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[Galaxy S II General] legendary1022:
Seems to me that it is more of and issue of software bugs than anything will can easily be fixed. The keyboard issues is irrelevant and there are plently of keyboard replacements on the market that will fix (smart keyboard pro, thumb keyboard, swype). And I never use stock messaging apps either as Go SMS and handcent are vastly superior. The mms bug is a little weird and should be easily fixed with software tweak.

Sent from my Xoom
[Galaxy S II General] sammy555:
Ive always used handcent anyway so no worrys
[Galaxy S II General] valdigre:
Go SMS Pro is another option, I prefer it to Handcent SMS.
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
AS usual one magazines review cannot be taken as the de facto standard .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] bigmo7:
These guys don't have a clue about Android. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] bzpwhx2:
Sorry pals but you miss the point here.

I need a unbiased review on the installed software not what I can download or install later.

Please just have a look at sense it's awesome with facebook, keyboard contacts and SMS mms function . So what can do Samsung? Just take care to upgrade the firmware because it's just not acceptable to customize a brand new phone before it can be used properly!

Take care.
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
But would you go and ask for a review on an iPhone, but refuse to listen to anything they said about the app store? One of the key features of Android is that it's open and you get choice...

If you want a different SMS app, go to the market, search for "SMS", and take your pick. You'll probably like one more than what was installed, as that's the wonder of choice... Same for dialer apps.

Android isn't just what you get out the box. Treat it as a canvas, and start making it your own :)

Heck, I'll be removing touchwiz when mine appears, as I prefer the customisation offered by launcher pro :)
[Galaxy S II General] RyanZA:
Just wanted to add that I think their review is just bad:

On a completely stock SGS2, here are the reasons I think the messaging app is pretty good:

1. Swype comes pre-installed, just hold down on the text box, select input method, select swype, and off it goes. So it's not 3rd party software, it comes with the device. As far as keyboards go, the swype keyboard is generally MUCH faster for writing messages to friends than most keyboards could ever hope to be - and the dictionary is top class.

2. When you get an SMS, the nice lockscreen notification and Android top-bar notification systems beat the hell out of the annoying "pop-up, disturb what you're doing" systems in most non-Android phones. As far as other Android phones go, it's much the same.

3. The speed of the device makes jumping into the SMS app and browsing around much nicer than most phones.

4. MMS - do people really use this more than once a month? :D

This is all just personal opinion - but then, so is the review. Zero facts involved in any of this - I don't see them having completed any sort of study on SMS productivity here...
[Galaxy S II General] darkninja157:
I do agree that the samsung messaging app is not as good as the stock android one :( . Now all we need are some talented devs to put out a vanilla android build for this beast.
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
Once a month for MMS? Wow that's often :p I've only sent 3 MMS messages in a large number of years... (more than I care to recall) :)
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
Or to get the stock messaging app running as an "installable" app? :)
[Galaxy S II General] RyanZA:
I was referring to hardcore power users of MMS when I said 1 MMS per month - I've personally only sent 1 MMS ever. I don't even know if my SGS1 can even send an MMS, and I used that phone daily for a year. :D
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
I need a unbiased review on the installed software not what I can download or install later.

But i repeat one bad review is not worth a cent three or four yes .,

So what about the other reviews of the phone .

like

Again, we're giving the Samsung Galaxy S2 a big tick for its messaging capabilities – there's a plethora of options here, and it's very easy indeed to stay connected through pretty much any method you can think of.

jje
[Galaxy S II General] dickie2007:
Not to make this a beat down or anything, but does ANYONE who uses sites like this and own an Android phone remain with manufacturer standard software without any form of customisation?? (unless of course your happy with it!)

i know a couple of girls with Android phones who don't really have a clue about its true potential in this sense, and certainly don't look on forums such as this, and use their phones as they come 'out the box'... but surely any user here could not care less about such a silly issue, as they would understand that all that was needed was a couple of clicks and POW! you've got YOUR phone the way YOU like it...

just sayin', rant over :D

Dickie
[Galaxy S II General] sohanlon07:
The stock app is pretty good i think. I was an iphone user until u broke my phone and used a cheap wildfire until my contract expired. The stock app on the wildfire was terrible. I switched to go sms and didn't like it either. But as another poster said, the beauty of these phones are their ability to be completely customized. One galaxy s2 issue i have is the keyboard. Swype is ok but i can't.get used.to it.
[Galaxy S II General] dk206:
I think the stock messaging app is freaking AWESOME. TRY LANDSCAPE MODE :D

Its like the galaxy tab email app. Loving it. And even thinking of porting it over to the original SGS
[Galaxy S II General] dickie2007:
Yeah I've stuck with the default messaging app despite coming from Handcent on my Hero... but I downloaded Gingerbread Keyboard from the market as I prefer it...

