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[Captivate General] Dlev7:
yes I know that im not trying to argue you with you... hahah

Im just saying that I dont know Im just a little hesitant as I havent used Odin One Click in a while, plus the fact that it'll be twice the nerve racking coming from Gingerbread Bootloaders.

That is the one thing that is a little scary, but I know if anything flashes on to the screen im good to go, but just a little nervous, but am seriously considering just using the Odin One Click, and just praying that it at least flashes the AT&T screen then off like it normally does.

But I dont know if it'll work the same with GB, I know its mostly in my head but hahahaha

EDIT: I havent used One Click in a while should I wipe my phone before? And secondly I assume disabling lagfix?
[Captivate General] Dlev7:
FLASHED ONE CLICK.... Going now I will keep it posted when I get back to stock.

the bootloaders though flash went well so I think im in the clear. Lets hope : D

UPDATE: It soft bricked, Jig--> now on Stock.

THANKS SO MUCH!
[Captivate General] studacris:
No problem man.

TRUST THE ZOMBIE!!
[Captivate General] Soccer_Dad:
Well, you started the topic, so...

I have gone back and forth one cycle now. GR-10, then Odin one-click to ancient stock, (no master clear), reboot recovery by reinstalling packages (update.zip still there), flash Serendipity 6 (rom cwm still on the phone), then restore from my Nandroid backup, and update calls, texts, and some apps. Takes maybe 30 minutes. On continuum now, since it's the only JVH rom.

I'm wondering if I can skip a step. They say the GB bootloaders are fine with Froyo. If so, I should be able to go download mode, flash Onix in Odin (no auto reboot - since the kernel and rom will be incompatible), then pull the battery, boot to recovery by holding volume-up/power, and simply load the old nandroid backup (since I would have the same kernel - Onix - and same modem - JQ1 - as I had when I created the backup). The backup contains the Dalvik cache, IIRC, so I wouldn't even have to clear that. That's about 5 minutes, plus the time it takes to restore newer messages, apps, etc - maybe 15 minutes total.

Does anyone know why this wouldn't work in theory?
[Captivate General] TRusselo:
please read post 3

i wrote it. i know its there..
[Captivate General] Soccer_Dad:
Don't get all pissy with me, young'un. Please read my post. It's the one above yours. I know it's there.

Your post #3 quite specifically did not mention whether a full

nandroid

restore works. I do not know if there is anything in a nandroid image that is extra, or missing, that is in a "wipe" ROM (other than a compatible modem and kernel, which I won't need). I suspect there isn't.

But then again, when I compare the nandroid images to my phone's root directory, nandroid has images for system, data, dbdata, efs, and cache. It does not have images for the other sub-directories off of root - acct, bin, config, d, dev, lib, proc, res, sbin, sys, usr, and vendor. Now, it may be that ROMs leave those alone, or that they are recreated at boot from the restored images. I don't know.

Now that you know what I'm asking, do you know?
[Captivate General] TRusselo:
wasnt being pissy, just didnt use many words.

and not much of a 'youngin' im alot older than i look! i could

have

a teenager at my age! some ex'es do!

CWM3 backups must be restored by cwm3 and cwm2 backups must be restored by cwm2

reference here

so, use the steps from post 3 and replace the word "wipe rom" with "nandroid".
[Captivate General] bigbooty:
Why would you want to?
[Captivate General] TRusselo:
i wouldnt want to, i just mean some of my ex'es have 12, 13 year old kids now, and those ex'es were younger than me.

i just meant im not young. thanks for reading way too much into the wrong part of my post and going off topic....
[Captivate General] bigbooty:
Your welcome.......kid.
[Captivate General] Soccer_Dad:
Thanks for the link. I wouldn't have known that. I've stayed mostly with cwm2, but dabbled once with Talon (IIRC - cwm3).

I took a stab at it Thursday night, and can confirm for me that I could go straight from Gingerbread to a Froyo nandroid full backup (with the obvious intermediate step of a froyo kernel flash). I suspect I could go back in the same way, but I'm waiting for updated roms and kernels for Gingerbread. Seems like we've hit a bit of a plateau, development-wise.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nox156:
Hello everyone,

following a thread I made in general regarding canadian owners, I have a specific question about HSPA+ speed you guys are getting on the UK model. Most people that posted in the thread were saying that they were not getting adequate speeds, a lot lower than what would be expected from an HSPA+ network.

