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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdkboom:
I'm really happy with my device and voted yes.

People who are getting new phones just have to be oriented to lagfix, root and install autokiller.. Best phone out there for sure..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdkboom:
Agree. Android has a lot more to offer than just preinstalled apps..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leoking3:
No man, I just meant that SMS flashes on top of every application, with all the text and sender name and number. This cannot be turned off , as far as I know. So anyone can read your sms.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leoking3:
Yeah I guess you are partially right. As the update I did yesterday solved 1 or 2 of my concerns. It is still annoying that you cannot turn off some function and you dont have an option to do that but with a 3rd party app. (for instance the sms that flashes before everybody's eyes). But I agree this is a good phone , despite all that. This on the other hand doesnt mean that I will stick with it when N8 launches. Too many years with symbian, you know...:)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkforum:
I'm going to buy one today, I'm really fed up of windows mobile and my TD2... I want to throw it away for its slowness in SMS and contacts handling (yes I tried many ROMs)!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Unimaginative:
I wish I'd stayed with Vodafone and got a Nexus One. That's a man's phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MisterMonitor:
Now im confused. Which phone to buy ? Desire or Galaxy S , i liked galaxy S touchwiz
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DerRaven:
Hi@all,

I love my galaxy ;)

Lagfix, autokiller and much more with such an powerfull device.

Hope for froyo update in september.

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
i don't even use an autokiller app

i just configure the phone to only run what i want it to run, it is a lot less trouble than having an autokiller running in the back closing things unexpectedly
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
maybe you should open another topic to talk about your wants & donts
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoshaw:
No Android Market in GalaxyS for UAE.

No, not happy at all.

Because the device launched in United Arab Emirates does not have Marketplace installed by default. Even the manual states the same.

There are alternatives, yes. But it is pathetic to launch a flagship device without the single reason that would make it stand out than the iPhones and Blackberries out there. :mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
hmm... but the Blackberry has been banned from there, because the government can't hack into our emails to read what you are emailing
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brunes:
This has nothing to do with Samsung, it has to do with the government and/or Google. Google controls the market, not Samsung.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dumilex:
lololololololol
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wfhowell:
i have both phones Galaxy S and Iphone 4

I have both the Galaxy S and iphone 4. My Galaxy S has been rooted and has been tinkered with for about 5 ROMS. I do like tinkering but for the average guy who doesnt like to tinker, the iphone 4 is the way to go, ONLY if it is Jailbroken!!!

An unjailbroken iphone 4 is nothing compared to the Galaxy S. Its a plain Jane locked up closed system. With the Jailbreak it opens everything up to whatever you want. Of course the GPS on the Galaxy S is aweful, (YES i have tinkered with it over and over). THat to me is very irritating to see it jump all over the place. The iphone GPS is fast and accurate. NOW, I am waiting for Froyo to come out for the SGS because i think it will make things a LOT better and more than likely surge beyond the Jailbroken iphone.

I can NOT get Pandora to stay open on the SGS. IT always stops when i start another program.. Am i doing somethign wrong? The iphone works great with Pandora. The other thing is Bluetooth dialing that the SGS does not do at the moment which the iphone does. I feel this will be remedied with the Froyo update.

As for now, SGS is NOT the iphone killer i was hoping it would be, but after Froyo, the iphone may REST IN PEACE... I hope so...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ro4sho:
He must be
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stan28:
Aside for the GPS issues, I'm happy with this phone. Finger crossed and Samsung will resolve the GPS issues.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
This is for all Islamic governments ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BobbyTrash:
Well hummm...

Good morning,

I have a SGS for a short time, but keep my BlackStone too...

Yes, I'm happy with my SGS, it's fine. I just have a minor problem with the synchro "Kies" which works or not, alternatively, according to my computer's mood...:mad:

Looking to fix it...:confused:

This device is beautiful, fast and stable. The screen quality is great, the sound too. I find it comfortable, easy and user-friendly. :)

Android is so easy to use, the device so easy to customize, i guess it will be hard for WM to keep the distance...:p

Regards,

BobbyTrash
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
Thanks BobbyTrash;)

You made me glad for my choose :)

Have a nice day.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ptechnix:
Have to say I wasn't all that happy with the SGS out of the box, but after using the Lagfix, Autokiller (Min Mem manager), and Launcher Pro, I am very very happy with it. That being said, the thing is far from bug free.

My wife has the iPhone 4 which I'm comparing the phone against as the SGS doesn't compare to it in terms of slickness. However, that is a small price to pay for all the things that the SGS can do, which are relevant to me, that the iPhone can't. The biggest thing of which, for me, is notifications (Home screens and widgets are simply just awesome and I could not go back to a phone that didn't have it).

