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[Droid Incredible Android Development] TNS201:
1) Yes it removes your settings

Download titanium backup from market, then do a batch backup of all your installed USER apps + data. This will keep all your settings for any apps you had installed. Then when you install the new rom, you just download titanium, then do a batch restore of apps + data

2) The update they push should keep everything.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jdmba:
Grrr

I actually have a larger concern. Andynalyne had previously stated that running a nandroid restore on a different inc is a bad thing. I have restored my original dinc on my dinc # 2 (which went back for a bad speaker) and then on my dinc # 3 which I have. I am wondering if I need to nandroid restore the initial fresh image I took from dinc # 3 (before doing a nandroid restore from #1), before doing anything
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Untouchab1e:
Ive always found it interesting that Android’s stock browser does not have the Chrome browser icon, seeing as it technically is a mobile version of Chrome. So, I did some quick reversing and took the stock 2.2 browser and replaced the icon. The result is a new Browser.apk, identical to the original stock one except for the changed icon.

To install this, just read on for the full instructions. Note that we will be backing up your stock Browser.apk so you can easily revert the changes. Also note that this requires root.

Firstly, you need the Android SDK, available for Windows, Linux and OSX here

The following instructions are for Linux, but given you have set up the SDK correctly, the instructions are the same regardless of which operating system you use.

Firstly, connect your rooted phone running Android 2.2 to your computer. Then download the new Browser.apk and save it. Note that for some reason, the file name gets changed from Browser.apk to browser.apk when you download, so be sure to rename it.

Open up a terminal and navigate to the directory in which you saved your Browser.apk and then type in the following..

adb remount

Then we will take a backup of your current Browser.apk.

adb pull /system/app/Browser.apk Browser.apk.original

Then we will push over the new Browser.apk

adb push Browser.apk /system/app/Browser.apk

Lastly, we reboot the phone

adb reboot

After the phone boots back up, you will notice the new icon in your launcher menu. Enjoy!

This was tested and confirmed working on my rooted Nexus One running Modaco's rooted Android 2.2 ROM.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Untouchab1e:
Think whoever moved this misunderstood what this is.. its an app basically..
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] S_Dot:
theres something in market called fake chrome that does just this
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Untouchab1e:
Sure, but that wont replace the stock browser icon.. it will just add another one.. so then you have two..
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] lengz:
Icon looks great; however, FC's on enom 2.11.3
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Untouchab1e:
Ah, Im sorry. I can only confirm that it works on Modaco's rooted stock Android 2.2 ROM. If you want I can fix it for you if you give me your original Browser.apk though..
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] incredulous:
Very cool. I don't have an N1, but liking the concept!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] lengz:
You don't need to do it, but here's the apk for ref.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Untouchab1e:
Should work on any android phone running 2.2.. But apparently not on all ROMs
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
Hi guys..

I sad Google developed 2.2 to improve snapdragon cpu and becuase of that the benchmarks shows 3X faster cpu on nexus,

will work 2.2 on galaxy like nexus ? or not for SGS cpu!

at all what you think about power of CPU/GPU in SGS on 2.2 ?

Is nexus cpu better than galaxy on Android 2.2 ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mitty1990:
The Galaxy's CPU/GPU is the best on the market right now and with 2.2 it should fix a lot of software problems with the SGS.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AdamDowning:
Actually can't wait for 2.2, and it's released around about my birthday!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Biertje_:
When is your birthday :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AdamDowning:
22nd September mate. You can buy me a Galaxy S as a spare if you want :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matty___:
well I have to see it first.

Guess Samsung finds a way to **** up the phone again i'm sure of that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kgk888:
If it has rfs file format and TouchWiz, consider it ****ed up.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LostAlone:
If froyo on the SGS sucks, then the chefs in here will cut it open and make it run properly and it won't matter what the FW was like when samsung sent it out. Also, TouchWiz is fine, even if it does have a dumb name.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shep211:
I have been worried about this. The sgs line and droid line do not get over 15 in linpack with 2.2. I dont see the same increase in speed as I do with snapdragon based phones. I have read this is due to the snapdragon having 128 bit vs 64 bit something but cant find the forum post about this. The sgs line with 2.1 is still faster then a 2.2 snapdragon based phone but it must have the lag fix installed. Without the lag fix it is slower for sure. I will try to find the forum post about 128bit vs 64bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKsAUR61ByM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji49qFNxC4c

Edit: found the forum post

Originally Posted by Gimic26

Your question was answered already...it comes down to processor architecture. Qualcomm's Snapdragon platform and more specifically the Scorpion application processor, while being related to TI's Omap Arm series, has enhancements made by Qualcomm. The part of the cpu that handles the SIMD instructions has a wider pipeline, 128 bits vs 64 bits in TI's Omap. Scorpion also has a deeper pipeline to better handle all that data which I'd assume offsets some of the performance benefits a little bit.

