yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] tameracingdriver:
It reminds me of the wait for FroYo on the SGS1 all this!

To be honest I am not too bothered about it - my SGS thankfully is working fine in all respects (apart from a little random battery drain on the odd occasion), and if 2.3.4 makes the battery life better and fixes a couple of glitches then I'll be totally happy....

However, if the FroYo debacle was anything to go by, I wouldn't be expecting a stable release imminently if I was you. They WILL get it right, but when that will be, nobody really knows.
[Galaxy S II General] walda:
now via twitter:

"SamFirmware: Android 2.3.4 for Galaxy S II rolls out next month! (BETA roms are not ready for public.) our insiders do not have the roms either!"

--http://twitter.com/SamFirmware/status/81422874828750848

sent from my SGSII via T*patalk
[Galaxy S II General] tCC:
yeap, sucks a lot, indeed. wish they released a clean ROM without the samsung shizzle, guess their bloatware isn't ready yet
[Galaxy S II General] bakewelluk:
I'd guess that the delay might be more to do with ironing out the potential bugs in the OS, just because the original SGS update has already been released. At least, I hope so...
[Galaxy S II General] SmilerOnline:
Samsung are obviously attempting to become alot bigger in the mobile space, and obviously one of their previous problems which held them back was their poor mobile software, but they must have come to the conclusion that if they want a successful product with the S2, they can't rush out five quick crappy updates and then leave their customers hanging out to dry like they were known to do in the past

So I'd rarther samsung were to make us wait a little longer and have a much better user experience
[Galaxy S II General] madmack:
my guess is that it has to do with the fact that we're on a dual core processor.

the sgs2 has many deadlocks in intensive code. This manifests in games, browsing, Android OS getting stuck on one core (49% CPU usage) etc..

Android 2.3.3 is not exactly compatible with duo core yet I believe and Samsung is trying to get things right with the 2.3.4 update. or at least I hope they are .
[Galaxy S II General] godutch:
SamFirmware SamFirmware

Android 2.3.4 for Galaxy S II rolls out next month! (BETA roms are not ready for public.) our insiders do not have the roms either!
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
wow! total mind blower! oh wait , it was posted here arleady, post 474 above ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Razer(x):
They won't do anything good, as with SGS
[Galaxy S II General] Tinderbox (UK):
I don't want to bring a downer but i have had a few android phones, from v1.6 Donut, and you are always waiting for the next update to fix all the existing faults, but it normally introduces a few more.

Android need to be able to do small fixes, like Windows :eek: , instead of having to flash a full rom and having to wait months.
[Galaxy S II General] Razer(x):
That is happening with Nexus series
[Galaxy S II General] tsimpoyris:
Now, that's just nonsense.

I happened to have a SGS for 8 months.

From 2.1 to 2.3.3 it was a different phone.

And surelly the best android phone of 2010.

Check samfirmware.com and see how many updates samsung has issued.

Then check the updates of let's say it's immediate contender, the HTC Desire.

Samsung are doing great work on updating their handsets.

I was very pleased with my I9000 as I am with the I9100.

They're probably working hard to bring 2.3.4 and a lot of bug fixes with it.
[Galaxy S II General] Razer(x):
They released a lot of updates, but none of them fixed something for real.

I was happy with SGS too, but it software was just s**t to me
[Galaxy S II General] madmack:
The SGS went a long way from 2.1 to 2.3.3. 2.1 had horrible , i mean terrible lag issues. 2.3.3 has more ram, no more lag and pretty damn stable. and from what I can read now, 2.3.4 fixed the battery Android OS drainage issue.

They're doing all right if you ask me ;)
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
bastards. I want my Captivate back :( the ugly damned f*ck that stole it is I bet very happy now.
[Galaxy S II General] jgadams:
yes u should be able to do it threw kies.but im not exactly 100%.
[Galaxy S II General] godutch:
we didn't have too many bugs to start with and most new gingerbread features were already in sense. I'd prefer android 2.1 with sense to stock 2.3.
[Galaxy S II General] stoney73:
well please do us all a favour and go buy an old htc desire or something then. :eek:
[Galaxy S II General] djsaad1:
I am not positive about this but didn't gingerbread start at 2.3 and now we are at 2.3.4?

