I've just got my 1st ever Android phone: Samsung Galaxy S...
Just getting the hang of it, but the Samsung original "TW Launcher" user interface isn't really that good.
I've not rooted my phone as I heard that Froyo is gonna be up for Samsung by the end of the month in Malaysia.
1. The phone functions interface is really not user friendly. Is there anyway to change the phone features?
2. How can I get Google Maps Navigation on my phone? Is it even available in Asia? If not, any free gps navi I can get?
3. How can I change the sms receive audio? In Samsung UI, I can only change the Notification tone, but how can I change SMS tone by itself?
4. Any recommendation for a good calender/planner? Default calender is not quite user friendly...
Thanks in advance...
dwl1 said:
I've just got my 1st ever Android phone: Samsung Galaxy S...
Just getting the hang of it, but the Samsung original "TW Launcher" user interface isn't really that good.
I've not rooted my phone as I heard that Froyo is gonna be up for Samsung by the end of the month in Malaysia.
1. The phone functions interface is really not user friendly. Is there anyway to change the phone features?
2. How can I get Google Maps Navigation on my phone? Is it even available in Asia? If not, any free gps navi I can get?
3. How can I change the sms receive audio? In Samsung UI, I can only change the Notification tone, but how can I change SMS tone by itself?
4. Any recommendation for a good calender/planner? Default calender is not quite user friendly...
Thanks in advance...
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I have the same question, I just have my bell galaxy s unlock and brought back to Asia. All the local features are useless especially on the GPS and map function,
Do a search in the forus about Gogle maps brut. Brut enables the googlemaps navigation in your phone alternativrly goto marketplace in your phone and look for papago x5.. its free now on trial u can try it out and see if it is good for u.. so far papago is the only gps sw that uses offline maps unlike google maps navigation which need to be connected to the internet to download maps.
for the natification tones try hancent sms .. u can play ard wit it to change the notifiacion tone for sms emails and so on...
Im usig launcher pro and adwlauncher.. to switch bewteen launcher u have to incstal home switcher.. so if u need to connect to Kies u cn use the home switcher to switch back to TW for it to connect as MTP device
dwl1 said:
I've just got my 1st ever Android phone: Samsung Galaxy S...
Just getting the hang of it, but the Samsung original "TW Launcher" user interface isn't really that good.
I've not rooted my phone as I heard that Froyo is gonna be up for Samsung by the end of the month in Malaysia.
1. The phone functions interface is really not user friendly. Is there anyway to change the phone features?
2. How can I get Google Maps Navigation on my phone? Is it even available in Asia? If not, any free gps navi I can get?
3. How can I change the sms receive audio? In Samsung UI, I can only change the Notification tone, but how can I change SMS tone by itself?
4. Any recommendation for a good calender/planner? Default calender is not quite user friendly...
Thanks in advance...
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1. Install LauncherPro. Best Home screen app http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.fede.launcher
2. Download Google Maps by brut. Worldwide Navigation activated. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=630887
3. Go to Messaging. Settings. Select ringtone.
4. Don't know any. I don't use Calendar.
When you plug your phone into your pc open phone and look for media file, drop your tones in there and select as normal, job done
Hello everyone,i have a audio problem on my Galaxy Mini 2 and i'm wondering which could be the real problem behind it.I'll try to explain everything and make it as short as possible:
I bought a Mini 2 a month ago and after like 2 weeks i noticed a audio problem.Be it in games or music player,sometimes (it appears randomly) the sound stops for like half of a second and i think it also makes some kind of noise during that time (noticed that noise today).
I went to the customer support center and they reinstalled the software and i got it back in 2 days...after testing it for a while...i noticed that the problem still occurs,so i went back to the support center...this time they said they'll check out the hardware..the support guy to which i talked said that the problem might be because :
1. I installed alot of applications (had alot of them last time,but after the software reinstall i reinstalled from google play less applications than before...i have like 28 installed now,nothing fancy,only some games and normal applications ,my phone not being rooted yet)
2. He said that low end smartphones like Galaxy Mini 2 ,upon installing applications,will start losing performance,etc
3.He said that the background applications could be the ones doing this
The thing is that i don't believe anything of what he said...i mean...i know that Mini 2 is a low end device,but still it's pretty decent,so it should support a large number of applications. Regarding nr 2 sentence,i know phones start to lose perfomance by time,but seriously,only after like 2 weeks? Yeah right >.< and even if it would start to lower performance,would it really lower it that much to make the phone sounds/music not play properly? And regarding nr 3,i don't have too many applications in the background and the processor is mostly on 0% when the phone is idle (checked it with a google play CPU application).Also the music player consumes 0%.
