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[Galaxy S II General] dickie2007:
I didnt include it as i thought it was an obvious feature as it prompts you about it the first time you use the device/gallery...

Dickie
[Galaxy S II General] Janek566:
Hello, My First Post :)

OK, this one is actually useful - it lets you test your phone hardware:

PHONE > KEYPAD > type: *#0*# > A menu will appear that will let you test your hardware (sensors, LEDs, etc)

Hope it will be useful :D

Janek566
[Galaxy S II General] bverilo:
This was very useful for me when I was at the store, used this to check on the phone before buying it :)
[Galaxy S II General] SGS-II:
Nice find. :D
[Galaxy S II General] ronj1986:
Haven't seen this mentioned. I am on KH3 & when watching videos that are on your phone or SD card, if you hit menu, it allows you to adjust the screen settings, share the video, and other options. check it out!!!
[Galaxy S II General] farhan032:
Not sure if its already mentioned But once you select 'Allow remote control' under the security settings .. you can locate/track/ring/lock/wipe your phone from http://www.samsungdive.com

No need for any third party applications to do this! Its pretty neat IMO.
[Galaxy S II General] Aymara:
Nice tip, but it only works, if WiFi or 3G is turned on, in case GPS is off.

I switched both and GPS off and tracking was impossible. After turning on WiFi it worked again, because GPS was turned on remotely.
[Galaxy S II General] Ryan3041981:
Magnifying glass in browser + shortcode

Another short code (from the anandtech review) is *#0011# which brings you to the service menu. And I just discovered that if you have a website with text and you press-hold you get a tiny magnifying glass :D
[Galaxy S II General] kebark:
If you do this then select "Sensor test" and then "Image test" you get a really scary dog =/
[Galaxy S II General] farhan032:
Found another cool feature today in the Contacts application :

If you have a lot of contacts under a letter, say 'A' , then holding on the 'A' letter on the right side of the contacts list & dragging to the left (without lifting your finger) will bring up another alphabet list & do a sub-contextual search under A like 'AA', 'AB' 'AC'...'AZ'
[Galaxy S II General] dickie2007:
nice, added to first post!

Dickie
[Galaxy S II General] cobbletower:
when using the about:useragent in the browser it seems to have no effect. when i open it again it was back to custom. tks for the help in advance
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
good feature but also drains the battery so better off with an app IMO.
[Galaxy S II General] tonycfc:
Hello.

From what I saw on the first post by the OP, there is no mention of this:

- Holding down(long pressing) the menu button(the one left of the home button) will make it function as a search key. It functions on the TouchWiz's homescreen and applications that supports the search function.

P.S. I have a suggestion. Try to put those mentioned features in bullet form or index them for easier viewing. :)
[Galaxy S II General] FaizFizy Rosle:
Changing the QWERTY layer

Try swiping ur qwert from left to right or vice versa (;
[Galaxy S II General] jr866gooner:
I don't get it?? What does this do? :-$

sent from t'internet
[Galaxy S II General] FaizFizy Rosle:
*qwerty

It's the keyboard layout... Try texting sum1, then when the qwerty is on the screen, try to drag ur finger from button 'a' to 'l' quickly... U hv to do it quickly... (;
[Galaxy S II General] tonycfc:
It will bring you to the special character's page when you swipe your keyboard from either left to right or the other way round. Repeating the procedure switches between the QWERTY keyboard and the special character's page(@#%&*/-+?!).

Neat!
[Galaxy S II General] jr866gooner:
Ah I had keyboard sweeping off which is why it wouldn't work!!

sent from t'internet
[Galaxy S II General] anisbombaywala:
Hey Dickie... good effort. Many thanks.

I would love to visit the OP every few days.
[Galaxy S II General] simonk83:
I wish the magnifying glass popped up all the time, rather than the little draggy thing. Much easier to use IMO (but then I'm coming from an iPhone). Just on that, does anyone know if there's an add-on or something that enables the functionality to tap the status bar to immediately scroll to the top of the page? I'm having a really hard time letting go of that.
[Galaxy S II General] Pinkthesink:
Web browser question,

I'm currently using the htc inspire. The stock web browser allows you to pinch inwards to display all open tabs. This didn't work on the captivate. Can anyone check this out?
[Galaxy S II General] simonk83:
Yep, that works.
[Galaxy S II General] Pinkthesink:
great thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] dickie2007:
I'm sure almost everyone is aware of this but maybe someone who hasn't noticed it or doesn't have the phone doesn't know, but you can change the fonts system-wide, including default text on websites and apps in Settings -> Display -> Screen Display -> Font Style menu...

