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[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockHead:
So, I've been flashing a variety or ROMs, Bionics and Eugene's Froyos. All has been well until recently, when I noticed I was missing a bunch of my Google contacts. I normally just let them restore in the first sync. Somehow a bunch got wiped out, not found in Contacts online, nor on the Vibrant. Also noticed a bunch of Contact photos were mismatched.

Nandroid restored a flash or two back, and there they are. On the first sync, they disappear again. I had hoped that the cloud would recognize the phone contacts as newer, and save them, but no luck.

Any way to force the Google servers to let the phone overwrite what's there, so I can get my contacts back in both places?

I can hit Airplane mode after a sync and keep the contacts on the phone, and maybe back up to Kies, if that would do any good...

Thoughts, suggestions?
[General Questions and Answers] mariosaigon:
Hi there guys. I just bought a Samsung Galaxy S, i´m really excited, I´ve left behind my HTC Touch (elfin). so I want you to tell me, is Android better than Windows Phone? What do you think about this phone?

:p

greetings from El Salvador
[General Questions and Answers] chopper the dog:
Use it for a couple of days and judge for yourself. The galaxy is a fine device. I've been very happy with the vzw variant. Be sure to report back.

good day.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] masterotaku:
I am a bit puzzled as to precisely why there is so much variance at the driver/kernel level between the different Galaxy S phones (basebands and radio's notwithstanding). It just begs the question in my old programmer brain what was Samsung thinking??

I know it's an overly simplistic view, but just take the whole GPS situation. Europe doesn't have special european GPS sattelites that only European devices can use. GPS is a global system operating worldwide on a plethora of hardware. So why does Samsung choose to implement it differently across nearly identical products? I understand the drive behind carrier customization, but what on earth posesses Samsung to allow this at the kernel level? For instance why is the i9000 source so fundamentally different as to make functional GPS on the Vibrant and it's 2.2 baked variant ROM's an exercise in waiting on "special" source specific to the Vibrant? It just seems unnecessary, unless it was somehow planned to be this divisive?...

It just seems ludicrous on the face of it. Hardware-wise, if we are to believe pubished specs and well documented tear-downs, all the phones are nearly identical in their basic hardware, with front facing cameras, hardware keyboards, and LED flashes seemingly the only real variances. Is it carrier specificity, or just simply Samsung cluelessness that is driving this?

To be clear this is more of a philosophical question than anything else. It's clear that Samsung has done just this, but it's also clear that Samsung is the only carrier to have deliberately released a phone in this manner. No one, not Motorola, HTC, or any other OHA manufacturer has done something of this magnitude, releasing what is essentially nearly identical phones worldwide across all major carriers.

At the end of the day it just seems to my intuition (which could be entirely wrong) to be a needlessly complicated approach. Are there compelling reasons beyond framework customizations and bundle-ware to have done this. I honestly do not see anything in the UI's of all the phones I've personally played with (Vibrant, Fascinate, Captivate, Epic4G) that would indicate strongly anything other than framework customization *had* been done. So why was it necessary to deliberately fragment what is "under the hood"?

Or was it deliberate? Is this more indicative of Samsung not centralizing development and giving too much freedom to the carrier teams? All of this just smacks of idiocy from a development standpoint, and I'm curious as to what others might think about it, especially our resident cookers and devs.

Comments??
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] renocivik:
I like turtles...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] intruda119:
Android=fragmentation and it wil ok be the death of it.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bleebdat:
Hey all, is there anyway to move the notification bar to the bottom of the device? I hate having to go all the way to the top to grab it, for something we grab quite often why is is so far away from where your hands normally sit? Im on an Epic 4g specifically.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] torvick12:
omg u serious wow! that is just kinda lame haha
[Droid X General] zehkaiser:
Two days ago my Pandora crapped out due to "unexpected technical problems." Typical. So I fire up Winamp to find that it won't play my music. Says it can't play the file type (mp3). All of my music is giving the error. I try with the native music app and get the same error. I end up wiping my phone and starting over. Everything is running fine until Pandora dies again. Winamp says it can't read the files again. Wtf? Reboot and it fixed it (unlike the first time I had this problem). Anyone having a similar problem or know of a fix?
[Droid X General] Devilsephiroth:
I believe all droid x has this Problem, I've had two and they both shared this glitch. Restart the phone and it should remedy the problem. Temporarily
[Droid X General] zehkaiser:
Damn you, Motorola!!! *shakes fist in air*
[Droid X General] DjGeraldo:
yeah i have this problem ALOT. I think the more music you have the faster it happens. I have all 16g used up by music and I get like an hour or 2 and its done.
[Droid X General] Nabaati:
What bit rate is your music encoded at? I haven't done a lot of experimentation, but it seems like my higher bit mp3s may be causing more problems.
[Droid X General] cmalberto:
This happens to me daily. I reboot but a major pain. Is there an app to reboot with? Seems like there should be.

