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Realy confused and in need of help

I recently upgraded to wm6 from the t-mobile site. At first it was running flawlessly and very fast. I have installed windows live, resco and tcmp and still things were quick. after a few weeks, strange things started happening. When i went to my SMS/MMS and began to write a message, the flashing cursor would move along as i typed but no letters would show up on the screen. If i saved this message inot drafts then opened it again, i could then see all the text i had written and was previously hidden.
Soon aftet this started happening, the same began in windows live, then word etc...
recently, my athena has started to crash within an hour of a reset. Most of the time, if i start a program, just the bar at the top will load and nothing else, this is most serious in SMS/MMS. also, when this happens and i got to memory (the start menu and setting tab are still quick) it shows that i always have over 50 meg of ram left. Although, if this helps at all, the device runs slowest when turned on from sleep mode. Before i put the device in sleep mode, when i goto file explorer i can hear the microdrive fire up and this programme runs slow. after if has been in sleep for 20 mins or so, file explorer will never boot up properly and there is no noise from the microdrive.
I have tried hard rest, starts fast again, then slows to nothing after few days. I have tried various tweaks i have seen on here, such as disabling autooff and disabling the x-button programme. I have run spybot and antovirus software and nothing. Anyone got any ideas? thank you in advance

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not sure if this is related but using pocket hack master; firstly, this programme hangs on all bu the last speed test. also, in the processes, there is one with a large red x picture with it. not sure if this is normal but jus thought id mention it

ballsquid said:
not sure if this is related but using pocket hack master; firstly, this programme hangs on all bu the last speed test. also, in the processes, there is one with a large red x picture with it. not sure if this is normal but jus thought id mention it
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There are many many programs out there which hangs my devices and cause the behaviour you described. pocket hack master is one of them, which strangely works for others but not my device. Anothe is Touch Commander.
I usually uninstall the software once they cause freezes.
Try installing and testing your software one at a time to isolate it.

got a feeling it could be windows live. Unfortuantly, this is probably the programme i use the most. Is there any known issue with this?

ballsquid said:
got a feeling it could be windows live. Unfortuantly, this is probably the programme i use the most. Is there any known issue with this?
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I personally have had no problem with it, but sometimes one person's experience is not definitive. Try turning it off and see what happens.

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i uninstalled all programmes and it seemed fine but when i put windows live back on. the problem started again. im using build 10.00026 i think. is there a later version than this that could help?

ballsquid said:
i uninstalled all programmes and it seemed fine but when i put windows live back on. the problem started again. im using build 10.00026 i think. is there a later version than this that could help?
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I think PK ROM is likely to have the latest version, but Powell is the one who could confirm this.

eaglesteve said:
I think PK ROM is likely to have the latest version, but Powell is the one who could confirm this.
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yes my roms have the latest build(18533 even though theres newer builds not available to public or been ported yet to athena) and the aboslute latest live 33.600 which is still latest in the roms i have from latest devices like polaris and dual

Serious bug: auto reboot using camera

Hi guys!
I'm experiencing a serious problem with my X10: Using the stock camera app causes (50% and more of times) a reboot of the device
I'm still stuck with the R1FA016 firmware (Spanish, Movistar) and i thougt this could be the problem since nobody seems to have a so bad experience
Today i tried the Vignette app on the market and the bug is still there... what could be the problem?
Thank you.

sleepyManX1 said:
Hi guys!
I'm experiencing a serious problem with my X10: Using the stock camera app causes (50% and more of times) a reboot of the device
I'm still stuck the R1FA016 firmware (Spanish, Movistar) and i thougt this could be the problem since nobody seems to have a so bad experience
Today i tried the Vignette app on the market and the bug is still there... what could be the problem?
Thank you.
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I know it is painful, but have you tried formatting the device (restore factory settings)?

mmmm... i was thinking about it... do you think it could be a solution?

sleepyManX1 said:
mmmm... i was thinking about it... do you think it could be a solution?
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If you're using a task killer, check out you are not killing any camera app.

