yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] radx:
I wonder how people like myself who don't use kies, will get the heads up on when the update is available if it's not going to be distributed through OTA. It'd be awesome if it was an OTA update though.

I guess only time will tell.
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
I can almost guarantee you an Odin version within half an hour of it going live unless I'm away from my PC.:)
[Galaxy S II General] Sleepycat3:
After the ASUS Transformer OTA bricking fiasco, I'd prefer to update it myself either through Odin or Kies. I just use the XDA forums as my "notification" for a new update. :p
[Galaxy S II General] CEPi:
It barely works (after 20 times) through Kies, let alone OTA.

Long live Odin.
[Galaxy S II General] soraxd:
is there any difference in 2.3.4?
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
I wonder if gchat will include video
[Galaxy S II General] walda:
the android os bug should be gone.

but "this month" isnt "soon" imho.

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[Galaxy S II General] ventrilocks:
been waiting for this release..the features are great!
[Galaxy S II General] raimondomartire:
Intratech have you odin file of 2.3.4 android?
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
No :(

10 char
[Galaxy S II General] skycamefalling:
All I want from a firmware-update is a better battery life. The SGSII has a pathetic battery lifetime, about half compared to Touch Pro2 and Omnia7, and I want to this to be solved. I bought the SGSII because of the large battery and I hope 2.3.4 will make good use of it :)
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
Time to keep an eye out on #samfirmware and strange I found my Omnia 7 way worse for battery life compared to my SGS2.
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
How are you using the phone to exhibit half of tp2's battery life? Between the two, it's not even close
[Galaxy S II General] skycamefalling:
I do not really need to use it -the phone is losing 4-5% battery per hour when it's simply lying on the desk in standby. I neither use push or automatic updates for any application nor do I use live-wallpapers or other battery-sucking things.
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
Quite a but different from mine

1-2% every hour or two with gmail, facebook, and twitter for active sync, and wifi on for me
[Galaxy S II General] dudi1986:
true that .

I use The lowest brightness ,and gsm instead of 3g but I still get less than one day use
[Galaxy S II General] Cane Phoenix:
@skycamefalling How is the signal strength?

@ph00ny [#34] about the same as me then. I get 2% per hour, when doing nothing and I have updates, sync etc on. No wifi though...
[Galaxy S II General] blunted09:
my battery has been very good soo far. It lasts me the day and i spend alot of time browsing, talking on the phone and surfing the internet.
[Galaxy S II General] skycamefalling:
The signal is good, that's not the problem.

I am currently trying to pin down the culprit. It seems that the phone is waking up for a very short time every few minutes when I look at the graph. It could only be the contacts or calender sync from my exchange account. Problem is, I can't set a time interval to sync -I can set it for mail but not for contacts and calendar. Now I am trying to deactivate sync completely to see if the phone still "wakes up" now and then.
[Galaxy S II General] Cane Phoenix:
Ooops! My math was off. It should be 0.5% per hour...

The brain doesn't work properly without it's daily dose of coffee. ;)
[Galaxy S II General] valdigre:
Well, mine uses max 3% during whole night standby so obviously it's not a general Galaxy S2 problem ;)

If mine was lying on the table without doing anything, just standby (no data and unnecessary stuff running in the background) it would easily last 7 days...

Oh, and I mean 3g on, not 2g :)
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
Has this thread turned into another battery life one? :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
LOL its so HOT :D
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
MOD - please merge this thread with some "battery life" thread. The OP's thread has clearly been hijacked. :)
[Galaxy S II General] (•.•):
I think i dont really need this update and i think it will not fix the battery problem.

As it seems, the battary problem is a problem of the battery itself. People with good battary life need to compare their battary type with the bad battary devices.
[Galaxy S II General] TML1504:
what (kind of) evidence leads you to this conclusion?
[Galaxy S II General] daivik:
I'm not sure if it's the battery. I remember reading somewhere that it was because Android 2.3.3 isn't proper optimised for dual core phones yet (or something like that)?

and hence 2.3.4 will be optimised and hence should use less battery?

