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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fureeze:
Hi, thank you for your informative post. My choice has been between Samsung Galaxy S2 or HTC Sensation. I've really been on the fence here but, after much reading on both the GS2 and Sensation forums here, ultimately your post and Slashgear's review of the Sensation has cleared up my mind.

If the GS2's battery can survive 24+ hours, including more than two hours gaming, some light browsing, as well as many other things, I think this mobile phone really suits me. At the moment I have a HTC Desire, which I've had for a year, and I am decently happy with it (last year I was thrilled over having the phone, but times change). I just wish the camera, the battery, and the general performance would've been better.

A good battery life, a decent camera, and snappy performance are the three aspects of a mobile phone I treasure the most. And according to several sources, the GS2 is better, if even by only a little, than the Sensation in every way in terms of these aspects. Consequently, in the following month, I will most likely have a Samsung Galaxy S2 in my possession.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aussiebum:
JUst a note I posted else where also - you can get more fine-grain brightness control when you use Auto brightness in conjunction with the Screen Filter app (http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.haxor).

I find the minimum setting with Auto brightness too bright so I use this app to further reduce it without loosing the benefits of automatic adjustment. Great for reducing eye strain when using the SGS2 in the dark
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atomicpizza:
I use SGS II for work, many call, many many mail, 2 hour of work outside, so 100% brightness, and i need to recharge after 4hours, the worst battery life of my phone's collection
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LawAce:
I never had a SGS I or ever took much interest in it, but were there not some ROMs for that which gave it pretty long battery life over stock?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wirelessness:
Couldn't find this anywhere?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wirelessness:
I have not seen anything in the specs stating that it is supported...does anyone know for sure?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neonpolaris:
It streams music just fine for me to my car and my bluetooth headphones.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tekkitan:
Yes, it does. I think all Android phones have this capability. I know my G1 did too. I use it every day with my Nexus S.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 3843930:
1st) Yes. The Nexus S does support A2DP. I already used it.

2nd) No. It is not guarenteed to work with every android phone as the bluetooth chip must support the A2DP profile.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
should also be mentioned, not every BT stereo headset or car audio, or any other sort of BT player are A2DP capable, some have limited or no functions at all

i've encountered a few bad devices that simply stream the audio, but it wont provide any remote control feature at all

so good luck
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] creativedevil:
Agree with AllGamer, I use a Sennheiser headset which does voice calls pretty well, but it can't do any other voice transmissions if it is through skype, gtalk etc or any music/podcast content. And, the box also doesn't specify A2DP support.

On the other side, I have a BlueAnt headset which does all types of calls on my nexus or atrix pretty well, with all types I mentioned above.

Good Luck!!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SgtDutchyNL:
Hi all,

I'm wonsering if true multitasking is possible...

I have been using the sgs2 for a few days now.and its.my first android.phone.

Im very happy with it but jus missing one feature...

When Im watching video in a browser or app Id like to be able to quickly do something else while the.audio keeps.playing.

Is this possible?

I do know that some apps have this featur (audio players etc.)

But id like to do this with the browser or cnn app

Greetings, dutchy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dave2:
I'm not sure if it would be possible, although the video is kept in memory, it has to close in order to open another app, I don't think you could have audio playing in background during a different application. My thought, though I'm still kinda n00b-ish with Android myself.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brut.all:
@SgtDutchyNL

It's possible for sure, but browsers intentionally pauses/stops playback when they're "minimized", because this is what most people want in most cases. I don't know any browser app which does run flash content in the background.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SgtDutchyNL:
Shame there isnt an option for it, maybe its possible by editing some code?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bawezy:
Coming from a Palm Pre (WebOS) I really hate multi-tasking on Android devices, switching from app to app sometimes doesn't even let you carry on where you started.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] artesea:
Really, I've never had an issue switching between browser, sms, email, contacts and maps, all whilst listening to music.

As for video in the browser, Flash has been built to only run whilst in focus to stop the battery from draining when animation is running in a tab in the background.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1xinfusion:
To help the issue of multitasking, try installing wavelauncher on market. it is exactly like the wave launcher in webos. but it still wont fix the fact that android will close your program in the background when it needs more memory (which is why you have to restart from scratch when you "alt-tab" around)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hari:
I have a Palm Pixi Plus which I use for work email. No doubt WebOS is amazing when it comes to multi tasking, their ecosystem(h/w and s/w) should mature but I doubt if it can reach anywhere near Android. For that matter I doubt if M$ or RIM or Intel can ever achieve this.

