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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _JKay_:
When you complain about a phone please always start with info about firmware version etc.

But I must agree with you. When I bought mine back in june the firmware felt like early beta (F3). But today JM8 + OCLF + LauncherPro Plus the phone is stable and fast. And JM9 may be even better.

I have now installed JPK + OCLF with nordic Swype and it feels kinda beta again (a few freezes and FCs), but I guess in a few months time 2.2 will be as stable 2.1 is today.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tameracingdriver:
Apologies, I am currently running JM8, Tayatuma Lite ROM, Voodoo Beta 4 lag fix, Launcher Pro and Autokiller (strict).

This config has actually solved quite a few of the problems I was having, but they aren't all fixed (GPS, freezing, shutting down, camera quality etc).

Unfortunately I don't feel like I can rely on the phone, and given the use it gets from me, it HAS to be a stable product, my phone is a very important tool for me, and to be honest, even now with JM8/Tayatuma, it still feels like a buggy, beta product, and that is not acceptable, which is why it has to go.

Sure, there's a chance the phone could be something special somewhere down the line, but honestly, I think it will take at least another 6 months before most issues are erradicated, and I don't know about anyone else, but I tend not to buy phones where they only reach their potential more than half way into ownership.

I bought the phone as an early adopter on the strength of the reviews I read all over the internet - when I got it, there was no hint of the problems that would lie ahead in the reviews. I guess that will teach me for buying a cutting edge product. In future, I'll be going only for more mature products (i.e. stuff thats been out a couple of months to give me chance to gauge really opinions on it, and for bug fixes to occur).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CrisInuyasha:
YES

Well, for me the phone works pretty well. It's true that it has some problems like GPS and lag, but the lag is fixed with one of the lag fixes and the gps I'm waiting Samsung to fix it. The phone is pretty fast, for now, is pretty reliable. I'm using JM1, rooted and one click lag fix just for reference.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Valeo:
Have you ever tried sending yours back? You've been describing exactly the same issues as I was having before getting my 4th handset. I know it's a pain in the arse to keep returning them, but it seems Samsung ****ed up on a global scale with this line of phones, and reports suggest that they only got around to fixing these defects in late August.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tameracingdriver:
Interesting... but no I haven't tried sending it back, and my N1 is in the post as we speak... so my SGS will be no more in little over a week.

The reason I didnt take it back is because all along I believe these are software bugs. TBH the problems are well documented... I'm not saying you're wrong, but frankly I've lost confidence in samsung products, as I said before I had a bluray player from them and it also was junk. Their quality control stinks, and I have no faith in them.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Valeo:
Understandable. I've lost faith in Samsung too. And if I wasn't locked in to a long contract I'd have sold this phone by now... :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tameracingdriver:
Well I'm also stuck in a contract, but I got my N1 for £215 and I should be able to get more than that for my SGS.

I was thinking about iphone 4, but TBH, I've grown to quite like android, and theres no better platform for running it than the N1 in the UK right now... and theres no way on this earth the iphone 4 is twice as good as the N1 but its way over twice what I'm paying for it.

If I was being generous, I'd even go so far as to say the N1 is every bit as good as the iphone 4, especially with a ROM on it such as MIUI (I hope Galaxy S owners get this ported to the SGS, but I wouldn't hold my breath).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hey69:
best android phone i had till now.Beats HTC desire on every level

and a very big plus for de video/camera .takes wonderfull smooth vidoes in HD and also beautifull pics
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johcos:
I'm referring only to pics.

Have you ever tried to zoom a bit (not much) or to see them in your pc? My SGS takes the worst pics I've ever seen. Even my HTC diamond with 3,2MP camera captured better pics.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r3ality66:
Yes, very.

Now running xxjpk froyo with no other tweeks or hacks - just for fun.

GPS - working well, constant, accurate signal. Tried navigation today, worked as well as my tom tom Go. On foot worked well also. Getting fix in 10 or less secs.

