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[Galaxy S I9000 General] gaelynx:
confused about Bell's Vibrant 2G and 3G networks

For reference the Samsung I9000 Galaxy S has:

2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network	HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100

What about Bell's Samsung GT-I9000M Galaxy S Vibrant? Which 2G Network? Which 3G Network?

I'm asking that because I'm confused:

But both Best Buy and Future Shop says "3G 900/1900/2100" for Bell's SGS specs?!

Is it like AT&T's (and supposedly Rogers') Samsung i897 Captivate:

2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network	HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100

Does that means Bell's SGS has GSM quad band built-in? But Bell's network is CDMA, not GSM?!

It's a pretty big deal if it has 2G GSM network compatibility, because as you said that means it's possible to use it with both European and Canadian cell phone carriers (once unlocked).

The 3G 850 / 1900 is necessary for Canada, and 2100 for France but that's assuming you stay in big cities where 3G networks are deployed. But what about going to the countryside? In that case we need to rely on the GSM 2G networks to get voice and data connection, am I right?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
actually that's why for some people like myself the 850 is a pretty big deal, so that we can get 3G on the country side, otherwise we'll only get Edge or 2G
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gaelynx:
The 3G 900 in the specs must be wrong. Only Australia, New Zealand and maybe Iran use that band (src). And Future Shop is a sub-division of Best Buy so maybe that why they both have the same error?

So 3G 850 and 1900 are enough to cover cities and countryside for voice+data in Canada? There is no CDMA technology in the Bell Vibrant?

And we have a good 3G coverage for worldwide use thanks to the popularity of the 2100MHz band.

Some part of the countryside in France (including where my family lives) doesn't have 3G coverage. So I would like to know the 2G Network capabilities of the Bell Vibrant.

if it has Quad-band GSM then its only difference with the I9000 is the 850 3G band instead of the 900 3G band?! and the difference with the Samsung i897 Captivate is the external design and the front camera?

After additional google-ing I found an official news from Samsung (June 30th) that says:

and I could find one confirmation on XDA (without source):

So that means the Bell Vibrant doesn't relies on Bell's CDMA network, only on its HSPA+ network.

I see no point in waiting for Rogers to release the Captivate, unless we don't mind the lack of Front Facing Camera and prefer the other external design...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
the Canada version of Vibrant operates at all those bands on both 2G and 3G also for Voice, so you got it all covered.

the only thing left is to get it unlocked after you buy it.

it is also compatible with the i9000 firmware upgrades without any changes
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crypt0r:
Hi,

What ist the difference between the Proximity Sensor and the Ambient Light Sensor?

I know, the output of the Ambient Light Sensor depends on the ambient light

but what is the proximity Sensor? How does it work on the HD2? What are the output values etc?

And: what is the main use for it?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Faelok:
The proximity sensor uses IR light to detect when an object is close to it. In the case of a mobile phone it uses this information so the screen can be turned off when the proximity sensor notices your head (or more accurately, your ear) which may inadvertently press on the screen when making a call. As far as the output values? I have no idea.
[Vibrant General] courtmagician:
The first thing I tried to do when getting my Vibrant 2 days ago was to try to install drivers, wasting hours and hours and getting nowhere (all I wanted to do was to copy the rooting zip to root the phone). Yesterday, I tried turning off my USB Debugging, and then mounted the SD Card(s), and they both worked as they should. Great, so I can get my computer (Windows 7 32bit, FYI) to recognize the drives and copy files (by then, I had already just copied the file I needed to via just taking the SD card out, phone has already been rooted, but now I was thinking about tethering).

So today, after having done a lot of searching the past 2 days, and having come across a post I found on another forum (sorry, I'll have to go do more searching to find it again) where someone suggested that one of the issues might be the USB plug on the computer not being a powered one (this was front USB port on a Gateway computer), I plugged the cord into a powered USB hub I have, turned USB Debugging back on, plugged the phone in, and the driver install went a bit further than it did before, at least recognizing the device, but not installing the drivers. I went into device manager on my computer, pointed the 2 unknown devices to where the Samsung Drivers I downloaded off of Samsung's website were and everything installed perfectly. Phone is now recognized when plugged in, and the SD Card(s) mount just fine.

