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My wife recently got a Galaxy S (I9000) and is far far from happy with it....
We tried the OneClickLagFix (improved lag, but still slow accessing the database), then moved onto Voodoo (improves lag significantly).
After this the part that seemed to be slowing the phone down was TouchWiz, so we swapped for LauncherProPlus (big improvement). Anything "Saumsung'd" on the phone is slow (dialer, contacts app, system menus (eg reboot, silent).
My question is ... Is this acceptable to have a 1Ghz phone that is slow, and needs multiple fixes and replacements? I personally have the HTC Desire, although not perfect (small internal memory) it out performs the Galaxy S (stock).
Has anyone gone back to T-Mobile, Vodafone etc and asked for a replacement?
Tony
If it still slow it must be something wrong with it.
What firmware do you use?
My phone is fast and i have no lag.
I use jpk firmware and have the latest oclf.
My girlfriend will buy a sgs also.
She like it more then my iphone and hers phone got stole yesterday.
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That is encouraging.. thanks
She is still on Stock 2.1, not ventured into the leaked ROMs yet.
Can I ask which Lag Fix you're using? My understanding is that the Voodoo lagfix cannot con-exist with Clockwork Recovery?
Cheers
I use ryanza oclf.
I use jpk firmware.
I did upgrading first from stock to jm1. Only that was an improvement.
Im waiting also for the real froyo, but jpk firmware working fine for me.
I do plan to use an other lagfix that is in development. I think that will be something sweat for this phone.
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Hi guys, im coming from a Desire and thinking of switching to the SGS because of the better hardware. Can anyone share what it's like to use it everyday with the 2.2 update already? Is it still that buggy?
I've played around with the SGS 2.1 and it is indeed slow, laggy and somewhat frustrating. Should I expect otherwise?
What about removing touchwiz? Does that bring everything up to speed?
Thanks!
Personally I feel it is slower and even more bug ed than eclair.
Desire should be better in trends of user experience......
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Is it just as slow running bare bones android? I am expecting the Galaxy S to be the first to receive the nexus S port of gingerbread
i find 2.2 way better speed wise, than 2.1
no more lag on multi upgrade from market
I seriously don't know where this lag everyone is talking about coming from, I've had my Galaxy S for 2 months now and so far my phone has been very snappy, ever since the first day I bought it when it was still running 2.1 ... the Samsung Galaxy S is one snappy phone if you ask me! it certainly can stand on it's own against the iPhone 4, which is considered by many to be the smoothest phone out there... I certainly have NO regrets purchasing the Galaxy S
i switched from desire to SGS for the following reasons:
1) music player can play FLAC's
2) divx xvid support and support for many video codecs ( use to use rock player on desire but still it was unable to play some other h264 formats)
3) nice giant super amoled screen
4) light weight and looks are better than desire
The only reason that i miss my desire is :
it was fast ( yeah SGS is a bit laggy even with custom roms and kernels) and it had flash with its camera. ( but camera of SGS is better than desire)
shranav,
How about the capacitive touch buttons? Were they easy to use coming from the Desire? I've tried them with the 2.1 rom and they seemed way unresponsive with the vibrate only registering after 2 -3 secs.
So can I assume that the experience will never be as good as the one in my desire?
oh and does HTC IME work for the SGS?? This is the only keyboard I use because it's easy to add your own dictionary
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Personally I feel it is slower and even more bug ed than eclair.
Desire should be better in trends of user experience......
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Should be? Is this from experience of you're just talking out of your ass? Probably the latter. I've been using Doc rom with ext4 lagfix for the last 10 days and I have nothing but positive things to say about my SGS now. The phone is hella good with 2.2.
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I seriously don't know where this lag everyone is talking about coming from, I've had my Galaxy S for 2 months now and so far my phone has been very snappy, ever since the first day I bought it when it was still running 2.1 ... the Samsung Galaxy S is one snappy phone if you ask me! it certainly can stand on it's own against the iPhone 4, which is considered by many to be the smoothest phone out there... I certainly have NO regrets purchasing the Galaxy S
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Same here, fantastic screen, light, good sound for phone...
Of course KIES stink, but there are plenty alternatives...
The only problem I had with 2.1 was that it forgot where the SD cards where too often, and I had to reboot to use access photos or music...