Yes there may be some firmwares with gps troubles but mine seems fine.

Have never noticed any significant 'lag' issues even under my stock 2.1 firmware. At most it has lagged for a few seconds while installing/downloading apps at the same time and most desktop pc's running any OS will do this every now and then. You don't see the millions of pc users whining about selling up for this do you?

Camera is good (stock app, I haven't tried any 3rd party apps), as good as a camera on a phone needs to be, clear, good dynamic range, exposes well and is surprisingly quick. If you want true high quality photos get a real camera (SLR) and it'll set you back around £1200+ and even then if you 'zoom in' pics will look like ****. Trust me I'm a photographer ;-) and own 3

Music player is great through my stereo or headphones. I like the app too does a fair job of organising an 8GB random collection of music, but I also like that you can folder view from within the music player. Oh and NO ITUNES or other **** sync software required!

Screen is awesome! I prefer to view and show off my photography on my sgs to any of my other screens, tv, monitor, laptop! And as for it being a little 'cold' maybe but then my Canon EOS 7D takes pics that are more than a little 'warm'. It looks a whole world appart from the 3gs and has better colour reproduction than the iphone 4 (I checked side by side in the shop today)

*EDIT - cant post links yet but there is a screen calibrator tool for various Android phones SGS included (with super user rights) A third party app maybe but since colour hue is so very subjective its not really a 'fix' more a tool to tune the screen to your liking, on any device :)

I could go on but swype is good but not for writing books ;-)

All in all a much better phone than

Both my Acer liquid or HTC Hero
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
I want to change my vote to NO now.

It seems I've had enough of this device. Every 3 weeks without fail the damn thing crashes or refuse to do anything. I blame the damn RFS and it currupting files. Today is the fourth time I've had to do a factory reset, Did it help? NO. FC's galore once booted up. Now I had to reinstall JM8 again via Odin. This is seriously getting beyond a joke. The community at XDA DEVs is awsome, I love how you guys improve this PIECE OF **** . The SGS is a wonderful piece of hardware but samsungs software dev dept need to either be 1, FIRED , 2 FIRED! or 3 replaced with people from HTC. I've used to be very forgiving of this device but all these starting fresh has really got on my nerves. I only had 20 apps installed and 1 gig of music this last time and still the damn thing screws up. I didn't care about the GPS problems as I've never been one to care if google stalks me or not. But seriously Samsung, why is your device such crap that unpaid people have to come up with a lagfix? I would give up my SGS right now for a HTC G2/Desire Z if it wasn't for the fact that i'm locked in a 2 year contract with 20 months left! I'm thinking of doing a insurance job on this now or just sell the damn thing. I just need a device that WORKS even if I can't root it! I'm so over fiddling with a broken p.O.s now. SAMSUNG, I WILL NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM YOU AGAIN! ALSO I WILL TELL ALL MY CLIENTS NOT TO EITHER! SCREW YOU SAMSUNG! (I sell Computers/parts and phones)

Did Samsung install RFS on our SGS's to show the world how bad android is and to promote their own OS (Bada) ?? This is my first android phone and Samsung has seriously put a bad taste in my mouth. No I never installed that P.O.S Froyo Beta or any of the betas, I've always ran 2.1 so its not due to running Froyo thats pissed me off. Also KIES is worst then Itunes! Its never EVER worked for me, Enough said

EDIT: If you read most of my posts, I've been good towards my SGS and try to help people. So please don't think I'm a biased troll

Edit: anyone know where I can change my signature so I can show my anger at Samsung? God damn i'm so angry right now. I need to go look at some LOLcats!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eaglesteve:
Another wife, son or daughter getting a hand-me-down SGS? My wife refused to take it, my elder son refused to take it. I beg my younger son to take it. He does not drive, so GPS was not an issue. I had to keep telling him that this is the very best Android phone money can buy in order to make him accept it. :p But on his own, he found out the problems anyway. He complaines about the lag, occassional freezing, and the back button that throws him out of what he's doing when touched unintentionally. He complained over the strange power button position initially but got over it by now. He does love the large screen though. I promised to pass my iPhone 4 to him one year later if he accepts the SGS now.

