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Get Galaxy S Updates from twitter

Not sure about you guys but I only use twitter for news/tech updates.
Since a twitter account doesn't exist for galaxy s updates I figured I would make one.
https://twitter.com/TheGalaxyS
I'll be trying to keep up to date with all the galaxy s news and post updates as often as I can.
The updates I will post will be about application tweaks, firmware updates, rom news, sim unlock etc...
Updates will include all of the galaxy s phones.
Galaxy S I9000, Vibrant, and the Captivate.
If there are updates that i've either missed or you think they're very important, just tweet back at me, or email [email protected]

Pretty sure Samsung Mobile has this covered, but the more the better

link?
I'm sure there are a lot of things that samsung can't post for legal reasons.

Are you 12? If so this is really cute. If not, this is kinda sad...

AndroidZ28 said:
Are you 12? If so this is really cute. If not, this is kinda sad...
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whys it sad?
because I'm using twitter?
I love being able to check twitter and see small news updates for various things, its like a more customizable RSS feed.
There wasn't one so I made one...its nice being able to see if the galaxy s has been unlocked without having to check the site daily.

AndroidZ28 said:
Are you 12? If so this is really cute. If not, this is kinda sad...
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I applaud you for being an ass to someone that is trying to help out the community.
Good idea OP. Samsung won't be tweeting about hacks and tweaks in their Twitter so I'm glad you will keep up with this.

OP, if you'll keep me updated on larger-scale ROM news (like CM finding its way to the Vibrant/Captivate), Galaxy S firmware updates, and the like without spamming me, I will gladly follow you and set your updates to go to my phone as well.
I find myself mainly reading this forum because I'm waiting for a custom ROM or FroYo to pop out on the Vibrant before I buy one.

AshTR said:
OP, if you'll keep me updated on larger-scale ROM news (like CM finding its way to the Vibrant/Captivate), Galaxy S firmware updates, and the like without spamming me, I will gladly follow you and set your updates to go to my phone as well.
I find myself mainly reading this forum because I'm waiting for a custom ROM or FroYo to pop out on the Vibrant before I buy one.
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thats what I'm waiting for, that and sim unlock.
And you don't have to worry about getting 'spammed' by me.
I don't care about gaining followers at all, I just figured that there are a lot of other people looking for the same things as me.

Great idea! Thanks!
Sent from my Vibrant

Yeah, that one post was extreme.
I should have read the op closer last night, didn't see the other things mentioned.
I assume you follow cyanogen, wes, and the whole crew to get updated yourself?
I went to see Inception last night (WOW), so, my brain was not 100% here.

s15274n said:
Yeah, that one post was extreme.
I should have read the op closer last night, didn't see the other things mentioned.
I assume you follow cyanogen, wes, and the whole crew to get updated yourself?
I went to see Inception last night (WOW), so, my brain was not 100% here.
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Yes, im following the cyanogen crew.

Samsung Canada facebook page- someone posting to start a lawsuit & petition.

hmm..i was on the samsung page to check about problems people posted. And someone from our forum has decided to post on the site and say they are starting a petition to start a class action lawsuit. for those interested, comment on it, heres a link
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/SamsungCanada
who knows?...maybe something might happen :s

Should have done a usa suit as that will get more of the medias attention
Sent from my GT-I9000

ickyboo said:
Should have done a usa suit as that will get more of the medias attention
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its either a scare tatic or this guy seems serious. haha i messaged him seeing if he was actually going to do something. maybe we should get people to comment on that, so that way samsung doesnt think its just 1 guy? :s just a thought

i'll join in for sure, once the link is up

MEGA BUMP
http://www.facebook.com/SamsungCanada/posts/163803386975551?ref=notif&notif_t=feed_comment_reply
Samsung has just told their 1888 number to let the orginal poster send in the phone that didnt have proof of purchase (receipt) from Bell to be sent in. So for all who are wanting some sort of help or guidance. PLEASE reply back to that wall post. Make your voice heard.
edit** never mind, samsung is just talking bs.

maybe the gps doesn't work on some....
Samsung hoping that those owners won't be able to find them.
Ooops, sorry for being off topic.