Theres 3 to choose from:

Default Font

Choco cooky

Helvetica S

I'm currently using Choco cooky, which is a little quirky but i soon got used to it and as its a little smaller, i can fit extra text on screen in my news readers etc...

Also, theres a Get Fonts Online option that takes you to a Market Search of available fonts to import...

That sames screen also allows you to change the position of the Lock Screen Clock and its Wallpaper...

Dickie
[Galaxy S II General] s44:
Forget the market for fonts -- what you want is this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=894397

;)
[Galaxy S II General] risq:
That's been a feature since the Galaxy Tab or maybe earlier on Samsung devices.

A nice one, nevertheless.
[Galaxy S II General] bakewelluk:
Loving this thread, I had discovered a few of the features through standard fiddling but as someone new to TouchWiz (and gingerbread to be fair) I didn't realise some of the neat little things you can do.
[Galaxy S II General] EleCtrOx666:
Maybe an easter egg you didn't know about(it's from Google), if you go to preferences and about phone and click three times on Android Version you get an art.
[Galaxy S II General] shandoli:
Hey guys..can someone test this for me?

On my iphone, if I hold the phone at the bottom left, it ends the call and gives me a good excuse for putting the phone down on people. Really handy feature.

Does the galaxy s2 have an implementation similar to this?
[Galaxy S II General] steve228uk:
That did nothing for me :(
[Galaxy S II General] happel92:
Haha awesome!

Thanks for the tip on screen shots guys!
[Galaxy S II General] tomhoward:
Same here :-/
[Galaxy S II General] steve228uk:
Maybe it depends on the version used. I'm running KDD.
[Galaxy S II General] EleCtrOx666:
I think it only works when you are connected to a WiFi connection.

Sometimes I have to insist also.
[Galaxy S II General] dickie2007:
Works for me, just triple tap quickly and I get zombie art... cool Easter egg... now I wanna find more lol

Good find bud!

Dickie
[Galaxy S II General] shandoli:
Sent from galaxy S 2 using xda app
[Galaxy S II General] crypticc:
Coming from magic.before stock browser I swear synced my bookmarks with PC chrome browser. Not this one or did I miss the sync?
[Galaxy S II General] crypticc:
Oh and one more thing I miss. Calendar widget in this phone is massive and won't resize. Otherwise love the phone but would appreciate some tips.

Thanks all
[Galaxy S II General] dickie2007:
I just got text reflow at any zoom level working on my SGS2 in the browser!

all i did was go into browser settings, and select Auto-fit pages!!

After restarting the browser, i can pinch-to-zoom and double tap the text to make it reflow!!

(make sure you fully close and reopen the browser - check your app manager to kill it! - this may not actually be neccessary)

Anyone else??

Dickie
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
Iirc this works anyway after you double tap.
[Galaxy S II General] dickie2007:
nope, it zooms out resizing the window to include the text by default, it doesn't keep the text size the same as what you've pinch-to-zoomed to... (if that makes sense lol)

you can have almost one word per line!

i was experiencing the exact same situation as the others in the other thread you also commented in i believe...

Dickie
[Galaxy S II General] :
Wow! Do those work on the SGS2?
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
OK you lost me, but I don't have mine yet (damn o2) so will defer to whatever you said ;)
[Galaxy S II General] BaggyBizzle:
Welcome to the world of SAMSUNG
[Galaxy S II General] dickie2007:
ok buddy, i'll try and make a little more sense of it as i'm sure if i've confused you, i'll confuse others... :o

The default actions in the browser as per my Phones 4 U unlocked SGS2 are as follows:

From fully zoomed out:

Double tap a section of text and the browser will zoom into that section until it fills the screen horizontally keeping its original format.

Pinch-to-zoom will zoom into any section/area you like, but will allow the text to run off the page, again keeping its original formatting.

From Pinch-to-zoom level:

double tapping a section of text, the browser will zoom out allowing all text to be displayed to the width of the screen, again keeping to its original formatting - this can make the text small if the section is very wide.

