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[Q] Main GalaxyS bugs or bad features.

Hi! I hope to write in the right area, but if not I ask someone to move my post in the right one.
Now I have a HTC Diamond device, but I've to change it for a GalaxyS or an iPhone4.
I would like to buy a GalaxyS device, but I read many posts about bugs, lags, gps problems, so I wonder if it is a great choice this GalaxyS.
I like android and all the development opportunities around it (thanks to XDA), but it seems to be not so stable yet...
I flashed many ROMS on my Diamond in the past, so it's not a problem to do the same for my GalaxyS, but problems are fixed? The GPS works fine? Maybe not...
Maybe with Froyo 2.2?
iPhone4 is not so open as an Android device, but it's a very stable device!
What do you think about?

coming from a winmo background you're gonna love the galaxy s! its miles ahead in terms of refinements, polish and brilliant integration. The GPS problems are nothing so critical...its more of a sw fix im guessing. I live in India, and i have ZERO problems on my GPS....i feel the bug is something country/carrier specific.
there are many things to love and obsess with the galaxy s....go get yourself one, you sure wont regret it

While I'd love to echo what dreamtheater39 has said, I can't. It's a brilliant phone, but after having mine for just under a month, it's starting to lag like crazy, and in the last two days I've had a ton of dropped calls and the phone has switched itself off/crashed three times in the last few hours resulting in data loss because the power button doesn't respond (forcing me to hard-reset the phone).
All I can say is that, if you do get one, have an open mind. And make sure you don't get locked into a lengthy contract in case things do go awry.

same here GPS working great since day 1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=775450

Maybe I got a lemon
Maybe I got a lemon but I can not stand the i9000. I have 4 bugs that drive me crazy.
1. Market Place hangs at starting download. I have to do a factory reset to download an update an app.
2. GPS just stops working or it puts you on a different street when you are using navigation. The worst part is then it has to recalculate the directions twice, once for the wrong location and then again for the correct location, which is a real pain in the pocketbook when you are rooming.
3. Receives invalided cert from a hotspot connects the 1st time then never again. So I cannot use my hotspot at work, my old iphone connects no problem.
4. Does not always switch between wifi and mobile network. Have to go to airplane mode and back to get 3G network. (I tried changing the wifi sleep settings)

Mmmm...so maybe it's a good device, but I understand that who had an iPhone before it seems to be a step backward...is it?

[Q] CyanogenMod 7 ROM for Samsung Captivate

I ran into this article yesterday, How to Flash CyanogenMod 7 ROM Samsung Captivate AT&T, and felt it was about time to learn about this. Plenty of you have already ROOTED your phones, and know from experience, what to do. But, I don't. Right now, I'm stuck with the options of accepting things don't work right, because of AT'T's unwillingness, or inabilility, to correct the issues I have, or reinsiall new, and lose all I've put on, or send back to Samsung for repair, and have them lose all I have on it, or try Rooting and adding a ROM, that may solve my issues. But to do that, I need a little help in understanding it.
First, if I try and run a program, like CyanogenMod 7, and it doesn't work correctly, snd screws up my phone, is there a way I can reinstall Android, and start over, or is that the proverbial kiss of death for my Captivate, and I'm stuck with it like that?
Second, is this the right ROM to try? AT&T can't fix my BLOCKS, of UNKNOWN APPS. The Settings change is easy, you click on activating Unknown, in Application settings..., unless you have no UNKNOWN, to choose. Also, in MMS settings, AT&T shows in a tutorial, that you have the option, of activating Delivery Report and Read Report. It shows this as plain as day, on that tutorial for the Captivate, yet mine, has NEITHER OF THOSE OPTIONS. Also, to TURN ON EDGE, the setting is missing, so I can't activate EDGE, which I guess is no big thing, since the towers AT&T has for us to connect with, THAT ARE 2G, are in such poor condition, no one can connect to them. Thank you, WIFI, for helping me get, ONLINE. Will this, or other ROM's, solve this for me?
If there are any suggestions of how to do this, and what to use, I'd appreciate hearing it from you. Again, I thank any effort, to help me.

1.cm 7 would not be the best rom to flash for your first time.
2. All roms are android, you are running at&t/samsung version of an android rom...
3. Yes you can get back to your stock rom if you don't like/something goes wrong (other than a bad bootloader flash)
4.all custom roms have all the blocking done by at&t removed so switching to 2g(edge) is possible and also faster 3g speeds known as hspa. And unknown sources is in the settings so you can install apps from outside the market.
5.the threads at the top of every section with a little thumb tacks are called stickies, give those a read through.

