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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eallan:
Also from the perspective of a day 1 atrix user:

Motoblur is an entire new account you have to have. It's far more than a launcher and widgets (though it is those as well.)

There are many many many motorola specific services that I specifically had to freeze.

The SGSII battery door is VERY thin, but when put together it feels fine.

My atrix battery life was mediocre at best after many resets.

Trust me on the SGSII being much faster in actual use than the atrix. It is actually noticeable. The atrix display is pentile and it's quite noticeable on greens and certain color combos it looks hatched. The SGS II actually has more subpixels than the atrix. I would love a true qhd display though.

The atrix does have a pretty good speaker.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dk206:
Th original Galaxy S was a disaster? The most selling Android phone to date was a disaster lol. You often can really tell by title of thread if this is a noob or troll. How on earth was the SGS a disaster? Because of Samsung's galaxy s sales Android has gotten a lot of attention, meaning more applications and games developed for Android. Made Android better overall. And have told the general public that there are smartphones that exist other than iPhones.

Over 10million sales isn't a disaster. Its a fact. And shows it was a top phone last year.

Please don't get this phone. The SGSII forum on Xda is already starting to flood with .... .
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Please don't get this phone. The SGSII forum on Xda is already starting to flood with ..

Nokia Users ??????

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] falconeight:
You can't even compare these two phones. The atrix is old news its battery is horrid the screen font is to small it has a locked bootloader motoblur is junk and makes the phone slow.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aonanodad:
Now, it makes more sense. Thank you.

WiFi Analyzer shows the SignalStrength value (stats.signalstrength) as reported from the radio software. That is useful when comparing different signals being received from the same hardware and radio software, as WiFi Analyzer uses it. But comparing the absolute values of SignalStrength between two different handsets is not much better than comparing the number of bars displayed - it is not a very useful comparison.

Signal-to-noise ratio (stats.rssi, stats.noise) would be a better means of comparing different devices, but even that would depend on the software implementation of the radio. The most useful benchmark for a WiFi implementation is network throughput of actual data.

Maybe people feel the SGS2 has weak wifi because it has low absolute values for SignalStrength (stats.signalstrength) reported by its radio software?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Maybe people feel the SGS2 has weak wifi because it has low absolute values for SignalStrength (stats.signalstrength) reported by its radio software?

AS i have posted before downloads over WiFi on SGS 2 are much much faster than SGS1 on my device .Dont really care about indicators .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scottishlad80:
I have no problems with downloads over wifi either
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Purple Drama Llama:
Have you even owned an Atrix? If not, you can't speak on it. Judging by your posting activity, you haven't. My Atrix get incredible battery life, best of any phone I have ever had. Usually 2 days sometimes more. What does the font have to do with anything? All android phones use the same font! I could care less about a locked boot loader because I wont be flashing/modding my phone. Although I hear some bypass thing is being worked on. The phone is not "slow" at all by any means and is way snappier than my Nexus S :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beefheart:
It sounds like you're grasping at straws a bit there mate.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RacerX1911:
One again another noob that didnt do his research. Please search i9000m and read about it, then come back and make an intelligent statement.

Last time i checked over 80% of users had to replace their hand set in Canada. Your telling me thats not a disaster? Heck we still dont have a GPS fix and peoples handsets are still dying to date! lol I donno if your just a fanboy or just paid too much for a handset and now feel you have to defend it to the end, but I just asked a simple unbias question and for the most part, users gave intelligent answers, but of course, I always get stupid bias responses as well.

Im doing what I should of did 3 days ago, buy both units and decided for my self. I just figured id ask before dropping $800

Again thanks to the users that gave their opinion.

UPDATE: I just got my Atrix from bell, my first thoughts are I dont like motoblur but I can live with it, I dislike a buncha other small things that I could change if the bootloader was unlocked (which it will never be, Moto has been doing this since the beginning) A few positive things is the size, speed, and I dont really mind the smaller text.

So im ordering my SGS2 right now and hopefully make my decision.

B :)

EDIT: I would like to make this clear this post was not to start a flame war or a debate. It amuses me how people will defend their phone to the end and diss others. Atrix, SGS2, who cares! If its good for you then be happy with it.

B :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ignign0kt:
Coming from an iPhone 4, the GS2 is amazing.

Except for the battery

I could use the iPhone most of the day, browsing the web a LOT, and I would still only have to charge it when I went to bed.