In the end,they took the phone again and said that they will check things out and i'll have it back in minimum 4 days.
What do you guys think? What could be the problem causing this? I'd appreciate an oppinion.
Thank you in advance.
From my experience , some applications can cause this problem . like for example with notifications that should play a sound . An example I frequently encounter is the Yahoo Messenger or the Facebook app . Every time I'm listenning to music and someone sents me a message , the notification comes into action and while it should play the sound it has to , it mutes my sound in exchange .
Uf that's not the case , a list with all your apps would be helpful .
And don't worry about Mini 2's specs , that's not the problem . It can swallow a lot of multitasking , allthough from my experience it hick-ups in some games (fps lag but no audio problems like the one you're talking about) .
Uizz.UW said:
From my experience , some applications can cause this problem . like for example with notifications that should play a sound . An example I frequently encounter is the Yahoo Messenger or the Facebook app . Every time I'm listenning to music and someone sents me a message , the notification comes into action and while it should play the sound it has to , it mutes my sound in exchange .
Uf that's not the case , a list with all your apps would be helpful .
And don't worry about Mini 2's specs , that's not the problem . It can swallow a lot of multitasking , allthough from my experience it hick-ups in some games (fps lag but no audio problems like the one you're talking about) .
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I don't think it's a notification problem because i only activate my data synchronizer and internet (using wifi most of the time) only when i'm using them.I have Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger installed,but the sound problem occurs even when all the internet options are turned off.
Here are the applications that were installed on the phone : Yahoo Mail/Messenger, Manga Searcher, Infinite Anime Gallery, RinRin Bench, MikuMikuBench, Rin Clock Widget, Firefox, KeepSafe, Adobe Air, Anime Radio Online (this one was added after the problem was noticed), Barcode Scanner, Horoscope, Japanese Translator, Japanese Dictionary (JED), Kanji Recognizer, Meme Generator, Office Suite Viewer, Picasso, Multipicture live wallpaper.
Games: Talking Tom, Eternal Legacy, Nyan Cat Lost in Space, Angry Birds, 3D Hunting Alaskan Hunt Plus, Castle Master 3D, Fruit Ninja, Trigger Knight
That's about all that i had in my smartphone.
Also maybe i should add that i don't usually multitask,i mostly use one application at a time.
zapz said:
I don't think it's a notification problem because i only activate my data synchronizer and internet (using wifi most of the time) only when i'm using them.I have Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger installed,but the sound problem occurs even when all the internet options are turned off.
Here are the applications that were installed on the phone : Yahoo Mail/Messenger, Manga Searcher, Infinite Anime Gallery, RinRin Bench, MikuMikuBench, Rin Clock Widget, Firefox, KeepSafe, Adobe Air, Anime Radio Online (this one was added after the problem was noticed), Barcode Scanner, Horoscope, Japanese Translator, Japanese Dictionary (JED), Kanji Recognizer, Meme Generator, Office Suite Viewer, Picasso, Multipicture live wallpaper.
Games: Talking Tom, Eternal Legacy, Nyan Cat Lost in Space, Angry Birds, 3D Hunting Alaskan Hunt Plus, Castle Master 3D, Fruit Ninja, Trigger Knight
That's about all that i had in my smartphone.
Also maybe i should add that i don't usually multitask,i mostly use one application at a time.
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many of these apps autorun and consume your ram ALL the time
i have a feeling that keepsafe is causing the problems because from my experience they dont do anything good
anyway try to set autorun of every USER app to off with this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seasmind.android.gmappmgr&hl=en
If these applications are the cause,then it means i'm not allowed to install anything ? I mean..most of them are typical applications,nothing that is such a big consumer like antivirus or other stuff...a phone should work fine with those kind of applications...also my RAM is usually 220-250MB out of total of 398 MB,so i'm not lacking it.
My phone is not rooted so can't try to set autorun as you said Also it's currently sent to the customer support center for repairs.