Not all phones are getting the updates but they are releasing small updates every now and then.
[Galaxy S II General] aalupatti:
Not sure if this was posted here

From twitter

SamFirmware

Android 2.3.4 for Galaxy S II rolls out next month! (BETA roms are not ready for public.) our insiders do not have the roms either!
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
It was. Do not rub it in.
[Galaxy S II General] NIK516:
Just saw that to so i guess reopen thread next month, almost sounds like they are having issues with 2.3.4?
[Galaxy S II General] sohanlon07:
They're probably just trying to get everything right, well as right as you can get it, for this next release. I suppose its better than releasing something bug laden. The current version (KE2) on mine, is grand bar the battery life and some other small issues. But nothing that inhibits the phones usage in any major way.
[Galaxy S II General] da13:
Let's hope it will increase battery life.
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
It's just needed to be optimized with the OS.
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
Tick tock
[Galaxy S II General] SmilerOnline:
Still no info?

why can't they just officially announce an ETA for the next builds release
[Galaxy S II General] simacca:
I totally agree. I just want a new updated UK firmware that I can update using Kies or Odin.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
here I will announce it if you are ok with empty promises coming from me and not Samsung: the ETA is last quarter of 2011 plus/minus 1 quarter.

:)
[Galaxy S II General] noodles222:
New KF3 for Turkey is 2.3.4 as written on samfirmware. Can anyone confirm?
[Galaxy S II General] walda:
KF3 was European with Russion CSC i think. ... and 2.3.3 of course

Source?
[Galaxy S II General] rodjordan:
In fact it was a version for Borat, Kazakhstan :D
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
that guy is a f*ing loser, they do not deserve latest firmware

yours truly, Bruno
[Galaxy S II General] aly19:
The new Kazakhstan firmware is 2.3.4... pause...not!!
[Galaxy S II General] dk206:
lmao I've been seeing the title of this thread for like 3 weeks now. lol "within the next week"

Obviously this Samsung field rep or you didn't really have a clue eh?
[Galaxy S II General] lim eng seng:
hope there is free to root as HTC
[Galaxy S II General] madmack:
yekshimesh I like kazakstan vaaary maaach
[Galaxy S II General] Leggenda:
Where? lol
[Galaxy S II General] Krizp0:
Relax. No 2.3.4 as of yet ;)
[Galaxy S II General] El Salvador:
+1 Hate to say, but I told you so. Some dude over here was picking on me about this but the fact is that I was right.

Most of us didn't get any official updates after KE2. This thread started a long time ago and "next week" was two weeks ago. Not one single thing happened after that. Only some shady leaked pseudo-official firmware on Samfirmware, but that's it. Still nothing official.

I'm not going to fixate my mind on this crap anymore. Rumours my a$$. I'll just wait till an official update pops up through KIES.
[Galaxy S II General] du.renato:
LMAO!

In the meanwhile, let's wait for yet another next week...
[Galaxy S II General] Sp1tfire:
Who cares about 2.3.4 ? I want Icecream Sandwich :cool:
[Galaxy S II General] jakbim:
Preachin' to the choir my friend, Ice Cream Sandwich can't come soon enough!
[Galaxy S II General] jakbim:
Anyways I'm getting a Galaxy Tab 10.1 in a few weeks, so I'll enjoy the hell outta Honeycomb!
[Galaxy S II General] beppez82:
+1 XD
[Galaxy S II General] SmilerOnline:
Even though this topics labled, 2.3.4 within the next week, I think its still fine to chat about any upcoming firmwares in here...
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
I shall do a quote from the legendary game... speedball II

icecream..... icecream!!
[Galaxy S II General] CandyAndy:
So the conclusion is that Ice cream sandwich is coming within next week?
[Galaxy S II General] Sp1tfire:
Nope, the conclusion is you won't see 2.3.4 in one week, let alone Icecream Sandwich ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Dirky:
I care about it. I'd quiet like the video/voice chat in Gtalk and possible

improved battery life, though mine aint too bad as it stands.
[Galaxy S II General] Techvir:
u can easily get gtalk with video with a little bit of tweak in 2.3.3
[Galaxy S II General] Dirky:
Presumably I have to root the device? Then an APK or something to install?
[Galaxy S II General] Techvir:
yes.........
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
I wonder how big this thread will be when 2.3.4 finally comes out
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
Yea, well said. Lol.
[Galaxy S II General] Techvir:
Two things i see people are waiting for are

1. Battery fix

2. gtalk video

and i think are still possible with tweaks.