Dickie
[Galaxy S II General] pet family:
+1

I agree with this, the landscape mode is awesome!

Just don't really like the keyboard, buat we can use other keyboard from market, so it's fine :D
[Android Apps and Games] beanfarmer:
hay there guys im a newbie here on the forums and at android development but i have competed the public beta of my second app in one day

lock sound changer does exactly what it says on the tin it lets you change your lock sounds on any rooted android device 2.2 and up.

t.co/RrzB0XL is a shortened link to it on the market hope someone finds this useful oo also its free have fun guys and read the instructions below

copy locked.ogg and unlocked.ogg to /sdcard/locksoundchanger

any size ogg will work but it has to be ogg.

its a good idea to backup the default stock android lock and unlock sound first to before changing anything.

if your sure you have everything in the right place hit "change lock sounds" and then test it out.

lock sounds have to be enabled to check this goto

Settings > Sound > Check Lock Screen Sounds

thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] Y_Yan_C:
where is the file?
[Android Apps and Games] the_scotsman:
@OP Why no mp3 format?

He posted the link in his post.

t.co/RrzB0XL
[Android Apps and Games] Mazda:
I think because he's new that he's not able to post links or anything like that because of possible spam BUT here's the link to appbrain and a QR Code thingy if you want to just scan it with barcode scanner........

http://www.appbrain.com/app/lock-sound-changer/com.beanfarmersoftworks.locksoundchanger#
[Android Apps and Games] devabhishek:
waooo thanks so much dude..

i was waiting for something like this where i could change the sound of the lockscreen lock/unlock.. i was so much use to changing the sound of the unlock/lock screen on my windows phone (the samsung omnia) with a very famous app s2u2 (slide to unlock)

i am sure all the chefs will include your app in their custom roms

no doubt u made it to the highlight page on xda

u deserve a thanks

i am also attaching a few .ogg format files which you people can use

remember to rename it to locked.ogg and unlocked.ogg when you keep it in the /sdcard/locksoundchanger folder

the rar file contains the files

1)desire locked.ogg 2)desire unlocked.ogg

3)dhd locked.ogg 4)dhd unlocked.ogg

5)galaxy locked.ogg 6) galaxy unlocked.ogg

give it a try.... for me the sound works only when the device is locked (my device rooted galaxy s on GB xxjvb )

click the thanks if you want to thank me
[Android Apps and Games] stian230:
It's okay i like it. Just need to find some cool sounds to add.
[Android Apps and Games] Meister_Li:
I wish I was home. I always wanted the Star Trek communicator chirp as an unlock-sound. :P
[Android Apps and Games] smoky87:
thanks for this very usefull app gona have a play now :)
[Android Apps and Games] wgsesq:
If anybody finds some good sounds please post!
[Android Apps and Games] beanfarmer:
i have these files but i cant add links :( search for star trek lcars .ogg in google :)
[Android Apps and Games] beanfarmer:
Thanks guys really chuffed this got on the main page :D big xda fan and i dont really post enough, really like the write up of the app have fun with your lock sounds :D also thanks to the user who posted the zip good job :)
[Android Apps and Games] Chunkmeister:
Well done Beanfarmer... We need to work out why it doesn't want to run on my ZTE Blade now.... I'm tempted to go back-back to CM7 and try it again...

If not, we'll work it out in work on monday :)

Chunks
[Android Apps and Games] beanfarmer:
yeah chunk it could be that the default blade rom mounts /system differently, is it asking for root? is it force closing? the lock sounds might even be in a different place... but yeah ill have a look on monday :)
[Android Apps and Games] sergmeister:
nice app will try and find some good sounds
[Android Apps and Games] white2kss:
Works great, but sometimes the sounds get cut short.
[Android Apps and Games] VegasEvo4G:
Sound FX!!!

What a killer idea. I found these sound effects months ago and have just had them stashed away in my "goodies" folder with the idea that eventually I would get around to trying them out. With this app, it looks like I finally can try them out with little to no effort! I have searched and searched and I cannot for the life of me find the thread where I got these to give the OP credit. Please, if someone comes across the thread with these files, quote this post and toss their name up to give them props.

