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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] penfold:
i have just discovered that the camera firmware is MUCH better on JPO than it was with JM2
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kilack:
I went from jm9 to jpo yesterday. I am still wondering whether to stay with froyo or go back to eclair. Eclair is definitely faster and the gps fixes were in the latest releases of eclair, I had no problems with the gps in the latest eclair versions, it still wasn't what I would call a great phone gps but was good enough for most things.

The memory usage for the browser is horrific on froyo and the browser crawls compared to the eclair one, a bit disappointing.

Market in froyo is super fast, nice.. but not a big thing really because I dont spend that much time in the market. I'd prefer having a faster browser.

Froyo does bring a few nice things but its definitely not wow like I was expecting after hearing so many people moan about it being delayed etc.

Flash? its so slow its not even worth it. Maybe when dual core cpu's come out flash might be better but I can kind of see why apple didn't bother with it now heh.

Hopefully we are going to see Samsung keep releasing new versions of froyo like they kept doing with elcair and they will get better and better but for now.. Im seriously thinking of heading back to eclair.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bratescu1977:
I dont know how the hell the samsung company can t make a froyo that has no bug or problem, and the guys from htc did that with no problem. I have a htc desire with froyo updated via ota and i have no problem very fast and stable.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kumimono:
How so? Faster picture taking? Less noise? Do share... :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bond2002:
After the update, everything was quicker, but the email app which is link to an exchange account is really slow.

Then I did a full wipe/factory reset, everything is very fast now, no lag at all.

with Stock JPO firmware.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhishek.vij:
Can anyone please confirm if the mic recording has improved when recording video ( loud noises ) ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] penfold:
better focus, better compression settings, resulting in higher quality, sharper images

......although vignette still takes images at twice the quality with less noise, (tradeoff being the very slow speed)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] penfold:
improved in what way? ....i recorded a brief clip and the sound was loud and clear
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t1mman:
As experienced in the Accessorie section, loud noise limitation are more likely hardware related.

There's a workaround (external microphone) wich will give you results way ahead of any phones (original's mic)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hvdm57:
Slow exchange gmail

Hi

After my update to froyo my exchange email has become very very slow.

CPU is using more than 40 o/o to run the gmail app. ( no sync.)

Anybody els facing the same problem ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicoloco:
Hi

I installed JPA ... and I must confess that's the worst experience I ever had with a FW.

I can't count anymore the number of FC and the lag has reach some level never reached before.

The mail is so laggy that once ... after waiting for the refresh I tried to go back ... .nothing .... nothing ... and my account was gone. I had to recreate it.

I installed the DOCRambone 7.6.rom and the lagfix no RFS + ext4 and it doens't really change my feeling about the lag. For instance when I open my mail it takes few second to appear and when it appears it is forzen for 5 to 10 sec more ( I can open a mail , I can scroll the folder bar on the top ...)

I didn't try yet the GPS , I installed cardio trainer so next time I run I will do a quick test. I don't know why but I'm pretty sure it won't be nice to see
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pedromarin:
Phone seems faster overall, but sometimes still lags. Not as bad as eclair, though.

As for the GPS, i didn't notice much improvement. Works about 30% of the time, but still very unreliable...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aciduzzo:
With jpo my battery life is much better, as is gps. However lag was unbearable till i installed a lagfix (voodoo). All in all, pretty happy allbeit a tad underwhelmed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thurtig:
Seemed quicker at first. But got FC after FC. So, naturally, I did a factory reset. After that the phone was nice and snappy. But ..... almost every new application installed from the market resulted first in a FC, but after reboot started working. But ..... all the apps are horribly slow. Never before did I encounter the mysterious 20s lag some wanderers on these forums had described. Now most of my apps lag so much that I'd rather not use the damn thing.

I dunno. Should I return the phone? I'm not going to lagfix, I expect a phone to be usable without any third-party kernel tweaks.

Bah.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gonsa:
- I can't get Delivery Reports on Handcent now. Two seconds after I send the sms, I get a green circle confirming the sms was delivered. And I was testing this to a powered off phone. Didn't happen in Eclair.

- When I receive and new sms I get a little icon counter in the Messaging app even though I have Handcent as default messaging app. Didn't happen in Eclair

- I can't disable Geo-tagging in the camera app. WTF???

- The app iLightr now crashes and in Eclair it was working fine.

already missing my Eclair..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apollag:
no geo-tagging

i'm on jpm and seems i lost the geo-tagging capability of the camera. i can no longer locate where to enable it.

---solved! thanks to ImraanK (post #34). geo-tag is no longer enabled/disabled at the camera settings. it is at the location and security as posted.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicoloco:
Same problem with the geo tagging ... I can't desactivate it
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inurb:
Just a friendly reminder...

I thought jpm froyo was slow as hell until I performed a factory reset. After the reset there was no lag. Launcher pro was buttery smooth across all 7 ofmy homescreens with tons of widgets.

