Galaxy S Bugs & Firmware Sugestions

[gino_76ph]

All of the ones's below are addressed to Samsung and to anyone else experiencing these stuff. please feel free to give comments.



1. BUG!!! when surfing the internet using the in-built browser (or any 3rd-party browser) 10/10 times the Auto-fit function does not work. And this is for ANY website I have tried so far.

2. a way to enhance and smoothen how an app (or an acitivty like playing music or watching a video) closes and goes back to the main home screen ala iPhone. (READ: the way it fades back or a millisecond door closing like the iPhone)

3. a way for the auto-rotate function smoothly and better like the iPhone. The Galaxy S rotates ?roughly? and the 1GHX processor surely should do something like what the iPhone does. And a lot better!

4. a way to ?boost? the in-built wi-fi signal. My router is N-standard and when I go to my room which is 7 steps away (and only blocked by a small thin wall) the signal greatly degrades which In my opinion is odd.

5. a way to be able to use some Google or 3rd party app or when doing another task (like looking through photos) when playing an MP3 file on the background. For example in my experience when I was playing an MP3 file and when I went to Google Maps the music stops playing. Why???

6. URGENT!!! multitasking please to be a norm! Surely with a 1GHz processor there should me very minimal slowdown when opening and using multiple apps; 4 out of 10 times the phone freezes and goes very slow when doing multiple tasks and the more files (especially music and videos) you put on it.

7. when playing an MP3 file to use the 5.1 channel surround sound function ?in conjunction? or ?in unison? even if the Equaliser and the Effect function are set to a user's preference.

8. on the Main and Applications home screen the ability to sift through each home screen continously. For example if I was on home screen # 7 and I want to go back to home screen #1 without having to press the main center ?Home button? and going back 7 steps why not make sifting through home screens continously. Can you see what I mean by this?

9. swipe sideways to unlock like the iPhone

10. a battery-saving app please!!! i've charged my brand-new Galaxy S and once I start using it (just using weather, news and watching a video the battery slowly starts fading away after say 15 minutes.

11. BUG??? when the 3G/HSDPA signal is too low (between 0 to 2 bars which is beyond my control) the wi-fi is automatically turned-on for some reason.

12. when zooming in on a photo (using pinch-to-zoom) taken from the phone the picture doesn't ?sharpens? itself unlike the iPhone

again, these things are non-exhaustive and more might turn up. these are all bsed on my 2-weeks with my brand new Galaxy S.
please feel free to give your comments......

[Jroid8]

I have a Samsung captivate and the best way to reduce many of these problems is to get your phone rooted. My music player plays in the background with all my apps so i'm not sure why yours wouldn't. But after rooting my phone i was able to increase the processing speed used which helps your phones speed but depletes battery life....But with a task manager its not as bad...but yea root your phone and a whole new world opens up

[gino_76ph]

sorry but what do you mean by rooting my phone? i'm just a normal/intermediate phone user.

and what task manager would you recommend?

[KerryG]

I have a T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant and certainly don't have the level of issues that you do. In heavy use I can get 5-6 hours of use, after installing Juice Defender I get 8-12. With more moderate use I get 16-17 hours.

I don't know about the other Galaxy S phones, but I can swipe any direction I want to unlock the screen. The entire lock screen slides out of the way, I don't need it to be more iPhone-like.

As for the interface, try LauncherPro, I like it much better than the default TouchWiz interface and its much smoother and rotates.

[gino_76ph]

i have managed to ring and speak to a real person at Samsung UK (smartphones department) yesterday and i told them all about the bugs and various issues/concerns of mine particularly the issue of multitasking and closing of apps being slow (strangely when the signal is low or when the battery is running low) PLUS the dreaded black screens.

surely with a fast processor the Galaxy S should be a lot faster than its nearest rival the iPhone4.

and what is this rumour (or truth?) going around that the processor and/or RAM has been slightly underclocked by Samsung? (the person yesterday said they don't deal with rumours.just bugs & issues).

[antoeknee]

Re item 8

if you want to go to any particular screen just touch the dot (at the top of the screen) for the home screen you want to go to

Re item 9

as others have said swipe any direction to unlock

[gino_76ph]

i also noticed another bug. whilst i'm listening to my MP3 files and when i go to gallery and viewing my photos, etc. the music mysteriously skips to the next song. anyone noticed this?

[Rahman]

I have the Samsung Galaxy GT-i9000. I updated the firmware from 2.1 to 2.2 Froyo (FROYO.BVJP8) kernel version 2.6.32.9 root@SE-S611#1. Since then i have noticed that when the set is being charged the Alarm clock does not go of. It works fine when the set is running on the battery. Can someone help me?