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[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayoubi:
Hello Everyone :),

First off I would like to say I’m new to this forum. I’m hoping to learn alot about my new android Galaxy S captivate phone. I have a couple questions regarding my phone, I would really appreciate if you guys can help me.

1.I bought one app from the market store, I later restore my phone. There anyway to retrieve my app without paying for it again?

2.What is rooting is it just like jailbreaking an iphone?

Thanks,

Michael
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dragunov:
Hello there!

1. My guess is that if you login to the market with the same account, you will not have to buy the app again. If you login with a different account, yes, you will pay for it again :)

2. Rooting means that you have SuperUser access to your phone (just like Administrator for windows). You will be able to install extra programs like task managers, and file managers in order to access the root of your phone (the core of your linux-capable smartphone)

Note that you DO NOT have to root in order to install "pirated" material!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayoubi:
Thanks for the helpful reply! I'm in the process of rooting my phone. Thanks so much!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andrewluecke:
Correct, I've done it many times now. It's linked to the account

Yes, but keep in mind, don't rely on pirated programs. Google has already provided a framework which developers can use to prevent their use illegally. It allows developers to test if the phones owner purchased the software they installed on start. Previously, pirated APK's I believe ran fine on other devices just by copying the package.

And yes, as mentioned, it is similar to jailbreaking, but unlike the iPhone, rooting has limited uses on Android (because you can install software from 3rd parties anyway).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rayoubi:
Last question, lets say if I root my phone, and i magically screwed up. Can there be a chance where my phone is brick and no longer repairable?
[Desire General] Leotronick:
As i encountered this problem on 3 different (non stock) roms decided to ask for help.

Every time I use my 3g connection e.g. streaming music, thethering or navigate with gmaps my device turns very hot within ca10 min. and reboots after a while.

Did not have this issue with stock 2.1 but perhaps this is related to the lower outside temp a few weeks ago.

Anybody with the same problem?

Any ideas for solution?

Sent from my HTC Desire
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] LittleMerc:
Hey guys, just want to check it out what is going wrong with my HD2. From the start, using mattc 1.5 wit zImage 384mb ram was able to hit at least a 1350 easily. Yesterday I switched the zImage to the fullram settings with the graphical fix, i had a quadrant of about 1392. However, since today morning, my quadrant hit super low of 900+, and now I keep getting values about 1000+. How come?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] random_username_:
it cold be any of these things:

if youre using set cpu it may have enabled a profile with lower cpu speed

you could have something running in the background hogging up recousces

you may have just brought youre phone out of sleep so the cpu may not have scaled up completely yet

or it could be something that has nothing to do with any of these, ust throwing some ideas out there :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thesweeney:
what he^^^ said.

try disabling profiles, and setting 'main' governor to 'performance, in setcpu

this should illiminate low-speed setcpu profiles and prevent the need to run multiple tests to 'rev-up' the cpu.

if you still get low scores you can illiminate setcpu from the equation at look at background apps etc.

(re-enable profiles etc after testing)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] LittleMerc:
WOO HOO! Yea, u guyz rock... After disabling the profiles and enable performance in setcpu, i scored 1436! But somehow its weird, cause before this I used to run the quadrant without disabling those settings...

* I just set it to performance mode, I noticed my device heat up very fast... 43.1 C...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thesweeney:
Yeah probably best not to leave it on performance (constant 998Mhz) all the time.

Although Last night I ran quadrant on 'performance' for half an hour and topped out at 39 C

plus it seemed as if battery life was as good if not better than with 'on demand' setting.

Is it possible that the throttling and switching speeds actually uses more power than leaving a constant speed???

might be something to test long term but while keeping an eye on temperatures.

As for why you got low scores today:

JJbdoggg must have been correct when he said the profiles could be the cause (evidenced by the result you just got).