No i'm not killing camera app... (anyway, atk is set to kill apps every half hour)
I just formatted the phone and the bug seems to be still here... rebooting occours even if, in Mediascape i try to view taked photos!!!

sleepyManX1 said:
No i'm not killing camera app... (anyway, atk is set to kill apps every half hour)
I just formatted the phone and the bug seems to be still here... rebooting occours even if, in Mediascape i try to view taked photos!!!
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Then, try one more thing: uninstall ATK, reboot the phone and let it handle the RAM as it is supposed to.
Perhaps ATK is the culprit! I know it caused me a great deal of problems in the past, until I finally realised that task managers do more harm than good on android operating systems.

@sleepyManX1
the update is out already try OTA update......

I also tried to insert photo app and some services (such as facerecognition) in atk ingore list... the bug is still here
So i'm trying this way: disable atk from autostart...

junexyz said:
@sleepyManX1
the update is out already try OTA update......
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Not according to my phone
(Movistar firmware)

arh!!!!
ATK disabled and the bug is still here!!!!!

My_Immortal said:
Then, try one more thing: uninstall ATK, reboot the phone and let it handle the RAM as it is supposed to.
Perhaps ATK is the culprit! I know it caused me a great deal of problems in the past, until I finally realised that task managers do more harm than good on android operating systems.
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I've tried a lot of task killers/managers and at the end something started not to work properly. Since i don't use them everything is always ok! I recommend not to use them!!

Hi guys!
Any suggestion about this issue?
(I restored factory settings again and did not install any task manager/killer... still the bug is here )

Try to re-install firmaware using SEUS Wish you all the best

Yes... seems to be the only way... and i think i will flash the phone with a generic italian firmware... maybe the problem is in the movistar brand...
I just need a windows pc... (i've a ppc ibook... so no virtualization possible!)

sleepyManX1 said:
Yes... seems to be the only way... and i think i will flash the phone with a generic italian firmware... maybe the problem is in the movistar brand...
I just need a windows pc... (i've a ppc ibook... so no virtualization possible!)
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I also have this problem with my desire, apparently after a search in XDA, problem exists in Nexus one (which is like HTC desire anyway) and HTC G1, G2.
seems no solution yet, I flashed my phone and installed the latest radio and a custom rom, still no solution.
hope someone can fix it

sleepyman x1 i too am on the same firmware as u and get the exact same problem im on three network uk, iv tried everything and nothing seems to solve it,,,, the only thing iv found that helps the camera bot up next time is when finished using the camera is to press the back button to exit camera mode and not to use the home button,
hope this is some help to you,
any updates of this would be great, the update doesnt seem to be there for my reigon yet, ( According to SE anyway ) they pretty much told me to sit tight and wait for he 2.1 in the last 4 mths of this yr

Shonan_ said:
sleepyman x1 i too am on the same firmware as u and get the exact same problem im on three network uk, iv tried everything and nothing seems to solve it,,,, the only thing iv found that helps the camera bot up next time is when finished using the camera is to press the back button to exit camera mode and not to use the home button,
hope this is some help to you,
any updates of this would be great, the update doesnt seem to be there for my reigon yet, ( According to SE anyway ) they pretty much told me to sit tight and wait for he 2.1 in the last 4 mths of this yr
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I'll try this... but i'm really going to flash my x10 with a generic or an italian firmaware.
Thank you.
PS. Just today forced SEUS to reinstall my original firmware and the bug is still here... in the next days i'll try with an X10i_Generic_Italian (X10i_Custom_IT_Release_R2BA026)...

Let me kno how u get on bud. ?? Would like to see the out come
Sent from my X10i using XDA App

Be sure that i'll keep you informed

I also have "reboot" problem, but my phone reboots random - sometimes when I use Google Maps, sometimes when finish phone call, even sometimes when the phone is idle. I tried factory reset several times, updated to latest firmware (currently R2BA026) but no luck.
These days I will go to my local SE support center, I have no choice ...

New Kies update 1.5.1.10074.2 available now

I just noticed the new update when I opened the Kies in the PC and happily updated in my XP machine hoping that my long pending FW update which I was unable to do can now be done.
But you will not believe, my xp still struggles to detect my device even in this new update, I wonder what kind of update Samsung makes and if you see the version number there is a huge jump between .10071 to .10074 but for what.
Now I am trying to update my Windows 7 machine and let me see if I can succeed atleast there.

i had good device detection in previous version of kies
but in the new version it sucks
also the download said 123mb but went to almost 200mb
in both versions samsung apps store doesnt work, maybe its just for bada os.

