yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] ImSherlocked:
All the people complaining about ugly(?) back of the phone, I'm sure even if it was beautiful you would have covered it with a 200-300 rupees case... :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
hmm yeah, but the back design could have been better.

The front and side panel does looks good, god it looked nice in hands on video but bad in the live stream!!!

as kachru said, the price tag would be the decider for me.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
I will go for HD screen..and yes the size is identical..bigger than S2 less than Note
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
Want a nice brick?

The hardware is completely different, it will be like saying refrigerator to make toasts for you

Nothing to do with source code, source code is just for kernel by samsung and its of no use for our phone
[Galaxy S II General] Hrithan2020:
Wrong! I'd have covered it with a 1.3k case. :p

But, seriously on first impressions one of the ugliest high end phones I have seen off late.

No buttonless design, lots of crapware, PENTILE screen when htc one x has one of the best mobile displays. ( except for ppl who like over saturated displays)

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
same here , its better to upgrade to s3 instead of note for HD screen. still cant keep my mouth shut when i talk about hd screen, its gorgeous.
[Galaxy S II General] naturist:
Galaxy S3 has been announced, how many of you are going to upgrade? I am disappointed with Samsung this time except 2100mah battery.

http://www.beinggadget.com/03/samsu...play-8mp-camera-and-2100-mah-massive-battery/
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
one important step ahead from google

Gmail users get Google Fax and 10GB for e-mail

http://tech2.in.com/news/web-services/gmail-users-get-google-fax-and-10gb-for-email/303332
[Galaxy S II General] TheQuarterMile:
S3 is gonna be full of bloatware...
[Galaxy S II General] ImSherlocked:
Yup, It could have been much better and different. When I went to buy the phone I actually liked the look and feel of HTC sensation. But, I for one do not like Sense UI and HTC phone provide inferior hardware for the price they sell the phone.

And that eyeball tracking feature is incredible. It's really useful. And of course there will be Samsung bloatware. It's not Nexus ffs.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
I am expecting 16 Gb version at under 35k..
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
you are 2 hours late to the party ;) well if the price tag is right , i will
[Galaxy S II General] ImSherlocked:
Well the design is a bit disappointing but it won't matter if the phone feels good in hands.

Crapware/boalware will be there as it's not a Nexus phone. It's amazing how apple is achieving this high sell figures with the 4 generations of phones that look almost same!
[Galaxy S II General] Raven'sSight:
true...

+

must say those people know nothing about making a phone look good.

HW will be very good but i guess with the advent of quads the race for HW is meaningless. No lags in any devices. Everything performs well.

Those gimicky nature features piss me off the most. None of them will be fully functional.

Atleast they should have added the note amoled+ hd display. the pentile will stand no where in front of the one x's display. The one x now has the best display.

Battery, dropbox 50 gb and Camera are the main pluses.

S2 all the way :D saved thousands :D

Note 2 please.Bring it on
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
same thought here. 35 or 35k will be last words if i make an upgrade. few people are already waiting here in my city to get my s2 for 25k :eek: all credit goes to the magic of dual boot and cm9
[Galaxy S II General] ImSherlocked:
May be because it's not a nexus phone? :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Head to Head
[Galaxy S II General] naturist:
I was ONLY watching the event. :P Lets see if Samsung price it well.
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
[YOUTUBE]61I97JKORDE[/YOUTUBE]

lol this is funny and accurate enough too
[Galaxy S II General] Virtualsk:
Back cover is bad !!! hope it differs....If below 35K then affordable...looks more like hybrid of note n nexus.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
if you look closer, you will find Aosp daieler, extra contact tab :eek:
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
surely there will alternative back panels after the launch
[Galaxy S II General] Raven'sSight:
:-D lol
[Galaxy S II General] Virtualsk:
Yeah...but i was talking about design ... I like the new TW atleast it matched somewhat closer to ICS Stock ... Love the notification bar ... perhaps stolen from XDA ;P

I might go for it if its under 35K. Too bad I am comming back to India on 26th ...otherwise I would get it from Netherlands ... :P
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Actually expectation was very high from Samsung. So some disappointment with back, bur can be covered easily with 100 bucks

IMO for cellphoneS, the front panel is more important..

