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[Galaxy S II General] cmd512:
He was expecting rapture, end of days, nuclear fission in his hands. :D
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
That pastor sure doesn't know his bible:
[Galaxy S II General] Moandal:
It will turn it into an unbranded phone. You'll find complete instructions here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1064894
[Galaxy S II General] fluke2k:
Så du update'a med britiske firmware?

Du har vel ikke KE7 for NEE (nordic)?
[Galaxy S II General] cmd512:
I can run quadrant 10 times and get variances of 500+ points. Quadrant really is pointless...
[Galaxy S II General] aonanodad:
WiFi Signal Strength

In KE2, the signal strength reported by WiFi analyzer was at least 20 dB worse than other devices, even though the WiFi performance seemed to be as good or better than other devices.

Now, with KE7, WiFi Analyzer reports the same or better signal strength with the SGS2 as it does with my HD2 and iPad1 that I have to compare it to. The actual performance of WiFi seems to be about the same as before, but the numbers are better. It is possible that this will allow the SGS2 to pick up weaker channels than it did before - I can't test that.

My impression is that this is only a cosmetic change, not any real change in performance. But it should give people the impression that WiFi is stronger now. Smart move. ;)
[Galaxy S II General] aonanodad:
Hate to continue this off-topic subthread, but HTC and Samsung both already had huge markets before the iPhone came along. The iPhone cut into that market for a while, but HTC and Samsung are coming back nicely now that people realize that the functionality of the iPhone does not match the marketing and packaging.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Or, its correcting the false reporting of lower performance numbers. Using it exactly the same way, my SGS2 was equal to or better than my G2 and G2X even though the numbers came in lower.
[Galaxy S II General] dwj:
Actually, I don't see a difference here in this area. I have flashed the latest firmware update today but still showing very erratic figures on speedtest.net. Pc is showing I have a constant strong fast signal so no idea why that would be. It still works fine though so I am quite happy with it. Just saying it hasn't changed at all with the latest firmware update.
[Galaxy S II General] rovex:
For me the phone is about the same as my PC for wifi signal and is within a few percent on speedtest.net.
[Galaxy S II General] Ciddy:
My battery life seems to have significally improved. However I have only had the device for like 2 1/2 days so this is not representative, as I still toy around with it a lot.
[Galaxy S II General] madpete:
Does anyone else have the google maps service running all the time since this update?

I do, tried stopping it and it comes straight back. Also tried clearing out its data but its still there on reboot.

Just me?
[Galaxy S II General] davidoff08:
Im pretty sure Google Maps was running in every version, on mine it has anyway
[Galaxy S II General] jerome.d:
Same for me, as I explained in the other post about the KE7 firmware...

PS: the existence of two separate posts about this new firmware does not ease the communication around this subject!
[Galaxy S II General] madpete:
Ok cheers man, maybe I just didnt notice it before then.
[Galaxy S II General] earthdome:
Do you sign in to latitude? I had maps running and eating my battery after signing in to latitude.

After signing out, the cpu time stop increasing
[Galaxy S II General] mb:
Definitely worse battery life for me too. Down around 8% overnight, when usually it's just 1-2%. Android OS usage is also up to 60% from 40%.

I'll see if it settles. Don't really want to do a factory reset.

I realised only when I did this update yesterday that I'd had XWKDD_insecure.tar running as the kernel, not the stock one.
[Galaxy S II General] jerome.d:
Anyway, I do not understand how a factory reset would be better than re-flashing to a former ROM (KE2 for example). A factory reset erases all data and flashes back to the initial ROM of the phone (KDD for me), isn't it? I am wondering about the use of that if KE2 already gave me a better battery life: going back to KE2 would probably allow me to get back the previous behavior of the phone.

If, at least, they could have removed those annoying sounds: the clicking sound when the camera takes a picture, the bip and bip-bip when one plugs the charger or when the battery reaches full charge...
[Galaxy S II General] earthdome:
Anyway, my android os is at 11 min per hour (5 minutes before). Seems worse than before. battery is draining 3% per hour during idle (was 1% before). And significantly higher during usage. I had the battery emptied and charge it back to 100%. Still getting the same result.
[Galaxy S II General] babblerx:
same here :-)

Same for me. Couldn't update to KE2 using Kies (dll load error), but KE& updated first time with no problem.