Can people run a quick speed test running on HSPA+ and post the down and up results below please? I am on the verge on getting one from handtech but I need to know that I will be getting the speeds I am expecting (between 7.5 to 10 mbps down).

Please post location, signal strength and down/up speeds

thank you very much
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lone_Star:
This is what I got on AT&T with 4 bars in H+ (I'm in VA):

To DC:

Ping: 162ms

Down: 2163kbps

Up: 1088kbps

To VA:

Ping: 291ms

Down: 2545kbps

Up: 705kbps

To GA:

Ping: 141ms

Down: 2605kbps

Up: 1125kbps

To TX:

Ping: 312ms

Down: 1989kbps

Up: 1124kbpsz
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nox156:
that sounds terrible, thats not HSPA+, my old iphone 3g performs better than that!

What the hell is wrong, im really wondering if it's the phone or the network at this point...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lone_Star:
I'm pretty sure it's the network. The Atrix, as well as the iPhone 4, I had before gave similar numbers. AT&T is still in the process of installing their "4G" network.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djsaad1:
Took a speedtest the other day and got this. About the same speed my wife is getting on her Atrix.

here is another test from today.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ph00ny:
NYC near wall st area
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmd512:
Yep, I was hitting 8+mbps in Austin as well.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soraxd:
I get 6.5mbps on att 3g on my sgs1, and 3mbps on my s2.. att 3g is fast, hope updated firmware will kick my sgs2 into speed, should be even faster than the s1
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ph00ny:
Are you testing them back to back?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmd512:
Agree with ph00ny, if you do back to back runs, you'll invariably get different results. I just know for me in Austin, my SGS never went above 5 mbps, so to see 7~8 mbps results is positive.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] otester:
This is down to the network and the capacity of the mast you are connected to, not the phone. :rolleyes:

For instance one mast gave me 3.57/1.2, another 1.2/1.

However if your phone/dongle is only 7.2/2Mbps spec then obviously you won't get more than that etc.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lone_Star:
Yeah, and in my area I think I'm right on the edge of an HSPA+ area, since my phone switches between H+ and 3G quite regularly. I'm sure if I was in an area with better HSPA+ reception my numbers would be better...but it does what I need it to do.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] otester:
Difference between 3G and HSPA is usually a software update, when you connect, switching between them is normal.

T-Mobile in the UK restricts HSPA to contract only customers.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronj1986:
Some of my speed results
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] otester:
Mine doesn't seem to like the speedtest app, fails the upload speed about half-way every time over 3G, yet doing it through the website via flash works... :confused:
[T-Mobile LG G2x] oxoocoffee:
I have few problems with original firmware (rooted only) on GX2.

Seems like WIFI is getting dropped after some time and have to shutdown WIFI and re enable it to work. Also in some cases 4G icon is quickly blinking looks like trying to reconnect but then goes away. I noticed this few times and to make sure it is not the area I am with after rebooted the phone I got strong 4G signal and stayed connected sometimes for few hours. The problem seems related to running WIFI and 4G at the same time. In some cases when making call I have to hit END btn couple of times like it does not detect the initial click. Most of the time phone feels very fast but there were times when it was quite sluggish for few seconds ( < 10s). Anyone noticing anything like that?

So I ma looking for other firmware that I can run. What people are running that works for them? If not which project looks like the one that will be done in near future?

Also I seen on youtube that there might be LG update coming out since some people claim running unofficial release? Any news?

Thanx
[Galaxy S II General] CreativeBR:
Hello,

I'm Brazilian and the i9100 will not be here so soon.

Fortunately a friend of mine will be in NY (USA) from may 10 to 18th and he can bring one to me.

So i'm looking for a store (even in UK) that can deliver it until may,18th.

None of the most popular stores have it in stock (Clove, Handtec, Expansys, Mobilecityonline...) or dont accept a brazilian billing address Credit Card to pay for an order that shipps to New York.

I'm almost giving up. Do you have any idea that can help me?

Thanks a lot.

CreativeBR
[Galaxy S II General] peachpuff:
No one would accept that.

