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[Galaxy S II General] RogerPodacter:
i dont understand. original SGS had the vibrate issue when full, so they fixed it. they relesae the successor, and put the issue back in place? oh samsung you silly devil dogs, cant think things thru can they...kinda stupid.
[Galaxy S II General] Dannyboyni:
My number one concern is bbc iplayer.

When I visit the iplayer website and play video it suffers from stuttering.

My second concern is white mesh on flash animations. Why cant the vectors be smooth like flash on the pc?
[Galaxy S II General] dk206:
As I've said this before above somewhere iPlayer will most certainly improve for SGS II. It just came out.

I have no problems with flash. Watch (not in youtube) embedded sites and click full screen set on 1080p it is AMAZING.
[Galaxy S II General] Dannyboyni:
See if you watch this flash animation on newsgrounds.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/568711

The vectors are not one smooth colour, there are faint dots overlaid on the flash animation.

Best to view on pc and then look at it on the phone and you will see the difference.
[Galaxy S II General] dk206:
Agree. Can see mesh in the background on that clip.

Maybe it is just that clip? Will try and see if that's the case for every flash vid
[Galaxy S II General] bigmo7:
I think the camera shutter noise has to be there because of some weird rule in Asia, tbh I've not researched it enough to confirm whether it's true or not but I'm sure a hacked camera app will be out soon enough to disable that. No LED notification will probably be fixed when kernels come out, BLN will most likely be introduced at some point, you could try out NoLED to see if you like that?
[Galaxy S II General] Dannyboyni:
I have tried other flash clips, and the mesh background appears in all of them.

I really do not like it at all, and I want to know if this can be removed, so I have a smooth vector animation.
[Galaxy S II General] domi360:
Hello!

Users from german forums talked about problems with the camera quality.

Please post some fotos that you have made with the SGS II.
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
Haven't digged deep into this, but some countries in Asia and North America have a law for this.

Here's a link to US H.R. 414, The Camera Phone Predator Alert Act

http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_414.html
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
Playing quite smooth here mate. :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] Dannyboyni:
Have you tried playing iplayer in the brower using desktop client setting. I get annoying little skips even on low quality setting. I am NOT referring to the iplayer app but the actual BBC website.
[Galaxy S II General] Quist:
Could you give us a link to see what they're saying there?
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
I'm playing it through the browser mate. The iPlayer app is pure ****e, just BBC wasting our money on crap!
[Galaxy S II General] Dannyboyni:
Have you rooted your phone, or installed any other roms?

Im going to do a factory reset and try the website again see if that fixes it.
[Galaxy S II General] RyanZA:
I have to say, this SGS2 probably has the weakest complaints against a cellphone I have ever seen. Even the N95 had better complaints than these! ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Dannyboyni:
Ok ive factory reset the phone. Updated flash player to the latest version. I have also installed dolphin hd browser and set it to desktop mode.

When I go to bbc iplayer site and play a video I am still getting slight stuttering on videos, ah this is so annoying I live for bbc iplayer!
[Galaxy S II General] dk206:
Question for you guys who have your SGS I with you and is on 2.3.3.

When you click on Task Manager - RAM - Clear memory

On SGS II 2.3.3 I"m left with 270MB/833MB

On SGS I 2.2.1 I get 166MB/345MB.

Curious how much of initial RAM memory the original SGS I takes when its on gingerbread.

(too lazy to update my SGS back to that unstable f/w :P)
[Galaxy S II General] lhrrob:
As for the USB2go cable can we just use USB ADAPTOR A FEMALE TO A FEMALE and of course the usb cable that come in the box?

Have a look http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-ADAPTOR-F...uting_CablesConnectors_RL&hash=item230fb3803a

So, one end of the usb cable goes in to the SG2. Second end goes in to the adapter and... here we go.

Am I right? Can some one tell me if this type of connection will work?

