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[Desire HD General] Fihlvein:
As a long time DHD owner and a previous SGS owner, I bought the SGS2 few days ago. Some quick thoughts:

1. I'm quite critical to build quality and I couldn't stand original SGS display bezel and back cover getting loose. Ok, why even consider SGS2 then? Well, I kind of fell in love for Case-Mate Tough case, and I'm happy with it after using it for a day.

Some quick notes about SGS2 build quality in general, display bezel seems very solid and since back cover only covers the back area of the phone (unlike SGS where the back cover went all the way to sides of the phone), and this is a good thing. It seems to be very tightly attached to the body and it has more snaps that attach than original SGS.

Back cover can be pressed a bit down and it makes a little click under camera module. But these are not an issue for me as I got the case on mine.

2. The main reason I bought it, SAMOLED+ display. Okay, first boot and I immediately noticed white is not very good white. It's blueish. I've already used to that, but that's just something that immediately jumped on me after looking at white with DHD LCD display.

Otherwise, viewing angle is awesome, but that doesn't matter much to me as I tend to look at my phone in the front. :)

Overall of course all the colors are very good looking and sharp. All in all I maybe expected a bit more, but I'm definitely happy with it. But I feel that moving back to DHD LCD display would not be such a big deal that I thought if I had to do that.

3. The physical home-button makes quite loud click when pressed, I'm not a big fan of it.

4. Now here's why I'm having serious second thoughts about having this device: ROM support. My main grudge of course is that there is no CM7 for SGS2 yet. I have to say that I REALLY REALLY, I mean REAAALLY miss CM7. *sigh* It's until now that I'm using Samsung's customized Android, I realize how much I miss massive number of features available in CyanogenMod.

Another thing is that as far as I can see, there is no official CWM support for SGS2, and currently users use a customized version by Chainfire. It's ok though, as long as it works.

All in all my general feelings about the phone itself is good, I like many things over DHD such as improved taking camera photos speed, camera picture quality seems a bit better and ADW screen transitions and 4D drawer runs smoother than on my DHD. But the more I use SGS2, the more I miss my DHD running CM7....

I know, my complaints are mainly related to CM7 not being available on SGS2 so it's pretty subjective view. I also know atinm and Teamhacksung is working on CM7 on SGS2, but I have no idea when it'll be ready. CyanogenMod is just that awesome.
[Desire HD General] Meatboy42:
Doesn't CM7 have massive battery issues on the DHD though?
[Desire HD General] tolis626:
It used to have,something to do with the DSP chip not sleeping correctly I think.It has been solved a looooong time now. :)
[HTC Sensation] Derek Mc:
I am trying to seek an airtime monitor for the sensation to let me keep track of in and out calls like the Telicost one I had on my Previous BB 9780, I apologies if this has been covered I had performed a search for all combination of terms I can think of for this.

Thanks

Derek
[HTC Sensation] rm1984:
3G Watchdog ;) free from android market
[HTC Sensation] abuserkadayf:
uhm im also looking for something like this... and i have 3g watchdog but that only monitors your internet data !
[HTC Inspire 4G] sp1813:
Hello all. Seems my phone will always go into what seems to be an endless sync after reboot and other random times. If I go in and cancel the sync then re-sync it works. Anyone have a similar problem? Its kind of a pain but not the end of the world. My Inspire is rooted with Bubby's simple one click and rom is coredroid v6.8 with LeeDroid Ace GB 3.1.4 kernel. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
[HTC Inspire 4G] 1.18.12:
Do you have 247 sync on? If so I'm guessing its just that.
[HTC Inspire 4G] rayford85:
+1

turn 24/7 sync off if its on. i do mine manually
[HTC Inspire 4G] sp1813:
Thanks for the replies guys. I ended up reflashing the rom and it seems to have taken care of it. For a couple weeks it would just try to sync regardless if 24/7 sync was enabled or not. Strangest thing. Oh well. Thanks again.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Serinety:
I know a lot of people are using quadrant to get an idea of system performance, and I did some playing the other day so I wanted to discuss what I noticed.