Like he said above. If you want the pretty much stock experience that your used to but want it fixed then I would suggest starting off with Cognition 4.4 or whatever it is now.
Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.55Ghz/Undervolted

From newbie to a newbie, I took the advice of others and read threads for atleast a month before I flashed my first rom. My choice was Andromeda3, It has a written tutorial and a video on how to from start to finish. From what tools or apps you will need and how to use them , I watched that atleast 6 times and also while I was flashing the kernel and the rom. It may have been overkill but my flash was perfect and I'm real happy with my phone now. You may not go with the same rom I did but do your self a favor and do what I did to prepare for your first flash.

Signal Problems on Custom Rom

Alright,
First, Here is what im using currently:
My Own Rom
-Cooked with Dsixda's kitchen
-Based on rdannar's Barebones 10e froyo rom
-With my own custom bootanimation
-Go Launcher instead of SonyErricsson
-some various build.prop tweaks [hsupa cat.,lcd density(changing quite often so i can use a lower density and still use the market... ugh!)]
-And bedwa's thrillz v3 kernel cooked in
And my issue is:
At random times i will have a complete loss of service. Usually what happens is, im texting someone back and forth and when i go to text them back, my text wont send! so, i retry sending... doesnt work. Usually the only way i can make it work is to reboot, however a few times putting it into airplane mode and then back out has worked.
Now, i know what your thinking, its probably my rom... But i am fairly certain i had this issue when i was using just the barebones 10e rom, and i cant remeber exactly but i think i had the problem once back when i was on gtg465x's thriller v1.1.0 rom with my own OC kernel.
So, basically im just curious if anyone else has had this problem as well, or if anyone has a fix for me?
anybody who wants to post their:
-APN settings
-build.prop network categories
-and other build.prop settings
-or anything else
would be appreciated.
thanks

Had that problem
On every rom
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium

Sounds like it could be many possible things... Myself I'm on Roadrunner and whatever beta kernel I'm tweaking with my Thrillz line (Currently on BetaV4.) and I haven't had any issues. Then again I'm not sending SMS/MMS. I do all of that through Google Voice as I have SMS blocked. (old UNL Data FTW)
Is it primarily when sending SMS or MMS?

Were you able to fix it ever rdannar?
I do a lot of texting so typically yeah it is when im using messaging but I'm pretty sure that a few of the times it has just been when trying to use the browser...
Usually happens once the screen has been off for a while, then I turn it on, try and use an app that uses data, and then it it just never connects... until I restart.
Sent from my LG-P925 using xda premium

Another question is have you guys tried one of the 920h basebands as well. I have a signal drop on rare occasion, but nothing truly affecting service. It has to be one of 3 factors. Kernel, Baseband, Rom.

I have tried everything except 920h... people have always reported signal drop with this device. The hard part is it only uses hspa + so it doesn't usually catch 3g signals much.... at least that's what I've read about... try and take out hspa and network tweaks out of the build prop to see if that helps
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium

Hspa+ is nothing more than a network improvement on UMTS (Standard 3G). It almost sounds like the radio.

Yeah I don't know why, but every custom rom I've tried on this phone has crap signal.

Dec 14
On the 14th (wednesday) im gonna start chasing down the cause of my signal problems using some of your suggestions. I have to take my finals and finish up some final papers then i'm going to dive back in to trying to help make the thrill awesome.

bzlmnop said:
On the 14th (wednesday) im gonna start chasing down the cause of my signal problems using some of your suggestions. I have to take my finals and finish up some final papers then i'm going to dive back in to trying to help make the thrill awesome.
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Good luck with finals and we'll be here

I think i figured it out!
So, finals went well... (i think), I still havent gotten my grades back...
But, i wiped data/factory reset, wiped cache, and wiped dalvik. Then flashed the latest Doomed froyo w/ OC (thanks Urabewe) just to have a fresh start. Finally, i started playing with the build.prop network tweaks and almost everything i did had a negative effect on network speed and consistency of the connection. [also, im pretty sure the doomed build.prop did not include any of the common network speed tweaks, i.e. hsdpa cat, etc.]
So, in short, i am pretty sure the build.prop stuff was my problem.
However, i am going to continue testing various ro.ril build.prop tweaks and various apn settings; to hopefully find out what build.prop tweaks will have a negative effect and if any will have a positive effect, and what apn setup works best. I will post anything significant i discover in this thread...
Thanks for the build.prop suggestion, i had suspected that was my problem...