It would be great to see this in Europe and force Samsung to enable the 3 button key, but I doubt it. Over here people are citizens only in name, and thus the EU knows better, and Samsung EU (Netherlands) say that it was disabled for the good of the user.

Samsung said;
"Our share in the Canadian market aint that overwhelming, we're planning to stop distributing on all Samsung products there."
hehe kidding, but it would be something to laugh about...

forgetmyname said:
It would be great to see this in Europe and force Samsung to enable the 3 button key, but I doubt it. Over here people are citizens only in name, and thus the EU knows better, and Samsung EU (Netherlands) say that it was disabled for the good of the user.
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Samsung Germany doesn't even have a (Facebook|Twitter|whatever) account so you can only reach them by phone. It's a shame, that's all.

Any word samsung actually helping out?

sleeplessfreek said:
Any word samsung actually helping out?
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i haven't heard any

This will not fly...... most people have working phones its just a few that have issues and end up complaining.. and they end up here looking to solve the issue.. where as most the public will not even log on to the xda forums..
Also I have a buddy that works at the Bell store and sure they have had a few returned but most people that have the Samsung S love it... I for one do not have any issues and I know 2 other people with the phone that don't have issues and the GPS works great.

XDA/Samsung

Hello Guys,
My name is John, I recently became the social media analyst at Samsung mobile. I wanted to start opening the lines of communication between XDA and Samsung. First I wanted to say I have noticed your work on our devices on the XDA forums. I think you guys do an outstanding job, I myself am a developer for mobile devices. So let’s get down to business, we’re going to be in Austin from March 10-15 for the SXSW(south by southwest http://sxsw.com/convention). I was wondering if any of you guys are going so that we could meet up and share a couple of ideas I have. I am looking forward to meeting some of you GREAT developers!
Thanks in advance,
John
Social Media Analyst
Samsung Mobile USA
Twitter: @SamsungJohn

Awesome man, nice to see a hand out.....
any insight on when source will be released?
Did you hear about the #NeverAgain Samsung movement?

Bump, would love to see connections between XDA and Samsung to improve on the great hardware provided by Samsung. Too bad I am in Dallas though...

Very cool to get an official Samsung voice in here.
Want a suggestion? Samsung should pay out bounties to devs who do special things for Samsung handsets. For instance, did you know that Supercurio's work has turned the SGS into a credible audiophile DAP? It sounds better than many dedicated DAP + amp combos, which is extraordinary. Samsung should reward that!
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Im not a dev, but ill be there.
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omg omg omgomgogm!
can i get your signature?!??!

Partnership
Partnership! That's the plan, you guys in my opinion, are the biggest influence to the android community.

If you guys are seriously planning on strengthening the relationship with XDA, take a cue from HTC, and put your source out quicker for us to play with. If you think the devs here are great now, open up that sandbox and you'll see what they can really do.
This is a great gesture though, I hope something great can come of it.

Partnership
Yes, I have been watching you guys work and I must say is very fantastic. I am here on behalf of Samsung to establish a partnership. Do you guys suggest me posting this in the development forums?

SamsungJohn said:
Yes, I have been watching you guys work and I must say is very fantastic. I am here on behalf of Samsung to establish a partnership. Do you guys suggest me posting this in the development forums?
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<3 I am following you. Thanks for being awesome.
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So, the frikkin GPS......
You guys shipped a bogus product.
Are you even considering a perk on the Galaxys 4g upgrade for those of us that purchased a broken device ?

grr. double post

SamsungJohn said:
Yes, I have been watching you guys work and I must say is very fantastic. I am here on behalf of Samsung to establish a partnership. Do you guys suggest me posting this in the development forums?
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Nah, you'll get reamed if you post in the dev forum. I'm sure this thread has been noticed by all the dev teams.