I have tried different music apps to no avail.

What about the SD Card? Think the supplied one for the Droid is the cause by chance? Anyone try another one?

--Mickey
[General Questions and Answers] celltwo:
Picked up my hd7 7 days ago

I now have 7/14 days to return it,

Love the phone but I need to sort a few things before I decide I'm keeping it

hardware

1 Where is the Compass?

Downloaded a few apps and nothing seems to make it work, I just want to see it working as I have seen it listed in spec but I tend not to trust things untill I see it working. Seems like such a small app to have ready for release but missing!!

2 Camera button

Tight and hard to press in, a worry as this may get better or worse

(minor niggle)

3 Back button

Seems to have a hair trigger, may be me but seems to me but a slight breeze will set it off.

Software

1 Apps

how hard is it to work out a tipp? A flood of apps for that, why?

I know its all going to come but anyone heard news on

Google maps

Spotify

Or maybe Android
[General Questions and Answers] celltwo:
Pressed the wrong button!!!

What I need to know most is do I keep this phone and wait for the apps/fixes or take it back and get a desire? Or god help me an I phone
[General Questions and Answers] celltwo:
6/7 :D

Loving the phone little more

But still no one seems to know much

this will be my 7th HTC phone

Have a feeling I may just to see how this works out.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] aobmax:
Hi so I've been searching the forum for 2 days and tried i think is everything but still cant make my phone work..it can only access the fastboot mode now and if i turn on the phone i cant pass the "htc magic" splash screen. And yes i have a goldcard and tried to flash the engineering spl 2010 but it stuck at unzipping system part. I cant flash anything and when i input command it appears as

1.if i input "fastboot flash (partition) "xxxx"" it will show the "remote:verify INFOsignature fail" error

2. if i input "fastboot boot "xxxx"" then it will show the "remote: reproduce boot image with on-flash ramdisk error"

3. error with RUU: the RUU has the main version error

my fastboot screen info:

SAPPHIRE UNKNOWN 32A SHIP S-ON H

HBOOT-1.33.0009 (SAPP31000)

CPLD-13

RADIO-3.22.20.17

May 8 2009,21:02:32

So far i think i might need the original RUU of my phone and swap in engineering spl 2010 in the temp. file as soon as it releases it.Then flash it see if that helps. But i cant find any original RUU on the road...

Help me master!

ps: and yea i would be glad to pay 20 usd if anyone help me to get this thing working again. ^^
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] londere:
you could try my posthttp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=831044
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] aobmax:
It wont work...

Actually i've tried the 3 official roms via RUU app already and i did get error with RUU as i said so now I just tried the 3 roms from tmobile which means the same as my phone's cid appeared as T-MOBO10 via my goldcard. The 2.10.531.4 and 2.11.531.3 ones failed with it saying" main version is older" and the 1.94.531.1 which extracted as a .nbh file failed at signature checking point. ah...yea, thanks a lot for helping me though.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mumilover:
Type this and post the outcome here:

fastboot getvar version-main

From there we can try to determine what to do!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] aobmax:
main version

It says version-main: 2.16.707.3.

BTW my phone had stock 1.6
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] housry23:
If you are getting main version older error it is possible that your goldcard has become ungolden. Try remaking your goldcard, put sappimg.img(found on the how to root MyTouch 1.2 thread) on the root of it, reboot holding volume down and boot and when in hboot screen hold trackball down until it finds sappimg.img and it shoudl update itself. Then reboot to fastboot and flash radio, hboot and recovery. Then reboot to recovery and flash the rom u want.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mumilover:
The goldcard will not let you update a sappimg.zip which has older system version then what you have now!!!

