After spending an hour searching the net I found what clearly is the best forum site to be with (in regards to my phone and what I want from it). I then spent another hour reading page after page to the point now where I'm in a worse place than where I started...
I have a new samsung galaxy S (i9000) 8Gb (can't get the 16gb here in NZ except private sales which I'm not feeling up to risking). Below are a few issues I am having.
Just bought a 16Gb micro SD card and can't for the life of me work out what is up with this crazy as file navigation. I tried the default "my files" which I already guessed would be crap, so I got "ES File explorer" which is much better BUT... I have the "home view" which is the phone memory where I can't see how much out of how much space I have, then I have my 6gb internal SD where I can view usedGB/TotalGB but where is my 16Gb microSD???? Am I using a crappy file manager? is there a better one? I would like to use this for movies/music etc. The camera has an option for memory card (for where to save pics) is this internal or external?
"rooting" is made rather difficult considering there is no recovery mode (yes I tried the up volume+power+home and the both volume+power+home and about half a dozen different variations of these keys) but I did manage a work-around however the purpose was for the speedup/lagfix which seems there a a lot out there and lots of people recommending different ones without any download links or web links so I couldn't find where to get them from except one that (you guessed it) requires recovery mode. So I have no idea where to go for this now.
So yeaaaa... at this stage these are the only questions/issue but I'm sure more will arise as the days go by. Looking forward to hearing from anyone with suggestions (not just the experts with the answers.... altho very very welcome )
BIG THANKYOU to everyone reading this even if you cant help, but are just looking to see if you can and an even BIGGER THANKYOU to people how keep checking back on the progress as I doubt this will be a 1 post fix (but fingers crossed).
I have a new samsung galaxy S (i9000) 8Gb (can't get the 16gb here in NZ except private sales which I'm not feeling up to risking). Below are a few issues I am having.
Just bought a 16Gb micro SD card and can't for the life of me work out what is up with this crazy as file navigation. I tried the default "my files" which I already guessed would be crap, so I got "ES File explorer" which is much better BUT... I have the "home view" which is the phone memory where I can't see how much out of how much space I have, then I have my 6gb internal SD where I can view usedGB/TotalGB but where is my 16Gb microSD???? Am I using a crappy file manager? is there a better one? I would like to use this for movies/music etc. The camera has an option for memory card (for where to save pics) is this internal or external?
"rooting" is made rather difficult considering there is no recovery mode (yes I tried the up volume+power+home and the both volume+power+home and about half a dozen different variations of these keys) but I did manage a work-around however the purpose was for the speedup/lagfix which seems there a a lot out there and lots of people recommending different ones without any download links or web links so I couldn't find where to get them from except one that (you guessed it) requires recovery mode. So I have no idea where to go for this now.
So yeaaaa... at this stage these are the only questions/issue but I'm sure more will arise as the days go by. Looking forward to hearing from anyone with suggestions (not just the experts with the answers.... altho very very welcome )
BIG THANKYOU to everyone reading this even if you cant help, but are just looking to see if you can and an even BIGGER THANKYOU to people how keep checking back on the progress as I doubt this will be a 1 post fix (but fingers crossed).
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