I remember he told me this (he's a KL fella, working in SG) some months back when he responded to my paypal donation..

K12U is out - probably very useful for holypredator as he/she needs near-perfect GPS performance.

BTW, was surfing about on hardcore's blog - I am guessing the geeky chap on the right is da MAN himself..





Am thinking to go back to Darky (9.2 now, yes?) - Had 3 unexplainable incidents where my phone shut down by itself and this only happened with Doc's kitchen ROM as far as I can remember..

This post has been edited by kmrdeva: Feb 6 2011, 05:24 PM

Oops, just saw your PM. Replied.

I haven't used lagfix since moving up to Froyo 2.2.1 ROMs. Phone seems pretty snappy without lagfix and enabling lagfix for me has only made the phone very slightly quicker but with significantly higher battery consumption.

Personally, I am not using speedmod because it's a Malaysian 'product' ha ha (otherwise I'd have kept my 10 yr old Iswara instead of selling it off to buy a 2nd hand Peugeot). I use speedmod because of all the kernels I've tried, speedmod has been most stable, speedy and battery saving. I don't like overclocking or underclocking so speedmod is my cup of tea..

Voodoo kernels are nice too. I just like the tweaks that are available in speedmod.

This post has been edited by kmrdeva: Feb 6 2011, 10:23 PM

Still on Doc's ROM. No time yet to backup then go Darky. I'm using Gingermix theme, seems ok.

Could be the theme, but anyway, I am itchy to go back to Darky, 9.2 now. Don't feel like playing with the Doc Kitchen anymore..

This post has been edited by kmrdeva: Feb 8 2011, 05:10 PM

Wishing you all the best, erymanthus. Am doing a full Titanium backup now, I will likely go to Darky 9.2 or stock JS3 rom by midnight tonite, with speedmod kernel of course..

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Added on February 8, 2011, 5:54 pmGSMArena also has a review on the LG Optimus 2x, not all positive too.

Personally, I am not yet very impressed with the upcoming multicore (dual or soon to be quad) super-phones.

Firstly, it seems that most are being launched/released with Froyo 2.2 or Gingerbread 2.3, both of which seemingly unable to take advantage of the additional processor cores. And today, I am seeing multiple tweets about Gingerbread 2.4 which is claimed to have better multicore support and also compatibility with apps built for Honeycomb 3.0.

Secondly, I really want to see better battery life confirmed and proven on these new Android phones first. My no.1 beef with the SGS is the miserable battery life, namely for those of us mobile warriors who need UMTS/HSDPA data connectivity 24x7. I am sorely tempted to change back to Blackberry (9780, hmm) because the SGS may be more flashy and functional, but I was most productive when I had my BB..

Or maybe carry both phones, the SGS for multimedia, light gaming and wifi-only online use and the BB for calls, messaging, email and realtime push FB, Foursquare, Twitter notifications..

This post has been edited by kmrdeva: Feb 8 2011, 06:00 PM

Flash to Samsung 2.2.1 ROM.

Or try changing kernel to a customized kernel, e.g. speedmod, and enable lagfix.

Update : Am back in the loving arms of Darky ROM, oh how I missed ya..

This post has been edited by kmrdeva: Feb 9 2011, 01:06 PM

Last time I tried CM6.1 beta 2 or 3. The improvement in speed was nothing special but I did like the AOSP UI (lots of stuff that can be configured under Settings compared to Samsung ROM) - battery consumption was pretty bad, though.

With this CM7-Test, it's still a no go for me, due to these listed issues:

KNOWN BUGS (especially those I emphasized in bold)

- LQ Video Playback (overlay problem)
- Camera
- Polling problem on RIL (works after lock and unlock)
- 2G/3G toggle (works if no data connection is active)
- Compass (works not at 100%)
- USB sharing of external SD-Card
- commands: reboot recovery, reboot download (maybe not possible to implement)
- FM-Radio
- TV-Out
- Charging if Phone is powered off causes the phone to boot
- Random reboots, especially if wlan is enabled

This post has been edited by kmrdeva: Feb 9 2011, 04:32 PM

Avoid it even more if you did read the stuff on the CM pages and still don't understand what it is.. Very bleeding edge / experimental stuff for the SGS, in my opinion.

