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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
I'm not saying all. There are some who test their claims. I'm specifically referring to the people who are making rubbish up on the spot (and unfortunately, that's a lot of them).

But yes, I don't like the GPS, and I'll agree the phone can be faster. But I don't have a lagfix proving that the phone isn't unusable, and well, the GPS is simply a case of wait and see (I'll agree). But the problem is that some people are making claims about the gps such as "it can't be fixed", based on ambiguous evidence. If you saw the Sense porting thread before it was touched by mods for instance, you'd quickly have seen a demonstration of some of the ridiculous claims that pop up here..

My point of my post though, was simply to emphasise that when looking at posts, people should check if the claims are credible, and if not, ask for proof (if possible). Because we have seen dodgy claims from both sides actually (like as mentioned, the GPS claim based on the number of GPS satellites locked, or what the accuracy says, rather than what it really is). You need to skim through the evidence to make your own decision. Don't trust what I say, what Darkoroje says (although, you can probably trust him more than me), and don't trust anyone. Make your own decision's based on the evidence available, and if the evidence is ambiguous or sketchy, feel free to question it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] titooo7:
Absolutely agree with darkoroje.

I'm happy with my SGS basically because it has a big screen and it uses andoid: that's the main reasons why I choosed SGS and not iPhone 4. But at the same time I'm dissapointed the lags (but I still can live with it, my previous phone was a nokia 5800) and specially witht he GPS problem.

It's really frustrant to see how the app Around Me takes so long to find my position in my SGS, while in iPhone 4 it finds the position almost instantly. SGS doesn't have assisted GPS or what?

My Nokia 5800 used to take some time to find the position if gps assisted was disabled, I think that's normal on the gps devices used for phones, but with gps assisted it used to find the position almost instantly. Why SGS is an exception on it? :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] francoml:
Yes. I am happy.

Moved from a samsung omnia hd.. I like samsung hardware but I have to admit software sucks..

I was lucky to get with korean froyo.. Nice phone... Nice app store... Battery is bad.... But I can live with it..

I hope the official release of froyo for galaxy s do better battery management.

Great forum.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sackynuts:
I just got my Galaxy yesterday and was like "i'm returning it asap" the first day. I really don't like the software or Samsungs customized rom (colors, etc.). Neither did I like that the FM radio is mono, GPS is bad, mic quality stinks, etc. :-(

What I looked forward to, was customized roms, but theres a big BUT... On my Legend it was a dream to flash roms using Rom Manager, but with Galaxy it's way more complicated and theres almost no custom roms anyway... :-/

The pentile display isn't as good as the display on my old Legend. Damn it.

No, i'm not happy with my Galaxy, but maybe i will get there some day?!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xZeDgEx:
Speaking of morons... Your post is filled with fanboyism. You sound like a 12 year old on a console forum. pathetic.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anthonylow:
Yes, I have been switch from iphone to this sgs. I didn't feel regret to have this phone, the screen is awesome, the open source os is very convenient for me,i can do a lot of customizations. At first I disappointed about the lag but after I did the lagfix now I'm very satisfied. But the battery really drain like water,it can't even stand for a day, this is weird.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbrugger:
Hmm i use gps on a daily base, using an active holder from brodit. It works fine and fast,using agps as well.

In frodo it worked even inside my house using the compass function as gps help as well.

Seems i'm lucky then :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compuse:
"No" cos I hate whiners!! *doh*
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goldenmunky:
Hey guys/gals,

I'm new to the forums and I love it!

With that out of the way, I love my i9000! Sure, it has it's flaws but it does what it does and I'm happy. Froyo is a bonus for me rather than a necessity.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bess833:
Absolutely! I got mine about a week ago and it's my first Android device. Why I'm mentioning this is that I've read that it's not good for beginners since you really oughta flash other than stock firmware and that's not easy. Well I concur with that, I never done anything like this and I easily flashed XWJM8, rooted and lagfixed just by reading properly on these forums. Now this is the best phone I've ever had.

I absolutely recommend this phone, but it might be just me being blown away by Android itself!

Sent from my GT-I9000 using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
I believe its Android, Coming from Winmo 6.5 I truly fallen in love with droid but just pissed at the way Samsung's choice with regrads to software. I've been spoilt with its hardware but kicked back down to having to tinker with the device to get any decent performance from it. If it didn't currupt every 3 weeks I wouldn't have anything to bad to say. I'm no HTC fanboy but at moment they are the only other decent Droid maker out there (for some odd reason Motorola don't sell devices in AU). I wouldn't say no to a LG dual core phone if it was out now.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psp888:
I am happy with my SGS, but this will be my first and last Samsung phone. I will keep my phone for a fair time I think, but with samsung being so slow with their updates and constant lies about release dates and no update infomation is just not good enough. At lease HTC keeps to their deadlines and deliver on what they say.

