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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
I forgot to add one more thing...

I hATE the location of the power button.

When I use one hand to hold my phone and use the volume rockers... i would usually hit the power button aswell...

i think power button should have been on the top.

USB sliding cover is awesome.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetpack101:
USB Sliding cover is great.

I'm a Barber and I keep my phone in my top pocket so the cover keeps the port well protected.

You would be surprised where the hair can get :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpnu11:
- That's what she said.:p

Love the phone, battery is short yes but since I spend a lot of the day in front of a pc/laptop I can charge it while I'm busy working. GPS works fine by me, haven't realized any problems. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetpack101:
Behave yourself :)

Just reading the posts on this topic and I'm not finding any of these problems. It find GPS no problem, it never lags and apps normally open when I tip the icon.

The only problem I do have (if you would call it a problem) is that the screen is very sensitive. In saying that, I'm coming from the Samsung Omnia II. With that you had to use a hammer if you needed to use it :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compuse:
Only complain I have so far, after 6 weeks of froyo abuse
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tameracingdriver:
pity about the headphone jack not having one then eh? ;-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lexcyn:
I agree with the power button location being wrong. It should be on the top.

Other than that I love this phone:

-nice screen

-fast

-customizable

-better than my old Moto Milestone (POS)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compuse:
Why, got sand stuck in it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
After 3 months of having the phone Im getting even more happy with the SGS, now I cant leave this SAMOLED screen!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpnu11:
Say what? Thats just another thing to love about the galaxy. I hate struggling to get my point across to machines. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetpack101:
I think he's re-fairing to my hairy problem. :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetpack101:
As I say, its not so much a problem as it is MY problem. I'm so used to being able to brush off the screen on the Omnia II and nothing happen. If I brush off the screen on the SGS it will open whatever I touch.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ancrost:
Happy :)

I love my Galaxy S even without the 2.2 update ,getting that will be an added bonus .

I believe it's better than Iphone4,a friend of mine has one but wishes she got GS instead .

Ann
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eaglesteve:
Would your friend be interested in swapping the iPhone 4 with my SGS? Please PM me.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] divago:
I love my SGS :)

yes it got some problems; i had to OCLF. it still lag sometime. and also got a weird restart error.

but i still love it

when i bought my phone i was thinking about a great phone, with linux (android) system, and with a lot of apps, who i could use everywhere. i don't asked for "be completely fool proof and without problem" like apple thing (where extreme security and remarkable assistence come with closed os, need to crack something to install everything and absolutely not flexible)

so i still love my SGS <3 :)

web browsing, playing game and reading comics/books/newspaper while on bed is just awesome :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] w1nter456:
hey,froyo just release, i'm hope this times froyo can made it Lag-free ^_^
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anthonylow:
froyo keep delaying, frustrated.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burningspear:
Exchange support is non-existent

The title says it all. Unlike the HTC devices exchange sync does not seem to work for the majority of users.

It's listed as an OS feature so Samsung broke it while delaying Froyo?!

And Touchwiz can't hold a candle to Sense.

I need the idiot selection this over HTC as company phone in the nuts...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alcurtis93:
I live the phones capabilities but hate the samsung rfs and crappy software
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wertez:
At first, i was a little bit concerned about this phone.. it was too laggy, gps didn't work, music player wasn't able to select the folder and in landscape mode it was really useless with that graphic.

But now with froyo and, most important, voodoo lagfix it's superfast... and I'm no more pissed off when I use it! that's exactly what I really was expecting when I bought this phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eienkei:
iPhone vs Android in phone area? It's stupid to even compare them! iPhone is a complete piece of crap! I bought a 3GS last year & couldn't stand it for a week! Lost 200$ on reselling!

You can't call iPhone a smart phone, not even a phone! It doesn't even recognize phone numbers when area codes are added to them! No SMS delivery notification out of box no good settings no nothing if it's not jailbroken! Only a huge App Store which made me buy iPod Touch 2nd Gen & then changed it for iPod Touch 3rd Gen.

As soon as I bought Galaxy S I realized I don't even need the iPod touch so sold it for good too! Android now has a strong Market with nearly every good app I had on iPod! I only miss Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English app, that's all!

Galaxy S is not flawless but even if we blame Samsung for lags we have to praise them for out of box DivX/XviD HD playback, best hardware specs, lightest phone in this range, best screen out there & great price! HTC is good in Sense area but believe me their hardware is crappy! Non of their cameras are decent. While I was on HD2 I had lots of hangs & problems too... Also all HTC phones have battery life problem! Just look at their last achievement! Desire HD comes with a 1250 mAh battery, it's not even nearly enough for half a day usage!

