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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jon:
I've been working on a boot animation myself, I have yet to find an answer (I haven't asked) to this question I was going to just go with trial and error.

How many 'slides' are you going to use?

I would take the average number of frames you see in the other boot animations, divide it by your number and duplicate each slide by the result.

Anyway, if you find an answer to your question outside of this thread, please post it or shoot me a PM I would appreciate it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenewguy821:
I will probably just take an average time of the boot animation from a ROM, and determine the slide count from there. Having each slide up for 1 or 2 seconds. I know there is an additional file in the bootanimation zips that tells the phone how to show the animation. I didn't know if that has to be customized for the animation, or if I can re-use that file and just replace the image files.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evohack99:
Just open one up stick some pics in it and try to see if it works.

Sent from my netarchy_toast, froyo beast of a machine evo!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluebeast213:
You must be talking about the desc file. It can be reused. It tells the animation how to act.

It will look something like this

480 800 30 (resolution....don't change...but the "30" is the fps...lower it to slow it down)

p 1 0 part0 (the 1 means loop one time, the 0 means 0 sec delay, part 0 is the folder)

p 0 0 part1 (the 1st 0 means infinite loop, 0 sec delay, part 1 folder)

so in this animation, part 0 would play 1 time then part 1 would loop until boot....all at 30 fps.

hope that helps.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenewguy821:
If I am understanding this right, and PLEASE tell me if I am wrong. lol

If I want to use 5 frames and run for 5 seconds, I can change the 30 to 1, and each frame will show for 1 second. If I leave everything else alone, It will loop one time, showing each frame for 1 second, then go to the 2nd folder (Part1). If I just put one Frame in the part one folder, it will just show that one frame "on an infinate loop" until the phone comes on?

btw, Thanks for the info.

One more question, IF I wanted to use a short vid clip, is there a way to extract frames?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluebeast213:
Correct you are. That was the example that I gave.....make sure and check the one that you are putting your files in though because it may not be the same. lol

No Prob.:D

I am sure there is a program that will extract pics from a vid......but I'm not sure what because I've never tried...sorry.

P.S. when you are rezipping the file, make sure that your zip prog is set to "store" and NOT "compress".
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenewguy821:
I also notice there is a Meta-inf file, which contains Cert.rsa, Cert.sf and Manifest.mf

Should I do anything with these files?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluebeast213:
That is the signing file. If I remember correctly, you shouldn't have to resign a boot.....so no.....no need to mess with them.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenewguy821:
I tried using a Flashable bootanimation zip for my trial. I unzipped, replaced the files, edited the text, changed the boot sound to the desired clip (renaming it the same), re-zipped making sure to set to store, not compress. I keep getting a "cant find update script" error.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenewguy821:
Got it.... I tried using a regular bootanimation (non flashable) and installed with Pushboot.

Thanks for all the help. Now I just have to mess with the timing.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluebeast213:
No problem....glad you got it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenewguy821:
Again, thanks for the help. Now I just have to figure out how to make a preview and upload it. The only thing that didn't come out quite right, but it still looks good, is I tried to set it up for landscape, and it still shows as portrait. I am assuming I would have to rotate the images to the right layout, and save them to the file that way.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coniglio:
I`ve just found out that Samsung would "send" us the update that most of us were waiting for a long a time. However, I have no idea if I would be able to get it or not.

Why? I went to NY a couple of months ago and I bought the phone over there... I came back to Europe and I am using the phone without problems except for this issue with the GPS.

I am still able to receive this update even after unlock the phone to use it overseas? If not, what can I do? I have never rooted my phone or any other of those things, to be honest I dunno much about phones.

What are the benefits of rooting? What are the ROMS for? (just trying to catch up a bit without creating 2 threads :D).

Cheers!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krook6023:
Moved to Q&A and edited forst post and title.

I guess you have a valid question cocnerning the GPS and Update....but if you want to know about Rooting and ROMS start reading...all the info you require can be found with out starting a new thread.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coniglio:
Thanks!

