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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roladyzator:
I switched from Xperia Neo V four months ago and I can recommend this phone to anyone. IMO it is better to go with a used SGS than modern entry level smartphone, which usually have lower screen quality and system responsiveness even if they have similar specs.

- Screen has very good black level, something I saw on CRT screen the last time. The PenTile effect is there, but it is not a deal breaker for me. Screen is as sharp as HDPI display, but on smaller fonts and some graphics a certain pattern can be seen. So it is more of a distortion than perceived decrease of resolution.

- Very good sound quality for a smartphone. Better that Xperia Neo V, though lacking details and soundstage width in comparison to Ipod Video 5G with Rockbox. I recommend TTPod or Rockbox player for clearest audio, those two players do not integrate with Android DSP effects but that's why there is less distortion.

- Lots of custom ROMs and mods.

- Works very fast on certain ROMs, currently using GamerzRom V4.

- Lightweight, slim profile, excellent handling.

- Removable battery.

Few things are not good with this phone to me:

- Battery - while no better than Neo V and quite OK for calls and standby, I hoped for better screen-on time (2h of playing Candy Crush Saga and it's dead). A workaround is to have a spare battery around.

- No flash - a few times it could have been helpful to me.

- PenTile. The pattern is the same as in Bayer matrix found in most of digital cameras. Using full green matrix and partial coverage of red and blue subpixels is less noticable for the human eye, but undoubtedly the presence of PenTile is caused by cost savings.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freakymod2120:
Okay thxs for Info!

It seems the math of the 1st Galaxy S device will be kept alive :cowboy:

And like you say there are devices with more power, but when you see the development on this device ,from stock 2.3.6 to Android 4.2.2 or 4.3 it is amazing...:laugh:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cannondaleV2000:
True dat
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sturmeh:
10% is pretty scary.

If I never saw any threads about a 'lagfix', I would never have come looking for one either.

GPS seems to work reasonably well.

Phones amazing.

I would recommend it, but not to someone who isn't willing to muck around a bit to get it working how they like it.

How did you flash JM6, using the weird instructions or like any other rom?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enigmameusa:
I don't understand this point, although to be fair I'm an android novice. Am I sharing my SMSs to the world?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dakine:
I think most of you are letting samsung off too easy. The way i see it the question being asked isnt really if you are happy with your rooted reflashed lagfixed sgs. Virtually everyone here has modified their phone because they werent happy with the official product.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucasjohny:
No

1st battery drain

2nd the super amoled no really super at all

3rd lagging on all rom and yet no official fix

4th very bad gps and also no official fix yet
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
I'm looking forward to that one

i want to try it out as soon as it becomes available on ebay
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
i haven't done anything to my phone stock JH2, as mentioned above, good GPS and no lag

rooted because apps like ShootMe (screencapture) and Titanbackup needs it, PSXdroid, NESdroid, Gameboydroid (and all other emulators)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duke0102:
Im happy with mine, the only faults ive encountered is the random wifi on/off and the laggy GPS but everything else is great :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tarambuka:
Well, I thought that was the main goal of open platforms like Android - to make your phone as unique as possible, which requires at least some configuration efforts and software installation, apparently bringing the associated risks with that (as it happens on every single PC). If one wants a complete device out of the box, why bother with Android? Just buy a simple phone and enjoy the life. ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ardll:
Also voted no, I agree with this but I do not love this phone at all. This phone is utter s***e. I originally had an iphone 3g, then a HTC Desire. Unfortunately the Desire had an encounter with the washing machine, so I ended up with the Galaxy S as it was apparently the 'Droid' of the moment. The Desire was faster, built better and the GPS in it was uber accurate and reliable.

I feel completely conned having bought this piece of junk, crappy flimsy plastic, touchwiz is beyond crap and Samsung Kies.... seriously? Samsung Kies have you SEEN HOW RIDICULOUS IT IS? It doesn't even work with windows 7 64 until you've spent ages faffing on with drivers and it installs so much crap on your machine and fills your registry with more junk than I ever thought possible.

