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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davey.tran:
I've owned a few other smart phones. such as the htc desire and touch diamond.

I'm rooted with villain rom 1.4 and very happy with this phone.

It's faster than it needs to be

(no ones complaining)

pictures and photos look amazing thanks both to great camera and beautiful screen

I have one dead pixel which I was sad about at first, but realised I never notice it unless I look. So my phone isn't perfect

But this phone not failed me at what I bought it for. Which is To do everything a smart phone should that i could think of, and very well of I might add.

honestly iphone is good too

But what appealed to me for this phone over iphone was :

Hardware

(at the time it was released- but iphone 5 may change that - to me a vibrant picture with decent resolution it's better than a not so vibrant picture with higher resolution just personal preference)

OS

so it came down to OS since I love being able to customise so much so easily. Get bored of any part of the UI then go market and find something to replace it and done!

Imho battery life is very good.

I'm not sure what a heavy user is defined as here but I am a super heavy user. Hardly ever putting my phone down. I'm talking about playing games and such with the screen on (duh) for a total of ATLEAST 4 . 5 hours screen on time (not counting, screen off time).

And for idle time I lose about 5% give or take 2%, just to be safe, overnight(8 hours).

I've never not touched my phone so I wouldn't know how long it would last on idle

on a normal day I get on average 11 hours of battery( which means my screen is on almost 50% of the time )or how every long it takes me to use that 4.5 hours of screen on time (regardless of what I'm playing or doing)

Cheers
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beautyspin:
This is my first Android Phone. Got it on June 7th. I am glad I bought it. I am worried that if I say only good things about the phone, it will jinx it but I will go ahead and say it anyways!! This is the best phone that is in my entire office building!!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saar73:
Im very happy with my amazing device. Dont know about the battery issue.. but i get about 20-24 hours with heavy use (4 hours talk and 40 sms)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bassmonkey:
110% happy also. battery life could defiantly be better but I don't seem to have the drain problem. I get 30hrs with 3.5hrs screen on with wifi and gaming. gps is as good as my old hero.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chiacheehing:
Simply the best piece of engineering for the Android Gingerbread to date! Just wished it came with the NFC.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zonez:
Moved from my WinMo HTC touch pro to this device, so of course I'm 200% happy :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reyza:
Went from iphone 3g,3gs,4, samsung captivate, moto atrix, and then SGS II. SGS II is the best by far.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] __NBH__:
I'm very happy with my SII it does everything I need. People use these forums to ask questions and see if others are experiencing any of the same issues so it seems all bad but its not. Nobody really talks about how good things are. I'm quite critical about some things because the phone is so near brilliant it won't take much to sort it out.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sharpey:
100% happy

Best phone ive ever had
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NIK516:
I think its ignorant to call people with issues complaners, i have had a number of issues with my phone battery the main, but i love my phone and am very happy with it.

Please guys lets not call other people crazy just because u personal have not had an issue , and i hope you don't have an issue.

As for purchasing the phone, i would say there is no phone on the market at this time that has such potential and features. Get it, it is future proof :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonsmith709:
Happy happy:)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayesh:
I love what the device stands for. It's quick, amazing to use and the smoothest phone yet. However the battery life is an awesome deal killer.

Simply put I am a fairly ok user. I run quite a few email accounts. I use twitter sparingly. I listen to music and use waze, when i drive. That combined with the suspend bug ( yes i restart everytime watchdog dings and use advanced task killer to kill the task, at 30 seconds. I whitelisted the ones i dont want killed. Just this and battery is gone in under 8 hours. I gave up using wifi ( stupid as it is) and stick to 3g. I have tried everything suggested on these forums. No change in pattern

Hell right now i reformatted my phone. KE8 with CWM 3.7 and 1 Gmail id configured. ATK is on along with juice defender. Nothing else. Battery has dropped 11 percent in 45 minutes. So much for that.

I have had to reactivate my old iPhone out of desperation, so i can stay on top of calls. I am often not near a recharge point for hours. In that time, my iPhone acts as the backup, since the S2 will have packed up by then.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] connectandroid:
Pretty happy with my S2 had it for 9 days so far though so early days but first time Android user so still learning my way around. Battery life on stock KE2 firmware isn't that great with wifi on 100% of the time I get ~9 1/2hrs out of the box, 19-20hrs with JuiceDefender free and 52hrs with XP8000. Here's hoping 2.3.4/KE7+ and higher gives better out of box battery life.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mittaa:
Absolutely 100% happy too

... but of course I would like browser re-flow to work properly and battery that would last at least 5 days constantly playing games, updating, browsing, navigating, text'ing and talking ... while screen brightness is set to 100% and battery ice cold and ... and ... and ... and ... :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AXIS of Reality:
As had been said earlier, people don't generally post when they're happy. Otherwise this forum would be filled simply with 'GS II is awesome!' or 'I love my GS II so much, just though I'd mention that'.

