yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] thug_life_inc:
I don't think that's true - its all drivers which come with software - reflashing with stock ROM should do the trick.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SCIENTYREAL:
Hope this helps

I had an issue with the camera when i flashed a wrong kernel (Darky's ROM 9.3b with YA-OK kernel). I reflashed with Speed Mod kernel and everything was back to normal.:)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pete91:
Hi,

I have 2.2.1 and DarkyROM 9.2 installed. I see that Flash now works in the stock google browser.

Has someone found a way to get it to work with Opera or even the Firefox beta?

Regards, Peter
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pete91:
Hi there,

Has there been any work done on getting the USB to send to an external video source i.e HDMI DVI or VGA would be possible?

I have the Nokia cable used to send the display into the TV. Although it does work, the image is abysmal.

Perhaps someone might have given this some thought? Perhaps a Voodoo HDMI project is sought!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snapper.fishes:
It's impossible. The chipset does not have that capability.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] burtyy:
Samfirmware twittered last night http://mobile.twitter.com/samfirmware/status/34382086026567681

This is very good news! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] .Slane.:
Why make another thread for this ? It's already in the "Android 2.3 any info?" post.. It's XDA Forum here, not Twitter, we don't need zillion of posts about 2.3 status.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] matteool:
very good!!!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dadyal:
I think they testing on their own i9000 because mine still got 2.2 froyo wich is also not official rom because no foryo yet released for pakistan
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Bughlol:
samsung is extremely lazy in releasing updates, so relax and go to sleep !
[Galaxy S I9000 General] chrisjcks:
Haven't they been 'testing' for months....

Useless!!

I was personally told they were testing 2.3 before froyo was even released for the sgs.

Come upgrade day, not sure I will stick with Samsung, I love my sgs but the updates and software coding they do to their own android versions, really does suck.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SkinBobUk:
While i agree with the Samsung bashing about software quality and other updates.

Is there any real benefit to roms on other devices. I know of cyanogen name miui. But at the end of the day there ain't too much of a benefit over what we already have.

At the end of the day what Samsung may lack in software they made up for in the hardware on our devices.

Everybody here will have done their research before buying the device, it weren't hard to work out Samsung were still getting to grips with android.

Im sure in time they will mature and make very good software, but this will take time. Rome wasn't built in a day.

Sent From My GalaxyS Iphone Killer
[Galaxy S I9000 General] suomaf:
Totally agree man, the SGS was my first android, and also my first Samsung and I have been with them ever since. I have bought a nexus S the day it came out. Samsung hardware is great but they seemed to be overwhelmed with the different models and such. And with the SGS2 coming out soon, I am not sure about 2.3 for us. However that is why XDA is so important for us.

Rome might not be built in a day, but ROMs can be :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jaganm:
While I appreciate the fine work done on the xda ROM's, I would much rather like the official ROM that has undergone a lot of testing and has the backing of the manufacturer. Since Samsung has not given any indication of its commitment to a phone beyond a few months, the Galaxy S would probably be the last Samsung product that I buy.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Auzy:
This might come as a shock, but it's one thing to ship a customised ROM with plenty of upgrade issues (etc).

It's a total other for a major company to do so. I know the guys at XDA make ROM development seem easy, but the reality is, that's because Samsung has already done most the work for them.. Lets be realistic, any ROM out there in the community which isn't a slightly modified Samsung ROM, is extremely buggy still.. Furthermore, Samsung needs to consider the various rebranded models, etc.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dcarr622:
Bro, have you tried CM7? It's fricken amazing.

A lot of folks here on XDA are (almost) as talented, or even more so, than half the clowns working at Samsung. I'm sure they learn a thing or two from around here.

Only reason the Nexus S is so good is because Google did all the development.

Yes, Samsung has eventually shipped very nice & fast 2.2.1 ROMs. But how long did it take, and how long will it take for Gingerbread?

