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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xtreame96:
I agree and wish to add....

There is so much win in this statement.

This is the problem with the increase of end users following blog articles to find their way to XDA. Noobs go home.

I also love noobs who go omg google released 5.x of some software why has my provider not released a fully tested full skinned entirely reUI'ed version ten seconds after, for f$@k sakes people there is such a thing as development cycles, unit testing phases, quality control and acceptance, quality takes time.

I blame it all on the Internet driving a consumer driven culture where end users (who now own the internet by sheer mass of numbers see facebooks 500 million noobs) are essentially like locusts, they just consume anything and everything and get all but sore when their internet/tech addiction which they are not equipped to manage drives them to the next thing they must have.

In the old days this was just limited to apple users, now its become a pandemic.

So I agree noobs, unless your willing to join us and learn a few things, please please please gtfo ;)

Otherwise take up a seat ask intelligent questions and stop bashing the talent that brings you the tech you love.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dani31:
Gingerbread’s UI brings GPU accelerated animations onboard and will likely provide some speedup to the interface which even with 2.2 was occasionally jittery even on the fastest hardware.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4050/...xus-s-and-gingerbread-23-officially-announced

Anand is never eating bull. What's your source?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toss3:
It's not mentioned in the official documents? Anand is going on pure speculation.

http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.3-highlights.html

The author of the article even comments on it thusly:

"At this point, it's a bit unclear. There's definitely GPU acceleration for most animations now, and the UI in general is supposed to be much smoother. I'm not clear yet on whether all of the UI is 100% GPU accelerated, for that I'm waiting to get a device in-hand.

I'm just uncertain how much of this menu smoothness is attributable to the Dalvik VM doing much faster/opportune garbage collection (which Google is claiming was responsible for a lot of that trademark Android stuttering when just scrolling through menus or webpages), and how much of that will be sped up purely from having a leaner UI with more GPU accelerated animations.

Stay tuned, I'm going to try and find out.

-Brian"
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adevem:
if these news hold true... Gingerbread will be on Galaxy S :D

sources (if true):

Samfirmware : Yes also we got the news now: Android 2.3 will come for Galaxy S in Q1 - Q2 This is the same for the Galaxy Tab.

Samsung_mobiles (india) : @jaiber Yes we will get gingerbeard on GalaxyS ^PC
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dezz:
Yeeah.. Like CM did with Froyo..?

I bet every singke android devise will have it up and running and GS will still be waiting for the official 2.2
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arkanius:
Are you thick?

We had Froyo for 2 months already.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omnicronx:
Accelerated animations does not mean the entire GUI is GPU accelerated (not to mention he was making claims based on what he saw, not on information presented by google in any way).. Native scrolling and such would not change.. I agree with the other poster, its much more likely that the predictive garbage collection that is resulting in the appeared increase in speed..

Nowhere in any Google documentation does it mention that GPU GUI acceleration made it into 2.3, although I know it was mentioned previously..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dezz:
Yeeah.. Im the thick one

1. CM, not other ports

2. CM public beta was released on november 16th - three weeks ago.

3. And half of the users around the world are still nowhere near of getting froyo...

Not to bright are we..?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omnicronx:
And that is our problem? The bulk of the time it takes for these ROM's to be released is for CARRIERS to customize and test them because they have added a bunch of crap! Manufacturers make the drivers and such that will make the device work with a newer version of Android.. very little carrier involvement is ACTUALLY required to get an update to work on your phone in Vanilla form..

If we had vanilla android instead of this crap being shoved down our throats, release times would but a fraction of what it is now.. Its a GIANT problem with Android.. Now of course your reasonings for the delay are spot on, but in my opinion the system itself is flawed and is causing fragmentation that mark my words will affect the platform down the line if they don't change things..

Why do you think Google has already stated that custom skins like Sense won't be allowed going forward? Its for this VERY reason..

Why do you think MS did the same with Windows Phone? Even limiting the amount of Apps the carrier can add?

