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

Goose said:
I've had my replacement S2 for a couple of days now and have been messing about with roms and what have you. I haven't been doing Titanium backups because i've only had a few apps installed and have no important data.

The problem (although only minor) is that when i go to the market on my desktop PC to send my apps to my phone it thinks they're already installed and so it wont let. Its not a massive problem or anything its just either installing all my apps via my desktop.

Also, with the dropbox app how do i download a file onto my phone? I have siyah kernel on my desktop which i put in my dropbox so that i could download it on to my phone. However, i dont see a way of doing that in the app.

If anyone knows what to do i'd appreciate the help.
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I think the Market issue will sort itself out after a while, it just takes time for it to sync. If your continuously changing ROMs it will confuse it, stick with a ROM for a while and it should allow you to install from a PC.

For Dropbox, long press the file, select Export then Save to SD Card.
 
reefoid said:
I think the Market issue will sort itself out after a while, it just takes time for it to sync. If your continuously changing ROMs it will confuse it, stick with a ROM for a while and it should allow you to install from a PC.

For Dropbox, long press the file, select Export then Save to SD Card.
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Thanks muchly.

I created all my contacts in Kies before syncing them to my phone, how would i go about syncing those contacts to my gmail account so that i can restore them after wiping for a new rom?
 
I sorted all my contacts up in Gmail/contacts and when I sync my phone to Google all my contacts go over, if I add a new contact on the phone because it's synced to Google it will add it automatically to my Gmail etc.
 
It doesn't seem to be working for me. None of my contacts in gmail appear in my phone's contacts and no ammount of syncing will do it. I've triple checked that my phone is set up to sync with my account but it aint doing it.
 
Jon20 said:
Guys, how do you get rid of the yellow triangle after flashing a rom. I've installed checkrom. I've purchased a usb jig off ebay but when I plug it in it doesn't seem to do anything. I've tried flashing an older bootloader thinking it was that but it still doesn't do anything. I assume the phone goes in to download mode by itself after plugging it in?
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Getting rid of that pesky warning triangle during boot

It is definitely possible to remove that pesky warning triangle during boot when running a custom kernel, though you should be well aware that this method does NOT reset the custom kernel flash counter. The steps are not complicated, but they aren't easy either, so read well.

(1) Make sure you have CF-Root flashed (see the first post). You must have the "CWM Manager" app available.

(2) Make sure you have the same version of CF-Root extracted until you have the zImage file. (ZIP --> extract --> TAR --> extract --> zImage).

(3) Push the zImage file to /sdcard . It must still be called zImage !

(4) Find an original Samsung signed stock kernel (preferably from the same stock firmware you have, but it's not terribly important)

(5) Reboot into download mode (adb reboot download, or boot the device with home and volume-down pressed)

(6) Fire up ODIN, and flash the Samsung kernel

(7) Boot the device with the stock kernel. CWM Manager will still be available.

(8) Start CWM Manager, select Flash Kernel, and select the zImage from CF-Root you previously put on your SD-card. The kernel will flash and the device will reboot.

(9) You will now notice you no longer have the warning triangle during boot, but you are actually running CF-Root with all it's goodies!

(10) In the future, if you only use the Flash Kernel option inside CWM Manager instead of ODIN, the triangle will not return, neither will your flash counter increase. But keep in mind, that CWM Manager can only handle a direct "zImage" if you are NOT running a kernel with full busybox support (this is currently needed for flashing kernels out of .TAR and .ZIP files)

CF-Root v5.0: Upgrading your firmware

Important: This works ONLY on a CF-Root kernel !

CWM Manager has the ability to flash firmware parts either from separate files (zImage, factoryfs.img, etc) or from .tar / .tar.md5 files that they usually come packaged in.