Upgraded to 2.2 and no more "memory" problems...
I bought this mobile a week back with 2.1... Two days back upgraded to froyo... Better than 2.1.. Lot of new options.. Google voice works well... Speed both versions almost same.... Kies sucks in 2.1...but improved with froyo..
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I really don't know what the problem is for some people.
I have 2.1 and upgraded via Keis to 2.2
I was always in the habit of resetting (off and on again) my phone at least once a day. This is something I have done with all phones.
Now with the new Active Applications program in 2.2 I don't do this as much. I just close any programs using this.
I have never suffered lag on the SGS. The only problem I had was the inbuilt email software is really slow. This is not a big problem as I use the gmail software for all my mobile mail.
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I seriously don't know where this lag everyone is talking about coming from, I've had my Galaxy S for 2 months now and so far my phone has been very snappy, ever since the first day I bought it when it was still running 2.1 ... the Samsung Galaxy S is one snappy phone if you ask me! it certainly can stand on it's own against the iPhone 4, which is considered by many to be the smoothest phone out there... I certainly have NO regrets purchasing the Galaxy S
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I feel the same. A couple weeks after getting my 9000M (with 2.1 JH2) I decided to try the OCLF (lag fix) and it made some things quicker or snappier, Android Market was noticeably faster. It made some things worse like menu transitions/animations were really choppy after the lag fix and I would get random short hangs every now and again. A couple weeks after applying the lag fix my phone would not boot (stuck on Galaxy S screen then black screen). Luckily the phone wasn't completely dead. I had to do a factory reset and have been running it stock since (probably 10 weeks now). I don't know that I am experience this lag that people talk about. It runs pretty smoothly.
2.2 and Voodoo and every is A-OK!
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oh and does HTC IME work for the SGS?? This is the only keyboard I use because it's easy to add your own dictionary
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htc_ime works
if you go for it, i suggest a custom rom if you want a snappy phone
stock roms suffer from lag, especially when you install many apps
it is really easy to flash a custom rom (or even just a custom kernel)
sorry if its not right place to ask but
whats a diffrent between GT i9000 and Galaxy s i9000
mine says GT I9000
mjay9090 said:
I seriously don't know where this lag everyone is talking about coming from, I've had my Galaxy S for 2 months now and so far my phone has been very snappy, ever since the first day I bought it when it was still running 2.1 ... the Samsung Galaxy S is one snappy phone if you ask me! it certainly can stand on it's own against the iPhone 4, which is considered by many to be the smoothest phone out there... I certainly have NO regrets purchasing the Galaxy S
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I've had 2 SGS so far.
First, had no 3 button menus, but was very quick, no lag. Was able to root and lag fix to improve speed further no bother
Second, my current one. HAS 3bm, but massive lag. Unable to root by normal methods (also hard to verify if phone was rooted) also unable to lag fix
Seems to correlate with what people are saying. You saying there is no lag, and others having no end of problems.
Personally, on this phone I've missed calls with the screen taking too long to change.
I should note that my first phone was network unlocked but this one is tied to Three ireland with their modifications etc to it :-(
They are one in the same.
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Hey all, I updated to 2.2 last night, and have been impressed since first reboot. I have applied oclf as well and the phone has not lagged once. I suggest you also look at the minfree settings in oclf, as the autokill defaults for the sgs are sub par. I found that minfree adjustment has also had a major impact on the performance of the phone. We need to remember that out of the factory (our fresh from factory firmware upgrade) these phone do not run at their best and they need to be tweaked to see full potential. Cheers. H
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I read somewhere (could of been in xda) that enabling usb debugging helps with the lag issues. Don't know how that works but just throwing out there.
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I just got a Galaxy Tablet (t-mobile).
I am familiar with rooting (have a droid incredible running Lou's Revolution "Senseless" Rom and Kernels).
The tablet is going to be a family device. I want to avoid going through the process of trying Roms as I did with my incredible..
What is the most stable Rom that will provide good performance and battery life for running Launcher Pro? WiFi connectivity is very important - dialing or fancy phone agumentations are not necessary (only using this as a wifi device).
Thanks.
Overcome v1. 2
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I just got a Galaxy Tablet (t-mobile).
