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[Galaxy S I9000 General] djglenn1337:
I am a Xperia X1 user and am looking for a good android phone, which I have narrowed down to a Desire or a SGS.

I really like the added benefits of the SGS (Better Screen, 8GB internal memory, HD Video), but cannot deny the fact that the UI on the Desire (Sense) is much better than the Samsung setup….

What are your opinions on the standard system?

The reason why I am asking here is that you all will generally have experience with Sense, which all of the custom ROMs for my xperia has been brilliant over the past 18months (kept it alive).

I notice that the SGS XDA portal, has a lot less posts than the HTC Desire forum, but I am hoping that this is due to the fact that the Desire has been out longer than the Samsung.

I am due to upgrade my phone in 10 days so need to figure out which way to go.

All opinions are welcome!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kcharng:
When I purchase this phone my thought was:

1. UI and software can be update and modified, hardwares are fixed.

2. Communities and 3rd party supports for this phone, which are great right now.

These are enough for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Piny12:
I've had an iPhone 3G and a 3GS. Sold the 3GS a month ago to buy the iPhone 4. Due to every shop being out of stock on these babys, I decided to give Android a chance.

I nearly bought the Xperia X10 but in some shop they had a Galaxy S Demo Unit. I grabbed it and fell in love with it. It's so light-weight compared to other smartphones!

When I went home with it, I read some footage about it on engadget, gizmodo, etc. I didn't know it was the strongest Android phone at this time. I was very surprised and even more in love!

The screen is a blast.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dizzle118:
I was in the same situation, though I was coming from a WinMo handset. I'm so happy with my choice, I know a few nexus one and desire owners who are now wanting a SCS - which says a lot.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] laxtor:
My last phone was an HD2 with WinMo 6.5.5 wich have a wunderful community (Android development very fast).

But the Samsung i9000 is a nice Phone, with a wunderful screen, and 720p videoplayback and recording. And of corse, Android.

(Faster than HD2 [thanks Android], more Apps, 720p rec/play, etc...)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] djglenn1337:
Thanks very much for the feedback guys... its good to get opionions of Win Mo users switching, as most reviews I have read on the internet is based on prev Iphone users (who's opinions I do not value).

Are you guys mostly using the stock SGS software, or running custom roms?

Do you prefer this phone to your HD2? :eek: The HD2 was a great phone (as was the TyTn II)!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kcharng:
I am using factory's rom with a little bit of addition: rooting + auto killer to manage memories.

From an Omnia i900 winmo. 6.5.5 user, I have no lags problem on this phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dragunov:
Well, how about the opinion of a user switching between iPhone 3GS, Symbian s60v3 and v5, WinMo6, 6.1, and 6.5 and Android 1.5, 1.6, and 2.1 phones, in order to find my perfect suite?!? Actually my last/previous phone was Vivaz PRO :D

It is really the best phone that i laid my hands on up to now.

Hardware-wise, unbelievable super AMOLED multi-touch screen, fantastic HD video camera, super-fast CPU, a lot of RAM, 8GB internal memory and VERY VERY light! (OK, I miss the LED flash, but I can live with that).

Software-wise, I believe, after a lot of experience with multiple OSs, that Android is the future (at least for the next couple of years). Very smooth OS, open to do everything you wish (root, custom firmware, install pirate soft, etc) easily, and VERY FAST GROWING/UPDATING (compared with WinMo and symbian, that feel a bit ancient by now).

Go for it bro! You wont regret!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mitko76:
Just sold mine galaxy s on ebay.. and for a very good price  I am so happy now

If you are like me and use gps navigation a lot, simply run away from this phone.

I am now back to my HD2 (so happy I did not sell it). No navigation software can compare with tom tom.

All in all galaxy s has:

Superb screen:

HD video recording

And that is about it….

The gps is rubbish, don’t listen to the people telling you that they fixed it…

All “fixes” are just to provide fast network location fix (which in most cases is inaccurate)

With my HD2 it does not matter how cloudy it is, and how tall are the buildings around me,

I have GPS fix in 3-5sec and I MEAN GPS FIX, not network location fix.