I'm sure the same thing will happen with the Galaxy Tab and Ginger bread, months and months delay, and instead of concentrating on the update, all they do is promote their next new product.

Guess it makes it more frustating coming from a Nexus One which already had 2.2, I changed to the SGS in Sepember because Samsung promised the update in september.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oletros:
Ehhhmmm, HTC Hero
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Juremes:
Never again

SGS is a total failure.

1) Kies is the worst piece of SW ever written. Usual crap from Nokia/Sony Erricson/Motorola... pales in comparison and even after n revisions Samsung is unable to produce a reliable version. Bonus: Kies is just plain ugly.

2) Lag, lag, lag!!! The phone is almost unusable without some sort of a lagfix (thumbs up for voodoo!).

Beautiful hardware, but totally botched by incompetent Samsung software. Sadly. So much potential, such a sloppy execution. In times of iphone - simply not good enough.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dm-digital:
So far I've been enjoying my SGS. It's the Bell i9000m version with stock JH2 firmware. I just use ADW instead of Touchwiz. I have no lag and everything seems to run quite well. I haven't tested the GPS too much so I don't know how well it tracks but does find my location.

I had a HTC Dream with CM6 (Android 2.2) on it so I would like to get a stock Froyo on my SGS but I'll probably have to wait until something is released for Canada.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitin008:
I bought my sgs a month back and am loving it. Yes there are lags and its true day samsung took too long to give the update but I am very happy with my decision of buying the phone. Frankly speaking the lags aren't that much. The power you get by this phone is unmatched and unprecedented.

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gw.dk:
After froyo update and oclf i love my phone. But too bad a lagfix is needed.

Kies works better than ever rigth now, But still makes my pc hang sometimes. Samsungs software department could need some professional leadership.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wfhowell:
I have an iphone (jailbroken) and SGS. Till you use a jailbroken iphone4 there is no better phone...does all you ever wanted and works...no constantly flashing this and that...unless thats all you want to do is fiddle with your SGS. So many third party programs that make jailbroken iphone the best. Froyo? ha...wont be here this year and wont resurrect the SGS. Keep waiting...this SGS goes to Ebay.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ardll:
Harsh but probs true :-/
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
I do have that, but that iphone is in a drawer most of the time. A piece of ****..

Yes iphone has more apps. But that's all. Hardware wize the sgs kick the iphone real hard.

Sent from GT-I9000 Jpm OS kernel with z4mod
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
I am very happy with the phone.

I just wish that our mod community was as developing as NexusOne.

Maybe that is why I am seeing a lot of people either buy or trade to Nexus One.

But than again, to me it is not worth trading to Nexus One just to be able to play with more custom ROMs whether there are better roms for it or not.

Overall, I am satisfied.

Now bring on that Official Official Froyo (without too much or bloat wares)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mangulit_Lang:
The reason why I like my Galaxy over iphone is because I have more freedom with it.

I can customize it in any way I want. I don't have to get stuck in the same screen and interface. I can make my phone unique.

People say that iphone has thousands of softwares, but what will I do with all those software? Some of them are games or useless.

To keep my galaxy from lagging, I downloaded the latest version of Advance task killer and Task Manager.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cyberdyne systems:
I'm happy with my phone and now do most of my browsing on it instead of my laptop. As an office equipment engineer I love being able to download pdf technical manuals and have them in the palm of my hand.

If I had any issue with it's bluetooth dropping my ear piece and some lag, going to see what the eventual update does, before doing any lag fixes
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jj03:
Very happy with mine. Unbranded handset picked up fro. Cpw. I had the i8910 before this, so i knew what i was letting myself in for. I was waiting for the n8 but decided to go with the galaxy S. I haven't regretted that decision...yet. See if samsung sort out their software support...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] INeedYourHelp:
Happy with phone, yes! Love the screen. Like the 16gb internal storage plus 32gb sd card. Like the thinness.

Happy with Samsung? **** no. Froyo nightmare among other idiotic decisions on their part.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Will.1:
Very happy.

of course a couple obvious stuff could be fixed, but regardless, very happy
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjouni:
yes

im happy with super amoled and the fastest graphic you really touch it but waiting for fixing gps and lag officialy

but i have to say htc is better than SGS exept screen
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kazim:
No.

I chose a SGS over an iPhone 4 and now regret it.. the SGS feels much slower than the iphone, even though it was supposed to be faster. Froyo didn't make it any better.

The GPS is unusable 80% of the time. The GPS on my old HTC Kaiser worked much much better.

Samsung keeps promising fixes but come on, it's been 4 months since the phone was released and we're still in the same place.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
I goth both. I don't understand that you say iphone is better.

Im very glad i did not pay much for it. It was waste of money.

The whole system is bad.

Put music on sgs and do that on iphone. Well on iphone it will get a mess.