How often do people go online just to mention that they're happy with their product, and leave it at that? 90% of the time it's to either ask a question about an issue they're having with a product, or to complain.

Try going to google and typing 'iPhone is ' or 'Android is ' or 'Blackberry is ' and see what the common autocomplete results are - usually people complaining or having problems. It's like the saying "no news is good news".

The GS II reviews have been extremely positive and it's widely regarded as the best Android smartphone yet, if not the best smartphone of any type.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bwets:
As a geek, I love this phone so much, especially comming from iphone 4.

As an end user, I am sorry to say that it sucks, and mostly because android is not nearly as mature as ios. A lot (more) of functionalities, but a lot of them are not performing well enough for a non geek. And of course the battery issue is killing me.

So my answer is still: I love it

but if you are not a geek, go iOs, less troubles and a user experience that is much more friendly/easy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mitty1990:
Love it! :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wooki:
Use chainfire and set screenlight to a soft red -> 22hrs runtime, 64% left right now..only wlan (regular useage = YouTube, 3d\2d gaming, newsrob, email and i'm using zeam launcher)!

I'm 125% happy! (Compared with my Motorola Milestone\Droid)

PS: Sorry for my bad english! :-(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] technetium99m:
...

It's the best phone I've ever owned. Aside from a few teething issues, most of which will be fixed sometime down the line either through official updates or by the community, it makes the orginal SGS seem like a doddering old cripple.

The infamous left hand corner 'yellowing' is present on my handset but it is not noticable in day-to-day use and I likely would have never noticed it if I hadn't of photographed it with a grey background at 20% brightness as per instructions in another thread.

It doesn't have great battery life but, issues surrounding battery life seem to crop up at the release of almost every new android phone and it is usually the case that the situation improves significantly as the development community discovers various power-saving optimisations. For now, I have been following the recommendation made by Pulser to set a conservative CPU governer and adjust scaling to 200-500MHz with Tegrak Overclock. I am yet to notice any significant slow downs with these settings even whilst running HD games and the battery lasts plenty long enough to get me through the day.

Remember that when people post issues about the SGS II on this forum, they are generally comparing it with 'perfection'. Look at it compared to every other phone available at the moment and it is clear that buying anything else would be a mistake.

TL : DR?

Go buy it now!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamthecosmos:
Sarcasm aside, have you tried Opera Mobile web browser? Coming from a HTC phone with excellent text re-flow I was disappointed about the way the SGS2 browser does text re-flow, but Opera has solved that problem for me (+no checkerboard effect whilst loading pages)!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hrking2000:
No one likes to read/hear about 'good news'......
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bartoloandre98:
Best phone on the planet,believe me, and all the phones have battery problems,sensation is worse than this..

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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdd543:
Best android phone to date.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zirouk:
No need to explain why there arn't threads praising the phone, I know too well!

The goal of the thread was more so to encourage people having positive experiences to provide some contrast, hope, excitement for people looking to enjoy their phone :)

I've ordered one for ... err ... my wife, to have a play with and if I like it, i'll be ordering one next week.

I'm a massive geek, but I've plowed so much money into apps on my iPhone, love the fact that the iPhone 'just works' (I know it's a cliche but it does), so if I'm going to spend £490 odd quid on a handset, I want it to be right :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dan@msx:
Well after havin my sgs and sgt since launch and numerous roms tweaks and flashes i took the plunge yesterday and got the sgs2..... And i couldnt be happier! Synch'd my google account then logged it on the sgs2 and it installed all my old apps from market! Well impressed!

As it stands im running stock ke7.... That wont last... I give it a week til i start to play with roms and kernals again...

So, upgrading from sgs1 to sgs2.... 100% happy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hmm1967:
Very happy :)

I had an HTC Desire before, which was (is) also a good phone. The SII plays in a different class and I do not miss Sense at all.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bentothemaxx:
I'm coming from an HTC Desire as well, had it running Oxygen ROM (AOSP based ROM) so I'm not missing sense as I haven't been using it for quite a while now.

Loving the Galaxy though, it is definitely in a league of it's own, the speed and smoothness is amazing!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deanoaka:
I'm unsure as of yet. I came from an iPhone 4, and I like the customization etc, but feel there something... missing....

I don't think the camera is as good, but I'm sure after some prolonged use, I'll get to like it better.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haghdk:
I am actually very happy with my SGS2. I haven't had any real issues. When idle my phone uses very little battery - 1% per 2-3 hours. Speed and performance are beyond believe.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
Yes, I approve of my SGS2. (the hardware). I do NOT approve of the crap that is loaded on it, but after sorting that out, I managed to eke out some pretty good battery life on my ROM.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waux:
Extremly happy.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waynej4:
Love it!

