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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unhappyme:
Very disappointed

Well you did ask so I am here to rant ;)

This has to be the greatest disappointment since being made redundant many years ago.

This is my first Android and first smart phone.

I bought this phone because:

Great hardware (thus it implied quick response)

Ability to install other ROMs.

Problems

Lag

It is intolerable, and often though out the day rendered the 'phone useless. I cannot even dial telephone numbers because of the lag. There are no sync/background syncs going on, yet it is at its worse when the UMTS is activated. I use the 'phone for on-call in work, but have had to put the SIM back into my Nokia until I can solve the SGS quirks. (Known as bugs or features, depending whether you work for Samsung or are the end-user). From what I have read, the latency issue has been around for some time, and Samsung has not mended this.

Recovery Menu.

The recovery menu is disabled, which means that I can neither ROOT the 'phone, which therefore means the lag fix cannot be installed, and obviously any other ROM or MOD (or anything that requires root privileges).

I am greatly disappointed, and if I could then I would return it, but sadly the week has passed thus the EU distance selling law has expired.

The good points

Great screen for watching films - The screen is amazing.

Great music player.

Great interface.

Some very useful applications available on the Market (and elsewhere).

It has not crashed, yet. Even though it became unusable as noted above, eventually it settled down.

I am very happy with the design. It feels good and light in my hand, although it is rather slippery. This could be sorted by adding something to grip around the sites.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unhappyme:
Ahh, this explains my problem. I got one of the broken batches. (I wonder if it really was broken, but intentional. This way the 'phones could not be rooted - Recovery images could not be installed,which meant the phone would have to be repaired by Samsung. If this happened outside the warrently period, then the user would have to pay and Samsung makes money. You never know ;)

Of course, I don't know how to prove to Samsung that they should send me a new phone because I think that the recovery feature should be enabled. As far as they are concerned, the 'phone is still fit for purpose. I cannot see how I can get this refunded.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyfawcett:
Love my I9000m SGS. Best phone I've ever used..

Hands down
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prasad:
I am extremely happy with this phone! No regrets whatsoever for getting it... :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkanis:
proxy sitting

I'm happy, but Unfortunately the proxy sitting didn't work with me!

i am so sad now.:mad::mad::mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shujitzu:
Very happy with my sgs

I came from toshiba tg01 with winmo 6.5 and this is my first android phone.

I haven't encounter the issues that are being discussed here. Like my old phone i can play movies straight away without conversion but much better screen. touch screen is better than other as i can use my finger or nails and they both work.

it came with bluetooth v3 so this is really a big plus to me as I use a blutooth stereo headphone to listen to music. I my old phone and some other phone like iphone signals cuts off but with sgs you can moved it anywhere you like and it never cuts off. It also has drop down menu on the lock screen when you are playing your tunes. no need to go into a program.

Very good phone for now.

I just hope I can find a soft leather slip on case coz I don't like puting screen protector and silicon casing it makes the looks of the phone useless.

Big thumbs up for me and will recomend this phone to anyone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robwiel:
Yep, longtime wm user, hd2, 3gs as comparison. Best choice, screen, aps, cost. Contacts need better control.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] momyc:
Yes , very happy with it .

It's my first Android phone , after a few WinMo phones.

The phone is great no lag , the GPS is accurate (no issues so far) .

I have only two complains (but I can leave with it vs the goods of this phone) , the Outlook sync through Kies or Android manager is only for Contacts (no photo though...) and Calendar . No tasks and no Notes .

Second , I didn't find something good as MyMobile (on WinMo) for Android .

I tried Screencast , but is very slow.

Overall , I'm very happy with my phone compared with all the WinMo devices that I had.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
there is VNC server (free) for SGS

you connect to it using a VNC client on the desktop

easy and fast
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wfhowell:
I have an iphone and SGS. Iphone works a lot better, more reliable, GPS is perfect. Smaller screen on iphone not a problem, at least there is no lag and everything works.

and YES my antenna works fine...im still trying to give SGS a chance, it just isnt cutting it...i wish i could say it does. and im NOT an iphone fanboy, just what i have found.

im really hoping Froyo can fix most of the issues..if it does..may make a big difference..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] momyc:
It's not that to see your PC on Android device ?

I was looking the other way around .

Is VNC working both way ?

Thanks,
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcoales:
Absolutely love it but very disappointed that you can't cut and paste from a received email in the Samsung email client.

If they could fix that one thing it would be perfect for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chronos12:
Yes - 593 vs No - 97
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
yes you can, but you need to hit the reply button first, just like Lotus Notes on PC, Outlook, and many other programs i use on the PC
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K0v4L:
How ? I tried to hit reply and copy original text. Fail.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
select the text you want, hold for like 2 seconds until the context menu shows up, select the option to select, select again, hold for the menu again, select copy

then switch to the other application you are using, and hold for menu again, then hit paste
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testulous:
YES. It's the best phone I've ever used, including the iPhone4.