I still "borrow" the SGS from him occassionally to try out stuffs. Trying to use Firefox 4 Beta yesterday but couldn't find it in the market place. I read that it was already released.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
I wish I could pass this on to someone, They've all known to me always tinkering with it to "fix" things. Its like a cursed phone now. Also do you hate your son that much to give him the phone? :) I'm going to give this thing one more chance, Froyo is the deciding factor here. If it turns out to be the P.O.S I feel it is. Then this thing is going to have a ".22" through it. I don't care! I do not wish this abomination of a phone on anyone, even pedophiles! . Go look in the Apps thread for my posting of "WEB BROWSERS" and there will be a link to download Fennec which will now direct download "Mozilla Firefox 4 beta"
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kb909:
YES - Fantastic phone

NO - Kies Pathetic Software that spoils the entire experience and I am only using Kies for upgrades
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fudduf:
depends on if the gps/froyo update works or not.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eaglesteve:
LOL. Hate and abomination are rather extreme words, don't you think?

To be fair, in the absence of choices, this could be an acceptable phone. People with winmo background moving to here might even find it very very good. It is the presence of much bettter products that make SGS a lesser choice, even if GPS and lags could eventually be fixed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
I came from winmo. I also don't care about GPS problems . What's really pissing me off is that the file system is buggy as hell and makes me reinstall a rom every few weeks. I lost a lot of work data that's very important . Yes i do have titanium to backup everything etc. Stupid thing is set up to backup every 2nd day. Why should i have go out of my way to do daily backups for when the phone fails every 3 weeks. Stuff like file system failure should only happen very rarely if ever.

I still stand by what i say. Great hardware but ****ty software has now turned me against Samsung for life
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eaglesteve:
You've probably discovered a lot more problems than I had. Didn't realize the problem with file system till you pointed out here.

As for hardware, I'm not sure I agree totally that it is great. Not using NAND for internal storage is what came to my mind.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
I can't recall why samsung uses movi-nand or whatever ram they use but thanks to it they used rfs. From what i gather rfs is there to prolong its life but in reality its pissed a lot of people like me who usually put up with a lot. I shall be promptly buying a HTC desire z once its launched in Au and either putting a bullet through my galaxy s or sending it far and away out of my sight and mind to my uncle in Vietnam (i just sent him my old htc hd2 but might get him to send it back). I should have not gone on contract with a phone whose maker has such a crappy record. I should have really researched samsung first then i would have found out they screwed over galaxy i7500 users with a promise of droid 2.1 at launch but now stuck on 1.6.

Htc phones are good as all htc does is phones. While Samsung deal in anything and everything. Jack of all trades master at nothing really mean a lot when it comes to Samsung
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] huxflux2003:
Extremely happy. I especially love the part where you put a (well setup) SGS against an iPhone and see the iPhone owner's reaction!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cocoe68:
SGS pros and cons

I am not fully happy not hate but have opinion on both of them:

Happy because of:

- Nice Screen, bright and touch response

- Nice OS, based on a powerful platform

- Nice icons

- Easy of install applications to Android device

- A lot of applications and structure of programs

- Easy of use

- Slim device

- Battery removal (not like my iPhone 4)

- Location of microUSB connector (on top)

I hate:

- Battery duration

- Warm back device when transfer data to/from mobile network

- Speaker is low quality

- Hangs very frequent (kill tasks is frequent)

- Slow display response between applications or contents, to change items on display is not quick

- Prefetch of contents (Android) may be better

cocoe68
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xZeDgEx:
Yea its great, until your phone dies. Then they will just laugh at it. (speaking from experience)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johcos:
From what you wrote I see my friend that you're happy only for three things cause everything else is the android platform which can be found in any android device.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weisheng5566:
Find that the phone is great.... just that samsung needs to improve on the update part, its just too slow on the updates and usually doesn't supports more than 1 update for a phone
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eaglesteve:
Good joke mate.

