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

cjgardens said:
I thought xxms1 was the newest one. The rom I use from xda is xxms1 and the guy started off with xwlsd and used 2 others before xxms1
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XXMS1 is the newest by build date, but XWLSD is ahead of MS1 which is between XWLS8 and XWLSD :).

Tungstwenty on XDA said:
I have unpacked and decompiled the full contents of XXMS1 in order to compare it with XWLSD, in a similar way to what I have previously done with XWLSD vs XWLS8.

The differences I found were all in the exact same areas as previously listed, but in the reverse direction. Meaning: what LSD introduced as improved over LS8, is now reverted in MS1.
Examples:
- gannet "removed"
- no handling the Indian and Thai vowels boundary when selecting text
- no handling of audio pausing in HTML5 when losing focus
- older version of Polaris Viewer and Samsung Apps
- Turkish specifics in the Samsung keyboard
- Samsung calendar
etc.

Some other things I mentioned before are NOT different in LSD vs. MS1, such as:
- Launcher handling of certain shortcut types
- talkback option in setup wizard
etc.

Most of the changes are however "gone".
This means that from an evolution perspective MS1 is somewhere in between LS8 and LSD. Not purely from the changelist point of view, but from the code itself. And it's very close to LS8, not so much to LSD.

I no longer have the LS8 contents unpacked and quite frankly don't think there's any point in redoing it, but for pretty much all purposes XWLSD is later than XXMS1, which is almost the same as LS8.


As for the CSCs, they are different (BTU, DBT, ITV, XEO, XEF, KOR in XXMS1 / AUT, CYO, CYV, DNF, EUR, NEE, ORG, ORS, TPH, XEZ, XSK in XWLSD from NEE) but the CSC-specific configurations are negligible.
Settings such as APN list are applied even with a foreign CSC code.

My advice: stick with XWLSD.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38216765&postcount=10663
 
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Bloomfield said:
XXMS1 is the newest by build date, but XWLSD is ahead of MS1 which is between XWLS8 and XWLSD :).



http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38216765&postcount=10663
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There must surely be an easier way for Samsung to handle these OS updates. As it is, it sounds like various countries/networks are distributing different builds of the same OS version at the same time. No wonder we're stuck waiting for these things.

Although I suppose for the end-user, they just get whatever their phone downloads and that's the end of it.
 
OK, i've flashed to Jelly Bean and rooted my phone. S voice annoyed the hell out of me so I've removed it. Now when I double press the home button I get Google Voice, I can't work out how to stop that. Any ideas?
 
TheVoice said:
We can presumably expect that update in December then. Next year.
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:p

My 24 month contract expires in December 2013, and I will obviously be due an upgrade to my GS2.

As I do not need the latest and greatest handset, but honestly do not want to spend more than £20 a month on a phone, I'm thinking I will just upgrade to the S3.

It will be old hat by then, but it should mean it will be cheap enough for me, plus if it is going to get upgraded to Android 5.x then thats all I need.
 
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Gaygle said:
Can you use those official JB ROMs to update phones locked to networks? Or do they have to be unlocked first?
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Yep, you can flash it. Flashing it will also remove any branding (assuming the ROM you flash has none, like XWLSD linked on the previous page) :).

It will still be locked to that network though, to remove that you need to do something else :).
 
opethdisciple said:
:p

My 24 month contract expires in December 2013, and I will obviously be due an upgrade to my GS2.

As I do not need the latest and greatest handset, but honestly do not want to spend more than £20 a month on a phone, I'm thinking I will just upgrade to the S3.

It will be old hat by then, but it should mean it will be cheap enough for me, plus if it is going to get upgraded to Android 5.x then thats all I need.
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Agreed, IMO you should try to get the S3 lte, the 2gb of ram will come in handy for klp, it shouldn't be any/much more expensive, I occasionally see ridiculously cheap S3 manager's special deal at 3 now around the £20 mark.
 
lol my s2's battery life is like 2hrs 100 to dead.. the phone is warm all the time too!

flip you dumb bum usb port :|

have any of you had yours fail? what it does is charge the phone fine etc but the phone thinks its always plugged in and shows the battery as charging and by doing so wasted as tone of battery and stays warm..

i have replaced one pcb already now a 2nd one is coming but ill only get it on wednesday if lucky :|
 
Bloomfield said:
Yeah, my step-Dad's failed, I swapped it out (twice, since the first board I got was faulty and stopped 3g from working :/) and my sister has it now.
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looks like its common problem.. its either s2 that has it or all phones with open micro usb have the same problem, i cant see the pcb's being much different when the port is the same and the job they do is similar.. except that it is easy-ish to replace it on s2 while a phone like HTC ONE will have to be sent off to repair :rolleyes:
 
Just updating to 4.1.2 stock and just wondered how long the phone usually sits at the samsung boot screen and the first restart? Updated fine through Odin etc but just ain't doing anything but displaying samsung and glowing blue no and again :D
 
Guys just opened KIES up now and I'm greeted with this...

kies.jpg


"your devices current firmware version is not supported to update firmware via kies"

I've never had this message, its usually along the lines of "there are no firmware updates for your device"

I'm fed up of waiting for 4.1.2 now... shall I just go ahead and update to the 4.1.2 Scandinavian version via Odin?
 
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