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    Help Got the latest Swype on my SGS!

    FINALLY! I've gotten sooo sick of the factory Swype, I couldn't take it anymore and spent two half-days figuring out how to get the latest Swype on my Galaxy S. Here's how I did for anyone interested. To install Swype Beta on to a phone that came factory-installed you have to jump through the...
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    Help Data network turning off on its own!

    Samsung Galaxy S, Bell network, Froyo For the past few weeks: - randomly goes into Flight Mode - randomly turns off data network, but it still says Data Network is Activated and Flight Mode is Off I'm always in a well-covered network area. To recover when Flight Mode randomly enables, I can...
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    Help Return / back soft key not working

    I've seen threads posted on this topic before, but I thought I'd ask now to see if anyone has come up with a solution (other than returning the phone): Since getting my phone in Dec '10 maybe 5% of the time pressing the soft return key followed by the home button would result in a screenshot...
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    Help Has anyone opened their Samsung?

    I think I damaged my accelerometer and an hoping it might be a broken solder joint or something. Are there any guides on taking apart the Galaxy?
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    Help Rotate doesn't work! !

    Has anyone had the rotate stop working on their phone? I kind of tossed my phone this morning and I wonder if it damaged the accelerometer. :( I can not switch to landscape mode.
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    Swype is ******ed

    As much as I like Swype, it really needs some feature fixes. The biggest problem I have is that it must be scanning my Contacts list and adding names from the Contact list to the Swype dictionary. Some of the names are very similar to common english words, so it's screwing up my accuracy. Even...
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    Help Wierd problem - pics do not load on SOME websites

    What could cause only a select FEW websites to not show any pics? Even weirder, they used to show pics up until about 2 days ago! With these sites, I can still see the pics if I view them under a proxy browser (ie. Droid Proxy), and of course on my desktop pc the pics show up. Another other...
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    Swype has lots of non-word words in its dictionary!

    I have TONS of words in Swype that are not words, and I did NOT enter them! It's really annoying. Can someone confirm if they have these "words" in Swype: weil njit ven ... there's lots more, but these are the only ones I remember off the top of my head. I feel like I'm playing Scrabble with...
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    Help Galaxy S is screwed! Most apps don't load, can't even do factory reset!

    I was using my phone as usual at work, and noticed I couldn't modify an entry in Jorte (calendar app). The phone would produce an error message. Next, the Jorte widget failed to load. I restarted the phone and was alarmed to see: The application com.google.process.gapps has stopped...