Is that true or am I talking BS?? :p
[Galaxy S II General] dttung80:
Waiting for Android 4 Ice cream :)
[Galaxy S II General] Murfle:
He mentions it twice in the first sentance. He 'thinks'...
[Galaxy S II General] :
exchange sync is terrible on android. even if there is nothing to sync it will drain the battery. i had this on HTC devices and now i have this on samsung devices. even gmail or anything else will no drain the battery in that way.
[Galaxy S II General] TML1504:
wrong - he 'thinks' that an update wont fix the problem.

regarding the difference in batteries he wrote "it seems",

which should have a reason...
[Galaxy S II General] balenax:
well, KF1 will be here pretty soon. i can't say a precise date, but is days, not weeks.
[Galaxy S II General] guigs91:
Sorry but how do you know this?
[Galaxy S II General] balenax:
it's in final testing stages, i can't say more now, but you will see it, as i said, very soon.
[Galaxy S II General] guigs91:
very soon=few minutes,few hours,few days?

kf1 include 2.3.4?
[Galaxy S II General] mur76:
hi if your 'in the know' can you find out what Samsung is going to do about the yellow / dark patch on the screen issues and the high number of dead pixel posts
[Galaxy S II General] balenax:
days. yes kf1 is 2.3.4
[Galaxy S II General] MALmen64:
Will this be a worldwide release? We are still waiting for the KE7 here in Sweden :S
[Galaxy S II General] Mikulec:
How many days if I may ask?

Is it meant to be official release via KIES?
[Galaxy S II General] guigs91:
you work for samsung?
[Galaxy S II General] balenax:
yes, it's meant to be released over kies. I don't have access to the precise release date informaton now, will surely be in the first half of this month. This is all I can share atm. Will not be worldwide, but I can't say who or when will get it first.
[Galaxy S II General] DuMaX:
I'm not going to hold my breath lol
[Galaxy S II General] Seade:
Balenax, if you know anything about the yellow tint issue, please let us know what you think or know! Thanks!

Sent from my disappointing GT - I9100
[Galaxy S II General] balenax:
all i can say is that i had access to just one unit and i didnt see the plague, even if i checked it very closely. a very very shallow darker gray on the left side ( all grey background ofc) , but very vague. if i get to see some more i will check them out and report.
[Galaxy S II General] djase:
and pink issue with camera
[Galaxy S II General] balenax:
no problems on the unit i saw. but then again, my sgs2 doesn't have the pink spot issue on 2.3.3 either. you all know the change log problem of samsung :)
[Galaxy S II General] guigs91:
this firmware solve the problem of battery drain?and this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1107234?
[Galaxy S II General] balenax:
there is improvement in battery life, did the same thing on both my 2.3.3 sgs2 and the 2.3.4 one and after 30 minutes mine was at 88 % and the 2.3.4 one was a 92%. also, the 2.3.4 one was a bit more cool, while mine was getting a bit warm (not very hot, but noticeable).
[Galaxy S II General] vassalle:
Does it do wonders to your battery life?
[Galaxy S II General] Leggenda:
What? :D

(10 char)
[Galaxy S II General] walda:
good news. thanks

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[Galaxy S II General] guigs91:
with heavy usage???

in 2.3.3 it is normal in battery usage to see 50% display?or just concern few people like me?
[Galaxy S II General] psp888:
whats the definition of soon? Isn't Ice Cream version soon too?
[Galaxy S II General] daivik:
i don't think so. Ice Cream will debut on the Nexus 3, which is scheduled to make it's appearance around Christmas time. By January (maybe December) Ice Cream will roll out to everyone else. Of course then it'll get slowed down by the manufacturers adding Sense/TouchWiz/etc. And then sim-free will get it.

And of course then some of us will have to wait for carriers to put their bloat ware on it. :mad:
[Galaxy S II General] manuvaidya:
@balanex: did u have a chance to play with android 2.3.4 on SGS2??? correct if i have understood ur statement correctly..... when is it going to be released ? if you had an opportunity, pls put a screen shot of it to believe it pls...
[Galaxy S II General] robstunner:
Its normal to see 50% display usage, when you devoted 50% of your battery to your screen being on.

Side Note: Sometimes i wish battery usage in the settings menu was never even there.
[Galaxy S II General] walda:
if u have understood the rest of his postings you know that he doesnt know this. 1st half of june was posted.

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[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
This follows on nicely from what samfirmware are saying although I am very pessimistic when it comes to release times for updates when it does arrive it will be very welcome.

