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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tfn:
Just Got my SGS2 yesterday and so far so good....

Have been on both these and sensation trying to decide which one to go but decided to go as I have and Htc HD7 and wasnt happy with htc's camera so thought would give SGS2 a shot as some one here posted nice shots from it.

Havent used the camera much but the video seems preety good and happy about it

It feels so light I fear It might fall off my hands without me noticing it :D

The Main reason I went with the SGS 2 is because Its been rooted so I know I can get Icecream sandwich for it as soon as its released and not rely on the operators. although I have no intentions of rooting it yet :) as Its already on 2.3.3 gingerbread (been a flash fanatic on my dear hero).

still a personal choice.. I did play with the sensation and its got its own goodies but as stated before I have an HTC HERO and Htc HD7 so thought would give samsung a shot and see how they make the phones and so far so good
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xEraseRx:
The S2 is my first android after many many years of using only nokia devices, so far I am very pleased with the phone.

Only thing i miss right now is the alarm. I am used to the ringtone being very queit at first and then getting slowly louder and so getting me gently from my dreams.

I guess I could easily find an app to do this, but i think this should be a basic function integrated into android.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whmcal:
Wanna have my sg2's babies
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ph00ny:
I'm completely happy with mine

I have no wifi issues, in fact i'm getting better throughput

I have no screen issues

I have no mysterious battery drain issues. (Based on a few posts, it looks like app/service issue more than anything else)

I have identified one heat issue and that was due to the crashed app

also see http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1109665
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idan73:
Happy here!

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Testraindrop:
I'm also happy with mine, but I'm not using stock Firmware and I have frozen some Samsung apps...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaimerabellerophon:
I have tested both roms lighting, and Leo but no improvements on battery life. I've tried all possible power saving apps but the battery SUCKS! Its been more than 6 weeks since I bough and still battery is horrible inspite rest all this. Helpful tips would be appreciated.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BUBA0071:
Yes it is a great phone, but it is not perfekt. i belive Battery drain will be solved in 2.3.4 but as i se it the biggest problem is wifi signal.

When covering buttom left corner, on the back of the phone the signal drops, one finger is enough, i think that is a hardware problem.

It has been the same on all roms an firmwares i have tryed.

But that is about it.

Almost a perfekt phone.

ps. miss the Voodoo sound fix from sgs1. But seems it will never happend, Supercurio is not happy at all with the Yamaha sound chip in this phone.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjoesys:
If you activate the "Smart Alarm" option when you create alarm (right below Snooze), it will do what you want. It will start very quiet and then getting louder.

Hope this helps,

-Joe
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beefheart:
Never really understood the complaints about battery life myself. Only once didn't make it through a whole day (16-18 hours) and that was through really hard use. Normally after normal use I put it on charge after a full day with around 40-50% still to go. Very good for a phone of this spec in my view. In my opinion in no way could it be described as 'miserable'.

As for the my opinion of the phone, other than the unreliability of the data connection (although others might find it fine) I'm more than happy with it.

Sent from my Casio digital watch.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ph00ny:
Can you show me the location which causes signal drop because i tried to cover the entire bottom half of the phone and i only lost 10db in wifi reception (with wifi analyzer)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makaka11:
i am more than happy , was using galaxy s before , the new phone is really fast . but i would note the older rom in galaxy s are far better and stabler
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Silver420:
I think with most new devices, people are going to "moan" - It's new, and tested to a very limited extent. This is what happens when you want the latest technology, you pay the price to have it first :p

It's like new consoles.. Take the 360 for instance. If you bought one when they were brand new, chances were within 18mths you were going to have the RROD due to solder melting over the GPU chips. In the "2nd generation" this was replaced with clamps. In original testing it was fine, but it wasnt tested for 12mths solid etc.

Biggest thing for me personally, is the screen... the yellowish tint people are reporting on the left hand side of the screen. So many phones out there with various degrees of the yellowish tint, that its a bit hit and miss. However at the same time, I can honestly say I love the phone to bits and having left Nokia (for which ive had for over 10yrs) think ive made the right choice. Get one... You wont be dissapointed :D

P.S. Your right, loads of people are moaning... Though at the same time, there's a bigger group of people enjoying their new phone too much, to have time to moan ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sanghaviraj:
TO ALL MANUFACTURERS-u have just DOUBLED THE PROCESSOR,NOW KINDLY DOUBLE THE JUICE PO

i hv seen so many people with so many diff phones of diff brands,os,complain for one single problem what is it ,BATTERY yes.over the years smart phone has evolved highly,u all no what gs2 is capable of but what use of a phones 16gb storage is if u cant watch a full movie while on the go without pluging ur device ,pls wake up let us all try to put this point to the phone makers,u have just DOUBLED THE PROCESSOR,NOW KINDLY DOUBLE THE JUICE POWER.:)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] H-KaN:
i am really happy with my gs2...the only problems are the battery usage and the wifi signal (very low next to router)...but i really love this phone and im proud to be the owner of it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ph00ny:
my 360 is still running rock solid after many years (bought it year after launch day ps3 purchase)... knocks on wood