SO I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE I AM.

2 days ago I was in central London and tried to find the closest tesco with google maps…

After 5min I just gave up… galaxy s simply could not do it

With HD2 things like that takes 10 to 20 sec (including typing tesco in the search bar)

I am also very disappointed with the android OS,

This thing does not even support external gps… we had that in winmo 10 years ago…

It has all sorts of problems, for example application starting on the background (consuming data) and there is simply no way for the user to control that.

One more thing the internal memory card is very very very slow and this slows down the devise a lot. Sure people will tell you about the sd card fix but REALLYYYY… should I start fixing the Samsung rubbish? No thanks, will stay away from Samsung and android for another 2 years (at least)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
same here i always purchase my smartphones by the hardware spec, and the amount of Forums/groups available for it.

unfortunately the HTC Athena was flawed, the device itself is amazingly great, howerver support for it was low.

SGS i9000 on the other hand has a very lively group just like HTC Desire
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Logicalstep:
mitko76 Good luck doing anything with GPS in central London...Buildings have this horrible side effect on ALL GPS systems.

Google maps is easily the best Search for phone, but not the greatest GPS, since is need a Connection to work if you deviate from the rout too much.

I've had this phone for w eek now and it is a great phone, there are a few niggles in the software, but believe me way less than stock windows mobile 6.5.

The screen isn;t as crisp as people would have you believe, White text on a dark background gives you a red effect around text and text Isn;t smooth, no where near the Iphone 4 IMO, however the contrast and colours are superb.

Give it a go if your on contract you have 7 days to return it.

Logicalstep
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Neo1607:
As a x1 user who has just upgraded to a Galaxy S a week past i can say that it is definetly worth it.

I did own a Desire for a day when i got it on contract but i didn't get coverage for the network in my area.

I find the Galaxy S to be a nicer looking phone, screen looks a lot brighter and better. Sound quality from the speaker is better and the UI also seems much faster.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Will.1:
It's a great phone, no questions asked, but you have to realize that it needs some work (like the fixes and all) and customization.

I'm using the imfamous JF3 stock rom and i do notice some lags and battery drain (but I use it very heavily, frequent syncs and updates, tons of widgets and all that) so i'm gonna switch over to the better ones.

I come from the Omnia II wich was a great phone but very poorly supported by samsung and the community. This isn't the case at all for the SGS. I used to have sense on my device, big fan of sense, but i like the SGS homescreen as well with the different pannels, really like it. Touchwizz is sort of a love/hate relationship

I'm loving android so far, even though i don't understand everything, i'm sure i could enhance my phone a lot.

hope this helps
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mitko76:
Logicalstep, that is what I am trying to explain .. I DO NOT NEED “Good Luck” when using my hd2’s gps in central London, it simply work. I work in central London so trust me, I know what I am talking about.

If you are coming from a phone with poor gps I can understand your point, but hd2 simply has a proper gps unit in it and it is working no matter where I am. With HD2 I can even get gps lock in the train (10 sec), tried this with galaxy s and guess what... it FAILED (after 10min).

You can keep convincing yourself that the buildings are high, the sky is cloudy or God knows what ..

But the simple truth is the gps is rubbish.

Keep waiting for the NEXT firmware to fix the issues, and when it failed keep waiting for the next one and so on....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DrBarrell:
Mitko please do us a favour and leave the forum, we know that you sold your Galaxy S, and frankly its quite boring to see you posting on every thread and preaching slander. The GPS does take a short while to position (about 30-40 secs) but after that it works perfectly for me. I have used it on several occasions when lost in central London.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] NZtechfreak:
Since last December I've owned the following handsets: N900, HD2, Desire, X10, Galaxy S.

Of all of these the Galaxy S is my favorite, followed very closely by the HD2.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bidboy:
Coming from you that is high praise indeed. :)

Loving my SGS, no way am I going back to Symbian.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nicoloco:
On my side I am coming from winmo6.5 and then iphone3GS

if i had an advice to give you in order to choose between the desire and the samsung it would be to know that :

* you won't have HTC sense on samsung ... I mean really nothing comparable.

