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[Vibrant General] ed1380:
Ever heard of condensation? its bad for electronics

I use screen protectors to keep it from getting scratched. I actually have to change them about every month because it scratches up. I work under cars with the phone in my pocket and sometimes lay on it. and dirt DOES get in my pocket and that's just begging for trouble. as for the full body shield, I have to call BS on protecting it from cracking the glass. My gf dropped her iphone with a rubber case and it cracked. A thin piece of plastic no matter how advanced will not be able to absorb any impact. it just transfers it to the phone. I have played around with thick plastics like that and as nice as they are, they are too thin to do anything
[Vibrant General] orells:
no way in hell a hotel room key card scratched your phone like that. (Impossible!) I put my phone in the same pocket as my keys and not the plastic ones, the jagged ones with sharp edges. My screen has ZERO scratches. It looks like you dropped your phone on gravel and then kicked it, several times. or you had sand in that pocket with that card. Sorry guy, but I gotta call shenanegans. I'll give you my back up vibrant if you can replicate that on video.
[Vibrant General] justflorin:
True test to see if you have microscopic scratches or not (for all you nudists out there) blow warm air on your screen like you're trying to fog it up. You see all those hundreds and hundreds of scratches that you can't see normally...now go out and get zagg like I did after I saw this.
[Vibrant General] fragimar:
I agree this is impossible. I've never had a screen protector. I keep my phone in my pocket with either my keys or a wallet with a metal money clip. I've also dropped it a few times and it land screen down on asphalt. I've even installed a front facing cameras and I scraped the paint off the backside of the glass with a small flat screwdriver and I've never had one scratch. My screen looks brand new. I can't say the same for the metal rim and the back, but the screen is perfect.
[Vibrant General] Obi_Kwiet:
Did you even read my post?

Here, try this: Sprinkle some sandstone grit that contains quarts on your screen. Place a credit card over it. Rub the credit card against the screen with a medium pressure for about twenty minutes. This should reasonably replicate having the phone in my jeans pockets with a card and rock grit.

And you if really doubt me perform the test yourself on your own phone. I am certainly not going to risk a my 500$ phone on the word of some jerk on the internet. If you really believe that I have wasted my time documenting all of this just for my own amusement, you can certainly ruin your own phone to satisfy your suspicions.

I have spent a decent amount of time to share something useful with the community. I have given you enough information to perform a test of my assertion in a manor consistent with the scientific method. You'll have to do better than tell everyone how you haven't accidentally scratched your screen yet before you call me a liar.
[Vibrant General] hellcatrydr:
Thank you obi, and you as well midship. don't sweat the little crybabies.
[Vibrant General] orells:
Your theory is that you had some grit? Im not bashing you I appreciate the support to the community its a great post, but im compelled to defend my device (imma geek) so when I read that you think some grit got between your screen and a card and scrathed it to all he'll I gotta dig deeper. With that damage its not a theory that there was grit you know it, you see it, you feel it. Yes I agree there was more grit than a Waffle House in the south.
[Vibrant General] 30Glock:
OMG are you guys serious?? What an effing scam we have here. OP which Screen protector company do you work for??? and everyone here is like oohhh aahhh woooooow gimme a break.

I have been naked since day one no issues and enjoying truly SAMOLED. I for one would pay the 130.00 for an insurance replacement rather then reduce my display to WVGA with some piece of plastic sheeting crap on my phone
[Vibrant General] metroidnemesis13:
Whomever can't see the scratches isn't nearsighted. I can scratch it with my fingernail and minimal pressure. They aren't deep, sure, but there is no denying that gorilla glass is only good at cracking and scratching. Basically what it comes down to is less of a scratch. plastic doesn't explode into fifty million pieces when you drop it too. Think of your old Nokia and try cracking the screen.

In all fairness I have dropped my iPhone several times and it never cracked, but it always fell flat.

Similar technique here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrAJ2GPgL4Q

Also, see this:

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/moto-droid/114659-gorilla-glass-does-scratch-but-i-know-how-repair.html
[Vibrant General] phrozenflame:
I got small scratches on the screen, I had car keys and phone in the same pocket.

They're quite small and not visible unless you go hunting. The rule of thumb is to have one of your pockets exclusively for your phone!
[Vibrant General] lqaddict:
The scratches are easily inflicted with sand.

