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

icehot666 said:
Hey you guys that are rooting and removing stock apps etc, how are you backing them up before removing them? I'm guessing once removed things like the social hub are gone forever?

Also, secondly, I see on the XDA forum that there's 2 different types of firmware, generic and stock, what's the difference?
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You don't have to delete them but you can freeze them which is effectively the same thing.I use Antek App Manager Root to do it.

The stock refers to the kernel, not the firmware. They are two seperate things. The kernal is used when rooting and to remove the yellow triangle on start up when flashing new firmware.
 
J1nxy said:
Replaced the handset in store as I'd had it under 2 days...and this one is just as bad...Sat next to my wife San Francisco which shows Good Signal Strength and 54Mbps and SGS2 shows Poor Signal 13Mbps.

BALLSSS
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Strange I can stand a good distance from mine at the other end of the garden and still use the net, walked down the road a good 100 meters and I was still able to surf via wifi.
 
Richdog said:
Think mine is working alright... :D

Download: 14313 kbps
Upload: 5234kbps

Tried resetting your router? :)
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assume I should be getting more than this over wi-fi then?
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(phone is less than a metre from the router)
 
Rimsy said:
assume I should be getting more than this over wi-fi then?
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(phone is less than a metre from the router)
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What speed do yo get out of a desktop? I get 3600 down and 1200 up from desktop, 2100 down 1000 up with phone next to the router and 1200 500 4 meters away...

Something isn't right with my combo...

Edit: just FYI iPad get 3450 and 1100
 
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manoz said:
I've got setCPU and and I thought that setting lower frequencies would be better for battery life? The sliders let me choose between 200 and 1200 Mhz (200>500>800>1000>1200) I have my min set at 200 and max to 500 during casual use like txting and browsing internet. tbh not sure if it has made a difference to battery life.
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200mhz is definitely too low... I had it set to drop to that when the screen off and it owuldn't let the device wake up... not good. Now set it to 800mhz to test and it seems fine.

Battery now at 50% after 9.5 hours, WiFi on all the time, GPS on half the time, tons of playing around with it.

I tested GPS earlier with Google Nav and it locked in 2 secs once exposed to open sky, never seen the like of it before.

Really, really impressed.
 
Yes, the battery is quite awesome. It seems that mobile companies have now finally realised you need to carefully consider the battery and make sure it can survive a day of being hammered at least.

Having said that, the HTC Sensation is being reported as having DesireHD-esque battery life, which is shocking :eek:
 
J1nxy said:
What speed do yo get out of a desktop? I get 3600 down and 1200 up from desktop, 2100 down 1000 up with phone next to the router and 1200 500 4 meters away...

Something isn't right with my combo...

Edit: just FYI iPad get 3450 and 1100
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1.03Mbps on phone and 1.52Mbps on desktop (yes the connection here is terrible lol)
I guess that ratio is roughly "acceptable" but think I'll wait til i get back home on my 50mb virgin connection before drawing any serious conclusions
 
I'm in Stoke at the moment and have just compared side by side:

HTC HD2
iPhone 4
iPhone 3GS
Fake iPhone 4
Galaxy S2
HTC Desire Amoled

Between the ip4 and s2 there's very little difference reading text at the same zoom level. I have high Res photos comparing them so will post them tomorrow.

Even though the ip4 has a higher Res there is more content on screen on the s2 as well.

The sheer size of the s2 screen next to the ip4 is quite a thing to behold lol.

Posting from the s2 so excuse any typos :p

Will check out the Sensation tomorrow morning too.
 
rapid64k said:
Maybe im not been clear enough wi-fi and mobile connection both give you internet connection right?
Well there are times when i do not wish to be connected to the internet by doing this by turning off data packet then you will not receive any MMS messages, forget about wi-fi if you will.
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MMS is classed as data, so you'd need mobile internet on to retrieve it. There's no way around that really.
 
Gotta say I am seriously impressed with the audio chip in this phone,watching some mkv TV series I transferred over and the sound quality is superb.I'd go as far as to say its what I'd expect from an amplified source.

Via headphones of course.
 
Richdog said:
200mhz is definitely too low... I had it set to drop to that when the screen off and it owuldn't let the device wake up... not good. Now set it to 800mhz to test and it seems fine.

Battery now at 50% after 9.5 hours, WiFi on all the time, GPS on half the time, tons of playing around with it.

I tested GPS earlier with Google Nav and it locked in 2 secs once exposed to open sky, never seen the like of it before.

Really, really impressed.
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That's weird, having 200 as a minimum gives me no performance hit
 
Khaaan! said:
Gotta say I am seriously impressed with the audio chip in this phone,watching some mkv TV series I transferred over and the sound quality is superb.I'd go as far as to say its what I'd expect from an amplified source.

Via headphones of course.
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That's interestng, curio from XDA is really disappointed with it, not sure if he has published his report on it yet though.
 
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