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[G2 and Desire Z General] zleilndka:
I haven't had any hinge issues--though with my tendecies I might in the future. I tend to slide the keyboard in and out when my hands are doing nothing and I'm just waiting around. I have had that issue where the screen gets stuck in sleep (at least I think its sleeping) and I just had to reseat the battery to get it to turn on normally. It's happened 2 times since I got it. I think both times it happened I was charging the phone. Seems like something that has to do with the software though, so hopefully that will be addressed later. Kind of a downer that there isn't a root, the 1.5gb available NAND, and the speaker is average/tinny sounding, but nothing deal breaking overall for me personally though.

It's fast, the closest to stock Froyo you're going to get from a mobile carrier unless you root, personally I like how hefty it feels, screen is very crisp, after using swype I'm not sure I need a keyboard anymore, but its nice to have. Great phone overall.
[G2 and Desire Z General] scrizz:
If Sprint didn't suck soooo much in my area, I would've been all over the Epic

:D

I love the screen on my Vibrant, but miss the keyboard.

So that's why i'm in talks with an XDA member

;)
[G2 and Desire Z General] dorqus:
Sent my last one back today. First one = horrid reception even in NYC. 2nd one = came with a hinge that would wobble when opened. 3rd one = I just rejected the UPS shipment, this is not the phone for me. Got Customer Service/Loyalty to take me back off contract, and they said that they would honor the discounted Android plan ($20 instead of $30 a month) should I get another Android phone with T-Mobile. Could be that the G2 just has bad reception, or that it's T-Mobile's network. They aren't the 4th best carrier for nothing (Although their customer service is #1 without a doubt!)
[G2 and Desire Z General] Mftek1:
I'm still undecided.. I paid full retail price for this phone $550. So right now I'm debating if I should return it and buy a vibrant off craigslist?..

Sent from my T-Mobile G2
[G2 and Desire Z General] lukelasmf:
I returned mine today, even though my remorse period doesn't end until 10/30/10 (California).

I REALLY loved the G2, but the keyboard backlight on mine would never turn on even in complete darkness. The hinge was tight when I first got it (10/1/10) but the more I used the keyboard, the more the hinge loosened, although just slightly. I was going to just exchange it but I want to try the MyTouch 4G/HD. If I don't like the MyTouch, I'll definately give the G2 another try.

Paid full price

$499+Tax
[G2 and Desire Z General] schwiz:
got the buyers remorse for sure, just hope google gives tmobile phones away at IO this year so I can get rid of it before to long. Or I may steal my N1 back from the wife haven't decided yet.
[G2 and Desire Z General] grimproductions:
I always had problems with tmobile service though tghats why I switched to sprint but wish I could have kept my g1 instead of getting the ****ty sprint hero which had crazy cdma problems with 1.5 and still untill I got my epic it was not very good but that maybe just because it couldn't really handle sense ui. I want to check the g2 out now and see if its as bad as people are saying but I'm sure with timd the will fix it like the g1. Later models got an aluminum hinge so they would stay tight longer maybe they need to do that with the g2.....
[G2 and Desire Z General] mdayjr:
The g 2 is a great phone. You live in new york city even at&t customer have problems with signal. As far as the hinge you just had a bad mishap. I travel I had some problems on my second day. The issues are fixed now so now I love this phone.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Mftek1:
The g2 is a great phone. I'm just debating if its really worth the full retail price I paid? Lol

Sent from my T-Mobile G2
[G2 and Desire Z General] tdtylert:
Just sold my vibrant on craigslist and picked up the g2 at retail on friday, I love the g2 BUT the only thing making think of returning it is the hinge im fine with it dropping down in positions that i wouldnt hold my phone to use but idk if its suppose to be loose enough where if im laying down and have the phone straight up that the littlest shake in my hand drops the keyboard on my thumbs i guess the keyboard is only meant to be used at certain angles. But other than that its a great phone, memory issue not a big deal, no random reboots, no dead pixels. And the best part Vanilla Android!
[G2 and Desire Z General] ericc191:
I decided not to keep it. Considering jumping over to WP7.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tenbeau:
Why would I want to accept a phone that only works reliably on 2g when it is a $500 phone and my Vibrant and Nexus One in the exact same location receive and hold good 3g signals without random reboots, How do you know how people handle their phones? I take very good care of all of my phones and the hinges on all 3 of the G2s i have had were loose and got looser with minimal normal usage. It seems that some people are having a hard time accepting that the G2 as is has some serious flaws that hopefully can be fixed by an OTA update, or at least some of them IMO. And also I did a lot of research prior to the release of the phone and nothing appeared to inform me that the phone would have major reception issues and random rebooting issues etc. Unfortunately I purchased my first one early before the official release. I am hanging on awaiting my fourth device only because I believe this could be a fantastic phone. If this one is the same as the first three than I will return it and look else where.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tenbeau:
Mine opens in my pocket and launches random apps as well as making calls. THIS IS FINE?????? I go to pick it up off a table and it slides open. THIS IS FINE?????? Granted I am sure that there are some that are okay but to just say it is fine as is for all the devices is not accurate. I do like this phone I would not be awaiting the fourth replacement if I did not. But a good number of these phones have issues and time will tell if an OTA will fix reception etc and how the hinges hold up. I sincerely hope the OTA is successful.