Somebody? Please!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coniglio:
No one? Please :( help me out :D
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coniglio:
Ive been to T-Mobile here in Germany and they have no idea about this! It would be so nice if I could get this info somewhere :(
[Epic 4G General] boomerbubba:
Just looked at a teardown report of the Epic 4G (hat tip to los1223). It appears that the Epic 4G does not even use the same GPS chip as its GSM cousins. This is certainly news to me, because reading the tea leaves I have assumed that all Galaxy S phones shared the same GPS hardware, even if the software was in different stages of development and debugging.

According to the teardown, the Epic 4g uses the multifunction Qualcomm QSC6085 for GPS functions. (Presumably this is because of the CDMA radio, so the Fascinate design is probably similar.) Previous analysis the GSM variants, based on the international I9000 model as well as the Captivate and the Vibrant, showed they use a Broadcom BCM4751 chip.

This would explain why the symptoms of the GPS problems on the Epic, and the firmware modules, are not the same as those on the GSM variants. But amazingly, it seems that Samsung managed to screw up two different GPS designs in two different ways.
[Epic 4G General] othan1:
Is one chip better than the other?

I know my co-worker's TMobile Galaxy S (Captivate, Fascinate, Masticate...whatever) just recently received the GPS update and he states it is now spot on and very quick to lock.

Didn't ask about any hard coded location, though, like ours. I'll have to do that on Monday.
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
Thats ame gps as the motorola droids use I think

The new QSC6085 features include:

Support for EV-DO Rev. A with backward compatibility to EV-DO Rel. 0 and CDMA2000

Equalizer technology for increased EV-DO data throughput

Powerful GPS location capabilities, including gpsOne(R) multi-mode hybrid assisted GPS technology, enabling a broad variety of location services such as navigation, social, safety and security applications

Up to 3 megapixel camera support with anti-shake capability

15 fps video encode and decode capability

72-voice polyphonic ringtones with support for multiple audio codecs

Multiple technologies to improve network capacity, including QUALCOMM Linear Interference Cancellation (QLIC(TM)) with pilot and traffic cancellation, and Fourth Generation Vocoder(TM) (4GV(TM)), published as the EVRC-B 3GPP2 standard codec, which gives network operators the flexibility to prioritize voice quality or network capacity

Support for multiple bands, including 800 Mhz, 1900 Mhz and the AWS band (1700/2100 Mhz), with mobile receive diversity

Cost-effective 65 nm process technology and a 12 mm x 12 mm package size
[Epic 4G General] vansmack:
Let me first lead off by same I'm not an expert on chipsets. That being said, I did a lot of research on the QSC6085 when I was looking to see if it supported TV out or if we were never going to have that feature (I can honestly tell you that I don't know enough about this stuff for a conclusive answer, but right now I'm guessing no for the 3.5mm port).

Anyhow, the QSC6085 is an integrated processor that does a lot of this with one chip rather than having multiple chips that do many individual things. The purpose was to reduce costs and potentially, create power savings as well.

The other galaxy S phones (at the least the GSM ones) have a dedicated GPS chip to where the Epic's/Fascinate's baseband modem (QSC6085) handles all kinds of things, including GPS.

Other devices that use the QSC6085 (like the Droid, Droid 2 and my Sierra Wireless modem) do not seem to have the same GPS problems as the Epic/Fascinate which tells me it's a Samsung implementation issue and not a problem with the chip.
[Epic 4G General] heygrl:
It's either the software (highly likely, no reason for us to not get a fix within seconds even if it is horribly inaccurate) or an insensitive GPS antenna. The GPS antenna is easily spottable on the Vibrant and Fascinate. It's covered by black tape next to the SD card on the Fascinate, it should be the same on the Epic 4G.
[Epic 4G General] aero1:
the snr numbers and the cold start fix tell us it is both, mainly software though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S4Rs:
Is there a way to have both these keyboards installed at the same time?