Sure apps crash all the time, and once my SGS even totally shat itself when I was out, crashing every single non preloaded app. But the beauty of this was that using the Rom manager, I could simply restore my phone from the backup image on my SD on the fly from the update.zip that was sitting in my root just for emergency situations like this. Within a few minutes, restore all done and phone back to perfect. Don't know what happened, but it never happened again.

I think the ability to do a full image backup and restore really gives this an advantage over a jailbroken iPhone.

I think it's very hard to do an apples and apples comparison with the iPhone given the nature of the hardware variance that the developers have to cater for. Being technically minded, I am happy with the random crashes and problems given the amount of flexibility I have with the system. But I can see that this is definitely not the phone for those whom just want something that works, or whom can't afford to have their phone just **** itself for no reason.

One thing I do hate however is what Samsung has done to it. Main gripes

- Lag (prior to lagfix)

- Unable to sync only the "My Contacts" group in Gmail (without using the corporate profile)

- Low tolerance to low memory. When memory gets low, the damn thing starts lagging even with the lagfix. I use the Aggressive profile with Autokiller.

- Home button doesn't respond very well sometimes.

So yeah it's far from the perfect phone, but I enjoy screwing around with my gadgets for better for worse so yeah, I'm very happy with the my phone as the pro's, for me, outweigh the cons :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poolcin:
NO

- weak battery

- lags

- GPS

- no hardware keyboard
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
get the Epic 4G then

everything fixed, and keyboard to boot
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alovell83:
First, I assume you are using the stock app to receive your sms. Also, I think this is OS driven but I'm not an expert, I do know however a little fruit company that'd you'd hate the way default the SMS notifications.

There should be 3rd party apps that wont do this. Also, check your settings in the message client, make sure it doesn't have "display content of received message" checked in the settings (though I think a bit will be displayed anyways). That's the beauty of Android, there is always another way.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wfhowell:
ive got an iphone 4 also. Im not an iphone fanboy but cant you do the same on iphone 4? I have package backup, (jailbroken) which brings everything back just like i had it. I transferred everything from my iphone 3gs to iphone 4 with it. Maybe im missing something. I agree, SGS is fun to tinker with. I have found an iphone 4 jailbreak lets you do everything you want to do. And the gps works...no lag, very fast. I have found some multitasking programs on the SGS arent at all multitask and are on the iphone 4. Like i said, i have both and like them both and am only here to give what i find is happening in both phones. Yes...if someone wants a phone to just work, the iphone will (jb of course). Oh...no antenna probs here or other problems so prevalent. IM lucky i guess. The contacts and calendar was the other thing i had to get adjusted to. Iphone transfers to Outlook easily. SGS doesnt, but i have set up gmail so it works on both of them. Your post actually sounds just like me. LOve the technical side of SGS. Like the simplicity of iphone 4 and the jailbroken capabilities. Love the screen on the SGS and the sound from the bluetooth in my car. Outstanding. No bluetooth voice dialing though and an occasional skip, but i feel Froyo will fix that. Heck this is fun. (forgive my typos) and occasional bad grammar. have fun!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
What is "Epic 4G" ?

is it another name for SGS ? :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
here's a hint

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=764084

it's pretty clear answer
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LostAlone:
Im happy with my SGS.

As long as you come to it thinking that you have to treat it different to a non-android phone, then you'll love it to. Sometimes you gotta role your sleeves up and fix things. Sometimes you have to break things to learn how to not break it next time. Its the same way I learned engines and computers.

Its fast, its powerful and you can use that power to do whatever the hell you want.

I'd like more battery life, but nothing with a big screen lasts too long, and thats really my only niggle.

Now, I'll be a whole lot happier when we get some froyo love, and particularly some cyanogen to hook up a wiimote and such, but otherwise alls good.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
I think i saw some Extra battery for SGS,

In this video a 3200 mAp battery replaced with orginal battery + change back door of SGS ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTJRyVjBw-g
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
there is also the official battery pack from Samsung

and tons of 3rd party regular batteries
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] INeedYourHelp:
which will be released when the sgs 2 comes out :( ..... or at least that's what it feels like.

I'm just waiting for a 1800mah - 2000mah slim battery.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shawn_pro:
Guys i had great hope from my SGS and inspite of reading the lag reports i got one. I had hoped that the firmware upgrade would do wonders to it. Fine with GPS issue, this issue and that issue but lag. The advertised as 1GHZ hummingbird as 3x faster than Snapdragon. Well someone from Samsung lied. Seriously crippled hardware due to software. I am not asking for speed when i open 100 apps together but just open contacts, music player, file manager or just plain phone or SMS apps. This is really ridiculous. I dont want to do lag fix. Many other android does not need a lag fix to open the default phone or SMS to work lag free. Then why this super phone needs it. The firmware upgrade is really aa joke.

