I have a growing number of contacts in Whatsapp but I don't think anyone is using pingchat. Whatsapp integration with the mobile number makes a whole leap of difference to find your friends using the service. I will probably be paying for whatsapp because it's works so well to connect with friends whose location isn't feasible for SMS anymore.

Question of the day: How to activate original Android keyboard on SGS? I want to try speech-to-text input.

Pull down notification bar and press vibrate for vibration mode. For lower tone, just push volume down (?)

Because it is a good SMS alternative for people who is living away from Malaysia. If I want to SMS to UK, DiGi charges 20c per SMS. Whatsapp only charge $1.99 a year.

I use it. No damage also.

Swype can use speech to text? Mine couldn't. The original android keyboard has built in speech to text engine. Or did you mean you're using Vlingo?

Well, I can install vlingo but it will cause my phone to restart if I change EXT2 to RFS and vice versa, without uninstalling vlingo.

Samsung seem to have removed that keyboard from the ROM.

I installed Social Hub push mail and IM.

Push mail - Pretty good. I am now considering whether to remove my account from default Email app and just use this new push mail app. I should be able to save some battery by using push mail.

Push IM - Decent but not as pretty as MSN Talk. Does not support simultaneous log in unlike MSN Talk. I don't think I will consider to uninstall my MSN Talk yet.

The default task manager don't have to be removed. Just others like Advanced Task Manager.

Anything that kills task to free up memory is task manager. All of these cannot be used with whatsapp with the exception of the default task manager from Samsung.

Advanced task killer is a task manager. Uninstall all of these.

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Oct 12 2010, 01:49 PM

Whatsapp claims that using task manager will cause battery drain and message delay if you use it together. So it's either to give up whatsapp or task manager.

To change SMS notification, go to Messaging and change settings. Likewise, for email, go to email and change the settings within Email application.

No, check your Samsung Market. There is new push Social Hub.

Pull down notification. Press vibrate. Then it will be silent and vibrating.

Otherwise, push volume down. To vibrate but not until silent.

Definitely ok. I feel my battery last even better by just letting Android manage background apps.

Not necessary. Offline navigation.

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Oct 12 2010, 07:53 PM

Depends on what the app do. If the app has little or no CPU usage, then there won't be any battery drain.

You're taking risk when you kill tasks automatically. Certain processes are killed unexpectedly and then has to be restarted again to complete its task. That's how task killer can also drain battery.

I don't see any firmware update on KIES.

Only for selected countries. You can google for the apk or if you have a rooted device, you know what to do.

I totally deleted off the email account on default email app.

Battery drain is about the same like original email app.

The voice dialer that comes with the phone can perform simple voice command but not typing a message.

Wifi at the moment. 3G connectivity hack has been done in XDA-developers though.

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Added on October 13, 2010, 12:49 pmBtw, Guitar Hero sucks. It cannot detect multitouch on my device and that makes me fail badly in Expert mode because they need multitouch.

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Oct 13 2010, 12:49 PM

Likely not to work on your Eclair Samsung Galaxy S. Skype has said that it isn't working yet for SGS.

Exception for Froyo Galaxy S.

Obviously Galaxy S also. Guitar Hero doesn't want to detect 2 fingers or more. So I uninstalled it and continued with life.

I don't have multitouch problem with other apps.

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Oct 13 2010, 03:32 PM

Almost no chance of recovery unless you believe in the small chance of entering download mode by random moments or using hairdryer/oven trick. Better save yourself from trouble and just send it to Samsung before you get frustrated and wreck the phone apart.

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Added on October 14, 2010, 1:45 amMust let go power button once the logo appears.

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Added on October 14, 2010, 1:49 amIt's just a phone. Why do you seem to take it religiously? With the amount of money you paid for SGS, I believe there's little difficulty to just grab another iPhone or HTC device.

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Oct 14 2010, 01:49 AM

Linpack benchmark has little to do with file system. Similar to computers, linpack is used to benchmark the CPU. Desire can score high in Linpack because the algorithm in Linpack uses high FPU calculation, which Hummingbird is not optimised for. No matter how you pray that Samsung will do something, the day will never come unless you change the CPU of the phone, which is impossible. Benchmark are done in extreme manner, of which is likely not to happen in real life. There should be no real-life distinguishable difference although Linpack results is far away.

I put it to totally Never since I always have lots of juice to spare.

Do you guys feel the phone lags a little after installing the push Social Hub?

The battery consumption is somewhat higher by 10% a day compared to conventional email app.