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[Galaxy S I9000 General] tameracingdriver:
As I said once again, not everyone can just "sell on", and I disagree you "definitely wont lose money"... how not?

The 8Gb SGS was £450 on launch here, if I were to sell now I probably wouldn't even get £300 for it - that's depreciation whichever way you wrap it up - unless of course you bought it second hand to begin with.

I agree in some ways that there are some childish rants in here. I have myself been criticial of the SGS, but my "rants" were detailed and constructive. In some ways, some of the replies I got which were defending the SGS were actually more childish than my constructive criticism, so its not the one sided affair that threads like this portray.

Incidentally, I get the impression that some people simply don't like hearing any criticism of their beloved phone. This is "fanboy" behaviour. Most level headed people would admit that the phone has some relatively major problems, and to say otherwise is burying your head in the sand. I've said it before, it comes down to how heavily you use the phone, and what your past experiences / expectations are.

I'll be honest, I've come close at times to selling the SGS. By xmas there will be a number of phones I would swap with quite happily for one reason or another, but its the phone I've got, and the idea of losing a load of money selling it does not sit easy with me no matter how many faults it might have.

To be fair, thanks to this forum I've actually managed to tweak the phone and get it to a standard which is pretty much more than acceptable, but it has taken me lots of time, and it has taken developers on here lots of time to produce fixes for some of the problems. If it time is money, then the SGS has been by far the most expensive mobile phone I've yet owned!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] asicman:
Wow, the OP is pure hypocrisy.

But I've seen one thing. Most of us hate apple fan boys, but it looks like xda is full of SGS fan boys too.

The point is, the SGS does have problems because of buggy software. No one knows when official fixes are coming out. So for some people, its better to sell, make Samsung look like idiots, and walk. Samsung do deserve to look like fools. Their QA dept. is just royally screwed. Its just sad how great HW is killed by crap SW.

If people wanna rant, then let them. Most of the time the rants are true, but maybe quantitatively exaggerated, example 50% of the time lagging. It nevertheless brings to light real problems of the SGS's SW.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DamianGto:
Many people do rant over and over again in every tread. It kind of boring to read same thing over and over again from same people. If they stayed in this tread it would be 30-40% less post in every tread and it would be nice and more correct.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xZeDgEx:
Awesome post! Thank you. The SGS fanboys are just as annoying as the Apple ones.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MAMBO04:
Chill, it's just a phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jpsalvesen:
While I've been using Linux as my main OS since 1997, not all my friends have. I've fixed the lag issue. I wouldn't trust my friends to realize the root cause of the lag problem and then find a fix. They would think the product is bad. And it is. What the hell kind of product has to be jailbroken to correct bad engineering? I'm not talking of too-restrictive-engineering (like App Store), but straight-out bad engineering. After a few days of use and few tens of applications (which is well within normal and encouraged use of a flagship product, non?), lagging becomes terrible. Applying a lag fix results in a roughly ten-fold increase in effective IOPS.

Anyhow, I cannot fix the GPS issue. It has to be done in firmware. I got this phone in JU-FREAKIN'-LY and Samsung STILL haven't fixed this issue. And I ain't complaining about lack of Froyo.

I'M COMPLAINING ABOUT A LACK OF BASIC BUGFIXES!

Oh, and that the slow, overengineered, proprietary Kies application crashes whenever I try to install whatever firmware update they just posted. They were three months late in posting fixes. And now their update procedure doesn't work. Adding insult to injury is not a good idea. What the hell kinda management will let such products out the door - both the 2.1 firmware for the SGS and the now-broken Kies?

Sorry I had to yell at you. I hope you misunderstood because you've listened to too much awesome rock'n'roll music and that has fried your ears.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DamianGto:
My phone got faster after lagfix on 2.1 and 2.2, but i never had any big lag that the wieners here have.

I also have an iphone and can compare them. Iphone do lag sometimes to. Sometimes it just freezing. Sometimes it crash. I can say the sgs is better on everything.

The gps is much better.

Better screen.