After enabling Auto-fit pages in Settings:

Double tapping a section of text will zoom in, reflowing it to allow word-wrapping in a single column format.

from any Pinch to zoom level after enabling Auto-fit pages:

double tapping a section of text will reflow it at the currently displayed size, so at its maximum zoom you can only fit about one 6-letter word per line, reformatted as you'd expect.

from any level of zoom, you can pinch-to-zoom out, and with each step u make, it will auto reflow (like HTC does both ways)

Hope this makes sense to anyone reading this, i can't explain it any better than that...

Dickie
[Galaxy S II General] king_dani:
this should actually be a two question post:

1. can anyone give me a screenshot of this website (news.gooya.com) and this forum (handheldusers.com/forum)? i know that gingerbread on nexus one has fixed the longstanding problem with Farsi/Arabic fonts and RT setting, but i assume it has been fixed in CM7 and not stock gingerbread (although i can't be too sure).

2.could you please tell me if you see any Farsi/Persian fonts in that market of yours online?

many thanks in advance
[Galaxy S II General] Wazzamatazz:
Some great tips so far. One that I've found is that you can launch a contextual search by holding down the menu button. Great for those of us coming from phones that had a separate button for this!
[Galaxy S II General] ijat91:
This is feature a long time ago from galaxy s1, but not everybody knows that :)
[Galaxy S II General] lemoninfluence:
news.gooya.com - it defaults to the iphone page. you can see the 'i' at the end of the address bar

handheldusers.com/forum

Hope that helps.

I'd just post the pics as links but I don't have enough posts.
[Galaxy S II General] king_dani:
I really appreciate the effort mate, I really am disappointed that it does not properly show Farsi fonts from right to left and attached. but anyway, we will always have the mod community and the great XDA.

thanks again
[Galaxy S II General] intruda119:
If your looking for more free fonts. There's an apparently called "font for galaxy" in the market for free.
[Galaxy S II General] hacksome:
This was a problem even on Gingerbread Glaxy S1. Your solution fixes the text-reflow. Wonder why samsung made this so complex!
[Galaxy S II General] jangomango:
What an awesome thread.. Learnt lots today...
[Galaxy S II General] dickie2007:
good to hear bud, some ppl claim theirs stilll doesn't work even after this...

Dickie
[Galaxy S II General] trickyhenry:
If you double pinch on web page your taken to page overview. Pretty sure this is how its done. Just did it by accident.
[Galaxy S II General] dainesefreak:
Yep does nothing to mine. I had Autofit turned on since I got the phone. Have tried turning it on, off, force closing the browser, rebooting, etc and none of it makes any difference.
[Galaxy S II General] crypticc:
Feature requests / questions:

Hi all

Good tips on this thread. Taking care because my shortcut English got a mild burning on another thread...

I'm loving the phone. I do have a couple of questions that I hope someone here might know if it is possible to:

1) import bookmarks from other android phones? I believe my old HTC magic used to sync with google chrome. (Samsung specific browser?).

2) change app drawer in paged icon mode, but in alphabetical order? I seem to only be able to either get list view in alphabetical order, or paged view in random (order of installation?).

3) After installing an app from market, dragging the icon to the launcher pages always deposits a "clock" icon. Keeps doing that on repeated attempts until I reboot. (bug?)

I hope you can help.

Thank you

Chris
[Galaxy S II General] dskmat:
Just discovered this hope its not already been covered.

You can modify the location of your apps within the application screen, create folders here. (just press menu>edit ). Can also modify the apps at the base of touch wiz. These folders can be named and then exported to the home screen or one of its pages.

Doesn't seem to be a limit to the number of apps within a folder. I have 23 games in one folder.

Absolutely loving this device.

I was getting frustrated with the random layout of the apps here.

As i said above hope this was not covered before.
[Galaxy S II General] bigmo7:
+1, can't really use Samsung's App either since the font is awful for reading.
[Galaxy S II General] amuneer:
This is not much of a feature discovery, but an app discovery some might already be aware of. I installed 'Launcher 7' by Timo Kujala from the market. It is a Windows Phone 7 like launcher which replaces your home screen. It gives you the full functionality of the WP7 launcher including adding/removing tiles, customising what apps gets launched, changing colours/icons, missed call/email/sms unread count etc. It runs really smooth and just like my wife's Samsung Omnia 7.