I'm placing my faith in CM7 which will continue to improve.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Mothatt:
I wouldn't doubt samsung used some of the kernel devs from heres code in their 2.2.1 roms (namely lastufo, hardcore and trasig)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Arkymedes:
Unfortunately that is also my point of view and I cannot spend my hard earned money to a company that cannot commit itself to it's costumers. Probably the Galaxy S will be the last phone from Samsung that I buy.

On a side note, I'm looking forward for the Nokia / Microsoft partnership. I played with a WP7 this days and I got very surprise by the build quality and software.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Virtualsk:
WP7 would be mistake buddy .... :P
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ronmtorres:
if we can't get 2.3 from samsung, maybe ROM modders here in XDA can :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] stuclark:
I'm afraid this post is pure tripe!

CM7 is nowhere near stable yet; not even all the "advertised" features work! I'm not bashing them, because they know there's still bugs, but just think for a minute.... how vocal would you be, in a very demeaning manner, if Samsung had put out CM7 as it stands now?

As for Google "doing all the development [on Nexus S] - I think you'll find that they only did (at most) 50%. Most, if not all, the initial hardware driver support, which is the KEY to making Android work on any device, will have been done by Samsung, as it's them who has the knowledge, skills & facilities to make the phone. Once you've got the hardware drivers / abstraction layer; its very easy to put any OS you want on top! (do you really, really think there's a huge hardware difference between Samsung's Bada, Android, WP7 & even Symbian phones?)

Now, I'm not saying Samsung are the best at delivering updates, but they're better than some *cough* Motorola *cough* and their hardware is still the pinnacle of what's available. And yes, there's a few talented people on XDA, but there's also a hell of a lot more who muddy the waters and generally add to the nonsense going round by wrongly accusing Samsung / XDA devs / polar bears of X, Y, & Z.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] t1mman:
Some of you have to take a good look into all that is "technology" and the likes...Most likely, once a device is out, YOU WILL NOT GET MAJOR UPDATES besides bug correction. And this is valid for every company.

Consider yourself lucky to get major release like 2.2 or 2.3, most of the others makers (HTC, Sony, Motorola) are still on 2.1.

Take a good look there and see by yourself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Android_devices

Most of the devices don't even have 2.2.1 and the only one with 2.3 is still Nexus S.

WP7 had a long run before releasing the first bug correction (not even sure if it's out yet...)

Even worst, iOs users have to PAY for their release

So, you can complain all you want but reality is far from what you are thinking...

Now, as for 2.3, it's supposed to be optimised for SGS hardware (because of the Nexus S), can't wait to see how it goes!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] got-petrol:
theres a good chance we will get 2.3 because galaxy s phone are still being sold and the 4g ones
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Cooki3s:
I sincerely hope samsung is gonna surprise us one of these days (even then probably later rather than sooner), since 2.3 is finally optimized for the hummingbird aswell... Also the screen shutdown animation kicks ass.

On another note: Samsung should really communicate better, and ffs train your customer support. I tried to poke for some information earlier this week, and I got a response saying: Samsung is not responsible for the updates, please contact the responsible party, in this case "Android". :p
[Galaxy S I9000 General] My20:
Testing :) ! In galaxy S2 v2.3 ... S3 v2.4

Galaxy S 16Gb Int

CM7 Honeycomb
[Galaxy S I9000 General] azzledazzle:
in my opinion how much difference is there gunna be from 2.2 - 2.3 ???

as soon as 2.3 came out there would be a customised version on here which the majority of us would go straight for... ditching the stock version of 2.3....

and many of us have 2.3 features on our 2.2's anyway, like the gingerbread keyboard the honeycomb music player, the gingerbread launcher ect ect...

if official 2.3 was released tomorrow and so was 'stable' CM7.... i would definitely go straight for CM7.... dunno about you guys but thats my 2 cents..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bilboa1:
non crashing wifi, fully working camera, GPU accelerated browser, tv out, fm out...

cm is doing an ok work but stock has everything working
[Galaxy S I9000 General] felleese:
He said 'stable' cm7 to imply that if the fully functioning version of cm7 was released at the same time as the official 2.3 he would prefer cm7.

