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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nzroman:
I don't have a problem with Android. I have a problem with Samsung. I have never seen anyone complain about their Android devices as much as Galaxy S owners do - lag, GPS, firmware updates, after sale support. Those people are not whining. They simply unhappy about using a device they forked out for as much as for something that can be used out of the box. Man, seriously, Android fanboys are worse than Apple ones.

I'm here to make my expensive Audi to perform like a BMW.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Segnaro:
Considering there's 7 million Galaxy S phones out there, of course you're gonna hear more *****ing than with the other phones.

I'm sure that millions of Galaxy S owners are happy with their phones, but the unhappy minority has a bigger mouth.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarkyG82:
Coming here to find custom Rom is like going to a car forum to discuss tuning. New theme - paintjob. Lagfix - engine tune. Whole Rom - New engine/running gear.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MOJO783010:
WHAT HE SAID. :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jayanth.M.P:
this may sound very stupid.... but

does the galaxy s I9000 really have 512 MB ram

?

Never seen any proof of that. Nexus S, Galaxy Tab both have confirmed 521........
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darktori:
I find nothing very interesting in Android 2.3 right now.

I'm very happy with my phone on Froyo, harcores kernel, ext4 lagfix. I think I can live without 2.3, official or not.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nachochip@inbox.com:
I love my SGS very much now after I flash with 2.2 custom rom. I am looking forward to upgrade to 2.3 custom rom too.

Samsung software suckkkkkkkkk, any the only way I upgrade to 2.2 is using the custom rom, which is great. I don't understand why Samsung need to spend any money to do their custom UI and that piece of crap software (Kies). I think they should focus on making great hardware and fixing any hardware related bug (eg gps), and let Google's stock rom to take care all software need.

Don't expect Samsung will do a official update for 2.3, because they will want to put it on SGS 2.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] techeretic:
it'll be awesome fun when the ROMs FOR Nexus S start trickling in, most probably we can flash them directly onto SGS.... and then also qualify for OTA updates from Google, the ROMS might identify SGS as Nexus S....

*Paradise*

:p
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hrithan2020:
Pipe Dream :P
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KartofeLone:
I've read that 2.3 is going to be faster and battery will last longer -> this is the reason why I can't wait for 2.3 (custom or original) on SGS.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amandora:
Nexus S 2.3 on Galaxy S

Just putting this out there to see if it would be possible..

Seeing as the innards of the Nexus S are pretty much identical to the Galaxy S, what are the possibilities of getting the firmware from the Nexus S ported over? :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scag:
go to check the general section :p
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaju123:
Yeah gingerbread has an improved dispatch and cpu optimisations for hummingbird I believe. Its faster.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bess833:
As long as it fully rids us of RFS without the use of any 3rd party software for good it's a huge upgrade.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chanw4:
From Guru3D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AsgardCurse:
RFS is the 3d party software.. not standard Linux/Android format
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kempas:
Wish people would stop whining all the time.

I'm still on 2.1 for now but happy. Samsungs 2.1 gave me wifi access point functionality that every other android phone had to wait for 2.2 for. Samsungs code gives a vast range of audio and video codecs, Samsungs code gives HD recording.

As for hardware, well, it's second to none which is why Google switched boats from HTC. They saw how well the Galaxy was doing, saw it's great processor and GPU and went with them for the new Nexus to put them back in line with the current CPU/GPU power of the iPhone.

Going with Samsung can only be good news for Galaxy owners. I can't see any reason why Samsung wouldn't want to push 2.3 on their own phone especially since the new Nexus is basically a Galaxy under the hood with a few changes (like the Desire was basically the original Nexus).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eienkei:
SGS has problems, yeah it lags (not much after updates), does not have camera flash & ... but who cares? I love it & the fact Nexus S is nearly the same specs made me much happier!

You may blame Samsung for many things but, SAMOLED, great video & audio codec, WIFI tethering on 2.1, local languages for nearly every country in the world and great hardware is something we can't deny! Google has not provided official support for Persian, Arabic, Hebrew & many more, it's gonna come in 2.3 but Samsung has a dedicated ROM for each of those languages missing in official Android!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g00ndu:
I bet that Samsung will also make another phone, maybe a dualcore orion, and use the knowledge gain from Nexus S to apply it on the new phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amandora:
Who is this guy?

I have no problems with my phone at all.

Battery lasts 2 days - better than iphone

Wireless hotspot before Froyo - better than iphone

True multitasking - better than iphone

Play pretty much any video format - better than iphone

GPS works and always has done.

Don't need itunes to organise my music

SGS was free - iphone was £120.... why?