Since that was a major reason to keep/return the phone, I'm happy to have discovered the solution to 2 days of research. I thought I'd share this in case anyone else might be having issues with installing drivers for the phone.

Now to see about the battery drain and some other potentially "minor" issues and see about it really becoming a keeper (coming from a MT3G, it is a major upgrade, so it's just getting used to the differences).
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
I had an issue with USB Debugging on too.... so I thought, then I realized I was using the Nexus One cable and not the Vibrant cable. I turned off USB debugging and used the proper cable and everything was automatic.

Interesting read, thanks for the post. Perhaps I need to tweak the sticky some.

edit: added this thread to the sticky. Thanks man.
[Vibrant General] courtmagician:
Interesting note about the different cable options, I had read that some cables were "better than others" - I had to use the micro USB cable that came with the Vibrant, so I knew that wasn't an issue, figured I'd tried everything else, so what the heck (thought I swapped the USB plug last night, but turned out I swapped the wrong cable, lol).

I did order a bunch of generic micro USB cables from ebay (2 different sellers), but I just need those for charging (like for the car, for my travel back, etc), I'll stick to the Samsung cable for data needs and likely test the others in case I need a backup.

Your main thread was definitely helpful, and I just wanted to share a potential solution to an issue I had seen others post about without any resolution (actually, the person in the other thread had a slightly different problem than me, and never claimed solving it by changing to a powered USB plug).
[Droid X General] Ryphez:
Is it normal for my battery to only last 1 day before it needs a charge? I have everything turned off practically and yet I still have it dying after 1 day. According to Battery usage, the only things draining it are the Display and Cell Standby. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.

Ryphez
[Droid X General] Mikerrrrrrrr:
That's about the battery life I get. With light to moderate usage, it lasts about 15 hours before getting down to 20%
[Droid X General] SteveoSupremo:
I'm in a fringe area and get most of a work day with moderate email, data, and constant music

SS
[Droid X General] fredz024:
Same here...11-13 hours is a pretty good stretch for me.
[Droid X General] veeeee:
Biggest culprits for battery drain are display and automatic data syncing.

So if you want to extend your battery life lower the brightness on your display.

So for syncing you can either disable it completely so that your applications only refresh for new data when you use them or change the frequency that they check.
[Droid X General] Tralik:
I'm getting about the same. Actually I was pretty happy considering all this thing does. Keep an eye out for the extended battery. It's gonna make it thicker but might be a good tradeoff for some of us.
[Droid X General] usb7:
My battery only lasted around 6 hours, so I'm getting a replacement.
[Droid X General] Hazdaz:
I'm with you guys about the battery issue. I mean I know that Android is known to have bad battery life, but the X was heralded as supposedly having decent battery life.

Even with GPS and wifi turned OFF, and my display brightness turned all the way down to 0, I am still only getting about 10-12 hrs of usage. :mad: That's BS.

Overall I really like the phone, but the battery issue is getting on my nerves - as well as the damn wifi issue.

I doubt it's going to matter, but I can only hope that Froyo offers up better battery life (maybe more options to turn stuff off). I would love to be able to underclock the CPU or reduce the screen brightness even more.
[Droid X General] BB2DX:
I am coming from a blackberry that got two days on a charge. The phone sucked though. I get about 13-15 hours per charge on stock battery. I use tasker and y5 to set profiles that toggle wifi and gps so I'm never using extra battery but still able to use device to fullest. I also went on ebay and found two generic batteries with external charger for $13. Now when my stock battery dies, I just throw in a new one that freshly charged and charge up the stock one. Having three batteries to shuffle through means my phone is never plugged in, and never dead. Plus in not charging batteries as often so it should extend over all life of batteries.
[Droid X General] tbaker077:
How does the battery life compare to the original Droid(stock of course)? Do you guys think the Droid 2 will have similar battery life, or will Froyo and the smaller screen improve it?
[Droid X General] sp1kez:
I only get around 7 hours when im forum browsing 7 hrs straight
[Droid X General] xmunk:
I've noticed the 50% bug on several x's including my own
[Droid X General] evilkal:
If i don't use my phone a lot i get 10+ hours easy

But you gotta remember if you're using this phone all out and a lot then of course you're gonna use the battery up quicker.
[Droid X General] tmmedic20:
Seems to be a bug with the gps. That is causing the battery drains. Even after you shut down the program using gps system won't go into a complete Sleep mode seems to be a big study going on over droidforum.net tested mine today with gps off except when in use battery lated 20 hours versus 10 with it on.

