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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkstriker:
Not wanting wp7 is simple ignorance. You either have no technical skill or never owned a windows mobile phone. Next to wimo, android is a crying baby that needs its diaper changed. And to be honest I have never seen a media player that had an interface anywhere near the level of perfection that zunes have.

Don't take me wrong, android is nice but wp7 has a lot of potential. If microsoft used their existing interface well, wp7 *could* easily whoop androids ass.

If there is a similarly spec'ed phone out at some point, i would definitely want to see a port.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hacksome:
Relax.. ! Windows Phone 7 Limitations - http://tknts.in/1tp
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FirefoxRuels:
how could you not want it? just look at the media player on it...it's the only thing we lack on android and the thing I miss about my iphone
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icibt:
What have you been drinking mate?

I have owned quite a few WM phones and I just got rid of my HTC Diamond and I for sure don't want to see any WM phone again, at least for now. :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BenF1:
I thought WinMo was great. Unless Froyo is good, I'm jumping ship to the Dell Thunder.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spitfire128:
Windows Phone 7 is nothing like WM6.5 and earlier. It's really locked down, modern, it looks like it will be much more reliable, and I think it looks pretty awesome altogether.

That said I don't mind sticking with Android for now. I like customizing stuff. Dual-booting Android/WP7 would be awesome, of course, but probably too good to be true.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MAMBO04:
Yeah you just CAN'T compare WM6.5 to WP7. They are totally different, having owned an i900 before i know how bad WM6.5 was but i actually don't mind trying 7 on the SGS, its very capable and has the processor. Whats the problem of not having it on the SGS (apart from the closed source part)? Nothing, it would be interesting, just like how the HTC HD2 has Android/WM6.5 and now they have begun porting WP7 to it. I may get a HD2 to play, extremely capable phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dupel:
Yeah, awesome OS. Though there is this minor detail - it is even more impotent than Iphone. Seriously, it cant do anything except look nice (and I actually hate how it looks).

Basically - its an Iphone that has less apps, worse UI, less features. And dont even bigin to compare it with android or nokia stuff.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ibanez33:
Personally I would rather focus on getting the phone to run android well before looking dual booting..

personally I would rather have ios over wp7..

Which is a bit of a flaw in the Poll as you can only say no.. which is what I did although not apposed to idea of dual booting I don't care about WP7..

But as stated by someone earlier the samsung WP7 handsets are rocking snapdragons which while not making it impossible is a big spanner in the works on a closed source OS..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anton2079:
I would love to see WP7 on my Android Phone

Would be nice just to play with

However I don't see myself moving from Android anytime soon...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shujitzu:
I want windows phone 7.

Can't wait....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WickedStyx:
Since WP7 is closed source you have as much chance of dual booting WP7 on the Galaxy S as dual booting iOS. The only possibility would be to get a WP7 to dualboot into Android.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cantIntoCode:
I'm pretty sure iOS won't run on anything that's not Apple labelled. I'm sure it would be VERY hard to get this near anything that doesn't start with "i".
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stephengoo:
Agree, WP7 is closed source, so it is difficult to make a custom ROM for Android phones, especially WP7 is not optimized for Samsung's HummingBird, you can see all newly Samsung Windows phones are running on Snapdragon CPU.

So if someone can port WP7 to Android, then it cannot be Galaxy S as it used Hummingbird.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deezy7:
Everyone saying WP7 is closed source makes a good point, the other way is no problem I guess, since Android is open. That sux :(

Can someone explain to me the importance of the type of processor and how it's integrated with the OS? I didn't know the software was so intricately married to the hardware. I figured as long as they're both 1ghz, the phone would have enough power. :S

It's a shame, because it looks like most people would love to see the dualboot happen.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
Yes & No

The CPU and hardware are not related, it just the driver included in the OS to support the hardware that is the sticky point in most OS ports.

Since Samsung have so many similar phones out with Win7, Bada, Android

it might not be too hard to port it over, just like porting OS from one HTC phone to another, it is just a matter of gathering all the required drivers, and modify the OS to show up properly on the screen size.

