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[Vibrant General] jzero88:
No you will not, you can only gain with root. Pretty much think of root as changing a few files and permissions, that's it. It won't affect you at all, period.

I would definitely do it! You will feel good you did after it works and you know that you rooted your phone. These things are as tough as nails. It is virtually impossible to brick, but not saying you can't. DO IT! You can then install custom roms that will Undervolt your phone and Overclock it. Doing so has probably doubled my battery life. Then you can install One Click Lag Fix. You think it is good now, after doing at least One Click Lag Fix you won't go back.

I would also suggest looking One Click Lag Fix up in the market and rooting that way, then doing the lag fix. Easiest app out there to do it for you. Then download ROM Manager, flash the recovery, and you are set.

Now what are you waiting for?!
[Vibrant General] adm1jtg:
Short answer... NO

All rooting is is giving yuo access to system areas and files you dont have by default. All it changes is what your allowed to do nothing else.
[Vibrant General] spacecasespiff:
Im the same way. I was worried about doing it and it can mess up your phone if your not carefull. I dont have a real good understanding and adding new roms and kernals so i stay away from that. So i just do the easy things like the lag fix and changing the way the notification bar lookz.
[Vibrant General] nomadrider123:
Is your phone hardware locked? Also a good rule is BEFORE you do anything do a BACKUP
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] degenerazn:
When I flashed my phone back down to 2.1 using Odin3 from the leaked 2.2, my computer was still able to detect my phone when plugged in using USB. I reinstalled Titanium backup and restored all my apps and now my computer no longer detects my phone as being plugged in.

Development mode is on and it still charges when plugged into the computer but nothing else. I can't mount it the sdcard to transfer files either.

I've installed and reinstalled SGH-i897_Captivate_USB_Drivers_5_02_0_2 and the drivers in the Odin3 thread several times and nothing has worked. Anyone else got ideals?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhrProfess:
Do you get (inaccessible) drives showing up in My Computer?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asssets:
I have this problem.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] degenerazn:
I used to get the "windows can't find the drivers to this" or "windows did not correctly install the drivers."

Now not even that shows up anymore.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] degenerazn:
Ok so I found the problem. It has something to do w/ the software update, which seemed to be kept on for some reason. Everytime I restarted the phone it said communication error w/ the server, it does this without me even touching software update. So I turned off wifi and 3g, effectively turning off the software update and now my computer detects the phone. I don't know why this is, but it worked.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhrProfess:
Please refer to this thread (second post).
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roctavious:
That would be a possible fix IF the option was there when u pull down the status bar. In my situation the USB symbol never appears. Even when I go into settings and mount the SD card there, it doesn't work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhrProfess:
Erm, okay:

-Unlock your phone's screen; rest it at homescreen

-Connect your already-plugged-into-computer USB cable to phone (in a timely fashion, before the screen autolocks)

-See if you get a noti' (and if not, then how does the phone respond when you plug your cable into it?)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikescorei:
did anyone encountered this problem? I have a POP3/IMAP account and cannot send e-mail through sgs default email application. I receive it just fine, but when I try to send it gives me errors: Unable to open connection to server on port 25 without SSL and Connection error on port 465 with SSL.

My account works just fine with 465 and SSL on outlook but on the phone, sucks! Is this a common issue in SGS? I have JM9 and encountered this also in JM1.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omaga:
My default email client works perfect so i must ask u if you have the outgoing server address right?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
Give k-9 a go

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikescorei:
Everything is ok with the server settings. It should be something else.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDragomir:
My Vibrant was recently bricked and I used Odin to restore it to factory settings. After flashing the original settings onto the phone, I manually flashed the J16 update. The phone seems to be working fine except for two problems:

1. When I power the phone off, it loads up to the Galaxy S Screen and either gets: a. Stuck on that screen, or b. Doesn't load the Operating System (Black screen with lit-up buttons.)

