About to throw my Galaxy into a wall .. please help

Hi all ... title says it all i think I'm becoming extremely frustrated with my Galaxy. It never has functioned well. First started on 2.1, wich was terrible. Laggy, slow, freezing an crashing. Then upgraded to 2.2, wich worked ok with the lag fix. After that i started to have more and more problems. Force closes, random crashing, lag, freezing, random rebooting, delay in a lot of things. Even typing was laggy, you'd type text and the letters would appear a few seconds later. No upgrade to 2.3 seem to arrive from Samsung ... so i read this was probably because of Singtel. I switched some code to make it no longer a Singtel branded phone. The update was available right away, so i upgraded. Gingerbread 2.3 was even worse and most annoyingly: all the previous mentioned bugs where there. Still laggy, delays in typing, crashing etc. I truly had enough at this point so i installed a custom rom: Darky Rom. This worked perfectly fine for the first week or so, then i have the same problems again ... no matter how i wipe, factory reset or format it, the bugs are always there! Appdata everything is still there. No i've come to a point where it either has to start working properly or i will really switch to something else.

I'm truly disappointed with this phone, how they dare to call it "the best Android" phone is a mystery to me ... I'm hoping someone can give me advice. I guess some help on how to truly format it would be a start?

Thanks in advance

First, a Galaxy S with 2.3.3 works very nicely. No lag. GPS and WiFi flawless... no crashes (mine stays on for days). Even battery life is actually not so bad.

As for a full reformat... it's in the Settings->Privacy options. Go for Factory data reset. Make sure you tell it to format also the internal USB storage. It will ask you for the phone's security password which I trust you know... If you want to be thorow, but this is not really necessary, you should also remove the microSD and format it on, say, a PC.

Sorry for the late response ... thanks all for the replies. I just did a factory reset with the "backup appdata" turned off and a full format. Everything is clean right now, let's see how it works now

never had any problems using 2.3.3 all works fine

My galaxy started to do random reboots and then 2 weeks ago turned off, only way to get it back on was pull battery reinsert and press power, its away getting fixed now, and should be back tomo i hope as the courtesy phone is a motorola flip with no camera, bluetooth or anythin.
Just hope it is fixed when its returned to shop

For a clean flash, I usually wipe everything in CWM, including Dalvik and Batt Stat. Never done me wrong plus wiping batt stat everytime you flash allows the new ROM better access and implementation of the battery. I think XDA is where I read that but can't be too sure...

Akhtar

Sent you a pm. I have Sgs for over a year and even 2.3.3 jvq made problems for me (randomly quitting the dialer app and message app)

Finally found a solution in Darky rom 10.2 ee, works like a charm, doesnt require reboot


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Akhtar, i'm running 10.2 JVQ too, still feels a bit sluggish and laggy sometimes though. What kernel are you on? I'm using 2.6.35.7-i9000XXJVQ-CL281085 ficeto@beast #DarkCore_2.9.3_JVQ ... what a name