I have installed JM6, rooted with just root explorer, EStrong explorer, Asphalt, raging kart and audio boost installed. I have removed all unwanted system apps and kept just single home screen. With just task manager widget. Removed unwanted ring tones. turned off GPS, wifi, background sync etc etc I dont want to do a SD card lag fix or internal memory lag fix. I also ensured that there are just 1 or 0 apps running in the background at any time. Still the phone lags with 0 apps opened when i just try to open phone to dial a number. Thought of updating to JPC but again that firmware has the problem of its own of changing the product code and unlock code. I man like guys why do we have struggle a lot to update our phones.

People keep updating their firmware not to see extra features but to see if their lag fix is gone or is their GPS is working fine. I mean Samsung is that really too much that we are asking for.

Guys in Gsmarena review really hid the fact from major disadvantages section that this device lags like hell and please go get a HTC Desire. Samsung paid them enough is guess to remain mum on that.

Samsung take that Super AMOLED back and give us plain LCD but give us a lag free device. All the other cheaper device simply performs I/O better than SGS. Due to this stuped ignorance of Samsung we see only a few developers actuall making ROMS for SGS. But just have look at HTC Desire forums. atleast 20 to 30 ROM in their posts.

Guess who all are stuck with their SGS cant do much. Jut hope that one day Samsung will give us a firmware with which that lags will be reduced to 50%.

Trust me this is the last handset that i've bought and will never recommend or buy another Samsung phone again.

Samsung if you are reading this - "If not full then atleast try to fulfill atleast half your promises you made to all of us in ur dashing Flash ADS that we see on many sites".

Finally i will still keep this device and the lag will remind me never buy another Samsung phone unless a miracle happens,
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fnakfhe:
No,

why? ok.. here is why.

In today's super-hyped, noisy world, of advanced tech. toys there are so many things clamoring for our attention. Lack of focus causes you to become confused. I like to refer to it as B.S.O. (bright shiny object) syndrome. This is because a confused mind always says, no! When you are confused, you lack focus which may contribute to your unhappiness with said device.

Reason #2: Taking Things Personally

iPhone 4 takes everything personally. This is a major cause of her unhappiness. Everyone's problems become her problems. She feels that when someone has a problem, that it's her problem, and as you guessed it, the unhappiness train speeds on to SadTown.

Reason #3: Not Seeing The World As It Is

Our friend iPhone sees the world as an unfriendly place. iPhone doesn't realize that she really sees the world as SHE is, and not as the world really is. It's all a matter of perspective. If she could just shift her perspective, she would see that if she changes the way she looks at the world, the world she looks at changes.

Reason #4: Depending On Toys For Your Happiness

Most phone's, not all, tend to look to others to supply their dose of happiness that they can give. They look to their family, friends, boyfriends, husbands, children and other people to make them happy. While it's nice to have the love and support of people around you to contribute to your happiness, you have to be ultimately responsible for your own happiness. Start imagining your possibilities and look for things to make YOU happy. Like a $500 Samsung Vibrant with a bum GPS driver.

Reason #5: Being a Conformist

Steve Jobs, who is considered the founder of the Fruit named company APPLE, stated that the problem with most phones today is - they have Death grip issues. They want to be like everybody else. He says we don't think for ourselves. And iPhone 4 fits this mold. She tries not to rock the boat, and be just like everyone else. No wonder she is unhappy. Everyone is unique and it's when we try to hide the very things that make us unique we become unhappy.

So there you have it - five reasons that can cause you unhappiness in a cell phone. Perhaps you saw a piece of yourself in iPhone 4. When you take life too seriously, it can make you downright miserable. By embracing one of the natural laws of the universe - the law of polarity, which states that everything has an opposite action, all that you need to do is reverse the five reasons listed above and start creating the life you deserve.

That all said, fix my GPS and make phone more snappy in mid September, and i will change my mind to YES.

But now, NO. I am NOT happy.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
How can i send this topic to Samsung Company ?

Who's care! maybe they'll release a fix update before FroYo release!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
53 pepole are realy NOT-HAPPY (SAD) and Samsung must to know, please help to to contact Samsung Company Support team for SGS i9000.

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kliffa:
I don't have GPS issues or lags. :rolleyes:

I have however applied the lagfix and the whole experience improved quite a bit...which tells a lot about how good stock FS choice is...