Here is the problem with android based smartphones and same thing during the old winmo days. Most folks do not manage what is running on their phones properly. Android based smartphones have a lot of functions that are constantly running on the background

On my GS II, i have facebook, gmail, yahoo mail, twitter running on top of widgets that require regular updates. On top of my regular usage for music streaming or music player, i can get through the entire day and then some on the phone without an issue. As pointed out by numerous threads, there are quite a few new features that tend to stay on after its usage/or lack of but most users don't bother to check and disable as needed. Also let's not forget the unique nature of amoled screens. It utilizes a lot of energy when the screen is displaying white color and darker themes or turning down the brightness on the screen does wonders for the battery life
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maedhros:
Just wanted to say...

+1 for the SGS2 community.

If any post such as this was opened in the Sensation Forums the OP would have been attacked.

It's ridicules how HTC fan Boys are becoming HTC apologists...

Comming from a HTC fanboy from WinMo ddays :P
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kunalparwani:
Fabulous...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BarryH_GEG:
My experience exactly mirrors his. I'm bone stock, not rooted, and everything that can sync is background syncing. On a bad day I get 12-14 hours. On a good day 16+. That's better than my deceased G2X which was also dual core.

I truly think some of the analytic and monitor apps actually do more harm than good. Since I assume all the devices are manufactured close to the same spec, the difference in peoples battery life has to be related to what they have loaded, running, and frozen on their phones. That and obviously how differently everyone uses the device. Wireless carrier, location, and signal strength also seems important because if the phone is constantly bouncing between 2G and 3G or gets a marginal signal that too will suck up battery. If there's a hardware issue effecting certain phones that of course is a different story but there's been no discussion of that. I don't think there will ever be an end to the discussion(s) of battery life and some will be happy and others not so much.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mstockham:
Hapy, now....

Having had my shiny new device for a week now, I found some of the Samsung UI tweaks and apps a little confusing coming from a very HTC biased set of phones. Now I have installed the apps / widgets and uninstalled the bits I dont want I am delighted. Maybe its me, but if at first you dont succeed......
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Micho12345:
150% happy with it. I love it.

I have none of the problems mentioned.

Easily get 12+ hours with medium/heavy usage.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daivik:
+1. Most people probably don't realise their drain is from a single app that is caught in a continues process.

Just lost 8% in about an hour and a half. Cleared processes and haven't lost a percent yet, whilst, downloading 3 apps, unn-installing 2, downloading 5 HD backgrounds and setting them about 5 times, all over wifi. Oh yeah, an pushing gmail and exchange. :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarpathianUK:
The thing to remember about internet forums is that. on the whole, people will come to them to find out about an issue they have but not bother with them if the phone works fine or they're happy with it.

You might sell 100,000 of an item and 96,000 are absolutely fine or happy but the other 4,000 seem like a huge fuss when you look at just the queries from them in isolation. If all 100,000 came to post then you'd get a better indication of things but that simply doesn't happen.

That's not to say the phone isn't without it's quirks and issues but they have to be looked at with a certain distance in order to get a realistic gauge for things. New kit will always have these issues - they shouldn't, in this day and age, but they will. Just the way tech business is and the SGS is very new.

If you only looked at tech forums for items before buying you'd probably never spend any money on another one ever. All you can do is try to make an informed decision and slap your cash down!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haasgo:
I love my galaxy and will always love it. The display is awesome, the processor kicks ass and the support is continuously growing....i mean when the cyanogen mod team is going to release their mod the phone will be the best as with hardware and with software.

Btw: if u just leave the phone it wont drain ur battery. Just left the phone and wnt to sleep. Nearly 11h later just lost 3%....but yeah easy to say when there is so much u can do with the phone :-D

Support the devs and say thank you. Donating is also a way of supporting them....Cheers
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] biffsmash:
I love my SGS2 as well all though the battery with 3G on and 2 email addresses syncing per hour, drains 1% every half hour, which is a little fast for my liking, but with 2G and all data off, drains only 2% in 9 hours ish.

So im in the 99% happy camp, phone is the best i've ever used.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nurra:
Absolute positively couldn't be any happier. This is the best phone ever made so far. All those complain are just #@#@:-). they'll never be satisfied so don't even try.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chizzwhizz:
only complaint is the battery but seeing as how i always have car charger and i take my home charger to work its not really a big deal.

