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[Galaxy S II General] kanu1and:
Hi what modem are you using for Docomo ????????? I have tried many but reception isnt good ... on Galaxy s2 as compared to my other Nokia handset ..

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Hi from where did you buy it and for how much ????
[Galaxy S II General] Debadatta:
I bought it from ebay.in. Seller name was TSI India. I don't remember how much. Maybe 200.
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
Stock KL1

Many switches between 3g and 2g
[Galaxy S II General] abhi2889:
Yes, that's true... but i saw same i9100 on flipkart and in reviews buyers complained that it's i9100g though it is mentioned as i9100. So just to be on safe side, got it from dubai.

BTW, all those screen problems yellow tint, pink spot and weird lines etc. are gone with the update 2.3.6? Because mostly i will keep it stock after updating it to 2.3.6.
[Galaxy S II General] chetan_mohanty:
I never faced yellow spot and weird lines.Even in KL1 aslo there is no such issue for me.But the pink spot in camera is there(only to a lesser extent ;))
[Galaxy S II General] sumitpathak:
Err...what pink spot, I have never seen any? Neither on stock nor on any custom ROM.

BTW chetan nice ROM, I installed it yesterday. Well done :)
[Galaxy S II General] chetan_mohanty:
hey thanks!!

Anyways You didnt have pink spot?Open up your camera app and try to click a picture or may be shoot a video of a white wall/board/background and you will know what i am talking about..
[Galaxy S II General] Mr.Raviteja:
Thanks but I don't have that much knowledge

Ya but changed my mind and rooted 1st (Thanks to Bala)
[Galaxy S II General] Debadatta:
Oh, okay then.
[Galaxy S II General] digi_fort:
Soldering is no big a deal just use flux solder wire and a hot iron and tadah ...:) you'll have a working jig ..... bala is right it's the finishing is what matters
[Galaxy S II General] superfast:
how to root xwl1 without increasing binary counter and traingle!!
[Galaxy S II General] digi_fort:
I think you'll need to flash an old bootloader from intratech's thread then use doom lords method to root and then darky rom tool to install an insecure kernel with CWM + BB + SU and you are golden :D
[Galaxy S II General] radicalgel:
BUMP! Someone. Or a link to the latest zip aligning script would be much appreciated.
[Galaxy S II General] superfast:
so many steps :O indian firmware sucks thn !
[Galaxy S II General] coolbuddyin:
Check PM

Method 1:

Flash 2.3.5 again and root it with Doomlord's method and

Flash KL1 with Mobile Odin Pro using Everroot option

Method 2 :

Flash 2.3.5 again and root it with Doomlord's method and

Flash CFRoot Insecure Kernel from Chainfire thread using Mobile Odin Free app

Flash KL1 with CMW Manager or Cmw recovery using Keep root Option

you have KL1 and Root
[Galaxy S II General] superfast:
are u sure we can downgrade frm 2.3.5 to 2.3.6 just like tht ?

and yeah thanks for tht filesonic link :D
[Galaxy S II General] OrrPenn18:
Yep! We can! As we under the 2.3.x tag, bootloader is not needed! :D
[Galaxy S II General] superfast:
hey man whole point of downgrading is here for me is to root without triggering the counter,so they say doomlords method cant root 2.3.6 seems have new bootloader ? so hw it gonna help me if i flash the 2.3.5 over 2.3.6 if the bootloader dont affect ?
[Galaxy S II General] Mr.Raviteja:
Guys Dead Space and Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus are Trail or Full Versions in Samsung apps? Any one tried them?
[Galaxy S II General] chetan_mohanty:
Have you tried Doomlord method with memory crash?

check this

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20296629&postcount=428
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
Flipcart is sh*t

Very high costs

Believe me i bought my phone from ebay.in and i have 1 year warranty+I9100

Just ask the seller if its I9100 or I9100G

If he send u the wrong one then return it and have a full refund

Yes i download dead space its full version

Didn't try MC2 as i have MC3
[Galaxy S II General] Harsha Raj:
I tried dead space. Looks like full version, Man the graphics and gameplay is too good. Should play this! Better than nova!

Lol. Well Bala would be real interested in that contest as he was waiting for the market to give PowetAMP app for 5 rs during its ten billion download feast. :D
[Galaxy S II General] digi_fort:
AFAIK 2.3.5 ie roms over KI4 have the new bootloader. That is why Intratech specifically says in his thread to flash an old bootloader cause many ppl who upgraded at that time with samfirmware roms we'nt able to use doomlord's method as well as the jig. I believe Intratech's 2.3.5 ROMs already have the old bootloader i'm not sure about the 2.3.6 ROMs (din try them and din read the thread). SO when they tell you to flash a 2.3.5 ROM they are effectively telling you to flash the old bootloader (which i said in the first place).