And Keepsafe could be causing it? Damn...it's a nice application
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If these applications are the cause,then it means i'm not allowed to install anything ? I mean..most of them are typical applications,nothing that is such a big consumer like antivirus or other stuff...a phone should work fine with those kind of applications...also my RAM is usually 220-250MB out of total of 398 MB,so i'm not lacking it.
My phone is not rooted so can't try to set autorun as you said Also it's currently sent to the customer support center for repairs.
And Keepsafe could be causing it? Damn...it's a nice application
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keepsafe is to hide pics?oh not then its not the prob
i thought it was antivirus or something
peter_baz said:
keepsafe is to hide pics?oh not then its not the prob
i thought it was antivirus or something
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Yeah it's an application used to hide pictures,i don't have any applications like antiviruses etc installed,only what i listed above,mainly typical stuff (drawing application,horoscope,messenger,etc) and some games.
I also e-mailed Samsung about this problem and their solution was to try reset the phone,but since i already had it re-softwared, i guess that wouldn't solve the problem.
zapz said:
I don't think it's a notification problem because i only activate my data synchronizer and internet (using wifi most of the time) only when i'm using them.I have Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger installed,but the sound problem occurs even when all the internet options are turned off.
Here are the applications that were installed on the phone : Yahoo Mail/Messenger, Manga Searcher, Infinite Anime Gallery, RinRin Bench, MikuMikuBench, Rin Clock Widget, Firefox, KeepSafe, Adobe Air, Anime Radio Online (this one was added after the problem was noticed), Barcode Scanner, Horoscope, Japanese Translator, Japanese Dictionary (JED), Kanji Recognizer, Meme Generator, Office Suite Viewer, Picasso, Multipicture live wallpaper.
Games: Talking Tom, Eternal Legacy, Nyan Cat Lost in Space, Angry Birds, 3D Hunting Alaskan Hunt Plus, Castle Master 3D, Fruit Ninja, Trigger Knight
That's about all that i had in my smartphone.
Also maybe i should add that i don't usually multitask,i mostly use one application at a time.
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The apps shouldn't be the problem then ...
What's the status of your phone ? Rooted ? Custom CWM ? Custom Kernel ? Overclocked ? Also , are you using the stock TouchWiz launcher or another one ? Did you try monitoring your RAM to see if the problem is from there ? And finally , are you having any heating issuses ?
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The apps shouldn't be the problem then ...
What's the status of your phone ? Rooted ? Custom CWM ? Custom Kernel ? Overclocked ? Also , are you using the stock TouchWiz launcher or another one ? Did you try monitoring your RAM to see if the problem is from there ? And finally , are you having any heating issuses ?
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The phone isn't rooted,so i don't have custom CWM,neither kernel or neither overclocked.Yeah i'm using stock TouchWiz launcher.I didn't see any unusual behavior in the RAM,it loads up like 220-250 MB out of 398 MB and the applications using are just the typical stuff,Yahoo Mail,Messenger,system stuff Rin Voice Clock Widget and Multilive Wallpaper.
And no heating issues as well,phone is only warming up when i use the internet or play games,but it's not heating,only becoming warm.
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The phone isn't rooted,so i don't have custom CWM,neither kernel or neither overclocked.Yeah i'm using stock TouchWiz launcher.I didn't see any unusual behavior in the RAM,it loads up like 220-250 MB out of 398 MB and the applications using are just the typical stuff,Yahoo Mail,Messenger,system stuff Rin Voice Clock Widget and Multilive Wallpaper.
And no heating issues as well,phone is only warming up when i use the internet or play games,but it's not heating,only becoming warm.
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disable the live wallpaper maybe
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disable the live wallpaper maybe
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Got the phone back from customer support yesterday and they said they couldn't find the problem (i kind of knew this would happen because,it randomly appears,for example it can work without problem for 3 hours and then for the next 3 hours it can go crazy)
So i'm back from where i started...I reinstalled some of the applications that i had before(took out those which i was thinking that might be causing the problem and also i wasn't using them alot).Probably a bad idea to reinstall before testing,but i'm not really sure it's from the applications because other people have no problem on those applications and also they're typical applications,nothing special.