One of my buddies after a game of valleyball on the beach put his Captivate into the pocket that still had sand in it.

The result wasn't pretty.

Sent from my Bionix powered Vibrant
[Vibrant General] Cartigan:
I had my Vibrant for just over a week. I haven't dropped it on the ground. Haven't dropped anything on the screen. Keep it in my pocket that only has cash and credit cards in it and I have a small scratch on it that is visible at an angle. Either my thumbnail scratched it just through normal use of typing, a credit card scratched it, or I scratched it while wiping it clean while the only on it was dust or cat hair. Either way, it got scratched.
[Vibrant General] hazard99:
I dont even like scratches on my screen protector so seeing that made me cringe. Good detailed post though.
[Vibrant General] Nafiganado:
Have no idea, where from recently I got 2 scratches on my Galaxy S "gorilla" (like a short single hair, but nasty "spectral" effect on white background), but I wonder, why there's nothing on market like a "liquid glass": just to fill a scratch up with it and let it harden
[Vibrant General] gggirlgeek:
With the G2x Gorilla glass, I simply use a vertical flip case. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Carbon-Fibe...369238?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item2314c5e656 For Vibrant http://www.ebay.com/itm/Case-Screen...361786?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item2eba6f733a Here is a Vibrant custom leather case in flip, pouch or open style (any color or accessory added!) http://www.fortte.com/483/Samsung-Vibrant-leather-case/

My glass is flawless after 7 months with no protector. Admittedly though I don't take it out much because I work at home. But I throw it in my purse with the change!

*Note: Two things to avoid with flip cases.

-Magetic closures at the top of the phone. Could mess with radio and other sensors. (The sensors are "usually" at top half.) I avoid magnets all together if possible.

-Closure flaps that hang over the face at the top of the phone: This can trigger the proximity sensor and really screw you up. (Happened to me on a Nokia.)
[Vibrant General] Psycho2:
scratches

That was a cool tuorial, I've had my My HTC desire HD for 18 months now before I picked up a scratch. It normally shares a pocket with my leather wallet which I suspect polishes my screen continuously. but I've recently started wearing jeans and I think that one of the studs have put a scratch which is not too deep but about 7mm long. It's not bad but it irritating LOL. I will try the rubbing compound or automotive polish before i try something as hectic as wet sanding paper
[Vibrant General] Scientist8:
curious problem

I have a Samsung Focus, with gorilla glass and an oleophobic coating, but for some reason after buffing for hours with microfiber cloths and cerium oxide I got on ebay, my screen now looks like a giant hazy mess of new scratches. I thought it could be minerals in the water or my cloths so I got distilled water and different cloths, but the problem persists. Does anyone have any idea why the CO is not giving me a nice polish? Right now my screen looks like the OP's screen after he used the sandpaper...it's almost impossible to see behind it. Any help to get to the bottom of this would be greatly appreciated!!
[Vibrant General] pettepark13:
Brilliant... if that works on the actual phone's screen.. than that would be even better!:D
[Vibrant General] DelCityDash:
vibrant was one of the devices that scratched very easily
[General Questions and Answers] rickog1:
I had an HTC hero flashed to Cricket a few days ago. The problem that I am having is I can receive pics, but not send them. Everything else works on the phone. Ever since Cricket changed the rate plans making all android phones go to the android plan which is $55 a month. Before I had this phone I had a Moto Droid with the old $45 plan. Has anyone had this problem, and is there a work around?
[General Topics] kolyan:
http://androidandme.com/2010/10/news/nexus-two-rumors-return-is-this-the-samsung-gingerbread-phone/

http://www.cityam.com/news-and-analysis/google-and-carphone-mobile-deal
[General Topics] s15274n:
Trying to figure out why this is posted here?
[General Topics] kolyan:
let me give you a hint.......lot of people switched from Nexus 1 to Vibrant......Vibrant made by Samsung.....and both phones are Android
[General Topics] d01100100:
They better get rid of/improve RFS before declaring it a 'huge success'.
[General Topics] Master™:
But this still has NOTHING to do with the vibrant.

A lot of people switched from the iPhone to the Vibrant, but does that mean we post everything about the iPhone here? NO.
[General Topics] jz9833:
please stop trying to act like a mod, this IS a GENERAL section and most people with vibrants only check the vibrant forum... Let a real mod decide if it belongs or not.

