City jump (game)

This a game i've recently downloaded from the market. Pretty nice game actually. There is a super hero who runs on the walls of a building vertically up. In case of any obstructions, he should jump to the opposite building. On the way up he gathers points by collecting some things whose identity I could not make out. In order to make the hero jump to the other wall, you need tap once on the screen.
One thing which may be its drawback is that there is no save game feature. So the longer u survive in one run, the more u score.

P.S. my best is 4096....

Another good news

My last two recharges of the the phone battery were pretty fruitful. The last one lasted for 88 hours before the phone got switched off due to low power. I used the phone just as I have been doing since I bought it. Looks like the battery has finally started to keep up with its reputation. But, for now, everytime I switch on the phone charger, I keep my fingers crossed.

Good news for Froyo enthusiasts

I recently searched the internet regarding the updates on Froyo and I got a promising news. In the twitter page for Samsung UK, there was a tweet that as soon as the update for the Galaxy S will be completed, they are going to launch one for the galaxy apollo. If this is how it goes, then we can assume that the Froyo update for our phones is right around the corner...

Can't wait to store my apps on my mem card.

Questions answered (with apologies)

First of all sorry for the late answers Namrita...... i was trying out things for that last problem encountered, but sadly could not find any similar problem with my kies installation. Will be working on that. Try uninstalling and then installing it. Usually many things go right by this simple thing. I hope it does solve the problem.

Secondly, it is not necessary to remove the card before a factory reset. But it is always considered a safe practice cause we never know when bad luck is looming around.

Thirdly, any piece of info regarding the contact that you can see in the contacts list will be backed up when you use the method discussed in the other post. So if the facebook stuff(i said stuff cause i am not very well versed with facebook) is part of your contacts, it will surely be backed up. :)

All the best resetting the phone...( and sorry for the late reply)

Improvement in battery performance of galaxy 3

I've been observing the battery discharging time for the past few days and I found that there has been a significant improvement in the performance of the battery. I haven't been charging the battery to a full 100% during this period of observation. I usually have been charging only a few minutes after 90%.
Well, the result of this has ben very delighting. The last recharge lasted more than 60hrs (OMG was my reaction) with 8 odd hrs of phone calls over a 2G network and over 50MB of data transfer(mostly browsing and android market + a movie). I personally wouldn't push it anymore( for now;) ).

I would like to thank Agraharapu Murali for the update over the battery charging to a 100%. I would definitely try it out. However I did recharge the phone for 7, highly impatient, hours before my first usage.

And I would like to quote again "Swype is probably the best thing that happened to a mobile after T9".

Backing up the phonebook to SD card

In order to back up the phone book, you can always try any of the following two ways:
1. Use the navigation below:
Contacts>Options(left touch key)>More>Import/Export>Export to SD card
It'll then ask you if you want to continue. Once u select to go on, the exporting should happen. A .vcf will be created to your SD card. You can now remove the card and reset your phone. Later, follow the same navigation and this time Select Import from SD card.

2. If you have access to a PC, you can use the Kies and perform the action.

I've tested the exporting part(option 1) and it worked just fine. I am sure the importing of the contacts will be successful as well.

In case of any doubts, you can always comment here or drop me an email.

Questions answered

This is actually an issue regarding the inability to access my-location and GPS routes on the phone.
In order for them to work, ple enable "Use wireless networks" and "Use GPS satellites" in the following path.

Applications>Settings>Location and Security

I hope this works. (And am sure Mumbai has a good coverage of both the services.)

3G on the galaxy 3

This has put me in a lot of confusion. I use Airtel network and when I checked the phone for 3G compatibility on their site, it showed that my phone uses WCDMA and not HSPA. When I checked the samsung website, they've given it as HSDPA. I guess, the only way for me to find out is to observe the speeds when I subscribe for the 3G network.

(My 6220c has a HSDPA and it won accolades on the Airtel site for that. And the phone is almost an year and a half old.)

an easy way to save on the internet data

i recently observed that when the internet is left on, there is almost always some data transfer going on. in order to curb this i tried something which worked pretty well. i created a dummy data packet account and whenever i didn't want the phone to connect to the internet (eg, in cases where some games or apps need u to be connected so that they can run an ad near the bottom of the app) i just simply select the dummy account. now there is no info to the phone about where to connect to in order to have any active data transfer.
here's how u can create a dummy account :
applications>settings>wireless and network>mobile network>access point names> new apn(by touching left options key)> edit name and any details it prompts with "nothing" (i used "nothing", u are free to to use any word u want), then save it in the end.
whenever u wish to disable the internet data transfer, u can always select this "nothing" account.
if you have any other idea to save on the data transfer, please do share. thanks.

have fun

Happy Diwali

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