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[Galaxy S I9000 General] pramathesh:
The repair center guys here at my place are clueless on what froyo is and what GTi9000 is in the first place. Let alone be the fact that they would know there exists a problem with GPS on the phone. I also tried mail support here two weeks ago to which there has been no reply yet from them.

6 votes but none coming forward!?!? Strange...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ApnaDroid:
I have an Samsung Galaxy I9000 India version and the issue can be easily fixed by tweaking your GPS settings, I will be posting a How-to demo soom with images. I can definitely say that the issue is software and not hardware.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pramathesh:
My GPS works too but get's a fix on satellites after 10+ minutes on standalone/MS Based and an instant fix when connected to wifi. Haven't checked how long it takes with GPRS. The problem/question is does it take 10+ minutes and sometimes forever on Standalone/MS Based. With full sky view (12 satellites) and sensors enabled? In other words it sees the satellites but takes forever to lock on it.

I'll eagerly await for your guide to fix this mess...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] maesebit:
Don't keep your hopes too high. You'll be dissapointed. :p

The software bull**** is starting to be sickening.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ApnaDroid:
Strange, after the new settings I get a fix in 2-3 minutes max on Airtel Edge network, will be posting the settings soon.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] seltaeb:
How well does it work after it's locked on (e.g. in a driving test)? I usually get a lock in less than a minute but after that the GPS is a bit iffy.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ApnaDroid:
I had not done much testing as I own the device since past 10 days only with one trip utilizing GPS, but after the fix it worked fine whenever I needed it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] thedauntlessone:
If the phone is not getting a fix within 10 seconds its failing. My old iPhone 3g would get a fix within 5 seconds usually and it's pretty damn accurate.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ApnaDroid:
Yeah, I also had an iPhone 3G and everything about it was of top-quality. No doubt.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] shadoslayer:
All of us?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] got-petrol:
i live in the uk and think we should do it for every body not just india my gps is the same all over the place i no its a phone and no a tom tom ...what gets me mad is how can samsung get away with selling some thing that cant be fixed...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SGSChris:
Hi - I started a thread with a similar intention:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=841622

Unfortunately, we could not find any common ground for action. I see 4 major challenges:

1. There is no evidence that Samsung can or will repair phones with a bad GPS; in fact; I do not remember any post that calims he/she sent in the phone and it came back with a fully working GPS.

2. There is no hope to win a legal battle - we have no case (no systematic data) and multinational companies have powerful legal teams and a lot of playing money

3. We have not developed any ideas how to extert customer power to hurt Samsung at the reputation level; this would directly get top management attention but how to do it?

4. We have a responsibility to let prospective buyers know about SGS quality issues (lag, GPS etc); Samsung is selling tons of new phones and now also Tabs!

I just want a top quality phone from a company I trust and respect. Willing to pay good money in return and remain a loyal customer.

I am considering converting to Apple or go for an android competitor - HTC looks promising but I don't know enough about them - any opinions?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Jibreil:
That's why I always prefer importing my phones from Europe or US.

To ALL who are frustrated with the GPS of Samsung and their laid back attitude. Buy the HTC Desire HD :-D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] t1mman:
From what I've heard, HTC has large issue with WiFi and still, to this day, can't support real multitouch. So the best advise would most likely be:

Do your research BEFORE you buy anything... every company has issue, avery company is most likely working on it and resolving issue WILL TAKE SOME TIME from all company. Period.

DHD has its up point as its downpoint, as has any device out there. So if you want flawless GSP, the SGS might not be the best choice (I can't say about DHD or any other, but my old HTC Vogue's GPS is not as accurate as my SGS). Do your research and find one that will suit you (standalone GPS might be a good choice for anyone with that need of a GPS, for that matters)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] seking:
I have an SGS manufactured in August 2010 and my GPS works if works means showing the long and lat of a place and the number of satellite etc. It does all this within one minute or less than that.