That being said i doubt Samsung would release a Nexus series phone. Those are supposed to be like developer phones where it is very easy to root, unlock the bootloader, etc.

Also I don't think google would want an RFS system on a "google" phone.
[General Topics] 98classic:
Please stop trying to act like a mod, let a real mod decide what people can tell other people.

This is a general section for things concerning the vibrant, not general as in go wild with random things.
[General Topics] kolyan:
Let me give you another hint......

Samsung is releasing Galaxy S2 (or Vibrant2) which might end up beeing the so called "Nexus 2"

So I would strongly advice reading or searching before posting...... don't u have this in your signature ?
[General Topics] Master™:
How the hell am I acting like a MOD?

I was saying this doesn't have anything to do with the vibrant.

Just because I know where stuff should go, and said this wasn't the right spot doesn't make me a wanna be MOD. However it makes you a.. nvm
[General Topics] kolyan:
^ not acting like a mod, more like a person who needs to learn to search before posting instead of posting useless posts......
[General Topics] Master™:
Quit mixing your story. You called me a wanna be MOD, now your saying I need to search before posting?

How the hell do I need to search? Not my fault that YOU posted something about a diff phone here, get over it & move on. Quit blaming me :)
[General Topics] kolyan:
are you seriously...well not that smart or just blind ? where did I call you a MOD ? And how is Galaxy S2 not related to Galaxy S (aka Vibrant) ?

That signature is really not working for you.......
[General Topics] Master™:
Ehh, sorry that was JZ whatever who said that.

But the Galaxy S, isnt only the Vibrant. It includes the fascinate, I9000, etc.

So it isnt directly related to the Vibrant, it is a whole diff phone.
[General Topics] dezshiz:
If this does turn out to be true.. could it mean that gingerbread would at least be somewhat optimisted for samsung's processors?
[General Topics] kolyan:
I dont know about you man, but my phone has a big Galaxy S logo on the back
[General Topics] Master™:
*FacePalm*

Yes, it is a Galaxy S model. But so are the other phones (Fascinate, I9000, etc)

You are talking about Nexus 2, not the Vibrant.

So it should of gone here: http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=256
[General Topics] kolyan:
Well.....it is just a rumor. ps. the rumor is based on the fact that S2 is getting released around the time Gingerbread is and S2 is supposed to be the first Gingerbread phone.....if S2 is the first to run Gingerbread, it must be the next "Nexus" i guess.
[General Topics] 98classic:
Lol, its obvious that when/if a galaxy s2 is released, the vibrant section will be renamed, thays why iys being posted here. Just like the captivate, epic facinate and so on are all mixed in the same section, all the same phone.

Haha jz, you are funny
[General Topics] jz9833:
by posting you dont think it belong is an certain forum. if you really just felt that youd ignore the thread and let it die because no one replied, however, you had to add a post, giving this thread a bump, and more people saw it.

I know you are a developer for the vibrant and i respect you a lot for that. I honesty am really grateful for people like you who are willing to take their time to help everyone, however, I am frustrated by people posting in threads in this section like they are mods trying to regulate the forum.

If you look at most of the junk threads someone asks something they could of easily found, most of it is people flaming for OP which also happens to keep the thread alive. Don't people understand that if no one replies the thread dies? If you disagree with this thread, just let it die...
[General Topics] Master™:
Just because I said "This is the wrong section" doesn't mean I was acting like a MOD.

I was simply stating that it was posted in the wrong section, so hopefully the OP will not make the same mistake next time.

Also, I didn't "Flame" the OP. Someone started coming at me. Just FYI
[General Topics] oka1:
Read the article

Interesting read. My take (all the chatter aside) is it looks to possibly be the Galaxy 2 the Russian site was taunting a few days ago.

But, this had more info on the phone. The most interesting is potentially bad for Samsung. If they do try to market through Google lie the article is suggesting......well...hmmmm bad. We all know how that worked for the First google phone. Additionally, i think Samsung could lose branding identity... bad also. But, the phone does look promising, and if it does have a dual core that would be way awesome.