If I use the GS2 the same amount, I have to charge it midday and again at night

Only gripe I have
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 8rummie:
Can you show me that info somewhere? I've searched the net but i cant find it. :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ManMOuntain:
I enjoyed using my previous SGS, a great phone. But this SGS 2 is absolutely stunning. Without a doubt the best mobile I've used and the best handset available, anywhere.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RacerX1911:
Yup not a problem, ill search when I get home (leaving work) until then if you look in these threads that I always had saved in my favs, youll see all the problems, its gone as far as to report Samsung to the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications (CCTS). Samsung even acknowledged they had bad handsets so im very surprised people are surprised. Ill tell ya it was a dark time in my life, not having a cell phone for several months is not cool.

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=657

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=883820

The poll in this thread is actually not accurate since once you post that your handset is working, if it breaks the next day, you cant change your vote, but if you look at the end of the thread, I dont think one person had their original handset. I know I was one that voted I was working, then a few days later it wasnt :(

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=793404&highlight=bell+card+problems

I hope I changed peoples minds on why I was concerned about the new SGS2. Im sure Im not gonna be the last i9000m user thats going to have this type of thread, weve gone through hell, but im still willing to give Samsung one more shot but its gonna be hard to convince others. I know Iv had 4 different handsets, some have had waaay more replaced.

B :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dsgfh:
So I've come from an iPhone 3G & the difference is night & day. Day one I missed the apple keyboard a little, but since adjusting to swype this thing is just so damn good at everything.

Browsing is blindingly fast, including over 3G (here in Australia we get great speeds through Telstra). The screen is just gorgeous. Spent almost 4 hours on a flight last week watching videos & used about 40% battery life in the process, so it will happily serve as an entertainment device as well (note that streaming video on the other hand will eat your battery pretty quickly, especially over 3G).

Integration with Exchange and Facebook are great too, pulling all my appointments & events into the calendar.

I must admit, I can't help but pull the phone out to show it off at any opportunity. There's just nothing I can fault with it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dk206:
Change your title. The Galaxy S does not represent U.S or Canda variants. No epice, fascinate, captivate, i9000m. When people talk about the Galaxy S we think of I9000. So get your title right first.

Fanboy, defending the phone to death? Click my user I.d and go through the threads I've made. There ain't many on the SGSII. You'll get a clear picture.

Oh and personally stick with the Atrix. Surely if you've had bad support in canada with Samsung then I doubt much will change with the SGSII either. At least we won't see you moaning on here.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RacerX1911:
You know what, I apologize, the topic does seem very negative towards the galaxy s and now that I look at it, I know why people are jumping on me lol, I will change it (or see that I can change it).

I hope you understand where im coming from now, coming from the iphone to a Android based phone, a lot of i9000m users have based their opinion about all Android phones but really it was just the one handset, not the OS.

On a side note, I was 2 secs away from returning the Atrix yesterday. There were a lot of things that bothered me about it and realized that I really do need custom roms to customize it to the way I like it. Before I make my decision Im going to install gingerblur or greyblue because it does look promising. I just dont know if I can go back to my SGS from having the wicked speed of this dual core.

B :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jercote:
My new SGS2

Hey guys just got received my sgs 2 on friday and i must say i'm blown away. I upgraded from the htc desire hd (telus) which was great phone but it shocked me how badly my sgs2 just blows it out of the water.

I have absolutely none of the issues mentioned by other posters and i would recommend this phone to anyone. It is so snappy and thescrolling so smooth, even in the browser.

The phone is surprisingly light and thin and it feels awesome to have so much power in such a lightweight device.

The screen is superb.

You can't go wrong with this beast.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coincoinlapin:
@above poster) : my thoughts exactly.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Locster126:
This phone definetely beats my old desire hd hands down.

Amazing battery, amazing performance, amazing screen and thing that amazed me the most is that stock rom runs flawless out the box, since im a flash addict I feel weird to have no need to flash a new rom at the moment....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skip24ftlb:
Well ive had my galaxy s2 4 days now.

I find the phone slippy to hold. Have not made my mind up whether to purchase a case or send it back under my dsr with tmobile and wait for the sensation to hit the shelves with them and try that.

Now this will upset a few people. How much better is the galaxy s2 than my emergency phone the zte blade running japanese jellyfish rom. Well the zte is better than the iphone 4. I gave my mrs the iphone 4 and bought the zte blade. Will never touch another apple product.

Galaxy s2

Likes

Bigger screen, colours and nice and sensative

Camera and hd recording...

Did I say fast ?

Dislikes.

Battery life about the same as the blade.....not brilliant

gps lockup is faster on the zte blade.

wifi more sensative on the zte blade.

I cannot comment on how the galaxy s2 fairs on dropping calls whilst on the move as im immobolised after an opp. All I can say is the zte blade literally blew the iphone out the water. Same journey, blade dropped call twice, Iphone 4 9 times. Internet radio through the stereo. Chelmsford-Worksop. Iphone 4. Not worth trying to listen to it, constant buffering. zte blade, had to buffer twice in a 3hr journey.

