Yes. Previously on 5800XM, I synced all my contacts to my Outlook client on the computer. Then I exported from Outlook into a CSV file, and imported the CSV into my Google Contacts database. Finally, sync SGS phone to my Google account (Contacts, Calendar, Gmail sync).

There may be an option to export contacts from the 5800 to some VCF or other format and import that directly into the SGS, but I haven't tried this one. Have been syncing with Outlook since my S60v1, PalmOS5 and WM5-6 days..

Never installed Kies before, don't like it. I've seen the screenshots of the app, very flashy UI, but seems somewhat bloated (like itunes, that piece of sh1t) and I'm a bit old school in this respect, I kinda miss the simple and light WM activesync and Palm sync tools of the old days..

This post has been edited by kmrdeva: Jan 11 2011, 12:45 PM

No such icon on my Darky 8.0 (non-wipe).

It's really up to you if you wanna stay with Darky 7x, but since the fella released non-wipe versions of his recent roms, I've been religiously updating to his latest. I mean it takes about 10-15 minutes to download the rom, 2 minutes to transfer it to the phone and probably at most 5-10 minutes to install it and get the phone booted up into the new rom. No data is lost, settings seem to be intact too, not really much to worry about, IMHO.

8.0 has been really cool. With speedmod K12* kernel added in, it's even better

P/S Just did a non-wipe upgrade for my colleague's SGS this morning, from her old 'stock JPO + speedmod k10*' to 'darky 8.0 + speedmod k12k' - didn't even break a sweat and a happy 'customer' makes for a happy me.

Speedmod K10L is at test3 version now, quite stable so far. Latest firmware as far as I am concerned is Android 2.2.1 XXJPY firmware (Europe).

You probably have to use ODIN to flash back to stock firmware, which will wipe and factory reset everything. Not 100% sure because it's been months since I used OCLF and I have never used Kies before.

Oops, my bad.. Sleepy from lunch..

Same here, but I wipe cache and dalvik after the kernel update - both tasks done via CWM then I reboot the phone.

Yes, and you could have directly updated to darky 8.0 (2.2.1 jpy) from 2.1 too. No need to go to JPO at all.

It does happen to me quite often. In fact, I am so fed up with this that I only now read the latest forum postings on the phone. All replies are typed at the computer hence why I seem quite inactive in the forum.

If only LYN forum would support Tapatalk..

I don't know, actually, that's why I don't post anything nowadays on LYN forum unless I am at the PC or on my iPad.

Could be, I am not as young as I was before and my eyesight is not as good already..

Anyway, it's too much hassle for me..

This post has been edited by kmrdeva: Jan 16 2011, 03:58 PM

The best battery life I've experienced so far, with the phone. With my usual usage, the phone would be down to 50% by 2-3pm but today, it was 75% at 3pm, and now it's 45% at 8:30pm.

Note : Phone left the charger at 8am.

I had set brightness to auto since K12M.

It just boot animation, so I'm not too bothered - I only power down/up once in the morning when swapping batteries. Darky 8.1 with Speedmod K12N has been the best in terms of battery life for me, it's almost 5:30pm now and my phone still has 65% of juice left since leaving the charger at 8am. Disabling lagfix must be one of the main contributing factors..

I have K12O - 250 tar, cwm_zip and 500 tar, cwm_zip. Want? PM me with your email address, I will send whichever you want.

Normally only the 500Hz flavours are available on xda-developers. For 250Hz, you'd have to go to the TiP site which hosts the files in Google Docs, if I am not mistaken.

Sure, read through the first few posts of this thread. Lots of useful info and guides there.

Guys, I just found and installed an FTP server app on my phone. So much easier to access my internal and external storage now - I use Filezilla client on my computer to ftp download/upload files from/to the phone via wifi. Much more convenient to me than plugging in the phone via USB and mounting as mass storage.

Also using Filezilla to ssh transfer files with my jailbroken iPad. Good thing Filezilla client is available both for Windows and Linux (I am linux-only @ home).

The 'ftpserver' app (from Market) also supports ftp connections via 3G but I haven't tested this. Seems there is also another ftp server alternative - swiftp server, I think.

This post has been edited by kmrdeva: Jan 20 2011, 02:12 PM

Perhaps you can consider using Odin instead..