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[Galaxy S I9000 General] SlowRain:
I'm thinking of getting an i9000, but have a few questions. I'll be honest from the start: I'm not much into tech.

My main purposes for this phone will be: 1. reading e-books, 2. a secondary internet device at home, 3. making phone calls and sending text messages. What makes me even stranger is that I don't want a data plan or any 3G services. Most of what I plan to do will be WiFi at home (although the option is there to get a data plan should I change my mind or find some use for it). I know about the GPS problem, but I don't think I have use for a GPS anyway. Music is not important to me, so I doubt I'd have more than a handful of MP3s I'd ever want listen to; movies and TV shows are a must; games are of no interest to me; photos are more of a perk than a necessity. I love, Love, LOVE the Super AMOLED screen, which is why I'm leaning towards this one rather than the HTC Desire.

1. The 8GB version is 2,000TWD (approx. 60USD) cheaper, which is worth it to me. Given my intended usage and the extra cost, why should I realistically consider the 16GB version? I'll have to buy an SD card anyway, won't I?

2. I still don't understand that thread about the device not having or not being able to see the full 512MB of RAM. How does this impact the performance? How does Froyo address this issue? Am I likely to notice any impact given my intended usage?

3. What is Launcher Pro, and why do some people feel it is better than TouchWiz?

4. I'm in a geographic area that doesn't have access to paid apps (Taiwan). However, there is a workaround. Given my intended usage, what paid apps would you suggest?

5. I'll have to hook up wireless internet at home (I'm running Windows XP on my PC). Without going into too much detail, what equipment and services will I need to set this up for both my PC and phone to share?

I know this may be a lot to ask. Feel free to just address one question if you like. I appreciate any help you can give me.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
the SD card is optional, but definitely wort it to have more storage, if you plan to have a large MP3 and Video collection on the road with you

then leave the internal 8 GB SD for application use.

if you ever install a GPS software, it will automatically eat up 2 GB in one shoty

the 8 GB is really 6 GB, because 2 GB is used for ROM software, the remaing is aprox 5 GB of usable space

if you load a GPS software that goes down to 3 GB of free space, and some games downloads a few Hundreds of a MB to play, so games require a full 1GB... anyways it adds up really quickly.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SlowRain:
Thanks. GPS is not important for me, nor are MP3s. Any video I watch will most likely be uploaded, watched, and removed within hours. I'll be reading on it if I'm ever on the road.

Looks like I'll be leaning towards the money-saving 8GB one.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
If I were you, I'd almost definitely go with the 8GB. I think the main reason is that, my plan would be to store my e-books on the external sd card, so if my battery or device died I could easily move them to my pc or next device.

Besides that, I'd suggest, as much as I love my device. Thinking about iPhone 4 or the Dell Streak (if you can get them wi-fi only) and/or a Kindle (not great for internet, #2 on your list, but you'd also save money). IPhone 4 will, probably, be a better reading experience, I can't be sure. Dell Streak has 25% more screen real estate, it also has gorilla glass. Downsides being it's not Super AMOLED, I don't think it's wirelss N, probably has less battery life and is currently stuck on 1.6, though I think 2.1 is imminent.

Not trying to convince you to get a different device, I wouldn't trade my phone for either of the two devices mentioned above.

To answer your other questions, I'd think about:

E-book software...I'm not sure if this is your first e-reader. Kindle, Aldiko might be the two most popular (doesn't mean best).

I'd get brut maps because it'll cache Google Maps pages to your SD card so you won't need data but can still use Google Navigation, My Tracks (I think? can't remember), and Google Maps if you ever have the need (you'll need to look at the areas from your wifi first to get the pages to cache).

I'd probably get a wi-fi analyzer, wi-fi analyzer works well for me.

For your case, thats the majority of what I'd get. I'd think about looking into getting Flash enabled instead of waiting for FroYo if my phone's second functionality would be web surfing.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
Also, spend money on your saved 8GB into extra 2-3 batteries, it's more important for your purposes than 8GB. I can nearly guarantee.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] THUDUK:
ALL I CAN SAY IS DEFINITELY GET ONE...

I have been using mine constantly for the last few days or so since I sold my Iphone 3gs and before that came from a touch HD2, windows phone.

