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

i am not a android or apple fanboi i have spent far to much money on apple and there frankly stupid prices for bits of plastic , ie acessories , but i have a good ear for sound and unless your using flac files which apple dont support your sound is degraded ;)
 
how nice it is to change a threads subject lol joke btw , it is ture guys look round the net , ipods etc are great for the young thump thump gen but for hign quality sounds you have to look else where....
 
i suggest you go away and think about backing up them statements with fact if you want anybody to take you seriously, but the the very fact your choosing a galaxy s2, well known to be a very average performing device for music thanks to samungs mis-guided choice to move away from wolfsen (galaxy s1) and go with yamaha, over the iphone 4, speaks volumes about your 'knowledge'.
 
What is wrong with your writing? Most reviews state the iPhone 4 DAC holds up very well. So I'm not sure what you are going on about.
 
even the amp is quite reasonable. One huge limiting factor is the software, and this goes back right to the start with the very first ipods. As i said sony are masters at engineering great sound using cheap components and that really is mostly down to the excellent use of a software equalizer whereby you can apply a lot of eq in the right places. you just cant do that with apple products - eq's have never worked well and the eq's that do push the boundaries a little end up pushing the signal in to distortion unless you remaster your music at lower levels... With high end iems you just dont need the same level of equalization and that's where that gap in performance diminishes and often reverses. That alone is probably the biggest contributing factor to why certain people think apple products are crap.

Of course there are other factors as well, like a general lack of control and power with low impedance earphones. But hey, the cowan d2 and just about every sony mp3 player i've ever tested do exactly the same thing and people rave about them, right ? as for 'fidelity' well, there are plenty of RMAA measures that prove otherwise.
 
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rippling said:
i am not a android or apple fanboi i have spent far to much money on apple and there frankly stupid prices for bits of plastic , ie acessories , but i have a good ear for sound and unless your using flac files which apple dont support your sound is degraded ;)
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but they support ALAC so your argument is moot.
 
Ok so I picked up a SGS2 today and it is great apart from one thing....I can't seem to get the GPS to work. I have downloaded GPS tester and when the application starts nothing happens...no satellites are shown or anything.

On googlemaps my location can only be found when I enable wireless network positioning. I am guessing that this is a hardware problem so need to return the phone?
 
It might take a bit longer than you expect for the first 'fix'.

Make sure you are outside, with a good view of the sky etc. and it should pick up about 10 satellites.
 
Is there a battery I can buy for the S2 with a high capacity. My S2 lasts around a day with medium usage even with JuiceDefender. Not sure why as I only listen to music on it for about a hour at most and text. Maybe call for a hour and that's about it.

I've had a quick look and found the Genuine Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100 Extended Battery Power Pack Case for £55. Pricey but it is quite cool, it's barely adds any size to the phone but adds another 1300mAh.

http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/genuine-...0-extended-battery-power-pack-case-p28950.htm

Anyone had any experience with this or recommends any others?
 
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Shador said:
Ok so I picked up a SGS2 today and it is great apart from one thing....I can't seem to get the GPS to work. I have downloaded GPS tester and when the application starts nothing happens...no satellites are shown or anything.

On googlemaps my location can only be found when I enable wireless network positioning. I am guessing that this is a hardware problem so need to return the phone?
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Root your phone and download fasterfix, somone posted in this thread that samsung enables the phones to look for a US server (or something like that), and you can change it to a UK one.

Mine normally auto locks on in about 10 - 20 seconds now.
 
andyd said:
Just little things really, low in-call volume, low headphone volume, slow GPS lock, it feels a bit cheap and its a bit too big well for me anyway.

I am not saying its a bad phone, just not the right one for me.

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1. You can boost call volume
2. You can boost headphone volume
3. GPS is sometimes fast sometimes takes a few seconds
 
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