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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] virtuatony:
I got mine on Ebay.

The phone supports (GSM/GPRS/EDGE): 850, 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz

UMTS: 850, 900, 1900, and 2100 MHz bands.

Telus/Bell/Robbers/SaskTel/MTS use 1900 and 850 UMTS for 3G/4G/HSPA.

Don't know what bands the other providers use so I couldn't tell you if it would work on Wind, public,etc.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lasersocks:
Hey,

So this phone works no problem in Canada? I'm on Rogers and I'm looking to buy an i9100 off the net.

Any idea if the NFC works?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeusInvictus7:
I'm on Rogers too. I ordered mine from Expansys on Friday...Fedex says it will be here tomorrow. Since Rogers uses the 850Mhz band for 3G/HSPA I'm sure it will work just fine.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eclypz:
I ordered mine from Expansys.ca

http://www.expansys.ca/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-android-smartphone-unlocked-16gb-209554/

You guys are going to love this phone :)

The current devices do NOT have NFC.

As for NFC in Canada? I suspect it will be a few years before Canada is NFC ready. Canada is usually pretty slow in adopting new technology.

Look how long it took Canada to finally roll out Chip and PIN debit/credit cards.

Even so, our Chip and Pin cards still have magnetic stripes on them for the merchants that haven't upgraded yet. Which means our brand new Chip & Pin cards can still be easily skimmed. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zxaz:
yup... you gonna just love this beast!!!:D have mine since two week now..and very satisfy of course!!

i"m on rogers....but would work on any gsm network in canada...even on telus!! they use simcard for their hspa+.....and i"m not sure but bell who is using cdma band offer simcard, so i presume some phone could work on their network??
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eclypz:
Bell and Telus actually share the same HSPA+ infrastructure. They combined their resources to build it together :)

Ths SG2 will work on all of Canada's "big 3 Carriers" (and anybody that uses their network).

However, it won't work with Wind/Moblicity or anybody else that piggybacks off their network (well..you'll be stuck on 2G)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Dan_Brutal:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1083280

Please read and help fight! This guy is a thief and deserves to be shut down. Please help out the smartphone community!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heldchen:
is there a way to reassign the home button doubleclick? i don't want to use vlingo voice talk and would rather have another application assigned to the double click...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 101matt101:
Please read other threads before posting this question has been answered before, and no, you can't change the double click home function
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] forgetmyname:
... , yet.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sohanlon07:
That could have been put a little bit more politely.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 101matt101:
Yeah...sorry about that, it's just a bit annoying when people quite clearly haven't bothered to search and just start a new duplicate thread. I've personally answered this question once before haha :D so I know the thread's out there somewhere :p. But I am sorry for being a bit sharp tongued earlier, no hard feeling :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heldchen:
well, i did search, but probably with the wrong keywords - i still fail to find that, and from the looks of other duplicate posts done after mine, i'm not the only one ;-)

anyway, let's hope for a custom rom then. thanks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c0m47053:
I did knock together a quick app to redirect the double home press to act as a search button long press, however, it seems to have broken with a change in KE7. I am looking at whether it can be fixed, but for now it should work on KE2.

I haven't made enough posts here to post links, but I have linked to it on the MoDaCo forums.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baifengz:
Does anyone know if the stock browser uses a different app to play videos?

I have auto rotate off by default. I use Tasker to enable auto rotation only in a few of my apps such as the stock browser, youtube, and videos.

However when I play a video in the browser, it will never rotate into landscape view unless I slide the keyboard out. If I exit the video, the browser behaves as I expect it to with auto rotate on.

When I try this same thing in other browsers (Opera, Firefox, etc), the video auto rotates properly. The specific Youtube and Video apps also rotate properly.

I can only surmise that the stock browser initiates some other app to play back videos, which I have not enabled within Tasker, but I can't figure out what that would be.