I can't believe I didn't go across to the android world sooner to be honest and I think I have at last made the right choice of phone, this galaxy S is simply a joy to use, I love it.

I have 7 completely customisable screens that you can scroll between I bought beautiful widgets (highly recommend this) just simply because I am hooked to these widget things. I have Beautiful Live weather wallpaper which displays some grass waving about at the bottom of the screen and clouds with sun, rain etc..moving perfectly acrosseach of the 7 screens, I know this is all old hat to some of the longer Android users, but for me I Love it...I have also bought the Pure calender widget which displays all your up and coming appointments etc...this again is completely skin-able, brilliant...seconds screen has some of my shortcuts to applicaitons, live UK TV guide, market, appbrain market, maps, zedge, calc, youtube and mail, my third screen has all these toggle widgets to quickly turn on airplane, wifi, bluetooth, sound controls, volume and battery, Screen number 4 has my Days dairy which I quite like, screen number 5 has my feeds and updates which automatically updates my facebook and twitter stuff, then onto screen 6 with the BBC news and History widget, number 7 is blank so I can stare at the weather...

I can't seem to stop type , the Swype keyboard is just so easy and quick to use, I actually enjoy typing on a small screen these days, not that the Galaxy has a small screen in fact its the perfect screen and if your into reading books like I am, I am using the free Laputa ereader, simply import all your epubs into it, Aldiko comes already installed which is equally as good, but without the funky page turn effects. the screen is so clear reading books is very nice.

Will continue on later, got to get back to work for a bit....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
no no no... if you moved to Android sooner, you would have not enjoyed it.

I was also waiting for the Perfect Phone, before moving to Android

If you moved to Android when it was Android 1.5 you would have most likely ended up hating it.

It was Raw, not many apps, phone hardware were rather not at part with the HTC hardware, etc.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garrettkeeper:
What is the worst thing that can happen if I edit some files in /system directory? Can I damage the recovery image or even brick the phone? Of course I know that I can (and probably will lol) damage currently installed system/ROM.

What I want to do is edit /system/usr/keylayouts/qwerty.kl file and reassign camera button as a search button.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skullmonkey:
hey all

i used a battery image code (editing framework-res.apk only) and flashed it to my phone successfully. but in the process, it somehow reset the default email to the phone. i had to re-sign in when i tried to open the market and re-sync everything. how do i go about making a zip file that doesnt erase the default email?
[General Questions and Answers] SonicEvo:
I have a simple question.. is there a simple answer?

It seems that all HTC phone, 720p or less have bad audio quality on videos recorded with the phone, as if the bitrate is 1600 or below. I am positive that the hardware on these phones are able to do MUCH better, downloading a stand alone audio recording program called "HERTZ" proves this. Can someone shed more light on this issue? Thanks
[Vibrant Android Development] Freedomcaller:
**UPDATE**

it works provided you don't have any of the previous ext stuff set up.

**UPDATE2**

rhcp0112345 has put together a *nix / osx based version of the script.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7582553&postcount=37

**UPDATE3**

anomalous3 made a modified version that uses bind mounting instead of symlinks and will remove the init.d ext version of apps2sd. NOTE: ONLY FOR PEOPLE WITH THE init.d ext hack!

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7583566&postcount=51

**UPDATE4**

I tried it using rhcp0112345's version and I'm now getting over 2100 in quadrant, w00t!

**UPDATE5**

rhcp0112345 posted a one click .apk version

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7588931&postcount=134

i guess this mod has officially been pwned...

