Samsung Galaxy S... highest spec Android phone released... also with QWERTY!

Yeah, you would have a much better experience on a non-branded firmware. So you're on a 3 (H3G) 2.2 firmware? I'd suggest Samsung's JS5 if you can debrand it, it's a lot faster and lag-free, plus less bloat. I'm now on Darky's ROM 9.2 (based on JPY) and it's probably the best I've used so far. 9.3 will be out in not too long as well, which will be based on a newer firmware.

Don't check out this guide here, should have the phone running super-sweet if you do it.

Use this one now.

Just make sure you've read up on using Odin and checked the 3-button fix if yours doesn't work. I have a H3G handset and it didn't.
 
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My 3 button recovery mode worked so I decided that I should give it a go...

I was looking at using Darky's 9.2 but decided on a fairly generic Docs rom from the romkitchen site. (Only Samsung music player and the Kies plugin installed)
My only concern with flashing this was the fact that it's a new handset (for me) and I really didn't want it broken. Went ahead with it anyway though as I'd flashed the G1 a good few times and even on the occasion where it went wrong, the internet helped. There's such a large following with this phone that all problems look like they can be fixed.

The whole process went smoothly.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=926399

I found that helped a bit, along with a couple of other generic "do this" sites.
Phone has only been up for about 10 minutes but already my issues with the slow navigation have been cleared, an amazing difference to how "responsive" it feels. :)
Will test it out today to make sure it works, as long as it's fine then all I'll need to be happy is a stable 2.3 release. :D
 
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Emlyn_Dewar said:
My 3 button recovery mode worked so I decided that I should give it a go...

I was looking at using Darky's 9.2 but decided on a fairly generic Docs rom from the romkitchen site. (Only Samsung music player and the Kies plugin installed)
My only concern with flashing this was the fact that it's a new handset (for me) and I really didn't want it broken. Went ahead with it anyway though as I'd flashed the G1 a good few times and even on the occasion where it went wrong, the internet helped. There's such a large following with this phone that all problems look like they can be fixed.

The whole process went smoothly.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=926399

I found that helped a bit, along with a couple of other generic "do this" sites.
Phone has only been up for about 10 minutes but already my issues with the slow navigation have been cleared, an amazing difference to how "responsive" it feels. :)
Will test it out today to make sure it works, as long as it's fine then all I'll need to be happy is a stable 2.3 release. :D
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Enjoy your new found love for this great phone. You say you installed only 2 apps though, it's not a G1, you're got 2gb of app storage to use. I've got 80-90 programs installed and it still runs good
 
Nah, just those 2 tacked on when customising in romkitchen, will install everything else as I need from the market. :)
I seriously can't believe the phone is released in such a state by Samsung. Really thankful that there's a big Android development community, it makes such a difference.
 
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I've also just got a new Galaxy S. Generated a 110% barebones ROM from the kitchen, and I'm very pleased :)
Running smooth as silk and crud free. All I really left on there to start with was LauncherPro and the FM radio app.
I've also applied the stock lockscreen from here-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=784992&page=46
Building a decent custom skin is on my agenda when I've got things setup the way I want them.

Looking for a couple of things though-
1. Anyone seen a way to remove the power control thing from the statusbar?
2. I'm after a decent set of calendar widgets. I want one 4x1 to go on my main homescreen with upcoming events & a second 4x4 calendar view one for secondary screen usage. Reccomendations?

-Leezer-
 
Nice work.

As for the calendars, try pure calendar agenda with a transparent or semi-transparent theme. Looks great on my setup and works with all the calendars.
 
New CM7 build fixing bits of the camera i see! Just need them to fix the internal/external sd issues then i'm sold as I use my phone as my music player so..
 
gam3r said:
New CM7 build fixing bits of the camera i see! Just need them to fix the internal/external sd issues then i'm sold as I use my phone as my music player so..
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CM7 is really great just works so well and the amount of customizations you can do is just amazing compared to all other roms xD. But im waiting for darky 9.3 to come out then ill stick with that for awhile till CM7 is finish. The speed of updates is very good thou now so shouldnt be to long.
 