About going to lawyer, one should be pragmatic. Samsung is a MNC which have vast resources. Fighting with them can have disastrous consequences for a aam aadmi. I admit that some of their SGS are not upto mark. But then you will have patently approach them and get it replaced /repaired.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mammenj:
I think legally you may have a tough case because samsung never promised gps fix in x seconds. And most folks gps works but slow.

I would suggest use social media and other media to show samsung's lousy support and product.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] fulcrum1971:
I don't know what to say. Have tried all settings. The gps works fine most of the time on mainland. But the moment I land in Port Blair it just stops working. Just refuses to give a lock even though it has 8 satellites in view. My stand alone gps has no such problems. Gives me a perfect lock even in air. Having said that it's not gonna be easy to sue Samsung. First we will have to prove that the gps is ****. Btw has anyone tried returning the sgs for the gps problem?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mammenj:
if the phone gets the satellite fix but not showing on the map then it may be a map issue rather than the gps hardware.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pramathesh:
I'm trying in vain to contact Samsung for GPS fix all I get is the automated reply thanking me for contacting Samsung.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] got-petrol:
I don't think any body can do any thing about it
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kunjar:
BBC Watchdog UK...If enough people write into watchdog im sure they will air it?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] snapper.fishes:
Good luck mate. But I just don't see it happening.
[Captivate General] peachpuff:
A fellow on the i9000 forum posted this and it seems like it probably affects all galaxy s phone http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=838949

To check if the sensor is always on do this

Type *#*#4636#*#* in the dialer

Click Battery history

Pick Sensor usage

Click on gallery and you'll see for how long the sensor has been on, seems like the sensor never shuts off after you exit the gallery.

To fix this glitch delete Gallery3d.apk from /system/app using root explorer or a terminal, restart the phone and download Gallery3d from the market.

There's also a new gallery3d app from the desire, it doesn't seem to have this glitch either plus it has a cool pinch peek feature http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=847656
[Captivate General] boborone:
Thanks alot. The new gallery also gets rid of the low res bug. Zooming in keeps the detail. Nice.

From a phone
[Captivate General] ViniD:
I looked but my gallery sensor seems to turn off so may not be an issue with everyone, but thanks for post
[Captivate General] asd1301:
ERRR

only i'm suffering from this problem ? :o

when i installed that zip file (from recovery) gallery 3D (deleted the 1 from RE like u'v said)

now when i load a picture it's loading first in LOW res than only after 2 sec it gives u the full nice RES

why is that !?? u can't enjoy seeing your pictures like that :mad:

how do i go back to the first ORIGINAL gallery APK ?

10x

ps in the original gallery it was loading HIGH RES instantly and extremly FAST

using I9000 2.2 VOODOO LAGFIX
[Captivate General] tehsam:
interesting...I noticed my gallery was keeping the sensor on as well. new version from the market has fixed the problem.

does anyone know how much battery drain this is actually causing? I have noticed that the app "Bedside" is also using the sensor all the time- even when it has seemingly been killed- which seems very strange.

also- does this "sensor usage" stat apply only to the light sensor? or does the phone orientation sensor count toward it as well?
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
One thing i don't see mentioned here (it is in the original i9000 thread) is that this battery drain bug came with the official Froyo release on the i9000 and didn't seem to exist in 2.1.
[Captivate General] TheSopranos16:
How are you all getting the new version from the market? When I search for "Gallery", nothing resembling the official app comes up anywhere in the first hundred or so results...The rom I'm running has the AT&T version of the market, maybe thats the issue?
[Captivate General] SlappyMcGee:
OP - Thank you for the instructions. I tested mine and it seems that Homerun Battle 3D was using the sensors even though it had not been launched in a couple days. It was maxed as the most Sensor usage since unplugged this morning.

I uninstalled it and will update if this helps my battery.