Then we need to start a waiting for 2.3.5 thread or a 2.3.5 ate my homework and ruined my battery life!
[Galaxy S II General] mickegillarcyklar:
Here's to hoping that imminent release of said KF1 is the reason KE7 hasn't shown up in the Nordics :-)
[Galaxy S II General] guigs91:
in my htc desire display 10%
[Galaxy S II General] robstunner:
Looks like u used your desire less than your sgs2. Congrats.
[Galaxy S II General] DopyG:
That is indeed very weird when Engadget and other major tech sites claimed in their review that Omnia 7 got the best battery life of modern smart phone and that is could easely last 35 hours+ with 3G, Facebook sync every hour, Email every hour and other syncing.
[Galaxy S II General] mnotme:
That is apparently a known bug on the HTC Desire. Before I flashed vanilla 2.3.3 I always had 10-15% display but nowadays I get 50%.
[Galaxy S II General] dk206:
The growth rate of users on xda is growing exponentially. :) we really ought to stress newbs to read forum rules and remind them to stay OT.
[Galaxy S II General] mur76:
Can u please read the yellow tint thread and report it to samsung. Thnx
[Galaxy S II General] andyfan999:
So, going back OT... any updates :)?
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
@MODS

Can we merge the two 2.3.4 threads as they seem to be about the same subject?
[Galaxy S II General] connectandroid:
Good news indeed.. i'll hold off on flashing my stock Optus branded S2 KE2 for now :)
[Galaxy S II General] djsaad1:
really the only thing that 2.3.4 brings is gtalk video right? Since we are already able to get that through the modified apk, is this update really that big of a deal?
[Galaxy S II General] walda:
i read that 2.3.3 does not support dual cores. so the higher drain.

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[Galaxy S II General] Godo_PPL:
Where have you read that?

Can anyone confirm?
[Galaxy S II General] Leggenda:
News about release date?
[Galaxy S II General] nilezon:
It's not true.
[Galaxy S II General] jvidia:
All I ask is the resolution of the banding on gradient problem.

Just 5 min ago I was playing Angry Birds Rio and the blue hangar walls on the first levels are so hugly when you zoom in :(

Not to talk about the battery charging logo and the USB conected logo. :(

I don't even enjoy the super amoled plus screen with so many gradient issues all arround.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Really?

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Almo...uffering-from-power-consumption-issue_id19060
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
aww, Eldar as the source, now I believe you! ;)

Seriously what you are saying MAY BE truth but having Eldar say it confirms nothing, he knows as much about this as the average poster in this thread.
[Galaxy S II General] ph00ny:
If there was indeed a bug with power management in pre 2.3.4, wouldn't all of us experience poor battery issues? way too many owners getting great battery life to label this as an os bug
[Galaxy S II General] NIK516:
Wow well its all good, most people are finding that removing the samsung hubs and other bloat ware that the battery gets better. I think a standard 2.3.4 rom on the gs2 will be the best thing :)

Lets not loose our minds, we all decided the buy the first of the dual cores and if you thought that it would come bug free you dont understand how the first of a new technology works. The first model is always the test model with the least support, next year we will have full support.

I for now carry a usb cable with me if i need charging, i know its not right but for now it will do. 2.3.4 will bring fixes im sure of it, and samsung is also rolling out updates so lets just give it some time ?
[Galaxy S II General] Sleepycat3:
It doesn't say anything about the dual core phones running with only a single core because of 2.3.3.

In fact, dual cores when run with both cores active consume more power than a single core CPU at the same speed. So if 2.3.3 is not able to put 1 core to sleep and instead have both cores running at full speed eventhough only 1 core is required, then it would account for higher battery consumption.
[Galaxy S II General] Sleepycat3:
I've managed to pin point the source of my battery drain issue. It is coming from Wifi Sharing. Now when I check my running processes once in a while using OS monitor and kill wifi sharing if it is taking up 20% of my CPU cycles, battery life is great again.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
I just grabbed what I found in a Google search. It actually originated from Google itself and its somewhere on their developers site. Those so inclined might be able to find out more there.
[Galaxy S II General] mguel:
great news!
[Galaxy S II General] angynagpal:
OT can also stand for 'Off-Topic' ;)!!!
[Galaxy S II General] godutch:
this is the official 2.3.4. changelog:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=3812c1acf93b482f&hl=en
[Galaxy S II General] otaku888:
Nothing about dual core battery usage, I'm not sure I believe the story. The only source is a tweet from this Eldar guy?

