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[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
ignore the apps mentioned above, those are only for voice commands, and voice features.

back to the Audio Quality part of the conversation, check to see what features does your in car bluetooth supports, and see if it's BT 2.0 or something else

see if it supports the AVRP features, and A2DP

try different music, some music plays and sound better than others

the phone comes with BT 3.0 and it's compatible with older BT 2.0 and 1.0

you should get good audio quality if all things are paired up properly with the better BT compatibility.

check what other audio features does the car support in regards to mp3, enable those as well

stream play high quality mp3 on the phone to the car at least 160 and up

128 some times have hisses

the source of the mp3 must be pure like from CD, DVD or BD

cheaply recorded or ripped audio from radio, or internet streams sounds horrible in the car
[Galaxy S I9000 General] elisavhelesburg:
I have a Parrot MKi9000 installed in my 2008 Passat (standard Highline Gala sound system & speakers) and the music streams beautifully over Bluetooth from the SGS. It's not an audiophile's dream, but the convenience beats everything. I'm more than satisfied with the quality.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] danmullen:
Bluetooth audio works great in my Mondeo, superb call quality. However, it only works for voice, not music. Shame...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] herbert1:
Beginning with Froyo, there is a new method startBluetoothSco (), which can be used to send and received audio to/from a bluetooth SCO headset while the phone is not in call. Of course, it's only for mono low quality sounds (16kHz or 8kHz) but it should allow user interaction via the car kit (reading sms, guidance or voice command, for example). :)

If your bluetooth car kit allows A2DP, the quality can be better, but you should not have problem to output sounds on the car audio
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tb5...:
just found the blackberry device i was talking about

here is the link for anyone who is interested in streaming media to the car over bluetooth.

http://androidnexus.com/guides/stre...droid-phone-to-your-car-stereo-over-bluetooth
[Galaxy S I9000 General] vrhunski:
ok so this is what I need to use insted of connecting SGS over AUX port?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tb5...:
apparently ya...

only thing queer about it is that you have to power it using a usb.

but ya should be as simple as hooking that up to your aux jack... and pairing with your SGS...

im gonna grab one soon ill bump this when i get it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] yani2000:
There are also apps for this in the Market.

Super BT Mono trial version for Eclair (2.1)!

Super BT Mono trial version for Froyo (2.2)!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
I think you are missing the point, the suggestion is well taken for whom ever though of using a mono headset to fake a stereo BT stream

but you do know we are talking about Streaming BT Stereo to a CAR audio system

streaming MONO will defeat the whole purpose of Streaming STEREO to the car audio system

right? ;)
[Captivate General] hokiemiata:
Wanted to get a read from folks as to what their Gut feel is. Are you confident that Sammy will really fix this? Any by fix, I mean the following. This comes from experiences with 2 HTC smartphones (Aria, and the Pure):

1. GPS locks in under 5 seconds in clear sky conditions

2. Usable navigation; IOW, 30-50m accuracy, again under ideal conditions.

3. Usable navigation such that it stays locked while driving at highway speeds.

TIA.
[Captivate General] cclem700:
I have not experienced any of the above issues (post update) except for the 5 second lock, and even my garmin can't do that. The cog2.2 had my gps jacked up so I reverted back and it works great again.
[Captivate General] born_fisherman:
I did My Tracks for the first time today and was surprised by the results - highway for 15 miles, 15 miles off (obtained the lock at highway speeds as well) But it lost me in this one dead area about a mile from my house - I drop most calls through this one area as well too.. must be a whole in the ozone :)

However! (Always a however, right?) Tonight while walking the dog around the neighborhood, the phone could see up to 12 satellites.. yet it didn't get a lock for over 5 minutes. <--- This is the biggest problem I have with the GPS on this phone. INCONSISTENT AS HELL.

What causes the inconsistency?? So since I've owned the phone (release day) and it's been this long and inconsistent from the beginning, I am beginning to lose my confidence in a real fix (at least Samsung can make some kind of formal announcement you know?)
[Captivate General] waiting4gingerbread:
My GPS has always worked. Stock JF6. Cognition 2, 2.1, 2.2.1-5. Anything I throw at it, it just works. Freeway, walking, indoors, etc. I think it is partly a hardware issue.
[Captivate General] msmalin1984:
Mine is fixed

I ordered my Captivate from AT&T's online store. GPS did not work, no matter what kind of settings I played with (lbstestmode, etc.). Got the update, no help. Took it back to the AT&T store and replaced it. Got the update and it works fantastically. If yours is still in the 30 day warranty period get it switched out.
[Captivate General] tsachi:
Considering that many people had the gps issue fixed with the ota update or with the newly released froyo, yet many still have problems, I think there are some bad phones. I'll try to get mine replaced even though it's outside the 30 days.
[Captivate General] jdsemler:
I'm on my second Captivate. I have no faith that GPS will be reliable enough to use for navigation purposes or apps like My Tracks or even Layar. The OTA update definitely helped, but turns and changes in direction throw it off by quite a bit.