I am using the stock froyo one from this

http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7493528&postcount=18

and the droid x keyboard from this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=754948

it seems like these apks insist that you overwrite one keyboard to install the other, but wasn't sure if someone knew a way of changing an apk to change the name of the program and possibly folder/file structure so that they dont step on each other.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bloodykiller86:
yea there is....go http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=764021 and just follow punk.kaos instructions. it works just fine dont use the black one though as its bugged but the reg one is fine and i actually find it more accurate
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sporkman:
also WRONG section
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S4Rs:
That link just replaces the stock android keyboard. I want to have both on my android device at the same time. Thats the reason i put this in the development thread. Is there a way to develop a new apk with the interals of another but change the name of the app in the apk?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] thedauntlessone:
Please vote ONLY if you have the international version of the I9000 16GB. No 8GB please!

Since us Canadians are experiencing massive issues with our I9000M dying, we would like to know if the international brethren have the same problem.

Poll is going to be simple

Please state how long you've own the phone, and how long have you been using your current configuration

I voted by accident, -1 vote to dead sd without lagfix 2.1. Sry about that.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Electroz:
Not a bad idea, but I haven't seen a single report on these forums about a dead internal SD card on an international Galaxy S I9000.... I'm pretty sure it's a Canadian I9000M issue only...

Edit: I guess I was wrong. Maybe this is a good idea after all!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sonci:
Sorry for hijacking

Is it possible to replace internal sd on these phones?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
yes, but you will need to replace the entire motherboard, so not really
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
stickied

I've been wanting to see this for a long while as I've come across several people in the forum with this problem on the I9000 version, not I9000M

also I know of Retail Stores having problems with 16GB I9000 version, and keeping them on stock due the constant return/exchange, according to the sales guys all 16GB versions seems to have the internal SD problem.

the 8GB I9000 version in the other hand seems to be less affected, return rate due internal SD issues are rare.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mazroui:
i9000M dying due to using the lagfixes ? or just a manufacturing problem?

i voted working sd with lagfix 2.1 , my i9000 was bought as soon as it was available in the UAE even before Etisalat got to it. It was running the JHJP4 FW

and ever since have been rooted/lagfixed with OCLF/Voodoo tried OC1.2 and back to voodoo+oclf, going strong no problems what so ever YET

about FW only upgraded from JHJP4 to JPJG8 and the last config was removing the 1.2oc kernal + voodoo and reverted back to voodoo V4 + Oclf as its working flawlessly with no black screen problems(unresponsive) since 2 weeks now.

battery was always a problem but i guess i got used to having my phone on the charger whenever i can and even if its in the 80-90% area
[Galaxy S I9000 General] thedauntlessone:
The I9000M 16GB are just dying from corrupted MoviNand from an unknown cause. It's pretty much concluded Lagfix is not killing the phone, just accelerating the defective phones to die faster (within days). I"m just following a similar poll structure from the I9000M poll thread.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Darkstriker:
GT-I9000

owned for almost 4 months

Used lagfix(es) for about 3 months (ext2 loops (+/-2months) and ext4 reformats (+/-1month) on internal SD)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] deathst:
No Issues Here...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] seltaeb:
No issues so far

I've using the international version with 16 GB internal SD for about two months. Initially with the stock ROM (Eclair JF1, I think) and Voodoo lag-fix and now with Froyo JPM without any lag-fix.

No problems so far (keeping fingers crossed though).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tupique:
I own SGS GT-I9000 for a month, Android 2.1 Eclair, the internal SD card (16GB) works with and without lag fix.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Prasad:
Internal SD working with lagfix (OCLF till date, trying voodoo from today) - Eclair 2.1 (stock ROM) on SGS I9000 16GB. And what exactly do you guys mean by "dead" ? Does it work after a reformat or does it become completely unusable ? Also, would that be covered by the warranty ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] seltaeb:
Don't bother with Voodoo. I probably have exactly the same hardware as you and the new JPM is working very well for me even without a lag-fix. I suggest you upgrade to that (via the registry hack) or just wait for a few days for the official India release.