Thank you again
[Captivate General] tehsam:
I just deleted my gallery app using Titanium backup and searched for "gallery 3d" in the market. I'm running cognition which I believe has a fixed build.prop so that might be why I can see it in the market.

looking back in the history, the app "bedside" has used significantly more sensor than even the Android system. I am a bit concerned that the app may be draining my battery. since the app is paid, I would like to raise the issue with the developer but I don't really know how much battery drain it is causing or if it is light sensor, orientation sensor, or something else. I'd appreciate any help.
[Captivate General] nyydynasty:
thanks for this info.

I dont have this particular issue but I do see "camera" as using the sensor for the past 3 hours. I opened the camera this morning but I have closed it since. Does this mean the sensor has been using the battery all this time?...just curious...
[Captivate General] SlappyMcGee:
Just wanted to update.

After finding out that Homerun Battle 3D had the sensors running when the game itself had not even been launched, I uninstalled it..

Today so far after being unplugged for 7hr 47m I am at 93% battery. Which isnt bad IMO :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
FroydVillain 1.6.1 Beta Patch

OK. Got a little update folks. It's beta, as I've not tested it for the usual number of hours, but it's been tested by sadape and a few other folk on IRC :)

http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?3515-FroydVillain-1.6.1-Beta-Patch-Released is the update, flash over the top of the current install.

Should fix

- lack of swipe to remove notification (for some people)

- issue a couple of folk reported with CPUSpeed not actually setting anything

- maybe other things that I've forgotten about :D

Not too major an update, no wipe required.

FroydVillain 1.6.2 Beta Patch

Thanks go to MATTYYEY for this little update to the Youtube app, talkback service, and terminal app.

Get it here: Clicky

After installing, YOU MUST CLEAR YOUTUBE APPLICATION CACHE FROM SETTINGS MENU!

Recommended Settings:

Disable google backup AND restore from privacy menu

Use interactive governor in normal mode, conservative in sleep.

Don't massively overclock, it's fast at 576 Higher is EVEN faster :)

More to be added later
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cyberon:
Welcome back, we have missed TeamVillain. ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] devin118:
Welcome back! excited on re-flashing my hero after few months of waiting... i think this will be the one :D Mad props to you pulser!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] steelodude:
Thats to bad, I was hoping the next release would be a froyo Sense rom.

I guess I have to wait a bit longer.

You still did a great job on this one!

You guy reincarnated my Hero, thanks for that!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Zhebie:
Great!

downloading.......
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maddog497:
Nice to see your back, downloading now!!!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Graveer:
Testing tight now :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Utking:
WHAAT??? AWESOME TO HAVE YOU BACK GUYS! :D sry for caps btw
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] djdavis:
This is exciting, first impression...

Very fast!, apps open the moment u touch them
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Hi-Fi:
yeh yeh yeh, this is what I'm waiting for long time

Thanks a lot
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] UbuntuBhoy:
A bit early to be making big claims yet, but this ROM feels really fast, and runs incredibly smooth. If the performance holds then I am a very happy camper.

Pulser cheers mate.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] karlanal:
great rom but the dialer ruins it

there isnt any dialer nearly as fast and as smooth as the htc dialer

too bad

ray dialer is the fastest but doesnt come near to the htc ialer
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dikabuzz9447:
downloading and flashing, hopefully there are no more problem with display percentage and bad battery life as in FV1.5.0

good work for Team Villain.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
Wow... pulser, dude, you did this eh? I simply MUST try this on for size :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] aki2008:
thankyou

Villain Team My Hero in My HTC Hero Welcome back.. :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Whats the problem with the original touchscreen driver?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rosswaa:
is this bettert than standard cmod? im running 6.1 rc1 or whatever the newest rc1 is, which runs very smooth! most the time :P

also can i use themes from that rom? or do they not work on here?

i hate the theme youve used but like flashing things so would like to give it ago until (fingers crossed) a 2.2 sense appears :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] CrazyDelta:
Great stuff. Looking forward to checking this out.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
Thats what im wondering aswell, I like to know the big advantages of this rom, before flashing it.