About all it is good for is telling your weather app what city you are in.
[Captivate General] saint168:
For me, the GPS didn't work from the first day I bought the phone. It got a lot better after the OTA update. However, it's getting mess up again in the last few days. I've heard other people from this forum said the GPS will go bad after a few weeks, I guess that's happening to me now. Moreover, the lag seems to be getting worse too.
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
I'm running Cognition 2.2 FroYo and for the first time ever I got 11/11 sattelites locked. My ride home it stayed more or less dead on the street i was on, occassionally wavered onto the sidewalk a bit or whatnot in My Tracks. That's using the stock settings (spirent-lcs.com and Standalone, with Use Wireless Networks off). If this does not degrade over time, I'd call it fixed for sure.
[Captivate General] hokiemiata:
Keep it coming folks; seems like for the most part people's gut feel is about in line with mine. Im going to return my Captivate to Amazon and have them replace it to see if I can see any improvement. Not holding my breath though.
[Captivate General] climber1872000:
Mine has always worked on both of captivates. It's in no way perfect but it gets the job done.
[Captivate General] hokiemiata:
I just ordered a replacement Captivate from Amazon. I will then update the software to JH7 in the un-mollested state to see what kind of improvements I see, if any.

Crossed fingers............Bottom line, im not too confident.
[Captivate General] hokiemiata:
So I got my replacement Captivate from Amazon. The second I got it, I stepped outside to see if I can get a GPS lock. I stood there for 5 minute, and no lock.

So I did the software update; which worked. It didnt work on my "molested" captivate.

I then went outside for a drive. Locked very quickly I think 5 seconds. Accuracy was very good; certainly on par with the two HTC smart phones Ive owned.

Maybe its dumb luck that I got a good unit; but it seems not overly molesting your captivate is a good idea until people really understand the consequences.

EDIT: The above drive I mentioned was in neighborhood roads, at relatively low speeds. On my way to work it was definitely NOT as accurate as my HTC Pure. It showed me about 1 exit behind; was about a half or three quarters of a mile.
[Captivate General] brandonb81:
I just want to say that I called Samsung support directly yesterday and the guy told me that "he hasn't heard anyone else who's applied the JH7 update that said their GPS wasn't fixed."

SO CALL SAMSUNG SUPPORT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. Don't stop calling. They need to know the update didn't fix it!
[Captivate General] climber1872000:
They already know. I can guarantee you that some of their dev team consistently troll these forums.
[Captivate General] derek4484:
My GPS works pretty well, especially considering its a phone, since JH7 OTA update.

The problem you're talking about with locks under 5 seconds, isnt always going to happen. It depends on how long its been since the last time gps was used, and how close you are currently to where you last used it.

If you use it and then turn it off, and in a few hours turn it back on, at roughly the last location it was used, it'll get a very quick lock. If you wait days, it wont. If you use it at location A last, then are long ways away from that location when turning it back on, it wont get a quick lock, it has to calculate where its at based on new data from the satellites. Thats the nature of the beast with GPS. My Garmin in my car is the exact same way. If it has to do a cold start it sometimes takes up to 2 mins to get a lock. But once its got it, if I go in a store for a few mins and come right back out, it picks up location almost immediately.

Since JH7 I'd say my GPS performance more than meets my expectations for a mobile phone GPS.
[Captivate General] Tinyboss:
Started out very confident.

Less confident every day.
[Captivate General] sschrupp:
Yeah, I'm with you here.

When it came to the HTC video driver fiasco on many of their phones it was sickening that HTC wouldn't do anything about it, or even tackle the issue on future releases. But at least slower video performance than the hardware was capable of wasn't really a deal breaker when it was still working good. So I could understand why a company wouldn't invest a ton to fix it for already purchased phones.

This however is outright broken. It's not a phone with good video performance that COULD perform better with an update. It's a phone with a broken technology that can hopefully be FIXED with an update.

I don't know how Samsung will avoid lawsuits etc etc by manufacturing a blatantly broken piece of technology unless they can rectify the situation... quickly. I think their window is slowly closing on this type of scenario.

As for myself, the GPS problem just isn't an issue since I don't use the GPS anyhow. So I'm not a consumer frothing at the mouth, but the idea that I spent money on a fancy, but broken, phone leaves a bitter taste in that unfrothy mouth of mine.
[Captivate General] Uppsala9496:
I'm very confident. I put the leaked froyo from designgears on one of my phones and the lock was fast, and gps accurate. Drove from Chicago to Kohler, WI the other day (~130 miles) and ran gps on the phone along with my dedicated gps unit to check accuracy. Had no issues at all.