[Q] kabaldans CM10 nightly - some issues

hey folks,
I have been following all the Milestone development threads since the very beginning, and have gone through each inkarnation of kabaldans incredible work since CM6. Recently, I updated to CM10 (first without, now with 2nd boot) and am absolutely amazed by how far our good old milestone has come. While playing around with it quite a bit, I have come across some problems (I would love to report them in the appropriate development thread, but the 10-post-count won't let me unfortunately.)
First, I really loved the keyboard multipress-system since I live in Germany and have to enter Umlauts very frequently (ä, ö, ü, etc.). The multipress-system sped that up greatly. Now, although the corresponding settings are there in the Milestone-specific part of the Settings-app, multipressing actually doesn't work for me in CM10. Is that problem specific to me, or is multipress not yet fully integrated in CM10?
The second thing I noticed (probably since 2nd boot, but I am not entirely sure) is, that in the Settings under About Phone > Status neither IME nor Serial number are displayed (instead, it says "unknown"). This also prevents me from launching Whats App - it quits saying "Your phone could not be identified ....".
Does anyone else experience those issues - and/or could perhaps somebody please post this into the CM10 development thread, so kabaldan notices?
thanks, mvol

mvol said:
hey folks,
I have been following all the Milestone development threads since the very beginning, and have gone through each inkarnation of kabaldans incredible work since CM6. Recently, I updated to CM10 (first without, now with 2nd boot) and am absolutely amazed by how far our good old milestone has come. While playing around with it quite a bit, I have come across some problems (I would love to report them in the appropriate development thread, but the 10-post-count won't let me unfortunately.)
First, I really loved the keyboard multipress-system since I live in Germany and have to enter Umlauts very frequently (ä, ö, ü, etc.). The multipress-system sped that up greatly. Now, although the corresponding settings are there in the Milestone-specific part of the Settings-app, multipressing actually doesn't work for me in CM10. Is that problem specific to me, or is multipress not yet fully integrated in CM10?
The second thing I noticed (probably since 2nd boot, but I am not entirely sure) is, that in the Settings under About Phone > Status neither IME nor Serial number are displayed (instead, it says "unknown"). This also prevents me from launching Whats App - it quits saying "Your phone could not be identified ....".
Does anyone else experience those issues - and/or could perhaps somebody please post this into the CM10 development thread, so kabaldan notices?
thanks, mvol
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I have issue like this, and I can see IMEI and IMEI SV, but the Serial Number is "unknown".

after doing a full wipe, IMEI now shows up for me as well, but unknown serial and multipress problems remain.

mvol said:
hey folks,
(I would love to report them in the appropriate development thread, but the 10-post-count won't let me unfortunately.)
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You are almost at the 10th post.
Maybe wiping everything is a solution for that?

mvol said:
hey folks,
I have been following all the Milestone development threads since the very beginning, and have gone through each inkarnation of kabaldans incredible work since CM6. Recently, I updated to CM10 (first without, now with 2nd boot) and am absolutely amazed by how far our good old milestone has come. While playing around with it quite a bit, I have come across some problems (I would love to report them in the appropriate development thread, but the 10-post-count won't let me unfortunately.)
First, I really loved the keyboard multipress-system since I live in Germany and have to enter Umlauts very frequently (ä, ö, ü, etc.). The multipress-system sped that up greatly. Now, although the corresponding settings are there in the Milestone-specific part of the Settings-app, multipressing actually doesn't work for me in CM10. Is that problem specific to me, or is multipress not yet fully integrated in CM10?
The second thing I noticed (probably since 2nd boot, but I am not entirely sure) is, that in the Settings under About Phone > Status neither IME nor Serial number are displayed (instead, it says "unknown"). This also prevents me from launching Whats App - it quits saying "Your phone could not be identified ....".
Does anyone else experience those issues - and/or could perhaps somebody please post this into the CM10 development thread, so kabaldan notices?
thanks, mvol
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Hi mvol,
I am running the new CN10 10/24, the seril reports also Unkown but it doesnt stop me from running and using WhatsApp app.
regards
EP

WhatsApp now works - it looks like the full wipe which solved the unknown IMEI problem also fixed WhatsApp.

mvol said:
WhatsApp now works - it looks like the full wipe which solved the unknown IMEI problem also fixed WhatsApp.
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Realy ? I will have a try !