I am familiar with rooting (have a droid incredible running Lou's Revolution "Senseless" Rom and Kernels).
The tablet is going to be a family device. I want to avoid going through the process of trying Roms as I did with my incredible..
What is the most stable Rom that will provide good performance and battery life for running Launcher Pro? WiFi connectivity is very important - dialing or fancy phone agumentations are not necessary (only using this as a wifi device).
Thanks.
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I'm wondering this as well. So far, I have rooted, ran OCLF, and pretty much everything else is stock T-Mobile. I use my tab for surfing, blogging, streaming video and music from my media center, and ebook reading. I use it regularly all day every day.
It goes for about a day and a half before I charge it. I have an iPad that my daughter uses. It'll go 2 full days easily.
I have not had a single issue that required me to reboot since I got the tab over a week ago.
Realistically, Is there a single mod out there for the galaxy tab that can say this? Will Overcome behave this well?
Of course, I'd love it to be faster when I've got several web pages loaded. I'd love better battery life, too. I don't want either of these things if I have to wonder if/when the OS is going to explode, or reboot on me all the time. I guess I would consider a couple reboots a week to be acceptable.
Are these expectations realistic for modded firmware?
I've been using Overcome for a few weeks now, and haven't had a single reboot. My battery life is slightly lower, in that I use the Tab as my phone as well. So, the constant cell radio usage trims my battery life down to 24 hours or so.
Otherwise it's far snappier and responsive than stock (T-Mobile) especially overclocked to 1.4ghz and undervolted. Keep in mind, that flashing a Euro Rom (as you're thinking of doing) will change your Build.Prop... essentially changing how the Market and Apps see your device model listed. Which can be good and bad.
Gameloft for example, has more games available for the GT-P1000 than it does the SGH-T849 (T-Mobile Tab ID)...which is great, however I had to change my Build.Prop back to stock, to be able to use Samsung Media Hub on my device.
I have a similar question, but for the Sprint version.
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I've been using Overcome for a few weeks now, and haven't had a single reboot. My battery life is slightly lower, in that I use the Tab as my phone as well. So, the constant cell radio usage trims my battery life down to 24 hours or so.
Otherwise it's far snappier and responsive than stock (T-Mobile) especially overclocked to 1.4ghz and undervolted. Keep in mind, that flashing a Euro Rom (as you're thinking of doing) will change your Build.Prop... essentially changing how the Market and Apps see your device model listed. Which can be good and bad.
Gameloft for example, has more games available for the GT-P1000 than it does the SGH-T849 (T-Mobile Tab ID)...which is great, however I had to change my Build.Prop back to stock, to be able to use Samsung Media Hub on my device.
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I notice that you have a g-tablet. How would you compare the two tabs from a performance and stability standpoint?
Well...the Tegra2 in the GTab flies...for sure. I don't notice much performance difference between my overclocked Tab (and ext4) and it tho. Quadrant avg for GTab is around 1900-2100...Galaxy Tab hitting 1700-1900
Main issue I have with the GTab is the screen. Seems like they ripped an lcd from a netbook and put it in the GTab. Quality of the Galaxy Tab's screen is much better.
Battery life is good, considering. Had to replace the Rom immediately, cuz stock out of box made the device barely usable. Seems to handle video just fine, however my wife sitting next to me on a plane trip had a hard time watching the movie at an off angle.
Gaming is fluid, tho I haven't tried the Tegra games as of yet. The GTab is heavy with prolonged use...tho most 10 inchers will be. Otherwise, for the price...and with the support the devs are giving it...it's worth it. Although...I think my main device will end up being the 8.9 inch Galaxy Tab, the size just seems to be the perfect bridge between the 7 and 10 inch tablets.
I have not loaded any roms, only rooted and flashed MaDaCo kernel only. Its fast and everything works great. I have not found any ROMs that I would consider flashing. The stock ROM works fine with a new kernel. Problem is also that the Tab development section has come to a hault. Nothing really new for a long time
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I have not loaded any roms, only rooted and flashed MaDaCo kernel only. Its fast and everything works great. I have not found any ROMs that I would consider flashing. The stock ROM works fine with a new kernel. Problem is also that the Tab development section has come to a hault. Nothing really new for a long time
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I agree...not a ton of NEW stuff coming along....but Alterbridge has been steadily updating his Overcome Rom & Kernel...it's a stable daily driver. And, one guy (not sure how legit it is) has been working on HC port for the Tab...and said he'd be finished with rough draft in another week or two. (crosses fingers)
The ONLY reason I flashed a Rom was to enable Phone activities on my Tab. Otherwise, not a huge reason to go beyond stock firmware...Kernel upgrade is a must, however! Effin Sammy won't pull it's head out of it's arse and get rid of RFS format, so converting to ext4 is a huge performance tweak.
