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Samsung Galaxy S

wayne040576 · 2010-06-28 07:38:05

I've spent the last week trying to decide whether or not to move from my iphone to an Android phone. Just when I finally made up my mind and was about to buy a HTC Desire, I came across the Galaxy S. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s98gIMNhILQ The 8GB internal storage is a plus for me but I've heard Samsung are not great…

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#5132 27-05-2012 2:50pm
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PogMoThoin wrote: »

I'm still on 3.6, but only because the md5 check for the ROM with the Update Me app keeps failing for 3.7 every time I download. The same is now happening for 3.8. I'm not that bothered, I'm due an upgrade the first week in June, gonna get the S3

This seems to be happening to everyone. I still flashed the base that I downloaded, which failed, by accident but it worked anyway.

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#5133 27-05-2012 3:54pm
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I had huge problems with the phone app on 3.8 when I upgraded.

Downgraded to 3.7 until last night when I found the time to do a full wipe and reinstall. All works fine now.

There was a change in framework going from 3.6 to 3.7.

edit: Oops, still having problems with 3.8 (com,android.phone crashing all the time). Gone back to 3.7

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#5134 27-05-2012 4:29pm
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Yeah, think I'll leave it as is until I upgrade, I'll do a full wipe and update to whatever Slim then before I give it to the missis.

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#5135 27-05-2012 5:09pm
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yeah I'm having problems with the upgrade as well. I did a full wipe and installed but it still isn't working properly. Gmail keeps crashing, and I'm getting constant messages saying "unfortunately, the process android.process.media has stopped"

Any ideas?

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#5136 27-05-2012 5:10pm
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natnifnolnacs wrote: »

Any ideas?

Do a full wipe and install it again is only way to fix it.

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#5137 27-05-2012 5:13pm
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I've just done that and it's exactly the same. I head into the recovery, do factory wipe, wipe cache and then wipe dalvik cache. install from zip and it's till the same...

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#5138 27-05-2012 5:17pm
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natnifnolnacs wrote: »

I've just done that and it's exactly the same. I head into the recovery, do factory wipe, wipe cache and then wipe dalvik cache. install from zip and it's till the same...

Time for a full wipe with Odin then so:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78591599&postcount=4992

Replace the Slim versions with 3.8

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#5139 27-05-2012 5:41pm
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PogMoThoin wrote: »

Time for a full wipe with Odin then so:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78591599&postcount=4992

Replace the Slim versions with 3.8

ok thanks, I'll give that a go now

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#5140 27-05-2012 7:32pm
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god damn it, it's boot looping when I put slim on, now I'll have to start again as it won't go into recovery mode:mad:

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#5141 27-05-2012 8:42pm
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right I'm back in business but I wiped the internal sd card so I've lost all settings. The new slim 3.8 comes with a lightning launcher which i really don't like, does anyone have any recommendations? I quite like the stock ICS launcher so something pretty close to that would be good.

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#5142 27-05-2012 8:43pm
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natnifnolnacs wrote: »

right I'm back in business but I wiped the internal sd card so I've lost all settings. The new slim 3.8 comes with a lightning launcher which i really don't like, does anyone have any recommendations? I quite like the stock ICS launcher so something pretty close to that would be good.

You'll get the Nova launcher in the Update Me app

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#5143 27-05-2012 8:44pm
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PogMoThoin wrote: »

You'll get the Nova launcher in the Update Me app

brilliant! thanks for all the help

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#5144 27-05-2012 8:48pm
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Sorry, Zeam launcher is what I meant (a few beers on board )

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#5145 27-05-2012 10:17pm
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natnifnolnacs wrote: »

brilliant! thanks for all the help

The default ICS launcher is in the update me thing. Its called launcher2 I think.

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#5146 28-05-2012 8:51am
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shizz wrote: »

The default ICS launcher is in the update me thing. Its called launcher2 I think.

yeah, that's the one I downloaded and it's working perfectly. I just need to get it properly set up but so far, so good

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#5147 28-05-2012 4:29pm
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everything was working perfectly until I tried to call somebody today. I got a com.phone.android force close message. A reboot gives the same...

I'll try flash 3.8 again and see if that sorts it.

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#5148 28-05-2012 4:35pm
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natnifnolnacs wrote: »

everything was working perfectly until I tried to call somebody today. I got a com.phone.android force close message. A reboot gives the same...

I'll try flash 3.8 again and see if that sorts it.

This is a common error. From their website "IMPORTANT NOTE: For all phone except Galaxy Nexus, if phone dialer FC's, d/l Phone app via UpdateME/ apps. Clear phone apk data and try. Problem solved."

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#5149 28-05-2012 4:49pm
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shizz wrote: »

This is a common error. From their website "IMPORTANT NOTE: For all phone except Galaxy Nexus, if phone dialer FC's, d/l Phone app via UpdateME/ apps. Clear phone apk data and try. Problem solved."

well that was about the fastest solution I have ever had, thanks for that

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#5150 01-06-2012 1:40pm
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3.9 is out. The first few OTA updates were completely hassle free but they are getting a bit annoying now. The new lightning launcher wasn't great in 3.8 guise but it's really horrible now. Very messy looking. Downloading from the "update me" app doesn't seem to be working either.