Now the question is... which profile was activated to give you the low scores? is your battery level below your set threshold?
[XPERIA X10 General] PoTi_96:
Wie schnell ist eure internetverbindung auf eurem gerooteten x10?

#edit

sry...

how fast is your Internetconnection on your rooted X10
[XPERIA X10 General] theeedy:
Ich denke nicht, dass dich hier viele Leute verstehen werden, wenn du Deutsch schreibst, da dies ein englisches Forum ist!
[XPERIA X10 General] cvchetan:
english pls.. his is a forum with native language as english..
[XPERIA X10 General] tekknix:
Okay for the non-german-Speakers i'll translate it.

He only wants to know how fast our Internetconnection is on our rooted X10.

I don't know why but anyway i'm only the Translator ;-)

Best regards

MoS-tekknix
[XPERIA X10 General] yetep:
That was hardly a translation.. lol
[Galaxy S I9000 General] robnil:
This might force me to use samsungs dead-on-arrival-refund and switch to the both uglier and slower Desire :( Unless you have a solution.

The phone finds several networks where two are associated with my telecom-provider. One is old gsm and one is 3g/H. I search and manually picks out the 3g-network and gets an H-connection with 2 mbps (max for what I pay for). But this only lasts for about 10 - 20 seconds, then it falls back to the gsm-network.

So to speek, it overrides my manually selected network and uses an automatic pick and i get gsm with crappy 56 kbps.

I have done this:

1. a new sim-card (telecom sent me one)

2. Resetted the phone (samsung asked me to do this)

The problem is still there and samsung now say I should send it back to them...

But what are the odds that it will work on another device... the problem is probably a combination of phone + telenetwork. The simcard works perfectly in the same location on the Touch HD (blackstone) and the sales-dude that also claims to have an SGS with another network have no problems.

Swedish telecom-provider: TELE2

Help...! I dont wanna switch to a 9 month old desire and the desire hd looks like the specs are the same as sgs without the samoled and a too large 4,3" screen.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
Have you asked the sales dude which firmware he is using? This sounds a bit software related. It can definitely be teleco, however I think you're paying a premium doing more than keeping up appearances should be important to them.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pika007:
Did you try setting the phone on "WCDMA ONLY" in the network menu?

Every time the phone gets a stronger GSM signal, it will switch to gsm, just like any other phone.

Just disable GSM.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] robnil:
hmmm no i have not tried that... sounds quite promissing, but if it works that will result in no network at all if i go outside a 3g-area, right?

I have stock rom at eclair.xwjfb - i90000xxjf5

But where do i find this option? from a secret code?

in the network-menu i only have "use only 2g networks"

EDIT

Found this:

*#*#4636#*#* for battery and other general setttings like GSM/CDMA

Testing.....

EDIT

No change :(

I set it to WCDMA ONLY and tried all the other options as well. Most of them resulted in to network access.

###! this sounded so good
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rongden:
so all i have to do is type that number i get the option to only use 3G covarge right? is that how you did it?

Tackar!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] robnil:
yes but read it again - did NOT work

are you having the same problem with tele2?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rongden:
Ah okey, such a shame. Nope, i'm using Halebop, but if you have this problem i might also experiance it aswell, hopefully not though..

But my phone had a really strange problem which caused me to send it back, it lost the signal completly, like i had no simcard in it. This could accur around 20min-4 hours, and i seem to be the only one affected by this.. really strange, hopefully i'll get my phone back soon without this problem, whatever it might be.. :P
[Galaxy S I9000 General] robnil:
im returning it today as a d-o-a and will hopefully get a new one that works. Would really be a shame to let go of such a nice handset!

the wifi-radio cant stay connected to dynamic ips either, something that clearly works for others with sgs
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pika007:
Just replace it with another. I think your unit is defective.

