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[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Q.Entity:
Another maybe stupid question... Are you sure you have admin rights in Windows?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] diffrnt:
Yes, that is the point where windows says it cannot install the driver. I have tried several times, uninstalling, reinstalling and downloading. I just gave up. :(

Yes, I have admin rights and even tried run as admin, still didn't work.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ondoy1943:
Have you seen the video in this page? -> http://tabletroms.com/index.php/2011/06/12/official-nvflash-recovery-rom-asus-transformer-released/

If you will look closely, at around 05:00 minutes, that's where the apx driver is being installed. Is that what you did?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] diffrnt:
That is the point, where windows try to install the driver but comes back and says cannot install, so I still have the apex with the ! in the device manager. I might try it on my work pc and see what happens.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Q.Entity:
Did you try to reboot and retry installing. I had a problem during the rooting and a reboot made it go away.

Also, try using another USB port... and doing a hardware scan...
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] diffrnt:
Is there anything I need to do with the USB drivers I downloaded from the Asus site? I did not see and .exe in the folder.

Finally, finally, finally! After watching the video suggested by onday, I realize some of the files were not in the right folder. I was using 7 zip and it did not put the files in the right folder, so I used the windows extractor and everything worked smooth as butter! Thanks for the help guys!:D
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ~David:
Thanks for the guide, mashi. Simple to follow for a Transformer newbie :)

Everything went perfectly.
[Galaxy S II General] Tekguru:
We’ve now produced a 'Mega' review of the HTC Sensation and Samsung Galaxy SII going head to head on all aspects of the phones. We thought you may be interested in reading the review. It starts:

Recently two new 'super phones' have been unleashed into the marketplace on the Android platform and thanks to our good friends at O2 UK we've been given the chance to produce a head-to-head review of both machines. We are of course talking dual core here and that means the Sensation from HTC and the Galaxy SII from Samsung.

Both machines are dual core with embedded graphics processors on board but they are designed in different ways with respect to the hardware and seemingly the end user market. The Sensation uses a half-shell body design and appears at first glance to be a big brother to the Desire S. The Galaxy SII is constructed from plastic and follows on from the hardware first encountered in the original Galaxy S model.

As we move through the review we'll look in turn at the differences in hardware and the custom user interfaces employed by the manufacturers, looking at the positive and negatives of each machine. The aim being not to show which is the 'best in class' machine, but to enable you to make up your own mind as to which machine would suit you as a prospective owner.

You can read the full review online here:

http://www.smartphonegurus.com/forums/topic/13554-mega-review-htc-sensation-v-samsung-galaxy-sii/
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
Waste of time reading that, I got the impression that reviewer lacked a neutral position in his write up or is a n00b.
[Galaxy S II General] Tekguru:
Completely neutral mate and with a long standing reputation for accuracy. I've been impartially and honestly reviewing for over 10 years now.

What I printed is what I found after a lot of usage and testing.

If you disagree then please post your findings and let the discussions commence.
[Galaxy S II General] Techvir:
That is a super big review... Great work
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
I've compared the photos from both phones on a screen at full resolution and I cannot agree with what you're saying about the sensation producing the more natural colours and true photo. In my experience the Galaxy S produces the more honest picture of the subjects in the photo and with better quality. I also found the battery life to be the exact opposite of what you've published with my workmate not being able to leave his charger for his Sensation at home as the device cannot last a workday without needing to be recharged whilst I get close to 48 hours on mine between charge and that is will fairly heavy use.
[Galaxy S II General] diehard2222:
lol what a htc fanboy.. look at those pros/cons list... gtfo.
[Galaxy S II General] OccasionalDroid:
My god,

I hope reviewing isn't your day job, horrendous taste and ability to perceive reality.

Sent from my Synchronous Dual Core Galactic Korean Beastly Device
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
+1

Also, considering how late this review is out compared to others, none of real world pros and cons of both devices as reported by users seems to be taken in to account or explored. And the "cons" for the SGS2? Battery cover, long pressing the menu key to search, and some applications force close? A bit of a reach, no? And in spite of all the issues users are reporting on the Sensation forum, the cons are a locked boot loader and lack of NAND? I applaud the amount of detail and work that went in to the review by the creator but in spite of the statement of being unbiased its imbedded in the editorial.
[Galaxy S II General] greyhulk:
I'm not sure how you came up with "dismal battery life" for the SGII. I have the phone and the battery is solid. I get an average of 16 hours of battery life, with around 30% to spare when I plug it in. This is with 4 exchange e-mail accounts on push, texting and checking e-mail throughout the day, etc.

Also, all of the other photo comparisons I have seen show the GSII to be the better shooter. Phonearena gave the Sensation poor marks on the camera. It seems to be a mixed bag for that phone, but I consistently see high marks for the GSII camera in every review I read.