Edit just received my replacement of the G2. So far this phone rocks. Hinges are tight no dropping of signal no random reboots and it is holding a much stronger signal better that any of the others. Market place is accessible as well as downloads. If this continues, I will consider this phone AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Edit After 10 days of use the unit is now showing poor reception and dropped calls. It has turned itself off and being that I use the device as an alarm clock I have over slept. For whatever reason the G2 continues to experience issues that seem to crop us daily. The hinges are still quite tight though., I am going to send it back and look toward the My Touch 4g or perhaps the rumored Nexus 2. I am also concerned that a permanent root will not be accomplished any time soon and since no OTA seems to be forth coming the issues of reception etc will continue.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] akira28hk:
I am using HD2 which have WIDCOMM BT Stack instead of MS one. I have a watch that act as a BT headset and when incomming call it will vibrate and show the caller ID. Because it's a BT headset, when I placing outgoing calls it will automatically route audio to the watch which the watch doesn't have any audio capability. End up there will be 10-15 sec mute on both side then (I think) the WIDCOMM BT Stack gave up to route audio to the watch and route back to the phone. So everytime I have to disconnect the watch before placing any calls and reconnect after done.

With this watch and using HD (Blackstone) which is using MS BT Stack. I can put OutgoingCallOption under the AudioGateway registry to prevent it auto route audio to the watch when placing outgoing calls.

But with WIDCOMM BT Stack, I couldn't find any info regarding this in it's registry to disable that.

Any help will be appreciate, thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mac208x:
I see people say that their gps locks in bla bla but my gps in maps or navigation can never find my location even when i had cognition installed, now im runing stock 2.1 update 1. Is it like this for everybody? Can the gps in my phone be broken. I use gps alot and sometimes i depend on it but it just wont find my location!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vbhines:
I would run the *#*#14723658#*#* (or whatever it is) and test it outside. Mine got a lock there in 7 seconds, at least telling me it "worked" enough to trust that it wasn't a hardware issue needing a swap-out. I still have never had it work within Maps or Navigation.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bamonkey:
welcome to the debate that goes on and on my friend. in all seriousness though ive had 3 different cappy's and this latest one is miles above the rest on the gps issue. i lock in 10-30 seconds, it finds me in nav and even WORKS correctly in nav. this current cappy is the only one that has worked this well just as it was stock out of the box. You can either mess with it or play the exchange lottery...you never know what you might get *hope for perfect gps, no shutdowns, no blue tint on screen*

you can also try a few fixes and change supl settings *it worked 'ok' on my 2nd one changing the setting* but MY personal verdict like most is just return it;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mac208x:
Well the thing is i brought it off craigslist so i cant return it
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vbhines:
I'm not trying to rub it in, but after having three of them, the Cappy is probably the last phone I'd ever buy off Craigslist. But I wouldn't have known that before I went through so many replacements.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mac208x:
I never knew cappy had so many problems. I renewed my contract to and git the iphone 4 than sold it and brought this one. Any how im happy with this phone more than i was with the phone. I just just want the gps fixed or test it too see if the gps anteena is broken
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bamonkey:
Great news!!! I DID TOOO!. listen just tell them it was a gift that was bought in store or something like that. you will NOT be able to trade in store for the first 30 days unless they gave you a recipt. after the 30 day period you CAN exchange through the mail. This is how i have done it everytime they send you a new one and you give the old one back. seems weird but these phones have a 1 year warranty regardless. GOOD LUCK!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mac208x:
Exchange with who? Att or samsung and do i need to have the insurance on my account?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bamonkey:
sorry,Wasnt clear. I exchange through ATT warranty service and no you dont need insurance
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mac208x:
So i just go to att and be like id like to exchange my phone coz i feel like it? Or do i have to be like the gps on my phone is broken and i would like to exhabge it
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bamonkey:
you will need to troubleshoot the phone with ATT warranty support over the phone. i havent turned on in for GPS issues *but have recieved a phone that fixed the issue* so im sure there will be testing.. once they determine they cant fix it and your dissatisfied they will get you setup for a new one. YOU WILL have to agree that if your current one has hardware damage *screen cracks, water, battery pins* upon being sent it they can charge you for the brand new one they sent you.
[Epic 4G General] deltawye:
from day one of owning my Epic 4g, my soft back key starts going nuts at random times, i will be at a website and all of a sudden my back button goes bonkers and it backs me out to the home screen, i have made sure that im not pressing it excessively, to rule out operator error. I was hopping that after rooting the device and flashing customs roms that this problem would go away. well it hasn't and its driving me insane! is there any one else having this problem, or am I the only one? :confused:
[Epic 4G General] zvonkorp:
i have the exact opposite problem, my back& home key require substantially more force to activate the command than any other epic i've used...
[Epic 4G General] ultra78721:
My first epic did this and also at times it dint respond.....I took it back and got another...and never looked back since then.:D