This makes me wonder if the update problems before weren't with Kies but rather with the firmware itself. Just a thought.
[Galaxy S II General] El Salvador:
+1

I mentioned this earlier in one of these threads. The fact that I can't remember which one says everything. Why allowing two threads about the exactly same subject which are equally used? This only creates disorder. Apparently the mods over here are a bit lazy.
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
More like its very hard work when users insist on not searching and not reading topics already posted .

Multiple posts of

Battery Problem GPS Problem Kies wont Update New Firmware How do I ???

Problem not solved on SGS1 and looks like SGS2 will continue .

Mods cannot be lazy if they do it for free .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] El Salvador:
The task of a mod is to keep a forum clean and neat. The fact that they do it for free shouldn't justify this mess (no offence).

There are indeed a lot more examples than just this one which causing a hard tme for everyone. Users can't find the right answer because they need to search for a needle in a haystack or users like me who read a lot, read a lot of similar posts, which is just a waste of time. Furthermore the mods now have lots and lots of work to do to organise everything. They should've taken action before the S2 was released to prevent this from happening, but now it's getting out of hand. It just makes things better for everyone if the mods can put a little more effort in organising this forum again.
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
The fact that they do it for free shouldn't justify this mess (no offence).

I dont disagree but unless they ban users its the same old same old day after day users the problem as i posted .

Mod cleans up forum Sunday 6PM by 9PM its back to the same users double posting not searching not reading posting the same topic as the one posted before their post .

Sad really .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] vimto25:
I did a factory reset for the first time yesturday, it was a few hours after i updated the phone and i must say feels better to me even after all my apps installed then rooted.

battery looking better aswell, Only problem i got was a few force closes when opening xda app... strange .
[Galaxy S II General] Arthur Hucksake:
Display eats up less battery with the new update, so does WIFI usage.

Alot happier with the phone now.
[Galaxy S II General] SaneQ:
Any news when the Finnish version will come?
[Galaxy S II General] CandyAndy:
Yesterday came out.

Ainakin ite päivitin.

I dont know about others but for me gps is really bad now.
[Galaxy S II General] vanahaim:
If anyone has problems with browser freezing in KE7, can try this mod of build.prop - for me worked.
[Galaxy S II General] leszek_d:
Howdy,

anyone got com.android.phone force closes with this firmware ?

Polish network Plus.

Edit: now even when I rolled back to IKE2 com.android.phone freezes :/ - it was ok before the update
[Galaxy S II General] omozali:
Mine PDA:KE1 PHONE:KD5 CSC:KD4

I can see my PDA version is old but what about Phone KD5 and CSC KD4 why are they different? .. My Galaxy 2 was bought from UK

What will happen If I flash my phone with the posted version?
[Galaxy S II General] jonrwg:
My battery life worsen after updating to KE7 from KE2. sigh
[Galaxy S II General] CandyAndy:
Just noticed that after the latest update I was able to take a picture while battery was under 20%. Good change
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
Ooh. So now I have one less rom tweak to do? Did you retry lower, as it was 15% iirc
[Galaxy S II General] armanisafarai:
any news when norwegian version will come? strange why they dont release it to everyone at the same time :S
[Galaxy S II General] rojdag:
are you unbranded or branded 3?
[Galaxy S II General] Astrakhan:
Almost 48h later and no I9100FOPKE7 update for the Spanish SGS2 yet...

We're being left behind!
[Galaxy S II General] jonrwg:
Unbranded from CPW.

I think I'll give it a few more days and see how it goes. If it stays like this I'll reflash back to KE2.
[Galaxy S II General] dan13l:
Just hit 15% on KE7 and the camera appears to be OK. Trying to run it down to 14 or lower just to be sure. Will edit this post if it's OK.

Edit: 14% and the error still comes up when you run the camera: "Warning - low battery".

Looks like your fix is still needed Pulser.
[Galaxy S II General] thelestat:
Ignore me half asleep :p
[Galaxy S II General] bogdan1234:
Waiting for XEN version to be available. Hope to release it soon.
[Galaxy S II General] intruda119:
Just making sure, does the lock screen auto rotate now? I have tweaked display menu also.
[Galaxy S II General] B3311:
Difficult to keep track of this over all the cluttered-up KE7 threads, but I've seen a couple of Scandinavian users who've flashed and haven't lost their NEE kernel.