Given your results on both camera and battery life, I would have to question your testing methodology. You also claimed both phones were fast web browsers, but videos on Phonedog clearly showed the Sensation lagging and stuttering during web browsing, where the GSII was completely smooth.
[Galaxy S II General] krabman:
Wouldn't load for me I'm assuming because I refused the cookie.
[Galaxy S II General] steph2:
He had a HTC phone thats were the 3rd phone came from in the pics. mybee not as bias as already knew his way around htc sence. so sgs made nosence. It has a few things u forgot to even commit on.

Sgs is for power users and htc is for those who just whant a phone.
[Galaxy S II General] tuhinz:
Yeah seems to have a pretty obvious htc tilt with too many subjective conclusions.

Also not very thorough with his review. On a cursory flip-through I found the following errors:

1. Call answer screen of SGSII also shows the latest FB update of the caller if social hub is activated.

2. Camera: Metering :OP suggests SGSII does only centre weighted metering & not matrix mode - Untrue- option available under menu.

3. Geotag: OP suggests no geotagging in SGSII: Incorrect. Geotagging option in menu. Geotag shows up just fine in picasa.

4. Alarm: SGSII has snooze settings & options for number & duration of snooze in menu.

5. Long pressing the menu bar brings up the standard Search box (Not a web only search)- I use it to routinely search and start apps so I know. :)

6. OP mentions 'added functionality' of the sensation browser to highlight text in browser and copy, search or share it. This 'added' functionality is added in SGSII as well.

7. A 'big' bonus appeared to be the locations app which OP says provides turn-by-turn GPS 'based on free of charge map data'. Sounded great till the next para which said one could start a '30 day trial of the Premium Navigation system and test out the turn-by-turn GPS navigation system' ?

8. The battery graph looked somewhat iffy as well. However the set could have been wonky seeing how some people seemed to have battery problems on the SGSII- I've had it once caused by a misbehaving app.. However, I'm happy my SGSII does a lot more while consuming lot less battery. (My blog link below has some battery life screenshots from the android battery graph)

9. Cons list 'some' applications on the SII force close. As OP mentions, I too have had the APMobile force close once. None of the others did. Skeptic about the 'some' bit.

This was from a quick read. There could be other inconsistencies in the review as well.

Healthy dose of salt please. :D
[Galaxy S II General] tuhinz:
Ditto with the battery life.

Not much of a camera expert but viewed on a regular screen the colours seem neutral (On the phone screen it does appear a touch vivid).

Found some other errors i mentioned in my last post as well.
[Galaxy S II General] dinan:
How is the pro of the sensation "Godly" amount of RAM at 768mb and the S2 only a "good" amount of RAM at 1gb? Also sense takes up a ****LOAD of RAM...
[Galaxy S II General] kickassdave:
Just watched a video review online comparing the two devices lol... only thing HTC beat the S2 on was linpack score... and even then my NOT overclocked S2 got a better score than it. You could tell from the video that browsing was clearly smoother on the S2 too. Hmmm glad I bought this over the sensation tbh...

I also think this device is more likely get get special attention in the dev community. Ah well. Both good phones either way.
[Galaxy S II General] steph2:
Only 1 thing needs said flash addict. Unlocked bootloaders.
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
Woah! You read the whole thing? After I my BS radar started to tick I only skimmed it. You're a very studious bloke.:)
[Galaxy S II General] Jebus99:
Similarly, I also get 1.5 days worth of usage ...usually have 40%+ at the end of a day so clearly something was wrong in the review (old firmware?).

And I do lose a lot of respect for a reviewer who doesn't know that long pressing the menu button emulates the search button....poor form there.

Beginning with the screen, I think you find extremely difficult to ever let yourself say that the SII has the advantage in anything. Even Engadget admits that the SAMOLED+ is a superb screen, but I find it amazing that your conclusion (last paragraph of that section) of it is that it is "grainy" and "unrealistic" whilst the HTC is concluded to be of good "clarity"...really? If that's unbiased....I would hate to see what your biased is.

I could go through each section and show you how biased you are but for simplicities sake, the amount of times you used "impressive" to describe the Sensation is quite impressive in itself. And the amount of times that the SII is odd or weird... really? Looking at the email section, I don't quite get the the unusualness of the features...wouldn't useful be a better description? Bias at its finest again.

In Camera, you again missed the ability of the SII to customise the shortcuts as the user wants. As for geo-tagging....did you even open the options? Geotagging is right there...along with the other features from blink detection, anti-shake...