Other feature which has not been mentioned is that you can customise shortcuts in the Camera app. Just click 'Menu' and 'Edit' and you can drag the shortcuts you want to appear on the left of the screen. It was seen in the Samsung Official demo video of the device.
[Galaxy S II General] VJKotts:
I don't know if this was covered before. If you hold down the little dots on the home screen and slide them across, you can quickly move through all the screens. Very convenient and a feature that I am using often.
[Galaxy S II General] J9HOB:
Video Out

In the user guide it says that the S2 has video out which is set from the screen settings menu, i can not find this setting. Any ideas ?
[Galaxy S II General] plaut:
Yes, any ideas on how to import bookmarks? All of the methods I've tried (e.g., MyBookmarks, GMarks) put them in Most Visited (with no folder structure). Bookmarks entered into Kies make it into the browser but as far as I can tell they have to be added one by one and there's no way to create folders in Kies. There has to be a way to do this!
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
I have not tried myself, but Google Backup also does the bookmarks - would it recover them nicely?
[Galaxy S II General] croftyboy8:
This was going to be my tip.. just reat he whole thread hoping someone wouldnt beat me to it... great feature which can be used on home screen and on the applications menu!!
[Galaxy S II General] croftyboy8:
may not be quite what you mean but try the google "chrome-to-phone" app. I love it!
[Galaxy S II General] pizzadhut9:
my first post. be nice. previously an iPhone 4 user.

i'm here in korea and you can video chat with others simply over the 4g connection. just go to a contact and tap on "Video Call". unlike the iPhone you don't need a wi-fi connection. pretty cool. i videochatted with my friend here in korea who also has a galaxy s2. not sure if it will work with others phones.
[Galaxy S II General] robart76:
I don't know guys. It also pops up in messages and email!
[Galaxy S II General] esk02k:
Do you guys know about the easter egg within gingerbread?

not so much a feature but pretty cool. If you go into settings

Then about phone and tap on android version quickly a few

Times, you are presented with "zombie art by jack larson"

Try it, it works.
[Galaxy S II General] dj NJoy:
Pressing power and volume keys in video player locks the screen
[Galaxy S II General] turt:
Nice one!

Are there easter eggs in other version of Android? Or other easter eggs in Gingerbread?
[Galaxy S II General] Dirky:
Haha, funny post :)
[Galaxy S II General] esk02k:
I think this is the only one in gingerbread and i havent seen any in older android

versions. Honeycomb is meant to have one but i dont know what it is and have

no means to try.
[Galaxy S II General] sleeco:
There is an app called "sort apps" to put your app drawer in alphabetical order for the s2 in the market.
[Galaxy S II General] ozcr:
You only need to hit the power button as far as i can see
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
near correct

totally correct
[Galaxy S II General] sepam21:
Can you be more specific and send direct link to this app? I can't find this one :-(
[Galaxy S II General] :
A part of the Super Box app allows you to sort your apps by size or name, as well as a bunch of other cool stuff.

Search for Super Box, and it will be the first one. I can't post links yet.
[Galaxy S II General] EleCtrOx666:
http://market.android.com/details?id=net.demidoes.twsorter

Already posted by me but NP.
[Galaxy S II General] Vulpix:
Holy crap, gotta bookmark this thread and copy them all down!
[Galaxy S II General] Nath94:
Great all these tips will come in handy when my SGSII finally arrives tomorrow!
[Galaxy S II General] mercuryzzz:
In another forum someone is reporting this tip:

in the browser or sms app when you are writing you can use the volume up and down buttons to move around the text (it can be useful to correct some error done writing). I'm trying but it doesn't work...can you check if this works for you? I have a gs2 uk with ke7 firmware.
[Galaxy S II General] poloboogie:
Does anybody know if u can use the video call feature only wit gs2 phones
[Galaxy S II General] TMaLuST:
No, it's not like iphone.

It works over UMTS, I got videocalled my mom who has a nokia.
[Galaxy S II General] ozcr:
I've got the KE7 firmware too and can't see any evidence of that scrolling with the volume control buttons. You can use them however to zoom in when you're in the camera app.

also out of interest, you guys might find www.galaxys2tips.com helpful. Looks like they're compiling a decent list of useful tips...
[Galaxy S II General] pizzadhut9:
email notification sound?