**ORIGINAL POST**

over in the samsung galaxy s section ryanZA seems to have come up with a lag fix that is much better then the /data->SD version.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=749495

has anyone tried this on the vibrant? im assuming it should work because it only does some partitioning which doesn't really seem like much of a change to anything that might be different between the models....

anyways im not gona try it till i get some confirmations that it does in fact work on the vibrant...
[Vibrant Android Development] zephiK:
In the thread someone said:

But don't look for guinea pigs to see if it works or not if you're not going to risk doing it yourself.
[Vibrant Android Development] cwalker29:
lol we all guinea pigs is you think about it.. but that was funny as ****!
[Vibrant Android Development] chaoscentral:
well imma guinea pig lol. seemed to go on without a hitch lol

DEAR LORD 2085 on quadrant!!!!!
[Vibrant Android Development] ttabbal:
Interesting. It should work fine. I considered that angle, but the bottleneck seemed to be the flash itself. The **** rfs filesystem could certainly be part of the problem though. I'll see if I can work something up that uses our existing stuff like the init.d so we can fsck the filesystem before mounting it to make sure it doesn't get corrupted. It would be nice to not require partitioning as that step seems to confuse the hell out of people for some reason. The down side is possible delays from traversing 2 filesystem drivers, but Quadrant at least seems to like it fine. I wonder how the general lag is for them now, benchmarks aren't everything. :)
[Vibrant Android Development] zephiK:
Haha thats true but developers especially ones that make ROMs go thru testing and risk their DEVICES to make sure that nothing is going wrong and all that before "releasing" it. Although this isn't a release of his works he could of at least tested it without telling other people to go try it out, but im gonna sit here and wait for a status report.
[Vibrant Android Development] cwalker29:
same here! i really want this to work for the vibrant.. will keep an eye on this thread
[Vibrant Android Development] Freedomcaller:
well i was hoping someone had already tried it. but also i wanted to notify the vibrant users of its existence.

but now were all sitting here watching and nobody is trying LOL. (i haven't even rooted my phone yet)
[Vibrant Android Development] cwalker29:
quick question plus off the topic so dont get piss off at me. anyway can i partition my sd card the old way. as of just putting the sd card in my g1 and use amon ra recovery to partition it can i do it that way??? thanks for anybody that can answer this for me.
[Vibrant Android Development] ivanmmj:
Yea, I tried something similar yesterday and my Quadrant is at 2100+. It's the same idea, just not from him.
[Vibrant Android Development] rhcp011235:
Very interesting. and very smart done.

HMM! time to test this baby.
[Vibrant Android Development] cwalker29:
ok fin2 try, will post back in a sec
[Vibrant Android Development] cashless:
Ran the fix.

Scored 2057 in Quadrant! I want that extra 28 points! lol :D
[Vibrant Android Development] zimphishmonger:
Does anyone know if you need to revert JAC's kernel and the EXT-hack script thats included w/ it prior to trying this?
[Vibrant Android Development] oquinones:
I ran the fix and I got 1700 in Quadrant... hmm I wonder how I can get it above 2000...

Edit: I rebooted... now got 2153. :)
[Vibrant Android Development] cwalker29:
how yall get it to work? i never seen so many damn denied in my life lol. quadrant only 916
[Vibrant Android Development] shep211:
Theres a 1 click lag fix app that will do all the commands for you. It works on my captivate.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=749495
[Vibrant Android Development] cashless:
:confused:

Thanks for the repost of the repost. ;)
[Vibrant Android Development] cwalker29:
yeah that was too damn strange!
[Vibrant Android Development] cashless:
You probably did all this but...

Make sure USB debugging is enabled and that your sd cards aren't mounted and try again. It took me two times, so...
[Vibrant Android Development] Hachi88:
I used the original method.
[Vibrant Android Development] masr1979:
Share... Share.... SHAREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! LOL!

On a side note, busybox 1.18 seems to be missing some commands hence why RyanZA's instructions specifically tells us to use v1.17.1. In the requirements section of Ryan's opening post you'll find a link to the correct busybox if you can't get it.
[Vibrant Android Development] siberslug:
1 click does not work for me
[Vibrant Android Development] kaizasoshi:
Apk not working for me either...getting Error on update, is your sdcard working?. Any insight will be much appreciated!!
[Vibrant Android Development] Hachi88:
Are you using the original method or the apk version? Make sure you have v1.17 busybox and click allow when it ask for root privilege on your phone.
[Vibrant Android Development] Superfrag:
Used the terminal emulator method.. worked perfectly. Get around 2050-2100 on an average, sometimes goes to 2200. Phone is very snappy now, love it.
[Vibrant Android Development] rizoh66:
Finally got it! BUT... I need to delete some apps due to low storage. Is there something I'm missing? I haven't seen any posts with the same issue. I dont really have that many apps installed.
[Vibrant Android Development] masr1979:
I take it your adb was working fine prior to this? does it still work (I would assume not)?