Any help would be great. I am currently on CM7 nightly 78 but the issue has been ongoing for a long time with other nightlies.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foshucka:
Are the videos flash videos? If they are try adding that to tasker.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baifengz:
Tried that but Flash doesn't show up as an app in Tasker. Only apps that are displayed in the app drawer show up in Tasker =/
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baifengz:
eh figured it out. seems like the stock browser plays video through the gallery app. once i allowed the gallery to rotate in tasker, videos played fine.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Dan_Brutal:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1083280

Please read and help fight! This guy is a thief and deserves to be shut down. Please help out the smartphone community!
[Android Themes] sykomaniac:
If you are a fan of ClassicalGas's work (e.g. you use his JAMT theme chooser theme) and would like to use one of his lockscreen's then look no further:

http://themedroid.com/2011/06/hinted-white-lockscreen/

Gas has updated the theme for use on CM7. Here are the instructions from his site:

Install ZipThemer (consider donating for this wonderful tool)

Download the zipped file

Open ZipThemer and press “+Theme”

Locate the downloaded file

Press “Build It!”

Create undo file

Flash outputted file via recovery or RomManager

Enjoy

Screen shots below (also from Gas's website).
[Android Themes] ClassicalGas:
Thanks for doing this! I Hadn't got around to it myself (and probably wont for a while).

Gas
[Android Themes] poontab:
Awesome! Thanks a lot.
[Android Themes] sykomaniac:
Hi Gas, no problem at all! Happy to help :)
[Android Themes] egotek:
Worked perfectly! and looks awesome with the JAMT - White Gradient theme!!

-Evo, CM7,n76
[Android Themes] gear.h34d.2012:
Yessssssss!
[Android Themes] 4305ms:
hm. cant get it to work.

It flashes alright but only thing changeing is the 'answering sliders' not anything on the lockscreen.

Im running JAMT-donate via the theme manager and im guessing i might have to use the system-defult to see the changes(?).

Any way to solve this?

Running latest cm7 nightly on Nexus S
[Android Themes] 4305ms:
Noone that can point me in the right direction?
[Android Themes] ClassicalGas:
Have you tested it with the system theme? I've tried it on my phone and it works great.

Gas
[Android Themes] 4305ms:
Yes, i have, and ive tried the diffrent locks and no one has changed excep the sliders on the answering screen..
[Android Themes] sykomaniac:
hmm strange is it possible to see a screenshot?
[Android Themes] 4305ms:
View attachment 613129
[Android Themes] ClassicalGas:
I think the sliders are themed by the theme chooser so it may not actually be changing anything. Is it flashing properly?

(You might wanna remove the number from the pic too)
[Android Themes] 4305ms:
Well, yes it is. (as far as i can see) It dosent say anything about it when i flash it so im guessing everythings fine.

Thx for the heads up.. kind of high on medicin beacuse of a back injury... the drugs are the only good thing about it ;)
[Android Themes] sykomaniac:
OP updated with info about Gas's update!
[Android Themes] airskape:
will this work with darky's rom v10.1? specifically dark core 2.5
[Android Themes] 4305ms:
I think not. Only clean cm7 build. But try, it won't hurt you;)
[Android Themes] sykomaniac:
Couldn't say my friend but give it a try and report back :-)
[Android Themes] ClassicalGas:
I think it would, there may be a few redundant images in the zip you could delete to streamline the package but the sliders should theme.

Gas
[Android Themes] poontab:
Awesome. Didn't realize this was updated. Thanks
[Android Themes] ieAnd:
This theme seems to only spell disaster for me. Running CyanogenMod 7 on my Droid X, I created a update.zip with ZipThemer and flashed it. Results:

Lens is just black floating text with a smushed white bar at the top of the screen.

Rotary is just stock Rotary.

Rotary revamped is a bunch of floating segments of lock slider.

And Sliding Tab? Sliding Tab sent me to a never ending boot animation, which for a Droid X means flashing all the way back to Motorola's FroYo and starting from there.

It is beautiful though, so if someone could point me in the right direction I'd be much obliged.
[Galaxy S II General] drm111:
Wow, I've had 4 replacement SII's (not due to GPS) and on all of them, they never got a GPS lock, really stressed me out.