Its a flawed system, plain and simple, and its going to be hard to continue to compete with closed systems like iOS if they don't do something about it.. Carriers have far too much control.. in my opinion if a carrier wants to sport Android, they should be required to to release two major updates and in a timely matter and just like MS they should be limited to 3-4 non native apps max... Google still has some control, even if its not on the same level as MS or Apple..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mammenj:
I doubt if the dates are believable
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
This is the problem with the increase of end users following blog articles to find their way to XDA. Noobs go home.

Noobs can also be the hackers coders and developers of the future .

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omnicronx:
I was under the impression that all XDA dev's were created asexually via other developers.. </scarcasm>

You are 100% correct, you don't have a growing community nor do you continue to add dev's to said community without 'noobs'..

At somepoint EVERYONE is a beginner, so I really wish some people would stop pretending their **** don't stink!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adevem:
There's a fine line between greenhorns who...

actually read and search stuff before asking.

and...

asking right off when it's been answered... 350 times.

a perfect example? read like 2-3 pages of doc's thread. most of the answers can literally be found on the first few posts.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omnicronx:
Perhaps they are asking right off the bat because nothing is stickied on the first page?

That was the reason people kept asking on Doc's thread.. even when he did eventually post something, it was not obvious what it was..

(Posting Kernel Bug issue <link>) does not mean anything to the average user..

Either way, some people will always do as you say. The best you can do is pass them along to the correct information.. I find people do learn once you get them on the right track..

I would also like to point out that many people coming to these sites have no idea of the proper edicate and what they are suppose to do.. as was stated, many of these people are forwarded from other sites..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Razer(x):
Just a question, why there's so many Gingerbread roms out for other devices and we don't have one? I mean, what's tha problem?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zerod Zunaro:
Because people keep on arguing wether they know better than the other one.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KartofeLone:
Good information? : http://www.unwiredview.com/2010/12/09/samsung-galaxy-s-will-get-android-2-3-gingerbread-eventually/
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Logicalstep:
I think this is obvious what's happening. Google wants to keep driving Android and the best way is to make sure it's optimised for the major manufacturers handsets / Hardware.

So Google decide to install 2.3 on hardware that almost identical to SGS, the reason? Well far be it from me to think Google keeps a watch out, but what if they said....here is this great phone(SGS) and it's not running how it should be, lets bring out our own phone with a Vanilla Android which as it happens uses the same drivers for the hardware....the result, 2.3 for all those SGS users who have put their faith in android and Samsung and a nice shiny New optimised Nexus S for those that want to spend an exttra £200 for NFC :P

Anyway The Nexus being so close to the SGS can only result in one thing 2.3 from Samsung for the SGS (nicely optimised for it by Google).

Think about it, the average user (people who use their phones in a more limited way than us XDA'ers) who has SGS, do they really care if 2.3 is coming out? no probably not, half the people I know that complain about their phones look at you funny when you suggest they do a firmware upgrade and you really think they care about a curved screen and NFC chip? No

This is purely about Google making sure the platform is as standard and optimised as possible on the most popular devices and making sure that people don;t associate bad software with a Google phone, reputation is everything.

So now as I've seen posted here before the next Google phone will probably be for another Manufacturer / Hardware platform.

Then we all hope and pray that 3.0 see's an end to custom UI's and tinkering from Manufacturers and Telco's, Let them instal only crap ware that can be removed via Applications >uninstall

Looking forward to 2.3 ,but happy with 2.1 for now :P

Logicalstep
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magicman0:
Because all the Gingerbread ROMS currently out are based on the sdk emulator, not the real Gingerbread Source Code. And when you base it off this, you have nearly nothing working. Its a lot of hard work, just to show that gingerbread runs on your phone.