For what I use my phone for, the galaxy s2 has a hard act to follow. So is it a great phone ? Thats a tough one to answer. If id paid the full retail price for the s2, then in all honesty, id be disapointed. Bar screen, and camera my 89 quid blade is a better phone.

Just being honest

Paul
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Marks out of 100 = 95 .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crypticc:
If sensation is like a more highly specified desire hd but with a better screen, I'd still stay with my sgsii. I am amazed that I actually like the samsung additions compared to sense. It's only that their widgets load into memory even when not used that I don't like and that's easily fixed.

I kept my last phone 18 months then waited another four for this and can honestly say I don't regret it. I can't think of much that could be done to make phone better.

Reduce length of phone by reducing the amount of black space above the screen, and double the battery life would be enough for me.

Some people will want higher screen resolution but I don't see the advantage in that because the pixels are fine enough too not be seen without looking really closely.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yyhd:
I had the Atrix for about 3 1/2 weeks before I returned it. Compared to the SGS2, imo SGS2 wins hands down.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blunted09:
i just got my hands on the sgs2 2 or so hours ago. Coming from an atrix and i love the sgs2. Thing is, i really like my atrix as well!

I am just taking my time ensuring the battery is maximized (probably the thing i miss about the atrix the most) Im not having gps issue's at all, screen is beautiful and the phone is fast.

But there is something more about the way the phone works. Something no other android phone seems to get right. It kinda has that iphone fluidity with everything it does. So far i love it!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Budske:
I've read a lot of the comments And I have the motorola atrix and its a great phone, good battery but the big problem is the locked bootloader and motoblur, but there are some guys working on it ands they r doing it very good.

If the moto get the booloader unlocked, how it will be compared vs the SGS2?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blunted09:
i think both phones have their strong points. I just cant see the atrix being as fluid no matter what though. Once again, i do love the atrix. Its just not as good. If this phone wasnt around the atrix would be the best phone out.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hyperX-:
I was coming from an Nokia N8 to the LG optimus 2x .... then to the SGS2 ... compared to the 2x the SGS2 is wayyyy better even with CM7 installed on 2x, .... the 2x feels like a normal single core phone ! :-/
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knusprig:
Im really excited about this phone, I had the iphone 3gs and the HTC legend before this.

Im pretty much happy all around with the device, its snappy as all hell and the design is just luscious ;P

Only gripe I have with the handset is batterylife. Im pretty sure there is a problem with my rom/gingerbread here, the Android OS process is eating up between 30 and 50% and I can barely manage a day without recharging.

Other than that... SWEET device!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Propergood:
First post... Been reading these forums since moving to android but never thought to sign up..! I've had my SGSII since release and can categorically say this handset is the best I've ever owned by some distance. I tend to stay on top of things tech wise.. And this it's the first device I've loved so much, so immediately that I had to go and review it. I'm not surprised it's fast developing a big fanbase despite the widely held assumptions that the flaws of the original S would carry over. Love it. won't be trading up until something revolutionary comes along.

I only wish more software was available to really show it off...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Budske:
ok... now i have the SGS2, but dont know what to do >.<, sell the atrix or the SGS2 (i need money).

both are great phones, and i really dont know what to do... >.<
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] risi37:
I love it , but i still have to get used to it , this is my first android phone i owned before nokia n85.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reubenyap:
I own both phones and in regular use I find the sgs2 to be the far superior phone in terms of responsiveness, general stability and has less bugs.

I personally found the fingerprint reader on the atrix rather annoying and despite the huge battery, its life didn't seem any better than the sgs2.

I also like the weight of the sgs2 which is light despite its size.

Still some unresolved issues with the galaxy 2 though including the android os bug and the inability to sign in to certain google services like latitude and goggles.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellishboy:
Gotta say the same thing. Love this phone, the screen is brilliant, wifi works perfectly and GPS is fine.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krabman:
I don't have a single issue with mine. None. Everything works and works well. I actually like touchwiz as a launcher alone without all the bloated widgets/hubs which I froze. The only real gripes I have is that the perceived quality of the plastics and such are second rate compared to say my N1 which felt and looked better built. Second I would have prefered the standard four cap buttons layout instead of the hard home button flanked by to caps. Adds nothing and gives up a search button that can be slaved to a function as well as search and leaves the space to go partially wasted. Form over function with no gain for the former and a loss to the latter IMO.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KLoNe1:
I hope they never put the 4 cap buttons back! Definitely only need a back, home and menu button.