Anyone up north who

has

lost it - i.e., XEU and no Scandinavian language/keyboard?

Tusen takk.
[Galaxy S II General] pbrown77:
Why is it that I have the following firmware and don't get any updates available with Kies and the phones firmware check?? This is a generic UK firmware huh?

PDA I9100XWKE2

Phone I9100XXKDJ

CSC I9100OXFKD4

I may have to use odin if it doesn't give me updates in the next day or so.

If I use odin I assume updating only the pda part is all kies would have done anyway?
[Galaxy S II General] snipercision:
I am in the same boat as you > I purchased online and have the CSC I9100OXFKD4 ? Do you know what area this is from?
[Galaxy S II General] pbrown77:
No. I can't find what country XFK stands for in the csc file. I am curious though.

Guess I am going to flash with odin to the generic firmware if nothing comes up by tomorrow morning. Should get the updates quickly form then on rather than having to wait for this region one to be released

I am in Australia so imagine the change in csc means nothing here anyway does it? Isn't that just things like language, data connection settings etc?

On the first day I had this phone it updated with Kies from E1 to E2, but no sign of E7.
[Galaxy S II General] snipercision:
Ah yeah AU too! :) Mobicity purchase? I just emailed them to find where they sourced their stock! I have scrawled google with no luck! I don't like it.

I will Flash too tomorrow if I can't see anything. I did the whole *#272*<your IMEI># and got a whole heap of codes I have never seen! As far as I knew the phone was being sourced from England. Anyways If I find anything I will post it up. Damn fast phone though, hey!
[Galaxy S II General] pbrown77:
Yeh I'm happy with it for sure and yes it was from mobicity. Coming from a i8000 which was crippled by wm 6.5 this is much faster, although after market firmware updates helped that a little.

But hoping to get a little more battery life which some people say is better with this firmware but others say it is worse. So will take the risk. Then perhaps do a factory reset to the new firmware if the battery becomes worse than now. But hope not as I don't feel like installing all the apps again.
[Galaxy S II General] Scared27:
I got mine from Mobicity as well and mine certainly didn't come from England seeing as the booklet was not in English at all (I think the original CSC was Romania, I forget now).

I flashed KE7 and it added a BBC iPlayer and "Suggests" app to the phone when it didn't have them previously. Wifi is still not behaving well (struggling to connect/obtain IP where SGS1 would work flawlessly. From a purely visual point it seems to have the same problem as the HTC Legend although turning wifi off then on gets a connect in 1 second so it's strange.)
[Galaxy S II General] intruda119:
I'm getting bad battery since updating to ke7. Doing a little test today.
[Galaxy S II General] snipercision:
Interesting on many points. I should have checked the Booklet! I have just read that it may be Romania or Croatia... Either way its GOOOOONE soon. I flashed my old SGS tens of times if not hundreds with odin and CWM. This phone only being 2 weeks old and also having the 'counter' and yellow device warning is making me wonder if I should hold off... that said..

So you flashed by Intratechs thread instructions? Any issues? you mentioned WIfi issue? Being on Telstra I never use it anyway, no point! How is your battery life on the new firmware? I had 8-10 hrs standard then removed K9 and handcent and other bloat apps and then got around 1.5 - 2 days (just).
[Galaxy S II General] zoomzoom83:
After dialing *#1234#, it appears I have a OXFKD4. (from Mobicity as well). The box has a sticker claiming to be imported by "Samsung Electronics Romania", and the manual is romanian - so I'm pretty sure this is a Romanian model.
[Galaxy S II General] Scared27:
Yes I flashed via the method described in the opening post, worked fine.

The wifi issue is strange because it seems to be intermittent. As I said, sometimes it has trouble acquiring an IP on my home network. If I leave it long enough it gets it (after a length period) but if I turned off wifi and then turn on wifi it finds it straight away. I never remember having these problems with the original SGS.

I haven't had enough time to test out the battery, only got mine on Thursday but so far it seems good. I was able to get roughly 2 days out of my SGS1 with my usage (moderate to light) and so far the SGS2 seems to be able to do roughly the same but as I said, I haven't tested it (being doing some full power cycles).

I just wish the firmware didn't add the two new apps.
[Galaxy S II General] khru3l:
Hey, I have the same OXFKD4 (Romania) and I purchased it online.