Just wait a little while for the Nexus S source, and we'll have 2.3 on our phones in no time!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mangulit_Lang:
If they decide to update it, on my opinion, they wil hold off the announcement till 3rd quarter next year to give time to N:2, then dangle the release date like a carrot on a string and say it will be released on october or november. And like a good kid we wait and wait and wait for the release.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metroidnemesis13:
This is basically going to go down just like the Desire HD and the HD2 port. As soon as the phone comes out, someone (or a team of someones) ports the code. Samsung's Touchwiz sucks nine ways to Sunday. It adds x20 lag to everything. My MyTouch is faster. Perfect way to ruin good hardware and take six months to push crap out of Samsung's a$$.

Didn't they have the OS ripped and ported to the HD2 before the Desire HD was even released??? That's freaking ridiculous. I would be using an iPhone right now if it wasn't for XDA developers. I might be a noob, but I'm a Junior in CS1113 and maybe a couple months from now I'll start coding myself.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Auzy:
Have you actually tested this claim? Let's not jump to conclusions
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aldonski:
He's right. Touchwiz framework is very badly optimised. Main reason for lag in this phone. Then the file system.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jeshter2000:
Well to tell you. Samfirmware tweeted that gingerbread will come with samsungskin .....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CroSladi:
F*ck

I liked the TW in the very beginning when i bought my SGS but it's really f*cking annoying!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toss3:
Now that the Nexus S is coming, I doubt that we'll have to put up with touchwiz for long.. ;)
[Nexus One General] djayc:
Hey guys,

I am running a custom ROM at the moment (MIUI), but I'd like to receive the Gingerbread OTA update when it is available. What do I need to do in order to receive this notification? Do I need to restore stock recovery? Go back to Froyo, etc?

Any help would be appreciated.. thanks!
[Nexus One General] Rusty!:
Revert completely to stock FRG83D
[Nexus One General] djayc:
I had heard something about the update failing without stock recovery.. any merit to this?
[Nexus One General] slowz3r:
Or you could wait for someone to root 2.3...but that would still involve you wiping MIUI and such, but youll keep your root if that matters to you
[Nexus One General] IamJAX:
Easier option is get it from this forum...as soon as it is out someone should have repacked it so that it can be flashed with a custom recovery..

Other option is to restore ur phone to stock rom and recovery.
[Nexus One General] DroidRC1:
If I don't want to revert to stock and will wait till someone post the url how do I get the update.zip and make it so I can flash it on a custom recovery?
[Nexus One General] adkardon:
Is there an easy way to revert back to stock from cyanogenmod 6.1? I would like to be able to update to gingerbread OTA.

Thanks guys
[Nexus One General] AverageCanadian:
A good start would be posting in the correct form and not ignoring the caps lock announcement at the top DO *NOT* POST QUESTIONS IN THIS FORUM.
[Nexus One General] clickwir:
If you don't already have it, get ROM Manager from the Market. Install that and install the Recovery it suggests. I think it suggests Clockwork, that's what I have.

Then, when someone posts the update.zip file, put it on your SD card somewhere. Open Rom Manager and tell it to do an update, point it to the update.zip file you just put there and wait for it to reboot a couple times. Enjoy. It's pretty easy now.

I'd wait for a rooted version of 2.3 though. That way you can keep Rom Manager and then switch to whatever Rom you want.
[Nexus One General] DroidRC1:
Im not a fan of Clockwork, but I though Amon_RA 2.0 can do the same now
[Nexus One General] slowz3r:
Yup Amon_RA :)
[Nexus One General] silkuze:
Hey, will this one be okay? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=714184

'Cause I can't find a real stock FRG83D...
[Nexus One General] Rusty!:
You wont find a stock FRG83D, you'll need to use an earlier version (FRG33) and OTA it up to date.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] ldc2335:
Currently there is no way to my knowledge to use clear or transparent notification bars with lp. But yesterday, I noticed that it would show through With a live wallpaper selected. I also recently downloaded just pictures which comes with a live wallpaper also.

So download Just pictures. Open it and select your favorite wallpaper(s) Long press it and add to favorites. Then go and select the just pictures live wallpaper. Then watch them shine through your previously installed clear taskbar.

