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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BoostedSR20:
For anyone with large hands, how does thing feel in one hand? I know the super thin/light thing is all wonderful, but honestly when holding my SGS I really always felt like it was gonna slip right out of my hand due to it being so thin, and hard to hold onto. I put a bodyglove case on it not only for protection, but to add a little bulk/grip. (obviously I can also do this with the SGS2, I'm just curious)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GlossGhost:
I really like the SGS's lightness/thin, it feels soo good in the hand.

I think it won't need a grip :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schmich:
Alright. fergusstrachan, kayway27, NedL, walk.away, XPLANE9 tell us why you don't like the phone? Or don't you own one and are trolling for the results?

(these are the guys who are apparently "Not happy with it, I am sending it back")
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risq:
Having played with the phone and soon to have one, the only thing I wish Samsung dropped was that chrome edging. I think it just looks a bit cheap (Which this phone certainly isn't) - Especially as it's plastic with chrome plating.

I however, do like the back. Reminds me of a Carbon Fibre effect.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inteligo:
Very happy, best phone ever :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vimto25:
let you no tuesday :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moparman:
Why are the people who gives the phone Not happy with it, I am sending it back quit ?

I want to hear why they don like it,so much that they cant even keep it
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Frostfree:
Damn, I best cancel my order... absolute disgrace!!!! :D:D:D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] al7usaini90:
So far so GREAT

My only probllem is the 12mb attachemnt limit (its driving me crazy) and the back button in the video player takes you back to the previous app/page instead of the video list.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khein:
How can I be happy, if I still don't have the phone!! :(

Reserving my vote till the S2 is released on our Country.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emorej:
Waiting for my phone..havent had oit but im happy with it..:D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnDoe01:
If you are logged in, you can see the profile and posts of people saying :

"Not happy with it, I am sending it back "...

Not too sure than many of them have indeed a S2 to "send back" :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnDoe01:
at the same time a few of them could have been very discreet about it...

:cool:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3nnisd3nnnis:
you guys who has moved fro SGS 1 to SGS 2, is it worth an upgrade or not?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Some pain using the device??

Just recently joined the forum. My first post here. I have been following this thread for sometime now. I see that quite a few guys are reporting that they are "UNHAPPY"

drleospaceman, fergusstrachan, kayway27, milan2008, NedL, Purple Drama Llama, walk.away, XPLANE9

All these people have reported they are not happy with the device. Can they explain what exactly they don't like about this? I was planning to purchase this, so I would like to know what they found bad in the device. Don't want to feel bad after getting this.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3nnisd3nnnis:
and what is the biggest dissapointments you have faced so far with SGS 2?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shujitzu:
Disappointed.. I did not get to take one home today.

I went to orange shop to upgrade.. no stock. no idea.

checked it on website and nothing.

carphone warehouse shop down at oxford street. no stock again

So last option is phones4u which I had a not so good experience a long time ago. So after one hour and a half of haggling to get the same tarrif with another 10% discount added they finally gave in. And then the disappointent. orange system is down and could not connect through to sort out the connection. I was asked to come back to tomorrow to activate and collect the phone. 16 hours to go and I will be happy GS2 owner.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimsey:
Money well spent !!

I moved from SGs (1) to Nexus S, and have now updated to the SGS2

it's definitely the best phone i've owned so far !

Dont get me wrong the Nexus S was fantastic and a big improvement on the SGS1

( apart from the lack of Gorilla glass), it was faster, had more features and obviously got the updates from google quicker than any other device - but i still ended up using CM7 rom

All that now said, The SGS2 is awesome, the screen really is a beauty, readable and bright from any angle, the menus are lightening fast( i switched to adw launcher), infact the phone is almost too fast, i found myself going into my launcher settings and slowing the effects down a bit.

video playback is fast and smooth and it boots in half the time my nexus S took and I think the battery life is better.

ALL in all a great upgrade and well worth £500 of my hard earned cash - like many others, although i've moved from a really good android device- i've not put the SGS2 down since I got it.

Those who haven't got it yet, you can have mine for 1/2 price if you want to wait 6 months - lol
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnDoe01:
2 more days to go and I will be able to vote in my own poll :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OneZeoN:
Mine should be here tomorrow! :D

Ive only had Iphones for the last 3 odd years so looking forward to my 1st andriod and GS2!

My last phone was an iPhone 3gs (sold on fleabay!)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ice_coffee:
I went for good phone, not happy about a few things, but really I mean it is a great phone, but back light notification should be standard, not a mod or an APP, and the permanent choice of user agent should be mine !

Other than that im very very pleased
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dickie2007:
I honestly believe everyone who said they took the phone back are trolls!! as far as i can see, most are in areas/on networks where the S2 wasn't/isn't available yet!!

really don't see the point! the overwhelming number of people who love or are generally pleased with the device speaks for its self!!