However day before yesterday I left it to get a lock and it finally got one after about 4 minutes (:eek:) And then I've been constantly using the GPS and now whenever I load up the navigation I get a lock within a few seconds, always under 10 seconds worst case scenario!

So if you've got a slow GPS. Just bear with it, it seems to get better for some bizarre reason.
[Galaxy S II General] gvoima:
Yes, the first fix always takes a long time, after that cold start gps is faster.

I also left it the first time on my terrace for 10min and after that it's been fast and accurate, usually about 6m on a fine day, reported by gmaps.

The thing that bothers me most, is that google maps on the move is very choppy. It's accurate, but not smooth like on an iphone.
[Galaxy S II General] rojdag:
i think the gps on this phone is amazing, also impressed with the digital compass.
[Galaxy S II General] varunkumars:
Exactly this happened for my i8910 also. At first it was very slow. Now it locks even inside the house. A little bit of patience is always important.
[Galaxy S II General] CandyAndy:
I dont think the lock time has ever been a problem with this gps.

Always the first time is slow, then it gets faster.

The bad thing is the accuracy. It is never completely accurate and it tends to jump around. Very very annoying if you want to use the gps for something like running and keeping track. I think I might have to return my GS2..
[Galaxy S II General] dosher:
I would be interested to know whether you guys leave the GPS toggle on even when you don't have a navigation app running. If so, does it have any impact on battery life?

I've got into the habit of only toggling GPS on when I'm about to use a navigation app, then toggle it off afterwards.

This is my first Android phone and I didn't have this GPS toggle option with WinMo so not sure what the best setting is?
[Galaxy S II General] FPRobber:
The GPS is amazing indeed, but I liked the compass more on the Spica. Somehow it was more responsive, not by much though. I still love my S2!
[Galaxy S II General] SBS_:
It should only turn on the gps when it's requested by an app, so no, it shouldn't drain your battery at all leaving the toggle on.
[Galaxy S II General] dosher:
Good to know, thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
yes, but...

some people may have a rogue app running in the background, and it among other things, would periodically wake up gps and get position lock.

so the full answer is if you feel you have full knowledge of what is running on your phone, leave gps on, if you have doubts and you experience battery drain and your phone heats up for no reason - switch it off, and also look deeper into what you have installed and what services you have configured to run and sync.
[Galaxy S II General] troed:
Get Ulysse Gizmo, THAT compass is genious .
[Galaxy S II General] D4rK.F0rcE:
wtf??? 4 replacements?! how in hell can you get 4 replacements within 14 days?!? usually it takes weeks for samsung to check your device and to repair it...
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
you go to the career store, or contract-free store, and exchange it. As simple as that, if the phone is legally sold in your country.
[Galaxy S II General] sammy555:
Gps seems very good now- got my first cold lock after putting battery in for first time in about 20 seconds.
[Galaxy S II General] NZtechfreak:
Really? Mine seems good enough for sports tracking.

Looking at GPS Test it sits very solidly around the 4-6m mark in good conditions, and in worse conditions (overcast etc), it still sits within the 4-10m mark - line of best fit still has good accuracy...

I have a piece at the Clove Blog looking just at GPS, probably up tomorrow, for anyone still on the fence about this phone because of the GPS function.
[Galaxy S II General] cmd512:
Agreed 100%. I used Google Maps+GPS+Nav for over 5 hours last Sunday on roads that my SGS would for sure jump around, not a single jump, overshoot, wrong direction. This device is a true stand alone GPS & navigation replacement.
[Galaxy S II General] amuneer:
Completely agree that this device is perfect for in-car navigation. Not too sure about running but I tried it for about 90mins in the car a few days ago in city and country roads and found it just as good as the desire I had.
[Galaxy S II General] drm111:
Why would I send it to Samsung? I get 28 days to get an on the spot replacement from the store I bought it from. After 28 days I'd have to go through Samsung.
[Galaxy S II General] skibadee:
GPS is damn good. I got a lock today sitting on my sofa messing with lattitude, My tomtom can't do that!
[Galaxy S II General] rojdag:
same for me i use sportypal to track my runs and you can see which side of the road im on, id say 1-2m accuracy

http://sportypal.com/Workouts/Details/1163209
[Galaxy S II General] drm111:
Hey guys, could anyone confirm something for me.