On monday I went into the verizon store to use my upgrade to get a new phone. Coming from the droid incredible, I was going to stay with HTC as I love sense and I love HTC phones.

so i started installing quadrant on all the phones I was interested in, the Dinc2, thunderbolt, and charge. This store also sells att phones as well, so i installed quadrant on the HTC desire and the sansung infuse.

the HTC phones all scored almost 2x as high as the samsung phones. the thunderbolt hit 1980 or some craziness, while the DCharge and the Dinfuse got about 950.

so initially i thought "wow those are slow im getting an HTC"

but then i WATCHED the quadrant run on the phones.

when pressing start at the same time on the HTC thunderbolt and the Charge, the Thunderbolt got into the graphical part of the test about 2 seconds faster. however, when you watch the framerates on the renderings, the charge is easily 2x faster. during the "walk down the hallway" part the thunderbolt was getting 15-17fps while the charge was getting 30-40, during the "dna" rendering, the thunderbolt was again about 12-15 while the samsung was in the 30s.

so.. what did that mean? I wanted to find out. I installed several live wall papers on each phone, and yup... the samsung was able to run the live wallpapers without bogging down the UI, the same live wallpaper on the thunderbolt cause sense to skip a little when switching screens.

however, i noticed that when the samsung is downloading and installing apps, it starts to become pretty laggy until the install is over.

Overall thoughts:

i think quadrant is ONLY measuring the CPU power of the device. The thundebolt seems to have better processing ability when it comes to CPU intensive tasks, like installing programs or unzipping files, but it seems to severely lack behind in GPU rendering. While the Samsung is lagging behind in the CPU department and doing very well on the GPU end.

All in all i would say that the difference between processing power is less drastic between the 2 than the GPU performance between the 2.

I hope this helps some of you out there when trying to interpret Quadrant scores and what they actually mean.

Even with a quadrant score of nearly double the droid charge, it still struggles to run a simple live wallpaper as easily as the charge can.
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
The Thunderbolt and other HTC phones use the Snapdragon processor, which is a great CPU, but not so great GPU, hence the bad frame rates. The reason that the Samsung phones bog down when installing stuff is more from the fact that Samsung created a proprietary file system based on FAT to use for everything, and the IO performance isn't so great. Voodoo Lagfix can really speed up the IO of the phone, reducing the lag you see and also bringing the Quadrant numbers up closer to that of the Thunderbolt, etc. I'm getting 1700-1800 in Quadrant on my Charge, not that the scores mean anything.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Serinety:
that's interesting, I had been reading about the voodoolagfix but wasn't entirely sure what was going on with that.

What we need is a phone with HTCs processor and Samsungs GPU lol.

So what causes Iphone to be soo incredible smooth? I hate apple, but i have to admit that their UI is incredible smooth and damn near flawless on screen transitions and GPU rendering. It seems like almost all android phones are more powerful hardware wise, yet even the smoothest UIs out there still stutter compared to Apples UI
[Verizon Droid Charge] ¿GotJazz?:
I think when they release that chipset, they should call it "Tegra2". :D
[Verizon Droid Charge] binglejellsx2:
Probably like you noted during the Quadrant tests, Apple's GUI takes full/more advantage of the GPU since they control both the hardware and software. There aren't multiple chipsets out there to cater, so all the programming efforts can be concentrated to just one setup.

IIRC, that's the job of Android GB/ICS. The base OS is there, now little tweaks need to be made to optimize for the various hardware. Well get there soon enough, I hope.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quantumstate:
I have had about enough of CyanogenMod. Been using it since 5, and every single version has had significant usability problems. Currently in 7.0.3 photos are bad, GPS is non-functional, it forgets settings like keyboard, and when I first answer the phone no one can hear me.

Terrible. There has got to be something better. If not I'm going to stock.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Autinhyeu:
You can use MIUI ROM :D
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pepone1234:
Enomther's

It's not gingerbread but is by far the most stable and the fastest.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baseballfanz:
There's many ROM on this forum, you are free to use which ever make you happy.