I've been using Android for the past 2+ yrs. I must admit Android's muti tasking is rubbish. All we need is a simple button X (similar to Windows PC) to close any damn app than closing/killing in a different way in each app/phone. Its confusing at times. Good thing is Galaxy S II is a very good phone. A complete package must say..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bawezy:
You guys misunderstood, i dont hate android's multitasking, in my opinion it doesnt match that of webOS as that was the mobile os where true multitasking was derived from. As gd as the android operating system is, Galaxy s2 is making me like android more.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlueScreenJunky:
I've also noticed the problem when using sites like mega upload where you have to wait a certain amount of time before downoading a file. If the counter is on 30 seconds, I think I have time to check an e-mail or a few tweets while waiting, so I do that and when I come back to the browser the counter is still at 30 seconds...

It's usually not a big deal but I find it amusing that android fanboys made fun of iOS because it doesn't have true multitasking, although from what I can see android just saves the state of your apps and restores it when you go back to the app... it's OK in most situation but it's hardly multitasking.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark2222:
Most sites like that do this on the desktop now to keep your focus on their ads. Not sure if megaupload does but a lot do so i could just be this.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m0rtiis:
Yes, this happens if you try the same on your computer too.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlueScreenJunky:
Huh ? Never happened to me on the computer but I'll check (it would make sense and seems doable w/ javascript), it could be that indeed.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brut.all:
No, Android has true multitasking, but that doesn't mean every app should or have to use it, does it? If I browse through internet, I'm on a site with dynamic Flash/Javascript content and I exit browser then I want it to freeze any dynamic content to minimize power consumption. This is exactly what most of people want in most situations and this is why you have problems with Megaupload. It's possible to create a browser which will run Megaupload counter in the background, but no one has created one so far, because it wouldn't be that good.

You all should understand this isn't a technical issue, it's a design concern. If you switch/exit an app then OS (no matter: mobile or desktop one) has to do one of the following:

run it normally in the background

pause it

close it

give user a choice

Each of above has its pros and cons. Desktop OSes use first option, because they don't care about power and RAM consumption. They also use last option, because on a big screen, with mouse and full keyboard there is no problem to add such controls.

But using same solution on a phone would be a disaster, I think. Older mobile OSes use third option: they close app after exiting it, they don't have MT at all. iOS is somewhere between pause and close. Android is between pause and run: it pauses apps by default, but gives them a possibility to run in the background if they want. And this is a big difference between iOS and Android. On the iOS app can't run in the background even if both its developer and user want that. On the Android it depends fully on a developer choice.

What I want to say is: there is no single, perfect solution to this problem. If clicking "home" button would not pause an app by default then OS would be a piece of **** to me. Even if it would give me a possibility to easily pause/close an app - still POS. Pause should be a default action to make OS easy to use, so I think Android design is really good. One thing which could be done is to give more control to user. E.g. an option to resume/not pause an app on demand, so it will run similarly to foreground mode.

And how does work this awesome MT of webos (I don't really know)? Please, don't say it runs apps in the background by default - if so then sorry, but as I said it's a POS to me.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bawezy:
Multitasking on a WebOS, for those who haven't yet seen it: http://youtu.be/wZht-a0VlD8
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlueScreenJunky:
Thanx for this very informative post.

And indeed I think the best solution would be for each app to have a default behavior as it is right now, but let the user force the app to keep running at all times if they need to for some reason and don't care about the performance hit.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SgtDutchyNL:
Ty for all the info, but still, I just want the option to run some app normally in the background, its annoying when youre watching a movie and quickly need to check mail, i like having it playing on
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jmarley:
Intresting to me that good old WM 6.5 was true multitasking and could run for the best part of a week in standby ;) Android in all it's forms, with background program managment, can barely do a couple of days !
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deanwray:
Interesting in the video that I didn't see any evidence of true multitasking :)

Like some1 mentioned already, android is a multiple task/thread OS. So you can pretty much do anything. It's down to the developer. If you wanted music/vid to play in the background when not active in foreground tis easy to extend your application to have a service that constantly runs, and the app (UI) is just the controller. A good example of multitasking is seeing 2 things update where both are either critical data or processor intense. An example being your widgets update while live wallpaper is doing something. So to me, there is either multitasking or not, not really true multitasking. I think from the video of webOs I would call it a task/app/thread visual controller, and not a few words like "true multitasking".

Just my brain dumb on the issue :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rougegoat:
There's really only 3 things that I really like from CM, and they are the notification widget, extended power controls widget, and hold volume to skip track. I know the last one requires a bit of under the hood work, so I'm ok with not getting that. Anyone know where I can find the two widgets for download for non-cm roms?

(don't think it matters, but NS4G running an AOSP rom)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hextall:
For a while now I haven't been able to move Rom Manager to my SDCard, so everytime Rom Manager updates, I get a notification to move it... but the button "move to sdcard" is grayed out and I can't move it.

has anyone had this issue and solved it? It's not like my phone won't work... I just like moving apps to my sd card to save space on my phone.

