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[Galaxy S II General] abrelosojos:
The SGS2 is going to be the HD2 of 2009.

It's the first phone out with all the top specs that from now, will set the standard.

HTC do NOT have amoled or a 1.2ghz dual core cpu.

I have been a big fan of HTC since I had the XDA EXEC. But sadly HTC have not done anything that great recently. I am also not a fan of the htc Sense.

I have used the HD2 for the past two years and this was my introduction to android too.

the SGS2 is my first native android device and, Whilst I didnt like touchwiz that much at first (Has a very much Iphone-esk feel to it) I have soon learnt how to get around it, and how to use the different connectivity modes (Kies 2.0/Kies air etc)

This phone is outstanding, And Samsung have done them selves proud.

The general feel of the phone makes you think its a cheap dummy phone. Its all plastic and SOOO light, It only seems to weigh as much as the battery does.

The screen is just brilliant, Great colours and amazing blacks, When the screen is black it blends so well with the screen bezel that it looks like there is no screen. If you have a few icons against a black screen, It looks like they are stickers planted on - It's that good!!!

I have a friend who is a big Apple Iphone fan, He has just come from the Iphone 4 and really loves it for how smooth and responsive it is. He did say he wished there was more pixles and he also seems to have an issue with how fast the battery dies - But he uses the phone purely for the internet, generally watching tons of flash in desktop mode. It runs as well as a PC, it's that good!

This forum is picking up fast and quite frankly I cant wait to see what roms come about, this phone is future proof and blows every other phone out of the water. Try running an N64 emulator with 0 frame skip - It's flawless. Try that on a Desire HD, It's laggy really bad. The dual core really comes into its own here.

Amazing phone, Amazing screen, Similar battery consumption as a HD2, Great UI when you get used to it and great connectivity for getting your files off your phone. Oh, And 16GB internal memory!... Wow!
[Galaxy S II General] kar111:
Amazing phone so far. Battery life is good eniugh to get me through a day and loving the fact samsung pre installed 'my files' and 'downloads'. I do like the touchwiz app drawer a lot because of folders and horizontal scrolling. The only thing i would want on this phone would be the ability to set default homescreen on TW. Or someone could make a sense 3.0 ROM? :-P
[Galaxy S II General] bryant_16:
Thanks for your inputs guys. I certainly have a better idea of whether to get this phone or the nexus s. Battery life is a very big factor to my phone criteria.

Thanks once again.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newdeal99:
Ok, I have read some of the posts here but I find it extremely confusing and I don't want to update to 2.3.4 if I will lose my root and not be able to get it back. I have a i9020a on Rogers and I want to upgrade to 2.3.4 and then root it. I am currently at 2.3.3 and have it rooted and haven't upgraded because I can't tell if I should upgrade first or not. I rooted 2.3.3 with gingerbreak, it doesnt seem like anything so easy exists for 2.3.4? I know there is a very long post on how to do this via clockworkmod but I don't even know what that means. I have read a bunch of these posts but I don't find them clear at all and while I am downloading the android sdk I figured I would ask if there was an easier way
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newdeal99:
...

nevermind i just followed the mac instuctions post
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wetrabbit444:
What cpu governor does evo stock rom n kernel run on
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
i believe it's ondemand.
[Desire Themes and Apps] freak69ize:
Ok.. just wanna say I did not make the boot animation.. I foung it using Google search.. Props go to the maker.. :-) the sound i made for it.

Download zip file.. unzip.. put both bootanimation.zip and android_audio.mp3 on the root of your sdcard

Ok then.. using Root explorer ( only way i know how ) copy bootanimation.zip and navigate to "System/Media" and paste ( make sure it says " Remount as R/O " at the top right corner ) do the same for the android_audio.mp3 file.. reboot and youre good to go.