Have your friend from new york buy it, then you can pay him back.
[Galaxy S II General] voodoochild2008:
Try gummobile.com had my last 3 phones off them and been 100% with me, as for shipping way over there not sure.
[Galaxy S II General] CreativeBR:
That was my first idea but where can i find an i9100 in New York?
[Galaxy S II General] CreativeBR:
The site indicates they are out of stock. Do you have any diferent info?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] BuddyLee:
Expansys US will have them in stock in 4 days. Best bet is to go with them ... they dont charge till they ship the item.
[Galaxy S II General] robstunner:
I doubt it, they're saying more like 2 weeks now
[Galaxy S II General] BuddyLee:
There are places here in chinatown in the city that sells unlocked phones. Maybe he can buy them there directly ... ill check now and see.
[Galaxy S II General] CreativeBR:
I asked then by email and they said they cant ensure to deliver it until may, 18th.
[Galaxy S II General] BuddyLee:
I bought my nexus one from a store in chinatown last yr. They usually have the latest unlocked phones there. Its right before you get on the bridge leaving manhattan going to brooklyn ... its near Grand St off the B and D train. Hopefully someone in ny who reads this could remember the name. Until then ill go through piles of emails to try to find it.
[Galaxy S II General] BuddyLee:
Aha found it ... this is the store ... atgsm

http://www.atgsm.com/default.asp

not sure if they have it, but its worth a shot.
[Galaxy S II General] CreativeBR:
Hey BuddyLee, that will be very nice.

Thanks a lot for your help.

CreativeBR
[Galaxy S II General] CreativeBR:
The site doesnt have the i9100 listed but i will fire an email anyway.
[Galaxy S II General] soraxd:
hahahaha I WINNNN

mobilecityonline.com is NY based, they offer 24 hour delivery, or IN STORE PICKUP

47 Walker St

New York, NY 10013

212-964-4444

heres a freaking bus, walking, subway, driving direction link

MUWAHAHAHA NOW THROW SORAXD SOME THANKS FOR TEARING THIS QUESTION APART!
[Galaxy S II General] soraxd:
whow check out that soraxd chick up there, what a great answer, someone should thank her
[Galaxy S II General] robstunner:
????

They dont even know when they will even get the sgs2
[Galaxy S II General] computermilk:
The phone is not listed on that site... 0.o
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
tell that chick up there MCO has not had ANY SGS2 in stock yet, and it is unknown when if ever they will have them.
[Galaxy S II General] soraxd:
omg the shame.. it's on their site tho oo
[Galaxy S II General] CreativeBR:
Thanks Soraxd, Mobilecityonline was my first option but they dont have the i9100 and dont know when will have it.

{}s

CreativeBR
[Galaxy S II General] davin8r:
I think the bottom line here is that NOBODY has them in stock because the huge unexpected demand wiped them out.

At this point I've just decided to get a temporary phone and wait until May 24th for the (hopeful) official announcement from AT&T. At least this way I'll save 400 or 500 bucks.
[Galaxy S II General] mattism78:
Yep, I'm just going to stick with my current device until the official US release. I was VERY close to placing an order last night but didn't for whatever reason. Now today they updated there site saying they won't have them until the (week of the) 16th so best case scenario i would get it on the 20th. Might as well wait another 4 days and possibly save a couple hundred dollars.
[Galaxy S II General] dinan:
Everyone is assuming the phone will be RELEASED on all carriers coupled with Samsung's announcement on the 24th. What makes you believe this? If it's anything like last year's announcement, it'll be AT LEAST a month after May 24th before you can get the US version of the SGS2 on AT&T. I'd say early July at the earliest, maybe T-mobile will get theirs late June.

If you enjoy carrier locked bloatware phones and want to "save" some money by getting a subsidized phone at the expense of a longer, more expensive contract then be my guest.
[Galaxy S II General] robstunner:
That may be the case with the bloatware, but once the sgs2 is back to a healthy stock, it's going to drop in price all over the place. MCO has it for $699 without any stock. The ones with stock are/were selling $800-850. So personally, to have a device that's going to drop value 100-150 in a few weeks is one of the main drawbacks. And a let's face it, we are all here to tinker with our phones so to remove bloatware isn't that big of an issue to me. I'd rather deal with ridding bloatware and have a nice AT&T store to return my broken device to if need be over some grey market strip mall vendors making money off of me for inflating the cost of the phone thanks to demand.