BTW.... it did appear to be A Galaxy phone related article, so I guess here or any of the other galaxy forums would be the place to post. I think the Vibrant forum seems to have alot more techie zealots over the others maybe that explains choosing here......... thank god.......and- thanks to all the dedicated developers
[General Topics] mingkee:
GT-I9020?????

It has AWS though, but it won't be sold by T-Mobile (not T-xx9).

http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/fcc_query.php?gc=A3L&pc=GTI9020
[General Topics] Hansedog:
Has this slipped the radar?

Samsung let slip some details of their successor chip to the Hummingbird SOC called Orion. It basically sounds like a chip similar to Tegra 2 utilizing A9 cortex cores and a new gpu. Since it is supposed to be 2x 1GHz chip this might fall in line with the 2 GHz rumors floating around with the Galaxy S2 phones. Just my thought.

too new to attach link to anandtech article...so just do search for samsung orion
[General Topics] DMaverick50:
If the vibrants successor is the nexus 2 then it obviously belongs here. That aside, anybody who tells a poster to "search" or "wrong forum" is just bad at life, socially inept.

Anyway I hope the next vibrant is indeed the nexus 2. I think Samsung is really improving the qualify of their phones. Of course, it definitely needs much much much higher resolution. There's nothing I hate more than when every single android on the market is bested by that stupid iPhone (I'm referring only to resolution, but it still sucks donkey that 800x480 is the best android can do, I just hate being inferior to that damned apple device)
[General Topics] PoeMTX:
If this is true, I'm wondering if the rom would be portable to the galaxy s phones. Cyanogen used the nexus one roms to create roms for other HTC phones. Could a development phone with gingerbread help the devs bring it to the vibrant?
[General Topics] pulser_g2:
Moved to global general as not Vibrant related
[General Topics] boodies:
yeah this phone is going to own
[General Topics] epakrat75:
If and when the Nexus S by Samsung comes out running Gingerbread 2.3, I imagine it'll be available on T-Mobile like the Nexus One. Both these factors might mean that porting Gingerbread 2.3 to the Vibrant might happen rather quickly after the Nexus S rom leaks / the device itself is released as opposed to how long it's taken CM6 to be ported. The HTC devices will instead now be at a disadvantage for while? Fine with me. :D
[Milestone XT720 General] mingkee:
It appears ALL the 2.2 ROM are released for Milestone (GSM version of Droid original), but how about XT720?
[Milestone XT720 General] resar:
2.2 is not released for Milestone(GSM version). It is leaked version. 2.2 is released officially only for Droid.
[Milestone XT720 General] spiderx_mm:
https://supportforums.motorola.com/community/manager/softwareupgrades

Milestone 2.2 official release is planned in Q1 of 2011. and Droid ROM will never work on Milestone coz Droid is CDMA.

check before u spam.
[Milestone XT720 General] resar:
Please read before posting. I've said that 2.2 is not released for Milestone and I've never said that it won't be released!!!
[Droid 2 General] autonomist3k:
It seems that there are roms specifically for the droid2, so does that mean that I can only flash droid2 specific roms? or can I flash any rom?

the only place that I know to get droid2 roms is droid2files.com, is there any other place that is good to go to.
[Droid 2 General] newk8600:
Only a Droid 2 can be flashed with Droid 2 roms. Fission has a Droid X but if you put it on your D2 it won't boot right. If you find a ROM you like make sure it's for the D2 and you follow all instructions to install it correctly.

There are other forums with ROMs also and they have links in each specific thread to download from. Droidforums is a good place. But we have a lot of the same ROMs as them here at XDA.
[Droid 2 General] autonomist3k:
Awesome thanks.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fridaycider:
is it possible to change the battery warning percentage to something lower like 10 or 5 percent, or disable it all together..
[Desire HD General] ekerbuddyeker:
will the Australian DHD version work 3G in US AT&T (like HD2 Australian T9193 does)?

it isnt Telstra...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/HTC-Desire-HD-in-Australia-at-Crazy-John-s-Too-163153.shtml

anyone?
[Desire HD General] hpacura:
It it's not Telstra, then it will NOT work on AT&T 3G. AT&T 3G requires 850/1900mhz and the DHD's 3G is on 900/2100mhz :(
[Desire HD General] noobdeagle:
also telstra is 850/2100 so ........ it may still not be perfect if you import
[Vibrant General] YodaEXE:
Hey all,

Got my Vibrant today and am loving it. I do have one issue however. Unfortunately, Eclair doesn't have a patch in it that Froyo does. Specifically, this patch: https://review.source.android.com/#change,10576

Unfortunately, I need that patch to be able to connect my phone to my college's email systems. Can anyone give me some idea of how to get that patch and then use it on my phone til 2.2 is out? Or, if possible, could someone simply give me a file that I could just install using Clockwork?

