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[Galaxy S II General] murklor:
You'd rather have a forum filled with threads titled "All is well" or "This phone works" while the problems are censored?

Anyway, I havent noticed many of those issues in the OP. Most, if not all, are hardware related - unfortunetly.

My major issues:

- The phone can run very hot

- Poor color depth (banding)

My minor issues:

- Placing a speaker on the back of a phone is as logical as placing a speaker inside the HDD rack of your computer expecting it to sound good when you're looking at the case

- Slow loading of battery. My 3Gs is miles better there

- Slight tinting on screen left to right. Not bad, but I can spot it if I look for it

What I do not see that others posted here:

- Laggy touchscreen. My 3Gs behave exactly the same, that slow pull and then it skips. So I'm used to that.

- Poor battery life. With the phone being able to warm my entire head after a long session, sucking battery amps is logical. Its not really that bad, after 24h of using the phone - not heavy, but still - its at 50%. My 3Gs (charged at the same time) is at 75% and I havent done anything with it. At the very least, its eqvivalent.

- Havent noticed the flashing background app issue. I mean come on, who the f*** turn on the screen with the awkward power button now a days? I love Samsung for blatantly ripping off iPhone, lol. When I entered a store before the S2 was even in my mind, I looked at an Optimus 2X and my first question was "Does it turn on the screen with any of these buttons at the bottom, rather than having to twist my finger to the itty bitty power button at the top?". "No I dont think so" said the store guy. I walked out.
[Galaxy S II General] revaz:
let I also add one problem

BT connection in the car (at least AUDI) having constant problem - it drops connection (and then you have to reconnect manually) and even crashing phone down if it tries to connectn during conversation. Same problem (exept crush) was for previous SGS and very sad that Samsung didn't changed it. On SGS the only way to cope with it was to swith to custom ROM - it also strange - custom ROM's apart of stock didn't have that problems.
[Galaxy S II General] DelLoce:
I must say, after having this unit for about a week, I have only one concern..

The WiFi-signal is a bit poor.. I really hope this is a software-problem, as both my SGS and my Desire HD had a better reception.

And I've read a few post stating that the reception is actually good, it just doesn't show it right. But my SGSII loses connection totally when I'm in my kitchen, something neither my SGS og DHD did.. Poor :(

Other than that, I couldn't be happier with my snappy, glossy new smartphone, beasting away all others when they want to compare awesome power in handsets! :)
[Galaxy S II General] jangomango:
Are you sure your no just half Japanese?

:)
[Galaxy S II General] intruda119:
I think there should be an impression thread like on other forums. I am having problems since I updated to ke7 but nothing a reflash thru odin cant solve. My device have been running great before last upgrade and the only minor thing I can see is the banding. But I think its been mentioned before that its a easy software fix.
[Galaxy S II General] Mr Brainz:
I'm going to wager that you're not using the charger that came with the phone or using a random USB cable?

As I've read on here before and have noticed, if you don't use the official Samsung cables then your phone can run hot when you're charging and using apps. The phone also charges better with the official cables.

I read this when reading up on car chargers. As such I made sure that I purchased the official Samsung car dock and not some knock-off.
[Galaxy S II General] stoney73:
I agree, but if you bothered to read the threads you would realize that these faults/flaws

HAVE

been posted, and discussed at great detail. Indeed, most of the discussions are still ongoing. So your thread is redundant.
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
OP should take the phone back to the seller .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] Incarniac:
BT is working without any hiccups in my car (Ford).
[Galaxy S II General] B3311:
And with that gem , say goodbye to any chance of being taken seriously...
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
the lock screen is just not practical when it comes to unlocking, you have to move it quite far to unlock when set to picture only

Thats all i do agree with and prefer to use Widget Locker .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] __NBH__:
Ok this phone is great which is why it annoys me that silly things have been missed which could make it brilliant. Here are the issues I have found below:

1. When you wake the phone with the home button you briefly see what is behind the lock screen.

2. The pictures for contacts when you sync them from facebook are stretched and squashed to fit the square shape in the contact list which looks stupid. If you go to text messages and look at the same contact photo it is sized correctly so surely this can be added to the contact list?