I realize this is a live wallpaper and may use a little battery. Though I havnt Noticed any difference.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] bluebeast213:
Interesting. This gave me a theory on why and how to fix it.......I just don't have the time to work on it right now. FINALS /oh noes/
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Max_Pain:
exactly how i feel:mad:

anyways, why can't this be done by editing framework-res.apk? i'm pretty sure i had a clear taskbar when i edited mine. i just didnt like the look of the fully clear taskbar because some apps' backgrounds would show through the area where the taskbar went...but the point is it worked? i only use launcherproplus as well:)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] ldc2335:
I'm sure if you rip apart lp's Apk you might be able to. However im not that Savy with all that and I'm sure if it was that Easy it would have been done already. Unless devs are just not sharing.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] peekeesh:
launcher pro and live wallpaper don't work good together for me. it tends to be sluggish when scrolling through screens.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] martonikaj:
Do u have a quick link to setting up the battery indicator the way u have it displayed? I've been looking for something just like that.

edit: nevermind, found it. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=848803
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mario23:
Interesting. Are you saying that while using that program, I can choose non-live wallpapers and they would be transparent or only with live wallpapers? If using just images, it shouldn't really drain battery...I don't think...
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] ldc2335:
I agree on the battery drain. And only live wallpapers will work

Supersonicly swyped while on the the pot at your moms house.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gil80:
Hi.

My question is this:

I have the phone unplugged for 30 Minutes.

I've made 4 minutes of phone call.

Via spare parts I go to the battery history and I see that the sensor usage is this:

Android system: 30 Minutes

Dialer: 4 Minutes.

Does it mean that the phone sensor is up for the whole time it is unplugged, therefore consuming battery power for nothing?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Mclovin1001:
I'm all new to this and want to know the good points and bad points. What i mean is will this mess the phone up,is it easy to delete void warranty etc etc

I'm a general Newbie and just want some info please

Sorry if this has been asked before
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ceesheim:
this is the wrong place to ask that , please ask a mod to move this to

" Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking Windows Phone 7 General"
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Mclovin1001:
Mod plz move ??????
[Nook Color General] blacter:
Google unveiled its eBook Store today and launched an Android app as part of the process. I'd love to try it, but can't find the APK file to load it on my CN. Can any of you provide a link. Thanks.
[Nook Color General] aenima4six2:
Its on the market, and its free. A simple ADB pull and push will do the trick..
[Nook Color General] blacter:
Thanks. My only Android device is my rooted NC, so the Android Market won't work for me. Or am I missing something?
[Nook Color General] louiedawg:
The only problem with the books app is it asks for your account when you open the app. I was able to get around it by installing it to my droid first and then restoring the apk and data with titanium. Still not synced to my account but i can search fine so far. Haven't tried downloading any books from it just yet.

EDIT: I couldn't manage to download or read any books on my nc.
[Nook Color General] sapienta:
Here ya go!

I installed but it doesn't work. Need to have a google account attach to it. I haven't figure out how to do that yet.
[Nook Color General] Tess89:
Figures. The NC hasn't been getting along with anything associated with google. That's been the case for me at least.
[Nook Color General] Pinesal:
There is an app called WordPlayer that can access all the free books from Google Books.
[Nook Color General] Ypocaramel:
Also, I tried a free book on it (I'm outside the USA) and it worked alright in the non-rooted web browser as well. Icons a bit small, not very responsive, but it works.
[Nook Color General] rckymtnrfc:
You can still get books from Google and sideload them onto the Nook. We all happen to have a pretty nice reader built into our devices. :)
[Nook Color General] muness:
How? Adobe's Digital Edition?
[Nook Color General] norkoastal:
I want to say we can DL the books as Epub and then open in the nook app? Based on the app/NC not being tied to the Goog cloud yet, i'll stick to my sideloaded books from the Gutenberg Project site.
[Nook Color General] golfprorm:
Adobe Digital Edition will handle the epub books, yes.

http://books.google.com/help/ebooks/ereader.html
[Nook Color General] micro2112:
I used this last night: just went to google.com/books with the NC browser.. then when you find one you like theres a link to read on you device.
[Nook Color General] rckymtnrfc:
Here are the step by step directions from Google. http://goo.gl/226G6
[Nook Color General] sapienta:
I got Google Ebooks to work following the instructions at http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9676708&postcount=89
[Nook Color General] iconoclastnet:
Any particular reason for using EPE54B when the nook claims to be ERD79?