So it's not a faulty goldcard.

The solution:

There is a special sappimg.zip which has an eng spl and is signed by htc :0)

Luckily you have a system version which is lower :0)

If you flash that sappimg.zip you can then flash what ever you want and get the system back on track.

The zip is for the 32A device... but we just need the eng spl to flash the 1.2 device layout.

You game with that ?

I just helped somebody to regain their device using this approach...

http://theunlockr.com/2010/03/11/how-to-root-the-mytouch-1-2-and-fender-mytouch/

The link above has all what you need.

Follow it to step 10. The rom they use in step 10 is outdated... Use this instead:

Rom: http://khsk.uberitz.net/cm/update-cm-6.0.0-DS-signed.zip

Gapps: http://cyanogenmod-mirror.local.host.name/gapps/gapps-mdpi-tiny-20101020-signed.zip

You should be good to go :0)

Remember, if you get problems post here... don't do something stupid and don't work in the dark...

KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING OR ASK FOR HELP :0)
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] aobmax:
uh...

So I do have questions:

I tried that page b4 and the sappimg.zip in step one does not work with freeze at unzipping system. And the stock spl, radio, &AR recovery simply don't work since they all cannot pass the INFOsignature check.

So should I simply skip to step 10 and flash the special sappimg.zip from you?

And how does that sappimg work with the gapp? I don't know how to use that gapp package...never used it b4. Oh that post mention the use of gapp on step 12...should i do step 10~12 then?

Thanks a million for helping. ^^

Edit: uh... wait a second. do you mean the special sappimg.zip is the sappimg in step1 from that post or is the special sappimg you mean is from your rom link?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] aobmax:
continued

well i suppose theres no harm in trying to flash the cm 6.0 update rom via hboot...well the result is the phone back to defualt hboot screen after "checking sappimg.zip". Any suggestion?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mumilover:
Flash the sappimg.zip from the site. It has to work or you have a faulty goldcard.

Redo goldcard and reflash.

The links i provided is only ment to be flashed using custom recovery.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] aobmax:
goldcard

So now suppose i have a faulty goldcard and now i cant access the phone.

Should I format the sd card in windows in fat32 format and then paste my goldcard.img to the reformated sd card again?

PS: I haven't changed anything on my goldcard since the first time i successfully flashed the sappimg.zip the first time. but back then i was stupid and flashed the non-perfect spl one. now i cant flash any sappimg.zip anymore with this same sd card. But now yea i better try to redo it see if that helps.

Thanks.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mumilover:
Check your pm...

I have seen my goldcard change after i use it for some time..

So i have to redo it every time i was gona flash just to make sure!

But you redo yours anyway... it done properly, maybe for the last time :0)
[Galaxy Tab General] jdsemler:
If I were to buy a Tab from Europe for use in the United States on AT&T, is there a particular model out there that works on the bands AT&T supports? As I understand it, the phone capability is disabled on the U.S. release, so I'd like to get one that has the capability, since I'm a bluetooth user primarily for phone calls anyway.
[Galaxy Tab General] Alcibiade:
If we are lucky the phone is disabled only at the ROM level... In which case we may get it back when flashing

If you want the right 3G bands, I would bet on Telstra (Australia0 or Bell (Canada). The problem is you'll probably end up paying more than US versions

We are on the same boat btw...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=824676

What worries me is AT&T has been super slow in announcing its model... We still have no idea when it will be available or how much it will cost :(
[Galaxy Tab General] ConceptVBS:
^ Most likely before the holiday shopping season begins. They wont DARE miss it.

What At&t is probably doing is focusing on Windows Phone 7 for a while before switching their marketing over to the Galaxy Tab. Also, let the other carriers market the crap out of their own Galaxy Tabs so At&t stands out from the crowd.

The three carriers will be launching their Tabs only a couple of days from each other. T-Mobile is first, two days later Verizon then 4 days later Sprint.
[Galaxy Tab General] INeedYourHelp:
I would love to get an Euro version to use on AT&T, but they are so damn expensive. The cheapest I've found is $939!!!!
[Galaxy Tab General] Alcibiade:
On top of that 3G won't work in the US... So no don;t do that, it would be such a waste...
[Galaxy Tab General] clubtech:
NOT true.