I absolutely love this phone...does everything I need it to in style and turns heads while doing it :-D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] troed:
After 5 weeks SGS II I can´t imagine to live without it anymore ................ Gave away my iPad to my wife (I never liked this piece of crap though), cancelled my preorder for Galaxy Tab 8.9 (won' t be delivered with 32 GB) and start my PC only when doing serious graphic work and video editing (prof. work) whilst 6 weeks ago it was always on.

Watch vids only with SGS II anymore (streamin from NAS), cut/edit vids on the go directly with the SGS II (gives me an excuse not to participate in boring smalltalks :D)

I leave at home my comparably huge digicam and my Sony HDR Video Cam. For what I need it on the private go the SGS II Cam is brilliant enough.

Have no batt drain problem (running NetQuin Android Booster and Juice Defender Pro) and as backup have my Znex Ext. Batt 8800mAh.

Methinks: can´t be topped anymore in the near future ...........

SGS II changed my comm-live significantly to the better
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ithehappy:
I am damn damn damn damn happy with it. I think the thread title should be unhappy instead of happy. And if someone don't like his/her GS II then I have to say that he/she is a Psycho :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeyMike01:
No one makes a thread saying "I have no issues to report, please don't help me fix anything".

Sent from my Infuse 4G
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikzDHD:
I love it! Best android device.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Unamrakerag:
I am so happy with my device, the main reason for me to buy this was to watch videos on the go, and I can tell you , it has served its purpose so well. Also looks wise, I was worried, reading all the comments regarding the plastic look and design, but once I laid eyes on this,I was sold. The design does not look cheap at all.

Not everything is perfect though, still searching for wifi proxy support for apps (but that is an android issue, not device specific),

I have taken unlimited GPRS plan for the time being, so no issues.

In all, a pretty good investment.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sakazulu:
Best smartphone in the world!

After my Milestone it looks like i'm on warp speed!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TA123:
I'm very happy!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] niketshah11:
Love it though facing some heating issue love the device the screen is just fab
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hollow.Droid:
I came from a Nexus One which I thought was awesome but the S2 feels much more like a complete package. The hardware speaks for itself and does nothing but impress and I think Samsung have done a good job with Touchwiz. Rather than trying to cover up android they have simply included some subtle but nice additions that just work. I didn't expect to like TW (As I didn't like previous versions) and I certainly didn't like Sense when I tried it out previously so I fully expected to use LauncherPro from day 1 but Samsung have excelled themselves with this little handset :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Frostfree:
Extremely pleased owner here.

Glad you started this thread to give a more balanced perspective
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AMoosa:
This is my 8th Android phone. I can definitely say that is the BEST phone I have ever owned and would recommend it in a heart beat.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rohitgarewal:
No phone's perfect for everyone, but the S2 is a great phone...powerful, sleek, light.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dskmat:
love this device

would not have even bothered rooting it if it wasnt for chainfire.

Love the device.

I've been using pdas then smart phones since 96'. This is my favourite to date.

I'm sure there will be better around the corner. But at the moment I dont think it can be beat.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onbacardi:
offer me any other phone plus $300 cash

use that other phone for just 6 month and i still wouldnt be able to do it.

thats how much i love my sgs II
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moparman:
I love my phone.

I would marry her if i could :-)

This phone is perfect for me.

Before this i had Nokia N900..
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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Willbuh:
I am very happy with mine, can't find a single flaw really.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stratplayer:
This is the best phone on the market. I love it.

I was first person to have one in my office, two iPhone4 lemmings have since jumped ship and absolutely love it.

My only complaints are:

Volume too low on headphones (this can be sorted)

No notification led (I had one on my HTC, so got used to it)

Other than those two minor things, this is a superb device.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hakkinenvthh:
It's the best Android phone atm. I'm very very pleased. Just wait the NTFS support to make it a perfect phone
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droidlovinyogi:
Have you done thorough research on the detrimental effects of task killers on the performance and battery life of Android OS devices? Their negative effect is an established fact. The absolute necessity for task killers is a myth.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Clivectmob:
I'll put my penny's worth in for what it's worth.

Having had a string of Android phones, going back to the hero, it is, without doubt, the best one i've owned. It works as well as you would expect it to considering the hardware. I had an LG Optimus 2x before this, and after it had been tweaked a bit by customized software it ended up being quite good. The good thing about the SGS2 is that it works really well straight out of the box, it's the only Android handset that I haven't felt needs a custom ROM on it, to get it to perform how it should do. I have done some cosmetic tweaks here and there, and thats about it.

One thing I will point out is that I got it from 3 UK, and it had old software on it. It would show signs of some of the common faults ppl moan about on here, mainly the inability to switch between 3g, H, and H+ without getting it's knickers in a twist. But I have de-branded and upgraded to KE7 and all is working perfectly now.

