****The Official Samsung Galaxy S II Thread***

StevieP said:
Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this but does anyone have any good tips for the best contract out there for the S2?

I've noticed that Tesco Mobile (who use o2's network) are doing a 24 months deal at £25 p/m for 750 mins, 5000 texts and 500MB internet usage....but the phone is £50 up front!

Anything better than this out there?

Cheers guys....
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I recommend that (if you haven't already done so) you register on the official Vodafone Forum (http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Samsung-Galaxy-Series/Upgrade-due-Galaxy-S2/td-p/719485/page/61) and ask one of their web relation team to contact you.

You will get a better deal from them than from retentions; they offer early upgrades, and will nearly always beat (or at least match) offers from external companies, such as Tesco, Phones4U etc.

I have used them twice now, and in both cases I was very happy with the deals I was offered.

They also offer free ultra fast delivery. Having agreed a deal on my latest S2 at 6pm one evening, the (free!) phone was delivered by DPD by lunch time the following day... you can't ask for much quicker service than that! :)
 
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Can someone explain exactly how to go about doing a full wipe, rom flash, and restore?

I have a TitaniumBackup folder on my sd card with 800MB of data, dating from June til now.

Is it literally a case of removing my sd card, doing a full factory wipe, flashing the new rom, reinstalling TitaniumBackup, and then doing a restore of all my apps from the sd card?
 
fizzle-187 said:
Getting used to my new Blackberry now, it's absolutely amazing! Feels more premium than my S2 and I'm glad I got rid of it for this!

Robbo said so! Aha
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yeah all the kids at the schools i work in have blackberrys you can start riots with BB messenger i hear..

maybe you should start a blackberry thread ?
 
krooton said:
Can someone explain exactly how to go about doing a full wipe, rom flash, and restore?

I have a TitaniumBackup folder on my sd card with 800MB of data, dating from June til now.

Is it literally a case of removing my sd card, doing a full factory wipe, flashing the new rom, reinstalling TitaniumBackup, and then doing a restore of all my apps from the sd card?
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Why so many Titanium backups? Limit the backup amount to 2 or 3 at most.

A full backup, wipe and restore is done via ClockWork Mod Recovery (kick started via CWM Manager or ROM Manager depending on what ROM you've got installed or how you've rooted, the latter if you used Chainfire's guide and files.

Just create a backup then do a wipe/factory reset from recovery then flash the new ROM.

To restore it's the same process except just restore instead of wiping.
 
krooton said:
Hmmm... weird battery drain issues the past few days.

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The first dip is me at a work quiz and then taking the tube (red signal bit) home.
Then I charge it for a bit, and the second dip is it while I slept, in flight mode with no apps running. WTH was my battery taking such a beating?

The first dip was pretty much just idle with an hour of SD video watching on the tube.

Second dip is idle with flight mode.

Third is an hour and a bit of comics and music.

This is using KF2, as I have been for over a month.

Looks like I will be giving Batista a go over the weekend.
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Wow. I would suggest you have something set up very wrong to take that damage in airplane mode. Give us an idea of Widgets/apps you have installed?
 
AndyCr15 said:
Wow. I would suggest you have something set up very wrong to take that damage in airplane mode. Give us an idea of Widgets/apps you have installed?
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The only thing that has changed was the Market getting updated, doubt it's that though. Time to flash!
 
Coded badly and using the hardware available are 2 different things though. If a demanding game wasn't using the hardware spec to its fullest the game is coded badly or if it wasn't using it efficiently enough, slow performance yet max resource usage.

But 99% of modern Android games run great on such hardware anyway.
 
I'm thinking about ordering this phone (probably on some O2 24 month contract), but while browsing around I found lots of people complaining that it has very poor wifi reception. Can anyone confirm/refute this?

I was thinking about the SG2, Sensation, or maybe iphone 4, and eventually just decided the SG2 would be best, but if it has wifi problems that would put me off.
 
I have no WiFi performance problems at home or at work. In fact anywhere I connect via WiFi. At home I am able to peak my 30Mb connection.
 
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How are you guys finding the resolution?

I'm comng from an HTC Desire with the latest Miui rom.

It's a real shame I find the resolution too low, along with the casing too flimsy and general design of the phone too much like the iphone, as this phone beats all phones, and probably all come phones until the next Samsung device ( Nexus Prime possibly)

Saying that, My next phone is going to be base purely on whether or not Miui is developed for it. I absolutely love the OS.

Anyway, I'm just after some, well, advanced user opinions...
 
GreatAuk said:
I'm thinking about ordering this phone (probably on some O2 24 month contract), but while browsing around I found lots of people complaining that it has very poor wifi reception. Can anyone confirm/refute this?

I was thinking about the SG2, Sensation, or maybe iphone 4, and eventually just decided the SG2 would be best, but if it has wifi problems that would put me off.
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I have watched various reviews and the Galaxy S II outperforms the Sensation by roughly 25-50%. It generally feels a lot smoother also.

The screen on the Galaxy S II also outperforms any other screen on any other mobile device currently available. This spans more than just mobile phones...

This sounds good doesn't it? unfortunately I found the Galaxy S II's body to feel really flimsy, especially the plastic backing. I also find the general design of the phone to be, well... ugly.

The resolution is also not the best.

The resolution on the Sensation is excellent however. The build quality is also a HELL of a lot better. It's heavier, but this is definitely a good thing. Just think - Plastic in your hands, or metal - Obviously metal's going to feel more sturdy and secure/expensive. The downside is obviously the performance, and possibly the dev support supplied, considering all developers will opt towards the S II due to the power of the device.

..It took me 6 months to decide on a phone the last time my contract was due and I think this time it will be the same. No phone currently meets the criteria that I require. The Nexus Prime's spec looks promising, and if the rumours are true, it's going to be more than I require, but whether or not it's going to look good remains unknown...Plus, it will have Ice Cream Sandwich onboard.... Just wait util October - I am :)
 
It costs £9.90 to get the original samsung mesh case for the SGSII which completely changes the 'feel' of the device if thats all that matters ;)

Personally I am sooo glad I went for the SGSII over the sensation - have they unlocked the bootloader on the sensation yet? lol
 
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