I did have Voodoo lag-fix on my stock Eclair earlier, but frankly I didn't notice any difference. But then I wasn't having lag problems as such and just installed it out of curiosity :p

BTW, the warranty should cover a dead SD card. I bought mine in Croma, Mumbai and they said everything (including non-functional buttons etc) is covered, except damage caused directly caused by the user (broken screen etc). Not that i'd take their word for it. Also, not sure if rooting etc voids the warranty (anyways, I didn't buy the extended one they were plugging).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jbrugger:
Got the i9000 16G for about a month now, memory seems to be fine till now.

Using the OCLF on JPM.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Prankey:
I also would like to know what is meant by "dead" internal SD.

I have voted for "2.2 working with lagfix", however guess will have to remove lagfix, fill the system and cache (2GB) partition completely (somehow) and the rest (13.xGB) as well completely.

We could load the internal SD as mass storage and run chkdsk (in Windows) to scan for bad clusters. If we do find some, guess there is some issue with the internal SD and we should go for a warranty claim.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
been using my phone for 3 months now with and w/o lagfix and my internalSD works fine.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DaRkMyk:
4 months ECLAIR without lagfix and never modified anything.. my internal SD is still fine!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] thedauntlessone:
I have explained on the first page already.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] thedauntlessone:
There are plenty of information in the other thread about the i9000m. This is for the international version. As to whether you should install lag fix depends if you want to take the chance to see if your phone has a defective sd card. Lag fix doesn't kill your phone, it only will accelerate the inevitable.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dreamtheater39:
No issues with my sd....its been 5 months now.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Valeo:
Nearly 3 months here and no issues with the internal SD (Eclair, no lag fix).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sciacallo010:
I voted "Internal SD working with lagfix - Froyo 2.2" but it always worked with and without lagfix on eclair and froyo
[Galaxy S I9000 General] android.man:
No problem so far.. hope don't get any trouble in the future.. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] forgetmyname:
Evening,

I have 16Gb Portuguese GT-I9000HKATPH.

I have had the SGS for since the 19th of September 2010

Stock 2.1, no lagfix.

The internal SD has 9Gb of data on it, of which 99% of this contains .avi files. Primarily full length films and 14 episodes of Firefly. The files were written to the SD once. The Firefly episodes and films are watched at least once a day for 44 mins.

Regards.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] KramitDfrog:
I have had it for about 2 months, australian optus model. I installed the one click lagfix and now apparently my SD is dying, because it keeps unmounting itself. So far I've gotten it to re-mount by rebooting the phone, but I'm trying to back everything up now.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] laggo:
Stock JH2 1.5 months, dead SD. Only ran OCLF for about a week then reset back to stock. Died about 3 weeks after I reset.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kiwijunglist:
this poll would be skewed, as most xda members with galaxy s are more likely to install a lagfix. customers who's internal sd card dies without lagfix are less likely to use xda.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] fulcrum1971:
I have had this phone for 3 months now. Stock eclair. No mods, no fixes. 16 gb internal, 16 gb external Kingston class 4. No issues whatsoever.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Chad_Petree:
so let me get this straight, the galaxy s does not have an internal hard drive its just a mere sd card :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
correct!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Chad_Petree:
my god , do we know what class it is? at least class 4? , other phones such as the desire, nexus one, droid x use sd cards instead of internal hard drives or is it just samsung ?

how could samsung screw up what could have been the best android device overall :mad: crappy gps, awful filesystem, lag, and slow internal memory? :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DaRkMyk:
I don't see it as a screw up, it will be easier to fix the phone when the memory gets broken. Even HTC is doing that on their new WP7.