I thought samsungs froyo was garbage until I did the factory reset. Very happy now with froyo jpm.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicoloco:
On my side I already did 2 factory reset and it didn't change anything ...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xqwzit:
need to reset it after updating to froyo...

mine was alot faster with no lag at all

also +1 for the battery life
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicpol7:
mine is much much better even without a hard reset..no need to do..and no need for lag fix or anything..

speed improvement overall..

battery life is better by far...and almost double compared to the very first rom my( galaxy came with...

.i dont use gps so i can not say anything..

i think also that is a stable rom,jp6 froyo was not...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruslanoid:
overall all is fine

but, i had a few times where different apps get stuck and force close, this happened on Eclair too, but on Froyo it seems the whole system becomes hung and unresponsive, can't even long press the home button to get to the task manager... it just vibrates a couple of times at me kind of angrily to leave it alone :confused:

anyone encountered such behaviour?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nailerr:
I am finding my battery life has become abysmal, I lost 5% in 2 hours, Data sync off, GPS off, Wifi off and screen off. It lost 5% while doing absolutely nothing. 2 more hours later with minimal checking of the status it is down to 86%. That was just to check the situation with screen on minimal brightness!

Multiple factory resets, I even go so far as to format the SD cards too out of habit when doing so.

I am finding however my SGS is rapidly flicking between UMTS and HSDPA in the settings. It can not settle on one specific WCDMA system, this was an issue before 2.2 for me and several others on the forum.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pramathesh:
GPS!! MY main concern. Can anyone verify on how credible it is? Also when would official froyo be available in India??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ImraanK:
How to Disable Geo-tagging

Settings -> Location and Security...

If you disable Use Wireless Networks and Use GPS satellites...

Camera Geo-tagging will be disabled.

Either one selected will enable Geo-tagging.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] me00016:
Can any of you guys who updated to froyo can confirm:

1. The fm radio can receive stereo now? on eclair (it was mono)

2. Google maps navigation is enabled for all locations?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] picard2008:
Hi, in Hong Kong, with ZSJPD, Radio is now stereo but navigation is still not available.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jehan1:
My experience:

GPS working so far, needs further testing

Calendar has been improved and works properly

Battery drain is horrible: with GPS, WiFI, 3G, EDGE disabled and just idleing (screen off and not placing any call/sms) the battery got from 90% to 0% in 21 hours...

Any way of checking whats using this battery, any solutions?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silverstorm:
Type *#*#4636#*#* in your dial pad and then choose 'Battery History' from the hidden service menu. From the drop-down list that says 'Other usage' change it to 'Sensor Usage'. If the Gallery is showing under there, click on the Gallery button and see how long the sensor has been running. If it shows an absurdly disproportionate amount of time like 11hours etc or however long your phone has been on since last unplugged, it suggests you have the gallery sensor bug that fails to deactivate the proximity, light and G sensors after the Gallery app is closed and remains running in the background and drains your battery.

I had this problem, so replaced my stock Gallery app with the Gallery app from DocRambone's 7.6.2 JPO ROM and the battery drain is gone. Other have suggested deleting the stock Gallery app (modded by Samsung) and downloading the original Google Gallery3D.apk from the Market but it didn't show up in the market for me when I searched for 'Gallery 3D' or 'cooliris'.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gonsa:
My gallery is all messed up.

I get triple images where there is only one and i can't delete them.

Have to FC after a while

i'm in JPO.

Is yours like this too?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Barkotron:
I definitely seem to be seeing this - Gallery is still using sensor even though it's not running anywhere.

Is there any way to clear this? I tried clearing the RAM from the task manager program (level 2) in the hope it would kill the processes necessary, but the usage is still increasing.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gonsa:
Dude, you just saved my day.

clearing the RAM from the task manager program (level 2) solved my gallery problem.

thank you thank you thank you :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silverstorm:
I tried all sorts of stuff (rebooting, clearing RAM, clearing the Gallery data under 'Settings>Applications>Manage applications') but soon as you start the Gallery again the problem resumes. Samsung did something to the Android Gallery app to customise it and make it load pics faster, but then messed it up with this bug.

In the end I replaced the Gallery3D.apk with DocRambone's ROM 7.6.2 Gallery3D.apk, which seems to be the Android one with a different icon and it loads slower but doesn't cause the rogue sensor usage. You need to be rooted though to replace the system apps.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Barkotron:
You know, I'm really pleased for you. Honest :D.

Didn't solve mine though :confused:, I've got to boot to clear it. I'm on JPO via Kies, no mods or anything.

