is releasing Froyo sometimes in September, just in time for back to school :D

for the time being i'm mostly evaluating all the softwares i wat to include into my own custom ROM once froyo has been released, and also building a list of build in apps that i don't use and want to remove

you can install any of the many available custom ROMs already from the DEV section just search for [ROM]
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AXIS of Reality:
Samsung have released the source code, but reportedly the drivers are encrypted. This means all custom roms for the near future will need to be based off the official (and leaked) Samsung releases with just optimisations (eg: MoDaCo R3) or theming (eg: SamSet 1.6), but no ports or AOSP until the drivers can be recovered.

However, work has started on Cyanogen 6.0 for Galaxy S. They are stil very much in the initial stages however.

Official Froyo is due sometime in August (Korean release), so it's easiest to just wait for that and then go from there. However, we may get some leaks early if the stream of beta firmwares (still 2.1) is anything to go by.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Volcacius:
Actually i'm quite sure Paul said that next MoDaCo release won't be based on an official samsung firmware, so I think it's just a matter of time and many ROMs will appear.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] makuchaku:
One can keep a tab on

hxxp://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Full_Update_Guide_-_Samsung_Galaxy_S_(International)
[Windows Mobile] HD2Owner:
Hi

i'm experiencing a issue in all my roms (hd2/hdmini/x1i).

if i try to sync there is a error showing up (80004005) and the phone does not even try to connect (according to logs).

i tried everything possible to fix it but still no luck.....

did any other cook ever experience this problem?

if yes, how to fix it?

edit: fixed the error in my hd2 rom successfully...
[Windows Mobile] starbase64:
Hi,

look here for AS Errors: http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/faqs/activesync/exchange_errors.php

with friendly greet

starbase64