PDA: I9100XWKE2

CSC: I9100OXFKD4

Phone: I9100XXKDJ

According to Intratech's post, the latest firmware is KE2. But I can't find any for OXFKD4. If you guys find one, please post it here :D
[Galaxy S II General] holybinch:
Has anyone managed to update a branded 3 UK phone?
[Galaxy S II General] reg-sux:
yes. i have.
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
Anyone experiencing random refreshes (semi soft-reboot) where the active applications are closed and the launcher is restarted along with media scanner?

This happened twice while listening to podcasts
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
XWKE2 is the latest version available, I will upload it later.
[Galaxy S II General] mrBira:
Excuse me if it has been asked before, but will anything be lost when updating from KE2 to KE7 with KIES?
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
Ok Romanians OXF XWKE2 now available to download and flash via Odin. See thread in dev forum.
[Galaxy S II General] marco_ch:
after installing Generic XWKE7 my Kies version is unable to detect/show my current phone firmware.

what can be done that Kies provides me future updates for the generic XWKE firmwares?

or do I need to revert back to my original firmware (DBT) to have any chance that Kies can proceed with updates?

cheers!
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
Ok Germans XWKE2 available to download and flash via Odin. See thread in dev forum
[Galaxy S II General] smartbot:
The only thing that I have noticed is that some of the original wallpapers are no longer there... Instead they have some new ones.
[Galaxy S II General] marco_ch:
cheers!! :-)

do you happen to know what germans can do in order to get kies working (showing firmware, updating it in the future) with KE7? with KE7 it seems that Kies isnt recognizing the phone properly, which means that a future update wont show.

so either I get kies working with the generic ke7 or i downgrade back to the DTB version.

any idea?
[Galaxy S II General] khru3l:
One million thanks !! :D
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
With KE7 you won't be getting German updates from KIES because your firmware version and product code won't match. If you want to use KIES flash using the DBT version firmware (newest is XWKE2) and if needed using the dialpad type in *#272*Device IMEI# and select DBT from the list and press install.
[Galaxy S II General] fscherz:
I updated to KE7 with Odin, Kies does not like it :(

Hope somebody will post soon DBT version of KE7 (need AUT )

About battery life: it went down only 10% at beginning but in the middle of the night it started Maps (when phone was sleeping) and then battery went down until morning to 25%! Phone was warm and CPU time for Maps was 80%...

What is this ???

Frank
[Galaxy S II General] delorean_2k:
Typically high Maps usage is caused by Latitude - try signing out of this and see if you see any improvement.
[Galaxy S II General] fscherz:
Another question: I fully charged the phone and it says 17 minutest battery time left!

Then it run for 1 hour and I got 1h20min left!

Crazy :(

They have to do a lot in this aspect.

p.s.: Does anybody know how to reset the battery statistic (graph) without rebooting phone?

Frank
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
Kies update path requires matching codes from original firmware

No match no update

Replace original or current branded firmware ot use spoofFW.

jje
[Galaxy S II General] fscherz:
I did never use latitude so far :(

Anyhow, after restarting phone and working on WiFi I got 50% on Android (28min out of ~1h) and power is going down every hour ... 77% after 1h11min!

Strange, need to reflash :(
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
I've repackaged the XWKE7 firmware with multi-CSC package. It's available to download in the dev forum.
[Galaxy S II General] bogdan1234:
Irrelevant. You might have latitude active without knowing it. It asks you at first boot. Just open latitude, hit the Privacy button and deactivate this service.
[Galaxy S II General] kiwi69:
Anyone tried to root after flashing KE7 firmware? Originally I went through the links mentioned in the dev section and rooted fine. I flashed KE7 via Odin and went through the re root proceedure but Superoneclick stops at waiting for device? I checked USB debugging is on etc? Tried loading KDD insecure again but still it wont go past waiting for device on Superoneclick?
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
I can't tell but it looks like it may be trillian or skype causing it to soft-reboot-ish. I've closed out both apps and it's been great so far.
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
Do you have KIES running in the system tray by any chance?
[Galaxy S II General] dossy33:
yes that is happening to me when listening to stock music player.
[Galaxy S II General] intruda119:
I have this happening ot my device also. I have auto speakerphone on calls, autorotate lockscreen and someothere battery drain bugs. Ill probably reflash fresh thru odin or just flash the last firmware.
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
i guess i'm not alone. Anyone try a different music player?
[Galaxy S II General] intruda119:
im havign the issue with poweramp app.
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
Hopefully they address this quickly
[Galaxy S II General] raimondomartire:
Can you repack with ITV csc?

