[Q] Making the Switch (Vibrant vs. SGS4G) - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

What's up, guys? I'm thinking about trading my SGS4G for this model (the Vibrant), just for the sake of saving $10/month on my T-Mobile bill (the 4G phones only give you 200mb or 5gb options, whereas the 3G phones give you a middle-of-the-road 2GB option for cheaper). NOT TO MENTION the fact that the Vibrant has access to amazing ROMs like CM7 and MIUI.
All that aside, I was wondering if you guys could give me some pointers...
1) Is this a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad idea?
2) Are 3G speeds pretty decent? Am I going to miss 4G?
3) What DOESN'T work when it comes to MIUI and CM7? GPS?
4) What's your favorite custom ROM / mod on this phone?
5) Any other tips?
I'm used to using CWM and Odin and Heimdall, so I don't think it will be much of a transition. And as far as I can tell, the 3G and 4G models have almost everything in common (minus the data speeds, Bluetooth EDR, and perhaps battery life).
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, hope I posted in the right section.
Cheers!

CM7/Miui is fully functional, aside from gps..it works, but barely and needs a restart if you want to use it again. All these custom roms you want, however are not capable of making 911 calls,so some devs are dropping them anyways.
I don't think you'll notice a bit of difference between 3g and 4g (as far as the GSG4g anyways, seeing as it's not capable of HSPA+)
If your phone works for you, keep it...otherwise sacrifice gps quality and no 911 in an emergency. Hope this helps

Thanks! That's very helpful. I am running GB on my SGS4G, but honestly there are very few noticeable differences b/twn GB and Froyo (nothing I will miss at least) so I'm not terribly worried about that.
I've always loved MIUI, and it's quite crippled on the SGS4G. As far as MIUI goes (not CM7), is it crippled in any way? I'm not worried about E911, but I am a bit worried about GPS.

I have been running VeNom's ROM and it is by far the best one I have ran on any device
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This one? SGSII 360 Vr

Also, does the Vibrant have a front facing camera?
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No. But there is a way you can modify your phone to have one. But it will involve breaking your warranty (if you have warranty).
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=zyGNJ0lIug8

If u want the best gingerbread aosp experience use phiremod cm7 with glitch kernal amazing battery life and super fast rom. Also make sure u get the 1800 mah battery
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Wow wtf? Outdated af.. gps is working great in cm7.1 if you just use the gps fix rofl...
My phone is currently perfectly reliable, stable and has a full featureset.. no real complaints..
Cm7.1 with glitch.. im happy
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manus ferrera said:
If u want the best gingerbread aosp experience use phiremod cm7 with glitch kernal amazing battery life and super fast rom. Also make sure u get the 1800 mah battery
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+1 (Except I prefer miui over CM7)
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Best Rom for someone just wanting a faster Fascinate

So, my friend had an Incredible and swapped it with his wife for her Fascinate. Problem is, the default ROM has its hiccups as we all know.
What would be the best ROM for him to try for just an overall faster phone experience? He isn't looking for any real bells and whistles, he just wants his phone like it is, but perform better with no lags, skips, etc.
Any suggestions?
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So, my friend had an Incredible and swapped it with his wife for her Fascinate. Problem is, the default ROM has its hiccups as we all know.
What would be the best ROM for him to try for just an overall faster phone experience? He isn't looking for any real bells and whistles, he just wants his phone like it is, but perform better with no lags, skips, etc.
Any suggestions?
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Com rom 2.1 and evil fascination are exactly what you are looking for
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[Q] how does atrix port compare to eclipse?