The adapter cost only £0.99 and tbh there is no need to pay £13,79(handtec)
[Galaxy S II General] dk206:
Just watched an unboxing of the Samsung Infuse 4G

It HAS A USB2Go adapter!!! gutted.:(

http://androidcommunity.com/samsung-infuse-4g-hands-on-20110505/
[Galaxy S II General] amtrakcn:
The cover of MicroUSB port was a great design of SGS1, too bad it's removed on SGS2...
[Galaxy S II General] domi360:
Yes of course!

ww.android-hilfe.de/samsung-galaxy-s2-forum/100559-fragen-sgs2-besitzer-hier-stellen-2.html

Have fun ;)
[Galaxy S II General] WePlay:
If the SGS2 dosn't have LED notifications, how does one see if there is a SMS or mail or other waiting ?
[Galaxy S II General] Lakitu:
The inability to disable the shutter sound may be in part due to pervs taking pictures up womens/girls skirts. Those pervs can be very persistent. I'm sure it's not just an issue here in Japan.
[Galaxy S II General] Mikulec:
It is only in Japan. :p j/k
[Galaxy S II General] Rumble6059:
thanks for this, i am currently working out how i can get out of my sgs1 contract and get myself a sgs2 :-)
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
You turn on the screen, or install something like "NO led", which flashes a few pixels. Since it's SAMOLED this doesn't use much power afaik
[Galaxy S II General] rockky:
Hey, coming from the Evo .

My 'negatives' in an overall positive experience' are different I guess.

1.You guys all give nods to the 'blazing speed' but the GS2 on ATT here in Chicago downloads sites slower than the Evo on 3G....the main difference is all ping time. Evo's is three times faster through that initial phase. I'd be interested in anyone else's experience with comparisons in that Dept.

2. Camera pics definition and clarity on the SG2 is SO much better...but brightness is a major issue. If the main light is in front (outdoors)...forget it..Evo's shots are just better pics. Man this is just so dissapointing...a main reason I'm try

ing this phone out.

3. Brightness in generally on the device. Evo by default has much better brightness throughout the system. My Evo on auto-brigntness...is brighter than the SG2 manually turned most all the way up.

Those are things I'm struggling with.

thanks
[Galaxy S II General] jgittins:
I have found another negative. 3rd party apps that use your google account to authenticate don't seem to work.

This is affecting Andlytics and My Tracks for me, but there's probably hundreds of apps affected.
[Galaxy S II General] RyanZA:
Most of us giving nods to 'blazing speed' are not in the USA - we are running on carriers with extensive HSPA+ networks. Speedtest gives me pings of 70ms and 5mb++ download speeds.

I took a picture earlier today with the sun behind the target. The picture was bad at first, but after tapping on the subject so that the autofocus could correct, the picture was perfect. Took around 3-4 seconds for the autofocus to fix up the shot.

The device is easily visible and bright both indoors and outdoors. It's a definite improvement over the SGS1. The Evo's LCD may simply have a stronger backlight, while the AMOLED screen has each pixel lit up independently. So I'm not sure how fair it is to compare that - rather compare if the device is always visible and easy to see, surely?
[Galaxy S II General] bassmonkey:
Ok, first off; haters, button it n put your handbags away, this is my opinion n nothing more. Secondly, I only played with one for 20 minutes in phones4u, which I am well aware isn't the same experience as owning one. thanks :-)

Build quality, although not up to the same grade as HTC phones, was much better than I'd expected from the stuff I've read on here. The home button did feel a little clunky but certainly didn't 'wobble' or 'move around' as some have experienced. The only thing that was questionable was the gap near the speakers. Heat dissipation aside I'm not a fan of plastic but it did seem pretty solid.

Camera; the pics I took seemed crisp and natural coloured, I thought it was pretty good, tho as someone pointed out, what the pics look like on the phone may not represent how they look on your computer.

Screen; loved it, bright, vibrant colours, no bleeding. Impressed.

Didn't get chance to try. Browser as it had no sim :-(

My upgrade is due just after sensation comes out so I will still try that as I love sense, it has hell of a lot to live up to now tho :-)
[Galaxy S II General] jay_zhead:
That's because storage is not calculated in a decimal system. 16,000,000 bytes do not amount to 16 gigabytes, because a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, not 1000. Storage manufacturers use mega and giga definitions in a decimal character to describe their sizes, but the formating of a drive defines the actual size as 1024 bytes per KB, which makes the overall size smaller. Also, some space is taken by the formating process itself - there needs to be a small percent of the space allocated for the file system registry, like the file allocation tables and such.

It's a dirty trick, I know. They should advertise the size taking the standard kilobyte into account, not a decimal standard which has no play in real usage. But it is like that in all storage media, so Samsung are no different here than anyone else.
[Galaxy S II General] RyanZA:
It's more than that -- the system can't use the full space for storing your files, because then if it needed to find a file, it would have to read the entire disk and work out what file you wanted.