Not real technical myself and don't wanna post link to another forum.

Good luck fyi motorola is aware of bug and suppose to be a fix in 2.2
[Droid X General] shaneaus:
I use the widget "Extended Controls" and leave my WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, etc off unless I need them.

I had the SGS Captivate for three weeks and before that I had the G1 since it came out - the DroidX battery life is longer than both of them.

I'm really happy with the battery life so far.

Also, I read somewhere that it can take a few full drain/full charge cycles to get the most out of your battery. Both myself and my wife completely drained and then completely charged our batteries within the first two days.
[Droid X General] ksizzle9:
I've had the DInc, eris, droid, and nexus one, i couldn't put into words how much better the battery is on my x. I mean its nothing like a dumbphone. But this thing packs as much punch as some older laptops so i don't expect a lot out of the battery. Check ur apps, sometimes u get ****ty" rogue" apps that screw it up, and if u use a task manager only kill intense apps like web or messages or gmail. The other processes are need to make the phone run correctly, i know i've seen better performance and battery life since i stopped using one.

sent from Shawn Micheals...The heartbreak Kid
[Droid X General] dsims91:
I leave everything on wifi, gps, auto brightness, blue tooth, and im getting the best battery life of any phone i have ever owned, even better than my nexus one . My sister has a Droid X, and all she does is complain about her battery life. Although she is coming from a blackberry, i think that most people expect more from the battery than it can physically give, if you wonder about how long it lasts just take a look at the screen, and realize it takes alot of juice to run this huge beast .
[Droid X General] gchglobal:
I had never heard of this before so I did some research and my X was doubling the time on in Cell Standby and showing 50% used. I was getting 12 - 13 hours of battery life. I did the airplane mode cycle trick and now I'm getting 24+ hours of battery life. And now Cell Standby displays normally. Amazing.

A big thanks to xmunk as that was the only thing that was driving me nuts about the X and I was thinking about getting a replacement. Now the battery life is great!

I would recommend anyone having poor battery life check to see what Cell Standby is reporting.
[Droid X General] Enndr:
Oh wow.... Im showing since unplugging my phone 3hr 54m ago I've used the following for power:

51% Display

38% Cell Standby

12% Phone Idle

I just cycled Airplane mode and will checkout what happens next.

That a ton of power being used for standby. My Nexus one used 1-2% per hour while not in use and on standby. Battery left is estimating my battery is at 76% right now with a system % of 80% showing.

I hope this gets looked into.
[Droid X General] thepolishguy:
Well- since you guys have already done all the work -would you mind maybe sharing a few links?

-thanks if you can.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frozn:
Hey guyz,

I'm typing this from my HD2 so I'll make it simple. I downloaded Klaxon, and thr alarm list won't show any of the alarms I add ( I press the +, change the time and etc, and then press the + again, and it just takes me to an empty alarm list page.) At first I thought this was just bc of where I downloaded from, but I tried a lot of other sources too, only no difference.

Can you guys help me out?
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squidbutt:
whenever i try the simple root IF it works it will say cant push update.zip permission denied

or if i try manually doing it it wont show as offlline

someone please help
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Armyjon88:
Follow these instructions exactly:

Downlown load the root.zip file from here:

http://www.4shared.com/file/IfrPbWG7/Root.html

1. Extract the root.zip file in your android sdk tools directory mine was C:/SDK/tools "really simple cuts down on typing".