I also went through this and really soh after giving a factory reset was decided that in fact

have you guys tried multipress using the hardware keyboard? Does it work for you?

mvol said:
have you guys tried multipress using the hardware keyboard? Does it work for you?
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here using the shift and alt is working normally above 2 keys simultaneous ... not tested on that specifically, you will use more than 2 simultaneous keys?

with "multipress" I mean the feature invented by nadlabak/kabaldan that allows one to press the same key multiple times very quickly to enter special characters (like pressing "a" two times very fast producing "ä", for example.) It worked perfectly for me in CM7, but it doesn't anymore in CM10...

anyone, please?

It works fine for me. I use it frequently.

mvol: I still haven't found the time to implement the multipress feature completely in CM10. Only a few of the final bits is missing. Please be patient.

thanks for your answer - in that case, I'll wait patiently

Link not working for me
Hi All,
Im unable to access the latest builds for milestone CM10 by kabaldan. Please can anybody provide alternate link?
Thanks

Hello people!
I'm a long time CM ( 6 and 7 ) user on my Milestone.
After updating it to CM10 ( full wipe, ext3 partition formatted ), adb does not find my device anymore.
I have changed the USB settings and enabled the debugger in development, but nothing changes. Even after a restart.
Running on Ubuntu 12.10.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

The issue I have is quite annoying, if I can use such a word in a development stage . After each restart, the network is being forgotten, so I have to switch to the airplane mod off and on.

@pt0: This is a known issue, if I can say that. I experience this too, though not after every restart. I think it's a problem we can live with.

CM 11 Albinoman nightlies 21/01/2014 MMS not working

Hello.
I recently dusted off my Australian Velocity after the Nexus 5 went for a swim at the beach. I have S-off, rooted and installed the albinoman ROM.
There are a couple of issues I have noticed so far.
The 4g connection is patchy at best. Not very stable at all but I can live with that.
The battery indicator is acting strangely it stays in 100% for ages but then it starts going down very quickly until it gets to 14% where it stays for a long time but once it gets past that it just goes to full discharge very fast.
I am having the same issue that many other guys and my MMS capabilities are not working. The phone just stays sending or retrying but messages never leave.
Any suggestions about what to do? I have wiped and reinstalled the ROM a few times and it makes no difference.
On the other hand I love the overclocking capabilities makes the phone feel a bit more responsive.
Thanks and keep up the good work

munecito said:
Hello.
I recently dusted off my Australian Velocity after the Nexus 5 went for a swim at the beach. I have S-off, rooted and installed the albinoman ROM.
There are a couple of issues I have noticed so far.
The 4g connection is patchy at best. Not very stable at all but I can live with that.
The battery indicator is acting strangely it stays in 100% for ages but then it starts going down very quickly until it gets to 14% where it stays for a long time but once it gets past that it just goes to full discharge very fast.
I am having the same issue that many other guys and my MMS capabilities are not working. The phone just stays sending or retrying but messages never leave.
Any suggestions about what to do? I have wiped and reinstalled the ROM a few times and it makes no difference.
On the other hand I love the overclocking capabilities makes the phone feel a bit more responsive.
Thanks and keep up the good work
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As for the 4G connection, once you've accumulated 10 posts you should mention this in the CM 11 ROM thread and ask if the APN needs to be any different than normal (or if the mod changes the APN). The battery issue should get fixed if you let it fully charge and fully discharge about 3 times. The MMS capabilities is a known issue; try the specific nightlies that albinoman recommended to fix the MMS issue. New nightlies might break previous fixes and stuff.

