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[Galaxy S I9000 General] Quiksilver78:
I think some people either expect too much from their phones or are easily persuaded into thinking their phone needs "fixing"

My SGS is my first Android device and I come from a Blackberry.

I am currently running JM8 + Voodoo Lagfix + LauncherPro. My phone is as good as ... well ... any other phone!

It makes calls, I can receive calls, I can look up where I am with Google Maps and figure out where I need to go with the same application. I can send and receive emails. I can synchronize my calendar, set up appointment reminders, add tasks etc. Set up an Alarm, browse the internet when I have some downtime, and listen to music while commuting and walking to some place. If I catch something "nice/interesting" while walking, I snap a quick photo and share with others via email, facebook, or twitter.

It does whatever I need it to do and does it well. I probably could have purchased an iPhone 4 but this device saved me hundreds of dollars by not doing so.

Question is, what is so critical that people need on this phone that they label the SGS as "unusable"?

GPS? I know where I stand so I don't the phone to tell me where I am with pin-point accuracy. It shows me where I am on the map give or take a few meters if I am looking for an address and then I find the address in Google Maps and walk to it.

I've read statements such as "GPS doesn't work at all" jesus, do people need the phone to guide missiles? if so, the CIA may want to have a word with you.

Again, this all may be due to "influence" the first time owner of the SGS may not even be aware of these so-called "issues" with the phone until they either find this forum or someome tells them

Dude 1: "I heard that the SGS has terrible GPS problems and it's slower than molasses"

SGS Owner: "Really? I hadn't noticed. My phone seems fine."

*looks up claims on XDA or Google*

SGS Owner: "Great Scott! this phone has issues! OMG I want my money back! Samsung sucks!!!!!11one!"
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
Finally some one with the same point of view :)

I completely agree with all that was said, specially the part not having an issue until they read they have an issue
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DamianGto:
Quiksilver: fitst time I read a very good post. Most people do all kind of stuff with the phone just for they think its not good. They end up with a phone thats dont work good. Then they blame samsung for all the errors they made them self.

Before I do something I read alot about it so I understand all about that item. Then I know what to do if something is not right.

Sometimes I think people are stupied. They buy a phone and start to complain about it after the first days. If they have so many issue then WHY dont they return the phone and buy a different phone?

The answer on that is often for they like problem and seeking them, so they can complain. The sad part is that the only things they can do.

I love my phone and it work really good. I fix my problem and dont add problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xZeDgEx:
Goodie for you. The majority of SGS users would have no idea wtf any of that even means. They would be running what ever came on the phone and possibly dealing with lag, gps issues, freezing, phone shutting off, etc, etc. They would have every right to be disappointed with the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DamianGto:
Most people dont have problem with the phone.

If it was a mayor fault with this phone, none would buy it and all site/newspaper would write about it. Problem is that many so called power user dont know what they do. I do tweak all my stuff. But if a tweak dont work I can make it back to the orginal state and try other tweaks until I get something that works. Many cant do this and its easy for them to blame samsung.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xZeDgEx:
The GPS issues have been all over the net, on big sites like Engadget, Gizmodo, etc. Doesn't really matter if its in the news or not. How do you know most users are not having problems? They probably don't know any better, or don't bother to seek out internet forums to complain. Stop being such an apologist frigging fanboy. There are issues with this phone whether you like it or not.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lithicus:
While I agree there are problems with the phone, and while I really didn't wanna have to learn a new batch of fairly useless information, being a reasonably intelligent person I was able to root and lagfix my phone.

I did plenty of research before getting this phone and was well informed about the phone's shortcomings. I was initially very worried about having to flash the phone with many different roms before I could make it usable, especially since my 3 button recovery is disabled. My fears were put to rest when I found a lag fix and launcher pro, and am still happily on stock rom.

My point is that I'm here reading these threads and doing research, fixing issues as I find them, and I have yet to find a real issue with the phone (other than the GPS being inaccurate and sometimes unusable).

I would rather be using a phone that works out of the box as intended, but sadly industry standards are dropping across the board.

Now, this does make me lose respect for Samsung's quality control, and depending on how long the phone is supported for I might feel burned in the end, but it's still the best phone I've ever owned and an amazing piece of technology.

Oh and the "average Joe" argument doesn't really belong on here. The average Joe isn't reading this forum, at least not for long.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xZeDgEx:
Exactly. And that is like 90% of SGS and other phone users. People on here make it sound like its the other way around.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bartybet:
Samsung is scared now. On a lighter note you sound like a tool.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] asicman:
Well yea, look at recalls/advisories for other electronics. Some people have a device from a batch that is recalled due to defects that occur spontaneously. That device may be working perfectly for a customer. But don't you think its common sense to want an exchange or refund for a device that is defective after learning about the defects? And FYI, the software defects for SGS are well documented so anyone with an SGS can connect the dots and demand a refund/exchange.