.....

....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] freakdahouse:
For me, who had a htc diamond and then an iphone 3g... GPS is amazing in the SGS lol
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ca7846:
Fanboyism is never good.

Samsung shouldnt have made promise

that they can't keep. Thats not professional.

However, apple fanboys are the worst.

Steve Jobs has become like a religion.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mib1800:
I have used the SGS for 2 months and I am on stock firmware with voodoo lagfix. I don't know why people are complaining about buggy firmware. The firmware is NOT buggy. I never have crashes or major issues with core software components. The only issue is the lag but this can be fixed (i am using voodoo and this fix has eliminates most lag).

As for GPS, I did not encountered any issues with it with most navigation software. Some times accuracy may not be perfectly accurate but is still within tolerance.

Froyo may bring more goodies, but even as it is now, the Galaxy is near perfect. I think this phone will still come out on top in any pro-con list with other phones.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TriC_101:
whats is the big deal.. every phone has bugs.. I had an I phone3g and once it was loaded with apps it would hang up from time to time and lag.. the same with the blackberry bold 2nd gen that I had it would lag all over once it had alot of apps... HTC's phones are the same way.. This is what can happens once the OS's on smart phones becomes complex.. its not just the Samsung S..

I'm running JPK with no lag fix.. (no need for it with JPK) and alot of people I have showed the phone too can't get over how fast it is.. these are people with Iphones and Blackberrys.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Jamm59:
The big deal is Samsungs ignorance or incompetence to make a bug fix. I bought my SGS late june, and still no GPS fix from Samsung.

I can live with a laggy and erratic GPS, but I can not live with a GPS who sometimes are running in the parallel streets and tries to guide me back to the street I am actually driving for the moment.

Edit:

My SGS is in for service for 3. time now. If the GPS is not working when it returns, it will be "3 Strikes Out" and my money back and Samsung's ignorance or incompetence has saved me my money.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Oletros:
Ah, because every phone has bugs we have to shut down the mouth and say nothing?

If an iPhone 4 has bugs we have to say that, if an HTC has bugs we have to say that.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andrewluecke:
Nobody is saying don't say anything.. But what is getting annoying:

People posting dedicated threads containing the bugs which annoy them, instead of posting to the threads already discussing the separate bugs. Strangely, they aren't marked as dupes...

The constant exaggerations and lies. Rather than have an honest debate, many are choosing to heavily exaggerate/lie about their problems. Rather than have an honest debate, many people are also trying to close debate with BS such as "the gps problems ARE HARDWARE, end of story!", or use fake statistics such as "this phone is unusable 66% of the time it's so laggy". The other side isn't perfect either though, and some are saying "the GPS is perfect, but they wont post tracks".

The lack of proof. People are getting away with inventing claims too easily. ON BOTH SIDES. People are accepting "it's detailed in another thread" as evidence, whilst in many cases, it isn't actually PROVEN in any other thread, or the "proof" has flaws .

People are getting called fanboy's when they question a claim. This shouldn't happen

People who are dissatisfied need to patting their fellow whingers on the back for creating threads and venting.

We need more people to question what is said, and just because something IS said, to not allow them to be called a fanboy. That's the problem. There's a lot of BS on both sides, and not enough questioning.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jpsalvesen:
No external linking is allowed?! How am I going to prove this? Let's be manaul:

My endomondo account 225326 has workouts using both a Nokia n82 (before July) and Samsung Galaxy S (starting in july). The Nokia workouts rarely had GPS issues aside from inaccuracy when running close to larger buildings. I do all the time with my Samsung Galaxy S, it will only have sporadic locks. It is useless for tracking workouts, it only works as a glorified stopwatch. Google Maps is close to unusable, especially when outside urban areas where there's enough base stations to triangulate with fair accuracy.

If you turn off the radio assist thing, you'll experience exactly how reliable the GPS is. I dare you to try!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DamianGto:
I can tell you about my gps experience.

When i bought the sgs i used my iphone for gps.

I can say it don't work so good if you are in a city or there are many roads beside the road you are on.