n2ishun said:
So, the frikkin GPS......
You guys shipped a bogus product.
Are you even considering a perk on the Galaxys 4g upgrade for those of us that purchased a broken device ?
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That's up to tmobile. Anyways, don't attack him he's here to help. Keep the negative comments to yourself as this is our one link to samsung and we do NOT want to lose it.
Thank you for coming and introducing yourself!
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imitebewrong said:
That's up to tmobile. Anyways, don't attack him he's here to help. Keep the negative comments to yourself as this is our one link to samsung and we do NOT want to lose it.
Thank you for coming and introducing yourself!
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SamsungJohn said:
Yes, I have been watching you guys work and I must say is very fantastic. I am here on behalf of Samsung to establish a partnership. Do you guys suggest me posting this in the development forums?
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Hi,
I suggest you to post a thread in the i9000 section, you've post everywhere except there, while it's the "main" branch of SGS
Does Samsung has planned to implement the wonderful Supercurio's work (like Voodoo great sound improvements) and to work with him?
Edit : I've read your're also a developper, so yes, you should post in dev sections

can you post your @samsung email so that we can verify you are the real deal? not to be offensive, but the internet is rampant with trolls and cons.

Welcome and thanks for joining us. Make sure you check out our devs and themers. There is some amazing talent here. And these guys do this as a hobby!
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Sine. said:
Hi,
I suggest you to post a thread in the i9000 section, you've post everywhere except there, while it's the "main" branch of SGS
Does Samsung has planned to implement the wonderful Supercurio's work (like Voodoo great sound improvements) and to work with him?
Edit : I've read your're also a developper, so yes, you should post in dev sections
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He's from samsung mobile usa that's probably why he didn't post on the i9000 section.
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yes please, please make sure and confirm to someone here that you are the actual Samsung developer, we have many of these kinds of little kids who fake this, and that makes our trust go down on the real people.

Galaxy S Gingerbread rolling out in Europe

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/16/galaxy-s-gingerbread-update-now-rolling-out-across-europe/
Looks like the i9000 is actually getting that 2.3 update. Maybe some other SGS models will start seeing it, I'd say everyone but us will get a glimpse.

Wrong section.
But yeah, at least the gs family looks like it will all get gingerbread.

Usually if its pertaining to Froyo/GB people don't mind seeing it in here. Hell, most people only view this subforum of the Fascinate and not general or any others. But you're right.
I feel like the Epic and Vibrant will get it in a few months, and then 25 years later Captivate, Mesmerize, Fascinate.

Syn Ack said:
Usually if its pertaining to Froyo/GB people don't mind seeing it in here. Hell, most people only view this subforum of the Fascinate and not general or any others. But you're right.
I feel like the Epic and Vibrant will get it in a few months, and then 25 years later Captivate, Mesmerize, Fascinate.
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Yeah sounds about right... the rest of the community will be on android zinger 20.3.8. (Zinger is the only desert i can thnk if that starts with Z lol)But we will get GB I'm sure .
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Wow. And it turns out, Samsung is the first to get GB on a non-Nexus phone. The irony....

GoogleAndroid said:
Wow. And it turns out, Samsung is the first to get GB on a non-Nexus phone. The irony....
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Wrong..droid x got the ota earlier this week
And yes this is in the wrong section its not a development release or think tank post or something
Its not that hard to follow forum rules

nitsuj17 said:
Wrong..droid x got the ota earlier this week
And yes this is in the wrong section its not a development release or think tank post or something
Its not that hard to follow forum rules
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Ohhh yeahhh. I haven't heard anything about that since DL posted an article though. Well, close enough, it's still very ironic.

nitsuj17 said:
Wrong..droid x got the ota earlier this week
And yes this is in the wrong section its not a development release or think tank post or something
Its not that hard to follow forum rules
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Its not harming anyone and this has been done many times before. You just can't leave things alone can you?