I'm running Virtuous 3.2.

Thanks for any suggestions.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Finnk.:
Hey,

I got the Following problem. I cant install after market .APK the Screen pops open but i cant press install only Cancel on the buttons.

The apps from the google market work just fine.

My setup

Cm7 with standart kernel

Checked "non market apps" in settings -> apps

Maybe any1 of you got an idea.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafarataneneces:
I have the exact same problem

Let me know if you found a solution
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lunchbox115:
Which Nightly do you use?

Here you can download the latest: http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=galaxysmtd
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafarataneneces:
I have T-Mobile G2X

But the problem is the same, fixed it by disabling Screen Filter
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phranzee:
Install latest gapps and try again.

It did the trick for me :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duarteslb:
there's a known problem with screen filter

do you have it activated?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bilalhp:
app admin

I use a free application called app admin. It helps me install apk's from sd card. Never had a problem with CM7.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lunchbox115:
I'm using Screen Filter and I have no problems. But you can try without it so it should work.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esite:
Can be my Desire HD be directly rooted without downgrade of firmware ?

ROM : Stock Gingerbread ROM 2.3.3 Radio : 12.54.60.25U_29.09.04.11_M2 Kernel : 2.6.35.10-g0956377 Firmware : 2.36.405.8

I heard that 1.32 firmware can be rooted using Visionary r14 but also i know that with this firmware all my 720p records have too low fps
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SERGI.3210:
you can´t

true, but this rom (1.32) its temporary Until flash a more new rom......

for that visionary r14 can do his work and give to you root acces... its needed the 1.32 version (old)

later you can flash a new rom based on froyo 2.2.1 (1.75, 1.82...) or a gingerbread rom....
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] airsick:
If your firmware isn't 1.32, then you HAVE to downgrade, there's no other option...to get a full root.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esite:
Ok, I see a lot understandable how-tos. But my question is - can by my HTC fully restored to original state ? (maybe for a warranty) ?

And if i downgrade a phone and after applying root a custom ROM, it will also update a firmware version ?

I am new in android coming from iPhone 3gs so sorry if my questions is stupid
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SERGI.3210:
Stuppid its the person that do everything without asking and read first...:)

The process its fully reversible and later you can return totally at the factory features...when you desire.... Including your lastest unrooted firmware or custom rom of the all android versions...

sent from my amstrad CPC powered by LOL..(premium xda)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esite:
Thats was i want to hear ;) Ok many thanks i will do it at the weekend and give you a report ;)

One more thing, what do you think about LeeDroid 3.0.3 ? And what abou the CoreDroid ? Did everyone try this ROMS ? advantages,bugs etc ?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hawks556:
And please, use search function before posting, there are a lot of threads about this already. These are only from the first page of Desire HD Q&A:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1065074

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1077110

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1079452

You might find some helpful information there.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SERGI.3210:
yea.. i think all dev. roms are great... someone in development process, someone final release... but you can try several custom roms and judge it by yourself....You can choose better the one that adapts for what you look...its an advantage of open source code :D

in the all custom roms threads you have a "buglist" for to see them....
[Galaxy S II General] Dannyboyni:
Please let this thread be only for posting Mytracks results for the Galaxy S II and another phone so we can compare. The setup on each android phone must be the same.

The settings used for my tracks were use wireless networks OFF, use GPS satellites ON and use sensor aiding OFF.

The other phone I used was a samsung galaxy spica I5700. Both phones were on the dash board with a small 20cm gap between them.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl...55.107542,-6.687498&spn=0.066185,0.10849&z=14

I must say I am disappointed by the Galaxy S II performance, it even went totally off the road at the start compared to the I5700.

I will be keeping a running total of the scores, so on this test the I5700 won, so its

1 Galaxy s II, 2 Other Phones.

I will be keeping the scores updated.
[Galaxy S II General] Frostfree:
I'd post mine against the HTC magic and Orange San Fran but I can't load tracks from the S2 to google maps, it hangs on the authentication screen.
[Galaxy S II General] Dannyboyni:
You have to export them as as either KML, or KMZ files. Then you must upload them manually to google maps on your computer.
[Galaxy S II General] NZtechfreak:
I only have an SGSI to test against, so obviously the SGSII is going to be better than that. I have many KML tracks for the SGSII, they all look fine to me - more info at http://blog.clove.co.uk
[Galaxy S II General] samnada:
Did you do an walking tracks? If not, would that be feasible?

I walk 3 mi per day and often log tracks. My SGS is very inconsistent, some days off by as much as 1 mi. Interested in how the S2 performs on slow tracking. Thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] varunkumars:
See if this helps you.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1083773
[Galaxy S II General] valdigre:
Posted it already in one of the threads, but here goes...

