Help Changes that FroYo(build DDJP6) brings about to the Galaxy S

[Purnil]

The top bar (with indicators like battery etc.) has thicker icons then eclair.

 

[caesey]

GMail's interface has also improved. You can know see colored labels, mini toolbar (star, reply, reply all, fwd), minor UI tweaks here & there, overall experience is a lot snappier.

 

[Purnil]

Groups made in gmail contacts are now visible on phone's contact groups list. These were not previously visible on eclair.

 

[Purnil]

Gallery allows you to peek into picture stacks using a zoom gesture.

 

[softpinkishlips]

3. You can take Screenshots. Hold the "Back" button for a second and then press the "Home" button.

***i cannot make this work after rooting and onelag fix my froyo***

 

[Capt Galaxy]

Thanks Caesey, I'll add those points shortly!



Yea Ryan, I could. That's weird!


Okay before I add it to the list - Has anyone else experienced a massive battery drain after upgrading to FroYo? I've been getting a 20 hours battery life since the past 2 days after a full charge up. Whereas in Eclair, I used to get roughly 45 hours out of the same usage! The battery life seems to have halved.
I did see a few other threads on this, but I'm still not sure what the problem is. The "Running Services" are the basic ones, less than the ones I had running on Eclair in fact.
The Display uses up 85%...

YES! this is mad. discharged from 100% to 90% in 1 hour. 5 minutes of wifi browsing and typing a couple of emails.
i cant figure out what's eating so much battery life!

 

[Capt Galaxy]

3. You can take Screenshots. Hold the "Back" button for a second and then press the "Home" button.

***i cannot make this work after rooting and onelag fix my froyo***

you know this is funny cuz it doesnt work on apps most of the times, just on basic homescreen/menu/files etc.

 

[Aravindan]

Why did Samsung add a task manager to Froyo when so many people here having been saying time and time again that Android knows how to manage its apps, there is not need to kill tasks/apps?

I'm still not convinced that Froyo can handle all running tasks on its own. I mean, does it have the functionality to kill the running tasks as per the defined periodicity? Even though the task manager shows 0 tasks running, once I open Advanced Task Killer, I can see that more than 5 apps running. I'm still puzzled why the Task manager didnt find that out!

 

[sagarthaker]

One from me:
When you minimize the on going call the notification bar is highlighted in green. This was not in 2.1.

 

[KingsleyM]

With Android 2.2 USB storage mode works on a Mac 10.6 system without going to the Debug mode as you had to in 2.1.
However 2.2.1 does require Debug mode (added May '11)

 

[goyal.sanchit]

17. The 'YouTube' Application has been updated. You can now view Comments while watching Videos.

I wonder if that is true because I am still not able to view comments while watching a video.

Stock Froyo 2.2


EDIT- Got it. You have to update the youtube app from the market.

 

[Enthrall]

Hello!
I've been extremely busy with work lately, but I will update all the points as soon as I get sufficient time!

(just got on to try out the upgraded phandroid app )


Edit: The first post has been updated with the latest entries. Thanks everyone.

 

[Enthrall]

I noticed that if you use the Applications which have been transferred to the external SD card a lot, it consumes more Battery than it does when in the Phone memory.
I know it sounds pretty obvious since the CPU needs to supply Power to the external SD in order to access it, but depending on how much you make use of those Applications, the difference in Power consumption can be quite significant.

After moving the frequently-used Applications back to the Phone Memory, I did find Battery life improvement (well, relatively) and it's definitely no delusion!

Has anyone else tried this out? If not, do try it with the Apps that you use frequently and please do let us know what you've found!

 

[Capt Galaxy]

Social Hub is now a mess. Cant add anything besides facebook and gmail onto it.

 

[akshayrajsingh]

Auto rotate has gone crazy...either sticks to permanent Portrait...or once selected "Auto Rotate" from the notifications bar..goes permanentely to Landscape..Galaxy S

 

[Goku1989]

I bought SGS i9000 last winter in Bangalore, India.

With Eclair I had no lag or hanging issues. About 15days after my purchase Samsung rolled out Froyo update.

But soon after the update I faced severe lag issues. But it automatically got rectified after a few weeks and now I am facing frequent hangs.... My set hangs every now and then and the worst part is, the frequency is on a steady increase!!

Only yesterday my SGS i9000 hung 3times in a span of about 6hours and everytime wanting me to remove the battery and restart.

There are times where I have waited for auto recovery from crash for about 3-4hours, but in vain. Not to deny that some times my phone recovers automatically in few seconds or minutes but most of the times I have to remove the battery and restart.

I tried reseting to factory settings 2-3 times and also go to manage applications and force close calender, alarm clock, gallery and other unwanted
apps to increase available RAM but in vain.

Any suggestions pls.

With Thanks,
Goku

 

[rebelangel0717]

Front facing camera shortcut changed in camera interface

Did I miss something? Mine doesnt have a front facing camera.

 

[seepage]

Did I miss something? Mine doesnt have a front facing camera.

Then you are in the wrong forum.

 

[lemonjenny]

Then you are in the wrong forum.

The Samsung Fascinate does NOT have a front-facing camera, and it's a Galaxy S phone. So, technically they're in the right forum, but Fascinate owners got a flash with their camera instead of the front-facing feature.

 

[seepage]

The Samsung Fascinate does NOT have a front-facing camera, and it's a Galaxy S phone. So, technically they're in the right forum, but Fascinate owners got a flash with their camera instead of the front-facing feature.

Then why is there a separate fascinate forum? (2 actually)

 

[chicagoland8]

My 3G icon is no longer blue/white...it's now grey / white. Not a big fan of that, but who cares

 

[seepage]

My 3G icon is no longer blue/white...it's now grey / white. Not a big fan of that, but who cares

Interesting name.
Fascinating in fact

 

[Odhin]

The vibration duration for notifications is much longer than before.

 

[Leonard1818]

I have discovered something that I've not found to be documented anywhere else. Wondering if it needs to go here.

It seems that the trigger for lighting up the soft keys is now tied to the "Automatic brightness" setting under display settings

(settings > display settings > brightness > Automatic Brightness checkbox)

When checked, the softkeys will come on as soon as the phone is brought awake and the screen is touched to unlock (either puzzle piece or "slide to unlock).

when unchecked, the softkeys do not come on until one of them is actually touched.

I can see this being useful for reading in the dark.

 

[schristi69]

Anyone having an issue with the application icons rearranging themselves? I have 3 Angry Birds apps on page 6. Every now and then they will be moved to any empty slots on previous pages starting with page 1. I also get phantom notifications for events that are not listed in either the Android calendar or the DejaOffice calendar. I have the sync with Google calendar and holidays turned off. Very odd