The euro model WILL WORK on at&t's 3G just fine (and will make call just fine) if you live in an area that at&t uses 1900Mhz for its 3G network.

I use it just fine here in the SF Bay Area.
[Galaxy Tab General] bulldebeerman:
tab

I think if your going to get a tab with no contract the best one to get would be the tmobile one the sim slot is still here so it may just be the rom they mess with,

plus the price is like 599 us why pay 989 plus shipping
[Galaxy Tab General] Alcibiade:
???????

You think the slim slot will be missing on other carriers ? Yeah right...

There will be a SIM slot on all of the Tabs in the US. You need a SIM for 3G connections
[Galaxy Tab General] Alcibiade:
And you'll be missing 850 Mhx band

So... you pay nearly twice the price of the US Tab and you get a crippled device... Sounds like a great deal !
[Galaxy Tab General] Step666:
It'll be missing on the Sprint and Verizon models as they're CDMA-based and therefore don't use SIM cards.
[Galaxy Tab General] dboppc130:
Hey guys- there is already a post that discusses this question. please be careful about clogging the site up with questions that have already been discussed. (it's upsetting the Russians) :)

As far as the 850 band goes, it's just as fast and available as the 1900 band. 850 was added to relieve congestion due to IPhone users in 2010. 1900 is still most places and isn't going away.

I wouldn't knock someone because they decided to get the euro version without 850. Clubtech has been rocking out on his for about a month with voice capability unlocked while we are sitting around hoping that the US carrier version can be hacked. That only cost him roughly 50 bucks a week and that drops every day we don't have one. Seems pretty smart at this point and by the time we do get ours and figure out how to unlock the phone the difference in price will be negligible. plus he's already saving for the next gen tab while we wait for this one. And how upset will you be when you find out the hardware is disconnected and we can't get the phone turned on and have to pay the same price 2 months later after already buying the castrated US version. I guess we will find out after Thursday. Also, I heard a nasty rumor that the front facing camera on the AT&T version is removed.

I plan to get the T-Mo version without a contract on Wed and then hand that off to my wife as a Wi-Fi only tab when I can get my hands on the unlocked 850 band model that has phone capability as shown on mobilecity.com or Negrielectronics.com. I don't care what the price is, I just want to rock out on a tab like Clubtech is doing NOW!!!
[Galaxy Tab General] Step666:
I thought the release date was November first?
[Galaxy Tab General] dboppc130:
he got the Italian model several weeks ago
[Galaxy Tab General] Step666:
I didn't realise they'd launched it there earlier, for some reason I was under the impression it was launched across Europe on the same date.
[Galaxy Tab General] dboppc130:
Only the UK model was delayed untill Nov 1. Italy, Germany and several others have had it since early Oct.
[Galaxy Tab General] Raspster:
The offical unlocked 850/1900 version was delayed until early 2011. Atleast thats what Samsung told Nergi however, the Bell version is offically coming on Nov 12th and that version has 850/1900 3G bands so there ya go... Full 3G in the USA!
[Galaxy Tab General] xexes:
Hi guys... I joined xda to try to figure out the best way to get voice calling in the US on the Tab... so thank you all so much for your information.

In an attempt to see if I have 1900MHz coverage from AT&T in my area... I called their 800 no. (1-800-331-0500) given to me by the local office, cus they didn't know precise coverage areas.

At the 800 number, the rep read from an Oct 10 release (on their MyCustomer Service Portal) where AT&T says that "because the number of customers with 1900MHz only phones is declinging" they are phasing out that frequency in 2010-2011. It's already begun in 30 markets (OKC phase out should be complete by Dec 2 according to the release). (Edited to add: clubtech says that they've been saying this since 2008, and hasn't happened yet.... so maybe it won't? who knows...)

They said they would replace customers' phones as the frequency was phased out if they were 1900MHz only.

And from what I've been able to learn here and elsewhere... it is the 1900MHz frequency that the Galaxy Tab uses, not the 850 frequency (at least on AT&T).

Sooooo.... isn't that lovely?