I really love my Galaxy S, the only phone I will be willing to trade it with would be Nexus S (if it has different specs) or Galaxy S2! Not gonna choose anything without SAMOLED over SAMOLED!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kotaksurat:
yes after installing lagfix, but still disappointed with the battery performance. it took 6 hours to drain from 100% to 2%.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xean:
Hmm Yes/No, I had an Iphone G4 and I returned the phone back to Apple. I hated the locked-Inn system from Apple! Love the quality of the display, hate the lag and Kies PC software! Phone as phone is ok. Like Windows mobile for its flexibility... Overall good phone with much space for improvement. The lag, the lag i tell you :-) :-(

Edit: oh yes, the batt. does not compare to Nokia's and Windows I've had over the years. And the supposed illuminiation sensor that's placed at the front is useless. It does not work for me at all! My Nokia N70 does this much better...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Linuxnizer:
Love the hardware, Froyo is good, needs a bit of tweaking, Kies is horrible.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] idandush:
i was totaly about pointing to YEY , but once i found this GPS problem , moved it to no.

if you plan on using the GPS , get other device . cause this device just have no GPS ! shame.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chaku01:
I'm not happy for a couple of reasons:

1)GPS is the least we can say, not great

2)My sd card 8gb class 4 from transcend makes all my songs and movies skip every 2min or so, worked flawlessly (music) on my touch and touch HD (music and movies) still have to look into that

3)Seriously, promising an update for sept, then oct, then nov and still nothing in sight for me???? thats just torture, all my trust in samsung is gone for good.

4)Phone lag, yes, a hot topic, all that because of improper development of the phone's software, plus as it seems, not even rectified in the update: lame

5)Premium phone? 500 Eur? not even working, not even looking that great...

6) Well, it has to be said, all this phone has is a great screen and a quite decent battery consumption

7)Will start rooting and fiddling, I might be able to get something decent out of it, although, that's Samsung's job from the start, not mine, I've got tons of other things to do.

8)oh yeah, almost forgot!: SAMSUNG, GET RID OF KIES IT SMELLS!!!!

9)Other edit; the headphone port on the bottom please, at the top it just gets in the way too often...

I rest my case
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] navanid:
How to Accept or Reject Events with Exchange Email in Galaxy S or any Android mobile?

visit http://giztech.in
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jobiza:
Totally what i was thinking! Only to add, i had Samsung Omnia HD, and them i hated that Symbian S60 V5... It was just awful, hardware was good. It's just odd how Samsung can put everything that powerful and good specs to such a thin phone.

Just if they would put some steel over plastic. <3
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tb5...:
i was until the sd card crashed and i lost my contacts and my external sd card...

this is messed up...

i will be getting the htc desire z... this phone was too good to be true.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
Yes with I9000 international

No with I9000M Bell (old batch)

hopefully the new batch has the internal SD bug fixed
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rachitboom2:
I was already happy with my SGS but after JPU... HELL YAH !!! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pim70:
I like Sgs.... With xxjpu... Realy cool phone! ;-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 17mayis:
i used to have xperia x10 for 5 months i thought i had a smart phone but i was wrong after i traded to SGS now that what i call smart phone super screen i have ever thing

. i dont use any costume rom or lagfix by the way and i dont have any lag i use luancher pro only.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boyan64:
Which ROM you have before?

I am happy with my JP7 so I don't know if is good to go to JPU , Is JPU so much better?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petzku:
I come from JPM and now using JPU and the speed differece is notable. My phone has the rom that's in my sig. I suggest trying it out!

And YES, im happy with my sgs! :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kangal:
I voted Yes, but I would've rather voted "Sort of".

In terms of features this is the best phone available (excl. hardware qwerty).

In terms of build quality this thing is right up there with the big boys.

But where this thing fails/disappoints is:

1) Feel of the phone - all light plastic - feels cheap/toy, nothing like the HTC Legend or iPhone 4

2) Software - it has quite a few boo boo's as many have pointed out.

Recommendation:

If you are going to stick with a new phone for a long time, this is a good choice but not the best. I am waiting for All issues fixed + MIUI ROM (and maybe even Gingerbread) to become intimate and rock the features of this phone, then this thing would make me vote Yes without hesitance.

I am looking for some carbon fibre or aluminium back casings which should give this phone a better "feeling" in the hand.

