So Close to Goatbreaking

What can u get for cheeper with a nice screen and a keyboard?

they didnt try to make me buy the data plan when i bought it :/ and i find the phone to be great even without a data plan

I loved the phone before i goat broke it, now i cant put the thing down!!!! I have to recharge the battery 2 to 3 times a day since i broke it........ I cant thank agoatamer enough!!!!!!

Well, I broke down, and installed my apps... the Goatbreaking way. Lemme tell you, what a difference. No more nag screens, GPS works... mostly. For some reason, even in clear skies, no buildings around, Google Maps is under the impression I'm in Russia... and only gets within 5k meters of where I am. Gonna jump in the wayback machine, and try again tonight. amAzeGPS is nice, but it's very, very clunky (to me) and now with 5.0 it keeps telling me to buy it...

It's really dissapointing that AT&T sells the phone with the feature of a GPS, it's even advertised as having a GPS, but to have it work perfectly, you have to use their stupid service.

One other weirdness I found was with Bolt. It worked fine before Goatbreaking, apart from nag screens... now it won't connect at all. Keeps saying the internet doesn't exist basically. Maybe it's another wayback machine moment...

Yeah, like I said, I probably skipped something when I installed those two apps, seeing as how everyone else seems to have no trouble with them. I'm stupid when it comes to that sort of stuff sometimes, and probably wasn't as careful as I should have been, since it was just the Java folder. Pretty unlikely from what I've been reading that you'll brick your phone that way... worst case scenarios are funky stuff with your programs, or them simply not running at all, and you just use TKFE to kill the offending program.

Now all we gotta worry about is AT&T doing an over the air update to provide better service to us that defeats Goatbreaking... for every Samsung Impression they do this to... I SHALL KILL THEM!

What are you talking about with java buttons? If you are referring to the dpad that was already explained many times. If installing with the jad edit the jad and put this line in it. MIDlet-Touch-Support: True

If installing just a jar file the edit the manifest.mf in the jar the same way.

If you look in my third party apps thread i already have the Bolt browser modified for fullscreen. Same way in the landscape browser thread.

I have installed all the apps listed in this thread over the past two weeks (plus many more) using either the TKFE method but mainly the BLUEFTP method.  i have never had connectivity issues with TKFE other than a lost connection a few times.  Getting it set up was frustrating because it only worked with 1 of 4 USB ports on my laptop, but once I figured it out, it has worked fine, even with my upgrade to the newest version of windows.  I have never used the goatbreaking method, rumkin, or some others mentioned for anything and have had no issues with any of the apps working.  I love what this forum has enabled me to do on this phone.  I had it for 1 year without a data plan and loved it, then began reading all the things it was capable of with a plan and decided not to eat 2 days a week in order to afford a plan.  I LOVE IT EVEN MORE!!!  I am going to keep this phone even after the contract just for all the games and other non data apps I have installed!!!

As for MAMA- I was hesitant as well, not knowing my way around the internals, but after trying it out realized it is not too difficult.  Once you open up TKFE, BLUEFTP, or the other programs and see what the threads are talking about, or go to the websites (IE Samsung Innovator), it all makes sense- even those where people destroy the English grammar!!  Jump in, but be careful not to touch anything you are unsure of.