* there is almost no button on the samsung .No trackball ( painfull for selection) no LED ... and it's quite annoying some time

Yes when I compare both with my colleague , mine has a better screen ( bigger , brighter) but it will worth it if you watch a lot of video or look at a lot of picture. If it's just to have more beautifull icon ... you will forget it looks better after few weeks

I am still a little bit uncertain about the GPS ... I need to do more tests and to check the settings I could enhance but it can't be compared to my TomTom ( on both winmo and iphone)

Hopefully there will be soon a real fix for the slowness of the SD card ... hopefully ...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] djglenn1337:
Thanks guys, this is brilliant information!

I used the phone briefly in a phone shop yesterday, and I have to say that it looks very impressive! Especially compared to my x1 running Windows 6.5.3. The only first negative impression that I had was how cheap and flimsy the back cover was...but I hey, I know no phone will be perfect.

When my contract is up next week, and I am going to go for the SGS and as Logicalstep has commented I have 7 days to return it if unhappy.

I really appreciate the feedback, as it has made me allot more comfortable with going for the SGS.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nicoloco:
I'm sure you will enjoy it

And honestly i agree about the cheap looking back but honestly that's why it is so light and you forget about this quickly.

Especially if you add a case ( you have some very thin one)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Logicalstep:
mitko76 I just don;t believe you. Being surrounded by Sky scrapers DOES stop GPS working, it always has and always will. Are you telling me you can get a lock in the blackwall tunnel as well?

I can understand a phone being less intermittent, but as for working that much better than any other or the SGS, I'm not so sure.

Logicalstep
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mitko76:
Barrell, I like the wisdom: “never argue with morons the other people may not see the difference”...

Enough said.

What I said was 100% truth and I only tried to help. People like Barrell, keep reporting issues in other threads, but when asked if the phone has any issues, instead of saying the truth, they start arguing..

Logicalstep I am sure one day you will have a phone with a proper gps, and then you will see what I mean. Just remember my words :)

PS there is no Sky scrapers in central London... I was talking about the narrow roads with 4-5 floors buildings in the soho area.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
just install a decent GPS software like Igo8 or CoPilot8 then you wont have any problem.

Google Maps is known to be flawed even in Windows Mobile.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
I've used it for slightly over half a month, and no longer use it now, except as a firmware flashing toy. No working GPS, lags so bad that I can't use my email, read my news without getting really mad every time I use it. The back button should have been a real button as it makes me accidentally exit the application so often although I consciously try to avoid touching it. Not having a cursor placement makes cursor placement clumpsy and frustrating, especially when using soft keyboards tat do not have cursors.

I tried to like this phone and Android, and admit failure here. Personal preference I guess.

When and if Samsung fix the lag and GPS and when Froyo and Android 3.0 is released I'll come back to try again. For now, I'm estatic with my iPhone 4. No, I don't have any antenna problem at the locations I've been so far. Bridging the weak spot tightly reduces the bar by one after about 10 seconds (if I touch the gap lightly, then it takes 20 seconds to lose the first bar) and by two bar at the 19th second. At 40th seconds, it started to alternate between losing three and two bar, but after a while stayed stable at losing just two bars. Don't know if it's because Apple has quietly modified the design or not, but the signal is strong like hell. And if I use it with the free bumper, there is NO WAY to make it even drop a bar. If I use it naked but shift my hands constantly while holding it in any natural way, I don't lose any bar. To lose bar I must maintain continuous contact at at least 9 seconds tightly or 20 seconds lightly over the weak spot.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kcharng:
I am glad you decide to take a closer look at this device but be warned though. :)

Other posters' concerns are quite valid. How much it will impact you depends on your habits and how you use your phone. If you are like me, sticking to phone calls, sms, movies, games, music, internet. You couldn't be happier upgrading from WM platform.