I suggest U take it back;)
[Epic 4G General] peterx84:
Samething here.. New phone... New back key...:D
[Epic 4G General] scriz:
I'll probably be taking my phone back sometime soon..my back key is doing the same thing. Guess I'll have to restore to my factory nandroid restore :O
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brettmenke:
I have Vista Hide Battery.exe and want to i know where to file it so that it opens automatically when I turn my phone on. Otherwise I have to do it manually. I have it in the windows/startup folder atm.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xnifex:
putting it in the startup folder will do this for you, though you say you already have it there.
[General Questions and Answers] QFocal:
I have a brand new Samsung Vibrant, which I intend to use as a PDA. I don't use it as a phone or data plan. Just the Wi-Fi if available. It comes with an internal 16GB memory and I copied one of my websites to it so I can access it without having to be online.

Well, the media scanner came on and I waited 2 hours before I finally just turned the phone off. I turned it back on almost 2 hours ago and it's still scanning and it does not allow me to do some functions that require access to the memory.

How long does this process take and is this going to happen every time I turn on the device? Does it later just check for changed files?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4u2nvinmtl:
I just used kies to update my firmware. I have a Bell (Canada) gt-i9000m (vibrant). The update left all my settings from the old FW and in no time at all my phone was force closing apps. Did a full reset and it runs nicely had to put back all my apn settings and stuff. The only thing that's changed with the new FW is that I cant change songs from my bluetooth car deck and I cant even play or pause anymore :( For me its kinda a huge deal cuz I put all my music on the phone to play in my car and it was all working so nicely i could even fast forward in the track that was a one up on my old iphone (with the old FW). Now none of my bluetooth deck controls are working I do see the 2 touch buttons light up on the phone when i push buttons on my car deck so the phone is getting the command its just not responding. Any Ideas would be most helpful.

The only thing that's different is that I haven't re-rooted the phone yet or applied the lag fix because I was having a lot of force close problems and did 4 resets so far (i assume due to the lag fix). I was hoping the new FW would fix more problems that it made... I didn't take note of the stock FW on my bell i9000m at the very least I would flash that back on to get my bluethooth controls back if anyone knows the stock firmware or how to make it work with the JH2 FW?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
do a factory reset/format

then start with new settings, it will work after you pair the devices again
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4u2nvinmtl:
I did a factory reset when i upgraded the FW because of the force close error's but I didn't format. So I did another factory reset followed by a format of both internal and external. Took over 3h's to get all my stuff back on the phone and the bluetooth controls are still not working in the car.

From all the trouble shooting I've done its one of two things;

1. The firmware JH2 changed something with the A2DP profiles.

OR

2. I haven't rooted or done the lag fix.

Those are the only things that are different from before.

If anyone knows the stock FW for the i9000m (bell vibrant) and/or a link to download it. It would be most helpful.

I will try re-rooting and applying the lag fix but i have a hunch that's not going to make my car deck start working with the phone any better.

The car deck i have is a KD-BT1 (made by JVC). Just to be clear I was able to control my phone via the controls on the deck & its remote with the old firmware. I have deleted my paired phone and re-paired before and after factory reset & format.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
that's very strange.

i've had that problem before, but that was expect of every new flash i made.

i always had to make the Car Deck (Clario CZ509) forget the old Galaxy S, then pair it again with the flashed Galaxy S, then it works all good.

else i get really weird behaviour on both phones and Car Deck

I can stream excellent audio quality to the car, with nice sub (no loss) and be able to control remote both phone and/or car from either the Car Deck, the SGS Phone, or the Remote control that came with the Deck

it automatically switch between phone calls and music
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4u2nvinmtl:
Sounds like i should reflash my fw. Do you have a link to where you got yours cuz kies is no longer seeing my phone... just hangs trying to connect. Its happened many times i know the uninstall drill to make it work but i've invested so much time into my sgs i rather use odin this time over kies.