As far as the difference between the two benchmarks, they are written to benchmark two different things. Linpack can run almost entirely within the SIMD/NEON portion of the cpu thereby showing off the enhancements made by Qualcomm. Quadrant stresses the entire core showing off total system performance showing that only in certain situations will Snapdragon outperform any other Arm based core.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maverick777:
From what I've seen and read, the 2.2 builds for the Galaxy S do NOT have a JIT compiler enabled which explains the lower scores. The N1 got the huge CPU boost from having JIT enabled. That doesn't explain the Droid X's scores, but then again I haven't read enough about 2.2 running on the DX to see if it has JIT installed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
What're you think? I'll buy SGS 2.1 or wait for SGS 2.2 ?

It's very important to buy most powerfull phone.

I like Nexuse cus it's tested sucssasfuly in Android 2.2 and I'm gono love SGS if it will be better than nexus in 2.2.

Help me to choose better path ;))
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
I would wait at this time before purchasing an SGS if that's your concern.

Out of the box, the current phone/software is laggy and disappointing. If you're willing to hack it with some of the various fixes found here (I prefer samset with mimocan kernel), then you won't be unhappy with the phone, but there's no guarantee that Samsung will get FroYo right, and that if they do get it wrong that the devs here will be able to bring you a hot, non-laggy, super FroYo ROM before there's better, or at least comparable hardware done right by the manufacturer available.

That's no reflection on the devs here at all, I'm just thinking that Samsung won't release the firmware until the end of September, the devs will need a couple of weeks to make magic at least, and so now we're well into October. By October, the SGS will be a six month old phone. Six months is a very long time in the Android hardware world, and we'll likely see a landslide of new phones with faster CPU, maybe even dual-cores in the fall for the holiday season. The only thing the SGS will have over other phones at that point is the Super AMOLED screen by Samsung, since they're holding it all to themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if Moto or HTC try to kang the iPhone display tech for newer models if they can't get Super AMOLED for themselves.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LostAlone:
In the android world it is nearly impossible to but a device that won't be out of date within at most a year and sometimes within 6 months.

Having said that, I don't see anything that will topple the sgs quite that soon. Although there is talk of dual core snap dragons, there has been nothing announced yet, and indeed the two new Desire handsets are still on the same chip.

I wouldn't expect to see anything that will have more raw power than the sgs until at least mid 2011. If there was anything closer than that it'd already be getting hyped.

If you keep looking at what is just over the horizon then you won't end up ever getting one, because there always seems to be something new out in a few months time. The sgs isn't prefect, but it beats the hell it of most anything that you'll be able to buy this year.

My humble opinion of course, but I think that if you want top end hardware, the sgs will serve you very well.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The.Opethian:
Based on your responses so far, I'd just get an iPhone 4 and be done with it.

There are a lot of people here and elsewhere who are perfectly happy with the device. I for one haven't installed the lag fix and I don't experience any lags, except for the situations below:

1. I'm trying to do something while there are several apps being installed/downloaded from the marketplace in the background. I think this will be resolved with the dualcore next gen CPU's. :D

2. Using LauncherPro, for all that is good and nice on this earth, I do not know why it took me 3 months before the option to change the shortcut on its drawer was shown to me. Imagine that, 3 months just to show the option to add a shortcut. Jeezus. I click on add shortcut and it took 3 months. Someone shoot me. I'm using ADW now and am very happy. :)

Out of sheer curiosity, why is it that you need "THE MOST POWERFUL PHONE"?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brunes:
The hummingbird core is widely recognized to be faster than the snapdragon core. Benchmarks do not tell you everything. Reference:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
Wait for G2 as nexus one is old news and i think they are winding down production. Frankly i love my sgs. Get it now cos frankly froyo is way over hyped compared to what sgs can do now with a lagfix
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LostAlone:
You can't really say froyo is over hyped, I mean its free, and beyond that its an incremental upgrade.

I don't see why anyone would be staying on eclair once official froyo drops, and you can't deny that it will bring a performance boost.

Now I doubt it will bring quite as much of a boost as it gave to the N1 until we get a few months of development to really get it running sweetly, but all the same its still not over hyped if I ask me.