No matter no well set up it is, I don't see it coming any where near a well set up jailbroken iPhone 4.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tameracingdriver:
Yes that happened tome on more than one occasion while demonstrating its "capabilities". Suffice to say, the phone didn't end up on their wish-list.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gerald7:
Haha I'm just keeping quite when my friend brings out their ip4s. The 1 sec lag is too long for a 16gb phone that cost a much as the 32gb ip4. Not sure about the price else where but that's the case here.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ming930919:
hey guys is does the lag fix solve the lag problem? or does it still ocassionally lag? the lag seems to be a serious problem and the gps too..

there seem to be no good phone with desire having multitouch and galaxy s having gps and lag problem
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SKeijmel:
I am happy everything just works even the gps and also inside my house heres proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjtLMOMemRQ

i would say what lag and gps problems? i have alot of apps and games. have my phone for 2+ weeks now and its still fine 100% stock phone no fixes whatsoever firmware xwjm2
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orionis:
It was very laggy out of the box. That is until I flashed a new firmware JM8 + OCLF. Now I am happy with it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyberwolfmd:
Love my Samsung Galaxy S but love to know why it goes in coma mode.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TearsOfSun:
Yes. I love my Galaxy. Froyo 2.2 JPK.

No problem. No lag.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DamianGto:
Well i shall buy us a second sgs.

Why?

Well its simply the best phone the market.

My iphones i just play some apps on.

The sgs is better on all areas except for all apps iphone has.

Iphone4 really sucks. Im glad Im not paying much for them.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ming930919:
what about the gps? and does the lag fix really fix the lag or just a temporary fix?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cartier23:
My vote is NO and I am looking forward to change the phone as soon as possible.

Let me explain:

My first experience with the Samsung was Omnia (windows mobile phone). The phone was so bad that I sold it in a few month. It was actually not usable.

Than I bought Samsung Omnia HD (symbian s60v5) which was an excellent phone. No lag, no freezing, no crashing, everything just simply worked. It was probably the best phone I had. There were only two disadvantages: Could not link profiles with FB to get contatc pictures and quite small screen for my taste (3,7 '').

So I saw Samsung Galaxy S and the design was really outstanding. So I sold Omnia HD and bought SGS. From that day, I am constantly checking for new sofwears because phone just does not work the way it should. It lags, some applications just stop working and you need to make factory reset, slow internet browser, crapy GPS, etc.

I believe that Samsung is quite new in Andriod business (comparing to HTC), but they should never release (first) android with their most expensive phone because the buyers of such phones expect the best. They should have tried Android with one of their cheaper phones, improved the softwear completely, and only then release SGS. I believe that 2.2 update (when it comes) will improve all the drawbacks, but I will probably not own the phone any more. And also if I do, I will certainly changed it for HTC Desire HD and most probably not buy the Samsung any more. I have just lost all of the confidence in their phones.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toasted:
Mostly yes

I am quite happy with my Galaxy S, but the GPS issue is still a pain in the @ss and sometimes I get stability issues. Overall it's pretty fast and stable, and this is without the lag fix. My previous device was an old windows mobile 6 phone (flashed to 6.5 thanks to nfsfan), so leap in performance is huge :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ming930919:
i see a lot of people complaining about this phone i am not sure to get this phone or not so many mixed feelings about this
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlaxLax:
The best phone I ever had
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbrugger:
i've been using the phone for about a month now, haven't seen a better one.

Yes, i use oclf over voodoo, mem killer and launcherpro plus.

Also all the possible gps fixes root etc.

Runing eclair on the latest official rom but custom kernel from jm8.