- Download the firmware you want to flash
- If you have a ZIP or RAR file, extract it until you have seperate files, or .tar / .tar.md5 files
- Create a folder named 'firmware' on your external SD card
- Copy the files you want to flash to this folder ( /sdcard/external_sd/firmware ). factoryfs ("system") is mandatory part at the moment.
- TIP: If you are flashing a new firmware that already has a CF-Root kernel available, put it in the 'firmware' folder as well in zImage or .tar form (NOT .zip). Select it when asked which kernel to use, then use the "Flash normally" option later on.
- Open the CWM Manager app
- Select "Flash stock firmware"

- At this point, CWM Manager will tell you about the firmware parts it has found, and which ones it will flash. It will also give you warnings about bootloaders and PIT files if those were found. If some firmware parts are present multiple times, it will ask you which file to use as source.

- If what you are flashing includes both kernel and system parts, CWM Manager will warn you about this as you are about to lose root. It will provide you with three options:

1: Keep CF-Root kernel
Keeps the current CF-Root kernel, only flash the other parts. You will not lose root or CWM Recovery. You can flash a newer CF-Root kernel later (or maybe you have already done so), see 3.1 above.

2: Pre-root system
Flashes both kernel and system parts, but roots system during the flash. You will lose CWM Recovery, but you will keep root (if all goes well). The CWM Manager application will also remain, and allow you to flash the correct CF-Root kernel at a different time (if you have not done so before), see 3.1 above.

3: Flash normally
Doesn't do anything specific. If the kernel you are flashing is not a CF-Root (or similar) kernel, you will lose root, and CWM Recovery.

- CWM Manager will reboot into CWM Recovery, and will flash the firmware, rebooting afterwards.
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Guys , i dont know what im doing wrong in rooting this phone.

I follow all the steps in odin, my Kernel is 2.6.35.7-I9100XWK14-CL575468 its a sim free phone.

I downloaded CF-Root-SGS2_XW_NEE_KI4-42-v4.2-CWM4.tar

but it stops on zimage and kernel pauses like 1/4 of the way in and nothing happens at all when trying to root.
 
mad_weegie said:
Guys , i dont know what im doing wrong in rooting this phone.

I follow all the steps in odin, my Kernel is 2.6.35.7-I9100XWK14-CL575468 its a sim free phone.

I downloaded CF-Root-SGS2_XW_NEE_KI4-42-v4.2-CWM4.tar

but it stops on zimage and kernel pauses like 1/4 of the way in and nothing happens at all when trying to root.
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Have you made sure KIES is not running (check task manager)? USB debugging enabled?
 
mad_weegie said:
uninstalled kies, and didnt think usb debugging was needed to be enabled since was rebooting phone into download mode ?
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If you're flashing via Odin you need to have Kies installed but not running and i'm fairly certain USB debugging needs to be enabled also.
 
but if enable debugging mode but then turning off phone to go into download mode , doesnt that defeat the purpose of debugging mode ? will it even stay enabled.
 
will the SGS2 be able to handle 2 bluetooth devices connected at the same time and know what to send to each? i'm looking at getting a bluetooth car stereo so i can remove the wires but i also use a bluetooth headset at the same time. will the music auto stream to the car stereo and then calls and anything else to the headset? how easy is it to send music via bluetooth? i like the idea of plug and play, not turn on bt, find car stereo, go to music app, find song and then click menu, play via bluetooth etc.

also i have a jabra wave headset. so far i've not been able to find a way to stream music to it, however a tiny bit of music will get stream to it if i am listening to music then take a call and then when they hang up it'll continue music but it only sends about 1 second to the headset then back to the loudspaker. does this mean i can send music to the headset i just not doing it right?
 
Yes...That's the same on most Android phones. This will apply to all ICS phones as well as phones will be hardware button free aside from the power/volume buttons.

Various flashable mods are out there that enable hardware shutter buttons when camera is running though. I have one that enables shutter/focus via the volume buttons.
 
mrk said:
Yes...That's the same on most Android phones. This will apply to all ICS phones as well as phones will be hardware button free aside from the power/volume buttons.

Various flashable mods are out there that enable hardware shutter buttons when camera is running though. I have one that enables shutter/focus via the volume buttons.
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D'Oh I totally forgot about this even though I've owned the SG2 previously

Guess the Phone is going back because 'she' will not be pleased with this :rolleyes:
 
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