Sent from my Samsung I9000 Galaxy S.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
it's technically a Class 5, it does not write fast enough to be Class 6

but since there is no Class 5 it's classified as a Class 4
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andrewluecke:
Technically, an SSD is basically just a few memory chips and a controller anyway.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Chad_Petree:
well at least its not class 4 :p im curious now to know what other devices use for internal storage
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bidboy:
Had my GT19000 16GB since July. Has had nearly every new firmware installed on it. Some with lagfix, some without, depending on the firmware. Apart from the occasional lock up & black screen the internal card is still working fine. All my music & vids are stored on my external Sandisk 16GB card. When the Sandisk 16GB cards first came out I know a lot of people had problems with corruption ( including myself, I had two replaced ) if they stored more than 12GB on them. Could be the same with the internal card on our phone. My internal card has only about 1GB on it at the moment, so I should be ok for a while. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
Did you guys get some error messages before your Internal SD card died down? Probably something like "Damaged Internal SD" bacause I just got it a few mins ago and it asked to be reformatted.. Wondering if its the first sign of internal SD failure..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mikeysteele:
NO mobile phone contains a hard drive.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Chad_Petree:
i always tought it was sdd drives
[Galaxy S I9000 General] brunes:
There is very little difference between an "ssd drive" and an 'internal SD card". The memory chips are identical it is just a different type of I/O controller.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Geryatrix:
I9000 without any root or lagfix, 3 months old, no problems.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] decepticon:
Had the phone for almost one month exactly. Uninstalled a previous lagfix to install updated version and on reboot it was gone.

Still haven't been able to get it repaired or replaced from Samsung or Bell.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] s2k:
Have the 16GB version since last july and used most of the times a lagfix. Now on Romdoc 7.6 with lagfix. No problems whatsoever.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] whiteb1:
I9000 (Australia, OPTUS)

3 months old (so far), started on stock, then played with lag fixes, and now on Doc's 7.6.2. Phone is running fine so far.

Lag fixed, no issues yet.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jotafk:
What are the symptoms of this internal SD issue?

If the internal SD card is gone, what happens?

I'm asking this because my phone just stopped working... it just reboots in loop, indefinitly... shows the logo then vibrates, then reboots...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] decepticon:
That would be it....mine did work with an SD card inserted but wouldn't have any free space after that.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] iqbalbaskara:
I just experienced this same incident last night while charging after connecting to Kies. When I open the SD card dialogue it didn't detect the internal AND external SD card. It didn't ask to be reformatted though, a simple reboot did the trick. And now I'm worried :-/
[Galaxy S I9000 General] astralmind:
so.... I guess I'm there. Internal SD appears as "gone" (ie not found, space information Unavailable)... I tried formating it but it looks like it did nothing...

What are my options ? I have no idea how to use Odin.

Please help
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Halkus:
I've had it for about 2 or 3 months now. Rooted and lagfix on Eclair, rooted and lagfix on Froyo. 16GB Vodafone UK.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hiroshige:
Nokia N91 does! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N91 ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Shammyh:
Nope. It has a "MoviNAND" chip on-board, and is not user removable/serviceable. That is unless you're extremely handy with the soldering iron.

Almost all modern smartphones use some form of eMMC-type memory for internal storage. Truthfully, it's not all that different from a MicroSD card, and in some cases the memory itself may be identical, but with a different controller and interface. And of course, in the phone it's in a nice small BGA package, where as in a MicroSD card, it's embedded into the plastic of the card itself.

This type of memory is very similar in technology, though not performance, to a modern desktop/laptop SSD. SSDs use higher spec'd memory chips, and combined with a much more advanced controller, spread the workload across all of the individual memory chips at once. Think sort of like a mini-RAID array inside each SSD. Unfortunately, there is neither room nor available power for such a solution inside modern phones. So we're stuck with the performance of a single flash memory chip.

FWIW, the MoviNAND inside our Galaxy S phones is still pretty advanced, supporting hardware flash wear-leveling, an integrated controller, and lots of other neat features that are cool, but ultimately pretty uninteresting to end-users. In my opinion, still better than the storage shipping in most other smartphones these days (read: HTC). Also helps that Samsung makes like more NAND than any other company in the world...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sjouni:
so is there any hope to fix the problem by a tool that could repartition or reformat the movinand or we have to change the board of the phone, that cost too much.