Favourite features:

-NO ITUNES!!!

-No iTunes.

-Nicer connector - no stupid 30-pin monstrosity.

-awesome + pretty big screen

-lots of apps, especially DroidFish

-integrates with Gmail

-NO MOBILEME!!!

-unlockable forever! no more wondering when Apple's going to shut off my unlock
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pwhooftman:
No. Screen is disappointing!

I own a HTC Desire Amoled version. By swapping providers, i could get my hands on a free Galaxy S i9000.

The Galaxy is a step back from a regular HTC Desire.

- The screencolors are much colder than the HTC Desire (white is in fact blueish/greenish), colors are less saturated, max brightness is lower than the Desire. Never did expect that.

- Eclair is a step back from Froyo 2.2 on the Desire. Sure, an upgrade will fix that but overall i get a feeling of poverty when it comes to the included widgets, agenda/mail/alarmclock etc.

- Missing a trackball of some sort is a big shortcoming, it's just so easy to position a cursor when typing or scrolling through links on a webpage with a trackball.

- The absence of a notification led can be overcome, but still, i miss it.

The abvove makes the Galaxy much less usable than a Desire. Too bad, i was prepared to really start liking it.

I experienced no GPS issues, moderate lag/stickyness in swapping apps/windows. The camera is better, but pictures look less impressive on screen compared to a Desire because of the screen shortcomings.

Edit: help is on its way? http://project-voodoo.org/color

Edit2: and here? : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=745248

Edit3: Im learning! Bringing up on screen cursor keys: http://www.talkandroid.com/7386-galaxy-s-tips-and-tricks-works-captivate-vibrant-etc/
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mozzboiDK:
WHAT!? I went from desire to the SGS. And the screen is killing the regular AMOLED! i still like the desire, but i just think the SGS has better UI(touchwiz, oh yeah), MUCH better gaming capability and no F***ING trackball! I hated havin a button/trackball. It was almost a non usable button(used it only for the camera).

Sure it is a step back when i went from 2.2 to 2.1, but i hope that Samsung will get their act together, and roll that update out.

GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pwhooftman:
About the screen, have you ever used the Desire and the SGS side by side?

Haven't you ever noticed that the colors on the SGS are that cold (white = blueish) that after using it half an hour your pc monitors white colors look red/pink in comparison. Someone measured the color temperature of the whites at 8000K while it should be 6300-6400K.

The Super Amoled of the SGS is sharper, but colors are way off (especially at lower brightness).

Look at http://project-voodoo.org/color

, do you see the first screenshot of the engadget site with the simulated blue? My screen of the SGS is even more blue if i hold the phone next to that image!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johcos:
Sorry my friend but where do you see the better UI, because I only see 7 empty pages and some samsung's widgets that are all ugly with girly colors.

Another thing also that suggests that samsung's UI is not as good is that the majority of SGS users are using launcherpro and other launchers.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mozzboiDK:
I think the sense ui is all too robotic. All grey and doll. Sure some of the widgets on Sgs is pink and colorful, but i dont mind. I like some colors. Dont get me wrong i loved my desire. I just love my Sgs a little bit more.

I couldn't fill my homescreens on the desire, but on the Sgs i have the option to add and delete homescreens as i want to. So i dont have kan empty homescreens. Still miss a few things, but they will come with 2.2 update.

Have a nice day :)

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dean-O:
It's not perfect, but it's very customisable (which I love) and also just does so much cool stuff...

Not the phone for everyone, but the phone for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prince_72:
I answer NO.

I bought the phone and after almost 2 weeks I exchanged it for another one.

The download mode did not work. The phone was slow.

Before you asked me I put the latest firmware I remove all crapware

but it was not what it supposed to be. I have a nexus and If I compare them

is day and night in terms of funtionallity.

Few days ago my second galaxy died. Just before that my internal SD died and

every time the kernel was not able to mount the internal SD.

I flashed it with 20 different firmware and again nothing.

I put it in Kies and I enabled the emergency recovery and Kies started updating it

When it finished the phone powered off and since that time it did not came back again.

I keep reading the forums and a lot of people have all these problems.

