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[Galaxy S I9000 General] :
All I know is that when I tried the captivate beside the vision, there was NO contest. Among other things, the SAMOLED display was really bad. Maybe the screen was too big for the resolution, but it looked like a lite brite...

That being said, I'm sure I would have been happy with it; i was planning to root it right away, and it does have nice hardware specs.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] magnumrt562:
you guys can keep your ****ty htc cameras and low quality screens... hahaha my craptivate runs wayyyy better than my bro in laws evo, hes got a front facing camera thats he has never used and a kickstand... EPIC WIN. i thought apple fan boys were bad...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BlueDrgBlade:
Why all the hate on Galaxy S phones? I have the Epic and its nice only thing i don't like is Samsung's crappy support (will never buy a Samsung again for that reason). I had the Hero but was having issues with it and got the Epic and love it. Now if i don't get my 2.2 soon from Sprint i will be rooting it. :) Then my next move is to understand how they create the custom roms for the phones i would love to get into that...being a programmer in real life it would be fun....maybe... ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] z33dev33l:
I'm not a fanboy of anything. I have a Samsung Focus, an HD7, a Blackjack 2, a g2, and 11 other devices. The only kind of device I harbor an absolute distatste for is iphones. I just think the galaxy S phones were overhyped for something that is at best mediocre.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] PoisonWolf:
Talk about comparing last gen hardware with new gen hardware. You're quite the rational person (i.e., I really meant to say retarded).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] :
Yikes. Sometimes I regret becoming part of a thread.

Listen, we didn't come to xda to abuse each other and their phones. We all enjoy our devices, so what's the point of making it not-fun?

I had a G1 as my main phone like 3 weeks ago and I had a friggin blast on that phone trying out stuff that people have worked hard on here.

It was more fun because it WAS a crappy phone by today's standards, but somehow we can still figure out ways to run froyo or whatever, overclock, and get more memory.

Isn't that the spirit of this forum, to get the hardware to do all that it can?

Why not let all the people with less advanced hardware or buggy software feel just as much part of the fun instead of feeling like this is some cool-kid club and they aren't welcome?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] derhannes1983:
Wouldn't have expected a thread like this with XDA-developers, and it is a shame to read this here...

We got our phones with a nice OS from a wide variety of hardware publishers, and we all like our phones, and try to do the best we can with them. No phone is ****ty or crappy or anything you say about them, it is just a matter of taste and choice.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] golmar88:
+1

I love my Vibrant, but I wouldn't expect you to... It's mine. I used to love my G1 (ok, I still do). I understand that you feel the phone was overhyped and undersupported, I however do not. <tw> provides awsome support. Had a chance to trade for a G2, but I just couldn't do it. I just don't see what my phone could possibly do faster or better then it does now. I am very used to the way it feels in my hand and it is very comfortable. Not to knock that phone, it just felt heavy and didnt feel right in my hand. I hear it's an awsome phone... for someone else. It's not overhyped if it lives up to your expectations, and so far it has exceeded mine. Obviously it didn't live up to yours, and that's cool. I can understand why people get defensive when you say that the product they own isn't very good. I become very fanboyish once I own a certain product.

So to say "everyone is trying to get rid of their Galaxy S" is kind of an overstatement. Maybe "Those who feel the Galaxy S isn't for them are trying to get rid of it". ;)

But I like these debates. It gives me a lot of info about which phones I should eventually go with. From what I'm hearing, I'll be staying with my Vibrant for awhile longer. FTW
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AndroidSupreme:
Same here! ^_^
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rbrookstx:
I've had my Vibrant for several months and honestly, the phone does everything I need it to. I'm not a giant fan of the stock ROM, but I've never had a lag issue or had to use a lag fix on this device. Not to say that it's not an issue to some, but the phone is working just fine for me. I just wish it had the same size screen as my HD2. I miss that screen. I'd buy it again if I had to.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LowQue27:
My LG phone rocks!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lqaddict:
So does my Vibrant!