2. I am not able to download anything from the Android Market.

Does anyone know of any quick-fixes for this or if I have to flash over something else?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Unrelashade:
Hi all, I did a nandroid restore and it only partially restored my phone content, for example it did restore

- hotkeys

- sms

- wallpaper,

but didn't restore

- contacts

- homescreen setup

- applications (and data).

It worked perfectly well when I tried it, but last time it didn't. Here is what I did:

Installed 6.1 per ClockworkMod without Google Apps and did a nandroid backup as I was asked, booted into 6.1, rebooted, flashed Gapps tiny 201020 something, rebooted, didn't come past "tap the android to begin" (don't know why tapping didn't do anything), so I restored the backup I did prior to installing 6.1 and it restored only what I wrote above.

Any help will be greatly appreciated guys! :)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] borodin1:
1. Contacts get restored from Google.

2. Did you use alternative launcher before (i.e ADW or LP). If so, the only way Nand would restore it, if you still have it on your phone but what you say is that it did not restore any apps which leads me to next point.

2. Did you have your apps on SD card? Did you do Nand+Ext backup or just Nand? Regular Nandroid back-up will not touch your ext partition. If you did just a Nandroid backup and wiped your ext partition - your apps are gone for good.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Unrelashade:
Thank you for your answer! Yes I had 6.0 before 6.1 with ADW. Nandroid did restore one or two apps, but not all... (just found that out). Yes I had some apps on my sd card but nandroid didn't recover them, neither the others. Just the few I mentioned before, but I had more on my SD and more on my internal flash storage. And no, I had no ext partition of sd card (copied some of them via froyo apps2sd). Also, I didn't remove any of my files from my SD (except for some songs to make more free space).

It seems like Clockwork didn't warn me that I had not enough free space on my SD and the backup had not enough space... However I managed to get the data I needed with this tool from a German forum: http://www.android-hilfe.de/root-ha...6339-nandroid-backup-auslesen.html#post592908

Copy your .img to your computer, open with and choose the unyaffs.exe, works perfectly well :)

Now I still don't know why I wasn't able to get past the "Getting Started" Android first steps, but I'm going to flash again (this time with everything safely backed up) and see if it works this time.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] borodin1:
Glald you figured it out. Hopefully you'll have better luck with it next time around.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jonnie86:
Hello Everyone!

I made this thread hoping I can shed some light to those getting very poor battery life. I was also getting very poor battery life, till I went and exchanged my phone for a new one. If you're getting very poor battery life (even after wiping your phone or installing a clean firmware), there is definitely something wrong with your phone or your battery.

I own a i9000m bought from Wireless Wave. I've unlocked the phone and am now using it on Rogers.

My previous phone, I was draining 25% of my battery to just get through 6 hours of standby while I slept. I had juice defender on and autokiller memory optimizer. I turned off all syncing and didn't even use a live wallpaper. My phone was rooted and also had lagfix (which I soon removed). One thing I do remember doing is not charging to 100% when I first got the phone. I did accidentally let it drain to 0% cause I had to use it right away.

After exchanging for a new phone and charging it to 100% right away, I was getting the following results. I have juice defender and nothing else. I changed my band to be WCDMA only. I even have a live wallpaper on. Last night my phone idled for 9 hours and it only drained 2%! Last night going out, I had a moderate to heavy (fbook, 3g, gps, text, youtube) usage pattern on my phone and it only drained 40% after 6 hours of use.

I don't know what else to say, but I'm letting those with battery problems know that the SGS is capable of great battery life. And if all your optimizing and tweaks aren't doing it, then you may want to consider exchanging for a new phone if you still have warranty.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] omaga:
I have a great battery life too in my device compared too the another smartphone i used in the past and now compared to Ip4 and N8 in this devices the bat drain is much higher. So im positive surprised with

the galaxy battery performance, i only use the push email everything else is turned off, livewallpaper and so on..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jonny_ftm:
My phone came with JM7 firmware. My battery life is just excellent, not needing a recharge before a few days with my use
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rsnt:
Running JPM here, with darkyy's raw metal ROM, my battery life went up by at least 40% - %50. I was losing 1% per 5 - 10minutes of usage, now its more upwards of half an hour of usage.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] allotrios:
I think the phone has very good battery life if you understand what can cause battery drain and adjust it accordingly.