Most are going to be dissappointed to see that there is nothing much new
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
3. Stability and random reboot fixes

4. Modem fixes

5. "Yellow/darker left part of the screen" problem fix

6. Email client fixes (it wastes battery; sometimes the push refreshing hangs, fixable with reboot only; screen comes on briefly for new mails; base64 encoded bodies are not always properly displayed)

7. Camera Macro Mode distance fix

8. New feature - removable "Video Call" button in the dialer, or configurable to route the call to GTalk Video Chat for the contact.

9. "Unplug charger" message suppression

10. Makes me a sandwich.
[Galaxy S II General] adem_7:
11. Poor wi-fi signal fix.
[Galaxy S II General] TAEL:
This is so important. If I have this, I don't want Ice Cream even. :D
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
Don't know why you guys having rebooting problem, using for two weeks now, never had a single reboot!

Regards.

Sent from GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] mark2222:
Nearly eight weeks with no reboot here.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
Do not want to hijack the thread, but, did you ever use the KE7 phone under these or similar conditions?
[Galaxy S II General] mark2222:
No I don't use stock music and i'm usually on wifi.
[Galaxy S II General] TAEL:
Not like this, completely random in any conditions.
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
Lol, hijacking a thread. Jeez!

Anyway, why should I use KE7? To create another thread like this?

Regards.

Sent from GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] paranoidi:
There's nothing wrong with my wi-fi signal, it just stops working after 20minutes or so and required toggling off and on again ...
[Galaxy S II General] jvidia:
12. Banding on gradient fix (24bit force mode?)
[Galaxy S II General] J48BLE:
Sorry for being ignorant. What is KE7?
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
the firmware build number. KE7 is the latest official one from Samsung for the UK market.
[Galaxy S II General] darkmessiah:
For Samsung Galaxy s II India Build number is KE8..

no sign of any updates yet ..
[Galaxy S II General] rodjordan:
@total360 Could you rename this thread to one of these:

1. "Let's grow beards while we wait for 2.3.4 .....[pause] NOT "

or

2. "2.3.4 still on the horizon.....come and pray for it in this thread "

:D
[Galaxy S II General] NIK516:
LOL i have to many problems i want fixed not even praying will help i think.
[Galaxy S II General] DVC1985:
This but without the NOT bit. We should all make a pact to not shave until 2.3.4 is released. Would be interesting to see pictures of the immense ZZ Top style beards that would have happened because of this thread. :D
[Galaxy S II General] Pume:
Women should not follow these instructions, please :D
[Galaxy S II General] TheWizzard2203:
Like ;-D ..........
[Galaxy S II General] sia1996:
Would like it too!
[Galaxy S II General] :
That would be one for our belgian friends ;)
[Galaxy S II General] rodjordan:
I found a picture of the Samsung rep who said 2.3.4 was coming soon....
[Galaxy S II General] total360:
The rep popped in again today, when quizzed a problem with dual core optimisation was given as a reason for delay. ROM's are having to be rewritten with no ETA.

He said the pulling of the software was not taken lightly, but Samsung felt it would have damaged the platform if they released it.

If you are having battery drain issues, I recommed using KF4 as the PDA and KF2 as the phone. Works wonders.
[Galaxy S II General] hitman482:
Which rep was this?
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
Did you damage the rep's face for misinforming you and through you, fellow XDA galaxy addicts?

and it is "would have" not "would of"
[Galaxy S II General] total360:
Technically he didn't misinform me, it was pulled at the 11th hour so to speak. But he said the wait would be worth it... What ever that means...
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
hopefully it means they will fix at least 90% of all issues without adding too many new issues :)

thanks for the infos man, keep us informed.
[Galaxy S II General] aly19:
We probably won't get it until it the SGS II comed out in North America
[Galaxy S II General] Mr.Tom82:
And some important security fixes
[Galaxy S II General] TAEL:
Mmm... sorry for this stupid question and don't laugh to me guys, but what is the 'rep' exactly? :D
[Galaxy S II General] qwerty warrior:
representative
[Galaxy S II General] godutch:
I do know from samsung KE7 was pulled at the eleventh hour for the XEN release but 2.3.4 :S
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
well to be exact, in this case, reprehensible repulsive lie-reporting representative that should be reprimanded.
[Galaxy S II General] eug:
Has anyone else tried this? Did it help?
[Galaxy S II General] madmack:
love the modified topic, rofl.
[Galaxy S II General] FRLinux:
I don't pray, I expect ;-)
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
I shall quote Come fly with me

we've got coffee we got milk we got fire we got water but we got no 2.3.4

Praise the lord I am going off home...
[Galaxy S II General] airwater9:
This thread to me is indicative of all that is bad about XDA - 57 pages that basically boils down to: "Android 2.3.4 is expected soon."