Yup I'm on CM7, and very happy with all except battery life. I am only getting about 8 hours a day :(

Will prob go back to either DocRom, or Darky 9.3 and stay on that for a bit :)

CM7 is VERY VERY good however!
 
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CM7 is really great just works so well and the amount of customizations you can do is just amazing compared to all other roms xD. But im waiting for darky 9.3 to come out then ill stick with that for awhile till CM7 is finish. The speed of updates is very good thou now so shouldnt be to long.
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Just because I don't want to kill my phone, do you mind letting me know the process to go back to a normal Rom (Darky 9.2 probably). I know I cannot just flash it from CWM after I've put on CM7, I need to do it from ODIN, but not too sure of the process!

Thanks,

Mal
 
I'm far too scared to even think about posting this on XDA.

I am currently running Darky's 9.1. I want to do a FULL reset, completely back to factory stock, formatted internal SD etc and then install a custom ROM I've generated via Romkitchen.

What's the best way of going about it? Once it's back to factory I'm guessing I'll be able to drag CWM onto the phone via USB and then install my custom ROM via CWM?
 
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I'm far too scared to even think about posting this on XDA.

I am currently running Darky's 9.1. I want to do a FULL reset, completely back to factory stock, formatted internal SD etc and then install a custom ROM I've generated via Romkitchen.

What's the best way of going about it? Once it's back to factory I'm guessing I'll be able to drag CWM onto the phone via USB and then install my custom ROM via CWM?
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I pretty much did this when going from CM7 to Darky 9.3.

Obviously only do this if you have the 3 button download mode.

Remove external SD (just incase you format it by mistake!)
I don;t know if what I did was correct, but it worked and everything was completely clean.

What I did was:

Boot into CWM
Wipe Data / factory reset
Wipe Cache partition
Wipe Dalvic Cache

Go to Mounts and Storage
Format system, data, cache and SD Card

Take out battery, put back in.

Boot into Download Mode.

Flash Darky resurection 9.2 (ODIN) ROM using ODIN, using Repartition. Flash PIT file and PDA from the package.

This puts the clean files on plus the correct CWM.

Then put the CWM ROm on your internet SD and flash in CWM.

Mal :)
 
Over Clocker said:
Just because I don't want to kill my phone, do you mind letting me know the process to go back to a normal Rom (Darky 9.2 probably). I know I cannot just flash it from CWM after I've put on CM7, I need to do it from ODIN, but not too sure of the process!

Thanks,

Mal
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I just flash a stock rom (JPU), the usually way with odin. Then I just rooted the phone with cf-root so you can return to recover e2. Then finally ran CWM and flash your rom as usually. Just incase you didnt know you can download the darky app from the market to customizes the rom. Hope it helps

Edit: Just read you already back on darky xD sorry for the late reply dude
 
I'm looking at getting a SGS second hand. So if the unit doesnt have this 3 click recovery thing i wont be able to flash custom roms etc?

Also what is this im reading about their being different varients in hardware. Has it really changed since launch units?
 
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I'm looking at getting a SGS second hand. So if the unit doesnt have this 3 click recovery thing i wont be able to flash custom roms etc?

Also what is this im reading about their being different varients in hardware. Has it really changed since launch units?
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3-button problem can be fixed - it's just as risky as flashing a custom kernel, so it should be alright. I fixed mine with no problems.

The different variants in hardware are regional. The GT-i9000 is the international one that we use.
 
Just wanted to say I just got this phone and its pretty amazing coming from the T-Mobile G2 Touch (HTC Hero) Looks like I am missing out on so much more this phone can do because I just use the standard operating system. Is there any standard apps you can get to improve the overall performance or does it require flashing roms or rooting the phone.

Regards
 
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