Early June is just about less than a month away anyway. And if there is any indication on how the original ones went, I'll take an AT&T version with my soft key search over the wanna be iPhone physical home button. That's just my speculation tho.
[Galaxy S II General] RogerPodacter:
the only reason i would avoid the USA variants, and try to stick with the international or UK version, is because of the potential for custom ROMs. it may well turn out that the main unlocked version is the one that gets all the good ROMs. then each USA variant would have to have its own ROM specific to each variant and the changes the carrier makes to that specific model.

so i really am going to try to go for the international, unlocked, plain vanilla SGS2 myself. i think its the best model and will show once ROMs start coming. especially since the source code already dropped for the UK model.
[Galaxy S II General] dinan:
Probably gonna do the same. If it's anything like the last SGS, the international version was always first to get things like BLN, Voodoo color/sound/sharpness, radio updates, android version updates (samsung will ALWAYS push their android updates before a carrier will), etc. It came to the point where I was waiting so long for the Vibrant to get BLN that I eventually gave up and got a Nexus S.
[Galaxy S II General] AllGamer:
Just remember to add extra time for shipping to CLEAR the Customs.

time will vary depending on states
[Galaxy S II General] sarsh11:
Why don't you just oder from clove and get it delivered to Brazil? Clove will have it in stock around the 16th, and it'll probably reach you in 3 days. Why the need to have your friend get it in the US?
[Galaxy S II General] robstunner:
Can I ask what makes the UK version "vanilla?" they both have touchwiz, and all the added apps can be uninstalled whether it be via manage apps or titanium backup.
[Galaxy S II General] krabman:
Outside of touchwiz and the various samsung software added to vanilla android AT&T will add all its usual junk while removing other items like tethering. They may also have some hardware changes and slightly modified styling which may or may not be an improvement.
[Galaxy S II General] dinan:
It's not vanilla android in the sense like a Nexus phone, but it's the most "plain" version of the Galaxy S2 that will be released. Similar to how the original international SGS i9000 is the most "vanilla" version of the entire SGS line (vibrant, captivate, fascinate). The carrier versions had different crippling such as bloat, disabled features, slower android updates, slower and less dev support, etc.
[Galaxy S II General] CreativeBR:
Our customs taxes are arround 100% when ordering via courrier or 79% via regular mail. 8(
[Galaxy S II General] RogerPodacter:
i probably meant to put the word vanilla in quotes, because it really is just samsungs unlocked and unbranded version, that's all i meant. surely ATT will add extra bloat, probably remove stuff, and hell they will probably change the device physically as well, like the did with the captivate. totally different phone completely from the galaxy s, which ruins the ROM interchangeability.
[Galaxy S II General] robstunner:
Ah gotcha. Well at least for me I don't have a choice currently anyway. Everyone is sold out so I might as well wait and see.
[Galaxy S II General] CreativeBR:
I could find an eBay seller in USA that will receice one on thursday so i ordered it.

Now it's time to pray for everything goes in time... 8)

Thanks for the help.

CreativeBR
[Galaxy S II General] robstunner:
How much if u don't mind?
[Galaxy S II General] AllGamer:
be careful, most ebay sellers wait a 3 to 5 days for the money to clear from paypal to bank account before shipping
[Galaxy S II General] CreativeBR:
860 doletas... 8(

But my other options are not better.

{}s

CreativeBR
[Galaxy S II General] CreativeBR:
That's a nice point and you are absolutely right.

But the seller was ready in answer any kind of questions i made including my dead line of may,18th so now i have to trust that he will send it as soon as he receive the phone.

{}s

CreativeBR
[Galaxy S II General] robstunner:
http://pocketnow.com/android/samsung-preparing-for-att-compatible-nexus-s-deb looks like the announcement for samsung at the end of this month will just be a nexus s.
[Galaxy S II General] krabman:
That phone was hardly current as released, in my mind its already previous generation hardware.
[Galaxy S II General] robstunner:
being on 2.3.4 makes it more current than any phone out there. Spec wise, yea, your right.
[Galaxy S II General] dedligno:
I`m on the same that the creator of the topic..

I`m from Brazil, my cousin in arriving on may 20th and departing on june 4th. So I need to found some store that is able to deliver between this dates.

MCO don`t have schedulle on when they will have it. On your experience, do you think that if I pre-order my cousin will be able to get th phone?

I`ve also found on GSMnation (don`t know if it is a good store or not) that they will ship on may 25th if i pre-order now. Any one know this store? they will really ship on may 25th and if so, will it arrive before my cousin come back to Brazil??