However the big problem on this is the Win7 licenses, which will make it illegal to do such a feast

so, it's technically possible just not legally viable.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
And if iOS was easily portable, apple would just start embedding keys in a TCPA chip (or even their custom CPU's).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deezy7:
Okay cool...good explanation, thanks. So...it's just a matter of mapping the drivers...and legality...hmm...I'm sure someone would love that challenge!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stev85x:
Will it possible for Samsung Galaxy S to install Windows 7 mobile

Hi guys,

Samsung Focus (AT&T) built is something alike to Samsung Galaxy S

I'm thinking whether will it possible to format the current android operating system and install windows 7 mobile into it.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
ROFL ROFL... MUAHAHHA Has April 1st come early for next year? :) ROFL....No its not possible but I heard Mac OS X is
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faresmasouty:
ahhh yes it is possible

maybe not with the people who are on xda due to the lack of intrest from them but if u bring 200 developers and put them in a romm with both phones and give them 3 month and a good calary they will make wp7 run on sgs and android om the other guy

nothing is impossible
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phexi:
Sure, it's limited by the hardware requirements... the galaxy s fit's them exactly, but it will not work without emulation... and this needs much better hardware than the minimum requirements of Win7.. ita est: You will be able to run win98, maybe WinXP when you are lucky.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dillovic:
If Windows phone 7 gives the user more control about what apps send out what kind of information to 3rd parties and if it has a native "record call" feature, I'd definitely be interested in flashing Windows onto my Galaxy S.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chk230:
This is what happens when bill gates starts using xda forums :p
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compuse:
hehe, I recorded calls on my s700 (SE and 6 years old) and on my Nokia N73 (4years old) .. doesn't feel reason enough to perform heresy upon my sgs =/
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
all topics asking about WinMo on SGS merged
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Racpu_:
Port ROM WM7 Omnia7 to Samsung Galaxy S

Hi..

The Hardware of Samsung Omnia 7 WM7 is similar to Samsung Galaxy S, but the CPU of Omnia is a 1GHz Snapdragon QSD8250 CPU and galaxy is Hummingbird 1GHz.

They think it will be possible some day the Port of some WM7 for the Galaxy?

Sorry for English... But i am portuguese...

:cool:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duke0102:
There's been a fair few posts asking this. the summaries of those posts are Why? Just buy a WM7 phone? Way too difficult and probably not legal.

I recommend getting the HD2, similar phone running WM lol
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SargeRX8:
WM ruined the HD2, why ruin a Galaxy S with WM?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barakoas:
Why the hell you would do that?android is better in every way!

But I have to admit that omnia 7 looks good :) but I guess I would get bored really quick with that OS on it :P
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dckiwi:
Cos its not Wm...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] huxflux2003:
Please, don't.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seifer1975:
The more I read about wp7, the more it resembled a first generation iOS. Even apple has improved on the iOS. I wonder why MS still insists on pushing out this crap. It's going the way of the kin, as far as I am concerned.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SargeRX8:
Oops, sorry, it worse. I like the way Microsoft removed copy/paste because they think people wont use it. Android added it because it was demanded. Google listen to customers and users, Microsoft listen to Microsoft.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaju123:
I wouldn't mind having a choice of os lol. Can't complain about that really.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Billus:
No, they just created a more intuitive form of copy and paste. Traditional form of copy and paste will be introduced as early as 2011. Get your facts straight before you talk.

Windows Mobile is still the most functional and most advanced "smartphone" OS on the market. Technically speaking, this was perhaps the only true smartphone OS where users actually did have their computers in their pockets. Lets face it, if it was indeed more touch friendly, it would have easily lasted another year or two without losing any market share. There was nothing really wrong about Windows Mobile other than the hardware that was powering it, particularly those (if not all except the HD2) that used resistive technology.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t1mman:
It was, indeed, pretty close to being the whole OS in the smartphone, but do you realy want this as a device?

Don't get me wrong, I love windows as an OS, but on a full blown computer... on my device, I want quick access to what I need. And that is given by Android/iOs way better than WM (don't know for 7, but 6.5 and less).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxbat121:
In many aspects, Android OS is very close to original WM with the addition of modern features like touch UI.

That being said, all WP7 (not WM anymore) phones currently released all use SnapDragon processor, probably due to the lack or GPU drivers for other processors like Hummingbird. So, it won't be an easy and direct port from Omnia 7 to SGS. I've no doubt someone at XDA will be working on it but since Windows Phone OS is not a free OS, it is not a legally viable option.

P.S. at least old WM and WP7 phones can get the exchange emails and calendars all right. Same can't be said for SGS even in its latest firmware (incorrectly parsed URL in email, phone numebrs and URLs are not parsed in calendar at all, duplicate meeting entries in calendar).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
merged again
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
Screw cut n paste, I want true non core app multi tasking
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sys14:
Windows phone 7 on my phone

Can I install GUI of Windows phone 7 on my Galaxy S? Is there any launcher :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sys14:
WP7

are there any answer?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t1mman:
Yeah, there's many answers already...

You can find them using the search fonction!