Look at the specs for the SGS if you don't already know them. If the device performs below par then it does need fixing. FYI, theres a difference between "too much" and normal functionality. What people are *****ing about is wanting normal functionality for a device of those specs. Whats the point of having great hardware but not functioning fully? Customers should never be satisfied with mediocrity or poor QA because of SGS fans boys.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DamianGto:
I know some phone has flaw, but many like to complain about it. Insteed of get it to the shop and get a new one.

Many here think all phone is bad.

News for you. Most of them work good. Like my phone. I don't have any flaw. Call me a fanboy if you want, but that don't change that i have a working phone. Also 90% of the people that own a sgs is happy with it and the few % of sgs owner that come here with problem its always the persons thats have bad phone write most. The people that can read and understand it can sort out the problem and help other with it.

Many problem people has is so simple to fix. Just read in the forum. 99% of the time the answer is there.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] asicman:
No

http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s/161013-you-happy-samsung-galaxy-s-i9000.html

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=766513

:D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DamianGto:
Yes....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] asicman:
:rolleyes:Stats are better than an empty "yes."
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Schmich:
You're right, more like 6 million if you look at how many were sold in the US and South Korea.

I bike 10 hours a week for physical training and my GPS just won't work properly...but I guess I only learned that from reading posts..? I was really looking forwards to getting all the info of elevation, speed difference compared to elevation and previous runs etc. etc. Just like my friend with an HTC Desire does. How can you not understand frustrations like that? It sometimes takes a full minute to get something opened on the SGS whilst other times it's instant. I guess I only realized the difference between sub-second and 60seconds after reading other people's complaints.

Maybe some of us bought the phone for an average smartphone GPS accuracy? Whether it's for Google Navigation, instead of paying additional €100s on a standalone unit that has less features, or tracking routes. What if it was a feature that you want to use lots that didn't work? What if the back camera didn't work so you could only take with the front facing one, would you find that to be absolutely fine?

Oh right, I forgot. Since they don't read this forum it makes the two main errors go away. Which btw is one of the reasons for the frustrations, if it wasn't for the lag and the GPS the phone would be damn good. It's not like the phone hasn't sold badly so how come Samsung isn't go all our on fixing these problems? They definitely don't lack in resources and funding...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mib1800:
Not sure what is really the major issue with GPS. I have been using it with GMap and navigation software like Sygic and Navigon and there are no major problems. Lock-on is very fast (as I have turn-on both options in Location service). Sometimes it may not always have pin-point accuracy but the accuracy is within acceptable limit (as portrayed by these softwares)

So for those who are crying out loud for Froyo, what is it actually you are crying about? The only major thing with Froyo is Flash and maybe some (??) performance improvement. The current 2.1 on SGS is very functional and stable and fast (with lagfix) so I dont see why the need to cry like a baby to get froyo.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
Good luck with other devices then ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Oletros:
I can't understand the fanboyism that much of the posters have.

SGS has problems, they have been acknowledged by Samsung itselfs. GPS is crap compared to other smartphones, lag is a problem withouth the fixes.

SGS has a hardware that can make it the best smartphone out there but it has a so bad software implementation that makes using it annoying at least.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] opensourcefan:
One would argue that you don't have what it takes to appreciate such ventures into the tech world. Its also quite possible that your sgs doesn't want you either. Please sell you device asap to someone who can appreciate it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] viasat:
I've made the same decision long time ago,no more Samsung for me...Let me explain,I'm not a fanboy,but my first Samsung was Omnia(i900) and Samsung made the same mistakes,the phone was verr popular,with millions sold around the world,but the software was a big letdown...after that I've purchased Omnia HD(i8910,symbian) same story,a brilliant hardware,but Samsung closed the firmware development after 6 month,so this was too much for me.Also,the lesson that I've learned from this Samsung adventure,hardware is nothing without software support,no matter how many Ghz has the processor,how many MB ram.Now I'm happy with my Nokia N900 and Nexus One,but I want to share my bad experience with Samsung,and this is my personal opinion.

Cheers
[Galaxy S I9000 General] opensourcefan:
ya ya ya... All phones have issues, maybe this is your first cutting edge device but they tend to need time to mature. Yes it could be better, and yes the N1 may be more refined but its had the time. No reason to stomp your feet and have a temper tantrum though (op).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Oletros:
What?