3. When the phone goes into power saving mode, even if you charge the battery the screen brightness and screen timeout stay on the power saving mode settings eg my phone goes to 10% brightness and 15s timeout at 10% battery, I charge overnight to 100% and in the morning it's still on 10% brightness and 15s timeout I have to change these back manually.

4. Having to scroll all the way to the top of a webpage to get to the favourites icon, can't it be added to the browser menu?

5. You can use the browser in landscape mode either way round but when you watch a flash video fullscreen it only shows it with the volume keys to the bottom meaning if you are holding the phone the other way round the video appears upside down.

6. Some music tracks take on image art from other tracks, I currently have 3 different mp3s all with the same artwork.

7. Make the application/bookmark names on the home screens/menu screens scroll if they are too long so I can see what they actually say.

8. If you add apps to folders and you have a shortcut to that folder on your home screen the home screen folder doesn't update meaning you havre to delete the folder shortcut and add it again every time you reorganise your folders.

9. The iPlayer app doesn't remember any favourites, mine vanish everytime I reopen the app.

10. Add the ability to rename and reorder starred places in google maps/navigation.

11. In text messageing when I type I it comes out as i, it doesn't auto capitalise it.
[Galaxy S II General] iznee:
+1 this is really annoying
[Galaxy S II General] stoolzo:
some of these come down to user preference and so therefore should not appear in a bug or problem list. For instance the lock screen, where it is total crap and about the least elegant aspect of this device.. it works perfectly.

Screen touch, I have to admit I first though it wasn't as sensitive and have posted as much but after a week or so I got used to it, its actually better in a way as you don't get as many false hits.

Battery life, again totally subjecting in my opinion.

Wi-fi, subjective to point but there is clearly a problem with signal degradation as you move away from your wifi source - however it still works pretty well and if you have come from a crappy phone it will seem pretty good indeed, it just doesn't seem to have the range of other phones.

Taking everything into account it still the best handset out there by long way, again in my humble opinion, perhaps cos I own one...
[Galaxy S II General] stbutt:
5 major problems on this phone!

Hi Guys. Like to know if anyone else is experiencing a major fault on this phone. (1)My reception jumps around now and then. The g/3g/H indicator will diappear from the top and be replaced with a circle with a line in it. When this happens i am not able to browse or make a call. (2)Also i get SOME calls going to voicemail despite full reception bars(similar to the unsolved faults in iphone 1 to 4). I have never experienced these problems on my previous Desire/Desire HD using the same carrier as i am on now(T-mobile UK). (3)My bluetooth headset goes funny now and then when i make or recieve a call. It does not respond and thus does not allow me to make or receive the call. I can't even use the phone at this time. i have to disconnect my the call. My headset is Jawbone Icon. (4)The phone overheats when playing games. I am thinking of rooting the phone to underclock back to the original 1ghz. (5)The battery is vulnerable when you start gaming on the phone. Again i think underclocking the phone could improve this. My phone is sim-free unbranded bought from carphone warehouse. I also have a few minor faults with it aswell. Weak WIFI signal. Yellow tint on left side of screen. And faulty 3.5mm jack. I still have a couple of days left to exchange it for a new handset. Would you advise this or not. I don't want to end up with an even faultier handset. Please give me your expert opinions ASAP. Thanx in apprehension. P.S This is my first thread on this forum. So i would appreciate some help instead of childish behaviour i.e 'No more complaints' REPLIES. Just like the saying goes, IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT ANYTHING GOOD TO SAY THEN KEEP SHUT.
[Galaxy S II General] stoney73:
Havent you already made a seperate thread concerning this?

You type so much and still leave out the relevant information. What firmware are you running?

Are you are on kdd, ke1,ke2, ke7?