Also, if I don't see a decent Custom ROM (for me), I'm contemplating to keep my contract/plan and sell the phone unlocked and replace it with another phone (PSPhone perhaps?).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] habylab:
I don't see any major improvement from jpo to jpu, maybe the affix on both makes it unoticable?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Auzy:
Either did I honestly, except when over the air software updates work (then that is a MAJOR improvement). But in terms of performance, it's much of a muchness really.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ldjh1985:
Love it except for the poor battery performance!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SnoopyDog:
I'm happy with it cause all my friends live in it :D

Since Froyo 2.2 and now 2.2.1 i like it even more. No issues so far, works like a charm!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leoking3:
Haahaha. Man, are you for real? Not kidding?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dakine:
I voted no, I've had my phone for over 2 months now and while I really like the hardware I think the owner experience has been absolutely ruined by Samsung's ****ty programming. I've never had a product that needed this amount of fixing straight out of the box. The gps issue is annoying but the lag is just unforgivable. Yes the lag fixes out there work perfectly but why should I as a customer have to reprogram a $600 phone in order for it to work properly?! After this amount of time these phones should work perfectly straight out of the box, the've had months now to fix stuff and even the latest unofficial firmwares still have lag and gps issues. It's like buying a Porsche and having to pull the engine apart before being able to take it for a drive. It's complete bull**** and an utter failure by Samsung, not to mention an insult to its customers.

So after reading numerous posts, dicking around with various firmwares and spending a significant amount of time and effort my phone is now a very nice device to have. Was it worth it? No. Next time around I'm buying HTC, because I don't trust Samsung to release a product free of serious bugs.

So to answer your question: I am not happy with the Samsung Galaxy i9000 but I love my phone. See the difference?! If Samsung comes out with a great Froyo build that fixes the lag and GPS then new buyers will get the experience they paid for but right now that is not the case.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omaga:
I’m happy with my galaxy so far, bought it becase I was keen on learn all about the android OS the only OS I dont havent use get :)

Hope to flash Froyo soon...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] appelflap:
Totally happy. Great device to develop apps on and for.

BTW check out the newest Samsung app called Kart Krazy that Samsung made available for download today
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onire:
I am unhappy, The battery is too short
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MomijiTMO:
I am happy with this device but to be honest I'm not entirely satisfied.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrfil13:
The lag issue does seem to be inconsistent.

Both me and my girlfriend have the Galaxy S, im Orange, she is on T-Mobile and neither of us have any issue with lag.

Ive watched the youtube vids of the Lag Fixes and mine seems to be just as fast as theres for opening apps, scrolling etc.

So far this is the best phone ive used, i had a nokia 5800 before and have a Iphone 3g which is a work phone, the lack of customisation annoys me with them.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fornowagain:
Love mine, I DON'T have any major issues with GPS or lag (JM1 r3). Battery life is ok if you remember to switch off functions you're not using. All in all I prefer it to my wifes HTC Desire, which is also a nice phone tbh.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Barkotron:
This is pretty much exactly what I was going to post - right down to my wife's phone :).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nguyenmd:
Root and run lag fix, it will change your phone performance 1000%. I am sure you will love it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
dakine, I couldn't have said it better! I also voted no. I love tweaking phones and flashing new roms to some extent, but the constant failure of any of the "fixes" to actually totally cure the lag and GUI FREEZES, coupled with horrible GPS is wearing thin on me.

It took me 15 tries to unlock my lock screen last night on the phone. It would wake when I touched the button, but then the screen wouldn't respond to let me unlock, then it would go back to sleep, then I'd push the button and nothing would happen, then push it again and it would wake up and go back to sleep almost instantly, the the cycle start over again. Took me five minutes to unlock, SERIOUSLY! This is with the latest rom (JM6, samset, and mimocan lagfix). I've had similar experience with JM5 and RyanZA lagfix, so it's not samset and it's not mimocan fix).

With my Nexus One, the stock phone was great right out of the box, software-wise, but the hardware has issues with the touchscreen/display. The HTC EVO I tested, the software was great out of the box, but the screen started falling off after just two weeks.

To date I haven't had an Android phone that was excellent hardware and software (quality/build wise) out of the box, and I'll have to say that despite the beautiful Super AMOLED screen and other great hardware specs of the Galaxy S i9000, it's been the worst of the three. I'm almost tempted to get rid of it.

A friend is pushing me to recommend a phone to replace his two year old iPhone 3G. He wants me to recommend the Galaxy S, but I just can't at this time, he's an average user, not a power user, and he'll never enjoy the phone out of the box and never do "fixes", and his main complaint about iPhone 3G is the slow GUI, which he'll experience very quickly with the SGS.

I JUST CAN'T RECOMMEND THIS PHONE TO SOMEONE, LIKE THE OP, WHO ISN'T WILLING TO PUT UP WITH A LOT OF FRUSTRATIONS AND HACKS TO TRY TO MAKE THE PHONE A SMOOTH EXPERIENCE. OP - GET A MOTOROLA DROID X IF YOU'RE IN THE US, OR AN HTC IF YOU'RE INTL.

At the very least, wait a month to see if Samsung delivers FroYo and if it fixes all the BS on the phone. But I already told you that in your other thread about this... ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
get extra batteries, best deal on earth http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=733705

i have 3 spare ones to change as the day goes

no need to turn things on/off anymore

i just leave everything on all the time
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
Other than the fact that you have to turn EVERYTHING off to replace the battery! ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
it takes less than a min to remove back cover, swap battery, put on back cover, boot up, and have all the Apps running again.

and i only replace the batteries once a day or twice a day depending how you define a day.

