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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doc1964:
I have had a three contract since they began, however i bought the samsung galaxy s about a month ago to replace my Nokia N86 as i fancied a change and didnt want to wait almost a year. So basically it is my contracted sim into a bought PAYG phone.

I have been following the posts at blog.three (sorry not able to post full URL) and they reported on Friday that the update would be here soon. Logged in to Kies this morning and it stated an update was due. My head is bursting with this as i have read so many posts and tried so many instals, and reinstals of Kies, i have tried upgrading with Sim card and SD card removed, still no joy. i am beginning to wonder if there is another flaw with the three version of froyo. Good luck anyway.

p.s, asking if i was on PAYG or contract made me think, so i tried putting the PAYG sim card in that i got with the phone, connected to Kies and upgrade still available however same error when trying to upgrade. The rollout may be by region or by banks of phone numbers, so you should get it shortly, although heres hoping it works for you
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaytwo:
Thanks for the reply Doc, could you pm me that url pls?

Good luck to you with solving your problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gadget1974:
Doc, just to let you know you aren't alone - I too have the same problem - tried it on both computers - says the update is available, it starts the download, the knocks the phone into download mode before coming up with an error message. I have tried to put it into recovery mode and it still fails - however I can just restart the phone and the old firmware is still in place.

No lagfix/root etc. Just a bog standard three phone.

Anyone who could help please!!!!!!!!
[Desire General] sindrefyrn:
So after I installed Cyanogenmod on my AMOLED Desire I wasn't able to mount my SDcard in any modes.

I've tried running a clean RUU and formatting the card and it still doesn't work. The same cards is working fine on other phones.

Is this a known issue, or should I send it in for warranty?

Thanks!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shack544:
Any Way to stop Launcher Pro from showing up in Task Manager? Would be nice, so I could use the "End All" button again.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
Ikr! This makes me mad too...

But after a month I got used to pressing end seperately
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MilkPudding:
You really should stop ending tasks like that. The phone will end up using more resources/battery to restart all the apps.

The crude method of ending tasks manually/with task killers are invented for the first generation Android phones with very limited processing power and space. The newer phones don't have such problems anymore and the softwares are far more efficient at managing resources too.

What you are doing now is trying to install paddles in a car so you could 'cycle' the car like a bike.

If you want to know more: http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shack544:
Why assume that I'm wanting to free up memory? I've been around awhile now and have read the arguments about task killers, etc. Is it not ok to ask a question about a program (Task Manager) that comes stock in the ui? Still hoping for a solution...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eric42:
Ever come up with any solution? I have the same issue / question. Thanks.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmcghee1973:
Yea...if your gonna use Launcher Pro..it is gonna run in the task manager. If you end it and its set as your default launcher, when you hit home its gonna come back on..if you dont want it to show up...delete it or set your default launcher back to TW
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] villainous_scum:
Use the back button to turn off apps after you are done using them. Faster than clicking on Task Manager then pressing End and does the same thing.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Pickx:
edit: nevermind, problem fixed. For future reference, anyone getting garbled graphics followed by the game crashing near the beginning of the game should enable "Divide Counters"
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] steviewevie:
How well does psx4droid work on the G2/DZ ?
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] convolution:
well mine lags a little during cinematics...

other than that it's fine i guess...

i also was playing FFIX lol

i didnt encounter the problems u were facing tho

I mainly play GBA games

cause gameboid has a fastforward option =D
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] havikx:
it does work well. the only problem is getting the games to work. it only uses certain file formats so you aim to find roms already in those file formats.

the only game i have so far is command and conquer red alert. where do you guys find games that dont need to be modified much to work with psx4droid?
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] shagdaddy:
Version

What version of psx4 were you using? Iv got the lite version and the new 2.0 version. Some games play good in lite and some play better in 2 :confused:
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Pickx:
Wait for fpse, should be landing tonight hopefully and allegedly improves performance drastically.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] globalninja:
Fpse is 100x better than psx4droid.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] Silent8Strike:
I have to agree, fpse has perfect performance on my DZ, and the compatibility is far better than psx4droid. I couldn't even get psx4droid to function properly running CM7.
[G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps] theebest:
So have you beaten ozma yet?...
[Nexus One General] casiopea:
Hi all.