Tbh, it sounds like you should take phone back for replacement.
[Galaxy S II General] relikade:
I would be happy to live with these problems instead of reboots every 2 hours. Sound that stops working and a notification bar that vanishes rendering the phone useless.
[Galaxy S II General] bilboa1:
sometimes i wonder if ppl putting bad comments ever even saw a sgs.

just saying cause pushing the MENU button gives u a more button with "bookmark" AAAAND it also show the top bookmark icon (which is the easiest way also)

NO need to scroll

ffs lol
[Galaxy S II General] bilboa1:
try running the stock kernel (not rooted kernel)

i seem to have those random reboot only on non-stock

might be a merge issue or a fix missing from newer kernels...
[Galaxy S II General] raimondomartire:
Observe if you bt screen show full gsm signal even if the signal wa poor? i see this defect on volvo and renault bt
[Galaxy S II General] Extreme184X:
Volume, volume

Voluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuume!

its frikin low, even at maximum volume isn't high enough to be acceptable. tried every audio enhancer apps i could find and most don't work, but the few that do work, only higher volume speaker, headset & Bluetooth but NOT HANDSET (which is most important). the infamous "volume codes" worked only 2 times for me and keeps resetting it self back to default values every time i tamper with it.

3.5mm audio jack only works by moving the head around until your here sound.

that's two problems I suffer from :-(

Other than that and I DON'T have any battery/charging, gps or camera issues like others are reporting. Refuse to update firmware without a change-log (on stock firmware)
[Galaxy S II General] relikade:
I don't do rooted or nothing like that. Phone is as it came out the box. With just xda and facebook apps.
[Galaxy S II General] njay22:
yes not disabling battery full warning is annoying BUT I have never seen the problem of see the background app (usually its my homescreen) when waking from sleep with home button

my two biggest annoyances:

- no light indicator for: missed call, SMS, low battery, charging; SURELY THIS CAN BE FIXED

- speakers (For media and alarm) is VERY low; barely can hear my alarm in the morning
[Galaxy S II General] intruda119:
You have a defective unit buddy if your having problems with audio Jack.
[Galaxy S II General] iznee:
I am having this same 3g/h reception issue initially i thought it was bcoz of the carrier here in the middle east..but since you r using a uk carrier... also this phone gets very hot...i guess i can now confirm i have a defective handset ...time to call clove and arrange for an exchange.
[Galaxy S II General] RobinRichard:
Root or Official?

Rooting the phone is a little risky right? Coz I heard somewhere that, after rooting, the official updates from Samsung cannot be installed! If it were so, then we would be stuck with the same bugs till we unroot or flash with the original stock firmware! So since the phone has few issues, I think it's better to wait for official updates through Kies isn't it? :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] prodygee:
The unlock screen should be the same smooth thing as wp7.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SII with XDA Premium
[Galaxy S II General] RogerPodacter:
no that's not the way it works. if you root, you will have the ability to get updates much faster than the stock people. root allows you to flash the update the instant in becomes available rather than waiting usually. and its so easy to bounce between ROMs its silly to not root.
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
Just checking never needed to root to upgrade Via ODIN right or wrong .

Checking cos i am always rooted and may never have update pre rooted phone but i thought i did and am sure i did .

Wipe root by flashing stock rom via Odin = no root .

Installed KE7 via Odin then rooted phone .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] Therollingstone:
no one really cannot complain about the battery at all , its 1650 mah and we shouldnt blame the battery , while there are lots of widgets , opened wifi , gps , background data or 3g , if iphone did all above , it drains just three hours.
[Galaxy S II General] RogerPodacter:
well i guess maybe this is true specific to samsung phones, i dont know cause never used them. but with android phones in general, being rooted lets you get the update instantly rather than waiting. if samsung has its own special upgrade software, then i guess that's a unique circumstance.
[Galaxy S II General] p3t0r:
I would have to disagree with most of these "problems" based on my own experience... It would be interesting to know whether people are coming from either an iphone or another android and their problems are just their own ideals eating at them.. Just like how some people are even looking at selling their sgs2 just because someone said the audio isn't as perfect as its predecessor..
[Galaxy S II General] olyloh6696:
Dont foreget yellow tinge! i have it! :( what should i doo?
[Galaxy S II General] jvidia:
For me, this is really a "shoot in the foot" by Samsung :(

I don't really notice that yellow tint everyone talks about.

But I don't know if it is my mind doing tricks but I almost swear that the left side of the screen (when in vertical position) is a little darker than the right side.

Then I decided to test the screen with some 100% RGB images to see the uniformity of the image tone and found this disturbing fact:

h**p://img34.imageshack.us/img34/551/img4213mw.jpg

h**p://img690.imageshack.us/img690/336/img4214t.jpg

Here are the RGB images that I used in that test:

h**p://megaupload<dot>com/?d=X0B6EMG0

Can anyone do this test and report the result?