On sgs choose where i what it and how.

And i can put the from the sgs to.an other computer easy. No itunes.

Its like to choose from prison or freedom(sgs)

Sent from GT-I9000 Jpm OS kernel with z4mod
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daan518:
To be completely honest: I think all the negativity on these forums surrounding the SGS is starting to feed on itself (small-scale antenna gate), and growing way out of proportion. The phone has some obvious flaws (laggy, pretty much every change samsung made to the standard UI), but with some creativity you can work around those.

To clarify: I use my SGS as a 'replacement' for what I used to have both a phone and an ipod classic for, and for me personally, it's a great solution. Apart from the obvious texting/calling, which both work fine for me, I use it as a media player and as a tool to track jogging. Currently, it excells at all those things. Like almost everyone, I had GPS issues, but somehow Froyo fixed this for me, and GPS maps (from jogging) are now near perfect.

Sure, I'd like things even better and no phone is perfect, but I have tinkered around with every iphone up to now, and I like the experience the SGS offers better. Especially music seems clearer and deeper then I have heard it on iphones, and I prefer SAMOLED to the retina screen, but that's (largely) a personal choice.

And just to mention this: An iphone 4 32 gb with a 2 year contract would have cost at least 1200 euro's in total, more likely going up to the 1500 range. Cheapest option with a 2 year abo with an SGS comes out slightly over 600 euros over the course of 2 years.

(Short clarification on the GPS: When jogging, I have it strapped to my arm, with screen facing my arm. Even on the old eclair builds, there was a big difference between the screen facing in or out, and with the screen facing in on Froyo, I have no issues with it whatsoever.)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
Dan: at last a little more normal post to read. I agree to most you write.

The flaw that sometimes found in sgs has become so exaggeratad as people start to believe it themselves that it is always wrong in them.

Sent from GT-I9000 Jpm OS kernel with z4mod
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBenzinator:
Are u happy with the touch screen?

i have i7500 and the touch is quite bad i think (not smooth). Do u happy with yours on i9000??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kapollo:
yep

I'm really fond of my phone, perhaps by default it has a little lag, perhaps the GPS sucks, but beside that this is reaaaally good phone.

But it depends on what you expect from the phone. I wanted fast phone, I got one, I wanted a big screen (not to large as in HD2) I got one, I wanted (finally after Kaiser :P) HW accelerated 3D I got it (and state of the art chip for the time being), I wanted to be able to some WWW surfing, I got it. I wanted Android I got it (ok I now froyo stuff, etc. but still 2.1 is also good, and who needs flash -> Jobs :D) and finally I wanted a phone that I can meddle with a bit, not an out of the box killer, but a phone that I could tune to my preferences, and hey I got it.

So unless someone wants ones phone to be welder, and/or a coffee machine, and at the same time to be able to iron his trousers with the phone, one should be pretty satisfied with I9000 especially given it's price tag.

Cheers
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raf2k:
Hmm I was ready to buy SGS this week, but after reading all the negative comments ill stay with my HTC Legend until new better phones will be released.

Btw. Some people here wrote that HTC has so much better support than Samsung.

Well... My experience with Legend is that, everytime HTC released new update, it just created more issues.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Have had my SGS for three weeks now - and as a completely stock, blackberry replacement - like what I got. Corporate change - moving away from blackberry, and available options are Iphone, or Android based units.

Have previous Android experience, having had a G1 to learn and play with - so am comfortable with the OS and functionality.

This is a work phone - and work in an industrial enviroment. Camera takes good clear pictures, phone syncs up well with our email servers, etc. Calendar and contacts sync without issue as well.

Kies software works well to download and transfer pictures, etc - a plus here as we often take sample photos and send to customers, etc.

The only downside at this time would be battery life -especially with push email, etc running 24/7 on 3G data. I'm lucky to get a full day use without having to charge. When 3G data is off, being used as a simple cell phone - I can get three days between charges.

Granted - at this point, not rooted - am not upgrading or flashing the latest, greatest rom out there ( no matter how much I want to ) but as a business tool, it serves its purpose - and does it well. I have yet to have a single FC issue, and overall lag issues are not really apparent.

Regards,
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anthonylow:
The delayed of the froyo update make me frustrated, think to let go my sgs and back to iphone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opensourcefan:
Now that I am running Froyo I have a totally new relationship with this phone. LOVE IT!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] INeedYourHelp:
If the iphone suited your needs, why did you ditched it in the first place?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anthonylow:
Because I wanna give android a try
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbrugger:
Makes me wonder... Why was eclair + lagfix not good enough? When using froyo you are an early adept, making you to face even more problems.

The phone is good a.d high-end. I'm running froyo now with the pre6 lagfix from voodoo. It's working real good, but i have to remember it's no official release and voodoo is even in alpha stage.