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if you want it, buy in India with Indian warranty!
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
Can someone redirect me to a video showing more of TW 5.0? That's all i care about.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
fonearena priced S3 at 30k:eek::eek::eek::eek:

http://www.fonearena.com/samsung-galaxy-s-iii_2213.html
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
[YOUTUBE]hd-QNEXNo-E#![/YOUTUBE]

the touchwiz uses ics launcher style for drawers and widgets

they are kidding mate

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And anyone need a good reason to upgrade to S3?? it has ultra low power wolfson chip for audio,just tweeted from supercurio :D:D
[Galaxy S II General] fuel2fire4u:
Can sum1 plz let me know if there is a way to have the contacts n the call log under the same icon on ICS coz its has two different icons for phone n contact want something like we had in gingerbread tknxxxx ....
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
It will available in 2 or 3 days in gaffar market Delhi.:p:p a ditto copy of Chinese s3. World biggest mobile black market.
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
I am sure I will not buy 16gb version u know why only 11 gb available and in 11gb some more space is reserved.
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
Where is tablet 10.1 2. Another device which Samsung going to announce.
[Galaxy S II General] burninghouse:
My views about galaxy s3

ok so i have watched the specifications and the pictures of s3..seriously i am going to say that i found no reason to upgrade to s3...jst a tweaked tw launcher,personally i dont like the design at all of body,still s2 design is much much better than s3..and i dont feel need of quad core...because i never feel a single lag i even heavy graphics games and videos on my s2 non g version...
[Galaxy S II General] Ankit Tulsian:
Very true.As i said earlier i would stick to my S2 and will wait for S4 or will shift to HTC.

Nokia-Sony Ericsson-Samsung-?
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
Resurrection v1.8 released steps are little different from earlier.
[Galaxy S II General] nelsonoski1972:
"WE ARE NOT IMPRESSED."

S3 will not evoke any WOW feeling from GS2 owners.

Will wait for 1 more year.

PS: Little happy also after seeing the pictures of S3. S2 looks sexy when held along with S3.

PS2: Ravi must be very happy now.
[Galaxy S II General] Harsha Raj:
Well those who don't have a GS2 can definitely go for GS3 right?
[Galaxy S II General] Mr.Raviteja:
ya :)

yes................................No 4G SGSIII for india? :mad:
[Galaxy S II General] Harsha Raj:
Well that should have made you even more happier! Your GS2 will, rock more :D

And guys SwiftKey 3 new beta out

Dowload: http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/vipforums/SwiftKey3_Beta-3.0.0.190.apk

Details: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...e-offers-a-handful-of-highly-requested-fixes/
[Galaxy S II General] Mr.Raviteja:
A item/movie or other thing which comes with High expectations always fails......SGSII didn't came with high expectations = 20 million and counting.....SGSIII came with much expectations and so many not liking it

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Nice tags.......
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
though s3 has its own disappointment to share ,its the high unrealistic expectations of the users that fails... sgs2 did had high expectations and people whined at the time of launch :D it will happen again in the future :D

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its worth the upgrade for anyother users except sgs2, yes s2 is still the beast at many category.
[Galaxy S II General] Mr.Raviteja:
SGS2 had high expectations?..........I didn't know about it till someone said to me in yahoo answer.....looks like you and 2-4 others will jump the ship
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
yeah it had, we are new to xda at the time of sgs2 launch, if we were here in xda one year before the launch of sgs2 with any other droid we would have witnessed that.

well i dont want fall in the sea in the name of jumping ships :D:p, lets see the price tag first.

like said my only point of upgrading would be the hd screen and now voodoo sound is also confirmed for sgs3.

when i got sgs2 from sgsl, i was dreaming of using voodoo sound ;)
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
What is so special about voodoo sound....... Wait I already listen that word voodoo in hackintosh voodoo is also used their for sound driver in non apple machines
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
what is voodoo sound? lol android newbie :D:p i think you havent heard much about it. just google for it and you will know what its all about.
[Galaxy S II General] surya_mca:
i think sgs3 definitely below under 40K, one more sgs2 price in India falls 23.5k.....

