Samsung S8500 Wave
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  • Lordrv
  • Jxm
  • 09 Jan 2012

I got my wave s8500 last august 2010,after few days i saw android phone and got jealous with the apps you can installed with it, cant change to a new phone that time so got stocked with the BADA 1.0 for a year! :( but when i saw some vids on youtube about flashing wave / porting a FW got so excited to try 2.0 on my smartphone! and BADAbing BADAboom!! what a smartphone ive got! im lovin this phone still cant wait for the full version to came out!

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    • Anonymous
    • 2@Y
    • 09 Jan 2012

    can any1 tell me hw to logout from facebook in this phone.???m nt able to get the logout option

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      • AnonD-23465
      • 2TH
      • 09 Jan 2012

      Anonymous, 09 Jan 2012Settings -> Sound Profiles -> Normal(or select any pr... morethanks anonymous dude...that tapping sound was one of the worst part of ma wave II

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        • Adi
        • RKk
        • 09 Jan 2012

        AnonD-22025, 08 Jan 2012hey guys pls tell me tht if i change the region wch is curr... moreno

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          • Anonymous
          • iwq
          • 09 Jan 2012

          Toto, 09 Jan 2012Hi, can anybody tell me how to mute the tapping sound when ... moreSettings -> Sound Profiles -> Normal(or select any profile).
          Reduce 'System' sound to '0'. Done!!

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            • Toto
            • P@d
            • 09 Jan 2012

            Hi, can anybody tell me how to mute the tapping sound when you type or tap icons? Thanks.

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              • Omar Mohamed
              • fnJ
              • 08 Jan 2012

              AnonD-27987, 07 Jan 2012thanks for the input....but who said that 1080p must be clo... moreNo single core phone can record/play 1080p in the whole market including galaxy s.
              and nexus 1080p (24 fps) is just upscaled 720p.
              it's bitrate is 9.9 Mbps which is within the 720p range.
              it's ajoke when comparing it to iphone 4s (24 Mbps) or even sgs2 (17 Mbps).
              Understand Now?
              :)

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                • AnonD-22025
                • YTJ
                • 08 Jan 2012

                hey guys pls tell me tht if i change the region wch is currrently uk in kies to poland/ hungary can i update my wave to bada 2.0 ?
                i m frm india
                after update can i change the language setting to english ?
                pls do reply to this post

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                  • AnonD-27987
                  • YTZ
                  • 08 Jan 2012

                  will we ever have

                  U.I modifications applications such as "barrel" in IOS?

                  played with an iphone 4s of my friend and wow....the way you scroll through the menu is made alot more fun to look at :D


                  one thing that wavers can be proud of is that wave's 720p video record on good lighting isn't really trumped much by the 1080p of the 4s...whew that alone imo is an achievement...


                  quite different in night time videos though...wave simply records its videos darker...compared to the 4s


                  hopefully samsung brings back the contrast slider found in bada 1.2 so at least we can adjust it for the camera to fill in more light

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                    • Omar Mohamed
                    • fX8
                    • 08 Jan 2012

                    AnonD-27987, 07 Jan 2012thanks for the input....but who said that 1080p must be clo... more-Mainly, In ordre to capture a real 1080 video you need a sufficent processor (dual core) to process the data, and a sufficient sensor ( 8MP) to produce the data you are processing.

                    -About Hummingbird matter; there's no single core Hummingbird processor capable practically to record/play real 1080p in the whole market. In other words: no single core phone in the market can play/record real 1080p.

                    -About galaxy S; It doesn't play 1080p because it's asingle core.
                    Check your info here :www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9000_galaxy_s-review-478p5.php

                    -N8 doesn't record 1080p -Although it's capable sensor- because of it's historic 680MHz (Obviously not dual core :)).

                    -And here we come to Nexus: Nexus can't record areal 1080p !.
                    Yes, Nexus video is almost upscaled because of it's insufficient 5MP sensor (not 8MP).
                    Here's what gsmarena said: ''You can grab this 1080p@24fps sample (11.9MB, 0:10s) and this 720p@30fps sample (10.3MB, 0:10s)'.

                    By comparing the result size of the same length 1080p (11.9 Mb) and 720p (10.3 Mb) nexus samples you find that the video is just upsaled.

                    The poor Bitrate of the 1080p of Nexus is under 10 Mbps which is uncomparable to the real 1080p 24 Mbps of iPhone 4S. That's because iPhone 4S has both 8Mp and dual core.
                    If you have aFHD monitor, play the untouched 1080p samples of Nexus and iphone 4s to compare your self.
                    (By the way, even N8 720p is better than nexus 1080p).