With optimized ROMs and whatever fixes we need (cuz samsung WILL break something) I figure the sgs will shred the N1's new scores. I recon we'll see around 3k in quadrant.

Considering how far ahead of almost everything a lag fixed non-stock-rom sgs is now, we'll see something really special once froyo starts rocking our crotches.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
Why powerfull phone? ok i'll tell u:

Because I don't like to buy an expensive phone (like SGS) that power is lesser than a chipper phone (like N1) !

Because I'd rather a phone without stalling (lagging) to play games and running big applications. I will very gray if i'll se lagging/stalling...

Because I need a phone with a good support (it's enough, don't need mazing support). a phone with a clear (alive or nice) Future
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sturmeh:
JIT for Hummingbird should be promising.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chluk2425:
High Mem

anyone got any idea on the high mem issue?... when i was browsing the Gmarket.com, i realize 305 total available memory is not enough for me... and the web page just closed....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matty___:
the sgs has a 160mb tempfs (mount memory as filesystem) which lowers the available ram. There is a post here on xda about it but can't find it right now.

yet another great example of samsungs great design decisions.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matty___:
sure they will but they should not have to. I paid 490 euro for a phone that was unusable without the help of xda.

A phone should run fine to begin with and then customize.

Not customize to make it run fine in the first place...

If the phone would have cost 250 euro fine but not twice that....

I sometimes miss my old Nokia E51
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BurningSoul:
True, but I guess thats the wonder of open source android ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matty___:
to give a multi billion company a reason to release a buggy beta phone for 490 euro because the community will test and fix it for them?

You must be kidding me....

Luckily TV and cars are not open source (and are accessable like android) then.. :P

"Oh that 80.000 euro BMW well you need a customrom to go faster then 120km/h and to fix the ABS and GPS " :p yeah that would be fun.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
Unused RAM is wasted ram. They may have found the phone to be faster with the tmpfs..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matty___:
well I guess the 160mb are not filled to the top so it is wasted

I rather have the 160 added to the usable mem and use it to pre load apps. Or maybe 80mb of it...

By reading this form you get quiet a lot of insight about the phone and not all is great
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BurningSoul:
Lol im talking about the ability for the community to fix it even though the company screws up.

Better to have the option to customize to run fast (its kinda running fine by default, just not fast) , than being forced to wait for the company to provide a fix (we know who lol) while you suffer.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matty___:
True, better to have the option to do it yourself but still price vs quality isn't great on the sgs.

but guess that's the world right now. Time-to-markt and staying ahead of the competition is more important then customer satisfaction and product quality.

so to cut on time just make the Q&A process alot shorter.

Still love the Blizzard (Starcraft eg) and Valve (Portal and Half-life) way of making games: It's done when it's done.

But I guess making games is something else then competing with Apple and HTC
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BurningSoul:
Blizzard and Valve both have their constant revenue generating source, i.e WoW, and Steam. So they have the luxury to take their time.

Samsung, HTC, Apple, etc. are companies which generate revenue by selling technology, so they have to keep up with the market as we all know the first to release new tech usually gets the most revenue, though not all the time, but most of the time.

Going back to topic, SGS already has the hardware for a good phone, and its running just fine. Software wise might not be that good (or I might be wrong since they have not released it anyway), but the availability of community customization is always great and I believe FroYo will definitely run better than N1 either way (if company does fine, good, if screws up, we got the awesome XDA :D )
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redf:
afair tmpfs uses ram on as needed base, meaning, for an ex 5mb used space on tmpfs will use only 5mb of ram, thats why in this case the size of such mount dosnt matter
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OrionBG:
Isn't it possible to kill the tmpfs and reclaim the RAM? Custom kernel maybe?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
OK, Let me ask u a question:

if time is back to before u bought sgs and:

You buy a SGS without any laging and stalling, just like sgs+lagfix (that one you have it now) then what did you say?

is still bad production ? or not it's ok now and i accept it ? 490euro is good for it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matty___:
Usually you define the size of a tmpfs and you put a FS on it.

You can't just resize it at will and hope the data on it will stay there.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matty___:
Even with the the samsetmod Jm5 and app2sd fix and 1400 score my friends HTC Desire is still a lot faster..

Just try to add a new application to the screen. It takes up to 10 sec to open the application/widget list. Desire opens it immediately. so with lower hardware the desire feels faster because HTC did a hell of a job with their android version.

Score wise the sgs blows the desire out of the water.