I've been an eclipse fanboy since the first roms were posted. I'm thinking of trying the atrix port.
Has anyone tried both nitro's eclipse and navenedrob's atrix port? How do they compare in speed/battery life/etc..?
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I've been an eclipse fanboy since the first roms were posted. I'm thinking of trying the atrix port.
Has anyone tried both nitro's eclipse and navenedrob's atrix port? How do they compare in speed/battery life/etc..?
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2.3.4 is neat because we don't have it on our phones yet, but its just 2.3.3 with some slight improvements. I flashed it for like 5 minutes and went back to eclipse. I mean this in the most respectful way to naven, I am glad he is doing the ports. I just really like eclipse
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I've used ecplipse from the beginning but i recently went over to the atrix port just because its the latest version of android. I really liked eclipse because a lot of the blur elements from motorola are removed. but i also like the atrix version just because, like i said, its the latest version from google.
I'd say give both a try. just make 2 separate nandroid backups so u can swap between the 2 if u dont like one or the other.
Both have flaws
This is just my opinion but eclipse has issues with media playback, especially music. I had run the stock rooted gb from p3 and the music played fine if u played it from internal storage, and then fine from the sd card after I baught a class 10 adata card online. With eclipse though it didn't matter, the music skipped and popped like crazy no matter what I did, and I ALWAYS do clean installs with wipes of the big 3. The atrix port of stock 2.3.4 plays music perfectly, but the camera has issues with video mode and the system is laggy compared to eclipse all over. I even debloated it with tibu but it was still slower. That being said, there are some cool animation effects on the atrix port and it had the drop down toggle widgets, but the lag is killing it when u use certain apps that require performance. The bistro capture on both is horrible for some reason. Stock rooted gb from p3 had a great working video capture in 720p hd, but these two roms break it somehow. I know there were problems with navan's scripts affecting media playback so they might affect video capture too. And I'm not dissing him at all, he has done great work.... Again these are my opinions based on my experience with each rom.
I wasn't sure I wanted to leave eclipse rom to go to this ATRIX port but im not regretting it this port is nuts im having way better battery on the ATRIX rom then eclipse rom
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I am having better battery life with Atrix as well. Also my 3g speeds are faster but the signal is not as strong in every area as it was on Eclipse. Music is not skipping with Atrix but the voice commands do not work. I am running ADW on both so operating speed is the same.
I have used every version of eclipse and I've tried to switch to Atrix 3 different times but nothing beats Nitro's blurless ROM for me. It's fast and makes you realize how much blur sucks in every form.
The Atrix ROM is very good and if it weren't for blurless, I'd use it for sure.
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I have used every version of eclipse and I've tried to switch to Atrix 3 different times but nothing beats Nitro's blurless ROM for me. It's fast and makes you realize how much blur sucks in every form.
The Atrix ROM is very good and if it weren't for blurless, I'd use it for sure.
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See i like blur its not bad but the Atirx rom is a really bugged down blur it doesn't have everything like the stock 2.3.3 has which is nice
Never tried an Atrix port and never will. Obviously im not answering your question but I AM throwing my 2 cents in.
Nitro has been banging it out since the beginning. Working his ass off withing the limitations he is provided and he is giving us X2 users the best experience possible that google allows him for X2 software. Im willing to bet that if they give us 2.3.4 then Nitro will be all over it.
I also happen to like Eclipse.
But, for the above mentioned reasons.. I will use Eclipse until this phone dies of old age or meets its unexpected doom.
For me there was things I liked and things I didn't about the ATRIX rom...
Eclipse definitely runs faster and I like the blur-less-ness of it but the ATRIX rom has better battery life and allows 4 touch events at once... so far I haven't decided which one I like better but they are both really good!
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Speed on eclipse versus battery life on atrix seems to be the consensus.
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but the ATRIX rom has better battery life and allows 4 touch events at once...
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I believe I read somewhere that the number of multitouch points can be configured in a file somewhere. Thread
I like eclipse, I do not like the new atrix one, plus it does not have hdmi mirroring.
I found that the atrix one slows my phone a bit, and Eclipse rom is very fast.
I didn't like it. Too much of AT&T is implemented into the ROM. Some essential Android apps.aren't automatically put in.
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I didn't like it. Too much of AT&T is implemented into the ROM. Some essential Android apps.aren't automatically put in.
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Better than all the bloat we end up with by default. The first thing I noticed was that there was virtually no bloat. I'm really digging this atrix port with red ice cream theme. It's got great batt life and stability, and is totally blazing.
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The reason eclipse drains the battery faster is the second core never turning off it constantly runs and the cpu tweaks that are included by default.
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After flashing 0.6 eclipse and seeing how much it was like stock I decided to give ATRIX port another shot. After getting it themed red (nice work muff) and set up its pretty nice. I still like 0.5 best but I like ATRIX more than 0.6 all are great pieces of work
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slagar said:
The reason eclipse drains the battery faster is the second core never turning off it constantly runs and the cpu tweaks that are included by default.
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I was running on P3s stock rooted Gingerbread until 4 days ago. Honestly, I think my favorite was the stock GB debloated. I am on Eclipse now, and don't get me wrong it is awesome. It is the fastest I have tried so far, and I love the "pure" android feel to it. I also do not get music pops/skips, and I did not on the rooted GB either, must be one of the lucky ones. Now I can say this as well, my battery life has been the best on Eclipse v.05. I am on 1 day and 10 hours on a single charge. I charged my battery to full, then wiped the phone and battery stats then flashed Eclipse and am getting great results. So far, my only complaint is I cannot get the music player to show up on the lockscreen as it did with stock GB rooted and Atrix port. Not a huge deal at all, just something I noticed.
slagar said:
The reason eclipse drains the battery faster is the second core never turning off it constantly runs and the cpu tweaks that are included by default.
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not true last night i was messing around with the scripts and found out a few things.
1) the kernel doesnt care what speed you tell it to run at. it just ignores and runs between 1ghz and 216mhz
2) with out the scripts it still disables the 2nd core when it isnt used
theres a 3rd but i forget it
My second core was constantly enabled according to systempanel
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My second core was constantly enabled according to systempanel
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Im not sure what you did but I deleted all the scripts in init.d and it turned off the 2nd core by itself. Then o added them back and the same thing happened
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Oh no... not another "what's the best ROM" question...