I think once 2.2 is released, all of the gps issues will be resolved if the leaked version is any indication.
[Captivate General] mobius911:
I'm guessing it's the sum of several issues causing problems.

1. Basic hardware configuration that results in worse signal-to-noise than other handsets.

2. Non-optimized settings that sporadically contribute to slow or poor locks

3. Some kind of software buffering or other issues that cause freeze-ups where the position doesn't update.

When my phone is working well I don't experience problems 2 and 3, and I can live with problem 1. When that's the case I get consistent tracking 95% of my trip. Sometime 2 and 3 seem to creep into the picture for no apparent reason. I hope and expect they will get those problems solved.
[Captivate General] chupacabrachus:
I'm running factory everything with the newest OTA update and my gps is useable now. I can get a signal indoors near a window and it will usually keep a lock after it has one. If they make it better still, great. If not, I am pleased enough with the current performance.
[Captivate General] CharlesIstus:
Confident they could fix it on a phone (or have) on their test captivates, in their development places of world, on AT&Ts settings, with the right copyrights/permissions/whatever else you need to use whomever servers.

Not Confident that they can reset the settings of everyone's phone to work acceptably with the "fix"

Hopefully, through the assimilation of expertise, hacks, and stubbornness in these forums we can get the troubleshooting we are going to need to get our settings the way they need to be to accept their "fix".
[Captivate General] JvKintheUSA:
I updated to FROYO a week ago on my ATT Captivate, and GPS still sucks. It seems that if I leave the GPS on standalone mode, it is working little bit better than on MS Based mode. The dot on Google maps is actually following me, whereas on MS Based it does not move. It is just bad that my older Blackberry gets a lock indoors and is accurate to 3 meters. It must have to do with the GPS receiver location/size, but even when the Captivate sees 5 or more satellites, it just won't lock consistently, even if I set the accuracy to 200 meters. I am not confident that this will or can be fixed.
[Captivate General] 88EVGAFTW:
My GPS works much better now with this new phone + JH7 OTA update. Locks within seconds. Used to take a good 10-15 seconds before.
[Captivate General] hokiemiata:
Update on My situation

As stated in my previous post, I replaced my Cappy, and updated it to JF7 successfully. At that point, it was working.

Two weeks on I am having problems again. It will lock while stationary, however as soon as I move, it gets screwed up again.

Called Samsung, and they said that they cant do anything more about it, and they offer to "Calibrate" it if I sent it in. So I got an RMA number to see what they can do.
[Captivate General] Dungeon47:
I'm running the beta Froyo on a 1008 batch Cappy, and I had piss-poor GPS for a while. Then I tweaked some LbsTestMode settings, and it started working okay. The real boost was the update to Google Maps. I don't know what or how that helped, but I get locks in half the time I used to with double the accuracy.

I just did a position test in my office, 10 feet from a window, in an area with 2-3 bars of cell service, and got a lock in 10-20 seconds with accuracy of 10-20 meters.

The trick is, I held it up a little while it searched for satellites. If i put it on my lap while I drive, it's iffy; if I hold it up, it works as good as my old iPhone 3GS did. Now I'm waiting for the Otterbox Defender, so I can use the belt-clip as a car mount for hands-free goodness.
[Captivate General] cbasse:
Hokiemiata - let us know how that goes. I was just offered the same option by samsung via their twitter rep. Not sure what I want to do yet.
[Captivate General] integrasaurus:
The rogers version of the captive does not seem to be affected by poor gps performance. Many people including myself have no problems locking on usually within 10 seconds, and accurate within 10m.

How it is possible? I have no idea, but seems like a software problem to me.
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
It has a different model number (i896) and probably manufactured much later than AT&T Captivate (most AT&T Captivates are manufacutured in late June to July) while i896 could be manufactured in early fall. They are not necessary the same hardware.
[Captivate General] integrasaurus:
You have a good point. Different model# = different hardware. I still believe it's worth looking into though.
[Captivate General] creepyncrawly:
If you read through the big Rogers thread, you'll see a bunch of people flashed an at&t rom and their GPS went to hell. Suggests software don't you think?
[Captivate General] avgjoegeek:
tis a crap shoot - sometimes it works great... other times not so much.

But I've been screwing with custom ROMs so much who know's what the real issue is for my particular device.

But.... I have never been able to use the Compass or Google Sky apps with any kind of success.

