Navionics on Samsung Galaxy S

Yes - works fine on my machine and worked instantly. Not that it's more than a curiosity really - the battery life running Navionics on the GPS has to be something like 4 hours.

There was never a word of Italian on mine so I do wonder whether you found an Italian mirror download site. I would add that I've learned with the Galaxy that its best to do download, particluarly big ones, using my wireless modem to ensure best speed and least inaccuracy.

Tried one of the application kill programs ( half the apps on tha phone dont turn off until you turn the phone off which somehow seems wrong) but that definitely did something nasty to the phone and buggered up initial start ups
 
Bosun Higgs said:
Yes - works fine on my machine and worked instantly. Not that it's more than a curiosity really - the battery life running Navionics on the GPS has to be something like 4 hours.

There was never a word of Italian on mine so I do wonder whether you found an Italian mirror download site. I would add that I've learned with the Galaxy that its best to do download, particluarly big ones, using my wireless modem to ensure best speed and least inaccuracy.
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Thanks. I bought it through the standard Android Market, so didn't have a choice about download site. I wonder if the problem arose because I only had WiFi available when I tried it. Maybe it has to pull something down over the mobile broadband link before getting the charts?
 
Works fine here.

The first time you run the program it asks to download a 200Mb odd file which is the charts.

If you are using Android 2.1, may I suggest installing "superuser permissions", "one click lag fix", and "autokiller" (ALL FREE) and following instructions at the XDA Developers forum for rooting, and applying lag fix. The Autokiller is just amazing and kills background apps - best setting is the Aggressive Preset.

Mark
 
Samsung Galaxy & Navionics charts

Delighted with the charts and facilities on my phone - no problems. It seems that all these new generation phones/mini computers are power hungry: putting on charge each evening seems to be the norm. But they do have so many exciting Apps - you have to play with them!!
 
markdj said:
Works fine here.

The first time you run the program it asks to download a 200Mb odd file which is the charts.

If you are using Android 2.1, may I suggest installing "superuser permissions", "one click lag fix", and "autokiller" (ALL FREE) and following instructions at the XDA Developers forum for rooting, and applying lag fix. The Autokiller is just amazing and kills background apps - best setting is the Aggressive Preset.
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I'm afraid I have seen too many reports of bricked phones as a result of attempts to root. When the process for a Three Galaxy S is rock solid I may possibly do it, but for now I'll leave that to the enthusiasts.
 
Now the others have reminded me, yes it is a 2 stage process. Best do both using a decent wifi particularly since the next time round you cant get your money back. Apparently thoug ( and maybe MS should take a lesson) if your machine crashe or the download doesnt work you can redo it without further cost

I agree with you about rooting etc .

P.S. I also seem to remeber regularly touching the screen and going to other small programs to stop it going to sleep during the doiwnload cois I wasnt sure that the wifi stayed on when it did sleep.
 
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markdj said:
Works fine here.

The first time you run the program it asks to download a 200Mb odd file which is the charts.

If you are using Android 2.1, may I suggest installing "superuser permissions", "one click lag fix", and "autokiller" (ALL FREE) and following instructions at the XDA Developers forum for rooting, and applying lag fix. The Autokiller is just amazing and kills background apps - best setting is the Aggressive Preset.

Mark
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what is "lag fix" for? ie what lags are there worth fixing?
 
Bosun Higgs said:
what is "lag fix" for? ie what lags are there worth fixing?
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It replaces the FAT file system on the internal SD card memory (not the one you put in - the phone has another) with the Linux ext3 file system, which writes faster. In my book it's far too much messing about with the guts unless one is actually annoyed, and seriously, by the problem.
 
markdj said:
If you are using Android 2.1, may I suggest installing "superuser permissions", "one click lag fix", and "autokiller" (ALL FREE) and following instructions at the XDA Developers forum for rooting, and applying lag fix. The Autokiller is just amazing and kills background apps - best setting is the Aggressive Preset.
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OK, dammit, I decided to give it a go. I am a geek, after all.

OneClickLagFix works OK, I think, though "one click" actually means "four clicks, a reboot through the recovery screen and a system patch".
 
That phone sounds great but Android v2.1 :-(

Only problem is that high Megapixels for a camera doesn't give better quality images and it does give larger file sizes which become more unweldy to view in a gallery.

Toshiba are new to the phone market, aren't they?? wait and see but waterproof has got to be looking into...
 
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