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[Vibrant General] hollabax:
Here's my review of the Vibrant which I've had for almost a week.

I'm conflicted on this phone so I'll break it into Pro's and Con's

Pro's

Very Nice Screen

Responsive touchscreen

powerful CPU and GPU

Cons

Compass functionality is abysmal

GPS is weak, can't lock on indoors and loses satellite signal while driving

Marketplace lags for 2-3 seconds going in between pages, even on wifi

Touchwiz UI

3G Mobile Data speeds are extremely slow

To give it context, I'm coming from a Blackberry 8100 -> G1 -> Samsung Vibrant, all on t-mobile. My friend has his new Droid X from Verizon so we ran some tests on them, both after fresh factory resets.

The results were:

Neocore (GPU Benchmark):

Vibrant: 55.6 fps

Droid X: 44.3 fps

Linpack

Vibrant: 8.14

Droid X: gave us a value between 5.6 - 8.2 seemingly at random each time we ran the test.

The Vibrant also had much better viewing angles than the Droid X, but I'm not sure how useful that will ever be.

I also prefer the screen size and form factor of my Vibrant because I'm average height and don't have gorilla hands. Now on to the negatives..

The Compass is an absolute joke, I'm sure you are all aware of this but it updates painfully slow and takes 2-3 seconds to point the correct direction, often spinning sporadically to get there.

COMPARISON: The Droid X Compass works extremely well, updates quickly and is very responsive. The G1 compass is also vastly superior to the Vibrant.

The GPS can't seem to find my location anywhere indoors, and sometimes when I'm in my car using google navigation it will lose signal for several minutes.

COMPARISON: GPS on the G1 is far superior to those on the Vibrant. It's not even close. I didn't get to fully test the Droid X GPS.

Market Lag is a serious issue on this phone. This is not a network speed issue, it's a phone issue. When on 3G OR Wifi, while going through pages of the market there's a 2-3 second delay.

COMPARISON: No such delay on the G1 or Droid X. Browsing the Market is instant.

TouchWiz UI - I'll admit this comes down to personal preference, but I greatly dislike the UI, and not allowing me to cleanly disable it without rooting the phone doesn't sit well with me.

COMPARISON: Droid X has motoblur which looks nicer, but still we should be able to completely disable the manufacturer UI and run the phone on vanilla android without rooting.

Mobile Network Speed: the data speeds I'm getting on 3G are horrible. To put it into KB/s terms, I'm pulling between 2KB/s - 30KB/s. My friends Droid X in the same room as me was pulling between 150-300KB/s. This is obviously a massive difference.

Mileage may vary and I'd love to hear of people who get faster speeds elsewhere.

I'm still on the fence about keeping this phone - I know there's some progress on the GPS issue, but the broken compass/GPS + the slow marketplace really leave a bad taste in my mouth. I knew the reputation of Samsung phones going into this - I just hoped that since they put so much into this Galaxy S line that they would make sure that everything is working properly. I was wrong.
[Vibrant General] disturkis4u:
Still the best android phone out there imo. The major issues like compass and gps will get fixed sooner than later. And what do you mean you can't disable touch wiz? Do you dislike the contacts app and stuff? Bc they're pretty awesome to me. The launcher can be changed.

I get awesome 3g speeds but I guess it depends on your location. Don't think that's an issue with the phone. There's a thread for speeds and most people have great speeds
[Vibrant General] darkknight49:
I'm on my second Vibrant and the first one was unresponsive in regards to the market, beautiful widgets, and zedge. But the second one I have doesnt lag at all in any of those. My first vibrant took several minutes to load all the skins for beautiful widgets but the second one loads them in a couple seconds.

TouchWiz has grown on me. I like having the music player on the lock screen, the smart dialer is convenient, love the radio controls in the pull down.

GPS is working ok. I'll be going on a trip this weekend and will use the phone for GPS so I'll see how it goes then.

Do agree with the compass, it's all screwed up.
[Vibrant General] WilliamStern:
The way I look at it is... you've got a bad taste in your mouth due to some minor issues that can, and will be fixed. Samsung is working on an update to fix these issues very soon.