Love it ! Fast, bright, and oh so customisable.:D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zkyevolved:
I'm VERY happy with my phone :) It takes pretty good pictures, battery life is OK, even though not the best in the world. I have 0 issues at the moment with it. I haven't noticed the screen issue from every day usage. Speed is fantastic.

If I HAD to pick 2 things about it that I didn't like:

1) Heat, it heats up kinda quickly.

2) Battery life, it could be improved upon. Come on Mugen :) Gimme a 2200 MAH battery :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blue265:
I am very happy with my phone. I don't notice the heat issues with a case on, have no yellow on the screen and battery seems to be about the same or better than my Captivate was so I cannot really complain at all. The phone is fast as hell and I cannot stop using it which tends to kill the battery, lol
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjtj4444:
I'm deeply in love with my SGS II :)

There is a huge amount of SGS2 delivered, and a lot of early adopters hangs out at XDA, so even just 1% of unhappy buyers would create a huge amount of posts here...

A general note:

People tend to think that it is a good idea to check forums before they buy a certain product, often it is not, unless you really understand how to parse the information you read statistically.

The most popular product (highest market share) will normally have the highest number of defect units delivered even if they have similar defect ratio as the competitors, so they tend to look much worse on forums just because of more delivered units.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] englefield:
Best phone I ever owned by a mile. Just love everything about it... size, screen, weight and the speed is immense. Runs everything just amazingly well including games, emulators and great for web, video, music, video calling, remote viewing etc.

Like a lot of new phone releases youll find some of the problems mentioned are by pedantic nit pickers that whinge about any little thing, "ooo one pixel is a shade greyer than the rest" or some rubbish that really dont bother the vast majority of users.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaviros:
I think that is the best phone in the market right now. I have also samsung galaxy s (the first one) which is also great phone. So with my both galaxies am realy happy.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giokou:
1000000% happy.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mafiatounes:
Best phone till date for me! Very happy with it and i used the N8, iPhone 4, Desire HD and the Sensation from a friend, they dont compare except maybe sensation has one plus thats sense 3.0 but then again the sensation i used was sluggish in daily use! So for me SGS 2 rules
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willscott:
Love it so far. Moved from webOS so Android is taking a little while to get used to (and there are still features and 'polish' that I miss) but the hardware is definitely superior as it battery life. I'm getting a full day of battery with reasonable use - and hopefully as people have said above things'll just get better with time!

98% happy, probably up to 100 when I stop instinctively trying to use webOS gestures...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BarryH_GEG:
I love my phone. It's fast, stable as a rock, stylish, and the display is fantastic.

I'm sure most of us posting in this thread are equally tired of all the moaning and *****ing about every friggin minute detail of the phone. And anyone that posts something contrary or questions the real impact of said issue is responded to with "but I paid 750 USD, 450 GBP, or 600 EU, and for that amount it should be perfect." Guess what, it may not be for you - ever. Samsung offers a package of features on the phone and set a retail price. If taking in to account your needs and the features Samsung provides you don't see the value then return the phone. And if you think 500 posts on this forum are going to get Samsung to redesign the phone you're crazy. Coming hear and *****ing in thread after multiple thread about something that doesn't meet your standards isn't going to change anything. And it gets really tedious wading through the repetitive posts for the 90%+ that either don't have your standards or can't imagine the significance of your problem in the first place.

Discussions of shortcomings and ways around them are healthy and productive. As are posts about strengths and weaknesses; that helps prospective purchasers. But the endless whining and pile-on posts of "yeah, me too" is a waste of everyone's valuable time. And use the friggin search feature before starting a new thread on your discovery of the next "OMG, I CAN"T BELIEVE THIS PHONE DOES/DOESN'T DO (INSERT ISSUE HERE)." Chances are someone already beat you to it.

So let's assume the SGS2 isn't the perfect phone for you. Where are you going to go? Atrix? Sensation? O2X/G2X? Pick one of those and you'll just trade one set of compromises for another. I follow the forums for those phones and if you add it all up I think we're actually in better shape quality, feature, and detail wise.

Sorry for the rant, it's been building up for a while. ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chowdarygm:
perfect phone i was looking for since G1 ....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ibb1982:
I love my SGS2, its the best phone I've had.

The step up from my HD2 is amazing, soo glad I went for the SGS2.

Its fast, responsive, everything just works and doesn't crash (touch wood!) and the camera is great!

I too was sceptical and also was worried I wouldn't enjoy Android without HTC's Sense UI.