Secondly i've not used Mobile Odin so I may be wrong but as far as i have read it's just that if you flash an insecure kernel it'll increase your counter ..... what it's USP is that if you flash a stock over a rooted stock you'll be able to retain ROOT without increasing the counter (I hope you get what I'm sayin here mate)

Hope that helped :) :p ;)

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My friend is such a huge fan that he bought it for whatever 200 odd bucks it was. The best part is he already had an non-market apk ... but he's a good guy greg and wanted to pay the developer.
[Galaxy S II General] OrrPenn18:
Err ... Sorry mate! My counter is 3 ... I really don't care! You can reset it, jig! :/

I don't root by doomlord's method ... cf just works fine! :D

Why don't you just flash one of those custom rom update.zips?
[Galaxy S II General] mrcreativity:
You can sort the app drawer using Appzorter from the market. That being said, ADW Launcher EX is much better than the stock launchrt IMHO.
[Galaxy S II General] sandeep10:
Yes, only drawback of ADW (or other launchers) is that some decent Samsung widgets cannot be used. I found Go Launcher using quite a bit of battery, so switched to ADW. I am quite happy and it is very customisable.
[Galaxy S II General] Mr.Raviteja:
OT: You guys know that AP is having a Giveaway of Nexus mobiles (10)...Just wanted to ask If Me or One of us win...How much Me/The winner in India need to pay for customs duties? Any idea?
[Galaxy S II General] ano.cresent:
basically it depends whether you are getting the item for personal or commercial use ... see this link
[Galaxy S II General] coolbuddyin:
DoomLord's method is not working from 2.3.6, as manufactures patched the method that allowed root via zergRush binary script

It has nothing to do with Bootloader. New Bootloader will not allow to reset counter. Jig becomes useless. If you want to use Jig,you have flash old bootloader

Infact new bootloader came to galaxy s2 from KI1 which is 2.3.4

You can flash 2.3.5 or 2.3.4 or 2.3.3 directly ,No problem, Dont worry about Bootloader. Download these Roms from Intratech's thread. They come with Old bootloader.

Its advisable to do wipe data and wipe cache from Recovery.. i hope you know how to do it., Donot use FActory reset option in settings menu,it will erase

all Sd card (internal Sd Card) data

Happy Flashing and Rooting with Zero Counter, minus yellow triangle
[Galaxy S II General] Mr.Raviteja:
Personal........Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] ano.cresent:
guys a quick question before leaving the office ...

I will be updating the firmware to KL1 using Kies today.

I am on KK2 (some Netherland firmware but official), my doubt is whether my Kies will recognize that as authentic and upgrade to KL1 or I need to go back to KF3 and do the update ?
[Galaxy S II General] coolbuddyin:
You have to downgrade to KF3 to get recognized by kies for flashing firmware,you can backup,sync and restore data as usaul

instead you can flash KL1 using Odin

kies will recognize your phone,it wont to allow to flash KL1
[Galaxy S II General] Harsha Raj:
So we should pay like 12K as customs if we win nexus? :eek:
[Galaxy S II General] coolbuddyin:
Have you people checked new version of flashlight v4.0

https://market.android.com/details?...1bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5kZXZ1bmkuZmxhc2hsaWdodCJd

ON LOCKSCREEN SHAKING ACTIVATES FLASH LIGHT,SO COOL

Incredibly simple, yet very useful flashlight application

* v4.0 has arrived with a killer new feature - Shake on lock screen to start the light!
[Galaxy S II General] Mr.Raviteja:
12k O_O :mad: ...If I win I will just say to them Customs price has been increased in my country so can't accept it sorry....
[Galaxy S II General] Harsha Raj:
I guess so. As per the link given by ano the customs is 4% if for personal use. So its 30K*4% which is 1.2K lol :D not 12K. Hehe. I added one extra zero :p

So we can afford that much right?
[Galaxy S II General] Mr.Raviteja:
LOL........I thought price will be 40k so I/we need to pay 1600.rs but When I saw your post I was like WHAT...Than thought you are elder than me so you will be right

Ya.........Rs.1-2000 is better and we can afford it ...If I say I need 12k for a mobile my mom will just kick me out of the house.
[Galaxy S II General] Harsha Raj:
So sorry lol. Should not do math mentally when in lazy mood :p