Dickie
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Worst thing??

Guys whoever has the phone, can they post the worst thing about the phone? Things that you people hate about the phone. I want to hear something bad (there has to be something which is not implemented properly) or some feature which is missing - I already heard about LED notification. Show some hate guys!!

:confused::confused:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 6spdtls:
i'm getting it as soon as it hits US.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scores87:
the only thing I hate is that it resembles the iphone look, evrything else is perfect
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RMXO:
Here's some hate for you. NO news on US availability & AT&T doesn't have it as "Arriving Soon". :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
iphone resemblance?

In terms of build or icons/menus?

I thought the styling is quite distinguishable for GS2. Might be wrong till I get mine.

Any other negatives form other owners? I want to know the worst possible thing before I get it.

Maybe I sound too desperate here :eek:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scores87:
In terms of build (physically), Touchwiz also looks iphony but it can be easily changed
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dinan:
It does kind of look like the iPhone 4... the original galaxy s looked kind of like the 3GS and this one looks like the 4. Touchwiz is the most iOS looking UI out of all the manufacturer UIs out there. It's pretty clear why apple is suing them, but I still think it's a damn good phone and can't wait to get it =)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Potato-Dono:
I hate it! I dropped my galaxy s on concrete and screen shattered so I'm stuck with an old SE phone until my GS2 arrives..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I don't know if the GS2 looks like ip4 - i have to look at it in my hand to be sure. GS surely had a lot of similarity with 3GS. As for the legal battles, I have no clue how law works for such cases. let the court figure it out.

does it get too warm after long usage?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rovex:
The thing is Samsung had a phone out before the first iPhone that looked like the current galaxy series. It also had similar icons. I forget the name of it, but saw a picture the other day on one of the Android news sites. It was only a feature phone, but i dont see how Apple could claim ownership of the design just for smart phones when Samsung got there first.

Apple is doing this for the same reason it does all its legal actions. It wants a deal to get cheaper hardware and patent sharing. When Microsoft wants something it buys it out. When Apple wants something it threatens, borrows or steals.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OneZeoN:
Apple wont win the case at all

Just trying to force out close (or better ;)) competition
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raymond77:
Now that I've rooted and removed Samsung's crapware, and sorted out the battery life issue (65% remaining after 23 hours) it is pretty much perfect.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] floyd0815:
I think you meaned the Samsung F700

EDIT: I've seen that the GSII has a turning animation (from portrait to landscape) in some vids but in some not.

So does it or not?

Best regards.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LBTaylor1984:
depends on the app i think, gallery has an animation, but the browser doesn't.

I'm very happy with my new phone, after raymond77 explained how to remove the samsung crapware i'm hoping for improved battery life, I've managed from 100% to 0% in an idle state 12hr while not rubbish, not what i was hoping for, strangely my first charge i managed 24hr ??? dunno wtf is going on :P
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] floyd0815:
@diablous

But I've seen it in browser while playing flash - but I haven't found it again!

Here is one without flash.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Death666Angel:
It was mentioned in one of the longer discussion threads that the feature was on the pre-production models, but apparently Samsung didn't deem it fluid enough and so they threw it off the final software.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arcalis:
I've had the phone since launch day in the UK (P4U launch day) so I've probably had it long enough to make a few comments about it.

Battery Life

The first few days it was WOEFUL. As in 8 hours max. However, today it has been significantly better. Today I've placed 30mins of calls, sent 40 texts, browsed around the internet, played some games etc. I would say normal to moderate use. It's currently at 60% charge after 9 hours 18mins on battery. That's good enough for me! It's a smartphone (a dual core smartphone) so I'm expecting to charge it every night, if I'm honest, especially with this screen!

TouchWiz

Still not sure about this. I've been flitting between it and Launcher Pro over the last few days and I'm still undecided. At the moment it's TouchWiz but that's because my old Hero had LauncherPro, so the SII kinda feels like my Hero from a UI point of view, so I'm not sure I'm very keen about that! haha

Screen Size

It is kinda big. I'm not small, but I do find it hard to hold the device with one hand and use the notification bar and then shift to they keyboard, without readjusting my hand position. Some won't have this problem though.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fergusstrachan:
I believe I showed plenty of not-quite-hate-but-close earlier in this thread. ;-)

But another one...

- The proximity sensor seems very slow to realise I want to hang up the call - sometimes takes 2 secs to switch the screen back on, which is a tad annoying. Maybe it's just mine.

- Gallery 3D sucks a big fat one! Touch it and it goes flying off somewhere; I just can't use it.

- The speaker gets muffled cos it's at the back. Silly.

- Having to touch the screen to take a photo/video (as opposed to the Home button for example) is awkward.