Anyone know a big diff betwien this or Floyo / CM6.1??

And don't say its from the villainteam :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mdon874:
settings>villain settings>user interface .... overscrolling

description : scrollable objects overshoot and bounce back.

so if you scroll down to the bottom of a menu instead of stopping dead it will kinda bounce like an elastic effect.

it doesn't work in FV1.6 though even if you have the option enabled, Pulser said to expect an update on it this afternoon.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mdon874:
Flashed Rom and calibrated battery using guide on VR website.

Took off charger at 8am and now at 4:47pm i'm at 35%... hopefully tommorow will be better :eek:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] andreimb:
As I see no one mentioned it the only thing that bugs me is the apparent reduced bit depth in color for the background that appears when dialing. The gradient isn't smooth as it was in 1.5. This is also the case with floyo. Any fix for that or is it done on purpose to speed up dialing?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] feltraveller:
Any 1.6 themes?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] PSPuser93:
Actually there is one : Klick

but not ma style :D

Edit: If the only thing that bothers you is the statusbar then chang it in Menu/Villain/userinterface (something like that)/Statusbar/extra tweaks/clour theme (or something like that)

*German as language, so dunno how it's in English*
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
zeam is brilliant - I wish someone would release a rom with zeam as the default launcher so more people find out how cool it is.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] vijaysapkota:
damn, the battery of this froyodvillain.

I'm using floyo 1.1.9 with defult kernel...

you won't believe but I'm using my phone for 3 days and now 12%, with wifi (on-off) , normal use, little phone calls, and I played games for about 1-2 hrs., ..;

I never had such a great battery.. so love floyo
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mdon874:
as I write this im now on 3% .... I might have to go back to floyo I can't deal with this. luckily I'm at home to charge but I can't help thinking what if I wasn't!

final battery recording... 8am - 6.45pm (low - moderate usage)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Dark Emotion:
I am installing it right now , can someone tell me what this means?

E: cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

When I wipe particion , and than try to flash zip , that error usually come up and than I have to mount sd and other stuff...?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] empirehell:
Thanks for the ROM, it looks great :)

Unfortunately, impossible to configure it : full full wipe, install .zip and reboot but, on the configuration screen, I can see that I don't have 3g ... :(

Moreover, the phone is unable to connect my wifi (it was working with FroydVillain 1.5 ...).

==> no internet connexion on my Hero :(

I checked the access point name but everything is fine ...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Currently testing a small 1.6.1 update, which re-adds "swipe to dismiss notifications".

It doesn't fix overscrolling, but I am looking into it

Also should fix the niggle one or 2 people had, where they couldn't get OC to work without running an adb command...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Dark Emotion:
Installed...awesome ROM, no problems for now , no need for task killer , 4.1 linpacks...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
logcat? Which network? What channel is your wifi on? Nobody else has had wifi issues, someone had APN issues iirc... Seems it's individual configurations that are the issue
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] woek:
Question

If i flash my stock Hero to this rom will simple functions like making a phonecall work? :confused:

And is every language available?

As you may note, I'm new to Phone-flashing.... :eek:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] wapz:
You might want to check this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=645253
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] soeren1705:
For those having wifi problems try changing channel. I had to for it to connect.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
OK. Got a little update folks. It's beta, as I've not tested it for the usual number of hours, but it's been tested by sadape and a few other folk on IRC :)

www.villainrom.co.uk/releases/FroydVillain1.6.0/Froyd-1.6.1-beta-signed.zip is the update, flash over the top of the current install.

Should fix

- lack of swipe to remove notification (for some people)

- issue a couple of folk reported with CPUSpeed not actually setting anything

- maybe other things that I've forgotten about :D

Not too major an update, no wipe required.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] empirehell:
I changed my wifi channel and it's now working :confused:

Thx
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tierra:
This is EXACTLY the rom that I have been looking for. It's SMOOTH and there's no bull**** lags here and there. I love you!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] feltraveller:
Ta! Saw that one too and not my style either. Have gotten spoiled with elelinux themes.