Sent from sgs, using the XDA app.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sebol723:
God for sgs but why 2.3 too sgt?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SkinBobUk:
To be fair even if Samsung released honeycomb tomorrow someone would find something to whine and moan about.

Throughout history i dont think there has been such a thing as the perfect os. Nor i doubt will there ever be one.

Android has the potential to get close with the amount of customization available, but people will still find bugs, etc.

Like agent smith said in the Matrix 'Its inevitable'.

Sent From My GalaxyS Iphone Killer
[Galaxy S I9000 General] electrotune1200:
Maybe Android is The Matrix....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MikeyMike01:
Ridiculous.

You can't put out a phone that doesn't work, and say "oh well, buy a new one".
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mihyes:
Oh you'd be surprised. HTC does it all the time, why not Samsung? Anyway, the software part is really an achilles heel of all customized Androids.

There should be a law for manufacturers to include the stock Android option...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bilboa1:
stable version with quotes :p
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kunjar:
Agreed.

Samsung have delivered a good/significant number of updates since the release of 2.2 which was followed by 2.2.1 and its variants. I think people are expecting too much from Samsung. You wont get a new ROM every week, no matter how often you check in kies.

I prefer stock ROM's regardless because rest assured i know that MOST features and functions will work, some might be buggy .etc but usually rectified in a following update.

The development at XDA is priceless, but this is largely due to Samsung for manufacturing some serious hardware and also the basic low level firmware/code for the end user to utilise higher level functionality. Suppose this is what separates the men from the boys.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mihyes:
Did they? I've seen so far only a single upgrade to froyo and that's it. But if you ask me what to expect from Samsung is certainly not a dumbed down phone with RFS. If they are able to kill their flagship phone performances with such a stupid move and then it takes age for them to fix it or even recognize it then I guess it is really too much to expect anything from them.

They should provide drivers and let users install the stock Android instead.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dejan-:
would be nice to have gingerbread 2.3 on SGS :]
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lgkahn:
i played with 2.3 on a nexus s i got for someone.. and let me tell you there was really nothing that exiting in it.. over the jpy 2.2.1 i am running now..

when and if it does come out.. i predict you are all going to be dissppointed!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] azzledazzle:
thanks for clearing that up matey :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bsamurai:
so it's gonna be like "Yeah, I'm on Gingerbread!! So what?" kind of thing?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] trixnix:
Yeaahh!

sent from my Samsung® Galaxy S
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lucabaldo3:
Look forward to the stable version
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Auzy:
What's wrong with RFS? I'm getting kind of sick of hearing people whinge about RFS, when they don't actually know.

It did take them a while to fix a lot of problems though (and GPS still doesn't feel so sensitive). But that being said, at the time, it was the only Android phone with 720p recording, proper multitouch, gorilla glass and a few other features I needed/wanted (and I needed a new phone then). So when looking back, people say this phone was crap. However, remember that the alternatives at the time had other problems. On the other hand though, I also needed reliable GPS from the start, and that for me is a major factor which STRONGLY affects whether I would have picked this phone.

Had I known the GPS was so bad, I might have picked an alternative (but not sure). But either way, RFS isn't really a problem..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mihyes:
Isn't RFS culprit for the lag which is a huge problem that cripples SGS? Just compare a version with and without the lagfix.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Auzy:
That was the initial theory.. However, to the best of my knowledge, nobody really proved it. Furthermore, on JPY, it felt like there were some dramatic improvements made to reduce lag.

Changing the filesystem might have simply reduced the problem/symptoms, but I never actually saw any proof myself which indicated RFS was the cause.

Give JPY a try, and you wont care you probably wont care you are using RFS..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Valeo:
It's pretty hard to find cold, hard facts when you're dealing with proprietary filesystems and hardware. Granted, nothing's been proved, but RyanZA's write-up makes a lot of sense if you have an understanding of how filesystems work at a lower level.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kunjar:
I've tried the SuperOneClick lagfix, and indeed it does make a difference, well, this is only based on my perception of the phones performance after the fix was applied and also the scores on quadrant. Obviously with this extra performance comes the cost of extra power consumption, quicker reduction in battery charge .etc

From Samsungs point of view, i suppose RFS is implemented as a file system to help prolong battery life and provide effective resource comsumption, considering the alternatives, ext2, ext4...