CM7 has been great for me since the first nightly.:)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quantumstate:
Autinhyeu seriously? Like RoDrIgUeZsTyLe, or straight MIUI?

Are most functions stable?

baseballfanz I'm glad you've had such luck. Many of us haven't. I'm looking for feedback of others' experiences on which ROMs seem to work the best. I already know which one I'm not using anymore.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drive2droad:
I'd never be able to go stock after i used CM for the first time . It might have some flaws but its the best there is & has no alternative .
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Autinhyeu:
Yes, MIUIMOD from Rod :)

i had use MIUI Stock 4 months ago, then i use CM 7 nightly build, and now, i comeback MIUI with MIUIMOD ROM, after a week use, with some tutorial, i think its best for my phone at the moment, hehe... some user dont want use MIUI, because it like as iOS :) but i dont care, it gives me comfort & i use it...

With MIUIMOD, you will have more than free Internal memory and RAM memory...

anyway, i saw dont more difference between the CM7 and MIUI, :D you can choice :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quantumstate:
With CM all I had to do was wipe and use Amon Ra to flash zip.

There are no instructions with RoDrIgUeZsTyLe except "MIUIMOD D2SD HowTo", which only seems to do with partitioning. Do partitions actually need to be changed, and if so why?

How to apply the ROM and why aren't there instructions?

Also he says, " (Please Read the D2SD HowTo)", but there's no link and a search doesn't turn it up.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] athost:
MIUI is pretty good
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quantumstate:
Which one? I've found four so far, including one that seems to have Chinese buttons.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Autinhyeu:
Goto Rod's thread ;) i will help you, if i can :d
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tommert38:
You should definitely go for QND MIUI

Used it from the beginning and I'm loving it. It's stock MIUI with XJ's multilanguage pack, so it's just like MIUI is supposed to be. No junk or ugly themes added :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -Phazenine-:
I also get the delayed connection when I answer calls but besides that CM7 is the best there is.Some debate MIUI is better but its a matter of the individuals likes/dislikes. Also the themes and control of customization on CM7 IMO by far surpasses any other rom out there currently so you should prolly stick w/ CM. Hopefully the next stable release fixes the bugs your speaking of:cool:
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quantumstate:
Mouse I've been patient with CM since version 5, and I am fed up.

The good news is I am really digging this MIUIMod. Seems much more modern, smooth, and usable than CM. Have just now gotten things set up so it remains to be seen how well things work, but the camera is sure better and that's a biggie for me.

Takes forever to boot (no big deal) and I am missing my Galaxy wallpaper, but I am:

Digging it.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b1337:
flash away then and see what one you like the best thats what its all about...i would just use stock miui from either here or miui-dev if you are that finicky about roms
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quantumstate:
I just have so much to set up that it takes about a day. This is one thing that was so irritating abut CM; in order to correct atrocious usability bugs I'd have to completely reinstall each month and start all over again. I started with Rodriguez today and that's fine so far except for the lack of Galaxy wallpaper. Still have alot to learn about MIUI. Lucky it's Saturday...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baseballfanz:
You could always to CM6.x if you like CM's features.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
So much has been fixed and improved in the latest cyan nightlies over 7.0.3 that you prob should try that out first.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pinke123:
Have you given any of eVilD's sense roms? NXSense and NXSense HD have been working pretty well for me, although nobody can beat MIUI battery life and cuatomuzability :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quantumstate:
Haven't checked out the Sense ROMs.

MIUI is very nice so far. Desktops rotate like a cube and other nice effects. It's like a 21st century iPhone except without the restrictions, not a 20th century Windows-like CM phone. And I've found the Galaxy wallpaper in the market. My desktops are games|multimedia|default|appts/calendar|utilities. There is no launcher place where all the apps are; all apps are on desktops, but you can put apps inside a folder app which is very handy. Those apps I use are on desktops, those I rarely use are in Apps, Utilities, Multimedia, and Unused folders. No more screenshot app needed; it's Menu:VolDown now.