I don't have lags, gps is working great,so is the rest of the phone

I know, it won't be the best out of the box, but when it's cusomised this phone rocks! So for users, i understand the frustration. For a tweaker however, wait until you unleash the full power of it.

Ps. I actually like to tweak my phone, so the problems with the stock version do not bother me. When playing with it like this you really get to know your device :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shujitzu:
I had my SGS for about three weeks now and Im happy with it but seeing the new windows phone 7 makes me want to switch back to windows. Samsung focus looks similar to our SGS but with windows phone 7 on it. or maybe HTC HD7.

Can't wait till it comes out at the end of the month then I'll jump ship. weepeee
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InkZ:
This phone rocks. Nothing wrong with it once you've put Voodoo Lag Fix on it. Froyo will hopefully make it better.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
Only problem with voodoo is that it eats a crap load of the battery and also will currupt in 3-4 weeks and take everything with it. I shouldn't have to install anything right out of the box. Samsung rushed this phone to market pure and simple. I'm also sick of tinkering around with this thing all the time. Sure it was fun for the first 2 months but now I want to use it as a work phone and actually do work on it. Best thing about android imho is SPRING PAD! (its also on Iphone but I don't like/want a iphone!) yes, 1 simple app! Thank god it saves everything online . I would be more pissed off if I lost any of the data
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
But you'll also notice:

1) Some of them are claiming how awesome Apple are and how they would never mess up their GPS. But, tracks seem to be showing that iPhone4 tracks are on par with the SGS..

2) Some are HTC fanboys. There are an enormous amount of people using HTC as an example, yet, some of them don't seem to have ever owned a HTC device, and some seem to be praising the devices, based on their experience with 3rd party ROM's. Meanwhile, there are an increasing number of people finally daring to strike-back (risking flameage), and are acknowledging that their experience with HTC in the past was horrible/worse than Samsung's.

3) Some purchased this phone with a negative attitude. At least 1 troll, was worried about the potential lag/gps before he purchased, complained whilst he had it, complained after he sold it. Some people here clearly purchased it expecting to returning it.

4) There are quite a few nutjobs complaining about this phone. Many are lying/exaggerating about their claims (ie, without a lagfix, this phone is UNUSABLE). I've heard people say "the GPS hardware IS faulty", "RFS can't be fixed" and "the build quality is rubbish. Problem is, when someone asks them to prove it, they will sneak back into the weasel pit and claim it was "obviously an opinion", or point to someone else's evidence.

Keep in mind, that there are plenty of happy users, but unlike many morons here, we don't continually start new threads to talk about how awesome it is. And a HUGE amount of complaints are overreactions...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkoroje:
I think calling people who complain about the phone "morons" is uncalled for.

I currently have an iPhone 4 and the SGS, and have had a number of smartphones in the past, going all the way to Windows Mobile 6. I can honestly say that, in my experience, SGS has the worst GPS of them all. I have tried various versions of ROMs (currently running JPK) and various GPS fixes posted on forums, but have never succeeded in making GPS reliable enough for car navigation. GPS problems have been acknowledged by Samsung, and reported in many reviews (e.g. the Captivate review on Anandtech) so to claim that GPS is perfect is unrealistic. Also, many people will just test that they are getting GPS lock and will assume that the GPS is fine, whereas in fact the problem is not in getting lock but in keeping it and maintaining accuracy.

As for the lag, the phone in its default configuration does have considerable lag, and it gets worse over time. Of course this is partially a matter of perception, if you come from an old Windows Mobile phone the SGS will seem very fast, however compared to Nexus one or iPhone 4 it is slow much of the time. I personally use one-click lag fix and it works great. The fact that much of the "android development" forum for SGS is devoted to lag fixes and discussions about file systems should make it obvious that there is a problem with the RFS file system that Samsung uses on the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compuse:
^ +1

But you have got to admit, you've prolly cursed a lot, with the sgs in your hands, within the first week.

Still pretty much in love with my phone, compaired to most "smartphones" around