I've un-paired and re-paired them agian and agian the pair up no problem and i make sure to check off the box that pops up to always allow my bt device to access contacts, ect. It all sync's up flawlessly just dont have control. The music streams very clearly for me also (2x10s subs).

Btw thanks for your very helpful responses! :)

I'm still thinking it might be cuz yours is rooted and mine still isnt. trying that before i jump the gun on another re-flash. :cool:

are you using the stock "Music Player" (w/ ugly pink icon)??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4u2nvinmtl:
Update...

I rooted and did the one click lag fix. A2DP controls still don't work. I was able to use the car deck to answer, hang up, dail a number it got from my contact list! I'm not sure if those were or weren't working before... I was only really conserned with the music controls and they still dont work.

I also tried calling Samsung to see if they could help me out with why I always get the force close errors. No luck they told me to call my carrier i told them I bought the phone from a differnt carrier... I'm on Fido with Bell phone. Samsung said Bell has to get the RMA if i need one.

I've herd the lag fix helps bring to light any memory problems and creates those force close errors. This is one of my big underlying issues with my i9000m it crash's all the time. I've factory reset at least 5 times and once it crashed from google maps looking for an address and it got stuck on the boot logo. I had to wipe from the recovery menu just to call my friend when i was out side of his building for like 30mins (didn't know the buzzer #) I thought the instability was due to the root and lag fix but the phone runs a lot worse with out them...

(never dropped banged or any kind of water/wetness)

sorry if i got a lil' off topic but the phone is running worse over time...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBeano:
The stock music player app (called "Music Player") doesn't respond to the standard AVRCP controls (A2DP is phone-audio-to-bluetooth, AVRCP is remote-control-to-phone). Most other music player apps will. Are you sure you were using the standard music player previously? Anyway the solution is to use a different music player app.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4u2nvinmtl:
Yes i was using the stock player before it worked fine.

I will try another one. I have been thinking that maybe something was changed with the stock music player with the FW update or maybe i need to go settings->apps->Musicplayer and clear the data... Going to try both and post my results tomorrow morning. Getting to late to go out to the car... LOL

I had a look at xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7980935 and thing maybe something did change with my AVRCP version.

I cant "1.0—Basic remote control commands (play/pause/stop, etc.)"

My stereo also has a phone mode that is working that lets me make calls and answer calls using the car stereo. I dont know if that is also AVRCP or just like a reg bluetooth ear piece controls.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4u2nvinmtl:
Well I couldn't sleep till i tried it. I installed MixZing mp3 player and some of the mp3 controls work now. Play and pause and rewind track but It wont skip to next track. So it looks like you hit the nail on the head and something changed with the Music Player when I updated the firmware.

Does anyone have a rip of the stock Music Player apk from the old firmware?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBeano:
That will be handsfree profile (HFP).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4u2nvinmtl:
So its safe to assume something changed from my stock firmware to the one kies put on JH2 with the MusicPlayer app with regards to the AVRCP controls. I have yet to find a link of the stock firmware that was on my phone when I bought it, on the lunch date in Montreal.

Anyone got a link to the stock i9000m firmware from bell?

Thanks for all the help getting to the bottom of the problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4u2nvinmtl:
Went to Bell store today to see if they could flash the old FW like Samsung told me they would. Guess what... they said they couldn't help because I "hacked" the phone even tho its Samsung's firmware. Apparently the use of Kies has voided my warranty.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
I was until i changed it to "Player" that is the name of the app.

the Stock MP3 player that came with JH2 was really good, it had 5.1 sound, which other players app does not support yet.

the only reason i ditched it was due the annoying way how to add music to the play list, the new app is just Point to the folder you want, and click on select all/play all, done

when you are in the car driving, you have no fricking enough time to go select which album or artist or genre.

but playing off the Folder structure, you know where you put which songs, so you can quickly skip folders, fast forward, or reverse to reach the songs you want

all that aside the stock music player works well with the Bluetooth remote control options

i was using the stock music player for about a week in my car via bluetooth until i got annoyed of not being able to quickly pick from the SD card the songs i wanted to play
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
I flashed mine via Kies JH2
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
i think they meant the SIMs unlocked or the phone Rooted

since you are already on JH2 which is legit