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[Q] Are GPS and lag problems fixed by installing Froyo ?

Time to replace my old HTC Diamond isn't ? On paper, the Galaxy seems by far the best option. However, users complain about GPS, which is very important to me, and lag which is quite annoying.
Are those problems solved when installing Froyo ? I don't mind modifying the phone as I have been doing it for a couple years with the Diamond.
The next best option seems to be the Nexus 1. I really don't know what to do !
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The GPS problem is not fixed (at least for me) in Froyo JPK. If GPS is a key feature for you I would advise to wait for official Froyo to see if the GPS is fixed, or, alternatively, buy a different Android phone.
The lag problem is not fixed either, however you can root the phone and install Voodoo or one-click lag fix and that does fix the lag.

I love my Galaxy S but if GPS is really important to you then it is not the phone for you.

for me neither of the lag fixes actually impact on the day to day use of the phone, it still lags.
Yes my quadrant scores are a hell of alot faster but in real life the homescreen with widgets open still stutters
I am in the same boat currently, im impatient, but luckily in the position that if when froyo arrives it solves the issues, i can always go and purchase another SGS
There are numerous users who have experianced hardly any lag and good GPS performance, i unfortunatley am not one of those people no matter what rom i use

AnimeEd said:
I love my Galaxy S but if GPS is really important to you then it is not the phone for you.
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as for lag, real lag fix eg voodoo makes it fine for me, but froyo currently does not fix lag. Maybe final.
With the Galaxy Tab Froyo released and open source code as well we might see better fixes.

GPS not fixed in JPK.
here is my galaxy track recorded with My Tracks:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...d=103378720844078541500.0004925e3286cfa0ab46b
here is same track recorded with nexus one (in same car):
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...560353618778776094.0004925e5d7a76db22a6e&z=14

Jgobeil said:
Time to replace my old HTC Diamond isn't ? On paper, the Galaxy seems by far the best option. However, users complain about GPS, which is very important to me, and lag which is quite annoying.
Are those problems solved when installing Froyo ? I don't mind modifying the phone as I have been doing it for a couple years with the Diamond.
The next best option seems to be the Nexus 1. I really don't know what to do !
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If you read here you will se many complain. But its not many that has this problem.
I do have a sgs phone without lag and gps do work.
My girlfriend did buy one yesterday. Well that has no lag either. Have nite tested hers gps yet.
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GPS is fixed with JPK.. it locks in less then 3sec. even got a look inside in about 5sec.. big improvement.

Problem is not the fix but the accuracy.

Keep in mind, everyone is testing with beta releases. The final release might change everything..

mike.sw said:
GPS not fixed in JPK.
here is my galaxy track recorded with My Tracks:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...d=103378720844078541500.0004925e3286cfa0ab46b
here is same track recorded with nexus one (in same car):
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...560353618778776094.0004925e5d7a76db22a6e&z=14
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To me, it looks like a software issue rather than gps hardware

mammenj said:
To me, it looks like a software issue rather than gps hardware
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But realistically, we have no way of knowing for sure..

GPS works like a charm on jpk here, I've been to several addresses this week already!
Lag, .. what lag? oh the occasional 1 or two second waiting for an app to open that happen once or twice the week? Not a real turn-down though =/
And within the -4 weeks of abusing jpk i had maybe twice or trice that it was very sluggish, pretty much locking up or freezing up,.. while acting normal later on.
Happy about it, but it's missing the finishing touch i had in the original rom (certain options)
jpk+oclf

Thank you all for your interesting comments. Mike, your GPS tracks convinced me. I understand that not all SGS have the GPS problem but I don't want to take the chance and get a bad one. I ordered a N1, which is back-ordered for about 2 weeks - if a fix comes for the GPS before I receive the N1, I'll cancell the order to get a SGS.
Regards
Jules

[Q] Jerky video after Froyo update

Has anyone else experienced this?
After the Froyo update on my S, video playback has become jerky at times, to the extent that the video stops but the sound continues. This never happened before....but it returns to normal after about 10-30 seconds.
I'm playing back xvid and divx avi files, approx 700mb.
Can anyone help please!? it's getting really frustrating!