This zip contains 8 cool and unique lock/unlock sounds. Again, these are not mine, just something I procured from this great community. If somebody wants to hit thanks for me posting these, fine, just please don't credit me as having created these. I'm just simply sharing something that was shared with me!!!

Thanks again for this great app.

***IDEA FOR YOUR NEXT APP... what about an app (or maybe an expansion of this one) to also change the "select" sound. My evo clicks. I've really wanted to find the sound that sounds more like a short, flat tone. Don't know how to describe it. I think it's the nexus. Just a thought!! :D
[Android Apps and Games] ManCityFC:
http://trekcore.com/audio/

If somebody could convert these into ogg files please. Can't get on my PC at the moment.
[Android Apps and Games] URBANsUNITED:
Hi!

Thanks for this very nice idea. That was the app I was looking for.

But, I have only lock sounds and no unlock sounds.

Does anybody have an idea why?

Using Samsung I9000 with JVB Rom from the Romkitchen

Thanks

URBANsUNITED
[Android Apps and Games] ManCityFC:
Here we go, some Star Trek OGG's including the doors and the communicator chirps.

Hit thanks if you like them!
[Android Apps and Games] Jacob1369:
Hi OP, its cool that I was almost gonna post a question yesterday how to get this done, lo and behold you already created one... great work!

btw, I tried most of the oggs posted here. Doesn't seem to work for my DHD on RCmixHD... any thoughts on this?
[HD2 General] FLEISH:
Hi,

i have the following problem:

since i upgraded to Rom version 3.14.111.1 my hd2 closes every minimized program.

In other words it now lacks multitasking. Does anyone know what i did/do wrong or how i can solve this problem? (The problem occurs even on a fresh, completely unmodded rom)

regards

FLEISH
[HD2 General] stevedebi:
It has been a while since I used stock ROM, but I think you can change the behavior of the close button. It has options to either close or minimize. Try looking for button in the setup screens.

BTW have you tried a custom ROM?
[HD2 General] FLEISH:
Nope, never tried a custom one. The problem is that i minimize the apps by just pressing the home button, or answering a call for example. As soon as i want to reopen the app after i'm finished with the other one it's gone.

Ok, i found a solution to the problem:

Chainfire's Autoclosepatch

Fixed it for me
[Galaxy S II General] falconeight:
Its gawt damn awesome. This phone rocks in every way that a phone can. It works on att 3g plus its unlocked. I don't care what you have to do murder, pimp out wife, sell a kidney...get this phone.
[Galaxy S II General] Lancez:
where is the review? :D
[Galaxy S II General] MaBlo:
Need he say more?
[Galaxy S II General] falconeight:
gggeeeeetttttt iiiiitttttttt:d
[Galaxy S II General] clubtech:
The BEST android phone i have used to date - and i have used A LOT of phones!
[Galaxy S II General] falconeight:
Listen to this person!
[Galaxy S II General] falconeight:
I ran a quadrant benchmark and got 3200.
[Galaxy S II General] FishTaco:
Does the S II compass provide 99%+ accuracy? I've never had a phone (iOS or Android) with an accurate compass.
[Galaxy S II General] falconeight:
Got me Im not really into compasses on phones.
[Galaxy S II General] FishTaco:
I was kidding. I don't think there will ever be a phone with an accurate compass.
[Galaxy S II General] falconeight:
dork I was perplexed
[Galaxy S II General] kumarshah:
How did you get the S2 on AT&T?
[Galaxy S II General] bobster0001:
Where did you buy it unlocked and how much?
[Galaxy S II General] falconeight:
I had it shipped overnight from xpansys. I couldn't wait and ordered two of them, the one from Clove will get here monday.
[Galaxy S II General] falconeight:
Its unlocked with at&t 3g bands
[Galaxy S II General] rockky:
Quadrant Schmadrant.... take a few graphic heavy sites and download them...compare to your previous phone

I.also have it on ATT...trying for a week.

Speed test is 2500 avg-, Quadrant is 3200+, real world performance (site download times) is just OK. Ping times are relatively slow for some reason.
[Galaxy S II General] falconeight:
Downloading is depends on network speed.
[Galaxy S II General] djsaad1:
Thats odd I am getting over 6000 on speedtest here in austin. Is yours not connecting to 4g?
[Galaxy S II General] falconeight:
It takes a long time to charge. Kind of reminds of my nexus s. I wonder if its a samsung thing?
[Galaxy S II General] 6spdtls:
it charges quicker if you use wall mount plug comparing to USB on your computer.
[Galaxy S II General] ccrows:
How's the GPS?...
[Galaxy S II General] soraxd:
I support wife pimping.
[Galaxy S II General] kumarshah:
Does AT&T do anything to your data plan if you are a non-AT&T approved smartphone?
[Galaxy S II General] MikeyMike01:
It's getting increasingly hard to resist buying an SGS II from Handtec.