I don't understand the hate about it :rolleyes:

If you come here to XDA you most probably were looking for improvements over stock, so if I am a new Vibrant user with a bit of a tech background (not really necessary) I:

1. Come here

2. Enable USB debugging and root the thing with OneClickRoot

3. Install CWR

4. Install a JL5 based ROM that supports Voodoo

5. Enjoy much improved and needed user experience

All can be accomplished within 30 minutes of your life
[Galaxy S I9000 General] killster:
Owned many vibrants a captivate and tablet i would recommend samsung to anyone

I dont like the ns but thats just my.opinion

I do like the new infuse

Killster

Sent from my At&t Samsung Galaxy Tablet
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Loggerhead87:
Do elaborate. It isn't bleeding edge hardware, but it's the best of Android you'll get on any phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] z33dev33l:
I wouldnt pay 600-700 dollars for a phone that is just a galaxy S with a front facing camera with a new OS that is almost no different than the previous OS. If thats what I wanted I'd pick up the vibrant, add a front facing camera for 15 bucks, and flash a rom when its out. Afterwards I'd hate myself for buying something that feels cheap (I will always equate the general plastic feel of the vibrant with cheap, the captivates feel is 1000 times better)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] vnamee:
If you slap a case on the phone, which most people do, I don't see how the feel of the phone even matters. I slapped some scotch tape on the back and put a hard case on it from ebay, and you wouldn't even know if it was made of plastic of metal underneath. You may complain about how its weight makes it feel cheap, but I appreciate the lightness, especially when its in my pocket. I couldn't even imagine lugging an HD2 around.

With a good rom like Nero V3 w/ voodoo and launcher pro, the phone is smooth like butter. Once they get a stable version of gingerbread out, it'll be even faster as it'll take advantage of the hummingbird processor. I'll definitely be keeping the phone, at least until some tegra phones are out.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] z33dev33l:
So in other words I need a new case, I need to flash a new rom, I need to do the one click lag fix, and a new launcher before hte phones really usable? Doesn't sound like a great phone :/ also how drastic a speed increase can you expect with the gpu still just sitting there?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] koberko:
Well, no matter what anybody says; I won't change my SGS for anything. Only thing that will make me get rid of my SGS is new SGS.

And I'm grateful for that plastics and low mass; that probably saved my phone when I drop it while riding bicycle; phone hit concrete, plastic battery cover went on one side, battery on other, and phone body on third, while sliding for 5 meters on hard concrete (on screen).

I pick up parts, get it all together, turn it on, and it still works like a charm, 2 months later... And only mark that was left after that fall, is small scratch on metal rim.

So, If I have to choose between hard, solid body, that probably wont disperse impact energy away from important components of phone, and light, plastic phone, that will fall apart when drooped, but still working and with out any significant damage, I'll chose last one.

But if you care more about what will other people say about you phone, and how "solid" it feels... then you need something more solid..... and more fragile.

And regarding software... I didn't buy this phone so that I can open box, put in my sim card, and newer again doing anything other then installing some apps.

I love the fact that you can make this phone perform better by moding it, I love community around this phone, I love people who develop upgrades, lag fixes, new ROMs, i love spending whole day testing new ROM, new lag fix, new apps, I love explaining to newcomers who to mod phone (i have spend almost whole evening yesterday on Skype with friend of mine who got new SGS, explaining him all things that he can do with phone).

But, If you don't like all that stuff... then this is not phone for you. Then you should sell it and get something else.

But I guarantee you that with something else, you will have less "problems", but also less fun, and in the end, you will have worse phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] z33dev33l:
I've been tinkering for years. Tinkering is fun when it is meantto improve the performance of your phone. Tinkering is not fun when it is to make your phone functional. I have a Dell Streak and with just the update to 2.2 it is... perfect. I do not have to add anything to make that phone great. I also have a venue pro, an HD7, and a Samsung Focus that I swap between daily.Though the focus is so light it's uncomfortable for me I love those phones because they're functional without me having to tinker. Once there are custom roms and such for WP7 I'll likely flash them because they will bring even more function to the table. I love to enjoy my phones when it comes to modding but modding to make a phone funtional is not fun. Modding to make a phone better is.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] koberko:
Do I have some device as rest of you? My Galaxy S was perfectly functional when I got it, and I used it for over a month before rooting it and applying lag fix. Yes, there was a slight lag here and there, but nothing that will make phone unusable, or unfunctional. Actually biggest improvement in performance that I have notice after lag fix was bigger score in quadrant benchmark.