This one is a little different though. I am on a MIUI ROM, and have been for many months. Next month the Galaxy II is coming out for t-mobile, and I will be upgrading. And that means my wife gets the vibrant. Which means this phone "just has to work". As much as I love MIUI and cyanogen, being at the tip of the spear means having to put up with some things that just don't work like they are supposed to. Like GPS and battery life to name two. Stock would be an option, but if I recall, stock sucked on battery life AND GPS, correct?
So, what is the best ROM nowadays for stability (including GPS) and battery life? It has been so long that I have had a froyo ROM on my phone that I really don't know who is at the top now.
Oh, and by "best ROM", I should have said "best ROM & kernel combination".
the Bionix ROMs are pretty stable for the most part (though they're not really supported on xda anymore). http://sourceforge.net/projects/bionix-v/files/
I suggest trying ZenDroid. It's one of the very few froyo roms still updated and supported. Has all the newest build.prop tweaks, gps works perfect for me, has great battery life, and it's as stable as they come.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1079517
EDIT: Ah yes, forgot about the DMZ kernel. Thanks to Mdtolic below for bringing that up. I have to agree with him about the ZenDroid/DMZ kernel combo.
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I've been on MIUI for a week or so now, and GPS has worked perfectly on several trips around the area. In fact, it's working better than when I was using a Froyo ROM. Battery life is still good as long as you do a reasonable undervolt and use Titanium Backup to freeze useless battery hogging software (Gallery, replaced with Quickpic, Maps if you don't use navigation, etc)
Still, if you want rock solid stable with great battery life, try Toxic8 with KB5 modem and Bali X 1.2 kernel. Once you set everything up for her along with a theme she likes, you'll never have to tweak it again.
Be warned though. As far as smoothness is concerned, nothing compares to MIUI. At least in my experience.
Jcc's toxic roms are awesome. Everything works as it should and he has a new rom(deranged 9) cookin now!
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I have come to learn that "the best" ROM/Kernel combo for one phone, may not be the best combo for any other phone.
For me, ZenDroid is perfect. To get the best battery life I use the SuperDragonModz kernel. ZenDroid comes with Bali UC and I think that works great for most folks.
ZD has an AOSP theme too; in case your wife would prefer a "clean" Android look.
That Ultimate 2.2.1 rom is fairly awesome. It is smooth, fast and good looking. Works perfectly with the ffc mod. Has decent battery life and the GPS will connect in mere seconds (9 of 11 birds, 20 ft after about a minute or two). Keep in mind I did the hardware fix posted here. It is my top choice going back to froyo coming from a variety of gb roms.
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Project-V with Bali-X 1.2
By far the best 2.2 ROM I've used!
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That Ultimate 2.2.1 rom is fairly awesome. It is smooth, fast and good looking. Works perfectly with the ffc mod. Has decent battery life and the GPS will connect in mere seconds (9 of 11 birds, 20 ft after about a minute or two). Keep in mind I did the hardware fix posted here. It is my top choice going back to froyo coming from a variety of gb roms.
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+1 to this

[Q] samsung vibrant VS samsung galasy s 4g ??