Put simply this is the best phone out there at the moment.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blue1k:
Love this phone. I've had over 80 phones lifetime to compare to. The S2 was an excellent choice.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XDA mark:
Im happy happy with my Galaxy S II. The only things I can say that I sometimes dont like...

1. Apps not optimized for Galaxy S II (emulators, games, general apps maybe too)

2. Battery life at the moment is normal. Wish it would go a little bit more, would make it good!

3. And... Well. Uhm. Cant really think of anything more :)

Its a very good device, no wonder all the USA people are almost crying for it to get there lol

Edit: I actually forgot to mention what is good about the Galaxy S II... Its very fast, AMAZING screen, everything just works well (multitasking), takes very nice foto's and video's. Its all good!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daivik:
Best phone I've ever had. For me, it is as good as Android gets (so far!) but it incorporates that stability and that "smoothness" that iOS has. I know there are many teething issues with many of the initial units, but there are less and less of these issues appearing. I would be tempted to say that this device, at least in my experience, flawless, or damn well near being flawless.

It get's hot...but what does one expect - There's no chunky plastic to dissipate heat, and there's not glass to crack when you drop it a foot off the ground. :p

My only issue, is that sometimes when I go to do something, I get mesmerized by my screen or the fluidity of the animations :o that I forget what I initially wanted to do! But I'm guessing that's only me! :p :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donharden2002:
Have had mine for a cpl of weeks now and am very pleased with it. I haven't noticed any battery drain with mine. I'm a very heavy user, my phone is basically my pc. I use it for everything.

I like the size, I tried the infuse and in my opinion it was too big.

It would be awesome to see samsung make a super amoled qhd screen. Other than that this is the best phone I've owned.

I would like to see the accessory market pick up a little for it. Need more cases to choose from.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrishail87:
I am also totally happy..but battery is my only concern..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kUdtiHaEX:
Mostly happy. I have a issue with camera and focusing and with a battery drain which, truth to be told, is not a Samsung issue but Android issue. I came straight from SGS and there is a lot improvements.

When they fix the camera I will be 100% happy :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daivik:
Screw qHD. :p It's a bit of an "inbetween" technology. Samsung, are jumping straight into Super AMOLED 300+ PPI displays! :D Basically, they require a different method of production, a laser based production method (I think) that makes it cheaper and allows them to make 300+PPI...

I can't wait...the vibrancy with no pixels...too good to be true!

http://www.oled-info.com/super-amoled-plus-resolution-further-details

Have a read and you'll see. :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] godutch:
It's a good phone and without doubt one of the top two smartphones out with the rest of the field far behind. If you like browsing the web on your phone the sensation might be the best choice for gaming and multimedia the sgs2. Sense is also a bit more integrated and full experience but if you don't need the things sense offers then there really is nothing wrong with touchwizz
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daivik:
What makes you think Sensation is better. Just wondering, because in tests, the Sensation's browser is laggy, as well as the market. :confused:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] godutch:
speed is not everything on the sensation you can read the entire width of awebpage in portrait view.

Also many tasks are just easier and faster in sense, and so the hardware might be alittle less than the sgs2 but in daily use it could be faster.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetv1r:
which fon is perfect at this level of technology...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fortinbras:
Absolute satisfied!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onionv:
Same here! Have been using this now for about a month and happy as hell. Previus phone was iphone 3gs for 2 years. SGS2 KICKS ASS =]
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rockky:
Just because people complain doesn't mean they're not happy with their device
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kofpk:
so far so good
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arthur Hucksake:
People who prefer the Sensation are sold on Sense and looks alone. Has a worse battery life than the GSII (Which isnt great to start with) and once custom roms begin appearing more frequently, will be alot of upset HTC owners. Just sayin'
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benjatt:
Happy.

15 months with nexus 1. Some serious improvements.

Email app is very good. Great work by Samsung, a lot of effort in that.

Sms is also great and combined with fullscreen caller, I love it

Camera awesome.

A nice touch is I got 4 free magazines with the reader app.

Plus the things people have mentioned.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] otaku888:
Really impressed, even coming from a HD2 was a surprising upgrade.

Camera both video and still are top notch.

Allshare has great dlna support.

Ultrafast browser and lovely screen.

What's not to love.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dave_uk:
Had HTCs going back to the XDAs this site was named for. Jumped ship over the whole bootloader issue. Best decision I could have made. Never thought I'd buy a Samsung but the SGS2 is hands down the best phone I've ever had...by a distance.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daivik:
True that. I think the let down of the SGS (in some regions) really kicked Samsung's mobile division into action. Not to mention they're taking on the iPhone head on. Go on Samsung!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jojo2peter:
This ain't the main thing!

Most of the people won't open any complaint-thread if they haven't problems.

The fewest are opening threads to reveal their happiness.

But back to topic: I'm very happy with the Galaxy S II :)