Yeah I have also experienced it. But not in all videos. In mine it is just minute that is for about a 2 seconds and it becomes normal. I am slowly coming to the conclusion that I am better off with Eclair.

My videos are fine, but MP3 playback hiccups...also apps force close all the time, even mid-call at times...Eclair was better, 2.1.1 made it bad and 2.2 has made it worse
Galaxy S flashed through Odin...unrooted..don't know if I ought to risk rooting it..any suggestions?

I have the same issue..already did a post about it.
did u guys restore apps/system using backup?? as far as I know this could be the issue.
I will do a reflash from scratch this weekend and try videos on a fresh install.

I am convinced that this is one of the issue. I had flashed a custom rom froyo and I have also flashed through kies hack JPO. In both versions of froyo, I have the same issue. I have not restored any backup or anything.

yeah I just upgraded to asian jpd via odin was on stock optus rom. Hardreset etc. lagfix fixed via z4mod rooted. Experiencing the same jerky video playback with standard divx videos. Tried another data wipe but problem persists.

seking said:
Yeah I have also experienced it. But not in all videos. In mine it is just minute that is for about a 2 seconds and it becomes normal. I am slowly coming to the conclusion that I am better off with Eclair.
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Did you find any solution to the problem.. me too stuck with the same issue..for me mkv's play good, without any issues..but if its avi back comes the jerkiness..

at least i'm not the only one....
I'm still having problems and I had to give up watching somethign on the way to work as it was so bad and kept saying "cannot play this file".
I started from scratch, done a factory reset after upgrading and it hasnt fixed the problem. Also I've tried to close down all programs before watching something and even clearing the RAM, but it makes no difference.
I'm getting really annoyed with it now! Does anyone have a solution? Anyone!!?

arun1uk said:
at least i'm not the only one....
I'm getting really annoyed with it now! Does anyone have a solution? Anyone!!?
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It was so bad that I have to revert back to eclair jm1. Wonder if JPX have this issue. Any upgrade yet?

I have watched for hundreds of movies at my HTC wildfire but after yesterdays update to Froyo the video is no more smooth. The problem is so rediculous, the phone became much faster but the video playing .....Will keep searchin for solutions.

replok said:
I have watched for hundreds of movies at my HTC wildfire but after yesterdays update to Froyo the video is no more smooth. The problem is so rediculous, the phone became much faster but the video playing .....Will keep searchin for solutions.
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I guess it not just the galaxy hardware but other as well... maybe it froyo.

None of the players could help, but yxflash. The main problem with yxflash that together with smooth playing it produced significantly lower quality of video-rendering.
Anyway I've managed to solve the issue. The steps were:
full reinstall of official android 2.2,
hardware reset,
microSD card formatted,
the video converted with Movavi Video converter into Ipod preset or what ever your device needs. That's all.

[Q] Multimedia Playback Failed after running for a few days

Dear all,
I noticed my phone has an issue and I think this may not be rom / kernel related, so I would like to ask here.
My phone is running fine every time after booting up, however after running for a random period of times (say 2 - 7 days), it cannot play any media files. I can't play youtube (it said the video cannot be played), can't listen to mp3 (music player reported unsupported codec), ringtone disappeared (phone don't ring if i get call) and other apps failed in similar way. A reboot can solve the issue.
It is a bit annoying (especially when you when to play something and you suddenly identified that you need to wait for 5 min for a reboot), does any one experienced similar issue?
To clarify , I am running darky rom with darky kernel 1.0, however I had this issue for a few months, I was using super optimized kernel and had the same issue as well.

Same here. i'm running Darky's 9.4 but I don't know if it is related to this rom.
I don't remember that I had this problem before.
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Another one running Darky rom with a problem .
jje

I have this problem.
(dark kernel 1.4 and darky rom 9.5)

I get this occasionally and I'm on stock 2.2.1. It's a massive pain in the arse. I thought maybe it was something to do with my external micro sd card but I formatted it and waited hours to copy all my music to it again and I'm still having problems.
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So quite a few of people having this problem. Did anyone of us find out the root cause? And what's the reason that others do not suffer from this? This happened on Darky, Super Optimized Kernel, Speedmod, Stock Rom...
Some experts can help?