There have been no reports of network problems with the SGS, and personally, i live in a place with terrible coverage, but when i set to WCDMA only it still somehow manages to maintain a good signal.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pharaohdk:
surely this could also be due to not all places being covered by 3g signal.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] robnil:
possibly but not likely sinse i can manually force it to use another network and then max out the payed bandwith of 2 mbps easily, but only for a very short period of time...

anyway, its sent away now. Hopefully they fix this fast
[Touch GSM General] lordarius:
Hey,

im new to all the Smartphone world. I just got a cheap used HTC Touch actually with Vodafone branding. Its the Elfin version as i found out.

My problem is, i am using this nice smartphone as a navagation tool with an external gps reciever. The only problem is, i cant use TMC with it.

I have found a software to add TMC to almost all smartphones, but its required to have a radio antenna. When i read well, this phone has no radio?

The strange part is, i have read some forum posts somewhere and ppl say you can actually use radio on this phone with the original headset S200.

There is not much information out there about this.

So i ask you guys, do you have any idea how i can add this funktion to my phone ?

Thx
[Touch GSM General] captainstu72:
Search is your friend
[Touch HD General] Trekfan422991:
if any of you techno talkers out there have seen this then you were probably no doubt impressed...

it is called the ELSE by emblaze mobile

http://www.slashgear.com/emblaze-first-else-struts-new-ui-in-video-demo-2564402/

it is based in linux as well...

and got my brainwondering is there possibly any build of it out there on the webernet and if so would we be able to get it to boot with haret bootloader???

i think it would be an interesting challenge...
[Touch HD General] Trekfan422991:
reserved...
[Touch HD General] yutaka.rsa:
it does looks like an interesting concept, i would try! thanks for sharing
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] masterofp:
Could someone please post the YouTube app from *20 or *26 firmware? I've deleted it using Titanium Backup, and can't restore it.

I've found one apk here on this forum, but it's 1.3, I had version 1.7ish or 1.6ish and will not install. I'm looking for version 1.4.20.

Thanks.

EDIT: http://hotfile.com/dl/64436467/8e644f5/YouTube_1.4.2.apk.html

Mirror on a premium account.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Wolfbreak:
No Problem. http://rapidshare.com/files/412122247/TitaniumBackup.rar.html
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] instigator008:
From 026: http://db.tt/jnp487
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] masterofp:
Thank you very much. Updated without problems.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] joel4149:
link doesn't work anymore, can you please correct it?

Thanks.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Wolfbreak:
Use my Rapidshare link from the post above its from Firmware R2BA026 too.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] joel4149:
there are 2 files in but none has the .apk extension which and how do i install it?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Wolfbreak:
My X10 is rooted the Backup is from Titanium Backup Programm you can install it with Titanium when you have root. If you have no root then i must look how i can copy the apk file to my SD Card.

Edit: Here is the Youtuke APK (from R2BA026) http://rapidshare.com/files/412687800/YouTube.apk
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] joel4149:
Awesome, tried tons of youtube.apk's from the web none of them worked, this was my last shot before reflashing, really appreciated.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] VMaxxor:
How about uploading to YouTube?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] leo537:
the link doesnt work can u put it again please
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] 17mayis:
[YOUTUBE]Ya1V5E6WG-c[/YOUTUBE]

really cool
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] ralfjai:
re upload the apk please the link doesnt work now
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Wolfbreak:
No Problem

http://rapidshare.com/files/413150578/YouTube.apk
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] blld:
File down again

I realy appreciate it if you could upload the APK again, Wolfbreak! ... because I made the same stupid mistake as the TS with Titanium Backup :p
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Wolfbreak:
No Problem

http://rapidshare.com/files/413328512/YouTube.apk
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] leo537:
I can't upload vídeos to YouTube can u helpme situado that
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Kngo01:
help, plz

I have a x10i.

and it didnt come with youtube :confused:

and i cant watch youtube videos...something about flash isnt working, try again later...

would this fix it?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] masterofp:
Yes. It's a stand alone app, this will not get you flash player tho.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Nimche:
Could someone upload this? They are all downloaded

Thank you
[Galaxy S I9000 General] RinTinTigger:
Hey all,

i have a Cisco VPN profile consisting of the following:

VPN HOST

VPN Groupname

VPN Grouppassword

VPN Username

VPN Userpassword

Search Domain

BUT

Where do i enter those credentials in the VPN settings exactly? There are 4 Types of VPN and i dont know which one to choose and where to enter what....