Oh well the proof is in the pudding as they say.
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
Very true and then there will be a few threads to go with 2.3.4 increased my battery life and 2.3.4 sucks!

Eldar does have good insider knowledge so maybe there is a grain of truth to what he tweeted about.
[Galaxy S II General] daivik:
True true. Or he could be wrong, like he tweeted the GS3 releasing at year end. :eek:

But I'm hoping he is, the more battery life, the better it is. :)
[Galaxy S II General] TMaLuST:
SamFirmware SamFirmware

FIRMWARE: Samsung I9100 Firmware: I9100XWKE8_ODDKE2 Online! (Android 2.3.3)

From their twitter
[Galaxy S II General] guigs91:
2.3.3 :mad:

f**k samsung
[Galaxy S II General] NIK516:
I'll check in the morning
[Galaxy S II General] psp888:
what does it mean onine, kies only showing KE7
[Galaxy S II General] daivik:
Firmware updates are regional. Most of Europe is on KE3 or KE4. The UK (or england at least) is on KE7.

India is on KE8.
[Galaxy S II General] jvidia:
News on the changes on this KE8 ? Gradient problem solved would be wonderfull :)
[Galaxy S II General] daivik:
have a read of some of the Indian GSII forums. Their phones should have it on.
[Galaxy S II General] ado7980:
"FIRMWARE: Samsung I9100 Firmware: I9100XWKE8_ODDKE2 Online! (Android 2.3.3)" it´s no new firmware, this firmware is for India
[Galaxy S II General] walda:
And if it's an actual it should be KFx; so its from May also...
[G1 General] RodrigoKim:
I switched to a Droid X for almost 6 months now, and my G1 just sits on my shelf. What's the best way to repurpose my old G1? I have considered donating it to a good dev so they can make good use of it, but what are other options?
[G1 General] BeenAndroidized:
Some of them just use it as the backup phone. Other pass it down to their familiy members (ie: kids, etc...) I got mine from my brother as a pass me down.

Some of the others users here using it to test the new ROM for G1. (bascially becoming the tester for the ROM).
[G1 General] shabazz18:
Emulator machine. that's what I use my cliq for the d pad its great for nintendo rpgs
[G1 General] shabazz18:
And of course a great backup I'd your phone takes a dump
[G1 General] blacra:
I use one of mine as a WiFi streaming audio player for the home sound system.

The other is my backup, sitting ready to take over should my Vibrant kick the bucket.
[G1 General] RodrigoKim:
phone backup is out of the question , moving from t-mobile to verizon :/

i have used my g1 for controlling my pc from my bed, which was convenient, but eventually just stopped

thanks for the suggestions, if anyone else got something, i'd be glad to hear it
[G1 General] taffyjock:
I use mine as a dedicated handset for voip and to stop the kids stealing my galaxy to play stupid disney puzzles
[G1 General] ubejd:
you could donate to someone ... for example me :D hahah.
[G1 General] xShadoWxDrifTx:
I just use mine as an alarm, lol.
[G1 General] ldrifta:
you can surf the web via wifi soo uhhh yeah like blacra said stream music or uhhh fill it with apps to play and try... paperwieght..??? lol i could always use a spare G1 for testing :D lol
[G1 General] Maave:
Turn it into a car music player. You'd need

-USB host drivers for the G1 (works on Android 2.2)

-mini-USB splitter/headphone adapter (it'd need a USB and headphone jack)

-AUX jack on the car radio

-3.5mm cable (goes from headphone adapter to AUX)

-mini-USB to USB cable

-powered USB hub and car adapter

-portable hard drive

Kind of a lot but you could get one heck of a music collection on a portable hard drive.
[G1 General] Ace42:
I second this

Its the best use for this thing if you dont use it, mines has been sitting on the shelf with my other old phones and hasnt been touched in months.
[G1 General] Maave:
Hm, I not sure if both the audio adapter and the USB host drivers can work at the same time. Lots of people have done HDD mounting but nobody has tried using output at the same time.

Crap, what a time not to have my USB adapter. Maybe I can pick one up at the flea market.

