Most of the time, I slept through it.

I think smarter phones would be to slaps me awake.

Welcome to the club, mate.

1) sim removal is not necessary as most firmware flashing happens before Android is loaded, which means the telephony service is not loaded. Your sim won't be receiving calls.

Yeah, I always treat my phone like a micro-computer more than just a phone like Nokia (which can wakes up on alarm clock settings, lol).

Fring 1 - 0 Tango
for being able to utilize the front camera on video call and ability to have text chat.

Fring 1 - 0 Facetime
for being instantaneous on video calling, while Facetime takes decades to establish connections on both ends.


No sharing option for Facebook S!, a big boo-boo. You need to do that using FB for Android instead.

You can try placing the Daily Briefing widget onto your homescreen. It kinda sucks, I know, but if you tap on it, it will bring you to the app with listing of today's schedules. Works almost similarly to what you wanted.

This is similar to defragging the partition.

Without reformatting the partition, just by moving the data into the sdcard temporarily, then do a clean wipe on the partition then move back the data, might be able to fix the lag too.

Anyone know how to write this kind of script and run it as update.zip?

This would be good.

I wanted to compile something similar, but I'm just too lazy and busy at the same time. Besides, I don't bookmark everything that I read/went through. So it's gonna be a pain to dig them back up on the net.

A first page on a new thread called "Risky Stuff You Can Do To Your Samsung Galaxy S" would be nice, with all the information compiled together and reachable with 1 click.

Yes, you did.

But chronically, one should check to see if 3-button recovery/download mode is enable on the phone.

Before, proceeding to rooting the phone or applying any other kinds of patches/fixes/firmwares of whatsoever.

This is the kind of 1-click page thing that I'm expecting to look at, rather than reading through the whole thread, the whole 6 versions.

It's more like a friendly guide for newbies whom just bought their phones.

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Added on October 23, 2010, 2:09 pmIf this is the case, then your 1st page is no longer providing the 1-click convenience that we were discussing earlier.

Anyway, I still have the OneClick Root files with me. The DOS batch file, which is more widely compatible than running the Windows program which requires .NET framework 4.

I can send the files to the starter for that guide page that we talked about earlier.

This post has been edited by Harddisk: Oct 23 2010, 02:17 PM

That's why a new thread, preferably sticky, with ALL the necessary info for the risky patches.

Aside from that, reply to thread preferably restricted to contributions, rather than speaking their hearts out kind of replies. Then TS can update on the 1st (2nd or 3rd if deem necessary) posts on the info contributed by the community by crediting the poster and the source of info (if any). Replies made would be deleted once TS updated the top posts in order to keep the thread clean so other new owners don't have to scroll through the pages.

Who's free to monitor his/her own thread and do updates. Otherwise, we could create a joint blog, where searching for info might be easier and more accurate.

Yes, there are indeed many ROMS to catch up to that I don't even bother checking them out, yet.

But first and foremost, we can always start with:
1) check if recovery/download mode is available for the phone by trying the 3-button salute, without connecting any cable to the phone. If it doesn't work, confirm and see if it works by connecting the cable to a PC (with SGS USB driver installed) and try the 3-button salute again.

2) Once step 1's recovery mode is attained, instructions on rooting the phone can be provided on step 2. Links to download One Click Root will be provided, which is pretty foolproof with simple instructions provided [optional] <-- (flagged as optional step)

3) As for step 3, it's for our important lag fixes. For Voodoo, we can skip step 2. As for OCLF, step 2 has to be performed first. With brief and simple, easily understandable instructions. Additional warning notice on using z4mod (did I spelt it correctly) as it might risk wiping the data. [optional] <-- (flagged as optional step)

4) etc etc...

These are the few simple stuff I can think of right on top of my head. Of course, these has to be compiled in a more "formal" manner with better English grammar and such. Easily understood instructions as well. This would helps a lot of newbie, such as myself without have to hunt high and low in Google/XDA.

As for keeping it clean, we would need moderators' help already.

It would be best if we don't put these on the next version as the version keep rolling and TS has to keep copying the 1st post. Might as well start a new 1, with sticky and hopefully users would only submit contributions and not questions. Questions in asking for additional useful info to be added would be most welcome, of course.

Just my 2c worth.

And of course, those lucky HTC Desire owners wouldn't have to go through what we had did to our phone. Mainly on lagfixes. lol

PS: I started to sense slowness in my phone after Voodoo Beta4 now. Will reboot the phone and see if it helps.

Hi skydrake,

Instead of compiling into PDF, perhaps you can start a Google Doc's Word document and shared it to the few who would volunteer to contribute info on their knowledge and experience? For once, I could provide you with 3-button recovery fix and 1-click root info + files.

What do you think?

PS: we should add in links to download the official Eclair ROM for users who bricked their phones during the flash process. So they wouldn't have to search high and low only when their bricked their phone. You know how it's like finding stuff during desperations.

This post has been edited by Harddisk: Oct 24 2010, 12:09 AM

Likewise. I'd rather they buy iphone4 and don't come bug me with problems if their SGS/Android phone requires more than just normal user's intervention.

Wow, sweeeeet! Very good for our screen too, power saving.

Friend, are you on Eclair?

I got the Contact -> Menu -> More -> Copy contacts -> Phone to SIM/SIM to Phone options.

Mind telling us which firmware version you are on?

Home screen -> Menu -> Settings -> About phone (last entry) -> scroll to bottom
Can state to us the last 4 entries?

Firmware version, Baseband version, Kernel version, Build number

Hope the veterans here can help.

Because Desire users don't discuss about applying lagfix?

*lari*

What's your battery's voltage when you are at 100%?

Go to dialer, press *#*#4636#*#* (it spells "info" in T9), select "Battery information".

I've got my battery status posted here. Yellow = pre-deletion of batterystats.bin

https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Am..._GB&output=html

Not very extensive. I wished I had recorded more before I rooted my phone and deleted the batterystats.bin on a whim.

Like this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765419

No more going back to home screen to check on Battery Stat widget.

This is the next best mod after lagfix. Even rooting the phone has to be placed 3rd compared to this.

Ever occur to you it could be your PC's problem?

Anyway, I'm on WinXP Pro SP3 and I had never encountered any problem on connecting to Kies or USB driver or whatsoever. I just installed Kies from the CD supplied. Then it just happens to manage to connect to my PC. I was afraid it might face problem even after installing drivers cause my Windows memang sot sot 1.

Later after that, only I noticed in the forum that many can't get their USB to work. I guess I was lucky? It just works fine on 1st install.

Aside from that, Kies sucks. It's damn slow interfacing with the phone via USB. Too bad no BT options, like Nokia's PC Suite/Ovi.

USB debugging is not really necessary for accessing the drive in the phone. Just the USB mounting thing will do.

USB debugging is needed if want to access the phone using adb.exe though.

I've heard this countless times. But I still have no idea how to flash back to stock ROM.

I mean, where do we get the firmware files? Or just force it through via Kies?

I hope someone can explain on this to relieve me of my worries.