Same Issue
I'm having the same issue here for AT&T HTC Vivid, none of my MMS were sent, nor have I received any. It's really essential for me cuz of my group, clubs have MMS and inorder for me to get those notifications I need MMS.
Calls are okay, but there are times where there's no sound on the other caller, so to fix that I end call and call again, which fixes it.
One final issue I've been having since Jellybean and Kitkat is the proximity for when calls, it does not respond. So i have to turn on Settings>Accessibility>Power button to end a call, because the phone's screen stays black during call, and 10-30 seconds after call. Camera is okay too, but doesn;t function well in video recording in apps like Snapchat and Instagram.
Overall, it's a great ROM by albinoman, I wish the Sweep2Wake is soon embedded, that's really great and wayyy better than the power button.

projectisaac said:
As for the 4G connection, once you've accumulated 10 posts you should mention this in the CM 11 ROM thread and ask if the APN needs to be any different than normal (or if the mod changes the APN). The battery issue should get fixed if you let it fully charge and fully discharge about 3 times. The MMS capabilities is a known issue; try the specific nightlies that albinoman recommended to fix the MMS issue. New nightlies might break previous fixes and stuff.
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Thank you very much.
I tried Albinoman suggested rom and I still have issues with MMS.
The battery indicator is normalising as you said it would.
I know about the 10 posts count but it is hard for me to just write a post for the sake of getting the count up.

Yeah, I hear ya, I've been there before too. The posts will generally come easily and quickly posting to q&a and general, so you're on the right track
Sent from my Vivid 4G using xda app-developers app

Similar question
I'm also in Aus.
Been running CM versions now for over a year.
The new CM11 has been trouble free, with one quirky problem. I manually set my network preference to 2G at one desperate battery extending moment.
Now i can't find how to select "4G"??? When i use the preferred network type i only have 2 or 3G as options.
When i search for available networks i get an "error"
Cheers
Mike

Mikeyr1000 said:
I'm also in Aus.
Been running CM versions now for over a year.
The new CM11 has been trouble free, with one quirky problem. I manually set my network preference to 2G at one desperate battery extending moment.
Now i can't find how to select "4G"??? When i use the preferred network type i only have 2 or 3G as options.
When i search for available networks i get an "error"
Cheers
Mike
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Well, I just did what you did, and rebooting does not fix it, nor does clearing the data of various apps installed. I'll post this to the CM11 thread and see if any answers or ideas are brought to light.

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projectisaac said:
Well, I just did what you did, and rebooting does not fix it, nor does clearing the data of various apps installed. I'll post this to the CM11 thread and see if any answers or ideas are brought to light.
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Many thanks, i saw the post!
Yeah I tried clearing everything. Did a manual reinstall of the APNs using a number of different configs.
Did the wipes ....... did a little dance .... pulled the battery and sim ...... sacrificed a small packet of tofu (no goats, i like goats) The gods of mobility have still not smiled my way.
Wont find networks when i do a search yet am nicely connected, can make calls etc etc.
thanks for trying. If i get no joy will reflash a nightlie and see if it resets?!

Yeah, although wiping the caches didn't do the trick, reflashing a nightly (along with wiping data, cache, and dalvik-cache) should take care of the problem. If you are really attached to your app settings, look into titanium backup for backing up your apps along with their data; it's also the way I save my WiFi passwords.
Sent from my Vivid 4G using xda app-developers app

OK...
If you don't like my dialer solution... I have found 2 xposed mods that do what you want...
Intelli3G... And GravityBox...
They both hook the dialer to force network changes...
Sent from my Vivid 4G using Tapatalk

rignfool said:
OK...
If you don't like my dialer solution... I have found 2 xposed mods that do what you want...
Intelli3G... And GravityBox...
They both hook the dialer to force network changes...
Sent from my Vivid 4G using Tapatalk
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Hi, tried the dialer solution and no joy.
Installed INtelli3G but it needs the xposed framework which simply won't install. Have tweaked instal options appropriately so it should???
Mike
EDIT My bad, didn't like installing from bluetooth transfer, downloaded on phone worked .... will test I3G

Fixed
Many thanks rignfool
I installed xposed and Intelli3g and with a bit of mucking around now have 4g back!
Seems to work, have 4g 4 bars!
My initial attempts to force lte caused me to have no coverage (I was at work in North SYd so good LTE normally).
Using the "use all" option in Intelli3g, a reboot and swapping around towers was the trick for me.
Thanks again
Mike

Awesome! Do you want to make a step by step instruction set on how to fix that? I would like to know, and I'm sure a newbie who runs into the save problem would really appreciate it.
Sent from my Vivid 4G using xda app-developers app

Im on the newest nightly build of CM11, On ATT. MMS not working and I have no clue on how to get it to work. Anyone wanna help?

VividTheMan said:
Im on the newest nightly build of CM11, On ATT. MMS not working and I have no clue on how to get it to work. Anyone wanna help?
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Known issue, you just have to be patient until it gets fixed (no one has gotten it to work)