Looks like a Euro unlocked will not work for too much longer... altho maybe by the time the 1900 bands are phased out, there will be other workarounds.

So it's either back to mobilecity to preorder the 3G unlocked version for $879 (and who knows when that will be in?) or wait to see if the T-Mo version can be flashed to voice calling... which hopefully we will know soon.

btw... in my searching, clubtech was kind enough to enlighten me that the Euro version Tabs on eBay will only work on the 2G network of T-Mobile, which obviously is no good... so heads up on that.

But I must say I am getting even more pissed at the US carriers for making it so difficult to use the phone features of the tablet.
[Galaxy Tab General] Alcibiade:
What starts to piss me off is AT&T has still not given any release date. Probably trying to please Apple... Once AT&T's tab is out we'll find out whether the call has been disabled at the hardware level (Given Samsung's history, I kind of doubt it)

But point taken, Cell phones networks (and operators) are at the level of Third World countries in America... (I lived in Hong Kong and Japan before)
[Galaxy Tab General] Step666:
Different countries' networks have different strong points and weak points.

In the UK, the biggest upside is the competitive pricing. The biggest downside is the generally poor data services, allowances, prices and speeds.

In the US, the cons seem to be the 50/50 split between two technologies, making matters unnecessarily complex and reducing competition, thus leading to poorer pricing. The pros relate to the superior adoption/acceptance of data usage, more generous allowances, pushing forwards with better network technologies and higher speeds.

Or, at least, that's how I see it.
[Galaxy Tab General] dliao:
I'm on the same boat with you Alcibiade. Although I tend to believe it's the collaborative decision, or perhaps more on the Samsung's side, to make the Tab more competitive to the iPad. If you look at the pricing of the Euro/Asia version, it's pretty much no contest against the iPad. For them to sell it here in the State (the home of walmart, Target, etc, and where iPad is from) they really had to take drastic approach to lower it in order to match the iPad. And that leaves u, and me getting frustrated about if we really do have the type of options that Samsung is trying to appeal to the consumer (by offering the same device to different carriers).

From what I can gather, aside from the lack of the voice capability, there are small difference between carriers. Spring and Verizon's version seems to have only 2GB built in memory. The T-Mobile runs on it's own 3G band. And AT&T's version is up in the air. I know for me I definitely need GSM for traveling, so that really leaves me without too much choice.

Albeit maybe i am just in the minority. But i really wish they could make purchasing Tab as easy as buying the iPad.
[Galaxy Tab General] Alcibiade:
I disagree with your pros. The networks in the US are not especially advanced or speedy compared with Asia (Europe is a different story)
[Galaxy Tab General] Alcibiade:
I hope AT&T's version will come with the front facing camera (Some bad rumors about this seem to be floating around)

Prices in Europe are always higher for technology gizmos (iPad or Samsung Tab, digital cameras, etc...)

We'll see but I hope Sammy hasn't really physically castrated the Tab for voice calls. That said if AT&T doesn't quickly move on to announce when it will be on sale I'll be looking for some other way to get one that works here in the US (And since I travel quite a lot too I do need a GSM for Europe and Asia)

We can also probably count on HTC and some others to come up with viable 7" Tegra 2 alternatives within a few months (But I dont wanna wait that long !!! Getting tired of my TP2...)
[Galaxy Tab General] Step666:
T-Mobile is rolling out 42Mbps HSPA, AT&T and Verizon both plan to have LTE networks running by next year and Sprint is already making use of WiMax.

In Japan, whilst almost all the networks have decided upon LTE, none of them have started to roll it out yet (unless I'm mistaken) and one network has started rolling out 42Mbps HSPA. So nothing really more advanced than what's happening in the US.

As for South Korea, a couple of their providers have started using WiMax but again that's really no further forward than the US is at just now.

Anyway, especially with Japan, to compare Asian networks to others worldwide is a waste of time anyway since they seem to operate in their own little bubbles.

edit: NTT Docomo's own site says they're currently offering speeds of up to 14.4Mbps, which even Vodafone UK has been offering for a year or so now (in selected areas).

There's a page on SK Telecom's site which states fairly similar information (max 14.4Mbps speeds), though they supposedly also use WiMax as well so I'm not sure where that fits in.