What a waste of bandwidth/sever space/time etc
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
Only a waste of time if you read through all 57 pages and it's better to keep it all in one thread rather than have multiple threads all along the same subject line.
[Galaxy S II General] stoney73:
And then whine about it.
[Galaxy S II General] Shezed:
I think your poste is more of what you just said.. and so is this one to even bother replying to it.. i'm just bored because i send my SGS2 back cause it had a defective screen... Personally i think it's great, shows how slow OTA actualy get rolled out
[Galaxy S II General] sackynuts:
And then respond to the whining.
[Galaxy S II General] lgkahn:
maybe they are fixing the issues in 2.3.4 b4 releasing..

in 2.3.4 for i9000 there still is pptp vpn failure issue and adhoc supplicant not working issue.
[Galaxy S II General] stoney73:
And then respond to the response about the whining:p
[Galaxy S II General] madmack:
all right guys, stop it !

give us some more "rep" leaks instead will ya ?
[Galaxy S II General] gastogg:
14 and counting.... :P
[Galaxy S II General] Jabbypants:
Not sure why some are so impatient its not as if this phone is bad its great as it is, let them get it spot on the release it because if they released it early people would ***** because there are issues with it.
[Galaxy S II General] dk206:
+1

I am totally thrilled with this as it is. If 2.3.4 doesn't come with video google talk then I ain't interested. Until ice cream sandwich arrives :D
[Galaxy S II General] mark2222:
*****es with no idea
[Galaxy S II General] :
Any news on this?
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
When they announced that KE7 wasn't coming to Denmark I guessed it was because 2.3.4 was imminent. They just released KF3 there. So my new guess is they decided to do an interim release for them (they were on KE2) because 2.3.4 is delayed. Again, just a guess.
[Galaxy S II General] copponex:
Sounds reasonable :)
[Galaxy S II General] aussie_boi:
Hi, I am also on Optus and rooted with a Lightning 1.1 rom. Quick question is yr Navigon still working please? :)
[Galaxy S II General] aussie_boi:
Okies, for 2.3.4 does anyone have access to an update log yet? I also hope the battery drain is fixed...
[Galaxy S II General] Mitty1990:
Thanks a lot for the news mate looking forward to the update, although I haven't had a problem with my SGS II and I hope it stays that way lol
[Galaxy S II General] jvidia:
You don't have any issue ? None what so ever ? :confused:

At least banding gradient you must have!

Can you please post here a photo of your batery logo when charging?
[Galaxy S II General] Cane Phoenix:
This is what have been said about the update. Variations between phones might occur...

google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=3812c1acf93b482f&hl=en
[Galaxy S II General] shawt:
I don't understand what are you all talking about?Battery drain?Of course.If you use wi-fi,3G,play games....what do you expect?When I am using the phone normally,sms,calls,sometimes wi-fi.... 2 days.Of course when I am playing games,downloading...few hours and battery is gone. I don't think it's technically possible to improve the battery life until they found new technology.
[Galaxy S II General] dagrim1:
That's not the drain ppl are talking about, there appearantly is some android process draining the battery.. Also when doing hardly anything with the phone. Not everyone seems to have it though, but it IS a known issue with android 2.3.
[Galaxy S II General] jvidia:
As if the banding on gradient problem was not enougth, 2.3.4 seems to bring another problem ... color loss, at least with the Nexus: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=3812c1acf93b482f&hl=en&start=160

I'm closer and closer from selling my S2 to run away from Andoid :(
[Galaxy S II General] Forseti_Jan:
Awesome, then wait a couple of days for the devsto pick it up. Then we are in android heaven
[Galaxy S II General] o_tiger:
That is not a bug! Makes possible to double tap the home button! Check it out! Double-Klicks rocks!
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
that is the price for getting bleeding edge things.

try iPhone is you want better quality and more refined experience (sorry phan boys this has to be said), or even Windows Phone 7.
[Galaxy S II General] Techvir:
Please do not turn this into a flame thread.
[Galaxy S II General] tjtj4444:
Relax, don't expect all "problems" you read about to be a problem for you. In this case google choose to have a warmer and more accurate colour temperature on nexus s. Some people didn't like this. This has nothing to do with sgs2.
[Galaxy S II General] cigaro78:
Hello - I'm absolute anal rententive on colour fidelity, screens, etc.

