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The new Android 2.3 Gingerbread brings a lot of changes including in UI and performance. Improvements on some tools are also shown, such as in it’s virtual keyboard. Luckily this new improved keyboard can be installed on other Android devices.

The Samsung Galaxy S is the one that has been successfully applying it. Here is a guide to install the Gingerbread keyboard on the Galaxy S, first you need no obtain “signedkey.apk” that you can download for free. After it has finished downloading then transfer it to your Galaxy S phone.

The next step is to browse the “signedkey.apk” file on your phone and run it. Just follow the procedure on view seconds your Gingerbread keyboard is successfully installed on your Galaxy S phone.

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Samsung Galaxy S has a fade in ring tone feature, for some people the increasing volume can be quite helpful, but some of them are annoyed. Luckily, for Galaxy S user who annoyed by the fade in ringtone, XDA forum member YG007 has build a mod to remove it.

This mod is used to remove the fade in ring tone manner when there is an incoming call. To get it working, your Samsung phone has to be deodexed since the mod is version specific. So, the deodexed ROM must use the same modified apk (Android Package).

When it is all set, users can start by turning you Galaxy S phone to flight mode. Then, transfer the apk file to /System/App/ and restart your Galaxy S phone. There you go, you have your incoming call ringtone sound straightly to the volume you have set, enjoy.

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There are a lot of tips and trick you refer to guide you save your Android devices. However, it is rare to find the specific post shows you how to save your Samsung Galaxy S‘ battery life.

It is important to save your battery since one of the biggest drawbacks of the phone is the poor battery life. However, it won’t be a big issue to discuss a lot more, for there have been many tips for improving that. You should keep in mind that you have to lessening the load on data consumption, and one of the hottest parts is by disabling HSPA/HSDPA/HSUPA and use of 3G.

This is the step-by-step instruction to help you disable the HSPA on your Samsung Galaxy S.
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Some users found GPS issues on their Android, now an app is available to fix them, it is the FasterFix. The author of the application has tested the app and it is working like a magic on rooted Samsung Galaxy S and HTC Desire. However, to use the app you should root your Android device.

Following the launch many users has tested it also and now it is reported that this app is also working on rooted Sony Ericsson Xperia X10i, HTC EVO 4G and Google Nexus One. While working on many Android devices, there are also devices that is not support this app such as rooted HTC Desires as well as Motorola Milestones. You can head over to the app’s official XDA thread to see the message board for other handset testing.

If your phone is on the list and you want to try this app, here is the guide to install FasterFix.

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Swype is a popular input method that gained a lot of hype from many beta testers.  With Swype you will use swiping motion than the traditional method with hunting and pecking. You can type texts much faster with this apps.  I belive many of you love and using Swype now.

but you may not realize there is a special menu, which you won’t find if you’re not looking for it or have not watched the video tutorials at Swype | Text Input for Screens

The special menu includes arrows, copy all, delete select and many more helpful keys. Access it by swyping from the Swype Key (Bottom Left) to the “SYM” key right next to it. To get back to regular keyboard, just press the ABC key.

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With so many applications available on the market,  You may ran out of internal storage just one day after bought your Android phone. Good news that the Android 2.2 Froyo feature that most people have been looking forward to is likely official support for installing apps to the SD card. Unfortunately, the Froyo system installs all new applications on your device’s internal memory by default. To make your HTC Desire / Android 2.2 phone put apps on the SD card by default, you need to follow this tips :

1. First you have to enable USB debugging on your Android device from Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging.
2. Now you need to download and install the Android SDK on your computer from http://developer.android.com/sdk/. Once you’ve downloaded and extracted the package to the folder of your choice, run SDK Setup.exe and click on Available Packages to the left. If you get an error message at this point, enable “Force https://…” in the Settings. From the list of available packages, select “Usb Driver package”, click on the Install Selected button in the bottom right corner and follow the prompts.
3. Connect your phone to your computer with a USB-cable. Your OS will prompt you to install new drivers. Choose to install them from the android-sdk/usb_driver folder. Do not mount your device; you only need to plug-in the cable. If you are running Windows 7, UNPLUG your phone from PC, d/l the Android SDK kit but entirely skip the part with installing USB driver, instead just go to HTC page ( http://www.htc.com -> Support and find your product ) and d/l HTC Sync application, install it. Plug in the phone now, set connection type to synchronize and check if HTC Sync recognizes the phone, if yes, you are set (HTC Sync installs the needed ADB drivers under Win 7).  All you need to do now is to enable the USB Debugging in your phone and set connection type to “Charge only” (tho it worked also with sync setting) and follow up rest of the tutorial.
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It may be a good news for all of user of Samsung Galaxy S or its prospect buyer. Maybe one of you once saw the screenshots made by Samsung Galaxy S. For you information, Screenshots is something that Samsung Galaxy S supposedly cannot do since there is no integrated device support this screenshots stuff.

Here, we want to share an interesting information about how to operate one of Samsung Galaxy S. Also the software to support screenshots.

There are two different software that you must have and be installed on you PC.

1. The Android software development kit (SDK)

2. The Java SE software development kit (SDK)

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