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Well...the Tegra2 in the GTab flies...for sure. I don't notice much performance difference between my overclocked Tab (and ext4) and it tho. Quadrant avg for GTab is around 1900-2100...Galaxy Tab hitting 1700-1900
Main issue I have with the GTab is the screen. Seems like they ripped an lcd from a netbook and put it in the GTab. Quality of the Galaxy Tab's screen is much better.
Battery life is good, considering. Had to replace the Rom immediately, cuz stock out of box made the device barely usable. Seems to handle video just fine, however my wife sitting next to me on a plane trip had a hard time watching the movie at an off angle.
Gaming is fluid, tho I haven't tried the Tegra games as of yet. The GTab is heavy with prolonged use...tho most 10 inchers will be. Otherwise, for the price...and with the support the devs are giving it...it's worth it. Although...I think my main device will end up being the 8.9 inch Galaxy Tab, the size just seems to be the perfect bridge between the 7 and 10 inch tablets.
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You must have had some serious good luck with your gtablet. Apps on mine FC'd a dozen times a day, it randomly rebooted, and wouldnt sleep. I had vegan 5.1.1 loaded. It drove me nuts. Im a little 'rom shy' now. Lol.
On a side note, i dont notice much difference in performance between my unmodded tab and the gtablet. If anything, the tab is snappier and infinately more stable. The thing about a modded rom that scares me the most is lack of stability. Id blame my gtablet issues on myself, but i bought it already modded - from one of the vegan devs.
. . . sent from my iPad 2 running Windows Phone 7
No doubt...GTab FC's happen, and some of that can be attributed to the Roms...tho I daresay it's more about the device itself.
The only FC's or reboots I've had on the Tab is when I mess overly much with the voltage settings.
I have had zero issues with Overcome ROM/Kernel, even with OV/UV applied. I also like how he is constantly updating his work, as stated in a previous reply.
I added Roto's modem switcher and used the SIM hack, and I have full phone functionality with my G1 SIM on my tmo tab.
Yep, im a Overcome fan for both rom and kernel. Not a single problem so far.
My TMO tab is coming in tomorrow, is it still the consensus that the Overcome 1.2 ROM, or rather Overcome 1.6.3 now, is the best bet?
I'll be making a full Roto Backup before playing with it so hopefully it won't be a problem going back to stock from Overcome 1.2 if need be.
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My TMO tab is coming in tomorrow, is it still the consensus that the Overcome 1.2 ROM is the best bet?
I'll be making a full Roto Backup before playing with it so hopefully it won't be a problem going back to stock from Overcome 1.2 if need be.
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Dude, you do realise that those posts where made 2 months ago?
We are up to Overcome 1.6.4 now.
Thanks, dude, post had been updated...anyway the question remains.
Overcome 1.6.4 ROM/Kernel are your best choice. You won't regret flashing it over.
Thanks, will do some downloading to be all set tomorrow when it comes in.
Agree, Overcome was rock solid easy to install. My SGT on tmous, is very stable.
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me and my tab stock rom running fine. No issues there.
Is anyone going to stay with the older 2.2 Froyo instead of upgrading to Gingerbread?
I have heard some programs/games don't work with the Gingerbread OS.
Took the plunge, and glad I did, I so loved Gingerbread on my HD2.
Now it works great on the SGT,
Hope, no significant issues with Overcome Gingerbread so far, loving it, can't wait for more updates to come.
having no major issues. so stable. less forceclose on gb and no screen-freeze.
anyway, for those who chose to stay with froyo 2.2, what are the reasons?
what are the apps that did not work on gb? cause so far all my games and apps are working(excluding new google music app). quite happy with it.
just made the update some hours ago, loving it, very fast, battery better than ever, pretty stable.