I was having problems as well, so I edited the batch file to use the adb.exe that was in the zip file e.i.

That worked for me.
[Vibrant Android Development] kaizasoshi:
Do u mind typing up the commands u used.
[Vibrant Android Development] daddysays:
Had a few issues at first, when i went to uninstall because i didnt do it right (had 1.18 busybox or something like that, so had to downgrade) and I messed my phone up, blck screen, so had to flash the stock rom. But once i did i went from 919 quadrant to 2276!!!!

And for those of you who say you do not see a difference? Are you NUTS? EVERYTHING is faster. Especially the market.

Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!

Awesome find!!!

Love you guys here at XDA

(Wonder if Eugenes froyo will work with this?) Cant wait till that is working fully. (need the headphones)
[Vibrant Android Development] Bigshow281:
It was working fine at first but then my phone started going crazy. I wasn't able to wake my screen, the home keys at the bottom were lit and stayed on, phone kept freezing up, wallpaper was disappearing and changing to something else, just pure fail. I had to odin my phone back to stock to make it stop doing this, not even a nandroid restore was able to fix it. I'm going to stay away from this one for now.
[Vibrant Android Development] Klyentel:
works!

I can confirm this fix works great! Phone is fast as hell now!:D:D

A shame it didn't come like this, lol.
[Vibrant Android Development] 18.4009:
sigh, you got it...adb is now not working for me. It is giving me an error when I try a command like adb remount : adb server is out of date
[Vibrant Android Development] acjames:
Works great. Market is much much faster...
[Vibrant Android Development] cwalker29:
Look y'all if u dont have any other roms or lag hack on your phone. The original method is the way to go... just fellow the instruction and make sure you have the v1.17.1 busybox for it to work. If tried with the latest one v1.18. The **** ain't going to work. Turn on the usb debugging And dont mount your phone. Click on the lagfix in your computer and the rest is history. Peace out
[Vibrant Android Development] angryPirate12:
when it works the phone flies...

using eugene's rom and Launcher Pro after i reboot my phone, Launcher Pro always FC's on me, TW works 100%
[Vibrant Android Development] thedarkpassenger:
i may have missed this in another thread, but what is the source of the 1GB limitation?
[Vibrant Android Development] skater4690:
ok tried anam.... cant spell it lol well tried his fix with newest busybox comming from the ext hack of his and i had unlimited fc's so had to nandroid and it had no ext hack in my nandroid so tried the regular way and boom 19xx off the first run no reboot and running a new benchmark after reboot and score is....2095!!! i can tell this thing is flying now its great!!!
[Vibrant Android Development] Bigshow281:
What I did was install the stock 2.1 rom using odin, then installed Eugene's Vibrant4 rom this morning with ADW, then followed the original thread and installed the lag fix. Ran the benchmark on it and it came up with 2250 which was crazy fast...all was good for several hours and then thats when things went bonkers. The phone was acting like it kept booting up, it was searching for the network, looking at my sdcard, etc etc just like when you first boot up. It kept doing this over and over again until it eventually froze up solid with all the soft buttons at the bottom staying lit. Has anyone else experienced this? When I ran the lagfixme.bat I got no errors, everything went through fine. Now I just restored my phone with Odin back to stock and restored my nandroid backup and things are back to normal.
[Vibrant Android Development] g1g:
So do i need to partion my sd card to ext 4 ? or leave it all fat 32 ??
[Vibrant Android Development] t1n0m3n:
One click didn't work. Had to run the adb shell part of the script manually... But holy crap. 2220 quadrant after a reboot. My phone is silky smooth again. Thanks for am awesome fix.
[Vibrant Android Development] zimphishmonger:
Okay, until a proper EXT4 version is created, I decided to modify anomalous3's version (requires JAC's kernel, init.d directory already) to check the EXT2 file system on boot-up for errors, as it is prone to corruption (VERY SIMPLE modification, only added one line)

This should at least help prevent the file corruption until we get a journaled version of this hack.