What on earth do you 'search' for?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dinan:
Love mine so far coming from a Nexus S. Have to get used to a bigger screen though... this is really pushing the limits of a "usable" screen size.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xda_husky:
I would like to know how is the battery performance of SGS2

Sent from my LT15i
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1root1:
the only bad thing is mp3 volume/sound..(even with my bose in ears..)

if someone out there is able to write a new driver or find other settings for the yamaha soundchip it would be the *geeks_swiss_army_knife*
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nebucatnetzer:
Thats the way how android has to work had never such a smooth device . Imo a perfect device. I love the super amoled plus screen

The atrix died for me when I heard that the bootloader is locked.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Teddybear2:
Battery is weak

MY battery is also sucked out within a day, which is a annoying. Size is bigger than with other phones. Need to get used to it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mossief1965:
Mine varies but I rarely have a problem getting through the day even with heavy use. My old hero always needed charging mid afternoon but I can easily get up to bedtime on one charge on the sgs2 and I have gotten 36 hours on several occasions. I'm now on 88% after 4.5 hours do average is around 3% per hour. I have only once had to charge in the afternoon and that was on my first full day of use, otherwise I have never got less than a full days use.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarpathianUK:
Only had mine for a couple of weeks but I have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised. Right up until the last minute, even in the shop, I was heading for an HTC phone but plumped for this due to the camera & media playback being much better.

I came from having the rather ill-fated Samsung Jet for the last 18 months so was a bit nervous of Samsung overall but this seems to have a much, much bigger backing from the community in general due to it being Android and it's grunt. Between official support and places like this I'll be fine.

I'm getting about 40 to 50 hours per full charge too, even with the known cell-standby and wi-fi sharing 'quirks' in 2.3.3 so on that front I'm happy too. No yellow tint, no signal dropping, loud enough headphone volume and none of the other worries folks on here are posting about. My KE7 seems like it's do me fine until 2.3.4 rears it's head.

Oh yeah, and the screen is as amazing as all the reviews say. It's got that "ooooh!" factor that even iPhone heads I know have been curious about.

It just feels like I made a good choice after all. Yeah, it's not perfect with being so new, but what phones are when they first come out?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 6ITdtvFQqY:
(Keep in mind that I'm coming from a 3 years old HTC Polaris.)

Remarks:

* Size: no problems; the size of the display is awesome

* Screen: absolutely gorgeous with no problems whatsoever; I have looked at a photo (taken with a DSLR and converted from RAW to the aRGB color space), side by side with an iPhone 4 - the iPhone's display is simply non-existent in terms of black level, gamut and sharpness (despite it's higher resolution)

* WiFi: fine; the network that I use gives me 650 KB/s for downloads

* TouchWiz: fine

* Notifications: no led like HTC, but the NoLed application is great

* Battery: using it like the old HTC (meaning just having the 3G connection on and looking at the time a few times a day), I get 11% consumption per day (with the HTC I had about 12...14%); using it heavily, I can drain the entire battery in one day, so it depends on what you're doing with it, and you will really want to play with it (note that the drain may not be linear, so it may take less than 9 days to drain the entire battery on light use)

* GPS (without network connection and old aGPS data): 3-4 minutes to acquire the first lock (if I have half the sky in view - I'm at a window), then 20 seconds if I close and restart the GPS test application; indoors, no chance of getting a lock unless you're in a wood house or something (its performance is acceptable)

* The sound through normal headphones is awesome (virtually on par with that from my notebook, with the same headphones; the maximum volume is fine for someone who isn't trying to get deaf)

* Phone call clarity is great

* Phone signal is really difficult to decrease; it stubbornly clings on 4 bars (I have to put my fingers around the bottom AND be somewhere deep inside a concrete building in order to get only 3 bars)

* The internal memory has a write speed of about 9.5 MB/s (for large files); a class 10 micro SDHC card that I bought has about 8.5 MB/s

What I dislike (the software issues are not necessarily faults of SGS2):

* Difficult to grab from a table; the sides of the case are slippery, and the low thickness doesn't help either

* Takes about 1.5 seconds to come out from standby (from the moment I press the power button); this is annoying when I just what to check the time

* Heats up significantly around the back camera (when playing an HD movie, it actually becomes hot in that area)

* Only 16 GB of internal memory (I think 64 GB is more on my taste)

* Can't copy files bigger than 4GB on either the internal memory or on the SDHC card

* Doesn't have an included firewall (and installing one requires rooting)

* The alarm application doesn't increase the sound volume in time (like from 0% to full in, say, 20 seconds)

* The ringer volume doesn't increase the sound volume in time

* The included movie player doesn't play FLVs and DTS sound (MoboPlayer knows DTS but doesn't decode the MKVs in hardware, so they have a bad framerate, while VPlayer obviously doesn't use 24 bit graphics - it shows either banding or a grid pattern)