Bell's Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant (GT-i9000M) - DO NOT BUY! Galaxy, Samsung, Bell, BUY, Vibrant

pkphilip

Hey all,

If you are interested in getting a Galaxy S from Bell, DO NOT buy it. That device has a known issue with corrupted internal memory and ended up into a brick.

I own a Samsung Captivate and it has been great. My gf's Bell i9000m, is a total disaster. The internal memory got corrupted a night and Bell replaced it with a new one. A few weeks after, the screen was dead as one color no longer show up. Bell sent it out on repair.

Bell/Samsung released an update to 2.2 a few days ago, and 3 days after, they pulled it back due to the same internal memory corruption issues. Since then, Bell and Samsung wasn't saying anything about that.
http://www.examiner.com/technolo ... ernal-storage-fried

The question everyone has now is that why is this internal memory issue only happen on the i9000m and not the other Galaxy S devices??? This problem is a wide spread issues, and so far there are a lot of people (200 or so reported) with dead phones. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868569

Until Samsung get their stuff straighten out, I don't suggest buying the Bell's Galaxy S. Go get the Rogers Captivate or pick one up from the US.

Philip

pkphilip

You have to give Samsung credit for selling over 9.3M of Galaxy S globally, in S Korea... Samsung's sales is ahead of Apple. They are aiming 10M by the end of the year.

Philip

pkphilip

Since you are asking these kind of question, you will need to learn more before doing so.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=665

Lagfix is a way of using ext4 as the file system to speed up read/write process. Overclock is the ability to run the CPU at 1.2Ghz in exchange of shorter battery life.

I have not seen a need to overclock as the unit is already very fast after the lagfix and the battery will not last even 24 hours.

You should be looking at custom ROM, that will get rid of all the Samsung and Rogers bloat.

Philip

pkphilip

可惜你呢個 POST 遲左個半月丫
匿名 發表於 2011-2-15 00:45

You can check the label under the battery, it will have 4 digits on the label like 0710, 0810, 0910, 1010 or somthing along that line, if your model is 1010 (Oct 2010) built, the SD card issue is fixed.

Philip

pkphilip

Ask him next time which app exactly will screw up the phone?

You should actually play with it even more, download other apps on it so that if there is a problem, you can get it fixed under warranty. Since the new mainboard fixed the SD corruption issue, it is not a bad idea at all.

Bell should have Froyo 2.2 UGJL2 firmware out, did you update it yet or still runing Elcair UGJH2?

Philip

pkphilip

Is your model number the i9000m or i9000? If it is the i9000M, you paid a rather high price for the phone because it is a Bell phone. If it is a i9000, it is the international version which does not have the SD card corruption issue.

Unlocking does not void the warranty (you can't see); you will void your warranty if you root/jailbreak the phone (you can see the app called Superuser). My gf's phone is unlocked and the repair shop doesn't even care. I did restore the phone back to factory before dropping off to Bell.

The last line is the Android software version for Samsung. Most Galaxy S people uses 2.2 (latest) and if you are still running 2.1, you can connect your phone to Kies (Samsung desktop software) to update it. You will notice huge speed difference.

Philip

pkphilip

You will like the Android once you are on 2.2 because it support flash, also the AMOLED on the Galaxy S beats the IPS screen on the iPhone. Your frustration is understandable because Android has so many options than iPhone. For example, you can connect the phone to the computer as a flash drive, can you do it on an iPhone?

Download Kies from Samsung, you just need to plug the phone in to PC, and choose Samsung Kies when the screen comes on.

Since you said your phone is unlocked, you might have the USB settings under "Debug" mode. Go to Settings -> Applications -> Development, untick USB debugging. Then, in Settings go to -> About Phone -> USB settings, choose Ask on Connection. The step might be different but the options above are still there.

Philip

pkphilip

Kies is still at 2.0. Download here if not already installed: http://www.samsungapps.com/about ... p;LANGUAGE_CODE=ENG

I am referring to the Android software, it is 2.2 now>

Philip