Samsung have ripped off the looks of iOS for touch wiz then taken the interface from stardock’s 'object dock' software for their ridiculous piece of software they call 'Kies'.

This phone is a joke and I'll never buy anything from samsung ever again, they have proved they haven't got a clue when it comes to software; the phone lags like a b*tch and the GPS is plain broken (and I have zero confidence that a miracle GPS fix will come). It takes ages to complete it's media scan every time you start it up, and it's unusable till it completes (why the HELL does it do a media scan EACH TIME it boots up?). The lock screen looks cheap and tacky too - it's just utter crap.

One HTC Desire HD coming right up. Goodbye Galaxy S. You will not be missed.

Oh yes and I forgot - the Wi-Fi is utter ass as well, I hold the phone right next to my Wi-Fi router and it reports signal strength of 2 bars. It loses signal completely when I walk into the kitchen. All other wireless devices in the house report full bars all over the gaff.

Samsung Galaxy S. I know exactly what the S stands for.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mithent:
Happy with mine, despite my misgivings about the PenTile screen (though a Super AMOLED that didn't need it would really be the best screen around). I've never found lag to be more than a minor annoyance. The GPS is not great at the moment; luckily I don't use GPS frequently.

I considered the Desire, but that has its own mostly hardware drawbacks, like the poorer, smaller screen without proper multitouch. With the exception of the GPS issue, I feel that complaints against the Galaxy S are rather overblown.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
You're on track, but took a wrong turn there. Oh, maybe it's because you're using the faulty GPS in the Galaxy S. LOL.

Seriously, any device sold at these kind of prices ought to have a "complete device" out of the box. The point of Android isn't to sell a buggy, difficult to use product because the user can always fix it, the point of Android is that the user can customize the device. There's a difference between customizing and fixing.

I love customizing my phone and I don't mind experimenting with tweaks to make it better/faster/cooler, but I hate that with the SGS I have to spend dozens of hours reading/researching/tweaking with hacks to just make this top of the line hardware perform on a par with my older, less-than-state-of-the-art phones.

Also, Android isn't targeting just geeks, like us, who can do this stuff, they're targetting everyone, and the average Joe deserves to have a "complete device" out of the box. I can picture lots of iPhone users that switch to Android SGS as their first non-iPhone, and them running right back to the iPhone.

The hardware is there to make this the best phone on the market for at least a few months, but unfortunately, even with lots of sharp devs trying to fix it, the software's not there yet.

SGS is a great phone for those who want to fix, it's an okay phone for those who don't but find it's other features, like wide codec support, to be a big plus that offsets the lag and freezes and lack of reliable GPS.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dakine:
The main goal of the android os is not to have the user fix obvious flaws in the device's software.

There is no way that samsung didnt know that they were releasing an unfinished device, they did it anyway and basically said f@ck you to their customers in order to match the iphone 4 release date. It is shameful and unforgivable no matter how good the sgs is after a lagfix or tomorrow's perfect froyo release.

The sgs can possibly still become the best phone out there and dont get me wrong, i really love my phone it is an awesome device once I "fixed" it (thanks to the awesome people on this forum), but people can just buy a droid or an evo and enjoy it instead of screwing around with the sgs. This is an imperfect device in an imperfect world so stay critical but reasonable. Samsung doesnt need fanboys it needs honest critisism so we might get a better product.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The.Opethian:
Apologies for everyone here for going a bit off-topic but someone seems to have taken the time to dissect another person's username, and has gone through the effort (regardless if a lot of us can't seem to understand him/her) of posting about it. :D

My ID: The.Opethian taken from Opethian, a user ID I've always had for as long as I can remember, even have the domain name registered, twitter as well as several other popular websites.