If you don't like the phone, or can't deal with these issues, I say return it. I would recommand to just hand tight for a bit. It's a new phone, and minor issues are common with released into the wild.

I come from many great phones/providers, and hands down can say that the Vibrant is one of the best phones I've ever owend.
[Vibrant General] temperbad:
Anyone got a link where Samsung says there gonna release a fix for this?
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
DROID X's MOTOBLUR looks nicer.. yeah riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Why do we have to have one of these threads every other day? Are you really telling us something we don't already know or that hasn't already been a confirmed SOFTWARE fault?
[Vibrant General] neasoon:
For the market lag, you should try the fix to move application data from sdcard to NAND flash. I don't feel the lag now.
[Vibrant General] neasoon:
The problem is neither t mobile nor samsung have official response on these issues. Looks like they are still busy on marketing these *EXCITING* gadgets...
[Vibrant General] hollabax:
will that limit my app storage? going to try it right now either way, thank you!

I hope you're right but I wouldn't be surprised if the community ends up fixing most of these issues. As far as the compass I don't know if it's software or hardware at fault, but could you link me to where it has been determined to be a software issue? Does someone have a rooted Vibrant running a custom rom with a compass that works perfectly?
[Vibrant General] captain_awesome:
the phone was released 12 days ago. everyone knows that the first 2 weeks to sometimes 3 months after the release of a new piece of tech gear as sophisticated as our phones are becoming are the roughest. this is the time where all of the software bugs are worked out. as much as the manufacturers can try they cant account for each and every scenario that the device and software may face when released into a real world environment. especially one in which the operating system is on an open plan like android is. our phones could just about do anything given the right coding. given that, its almost impossible to plan for every contingency.

being virtual beta testers is kind of the risk we all take as being early adopters.

aside from that we already have confirmation of an update to 2.2 in the coming couple of weeks.. verified by T-mobile. i count that as an "official response" to the software issues at hand.

if having a "2 or 3 second" delay when loading new app information in the market is really a "serious issue" for you, then you probably would do better going to a platform that has been out for several months or a year and has all the kinks worked out. look at WinMo 6.5.. its been out for.. oh.. like a billion years.. and they are finally making it work right thanks to outside dev support. at least our manufacturers are making our android phones work.. well.. most of them..

i wont name any names motorola.
[Vibrant General] hohoeyo:
How do you do that?
[Vibrant General] BigWorldJust:
Look up mimocan's ext4 lag fix.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foolforfood:
I just started having huge problems with my phone connecting to data, actually my radio in general freaking out. I have been dropping calls, not receiving texts, my phone will say that it's connected to EvDo, or 1x and the arrows will be illuminated as though it's downloading or uploading, but it never connects to anything. I have tried flashing different radios, a complete wipe and reflash (Fresh 2.3.3 and CyanogenMod 6 test) and nothing.

Different kernels also have no effect.

Data works fine over wifi, but texts, calls, and data through the cellular radio is wacky.

I'm thinking it might be a hardware problem (I hope not) but I am willing to to whatever checks/logs necessary,but I really need some help. Thanks in advance!

UPDATE: I flashed the Verizon desire radio and it's actually connecting now, but it's downloading extremely slow. Going to try some other radios.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lohp75:
Hey bud, a few ?'s. Sprint or non Sprint. Sense or AOSP Rom.
[Captivate General] ewingr:
Anyone ever see the message "Process system not responding". Here's the story.

Well, I've been installing apps like a loose cannon, figuring I may be dooming myself to a hard reset, and it may have come to pass.

Last thing that happened while the phone was running good, was I ran the demo of the 3D game XXXXXXXXX. I received a call, and had to hop away, and after that the phone became unresponsive. Looking at what was loaded with Advanced Task Killer, I did not see the game to kill, so I turned off the phone.