No major issues for me. Some old annoyances were removed (like lags)
I flashed back to 2.2. There is a thread that lists all.the problems it has.
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im staying on Overcome 1.4.7 until a proper kernel is released for gingerbread overcome. I want it to have EXT4, voodoo, OC/UV before i jump ship. plus i haven't beaten some of the gameloft games that have been said to be incompatible with it. Loving my tab on this rom so much i can't believe it can get even better with gingerbread...but apparently it can as most of the guys on the thread claim. That would be awesome.
mixed feelings, I want to take the plung but keen to wait for the overcome kernel too, so even if i flash it, it will only be a matter of a few days before i have to reflash.
Overcome 1.6.4 is great, no issues, GPS is quick on locking, Battery is excellant and over all the best version cooked!
But as the man says, the best is yet to come, so i may look at doing it because it's inevitable!
PEACE
Kosti
Overcome Gingerbread seems to have some graphics problem for me right now, i see it when playing 1080p video trailer. Overcome 1.64 --> smooth like butter, 2.0 --> stuttering and even crashing the clips
I'm rolling back to 1.6.x
Am sticking to 1.4.5 everything works fine....wayyyyy better than stock or any other rom..and don't forget Vodooo sound... .and GB seems to have major battery problems and a berserk Android OS process problem...so will stick to it till Overcome GB's out of beta ands few versions up...
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I'm still on Overcome 1.3 and still quite happy. Nothing gingerbread has that's worth it
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I'm still on Overcome 1.3 and still quite happy. Nothing gingerbread has that's worth it
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Stock browser. All the Market browsers don't compare to it. Best stock browser I've seen on an Android device.
I hate reflashing every couple of days. I'm on OC 1.6.4.
I'm happy with it. When GB has new kernel and is polished I'll flash it.
Well i just shift to ginger that is published by chainfire here and i am pretty happy with it. The battery is way better than it was for me with the 1.6 overcome. Also i really enjoyed new few animations and fonts as well i am happy with the change. But just for future shifting i just bought sd card today ) (my 1st sd card burned with my board lol)
I'm still sticking with overcome 1.4.x series until an overcome GB kernel is released. My battery easily lasts 12-14 hours with ~7hours pandora at work with the screen off, then a hours of browsing/gaming at home.
Since battery life isn't a problem, I just don't feel like taking the time to do a backup + re-stock + flash + restore apps unless there is a must-have addition in GB or a "final-ish" version of overcome.
Anyone tried both ROMs, and can provide feedback?
Simple answer - i havent tried CM7, still in Beta.
I'm on overcome now, and I use cm7 on my galaxy s, never tried it on the tab.
But after using both on Samsung devices I would def go for cm7 on ANY device. The customisation options on cm7 are amazing!
I'm not great at this kind of thing and had trouble installing cm7 on my tab, I tried for ages but to no avail.
When it's made a bit easier for my little brain to manage I will try again. Let me know how you get on!
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Just my take. I've been using overcome for a while now and love it. Never tried CM7 on the galaxy tab but I helped a friend flash his viewsonic gtab with CM7 yesterday. Here are the main differences from what I can tell.
1. Overcome is specifically deved for the galaxy tab and it works out of box. After you install it, it just works. Whereas CM7 seems to require some tweaking to get it to work. For instance. After installing CM7 on my friends gtab it no longer mounted the internal flash. I had to run a separate fstab script to fix it.
2. I dunno if it's because CM7 is still beta, but, it was buggy. The stock video program did not work at all. It looked like the stock music app with the artist, album, and etc buttons at the top. Which the video app should not have. Also it did not handle videos well.
With all that said I recommend Overcome because it just works. Especially for those who are new to the custom rom scene.
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Found overcome easy to flash etc and its nite and day compared to stock gb. Only got into android in november so if u go by the experts guide to the letter u shouldnt go wrong.
havent tried a cm but the guys at overcome are working hard and improving the rom all the time so happy to go with what they provide.
look forward to the big surprise!
Im on cm7, the only thing its missing is video recording, other than that its perfect and stable, i probably wont go back to overcome.
themeing in cm7 is badass and theres so many themes out there, its fast and snappy and you have control over pretty much everything.
Sorry to butt in-What about DiP7 ROM?