And the best thing is the potential this device still has.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heinz Willy:
Beside the fact that this will not improve the life of your actual battery, you might want to consider getting one of these:

w w w.engadget.com/2010/08/31/sanyos-eneloop-stick-and-mobile-boosters-will-juice-your-gadget/

Yeah, I know what they look like :D. But I think especially the small battery pack does look very transportable. I have no idea on how much they cost, but if they go for a reasonable price, I probably will be getting one of those.

At least you won't have to shut down your phone, take off the cover, open up the back...... :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Valeo:
I'm happy with the phone, even though it lags sometimes and the GPS is not always as accurate as I'd like. However I'm not at all happy with the software. When I first installed Kies I had to hunt around for drivers that work with Windows 7 as the ones it installed didn't work at all. It's quite annoying to have to repeat this process every time I install an update...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tameracingdriver:
I've had my phone a couple of months now, and I've got to say, I'm not 100% happy with it by any stretch of the imagination.

When I was buying it was this phone or an iPhone 4 (tried a Desire, but had some weird issues with it so I returned it).

Out of the box, the phone was terrible. Really bad. Slow, and buggy as hell and a GPS that simply didn't work. Battery life shocking.

Fast forward to today, and thanks to this forum, I have an improved experience, but I'm still not completely happy. I'm on JM7 and with lag fix + autokiller. That I have to do this just to get a phone that actually works properly in the first place is poor.

I have spent countless hours trying to get this phone to work.

Currently, some of things I don't like are:-

1. Cover art in music player displayed in low res (fixed in Froyo thankfully)

2. Sound from music player stutters at random for no apparent reason

3. Camera software compresses the images too much resulting in poor detail and artefacts.

4. Battery life not great

5. GPS issues - I've pretty much given up trying to use this as a sat nav

6. Still lags occasionally even with the lag fix

7. Gallery cannot display images with full detail

There's probably more I've forgotten about.

Then add to that, the Android related irritations, which I wont go into on here.

Overall the end experience simply cannot compete with the iphone simple as, nor can it even compete with the likes of the HTC Desire.

It has potential, but its the most frustrating phone I've ever had, and I'd be wary of buying a samsung phone again (and in fairness, I had reservations at the time!).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _ray_:
had a bit of a hard time in the beginning, but ever since i have updated to JM1 everything seems to be running very smoothly including GPS. must admit this is one serious kit of hardware. very pleased :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atomas7:
justification for NO

From Portugal - TMN version 8gb:

1. The GPS as problems and Samsung says nothing about it;*** VERY BAD ***

2. No flash lead - but is a minor problem and when we buy we know that...

No hardware lead for receibed sms... etc... - but is a minor problem and when we buy we know that...

3. the voice command dowsnt work well and cannot make calls using voice commands like in winmobile phones and i didnt find any program to do this yet

4. in Portugal, the market just show free applications and we cannot develop payed applications for the market ... *** VERY BAD ***

5. the google navigator doesnt support voice command in Portugal... *** VERY BAD ***

want more?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dragon546:
I can only give my personal thoughts on this.

T-Mobile UK Model

I have changed many android phones lately from desire, milestone and now Galaxy S.

I love this phone, it suits my needs. I do understand there are bugs and should they get address fine.

But the HD video and the screen as well as the day to day functions suits what I use my phone for.

I like the build quality and the weight and yes even 2.1 android.

I like the way with the devs on xda has open up options of this device. I can root if I want or Change firmwares if I want..

Thats all I have to say.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anoneemooz:
I'm actually really happy with my SGS so far. :) After rooting to get rid of bloatware and applying the lag-fix from this forum most of my irritations went away. I used to have tons of black screens and such but these were all fixed by using the lag-fix. That was pretty much my only issue.

I'm sure a lag-fixed, rooted SGS on official Froyo would be even better. Hopefully Samsung makes sure they make the most out of JIT and Froyo in general. I don't need GPS so that doesn't affect my decision though I know it affects most others. :)

My only annoyance though is how my free memory (RAM? I think... the one that Advance Task Killer shows) always maxes out at around 190 and then averages at only about 150 or so.... I don't actually notice the affects of having so little free memory, but it's just an annoying fact I'm living with that the OC/perfectionist in me is really hating.

EDIT: Oh I also hate the fact that the default messaging app combines a 3+ long SMS and converts it to an MMS. I found a work around by using another messaging app, but it's just so annoying! I really don't like using another messaging app...The look and feel of it (Handcent SMS) feels so unnatural with the SGS's GUI. I heard this is a problem for all Android OS devices though that gets fixed with Froyo. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
use ChompSMS