Now, it is taking a very long time to 'boot'. The Phone is Locked screen would pop up, and I'd try to slide it off, and it would slide about half off. Screen black except for the clock of the lock screen. And after sliding off half way, the screen would go black, as if it was off, but then the lock screen would come back.

Kept thinking that ultimately it would finish. After a bit I got the task bar at top, and it was saying preparing internal memory'Preparing Internal Mass Storage"; then finally " Media scanner running". Finally a few icons from the dock. But everything else still black.

Then finally it would come up with a big message "Sorry!. Process system is not responding. buttons for Force close, and Wait. I don't know if that is an Android message, or an app message. I tried force close, and it went back into the same iteration of events.

So the next time i tried a boot, I did not respond to the message for a while, and it seemed to be making progress behind the message. It went off, I turned it back on, it had lock screen, moved it off a bit easier.

Then finally it came up more screen things in place. Then again with a message "Process system is nto responding". Let it set 'til it went off again. This time it came up a bit futher, and this time it came up with window to select launcher. I selected TWiz launcher. Process message again, and I killed it this time.

Whewh...Still not resolved.

I guess if there are any suggestions short of hard reset, i'm interested in hearing. maybe one of you have had this happen. If it ever finishes loading, first thing I'm going to do is remove that game.

One thing that is a pain and I think contributes, is that so many apps load by default it seems. And the more you install the more that happens, from what I have seen. I know I don't have as many apps installed as I've seen others reference, but I do have 2-3 different memory type utilities that I've wondered if they woudl interfere with each othre, but they supposedly don't all load at boot.

Post long enough. I'll add more if I find anything interesting.
[Captivate General] tone_la:
Well, the above post exactly describes what I have on my Captivate as well. Long boot times, "process system not responding", black screens, media scanner running/completed repeatedly, severe lagging...

Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with this issue? I've uninstalled my most recent apps, but it has not made any difference. Many thanks for any guidance!
[Captivate General] jhernand1102:
Sounds like both of you need to restore to stock...Look in the Dev section for the Stock Odin3 1 click post..it is a sticky so it should be up towards the top..Follow the instructions and you will be back to stock...
[Captivate General] tone_la:
The problems I mention above occur mostly during a reboot. The phone does eventually come up, with only occasional lagging still left (which may be more typical). I am torn between dealing with the lagging until Froyo is released (hopefully later this month) or perform the "restore to stock" you mention.

If I decide to "restore to stock", does that mean I lose everything? apps, messages, config, customizations, etc.

And if I lose everything, can I restore some apps with Titanium Backup? TB was loaded 2-3 weeks ago and I do have a full backup.

When Froyo comes, will it require the same or will it upgrade the existing OS and leave apps alone?

Many thanks for your response jhernand1102
[Captivate General] Dani897:
I did that too, I sett a replacement lock screen wrong (because it asked me too) and there I was with out s phone for a few hours. The one click odin didn't work for me though. So I used the updated stock rom jh2 i believe. Look for the stock rom threads in developers forum as well as the one click odin.

If the one click odin doesn't work feel free to pm me with questions on the other rom.

Make sure you read it but they is a lot there that may confuse you.
[Captivate General] Dani897:
With titanium backup you should be fine. I haven't used it but that's the point of it. A reflash may be easier the finding the error and correcting the problem. And during any flash you may have some risk of losing something but I don't think, going to froyo will lose apps by design. Anyway you have titanium backup and samsung kies to help you keep everything.

Good luck!
[Captivate General] ewingr:
I guess I forgot to post back what I had to do...having had no replies at all. I think I ended up in another thread.

Anyway...I did in fact have to reflash. Using the one-click which I believe is this thread is what I used.
[Captivate General] tone_la:
Thanks to all for replying today! I will go ahead and re-flash to stock. I was hoping it would be longer (a few months) before I'd have to re-load, but I guess when you live on the edge (root and lots of installs), ya gotta be ready for things to go wrong.