How much extra power will the SGS consume as a result of utilising a more recent filing system? If power vs performance ratio is ~1 or >=1 then its not justifiable unless of course you wish to post videos on youtube of your quadrant benchmarks.

However if there is a small increment in power consumption, relative to the current power consumption of RFS, for atleast double the performance or, greater than, then i suppose it may be worthy.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Auzy:
The problem is.. A lot of theories make sense. But until they are proven, they shouldn't be treated as factual. There have been numerous theories I have seen on XDA which seems plausible, were treated like fact, but later, there was some evidence showing they could be wrong.

In fact, it highlights a BIG problem on XDA, unlike in newspapers, nobody asks how to know stuff is tested on XDA. If it sounds plausible, people instead take it as fact, without even knowing if it was properly tested (such as the capacitor "fact" which after discussions with an early claimant, didn't actually test it it seemed).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bilboa1:
That's not an XDA problem, its a general human problem if you ask me :P

Many of the posts like the one linked are actually misleading and have been refuted, but the one people will remember is not always the correct one. Just the one that sounds "cool" or more "plausible" or more "i used that guy stuff so i'll blindly trust it" etc.

This phenomenon seems to increase drastically on the internet, probably because you're lacking some real life perspective like "this person look serious and really is a computer engineer" and so on (which can also be misleading but most of the time happens to be a lot more accurate, than guessing through a post's words)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Auzy:
I think that's probably because we can't revoke "thanks" either. Which means people are getting thanked for spreading BS, and they can go into negative karma either..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] coradux:
If RFS is the problem why lag reappears after lag fix?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Auzy:
Because you guys speak of Lag like there is a single cause.. There could be PLENTY of causes. I can make a computer lag by tying up the CPU entirely. I can also make it lag by using up all the RAM, or even doing a large number of disc operations. Even setting the scheduler in Linux causes some issues (the default scheduler in Ubuntu for instance I found causes serious slowdowns intermittently).

The reality is, we don't know what the main causes are, and it needs to be taken on a case-by-case basis. But it simply could have been a bug in the RFS drivers (which is why JPY seems to freeze up much less). To the best of my knowledge, people simply see the Disk I/o on their benchmarks looks a bit lower than with EXT4, and make silly assumptions, but I don't think I've seen anyone pull out a profiling tool and analyse the problem in depth. Even if they did, they never disclosed their methods so we could scrutinize whether they were doing it right.

What we do know though, is that there are many members of the pro-linux crowd who see Open source as a "feature". According to many, if it's open source and seems popular, it is instantly more optimised. However, people here should be cautious not to be caught in the same trap. Not everything that's proprietary is bad (look at Nvidia Cuda for instance).

It may have or may not have been the cause due to crappy coding. Or, it might have been a driver/scheduler that doesn't like the behavior of RFS.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hansonator:
Some great posts in this one. Somehow didn't expect a thread about Samsung testing 2.3 to turn into a discussion about lag, rfs ect. Silly me. :-)

As long as Samsung can get a version of 2.3 as good or better than the 2.2 I'm loving now, bring it on! I honestly didn't notice that much lag on my SGS until I got official 2.2 and saw a major speed increase of my phone. Obviously they, for the most part, have figured the problem out. Almost two months since updated and no lag at all and I didn't even do a factory reset after update.