I'm not a fanboy of any sort, I own a macbook pro..

I just want what is best and that is the SGS.. if it wasn't, why isn't the Nexus S different?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] green0153:
7 Million phones!!!!That's a lot!!!!

Still they have little support for a 550+ euro phone because they make money only from selling the hardware....

If they don't have updates for my phone for at least 2 years bye bye Samsung.

It's not about the hardware it's about the software in a phone!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icesteam:
I read this post is for Nexus S. 2.3 port for Samsung Galaxy S.. i was hoping for a way that runs Gingerbread on Samsung galaxy S .. not a flame/hate about samsung thread. or how samsung suck.. please stay on the topic its not good to read post that 10 pages long and points hate for samsung .. thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donsasan:
Has anybody actually started porting Gingerbread?

If yes please speak up and post some updates so we can donate :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amandora:
We get a lot of whining on here.. not sure whey he's here if he's not interested in the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omnicronx:
Perhaps, although I'm not sure how much transfer they can get from the hummingbird core they just had optimized by google to a Cortex A9 (not a8) derivatives..

Unless of course Google is already on it.. doubt it though.. Would not be surprised if the next Google phone was OMAP based just to give everyone a fair try =D (N1 was snapdragon based, N2 is hummingbird based).

While they may have the same cores at heart, those heavy optimizations Google has put into past phones has lead to vastly better performance... So I would not be surprised if Google has to be the first one to try and use one of the dual core chips before we see them on other android phones..

On another note, lets just hope some of these technologies trickle down to the Galaxy S :) Having Identical cores will pay dividends for us Galaxy S users =D..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ll_l_x_l_ll:
bazinga

to be honest i am also now an iphone 4 owner and i still come here. mainly because i used to have SGS too " and i loved to death "

the only reason i really sold it is because i play lots and lots of games on my device. used to carry my psp before but i am too old to hold one and play with it in public. with the phone, not so much so.

and the android in general while better than others in term of games, its still no match to iphone 4 not even by 30% of the support " new need for speed ace combat whatever whatever "

but in general. if say, games were the same on both systems, i think i would pick the andorid for customization of the OS.

however i really love the hardware design of apple. much better IMO than the plastic samsung. but to each on his own.

never less. i enjoy reading about andorid updates and stuff.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hol17:
Yes. The phone does have 512mb but some of it is reserved for other system functions and GPU.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webstar1:
No not really pre alpha, in the TITLE it states B E T A . I do not scare away dev's, just get jealous by other phone devs. AND CHILL! no im not a brat, thing I've noticed some people in the xda community don't have:

Innovation

Imagination

Don't know what sarcasm is

Guys guys, I don't need gingerbread when I have the gingerbread keyboard, launcher and framework which I now have. There not very gingery tho, quiet minimal style and black. Peace out

~Webstar1
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaju123:
What do you mean by framework?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wasmachinator:
as far as I know there isnt a leaked rom from the Nexus S yet, so as long as we dont have that nobody can get really started ;).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donsasan:
Well, the SDK has been released and there are Gingerbread alphas/betas running on other devices.

I don't understand why nobody ported it to SGS since both Nexus S and SGS have same specs. I guessed the easyest port must for the SGS.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaju123:
The easiest port is not building from Android SDK, but the Nexus S ROM which has the drivers already for most of the hardware, such as hardware acceleration. GPS etc might need some changing.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Razer(x):
We can use drivers from Cyanogen Mod, couldn't we?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The_Double:
The android SDK emulates a snapdragon/htc based environment. That's why it's relatively easy to port it to those phones. Porting it to a samsung phone is way harder.

Oh, and the only real problem with the SGS is the GPS, everything else is software... So either flash a improved rom, or STFU!

@Razer

No, we don't have the source from the SDK, only binaries, so you cant just insert our drivers.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Won't need a port at the end of December
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webstar1:
this is what is going to happen:

We will get gingerbread in january (my exams :( )

Until then we will be rocking with awsome gingerbread themes
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Valinorian:
Ok thx for explaining. I was wondering why all the htc devices were getting ports. Wildfire even hd2. Anyways, running it doesnt mean usable, so lets all be patient :p
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dani31:
How about the new Dalvik VM garbage collector, the hardware accelerated UI, the improved copy/paste, the native support for sensors, FF camera and internal storage?

And you talk about keyboard, launcher and some stupid icons????