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[Desire Themes and Apps] freak69ize:
Here is a handy lil tool for previewing boot animations before you load them on your device.. thanks to camalot.. :D

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=676385
[Desire Themes and Apps] chrisjsy:
HTC Wildfire Call of Duty Modern Warefare ( Boot animation and sound )

hi dose anyone know how to get this Boot animation and sound to work on a HTC Wildfire

Thanks Chris:confused:
[Desire Themes and Apps] scrads:
Very nice. could just dow with finding a battlefield one :D
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lg777:
Tried to browse a large web page: (can't post links yet) but a popular computer store in Canada: NCIX that has weekly specials. I have Dolphin HD and native browser and both struggle/hang with this page. Is this expected?

Native browser will eventually hang and just get a white screen. Have to kill the application and it's back to normal.

This is my first Android device so I'm trying to get the hang of things.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HansWSchulze:
Browser running out of ram at 490MB?

I was wondering about viewing the facebook photos page, only about 100 of 250 thumbnails would load, and then stop with the twirling fb icon.

I checked in the app free memory, and i saw it bouncing around the 450-490 MB mark, never going into the second half of 1GB of memory. Unless this memory is allocated to the GPU (why so much for a 720P screen with no 3D active?) what is using that memory?

With a handfull of apps like Maps and the messengers and mail using 20MB each, and no way to stop them from running, and of course no swap space, there's a wall here...

If it is GPU memory, I hope that there's a plan to do dynamic allocation coming up...
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrevankyle:
There should be about 700 mb of useable ram depending on your rom but about 200 of that is system so you should have about 500 free for personal use

the rest is for dalvik and the gpu
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goatshocker:
Large pages without flash: No problem

Large pages filled with flash-crap: I think I can hear my TF crying. Never got a crash or freeze though, it just becomes veeeeryyyyy sloooooow......
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TomTcom:
Yep, red box site has issues too. Soooo many graphic thumbnails of the movies.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbird951:
I don't have any faith this is repairable, but I thought I'd ask before I went on Craigslist and looked for a replacement. Here's the senario

bought a EVO and had it flashed to Boost Mobile, it worked fine but I wanted to put a better rom on it. When I bought it, it had Twopointtwo, which I really liked. After I got it flashed it was back to the stock Sprint rom. So I followed the TPT guide on here to a tee yesterday, I couldn't get the radio update to work, I got an error, but I decided I'd try installing the ROM any ways because if I have a problem I could just do a restore.

The phone was getting stuck on the EVO boot screen, I let it sit there for about an hour. So I went into recovery and wiped everything and tried again, When I installed TPT and rebooted I got the phone icon with the arrow and circle around it. I tried power and vol up or down, nothing. so I did a battery pull. Now when I press the power, nothing.

I did a battery pull, took the SD card out, when I hook it to a USB my Windows 7 isn't detecting anything. My gut's telling me it's bricked and there's nothing I can do. But maybe I'm wrong? One thing is, I can't remember if the radio update took or didn't take when I tried to re-flash it this morning.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
Copy the contents of your SD card to your computer. Afterwards, using a card reader or your computer, format the SD card, removing all partitions. Afterwards, downloaded a fresh copy of the PC36IMG.zip file for amon_RA from HERE. After that, download a fresh copy of TwoPoint Two or whatever rom you want to use. Place both files on the root of your freshly formatted SD card. Now turn off your device. Simultaneously press the DOWN volume button and the power button until your device starts. After a short pause, a few lines of text will flash across the screen. At the top of the screen, you should see "S-OFF". If you see "S-ON", you will have to re-root your device. Anyway, the bootloader will automatically detect the PC36IMG.zip file and prompt you to install. Follow the prompts to install. The installation will take about 10 seconds. Afterwards, reboot into your new recovery, and flash the radio. Afterwards, wipe cache & dalvik and then flash the PRI. After that, flash the NV, the WIMAX and HBOOT. Make sure you wipe cache & dalvik in between flashing. You can download the radio stuff from HERE. After that, wipe cache & dalvil ans then go to the flash zip menu and flash your rom. You *should* be good to go afterwards. Be patient during the initial bootup.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbird951:
Thanks I'll try that when I get home, the phone doesn't even turn on now, not sure I made that clear in my OP. I tried with and without the SD card in and either way it does nothing when power (and vol up or down) is pressed.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
No, I was unaware that it doesn't power up. Just in case, however, plug it in to the charger, wait about 15 minutes and then see if it turns on. Also, see if the charging LED lights up.