The name I would like to say I derived from the band upon learning that they themselves derived it from Opet (city on the moon), from the book The Sunbird which of course you already know

A play of words, Opet, Opeth, Opethian, someone who adores the band, and a homage to the book. But instead of Opetian, Opethian sounded better.

Someone seems to have beat me to the punch in registering "opethian" so I have to put "The". A grown man wouldn't understand. ;)

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Now back to the topic at hand. There are people who are unhappy, and if I've had experiences like that since day one, I'd be in the same boat as them. I'd probably ended up buying an iPhone 4 sometime later this year.

Then we have a few sore losers who go out of their way to deem the phone as utter rubbish. Come on guys, there are a lot of people here who are very happy with the device. Say your piece and let go. Don't spread the hate!

It's as if Samsung went out of its way to give you a total wreck of a device. Do you honestly believe that? LOL

Now if you were talking about some Alcatel or even LG phones, then that's an exception! :D

Yes/No, and why. Your message does not have to be a sugar coated or piss laden piece of poetry, unless of course you don't realize that's almost treading on borderline troll-baiting?

Let's keep it civil folks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tarambuka:
Yes, and the regular user should just wait for the official software releases. But the beauty of Android is the whole range of other possibilities for all these impatient ones. ;)

I agree that Samsung didn't release a perfect product. But that's true for every other single smartphone. Do you know a single perfect PC ever made?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thor_BR:
Yes and no at the same time....

I'm moving from a Symbian device, so we can't even compare OS. It is a huge leap forward.

But there is 1 app that I'm missing so bad. I used to have Garmin XT running on my device so smoothly, that I sold my standalone GPS. But now I'm regreting it. I still have my i8910 and I'm planning to keep using it as my "GPS".:mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
get Copilot8 or IGo8 they work great on the SGS
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uberberben:
I use Navigon, i've used it on iPhone. Was really nice on iPhone and is really nice on android too (it lacks mp3 player controlls but i can live without them).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MAMBO04:
I'm happy with my device. I'm even happy with Samsung for some weird reason, not totally happy, but marginally. Reason you may ask? Let me explain.

The SGS is a top piece of tech. We all have to admit that Samsung has created a device oozing with possibilities and it has superb features, it's also one of the best phones out at the moment. When i first got it, the stock FW was lag free, and it worked fine out of the box, no hassles. Only when i stumbled onto XDA and started flashing different firmwares did i feel lag, and i felt the worst lag with JP3, but that is a leaked froyo branch so it's expected.

Samsung has 'released' a handful of different firmwares, and come on, they never do that with any of their phones, and i'm actually experiencing something different with this one. They are pushing this out and i'm glad they've acknowledged the GPS problem, even if it is just talk and no show. At least they admitted it, unlike Steve Jobs.

Phone works fine, features work fine, GPS works fine (it SOMETIMES goes haywire), camera works fine, every other aspect works fine. The only dissapointing thing is a) no camera flash and b) plastic housing. Otherwise i think Samsung has hit the nail with this one.

So overall, i'm happy with my phone, and i'm marginally happy with Samsung. So, yes, SGS FTW :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
I Love my SGS because it is a ugly duckling :)

Never been a Samsung fan, still ain't. But I actualy like the Galaxy S. Now if only Samsung had HTC's engineers I'd be happy
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
+ maverick and Open GPS Tracker and a alot of application for GPS ;)

welcome to Android world :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stavut:
I had an HTC Desire before and I absolutely loved it, now however that I have the SGS I must say that I love it even more. I simply cannot fathom they put so much technology in something that thin. The screen is awesome, and coming from the Desire, true multitouch is great, not worrying about space to install apps is such a relief. I'm hopeful that the GPS issues (haven't used the GPS yet so can't say much about it) will be resolved by samsung, and that we'll see Froyo soon.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mickeko:
Yes. It does what I need it to do, and it does it well.