SamFirmware tweeted about Samsung testing 2.3 for SGS and potentially releasing test/stable roms in March. On another note, news and speculation are coming out regarding Gingerbread 2.4 now (not sure if we'll get this, though)..

This post has been edited by kmrdeva: Feb 10 2011, 01:01 AM

Assuming your bt headset support A2DP, just check this out in the bt settings screen of the phone - long tap on the headset in your 'bluetooth devices' section, then go to 'options'. Finally, ensure that both 'phone' and 'media' are checked under 'profiles'.

Good to hear that you're all set now. I do use 'selection' feature because I have 2 BT headsets - a Jabra BT530 for calls only, so I enable 'headset' and a Dell BH200 stereo headset for music/video so I only check 'media' for this device.

Actually, my no.1 reason for going SGS instead of iPhone4 was Adobe Flash. The ability to view websites and embedded flash videos (e.g. Facebook, Engadget, Gizmodo etc) as how they're seen on a PC was the killer factor for me, as I am a very heavy Tweetdeck user (lots of vid links embedded in peoples' tweets and FB updates).

I really hate web browsing on my iPad, Safari sucks ass for one and I am still looking for a seamless web browser that would let me play embedded videos instead of having to launch separate apps to play them (e.g. youtube app, videotime for facebook). On the other hand, battery life on the iPad is great (10 hours non stop use on 1 full charge) and I'd expect the iPhone4 to also last longer than the SGS..

Note : Yes, I did buy my SGS when it was still only Eclair, but Samsung did confirm Froyo for the model, and now we're all at 2.2.1.

This post has been edited by kmrdeva: Feb 13 2011, 10:33 PM

Agree 100% there. I was in the Apple section of LYN and stated in one of the threads that I had 400+ apps on my iPad. Straight away my post was deleted and I received a warning PM from the mod about discussing warez. No one even asked me first if those 400+ apps are proper paid apps or pirated apps. Knee-jerk reaction, no? So now I just read the posts there but am no longer interested to contribute.

File transfer without iTunes is do-able only if you have a jailbroken iPhone or iPad (keyword : openssh).

Youtube lags on the SGS? Really? I'm on Digi and apart from a bit of waiting time when first loading a video, playback is smooth to me. Slightly jerkier when viewed in the web browser (I'm using Miren) but very convenient. Playback is crappy on the iPad, but I think it's because of Maxis (I have a maxis broadband sim in my iPad).

BTW, this if off-topic - wanna ask you, is there anything that needs to be set in iOS to enable youtube client to auto pickup and play a video from a web link in Safari? This is not happening for me.. (try http://sugoideas.com)

I've not had much lag since using 2.2.1 on my SGS, even on stock ROM with default stock kernel. Are you referring to 2.1 and 2.2 on the SGS? so far my only headache about the SGS is its poor battery life. A buddy of mine has ordered a 3000mAh batt for her phone - I am thinking about doing the same. My phone is more than just a phone, so I need all the extra juice I can get.

Well, I wouldn't quite say that iOS is perfectly smooth all the time. I do notice some slight lag on the iPad (probably since RAM is only 256MB compared to iPhone4's 512MB). And the OS has hung on me a few times. Very simple and speedy OS UI, though, I have to admit, but very limiting to a tech freak like me although I can see the appeal of iOS for normal smartphone users - speedy, trouble-free most of the time, lots of good apps and games to buy and install..

Ha ha, no harm no foul, it's always refreshing to hear other people's POVs especially when nicely expressed. I'm actually quite sad to see the state of Android phones now. I mean, new dualcore phones are being released with non-multicore-aware versions of Android when Google supposedly has Gingerbread 2.4 ready with GPU-driven UI components and multicore support.. What the hell??