2 days ago i droped my N1 in to my soup =/

But everything works fine exept power buton and trackball.

I turn off my phone, cant lock screen or unlock it. To do so i have to plag in to charger or reboot phone taking the battery out - after reeboot phone starts automaticaly.

Trackball - works allright i can scrooll in all directions but it lits all the time.

Another problem is that the i bought my N1 on Ebay so as i know i dnt have any warranty on it.

Need advice how to fix it. Shouled i send it to HTC for reapair - if yes any idea how much thay gone charge me - or?
[Nexus One General] mrbkkt1:
Even if you had warranty, you wouldn't be covered for liquid damages anyway. I think there is an HTC repair center in the UK somewhere.
[Nexus One General] casiopea:
There is onw i know that but any clue how much its gone cost me? mayb i shouled go somewhere else than HTC to repair it?
[Nexus One General] simms22:
my power button has been broken since august. ive gotten used to it and even forget that i ever had a power button! 2 apps you need, lockscreen widget to turn your screen of(i use the trackball wake option in cyanogenmod to wake the device) and root booter to reboot and to boot into recovery.
[Droid X General] jbright44:
I use Google voice as my only phone number. Lately, whenever I get a text or a voicemail, it won't notify me. Even if I manually refresh, it still won't notify me. Background data is turned on and I have SMS messages turned off because I don't like getting 2 notifications. If I uninstall and reinstall it, it works fine for a time and then stops working again some time later. If I take out the battery and "hard" reboot, it will send all the messages that have been "hanging" to the phone again. Sometimes, I'll get texts/voicemails that are over a day old and I had no idea they were there.

This makes it where Google voice is pretty much useless to me, especially since I use it partially for work and if I'm missing voicemails, then I'm not servicing my students properly.

Any one else out there have this same problem?
[Droid X General] kb7uv:
I've had a similar situation with texts -- no notifications. I haven't received any voicemails recently, so I can't comment there. I was glad to be able to avoid having all texts to GV resent as texts to my phone, but I may have to do that, at least temporarily.
[Nexus One General] da-slicksta:
It was leaked in a blog over at Notion Ink.
[Nexus One General] jdmoore81:
Can u post a link
[Nexus One General] tommert38:
notionink.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/week-end-special-xi/
[Nexus One General] zhite:
Is it??

Let's see ... just for 2 days waiting only
[Nexus One General] ksc6000:
Omg who the hell is still excited about this ****. Gingerbread is going to he such w huge disappointment. All it is going to be is a bunch of bug fixes and very minor features.
[Nexus One General] tommo123:
true. i havent seen any evidence that this will be worth moving from a 2.2 rom at all. the stock launcher is still 100% balls, so no ones gonna use that over zeam, lp or adw. miui has (IMO) the best pull down menu, you can already get 'fancy' animations (bounce, flips etc etc) in roms.

what exactly will this add that's worth giving a crap about?

if it only came with an accelerated UI and nothing else, that would be huge, as huge as proper (i.e not the official) apps2sd.

so far it looks like it'll have new icons and that's about it. big whoop
[Nexus One General] gibosn6594:
At this point, I think Google should just bite the bullet and have a Gingerbread conference, telling us the features and say that it's going to be released some point in the future.

It's lost it's shine now, people are starting to move on from the hype because they are sick of waiting and now it can be nothing other than a disappointment.
[Nexus One General] /rant/:
As always, don't believe it until you got the OTA yourself. Just because some weirdo on Twitter or anybody else says so doesn't mean anything. And I totally agree with tommo123 and gibosn6594.
[Nexus One General] ExtraDas:
I really don't understand what some of you are complaining about. There's never been a Google update that wasn't an improvement over the previous one in terms of performance, features, etc.