Today when i ask the distributor abt my SGS2, he said 16k for second hand.....

lol..

lets c the price tag and then ll decide whether jump or not....

and i dont c much differnec also except Quad Core and Camrea feautures

and also S3 screen not AMOLED Plus only AMOLED. where s2 is AMOLED +

one more addition VODOO as Bala said.
[Galaxy S II General] Virtualsk:
Its true S2 did has high expectation! Anyways phone is nice but looks like samsung has not make itbdeak breaker this year....I was expecting Samoled hd+ but this is pentile....like Note . I would say once u will see this device in hands u might see how it is actually...camera wont do justice all the time...some one claimed that one x screen is much better then s 3...that is sad. I think its true as well ... One x has rgb n s3 has pentile.
[Galaxy S II General] Debadatta:
Looking at SGS3 today here are my conclusions:

Software:

> Samsung's crappy TouchWiz is a HELL LOT better. They really made an effort to make it better in many aspects.

> S-Voice beats Siri! I want that! :p

> The quick toggle buttons are a nice concept. No other manufacturer has that.

Hardware:

> Performance wise, its a beast. No doubt about that.

Design:

*vomits* :p
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
IMO Samsung doesn't want to let down the sell of Note.
[Galaxy S II General] rajarshi10:
When GS3 comes out, can the devs port the S VOICE & other things like lockscreen to the Galaxy S2 ?
[Galaxy S II General] safepacket:
Any feature which does not have any hardware dependency should be portable.. lock screen for sure ...

Btw that bubble effect lock screen of s3 ain't impressive .

I wish they could have got rid of touchwiz which I know would never happen. Every vendor has to throw some crap to users just to show they all don't look alike !
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
Yes off course my dear friend
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
U already know lazy people's are here:p can u explain
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Voodoo is an app that enhance S2 sound much louder.

Supercurio developed this app specially for Galaxy s2 and Note.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5wcm9qZWN0dm9vZG9vLmxvdWRlciJd
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
Ohh my god LG introduce mobile of the year log optimus lte 2............. and pissed on Samsung.

2gb ram

2150 mah battery

Wifi charging.

True HD tips display.
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
voodoo sound is an open source project developed by supercurio for mobile having wolfson audio codec. ITs a must have one for all the music lovers, it simply changes the music quality to next level which you cant imagine. there are more than thousands who didnt upgrade to sgs2 just for voodoo sound and there are already many who will switch to sgs3 just only for that.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=806195

mate , you gopt it wrong its voodoo louder you are talking about. you didnt know about voodoo sound?:eek:
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Only 2 gb ram revealed, no other specs availabile..
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
i wont even consider lg when comapred to samsung, their software support is much crappier than any other android players. It has 1 extra gb of ram though .

people wont forget about the gingerbread update for optimus 2x from LG... ha ha
[Galaxy S II General] Mr.Raviteja:
What is audio codec? :p
[Galaxy S II General] Harsha Raj:
@kachru SGS support voodoo sound. Since you have that device why don't you try it out?
[Galaxy S II General] Virtualsk:
If haven't try it... Go for it...amazing quality sound.
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvdua88:
Wifi charging? How do that work? Shouldn't it mean inductive charging?
[Galaxy S II General] ImSherlocked:
Please reduce the size of your signature. It eats up almost half of my monitor.
[Galaxy S II General] Debadatta:
I really hope someone ports TouchWiz Nature UX to SGS2 soon :D
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
It will come eventually :D

#*posted on the move *#
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
Generally it mentions the audio chip set

#*posted on the move *#
[Galaxy S II General] surya_mca:
BREAKING NEWS............