I currently have samsung vibrant ,its battery drains too fast ,might be some problem with it
I have the option of replacing it with another vibrant or samsung galaxy s 4g
which one is better ?
I have heard that samsung galaxy s 4g has only 512 MB internal while the vibrant has 16GB
is that too little to the way that makes it defective or to impede downloading apps on it (since most of the apps should be downloaded on the internal memory )?if so is there any solution for that rather than rooting the phone?
I love the idea of having a front facing camera and a better battery life
but im concerned about that memory issue
denverguy said:
I currently have samsung vibrant ,its battery drains too fast ,might be some problem with it
I have the option of replacing it with another vibrant or samsung galaxy s 4g
which one is better ?
I have heard that samsung galaxy s 4g has only 512 MB internal while the vibrant has 16GB
is that too little to the way that makes it defective or to impede downloading apps on it (since most of the apps should be downloaded on the internal memory )?if so is there any solution for that rather than rooting the phone?
I love the idea of having a front facing camera and a better battery life
but im concerned about that memory issue
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I think you're mixing up internal storage (16gb) and RAM (512mb). I don't think you need to worry since those totals are exactly the same as the regular vibrant.
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I think you're mixing up internal storage (16gb) and RAM (512mb). I don't think you need to worry since those totals are exactly the same as the regular vibrant.
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no the internal storage of the samsung galaxy s 4g in only 1 GB of which only 512 mb for apps ,tmobile usually take about 200 mb to preload apps on the phone !
I think you are confused about the memory issue.
Anyway, find out which phone has more dev support, and get that one.
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I think you are confused about the memory issue.
Anyway, find out which phone has more dev support, and get that one.
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Vibrant has more dev support but 4G have more official support but the memory is a huge problem because it will be hard to update the phone since it has so little space
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Same devices internally,
Vibrant = 16GB Internal Mem w/expandable possible, No FFC
Galaxy S 4G = 1GB Internal w/expandable possible, w/FFC
Only difference....
I have both and there are some good roms out there for the sgs4g way better batt life and apps will save to sd
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ricobudz123 said:
I have both and there are some good roms out there for the sgs4g way better batt life and apps will save to sd
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4G has 1650mah battery 3G 1500 not all apps can go to sd an roms have to go to internal memory
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Vibrant is better except gps and stock Rom performance.
Oh, and the ffc.
Hspa+ download speeds are not consistently good enough that you will beat the vibrant 3G consistently, since I could get almost Mbps down with mine in hspa+ market.
Maybe I'm being ignorant, but if a 3G vibrant can't hit 7.2 down, neither will any "4g" vibrant.
That's why I'm not into high speed hspa+ devices. You get terrible battery life on them for not much, if any benefit.
I think the only benefit is better upload speeds but my 3G vibrant uploads at 2.5+ Mbps in an hspa+ market which is fast enough for most any task.
Get a 3G vibrant cheap and install a custom rom of you like to tinker. It's a better value for the monetary investment, IMO.
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I have both and Galaxy S 4G is simply better than Vibrant.
1. Better battery life
2. Better GPS
3. Better speed (best 14.3 MBits/s vs 6.2 MBits/s on Vibrant)
4. FFC
5. Better display (personal opinion)
After deleting bloatware, without doing FOTA mod, I have availaible 274 MB.
Krzysiek_CK said:
I have both and Galaxy S 4G is simply better than Vibrant.
1. Better battery life
2. Better GPS
3. Better speed (best 14 MBits/s vs 6.2 MBits/s on Vibrant)
4. FFC
5. Better display (personal opinion)
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First of all, the vibrant is a 7.2 mbps device. The 4g will not consistently get over 7.2 for the vast majority of people so that's a wash IMO.
Battery life isn't that much better. Its only a 10% increase in battery size.
The GPS is the biggest gain IMO, but the storage is more important. I find the vibrants GPS is fine for accuracy. Where it actually fails is how damn long it takes to lock. This affects people which turn GPS on and off on an as needed basis a lot more than those that leave it on all the time since the phone will almost always do a lock on boot which lessens the time it takes to get later locks for that latter crowd.
The ffc is a win on the 4g, though. Can't argue with that at al. Losing that much space is not worth it IMO. I'd still get the vibrant over the 4g just for the extra > 12g storage in it!
In the end which one is better will ultimately depend on how you use your phone.
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First of all, the vibrant is a 7.2 mbps device. The 4g will not consistently get over 7.2 for the vast majority of people so that's a wash IMO.
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Your opinion doesn't hold water (as usual!)
The higher modulation that comes with "4G" allows for higher peak speeds. The Vibrant has overhead, 7.2 Mbps is only under optimal conditions, never really ever happening. 21Mbps is also only under optimal conditions, but the higher ceiling allows for higher peak speed.
N8ter said:
First of all, the vibrant is a 7.2 mbps device. The 4g will not consistently get over 7.2 for the vast majority of people so that's a wash IMO.