Well if it does work, why stop there? Plug it into a home audio system. Find an app that allows you to control the music on the G1 from your other phone. Tada! Remote controlled 1TB stereo system. If the G1 wasn't such a weak phone you could turn it into an HTPC.
[G1 General] KRAZYADROIDMASTER:
I used one of my old G1 to use as a walkie talkie. I can use the push to talk app to talk to my kids while there home on Wi-Fi.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] powerba11:
I brought SGS2 yesterday and I just returned it back to the store. It had a screen problem: when I put just one colour on backround I observerd two horizontal lines on the half bottom of the screen...the lines are more visible on white or yellow colour. The lines are not seen verry clearly, only from different angles.Does anyone had the same problem?

...I made some photos of the screen just before taking back the phone, I'll upload them later.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r_a_c:
There are numerous problems with the screen to be honest.

But there are also people who don't notice anything(i think most).

There is the famous yellow 1/3 of the left side.

But beside that I had some other problems, vertical/horizontal lines on grey colour. ANd other stuff where the screen didn't work as it should be for this high end phone.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maskur09:
can anybody give me some tutorial to make .ftf file from SEUS folder ?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmcr87:
I didn´t know how to make a ftf file till i use google two hours ago, and i make my own ftf generic global. Try the same
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kistigun:
search for a flashtool guide, it's somewhere on the x10 topic
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maskur09:
Thank You so much. now I can make my country Firmware .
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] midras1974:
Flashtool :?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wayne561:
I know alot of us are tired of our themed markets turning back green because of market updater. How could I update my themed market with the market that is up-to-date.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] movieaddict:
to stop it from updating this is how i do it! go into titanium backup and scroll down ur batch list untill u see market updater and then click it and u wanna choose freeze app. Now if u have a themed market like red or so it will always stay red and never turn back to green. I do this once i flash a rom before i even touch anything on my new rom even the market.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wayne561:
Ok. Bt if I do that, will I stop gettin updates for my apps?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Romanbb:
Just watch this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=957331
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] movieaddict:
ull still get updates for ur apps u just wont loose ur themed market as it will sty themed color u chose!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrippe77:
I am running CM 7.0.2.1 with Chad's 4/19 kernel. My Dinc gets 2/4 bars signal strength on 3g and 3/4 on 1x at home while my wie's Env 2 shows 4/4 on both. So I decided to try a the new 2.15.10.05.06 radio and the 9.01 radio. Both updated with no problems. My dBm changed little, if any. (77-85%) I'm now running 2.15.10.05.06 and seems to be snappier. The signal strength bars are still less than my wife's though. Why am I not seeing the same amount of bars as my wife? (I don't know how to check her dBm) I did a *228. I get four bars at work but not at home like my wife. (Same problem at our lake house) Is there anything I can do to make sure I get the best possible signal strength? Should I try more radios?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k_nivesout:
How many bars your phone or her phone has doesn't really mean anything. It varies from phone to phone and signal strength isn't reported properly just by looking at the bars. Checking your dbm is the only way to really see where your signal is and some people seem to report better reception with different radios although it never seemed to make much of a difference to me. I'd check out www.dougpiston.com for radios, try em out, and look at your dbm, GPS lock speed/accuracy, and data speed to determine which works the best for what you need.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrippe77:
Is there any way to update the PRL on CM 7? I'm at 52297 and I've seen where the latest is 52299.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k_nivesout:
I think the custom menus might only be accessible from sense roms, so #228 might be the only thing you can do in cm7. You could restore a sense backup, update prl, then restore your cm7 backup? There might be another way to do it, I'm not sure cause I've never messed with my prl.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] igotdez:
Does anyone has a video tutorial on how to flash roms on the infuse yet because I"m new to the android scene so I dont know what eles to do after I rooted my phone.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] rjan22:
No the rom is on its way, we just need some more donation/chip in for the dev team, check the infuse development page channel, you can chip in so we don't need to wait more time. Welcome on the android community. If you have question just ask they are willing to help. Jeep checking the site everyday. So you can learn more thing about android, I learned so much thing here I'm also new to android.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] eroracing:
I already flashed a new Rom check the Dev section.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] igotdez:
i have been looking but i'm alil lost at where to start 1st and which rom did u install and how is it?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] rblankman:
follow the directions here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1105413