If you would like a pretty interface, do it yourself; new icons...again, do it yourself. That's the beauty and point of a dev phone like the N1.

If you want to be told what your phone should look like and act like, join the Cupertino crowd. Nothing wrong with that.
[Nexus One General] rickytenzer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
[Nexus One General] SBERG117:
Obviously your still interested...Cmon you know you are..

No one has seen anything yet except for a couple of minutes on a recent vid and that didnt show anything as it wasnt supposed too.

Lost its shine? Really?.......Really?..... So when it comes out your not going to load it right?

If anything to learn here is those that are first to complain will be first to download and say " I told you this was going to be awesome."
[Nexus One General] morfy50:
I still think we won't see GB until a sale date for the Nexus S is announced. I have nothing to prove that but it appears to me, from the long wait, that Google is delaying for the S to be ready and then do a simultaneous launch.
[Nexus One General] 2gooder:
I have to agree. I was a lot more excited about this update before I started seeing the leaked videos and screenshots. Granted the 'under-the-hood' changes could be great, but I was really hoping for drastic UI improvements and so far I'm not seeing any. Installing the new Google Reader app reminded me of just how bland the user interface of android apps can be.

Could still be surprised I guess, but overall this doesn't feel like as big an update as previous ones.

I'm also starting to get bored of my Nexus One and looking at what's next and I'm getting really tired of all the manufactures throwing their own skins over out-of-date android builds. Android needs an interface that is slick enough that OEMs are happy with it as is.
[Nexus One General] gibosn6594:
You're missing the point.
[Nexus One General] Eclair~:
I'm definitely not moving over to Gingerbread until MIUI is updated to it. There honestly seems to be no reason to. It doesn't exactly seem all that interesting..

The fact that there will be no more banding in images is a delightful upgrade, but other than that, Gingerbread is a small graphical enhancement update not worth wasting time on. Maybe once more information is revealed I will reconsider~
[Nexus One General] SBERG117:
What point? That something that hasnt been released or fully leaked to even have a real once over has lost its shine? The fact that this thread exists is solely because it hasnt lost its shine. The fact you posted in here to say its lost its shine shows it hasnt lost its shine. So what point were you making?
[Nexus One General] xzr3b0rnzx:
I bet CM6.1 > Gingerbread.... imo
[Nexus One General] Old MuckenMire:
Yeah but I bet CM 6.2 Gingerbread > 6.1 stable... or Stock Gingerbread :D

Cyanogen will make it run sweet on the Nexus, IMO.
[Nexus One General] pupy991:
Google did not post a complete changelog yet so noone really knows which new features will come with Gingerbread.

The only thing Google really announced is that there will be some minor cosmetic changes made to the UI, so I really don't understand why so many people are now, as there are only few pictures of Gingerbread leaked, crying about the 'only' minor changes that were made to the UI, although this is just what Google announced...

I myself think that there will be some surprises, I just can't believe that Google would made such a secret about Gingerbread if there were so small changes.

However Google's Android updates actually always were quite useful.
[Nexus One General] izmar:
What I don't understand is why it is taking so long to release the update if the changes are alledgedy minor.
[Nexus One General] PrawnPoBoy:
Is it taking a long time? They are releasing OS updates every 6 or so months. Who else is churning out updates that fast?
[Nexus One General] Old MuckenMire:
remember tho, they did the same thing with Froyo. They had that froyo statue out there for weeks before they finally released it and people at the official Google Nexus forum were going bonkers wanting to know what was taking so long. I bet that had a lot to do with why they suddenly shut down the Nexus board just before the Gingerbread statue went up.

For whatever reasons(I don't claim to know), they release these OS updates at their own pace.

I was going to edit my post and say the same thing: technically if they release before JAN 5, they are ahead of schedule.
[Nexus One General] pfmiller:
OEM's don't throw their own skins on Android because they don't think it's slick enough, they do it because they want to have their own brand identity. That won't change no matter what changes the stock Android gets.