Instructions:

Unzip, and execute the .bat file. Should install like any of the other versions if ADB is working.

Enjoy! Thanks to everyone who has been working so hard on this fix, this is a huge improvement
[Vibrant Android Development] rhcp011235:
I will try to work on a one click. I saw a person with it asking to close. Hit wait.

The command can take up to 5 mins or more.
[Vibrant Android Development] masr1979:
Google USBDeview.exe and run it, that will list all the usb drivers installed on your machine. Remove all the ones that pertain to Android (HTC, Samsung) re-install the drivers off of the thread in any of the Galaxy S variant's development forums and try again.

If I just type "adb shell" from any folder it won't find the device; however, "cd" into the extracted folder and use adb there. For some reason the adb I have set up in my PATH isn't working with the Vibrant, but if it's with my G1 I can adb from anywhere.

As I said before, my advice would be too extract RyanZA's zip to C:, and edit the batch file to make it use the adb that is within that folder, not the one that you have set up in your PATH, assuming you do.

Hey guys saw this posted over in the main thread (DANGEROUS) http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7585711&postcount=377 haven't tested myself since I'm doing fine now... awaiting on an ext4 solution. Mind you this is intended for the I9000, but I don't see why it wouldn't work on our Vibrants. If you're not comfortable with Odin, ADB, etc, etc please await confirmation from others before trying it.
[Vibrant Android Development] angryPirate12:
after uninstalling Launcher Pro and reinstalling it with several restarts afterwards, its stopped Force Closing on me
[Vibrant Android Development] rbtady:
Thanks for saying to put it on your computer and running it from there. I was under the impression that you had to copy and paste it into your SD card and then try and run the BAT file from there. Finally got it to work after running it from my computer and not from my SD card :)
[Vibrant Android Development] xplanowestx:
Can somebody write up a simple how to for doing everything we need to do in order to install this fix? I'm a complete nub when it comes to modding my phone however id love to fix the lag. I'm not sure where to stay, any help is appreciated! Thanks
[Vibrant Android Development] zimphishmonger:
Anyone else noticing in increase in wake lag time after applying this hack. I didnt have any wake lag using the EXT on SD method of the hack, but I seem to have a good 3 seconds of lag bwetween hitting the button and a response.

I know wake lag is an issue w/ this phone in general, but I am interested if these looped file systems are increasing the latency somewhere, and possibly causing an increase in wake lock lag
[Vibrant Android Development] daddysays:
Not an issue for me at all. Actually, WAY faster, my phone actually seems faster everytime i have to flash the stock rom though. So dunno, all I know is my phone is sick fast now, all around.

Maybe flash stock then start from scratch, took me about 20 min total, flashing from stock to running the fixes, root, etc.
[Vibrant Android Development] Xygod:
2252 after lagfix :)
[Vibrant Android Development] bcstudio54:
2257! 3x increase over stock! Butter smooth (at least for the last 5 min)... Will see where it it sits in a couple of days...

Muchos gracias!

Maybe I can live w/ the soft keyboard... Will see!
[Vibrant Android Development] barmanham:
I have the same thing happening with me its really annoying is there any fix for it
[Vibrant Android Development] zimphishmonger:
Lot of testing, and tweaking and more testing, etc, etc. Would wait for it to settle a bit before giving it a shot. Lot of different variations going around, some better then others, using EXT2/4. Would wait to see what JAC says about it.

This while loopback file system hack is going all over the place literally, that is most likely a downside to using this fix. Hopefully we can truly get rid of this RFS nonesense
[Vibrant Android Development] barmanham:
Are you using JAC's kernel? if not thats probabley why no wake screen lag.Im starting to wonder if its better off to flash everything to stock root put a custom rom on it. wake screen lag = total fail
[Vibrant Android Development] numba1cuban:
Im coming from a copletely stock rom and applied this lag fix and have had no wake up lag when i was having really bad lag with JACs kernel. I think this was the best lagg fix my quadrant score are on my signature so thats proof its working and very well i love this fix. I couldnt live with the lag.
[Vibrant Android Development] Raceves:
I remember before this fix the phone would take at least a minute went it was 'Scanning for Media' now after the fix it does it within 5-10 seconds. Very happy with this.