GPS does have issues. It is 'a little bit' harder to get a lock compares to my old omnia i900 WM6.5 phone. I wish SGS support bluetooth GPS as my car windows are tinted and it reduce the GPS signal strength making SGS almost useless when driving. However, I found the wisdom to purchase a dedicated GPS navigator for my car a long time ago and skipped all the head ache.

Lag issues are another concern but for me it never interferes with my usage of the phone. I am currently on stock firmware but rooted to install autokiller and are quite satisfied with SGS performance.

Other than these two problems there are minor issues which you can most likely find applications on the market and useful advice on forums like XDA for you to over comes them.

From a happy SGS user.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] tin2404:
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Artists are weird kind of people.

This one release is aimed in a first place for users that have art touch taste and sense for unusuall.This is, in a sort of way, a culmination of mixed lucid surreal digital color-play game..

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STABILE SUPERFAST AND "OUT OF SPACE" DESIGNED

- YOU NEED WM 6.5 AND MANILA/SENSE 2.5 VERSION !

- FULL COMPATIBILITY WITH NEWEST COOKIE HOMETAB AND CHT EDITOR.

- NOT COMPATIBLLE WITH GTX !​

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Based on a popular Dali Vantage Aluminium UI and encouraged by user requests, here is DALI CALEIDOSCOPE SENSE UI for Touch HD devices working on Sense UI 2.5 and WM 6.5 systems.This release is made from scratch and it is mainly aimed for advanced users who like "warm" and analog unusuall stuff.Interface is now much more advanced and designed.STRAT-O-SPHERE colors has been added in smart way and HiRes images are much more pollished.

I have personally painted wallpapers and they fit best to this SenseUI. All others will just destroy composition.

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IMPORTAINT NOTICE FOR ROMs ISSUES:

IF YOU NEED DARKER FONT FOR SUITE GO HERE ON THIS MARVELOUS THREAD ! Font colour is NOT Suite dependent, it is ROM issue, so if you need that mod, help yourself.IF YOU experiance any kind of problem,than you have ROM ISSUE, not the theme..I tested theme on a lot of ROMs ,and theme does not work on all ROMs (specially not on 6.1 ROMs)

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[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Clem-le-long:
Wow, awesome work ! Love Dali
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] darkdominus:
Hi, i'm gonna try and tell you later :)
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Clem-le-long:
Just a comment, i think the white ink might not be enough readable with the white background, but i really like the style. :)
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] sandymac:
This should not be in the ROM Forum. Should be posted in Themes. Hopefully an Administrator will fix.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] tin2404:
Oh sorry ! I obviously put thread in wrong section.

All this is ported for HD2 (originalthread here)but this version is avaluable now and for HD.

All additional info about Vantage series and Strat-o-sphere aluminium weather are here and here. So before installation it is good to see.

About white font...it is manila file 115191c7.manila and it has been modded itself because it is part of ROMs that is custom from cooker to cooker.

Vantage Version :
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] tin2404:
with a different clock :
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] blc4:
Wow this is a great looking theme and runs fine so far thank u very much ;)
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] markthomson1404:
Looks great going to give this a try

Thanks Mark
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] tin2404:
IMPORTAINT NOTICE FOR ROMs ISSUES: IF YOU NEED DARKER FONT FOR SUITE GO HERE ON THIS MARVELOUS THREAD ! Font colour is NOT Suite dependent, it is ROM issue, so if you need that mod, help yourself.​
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] tin2404:
an update is avaluable.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] tin2404:
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[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] tin2404:
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To present idea on what I am working,let me present first images of new build U6 which will be,maybe, published soon...This doors on image are made to shut clock itself ! ;)

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and for the clock I get idea like this,but this is "work version".Clock hands will be altered with something more effective then this ones..These are only for preview purposes.Well, because a lot of work needs to be done here,suite will be published if there will be any interest...

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[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] tin2404:
Wide update of this fine theme is avaluable for download now ! It is compatibile with all addons and goodies.

Enjoy this fine release.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] moby_wan_kenoby:
Hi there

I like this theme very much, thank you for that.