Am sure villain rom kitchen will catch up soon.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Theme kitchen should get an update soon
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Proz0r:
Holy crap. So fast that I'm afraid my phone is going to eat me. It's creeping me out. Nice job once again, I don't have any complaints except maybe the ugly vanilla white theme. Keep up the good work, you're awesome! ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nomnompie:
My camera was ok but it just randomly stopped saving pics... I can take a pic, and the image freezes in the camera viewfinder, but the camera app is not "frozen" as you can still see the thumbnail image of the last image taken rotate when you turn the phone... the pic does not save. Not sure why this happened as it worked fine about 5 minutes ago.. Reboot seems to have solved it, but figured it was worth mentioning.. All I did was take a pic of a black friday deal I wanted to show someone, click on it, jump to gallery, text it to a friend, text a bit more, try taking another pic, and it didn't work... :eek:

Alls good after reboot, and maybe that patch you released fixes it.

Other than that... I think this is the fastest I've ever seen this hero go! Thanks! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] feltraveller:
Nice one! Big up pulser.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sibbor:
CM 6.1 - overscroll

Anyone else having problem with "Overscrolling" feature? Mine doesn't seem to activate, even if I've got it activated in: Villain Settings - User Interface - Overscrolling.

Would like to test it out.

Btw, thanks for the update - will flash in a moment.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marleyfan61:
Still testing out this rom. Had it for a couple of days now. First day my battery life was terrible Today I took it off charger at 7AM. I have made 5 or 6 call, checked my email 5 or 6 times, had both bluetooth and wifi on all day, and running snowflake live wallpaper all day. It is now 7PM (almost) and battery is at 72 percent. I'm planning on running it to empty and the doing the calibration thing. Everything has worked for me so far (well...no overscrolling but....meh) and I've been pretty happy with it to this point. Is it better than Floyo 1.1.9? I don't know. Is it worse? No.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] m0nt31r0:
Smooth and fast... i'm getting a unsucessfull installation when i try todo install angry birds...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gli8600:
Is this rom still using the 3d gallery?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ampicillin:
ya it has .....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] treesurf:
Does it work properly now?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] deadwilder:
notifications

what about trackball? my does not lit at all. calls, texts, battery, all is notified only by LED. is it the way how it suppose to be?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] woek:
Can't seem to reach www villainrom co uk ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Is fine here.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Not sure. I'll check.

Ok. Called myself and trackball flashed fine for incoming call
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] deadwilder:
strange. afaik there are no settings for trackball notification, right? so it looks like i have broken trackball.. :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Dark Emotion:
installed yesterday, today still 4.1 linpacks...nice

only thing that could make this rom even better is more themes.

Pls port/make deafult black theme for this rom
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Themes will come with time :)

it's users that make themes usually, so give it a little time ;)

I'm sure shen will make something some time too
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sibbor:
I think we can use Theme-Porter to get themes up and running fast, no?

Btw, pulser, you know what's up with the "Overscrolling" option in CM 6.1? Can't get it to work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Meekos:
buttons

Hi and thanks for this nice release.

I have some few issues:

1. When I press my HOME or ANSWER button there is no action

2. I have no lockscreen

3. I have to push BACK button 4 times to get out of the camera mode, and the HOME button has no action.

What to do?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Possibly, I've never tested but should work.

I will look at over scrolling today. Fixed notification issue but it still needs a look regarding over scroll...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] pulser_g2:
Please do full wipe of everything and it should be better.

Nandroid first of course
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] UltraBoykj:
Working very good. Light on themes, but overall running smoother and slightly faster than before.

4.04 linpack @ 578
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Hannott:
I got a random reboot yesterday. It happened just after I turned off bluetooth. I had sent a file from my computer to my phone.

Full wipe -> 1.6.0 -> 1.6.1.