I got my (cheap) sp from Digital mall. There's this phone shop called Venus on the hphone floor. You can't miss it... the sign is damn jeng. RM10 for matte protector. That's the only one they had when I got it a few weeks back. They also have a few cases. Also one shop under the escalator on the ground floor has a pretty slick SGS flip leather case.

Else, if you cheapo like me, can get Case Mate Barely There knock-off from ebay at USD3.00.


Post the link as in report them to Google? Didn't do that. I did run their URL (appbucket.net) through Google search and came up with pages related to complaints, warez and spam. Hence my earlier query on whether they were legit or scammers.

I posted my observations about improved GPS lock times with Voodoo a whiles back. And yup, seems that something in Voodoo (or more likely, the vanilla kernel it uses) improves GPS. However, as desirable as fast lock times are, it isn't the whole story. Aside from lock times, GPS also needs to be able to hold on to a signal and refresh your position quickly and accurately. This isn't happening in the SGS. People saying that GPS is awesome because they can get a lock on 5-8 satellites while standing still should try using My Tracks, record their tracks, take a walk around the neighbourhood and then post the tracks for us to see. Granted I have not done this, I feel this is a better measure of GPS performance and accuracy then merely quoting (qualitative) lock times.

Yep, I've driven around PJ/KL with Navigation [brut] guiding me. I can't really tell how accurate it is but it's good enough when used in a car. The more accurate test would be to use My Tracks, but really, I don't feel like going for a run after every firmware upgrade.

This is like the same story all over again: GPS improvements aren't necessarily tied to lock times, and lag fixes can't be measured solely by Quadrant scores.


Yes, language is tied to firmware region. Flash asian region fw if you want them chinese characters.


True man. None of the fixes I've tried have given me any discernible difference in GPS performance, other than Voodoo (lock times only, actual lock-hold-track still sketchy). Newer firmwares *may* have some small improvements, I don't know. Nothing concrete from what I've read and experienced. Guess we'll just have to wait for Samsung to sort this one out.

Dude might be referring to 'other' sources for paid apps. :\

Like jujx mentioned, first thing you can do is to test your front facing cam. But if you're also observing weak reception (3G AND EDGE? or just 3G?) and weak WIFI, it may be a problem with your phone's radio (as in reception not FM). Better bring it back to an SC to have it looked at.

OCLF slows down after awhile. Voodoo is a battery eater. Both have trade offs.

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Added on September 29, 2010, 6:23 pmEasy, it's for aGPS. Getting a location fix from a cold start, is both computationally and power intensive - especially if you're not out in the open. It's pretty difficult to calculate your position from fragmented GPS signals. Hence, non-standalone GPS devices partially rely on cell towers (or some other wireless data source) to deliver orbital data AND to post position data snapshots to position servers. The heavy lifting is offloaded to the position servers to calculate your position before sending it back to you, saving you precious locktime seconds and battery life. If you dive into your GPS settings, you will find a server config (supl.google.com) which is the positioning server maintained by Google. Similarly, Nokia phones have a supl.nokia.com lookup server. And that's why you need to "use Wireless network" for GPS.

This post has been edited by guppy: Sep 29 2010, 06:23 PM