Samsung Galaxy S III India launch in first week of June, to be priced at Rs. 38,000

Source:

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/shownews.aspx?id=GADEN20120201796&Sec=NEWS&nid=206164

as i said it is below 40k

So guys whats ur option now....!

every body aware of it but still if any one missed here is the list:

Key Specifications

4.8 inch HD Super AMOLED (1280x720) display

Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)

8MP Auto Focus rear camera with Flash & Zero Shutter Lag, BSI

1.9MP front camera, HD recording @30fps with Zero Shutter Lag, BSI

Recording & Playback: Full HD (1080p)

Burst shot & Best photo, Recording snapshot, HDR

Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, WiFi HT40, GPS/GLONASS

NFC, Bluetooth 4.0(LE)

16/ 32GB User memory (64GB available soon) + microSD slot (up to 64GB)

Dimensions: 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm, 133g

Battery: 2,100 mAh
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
for those who wants to live with S2 for another year, what resell price expecting?

its already dropped at 20-21k and after 1 year will be 10k:p

So upgrade is needed:D
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
But the price tag of sgs3 says no, no upgrade needed:D
[Galaxy S II General] surya_mca:
The New SGS2 is currently 23.5, second hand is 16k only

lol
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Wrong Infoe Mate,

http://www.flipkart.com/samsung-gal...Ew--&ref=64fef2ec-0cb4-4712-9718-3c6074031dbf
[Galaxy S II General] OrrPenn18:
Every one will move on an odd basis, the whole lot of SGS users are shifting to SGS3, while ofcourse we will wait! Not even a year has passed, and investing sucha huge amount of cash! :p My dad will kick me outta home!

But I wanna move due to wolfson chip :p as bala said earlier! :D
[Galaxy S II General] surya_mca:
U will get he same price in EBAY & Flipkart etc.. after 1 year also..

if u goto any local samsung dealer u ll get the price what i mentioned abv.
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
No buddy you can sell it up to 23k of you sell it within 10 to 20 days

They have mentioned the street price would be 34k, nice price tag

#*posted on the move *#
[Galaxy S II General] rutu3:
Anyone tried Resurrection Remix ics v1.8, i m planning to switch to ics from gb this weekend.. as i got free from project.
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
resurrection is always good, you can try that.
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
I am using 1.7v of remix rom. Tonight I will flash 1.8 version.

U need to install v1.7 first and then upgrade it to 1.8.
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
What is zero shutter lag in camera
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
Android newbie again:D

A simple google search will be faster than posting here and waiting for answer
[Galaxy S II General] bokil:
The time between you press the shutter button and the actual photo being captured.
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
that's simply awesome
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
why so? cant u can directly flash it.?
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
@ manoj you need to read lot on android:p

Which phone you were using before S2
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
Man I am currently on gprs u already know what is speed of gprs. Google took ages to open.

And u still love ur x10 thread lots of posts their.
[Galaxy S II General] ronhoover88:
I flashed resseruction remix its amazing

You need to be on cm9 kernel to flash it without having issues...then switch to desired kernel...btw I flashed from 1.7 to 1.8:)
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
Ya need to read lot. My old phones

Galaxy s , samsung wave s8500, Nokia 96, Nokia x6, Nokia 6233, Nokia 6270, Nokia ngage, Nokia ngage qd, Motorola flip, Nokia 1100.
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
Many people reporting their and gabawinter too install 1.8 directly gives boot loops. That's why Gabo recommend first install 1.7 with cm9 kernal then upgrade to 1.8 directly no need to wipe data factory reset only wipe cache and dalvik cache.
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
What changes u r feeling after 1.8.

It is worth to upgrade currently I am on 1.7
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
How long gs1 you been used?

Most of the phones from nokia:D
[Galaxy S II General] ronhoover88:
Can't tell the changes except for bootanim...was on 1.7 for 2 hours only:D

Its synced the latest cm9 sources that's what I heard...dsp manager seems to be working now

By the way which kernel is best on reserrection?
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
Sgs 1 from may 2011- to Nov 2011.

One day gsmarena published cyanogenmod 7 available for gs2.

That day I search on Google what is cyanogenmod then I got to know what is rooting, custom roms etc etc.

Then I root my gs2. And my first rom was miui.

And lots of Nokia because u know that time Nokia rulz the world.
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
If u need performance used latest siyah

If u need better battery use cm9 kernal which is available on the first page of remix resurrection rom.
[Galaxy S II General] rutu3:
So what should i do, i m on stock KL1 and siyah 2.6.14. do i need to change kernel back to stock?