Nice to see that people are using it on AT&T without having an issue.
[Galaxy S II General] Phytrax:
Mine shipped today from Hantec. I had to send them the transaction authorization number since I didn't ship to my billing address. That was a bit if a hassle but they still shipped in less than 24 hrs. Should have it around Wed.
[Galaxy S II General] jackleung:
Just want to know if AT&T acknowledge GS2' IMEI as an smartphone, and use the $15 media net plan with this phone.
[Galaxy S II General] BoostedSR20:
The phone shows up as a greyed out dummy flip phone on AT&T. I'm going to switch to the $10 data plan today.

Used it last night while driving, worked flawless.

Stop thinking, just click "buy now"

Seriously, if the 2nd coming was tomorrow, this would be Christ's cell phone.
[Galaxy S II General] MikeyMike01:
I'm waiting for a couple things to happen, then I might go for it.
[Galaxy S II General] ccrows:
Have you figured out how to do text reflow?

This vid looks like it can't be done... :confused:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzC2XP1Yw74
[Galaxy S II General] falconeight:
My s2 thinks im in the UK. thats a bit annoying.
[Galaxy S II General] BoostedSR20:
Did you select English US as your language?
[Galaxy S II General] sl8125:
I am sold. I was looking for a HSPA+ capable phone. Upgrading from N1. I wanted to buy the nexus s but no HSPA+. It wasn't worth it minor upgrade from N1. at least thats how i feel. some others may not. Plus i am on the unlimited media net plan. You can't beat $15/mth for data service. LOL. I don't abuse it but it feels good that i have unlimited. Take that ATT. thats what u get for screwing us over.
[Galaxy S II General] MikeyMike01:
Can you change from the smartphone data to the dumbphone data if you're under contract? If so, can you do it online?
[Galaxy S II General] ccrows:
Anyone?... :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] BoostedSR20:
Use Dolphin HD? I was a longtime user, loved it on my Craptivate. Tried it on the S2, and its not as snappy/fluid as the stock browser. So I'll stick with the stocker until Dolphin gets a revamp. (and the stock browser has some awesome text selection options)
[Galaxy S II General] ccrows:
Supposedly I believe you can't do text reflow on either Dolphin or stock.

Anyone confirm or deny this?... :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] PearsonDKA:
Haven't tried this on the SGS II yet cause I'm still slacking on buying it, but have guys tried reflowing with Opera?

Roaming the forums on the XDA app.
[Galaxy S II General] BoostedSR20:
Text reflow works on Dolphin HD. Same is it would on any phone.
[Galaxy S II General] BoostedSR20:
Yes and no. At least I tried, spent alot of time looking around, only thing you can change is the smartphone plan. (200mb, 2gb, 4gb) they don't have the dummy phone plan listed ANYWHERE if your already in a smartphone plan. Shocking I know right?

When I had my Nexus One I went from smartphone data to dumb phone data no problem. (in the store)
[Galaxy S II General] clubtech:
Under the browser settings choose "auto fit to page" and text reflow will work.
[Galaxy S II General] BoostedSR20:
Bingo. Works perfect.
[Galaxy S II General] MikeyMike01:
Just like on the SGS.
[Galaxy S II General] falconeight:
No but I did now and it worked Thanks!:D
[Galaxy S II General] jackleung:
Thanks. These 2 were my only concern and all I need to figure out where to purchase now. :)
[Galaxy S II General] BuddyLee:
Yep I am using the unlimited medianet plan for the i9100 ... hell I been using that plan for years ever since I been buying unlocked international phones.

from ..

htc touch cruise

x10i

nexus one <- for about 4 months

i9000

i9100 <- current.
[Galaxy S II General] topkop:
How slow is the Internet? I'm on tmobile and am hesitating to switch to AT&T because it is so expensive. If medianet is not that slow then I might go ahead and switch.
[Galaxy S II General] rockky:
I hate that the stock browser doesn't have 'user' setting (desktop, Android, ipad etc).