I really need this phone x(
[Galaxy S II General] krabman:
Takes a sharp and knowing eye to spot the differences in 2.3X versions and any smartphone is a sum of both its software and hardware. The NS will remain current in software in the near future but the hardware was barely current as initially released and now while still in release is rather underwhelming as compared to its current competition. Its a good handset but a smartphone has a tough life. We sit here with the arguably top handset available now but by Christmas how many will be looking with lust at whats coming out then? lol Color me guilty.
[Fascinate General] gubiguy:
Well, now that most of us have FroYo, I thought that we might be lacking something to WILDLY speculate about... sooooo GINGERBREAD ANYONE!?

Some of our friends in Europe already have gingerbread on their Galaxy S's, so the question is, when do we get ours?

Now I know that it took us over six months to get FroYo, but that was due to some sort of disagreement with Verizon and Samsung (most likely over Bing). However, since we now have 2.2, I would *assume* that they have gotten past that and that any future updates we get will most likely come in a more timely fashion.

If things go accordingly, and Samsung and Verizon play nice, then I would assume that we would be getting gingerbread around September or October (based on how long it took FroYo to be distributed to other carriers).

What do you guys think?

P.S. I'll post any major updates that appear in the media.
[Fascinate General] Avelnan:
Penis.
[Fascinate General] Sleek69:
Grow up.

OP: I think the gingerbread update is going to take even longer than froyo because the gx2 and the charge are going to be out. Samsung is most likely going to update those before they even think about us.
[Fascinate General] TheSonicEmerald:
Unfortunately, the truth is: we don't know when the heck Gingerbread is coming for the Fascinate. And with Samsung's somewhat random updates, its really hard to guess even a general date.
[Fascinate General] Legato525:
If we can get CM7 and maybe officially supported by CM. who cares about stock GB. If JT and PK's work becomes bug free, and it looks like they have done great job, I think we might see gold.
[Fascinate General] ashasaur:
You win. See also, no trolling.
[Fascinate General] nitsuj17:
You want official gingerbread because you want source and a. 35 kernel
[Fascinate General] gubiguy:
Having the source code from the gingerbread specifically designed for our phone would make our build of CM even more stable.
[Fascinate General] DirgeExtinction:
Main reason the Droid Charge will get Froyo before the Fascinate: The Droid name.
[Fascinate General] Skrazz:
WAT IS GINgERBREADS?
[Fascinate General] gubiguy:
So... who wants to form a petition to change the name of the Fascinate to something that includes "DROID"?

My vote is the "DROID Wolfpack". Perhaps this requires another thread..
[Fascinate General] garywojdan81:
How about the Droid Orphan, cuz that's what it's felt like sometimes. The only thing keeping it going has been the adoption by this community of devs.
[Fascinate General] thefunkbot:
Completely untrue. The droid name means nothing. Carrier and manufacturer are the same. Hardware is the exact same as a the fascinate other than the fact that it has a 4g radio. Its a last gen phone in the very beginning of a new generation... No one cares about it. If anything, its twice the orphan than the fascinate was.
[Fascinate General] |Melvin|:
Do you live in a mountain ?

Sent From My Galaxy Extreme Powered Vibrant OC @1.5GHz With Ecotox's DragonMod Kernel
[Fascinate General] gubiguy:
But you see, the large dev community is the WOLFPACK! So it makes sense ...okay maybe I should drop this subject before I get attacked by a tiny chinese man jumping out of the trunk of a car..
[Fascinate General] |Melvin|:
Completely wrong, sammy has a total different hardware than any phone available... they make their own parts, even the screen and i think even the cables and other things.... so never compare a sammy to a motorolla or what ever

Sent From My Galaxy Extreme Powered Vibrant OC @1.5GHz With Ecotox's DragonMod Kernel
[Fascinate General] gubiguy:
Isn't the Droid Charge also made by Samsung?

Just sayin..
[Fascinate General] Huntredgo:
Psh with I/o tomorrow Ice cream sandwich should be the topic of discussion ;)
[Fascinate General] DirgeExtinction:
How much do you want to bet the Droid Charge will see Gingerbread and more minor updates than the Fascinate just because it's in the Droid lineup? Both phones are nearly identical when it comes to software. Nearly every phone in the Droid lineup has had great support(except for the Eris and maybe the Pro).
[Fascinate General] masterjeff:
I honestly don't think the fascinate will ever see gingerbread in any sort of official way.