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I consistently get 8-10 MBits/s on 4G, I guess I'm the vast minority. Also, I live 2 blocks away from the T-Mobile store that has 4G tower.
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Battery life isn't that much better. Its only a 10% increase in battery size.
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There is more too it then you think, and it translates to a much better battery life than 10%.
N8ter said:
The GPS is the biggest gain IMO, but the storage is more important.
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In your personal opinion but not in mine. Storage is cheap, broken GPS wastes time. I currently have 16 GB card in Galaxy S 4G and it is more than I need.
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I find the vibrants GPS is fine for accuracy.
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Since you like to respond for others, let me do the same. The vast majority of people have issues with Vibrant GPS that wonders by blocks and occasionally by miles.
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Where it actually fails is how damn long it takes to lock. This affects people which turn GPS on and off on an as needed basis a lot more than those that leave it on all the time since the phone will almost always do a lock on boot which lessens the time it takes to get later locks for that latter crowd.
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I work in a high-rise and leaving GPS on all the time kills battery since it tries to connect all the time. Strangely enough, you also made a comment regarding the batter life.
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Losing that much space is not worth it IMO. I'd still get the vibrant over the 4g just for the extra > 12g storage in it!
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I beg to differ.
I would get the newer model if it had miui support. I don't think I can live without miui ever again.
Krzysiek_CK said:
I consistently get 8-10 MBits/s on 4G, I guess I'm the vast minority. Also, I live 2 blocks away from the T-Mobile store that has 4G tower.
There is more too it then you think, and it translates to a much better battery life than 10%.
In your personal opinion but not in mine. Storage is cheap, broken GPS wastes time. I currently have 16 GB card in Galaxy S 4G and it is more than I need.
Since you like to respond for others, let me do the same. The vast majority of people have issues with Vibrant GPS that wonders by blocks and occasionally by miles.
I work in a high-rise and leaving GPS on all the time kills battery since it tries to connect all the time. Strangely enough, you also made a comment regarding the batter life.
I beg to differ.
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I said the battery was only 10% bigger. I can get over 11 hours on my vibrant. It's on the charger before it can die. Battery life not a factor for me on these phones. I'm aware leaving gps on drains battery.
16g isn't enough to hold my music and videos. The extra 12 in the vibrant is huge cause 32 gb cards are still too expensive IMO.
And yes very high speeds aren't all that common even Verizon lte customers don't get anything near the theoretical max. I can get ~4 down on my vibrant anything more than that I won't notice much since I don't tether or download ridiculously large files on my phones.
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N8ter said:
I said the battery was only 10% bigger. I can get over 11 hours on my vibrant. It's on the charger before it can die. Battery life not a factor for me on these phones. I'm aware leaving gps on drains battery.
16g isn't enough to hold my music and videos. The extra 12 in the vibrant is huge cause 32 gb cards are still too expensive IMO.
And yes very high speeds aren't all that common even Verizon lte customers don't get anything near the theoretical max. I can get ~4 down on my vibrant anything more than that I won't notice much since I don't tether or download ridiculously large files on my phones.
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OK, I guess you like your Vibrant. That is perfectly fine, yet it does not make Vibrant better than Galaxy S 4G.
I used to have a vibrant before the insurance got me the galaxy 4g. I can definitely say that the 4g is better. My speeds doubled which is almost the same speeds as my cable
internet. I don't have a problem with my battery especially since the 1800mah battery from the epic 4g touch is working wonders. I do miss the 16GB on board but I have a 32gb card and never had a problem of having low internal storage. We also have some great developers so not worried about development. Also we have official gingerbread!
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I had both and I think modified vibrant is better.
Some apps on 4g were losing their settings after reboot.
Inernal memory on Vibrant is faster than external SD on 4G.
Also 4g drains more power than 3g.
In 4g they made 2 copper GPS contacts in vibrant it is only one
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my question...are there roms specifically for the vibrant 4g? or do any of the normal vibrant roms install and work the same on the vibrant 4g? just had to do an insurance claim on my vibrant and had to get the 4g. i rooted it, but dont want to go any farther without consulting from the knowledge of xda!
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my question...are there roms specifically for the vibrant 4g? or do any of the normal vibrant roms install and work the same on the vibrant 4g? just had to do an insurance claim on my vibrant and had to get the 4g. i rooted it, but dont want to go any farther without consulting from the knowledge of xda!
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No they are different. Don't install a Vibrant rom to the Galaxy S 4G...bad news