- Switch on lag. Takes a good second to switch on the screen after pressing the power button. Maybe that's not a long time, but it's annoying and it's slower than the Desire.

I should balance this post by saying that apart from these issues it's a great phone. I'm not using my Galaxy Tab any more, which I guess is another annoying thing about the SGS2 - waste of money!!! hehe.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fergusstrachan:
Hehehe, just noticed this post.

For the record, I do have the phone (since last Thu) and do actually like it.

2 things that will make me send this phone back:

1. It'll be a lot cheaper in 2 weeks, so money back for this then wait a while.

2. I'm struggling to justify £500(/£400) when I have a good phone already (the Desire). I want to keep it, but let's face it, it's just daft! (so my mother would say)

So when I say I'm sending it back, it's not for the reasons you might assume. :-)

Sure, there are niggly annoying things (that I've posted about in this thread) but it probably knocks the hell out of most phones.

And also, what does it matter what I think. If you love it, that's all that's important.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sticks02:
I actually find this a pro, stick a finger over the hole and it's effectively muted.

But some gripes from me:

Camera button as mentioned before.

Screen is too big, or my hand is too small.:rolleyes:

The backplate, it's sturdy and all when it's in but since I have a second battery it's a pain to switch it out. Have to jam my thumbnail in the small hole/groove and inch it around. Sometimes it pops out quickly, usually I have to struggle with it for a good 20 seconds.

Cant think of anything else atm. Which would mean i'm pretty damn happy with it. :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkrmec:
You robbed somebody out of the joy of getting the phone so you can "return the phone" and crying over 500£, hopefully not scratch it ... I can't believe it!!

:D kinda seems useless to me.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fergusstrachan:
You robbed someone of having one by buying and keeping it. ;-)

Yeah, keeping very good care of it at the moment!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
it IS expensive, but i look at it this way. this phone is the best android phone to date by a far margin, and its also the most future proof. so you could therefore stretch this device out very long time which could help diffuse the initial up front cost of buying it.

i still use my nexus one, and no phone has impressed me enough to want to switch till the SGS2. that's like 15 months. so perhaps the SGS2 could easily last 15 months and still be a competitive device even at that point.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kickassdave:
Not when Sammy are planning to release 2GHz exynos chips in the not so distant future! :D

anyway.... I got this phone and I absolutely LOVE it...

the only single thing I have a slight gripe about is the colour banding I'm seeing every now and then in certain games etc... looks almost 16bit in colour sometimes :(

the device speed makes up for that mostly though haha.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AvRS:
I got my phone delivered today and been playing with it constantly the past few hours and have to say it's good, but hasn't won me over completely yet which is why I've voted the second good option. The little annoying things are basically because I'm coming from a HTC HD2 on Android with Sense so touchwiz isn't proving great at the moment but better than expected. It seems to miss alot of useful widgets like a messaging widget and music widget (I know can be got from other sources) and the keyboard is not very good compared to the HTC one as I liked that it always auto capitalised after full stops and had all the common punctuation marks as long holds rather than having to go through 3 pages. I've already customised the keyboard settings as much as I can turning on all the auto recommendations etc but it still seems hit and miss for alot of words and the auto capital letters etc. Mostly all teething issues which I'm sure I'll come round to in time. I'm gonna go back to my HD2 for a the rest of the evening before I retire it lol
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phonex1:
GPS navigation while driving, does it work? What if there is no data? Does is still navigate correctly from point A to B?

Amazing no one has so far reviewed that given the SGS fiasco. Most GPS posts I see are just "i get x satellite locks in x seconds". Well the SGS did too. Doesn't mean navigation worked.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AXIS of Reality:
I recommend you try switching the keyboard to Swype (hold-down on a text box, 'Select Input' from the pop-up box, 'Swype').

I can't go back from Swype now. Just run your finger over all the letters in the word (in order of course) without lifting your finger until you get to the last one, then lift. 'Tis magic, and one of the main reasons I'm sticking with the Galaxy line.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -jen94ek-:
Oh

My HTC HD2 13m old get sold for nice 200£ 2d ago:)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rheedan:
I was extremely happy with my phone until I tried to root it. But since flashing the kernel in Odin, with XWKDD_insecure.tar, it doesn't work anymore :eek:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AvRS:
Where'd you put it up for sale I was just gonna send it to one of the phone recycle places for £130 but now I may put it up for sale :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chasist:
gumtree is a best bet
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuzzFuzz:
Finally received an email from eXpansys...

Your order has been shipped :cool:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demo23019:
Be awesome if this CPU can be OC to 2ghz
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nameless21:
i am using copilot 8. as a trucker i need a good sat nav. so far?

very good. quick lock on and not lost it yet. it does get me from a to b with no lag, unlike i had with the my touch pro2. co pilot is also ok. but would still prefer tomtom on it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Datavampire:
I am now the proud owner of a samy galaxy s II.