Also know this problem. Had it on stock and some custom roms too. Tried nearly every kernel ever available for our phone but didnt help. so it really maybe some strange Hardware issue...just speculating but when did you guys get your galaxy? cause mine was one of the `first generation` got it immediately when it was available here in germany in june/july 2010...perhaps this got fixed by Samsung later on
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An old Nokia trick may work . Delete your MP3s .
Load only a few MP3s to phone and see if it works .
jje

JJEgan said:
An old Nokia trick may work . Delete your MP3s .
Load only a few MP3s to phone and see if it works .
jje
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And then??? next time when my cars engine does not work i will follow your tip and try to remove all my seats and move back my drivers seat only to see if it works again...
Sorry but i dont get your point...i also have completely formatted internal and external sd several times for different reasons and the Problem still occurs. In addition this is not only for mp3s but also for recorded vids etc no matter were i store them
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hofinho said:
And then??? next time when my cars engine does not work i will follow your tip and try to remove all my seats and move back my drivers seat only to see if it works again...
Sorry but i dont get your point...i also have completely formatted internal and external sd several times for different reasons and the Problem still occurs. In addition this is not only for mp3s but also for recorded vids etc no matter were i store them
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Ignore it then your choice try Samsung Service ..
jje

I've seen another thread were someone said it was called by the twitter client. They have updated the official twitter client recently, and I've not had the problem occur since. Although, it may be too soon to tell, it used to happen to me very regularly.

And just to followup, the problem hasn't gone away with the new version of twitter.
So, I'm not sure of what is the cause (or solution) to the issue.

echidna2001 said:
And just to followup, the problem hasn't gone away with the new version of twitter.
So, I'm not sure of what is the cause (or solution) to the issue.
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Hi, where do you find the post also mentioned the same problem?
I am having the problem regularly too, after updating the Twitter client the same problem still happen yesterday, the phone run for around 2 days after last reboot.

HKcow said:
Hi, where do you find the post also mentioned the same problem?
I am having the problem regularly too, after updating the Twitter client the same problem still happen yesterday, the phone run for around 2 days after last reboot.
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Nope, i though you are talking the twitter update around 1 week ago. I just found that twitter have a new update today and never tried it if it fixed the problem. The change description do mention something similar, fixed a bug to skip music player while updating.. not sure if this is really the case.... need to test now...

good topic

I'm going to get rid of the twitter app then to see if it helps as updates don't seem to have done anything and I reformatted the sd card again and stuck everything back on there today and not only did it happen again, it's getting worse! Not only could I not play any music a minute ago, a load of my apps had vanished too! I assume ones that installed to SD by default rather than the phone storage.
If this sorts it out I'll be very happy. Twitter's crap anyway.

I've been having the same problem for a while now. I have just uninstalled Twitter and will see if that helps.
Basically all media stops working. Can't even record anything with the camcorder app. Nothing plays back. No youtube, no camcorder videos, no nothing. BUT arcmedia will open some videos sometime. HMMM weird, because other video player apps don't seem to be able to play them.
I'll give an update later today if it works. Videos normally stop working after only a few hours on my phone.
Bell SGS Vibrant I9000M
Alex

Do you guys have 8GB or 16GB models?
I've only come across this once and it was on a stock 16GB, one of the early ones, started about a week ago...upgraded to JVB seems to have solved it for now, time will tell.

16gb model, I've had 3 updates, and none have fixed the problem.

LAHAL Droid said:
16gb model, I've had 3 updates, and none have fixed the problem.
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Wonder if it's just the 16GB?

[Q] Video recording lag with custom ROM's

​So here I am, another noob with a question
The problem is, I'm using third different ROM(used MiniCM6, Stable 2.2.1, currently FroyoBread) on my X8, and they all seem to have the same problem. For some odd reason my sound is ahead of my audio when I record a video . At first I thought it's just a problem of one ROM, but when I tried three of them, and they all got the same problem, I started wondering, maybe there's a fix for that.

