- New Galaxy S Player
- Divx and DLNA certifications
- Flash 10.1 integrated with the Browser
- Updated User Interface
- Android 2.2 Froyo

those in RED.... 

guys, I'm thinking of getting an android phone, and one of them in my mind is the Galaxy S (the other is desire Z, but that's a story for another day). So far I'm very impressed wit the reviews and stuff. I hate how TouchWiz looks but I guess I can get it replaced with LauncherPro.

Thing is, today I went to a shop and inquire, the fella tell me the SGS has lots of problem and complaints. I acknowledged that I know the GPS is faulty and the RFS lag issue, but he insisted that it has more problems than that. What specifics, I dunno coz he mumbled stuff like 'very expensive, got lots of problem, a lot ppl complain'. In the end I gave up and left.

So, are there such extra other issues with the phone? Answers are much appreciated. I know this is a SGS thread so there's probably more praise than curses. Just trying my luck...

i've read that prior to asking the fella. Only GPS and RFS lag highlighted so far.

I'm especially attracted to the damn good performance running Quake in the video vs Desire. So i dun really care about the Quadrant or Linpak benchmark results vs the Desire Z.

@ken2291, yeah no news so far about 2.2 update fixing the issues mentioned. The shopkeeper fella recommended the original Desire, saying 'it's 2.2 wor, SGS only 2.1'. That time I confirm he know bollocks about phones.

before

I ask if he got sell, he ask me why i wan buy and told me the 'problems', so I think he didn't take in SGS. He has a Galaxy 5 (five) on display though.  Mengsuan you from Puchong right? I'm refering to the HTC shop at Digital World IOIMall.

Is there a reason shops are selling this thing so expensive? Was quoted one at 2599 another at 2699. Crazy...

yes...exactly

Everything works smoothly, BUT i am still stuck with the kernel attached in Doc's 7.6.1

I am quite hesitate to flash the kernel coz I have just restored all my apps 100++ 

I am afraid that flashing kernel will lead me to another restore for about 1 hr 

Will flashing kernel alone wipe all my datas and apps? 

Bro don mind me asking how to backup efs? Ive read n search bt im kinda confuse wif the method.. Thx ya

im not to sure of the right way, my way is to charge full, delete battstat, turn off, still charging until full, on again, charge until full.

some way of i heard, drain your battery until empty, charge it, delete batstat, turn off, charge, turn on charge

As you know, some apps will run by itself automatically. Try to use Automatic Task Killer and set the frequently to kill apps every 30 minutes.

imho, running apps on the background drain battery

root already, using ASTRO file manager? Any good root explorer recommended? 

Thx for the info bro. I understsnd the the root explorer is under paid apps. Any free ones? Thx again!

so,,, have you successfully installed froyo already with this method?  anxious to know...

To recalibrate battery, what I did was to run the battery flat (means turn off by itself) then charge it until full and keep it charged for another hour. While on charger, i go to terminal emulator and typed this:

su
rm /data/system/batterystats.bin (no reaction after this but its normal)

and restart my phone, thats all.

I did this to backup my efs folder - When I use normal explorer to view the efs folder it was actually empty but as soon as I did this, a compressed folder appeared in my sd card and the efs folder actually contains everything necessary to restore the IMEI. THIS IS FREE! USE ADB:

type:

adb shell
su
busybox tar zcvf /sdcard/efs-backup.tar.gz /efs

thats it