regards
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
Nothing to fix, there is nothing wrong with the firmware that's causing this.
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
Will do it later.
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
Italian CSC has been added.
[Galaxy S II General] iznee:
After update, my battery life is definitely getting bad compared to pre update...and screen brightness is slow adjusting to ambient light level ..takes about 2 seconds,compared to pre update..coupled with other issues i am having, am starting to hate samsung..sighh..
[Galaxy S II General] bubu:
wrong post
[Galaxy S II General] CandyAndy:
Currently my batterylife is just horrible
[Galaxy S II General] Verderf:
Battery usage for me is just fine, used up about 10% since I took it off the charger about 9 hours ago.

in that Time I slept for 7 hours and used it for music for about an hour and played robodefense in the train for about 30 minutes.

I also noticed that the phone doesn't get as hot as it used to get in the previous update.
[Galaxy S II General] Sleepycat3:
Have you fully drained and then recharged to 100% in order to recalibrate the battery indicator?
[Galaxy S II General] iznee:
Will try to do this tonite and post a feedback..thanks mate
[Galaxy S II General] cheetah2k:
My Quadrant scores have dropped from an average of 3700 down to about 3180 since updating to this ROM...

I'm farken pi$$ed at this $hit..
[Galaxy S II General] Incarniac:
I did this the other day and still KE7 (XEU) seems to be draining more than KE2 (O2U) did, even after freezing Wi-Fi Sharing Manager (and Watchdog isn't showing up any suspicious behaviour). It's not terrible, just not quite as good as KE2, but I'm not sure why yet. What I haven't done yet is a factory reset, though (I didn't do one from KDD to KE1, or KE1 to KE2 either).
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
What changed that's causing it to crash the phone? i was under the impression that audio improvement was either part of the firmware update or was being planned to be addressed
[Galaxy S II General] sohanlon07:
Apparently this fixes boot time and battery charging time:

http://phandroid.com/2011/05/23/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-gets-ke7-update-through-kies/
[Galaxy S II General] jassingh:
ive updated to kE7 and noticed much worse battery life so i did a full discharge and recharge, also did a factory reset after, and another full discharge and recharge. the battery seems to have improved.

what does puzzle me though is when i look at the 'battery usage' at the top on the chart it says 17h 10m 2s on battery, where as ive only switched my phone 3 hours ago and in 'status' it says up time is 3 hours which is correct

is this right?
[Galaxy S II General] LBTaylor1984:
i'm doing 10% per 60 minutes, which is rubbish. thats like 10 hours, on KE2 i've managed double that... something is seriously adrift.
[Galaxy S II General] jassingh:
i would say same here. ive had it fully charged at 11am yesterday, from then used it for a few very short calls, text messaging would say about 100 in total, download three apps and about 5-10 mins internet searching.

switched my phone off last night at 12.30am and back on this morning at 9am

2 under a minute calls and a few texts quick peek at emails. im now on 34% battery. no wifi used just network internet

dont get how some people have used the phone more than me while also using wifi and have only had a 10% battery drop
[Galaxy S II General] jonrwg:
Going to reflash back to KE2 FW. KE7 gave me horrible battery life. Cant even last 10hours on same setting I did on KE2 (25hours). Big mistake for updating.:(

Unplugged at 10am. Twitter around for 30min, screen off never touch the phone. An hour later my battery is at 85%. :eek:
[Galaxy S II General] valdigre:
If you have problems with battery life, hard reset first. My Galaxy uses 1-2% per NIGHT in 3g, just idling (without any data connection).

I have no idea why you have such battery draining problems when phone is idle :/

Btw, I noticed that iSyncr drains battery when running in background, check if you don't have any processes draining your battery.
[Galaxy S II General] jassingh:
when you say 'hard reset' is that the same as going in to settings and doing a factory reset?
[Galaxy S II General] LBTaylor1984:
if so did that when i flashed, and well it's poor battery life. might go back to KE2 tonight.
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
After flash battery needs time to regain full load so to speak . See the millions of battery FAQS on SGS1 .

jje