KaiAndrius said:
​So here I am, another noob with a question
The problem is, I'm using third different ROM(used MiniCM6, Stable 2.2.1, currently FroyoBread) on my X8, and they all seem to have the same problem. For some odd reason my sound is ahead of my audio when I record a video . At first I thought it's just a problem of one ROM, but when I tried three of them, and they all got the same problem, I started wondering, maybe there's a fix for that.
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That's a General Bug to all CM6(Froyo) Custom Roms
for now, there is no fix for that and we should live with it

KaiAndrius said:
​So here I am, another noob with a question
The problem is, I'm using third different ROM(used MiniCM6, Stable 2.2.1, currently FroyoBread) on my X8, and they all seem to have the same problem. For some odd reason my sound is ahead of my audio when I record a video . At first I thought it's just a problem of one ROM, but when I tried three of them, and they all got the same problem, I started wondering, maybe there's a fix for that.
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On gingerbread roms that problem don't exist.
A/V is synced.
Also... we almost have a full 3mpx camera in GingerDX now... thanks to doixanh...
If you need both full cam and AV sync wait for v005 of Ginger DX

i'm using GingerDX 006 and the lag still exists....u_u

damian824 said:
i'm using GingerDX 006 and the lag still exists....u_u
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agree with you...but i am sure dx will fix this...
i hope there are people who donate him...its not easy job to make this all!
i would too but at first have to find a job

Galaxy Note ICS poor recorded sound quality "hissing"?

Hello everyone,
3 days ago ICS upgrade "finally" arrived to Egypt and i upgraded my galaxy note OTA, after upgrading it was a little laggy and i did not find the S-Note app some people suggested to reset the device and this helped a lot, i also installed Go Launcher Ex and the note became very smooth, then after recording a video and when playing it back i got shocked by the very poor sound quality, i tried to record only the sound using sound recorder, still the same very poor sound quality, then i started to search all over the internet for a solution, the only solution i found is to downgrade to GingerBread, isn't there any other "real" solution for this problem.
Thanks.

the simplest way imo would be to find better app on the market, some apps provide more settings, like output first, sample rate etc., theoretically higher recording quality should reduce hissing...
my personal choice, after trying several, was Easy Voice Recorder Pro (cheap, simple but configurable and i like the interface), but it's all a matter of taste
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Thank you p107r0 so much for replying, the sound quality was perfect before upgrading to ICS, i am wondering if the audio gain options has been altered in ICS, if so how do i change it to match GingerBread's options instead of downgrading to GingerBread.
Thanks.

Khalid Elmasry said:
Thank you p107r0 so much for replying, the sound quality was perfect before upgrading to ICS, i am wondering if the audio gain options has been altered in ICS, if so how do i change it to match GingerBread's options instead of downgrading to GingerBread.
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I'm sorry, the suggestion provided was somehow beside what you were really asking, and as to this I don't know, and cannot check, having switched to CM9.
Still, sometimes, it's easier to deal with symptoms first (e.g. replacement app), and treat the underlying reasons later (or not at all, depending on free time)

Does anyone else have this problem??Maybe it's because you did OTA while people suggest using ODIN.

I found some people on youtube complaining from the same issue but there were no solution, i waited too long for ICS now i am very disappointed

I solved it
i managed to try my luck with the settings and searched for any audio related options and found these:
1- Settings > Sound - tried every thing with no luck
2- Settings > Accessibility > Mono audio "Unchecked" - tried to check it and surprised as this worked for me and the recorded sound is now working as it should be
the strange thing is that i tried to uncheck this option again and compare between the two condition and surprised again that this issue is gone forever.
is there any explanation for this? and should i check "Mono audio" or leave it unchecked?
Thanks.

I am still having the same problem, even after following the above steps. Is there any other solution available to rectify this issue? Please help. God Bless.

bilals91 said:
I am still having the same problem, even after following the above steps. Is there any other solution available to rectify this issue? Please help. God Bless.
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Try the latest ROMs.It is solved on new ROMs released in june or at least that's what they told me.

Thanks for the reply I am using LQ3 and facing this issue.Is there any other way?

after comparing my ICS device with my friends GB device, i found that the problem still exists , u can find the files in the attachment, any suggestion would be appreciated.