I do love this phone though and Android after being on a BB for so many years! It is pretty much a 1.0, so we should expect bugs and work arounds until they work the kinks out. In a crazy sort of way, it is still fun to work through these gotchas. Thanks again! :D
[Captivate General] ewingr:
Yeah. I really hated the idea of a reflash.

but, if you haven't yet, you need to look in the DEV thread, and look into Clockwork Mod and Rom Recovery. As well, you should get teh paid version of Titanium backup.

Between those two things, occasional reflash and reload is not too painful.
[Captivate General] tone_la:
I've learned so much today! Got the paid version of Titanium Backup for an easy "restore all via batch" and also did the ROM Mgr / Clockwork Recovery (thanx ewingr). So, I now have the best of both worlds for getting out of a jam and looking forward to trying out any new ROM's that may come out; with ease thanks to these apps!
[Android Apps and Games] chibixzero:
So to start i ,m sorry if this on the wrong forum

so yesterday a bough a copy of the psx emulator for 6 bucks. And says is for all system. But maybe is me but my moto backflip is super slow. Now this is not a support question I'm just posting the info for those who want to buy it.

Maybe is my iso I use cdclone to make it but here is tje funny thing on my htcpure runs the psx emulator(different one for winmo). Sounds like a super laggy and slow motion on both phones.
[Android Apps and Games] zaiger:
Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] DethUnlimited:
psx4droid is meant for "high-end Androids", don't think it'll get much better for your Backflip...

have you tried updating the app?

btw,
[Android Apps and Games] kierro:
Have you tried setting refresh rate from 60 to 30. It made a huge difference on my X10 and I do not notice any skip with 30 fps.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElAguila:
I have been reading on a few sites trying to get more information about the WP7. I saw that MS and Amazon signed an agreement with each other to use technology from each other. One of the things that was included supposedly was the kindle reader technology. Has anybody read anything about a kindle software for WP7? I also read that at this point syncing with outlook locally wasn't supported. Is this true? I hope that it is. I use outlook at home to manage my contacts, email, and appointments. I would hope they would have that feature.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Windcape:
Wouldn't make much sense, reading books on a screen with backlights is a major pain.

I think they're referring to Flash and PDF :p
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vetvito:
Yes, WP7 will have a Kindle app, just like other OS's.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RustyGrom:
Nothing has been announced re: kindle.

No, WP7 does not sync with outlook locally. I'd suggest syncing up to Windows Live (windows live outlook connector will take care of this) and then to your phone.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElAguila:
I know nothing has been announced yet but I had read this article:

http://www.siftwire.com/microsoft-kindle-windows-7-phone-tech-amazon-ip-deal.html

I was wondering if there were any other articles out there that made reference to this.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Iridox:
Amazon =/= Adobe lol
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Windcape:
Oops, read it wrong there.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElAguila:
It is too bad they didn't get the outlook sync feature in there. I know that you can use the outlook connector but I was kind of hoping for a single sync button. Oh well.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] tiger.woods:
Icontact won't read my contacts.

When I launch IContact its blank, but my SIM has all of my contacts on it. I've tried copying the contacts to the phone also with similar results.

Anyone know how to fix?

TW,
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] tiger.woods:
Anyone...?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decepticon:
Can Galaxy S users backup their bootup animations for me? I want to get rid of as much of the AT&T crap as possible.

They are as follows

Startup

/system/etc/PowerOn.wav

/system/media/bootsamsung.qmg

/system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trancelated:
here you go...

View attachment 368161

from GT-I9000;2.1-u1;JF3;2.6.29;ECLAIR

sorry for the delay, was testing other apps..

enjoy brother ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decepticon:
Thanks! Going to try them out now :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decepticon:
Just wanted to add that they work fine, now just to figure out how to flash a different boot image to get rid of the AT&T World Phone logo.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KJPDX:
Why dont you flash with the GT-I9000 rom and say goodbye to At&t everything?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Intratech:
Didn't they free the brothers back in January 1865? :p
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bestwebs:
Hi,

How did you get these into the right folders?

What commands did you use?

Tried root explorer and su file manager and they won't paste ther files into system/etc or system/media.

adb gives a no access and can't use adb remount to push file.

So I am stuck.