Tired a lot - didnt work. Any advise?

THANX

Tigger
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MagicOnline:
good question. I have the same cisco asa config.

I have a TunnelGroup Name but in the VPN setttings on SGS there is no possibility to enter it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] RinTinTigger:
Exactly my problem.

best would be to somehow import the profiles....but otherwise i couldnt use the SGS for Coorperate mail, cuz thats only running via VPN
[Galaxy S I9000 General] RinTinTigger:
**UP**

Plesae help!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] boomerbubba:
It's Google's problem to solve

This is not a limitation of the Samsung Galaxy S. It is a limitation of Android. The VPN client built into Android does not support the Cisco VPN routers that employ group credentials.

As I understand it, the group credentials are not part of the IPSec protocol, but are a Cisco add-on.

For whatever reason, Cisco licensed this technology to Apple but not to Google. So iPhone VPN clients work. But there is no such arrangement with Google for Android. (My own guess is that maybe Apple has some exclusive, or that there is some other corporate political maneuvering happening among these three Silicon Valley giants.)

In any event, there is huge backlog of demand for adding Cisco VPN support to Android. That's what most enterprise users desperately want. I am one of them. But the feature has not been forthcoming.

See the very long line, literally thousands of requests, to Google to add this feature here.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Evans_Prophet:
... will be the one already included in JG* or JM* firmwares?

If they had a fix they should have leaked it somehow in order for the devoted xda beta testers to test it for free all around the globe.. This is why I think that the fix might be just the dumpening of the signal along with an algorithm that would do dead reckoning (possibly by using also the compass / accelerometers of the device)...

Just a thought - still hoping for the best..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bynar010:
Yep it worries me big time. I'd almost bet my house the "fix" is a firmware we've already seen...which might be why it keeps getting pushed back so they can refine it even more...i hope so anyway.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TravUK:
I don't believe you have seen it in any of the leaked firmwares. I don't even know if Samsung have received the fix to leak to anyone yet.

I do believe I'm getting tired waiting for it though.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
JM5 seems fine to me, it locks very quickly. Initial lock is within a few secs, even inside just jumps around a tiny bit.

Best case it may be fixed by something simple like using higher precision data units to improve accuracy, buffering the signal a bit to drop packets where accuracy temporarily drops or other changes to the algorithms. Worst case is that they release a new backplate for the galaxy S with a better antenna embedded. Someone has confirmed the gold jack behind the backplate is a GPS antenna port.

I've heard its a Broadcom GPS so it SHOULD be good (but unconfirmed, so unsure), and since Broadcom don't really do linux drivers, Samsung probably wrote the Linux drivers themselves (its quite clear Samsung are using new chipsets, because the SGS does have BT3, which seems to further boost this theory). Disassemblies do seem to point to a single chip handling Wifi/BT/GPS and other things.

Anyway, GPS is one of the more difficult things to test.. But JM5 to me is a HUGE improvement over the initial results I got on my original firmware (at the very least it locks much quicker), and certainly better than JG1-5 where I got NO lock.

So, I still have confidence. If the GPS isn't fixed by Froyo's release though, then I'll worry, but I have seen progress.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TravUK:
About 95% of Broadcom's consumer platforms are Linux based.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
it was never an issue, because it works freat for me, when i'm on the bycicle, and when driving my car
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
So why do so many linux people seem to whinge about Broadcom I wonder? Although, since I don't really use Linux these days, it's possible that my facts are outdated too ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TravUK:
I guess it depends what they are whinging about. Any large company will invariably suffer complaints.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] larryccf:
forget where, but there was a couple reports that the new release to the arabic market, that they're GPS's were on the money - has anyone tested the arabic market firmware?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alovell83:
I think if they had the fix, they might've announced it just so some prospective buyers wouldn't hold off, and maybe worse, get a different device.