I love this phone and is a good chance my next phone will be a Samsung also. Maybe Galaxy S 3? I feel safe to assume that they will only get better.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
All phones lag, it just so happens the Galaxy S made so many sales compared to other mobile phones. If you ask users of another brand say from HTC they even lag from time to time but they dont make too much fuss about it since they are a minority.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
Gingerbread 2.3 is not a full release, it's an early release

they already went through 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 and bugs still predominant

the next one up is 2.3.3 but they are not fixing bugs yet, just new NFC features

Gingerbread 2.4 is going to be the actual real release, of what Gingerbread 2.3 was supposed to be

Google had to push out Gingerbread as 2.3 out the door just 2 weeks before Xmas to not miss the good shopping season, as a result it's very much like when the SGS was released with 2.1 instead of 2.2
[Galaxy S I9000 General] khpyro:
we are lucky if we get that this year...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] vcosmin:
no, we are lucky if we will get it, no matter when.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] urself25:
Except for the Nexus S, which other phone has 2.3? No one. Wait, it will come out eventually.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] marvinloess:
i hope we will get it soon after the release of SGS II
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Unrealwolf:
If they are testing it, why there were no leaks at all? As far as i can remember, we've got ****ty Froyo leak very quick.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
Because samfimrware is not samsung, its a site that gets internal information but anything else is at the mercy of getting leaked, but im still not hoping to get 2.3 for our SGS, probably after the SGSII comes out 6-8 months so it wont hurt the sales. Having 2.3 on the SGS will badly hurt the potential sales for the SGSII.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] madpete:
I think Samsung wanted us to have those "leaks", so we could beta test them. They needed Froyo rolled out ASAP cause people where on there backs.

Its different with 2.3, if it comes at all they will take their time....low priority for them now with SGS2 coming out.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] chrisjcks:
Come upgrade day at the end of the year, I'm going to the next nexus (if it has FM radio)

Waiting for samsungs software department sucks,

Even worse when they made the nexus s and used very similar specs, yet runs 2.3 and gets updates instantly (from Google - yayyy) . I feel like I've been punched in the face for being a sgs customer.

Delay after delay on froyo, ain't some customers still on eclair?

Gingerbread is a million miles away from our beloved sgs,
[Galaxy S I9000 General] elmonch:
What I´ve learned about this is next time I´ll buy google device, whatever it will be.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] freakdahouse:
SGSII have doubled the hardware, can't see how a simple software update could hurt the sales.

As far as I know, great part of the SGS buyers only knows that's android running in the phone, not it's version.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] got-petrol:
i dont think we will get it because its samsung and all they care about is money and selling phones but if any body was in the same situation we would be the same...i dont think they will sell alot of galaxy s 2s because of how they have been with the galaxy s
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ilbulgaro89:
i spoke about that with Samsung atto MWC lastre wednesday and they told me that Gingerbread is coming for all Galaxy s...Also for Galaxy s wifi
[Galaxy S I9000 General] paokaras45:
HTC Desire will get it!

it would be ridiculous if SGS don't get it
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bsamurai:
How ridiculous it is?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mrstimpy:
I really love my SGS. And I wouldn't trade it for a Nexus S... Really hoping for a fully working version of MIUI ROM.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cldwar:
it has been released in pakistan for a long time ... update your kies software and check for firmware update

currently using : 2.2.1

n m frm pakistan too
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Auzy:
*facepalm*.. 2.2.1 ISN'T Gingerbread.. Gingerbread is 2.3
[Galaxy S I9000 General] g00ndu:
What's your firmware version? :confused: :rolleyes:
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] MaxMedia:
I installed google map 5.1 on market. But when used with x10 mini, text font (map, not menu) very small. Smaller than the original google map 4.4

So x10 can use the google map with cache offline ?
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] TheChampJT:
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[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] Pat123:
That's a good start! It's a really sad state of things that we just have a handful of tablet-optimized apps while iPad had thousands even before it's launch!
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] natious:
The ipad had the same problem as the tab with apps not going full screen, ALL apps should scale properly if it was coded right ie: angry birds looks amazing on the tab and its not even a HD version
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] Pat123:
Yea, there is a workaround on iPad to make iPhone apps run fullscreen just like we have spare parts! However, I was talking about iPad-specific/optimized apps which are way more way high in number and quality than the ones on the Tab!
[Galaxy Tab Themes and Apps] natious:
It has been out for almost a year tho, after honeycomb is released the market will be flooded with apps. Remember that there are only a handful of android devices running a 7inch+ screen