GPS still has problems, and still some things I haven't figured out. I need to put contacts into folders in the contacts app. With CM I'd put them into one contact and change the label to Custom with their name in it. That is only simulating folders though. Wish there were a better way or an app that could handle folders. Edit: Hey, Contacts has something called Groups, which just may be the ticket! Experimenting.

Does anyone know why DroidWall is no longer in the Market? That is my most valued app to keep out G**gle's prying eyes.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
My Galaxy S I9000 camera glass have a little scratch lines but it's not very bad.

I want to prevention lens from bigger scratch lines ;)

I thinks it's not anti-scratch !
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UnsecWifi:
I cut a square from an extra screen protector and put that over the lens, works fine and has stayed on.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vogie:
And what about camera quallity ?! Is not pictures blure or mid-mute?!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nixie2121:
just got my gtab.. charging at the moment. when done I know I need to find what version bootloader I have.. how do I do this? then I want to get a custom rom right away.. so I understand that I need to flash the recovery.. i like gingerbread but want netflix to work so what rom would you suggest for me?

thanks

OK, it is the 1.2 bootloader.... suggestions?
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] pakphoenix:
I have solved the mounting issue for my streak, however I am not able to get the google car home to install. Anyone have any ideas on if there are any suitable car home applications out there for the streak. I have it mounted horizontally, so landscape is fairly important.

I already have an app that let's me switch the streak in and out of car mode, but other than the steering wheel icon, and it not turning off there is no interface change that corresponds to the mode change.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thank you
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] crashDebug:
the car home app from google should come in 2 separate apks. did you install both of them?

do you have a bluetooth handsfree system in your car? google car home can be set to launch on a specific bluetooth connection (and quit on connection lost)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] krazman325:
Vlingo and its included Vlingo InCar has a nice UI and works on Streak.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] pakphoenix:
No, I wasn't able to install it through market (google car home), didn't know where to get the apk from.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] pakphoenix:
Will take a look at that too as long as it's not subscription.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] crashDebug:
here you go mate, as far as I remember you just need to pull both the APKs to sdcard and install them (dont move to sd after install!)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] pakphoenix:
Google apks worked like a charm, thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mfknboss:
What is their purpose? Do they affect battery life?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linsalata28:
I think there to get better signal and if you get a better signal and your phone isn't searching all the time then I would think you would in turn get better battery life.

I'm not sure about all this though someone might be able to tell you more then me thats just my guess.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mfknboss:
Thanks for your input :) so should i always be up to date with these?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linsalata28:
That would depend on the ROM your on and how your phone reacts to them if your on a gb ROM I would try the new combo pack if your getting bad battery from your phone not sleeping try to downgrade your pri .

You might have to play around with different combos to see what works best for your phone they say all evos are different I my self have all the new ones and no problems but some PPL are so just try them out you can find all of them on calkulin's thread.

I searched for you heres the link.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=715485
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mfknboss:
My pri is downgraded to 1. 77, do i need to upgrade my radio? Im on vr kingdom b1.3
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
You don't HAVE, you can get better strength depending. If you have good signal, no need to change.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linsalata28:
I would do some speed tests before and after to see what works best for you.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mfknboss:
Ok i have good strength. :) thanks guys.
[LG Optimus 2x] sganach:
Why when I connect the TV to 2x OPTIMUS

Pixel stretch

Even when taking pictures in FULL HD

Even in games

In Cell Phones see so beautiful

But not on TV

Apart from two sample movies I got with the device
[LG Optimus 2x] Rusty!:
The phone's resolution is 800x480, your telly's resolution is 1280x720 or 1920x1080.

Not hard to figure it out ;)
[LG Optimus 2x] sganach:
Yes but when taking pictures in FULL HD

This basically

1080P?

So ...