I hope and pray that when the "final" release of Froyo is released that the dev's can hack it enough to get it working.
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
At this point it's permanent.
[Captivate General] FIREONHIGH:
i hope they fix this pos,my old omnia2 tracks like a magnet on edge using att..no excuse for this pos....damn it,and add in data caps??? just as bad as our **** goverment,**** this goverment and you if you have **** to say fu to,,ok back to being happy about getting beat down
[Captivate General] jdsemler:
I flashed to Cog 2.3b, and lo and behold, GPS got incredibly better. I ran Google Maps, and it tracked me pretty well while I was driving today. It has slight drift on turns/curves, but it quickly corrected. I then went to Navigon, and it did very well at reading my speed with only once moving me one street over briefly, but it did often put me in the on-coming lane a few times.

I used to never get a lock, or if I did, I'd get a lock and no tracking, as well as a huge circle of uncertainty.

This has me hopeful. I don't think it will ever be as good as every other phone or handheld GPS I've used, but I do think I can at least use it to get un-lost if I need to now.
[Wildfire General] simonkud:
i just bought htc wildfire and i have 2.1 android...how can i instal 2.2 android(froyo)

THANKS!!!!
[Wildfire General] Elbie:
At current there are NO 100% stable 2.2 (froyo) ROM's avalible. (Apart from the shipped chinese ROM)

Feel free to check out the following threads though for help and advice on testing out a 2.2 based rom

OpenFire

PuzzleRom

Hope that helps
[Wildfire General] leepriestenator:
@OP

Using titles like HELP! does not really HELP.

Learn to use more descriptive titles. Also this post does not belong in the Android Development section.

Changed the Title and moving this to the General section.
[Wildfire General] CrimzonEyed:
Have anyone tried to flash the cn 2.2? i know you dont have root after but what kind of speed difference have they had?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] igotsthemagicinme:
so there are a few apps in my drawer that i would like to make disappear...not disable! i downloaded smart bar, because it said it could hide apps, and their hidden alright...and disabled! i quickly uninstalled it and now theyre not showing back up and idk wat to do

grr

on a sidenote, im sure i can get this fixed (i have a nandroid of like 20 minutes before i tried this), but is there a solid option for hiding certain apps in sense?

tia
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] igotsthemagicinme:
also, i went to manage applications in hopes to clear the data and theyll reappear...but their not listed. i cleared senses data (because in order for them to take effect, it asked to restart sense) and still no go

starting to get worried guys.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _MetalHead_:
Not sure about Sense but it is a built in function of LauncherPro.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] igotsthemagicinme:
ok... thanks for the helpful response

anybody???
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WIIstpM:
SUch an old Thread but I wanna answer anyway XD

When you enterSmart Bar Go to Application Manager then press your option/menu button, there will be the Hidden apps buttonand then you'll be able to unhide them!!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] ogkhaze:
Can somebody port either one of these EVO theme's for the Incredible?

I would like it to work on CM6, or ShadowROM..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=769840

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=738691
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] asctony:
When using Gallery it shows all types of pics regardless if they are photos, Icons, Defaults, FrmStart, FrmQuick, Popups, alarms, data, etc. Is there an app that will allow you to pick/choose what is brought up and displayed? I don't want or need to see all this extra junk. Thanks in advance.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mastajest:
The easiest "app-less" way to do this is to place a .nomedia file in the directories you want not to show up. You can also place a "." in front of the name of the directory (folder) itself, but this will cause problems if that folder is used by android or other apps.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] asctony:
I have the nomedia app. So, this also works for music and all media files, too. Thank you!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] asctony:
Used the Find All option for nomedia app and it only ID 5 Directories. Tried Multi-Select and it showed all directories. Picked the ones that I thought I could ID that do not contain Pics/Photos and that is most of them. However, even then I still have over 30 more items shown using Gallery that do not really contain pics/photos such as:

various apps, browser, common, controls, data, default, frmaddalarm, and other frm items, icons, etc.

So, this is not the answer to reducing items that show up in Gallery. Any other suggestions? Thanks again.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Smaniac:
Hi,

I've had my Touch Pro for around 2 years now, and some keys are starting to get hard to press, so I have to press them harder or else they won't work.

It's happening on a few keys, but most notably the left shift.

I did some research and the only solution I found was this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=450583

But I think that would be a last resort solution. Is there a simpler way to fix the keys, preferably without having to open the phone?

Thanks.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] erikon:
oo same here! my space, C, backspace and left key are hard to press.

btw I have had mine for about 1 year now.

edit: tried to open my at&t fuze to hammer those incisions but I couldn't get the keyboard off the main part
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] hartleyshc:
Remove the keyboard and line it back up. The keyboard is all one piece.

If problem still happens, get a new keyboard. They're cheap on ebay. $10-$20USD.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] mailforkrishna:
I have a Touch Pro Keyboard to offer you guys