So at the start of every disk, there is an address book telling the system where it can find everything. The address book is pretty big because of how filesystems work - and the problem is made a lot worse by nearly all portable storage using stuff like VFAT which is hugely inefficient. But we use VFAT because Windows likes VFAT. As always, blame Microsoft when it comes to tech problems and you'll rarely be far from the truth! :D
[Galaxy S II General] drleospaceman:
No USB cover is a plus for me. The USB slider on my Focus (GS variant) required a bit too much force. When was the last time you got "dust" in a port and it didn't work (besides your NES)?
[Galaxy S II General] dk206:
lol I was just about to say NES!!!!

These aren't issues. Just that if someone asked what are the bad sides to SGSII I would be struggling to find a response since it has so many pros :D

Impressive though, I don't think I had a better phone since N95-2(8GB) and have been so happy with.
[Galaxy S II General] andrej.marinic:
Just got the phone today from Three. While it has some obvious advantages over SGS1 (which I bought about a year ago), it has one huge disadvantage: display. In fact, I am surprised that no one mentioned it so far. The size has increased, but the resolution is the same. The result is a far inferior picture quality when compared to SGS1. Very disappointed...
[Galaxy S II General] dahmmy:
experience

I was really looking forward to it, today I spent some time playing with it at cpw, I walked deciding against it...reasons

1. for a 500 quid phone, it just doesn't feel like a premium product

2. speed, everyone says its blazing fast, yes it is, but my desire in comparison still holds up well, its not that quick enough to justify 500 quid

3. the size, for me its too big, I had the desire HD for a while, Up to 4" is ideal for me..

4. Samsungs after sales support is rubbish...

5. screen is nice, but my desire is the amoled one, and is still pretty good..

all in all I walked in wanting to buy it but I didn't, now I'm not knocking those who have... and those who think I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to phones, here's my list

nec p3

Motorola m301

Motorola startac

Ericsson Ph 337

Ericsson 388

Nokia 8300

Motorola v3

Samsung a380

Samsung d600

Nokia e66

Nokia e71

desire HD

desire

and a few others

now I'm not loyal to one make or brand,at the moment I have the desire and Nokia e71, I use the desire for mail and net,and the e71 for calls and texts, with battery lasting 5 days you can't go wrong!

so what do I get? ill see how the galaxy S2 Mini shapes up...and dare I say it if apple can sort out their antenna issues I might get the next iPhone ...
[Galaxy S II General] intruda119:
yeah not for the girly hands
[Galaxy S II General] chukkie:
honestly flash videos works like a dream for me.. watched f1 practice live on the flash player and no mesh backgrounds..

I agree with everything else though :p
[Galaxy S II General] rockky:
Thanks for the insight....appreciated.
[Galaxy S II General] simacca:
Screen is much sharper than galaxy s1 IMO. Galaxy s2 uses full rgb and has a higher pixel count, where the old model used a pentile display, which effectively made the screen look lower resolution. Text was rough around the edges and there was colour banding.

The size and battery life is putting me off making that final decision to buy ATM.
[Galaxy S II General] rocketpaul:
No, the SGS2 is sharper. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] nightic:
One thing I've noticed that I would say is inferior to the SGS1 is the earpiece sound quality.

I have 2x SGS2s and 2x SGS1s here to compare and both of the SGS1s have less background noise in call (tested in voice calls as well as automated messages).

Not that the SGS2 has a lot but the SGS1 has even less.
[Galaxy S II General] dk206:
This phone has a higher pixel count. I have an sgs to compare to, and when I go on a site suitable for desktop I can read each lettering whereas on the SGS I couldn't. Brilliant display for me.
[Galaxy S II General] dk206:
Does anyone else have this??? Please tell me!

maybe its my firmware??
[Galaxy S II General] Mr.Kakarot:
I am loving the phone, it is a much better phone then my last favorite... desire HD, better screen, better speaker, thinner, lighter, smoother... just a great device overall, it is going to be tough to best it ;)
[Galaxy S II General] otester:
Just tried Flash Player in the Dolphin Browser HD.