                    -So the reminded question: why can't the 5Mp sensors record real 1080p while it can capture more at still pics?

                    *Because the pixels produced at most of the conditions aren't fully saturated with the correct data.
                    Try to capture apicture with your wave then scale/zoom it to 100% on your computer and you will see the noise I am talking about.
                    Or if you have aFHD monitor try to put the pic as abackground and Fit the width to the edges without streching and you will see how exactly your phone would record 1080p, if it were dual core.

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                      • AnonD-28909
                      • K2F
                      • 08 Jan 2012

                      AnonD-37224, 07 Jan 2012Now that bada 2.0 has been released here in Poland, will my... moreno it won't. the previous apps will also run in bada 2.0.

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                        • AnonD-37224
                        • 0@B
                        • 07 Jan 2012

                        Now that bada 2.0 has been released here in Poland, will my previous apps on 1.2 get killed if I upgrade? Eg. a lot of my store downloads aren't free anymore

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                          • AnonD-27987
                          • YTZ
                          • 07 Jan 2012

                          Omar Mohamed, 07 Jan 2012I think that is not correct. You need at least adual core ... morethanks for the input....but who said that 1080p must be clockspeed dependent?

                          who says hummingbird is incapable of such?


                          spec sheet shows it is very much capable...

                          5mp is way bigger than 1080p just so you know dear sir 1080p is actually only 2 megapixel...


                          its like saying nokia's 12 megapixel actually has 12mp video...(which is silly btw)

                          check out the google nexus (latest) it has 5mp sensor but also can do 1080p rather smoothly and no noise...


                          fact is 1 gig in galaxy s is actually capable of playing 1080p... which has the same spec as the wave

                          both are disabled when it comes to recording in 1080p though....(in theory because they need to market the next generation of phones, that being the likes of galaxy s2 to be the ones to feature 1080p_

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                            • Omar Mohamed
                            • fnL
                            • 07 Jan 2012

                            AnonD-27987, 06 Jan 2012http://samsungs8500wave.com/2010/03/14/samsung-s8500-wave-t... moreI think that is not correct.
                            You need at least adual core to record 1080p.
                            forexample:
                            1 GHz dual core can while 1.4 GHz single core can't. Although the higher frequency of the single core!
                            Understand?
                            and even if the processor was dual core, the 5 MP of wave won't be good enough. (Too noisy)

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                              • AnonD-27987
                              • YTZ
                              • 07 Jan 2012

                              AnonD-37062, 06 Jan 2012can my samsung wave gt s8500 can be an android phone ? plz... moreyes it can dear sir


                              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Bdzkh3unY

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                                • AnonD-37062
                                • 7XN
                                • 06 Jan 2012

                                can my samsung wave gt s8500 can be an android phone ?
                                plz do something that my mobile cn b cnvrted into android phone

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                                  • AnonD-27987
                                  • YTZ
                                  • 06 Jan 2012

                                  http://samsungs8500wave.com/2010/03/14/samsung-s8500-wave-the-most-powerful-phone-around/


                                  wave is very much capable of 1080p video playback and even recording(!)

                                  wonder if someone could actually unleash this on a custom firmware? hehehe!


                                  watched juno and australia and now real steel

                                  not having issues so far with audio quality...perhaps it has something to do with kies conversion? excellent audio quality it still indeed has ^^

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • 7XN
                                    • 06 Jan 2012

                                    can samsung wave can be an android mobile.
                                    can android applications can be runned .

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                                      • ford
                                      • 3q}
                                      • 06 Jan 2012

                                      floepke, 06 Jan 2012ware is the official new firmware for the samsung wave GT-S... moreNew custom firmware Bada 2.0 Dragon
                                      http://badadownload.com/2012/01/ice-cream-sandwich-s8500xxkk7s8500oxakl6-fw.html#more-9166
                                      Opera web browser included

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                                        • AnonD-28909
                                        • K2F
                                        • 06 Jan 2012

                                        AnonD-5583, 05 Jan 2012No point downloading that BIG game, at this stage. I dont t... morethnx Abhijeet for reply. u r right better wait. Carloud is running "turbo hd" in S8500 after flashing bada 2.0 whereas it only support S8600!! then why not it run that BIG game which also only for S8600, whereas it support bada 1.2 & later versions?