how do i turn off the email notification sound? i went to settings and turned off notification sounds but it still makes a noise every i get an email. this especially bugs while i'm sleeping and i get an email. argh.
[Galaxy S II General] steve228uk:
Did you turn off the main notification sound or the sound inside the Email app? Also, why don't you just put your phone on silent?
[Galaxy S II General] pizzadhut9:
i don't want to turn my phone on silent just to turn off the notification sound. i go to sound settings and put the notification sound on silent but that only silences the main notification sound, but whenever i get emails it still makes the bell ding noise. i'm guessing this is like the battery is full notification thing that samsung just forgot to allow you to disable. hope they fix it with the next update.

and i really hope we get the gingerbread 2.3.4 update which allows google talk videochatting. unless icecream sandwich actually does come out for this phone and supports it also.

did anybody notice an improved battery life with the most recent KE7 update? i think i noticed maybe two hours of extra life. not bad.
[Galaxy S II General] causeway:
Go into menu app and hit menu look for notification settings there. It's there on the standard gmail app.
[Galaxy S II General] samjpullen:
Not sure if its a Galaxy S2 exclusive but pressing

*#0*# Takes you into a testing mode to test for dead pixels, camera etc
[Galaxy S II General] d3l1:
is there a way to make the phone completely silent? I can only switch between normal and vibrate (either via the power menu or by using the volume buttons)?
[Galaxy S II General] samjpullen:
In the Sound settings you need to put Vibration to Never or Only when not in Silent mode :)
[Galaxy S II General] pizzadhut9:
i use the Email app instead cuz i wanna see both my yahoo and gmail accounts. plus you can pinch to resize your email in the Email app and you can't on the Gmail app.

there is no settings menu available on Email.

Email app > Gmail app. minus the annoying ringing notification.
[Galaxy S II General] d3l1:
thanks but I still can only use vibrate or completely silent but not cycle through normal/vibrate/silent modes. Is the a widget that let's me switch between these three modes? sometimes I need to phone completely silent, sometimes I need it to only vibrate. there must be a shortcut to cycle between that.
[Galaxy S II General] El Salvador:
I feel you man. I know exactly what you mean. You want to get in silent mode with and without vibration without having to switch this option manually everytime

I use a ZDbox widget as I use the app itself to monitor my data usage.
[Galaxy S II General] CptOxydizer:
You could quite easily add a notfication or widget for that if you own Tasker.

Look here for an example on how to accomplish something like that:

hxxp://tasker.wikidot.com/profile-index

(can't post links yet, replace 'xx' with 'tt')
[Galaxy S II General] :
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[Galaxy S II General] stevehy:
Silent toggle widget does exactly this (toggles between sound, vibrate, and silent). It’s free and without bugs.
[Galaxy S II General] viniturb0:
click on the email account in question >menu>more>Account settings>unclick email notifications. thats it
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
If you pinch to zoom in the stock e-mail mailbox it compresses all the mail by date. When you press on a compressed date, it expands the mail for that date only.
[Galaxy S II General] plastix:
Just discovered this and was about to post it. Seems 'search' prevails once again.
[Galaxy S II General] pizzadhut9:
i'm in the Email app. i pinch and nothing happens. where are you supposed to pinch?
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
When you first open the Samsung (not GMail) e-mail app it should show the inbox. The inbox by default breaks mail up in to date categories. Lots of mail equals lots of date categories. If you pinch to zoom anywhere in the inbox it hides all the mail and only shows tabs with the date categories. Touching a compressed date expands it. Very handy if you're managing tons of mail over broad time periods.
[Galaxy S II General] -Zork-:
Thanks for screenshot tricks work fine!

Can anyone help to get Internet dock? or direct icon to native browers? I can´t see it. :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] ozcr:
In your App Drawer it should be the app just called Internet. Tap and hold, then drop it on your homescreen.

What do you mean by Internet Doc? The google search widget?
[Galaxy S II General] dickie2007:
a simple one i forgot about for those unaware...

the dots that represent the home screens/app screens can be tapped to take you directly to the relevant screen, or held to reveal a slider for super fast scrolling!

i guarantee every person who has or will try this finds themselves whizzing back and forth playing with it lol...

Dickie
[Galaxy S II General] dickie2007:
if you mean a link on the main dock, go into the previously mentioned edit screen within the app screens, drag out a dock icon and replace it with the 'internet' icon...

Dickie
[Galaxy S II General] toddbud:
Works without wi-fi enabled. I just did it but had to tap more than 3 times.
[Galaxy S II General] Nurra:
Got to bookmark this thread I would have never knew this if it isn't for you saying this