Thanks.

PS: sorry for the ** and the <dot> in my post text but as I am a new user, the board rules prevent me from posting web links. Never seen this rule in other boards :mad:

** = tt

<dot> = .

;)
[Galaxy S II General] maranello69:
here's an annoying issue for me: that horrible camera shutter sound, its just terrible, sounds just like a big rock breaking a window, can someone point me in the right direction for changing it? i don't want it disabled, just wanna change it back to the one from sgs1, that's currently being played when u take a screenshot (by pressing Home+Power)
[Galaxy S II General] rudolf895:
well if you can find the sound in system dir..

Then i suppose you can change it.
[Galaxy S II General] maranello69:
great info

what's the name of it? what's the proceddure to change it? you just made my day right now, but please explain in more details if u want :D
[Galaxy S II General] jvidia:
Can anyone do the RGB test? ;)
[Galaxy S II General] JuniorGG:
Unfortunately just powering the display up to light a few pixel that would mimic the "LED" eagerly drains the battery... This is why people who have tried NOLED say that it quickly runs down the battery. Unfortunately the issue is to be put to the phone display, and not to the app.
[Galaxy S II General] mrcd:
is problem short life help kindly
[Galaxy S II General] jvidia:
Is there any suport forum from Samsung?

I ask this because in my country (Portugal) the model i9100 is still not in the dropdown model list when I try to contact Samsung, and the model is a required field :(

How can we address this problems to Samsung ?

Any inside contacts here @XDA ?
[Galaxy S II General] barneypooch:
Sorry, but it doesn't. Not on the stock browser. One can circumvent the problem by opening a new window and then tapping the star. But tapping "MORE" does not do what you say.

And, while we're here: try being a little bit less of an ill-mannered dickwad, m'kay?
[Galaxy S II General] fonetalk:
Galaxy s > Galaxy s 2 Screen colour difference

I was comparing my Old SGS & new SGS 2 with the exact same setup screen brightness etc..

The screen on my galaxy s 2 is definetaly yellower..

I didnt have a problem with it before i compared it, and realised. Im wondering if through all the flashing ive done on my sgs, there was some tweeking done to make the screen more vibrant with light colours.

Anyway if i keep the screen at 40% brightness it looks great, just that i am used to being comfortable with SGS at 15-25% for battery purpoposes.
[Galaxy S II General] mrdalez:
only problem i have is the long charge time. the others i can deal with...
[Galaxy S II General] tonycfc:
I am running the KE2 kernel and I have no issues with the battery life. It's great until now. I am quite satisfied actually provided the very capable hardware and the fabulous screen. :)

As for the lock screen, I have one issue. If you were to use the default music player while using the pattern lock screen, the widget doesn't appear like the one with the wallpaper lock screen.

So far the touchscreen sensitivity issues are present on some games, like Float and Fruit Ninja.
[Galaxy S II General] rleitao:
1
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pcdj:
I've recently upgraded to the latest release of LeeDroid with the Gingerbread Sense on my Desire.

Everything seems to work fine other than the fact that sometimes when I press the home button to return to the "middle" of the five home screens my Sense launcher gets "reset"... that is to say, the friendstream widget, twitter widget, calendar widget, mail widget and news widget on the various home screens all go blank and I have to manually go to each one and wait for the content to reload.

Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening and how to resolve it?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] garak0410:
I reported an earlier issue where my phone will reboot (without SAMSUNG and AT&T splash screens) when the stock browser will lock up. When it comes back up, often the majority of my apps are missing...I either have to reboot again or plug it into the PC with USB mode so it can scann my memory and then they come back...not a fun bug to be sure...anyone else have this issue?

Thanks...

Brian
[Samsung Infuse 4G] thddragon85:
Nope, when I pull my external sd my icons go android to indicate that its missing, but they don't disappear.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hazelfoot:
Search option didn't help me much.

Is there any way I can make the taskbar on CM7 like half-transparent? I hate the black and don't like using themes.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zodiak951:
It tells me when I hit restore that boot animation error...any idea whats wrong...i tried alot of different things and nothing...im on srf 1.1.1..using the kernel their kernel..
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] fiinix:
WP7 Screen capture program

[OBSOLETE, INSTEAD USE Screen Capturer v3]

Program structure

At application start Jaxbot's dehydrate hack, its enabled automatic by setting some registry values (that enables sort of multitasking). So that you can just run this app, go to home, enter the wanted app of you choice that you want to capture.