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbird951:
I left it hooked to a wall charger for about an hour to a wall charger.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
Hopefully, it'll power on for you. If it does, follow my instructions. Of it doesn't, try everything again. Take out the battery and SD card and then reinsert them. Try to get to the bootloader screen by simultaneously pressing the power and DOWN volume button. Try connecting via USB to your computer and then try to power it up. Do everything you can before getting rid of it. Let is know what happens either way....Good luck;)

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] untruestory:
Hope it works out for you but if not check out what you can sell it for on e-bay. A bricked Evo with zero damage and a clean ESN goes for some pretty decent $$$
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plainjane:
Did you pull the battery right after flashing a radio? I don't know if I followed you correctly, but if that's what happened, the radio was still flashing (the screen with the phone and arrow in a circle is what you get when you flash a radio update, you're supposed to wait and it'll send you back to recovery). Your phone is most likely bricked forever if you did in fact pull the battery during the radio update.

If not, there still may be hope :)

(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
That was my impression too, that he did the battery pull in the middle of the radio update.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
+1 If I followed correctly, he pulled the battery when it was at the screen with the arrow, which would indicate that the phone was flashing something very important (radio). The battery pull during that phase bricked it, without a doubt. Time for a new Evo, for sure.
[LG Optimus 2x] Meltus:
I'm seeing a lot of posts about poor battery life but am i the only one who's getting pretty damn good results?

I'm currently on 2days, 18hours, 31minutes and 41seconds on battery* and it's still on 31%. I reckon i can still probably get another 24 hours out of it.

Is anyone else getting similar results?

* Roughly: 5 phone calls, 20+ texts, 40+ minutes of youtube via HDMI out, 5 photo's (some with flash) and internet/market browsing here and there.

I'm running CM7 with vorkKernel (standard clock speed) with GPS turned off and WiFi on (when at home),
[LG Optimus 2x] hazard99:
that kernal you are using. does it show accurate battery stats? I noticed cm7's battery is pretty erratic.

btw this is xthedarknight99 on twitter!
[LG Optimus 2x] Tr0gledyte:
My battery life is great when I use JuiceDefender and when I don't use apps that use the mobile data connection the entire time.

My battery gets raped to hell and back when I have apps running that use mobile data, like MSN or IRC. I work 4-hour shifts and during a shift I usually leave MSN running using 2G data. In those 4 hours I lose around 40-50% of my battery, it's wicked.

One thing I've noticed is, when I enable Wi-fi and leave it enabled, battery drain overnight is around 8%. When I disable Wi-fi AND Mobile data and let JuiceDefender enable mobile data for a short time every 15 mins, my battery drain overnight is around 10%. If I leave mobile data enabled the entire time my battery loses 30% overnight.

Something is seriously wrong with the mobile data chip/driver.
[LG Optimus 2x] Meltus:
Not sure. The battery stats may be off slightly but it's been well over 2 days since i last charged my phone :)

here's the screenshot i took a few hours ago.

EDIT: Accidentally put 12 hours instead of 18 in the first post ><
[LG Optimus 2x] Meltus:
Yeah, Wifi uses a lot less power than 3G when it's connected but uses a hell of a lot of power if it's constantly scanning and can't connect. I always turn mine on when i get home and turn it off when i leave the house :)
[LG Optimus 2x] ppsun:
Noticed the same thing too. But less acutely, as I don't use any apps that use data constantly, except for an hourly email check.

Similarly, wifi at home seems to have slower drain than 3G mode when I am outdoors (wifi switched off when outdoors). I don't use 2G mode.

Generally, I stay above 50% battery level after a whole day's use - so I can't complain too much.
[LG Optimus 2x] Meltus:
Finally plugged my phone in lol :p

Not got a screenshot of it but the stats are: 3days, 6hours, 17minutes and 49seconds on battery. Not bad! :D
[LG Optimus 2x] Pitasama:
Mine did something "bad" like this too. 3d 5h... never imagined, after the problems it makes day to day...
[LG Optimus 2x] hicks12:
You lucky bugger! Ive actually had time to test it in the wild(slightly) today and well its not good at all!