Perhaps is because it's not my first cutting edge device and because I don't marry with any company I can blame Samsung for all the crap has done with the SGS.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Harts@J:
Nice. I count myself as an "average Joe". I'm too lazy and comfort-loving to root my phone, I like to install only the official FW:s.

Have I been in the wrong place in years, is this place only for nerds? I have read and discussed in the threads since my WinMo phones and I'm not going to stop now. I have found many tricks and apps to get more out of my phones.

Yes, I have SGS.

Yes, it not perfect phone, but it is the best phone I have had since my first in 1994.

Yes, I have lags, but I have much worst lags on my Windows laptop. I cannot imagine what could I do in those 2 seconds, when my phone lags. Do you?

Yes, I use GPS and I get most times 10 m accuracy, it is enough for me.

Yes, I have JM1/JM2 and I'm waiting for FroYo to come some day. It is just one step for waiting the next version and the next... :eek:

Yes, I use Kies-version 1.5.3.10093_80 installed on the Vista 32-bit and I can sync my Outlook Calendar.

Am I the only one here?

Let all the flowers bloom. We all are individuals.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] opensourcefan:
Nobody is marring anything and of course Samsung is to blame. Just because people are defending the device AND the process doesn't make them fanboys. The point is this its normal and if you are the cutting edge device user as you have implied you would know this. Sometimes patience is the key.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] us1111:
The GPS problem has nothing to do with froyo or 2.1 (or does it?).. This problem could just as easy be solved in 2.1, so why all the GPS complaints?

By the way, GPS works fine with me :D! Very happy with my JM8 and lagfix, cannot think of a good reason (besides flash 10 that is!) to go to froyo.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tesmond:
I completely agree...

I made 6 car journeys using the stock ROM and Google navigation and all of them were perfect. My 7th journey my position jumped to a different road twice, but re-connected to the right place within a few seconds. I have now made 9 journeys to places I have never been before and the GPS was accurate and coped well with closed roads/re-direction on the two occasions it was required. I suspect if you had used one of the early gen tomtoms you would think this phone's GPS is amazing!

From what I have read the lag only becomes apparent when you install a certain number of Apps...well I suspect that the average user is a bit more like me, uses the satnav occasionally and has not installed 30+ apps so hasn't really experienced lag or GPS problems.

My phone is much faster and more usable than my previous Symbian based phones and I suspect the vast majority of users feel the same. Especially when on contract it is nearly 25% cheaper than the iphone4 (and I for one prefer the SGS even if it was the same price, well except the iphone resale value has been good).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DamianGto:
I dint need to read another tread what people think about sgs. It still not many % of the owner of it.

I still can compare it with iphone and the sgs is better on every area.

Samsung do working on fixes.

Even jpk is alot better then stock firmware.

Compared to iphone and apple, Samsung do a better job.

On iphone you need to jailbreak it and install 3:e part stuff to get it right.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] INeedYourHelp:
Did you read his post completely? Just for directions? I think not...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Quiksilver78:
Did you read mine? I was simply saying that if someone needs something specific/advanced, I wouldn't lug around a 4" phone with me or even rely on one for that matter. I am sure there are more versatile and compact devices that can do that.

I know it's a "smartphone" but I wouldn't assume that it would be that "smart" out of the box :D

But these are just my views, I am sure everyone had their reasons for purchasing this phone and some may be expecting a little more than it was intended for.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Oletros:
What? Tracking correctly is what is expected for.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mib1800:
How many of those who bought SGS use it regularly trace their off-site jog/run in the woods? What do you think?

A. 100 out of 100

B. 50 out of 100

C. 0.5 out of 100

It seems to me like those who depends on GPS (so that they dont fall off the cliff ;) ) in their jungle run are those who are complaining a lot about the GPS.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
i have not done that not even once for any real purpose

i did do it once just to draw a nice little picture

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U....888491,-79.279232&spn=0.098477,0.251484&z=13

:D

it was a nice and fun drive
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xZeDgEx:
Wow.. so now people are saying those with issues are using their phones too much..installing too many apps.. expecting too much from a high end smart phone, etc.. I have heard it all now.. :rolleyes: Ridiculous.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
oh this phone is the best, i've never been able to have so much fun and run so many apps so quickly with all the previous phone that i've had

SGS beats all the record set forth by all previous phone, in speed, multitasking ability, GPS usability, and fun factor (video play & record, camera & night mode, 3D games!, and much more)

it'll be hard to find another phone that can beat the SGS in all those areas
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wfhowell:
i have an iphone 4.0 jailbroken and SGS. Froyo needs to come to the rescue and fast.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ghost_ghost123:
Hi All,

Password entry screen, lock screen password. Is there anyone out there playing with this?

The one I have looks horrible and it would be a nice little touch.