Sent from my personal Dis-organizer GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Noodles-21:
I never thought in a million years that I'd ever own a Samsung mobile phone. I've never liked them. But after playing about with the SGS in store, and watching/reading loads of reviews online, I knew this was the phone for me.

I haven't had it out of my hands since I got it about a month ago! (Oooer Matron!) In my honest opinion, it's the best smart phone on the market today, it beats the iPhone hands down. 10/10 Get one.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
Are you hopeful that samsung will fix lugs too ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pharaohdk:
if he has not have had "lugs" then why would he hope for a "lugs" fix. not everone experience "lugs"
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
He hope for GPS fix but my mean is random lugs in lungpad or tuchwiz ;-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
Excuse me, but point to a single post on here that's trolling...other than perhaps the OP's question in the first place. I haven't read any nasty remarks or unreasonable by any one.

If you read this forum, you're probably passionate about your technology and have strong opinions about it, whether you're satisfied or dissatisfied with it. Expressing those opinions is not trolling. I don't think I've seen a single post on here yet that qualifies as either a "fanboi" or a "hater" post yet. Those, like me, who have posted negatively about the SGS have done so with sound reasons and explanations, those who have posted positively have as well.

What's your beef with that?

My new MacBook Pro with an SSD...

;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m1ket:
Im was happy with the phone pre lagfix now ive installed the lagfix i love it

Ive never used the gps so that doesnt effect me
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The.Opethian:
I agree on the Macbook Pro with SSD! :)

Now regarding my "beef", well I just would like to balance it out. We get haters/unhappy campers, and we got people like me who would like to defend the piece of technology.

To be honest, I don't have any beef with anyone in particular, in my opinion, sometimes the expletives can be a bit overboard in describing how unhappy one can get with a device. If one would ask a perfectly happy SGS customer to look at one of the more unhappy posts in this thread, they most likely will agree with me that it looks like borderline trolling.

But that's me. If people choose to continue their march towards broadcasting how unhappy they are and continue to make a book out of it, I know at least I've said my side of things. :) I just hope we come out with something productive with the discussions we have here.

I voted YES to the topic by the way, to those who are new to the thread.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kenkyo:
I switched from desire, because low internal memory annoyed me quite a lot (other than that it's an awesome phone). I'm very satisfied with Samsung, though it still have some problems. Especially GPS totally sucks for me (and on my friends Galaxy too), so just like everyone else, I hope it'll get fixed. System lags were for the most part solved by using Task killer software (I read somewhere we're not supposed to use it on Android, but it really helped me and my friends phone quite a lot).

Other than these two things, I'm very happy with this phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlepage:
I am happy with the phone.

Previous one was a HTC Vogue (Bell's Touch version) and I hated it from the moment I came home with it, some 2.5 years ago. I've begun to love it lately when I discovered XDA and the Android port that Dzo and others are doing. But I was then missing WiFi connectivity and since the hardware documentation isn't available, Android support is less than perfect...

This sparked my interest for Android. And I wanted to have a true, Android phone.

The Galaxy S 'i9000m GT' is IHMO, the first interesting Android phone available from Bell.

I like it because I get in one device, all the gizmos I usually wish I had brought with me when I go on a business trip:

* A Phone (obviously)

* Great interface (no more stylus crap)

* A very nice screen

* A decent 'point and shoot camera'

* Music Player

* GPS / Navigation unit

* Bunch of other apps that fill the need of the moment (Sci Calculator, unit conversion, games, etc)

It is not perfect and I do hope that Samsung will fix the GPS issues although I must say, flacky as it is currently, it is still better than no GPS at all.

I guess it depends a lot on your past experienced with phones/smartphones. But in my case, coming from a WinMo device that I have always hated until I installed Android on it although it wasn't designed to support in the first place, the Galaxy S is just joy to use...