Works fine, very slight lag (needs a keen eye to spot), but about the same as on HD2, think it's Adobe's fault, lack of optimization, hope this will improve in time.
[Galaxy S II General] jonrwg:
Hmm.. never had this problem. Check your vibrating setting?
[Galaxy S II General] RogerPodacter:
As been said, the galaxy s2 has physically more pixels than the first galaxy s. The first one cheated with the pentile pixel matrix which shared sub pixels. This phone has a full red green blue pixel matrix which is a huge increase in number of pixels which gives sharper text. No more fuzzy text like galaxy s, nexus one and the desire all had. This is sharp like a full standard LCD screen, finally.
[Galaxy S II General] Mael5trom:
It has more sub-pixels, not more pixels, if he is of the type that cant discern the horrible blurring present on pentile matrix based displays then more power too him, its peculiar that he picks up on pixel density and not the jagged/blurry amoled display used on the standard sgs however...I would think that would be a much bigger issue.
[Galaxy S II General] EleCtrOx666:
What? I got a desire(Amoled) too, screen & performances are NOT comparable at all. GPU of desire is REALLY bad, and it's alot slower, even customized & OCed. Galaxy S 2 is far, far better than Desire. LOL Even the original Galaxy S was better. And the size is perfect for me, it fits in my hand.

1. for a 500 quid phone, it just doesn't feel like a premium product: IMO It does. I used the phone for two days now.
[Galaxy S II General] maliprinc:
I beleive I read somewhere that in Europe by law, when taking a photo with a mobile phone, there has to be a shutter sound.
[Galaxy S II General] EleCtrOx666:
Bull****. That's in Asia somewhere.
[Galaxy S II General] netrider01:
Hey guys can anyone tell me sth about battery life? Perhaps in comparison to the Google Nexus S ?
[Galaxy S II General] oditor:
The Standart Android Galery App compresses pictures from 8 Mpix to 0.4 Mpix (about 20x compression)
[Galaxy S II General] khein:
@OP

Pls. continue summarizing the thread on your first post. Although, some might only be applicable to some users, it is still a good collection of information.

Thanks for the thread. :)
[Galaxy S II General] dk206:
yeah I'll update this tonight. Going out now (will do a small GPS lock/acc test whilst I'm out)
[Galaxy S II General] Digital1325:
After worrying about coming in this thread and having my decision on purchasing the phone swayed, I'm happy to say that these issues aren't that bad at all and a little nit picky ;). The GPS issue is definitely a more serious one... then again, nothing beats a dedicated GPS. Looking forward to seeing your tests in regards to that, anyways.
[Galaxy S II General] ccrows:
Wait for the BLN Mod, since No led was a huge battery killer on at least on my original SGS...
[Galaxy S II General] kar111:
Hmm thats odd. I never had any trouble with iPLayer at all. The main negative for me is that you cant use the phone for long while charging as it gets way too hot (42 C+)
[Galaxy S II General] dk206:
Argh the music stopping when taking pics is driving me mad! I want to be able to go out into London taking quality pics whilst listening to my mp3!!!!

Hope they (Samsung or XDA) come up with a solution for this. Did the law change in Europe? I thought the camera shutter sound can be muted!
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
You can delete or rename the shutter sound and it won't do it any more. It is in system/media/audio/ui iirc

I am looking at how to stop the music dying when using camera, but I need details of exactly what you see including error messages, as I don't have a phone to test on.
[Galaxy S II General] dk206:
I backed up the files and deleted the camera ones however still the camera mode stops the music. I have to go to music player press play again.

EDIT: USING 3RD PARTY MUSIC APP E.G WINAMP. I can have it playing in camera mode. However the music does stop during auto focus and pressing shutter button

Swyped from my GT-I9100 using XDA App
[Galaxy S II General] dally:
This way doesn't work for me :mad:
[Galaxy S II General] dk206:
You need Micro-B not Micro-A adapter
[Galaxy S II General] bassmonkey:
Just to add to my previous post;

I know its all about gs2 v sensation but I just done a side by side screen test with gs2 n incredible s, both have same resolution b incredibles screen is smaller so should look better... it SOOO doesn't! Tested both cameras (both bein 8mp, no contest, gs2 was way better.

I know the sensation has higher res so its not really the same comparison, I was just amazement at how good the gs2 screen looks. I'm defo gonna try sensation before my upgrade in a few weeks and I do consider myself a bit of a HTC fan boy, however, I am seriously falling in love with the gs2. :-)

Edit; oops, wrong thread, sorry
[Galaxy S II General] Ussy:
The Galaxy S II really is a great phone. A huge step up from my Omnia :D.