UPDATE: yes finally I succeeded with the update from Kies. The upgrade worked fine like a breeze on my Windows 7.
People try the new update, as far as I can see the new update is not available in the samsung websites. When you open your Kies on your PCs it automatically notifies of an update. Goodwork Samsung atlast, Kies works and now I am ready for the froyo release.

sany said:
People try the new update, as far as I can see the new update is not available in the samsung websites. When you open your Kies on your PCs it automatically notifies of an update. Goodwork Samsung atlast, Kies works and now I am ready for the froyo release.
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I would try, if I could download it some day in the near future. Now I have got 266 MB of 123 MB and sit several hours to watch those little pieces to flow from internet to my hard disk. It is senseless waste to update it for downloading a file at a time. Doesn't Samsung anymore can make an installation package?

Installed the Android SDK and now after the update on KIES, it won't go past 'detecting phone'.
My phone won't connect completely via Kies mode anymore. Oh my.
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Same lost my connection but not sure it was an application installed previously or Kies.
Uninstalled Kies and installed the previous version but still no go same problem.
Has to be something on my Galaxy causing the issue.
I read someone said to format the internal SD and external SD to ensure no files are on it then sync.
That would mean re-installing or backup restore all my applications again.
This is just nuts.

can't find the URL to download this

Some people are sleeping over at Samsung. What a crappy software!!
I hope there will be some good Kies alternatives soon..

Hi All, I've been trying to get this phone working since Monday. I have installed and uninstalled the different versions of KIES a number of times. Still no joy. Once, today, it recognized the connection, but wouldn't sync to outlook, for me to be able to transfer my contact details across. Great phone (I think!), but awful software. I hope there's a 'breakthrough' soon!

Kies works fine if you proceed like this:
Check: Galaxy > Settings > About Phone > USB > Kies (ask for BlaBla will not work)
WakeUp the phone from sleep mode
Plug the bloody thing...
... and wait
... and wait
... and wait
... and wait UNTIL you can see the device in Windowz (about 2 minutes)
Start Kies
e volià

hanzi54 said:
Kies works fine if you proceed like this:
Check: Galaxy > Settings > About Phone > USB > Kies (ask for BlaBla will not work)
WakeUp the phone from sleep mode
Plug the bloody thing...
... and wait
... and wait
... and wait
... and wait UNTIL you can see the device in Windowz (about 2 minutes)
Start Kies
e volià
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Not necessarily. Kies is one of the WORST applications I EVER USED! Terrible from the word go, NEVER been able to sync from phone to Outlook. Also, Outlook to Phone might happen once in a 100 times you try. Else it will give errors like "value does not fall within expected range". What the hell does that mean, hopefully Samsung knows and better improve the product.

Prankey said:
Not necessarily. Kies is one of the WORST applications I EVER USED!
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I can't resist asking... have you used Nokia PC Suite or - even better, a lot better - the latest, freshly compiled Ovi Suite?
Tears flood my eyes just thinking about using it once again. And I know I'll have to. Kinda like that nasty job you hate but keep having to shuffle yourself to since you depend on it due to lack of skills, education or any fu"#$ing alternative ideas/options....
Yes. You hate it. But you'll use it again. And again. You all will.

Beowulf_pt said:
I can't resist asking... have you used Nokia PC Suite or - even better, a lot better - the latest, freshly compiled Ovi Suite?
Tears flood my eyes just thinking about using it once again. And I know I'll have to. Kinda like that nasty job you hate but keep having to shuffle yourself to since you depend on it due to lack of skills, education or any fu"#$ing alternative ideas/options....
Yes. You hate it. But you'll use it again. And again. You all will.
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Nokia PC Suite is/was horrible and slow but at least it connected, can't say the same about KIES... personally I've only had little trouble with it but there's a whole lot of people who haven't been as lucky. Thank god we can use mass memory without starting up KIES