I too got upset that we would have to pay 12K to government just to get a free mobile. I was planning from where shall I pool the money in case my name is in the list. Thank fully I computed again. Sorry that, my post was misleading.. :p
[Galaxy S II General] Mr.Raviteja:
No need to say sorry..Everyone will do wrong in maths sometimes
[Galaxy S II General] coolbuddyin:
Lol..You people discussing as if you are declared as winner and your mobile is shipped..
[Galaxy S II General] Mr.Raviteja:
LOL after reading all of that posts again I felt same
[Galaxy S II General] Harsha Raj:
Shhh.. Be quite! Let others think we won brand new Galaxy Nexus:p

By the way, i'm planning to buy a pen drive. 8GB one would be ideal. Will online market be cheaper or the SP Road in Bangalore (local market) will be cheaper?

Sorry for being too much of off topic guys. Need a pen drive asap!
[Galaxy S II General] augustya:
Has anyone here managed to install Pandora Internet Radio in India and able to run it, use it ("WITHOUT ROOTING")
[Galaxy S II General] drrkgupta:
I have rooted my phone using Doom Lord's rooting application then using mobile odin upgraded to the latest 2.3.6 KL1 build downloaded from Sammobile.

Can I just change the kernel to Siyah using Odin by selecting the files and flashing it in Mobile Odin?? I believe that the best battery life is got by this kernel along with setcpu! Please give your inputs.

I am a bit afraid in flashing the phone since have before Bricked my Samsung i780 in the process.
[Galaxy S II General] Joe_Nalin:
Yup, I got flashlight updates earlier in the day. As you said its a cool feature to just shake your phone to get flashlight on, it would have been good if another shake switches it off. We will need to unlock the phone to switch off the flashlight, which is also good rather that we scrambling for the application.

The app now runs in the background when the feature is enabled.
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
Just keep checking that you have 5/5½ hours of 'Screen On' time, simple. Don't go for counting some hours, it depends on how much you are using it, not how many hours have passed by.

Besides, Install 'Better Battery Stats', a great tool to have.

Please keep us informed about it. I'd like to know how it performs.

And Congrats in advance.

Regards.
[Galaxy S II General] goldbergx:
Processor works hard. It gets heated up. Probably not battery related.

That said, a battery review would be super-useful though! If you are getting it online can you post links please?
[Galaxy S II General] Style Icon:
Thanks for the info, Srikat. I will certainly go to a Vodafone outlet to activate it on my phone if there is no catch. The catch might be point #3 in the TnC which says : "The Offers shall be made available only against usage of Vodafone Live! & Vodafone Mobile Connect services" .....Any idea what these services are? Is it some specific plan? Or you can avail this offer irrespective of the calling plan you are in?
[Galaxy S II General] rinkmink:
Vodafone offer is good.it allows u free download till 1gb.nthn else matters.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] sajadkhan806:
would also like to know the same, planning for criskelo :D
[Galaxy S II General] jhonny23:
hello mates, is there anyone who can help me to turn my s2's capacitive touch button into NOTIFICATION lights. plz plz plz help
[Galaxy S II General] goldbergx:
For modems - I have tried every modem starting from KE7 (mostly because I keep flashing new ROMs or upgrading the old ones). I have not been able to see any difference in battery life or call reception or general connectivity.

Modem advice: Use the latest one that comes along with the ROM - KH3 is the latest I believe, I can confirm that this one too works well for me in Mumbai. If whatever you have now is worse than the previous one, shift to the previous one.
[Galaxy S II General] goldbergx:
You'll need to

1. Get a kernel/ROM that supports BLN - I would recommend Ninph 2.0.5, works on most ROMs

2. Install BLN Control App (Free or Pro from the market)

A lot of info can be found on the below thread. Give it a proper read.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1204031
[Galaxy S II General] kryptoner:
Why I have two operator names in the status bar... please tell me how to solve this... thanks in advance...
[Galaxy S II General] :
Which rom?
[Galaxy S II General] kryptoner:
Black Android 1.0... but I had the same problem on Litening rom 5.0 and Stock KG6... I did a full wipe before flashing Black android but the problem persists
[Galaxy S II General] funtoosh:
I know about screen usage etc... even killed all app but did not helped, I just restarted it and it fixed it on its own today even after 12 hrs with 3g and wifi on all the time I still have almost 75% charge

Cheers
[Galaxy S II General] nonchipmunk:
Found out something about flashed/rooted phones vs warranty

Ok so I found these out from some service center reps:

A Mumbai center: If you flash your phone, even if it is an official Samsung ROM through ODIN this is what will happen: Your warranty will not be void, but you will have to pay Rs. 650 as service charges for them to repair your phone.