And now I'm on 2.2 without lag fix, and it works perfectly. So sorry if I don't see difference between that and what you have mentioned about your Dell Streak.

And I think that this "lag" on SGS is highly exaggerated; from all talk about it, you can get impression that because of that, phone won't work at all, and in mine opinion that's nonsense.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] z33dev33l:
My mom has a vibrant, takes 8 minutes to start due to the lag, then the swiping between pages is just terrible. She is not a tech savvy person, shes got a total of maybe 10 market apps. This is all post lag fix and all. Before that it took just under 10 minutes to boot.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] koberko:
I would love to see a video of that booting and usage.

P.S. I just timed my boot time; 1min and 10 sec from fully turned off phone to completely booted; with sim card password entering, unlocking screen, media scanning and sd card scanning.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mecc1:
Well if I look at your signature, you've never even owned a Samsung... -.-
[Galaxy S I9000 General] koberko:
Just some info regarding original post:

Number of used phones available on E-bay:

Samsung galaxy S i9000: 12

E-bay search results

HTC Desire: 42

E-bay search results

HTC G2: 58

E-bay search results

LG GT540: 74

E-bay search results

iPhone 4: 2067

E-bay search results

So, by looking at e-bay, you can come to conclusion that everybody is trying to get rid of HTCs, LGs, iPhones and so on, more then Galaxy S... But there is no point in looking at things that way.

Ones who like this phone will like it no matter what, and ones who don't like it won't like it no matter what I or someone else think or say.

It's up to everybody individually to build their own conclusions and opinions, and decide what to believe.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] vbetts:
Try the Galaxy S variants. The Vibrant alone has 226 items listed on Ebay, The Desire isn't across the states like the other phones, same with the GT540, the Iphone is probably the most common out of what you listed. Plus probably 1/5 or even 1/4 of the iphone listings are either older models(despite searching for Iphone 4, people still list them under the same model on Ebay) and chinese knockoffs.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sublimaze:
koberko, your search is skewed and doesn't come close to showing all of the SGS phones on ebay. but I agree that SGS owners happy with their phone like it despite its shortcomings, and haters will hate it no matter what anyone else says

sent from my captivate
[Galaxy S I9000 General] vbetts:
Ehh, I've had 2 Samsung phones and both I did not have the best times with. Enough for me not to want to get another Samsung phone again.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lqaddict:
So it basically comes down to this:

1. You bought into Galaxy S hype and feel a buyer's remorse, you have no interest to tinker with the device and you either sell it or curse at Samsung/your carrier to provide you well overdue update in hopes it fixes it.

2. You bought the phone knowing that you want to tinker with it, and come here and make your phone what it should've been from the start.