Can you go into an app that uses a compass/bubble level etc etc something that uses the built in accelerometer and such.

Then open the app and place your phone on the desk and just leave it completely still, does the readings 'wobble' slightly for you guys?

For example if i use the compass in Ulyyse Gizmos, the compass will bounce around from 73-75degress and won't stay still, do you guys get this? Am I expecting too much to get dead pinpoint compass that doesn't bounce around by a couple of degrees?
[Galaxy S II General] varunkumars:
Can you help this guy.?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1085957
[Galaxy S II General] mobile-freak:
Hi,

is it also now possible to use Navigation with a external GPS mouse?
[Galaxy S II General] skibadee:
Just tried it. Mine moves between 3 results too. Tried calibrating horizontal sensor. Mine wobbles a bit in that so could be phone? Unless magnet north does constantly vary slightly ??
[Galaxy S II General] Armin2:
Hello guys :)

i'm actually new here ;)

just have a question about the navigation.

when i'm starting the navigation(blue Icon) this msg shows up :

Google maps Navigation Is not Yet Available in this location. With Get directions and cancel button on it? and I can't make a route with direction and voice

any suggestion?

thanx in advance
[Galaxy S II General] -jen94ek-:
Hey if you buy phone with contract or even without.

You are cover for 28day if is faulty!so swap.

I'm on second SGS2 now and have to say not realy happy with last firmware and orange.

Not using odin just kies2.

I think this bloody phone should work for 100%.because of the price.

No WE are happy to talk about bugs here.

#Why we leting us!'' let say after half of year to be finaly happy with latest realesed firmware.Don't understand.Yes i know some people buying green tomatos and wait until they'r red.This is not my fetish.

Hate idea of big company to sold unmature product at all!

not just samsung......
[Galaxy S II General] mb:
Out of the box, first time I got the phone, I got a fix within 30 seconds in the middle of my living room.

Amazing.
[Galaxy S II General] Dannyboyni:
I do not care one bit about you getting a fix in your living room tbh. It means nothing. We need better accuracy, and this phone is lacking in that, very disappointed. Please if you have another phone could you run some tests which I have made a thread for.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1085957
[Galaxy S II General] anandyaa98:
omg just did it. its a bit wierd if your using the walking mode. but a route to belgium. calculated in 4 seconds
[Galaxy S II General] Shocky2:
My GPS sucks, takes ages to get a fix even with sats in view and sometimes it won't get a fix at all.
[Galaxy S II General] cmd512:
That's how mine was first time I loaded GPS, cold starts always take forever. I recommend grabbing GPS Test from the market, let it run outside/near a window for a good 5-10 minutes (make sure to disable screen off in the app)... after that, GPS will lock on instantly almost everytime.

I've been using GPS daily for the last week and a half... everytime I fire up navigation, it locks instantly. And that's even after I've done a reboot.
[Galaxy S II General] mb:
But it does to me! I can now navigate from the sofa to the kitchen. Just amazing.

(I was going to help, but going on the aggressive tone of your post I can't be bothered to help you now)
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
yeah who cares one bit about people coming off as rude

I think you somehow personally insulted that guy. did you eat his lunch? take his lunch money?
[Galaxy S II General] artesea:
Was impressed using it for the drive home tonight, had it on charge the whole time, was gaining around 1% in charge every 10 minutes so at least it's not negative and when I finished I was shocked that the phone wasn't even slightly warm.
[Galaxy S II General] Ciddy:
Well, with A-GPS it should NOT take that long.

