Samsung Galaxy S..... impressed.

[KingGheedora]

all this battery saving stuff is fine and good, but i don't want to have to spend 15 minutes every day managing every task and applet running on my cell phone. i want to turn it on and just have it work. if i have to tweak it a little, like cranking the brightness down, or installing an app to stop the bloatware from running, or disabling wifi when i'm not using it, that's one thing, the list of things i had to do w/my vibrant to get battery life up was ridiculous.

I haven't had to do anything special to get my Captivate to run. I charge probably every other day and don't proactively do anything to manage power use.

I did "condition" the battery when I first got the phone, not sure if that has anything to do with it.

 

[Scouzer]

I have... sort of have a Samsung Galaxy S. I was installing the Weather Channel app today (day 4 of having the phone) and it hard locked. It hard locked quite often, so I pull the battery annnddd.. it won't boot.

Better yet, here in Canada the recovery mode is locked out. So I can't even reset the phone manually. The phone is bricked. I'm exchanging it tomorrow. I guess I'll try one more SGS because the phone has massive potential but it's definitely buggy.

 

[dougp]

I have... sort of have a Samsung Galaxy S. I was installing the Weather Channel app today (day 4 of having the phone) and it hard locked. It hard locked quite often, so I pull the battery annnddd.. it won't boot.

Better yet, here in Canada the recovery mode is locked out. So I can't even reset the phone manually. The phone is bricked. I'm exchanging it tomorrow. I guess I'll try one more SGS because the phone has massive potential but it's definitely buggy.

Have you tried the Odin One Click? You'll need to check XDA for exact details, but it should help you out if anything can.

 

[Scouzer]

Have you tried the Odin One Click? You'll need to check XDA for exact details, but it should help you out if anything can.

Download mode is locked out for my phone.

 

[dougp]

Download mode is locked out for my phone.

How locked out? I'm not quite sure how they completely lock out a recovery mode. While I'd assume the pwr button + down arrow won't work, using adb reboot recovery via SDK should work.

 

[Scouzer]

How locked out? I'm not quite sure how they completely lock out a recovery mode. While I'd assume the pwr button + down arrow won't work, using adb reboot recovery via SDK should work.

Probably, but it's dangerous because if a flash failed there's no Plan B. In my case I can't boot up far enough to access ADB.

 

[dougp]

Probably, but it's dangerous because if a flash failed there's no Plan B. In my case I can't boot up far enough to access ADB.

How far are you actually booting up? You only have to make it to the animated screens - once those show, you can utilize adb. As soon as you even see it load, type "adb reboot recovery" in the command line and it will boot into there. You should also be able to access "Download Only" mode - that's something that, as far as I'm aware, cannot be locked out. Go to XDA and post there, someone should be able to help you.