Samsung Beam?

[kennyboy]

yeah i got scared off from buying freeze beam...

even galaxy s also scared me. i played with my fren's galazy and went to shop to try galazy...the phone like suka suka will lag one...i deduce must be a samsung thing...

Yes. It's definitely a Samsung thing.

 

[gtwace]

After flashing to new firmware and doing all the mod, everything is fine, it is a good phone as long as you flash to the new firmware. Except android don't have really nice games compare to iphone, it is a good phone.

 

[raoxii]

I guess you meant nice games as in phone native games because androids can run emulators with no rooting etc. Eg you get access to to all nes,genesis,snes,gameboy,neo geo, psx games?

@new firmware: yes the new firmware totally fixes the android freezing issue. I have my phone rebooted more than 30 times in 2 days and it booted fine with the new firmware. I was doing a lot of overclocking.

@misl - for 24/7 am running at 900mhz. I tried desperately to get 1ghz but the voltage required is far too high to get it stable, same case with 1.2ghz. Eg from 800-900mhz I only have to increase say 10% voltage but after that your looking at a major increase like 20%+. FYI at 900mhz I am using a vsel of 71. Perhaps my cpu is from a bad batch, but a 25% overclock is still quite good. Have seen others running stable at 1ghz however.

On quandrant benchmark running at 900mhz my score is above Xperia X10 and below Desire. All running 2.1 obviously. The next key upgrade will be a Froyo update

The new firmware+rooting+900mhz made the phone very smooth. Not iOS smooth but is very good. My phone was fixed by a contact on a different forum. The people responsible do not want to be known so I can't reveal any more information, but I had to pay some money. So is not a free job or something Is better than sending my phone all the way back to singapore and waiting forever however

@samsung lag issue - I did some research on this and it is due to an inherent design flaw with the android OS. Even if you compare the newest android phones with superior hardware to the 2 years old Iphone 3g you still not be as smooth as it. Reason is being is not because the hardware is not capable but the android OS is coded so that the GUI is only powered by the CPU, whereas iOS uses the GPU which is a lot more efficient at handling the GUI. Eg at the end of the day you get a much smoother GUI experience with reduce battery usage. Presently android OS Is stupidly only using the GPU to run games. Which is a hella waste.

Sadly a GPU GUI update has no real confirmation thus far for android, perhaps 3.0 gingerbread will look into this issue. A topic on the google code forum had thousands of people commenting on this issue as well. Alternatively they can solve this by raw power eg those dual cores 1ghz - 1.5ghz coming out lol

 

[JuXn5566]

Yes. It's definitely a Samsung thing.

Samsung always can make great hardware but not software.

 

[JuXn5566]

I guess you meant nice games as in phone native games because androids can run emulators with no rooting etc. Eg you get access to to all nes,genesis,snes,gameboy,neo geo, psx games?

@new firmware: yes the new firmware totally fixes the android freezing issue. I have my phone rebooted more than 30 times in 2 days and it booted fine with the new firmware. I was doing a lot of overclocking.

@misl - for 24/7 am running at 900mhz. I tried desperately to get 1ghz but the voltage required is far too high to get it stable, same case with 1.2ghz. Eg from 800-900mhz I only have to increase say 10% voltage but after that your looking at a major increase like 20%+. FYI at 900mhz I am using a vsel of 71. Perhaps my cpu is from a bad batch, but a 25% overclock is still quite good. Have seen others running stable at 1ghz however.

On quandrant benchmark running at 900mhz my score is above Xperia X10 and below Desire. All running 2.1 obviously. The next key upgrade will be a Froyo update

The new firmware+rooting+900mhz made the phone very smooth. Not iOS smooth but is very good. My phone was fixed by a contact on a different forum. The people responsible do not want to be known so I can't reveal any more information, but I had to pay some money. So is not a free job or something Is better than sending my phone all the way back to singapore and waiting forever however

@samsung lag issue - I did some research on this and it is due to an inherent design flaw with the android OS. Even if you compare the newest android phones with superior hardware to the 2 years old Iphone 3g you still not be as smooth as it. Reason is being is not because the hardware is not capable but the android OS is coded so that the GUI is only powered by the CPU, whereas iOS uses the GPU which is a lot more efficient at handling the GUI. Eg at the end of the day you get a much smoother GUI experience with reduce battery usage. Presently android OS Is stupidly only using the GPU to run games. Which is a hella waste.