Technically the satellites distribute a list of satellite IDs and positionscalled the ALMANACH. This greatly helps in getting afix even with a poor satellite signal. Problem is if you have a bad signal to start with, it takes long to build the almanach from the choppy sat signals, which is why the "first" fix takes long.

With AGPS the device is supposed to download the almanach from the net, and should thus speed up GPS fixes MASSIVELY. However, my experience with the SGS2s GPS is rather underwhelming.

My old HD2 with AGPS (forced using GPS Status) got a fix in about 10-20 seconds, the SGS 2 seems to take a while longer. Also, from my observation using GPS status, it seems to toggle on/off/on the GPS every couple of ten-seconds (as in: all satelite bars are gone for a split second, then reappear).

That is quite weird, an I'll watch it closely. Hopefully the Devs are getting their devices soon and start rolling out the fixes...

Does anybody know what the "use sensor aiding"option really does?
[Galaxy S II General] vimto25:
same, i was supprised it wasnt warm tbh :d
[Galaxy S II General] tanwt:
Hi,

i used the gps test apps and manage to get lots of sat signal (some signal is quite strong) but it just wouldn't lock

i need to wait at least 5min to get it to lock

is this normal? is it firmware or hardware issue?
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
First ever lock takes a long time its normal .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] tanwt:
hi,

thanks for the info

but when you say first ever lock, you mean first ever lock of the phone's lifetime or first ever lock of the day?
[Galaxy S II General] Ciddy:
Look at what I wrote about how GPS roughly works in this very thread.

The Almanach for your area is outdated after like 2-3 days of no GPS use/no fix. Also, it is just for your current general area, not all the world, as in: today valid in London is not valid tomorrow in Tokyo.
[Galaxy S II General] tanwt:
Hi,

i think i have found the reason for my gps issue. i switched off the feature to enable data transmission, which disable AGPS. Once i enable it, it is super fast locking now

now cold start locking is < 30 sec (some time < 10 sec)
[Galaxy S II General] lgkahn:
What feature... where exactly is this. Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] prusling:
Another thread on this subject says that the slow time to lock is affected by whether wifi is on.

I have experienced a very slow time to lock since owning the phone although once it locks it seems to hold, so I was quite skeptical of this, however I am seeing a definite improvement with wifi off but data enabled.

Can anyone explain this? Perhaps the phone tries to obtain assistance data over wifi rather than via the carrier? If so, this sounds as though it needs to be fixed.
[Galaxy S II General] tanwt:
when you press the power button, it gives you a few option to choose

1 of them is the "Data Network Mode". it need to stay activated

if this is done, when you use your gps software, it will automatically use AGPS which locks very fast (today i got a lock < 5 sec cold start). btw, AGPS is running automatically in the background, you don't have to do anything special. just make sure your data communication is on

When i deactivate the data last time, i need at on average 5 min to get a locking on the same area

the above is for cold start

for hot start, not much difference if data is on or off
[Galaxy S II General] tanwt:
i am not an expert in this subject but my understanding is the reason why enabling data will help because the gps system uses the cell tower to help find your location

since your data is normally sent to the nearest cell tower + cell tower normally have more powerful HW, it is faster because they can locate the cell tower very fast and once the cell tower is located, it is much easier to locate you. another thing i understand is, the cell tower has been added some special SW + HW to support this

however, if you use wifi although there is data but the data cannot be used to locate you. i assume this is because the wifi hotspot are mainly owned by individuals or companies and not by telecommunication service provider

anywa, i can't guarantee my explanation above is correct but i guarantee the AGPS works really well for me
[Galaxy S II General] Arthur Hucksake:
I've been sat at home trying to get a GPS lock. My phone has been sat here for about 20 minutes on Google Maps and it hasn't locked on.

Total POS.

Got zero chance of using any form of navigation with this phone.
[Galaxy S II General] tanwt:
it is harder to get lock inside a building. try outside

also, it is better to get the AGPS to use your mobile dataplan (eg 3G) instead of using home wifi