Good luck!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
Hmmm there's a app for zune gui called zune home. There's also a widget app forthat allows you to make pictures launch stuff buy I can't rem its name

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sys14:
thanks. Another question. Can I insert on my phone this simple features? :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvmPyJh3fY0

Please go to 00:12 seconds
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnnie93:
For now NO! because its like asking if we can port iOS on Android which will never happen :D, until Microsoft releases the Source code for the whole WP7-OS then we can get it ported but i don't see that happening any time soon..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sys14:
Can you answer on this question, please?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnnie93:
if you mean the lock screen then i'm sure someone can make it possible! but it wont be a direct port it would be a whole new Application :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sys14:
I mean the scrolling that there is in the home page (at 00:12 seconds on this video)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t1mman:
Zune Home is an interface, it's not the WP7. Get it and you'll see if it has the drag lilke the real deal.

But then, if you want the real deal you should buy a WP7 phone,

because (as explained many times on the many thread like this one created):

-OS is not open source, to get it on SGS, we would need a "similar" device with the same hardware (CPU and GPU are realy specific here) and someone to make a bootloader like Haret

-System is NOT open source, so SOURCE is NOT OPEN (IE: Not available to the public). Android is easely ported because it's OPEN SOURCE

-When an OS is not OPEN SOURCE, you have to pay loyalties (IE: Licenses) to legaly run the software.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killer1995:
Windows mobile 7

Hey, is possible windows mobile 7 on SGS?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Intratech:
It is but you'll have to port it yourself. Nobody wants that POS operating system on their phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
There are multiple treads about this subject, just use the search function ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killer1995:
I am not good and i was thinking then somebody do this. I like windows OS
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bynar010:
Buy one then
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Croak:
I bought one, full retail, on Monday. On Wednesday, I sold it for a $150 loss. It was that bad. Phone was fine, the OS is locked down, buggy, incapable of a lot of basic functions (like connecting to a hidden WiFi network), there's no USB storage mode, no real support for expanding the locked down storage, you can't even sync directly with Outlook via your PC for crying out loud and this is a Windows product. It's also infuriatingly slow to do basic tasks, because of the amount of swiping and clicking and swiping you need to do. Hell, you can't even just dial a phone number, firing up the phone application ALWAYS brings you to the call logs first, then you have to click again to get to the dialer, which is not even a smart dialer.

Long story short, WP7 is an OS for people who thought an iPhone was too complicated. You know, those folks that can't even set the clock on their microwave oven and think a CD-ROM tray is a cupholder. And even in that respect, Microsoft failed due to how badly they did what they set out to do.

The only standout feature of the device is the Zune functionality, and even that sucks if you're not in the US, because you can't get the best thing about Zune, which is the Zune Pass.

I should add that I'm a MSFT stockholder, I used to get paid (well) by Microsoft, and I have good friends working there still. I generally LIKE Microsoft, I'm not a hater, but this OS is doomed to failure. Point releases won't fix it, maybe they'll do a better job with WP8, if the mobile OS division isn't shut down before then.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dckiwi:
So that's a no then I take it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
Best review of Windows Phone 7 I've seen.. Good work Croak :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emms:
i couldn't said it any better if i tried. wp7 is doomed
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tremere:
Hi all,

I was flashing between Jf6 and JH7 today, wanted to see if flashing JH7 via different methods would give me a 3 button fix. (If it did fix it then flashing via Kies mini didn't do the job)

Ironically it backfired when Odin froze and I flipped out the battery

(Hey, I've been at the dl screen before when it was doing nothing and it survived!)

I plug the USB in, I get the exclamation screen

Do it with volume keys pressed, still get it

Hold down the volume + power and the screen goes blinking between exclamation and blank. I've tried releasing power keys at each point in those screens

I even took a video incase I'm not doing it right. Odin is running in the background. No USB plug-in 'pings' from Windows, as you can hear.

[YOUTUBE]gQ7OmUTmR4I[/YOUTUBE]

Anything I can do?

btw my bat build date is 8/13.. that bad week :(

I'm in Australia (bought phone off ebay) so sending it back to the States will be a bit of trouble.. I'm hoping I can work something out with the ebay seller otherwise I'll buy another cappy and hope someone finds the jtag points I guess.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Bishop:
same here. no button combo method that previous worked is working now. :/
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Bishop:
OP, did you see this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=775911

not working for me, but maybe it'll help you ... ?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomerod:
You may also want to try removing and then reinstalling the Samsung USB drivers on your PC.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tremere:
I've verified there is simply no USB device being registered no matter what OS, the phone is just sucking power.