Or I copy a tape device in MKV in HD

This should be the quality of HD is not it?
[LG Optimus 2x] sganach:
*when taking pictures=when i taking video...
[LG Optimus 2x] ravn1:
Mine doesnt strech on the screen. If the phone is upright it shows the image upright, with big black sidebars(No stretching). When the phone is laying down/playing video the image is not scaled either, and fits the screen quite nicely.
[LG Optimus 2x] bemon:
The user interface is upscaled to 1080p, so the menu, items, apps, ... are all upscaled.

Only the video mode (and maybe game mode) is native 1080p.
[LG Optimus 2x] erups:
I've fiddled with my phone on the tv and I see no stretch.

Are you sure that the TV itself doesn't have a picture stretching mode enabled?

Many TVs have them on by default to adapt 4/3 (99% of non cable/satellite transmissions) content to their screen.

Modes are various and go by different names,but these are the usual:

linear stretch, content is stretched over the screen, so it gets "fattened"

zoom, content is cropped to fit aspect ration and then zoomed, this usually gives good results on films because they have upper and lower black bands which gets deleted, and then the rest has the size of the tv and fits all the screen

hybrid stretch, central part of the content remains the same, the content gets stretched the far it is from the center (stretching on the lateral edges, it gives an effect similar to a wide lens)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] w4rl0:
Ok so last night I went into my clockwork mod recovery and partition my SD card and now i had to redownload most of my apps. Also now app are not on the Market place like Netflix, Play On, USPS Mobile, and a few others is there anyway to fix this?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrono:
either try deleting the app data/cache of the market and have it re-detect the apps, or use the market fix with titanium backup pro
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] w4rl0:
How to I delete the cashe
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linsalata28:
Go to settings/applications/manage applications/ market and you should be able to clear it there.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andydumi:
I have the phone set to pattern lock. So when I turn it on, I first have the HTC slide down lock, then the actual lock screen.

Is there a way to disable the slide down lock and only have the pattern lock screen appear?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superchilpil:
I've tried a d tried to find an answer and I was always left with the same answer..... No

Its possible on aosp roms but sense is a bit more difficult

>--The Game--<
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] binku:
Hi,

I Have installed couple of apps. Most of them are installed on SD card. When I organize those in each page (like one page for photography, other for rooting and etc). Why do phone always mix up those after a restart? All my apps installed on my card are move to last pages.

I had this issue even before I root the phone. :-S
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] binku:
I guess that too, what I did to fix this is installing Go luncher.

Bonus: Folders inside application drawer and task manager. Sexy!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gravejester:
People should now that if you remove snsaccount.apk, snsprovider.apk and signin.apk you loose the ability to sync Facebook, Twitter and MySpace to the Samsung contact list.

And of course you loose Samsung Apps if you remove samsungapps.apk. But if you don't need Samsung Apps, you might as well remove samsungappsunaservice.apk as well :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mialwe:
Hm, created a script similar to your instructions for getting rid of bloatware (did not even think about this could fix battery draining, are you sure? What about screen rotation sensor and suspend bug?), but using this to remount r/w:

mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/stl9 /system

Worked fine for JPY, JS8, JSD, JVO and now JVP
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Andeby:
Testing this now, will look for improvements in battery life.

Thanks for the guide! :)

Edit: This is weird, seems Android System actually went up after doing this.

Was at 10-13% before and now it's on 18%. Android OS is on 4%.

Still not getting very good battery life. 2% in 35min, idle with screen off most of the time.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xmfpdlemalnz@hotmail.com:
This was found ages ago.

All proven that it doesn't work
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tyxerakias:
I'm afraid most of your instructions are wrong... Firstly you're mounting the wrong thing (mialwe's version is correct), secondly the last command will not do anything because it's missing a star, plus all the files now will have the wrong ownership and permissions, and finally as xmfpdlemalnz said, it won't work anyway.

Also, you can do all this with root explorer much more easily, or just freeze the software update app with titanium, after you kill the process.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 94kram01:
Okay then, as you think... It did work for me and for 2 of my friends with the same problem so far all the time, however doing it by freezing these apps did not work. So that's why I thought it would be useful... sorry then..