Some of us care for the things under the hood and don't give a S.H.I.T. about themes. A themed rom is not a new rom, you know what I mean ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Razer(x):
1+ to that, even if i installed Gingerbread theme
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidfreak2010:
First of all I must say i am no dev. But i realized that the iNand of the nexus will make porting difficult. Would it make things easier if we bind /data to /dbdata so that it is also on the onenand and use the movinand only as Sdcard? App2Sd will avoid problems with space for the apps.Maybe its wrong but only a possibility
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heman1310:
So is the UI really hardware accelerated? I didn't find any place where they said that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaju123:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/07/google-nexus-s-preview/

Engadget has a preview of the Nexus S. Not only do they say it is fast, but there is also a quick video. And holy CRAP IS THAT THING FAST.

Just look at it 0.o

Me want port RIGHT NOW!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bess833:
Wow it certainly is FLYING. Question is, even if it gets ported, will it be fast? Seeing how it was optimized for the Nexus (even though there are many hardware similarities). Boy do I wish for it :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaju123:
Well, when properly optimised it will be as fast as it could be... but apparently it is closer to the vibrant model than the i9000.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cantIntoCode:
But seriously what is the point in having a gingerbread theme. I'm pretty sure everyone here wants gingerbread for it's new features, not for a black notifications bar and a new launcher...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bara2:
C'mon guys, calm down. That video shows nothing my current Galaxy isnt capable (Docs Rom, YA-OK, etc) of. I cant wait to see the internal changes in gingerbread architecture but for now lets just not overrate it :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Have a proper look.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11932129
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] airf0rce:
Yep, Galaxy is pretty fast with custom roms (and lagfixes) not to mention Nexus S probably didnt even have any 3rd party apps installed, even Samsung Official roms arent laggy without too much "crap" installed
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webstar1:
That thing looks something jizzz over, offering trade galaxy s with £50. Anyone? Perfect condition as well with everything in the box. PM me if any future nexus buyer is interested

~Webstar1
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] versp:
Damn, it really does looks beautiful, especially when off.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cantIntoCode:
I'd be amazed if anyone would ever accept that offer. Why would you want to swap a pure google phone for a buggy galaxy s...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webstar1:
Lagfixed with ultimate rom and themed like gingerbread, equals a really fast phone. Anyway the price of the Nexus s will go Down to £350 when its been out for a while just like the galaxy s. Anyone interested??

~Webstar1
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trekki:
Whoops. Posted in the wrong spot. Can't delete. AGGG!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trekki:
Amen to that!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karanits:
Just a note... SAMSUNG India just confirmed that galaxy S will get Gingerbread....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leoon:
In june??! 6 months?? :|
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oswade:
Samsung india seems unreliable in the past... Hope they're not talking bull**** here.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Auzy:
Sounds good if it's true.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rachitboom2:
WHAT GINGERBREAD IN JUNE!!!

If they are saying till june then who knows when it will be released... well as always... we will wait till a alpha or beta hits... try it on... get dissapointed cuzz its samsung software afterall then a few more months n FINALLY official very will hit... huh WE NEED A PORT FAST DEAR DEVS!!!

Ohh n yes offence samsung...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dani31:
I actually believe they will give us Gingerbread. This is still their top-of-the-line phone with nothing new on the horizon.

Even more, the Nexus S, the official Gingerbread phone, has the same hardware.

Hopefully it well be sooner than June.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toss3:
Nowhere have Samsung said June? They only said that it's coming for sure.

I think it might come much sooner than we think:

http://an.droid-life.com/2010/12/06/samsung-phones-to-get-gingerbread-first/
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaju123:
Cyanogen will get gingerbread first if I am correct.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maddinuser:
I want a make a crazy prediction right now !

In 2-3 Months (even earlier) CM for Nexus S will be ported perfectly for Galaxy S.

We will be able to use all the stuff for Nexus S (themes etc.) on our Galaxy + all the stuff made for our Galaxy !

Lets say it easy : We will have a Nexus S with Super-Amoled-Screen ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dezshiz:
um pretty sure the nexus S comes along with the super Amoled screen
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] izmenar:
i think its a pretty sure bet than SGS wil get official 2.3 from samsung in 2-3 month

but after seeing honeycomb on that motorola tablet gingerbread looks old and outdated
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dakine:
Samsung needs to add its crap software first, it takes at least 6 extra months to properly ruin gingerbread for the SGS :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vcosmin:
unless...

unless samsung will release another top specs phone, an I9100 for example and then they will give us nothing. like in the past.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nazrazr:
crossing my finger...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rat2000:
If i am not wrong Google announced that in order for a device to use gingerbread the company(aka samsung) is not allowed to mod it or install software and stuff so if samy releases the gingerbread for SGS it must be a stock 2.3 android right?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Razer(x):
Any link or some other infos?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Segitz:
Android licensed under Apache and GNU... so no, Google cannot have any say in what OEMs do.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wasmachinator:
but i do think google is the owner of the nexus line brand and that way they can make demands if a manufacturer wants to make a nexus phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bayerischbeer:
Ja, on nexsus phones no changes to software. But changes on sgs software will be done.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yeria:
Hmm...