What i like about the phone.

Fast smoothe interface.

The screen is realy realy nice.not to bad with fingerprints iether.

The vodafone one i had is not branded a real bonus.

The standard headset it comes with i think is better than the default htc ones.

I perfer the head set socket at the top, a lot better when its in your pocket.

Comes with a usb lead(although its very short compared to others) as well as a charging adapter.

Being able to use live wallapaper and it doesnt slow down the phone whatsoever.

The look on the back of the phone, its damned ugly.

What i do not like

I feel it is a very good fone from the front view turn it around its damned ugly.

Feels like cheap plastic.

the pc program kees i cant even get it to work properly on my windws 7 x64bit hasnt been able to load it once yet.(although it doesnt matter as the kees air does work)

What im not sure about

Touch wiz 4, im so used to htc sense, it feels strange different i suppse lol. will definatley take some getting used to.

Atm i feel have to cradle it cares it im frightend i will drop the damned thing.

I miss the clock/weather widgets from htc sense.

As has already been said about before it does look very iphone 4 ish. that is the interface icon layout and icons(wich ofc can be changed so not realy a prob.

Overal i am very pleased about the phone, and im sure il get used to its differences from my other phone.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kersey:
Very pleased with this phone, have rooted via Chainfire's kernel and frozen TouchWiz and a number of apps I'll never use via Titanium Backup.

The phone is so fast and responsive, I know I'm going to be happy with this for a while and to be honest don't think I'll feel the need to flash roms or kernals as often as previous phones as I don't really see what can be improved for me :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] David Horn:
It's a bit buggy, isn't it? Taking mine back to O2 tomorrow.

* No way to order apps in the default launcher, and a fairly major issue when selecting it to list view is that it launches the wrong apps!

* A lot of game incompatibility.

* Lockscreen is temperamental when unlocking - lag, stutter etc.

* DLNA streaming doesn't work - tried on several devices, it fails to play to or from anything.

* Games hub won't open - "Needs working data connection" error. No way to delete them.

* Signal strength poorer than my Omnia 7.

* Loads of little pointless apps - mini diary; Suggests; a totally useless "Samsung Apps" which keeps pestering me for updates to the store app;

* Live Wallpapers nice; but Samsung ones stutter away and show an Accuweather ad.

* Am I supposed to use the Facebook app or the Social Hub?

All in all, missing my Windows Phone 7 device and will probably go back to it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stoolzo:
got mine today, love it, was amazed to see it tear through h264 high profile videos too, this is the first phone I have seen that will play anything my computer can, full HD style - no more encoding for me - this is a huge plus.

!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE, this plays video better than my tegra 2 tablet !!!!!

drawbacks - just the one, not much dev going on probably due to chipset as it isnt tegra, hopefully things will pickup soon.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shujitzu:
I've been using my gs2 since yesterday. I am happy about the performance. All I need now is root.

On the design side of things. I notice the big gap between the edge and the glass which is for me its a bit bigger compare to other touch screen like phone. I can see this gap filling up with dirt.

Can the other owners see if they have this gap as well. This is really noticeable.

So for now this is what i don't like about the phone.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bart1981:
I think it's just bad luck. Properbly a monday morning model....

Why not change it for an other SGS2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hunhool:
Hi everybody,

I've received my SGSII last night.

It's absolutly beautiful,fast,nice:)

I'm soooo happy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnDoe01:
just voted !

:p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risq:
How is it possible to flash ONE file wrong? If you read the instructions, it's really the most simple thing in the whole world. Unless you unplugged your phone mid-flash, your PC crashed or you had a power cut, it is next to impossible to get wrong.

If you read the instructions and none of my scenario's happened, I wouldn't venture into the world of flashing again anytime soon. Best bet is to either try and blag with your supplier it came like that, or find someone who knows what they're doing to re-flash it for you.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tosh1:
I want to be part of this vote, but since ATT doesn't have it yet I can't vote. I hope this Thursday announcement will be for the SGS2 this month. If it doesn't then I guess I will have to get a Tmobile version since someone did verify that it works with HSPA+...

This looks like a phone I could keep for at least 1 year!!! It does everything quick and looks great....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ph00ny:
I've spent the whole day fiddling with the damn thing and i have to say it's a whole new experience

Everything on the phone including the GPS has been great. Only thing i didn't like about it is the touchwiz. Maybe i need a bit more time to get used to it but compared to darky rom flashed captivate, it was definitely different

As for the build quality, it feels solid in my hand. I do however feel that the back cover could have been in a different pattern to provide a bit more grip but other than that it's great