A Bangalore center: Sir what is root? No sir we only check for warranty by checking IMEI number and bill.

A Coimbatore Service Center: Flashing? Yes yes I know it. No it will not cancel your warranty. Rooting? What is that? Navigation? We only check for warranty by seeing the bill.

Called up the 30308282 number: Hi. What? What is root? What is flash? Camera? Ok our technical department will call you back. Just to confirm, you are Mr. Xxx Xxxx, mobile number is ######, and your house address is blah blah?

Me says: HUH? How do you have all this? Do you know how old I am too?

He says: I don’t know sir, it’s just here. Anyway, our technical team will call you today.

Can anyone share their experiences if any, of giving in a rooted/flashed phone for warranty?
[Galaxy S II General] nonchipmunk:
Mine too has it twice. I guess that happens on my phone when I'm on roaming.

Name of home network

Name of current network
[Galaxy S II General] mr.gibran85:
even i have the same thing, but i'm having no problems with it
[Galaxy S II General] sandeep10:
Yes. But 2 GB is huge amount. Many other phones have only 512 MB or 256 MB. So with SGS2, one need not bother too much to move apps to SD either. It just works.
[Galaxy S II General] sandeep10:
Recently when I have checked my 3G usage, it gives me message that beyond free usage I will be charged only 2p/10kb. :D Way to go Voda....
[Galaxy S II General] karan999:
i think im selling my Galaxy s2.terribly disappointed with the audio quality.will buy an HTC Sensation.
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
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[Galaxy S II General] srikat:
No idea about Vodafone Live! and Mobile Connect Services. I don't know whether they were/are active on my postpaid plan.

Regarding 3G, after I got the SMS that it has been activated it did not start working out of the box. I called up the customer care and had to enter few values.

Here are the steps I followed:

1. Settings -> Wireless and network -> Mobile networks -> Access Point Names.

2. The first entry in the list there was something like vodafone_gprs by default for me. Tap on it. Change the name to say "Vodafone live" (this is just a label and can be anything)

3. APN = portalnmms

4. Proxy = 10.10.1.100

5. Port: 9401

6. MCC = 404, MNC = 86, APN type = Internet (I think these values are the default ones, don't remember whether I changed these are they were already like that)

No need to change other values.

7.

Note

: 3G started working w/o me having to do this step in my case. I am not sure if this is necessary but the phone rep said something like this:

Settings -> Wireless and network -> Mobile networks -> Network operators -> Search networks. If Airtel (yes, Airtel!) comes up in the list, select it. Otherwise, select the first occurrence of Vodafone.

You will know that 3G is working when you see H or 3G characters (for me, it's H all the time) with up and down arrows in the status bar at top.

What is wrong with the audio quality? Is it low during calls? Does your voice echo?
[Galaxy S II General] OrrPenn18:
Yes gokhanmoral offers .tar files! :D

Yes Siyah is pretty good ... stable! But speedmod's another good one! There is a new one, NEAK and there is void ... But Siyah is everyone's fav!
[Galaxy S II General] ano.cresent:
guy... I think my phone is bricked :(

I had KK2 firmware and I was going to update the indian firmware using Kies, so flashed the KF3 firmware using Odin. After completion of it .... the phone when into bootloop.

I waited for an hour to come out of it but it didn't .... I disconnected and tried to flash the KF3 firmware again ... nothing happened ... Odin did not recognized he phone ... and now I am not able to go into samsung recovery mode also and every time I swith on the phone I see a picture of phone and a pc with an orange exclamation mark ...

help !!!
[Galaxy S II General] OrrPenn18:
Can you go into download mode?
[Galaxy S II General] ano.cresent:
yes I can enter the download mode ...
[Galaxy S II General] emze:
the S2 is a tough-to-brick phone. never the less, it is NOT unbrickable. now, you can try to get into download mode by pressing the HOME+POWER+VOLUME DOWN key and reflashing it with another firmware or the KF3 again.

before you do all that, DON'T PANIC
[Galaxy S II General] ano.cresent:
tried the step you mentioned ... but still going into the boot loop... to get out of the boot loop .. I am trying these steps http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1108499, however the only issue is that, the steps mentions to wipe user data in step 4, but in standard recovery mode ... there's no such option