Well, here is a comparison of my morning route to work today, my Galaxy S and Galaxy S 2 were registering route details at the same time, using my tracks.

- Galaxy S: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=211531279532048944891.0004a3227ff46bf619c86&z=12

- Galaxy S 2: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=211531279532048944891.0004a32301b1a7f63a9cd&z=12
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
I tested two tracks last week well pleased near enough bang on target all the way . Seen a few posted elsewhere that where also good .

But as My Tracks are not uploading its difficult at present .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] CandyAndy:
Ok so here is my comparison between HTC Desire and Galaxy S2

Sorry I use different software but you can still track this pretty well.

Please pay attention that I did walk different road in the beginning. So you should pay attention to the final part of my walk, because that shows some difference.

HTC Desire:

http://runkeeper.com/user/AndyE82/activity/31501743

Samsung Galaxy S 2. I didn't walk in the driveway..

http://runkeeper.com/user/AndyE82/activity/35947145

So yes, it doesn't work well. It does get the lock extremely quickly. I think even quicker than Desire. But the accuracy is not good.
[Galaxy S II General] Dannyboyni:
Ok guys juding from the maps so far, im scoring the Galaxy S II 1, Other phones 2.

I couldnt see yours CandyAndy, but ill take your word for it that the Desire is more accurate.
[Galaxy S II General] NZtechfreak:
What I did was export the tracks as KML files and upload to dropbox public folder, then copy the URL and paste it into Google Maps search and hit enter. It'll show the track in Google Maps.
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
I know did that tested them and deleted them .

Forgot to switch My Tracks on today so missed 2 x 50 mile trips .

But i know it works anyway even if some do not .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] hermaniii:
disappointed?

As i sees it.

The "good" lock on sgs2 came some seconds later.

Possible reasons. You start the sgs2 later? Or did the spica got better cached info? Or maybe sgs2 are some second slower then spica to get a good lock?

After both have a good lock it was close between them but if i should choose a winner i should say sgs2.
[Galaxy S II General] Dannyboyni:
I am going to run the test again for the sgs2. I will leave the phone to get good lock for 3 minutes in the car then I will set off on the same route the problem happened.

If that doesnt improve things what else do you suggest I do?
[Windows Phone 7 General] da-alster258:
Hi all,

this is just a little discussion i want to start about the new update microsoft will soon be releasing - 7.5 or what ever it becomes...

I love my HD2 - WP7 AND Android - UNBEATABLE... I really dont want to have to buy a new phone that is not as good...

I think the work that courtilla and DFT team have done is absolutly remarkable!

BUT -

Do you recon / think anyone will be developing ways of loading windows phone '7.5' on to the HD2 in the future??? or is wp7 the death and grail of the HD2???

Ill donate / pay to anyone who will port a fully working 7.5 OS onto the HD2 (and provide a installer like the current DFT one) - ide also be up for testing...

Thanks
[Windows Phone 7 General] OndraSter:
I bet DFT will be working on it - they have access to a lot of stuff.

And if not DFT, I will be working on toolset for cooking WP7 ROMs (unless DFT releases them meanwhile). I already started 2 months ago, but haven't ever finished them.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
WP7.5 will be a whole new OS release, not an update to the current revision. Going from WP7 to Mango will be like Upgrading form Windows Vista to 7.

So I don't think it will be as easy as it was for the original release, especially since there was a test ROM from the HD2 floating around already (the HD7 is basically the same and HTC/Microsoft used the HD2 as a dev phone for a bit).
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JVogler:
It blows me away that I'm asking this question still in 2011! I had the issue on WM a few years back and figured Google would allow their contact pics to be bigger by now.

After searching for quite a while, it looks to me like the only solution is to not sync your contacts with GMail. Has anyone found a way around this? 96x96 makes for a horrible looking full-screen caller-id.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] y2whisper:
depends, if they are on facebook syncmypix works. had some luck with motoblurs syncing.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ddfault:
Possible solution

Theres an app in the market place called Full Screen Caller ID FREE which can take over the screen when calls come in. It allows you to specify larger pics for contacts. It still uses the Motoblur Dialer for basic functionality like in call stuff.

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Motorola Atrix 4G (Gingerblur 3.5)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JVogler:
Thanks for the idea...

...tried it...started off well...took a while and added all my contact pics in...but it chooses a small portion of each picture to use as the default picture in the rest of the phone. Its usually not even a recognizable part of the picture. So now I have random sections for all my contacts....and only full pictures for when I'm receiving a call. Which isn't that important to me. I like to use the pictures when dialing. It would seem with today's screen resolutions Google would have an option to leave pictures full size on phone, and only shrink them down for web use.