Yes, EPE54B is newer, but the ERD79 might be more compatible. Or alternately EPE76 which would be the newest (pre-froyo) release?
[Captivate General] FNHA:
Hi, I'm wondering, due to the many shutdown issues people have even with new Captivates, would it be safe to get a refurb Captivate? Even doing exchanges with a refurb would be harder as it cannot be done in a store. And due to the nature of the Captivate, would there be a higher chance that refurbs were those previously having shutdown issues and exchanging would likely make no difference?
[Captivate General] Skoffer:
I've got a Refurb Captivate and I haven't had a single issue with it. I even upgraded it to Cog 2.3b6 and love it.

Just wish GPS worked better and it had a Bluetooth stack that could handle a wii remote. Of course that isn't a refurb issue, anyway. My refurb works perfectly.
[Captivate General] FNHA:
Oh alright. I know someone who had the shutdowns with a refurb Captivate, though not serious. Exchanging refurbs is a problem because stock is so rare. Definitely not as convenient as those who bought from the store and have exchanged over and over. I read on some threads here that flashing Cog fixed the shutdowns for some. Is it possible?
[Captivate General] chiefchyno:
I ordered a refurb and it did have the shutdown issue. The warranty department told me I needed to ship the old unit back, but tell them to send the new unit to you first.

It was a pain to get a new one, but the new one worked perfectly. Luck of the draw, I guess.
[Captivate General] bigjimsax:
Very annoying with the refurbs

I am on my 4th captivate refurb. AT&T did a one time courtesy and swapped my Bold 9700 for a Captivate refurb. The screen was all scratched so they sent me another one. That issue was cosmetic so I'm not making a big deal about it. The second one they sent me was great for about 2 weeks, after it would shut off randomly with stock and Cog 2.1.6 stable. I brought that to a service center and got it replaced. This one had a problem with the speaker in the front and the back. It was all static and very irritating. Just got my last one a couple of days ago and I have not had a problem yet. Knock knock knock...

Once you're original phone s*#ts the bed, its bad news for you because AT&T/Samsungs quality control of the refurb units is poor at best. But they let you keep swapping them out until you find a good one so just hope for the best.

At the end of the day going to android was the best move I have made yet.
[Captivate General] veive:
I have a refurb and have had no issues aside from unreliable GPS.
[Captivate General] jfclk33:
I bought a refurb and the first one I got had the random shutdown issues right out of the box. The first night I charged it, the phone was off in the morning and it only got worse from there. I got that replaced and have been good for about two months with it other than the GPS not tracking well.
[Captivate General] DarrellRaines:
I have a refurb captivate that worka great. The gps like all the others have issues as mine always say i am 30 meters from my actual location, but other than that its great.

The only real issue i have with it is getting used to the keyboard. I use an iphone 4 for my primary phobe and the captivate for a business phone and switching between the two is slighty awkward, but i will adjust eventually.

The leaked 2.2 froyo rom always is great on the phone.
[Captivate General] FNHA:
Hmm.. what do you mean when you say they let you swap them out until you find a good one? Isn't it only for 30 days and the warranty a max of 90 days? And you're supposed to ship it back if you got it online? Is it possible to get a replacement from a service center?
[Captivate General] AudaciousQuip:
My refurb Captivate works great. It's only given me one unexpected shutoff since I got it in October.
[Captivate General] uhmump95:
My refurb is working well. The only time it shuts off randomly is if I leave the USB door open. My GPS works well as well.