I am now gettining 5% drain per 24 hours on (almost) standby. This would give me about 20 days of standby which is crazy.

Here is my setup:

UK 16 Gb Galaxy S with Eclair JM6 and Voodoo lagfix

Set network to GSM (2g)

Disable internet usage (with APNDroid)

Disable WIFI, Sync Off, GPS Off (with power widgets)

Just before I go to bed, I run Advanced Task Killer and kill anything that doesn't need to be on memory (inlcuding Advanced Task Killer itself).

Using your phone WILL spend a lot of battery. Browsing the internet on 3g is a battery killer. This means that if you do something on your phone that maintains an active 3g connection, it WILL drain your battery in about 3-6 depending on your 3g coverage.

WIFI is better, but again you are looking at something between 6-12 hours of continuous usage, so make sure you only use it when you need it.

Finally, if you need to have your emails the instance they arrive, go for a blackberry because it has the only way of pushing email without maintaining a constant data connection.

I don't need this so I am extremely happy with my phone and the battery life I can get out of it.

I hope this helps.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tesmond:
JPM Rom with everything except bluetooth turned on my battery lasted 3 days with low usage (skype a few times and some phone calls and a bit of wifi web-browsing.)

Much better than my wife's iPhone 4... Normally charge it every 2 days.

I am very happy with the phone, just a couple of bug fixes and I would really like it if Swype did some level of contextual checking of words to help minimise unnecessary corrections (perhaps they do already, but it is certainly not well implemented/sophisticated enough).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SyndicateXDA:
Which ROM was on your old SGS and which one is on the replacement?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jonnie86:
Eclair for both. No Froyo.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bilboa1:
what i wish to have is greater control over the phone, more easily.

Some kind of powertop GUI that let you see the power usage per process.

So you could plain uninstall apps installing ****ty services consuming the battery.

Likewise i'd like *real* control over which background services are running. I mean running an auto killer wtf? Horrible design!

I just want to switch off a service and that it doesnt start again 5 min later thank you very much.

Even the task manager is quite bad. You see last started apps but you don't know which one is running right now. And if its running and backgrounded since a while and you started other apps.. it might very well not even show up in the list anymore. Horrible design again.

Saying all that because stock the phone battery is excellent, installing a couple of popular apps kills it..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SyndicateXDA:
Thanks for your prompt reply. Could you check it more precisely on your current SGS? FYI: Settings -> About phone -> Baseband version and Build number or "call" *#1234# -> PDA, PHONE, CSC version numbers. Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jonnie86:
Baseband: I9000UGJH2

Build Number: ECLAIR.UGJH2

Kernel Version: 2.6.29 darae.ahn@sep-20#2

Let us know if you find out anything.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SyndicateXDA:
Sure thing. And thanks. KIES offered an update from JM1 baseband and JM2 build version. We'll see how the new ROM performs in about 3 days. Unfortunately don't have spare time to do that sooner. I suspect there's huge difference within the baseband versions.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] drwaqar:
hey guys.

i have galaxy s i9000..i also had problem of battery.my battery would hardly last 24hrs...i even switched to gsm only mode n switched off sync.but still had same prob..few days back i installed JPJPA firmware..now its wroking fine.lasts more than 35hrs...n also battery charges quickly
[Galaxy S I9000 General] householddog:
Is it possible that the reading on the phone is wrong? When you say you are getting 24 hours are you letting it run flat.

Alternately is it saying the battery is running low and you recharge before it goes flat?

Just wondering if the meter is simply giving incorrect information.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] aditya104:
Been 24 hours since last recharge. Lost 6% so far. Running JP6 Froyo. Rooted. Network Data Off. During this 24 hours, just used Angry birds-30mins and ColorDict 5mins. Haven't installed any unnecessary app.

