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

Currently looking at the phone on mobiles.co.uk with a vodafone upgrade. I can get it on a 24 x £35 a month for 600min unlimited texts and 500mb data with 6 months free with a retention deal plus I can get back £50 from quidco and another £50 from the sale of my old nokia. Whats does everyone think a good deal?
 
I don't get why u'd want to sync itunes with an android phone?? Isn't iTunes one of the worst pieces of software ever created, and on top of that forces you to use their crappy library to manage ur music.... whereas with android, it's done the way it should be, just copy the mp3s direct to the device and let the media scanner build a library (or just play them direct from a file manager) - way more control!

Excuse my ignorance of itunes though, I don't get why u can't just copy them over?
 
icehot666 said:
I don't get why u'd want to sync itunes with an android phone?? Isn't iTunes one of the worst pieces of software ever created, and on top of that forces you to use their crappy library to manage ur music.... whereas with android, it's done the way it should be, just copy the mp3s direct to the device and let the media scanner build a library (or just play them direct from a file manager) - way more control!

Excuse my ignorance of itunes though, I don't get why u can't just copy them over?
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To be fair, iTunes is a much better media manager and player than is used to be. I still see your point though.

If you still wanted to use iTunes on the PC as the main media player etc, then you can either copy the files directly from the Music folder on the PC, to the mounted SD card of the phone.
Or, if you create a 'Mobile' playlist with all the music you want syncing to the Android device, then use a free program like iTunes Sync for the PC which can sync an iTunes playlist to a mounted storage device (e.g. your SD card).
If you wanted a wireless method then you can pay for an app on Android Market which will in turn communicate over WiFi to a desktop app that you can download and it will sync an iTunes playlist to the phone.

Alternatively I use ES File Explorer to connect to a windows drive share (although I actually connect it to my NAS) and copy/paste from the PC/NAS to the SD card on the phone.
 
Scottland said:
To be fair, iTunes is a much better media manager and player than is used to be. I still see your point though.

If you still wanted to use iTunes on the PC as the main media player etc, then you can either copy the files directly from the Music folder on the PC, to the mounted SD card of the phone.
Or, if you create a 'Mobile' playlist with all the music you want syncing to the Android device, then use a free program like iTunes Sync for the PC which can sync an iTunes playlist to a mounted storage device (e.g. your SD card).
If you wanted a wireless method then you can pay for an app on Android Market which will in turn communicate over WiFi to a desktop app that you can download and it will sync an iTunes playlist to the phone.

Alternatively I use ES File Explorer to connect to a windows drive share (although I actually connect it to my NAS) and copy/paste from the PC/NAS to the SD card on the phone.
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I've been finding Kies a right pain to add & sync music. Initially I added about 100 songs and then a couple more dozen yesterday. Attached the phone to the PC, hit sync and it was stating I was using aboyt 9Gb out the available 11 on the phone. Had a rummage around in the media folder and every song has about 4 versions of it. Cue lots of deleting leaving only 1.2Gb being used. Just curious, can you just use Windows Explorer to copy n paste music from your PC to the phone and then use an app to get album art etc?
 
Anyone got any idea how to do this?
On my HTC was able to place a toggle for flight mode, a toggle for wi-fi, a toggle for bluetooth, vibrate toggle and a toggle for internet mobile.
With the SGS2 using beautiful widgets i can do all the above except get the mobile internet to toggle to work? is there a way to get a mobile internet toggle to work?
 
spiki said:
Just curious, can you just use Windows Explorer to copy n paste music from your PC to the phone and then use an app to get album art etc?
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Yep, course you can :)

Android will pickup the album art from folder.jpg or embedded in the ID3 tags. I have all mine in the tags already but there are apps in Market that will download it for you or use PlayerPro and it will download them automatically.
 
spiki said:
I've been finding Kies a right pain to add & sync music. Initially I added about 100 songs and then a couple more dozen yesterday. Attached the phone to the PC, hit sync and it was stating I was using aboyt 9Gb out the available 11 on the phone. Had a rummage around in the media folder and every song has about 4 versions of it. Cue lots of deleting leaving only 1.2Gb being used. Just curious, can you just use Windows Explorer to copy n paste music from your PC to the phone and then use an app to get album art etc?
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You can copy the files by choosing USB debugging mode from Settings>Applications>Development. Then connecting the USB cable (the phone becomes a mass storage device) As for album art, I use Helium music manager to manage all that and tags on the desktop. If you want an app on the phone, PowerAmp can fetch album art for you.
 
rapid64k said:
Anyone got any idea how to do this?
On my HTC was able to place a toggle for flight mode, a toggle for wi-fi, a toggle for bluetooth, vibrate toggle and a toggle for internet mobile.
With the SGS2 using beautiful widgets i can do all the above except get the mobile internet to toggle to work? is there a way to get a mobile internet toggle to work?
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I had that problem with wigetsoid. Ended up not using it and using the function on the power button instead.
 
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