I'd appreciate any help that you guys are willing to give. Thanks!
[Vibrant General] crazy25000:
Hey, I couldn't connect to my college internet, but I flashed eugene froyo rom and now everything works perfect. I've also flashed it on a friends vibrant who couldn't connect before and now it works perfect.
[Vibrant General] crazy25000:
By the way, there is a clock work image you can download for froyo and it only take maybe 10 minutes to install and reboot.

Edit: go to samsung vibrant development sub forum and find eugene froyo rom r2. Just download the recovery image and read all the instructions.
[Vibrant General] YodaEXE:
Got distracted the past few days by classes and am just now getting the chance to come back to this.

Anyway, I don't want to flash another ROM. I'm quite happy, for the most part, with Bionix Fusion. The problem is, again, that patch. I'm so used to having my school email on my phone (just switched from a Blackberry) that I forgot to check it and nearly missed some important emails.

I'll consider switching ROMs if I must (though, I didn't see that ROM you mentioned crazy25000. Perhaps you meant R1?), but I'd prefer to just get a patch that I can flash via clockwork.

So, can anyone else help me out here? I'd really appreciate it.
[XPERIA X10 General] bytemare:
Hi! :) I'm thinking about the X10, just wondering if anyone can offer some advice. Some background: I had HTC aria, specs aren't as high-end as other droid phones, but it worked extremely well -- email, GPS, music player, and interface was great. No issues whatsoever, except the camera wasn't so great. I cracked the screen and decided to go for the Samsung Captivate. The specs on the Captivate are great, camera is great, but basically nothing works with it: GPS takes 30 seconds to 1 minute to lock, it loses lock, email crashes, interface is nothing compared to HTC, wi-fi connects but sometimes doesn't work.... Great hardware, but everything is buggy. So I will return it and pick out another phone. Are you satisfied with the X10? what could be improved? What is great about it? I'd really appreciate it, thanks a lot.
[XPERIA X10 General] kr3w1337:
Get a galaxy s.
[XPERIA X10 General] Zer0_:
X10 is a great phone, but SE needs to step up there game! If anything, I'd suggest you go for a phone with company that has much more experience with the Android software...

ATM there are many bugs with the current android build (1.6) and it is outdated, but within the week, there should be a 2.1 update, which should definitly boost the performance of the phone.

The main thing I know many people look for is multitouch. Recently there has been some discussion on if the phone has MT or not, and a few videos showing it, but so far no one (no one publicly) has shown how to unlock the MT feature on the phone.

x10 has a beautiful big screen, but it doesnt support 16m colours :(

But, I don't think its a big deal.

Overall, the phone is good, but it has the potential to be so much more better; only if SE allows it, I mean...

If I could recommend a phone, I'd say the HTC Desire HD. (thing that sucks about HTC is that they always have so many phones coming out, so there's a chance it might get outdated quick).
[XPERIA X10 General] tuxo87:
He already got it ?

Anyway X10 is pretty good but I'd buy a Desire HD instead.
[XPERIA X10 General] Lauri455:
Think twice before you buy X10. The phone itself isn't bad, but the product is not all - support given by its manufacturer matters too - and as you can see (just hop around X10 XDA's board), SE doesn't do the job very well. I'd go for HTC.
[XPERIA X10 General] im_iceman:
The X10 is probably the most beautiful phone out there right now and the 2.1 update which is about to be released should give it a new lease of life... if you want to be able to root your phone for custom ROM's don't get the X10.. the 1.6 bootloader hasn't been cracked yet, and SE will no doubt have made it even harder in the 2.1 iteration..

Multitouch may be possible.. video's on you tube recently suggest it is.. but TBC!!.. 16m colours doesn't really make a great deal of difference to most.. but could be delivered in the next update (not the one that's about to be released.. the one after).

All in all it's a great bit of kit but has been held back by 1.6.