I did try the sgs with stock firmware and it was so bad.

I did flash to jm1 firmware and it was alot better.

But not good enough to use.

I started to tweak some settings and it was alot better.

It was spot on and newer jumped around.

But it was one problem. It did drop the lock randomly. I had to turn gps off the on again and go.back to copilot and it worked again untill next drop.

I was not happy about this. But when i was at the mcdonalds i was trying some settings.

I find one that hold the look. It still was spot on.

So i did try it for about a week. Well after that week i left my iphone at home. The sgs gps it so much better.

I then installed froyo jpk. Tried out the sgs without any tweak on the gps.

I did see it worked right away.

But it was not as good it was before.

I did tweak it again and it is spot on again.without the tweak it still was better then iphone gps.

That my story and don't tell me i don't know what im doing and the gps don't work.

If it work on my sgs then why would it not work on other sgs phone?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DamianGto:
I forgot about lock information.

Most i had 11 satellites in veiw and 11 locked. Most of the time its between 8 and 10 satellites in lock.

Thats alot more then you need to get a good fix on your position.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Donald Nice:
Here are some "news" from SamsungmobileUK:

http://twitter.com/samsungukmobile/status/26366881415
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danzgrace:
Does anyone have this for eclair JG4 firmware? I'm having problems with openvpn. TIA
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] technology-man:
hello everybody,

I'm getting crazy with my htc evo 4 I can not root it anderiod 2.2

I tried so many times,I will attach a picture with my software information and please provide me with right tools to root and recovery it:p
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] technology-man:
yeh I know ,but can you help me?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] technology-man:
I have tried unrevoked and toast part1 -> part2

superandroidhero if you have something useful keep it here do not lose others time
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sporkman:
if you have tried both then it has to be a user error period

what error code is it giving you ?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] technology-man:
yes it show that the version is older or damage
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrx4memp:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=765496

first... follow this seeing as you have a 2.2 from sprint...

then post back if you have any problems...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cor4twenty:
here try this its less steps, let us know how it goes

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=787304
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] technology-man:
I did everthings in that thread step by step but not working with me

always say wrong file or not found
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrx4memp:
At what step?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] technology-man:
is show that the main version is old

my software is 3.29.651.5

Baseband is 2.15.99.09.01

PRI 1.77_003
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CTH-EVO:
OK I'll attempt a shot at this.

One thing I notice is that you are posting 2 different numbers for you're

Baseband version:

1st (your picture) indicates: 2.15.00.09.01

but here you indicate it is: 2.15.99.09.01

I mention this, because if you want accurate information, it is important you provide

accurate information. That said, the numbers of primary importance are:

Android version: 2.2

Baseband (for you UNKNOWN) mine is: 2.15.00.07.28

Secondary importance

Software version

PRI

So given that yours appears to be close to that of my own, and

since I was able to root mine without any difficulty. I'm going to

suggest that you perform the same steps as I did.

My choice for rooting my phone was using the Unrevoked 3.21 method.

Simply go to Unrevoked's website and

click on the EVO 4G phone. Ensure that you choose the correct version for

your Operating System (Linux, Mac OSX, or Windows).

After doing that, do read all of the instructions. For example,

Windows users will need to use a completely differenrt approach,

than Linux, and Mac OS X users use. Because Windows users need to download/install

a driver, so that their PC can communicate with their EVO phone.

I used the Linux version. But I suspect that you are using a Windows PC, and are having troubles.

It will be quite impossible to inform you much further without some more specific

details on your part ("it didn't work" won't help anyone help you).

HTH

--Chris
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rabbivj:
so with the leaked release of froyo coming out last night. I had a hell of a time getting froyo on my phone. So just out of curiousity who stayed with froyo, downgraded back to cog or waiting for a cogged release of froyo?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snarkq:
waiting for cog 2.2 to check out froyo, thats how much I like having it :p
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] id10terrordfw:
I wasn't running cognition to begin with, but I am sticking with froyo.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j1mb34m:
I just flashed froyo a little while ago and all seems well. I'm definitely going to keep it. I had froyo on my g1, and didnt realize how much i missed i was stuck on 2.1 with a new captivate. But the lock screen is killing me, you have to pull the screen wayyy to far!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdotbrucato:
Flashed it as soon as the multi upload link was posted. Do far no deal breakers for me. Got it rooted, side loading enabled and everything setup to be my daily driver.