Froyo was delayed for QA purposes. I'd like to think Gingerbread is being held up for the same reasons, though you can't rule out the Nexus S as a reason for delays. Of course, assuming there are any delays, which we have no idea since we were never given a release date. If it's released this year then it's on time as far as we know.
[Nexus One General] pzumk:
STOP COMPLAINING OF YOU DON'T WANT THE UPDATE!

Just don't update when it's out and stick with 2.2 when we got our improved android, android 2.3
[Nexus One General] 2gooder:
That seems like a slight exaggeration of what's going on here... I'm sure everyone that is expressing concern over what may or may not have changed in Gingerbread are still more than happy to have the update. Just because someone complains that 2.3 might not have the change they were looking for doesn't mean they are frothing at the mouth ready to start an all out boycott.
[Nexus One General] xManMythLegend:
Music / Book syncing...hopefully no more bootleg dithering.

Every update we've had a slew of rumors and features that were leaked. This is amounting to a very minor update.

I doubt we'll look at the list of new features and think "wow!"

Roms/homereplacements etc spoil us so our standards are higher.
[Nexus One General] draugaz:
It is virtually impossible, as it is not the interface itself the OEMs and carriers are unhappy with.

It is the necessity to differentiate, put themselves apart from the competition. You can't really do it via hardware anymore, since anyone can buy the same chips from qualcomm or TI or even samsung. Samsung is currently somehow better positioned with samoled displays, but it knows it is not going to last.

What remains is the software and price. And nobody wants to compete on price.

That's why Samsung is toying with Bada. Or Nokia spends huge pile of cash on its Meego which seems to be dead before even born.

The OEMs will still bastardize Android UI no matter how perfect it already is. Even by making it worse. The only way to prevent it is the clenched fist tactics like apple and microsoft are currently applying. But it certainly will alienate OEM's and I doubt Google currently can afford it.
[Nexus One General] knightnz:
That sound you hear? That's me breathing normally rather than holding my breath, which I won't be for 2.3 to come out tomorrow.

2.3 is only going to be mostly cosmetic tweaks by the sound of it, probably not going to have much over CM6 or MIUI. But we shall see.
[Nexus One General] phxblue:
Amen, well said.
[Nexus One General] gibosn6594:
Well, it seems you think the point is we no longer want Gingerbread OR that we think Gingerbread won't be a good or bad update when it comes out. That's not it. It's not the shine of the OS that has been lost, it's the shine of the excitement of the release. I think it's safe to say that many of us have calmed down in our anticipation of Gingerbread at this point.

The point is, this time, Google clearly is having some issues with the release. The SDK has consistently been released within a few days of the large statue of the OS version placed at Android's headquarters. It's arrival representative of the OS being complete.

And that's fine, I'm not here to say they need to get it out by a certain point, especially if it's not ready. But why don't they just let us know that there is a delay?

What is wrong with them saying "hey, we know you're waiting for it, this is why it's not out yet, and this is what you can expect when it comes out"

And please spare me the "they don't have to do anything if they don't want to response"
[Nexus One General] rickytenzer:
Because they don't have to do anything if they don't want to.

In all seriousness, where in the "fine print" does it say that Google has to update ANYONE on their OS upgrades? Would it have stopped you from buying this phone if you knew that you would be in the dark regarding updates? We live in an age where technology is so incredibly important and tech websites pop up every other day. If anything, it's these websites that make you think this way because they're constantly leaking information.

Why can't you and most others just go on with your life and wait until the final product is ready to come out? Will you really be that much more satisfied is G tells you that there are some issues with this update?
[Nexus One General] Old MuckenMire:
I agree with a lot of what you say but come on, this is XDA, you cannot expect people here to not be excited and impatient for Gingerbread or any other OS. It's what we do here.:D This IS our life. :D:D
[Nexus One General] gibosn6594:
That's not what I'm saying either, of course they don't have to update the phone or tell us when or what is in the update. Maybe I'm not conveying what I mean properly.