2. Power off phone.

Note: insure that the usb port which you are using is valid you should see a devices attached icon on your windows task bar "prior to powering off device"

3. Press and Hold "Volume Down & Power"

4. Once the (bootloader menu) loads completely press Volume down to "recovery". On your computer in"Command Prompt" type "Loop" then hit return.

Note: this will start the loop.bat file which will repeat the adb command "adb devices" this is used to cache the device as offline from the bootloader menu

select with power.

Note: you should see

"Adb devices

Device offline"
[Captivate General] solidkevin:
Will this eventually be possible? I LOVE the captivates hardware but it would be even better if it had just the stock rom! Sorry if already asked.
[Captivate General] THATTON:
QUESTIONS go in the GENERAL section. Thank you. to answer, yes it will be possible. Wesgarner of Teamdouche said today that progress is being made, slowly but surely, on the Vibrant/Captivate. CM6 is underway which beats the hell out of "stock" any day.
[Captivate General] E_man5112:
Where did you see this? Looking to stay up to date on this
[Captivate General] solidkevin:
Thank you and sorry for wrong section.
[EVO 4G General] nebenezer:
Anyone remember reading about THIS BULL$*!7??

That insanity has actually been implemented in the "free" ad supported game Wordfeud

I would gladly pay for the game, its a good game, but that bullcrap is not welcome on my phone.

I'm so disgusted with this right now I think I'm gonna take sick time for the rest of this day (kidding, but I am truly disgusted by this)
[EVO 4G General] omegasun18:
wrong link by chance? that goes to craiglist man looking for no iphone users
[EVO 4G General] nebenezer:
lol, sorry... thanks for the heads up

THIS

and THIS
[EVO 4G General] enormous:
Like in Minority report, where the ads know your name and follow you. Yay future!
[EVO 4G General] ourprisonplanet:
Not sure why... But that article gives me the urge to punch small woodland creatures... Interesting...
[EVO 4G General] dallashigh:
Any app that implements this is shooting themselves in the foot. Yeah, they might get a few conversions out of it, but they'll put off far more people than they win over.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IShootPixels:
Is anyone using SetCPU with the new Froyo? I just downloaded it from Marketplace and have a question. It disabled the perflock and I lowered the mhz to 806. If my intent is to get a longer battery life did I do the right thing? It was running at 998 so I'm thinking that my lowering it I'll slow down the processor and in turn give myself a bit more life in the battery. Is that right? Thanks in advance.

Sent from my incredible Droid Incredible using the XDA app
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s197:
Disabling perflock shouldn't scale it down. Did you set it to automatically detect setting when you first started the app? If not, you should. (Might have to re-install)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IShootPixels:
Yeah it auto detected a min of 245 and max of 998. I couldn't change the max whether setting to user, ondemand or performance without disabling the perflock. Once I disabled that I was able to scale the max level down.

Sent from my incredible Droid Incredible using the XDA app
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kriskmk:
setcpu was causing too many crashes for me on Froyo leaked 8-01-10.

I uninstalled it for a refund.. even when it did work for me.. I didn't notice any major battery savings.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtremebrdr:
ive noticed slight battery savings with setcpu. biggest thing ive noticed is the charge time. with a set profile to run the cpu @ 245 when screen is off the phone will charge the battery to 100% from dead in just about an hour and half. and the standby time increases running that profile as well.
[General Questions and Answers] JorB:
New to this forum, so hello is in order first.

I have a HTC Desire from Vodafone. Had it about 3 months and very happy with it.

Because of the recent Vodafone 360 update news, and the likelyhood that Froyo from Voda will be heavily branded, I have today debranded my Desire to what I understand in the genreic version of Android, 1.21.405.2.

Now I understood that once I had done this I could update straight to 2.2, but my phone isn't having any of it :(

The process I followed to debrand was, in a nutshell, to get the Android SDK tools, get a Hex editor, create a goldcard, then download and install the following;

RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.21.405.2_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed.

Can anyone shed any light on why I can't update to 2.2?

Any help appreciated,

JorB
[General Questions and Answers] nightswim:
Have the same situation here, but with T-Mobile "branded" one.