Now I have to service it and I have to fight for it
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xZeDgEx:
I am slowly tipping over to "not happy". JH2 stock, no lag fixes or any other hacked sh1t on my phone. It died 25 days after I got it. Has been repaired. My GPS is pretty much useless, the lag and freezing is really getting on my tits. The random shutting off is another thing. My buddy at work (whos SGS also died on him) has most of the same issues. I really hope the froyo update is magical or I will be looking to get rid of it. I regret getting rid of my Nexus one. Funny thing is before I got this phone I have heard all the warnings about how bad Samsung phones and their software is, however I went against my best judgement. Silly me.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ardll:
Getting rid of mine today and picking up the desire hd when it comes out. Samsung actually had the balls to poke fun at the iphone4 when they were peddling this ugly cheapy nasty shoddy software infested joke to us. The the level of ****eness this phone reaches knows no bounds. I don't know how people can maintain that its the best droid out there. It simply isn't!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compuse:
Yes; Android users

No; Computer haters?

Very pleased with the phone and functions, compared to other phone; it DOES BRING MORE OUT OF THE BOX or atleast enough, nothing less then a HTC would.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johcos:
Probably my friend you haven't used another smartphone and maybe all of you that believe that this is the best phone haven't, or they are blind or they cannot simply accept that it was a bad choice to buy it.

I cannot understand what it brings more when you have to apply a lot of things just to make it work properly and you still have some problems like the GPS.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compuse:
In an other topic I already stated that the phone is working perfect out of the box with the current(latest) software.

I'm selling phones mainly, so i know every single ins and outs concerning smartphones. I tried almost every phone myself and none is "perfect"

Everybody has been complaining about my previous phones (6600/n70/n73/n95/Diamond/Omnia/HD2) while i enjoyed them very much!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johcos:
From the phones you have used I can see that you have experience with smartphones (although I cannot compare Nokia phones with other smartphones)

I'll agree to that there's no perfect phone but the complains and the problems about the other phones were not so much compared to this one. (When you open the sgs android development forum you only see fixes and some modifications)

Also I'll give a +1 to everyone saying that this phone has the best screen there is and the best processor in 3D graphics (although I don't play games), but what defines a smartphone is its software and in this area this phone has nothing to be proud of.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mammenj:
No because I still need to use nokia for map navigation in india and listening to music is better in nokia
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cbovbjerg:
Havent found a single thing the Galaxy S does better than my previous iPhone 3Gs. Really disappointed, i had high hopes for the "top" android phone. Even basic stuff works terrible.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] borelis:
Whiners.........I Like my phone. Came from X10i.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Valeo:
Of course you're happy, the X10i is a bag of ****e and makes the software on the SGS look superb! ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 72WarriorS:
YES

I'm italian and I love this phone for the same reasons

iPhone and Apple are closed-source and Nokia is dead and too old

Android is the future and the SGS has a very good HW.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bretto:
So sick of the whining i read on this subject. Dont like the phone get something else and move on.

I vote yes and ive had more smart phones than most people.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xZeDgEx:
"onoes people said bad things about my phone@!$ wtf samsung ownz you suck blah blah get rid of your phone lozers@!" :P
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Garfield47:
I vote no because...

Out of office it works well, a very good entertainment machine, I love almost everything about the Android architecture. But... the lousy Exchange integration makes it an embarassment at work - and this is 90% of my use. I couldn't believe it was so bad, because I had seen others claiming it "worked perfect". What they meant, was that they could get email... I have yet to see HTML email, ability to get a calendar, respond to invites, decline one invite in a series.

Touch Down is not good enough - it is way too slow - like 15-30 seconds to open an item. Simply doesn't work at the office. Road sync does not work on the SGS at all. Froyo won't help much, I've heard.

And before you complain, yes I know this is not only Samsung; It is the Android platform in general that is geared more towards the Google platform. But that does not help... Sigh... I don't want to go back to the wm/bb/symbian phones.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sorna:
Yes

I voted yes.

This is my first android phone. (PalmOS and windows mobile before). This does everything I wanted from my phone and more.

It is a lovely multimedia phone. I even have movies in my 32GB memory card and watch them during long journeys.

Audio quality is very good with my third party (koss) headphones (I don't carry a standalone mp3 player anymore).

Games are pretty good (I don't carry my psp with me anymore).

Very customizable. I replaced lock screen, home button, etc with custom applications. I was actually expecting some glitches. But works like a charm.

UPNP support (using stock and third party applications) is very nice. I know it is not perfect. But I could play stuff from my media server, I could stream stuff from my phone to tv, and even use the phone as a upnp remote control. I was searching for a decent upnp player in wm for a long time. Did not find any. Its amazing that this phone came with something already out of the box.

Captures decent video and photo quality is not bad for a phone.

GPS has issues. But it is usable. In my previous phone I used GPS only for car navigation. Now I use GPS for car navigation as well as for trekking. While using for navigation the the position jumps around to parallel roads and gets confused in junctions, however the GPS is still usable. And hopefully the issues will be fixed soon.

There are a few things I never expected to do with a phone. Example, I am able to capture 3d photos (using AndCam3D) with phone now. Well the credit goes to android platform I suppose.