Also can i backup & restore apps with TB in ics?
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
So the pattern suggest you replace cell after 6-7 month. :D:p
[Galaxy S II General] ronhoover88:
What about NEAK kernel?
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
u can only flash remix resurrection v1.7 rom only with cm 9 kernel. flash cm9 kernal first.
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
I am afraid to flash any unknown kernal after @karchu bricked gs2.
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
May be after two months after comparing sgs3 with HTC one x.
[Galaxy S II General] ronhoover88:
Flash cm9 Odin version first and after first boot...reboot into cwm and flash reserrection
[Galaxy S II General] rutu3:
As far as i know i can't flash cm9 kernel on GB, so should flash cm9 first.

resurrection is based on cm9 only, what all additional features it has than cm9?
[Galaxy S II General] ronhoover88:
Flash cm9 Odin version first

Look for cm9 reserruction edition for odin

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=20841817
[Galaxy S II General] nitinvaid:
you can flash CM7 odin version directly over Gb
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
Yeah their is a general chat thread in x10 section, all off topic talks their

NEAK is a very well know kernel and nothing bad about it

Actually phones were bricked by siyah(but their was a reason behind it and was samsung's fault)
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
I can understand Samsung's fault, they are replacing MB.

at the same time Devs also need security test, what they compiling, merging in their development.. This is my humble opinion, other people may have diff. thoughts.

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Only flash stable things, why to take chances? its not Nokia 1100
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
Nokia 1100 is very good mobile for experiments. 6m colours with 1080p screen. I have dual boot in it windows xp and iOS 5. :p:p
[Galaxy S II General] Saketme:
After spending a week with this phone, I just have 3 letters: WOW!

Have a look at the photo I attached:
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
Thanks for that suggestion. Downloaded at least 10 unboxing videos, in only 3 of them had the chance to see the screen going off and on, other unboxers are just didn't let the screen goes off for once, lol. And in all 3 of them they have the same lag/issue. It's definitely a >1 second lag between the Home/Power button and the Lock screen. I am still irritated by it, but now kinda relieved that every device acts the same.

Regards.
[Galaxy S II General] sandeep10:
Don't bother too much about it. I am sure a few firmware updates and 2.3.4 coming in a few weeks will fix a lot of issues. I have not had a single crash / hang since about a week of using it. This is one of the best OOB smart phones I have used.

After 6 years+ of symbian where every new Nokia invariably crashed / hung often till at least 3 firmware updates over 6 months, this is very refreshing.
[Galaxy S II General] RobinRichard:
Galaxy S II in Chennai

Hey Guys, anyone from Chennai? Am looking to exchange my Nokia X6 to buy the Galaxy S II. Which is the best shop in Chennai where I can do the exchange and get the S II at the least price possible? Any ideas? :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] rahuln:
Finally I ended up buying one from scratch gaurd site. It fits really well. Now waiting for case mates tough case from US.
[Galaxy S II General] vickysud:
Finally Got my S2...im having few prob with it but overall watta an AWESOME PHONE!! loving it!! anyone indian users have dis issues

1. y in quadrant in system information its showing (Cores=1),S2 supposed to be dual core n it should show 2 ?

2.used for half n hour n started feeling phone is becoming hot frm back near camera ?

3.y isnt da text proper at some places, not sharp slight edges broken kind ?

and wat is best background effect to use ?
[Galaxy S II General] lakshmideepak.gaddipati:
I got my zenus cases today..2maro will be getting casemate..am not impressed by zenus cases..

GALAXY S2 PRESTIGE CARBON is some what better than air jacket in means of quality of build.
[Galaxy S II General] ashok:
Hi guys i have a small problem. I am unable to sync my calendar , contacts, and message of face book using social hub. Its shows and exclamation on the side and says sync is experiencing problems. I am unable to ge my contacts in facebook using socialhub. is anybody else experiencing the problem. Please help me if there is any solution for this.
[Galaxy S II General] thegr8anand:
Its funny it drains battery slowly while playing games even when it is plugged in