Let me know if this is correct
[Galaxy S II General] Ankit Tulsian:
I faced the same problem try this it may work

Flash a new stock firmware any one will do

See if it still in bootloop.If yes then go to download mode and flash a cf root kernel depending on the stock version you have

If it doesnt solve the problem then reboot and go to cwm recovery and do a full wipe including cache and dalvik and then reboot and your phone should reboot with out any error.
[Galaxy S II General] emze:
i have faced bootloops usually when i flash a rom. besides, once i get a perfect flash(with no bootloops) i do a full reset any way. so, i would suggest you to factory reset the phone in recovery. that is the only way to make the phone work(as far as i know). i have not tried the villain rom to comment on that.

if you have not taken any backup, then god help you.
[Galaxy S II General] ano.cresent:
managed to start the phone ... but it had a huge cost ... had to do a factory reset .... did not had any backup as I didn't root my phone ... but thankfully I have Kies Backup ...

thanks all you guys for the help
[Galaxy S II General] superfast:
so hw did u fixed it ?
[Galaxy S II General] rajarshi10:
I have rooted my phone using CF Root. Can anyone suggest me some good kernels/modems for good battery & 3G speeds? What are the other benefits of rooting other than Titanium backup?
[Galaxy S II General] ano.cresent:
went to samsung recovery mode ...

did factory reset...

went to download mode...

flashed official KF3 firmware...
[Galaxy S II General] OrrPenn18:
It was a softy! ;) Next time It is good that you buy a JIG :)
[Galaxy S II General] ano.cresent:
I have a Jig .... but didn't use it as I was able to get into the download mode without it.
[Galaxy S II General] ano.cresent:
use Siyah kernel ... and KL1 modem. Thus far KL1 modem has got good reviews.
[Galaxy S II General] ppmal:
Me too wanted to know the best modem.... please some one help me....
[Galaxy S II General] Hrithan2020:
+1. Siyah kernel. Try it out, esp. if you are interested in tinkering. [OC/UV etc].

Otherwise, give speedmod a try..

@All,

I had the same question regarding the modem. Am using KI14 modem still, but wanted to know, if KL1 [esp. w.r.t battery life or signal strenght ] performs better in India.

Please chime in with your observations, if you have tried these two [and other ] modems.
[Galaxy S II General] coolbuddyin:
Good to see finally your prob solved

Bootloop happened i think you downgraded without a wipe,you must have wiped your phone from recovery and then downgraded to KF3

or if you flash KF3 from SAMmobile,which is wipe firmware,it will wipe the device during the flash,it would have saved from this stress.

if you are non rooted,take backup using Kies,and My backup Pro and also iSD backup,which backs up all contents of internal Sd to Ext sd card, and you can restore later time. if you need sms badly the also use sms backup and restore as additional backup

for rooted user, great backup options available, two magic wands. Titanium backup Pro, Nandroid Backup using CMW recovery

I do backup in lot of ways,coz i'm such a noob that i can screw my mobile anytime in anyway
[Galaxy S II General] Ankit Tulsian:
Any one from Hyderabad who is willing to buy a new sealed amazon kindle fire can contact me.I will not ship out side Hyderabad as its costs 3400 for shipping.We will meet in hyderabad and deal.No risk of scam on both sides

Price: 12500 INR.
[Galaxy S II General] Debadatta:
Tell me something guys, if I have a modded hosts file (adfree) and I unroot my phone, will my phone still be adfree?
[Galaxy S II General] chetan_mohanty:
Theoretically yes
[Galaxy S II General] rajarshi10:
What are the advantages of Siyah Kernel? And regarding the best modem.... can anyone please suggest good ones?
[Galaxy S II General] Debadatta:
Cool! :D

But I guess I can't update the hosts file anymore.
[Galaxy S II General] chetan_mohanty:
Nope you cannot.BTW why did you remove root?

OT:

Check out my theme.Its totally overhauled ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Debadatta:
I did not remove root. Was planning to unroot and give my phone to the service center to update when ICS arrives :p

And tried it out now! :D

Man, I need to gather fragments of my brain, because it just blowed my mind! :D
[Galaxy S II General] rajarshi10:
And can anyone give me a tweak that doesn't change long sms messages probably 160X3 into a MMS message? I desperately need this! Please help!
[Galaxy S II General] OrrPenn18:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1113854&highlight=mms+mod
[Galaxy S II General] jackson.james:
Hi guys .. I rooted my galaxy S2 i9100G. Can anyone tell me how to backup my stock Rom ?