Coming from the epic 4g touch to the vibrant questions?

Getting a vibrant soon... its a huge downgrade from my epic touch :/
I have a few... well a lot of questions.. xD
Will my batteries from my old epic 4g and epic 4g touch work in the vibrant?
What's a great case for the vibrant?
What version of android is the official ota update for the vibrant?
What are the best roms and kernels?
What's the 4.0 progress.. any good 4.0 roms?
Benchmark scores?
How to root?
What data speeds do you normally get?
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Getting a vibrant soon... its a huge downgrade from my epic touch :/
I have a few... well a lot of questions.. xD
Will my batteries from my old epic 4g and epic 4g touch work in the vibrant?
What's a great case for the vibrant?
What version of android is the official ota update for the vibrant?
What are the best roms and kernels?
What's the 4.0 progress.. any good 4.0 roms?
Benchmark scores?
How to root?
What data speeds do you normally get?
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The batteries should work i think.. at least one of them.
My case is great but i cant really name it.. its a hard rubber that doesnt creak or break off but also isnt sticky like the silicon ones... you can look for a gradiant pink to black case idk...
Theres no OTA for vibrant but we have kies update of us to jk6 i believe and its froyo.. i do NOT recommend using kies as it has a notorious rep of bricking vibrants.
Best roms? For froyo (functional tho a bit slow) bionix was always my absolute fave..
Gb: cm7 was amazingly fast and stable tho the batt life isnt great. Glitch kernel ftw
Ics: ics euphoria is qiite amazing tho i just found out about pretty dire bug regarding bricking through random failed encryption.. so id hold off possibly till its fixed.
Vibrant passion is one of the most stable ics available for any phone.. its very good imo with no major issues other than that encryption thingy and a few freezes in some apps (could be their own fault) etc
I used to bench 1600 quadrant on bionix oced at 1.4, 3000 on cm7 on glitch oced to 1.6 lol, again around 1600 on ics oced to 1.2 ... linpack ranges from 16 - like 25 or so.
How to root? Read the noob guide sticky... seriously... dont skip this... do it..
Data speeds for me always sucked but i dont run benchmarks on it...ost people say they get up to around 7.5 mbps after the build.prop tweaks. You might be around there.
You might or migght not be interested in the ffc mod if you want a front facing cam, and the unbrickable mod if you like delicate techy work (very useful)..
Also learn to use odin well.
And dont be pissed you got a vibrant, its a great phone with an amazing community
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