Thanks

:)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jodue:
hm.i guess that would not be a good idea as they are not 100% the same. replacing the custom stuff is the easy and secure solution for the time being.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decepticon:
I used Root Explorer and copied them. You would have to mount the /system folder with RW permissions in ADB or just click the Mount RW button in Root Explorer before copying them over.

This is the reason why, the generic Galaxy S FW does not work with the Captivate.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bestwebs:
Hi,

For some reason root explorer wouldn't paste these.

But I did figure out a way with adb.

I copied all 3 files to my sdcard 1st

These are the commands I used in case they are of help to anyone:

D:\>adb shell

$ su

su

# mount -o rw,remount -t rfs /dev/block/stl9

mount -o rw,remount -t rfs /dev/block/stl9 /s

# busybox cp /sdcard/PowerOn.wav /system/etc

busybox cp /sdcard/PowerOn.wav /system/etc

and

D:\>adb shell

$ su

su

# mount -o rw,remount -t rfs /dev/block/stl9 /system

mount -o rw,remount -t rfs /dev/block/stl9 /system

# busybox cp /sdcard/bootsamsungloop.qmg /system/med

busybox cp /sdcard/bootsamsungloop.qmg /system/media

# busybox cp /sdcard/bootsamsung.qmg /system/media

busybox cp /sdcard/bootsamsung.qmg /system/media

Thanks

:)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maniac3389:
Thanks for posting this, exactly what I was looking for!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] cdcrowell:
im running newest fresh rom which has the espresso bar.im wanting the stock one ,any help would be appreciated
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] cdcrowell:
anyone??????
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mikevillarroel:
bumping............i would love to have it as back up!
[myTouch 3G Slide General] denrenten:
Is there a universal inbox app for android? So all my messages, facebook stuff, twitter, etc......like on blackberry?
[myTouch 3G Slide General] nikol4s:
If someone does know of something like this, please post. I too game from a Blackberry and that is one of my only "gripes" with Android.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] sultan.of.swing:
Only phones I know that run android that do this are phones that run motoblur. Like the cliq
[myTouch 3G Slide General] enculturation:
I believe that the Slide app (home screen replacement) serves as a universal inbox of sorts. I've never used it though.
[Captivate General] guillolb:
Sorry If this has been already asked. I searched everywhere and the responses didn't help.

Basically, my father and I have the same name, and my Samsung Captivate swears that we are the same person and decided to link the two contacts together.

I have searched in different forums and the answer is simple:

- Go to the contact

- Click on Menu>edit

- Click on Menu>unlink

However I have looked everywhere for that cute little "unlink" button with no success. I have even called the cops, but they tell me that my little button needs to be missing for at least 48 hours before they start searching.

Could you help me?
[Captivate General] allted:
I hope this helps

1-open contacts

2- find you or your dads name

3-click on it

4- bottom of the screen should be "linked contacts"

5-click it

6-click on either one of the minus signs.
[Captivate General] guillolb:
That worked!!!! Thanks!

It was not at the bottom of the screen but at the middle.

:p
[Captivate General] allted:
Nice

Glad I could finally help someone, I was even getting ready to take screen shots.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soundwavedj:
Few thing's

1) I can't find kernel for the froyo rom on evo. And after that which apps are good for overclock on evo.

2) is there an app that will not only back up apps but the settings within the apps so flashing different roms would be easier.

3) is it safer to reboot into recovery by actually doing it or are the rom managers capable without harming the system

Thanks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
Looks like your Beginner's Syndrome has double-posting as a symptom. For shame.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kabrutus:
Is there any way of getting Swype on a rooted HTC hero from sprint? All of the ones i have downloaded have trail expired.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DirtyShroomz:
Go to themes and apps, I believe on the 2nd page I have a thread with a swype that has not expired.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ro_bro:
here you go
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kabrutus:
You are awsome! Thx
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rockypr:
No way to add Spanish Language?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjjohnson30:
Now this one has expired too. Got anymore?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kabrutus:
Anyone have a new one that is not expired?