Can you give me an advice on which rom did you tested it?

On my Stonehenge rom weather is not working and I can see black elements from Stonehenge on the top and bottom of the screen.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] tin2404:
You can use ANY stock ROM or any KWBR ROM.;)
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] studiokioul:
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[HD2 General] IO ME MEDESIMO:
http://www.htc.com/it/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=297&cat=0&dl_id=1016

This update for HTC HD2 allows you to set recurring calendar appointments year on year.

It is only for European Hd 2 and it works with original and custom rom(i can t test all the rom but it works with the axlor df1)
[HD2 General] tfouto:
Isn´t this possible already?
[HD2 General] Yevgeniy276:
Only via the windows mobile calender, not via the HTC app.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] radhoo:
Here's a tool that allows direct access to the Windows Mobile Control Panel entries, designed primarily for version 6.5.

Older Windows Mobile versions provided the Settings panel, but that was recently hidden, so this app covers the gap.

I figured this would be useful for those of you that can't find the Owner name panel, or the Input configuration screen, it uses very little memory as this is a native code application (no framework required).

Download

I've attached the CAB here or you can download it on the developer's webpage.

cplmain.cpl

This group is usually displayed first in MySettings interface. It contains the most important functions

like: Password, Owner information, Memory, About, Screen,

Input, Sounds Notifications, Remove Programs, Menus, Buttons, Today, Beam, Clock Alarms, Network Cards,

Regional Settings, Connections, GPS, etc.

From here you can configure you Owner name information, required for registering other third party applications,

you can configure your Today screen plugins and enable/disable Today screen itself or you can configure the installed keyboards

by accessing the Input option.

Usage

The MySettings interface has an intuitive design: select a group to access its content.

You can press Back / Next to change the page or simply slide over horizontally. To select an item, you can tap on it, or press the Enter key.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Senax:
A friend who searched his phone after updating it from WM6.1 to WM6.5 and who already asked me about this missing feature said to thank you! He's a happy camper now! :)

EDiT:

Tags added; cplmain.cpl for wm6.5, wm6.5 control panel

More friends are happy campers! I'll convince them this is a better board than where they are being idle at the moment ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] radhoo:
Hi Senax,

I had some issues myself, configuring the Owner name on some newer ROMs. Some registered programs don't work without that info correctly configured.

Good thing there are solutions to this kind of problems :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] awiseguy:
When I try dowloading the cab I get this message. "File dowload failed. The requested header could not be located." Any help would be appreciated.

UPDATE: I found the problem to be with Skyfire. Used Opera and the program downloaded fine. The problem I have now is it will not load; I get the message "A problem has occurred wiht main.exe". I removed the program and then downloaded the program through my PC and got the same result when executing the program. I need this user information for other applications, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TMinh:
Does this work with WM 6.5.3 ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dubidu:
You can use this one for 6.5 and put the links whenever directly into the home as quicklinks

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=791682
[Desire General] leecavturbo:
:p

pure voice dialing. i.e no touching the phone with a choice of to handset mic or bluetooth headset.

google maps/navigation loaded so no need for net connection

night desk clock to disable screen sleep

speech to text at the cursor. i.e into excel doc etc (got this semi working for text messages but needs a net connection to work :mad:)

320g microsd card for all my music

:o

then will i be happy hehe
[Windows Mobile Software Development] amitsivak:
I don't sync my tilt2 to often. maybe once very 2 weeks, but even after removing through MSCONFIG, and uruninstaller, it keeps loading itself. Tried killsync, temp solution. WHat I would like to do is run it manually when needed and then sync, not have it sit in standby mode..

Any help appreciated.

Have a great day!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] TrashKalmar:
It loads from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Delete key "H/PC Connection Agent". Each time you run ActiveSync, it writes his autorun keys, so I do not see a way to prevent this. But, I'm a developer, so I often need for connection with my device.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] amitsivak:
Thank you for the reply and info. I'm shocked how you guys know all this stuff..BRAVO MAN!

I guess the only solution is to install/uninstall as I use it..

Thanks again!