Yep, that's my experience as well. Voodoo is built off the open source kernel released by Google. Samsung has done lots of customizations on top of this kernel that improve battery life tremendously (on the Galaxy but that isn't saying much). I'm on the JM8+Voodoo4 kernel and it's been going ok so far.


As much as I'd like to believe this, SamFirmware is not Samsung official and hence, it's no more than an unsubstantiated rumour at this point. I'll believe it when I see it. The Galaxy S and all its problems (lag, GPS, mysterious power drains, half assed Froyo implementation) and Samsung's inability to acknowledge much less fix them has seriously made me think twice about owning any future Samsung products.

Yeah, SGS still has lots of unrealized potential. Samsung just needs to hire better developers.

How's the performance after converting all the fs to ext4? I figured the intermittent slowdowns with Voodoo was caused by accessing files on non-ext4 partitions.

Yeh, Voodoo on default kernel was a battery sucker for me too. But strangely, the earlier betas - Voodoo 1 and 2 - were okay despite locking the CPU at a constant 1Ghz. Could just be my imagination.

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Added on October 27, 2010, 1:45 pmDid you try Voodoo JM8? Was there a discernible difference in terms of performance/power consumption? Reason I'm asking is that I'm on Voodoo JM8 and too darn lazy to move up to Voodoo JM9 unless there's a marked improvement.

Also, I find that games like Abduction which use the sensor will not properly disable the sensor after exiting. This is a huge power drain for me even on Voodoo JM8 as the sensor's running at 100% the whole time. I've only been able to fix this by reseting the phone. Weird.


I've identified a few battery sucking apps which I've either uninstalled or do not run at all, not sure if you guys agree:
1. WhatsApp (lagged, delayed messages, sucked power, no way to disable)
2. Trillian (this was a real battery killer - I hate it now)
3. eBuddy (was always a battery killer)
4. Tweetdeck (great app, shame about the power suckiness)

This post has been edited by guppy: Oct 27 2010, 01:45 PM

Hey, thanks for the feedback. Guess I'll stay with JM8-Voodoo till a better Froyo comes along (or CM6!)
I agree that WhatsApp is really awesome. I used it as an SMS/MMS replacement for a few weeks until messages got delayed sometimes by a day. Also encountered lags when sending messages. I dumped it for those very reasons. My friends who both own Desires complained of the delayed messages but they didn't experience any lags. No surprises right that the Desire performs way better than our SGS? Anyways, if they can fix their servers and minimize the lags, I'd be more than eager to jump on the WhatsApp wagon again. Good to know that you find it useful though.


Oh yeah, I recall reading your post. But for the life of me, I couldn't find it for reference. Thanks for reposing. I didn't do an exhaustive search but I found a similar complaint on XDA but it didn't generate much attention. But either way, I am particularly cautious of running these apps.

I found that LineUp (game) to be a culprit as well. Not sure about Hungry Shark though.


Same here, except for the centralized push. Guess I can live without a constant stream of emails .
You read my mind, am thinking of a separate workhorse phone with good ergonomics and stellar battery life so I can make the SGS my weekend phone. Am even considering a pre-owned Treo Pro (WinMo my gods!). Guess my love affair with Palm will never die.

I dumped meebo because I didn't like the interface. eBuddy and Trillian look so much better - but at the cost of battery life. Now that you've mentioned meebo being conservative on power usage - I might give it a try again. Ever tried Nimbuzz or Fring?

The Push email service in Samsung's Social Hub is actually a rebrand of Seven's service. You should be able to download the apk for Froyo from Seven's website iianm. I don't quite like the idea of a separate email app just for Seven's push email though - it was much better on WinMobile where the inbox was integrated directly into Pocket Outlook.

It definitely is killing your battery, I think the lack of infrastructure is to be blamed. There's still hope though, once more developers get on board Google's C2DM.


Not quite. The fact that there's a Samsung Email program in itself bugs me. Would have been better if they just used the standard Email app. I'm being picky I know.

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Added on October 27, 2010, 7:42 pmGPS problem is outstanding.

Difference with Wildfire? Man.. quite a bit. The price point should already tell you that both devices belong in different classes.

Froyo? Yes. But not all regions.

Do some research, you can easily find your answers on Google.


This post has been edited by guppy: Oct 27 2010, 07:42 PM

Nope you gotta download the apk off their website. Although when you first register.. it will send an SMS to some foreign number. It does this only once from my experience. I've used Seven's push email services on my Palm centro, Windows Mobile and SGS - so it's not a new fly by night kind of service. It's been around a few years. Worked great on WinMob, used it for about a year. Only reason am not using it now on SGS is because I think it's a bit of a battery drain plus I don't like the email client it comes with. Just my personal preference.

This post has been edited by guppy: Oct 27 2010, 10:45 PM

Don't think so. Who'd want to support a bloated and slow runtime environment? Java applets are a curse and there's good reason why it didn't take off. =)

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Added on October 30, 2010, 4:42 pmI'm still on Cupcake, you insensitive clod.


This post has been edited by guppy: Oct 30 2010, 04:42 PM