Here we go again. Another thread that's gonna get trashed with useless back and forth nonsense
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Syn Ack said:
Its not harming anyone
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No, it isn't harming anyone, but it is cluttering this board. Nitsuj, is right, follow the rules, it's not that hard.
blackmamba0730 said:
Here we go again. Another thread that's gonna get trashed with useless back and forth nonsense
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It wouldn't have to be that way, if people would have a little consideration, and follow the rules. Personally, I don't want to see this crap in here, when I'm looking for files.

spotmark said:
No, it isn't harming anyone, but it is cluttering this board. Nitsuj, is right, follow the rules, it's not that hard.
It wouldn't have to be that way, if people would have a little consideration, and follow the rules. Personally, I don't want to see this crap in here, when I'm looking for files.
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You're right, but nothing in the general section EVER gets viewed at or talked about. Everyone has their browser bookmarks set to development.

So it's all about page views then?

Syn Ack said:
You're right, but nothing in the general section EVER gets viewed at or talked about. Everyone has their browser bookmarks set to development.
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I have my bookmark set to the main page, so I can decide which board I want to look at, and I frequently visit the general board. By the way you're talking, you realize you shouldn't have posted here, but did it anyway. What makes you above the rules? It's called courtesy, and everyone should try it.

Kevin Gossett said:
So it's all about page views then?
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Nope, I'm just trying to spread the good news. Thought people would be interested. Decided I would put it in the "Wall Street Journal" as opposed to a "local smalltown newspaper".

GoogleAndroid said:
Ohhh yeahhh. I haven't heard anything about that since DL posted an article though. Well, close enough, it's still very ironic.
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I don't see how it'd be ironic if Samsung is first.
Google worked with them to release Gingerbread on some hardware that was only slightly different from the rest of their phones... They had an experience, resource, and time advantage over every other carrier... and yet they failed.
That's ironic. Samsung had every advantage, and yet couldn't even freaking get Gingerbread out on their flagship product before someone else. Seems like more motivation to me to avoid any future Samsung products.
And yeah, where to post things seems pretty obvious to me: Any discussion thread, where we're just talking about various random things go in General, questions go in Q&A, and actual releases (or things closely related to development... random questions about a ROM wouldn't warrant a new thread) go in Development. Posting things in the wrong section just to get more eyes seems fairly silly to me... if people aren't reading General, it's probably because they aren't interested in those things, probably only wanting actual ROMs/kernels/etc. Then again, making any comment on this topic seems to be a good way to get people to just flame you.

Syn Ack said:
Its not harming anyone and this has been done many times before. You just can't leave things alone can you?
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I also own a dx and i havent got the update. I keep hearing about this alleged update. So in my view hes not wrong
Used my fascinating voodoo powers

KitsuneKnight said:
I don't see how it'd be ironic if Samsung is first.
Google worked with them to release Gingerbread on some hardware that was only slightly different from the rest of their phones... They had an experience, resource, and time advantage over every other carrier... and yet they failed.
That's ironic. Samsung had every advantage, and yet couldn't even freaking get Gingerbread out on their flagship product before someone else. Seems like more motivation to me to avoid any future Samsung products.
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And now supposedly LG is working with Google for the Nexus 3 which will likely have the quadcore Tegra 3.

KitsuneKnight said:
I don't see how it'd be ironic if Samsung is first.
Google worked with them to release Gingerbread on some hardware that was only slightly different from the rest of their phones... They had an experience, resource, and time advantage over every other carrier... and yet they failed.
That's ironic. Samsung had every advantage, and yet couldn't even freaking get Gingerbread out on their flagship product before someone else. Seems like more motivation to me to avoid any future Samsung products.
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The software on the Nexus S is all Google's....

Syn Ack said:
Its not harming anyone and this has been done many times before. You just can't leave things alone can you?
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The rules are the rules...its not me being a ****...this is in no way shape or form development....and belongs in general
Its not up to you to decide that just because more people go here that "news" should also be in here as well
The rules are the same for everyone..otherwise development sections would be even more cluttered and difficult to navigate than they already are

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good day.