Once GPS is fixed and we have true Hands Free Voice Dialing (which should come with Froyo, I hope), it will be the best phone to me and it will fill all my needs perfectly.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leoon:
I love the phone though i also have the gps problem but i dont use it.. but i still hope samsung still fix it
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MagicOnline:
SGS FTW

I simply love my Galaxy :D

It's my first Android Phone, before that I owned a iPhone 3G. At that time, 2 years ago, it was a good choice. I almost switched to the iPhone 4 but the price and the antenna issues (and also the Apple-Control-All-Policy) directed me to Android.

Now I must admit I am a totally noob in Linux but with this great community I learned very much about Android. After reading some reviews on the Inet about our SGS I decided to buy this fantastic smartphone. A goog choice. I already did some great customizations, thanks to you Devs and this community.

Anyways, what I like about the SGS is

- S-AMOLED Display (simply amazing)

- Fast and very responsive (thank you RyanZA for your 1ClickLagFix)

- Camera takes good pics (sometimes I do miss a flashlight)

- WiFi N Support

- GPS working like it should (no problems at all)

- Size, weight and design

- Samsung with the open source ROM for this phone

and of cause Android which I believe is better than iOS. Android has fantastic community (ex. this site) and some great years to go. The future belongs to Android.

Great Phone Hardware + Great Phone Operating System = Best Smartphone on Earth ! :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david.x.flynn:
Yes i love the phone

i love my SGS
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a_harem:
The battery life is too short.. BUT

I Loooooooooooooooooveeeeee my SGS! ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
the replacement batteries are so cheap on ebay, i've got 4 extra packs with me

:D

the nicest thing is 1 battery pack in your front jeans pocket, you don't even feel it

they are so thin and small
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MomijiTMO:
Ok updating my views on the phone.

Still happy but only because of the guys on XDA. If I knew I would be having so many problems, I would have gone with a Desire. Now that things are starting to get ironed out, the phone is great BUT we don't have a lot of custom roms as everyone is pinning their hopes on getting FroYo next month. Samsung have simply sucked in the past so I'm not holding my breath. If we don't get it, we're so stuffed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nirvana388:
Yep, mine is on the way :) More doing that because of the price though, I use my phone fairly heavily and once the batteries were broken in I get 1.5days of fairly heavy use on 1 charge, compared to half a day when I first got the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
i keep 1 pack in the office

1 in the car

1 on me

1 charging at home

+ the one already in use inside the phone

so i'm always just a step away for a quick fix ;)

on top of that i got the 2A car charger, and a usb sync & charge cable both at home & office
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Intratech:
I flipping love it man.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dogmann:
I've had my Galaxy S just over a week now and am really liking it i had to get another device fast as my Streak developed a hardware fault and it's going to take weeks before i get it back.

Mine came from VodaFone and on the original firmware it was quite laggy but wasn't terrible IMHO but after a couple of days and some reading i flashed it first with Odin and then to a MoDoCo custom Rom i cooked in their kitchen details are in my signature. I've also installed Launcher Pro as prefer how that looks and works for my needs and haven't really noticed any lag since well nothing that makes me feel the need to install a fix.

So far I've only used the GPS a couple of times and the first time i used it i got a quick lock that was accurate to 50 metres which is good enough for me. The second time i was walking in London's West End and it tracked my position fine again no problems so for me I'm not sure just what the GPS problem is even meant to be.

I love the fact i don't need to install Rock Player to play my Videos as hate having to install unnecessary apps that duplicate what's already in the device if i can help it. I use iSyncr to get all my Music from iTunes into the Galaxy and also really like how the Music player widget works on the lock screen and have found the sound using my Shure EC2g's to be excellent just plugged straight in and even better when using my Nokia BH-500 Stereo Bluetooth control and the Shures.

Is it perfect well no but then what ever is but for me and now it's the best i could find for my needs and of course I'm looking forward to Froyo coming to it and making it even better well that and my Case-Mate Tough Case arriving to.

Marc