Brief info about how this app has functionality to take captures.: Uses The DllImport Project to talk to the system that enables C# code to call C++ for me.

The app is actually only an infinitive loop that listen for [Focus]-key.

As you can see below, a Sleep is enabled of 500ms to spare your battery so that is does not spam the system cpu with a while loop that runs forever, draining your battery fast.

public static void StartHook()
{
Phone.Screen.init();

bw = new BackgroundWorker();
bw.DoWork += bw_DoWork;
bw.RunWorkerAsync();
}

static void bw_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
int key = (int)Phone.KeyboardHook.PhysicalKeys.Focus;
while (true)
{
if (DllImportCaller.lib.GetAsyncKeyState7(key) != 0)
{
Phone.Screen.Capture cap = Phone.Screen.CaptureScreenToPictures();

var str = string.Format("PictureName: {0}\nTimeElapsed: {1}ms\nPictureByteSize: {2}",
cap.PictureName, cap.TimeElapsed.TotalMilliseconds, cap.PictureByteSize);

int res;
DllImportCaller.lib.MessageBox7(str, "Screen Capture", (uint)MB.MB_OK, out res);
}
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500);
}
}

In App instructions (Web)

[Checkbox] Jaxbot' Dehydrate hack (On / Off)

- This is for yourself, so you can toggle the "multitask" after capturing the app.

- Automatic activate on app launch (this)

"How to":

- Enter this app

- Navigate to the app you want to capture (no more than 2 apps in between (this app will be killed by "Watchdog"))

- Hold "focus" (not click, >focus), for at least 500ms

- Wait for messagebox to verify capture

- (SUCCESS) > Located under "Pictures > All > Saved Pictures"

Extras comments by me

(100% Verified to work (on mine lol))

Test pictures made at the moment: 460!

Fixed-list

- (1.0.1) Collision with real "Dll Import" when the guids are the same

- (1.0.2) GUI + Standalone + No collision with overwrite whats so ever (Same GUID)

- (1.0.3) "In-app dehydration toggler" + "better experience", EPIC release

- (1.0.4) Fail-safe, for sure no more multiple capture bug (2-4). (Test: I Can hold focus for 1 min and only one is captured).

- (1.0.4.0.0.0.1) For some random reason without debugger it took 1-6 captures, but WITH the debugger i could hold it for a minute and only one would be captured. Fixed now with a "Sleep()" to prevent 1+.

- (1.0.5) Now, problem with 2 msg box are 100000% GONE NOW! Ill pay you money else if 2 come up lol, jk :)

> Problem was located in "CSharp___DllImport.MainPage(); .ctor" that ALSO hooked to key-press.

- (1.0.5, HD2 edition) Now supports HD2, works now because its binded to "Search" instead of "Focus" -button; Aka "Search version".

Thanks for my time :)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Thanks!

Feature request: disable / enable dehydration from within the app. Maybe an option to automatically reenable dehydration after the screenshot. I don't want to leave dehydration on, because of performance and batterylife.

Well done!

Heathcliff74
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] fiinix:
Is there a good cross device that can toggle dehydrate? Because of how i see it its device specific (root access). Is there a basic lib out there that i know exist somewhere, ill implent it.

Thanks for criticism :)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] contable:
Fantastic ! Thanks for this app. Confirmed working on my HD7.

Attached some screenies.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] fiinix:
Thanks for reporting (cross compiled anyways (device non-specific)).

> One "thanks" for you :)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
I'm not sure, but I believe the registry value that needs to be set can be changed with the normal registry api (no root access required). I could be wrong though. If it doesn't work, then the COM dll's from Samsung and HTC will work for sure. But you need to add the COM dll's for all the different brands and they have different interfaces. It isn't too hard though.

By the way, the criticism was meant as "constructive criticism" ;) I appreciate your work.

Ciao,

Heathcliff74
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] fiinix:
Yep thats what i tried to say, "constructive criticism", forgot how to call if fully out :)