So far, my negatives are:

Hardware

No notification led (NoLed somewhat negates this).

Metal casing would have been better

No dedicated camera button.

No camera lens cover.

Software

Many games not compatible.

The biggest negative is definitely the compatibility issues with some apps. Many of the games that I have downloaded periodically crash. I gather that this is due to them being written for a different SoC.

I'd always seen people troll about fragmentation and thought it was a non-issue, until now that is.

Ofc Android is a good OS and much better than Windows Mobile 6.5 but would these compatibility issues have happened with iOS and WP7?

I can't be sure as I haven't extensively used those Os's, but I'm guessing there wouldn't be any compatibility problems as all the hardware is standard across the board.

I still love the Galaxy S II though! Best phone I've ever had! But after my two years with it are up I think I'll be trying WP7 next if it hardware isn't still a year behind the competition.
[Galaxy S II General] RyanZA:
Different SoC doesn't cause crashes, some badly coded apps can have problems because of the dual core though - but that applies to any dual core chip.

As to the game fragmentation, that is Nvidia/PowerVR/developer's fault, not Android or Samsung. Any developer can spend an hour or so fixing up their texture compression to be cross platform easily enough.
[Galaxy S II General] tameracingdriver:
My main gripes after 4 days:-

1. Battery life isn't all it's cracked up to be... And I don't appear to have any real battery drainers either, but I am only getting about 3-4 hours (usually much closer to 3) of screen on time on 3g. Now I am possibly expecting too much from such a powerhouse of a phone, but when I read about iphone 4 levels of battery life, it's a little disappointing to get maybe HTC desire levels of battery life... And this problem is made worse by the fact that...

2. Takes far too long to charge. Seems to take twice as long as some other phones to charge. These two quibbles are pretty much meaning it'll spend most of it's life when I am at my desk plugged in.

3. headphone output too quiet. Similar to my incredible s, but nowhere near as powerful as iphone 4.

Despite that, loving it. Best android phone out there by a country mile.
[Galaxy S II General] otester:
It's the jump to gingerbread, not all apps have been updated.

Blame the developers not the phone/Android.
[Galaxy S II General] Ussy:
I read on a thread ( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1068567) that the Mali GPU doesn't support some texture compression formats but if as you say it's easy for the developers to work around then I was wrong in blaming the Soc. Sorry Exynos!
[Galaxy S II General] Ussy:
That makes sense. I hope each new iteration of the OS won't leave the previous versions apps incompatible.
[Galaxy S II General] otester:
Hopefully the (sort of) pre-release on tablets will have given developers enough time to catch up so when it hits smart phones it will be a smooth transfer.

I might put it on my HD2 and see how the compatibility currently is.

Another thing you need to remember is the majority of users are not xda-developer readers, nor able or willing to root/hack their phone so that means the user base will be behind (networks are lazy when it comes to updates), something like 60%+ are still on FroYo (2.2). Then you have HTC phones which then have to wait for HTC (~1/3 of the market) to bring Sense up to 2.3 adding further delays.
[Galaxy S II General] RogerPodacter:
it seems in the battery driver samsung has capped the charge current for some reason. on other phones the full 1 amp is allowed, but samsung limited it to 650mA for some reason on AC charger. no idea why though, but that would explain why people see a higher charge time.
[Galaxy S II General] otester:
Noticed that as well when I checked to see whether I could use my old HD2 charger.

I heard it's meant to be better for the battery.
[Galaxy S II General] RogerPodacter:
it does indeed help the battery by improving its lifetime. but honestly i think i would remove that limit myself, because i would rather have 2.5 hour charge time and shorter battery lifetime vs longer lifetime but slower charge.

since a new stock battery is only 20 dollars anyway, its easy to replace.

i will hopefully get the SGS2 and try to compile the kernel with some battery driver changes, like we did with the n1, and see what can be achieved. i'd surely tweak the current cap just for testing.
[Galaxy S II General] ConceptVBS:
The gap in the speaker and the outer housing is to prevent the speaker from being muffled when you set it down on the table.

The sound will still be heard even the phone is laid flat due to this gap.
[Galaxy S II General] IJS-T:
I could say NES, or SNES, but I'll just go with the samsung galaxy (i7500), open jacket for the sound. After a while it couldn't play audio cause the device thought the headset was connected. After cleaning with a tooth pick, it worked fine again. But open ports always remain tricky cause dust can always interfere with hardware sensors.