1 battery for AM, 1 battery for PM

meanwhile the other one is charging at home
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
you see my siggy banner right?

comparing it to the HTC phones, and Palm phones, yeah it's nearly perfect if not for the short life of the battery, but you can't expect much of a 1500mAh battery pack, with a power hungry 4" display

the only phones that beat all the rest are the Blackberries, but BB smartphones sucks ass they are boring, no fun, only good for work that's it. They are perfect out of the box, but you can't do much with them

BB smartphones feels more like the regular dumb phones that i've used in the past.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The.Opethian:
Someone looking for Symbian functionality should buy a Symbian device.

One of the main reasons I went for Android is due to me being a hardcore Google accounts user. I have Google Apps for domains, and have several gmail accounts.

Email / Messaging on Symbian in my experience has been a complete utter joke. That is why I stay away from it. Having flash on a smartphone for me is not a necessity. All these are my opinions.

If I need a functionality, there's an app for it. I don't want a phone crammed with every possible app out there. That's the beauty of the app platform. Worked for the iPhone (the very main reason they've been succesful so far), and it's working for the android platform too.

I voted YES. I am happy with it. I still wish they could go more with the device, but at the moment, it does everything I need and more.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gr3yh0und:
I got mixed emotions but I would go with YES

You guys are lucky that you can tweak and mod your phone. I would love to do that that's why I go with Android. Iphone is tweakable but it does not satisfy me same as symbian. I got the Korean version SHW-M110S. Almost identical. At first I was disappointed because its slow, but right now after I updated to DH09. It's almost perfect. I never had those lags. GPS issue I really don't care. I don't use. I mainly like this phone for its multimedia functionalities.I really don't know which phone could give you many support for codecs right out of the box. Just toss a 700MB Avi File and watch it in your 4" SuperAmoled screen. Add the ease of Music player just like Ipod. The only negative for me is the Korean version does not have support as much as like those Fascinate/Epic/Captivate even Bell. Too sad. I want to mod and tweak this and remove those Korean apps. But the Korean version has positives too. Like it be getting Froyo in a few weeks or days :D. Another thing is the 2 Batteries Included. But I never use the extra one since it never get drained on me.

Those problems I hear here in my opinion is user problems like those battery problems which depends on users management and how they use it. It really depends on how they use the phone.Example are the symbian one, being frustrated because of no default apps.Samsung/HTC/Motorola have the best customization to give you those default apps like those good music player and video player. I wonder if you get the vanilla android os which is not good as those customized. And that's the good thing about android of being open source giving more options of what to choose. Some are just like unlucky units. Which has been defective without knowing.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
I don't understod noting in your post. can tell me in easy language ?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
That would get annoying.. If I needed more batt, I'd use the official Samsung external battery.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chookmeister69:
I voted yes. I've mucked around a lot though to be totally happy. The lag problems used to drive me mad until I took a different approach and it's worked.

1) I flashed to JM6 and did a factory wipe. No Mods, no lag fixes. Just pure new firmware.

2) I ditched launcher Pro. It's awesome but it eats precious RAM and I thought I'd try without it after flashing.

It actually runs flawlessly and I've re-installed all my Apps. GPS works faultlessly for the first time and so does the compass.

So for this poll, a resounding yes. But 2 weeks ago, annoyed at the lag so probably no
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KerberoZ:
I'm happy with it since i use Darky's 6.0 (:

This feels like the phone i wanted to buy.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wifi802.11abgn:
YES...

1) Android OS

2) Samsung 1 GHz Processor

3) AMOLED

4) Market

5) Custom ROMs, kernels etc....

6) wifi with 802.11n speed

7) Memory
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nin2thevoid:
This sums up my thoughts EXACTLY. Darky's 6.0 is so incredibly fast and nice!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dom89:
Yes I am happy since I was on XXJPU rom.

Except all the specs we all know (screen size....) on this phone, the main critics we could have are gone. It now has no lags and don't need lagfix and GPS is working the way it should work. It has fast locks and it follow you correctly on the road with no freezes (previous versions were freezing for minutes ). I made several use of it while driving and had no problem now with GPS.

Concerning battery drain, XXJPY is what we can expect, no more no less. Otherwise check drain by first removing crappy applications that are in most cases the guilty ones.

Now for those who say NO, just upgrade to XXJPY and you'll see another phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] basti107:
generally im very pleased with the phone.

but i voted "no" because my battery drains 5-6% per hour, does not matter which firmware :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dakine:
Happy since 2.2.1
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the incredible:
i am not happy because the gps fix is more inaccurate