**The Official Samsung Galaxy S II Thread*

Swampyseifer · 4 May 2011 at 10:45

holy bejesus....this is not simple!

Just called Orange to give them my PAC code and they guy asked if I had registered my phone, I was like "Umm, I dont know"...so he said "whats your number I can check", gave him the mobile number and he said it wasnt so we'd have to register it first.

Went through the process and he asked for my customer number...I said, "whats that...will it be on the invoice from mobiles.co.uk"? He said, "oh you bought it from a 3rd party? they should have set you up and registered the phone to you. Best speak to them"

EDIT
Just a question I have that I seem to get, which seems odd. I can turn the SGS2 off, holding down the power button and choosing to turn it off. then when I next pick it up, it seems to be on the idlescreen...surely it should stay off unless I hold down the power button again?

.:SAmSuNG:. · 4 May 2011 at 10:53

theone91 said:
is that payg or contract?

New contract. I ordered about 6pm yesterday.

Has anyone got a link to those leather cases posted back a few days ago? I searched back but couldn't find them. I'm guessing the images were removed as they were on the large side.

Danger Phoenix · 4 May 2011 at 11:01

Robbo said:
The Samsung social hub thing apparently destroys your battery and is a pain in the arse to disable.

I have not set this up at all and it isn't doing anything on my phone :confused:

Robbo · 4 May 2011 at 11:02

Danger Phoenix said:
I have not set this up at all and it isn't doing anything on my phone

Its probably not that then

It doesn't sound too bad really, 75 mins of video is quite a bit. It was just the bit after that sounded like it was syncing a lot of stuff.

Danger Phoenix · 4 May 2011 at 11:03

krooton said:
Doesn't seem too bad, 60 mins of video on my Desire sees me hit 75%.

I had the same on my Desire, but I was expecting this to be better

Dangerous · 4 May 2011 at 11:27

fornowagain said:
Like I said, the way I've done it before is to take the stock kernel e.g. KDF and put it back over the modified kernel after the root files, SU etc are copied over and working. Don't flash the whole rom, just extract the kernel (zimage) with 7zip. Then flash it as pda in odin. Nothing else selected, no pit, repartition, bootloader etc. Just auto reboot.

That was scary, did the that and it booted into recovery mode and just looped! :eek:

Ran Format system and its booted now.

What Happened?

unwashed potato! · 4 May 2011 at 11:28

just spoke to buymobilephones.net and was told they had soo much stoke to send the guy couldn't fit much in his van so a lot didn't go yesterday and will instead be sent today for delivery tomorrow so the tracking number will work later on today. what a bummer as i've got today to wait here but not so much tomorrow

gratom · 4 May 2011 at 11:36

i cant get flash to work, i got 10.2 from the market but the bbc weather page amung others says i need to install flash, anyone else getting this?

mrk · 4 May 2011 at 11:36

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Begbie · 4 May 2011 at 11:36

Hello,

Anyone found some good contracts?

Swampyseifer · 4 May 2011 at 11:38

Just to say (as part of my ongoing saga to get the phone working)....

Apparently CPW have had several reports of new Orange contracts not getting connected this morning...

Robbo · 4 May 2011 at 11:39

Begbie said:
Hello,

Anyone found some good contracts?

Plenty - http://www.buymobilephones.net/mobile-phones/Samsung/Samsung-Galaxy-S-II/30,72930,All,tt1,ct1

fizzle-187 · 4 May 2011 at 11:45

Robbo said:
Plenty - http://www.buymobilephones.net/mobile-phones/Samsung/Samsung-Galaxy-S-II/30,72930,All,tt1,ct1

Ordered on Monday and still the order is being processed :mad:

fornowagain · 4 May 2011 at 11:52

Dangerous said:
That was scary, did the that and it booted into recovery mode and just looped!

Ran Format system and its booted now.

What Happened?

No idea, don't have a phone to try it on. Couriers 'lost' it. You formatted the system? Is that factory reset or format SD? Is the root still working? Shouldn't be any problem flashing the original kernel back. It's how the first SGS roots were done.

Dangerous · 4 May 2011 at 11:55

fornowagain said:
No idea, don't have a phone to try it on. Couriers 'lost' it. You formatted the system? Is that factory reset or format SD? Is the root still working?

Nope still no root.

Factory reset.

I redid the PDA as I did before so I used CODE_I9100XWKDF_CL170898_REV02_user_low_ship.tar but seems I should have done the below:

stuclark said:
Yes, you flash the kernel as PDA in Odin.

The XWKDF download from Samfirmware has the kernel as a seperate module, so just flash the file called KERNEL_I9100XWKDF_ etc

Done that as PDA and still no root :confused:

fornowagain · 4 May 2011 at 11:59

Dangerous said:
I redid the PDA as I did before so I used CODE_I9100XWKDF_CL170898_REV02_user_low_ship.tar but seems I should have done the below:

Nope that's the entire PDA, you just want the zimage, the basic kernel.

I'll download the package and have a look inside.

Btw, the reset may have wiped the su files.

So its: entire stock rom > unsecure kernel > root files > stock kernel.

Dangerous · 4 May 2011 at 12:05

fornowagain said:
Nope that's the entire PDA, you just want the zimage, the basic kernel.

I'll download the package and have a look inside.

Btw, the reset may have wiped the su files.

So its: entire stock rom > unsecure kernel > root files > stock kernel.

Yeah just ran a root checker from the market and it says the su files arent there so I guess.

So I have to apply the KDD root,
then flash KDF complete
then flash the KERNEL_I9100XWKDF_CL170898_REV02_user_low_ship.tar as PDA again....

Bit of a ball ****

fornowagain · 4 May 2011 at 12:13

Dangerous said:
Yeah just ran a root checker from the market and it says the su files arent there so I guess.

So I have to apply the KDD root,
then flash KDF complete
then flash the KERNEL_I9100XWKDF_CL170898_REV02_user_low_ship.tar as PDA again....

Bit of a ball ****

The zimage is usually inside the original pda file you flashed the phone with to start with. Don't know what that one is, taking an age to download. 'Low level' sounds a bit like bootloaders to me.

You flash your new stock firmware KDF, then immediately flash the unsecured kernel KDD, boot, copy over the su files, reboot and flash stock kernel KDF back again.

I prefer it as method tbh, the system is totally stock with superuser access. And no hack and slash kernel with god knows what instabilities.

Danger Phoenix · 4 May 2011 at 12:13

Just deleted the MMS.apk from /system/apps/ and installed the one from my HTC Desire... stock messaging application wins

antonusklesk · 4 May 2011 at 12:14

Mammalian said:
just spoke to buymobilephones.net and was told they had soo much stoke to send the guy couldn't fit much in his van so a lot didn't go yesterday and will instead be sent today for delivery tomorrow so the tracking number will work later on today. what a bummer as i've got today to wait here but not so much tomorrow

I was told the same, except that tracking will go live first thing in the morning which is a bit worrying :/

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