Samsung giving the Galaxy S and Tab another look for ics

http://androidandme.com/2011/12/new..._campaign=Feed:+androidandme+(Android+and+Me)
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Galaxy S =/= Vibrant

bosox86 said:
Galaxy S =/= Vibrant
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Here is hoping they end up including the variants. That said, it was my understanding that the delay in getting Froyo on the Vibrant had as much to do with T-Mobile as with Samsung. If nothing else, an official ICS release with a new kernel for the i9000 could mean better custom ROMs for the variants. Right?

Samsung said to be rethinking Android 4.0 upgrade for Galaxy S
Cnet Article
Samsung said to be rethinking Android 4.0 upgrade for Galaxy S
I am not one to spread propaganda or high hopes, but this one looks like it may just happen given time will tell.

dreaming...
We tmobile vibrants have not gotten gingerbread yet! so for them to spit out dreams of ics to us.... danger danger lies ahead!
But we do need to keep the squeaky wheels turning so sign the petitions tweet the "we need gingerbread for vibrants"
But yes it would be nice!

Who is Tweeting and where do I sign? Please drop some links
RoxAbout said:
We tmobile vibrants have not gotten gingerbread yet! so for them to spit out dreams of ics to us.... danger danger lies ahead!
But we do need to keep the squeaky wheels turning so sign the petitions tweet the "we need gingerbread for vibrants"
But yes it would be nice!
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Who is Tweeting and where do I sign? Please drop some links

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Who is Tweeting and where do I sign? Please drop some links
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For anyone that cares; http://www.change.org/petitions/sam...ile-give-us-gingerbread-or-ice-cream-sandwich
Spread the link around! Post it on Team Whiskey's Facebook page and ICS Passion's, Google +, Twitter, porn sites! Anywhere.

I will sign this and put this on comment every time t mobile post something on the Facebook. The more of you guys can do this, the more attention it will get from t mobile. May be we will never have gingerbread but at least t mobile owes us an explanation.

theexel said:
For anyone that cares; http://www.change.org/petitions/sam...ile-give-us-gingerbread-or-ice-cream-sandwich
Spread the link around! Post it on Team Whiskey's Facebook page and ICS Passion's, Google +, Twitter, porn sites! Anywhere.
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Did you make that? Thanks if you did.
Signed it, and i think we should make a bit more viral on these forums than just one post in a random thread.
Can anyone do it? or should I just do it now.. if a good "speech" comes to mind i'll make a thread.
Also to whoever made that, are we asking for GB or ICS? lol

xriderx66 said:
Did you make that? Thanks if you did.
Signed it, and i think we should make a bit more viral on these forums than just one post in a random thread.
Can anyone do it? or should I just do it now.. if a good "speech" comes to mind i'll make a thread.
Also to whoever made that, are we asking for GB or ICS? lol
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Indeed, I made it.
I just said we wanted an update, either Gingerbread or ICS.
I'll write up a thread now.

Signed but I don't have high hopes at all...

serendipityguy said:
Who is Tweeting and where do I sign? Please drop some links
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For a couple months now everytime "tmobile or samsung" put out some tweet like "invite your friends to tmobile or what would you like for the holidays..or any number of inane tweets they put out"
I have been working into the retweet with comments along the lines of ;
...give the vibrant gingerbread!..#shameonsamsung #boycottsamsung
invite your friends to tmobile "why so you can screw them like you did the vibrant owners!..give the vibrant gingerbread!..#shameonsamsung #boycottsamsung
Tmobilejohn actually replied back to my friends one...
Any ways the point is to work into the retweets the basics "give vibrant gingerbread".
And if its true that tmobile had more than a passing hand in the decline of gingerbread for the vibrant I will gladdly pay the ETF and tell them where to stuff it!
We need to complain till they cant stand it anymore!