Regarding battery life, my take on this is that, with every android phone I have ever owned, there has been a thread on it's relevant section slating it's battery life. The thing with android is that battery life can be as good or bad as you want it to be, just by enabling or disabling various sycs, emails, wifi, 3g of 2g and so on, plus we all have different personal circumstances such as the amount of travelling we do and weather or not you have a good RX signal strength for whatever percentage of the time. The variables are endless, so it becomes subjective. For me, my SGS2 is about on par with any other android phone i've owned in my situation on the same network, and considering it's the most powerful phone out of them all, I don't think it's doing too bad. Now that the novelty has worn off a bit and i've got it set up how I like it, I get a day's use off one charge, which is all I expected really.

Am I Happy with it? You betcha I am! :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] copponex:
You are a bit wrong about the 1st thing you say. As the name of the device indicates this aint the first but SECOND generation and therefor it can't be an excuse to say "it's all new and stuff"
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tuxStyle:
NFS Shift is not working ... SGS2 is crap :eek:

/sarcasm off

A very good smart phone ...

I would love the battery to last more than 15h ... 8 of them in the office doing almost nothing (twitter, weather, linkedin every hour + gmail push)

Thing is, coming from Xperia X10 .. i know that firmwares that came after improved this aspect so i'm expecting Samsung/Google to implement a better power management at some point.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikzDHD:
It's not the second generation though, and its a new piece of hardware and not a remake of the original Samsung Galaxy. This is totally different, dual core, super Amoled, bigger screen etc. Sure it's the second product in the top end Galaxy line but it's all still new.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tuxStyle:
Nope, is first generation of dual core smart phone from Samsung.

As you see, they improved things that were present in first SGS.

The GPS for example...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roman5:
I just charged and used my shiny new SGS II for the first time yesterday. This phone is amazing! So many nice touches on it and loads of 'things' on it. Don't know how I stuck with my HTC Diamond for so long (about 2 years).:)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jay_993:
I havent bought SGS2 for three reasons

SGS1 dev section is insane nowadays

No qHD

No voodoo sound <this most important
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SimplyD:
I am more than happy, I'm thrilled. Screen quality and contrast is phenomenal, I honestly could not see myself using even SuperAmoled anymore let alone an LCD screen. Perforamance, while lacking in support for some games, leaves me breathless. I have not had a single hitch or hiccup using any of the launchers or applications/working games available. I am getting more reliable and speedier responses from all networking solutions, mapping and GPS are sweet.

All in all, a serious upgrade from the i9000. Thank you Samsung. Looking forward to Cyanogen and DarkyROM

edit: lack of wolfson dac is suckage, voodoo sound rocks. However, I'm sure an adequate solution will eventually become available.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snudel:
absolutely happy. great device. no problems here apart from a little weak wifi, which was not a problem so far if you are not freaking out about signal strengh logo.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thiencao:
I'm totally happy with it albeit I had to use Lite'ning Rom to get the MOST and BEST out of my Samsung Galaxy S II i9100.

Now I'm enjoying around 8-9 hours of normal usage instead of 2-3 hours previously. Blazing speeds too. Just gotta get used to turning stuff on and off and exiting apps completely.

Nothing to complain anymore :) Bluetooth is functioning exceptionally well now as well. Prior to replacing the rom, it would just disconnect or freeze or do something really funky.

One thing that I love about the phone is the Gorilla glass. Freaken durable. Just don't purposely trying to actually ruin it. Mine slipped from my hand and made contact to the vinyl flooring. Gave me a heart attack. It's fine with no scratches too.

Nothing else to brag about x.X
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nooner:
Happy Happy Happy

Absolutely happy with my S2.

I've come from a long line of Windows Mobile phones, starting with the Orange SPV C500 through to the HTC HD2, With the HD2 and the clever people of this forum I switched to running Android and was then waiting for a decent Android phone to up the spec of the HD2.

This is that phone and it rocks. The original C500 rocked. The HD2 rocked, but this phone is better than every phone I ever owned.

I know there are complaints, but as has been said before, people will ALWAYS complain. I don't mean to knock those who are complaining as they quite likely have justified reasons. But me and my S2, we're mighty fine, thank you.

I'll be even happier when we get 2.3.4 and I can video chat.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drspikes:
Completely love my new phone. Ok, I've only had it 24 hours but it is flawless. A dream to use.

The only thing I'm not sure of is if I can use it one handed due to its size and I'm a male with average hand size. How can I be sure I'm average? I wear precision surgical gloves for my job.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowsire:
i love my sgs2, rocking lite'ning rom 1.2 and launcher pro. the sheer power of this phone is insane, love it love it love it