WHY?

Ghost :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stianbert:
Whats the original files for norwegian, i'n gonna return the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Donald Nice:
Is this a question? In any case there is no reasen to post it here in Android Development! Please use better title and the right sections to post! Thats why we have them!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirphunkee:
Moved thread to Q&A

stianbert, a veteran member such as yourself should know better about posting in the appropriate section.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Salvestro:
Hello friends,

my problem is the proximity sensor.

This don't work during a call.

Work fine with proximitysensoroff in windows, but during a call don't work!

Can anyone help me?

PLEASEEEEE!!!!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Salvestro:
No one has this problem? :confused:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kikisp:
on hd2 you have an additional registry key

hklm/software/htc/proximitiy -» psensordebouncetime

this is mostly around 200. set it to 500 or 1000 and the sensitivity is lower.

or other way around....
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Salvestro:
Original = 170

I've setted 200 and after restart it's restored to 170.

WHY???:confused:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Salvestro:
Please help me, my friends!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darksasas:
Hi,

I've got the same trouble.

What's weird is that any change I do in the PROXIMITY reg key, with or without soft reset after, are cancelled (restored to default) as soon as I give a call...

Please Help !
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xamilx:
Try holding the phone to another ear :D Happened to me too ;)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pyr0TeK:
Does the usage on my screenshot look normal? CM6 with Extremely Blue mod.

View attachment 411240
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ranger61878:
That's about what mine looks like...normal? I don't know, but mine looks almost identical.

Sent from my FroYoed Sprint Hero
[Epic 4G General] brewsbro:
hi, and thanks for reading this. If the newest sprint update, DI18?, ever gets released, I am afraid I will not get it. I removed some system apps and I guess the update needs to see those. Thinking I knew what I was doing, here is what I did.

Rooted my Epic.

with titanium i backed up media hub, sprint nav, and nascar. I then removed them.

I saw I needed them so I thought I would restore.

I guess titanium can't restore system apk's?

I start looking for those apk's and only find media hub.

I install media hub, epic says i already have it which i sort of don't really.

media hub is back, and thats where I am at.

I hope that makes sense? I will never use media hub, but I want the epic to be like it was right after root, so I can easily get the next, and future, updates.

thanks
[Epic 4G General] Mama Luigi:
I know someone has posted a link to download all of the stock apps... unfortunately I can't find it! Anyone know where that is?

I personally hate Titanium Backup because I can never figure out what it's doing. The backup function has done the same thing to me - you backup an app, then you think you're deleting the system app and can restore from a backup, but you can't. It's so weird. I would recommend either buying Root Explorer (~$3) or trying out the SDX Stock App Removal (free). You can also use adb push to put the system apps in your /system/app directory. But you still need the apps.
[Epic 4G General] <3me:
Did you try remounting as rw first?
[Epic 4G General] wto605:
EDIT: see Firon's post below (#8) it will take care of any modifications you've made as long as you have a stock (odexed) ROM, it won't even mess up recovery or kernel!
[Epic 4G General] brewsbro:
thank you all. I will play around with it.
[Epic 4G General] brewsbro:
according to titanium everything that was gone is back, except "com.sdgtl.stamhubb" no idea what that is. a google search came back with only a couple hits. Others have removed it, not noticing anything. I do not recall removing that myself.
[Epic 4G General] wto605:
That's a program name not the APK name... try updating if you're ready and see if it will get past verification... if not see if you can find the APK name and follow the same procedure you did with others.
[Epic 4G General] Firon:
Here's a signed update that will not trash your recovery, kernel, or root. You do not need a stock kernel for this update.

It will restore only the required stock files/apps and update your modem, so as long as you're on DI07, it should successfully update.

I tested it already on my own phone, worked great.

http://firon.net/xda/SPH-D700-DI07toDI18.signed.zip

This way you don't need to restore a bunch of random files to update.
[Epic 4G General] brewsbro:
I appear to be all good. thanks everyone.
[Epic 4G General] ben.fg:
Hello,

The procedure for using this is to copy this to the SD card, rename update.zip, boot into recovery mode, select "apply sdcard:update.zip", correct? Or am I missing a step?

When I attempt this, I get a "E:signature verification failed Installation aborted." error.

Would appreciate any suggestions before I resort to flashing to stock. Thank you!

I am getting a
[Epic 4G General] Muckrak3r:
I am also wanting to know how to do this. I got the OTA update yesterday and it failed because I deleted Mail. I would like top know how to manually update to d118 w/out turning my epic into a brick. Any advice would be appreciated.
[Epic 4G General] nesl247:
I believe this requires clockwork recovery not the stock recovery.