Hi fellow Galaxian.

Have any of you experienced problem with the 3G video calls? I get broken video image whenever I make 3G calls, while the other party able to see mine just fine.

Is it time to reformat the device? Just got it for < 1 month.

Oh ya, I guess I'm the lucky few that don't have A-GPS locking problem.

Mine can't read those Chinese characters as well.

Is yours stock? Not sure if it has anything to do with the FW version.

That's what I thought also at first. But when I had both phones placed side-by-side to try out the 3G video calls, on same network. 1 phone was ok, while mine came out with broken video. Still wonder should I reset 1st or just send it back to Samsung to get it rectified.

I got mine from Maxis package. Not sure if it should comes with Chinese text support. But I can input Chinese though, using the DioPen (IIRC) keyboard. Alternatively, I had SoGou and Google keyboard installed, just for fun.

This post has been edited by Harddisk: Sep 27 2010, 03:25 PM

The other parties phones all are in working video calls condition, including 1 of them was my other phone. It just turn out with broken picture on my phone. I guess mine is broken, in some way.

Tested phones:
Nokia E66
HTC Diamond
SE G900

What are the chances of 3 other phones having broken camera/video recording, right?

Never fiddled with any of the network settings or what not, just defaulted to the sim card's settings.

Build number: ECLAIR.DXJG4

this one, right? Somehow my MP3 files turn out in garbage characters, weird.

Does install/uninstall apps affect the OS in overall? Have been testing with many apps in the Market to find suitable stuff that's gonna stay permanently in my phone.

This post has been edited by Harddisk: Sep 27 2010, 03:52 PM

The video shown on my SGS is broken, like if a video file is broken when you play it on PC, the picture was in banding of horizontal rows. Difficult to explain without a picture, but I can't screencap/record it either.

Just imagine it's like trying to play a broken mpeg4 video file on PC. Quite similar to that. But the voice was ok though, just video broken.

Aside from that, do you get pretty weak reception during calls? Most of the time, the other party was difficult to hear me either. I could blame this on reception, but if I'd to compare to my older phones, it seems to be appearing on this new phone.

Another thing would be the rather weak Wifi signal, at least as compared to HTC Desire. Not sure how many having the same problems like mine.

As per mengsuan's reply.

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Added on September 27, 2010, 4:49 pmWeak receptions aside, let's test the 3G video call some day.

I always hangout in IOI Mall during weekends for coffee. Will give you a call. Can PM me your phone #? I'll reply you mine. Thanks!


As per mengsuan's reply.

This post has been edited by Harddisk: Sep 27 2010, 04:57 PM

^ yup, it's nice. But at the same time, I missed the volume control (incl mute) from my N81 phone. I always listen to the radio in the morning whenever I go to work, now lacking that control is a bit inconvenient for me. Getting the phone outta the pants is not an easy task either, cause it's really wide. lol.

If it's not there, meaning that Task Manager is installed.

Mine came pre-installed, somehow it's still showing in Samsung Apps folder.

Do you see the Task Manager button when you press and hold the home key?

^^ unfortunately, it doesn't dismiss the fact that SGS is a battery sucker.

^ if I'm not mistaken, every connection made on the GPS with the assistance from network would be charged a RM0.02 fee. I saw this on my Hotlink bill last time.

Not sure how much it's gonna be for postpaid. You can hope that it actually goes into part of your monthly bandwidth allocation, hence you are not paying anything extra on top of your monthly phone bill.

If email is not put on the Internet, then how would it work?

Likewise if your postal service only send mails to within the same postcode as the post office itself.

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Added on October 1, 2010, 10:43 amDespite the numerous complaints on the lousy GPS on SGS, I find mine rather fine. Locking was within 20 - 60seconds using A-GPS.

Anyway, I still don't trust the accuracy on built-in GPS (had my experiences with Nokia E66), hence I bought myself an external BT GPS mouse. Problem is, there's no free app on Android that allows me to connect to the GPS mouse. Even if got, it's only on 10mins period (App nane: Bluetooth GPS Mouse) and it will disconnect. You have to reconnect it.

I wished there is a free solution to this, like how I used Garmin on both my Nokia phones.

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Added on October 1, 2010, 10:48 amA-GPS lock uses GPRS. I believe without 3G, it would work also. Though I've yet to try that.

This post has been edited by Harddisk: Oct 1 2010, 10:48 AM

^ lol, damn fun. Luckily didn't throw my phone out of the window.

^ yup, I saw it here.
http://www.samsunggalaxysforum.com/samsung...sg3138/#msg3138

Well, lucky for us, our built-in Samsung keyboard has the arrow keys as well. Unlike my friend's HTC Desire, where he has to install a separate keyboard app. I asked him about the trackball sensor for directional, he said "useless". And I thought why wouldn't we have one on our phone. *shrug*