5hours 20minutes or something around that, phone actually drained 99% lol! In that time i did:

almost 2 hours of browsing web, forums like hexus/xda so nothing to heavy... no constant loads/refreshes

Played 10-15minutes of xconstructor (im so easily pleased!)

Had 2 gmail accounts of auto sync, push basically

made around 27minutes worth of phone calls

5 texts

Not much really to drain 100% battery :(. Any ideas on how to improve battery life?

edit: this is on modaco fr18b2
[LG Optimus 2x] doncoop:
@meltus.... do you mind me asking whether you're on stock rom or what apps etc you have changed to get that. I'm getting a healthy 24 hours for the battery normally but wouldnt mind extending that!!
[LG Optimus 2x] vlad88667:
Did you try to recalibrate the bettery with batterycalibration app? For me it basically doubled the battery life!
[LG Optimus 2x] hicks12:
i recalibrated the battery before installing a new rom (it was 100% battery) however ill try again :D.
[LG Optimus 2x] xmoo:
Meltus do you have sync on?

Also do you use whatsapp?

Those are the #1 battery killers on my phone.

Specially whatsapp.
[LG Optimus 2x] tony28:
I can't understand how your battery can last so long, while mine last less than a day ...!!!
[LG Optimus 2x] antaru:
That is impressive o.O

May I know which nightly build are you on?

I've always been tempted to install them but i was too afraid of stability issues
[LG Optimus 2x] noobletsausecakebbq:
that is indeed impressive. my battery gets merked by approximately 33% after 40 minutes of youtube lol
[LG Optimus 2x] mmisep:
I have almost the same battery life on the latest CM kang, but with 2G only... With 3G I get little more than one day...
[LG Optimus 2x] somemadcaaant:
I think he's pulling our leg with that screenshot :p

No details of rom, baseband or ril combo etc.

-smc
[LG Optimus 2x] Ph4nt0m_:
I lost 3 or 4% in one hour on standby with Modaco fr18b2. Now on CM7 kang I have still 100% after 8 hours on standby. Data-2G and Wi-Fi are turned on all the time.

Well settings are the same as with Modaco ROM.
[LG Optimus 2x] jonnyboyca:
I want to flash CM so bad but am waiting to see what the official gingerbread does.. I know that once I go to CM I won't go back lol my battery is horrible right now

Sent from my LG-P999
[LG Optimus 2x] jozifkwan:
The battery was really bad at beginning but it turned better after serval time recharging. Now I can serf web more than three hours.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarleyBoi:
i know people are busy but ive been trying to theme its just very hard and i was wondering if anybody would take time and teach me the basics of themeing...i know there are guides i would just like someone to maybe take me step by step...im probably not gonna get anybody but if u do decide to thank u sooooo much!
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imnuts:
I would say follow the guides and know what it is you are having problems with. Start small with just replacing icons. After icons, try changing the color of something. I doubt you are going to get anyone to walk you through step-by-step without having done anything yourself or at least a better starting point than "I want to theme". If you do get stuck with something, stop by IRC and usually one of the themers is online and could help. But, as I said before, they are much less likely to help you if you aren't trying anything out yourself first, which also holds true for pretty much any other aspect of development and theming.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alankrut:
i tried to shutdown my phone today on stock 2.3.3 CM7 based RoyalGinger, it would turn off then turn back on. I KNOW i pressed shutdown and not reboot.:mad:

Today i changed ROMS into a gingerbread sense rom, but still no luck, so it is not a ROM issue.

It has worked perfectly before so i dont know what happened. I am a student so i do need my phone off at times, and i really dont want to do a battery pull everytime i want to turn it off.

pulling out the battery then putting it back in causes phone to turn on(even if no button is pressed.)