I have encountered the connection issue as well but that was after i installed Launcher Pro. into my i9000. Once i remove it, the connection run smoothly without any problem.
Hope this help.

when i updated kies i couldnt connect either , my phones said it was connected but kies begged to differ.
i uninstalled kies and all reg keys and downloaded the full kies and voila it worked again.
to the above poster get homeswitcher from market and you wont have to uninstall launcher pro , just switch when you want to connect to kies
regards

I think it's software conflict which are causing the issues.
I had a fully working Kies with the exception of the Calendar sync but after several application installations I can now not connect to my computer by USB.
I'm thinking of noting down all my software installations and resetting my phone as well as formating my internal memory. See if Kies comes back up.
Then I will install my software bit by bit testing each time to see which software might be causing the conflict.

chtan said:
I have encountered the connection issue as well but that was after i installed Launcher Pro. into my i9000. Once i remove it, the connection run smoothly without any problem.
Hope this help.
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I installed home switcher so i can use the default launcher when i need to use kies.
Yesterday i updated kies and it took over 3hrs to download using the update function.
I wish Samsung would learn the magic of OTA.
(and remove all kinds of bloatware like touchwiz)
I wish i still had my old N1.

akselic said:
Nokia PC Suite is/was horrible and slow but at least it connected, can't say the same about KIES... personally I've only had little trouble with it but there's a whole lot of people who haven't been as lucky. Thank god we can use mass memory without starting up KIES
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Yes mine did connect last week. I'm glad I installed the latest suggested upgrade build with the "Several Stability Enhancements" on the change log. It did connect fine this time.
And after the nicely animated Synch I'm now busy deleting the several randomly-added duplicated entries to both my calendar, notes and contacts on both the device (E72) and Outlook 2007.
That was useful, because it connected. And plus, sorting out all the mess manually will be a great past-time and distraction while I await for Samsung and Broadcom to figure out why gps tracks look like something your 3 year old drew on the living room wallet when you left that CD pen forgotten on the table.

Its been like 2 hours now downloading kies from the update popup while trying to run previous kies. Says its 100% dowloaded but still keeps downloading files like 980mb/123mb and to make it worse i keep having this popup from kies saying "The Internet is not connected. Do you want to check the connection and try again?" theres a Retry button i press in order to continue the download. I have windows 7 x64 and internet speed of 16mb so i dont get it. I thought of going to sleep and let it download all night, but its impossible since i need to press the retry button every minute when i get the pop up.

TheCarl said:
I installed home switcher so i can use the default launcher when i need to use kies.
Yesterday i updated kies and it took over 3hrs to download using the update function.
I wish Samsung would learn the magic of OTA.
(and remove all kinds of bloatware like touchwiz)
I wish i still had my old N1.
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Thanks for the home switcher suggestion, for whatever reason i don't actually have to switch out of launcher pro when i use KIES.
Also, someone i correspond with here in PMs since we are both English speakers in Korea, hasn't installed KIES because he's on a mac. Yesterday we were talking about Swype and since i had asked him about his fw he brought up that he received an OTA update. I was shocked to say the least, and his firmware is as current as mine, however he didn't get the first three updates that i did through KIES.

New(er) Kies update available

Just got another update. I was on kies 1.5.3.10093-80 so I am not sure yet what this one is.
Edit: kies 1.5.3.10093-81

I'm on 1.5.3.10093-80 and have no update.
Maybe Froyo is actually ready, but it's kies which is holding up the release...

Have you done a manual check for update in the Kies menu (not the widgets at the bottom) ?

Tehpriest said:
Have you done a manual check for update in the Kies menu (not the widgets at the bottom) ?
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it's come up now

next thing samsung should do is fix their horrible kies software... it hasnt been detecting my device at all after the last update. ugh

I have lag fix. Can I update it even my lag fix is still in my phone? Or I should not?

Chronos12 said:
I have lag fix. Can I update it even my lag fix is still in my phone? Or I should not?
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You dont need phone connected if you update Kies.