Just two updated were applied and that's all, still on "2.1-update1" :(

Thanks for any idea/help.
[General Questions and Answers] eric303:
I have the same problem, my phone keeps restarting, it wont let me OTA update it wtf!
[TG01 Themes and Apps] Tozzy2:
Hi,

I've had this problem for a while, but when I'm typing in Opera Mobile 10, there are no word predictions. Does Opera even support word prediction? Do you think maybe there could be a reg entry to change or something? I have tired using Opera 9.7 but I still have the same problem.

Any advice would be most appreciated.
[TG01 Themes and Apps] Tozzy2:
SlideIT works with Opera 10
[TG01 Themes and Apps] Tozzy2:
Tried it and works. Thank you so much Tozzy2! :D
[Vibrant General] PolishDude:
Ok I am trying to send myself a picture, yesterday it took about 10 minutes if not more but i thought maybe that was just because i was sending the full size, i have now resized it to where its about 100kbs yet i have been waiting about 5 min and it still shows it as sending...anyone know what the problem may be? its on 3g and i have no connection issues...really annoying.

nm now its working fine...very strange
[Captivate Themes and Apps] sschrupp:
Has anyone given the AT&T apps a good try to see if any of them are good to keep?

I see instructions out there on how to wipe AT&T off of our phone, but haven't seen anybody comment on why they're wiping the apps off besides to "get rid of the AT&T apps".

I'm just wondering if there might not be one or two of the included apps that are actually worthwhile to keep.

I know one I won't be sorry to delete is the mobiTV one. I loaded it up to the welcome screen then had to step away for a couple minutes. When I came back it kindly told me my 2 minute trial was up... LOL nice! So yeah, unless it really is an incredible piece of software worth buying I'll be dumping that one at least.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] MikeyMike01:
Many if not all require additional fees and subscriptions, despite free alternatives.

For example, the AT&T navigator app is $10 a month, but Google Maps is free.

There's also the matter of principle... the fact that AT&T made them non-removable is a compelling reason to get rid of them.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] behrouz:
The only at&t app worth using is the att my wireless app that you can down load from the market place. It lets you keep track of your minutes usage, data usage, and change your plan.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] rajendra82:
I agree. Funny thing is, that's the only app AT&T didn't preinstall on the phone IIRC. I guess they expect you to pay money for their crappy services by default (or by mistaken clicks), but don't want you to have a way to track it so easily.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Shovelhead84:
Point...Set...Match

You just staited my two primary reasons.

It is disgusting that AT&T forcefully occupies space on lesser phones with pay apps. Just appalling.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] sschrupp:
Well ok then, looks like I'll be clearing them all off! lol
[Captivate Themes and Apps] SiL3nTKiLL:
i got rid of all my ATT apps lol
[Captivate Themes and Apps] bfgarzilla9k:
I'm not sure if it's an AT&T app, but the music player that comes on our phone is awesome!

I even started a thread asking if there was a way we could extract it or reinstall it after flashing a different rom. Hah. I like it. :o
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Asori:
This is a Samsung app. We'll get it in new ROMS. :)

Look at about 1:05 on this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3QwvMsBGjE
[Captivate Themes and Apps] sschrupp:
Yeah I have to say that music app is pretty nice.

Although I just installed one called "Moodagent" that is kind of neat. Haven't had a chance to fully explore it, but it appears to have quite a few features along with the main interface that's a bit gimicky, but cool. It has sliders that you adjust up or down (Sensual, Tender, Happy, Angry, Tempo) and it adjusts the playlist according to the levels you set. Probably old news to everyone else but interesting to me!
[Captivate Themes and Apps] systoxity:
everything that is labeled att_nameofprogram is pretty much useless. the other programs like allshare or instant messaging may still be usefull.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] ewingr:
Allshare

If you interest in using DLNA, the Allshare app may be a good one to keep. Although, I have one major problem with it: you can only add 1 song at a time to the Queue. What a pain.

But I haven't found any good alternatives yet.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] zielins1:
I opened the 'Where' app, and (stupidly) breezed past some part about a monthly charge if I don't cancel. Has anyone else run into this? And if so, do you know how to cancel?