3. You tried to fix it and you are still not happy with it - go to option 1.

Option 2 worked for me, even though when I got the phone during launch there was only root procedures available.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] icebear8:
I dont see whata the problem with the galaxy phones i love my mesmorize best phone i ever had. i went thru the evo,nexus,and backflip and mesmorize comes out on tops just wish there was more roms for it =( i did own a captivate but i pefer the mez way more then it
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tribestros:
I work in Home Theater and have seen the **** that Samsung tries to pass through the home entertainment market--that's done more than enough to turn me off from Samsung--nonetheless, I had a Captivate and an Aria...there's no comparison. The Aria rapes the Captivate in every single aspect. Especially once rooted.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] z33dev33l:
Samsung is good marketing for mediocre phones, kinda the apple of the android world.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] silex:
The sheeple are unloading their Galaxy S variants, because they are all getting tired of waiting for 2.2, haha! Endless broken promises on Samsung's part.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] latenite:
Ummm, Good luck with that. Previous experience (Windows Mobile 6.1, 6.5) shows that Micro$oft leaves the updates in the hands of the hardware manufacturers. I don't see M$ changing that model anytime soon.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] shanghei:
I owned the samsung captivate from launch to current and I will NEVER buy another samsung product again. Selling now before surge hits ebay and I am gonna get the atrix when it comes out!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] z33dev33l:
why would they have upgraded it? the second the iphone dropped WM sales went to hell and at that time AT&T was the biggest name. Not to mention the fact that the reason behidn that was a few manufacturers (namely HTC) bloating WM up
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TexUs:
That's a huge reason why to stay away from the Infuse. It looks promising but... The Atrix just bests it (Except the cameras). Plus the Samsung name on it.

What will you use until then?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] silex:
I ended up picking up an HTC evo shift. A good alternative to the epic.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Hider141:
After having alot of trouble with a piece of crap i900 (Omnia) that wouldn't connect via USB or BT even with me standing with my feet up and my head down, I'm running in the LG or HTC camp.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] gurcan09:
Hello..

I need help.. and maybe you can help me..

I have now Android Froyo 4.6 running now on my HTC HD2

is there a navigation program that i can install on my phone for the android.. i dont want to use internet to work with the navi.. but i want only use the app with GPS..

is there anybody who know that?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lukesan:
1 that I can highly recommend is Sygic Aura.

It is dirt cheap for a offline GPS system and there are 25% discount vouchers in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=859223&page=8
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ovidio:
I use Novigon 2.6.1 on my HD2 with Android Froyo 4.4.

PM me if you need link.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] berbecverde:
I am using Igo8(Motonav).:)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] xdabart:
I am using Igo Myway, i like this droid version much lighter on the graphics than WinMo IGo 8

I think myway is not for sale yet to individuals, try googling for:

iGOMyWay_8.4.2.139242
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] gurcan09:
thanks to you all

i have found a navi and it works very good..

THREAD CAN BE CLOSED
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] iamnucleus:
What Nav system did you eventually use.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] raysearcher:
HTC HD2 navigation

I am using by now for a period of over a year Osmand and Osmand+.

Battery life on my HTC HD2 is quite good, better when using CoPilot.

Have been recently looking for other alternatives than Osmand+ ...

any ideas?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] asb_:
I used:

NDRIVE

NAVIGON

with no problems
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Rvp11James:
Hi guys,

Just managed to get an android rom running - and am wondering about mobile internet charges...

I'm on orange with a 500mb data allowance and on WM have never gone past 150mb.

I use the internet for general facebook, twitter, emails - and only going to download apps for android over wifi.

Will i still be charged the same while using an android rom?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] deadmansink:
Yes, there is no difference, it's just that now there are a ton of free apps and you might go crazy...
[Captivate General] a.vandelay:
will we ever have usable custom gingerbread roms? if i understand we only have 2.2 roms because samsung leaked 2.2 source for the i9000. is it safe to say we'll only have 2.3 roms if something similar happens for the i9000?

i've already read in the dev forum developers saying the nexus s hardware is too different.
[Captivate General] cappysw10:
It's being worked on but I wouldn't hold my breath [PORT] Nexus S GB Port to Captivate (UPDATE: Wifi and 3G semi-working)

See signature :rolleyes:
[Captivate General] a.vandelay:
yes, i have put the gb port on my phone. but it's not really a usable build 24/7 and still being called a tech-demo by the developer.

i'm wondering if it's possible to produce a gb rom with the same quality as our eclair and froyo roms if samsung never releases any code for the i9000/captivate.
[Captivate General] EtherealRemnant:
It shouldn't be impossible to use the Nexus S source and bits and pieces of the current Captivate and i9000 kernel sources and put them together for a mish-mash build - the problem is that development for the Galaxy S is significantly less than development for HTC devices.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DMagister:
I found the strangle problem with my new HTC Desire HD: GPS lost satellites in the case of camera in the video recording mode.

