What quirks should I look out for when developing for the Samsung Galaxy S?

Question

I recently released a game on the Android market. It seems to be working fine for most people, but everyone using a Samsung Galaxy S is reporting the same problem: The graphics for the game are not being drawn on screen (though they appear to be present, sound effects are still generated). The game uses a SurfaceView to draw the various elements from PNG graphics, and everything is scaled so that it will work on any resolution. I don't have a Galaxy S, so debugging is quite hard, can anyone who's had experience developing on a Galaxy S let me know if they found any particular quirks with the device?

Answer 1

try loading the files in a loading screen to memory first and only then play the game.

Answer 2

Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000 has very slow internal sd card. It is probably due to errors in a file system. Make sure your application does I/O operations on internal sd card only when absoultely neccessary.

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Answer 3

Sorry, for some reason it won't allow me to comment above... I was having the exact same problem with my game where I load one bitmap which is a png and draw simple rectangles, but they are not drawn to the screen on the galaxy S... I was preloading my Bitmap using the BitmapFactory.decodeResource(id) and the problem still occurs. I cannot find a solution to why this is happening anywhere