Please help..
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roush97:
I have this same problem. Any ideas??
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roush97:
I used gfree to put my part7backup back to stock, and then used pd15img.zip to go back to stock unrooted with s-on (like new). My phone still has the same issue of not being able to power off. It would reboot after power down and power on when battery inserted. I called Customer Service and they are sending me a new phone.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicgraner:
Could either of you have damaged the physical power button? If not and you've already restored it could be internal hardware that just happens to be damaged..
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] ryannathans:
Recently Google have patched a 'major' security flaw where auth tokens were being sent in plain text.

Article is here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/android_security_hole_a_problem_for_99_of_users_re.php

How does this effect us? Are we able to pull this from Google with minimal porting or is it something that will take a harder/longer method to fix? Or am I missing something and this has already been fixed or doesn't apply to us?

Note that this only effects those that use public WiFi. You are not at threat if you use your own personal WiFi.

I would say this is fairly minor considering a stable, functional Android is more important than spending quite some time patching this. After all, I doubt many of us use public WiFi?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
The GB repo is already up to 2.3.4. The article is pretty vague, just says that the fix is already in that version.

So if that's the case, the next GB release will already have it.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] AkumaX:
affects ;)

also, good thing i dont use wifi!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] highlandsun:
The "fix" for Calendar and Contacts sync is in GB 2.3.4. The fix mainly consists of changing each app to use https instead of plain http to connect to their servers. But the google authentication API is probably used by a lot of other apps (e.g. Facebook, etc.) and each one of them would need to be upgraded accordingly.

Pretty sloppy stuff on Google's part; this authentication mechanism they used is ridiculously insecure. Why they didn't at least tie it to the phone serial number/MEID/whatever is incomprehensible. A 2 week authentication token that can be used by *any* device anywhere? Idiotic.

If you've got a good VPN going you should be safe. Too bad that running extra security layers like that also slows down throughput and increases battery drain...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] ryannathans:
Or you could avoid public WiFi altogether :P

Almost everyone with an Android device has a data plan/included data now.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] highlandsun:
When I'm traveling internationally I use public wifi because it's usually free, while data roaming is usually insanely expensive (like $15.00/MB...).
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] ryannathans:
Guess you won't be using anymore public WiFi until you have it fixed, eh?

Curious to know if FRX07 will have this patch. Hopefully ;)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
If Google isn't patching this in Froyo (I saw no note of that in the article) I'm not sure why you would expect that...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] ryannathans:
Dunno, I guess those who want to use public wifi will have to use Gingerbread. Thought I read something somewhere that Froyo carriers will be patching it, perhaps not.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] manekineko:
FYI, Google has fixed it server-side for Calendar and Contacts.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/18/google-confirms-android-security-issue-server-side-fix-rolling/

You can avoid this just by not syncing images, which it is not fixing yet in either 2.3.4 or server-side.
[Xperia Play General] majj311:
I've been waiting patiently for US carrier to make this available for 3 months and finally...finally Verizon makes it available for pre-order. I ordered last night and got a notice a couple hours ago that it's shipping. Default shipping on the order was 2-day so I'll get this on Monday.

If you are in the US and you haven't found this phone through other channels and don't want to wait till May 26, go pre-order on line. Will get it a few days earlier.

On a side note, SE did say that they will make this available on other carriers so don't know what the exclusivity period will be for Verizon. I'm guessing AT&T will get this in a couple months but I couldn't wait anymore.
[Xperia Play General] Eatontj:
Ditto for me. Ordered today, shipped today, scheduled for Monday delivery.
[Xperia Play General] BrownEye02:
Heading in today to preorder mine. But I need to persuade them to give me my upgrade back. Since they changed the time period between updates in January. Wish me luck.
[Xperia Play General] Krislawl:
Mine shipped and is scheduled for tuesday, aww wyeaahahahah
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kornklown69:
so im not sure whats going on with my cappy i have flashed different modems and used odin to go back to stock and its still doing this... i have a feeling its the radio image.....but i cant get service i just get the circle with the line in the middle and base band version is unknown status says phone number unknown and network unknown, signal strength is 0 and service state says radio off....anyone know any other way to fix this.....i am pretty discouraged right now lol....oh and its not the sim i have tried other sims to see if my sims burnt out lol