I have more than 100 custom applications. Many of them are memory resident (custom lock screen; folder organizer; 2 separate apps to log calls to Google calender (as I am testing them to decide which one to use); apps to monitor data and call usage; few rss readers that updates data frequently; Google talk and yahoo messenger which are always online; couple of email applications; calender and music widgets; etc). Sometimes there is a lag (at most 10 seconds I would say) on opening certain applications. But I can live with it.

In summary despite the flaws pointed out loudly in these forums this is still an excellent phone.

Cheers
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vasra:
No. Reasons:

1) GPS is extremely inaccurate even with Skyhook, WiFi off or Google -fixes installed. Samsung fix does not cure the problem.

2) There is a known, confirmed and nasty bug that prevents Galaxy S from receiving SMS messages from some number and the user gets no error warning about this. The messages stay in the cell towers message queue, remain undelivered and the user remains oblivious as to the existence of these messages. Rare, but extremely show-stopping bug. Requires a call to the network operator to reset the sms queue and then taking the SIM card to another phone (not Galaxy S) to unload the SMS queue.

3) Lag. Even after any PDA update and ANY lag fix, you can make the phone lag badly. Keeping the phone non-laggy requires not only haxoring in an unsopported firmware, unsupported 3rd party lag fix AND then auto-killing 3rd party background processes from software that stay in the background for now apparent reason while worsening the lag

4) It's October. Froyo 2.2 update is still not here. Sounds like normal Samsung support: lots of promises, bad delivery.

5) Audio issues: outgoing sound has noise filters optimized badly resulting in hard-to-understand speech for the receiver under noisy conditions (when other phones work ok) and cutting off of aspiration sounds in speech. Also, sound recording in video sounds like 8bit compressed AMR - horrible.

With these fixes done I'd be mainly happy with Galaxy S.

However, as they still remain *officially* not-fixed and require cumbersome and technically capable skills to get around, after which some of them still remain (video, audio, sms, gps) - I cannot say I'm happy with the phone.

This is not to say there's a perfect and non-buggy top-end smartphone out there.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
Which Samsung fix are you referring to exactly?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cheetah2k:
Not happy.

Wheres Froyo... More promises broken.

Every single Samsung phone I've had has had poor support. Samsung suck
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johcos:
Today I tried for the first time the gps in my town with my car, the experience is simply the worst I had ever with a gps. I couldn't understand where I am and the signal got lost and found every minute.

This along with all the other problems this phone has makes it simply the worst phone I've ever bought and I regret every minute for buying it.

I cannot understand why everyone is saying the opposite, only the screen doesn't make it the best phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tameracingdriver:
Not happy with the phone here.

Right, this is what I do like about it:-

+ Thin design, light weight

+ Nice screen

Thats pretty much it :(

What I dont like about it:-

- GPS not working for me - tried three times now to use google nav, every time it has lost the satellite lock and will not regain it until you restart the phone - then the problem just repeats. Also, it's not accurate. 4 months down the line - still not fixed.

- Lag - OK its fixed with Voodoo and Autokiller (which I always seem to end up putting back on but to be fair with the voodoo the difference isn't really that big) - but why should you have to go through all this. It just smacks of bad design. Android is an inherently fast OS, but Samsung have managed to ruin it with a crap file system.

- RAM - yes I know its got 512mb, but other phones which advertise this much memory do actually seem to have far more RAM available for use - what is it actually being used for? This for me may be why autokiller actually makes a difference on this phone, but may not on others.

- Camera - not as good as everyone makes out, no flash, yes I knew this when I bought it, and its no deal breaker, but why not on a top of the range phone. Built in camera app compresses images too aggressively resulting in lost quality.

- Built in music player gets sound dropouts. Doesn't seem to happen on other music players so can only assume the built in one is broken. Don't get me wrong, its rare, but it does happen.

- Phone freezes randomly.

- Phone switches itself off randomly - happened yesterday while I was listening to music.

- Samsung as a company are poor for updates, poor for software and really seem to drag their feet - they give the impression of not caring.

Very disappointing handset. And to think, I had reservations before I bought it about buying samsung because I know what samsung stuff tends to be like (with the exception of their displays, rubbish), but I threw caution to the wind and bought one anyway.

And to top it all off, the resale value is shocking - kind of reminds me of my HTC Touch Plus in that respect - £450 4 months ago, now worth £250 :(

I'm selling it because of these issues, and going for a Nexus One, on paper not as good, but as an every day device, it seems to be a better bet IMHO. And this time next year, I wouldn't be surprised if its worth more too. And it may actually get Gingerbread too, I'd be willing to bet the SGS doesn't... I mean, look how long its taking them to get froyo. Anyone ACTUALLY reckon they'll get it this month? I don't.