It's more than likely to be a small fix that fixes the registy key error on the previous version ending in 80.
That stopped kies working properly 64bit win 7
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chrisjwild said:
It's more than likely to be a small fix that fixes the registy key error on the previous version ending in 80.
That stopped kies working properly 64bit win 7
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
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Did it? I never noticed it not working

I tried to update from the website but I can only seem to update via the updater in Kies. Downloading via updater now. Hope it works!
EDIT: It worked. had to do it to make sure there were no new builds of JH2 for bell tech support.

chrisjwild said:
It's more than likely to be a small fix that fixes the registy key error on the previous version ending in 80.
That stopped kies working properly 64bit win 7
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It's another large(ish) update, thousands of files again, hardly a registry fix.
When you click the close cross top right, or 'cancel' to close the firmware update check after it reports nothing new found. "MSC.Thunder.FirmwareUpdate.exe" starts gobbling up ram like there is no tomorrow (over 1gb by the time I find it to kill it) and my system becomes basically unusable until I kill the samsung "devicemanager.exe" and "connectionmanager.exe" and wait a few minutes.
This problem only started with 1.5.3.10093-80, and 1.5.3.10093-81 doesn't change it at all. (win7-x64)

I keep getting 'The internet is not connected' message in the update procedure
I'll probably have to stay up all night, clicking retry

opica said:
I keep getting 'The internet is not connected' message in the update procedure
I'll probably have to stay up all night, clicking retry
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I had that once, it made me laugh as its phrasing implied it was something wrong my end though I was browsing the web just fine and spectating a live game with plenty of bandwidth to spare.
clicking retry worked first time for me though.

stringbeans said:
next thing samsung should do is fix their horrible kies software... it hasnt been detecting my device at all after the last update. ugh
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I had the same prob. Just Format the internal SD card. Take a backup.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

I tried to update, after download it tries to extract but it always get stuck at extracting file Metastore2.dll.
Attached is the screenshot where I get stuck...

Yakumo.unr said:
MSC.Thunder.FirmwareUpdate.exe" starts gobbling up ram like there is no tomorrow.
This problem only started with 1.5.3.10093-80, and 1.5.3.10093-81 doesn't change it at all. (win7-x64)
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Yes, not fixed even in 81 and applies also to Win7-x32. Manually add .../FUS registry key solve the problem.

I get checking updates stuck on there all day. almost I left it on overnight and it just keeps saying checking updates. I went here http://au.samsungmobile.com/support/softwaremanuals/software.do?phone_model=GT-I9000&sw_type=SW and it's still only has 1.5.1_1083. Dam blasted aussie site you think we would be so upto date yet I feel like such a backwards country sometimes.

I've been on v10093_31_1, it didn't offer me an update. Uninstalled and manually downloaded v10093_80, installed it, then it was checking for updates for about an hour. Found one, but gave me at least 50 warnings about 'no internet connection' although the internet was working fine all the time, then it finally upgraded.
I have no problems with connecting the phone to Kies on W7 64bit whatsoever.
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never had any problems with 'MSC.Thunder.FirmwareUpdate.exe' either, through update widget in Kies or executed manually.

aussieak said:
I went here http://au.samsungmobile.com/support/softwaremanuals/software.do?phone_model=GT-I9000&sw_type=SW and it's still only has 1.5.1_1083.
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Yes not sure why Samsung Australia Support is still pushing the older version unless the versions relate to the builds in some way.
Hell we are still running JG4 Firmware as a release well behind the rest of the world.
Have installed 1.5.3.10093_1_1 from the UK site and it was snappy to say the least.
Currently downloading 1.5.3.10093_80 from the UK. Will check the update options after install.

this is another link to the download(it's a release from 6 october):
Kies_1.5.3.10093_80

[SOLVED] Issues with Chevvy not unlocking handset

After a day of messing about I finally realised the reason behind the problems with ChevronWP7 not finding the handset via USB was because of a conflict with SKYPE.
Close down SKYPE completely (including system tray) and retry. Worked first time with me after 6 hours of head scratching.
Enjoy, dont forget the Thanks meter

I think that this has been known already.

jaka.erc said:
I think that this has been known already.
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A few of us over the last few hours have been having this issue and no one has mentioned skype yet...

uninstall antivirus program,turn off firewall,reinstall phone drivers from device manager and restart both pc and hd2..make sure to click run as admin for the unlocker..
hope this helps..