I think an incremental approach would be better than nothing, as long as you tell users what's up, but I don't work in their marketing department. As far as an algorithm do any other companies do this? If so, then we have a perfectly logical explanation of where they went wrong and how much to expect improvement. Would this have no effect on battery life? These sensors are running as long as the device is in map mode anyways, right?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RyanZA:
I've been using the arabic firmware myself. I find it to be the best one available. I9000JPJG8 Africa firmware from samsung-firmware. Locks nice and quickly with GPS - using my GPS test application (available from http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7556720&postcount=13 ) my phone gets a full lock on 5-10 sattelites with <50m accuracy within 7 seconds while INDOORS! (Big window though). When outside, my app shows me getting a full fix without 2-3 seconds. Navigation works perfectly too. With other firmwares it can sometimes take 30 seconds before I can get a full fix.

Anyway, try out the app yourself. It lists the time to lock according to both the GPS, and according to the clock.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TravUK:
Please post a picture of GPSTest locked on to more than 8 satelites.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] larryccf:
interesting, especially seeng someone else confirm it's working -

now i have to work up the "balls" to root :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RyanZA:
My bad, 5-10 visible satellites, about 4-7 locked. I forgot about the whole "8 fixes is too little! GPS can't work with only 8 satellites!" debate... ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RyanZA:
Don't take my word for it - I have always had satisfactory GPS performance on the JG series firmwares. (Well compared to my iPhone 3G which had terrible GPS performance).

You'd be better off waiting until the GPS crazies in the audience declare the problem fixed in 6 months time, when someone tweaks something to average off reported locations and give a smoother path... :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TravUK:
Or wait until the fix is released. None of the current firmwares have the fix in them. Until one of the released firmwares can do this:

There's no point rooting or upgrading just for GPS problems.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kilack:
So how did you get that photo? (is that a galaxy?) :), but yeah I've never seen anything close to that on my phone...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beowulf_pt:
I think Trav used a special kind of fix for that one. It's called Photoshop. :D

I'm still waiting for my GPS antenna (hope it didn't get lost in the mail, maybe the delivery guys use a SGS for GPS navigation to customers ahahah) and then maybe I'll have fatter SnR numbers to show too.

Today while driving home I used my Nokia E72 with Ovi Maps. I used to think it was rubbish both in accuracy and speed but after 4 days insisting on Galaxy S GPS usage... oh boy, the lame Nokia felt like a luxury high-tech nav device.. it was easy to forgive its occasional late instruction :D

Seriously, even if the fix deals with <20 SNR locks and 9+ locks, my instinct still tells me the antenna design is very ineffective and will never get better without servicing (hope I'm wrong).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kilack:
Ahh good old photoshop, I thought he might have had some secret trick up his sleeve :)

How much was the antenna? where did you order it from?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
you don't need any photoshop, depending where you live your reception might be better or worse than other
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] larryccf:
i just negotiated a 30 day extension on the buyer remorse return deadline on my phonew/Tmobile , till Sept 16th

which is main reason i won't root

i love the phone's display and speed, but if i haven't seen one out by then that works, it will go home to sammy
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
you can unroot, even if you are rooted

however if your concern is only on the GPS issue, then there is nothing to be worry about as it works good out of the box

except for a few unlucky individuals
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kilack:
As far as I am aware you can't use/lock more than 8 satellites and I have never seen any photo showing all yellow bars on 9 satellites, have you?

Either he has some secret fix or its been modified :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bynar010:
A few....ffs. My phone works therefore the problem must be minor and only on a few devices....you even googled for the gps issue lately?