@The_Bishop: Did see that, exactly the same as yours, plug usb in, get that screen

Anyone want to be awesome and send my Capppy back to Samsung on my behalf?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sarsourus:
best method that never dies when i was in your situation......

unplug usb, turn phone off, then put battery in, turn odin on, now hold volume buttons ONLY then insert usb in phone, you will see download mode with odin identifying the port;

hope it worked ?!?!?!?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tremere:
Believe me I have tried everything. There is simply was and still is no way to enter recovery or download mode on this phone. Its hardware locked!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YoungGun821:
a little off topic, but how do i find my phones "bat build date" ?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] terrigan:
I had the exact same problem. If you do a battery pull.. hold down both volume buttons and plug the usb cable into the phone while it's hooked to PC then it bumps you into Download mode. I did the exact same thing you did and am running froyo at the moment.

Oh.. no power button.. just both volume buttons.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tremere:
Is on the underside of the battery, one facing into the slot.

i.e 2010.08.13

Done that. Exactly what happens in video. Both volume buttons down, plug in usb.. no response, just brick screen.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] terrigan:
I had the same problem.. the phone didn't register USB.. have you rebooted the computer? I believe i did that at one point.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tremere:
I did try once or twice. From another thread it was also said to disable driver verification on windows startup for x64 machines. which I also did.

Basically I want to hear from someone who:

a) has a captivate that could never enter dl/rescue via buttons, only adb

b) captivate didn't trigger a plug in 'ping' from Windows until they ??

FYI this is a Macbook Pro, and I booted into Win7 x64 Pro for flashing.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dan96815:
Hi I have the same problem..

What I did was this rooted with one click.. loaded Cognition 2.1.6 all was good..I saw the froyo so I thought lets try it. so opened up ODIN put it in recovery mode. with ADB could never get it in the button way.. it started to load and it froze. I didn't disable voodoo and IS THAT WHY I AM STUCK? I have tried every combo changed drivers computer will not see the phone.. is it a AT&T Phone

IS there anyway to fix it?? or can someone make a program to fix this? I would make a big donation if they did!!!

Thanks Forum!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tremere:
Yeah I had it in adb mode to enter download mode, maybe that is why it won't start back up.

I've now given the phone to a local mobile repair business, if riffbox or someone comes out with a Captivate rescue soon its probably as a end result of me :p
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Bishop:
I sent mine back to Samsung as well. BTW, I have a battery from 2010.08.12 so I might be in the same boat. Wish I'd have used one of my OEMs to see if that made any difference, but I did not. :/
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmikulus:
I have the same issue.

Rooted my phone through adb, which was fine. Couldn't get into recovery/download modes with hardware before then.

Now my phone is bricked, and not detected or even charging via USB.

wtf
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Colton5419:
If the repair shop cant fix it try this:

1.) Remove Battery, SIM Card and External SD

OR

2.) Press and HOLD VOL UP AND DOWN with USB inserted and THEN slap in the battery.

This worked for me, for some reason inserting the battery last did the trick.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dan96815:
Let me know if anyone finds a solution to this I have tried it all and my computer will not detect my phone. Has Samsung blocked this in there firmware?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Colton5419:
Did you try what I posted above?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dan96815:
yep nothing if I could get it to detect in command prompt I could force it but it won't... the button thing didn't even work when the phone worked!

So ....
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edipozturel:
Is there a way to lock the screen for inputs but still see the display?

When using navigation software holding the phone in the hand, accidental touchs on the screen yields to undesired inputs. I want the display to be on, but inputs from the touch screen to be off.

Thanks already.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] floepie:
I've successfully used MM to push a solitary modified XML into the framework-res.apk, but it wasn't very graceful. There was no request to reboot, and the phone sort of hanged, rebooted by itself without the bootanimation and straight to the lock screen.

A subsequent reboot straightened everything out with the results of the new XML apparent. Is it the intention of MM to push XML files or only image files?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] junkdruggler:
yes thats what it is for.. It can't write new ones tho.. Only overwrites...

The hanging half reboot is normal... Happens to me all the time when I modify the framework..
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] floepie:
OK, great, thanks. One more question regarding the editing the compiled XML files if I could. Right now, in order to decompile an XML, I take an APK and extract it with the APK tool and overwrite the existing XML with the one I want to edit. I then zip the APK, then decompile it in order to edit it with Notepad++. I do the reverse of those steps in order to convert the decompiled XML back to the compiled format.

Is there an easier way of either using the APK tool or a different method altogether to convert the XML back and forth from one format to the other?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] junkdruggler:
Apk manager takes some if that hassle away.. Its in the android themes section or the g1 section... Not sure which but danesh is a knowledgeable person and does good work with brut making all this easier..