I suffered myself from an Acer2540p which has a gradient/dithering issue at the hardware level so I know what these look like and how irritating they are.

I can tell you, with absolute certainty, that the samsung SGS2 DOES NOT have this issue. It's a driver or app problem, and nothing else. You can check it yourself by making and MKV of a screentest dvd yourself and upload it to the phone then play. Displays fine.

Some browser also have the gradient issue while other don't. I use Opera without any problems. You can check at this URL:http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/gradient.php . Mine displays fine.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
I think everyone already concluded this was a system driver issue. Apps that address screen through that system driver (that is most native apps, like the browser or the large battery icon on screen off) will show banding. Apps that address screen directly (video players and some third party browsers) will show fine gradients perfectly.

Why Samsung is doing this bit-change in the main driver is not clear - either to save battery, or it is just a bug.
[Galaxy S II General] jojo2peter:
First of all, i mentioned only this homebutton "lag", but srsly, when you're pc is going into standby, and you're awaking it, there's also a lag, and probably your machine is much better then the phone (mine is)...

Maybe they gonna fix it, if they won't i don't care.

Now another question:

Does Samsung release a detailled changelog?

Would be interesting, because the upcoming (hopefully 2.3.4) update will probably fix more than the known 2.3.3 bugs.

That google doesn't release any changelogs is a known "bug" ^^

So far!
[Galaxy S II General] jvidia:
That would be really nice and logic to have the changelog of each Android revision.
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
To date Samsung have never released any change logs for firmware updates for the SGS2 and I don't think 2.3.4 will be any different.
[Galaxy S II General] El Salvador:
So after tuesday is gone there are still 3 days left for Samsung to release the update. Do we really get the update this week?
[Galaxy S II General] crazyscow:
well it does state that its a rumour

i would love a fix on the wifi...i hardly get full bars eventho im like 2meter away from the router...my laptop and N900 get full bars.
[Galaxy S II General] djsaad1:
I am confused on how the atrix just got unlocked a couple days ago but yet they already have 2.3.4 available to them.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Cooked ROMs vs. a stock ROM. Once the phone's unlocked, it gives people the ability to run non-stock ROMs on it. They were probably in the works before it got unlocked.
[Galaxy S II General] TAEL:
Please tell to 'rep' fix the random reboot asap. :D It's rate seems increasing! One or two per hour!

sent from my freaky Galaxy S II
[Galaxy S II General] simacca:
Never had a random re-boot on mine.
[Galaxy S II General] TAEL:
I really dont know what is happening there. Many other users like me have this problem and this really driving me nuts! I hope it's not a hardware failure.

sent from my freaky Galaxy S II
[Galaxy S II General] co.ag.2005:
That's a leaked dev rom... no OTA. Atrix is still on 2.2.2
[Galaxy S II General] simacca:
Very strange. Could be a firmware/rom problem?

Im on stock KE7 XEU with no root. Waiting for an official update to come out.

If mine was re-booting I would have to take it back for an exchange or repair if it was on a stock rom.
[Galaxy S II General] ajftl:
mine does specially when snapping photos sometimes
[Galaxy S II General] TAEL:
I've tried all available firmwares and it happened on all of them.

sent from my freaky Galaxy S II
[Galaxy S II General] mwatson:
I had the random reboot on my desire HD. HTC called it in to replace the motherboard. It was fine after that.
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
I'd look at getting a replacement then before it gets any worse.
[Galaxy S II General] TAEL:
I've flashed custom ROMs and it's download counter is 11 I think. Just curios if they accept it or not.
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
I think if you flash it back to a stock rom available through your countries kies official firmware then you should be ok.

As you have already proven the fault is not firmware related so I really don't think they can say no to replacing it.

I flashed my old Omnia 7 with a stock rom which got rid of all the t-mobile branding and they still fixed it and flashed back the t-mobile rom without any questions asked!
[Galaxy S II General] TAEL:
Should I return it to retailer (Handtec) or Samsung Service Center?
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
Try handtec first and see what they say the chances are they will use the samsung service centre and if anything happens to it then you have a case against handtec to provide you with a replacement phone.
[Galaxy S II General] popy2006:
My battery drains with all roms :-( also KF2 :-(

Samsung, give us a fixed rom.
[Galaxy S II General] TML1504:
@tael:

maybe you should search for "usb-jig" before thinking of returning your device to samsung!

with the use of that, you can reset the counter... ;)

sold on ebay for about €5!