Can anyone recommend a good gallery app I could use until this is fixed? Is there one which does 1-to-1 pixel zooming yet? The ugly zooming in the standard gallery is beginning to really annoy me...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mtoneman:
Try the Multi-touch gallery (from BandB, Bread & Butter). It supports the 1-to-1 pixel zooming.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gonsa:
Well, i solved my triple images but not the sensor problem.

where can i find that Gallery3D.apk from DocRambone's??

coud you provide the link our file please?

and what folder is it placed for we to overwrite it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thurtig:
Aha. I found that Screen Capture was on in Services. Strange, so I killed it --> no help. Also killed Fring (video call app) --> wow, that helped immediately.

So, if you have Fring, try removing it for less lag. Might help.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rll:
Did that on my unbranded German Galaxy with official froyo and found that Torque (free) is useing the sensors for 1d 15h 11m 38s (and still counting)

Torque is a software that can read a bluetooth OBD 2 unit to read car sensors. I used it on the weekend for about half an hour.

Battery drain is moderate, but more than average.

BTW: neither Advance Task killer nor osmonitor is showing gallery or Torque to be running. That puzzles me most.

To me it seems that more application are haveing problems on detatching the sensors, so it might not be an application problem but a general problem.

Anyone else finding applications useing a lot of sensor?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Barkotron:
Thanks!

Not as pretty, but with the far better zooming it'll definitely do me nicely, at least until someone (hopefully) fixes the sensor issue. Dead cheap too.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Qukel:
I have a few issues since updating to Froyo (JPO) and doing a factory reset:

GPS won't get a fix. I can see enough satellites but it won't fix and give me a location;

After a reboot the same 2 program icons disappear from my start screen. They are still under applications though and I can move them back to the start screen;

Some apps I bought I can't find on the market anymore (the backups I had work);

Market is acting weird as of this morning, was ok yesterday.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fudduf:
i also can't get a GPS fix since updating via Kies + factory reset. i also had at least one application disappear after reboot and had to reinstall from market.

samsung is really sinking low if this is the best they can do. i have to look for a lagfix because the current experience is completely unacceptable.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MagicOnline:
ROFL :D

10char
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silverstorm:
I've attached the Gallery3D.apk from DocRambone's latest JPO Base ROM

Link to Doc's ROM

I replaced it through ADB. You could also use RootExplorer to achieve the same results. But either way you must have root. Also, Doc's Gallery3D.apk is de-odexed. It will work on a stock JPO ROM that isn't deodexed (as I've done it on mine), but you'll need to remove or rename the Gallery3D.odex file in your system. Here is what I did:

You are advised to do a nandroid backup before you proceed so you have something to roll back to. This procedure worked for me, but I am not responsible for any unexpected stuff that happens to your phone!

1. Save attached Gallery3D.apk to the top level of your internal SD card.

2. Go to Settings>Applications>Manage Applications and under Gallery app, force stop and then Clear Data.

3. Connect phone to PC with USB debugging on.

4. Launch ADB through cmd window and type the following:

adb shell

su

(Note: If you haven't already given access to ADB before, at this point the SuperUser app on your phone will ask you if you want to grant root access permission to ADB shell so make sure your phone screen is unlocked and turned on so you can tap to accept this prompt)

mv /system/app/Gallery3D.apk /system/app/Gallery3D.apk.original

mv /system/app/Gallery3D.odex /system/app/Gallery3D.odex.original

(Note: Here we are backing up our original Gallery app and renaming the odex file so it doesn't interfere with Doc's deo-dexed version

cat /sdcard/Gallery3D.apk > /system/app/Gallery3D.apk

reboot

(Note: Here we copy the new Gallery app to our system then rebooting to refresh the system. The '>' symbol is very important, do not miss it out, otherwise ADB will crash (as I found out the hard way :) )

5. After the phone reboots, you'll notice the Gallery app has a different icon (not the touchwiz orange one). When it first opens it takes a bit of time as it builds the cache, but after 3 or 4 uses, I've noticed it speeds to normal.

So far with this replaced Gallery3D.apk my sensor use is more sensible and the battery meter is going down more slowly and steadily :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] me00016:
As I suspected... At least I hope brut Navigation will still be usefull.

Thanks a lot captain picard!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gonsa:
you're the man silverstorm.

EDIT: errr.. now not even with clearing RAM level 2 it fixes my gallery. I'm getting 4 multiple pictures of the same picture... Why does this happen?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silverstorm:
I don't know about the multiple pictures, I've never had that happen to me. I don't know if it's something to do with your lagfix or speedRom patches. Did you factory wipe when upgrading to JPO? Anyways, you may wish to try the following to see if it helps resolve (it won't erase your settings/apps):

- delete com.cooliris.media and com.android.providers.media folder inside the 'Android' folder on your internal sdcard

- go gallery, clear cache and data.

- then go media provider/content, clear cache and data.

(Both under Settings>applications>Manage applications)

- Restart phone, let media scanner run fully (do not enter SIM pin or interrupt for a while). it'll take a bit.