Also i only installed them and i didn't run any of them yet and so i have none of them configured and none of them in background (i usually have 4 app running in background when they're closed : Yahoo Mail,Messenger,Multilive Wallpaper and Rin Clock Widget).
Regarding the Multilive Wallpaper application...as mentioned above,i only installed the applications and didn't run them yet....and i discovered that i still have the problem after installing apps on the phone.Are there cases when you install an application and even if you don't run them,they could cause problems?
zapz said:
Got the phone back from customer support yesterday and they said they couldn't find the problem (i kind of knew this would happen because,it randomly appears,for example it can work without problem for 3 hours and then for the next 3 hours it can go crazy)
So i'm back from where i started...I reinstalled some of the applications that i had before(took out those which i was thinking that might be causing the problem and also i wasn't using them alot).Probably a bad idea to reinstall before testing,but i'm not really sure it's from the applications because other people have no problem on those applications and also they're typical applications,nothing special.
Also i only installed them and i didn't run any of them yet and so i have none of them configured and none of them in background (i usually have 4 app running in background when they're closed : Yahoo Mail,Messenger,Multilive Wallpaper and Rin Clock Widget).
Regarding the Multilive Wallpaper application...as mentioned above,i only installed the applications and didn't run them yet....and i discovered that i still have the problem after installing apps on the phone.Are there cases when you install an application and even if you don't run them,they could cause problems?
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Some applications run in background even if you don't see them . Google Maps for example does that , the Google Play updater , Y! Messenger too I think . You can stop them but they'll automatically start back . That's because they are services that need to e on constantly for updates , even if the internet is on or not .
Try to install GO Launcher EX , along with GO Power Manager and GO Task Manager . I am using those two things , and by clicking only 2 buttons on my homescreen , I can get to only 150MB used RAM AND manage to close some apps running in the background .
I don't think GO Launcher EX is needed to install the other two tho' , so first try them alone . But if you need a fast and stylish launcher , well yea xD Try GO Launcher EX too .
So I picked up a Gear about a week ago to pair with my HTC One. I thought if I couldn't get it to work I could give it to my wife to use with her S4 or I would pick up a Samsung phone. I would like to say I am very new with flashing roms or doing anything of the sort. So I started with doing a lot of searching on this site and reading up with how to flash the rom on the Gear to something that I could pair with the HTC One. I installed TWRP and got that working correctly when I boot the Gear into Recovery mode. What took awhile was getting the Null_23 Rom onto the Gear where I could install it. After trying to do it with ABD (and failing) I found a video that used Wonder Share. I went with this system. I paired the device with my wife's Samsung so I could enable Debugging mode, was able to pair the Gear with WonderShare and push the Null 23 Rom to it.
Went into recover, did a full wipe, then installed the Null 23 rom, rebooted unit, it ask if I want to use Apex Launcher, Nova Launcher, and a 3rd option that I can not remember at the moment. But The Apex Launcher and Nova Launcher icons are in the programs menu, I can use them at any time and change the layout of the home screen.
So after installing this Rom I am able to pair the Gear with my HTC One. Now on the Gear, I can answer a phone call, the caller ID works, I can sent the call to my phone to answer but I can not dial out to make a call from the Gear,Contact do not show up, Notifications do not work for text messaging, The seconds on the clock are correct but it will not link up in the correct time zone for the hours. Calender does not work. I can connect the Gear to the internet with pdaNET and the web browser will work. The Google Play Store ask me to log into or make a new account, but when I try to do either it stops working.
I have starting working on the notifications first, but haven't been able to get them to work correctly.
A short list of what works
Answering Calls
Clock keeps times, but has wrong hour, this is probably something simple but I haven't looked into it yet
Camera takes Pictures
pdaNET
Web Browser
Items I would like to work
Notifications,
Calender sync
Contact sync
Dial out to make call
I think if I can get these few functions to work that more will fall in line.
Thank you for any help
TyGeR
For notifications you should go with ATN Notifier, there are many threads on this issue.
For dialing out, it worked for me after syncing my Google contacts. Have you logged into your Google account? That should help, I guess. Same with Calendar sync, but this will use Internet access to be up to date and therefore drains your battery pretty quick.
I would also recommend to install Gear Manager (1.6XX) to use gear apps like runtastic, turn by turn navigation and so on. Check out Brendans Folder!
Good luck!