I was extremely pessimistic about SGS getting 2.3, but now I read that link, getting 2.3 on SGS might be much more realistic than I thought. It is definitely a viable explanation to say they failed to deliver 2.2 on time due to their extra work with 2.3.

Boy, if this is to be true, all those bandwagon users will be coming back screaming with open arms.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cantIntoCode:
I'm no dev, but what has to be took into consideration when porting things to other phones? I know the hardware is pretty similar to the nexus s but when the nexus s source gets released by Google what happens from then.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RambJoe:
What? Google don't just let random people make "Nexus" phones if they follow a list of guidelines.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaju123:
Samsung India said that the sgs would get gingerbread on Facebook. Who cares though? We want vanilla gingerbread like nexus s - or at least I do xD
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t1mman:
Who cares? Most of the users does!

GingerBread is more than just "some stuff". Since NexusS is the same (basic) hardware, you'll get many many optimisation like HTC had for Froyo.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcreatir:
GB should feel faster, due to GPU accelerated GUI and Concurrent Garbage Collection

Personally I like Samsungs "improvements" for the most part, touchwizz is nice, the additional video codecs (720p mkvs) and the included free software.

But I do not doubt we will see a clean port for the Galaxy S as soon as the Nexus S source code is accessible.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wasmachinator:
I'm not implying that, although I could have formulated it better...

Google asks a manufacturer if they would like to make a Nexus line phone. and if they want to they have to follow Googles demands or they can forget all about the Nexus branding.

that is the ace up their sleeve to force a vanilla android...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellhand:
I'ts more like Google wants to have a phone beeing the same as one of the most sold phones (Galaxy S) so they have revenue on it too. I'ts also for the devs to have a good base of work for a wide range of current phones and of phones to come.

I'm pretty sure they really don't care about custom UI or roms that much
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mook1e:
Gingerbread doesn't have gpu accelerated gui.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 17mayis:
I imagine all of the Galaxy S series will be recipients of the update seeing that their close kin, the Nexus S, will be the first to ship with Gingerbread, and everything on the inside is about the same. The problem with Samsung is how painfully slow they are at rolling out updates. They promised every Galaxy S phone would have Android 2.2 by the end of last month, and we all see how that went. The question left for Samsung to answer is whether they're going to bypass 2.2 altogether and focus on getting 2.3 out to customers. My guess is no. They have to be close to putting the final touches on their 2.2 updates, so why stop now? The sad part is, that probably means the longer they delay with the 2.2 updates, the longer you Galaxy S owners will have to wait on 2.3.

source phonedog..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RambJoe:
Why are they bothering with 2.2.1?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Razer(x):
We don't need that source to know this, that's pretty logical, the problem is that at the moment we have no infos at all
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RambJoe:
Will the source code for Gingerbread be released when the Nexus S launches in the US?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dk206:
Urgh The idiocy of some people here are unbelievable.

2.2 IS and had been here since last month. Obviously the carriers did take up extra time since they need to add their part. If you all don't have a froyo update that's not samsung's fault that's your carriers responsibility.

Rambjoe "why are they even l bothering with 2.2.1?"

that's because google updated froyo! If you've actually tested out 2.2.1 you'd see the reason behind it fool. It's slick fast and they've freed up extra RAM.

RE:OT

Samsung have given us a very vague statement regarding gingerbread and looks like they haven't even actually decided if they are going to update it or not. So the best chance of people wanting gingerbread anywhere close to now would be getting a port over. Then again the sdk for gingerbread hasn't even been released yet so it's going to take soke time.

http://phandroid.com/2010/12/08/samsung-on-galaxy-s-gingerbread-possibility-maybe-but-maybe-not/

But...seriously some of these posts within the last two pages are utterly retarded. If you don't like the phone and can't afford to change it tough shi*. If you can afford ot please please gtfo of here. This community don't need anymore whinners/r-tards/noobs who has no clue of the functionalilty of a search button or how to stay OT than it alreadly has.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opensourcefan:
^^^ Tell us how you really feel LOL...

The keyboard and Launcher for 2.3 are already available, I really don't think that in a few months it's even going to matter. By the time any apps are available to truly utilize any real enhancements the NS has the SGS will be old and I (we) will be onto the next latest and greatest device. If it wasn't so close to the SGS I would have truly considered jumping but it is too close so still waiting.