In real life the desire (with 2.1) feels a lot faster because everything runs smooth WITHOUT any mods.

Back to your Q:

Well it is getting better every few weeks so I would wait till 2.2 and see how it goes.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LostAlone:
It kind of IS like that with other things tho... To get the kind of performance you want out of any car you can tweak a handful of things to get it just how you like it (reflashing the ECU, tweak the suspension, add fuzzy dice). If you are a real enthusiast, you can add nitro or supercharge it, add spoilers, upgrade the breaks, and basically change ANYTHING to get the highest performance thats possible.

The reason why it mostly doesn't appear to be like that is because for 99% of people the stock experience is what they want. The car drives them to work and carries their shopping.

Its the same on the SGS. The stock experience is perfectly ok. Before I started messing with mine, the stock ROM with no fixes was a-ok for me. No noticeable lag or anything. The vast majority of users will be happy with the device as it comes out of the box, and those are the people that Sammy writes their FW for. People who don't care about quadrant, they just want to do the stock things.

However, if you want to go beyond email, web browsing, mp3 playing and suduko or bejewled, then you are going to have to get your hands greasy.

We'd all love to get rocking FWs, but I just don't see it as a big deal. THe lagfixes are idiot proof now, and even reflashing isn't time consuming or hard as long as you take it easy and remember to do everything.

Think of it as changing the oil in your expensive car. You very seldom NEED to change the oil, but to get the best out of your purchase, and keep the performance not just a little better, but WAY better, you go through the motions.

Sorry... Very long post. Coffee just kicking in :p
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matty___:
Dubble expresso?

Well my sgs had quiet a lot of lag but I have one of the first. so i had to mod it to get it to work the way i like it and the way it should run.

It's fine-ish right now but could be better. see application/widget list lag.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BurningSoul:
Why don't you try RyanZA's one click lag fix, seems most people using it has quadrant 2100+- score
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matty___:
I was looking at that but with 2.2 on the door steps I can wait a little longer. :o

ppl still have lag with 2200 score so a high score doens;t mean a good real world experience.

as said again desire with lower score is faster then sgs with 2x the score of the desire.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
Maybe it's for Sense UI ?

what're you think?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matty___:
not really sure what causes this. Maybe some extra help from google. N1=desire after all
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bobler420:
I'm running the stock firm ware and I get almost no lag only when the dumb media scanner is scanning first 10 secs on boot up little lag when apps are installing I'm playing

the psx emulator ff7 pretty smooth was using the legend before and this phone is gonna be alot faster on 2.2 I can't wait
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
I readed all posts of this topic and just "matty___" is unhappy from SSG,

I don't know! I'm fantasy and dosn't know what i have to do! Buy or Not buy.

Another SGS users help me. are you happy with SGS ?

i think i need to make 'Polling'...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bilboa1:
wait 2.2 if you don't want to tinker, and see if it fixes stuff that's all.

with lagfix u do still get some lag for some things (you'd need to replace the whole filesystem not just move a few parts of it) but its very useable

the stock phone is useable for a couple of day before it starts lagging if you use it heavily so imo its a problem unless u don't really do anything with the phone
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omnia-one4all:
I'm very happy with the sgs "runnung jm5 stock" and yes it has it problems but froyo is right around the corner and the leaks are getting better so samsung is learning ;) If you think about buying the iphone 4 many users jailbreaked it just to get it to run like they think it should. When all comes to all I think it's a matter of design. The iphone 4 shouts out that I'm quality, while the sgs is pure plastic. I guess they made it so to keep the weight down. In my personal opinion you buy the sgs if you love customizing and you buy the iphone 4 if not. If you're worried about the connecting thing with the iphone, don't be. I've got a friend using the iphone and even if it shows no or poor connecting he can still call and recieve a call. If you live in a country with good coverage you shouldn't have a problem. The only real problem I've heard about is video calling in the iphone. The rumor states that you can only place a video call to another iphone user but I'm not to sure about that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redf:
yes, you can (tmpFileSystem), look at wiki
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matty___:
Unhappy is a big word. Maybe my expectations were different.

Looks it's quiet useable and all but it could be better.

when some ppl say nothing is lagging then maybe they dont see what lag is.

I sometimes see 5 frame drops when an app is opening or while texting the moment I hit the key and it takes to long to show the character on the screen that's lag for me. It does not happen all the time but couple of times during the day. in the beginning it took 5-10sec before the contacts list would open.

Maybe i'm just too anal about it :rolleyes: but that comes from the high price tag so my expectations are high.