[Galaxy S I9000 General] que3jxp:
My current status....

OK.... Lots to read in the last week... All caught up so here is my current status...

I got the phone back on the 24th. Dec 2010 mfg date and 2.1 (JH2). When I got home, I called Bell TS and asked if it was safe to apply the new JL2. He was emphatic that I apply it right away and that if ANYTHING happened at all, that Bell would take care of me ASAP. So I did the upgrade.

Almost 7 days to the hour later....

Still running awesome!!!

Here are some thoughts and observations I have from all that I have read and from the fact that of 4 of us here at work, 3 died and one is not just still alive, but alive after the JK4 AND the JL2 update!!!

Hardware Date - Based on the small sample size I have access to, it looks as though there was an issue with ALL August 2010 phones and possibly September as well. The one of 4 phones that is still alive here at work is a July mfg date. The GPS and all other aspects of the phone seem to be as good an reliable as my Dec/10 hardware. Side by side, they are both getting GPS locks in the same amount of time (10 sec or better indoors and REALLY fast outside with full sky view) The compass performance is excellent on the two as well. So whatever it was, it is more and more seeming that there was a long run of bad phones and where so many bought them when they first came out, we all got nailed by this bad run of phones.

The New Hardware - I used the new hardware for about 6 hours before upgrading to the 2.2 JL2 and found that it was FAR better in all performance aspects to my older one. GPS was faster for locks and was more accurate. After updating to JL2, it only got better. One of the more interesting things that I noted was heat. I have RoboDefence and play it a lot. On my old August phone, it would heat up like a ***** after only a few minutes of play. This is not at all happening with the new December hardware. It simply never heats up for ANYTHING I do on it. This tells me that there was something heinous going on in my old phone.

Quirks in JL2 - I have had no complaints on overall usage on JL2. I checked for the non closing contacts manager and my phone does it too but I am at a total loss as to how that is an issue that matters at all. I have checked to see if I can move apps to SD and I can with ease so if you cannot, I would either do a factory reset and see if that clears it up or I would call Bell and see what they will do. The Apps list zoom thing.... Hmmm.... I never knew that you could pinch on that screen and frankly, who cares. Should it work proper and fast? Yes. Does it really matter? Not really. I put all my shortcuts on the 7 panels for those things I want frequently and if I am looking for something, I find more usefulness in setting the apps list to a list and looking alphabetically for what it is that I want.

All in all, my experience was not horrible as the total turnaround was only 2 weeks and I swear I was the FIRST to brick on JK4 as I did the update after supper on Dec 8th and I am in Fredericton so only Newfoundland is ahead of me for TZ. The Bell/Aliant store here gave me a free loaner (Omnia II) so I was not totally stuffed while the phone was off to lala land. I would love to have gotten the $100 credit but I will not look this gift-horse in the mouth and jinx myself.

I am frustrated that Bell did not go after Samsung with a vengeance and force their hand rapidly. I am also a little disgusted that there was not better comms sent to all of the retailers out there as I can tell you that although where I went did eventually get notice of what was happening, there were other stores in Fredericton that had not one single clue as to WTF was going on or that there was even an issue. I get that big companies can move slow but man... this is not one of those areas that they should be moving slow. Apparently no one learned from the whole "Antennagate" debacle at all.