If this doesn't fix it, you may want to wipe your dalvik cache. However I'm not sure if this erases your settings or anything so try at your own risk (i've tried it in the past on other ROMS and my data was still preserved though):

- reboot into ClockWorkMod recovery and wipe dalvik cache - it then takes a bit to boot up to rebuild dalvik cache.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gonsa:
IT WORKED!!!

didn't have to wipe dalvik cache.

didn't find media provider/content either.

did all the rest.

thank you. now i don't have multiple photos :)

P.S.- I have NoLed too. Love that little app. And now with the new themes it's awesome. By the way, BLN sucks :p
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jehan1:
Gallery does indeed use alot of sensor time.

Is there a non-root way to fix this? I really don't feel like rooting my phone...

Btw, if rooting is the only way, which rooting way is best for froyo?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amwebby:
I'm generally pleased. Most apps seem faster, the new keyboard is better and it's nice to have Flash and Skype.

However the email app is unusable! I thought Exchange was supposed to be improved in Froyo. Instead it is unusable and I've been forced into using Roadsync.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nixd:
When I first got my sgs it was on JF3. Which is embarrassing as an ' out-of-the-box' firmware.

Then I went up to JM1 which was conceivably smoother and with voodoo applied, it came to a decent place in usability.

But I wanted more. I had to have froyo and all the good things that comes with it.

And now, I'm on JPO. And to my grave disappointment, even though I had wiped my phone before flashing, OH MY GOD! THE LAG IN THIS THING!!!

Let alone the 20x-something performance boost that froyo should have brought over eclair (having jit and all), this lame excuse for a mobile os is BARELY USABLE!!

I had hoped maybe this time, I could use my phone without a lagfix or whatever..

But in its current condition, my sgs couldn't be further away from being the iphone killer it should have been. Such a shame..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
Yes its Stereo but you need to have a very good signal (as expected)

and Google Maps was NEVER enabled for ALL locations. You will need to install a modded Maps 4.6 which can be found all over the place (Also known as Brut's Google Maps 4.6)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
JustPictures! (free from market) is the best image viewer I've ever used on android! get it! or you can try my 2nd fav which is "floating image"
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silverstorm:
Thanks for the tip, just tried JustPictures and love it. It probably won't be my primary pic viewer as the stock Gallery app is faster to access but for EXIF data and viewing in full resolution JustPictures is brilliant. And the UI is not bad at all.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joseph444:
to summarize my froyo experience

quadrant score

eclair on stock phone

850 pkt - but works ok

eclair+lagfix

2250 pkt and it works perfect

froyo without lagfix

975 pkt - in fact phone really slooow and lags

froyo+lagfix with problematic instalation of lagfix

1700 pkt and system speed is barely acceptable

so froyo that was installed on my phone yesterday is painfull experience ,
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] penfold:
which lagfix?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oswade:
I would say, purely in terms of speed with and without lagfixes.

Late eclair releases (JM9,JM8 etc) > Froyos > Early eclair releases (JG1, JG4 etc)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cyberdyne systems:
I thought when we pressed and held the home button it would now show the last eight tasks/apps we were running, but its still six
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rll:
Hi,

just rooted my unbranded JPO Galaxy with Ryans Z4root and used OCLF with 2.2 Lag fix (all from the market).

Now it is getting to what i expected it to be in the first place.

Even with Froyo the lag increased and was very anoying.

Looking much better now. Hopefully it will stay that fast and not getting worse over time.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aorth:
Interesting. I am on Froyo JPO with Voodoo-5-pre6 and my Quadrant is usually around 1500-1600 but I feel that the system is much more responsive, apps switch faster, pinch to zoom in the gallery is very fast, and no lag when installing stuff from the market.

My Quadrant with Eclair XWJM7 and Voodoo was higher but the system felt slow.

Overall I am happy with Froyo.

Cheers
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danamoult:
Froyo + any lagfix (excluding OCLF as that lagfix is reported to not have any effect on Froyo) usually scores lower on Quadrant when compared to Eclair + same lagfix. However, the actual user experience is a LOT better generally.

Tip - ALWAYS do a factory reset before installing/flashing Froyo. Secondly, if you use a backup application such as TitaniumBackup, etc., do NOT restore system settings. System settings are not always compatible between Eclair and Froyo and can cause bad lag.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] louis chan:
using zsjpd with speedmod vi1 + lagfix.

- seems faster in some apps, but doesn't improve speed in web browsing.

- some strange issues that apps/config crash and all apps FC. twice already need to reset to default

- flash still not fast.

- voice call clarity improved. (but you can just odin modem sw portion into previous 2.1)

- some of system utilties in 2.1 utility can't be used, like my backup pro

- battery drain during sleep is still ok 1-2% per hr. but battery drain quite fast while normal use. almost 20% per hr.

overall, a bit disappointed.