get juice defender from the market. and dont have your phone auto update fb/twitter/etc so often. when i first got my vibrant i put everything to the max and got like 5 hours of battery life on moderate use.

Well it all depends on how you use it as well.

Well, my phone soft bricked on me today after 2 months of usage. Non-lag fix, non-flashed, non-rooted. Thank goodness for the 3 button recovery. Lost all my apps though (but contacts and sms still stayed). I shat bricks today.

^ is a sign that telling you your phone will die in a couple of week or even days. Happened to me as well.

^ are you serious?! fuuuuuuuu...... I just finished re-installing my apps and widgets too. Took me half the day.

install titanium backup. will reinstall ur aps in 10 mins

titanium requires rooting, does it not?

yea man.. i got the soft brick issue happen every fucking 4 days or week. so i have to reinstall shit over and over. Finally i just gave up and say fuck it and use it without any apps. Think a week later the phone turn off by itself and would not boot up. Tried recovery mode and got a red msg saying E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1. Once in a while it will boot up after like restarting the phone over and over again, however it will not detect my external and internal storage. So i can't save anything. Checked online and most people who had this issue said is related to the faulty internal memory or the mainboard. Bought it back to bell and the guy decided to restart the phone and low and behold nothing but black screen. So my phone got sended in for repair. I Hope they replace the faulty chip or mainboard so i don't have to deal with this ticking time bomb ever again. Once again the phone is nice and shit, but if i have to deal with shit like this every week. No fucking way i'm keeping it.

I'm going to collect the insurance on mine and sell the replacement as these phones just have to many issues. Too bad its a great phone if it worked.

ok gps hardware fix. did this and the thing works perfectly. before with software it was hit and miss. I thought it was fixed but after a few days the gps stopped working again, until i did this fix.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878970

Just bought this phone today. Pretty impressed with it.

Is it possible to get free apps like the iphone? and is 2.2 out yet for the rogers one?

Also im having trouble transferring media files to it. Do I need to download a transfer program to transfer through "Media Player" ? When i select "Mass Storage" and go into "My Computer" on my desktop theres an "F" and "G" removable disk but neither of them work....

TIA

^The next step is to drag down the menu on your phone and click on the usb line and click "mount". After that, you should be able to use your phone as mass storage.

thanks. Kies has to be the worst thing ever.

Yes! Got off the phone with rogers and I'll be getting my galaxy s in a few days :). Bye bye BBM

QFT

Tried fixing my brother in laws SGS and it was hopeless. Internal was not responding to any pushed files from ADB. He just sent his out today and hopefully he'll get a new unit. His was stock and unrooted as well.

It seems to be hit and miss and it looks like I have been one of the lucky ones to have a perfectly good unit. Knock on wood!

got this phone today as well

what are some of the must haves or must get apps for this phone?

and where can you download free themes?

thanks

for me, it's

appbrain
launcher pro plus
advanced task killer
google voice search
facebook
google maps
handcent

what are some of u guys favorite live wallpapers? Trynna find one that i can stick to that doesn't lag and drain the phones battery.

applanet

What kind of protection are you guys using on your phones? Thinking of getting a screen protector but not really sure if I'll need it. A matte one to be exact.

Also anyone care to post pics of their galaxy s :$ kind of interested as to how everyone's looks.

anyone use antivirus for android? Is it needed? i see a bunch on the market but not sure if it's necessary.

what kind of locks were you getting before you did the hardware fix?My GPS locks, but is at times inaccurate + takes quite a long time to get initial lock. I just want to know if I'll be seeing a significant change before I pry open my phone

Not really needed for this phone. I've tried many screen protectors and they all blow. Bare screen is best! It is Gorilla Glass BTW.

However I do use the Barely There case from Casemate. Couldn't find it anywhere so I bought it directly from them. Best case hands down!!!

do they have the case for the galaxy s cap? did not see it on their website.


i just bought a cheap rubber case today from jp cell