Had lost 1% on standby after 14hrs with no usage. Thats amazing. Very Happy user.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] aditya104:
Also want to tell u guys that GPS with active Data connection and Google Maps running and display on took approx 1% of battery every 3mins.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] android53:
Impossible using stock battery, this phone draws a minimum of 10% battery per hour the screen is on. Its more likely 15-20% with most peoples phone.

Your battery meter may be inaccurate, for example after flashing once my battery stayed at 100% for hours then suddenly shot down to 20%
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jonnie86:
I use "Battery Indicator" to check my battery status.

My screen is set to turn off and lock after 30 seconds of idling. So it is quite possible to achieve the standby times listed.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] flakk:
Hi, how long do you have holding time of battery, when you are using wi-fi? (browsing)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dapoktan:
I have pretty good battery life too... unless I go on one of my 2 hr Angry Birds marathons..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] regP:
With such a mixture of of people having good and bad battery life I wonder if the issue is a matter of defective phones or defective batteries. I'm having the same issue where my battery doesnt last more than 4-5 hours with moderate use. Tried all the battery tricks, 3 diff ROMs, apps, etc. Since I got the phone second hand and cant exhange it I'm considering buying a new battery and seeing if that helps any.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] android53:
I get about 5 hours of browsing and playing games, 6 hours of highly compressed hd film watching. These are with brightness set rather low

Or if I don't use the phone I get an idle drop of 1% every few hours
[Galaxy S I9000 General] regP:
Just doesnt make any sense to me. Pretty much all the current Android phones having almost the same specs yet it seems like all the others get WAY better life than the SGS. My friends Nexus One blows my SGS out of the water and it has a smaller battery. I hope this is something Samsung can fix..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] android53:
Download spare parts and check battery information, particually wake lock.

Then post a days battery usage stats complete with percentages and the times it shows
[Galaxy S I9000 General] householddog:
I am not really sure if you can fully trust an onboard meter. Particularly since it seems to swing so wildly depending on the rom version. Maybe it would be help to get out the multimeter and find out what is really happening.

Are you guys letting the phones run flat to get these stats, or just recahrging when it hits 10%?

Do these phones have a function that shuts the phone down when it gets to a certain battery level?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Naounmai:
Battery Life

Very resumed:

Almost 3 days (aprox.68 hours) only on 2G, no WiFi, no 3G, no sync, 2% of the time is incoming/outgoing calls, low use of some apps (games/internal apps that do not require WiFi/3G modes).

51 hours with moderate use, which:

4/5 hours with WiFi on;

hardly 3G on (max. 30 minutes)

Moderate gaming (1 hour).

Incoming/outgoing calls

Moderate use of apps that require WiFi/3G modules (gowalla, maps, earth, mail, Tweetdeck, Facebook).

10 hours intensive use and abuse. Which means gaming, shooting pics, watching video, listening to music. This particular result came after a business train trip, which, of course, is quite boring and long. And afterwards use in locating the hotel, etc.

Kthxbai! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SargeRX8:
I lose approx 3% over 6 - 8 hrs idle and about 1% per half hour of text/email use. Don't really expect it to last when I game or watch videos, but surprisingly, its pretty awesome.... Much needed, especially when coming from a HD2.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] allotrios:
that's quite normal.

your idle consumption could be a bit better but it shouldn't cause you problems
[Galaxy S I9000 General] allotrios:
your friend knows how to use his phone better than you

the sgs has amazing battery life
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lokhor:
I'm lucky if my battery lasts from 7am-5pm most days at work. I probably have about 2 hours total usage with the display on, and about an 70 minutes of music with the display off. I think the main issue is that I have such poor reception here that it switches to Edge (2.5G) and that seems to drain the battery very rapidly. I am using lowest brightness and juicedefender to disable data while the screen is off.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] madmack:
low reception definitely kills the battery here too.

Here is a suggestion, when you go to work, set the phone to 2G mode only. You can set that to happen automatically with the help of some apps ;)

Otherwise, I'm getting some impressive results from my phone. JPJPA ROM, and lasts me well over 18h (charge it every night). 1h music, bluetooth connected to my car for about an hour, 1h of calls.. about 1-2h of browsing/emailing per day.. etc.