1. With official SEA 2.2 firmware, yes. With current EUR 2.2.1 firmware, no.
2. 1500mAh seems not enough for this phone. With 24x7 data connectivity enabled, I get only 12-16 hours max on 1 full charge.
3. Custom ROM here. Smoother, speedier and nicer.
4. Apps are updated OTA (using Android Market). Firmwares not OTA.
5. Compare which aspects to iOS? For me, web browsing (Android > iOS) and gaming (iOS > Android).

Stock 2.2.1 firmware is actually pretty fine, but I prefer the look and performance of custom ROMs, namely speedmod kernel and Darky rom. I think the SGS will not suck lots of batt juice if you don't do online tasks and only play games and videos on it, but cannot say for certain because I don't use my phone like that.

Maybe you need an iPad

I thought cm7 for sgs still has loads of bugs or features not working? Like no 720p video recording and no HQ youtube playback? Am itchy to try CM7 but I need something I can use as a daily driver, not a bleeding edge ROM with issues..

You're like me, I bought the SGS quite early but without contract from Maxis, paid a lot of money for it. The overall lagginess caught me by surprise too since none of the reviews back then mentioned it. However, within a week or two, I was happy to see active development in xda-developers forum - starting with the early lagfixes by mimocan and ryanza. Once supercurio came on board with voodoo, things started looking up and now we even have custom ROMs and kernels

That's piracy, no? Probably not a good measure of quality because in theory your buddy would have been spending loads of money just to get to the stage of having so many nice apps on his iPhone4 - a much higher total cost of ownership than an Android phone which has more free or ad-supported apps available for download without needing to 'steal', so to speak. Anyway, I think the Android warez scene is also catching up but so far I have not installed any cracked paid apps on my SGS - keeping it clean and only using either free apps or paying for those apps I really need or want. IMHO, no use having 3000 apps of which only 20 are actively used.

In any case, the iOS UI is pretty good, definitely slicker than the current Android UI. Since Apple designed the hardware and software, it's nice to see smooth UI transitions due to GPU-accelerated graphics, something that is lacking on Android. I believe Gingerbread now has GPU-driven UI components, with Honeycomb totally accelerated by GPU. Thanks to Apple's innovations, we're starting to see improvements being pushed out in Android. Also, multitasking in iOS is unlike the true multitasking in Android which probably explains the better typical user experience on the former.

Still I cannot live without the versatility of Android, especially on the SGS:

1. Ability to practically play any video and audio format thrown at it.
2. Ability to mount internal and external storage like thumb drives on the PC, instead of needing an app like iTunes to transfer files.
3. Ability to play embedded Adobe Flash content in the web browser.
4. Superb notification system of Android, very informative but not intrusive.
5. Custom ROMs and custom kernels - can't do these funky things on my iPad.
6. 4 inch Super AMOLED display - size does matter to my aging eyes. 3.5 inch Retina just doesn't do it for me.
7. Ability to swap out batteries especially since there are no piggyback power packs for the SGS available locally compared to iPhone4.
8. Powerful adb cmd line interface for techie freak like me plus ftpserver on my phone for easy access to phone storage.
9. Easy to understand folder structure in Android. Trust me, if you sftp to a jailbroken iOS device, the folder structure is very hard to decipher.
10. Easy to full backup and restore a rooted SGS, from the phone itself. On iOS, iTunes on PC is the only option for device backup and it's seriously really crappy to use.

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Added on February 14, 2011, 5:08 pmYes buddy, I kena before. Tried some of the UI tweaking tools like infinifolders and modified themes on my iPad. Totally screwed up the device, had to restore iOS from scratch, jailbreak again and reinstall all my apps.. Seems that iOS 4.2.1 has issues with some of the UI tweak tools (lack of mobile substrate or something) and the sad thing is that I cannot downgrade iOS to 3.2.2.. Apple way is its way or the highway when it comes to iOS platform..

This post has been edited by kmrdeva: Feb 14 2011, 05:13 PM

Agreed. Digi seems to give me more stable connection with consistent speed. Maxis coverage is definitely better (in Penang island) but tends to be a bit inconsistent - sometimes I'm cruising along on HSDPA and suddenly the connection just stops there and then and picks up again after a while.

Note: I have an SGS with Digi SIM, and an iPad with Maxis SIM..