If you don't want that, stick to the original versions, they're running fine as well. (i know several usera runing an unmodified version and are happy with it)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alijones:
I am very happy with my SGS. The phone is really something:

- Light

- Beautifull

- Powerfull

- .... (An IPHONE KILLER!)

The only problem I see with it is that it's from Samsung.

Too bad HTC didn't thought about making a phone as good as this one (and I mean screen, power and weight) with HTC software.

Samsung really needs to improve their "people skills".

Overall, this is absolutly the best phone I ever had and one of my best purchases.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetpack101:
I have been reading the comments on this forum about the SGS and felt I would like to put my two cent worth in.

I have had a number of smart phones over the years most of them windows mobile. Of all the phones I have the SGS is the one phone that I can't put down. The move to Android was the cherry on the cake for this phone.

Let me give you an example.

My wife takes appointments and messages for me when I'm not at the office. In the past I would plug my phone in when I got back to get the appointments for the rest of the day. Now with my Galaxy S and Android she has my Google Calender open all day and adds the appointments which in turn updates my phone no matter where I am. If she wan't to get my attention she will send a Gmail to my phone that comes in instantly.

Once I get my appointment I turn my phone on its side and tap the address to open my Satnav. My old Garmin has a 3.5" screen the SGS has a 4" screen so an improvement there.

I don't have the FroYo update but this has not got in the way of the phone doing what its supposed to do. I can get 2 days out of the battery with full usage but that makes no difference as I charge the phone every night. I don't have lag issues as I restart the phone every morning as I have done with all my phones.

The SGS has worked flawless from the day I got it. Yes I have a current issue with Google Map updates stuck on installing but this has had no negative impact on how the phone functions.

To me this is the perfect all round mobile device.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h.robert:
This is a great phone. And with Froyo will become the best on the market, hands down!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dotzoki:
NO

NO, I'm Not happy with it ... and if I was buying a new phone today I for sure know I wouldn't buy SGS.

I have few problems with it:

SIM error

phone goes into coma states

sometimes it stops sending SMS delivery notifications - have to restart it to get it working again

GPS signal - very bad

back cover is way to plastic and soft - I feel like I'm gonna break it when removing it

Sasmung updates - WTF??? Do they even care? They act like they don't have time/resources to update their most selling phone

KIES - ... it just works when it feels like

super-AMOLED - not much of a use if I have to avoid using it to much since it eats most of the battery

... probably few more ..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snapper.fishes:
Very happy with it

Looks like an iPhone.

Touchwiz makes it looks even more like an iPhone.

It's an Android.

Throw in some custom rom and lag fix, and you have a brilliant iDroid. :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hampy:
Am i happy? yes

If i could go back in time would i buy it? No
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ap27:
Am I happy? Yes. Its does everything I need it to do - music, games, videos, navigation.

Will I still keep it once I get my hands on a Galaxy Tab which covers all those things? No, I'll probably switch out for an HTC device. I miss having Sense.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] igbo_scouser:
I love my sgs but I agree it isn't an easy love. The lag fix is a necessity frankly.the update we are promised won't be anytime soon (i had the old i7500 so I've heard this before). The extra battery pack they've released looks like crap. Wifi isn't stable, constantly crashes needing restart. Battery life could be a lot better (spare battery solved that). Kies is my main gripe grumble with samsung; the software won't recognise my phone.(something about an mtp error). It's pretty pathetic really when you remember that this is a PREMIUM phone. It's supposed to be of the same classy experience as the iphone and frankly....it isn't.

....but all that aside the phone is brilliant! they've nailed the hardware. The screen is amazing and at 4 inches it's all you look at. Phone is light but you get used to that. The phone makes other phones feel heavy after a while. Swype is a joy. Better than when it's downloaded. Touch screen is very responsive too. I have a £2 mesh case from ebay that fixes the tacky plastic back.

In conclusion the whole experience is very far from perfect and if your a novice it's downright glitchy ; however, this has the potential to be the best android phone on the market with a stable froyo release.

If you don't like htc sense then at £319 in any o2 shop, this phone is a no brainer (just remember to apply the lagfix)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fries89:
I was absolutely happy with my SGS back in june, then it worked flawlessly and was such a great update from my very old LG Shine.

Quite soon though I had the lagissue. It would go black for more than 10 seconds, apps worked slowly, and so on. It was almost unworkable at one point. I rooted with OCLF and it helped, but now the guarantee is gone so not so great that rooting is needed.

Also, my boyfriend just got the HTC Desire HD. HTC sense is 100 times easier on the eyes and easier to work with, at least in my opinion. I don't like Touchwiz so much, especially now I know how Sense is working. Also, that phone is much smoother and faster. If I would have known back in june, I would have waited.

It's such a beautiful phone, but I personally prefer HTC sense and the lag is a real big problem. Not so happy....