The Galaxy S thread!

infra_red_dude

infra_red_dude

Wire muncher!
@thechamp: Nice first hand review/thoughts :) Congrats on your new phone!

One advice tho, please stop using your phone while you drive, esp. bikes!
 
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kalpik

kalpik

In Pursuit of "Happyness"
^^ Yeah! The phone could slip! :D

Congrats on your purchase!

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Ok, it seems there's a new firmware out for India officially! Samsung Galaxy S - Indian thread - Page 15 - Android Forums
 
rhitwick

rhitwick

Democracy is a myth
^^^Hey wow..........................!!!!!!!!!!
gr8 news
Connecting my SGS right away


Will it flash everything on my phone???
 
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kalpik

kalpik

In Pursuit of "Happyness"
^^ Should keep everything intact! Still, take a backup of the important stuff!
 
rhitwick

rhitwick

Democracy is a myth
:-(

Some issue while upgrading...
A message box came RAPI.DLL not found for BinaryLoader...
Now restoring old firmware... :-(

What is that error?
 
Champ

Champ

.NET Guru
rhitwick said:
^Congrats on ur new buy..........its a gr8 phone and b4 u revisit this thread crying it lags like hell, here are some tips for u,

Close all those extra home screens, haptic feedback etc
If the phone starts lagging too much, just switch off and switch on again.
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Thanks rhitwick :smile:


infra_red_dude said:
@thechamp: Nice first hand review/thoughts :) Congrats on your new phone!

One advice tho, please stop using your phone while you drive, esp. bikes!
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I have been doing the same since I was 18, it becomes very boring while commuting to office in crawling traffic of Delhi.

Although I take proper precautions like keeping volume to low, replacing earplug caps with one size smaller etc
Thanks for your concern I really appreciate it. :smile:

kalpik said:
^^ Yeah! The phone could slip! :D

Congrats on your purchase!
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To prevent situations like this Samsung Gifted a leather pouch specially to Indian users ;-)

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Upgraded to JG4 in the afternoon via Kies, took ages to download, but finally...

To my utter surprise all contacts, msgs, Apps and settings were lost :?:

Was not prepared even a bit for this, So spent whole afternoon in restoring phone to earlier stage

As far as performance is concerned, I found earlier version better, :!:
May be due to whole lot of installations and changes I did whole day.

Others please share your experiences

Please note that mine earlier version was JF6 not JF3

Along with bit poor performance Samsung gifted us few songs, a inbuilt task manager,a program monitor widget (That only works with TW)

Good to hear that its available for Odin also now everyone has got a free license to moding without worrying about warranties ;-)
 
rhitwick

rhitwick

Democracy is a myth
thechamp said:
Please note that mine earlier version was JF6 not JF3
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How could that be?
U got JF6 as stock firmware or u rooted?

If u had JF6 and then got JF4 u actually downgraded...am I right Kalpik?

And about my upgrading to JF4 its in process...u don't have any idea what all u need to do for a mobile firmware update, let me tell u... (no plz, I'll tell)

1>U run winXP and ur frnd's lappy just broke down b4 u try 2nd time for upgrade
2>U decide to install Kies on ur pc and u knew it would require win7
3>U format PC, delete partition and realize that one primary partition is of 9GB and another 15GB partition is in Logical and in no way u cam merge them
4>U spent 2 hrs with a OpenSuse image (oh, u burned it in ur other frnd's lappy that time) to merge those two partitions but failed.
5>U boot in to Suse Live and take backup ur whole HDD in ur new 2TB drive
6>Delete the whole drive and Suse starts installation.
7>Did u know when linux installs u can't eject the DVD tray, it gets mounted? U knew right..well I forgot. So, while preventing Suse to install I pressed alt+ctrl+del to reboot PC.
8>Now I found my Suse DVD is stuck in tray and is not ejecting.
9>Somehow managed to remove the DVD with the help of a sewing needle from one of my friend (oh, God bless them)
10>Then I put Win7 DVd again started installing.
11>When asked for partition, win7 allowed me to make 3 partitions and all become primary partition!!! I didn't suspect any foul play and continued.
12>Installation complete and system booted into desktop @7.30PM
13>Configured net and installed KIS2011
14>System hanged and I rebooted
15>It got stuck @veryfying DMI pool data.
16>Did everything that can be done from BIOS and at last opend cabby, changed RAM slots, battery etc.
17>Pluggegd in and booted.
18>Now no display in my monitor @11.30PM
19>Again opened cabby and redo all things. after 4-5 such session system booted with display 12.30AM
20>Started installing Win7 and went to sleep 1.30AM
21>Morning I found that system is again stuck @verifying DMI pool data. 7AM
22>Put WinXp cd and delete whole partition. Created 1 Primary partition and 4 logical partition.
23>Installed Win7 and found system booted into desktop 945AM and I came office
24>Next task is to configure net and install KIS 2011 and KIES when returning home (if my system boots into desktop again :-( )

So wish me luck for my firmware upgrade...plz, I need a lot good luck today.
 
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kalpik

kalpik

In Pursuit of "Happyness"
The latest firmware is JG4 not JF4.

By the way, there is a new lagfix out! Its awesome! Scores ~2.3k on quadrant! xda-developers - View Single Post - Quadrant score 2234 with rooted stock FW I9000ZSJF7 [EDITED 09AUG 0039HKT]
 
rhitwick

rhitwick

Democracy is a myth
@Kalpik, is a 500MB data plan enough for mobile internet usage?

Mu usage plan:
Android market d/l
Orkut
TDF
Gmail
GTalk
ICICIDirect
and misc browsing

how much data transfer they would include considering a 2hr browse everyday?
 
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kalpik

kalpik

In Pursuit of "Happyness"
Hehe.. After some more hacking, here's my Quadrant score for Galaxy S: :D

Mind you, I'm still running Android 2.1 (Eclair) ;)

*imgur.com/4jpDj.png

This shows what this phone's CPU/GPU is really capable of, when it's not bogged down by the poor I/O. And some people say there is hardly any difference in performance of snapdragon and hummingbird! Well, you know what they say! Ignorance is bliss!
 
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rhitwick

rhitwick

Democracy is a myth
Just upgraded to JG4

The phone now works like charm...
The upgrade deleted, contacts, messages and memos
No contents from internal memory was deleted, i.e. my photos, songs etc.
 
R

raj_in

In the zone
kalpik said:
Hehe.. After some more hacking, here's my Quadrant score for Galaxy S: :D

Mind you, I'm still running Android 2.1 (Eclair) ;)

*imgur.com/4jpDj.png

This shows what this phone's CPU/GPU is really capable of, when it's not bogged down by the poor I/O. And some people say there is hardly any difference in performance of snapdragon and hummingbird! Well, you know what they say! Ignorance is bliss!
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WOWWWW!!!
awesome man
wht's its current price
 
rhitwick

rhitwick

Democracy is a myth
@Kalpik....got internet activated on my mob...

No info from Vodafone still so can't say when actually it got activated and how will be they charging for this month.

I just found out now.

Now tell me which all important apps do I need...
Plz...
 
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