David Thomas

There are a number of lag fixes around.

I personally am using the original RyanZA lag fix, entered manually on the adb command line.

For anyone else, you have 3x choices.
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Before you do anything, check you can get into Download mode using the 3 button method? If so you are pretty much unbrickable, so have a go.

Download Odin here
Download 512.pit here
Download JM5 rom here
PASS: samsung-firmwares.com
(I’m recommending JM5 because I use it and can personally recommend it as a stable 2.1 base rom)

- Put your phone in download mode, dont plug it in yet (Download mode can be achieved by pressing all at once: power, volume down and home key)
- Unrar the JM5 file to find 3 files inside.
- Open Odin
- Load 512.pit into the pit section
- Load CODE into the PDA, MODEM into the Phone and CSC into the CSC
- Don’t tick re-partition
- Plug the phone in (while its in download mode), wait till Odin sees it
- Click start

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Just a quick plug for a new website I’ve been working on: Teaching Resources and Posters.  You will find fantastic resources for class rooms, child care centres, day care centres and play rooms.

Samsung Galaxy S – getting it to work with Windows 7 x64.

After a long night and early morning fighting with windows and USB drivers and reading everything I could find online about this phone, I finally managed to get it working!

The problem is described as: brand new phone, stock firmware from optus, plug it into your PC & the automatic windows driver installation for the USB breaks somewhere and stops everything from working.

At this point I found Kies: Kies_1.5.1.10074_2_6 and installed that – which didn’t help. I also found some USB drivers as mentioned here and installed them – which also didn’t help.

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I recently re-built my dev box and I use a PPTP connection to connect to various data centres around the place, when I ran into an issue I experienced a while back where the pptp connection would silently die (using pptpconfig on Centos) when I kick of my rsync. Some research lead me to the problem, which was an ‘oversize’ mtu for my little ADSL connection.

Solution:
sudo nano /etc/ppp/ip-up
Add ifconfig ppp0 mtu 1396 before the last line in the file (above exit 0).