It just seems like THIS time something went wrong. So why not just let us know what's going on? I'm not losing any sleep over the update, in fact, I probably won't even flash it right away as I use CM and will probably wait for him to update his ROM with it. So it's not like I'm angry that it's not out yet. I simply think it would be better business if Google nipped things in the bud and stopped giving people a reason to complain. A simple tweet saying the story would do the trick. What would be so wrong with that?
[Nexus One General] rickytenzer:
My point is that people have no REASON to complain. Google has been very good at giving us updates and keeping the OS fresh. End of story.
[Nexus One General] RonnieRuff:
Google is not giving anyone a reason to complain... people do that on their own LOL
[Nexus One General] gibosn6594:
Ok, I'll just keep it to this one question...what would be wrong with Google letting us know what is going on? Put an end to all the theories and rumors?
[Nexus One General] Old MuckenMire:
Okay look at it this way: just as an example, they come out and say they are fixing two bugs, that is why the delay.

Then, while fixing the two bugs, three more pop up, then while fixing those three, one more pops up...are they supposed to keep coming out with hourly progress reports? People will accuse them of lying when they said there was only two bugs to begin with!

this is a multi-million, heck, billion dollar industry, it's not a game. they cannot please everyone and the best course is to keep quiet and work on the final product and then release it when it's ready.
[Nexus One General] gibosn6594:
The problem is, right now, everyone is forming their own conclusions, and from what I can tell, none of those are positive. I don't see too many blog reports or websites claiming that the delay is because they are working on even more enhancements and improvements.
[Nexus One General] r0cky0790:
I definitely agree, besides were not married to Google so therefore they don't have to treat the smartphone community like a committed relationship and have an explanation for every minute that were in the dark. Besides most of you have rooted phones which means u don't like the stock OS anyway. So why b*tch and complain about the whereabouts of gingerbread. Hmmm, female tendencies?????

-Warm 2.2 RLS4+Ziggy Makes My HTC *ILLY* {Quad 1600plus/MFLOPS 37.309 In 2.25 Secs/35 Hours "Up Time", 5 hours "Wake Time"}

r0cky.Da.3v0.SU.-
[Nexus One General] bigmike2424:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dttyQo3BPrk

When i first watch the video i was assuming 2.3 would have the 3d gallery look all around but cosmetic wise from the leaks it looks like froyo.
[Nexus One General] uansari1:
I won't believe it unless it's posted by Wikileaks.
[Nexus One General] britoso:
A friend of mine informed me tonite that gingerbread will be coming out at the end of next week. He said he knows someone working on it at google.

no guarantees ;)
[Nexus One General] khaytsus:
But then Google would have to kill him, sue him, or accuse him of rape.

Too much?
[Nexus One General] mortzz:
I haven't been disappointed in the month or so it's been on my phone. It's a very nice evolutionary step from Froyo.
[Nexus One General] msavic6:
It's been on your phone? Are you testing it?
[Nexus One General] mortzz:
I have a buddy who works at Google. It's basically everything Froyo is just a bit better.
[Nexus One General] probers1:
Can you give us a change log? or at least some proof?

Sent from my Nexus One
[Nexus One General] th0r615:
Yah brahs my uncle's step sister's twin from Spain has it on her phone too... everything Frozen Yogurt is.. just better.
[Nexus One General] mortzz:
Yeah, I went through this last time around with Froyo. No matter what I post it's photoshopped and fake.

I can't share any files, so what's the point? I enjoy it, and so will you guys when Google finally pushes it.
[Nexus One General] musashiken:
Ah yeah I guess I believe you. You did this the last time round with Froyo and basically everyone was just dissing you until Froyo came out.

In anycase, I'll just wait and see.
[Nexus One General] msavic6:
Is it running on your n1? and smoothly?
[Nexus One General] mortzz:
Like buttah. The stock (new) launcher2 is iPhone smooth. Everything has been nipped and tucked and it's a much cleaner and faster experience overall.