I wish they'd just release the damn kernel so the people smarter than me can really get cooking on some ROMs.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlecKyle:
I flashed to 2.2, and it is working amazing. I would never think about going back to 2.1, even though I am not smart enough to root it without the other people making it easy, which they have not done yet lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Colton5419:
With the leaked JI6 Froyo being so stable, I plan on sticking with it until an official release is made.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galaxyjeff:
Does anyone know how to get apps that aren't showing up in the market to show up?

I flashed to froyo today and I like it. I think I'm staying with it. It has too many improvements to give up. It may start getting ported to us by at&t real soon anyway.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] terrigan:
I flashed this afternoon.. after having some difficulty (mostly my stupidity for not disabling voodoo lagfix from Cognition) am running Froyo. I've noticed a little lag here and there but used Ryan's one click and it helped somewhat. Sofar it's amazing, havent tested GPS though. I've gotten Chrome to Phone and it works great as well as being able to play Flash. So far nothing to complain about.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BLWedge09:
I posted over in the COG thread, but I tried Froyo for a day and then flashed back to stock and then back to COG 2.1.6 w/Atinm's Voodoo kernel. I loved the GPS performance in 2.2 (after I switched to supl.google.com), but everything else is so much more polished in the current COG (as expected). I'm looking forward to the progress that is inevitably coming with Froyo though and more than likely will flash to it again soon.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tbong777:
Sticking with it although I cannot keep all the contracts out of the list SIM, Google and Phone contacts all load......I decided to delete SIM and Phone and keep Google contacts.

Its a keeper though. No need to root the phones yet I have everything I need.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cappysw10:
Leaky Froyo beats crappy Eclair any day. It will be fun to see how AT&T cripples the new rom.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcx6:
I went with Froyo and have not found any show stoppers at this point, so it looks like I will be staying with it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nooomoto:
I went with 2.2 and have stuck with it. I'm not having any issues other than the contacts list thing and its not that big of a deal to me. Ill go with COG 2.2 when he gets all the bugs worked out with a clockwork or odin install.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quarlow:
Never tried cognition Roms, but the leaked build seems to be 100% fully functional. Haven't had any issues, I'll be staying with it until the official release and rooting etc gets as easy at eclair build.
[G2 and Desire Z General] x6369x:
Left = Comcast via wireless laptop.

Right = Comcast via HTC G2.

Odd that there's a 10M download difference between laptop and phone.

The HTC G2 is rated up to 14.4M on 3G, so i was expecting up to that on wireless.

So far on the best results I've gotten on HSPA+ is 5M down/1.5M up.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ekoulak:
That's strange I don't have mine yet but ill test this as well. I have been able to get higher rates than that with my other phones.
[G2 and Desire Z General] HamNCheese:
5M down is pretty good, actually. The bigger issue is latency, which is a lot lower on + networks.

Are you running 802.11g or 802.11n for the wireless network? Even if it's apples to apples, you can't expect a phone to compare well to a laptop (with full-size wifi antennas, faster CPU to run the speed test, etc) anyway.
[G2 and Desire Z General] shad0wfire:
cell phone wifi radios aren't as strong as ipod touch which aren't as strong as laptop radios, i get 5 megs on htc, 11 on ipod touch, and 20 on wifi, the device you are using makes a big difference in speed
[G2 and Desire Z General] ThaGeNeCySt:
what's funny is.. on my macbook pro via wifi, speedtest.net gives me 20 mb down and 5 mb up.... on my G2 I get... 17 mb down, and 4 mb up ;)
[G2 and Desire Z General] Anderdroid:
My vibrant gets 6mbps down over 3g :S isn't the g2 supposed to be faster
[G2 and Desire Z General] DarkAgent:
It is. But speeds vary greatly depending on location and time-of-day.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Arcadia310:
My Vibrant would get 20Mb down over Wifi.:eek:
[G2 and Desire Z General] aedv:
@OP: are you sure you're testing with the same exact server between the laptop and the G2?
[G2 and Desire Z General] x6369x:
Yes, the attached image shows the server in Modesto, CA, which is about 75 miles south of Sacramento.
[Galaxy Tab General] LostAlone:
A little tid-bit for you guys to chew over:

Linkeh

For those who didn't bother reading it says that a sweedish carrier is taking pre-orders with a confirmed price of *dramatic pause* 369 Kroner per month, with nothing upfront.

That's $55 or £34 per month and nothing on day of purchase.

How does this compare to Galaxy S pricing ?

Assuming that this exact price level translates to the UK (unlikely, but we should see very close)

Well for me, my I9000 costs £30 a month with nothing upfront, so I'd say that compares pretty favourably. Over the course of the contract, the Tab would cost £96 more.

As a comparison point, in the UK, this prices in SIGNIFICANTLY under an iPhone 4. Its either cheaper every month, or you'd have to put up over £200 upfront to get a contract that low.

What does this tell us about the actual cost of the device ? Well in all honesty, I think it confirms what I said about the O2 Germany announcement (27.50E a month with 100 down). This device will be priced a little over a Galaxy S.

That makes sense both from a component point of view (big display costs more) and working backwards from the prices we're seeing here.

If the device was to cost as rumoured (£699 or £599 on pre-order) then it would simply cost more than this. Even the £599 price would eat up over 17 months of a 24 month contract, equalling aprox £230 for the carriers per device sold. If they are to cost £699, it'd eat 20 months, and leave the carriers with £136 each.

I simply cannot see that being a realistic margin for them. Almost every high end smartphone device in this country (costing around £400) the carriers are making £300 or more in profit.

So yeah... thats what this says to me... The Tab (once prices are official) should be costing £500 for a 3G one off contract, and well under £400 for wifi only, which compares rather favourably with regular devices both tablet and phone.

Feel free to yell me down, as per usual, but you'll have to come up with a damn good reason why the carriers would be happy to make less profit than usual for this device.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marko63:
Telus HTC Desire

Android 2.1

Just recently I have noticed a change on how images are displayed within the body of Emails.

I have the Email size set to 1 MB. When I receive an Email with images I am prompteI have experimented switching WIFI on and off and go back to the same emails. With same odd resultsd with a button to "Show Images", when I click on the button I get..

HSPA : The images displayed in full.

WIFI : Small question marks with no images.

.

Any ideas?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Franteeko:
Running new fresh and net compatible kernal. Anyone have an issue with the sense music player sounding like its skipping while its playing music?? Its kind of annoying and i was wondering if there was a fix for it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Franteeko:
Bump
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phatmanxxl:
Bump

Probably a run away process keeping the CPU busy.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] texasryno:
I am trying to flash back to stock but odin just sits at factoryfs.rfs

I'm not sure what to do now. It will not power up normally at this point.

I can go into downloader but it just hangs at the same point.

Any suggestions for me?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilch25:
Try plugging into your computer with a different USB port, my work computer loves to do that crap and sometimes it just takes a reboot or port switch to make it work
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hobolooter:
Same problem, fixed it by running ODIN under administrator privs
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drancid:
right click on the file and run as administrator. If u using window 7. I solved the prob like that.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] texasryno:
OK had already tried running as admin privs. Tried different port after a reboot and still no joy.

Then decided to try on one of my XP boxes and that did the trick. Thanks for getting me to think in another direction.

Up and running on Froyo and all is well.

This community is great!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcosarmada:
i'm running as admin, but have the same exact problem. changing ports doesn't help either.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeyMike01:
On Windows 7, try running it in Compatibility Mode for Windows XP (Service Pack 2).