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

cMiui is just as smooth as any other jb rom I've tried on the gs2 in my own experience. I don't know what miui is like on other phones but cMiui is great on the gs2

Any other cons....well the messaging app is a bit bloaty, miui is Chinese and the app includes extra chinese emoticons and stuff you would probably never need. I can't really think of anything else though. Give it a go - if you don't like it you can just put something else on there :)
 
What's the battery life like on cMIUI?

I've used AOKP jelly bean roms in the past and battery life was quite poor, so moved back to an ICS Samsung rom, currently running Wanam Lite 12.4.
 
Even on a clean install I still found cMIUI to be quite laggy, especially the lock screen. Keep going back to Bajee's Vanilla Rootbox JB ROM, if I wanted a decent ICS rom, I'd go right back to Hydra ICS as that was the best ROM by far but that hasn't been updated since mid June.
 
Planning on selling the SGS2 soon as the contract is up. I did a full erase and wipe through CWM yesterday following a guide on XDA and put on a stock ROM and have left it unrooted.

Everything is working in fine, however when I plugged it in to the lappy to add some music to the external SD card, I noticed the internal memory was still full of folders from my old apps I had installed previously.

What did I miss?
If I do a factory reset later will this erase everything anyway?
 
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With siyah kernel I didn't notice much of a difference between cmiui and paranoid android. Standby life is acceptable - more than 24 hours generally and infact my phone last went 2 days and 5 hours between charges....but I wasn't using it much. battery life isn't too hot in usage but as you mentioned I think thats down to JB itself and I don't know if that's likely to change any time soon lol

Pulse said:
Even on a clean install I still found cMIUI to be quite laggy, especially the lock screen.
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Oh yeah the lock screen lol. The stock miui lock screen does have an annoying delay yes. I forgot about that one :o
 
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Thanks for the feedback guys, but for various reasons I have now decided to go for a 'Nexus,' or as 'vanilla' as possible, Jelly Bean based ROM.

I understand that Samsung have released an update within the last day or so which will hopefully help.

If possible I would prefer to do it without having to 'root' my S2, but will do so if necessary.

I have been looking at the "Supernexus" ROM, but I am sure that there must be others around also?

Thanks again! :)
 
Thanks for the ROM advice guys, I can't believe how many are out now for S2... there's an almost bewildering array of options now! I think i'm going to leave it at stock, root, and wait for the official JB upgrade. it's due out very soon and I can't be arsed with the hassle of reflashing the custom ROMs every time a new version is out, as there seems to be still problems on all the JB-based ones i've looked at. Things will improve once JB is officially released, so i'll hang on till then. :)

PS - Id forgotten how beautiful and perfectly sized this phone was, the SGS III is almost unwieldy in comparison! Add a 720p resolution to it and it would be the worlds most perfect phone.
 
This may be a very silly question but I can't get Odin to recognise my device while in download mode. Odin recognises the phone fine when it's booted into Android as normal, but fails to recognise it once you reboot and go into download mode. USB Debugging is on. :confused:

EDIT - Ahh it could be Kies, let me remove it and reinstall the USB drivers.
 
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grudas said:
yeah it will be kies blocking it
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Hmm seems not. I uninstalled Kies and manually installed the USB driver package and phone is detected fine in Odin when booted into Android. However you then reboot into recovery mode and all of a sudden Odin doesn't detect it. Grrrr... I need to root!
 
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Hmm seems not. I uninstalled Kies and manually installed the USB driver package and phone is detected fine in Odin when booted into Android. However you then reboot into recovery mode and all of a sudden Odin doesn't detect it. Grrrr... I need to root!
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Definitely doing it properly? I know silly question

Vol down + Home + Power & then connect it to the usb once it has loaded. Odin should have a box that turns yellow :E
 
Mattey1 said:
Definitely doing it properly? I know silly question

Vol down + Home + Power & then connect it to the usb once it has loaded. Odin should have a box that turns yellow :E
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Hah ok that's a little embarassing... I was booting into recovery mode using the Vol + button instead of the Vol - button, which is a different mode. Now rooted, but thanks for the help! :o :D
 
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