First concern arose when using the device as a DVR: VideoReg, DailyRoads Voyager, AutoGuard. In all cases I have gps data loss.

As an experiment I ran the program gpstest and the original camera software - GPS have problems with the satellites when camera is recording video :(

What could it be ???

Factory firmware with OTA upgrade.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olivierlee:
The GPS is only active when an app which uses the GPS is active. So if you switch to an app today does not use GPS, the function is turned off.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DMagister:
I understand it of course :)

DVR's are using GPS and camera by self, in the tests I used gps application in the background (navitel navigator and GPS status).
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olivierlee:
Oh I see. I don't know what's wronng. Never used any of the apps you mentionned above.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DailyRoads:
I am the developer of DailyRoads Voyager. There is quite a large number of users who run Voyager concurrently with navigation apps, without having problems with the GPS fix. But, not on the Desire HD :(

I have made some extensive changes in the code which handles GPS. Would any of you like to test this new version?

Thanks,

Robert
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tranceonline:
i would test if you send it to me?

just found it in the market and downloading it.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DailyRoads:
The version on the Android Market most likely has the same issues described above. The new version for test can be downloaded from here:http://dailyroads.com/voyager/test/4/dailyroads.apk

Please test for at least 2 minutes, because listening for GPS will be restarted after 30 seconds, and then again after 1 minute.

This version also creates a log file (DailyRoadsLog.txt) in the root folder of the

SD card. When you're done with the tests, please send this file to voyager@dailyroads.com

Thanks,

Robert
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maxut:
Did anybody resolve the issue? I have the same problem with my Inspire 4G. When the camera is active the GPS wont't fix. Once the camera is off the fix occurs immediately
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flying_dutchman:
hi, same problem (still) here. no programm works when it combines camera/GPS.

just installed DailyRoads Voyager and will try 'n' see if I can do the tests and send the doc. maybe it'll help.

PS contacted HTC a while ago, simple reaction "your GPS is working as wel las your camera. you don't have a problem then...." welll, discussing here is more than limited, even when sying tt both together don't work... :mad:
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flying_dutchman:
Hi, found via Robert (daily road travel ) found via russian forums the following : add an external b/t gps receiver, download a small app from the market which links the receiver to the phone and done !

Ok, it's a workaround but a working one !

Cheers
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] db0511:
Has anyone found a better resolution??
[General Topics] Omnichron:
When will the Android 2.3 ROMs start showing up?:D
[General Topics] avgjoegeek:
Soon as they get the bugs worked out ;)

You can see working "tech demos" under the i9000 Galaxy forum as well as other Samsung forums.

AND... I think just about every other "major" brand of phone currently has someone working on it lol. Just need to browse around the dev forums and see if your phone has someone working on a port.
[General Topics] Omnichron:
Thank you! I can't wait!!:D
[General Topics] nucleor1989:
Beat you guys to it

Sent from my HTC Hero CDMA on 2.3.2 :)
[General Topics] dbzfanatic:
Look at the post date, january 5th. There are 2.3 ROMs out now for many phones, I don't think this question needed to be revived. :/
[General Topics] chinbhat:
When will my motorola milestone will get 2.3!!!!
[General Topics] Shift Text:
I really hope that hTC doesnt drag their feet on getting me 2.3 for my Incredible!
[General Topics] Omen87:
I would guess that 2.3 is still quite a ways off from manufacturer releases.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] mikeinessex:
Hey i have not seen any adw.launcher themes on here? I am pretty sure adw.launcher is one of the best launchers around with the ability to be themed and played with. I would love to see the great minds on here come up with some good adw.launcher themes. people tinker with launcher pro but there isnt much u can do with launcher pro. just a suggestion people
[Nook Color General] elcape:
My question is

Is it a good time to buy a nook color with all the new tablets coming? If yes...

Is it a good time to root the nook with the update coming? And finally...

When Android 2.3 is coming to the nook?

Thanks a lot in advance for the answers, I'm lost in the subject...