I'm doing another reboot now and then I'll see if it works. if not I'll be going back to 3.8.

edit - I've just read the changelog...it appears I may be an idiot:rolleyes:

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#5151 01-06-2012 7:50pm
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I ordered my new S3 today, should have it next week.

Hopefully I'll see you folks over in the SGS3 thread, my time with this one is coming to an end. It has served me well, it's still a great phone. I'll be wiping it and giving it to the missis with Slim 3.9 (whatever is latest), I'll not be bothering to update it further (unless they add something new), just the odd factory reset to keep it fresh. This way i can reinstall all apps with data everytime in Titanium, nice and quick.

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#5152 02-06-2012 2:55pm
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Is anyone else having trouble with the touch version of boards? Some posts are being cut off after the first line.

I just flashed the latest CM9 nightly and I want to check if anyone else is experiencing this before i report it.

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#5153 05-06-2012 11:28pm
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Bit of long shot here...

Big fan of the Galaxy S form factor and with Slim ICS installed, I am perfectly happy with its software for the time being. With that said, I wouldn't mind upgrading to the Galaxy S Advance; Hardware upgrade, flash on the camera and a very similar form factor in a nutshell.

The problem: Apart from a couple of guys working very slowly on XDA, there is little or nothing in the way of ROMS for the Advance and hence, you would be stuck with Gingerbread if you were to upgrade - That is not something Id be willing to do given how much I like ICS.

Query: Is it feasible to approach a good ROM developer and offer them X amount to develop say Slim ICS for the Galaxy S Advance in a relatively short space of time? Or would the x amount be too high to even bother exploring it?

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#5154 06-06-2012 12:14pm
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Some might but most only work on the device is because they have it or feel they benefit from making a rom on a given device.
Is the source available for the advance ? what hardware is inside ? Is it similar to anything else on the market now ? Is their a recovery available ? I take it Odin etc works on the advance ? All will will devs port something to the advance. Your best beet is to try AOKP or CM before Slim, as without CM, Slim won't make it to a device.

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#5155 06-06-2012 1:44pm
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Not due upgrade from Vodafone till 7th july, girl in shop got it wrong

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#5156 06-06-2012 1:46pm
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PogMoThoin wrote: »

Not due upgrade from Vodafone till 7th july, girl in shop got it wrong

More time for ROMs to be released then.

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#5157 07-06-2012 5:39pm
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Simi wrote: »

Is anyone else having trouble with the touch version of boards? Some posts are being cut off after the first line.

I just flashed the latest CM9 nightly and I want to check if anyone else is experiencing this before i report it.

Not alone here, on the 29/05 nightly and the touch site. Apparently all the June nightlys have wifi activation random rebooting happening, so am staying put on this one for the time being. Also Chrome Beta upgrade last night causes it to crash now on open . Dled Dolphin HD browser though and so far so good

Nick

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#5158 07-06-2012 5:47pm
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yoyo wrote: »

Not alone here, on the 29/05 nightly and the touch site. Apparently all the June nightlys have wifi activation random rebooting happening, so am staying put on this one for the time being. Also Chrome Beta upgrade last night causes it to crash now on open . Dled Dolphin HD browser though and so far so good

Nick

Dolphin is the mutts nuts. I use it and swear by it, I even pay for the Lastpass and Xmarks addons so I have full password and bookmark (not all, just a mobile set) sync across all browsers on all platforms (including Fedora on my laptop)

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#5159 07-06-2012 10:13pm
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Just flashes slim 3.9 and I have to admit I'm very impressed aside from one or two issues. The first is my phone no longer seems to recognise my sim card, and the second and much lesser issue is I can't seem to configure zeam launchers windows.

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#5160 07-06-2012 10:21pm
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ZeitgeistGlee wrote: »

Just flashes slim 3.9 and I have to admit I'm very impressed aside from one or two issues. The first is my phone no longer seems to recognise my sim card, and the second and much lesser issue is I can't seem to configure zeam launchers windows.

The external sd I'd now mounted as emmc. You configure zeam in zeam preferences , just press menu on homescreen

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#5161 07-06-2012 10:55pm
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PogMoThoin wrote: »

ZeitgeistGlee wrote: »

Just flashes slim 3.9 and I have to admit I'm very impressed aside from one or two issues. The first is my phone no longer seems to recognise my sim card, and the second and much lesser issue is I can't seem to configure zeam launchers windows.

The external sd I'd now mounted as emmc. You configure zeam in zeam preferences , just press menu on homescreen

Gah, dunce cap for me, had the sim in backwards. As for the launcher, I just flashed launcher2 from the Update app and there's no preferences option that I can see. When I use menu all I get up is wallpaper, manage apps and system settings.

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