Sadly a GPU GUI update has no real confirmation thus far for android, perhaps 3.0 gingerbread will look into this issue. A topic on the google code forum had thousands of people commenting on this issue as well. Alternatively they can solve this by raw power eg those dual cores 1ghz - 1.5ghz coming out lol

glad that ur beam is back.
@samsung lag issue I agreed that it's android thing but I still think Samsung doesn't build firmware as good as other like HTC,Motorola.

 

[kennyboy]

Samsung always can make great hardware but not software.

Some personal opinion -

Great internal hardware, but design imho a bit lacking.

It's like all their different models come from the same mould.

 

[armani]

Hi all, I've got a noob question. How to I set my sgb to vibrate whenever I received a sms. I tried to find option on the settings but couldn't find.
Is it bcoz that my ring tones doesn't incorporate vibration

 

[JuXn5566]

Hi all, I've got a noob question. How to I set my sgb to vibrate whenever I received a sms. I tried to find option on the settings but couldn't find.
Is it bcoz that my ring tones doesn't incorporate vibration

in messaging app,press menu key,settings,scroll all the way down,check on vibrate.

 

[JuXn5566]

Some personal opinion -

Great internal hardware, but design imho a bit lacking.

It's like all their different models come from the same mould.

agreed on the design
yeah,most of the samsung phone design doesn't look appealing and all seem to be the same.Although the design look cheap but they are actually quite durable .

 

[PPkiller]

i got a call informing me that the stocks is available, i told them i dunwan liao cos ripper temp me and i got sexy fox too~! i feel i made the right decision. mainly due to firmware support priority, and froyo is coming to galaxy s! can see that beam is only secondary to samsung.

 

[raoxii]

i got a call informing me that the stocks is available, i told them i dunwan liao cos ripper temp me and i got sexy fox too~! i feel i made the right decision. mainly due to firmware support priority, and froyo is coming to galaxy s! can see that beam is only secondary to samsung.

beam will always be secondary sadly. but beam has projector! this alone merits its permanent place as the projector android. whereas galaxy s will soon be replaced by anything that can out do its processing power eg desire HD

 

[PPkiller]

hmm... but sadly speaking.. beam is jus the tip of the iceberg.. when concept proven marketable, lots of phone will come with projectors..

 

[raoxii]

hmm... but sadly speaking.. beam is jus the tip of the iceberg.. when concept proven marketable, lots of phone will come with projectors..

is certainly not the first projector phone, there's quite a few before it. but it is the first with a fine OS

unless theres a revised version of the Beam, there are likely not much competition for some time to come.

 

[icearmour]

finally got the beam delivered today...
now charging for 8 hrs as advised by them...probably lesser....
please do let me know what i should not do, so i don't wreck it the first week...

 

[gtwace]

first thing to do is to upgrade the firmware using kries.

 

[pilotsnoopy]

WTT

hi all,

i have a 1 month old Galaxy S with red polycarbonate mesh case and extra battery to trade for a Beam.

any interest please pm me.

 

[JuXn5566]

beam will always be secondary sadly. but beam has projector! this alone merits its permanent place as the projector android. whereas galaxy s will soon be replaced by anything that can out do its processing power eg desire HD

maybe not even secondary...
the lower end galaxy 3 confirmed will be upgraded to froyo but no news of beam will get the update.

 

[JuXn5566]

finally got the beam delivered today...
now charging for 8 hrs as advised by them...probably lesser....
please do let me know what i should not do, so i don't wreck it the first week...

first thing to do is to upgrade the firmware using kries.

update to H1 or J1 firmware if it doesn't preinstalled with them.

 

[summoner]

root, root, root!

 

[confidant]

is it safe to buy SSB?

Hi,

I'm just newbie here. I heard about frozen issue of SSB. I just wonder is it safe if I buy SSB now. I'm not living in Singapore so I'll ask my friend to buy it for me. It will be a big problem if my SSB got stuck. Please help me.

Thank you so much.