At night, it can be anywhere from 40% to 5% depending on the day. If I go to rural areas where 3G reception is low/bad, battery drops a lot faster though. It usually won't even last the day unless I switch the phone to 2G mode and forget about 3G all together.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] titooo7:
I'd rather say his friend use the phone much less. If you use the sgs as its suppose to be used the battery life is far than amazing. In example iphone 4 has always 3g enabled and the battery can last more than 12hours (tested by myself), my sgs cant do that.

Personally I didnt bought this phone to have it most of the time in idle status...

By the way I just tested my sgs with JPO rom 340mb kernel c2, syncs disabled and without any lagfix: 10% of battery drain in 30 minutes of music playbaack in the background and 3g usage with tapatalk pro. Is that normal? Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lokhor:
How do I force 2g mode?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] miro666:
All my problems with battery life gone with this:

http://www.batteryupgrade.com/shopB...rtmentProductId/42252157/shopGroupId/46205854
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Soniboy84:
Yes, and you can say goodbye to all the cases, covers out there, as well as extra protection by those, and style.

100% agree with you, if not more. I laugh at people setting phone to 2g, low brigtness, and sh*t like that. C'mon guys you bought a phone with samoled screen for a reason! That's a smartphone, for a reason! To use! Not to have it on idle. I personally like my SGS as a pc replacement, I listen music, browse, play, talk, watch youtube, etc., as we suppose to.

30min/10% battery life is the same for me. Can't say it's normal or not tho.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Kumimono:
Also gone was the ability to fit the phone in my pocket. ;)

Waiting for hydrogen fuel cells for phones...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] compuse:
My i900 could gps navigate for about 5 to 6 hours straight

my i9000 could gps navigate for about 2 to 3 hours straight

HTC's diamond, touch pro2, legend, Desire and hd 2 will be a gonner within the 2 hours too when they're navigating constantly.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bilboa1:
seems to depend on many things but on jp6 atm (yeh i didnt upgrade to wjp6 or w/e) on 3G and 2G on my network it doesnt really make a difference of battery life anymore.

I can listen to lastfm for 1h (on WCDMA not wifi..) and the battery is still around 97%

Watching movies also works out pretty well.

Games like reckless driving last like 4-5H

Web browsing somehow kill the battery super fast (i use the stock browser). Using the GPS and MSN Talk as well. (the 10%/30min kind of stuff easily might be more at times)

Running hardcore's kernel with ext4 advanced, for the record - no crapware installed (such as tango skype etc which are draining battery like crazy)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] divago:
mmmmhhhh

i'm testing battery life from a while

i got push turned on everytime;

screen light is 26%

noled is on

ring tone volume is higher possible, so also text. I got also vibration

i disabled the "aquarium" wallpaper and now i'm using Shake Them All! live wallpaper

at home i use it for browsing, check forum and email. and facebook

sometime also with meebo while i'm on the couch seeing TV

the night i use lightning bug (sleep mode turned off after 30 minutes)

clock alarm rings for 4-5 times at least, mostly even full 10 time (very deep sleeper x.x )

at home i use wireless, everytime logged on (even with screen turned off) and i'm still in the first phase, the one where "oh cool there is an app who does something i really never use!! cool i had to install it!"

oh and i'm used to put 2G mostly, switching to 3G when i need it

i got some widget everytime active (analog clock 'cause i like the big clock :) plus a phone company widget who check 1/hour for credit in the card, battery time lite, extended controls buttons and NoLed). I also turned on GPS but think is not the problem 'cause GPS start only when you need it (so i read somewhere...)

almost 1/month i fully discharge phone, and first weeks i always fully discharged battery before start recharging

in an over than average day i go sleep with 10-20% battery life; sometime usage is lower (it's now at 20% since yesterday morning... it's over 32 hours, with 5 in Airplane Mode)

i always thought it was normal... or is'nt? O.o

please let me know before too late x.x