Gbread browser on my Evo does. Have to live with a lot of mobile pages...less you wanna change browsers. I don't. Stock Gbread is faster than all of them.(yes, Opera cultists...faster than Opera!).
[Galaxy S II General] stoney73:
have a look at 'miren browser', its a decent browser. Dont see the point of sticking with a browser you arent happy with.
[Galaxy S II General] BoostedSR20:
Type about:useragent in the address bar.
[Galaxy S II General] sl8125:
Can anyone of you Dow speedtest on this device? What kind o dl an up speed are you getting? Can you tell the difference in hspa+? Just curious. I am sure its a upgrade from my hsupa nexus one on ATT.
[Galaxy S II General] rwc3b:
I'm getting about twice the speed I did with my 3GS
[Galaxy S II General] jackleung:
I don't think there is any different w/ the standard 3g plan. I can use my x1 to tether to my laptop, then VPN and VNC to my work.
[Galaxy S II General] dionieins:
Really curious about, Ill do the same question that someone did in here before:

How much did you pay for it?

I have been following the prices on eBay and the round the 850 US

Dont you think thats maybe too much?

Back to my question, how much did you pay :P
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
NYC

This is right after it was fully charged. Notice the distance on the bottom? lol. It kept connecting me to a kansas server and i had to manually select New York, NY as the location since that's where i am at.
[Galaxy S II General] rwc3b:
Geez where in new york are you ?
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
Near wall street
[Galaxy S II General] rockky:
I'm very much considering ending my 30 day trial at ATT and picking this up on TMobile when they get it. I think their not capping their speeds for these high end devices and ATT is.

Any thoughts about that?
[Galaxy S II General] djsaad1:
Getting 6 down here in Austin.
[Galaxy S II General] dionieins:
seems like no one want to talk about the price, or where to get it (as a good deal)

maybe this question is gonna be answered:

it is true that there's two kinds of galaxy s II, one with nvdia chipset and one without it?

the one that handtec offers has the nvidia chip?
[Galaxy S II General] falconeight:
i bought two one from expansys for $770 and one from clove for $760. I couldn't wait for delivery so I ordered from expansys overnight. Now I have an extra one collecting dust.
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
What do you mean? this was discussed so many times in so many threads, it's not even funny.

I paid 740ish to handtec + 20 bucks fee to my bank for the exynos version
[Galaxy S II General] sl8125:
Is this on sgs s2? Very impressive. But why is upload so slow.
[Galaxy S II General] MikeyMike01:
Slow is relative.
[Galaxy S II General] BoostedSR20:
I'm getting slightly faster down speed with the S2 on average than I was with my Cappy. Up speed is about the same.
[Galaxy S II General] BoostedSR20:
Just made the switch to the $10/unlimited plan, still pulling the same speeds as before.
[Galaxy S II General] pplcallmeGOD:
Got a question for all you folks on att. Me and my brother are dying to get the SGSII. We are both iphone 3GS users and are currently on the $30 unlimited plan. We were planning on upgrading to the iphone 5 but the rumors circulating that the phone won't be out by September at the earliest has us leaning toward the SGSII. Now we were planning on using our parents two upgrades when the iphone 5 was released but now we are planning on getting the phones when they are released and then selling them. Our question is, can we cancel the data plan on our parents lines once we sell the phones? We don't want to be caught paying for 2 data plans that our parents aren't even going to use. Also when we get our SGSII should we stay on our current unlimited or switch to the $15 unlimited media net plan. We would like to save $30 if possible but if that means our unlimited data being taken away, then no thank you. Anyone here ever been put on an tiered data plan on an unlocked international phone? Thanks again for your help!:)
[Galaxy S II General] Raspster:
BTW, I'm with all the other AT&T guys... BEST PHONE I have EVER had, hands down! Gonna stick with this one for awhile. Finally, an Android phone that kicks some serious A$$ in about every department! My only concern is the Mali chip not being compatable with some high ends games like I have been hearing. I hope they can all be worked out!
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
Pretty identical speed for me but better reception on S2
[Galaxy S II General] Papi4baby:
It is not widely know, but T-mobile has a 5GB soft cap. They wont bill you more, but will throttle your speed down. I have not experience this myself, but it has been reported around the net.

I am somewhat fortunate that i got my plan before ATT went with the 2GB plan and i still have unlimited.

I was hoping for the Ipad2 they would have bring back the unlimited 3G for it, but no luck.
[Galaxy S II General] 10nisman94:
Are any of you using the SGS 2 on AT&T getting HSPA+ functionality on the $10/$15 media-net plan? (denoted by the H+ icon in the status bar)