Now take your conclusion to the benchmarks section...its conclusion is the the Sensation can do better later....I'm sorry you are *comparing* right? So at some point the words SII completely trashed the Sensation should be in the final paragraph to that section, no? That whole section is a justificiation that despite the Sensations low scores, its better than the Desire S (really, thats what your comparing to?) and runs smooth in day-to-day operations...How about the SII? Amazing scores, silky smooth performance noted by many reviews to be smoother than the Sensation. Bias...again. A conclusion should be Both phones are extremely smooth in most operations, with the SII having a slight edge in web browsing and also holding the crown in benchmarks.

Keyboard...you did look at settings right? And saw the XT9 word prediction option? Again, thorough review.

If you can compare additional features in one phone (locations) surely you should do likewise in the other? What about Kies Wifi allowing the SII to transfer files, stream music or control most phone functions simply from a web browser. And Vlingo voice control and Driving Mode? All passed over since this review wasn't really a comparison, it was a self-justification of how the Sensation was a better phone.

Poor "comparative" review. Even Engadget seems less biased.
[Galaxy S II General] tuhinz:
Heh heh. Thats coz the GF slept off!

..Actually the prodigious load of BS in the review angered me into writing it just so potential buyers arent taken in by the crap. Sensation Vs SGSII is a hot topic and I expect many buyers to skim xda for pointers. :)
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
It says a lot when nobody in the Sensation forum bothered to even reply to the OP after 104 views. :p:p
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
They're too busy trying to get the dust out from underneath their screens ;)
[Galaxy S II General] vansmuk:
;)

Luckily was blessed to play with both phones for almost two weeks, mate. With a very clear conscious i can rewrite every second paragraph u posted there and it's gonna say pretty much the opposite. I've been a hardcore HTC fan for a looong time now. Fell in love with the HD2, moved in with the DHD but this one goes to Sammy. Thats the one thats gonna have my children.

So im just gonna give u a wink and leave it at that;) deal?
[Galaxy S II General] greyhulk:
LOL. So true. I had an HTC Inspire, which I thought was a great phone and I treated it like a fragile egg. One day I looked and I could see dust under one corner of the screen. It drove me nuts! What is it with HTC and dust?!
[Galaxy S II General] Tekguru:
I do agree with some of your points, the graininess of the screen was found when looking at certain text textures.

The search is there via tap and hold I agree, and I do mention that.

The camera / photo quality was compared by myself and then comments were taken by a local camera expert.

I agree the geo-tag is in there on the SII but is not on by default, maybe I should have stated that it is optional.

Battery life I have stated what I saw. The Sensation did last the day set up the same as the SII whereas the SII didn't. I've since replicated that on three different days.

What could be a factor here is that I'm using the latest stock SII ROM as supplied by O2 which I think may not well be the latest but it is all I have to go with. If a newer ROM is made available which changes the factors I've reported on then I will certainly update the review accordingly.
[Galaxy S II General] Furbious:
Not biased at all....

TBH, was turned off when I read this:

"Stepping into myth one could say that the Sensation is has more of an Elven nature, full of light and grace whereas the SII is of Dwarven history, with a more raw powerful mein."

Really??? Good grief.
[Galaxy S II General] Cuspide:
"Body construction could be improved upon"

well, every people taking the SII in hand say : whaooo it so fine and light !!! seems really nice to me....

"No search button"

well you did not look, long press menu goes search, you could correct it in your review

" Dire battery life"

no way...; see screen below... how old was your SII ? it needs almost A week for the battery to be fully working after some chargr cycle...

"Some applications force close"

well that never hapen on mine during 3 weeks now... i think it s an application problem, not the phone...

"Flimsy back cover"

when on, it feel nice and solid... and still light

" Camera colour balance is too vivid and suffers from over exposure"

well i find rhe sensation to vivid... and i m sure the metering where not the same as said before...

"No notification LED"

know what ? for this point you're right :=)
[Galaxy S II General] Tekguru:
I'll not disagree the Sensation is nice and light, I'm sure I've mentioned that, it still is not as good shape wise when held in the hand compared to the Sensation.

The Search is mentioned via the tap and hold.

Battery life and age of the machine it was used within 3 days of getting the machine. I'm using it again today after having it two weeks to see if the battery life changes. I still think that may be down to ROM revision.

Back cover I'll agree it locks in place well but it is still flimsy :)

Camera colour at default settings I still find the Sensation to be better, but I agree if oen starts changing the settings then the results can be different. The point of the review though is to comment on standard default settings that a user initially meets.
[Galaxy S II General] vegetaleb:
Not a word about ringtones volume?

I red somewhere that the DHD is even louder than Sensation :eek:

Also it's the first ever review to show crappy photos taken with SGS2 (it was intentional?)

qHD is the only hardware advantage over SGS2 and half the review talks about it...

Dude I am an HTC lover (not fanboy) and I feel this review too much taken toward defending the Sensation
[Galaxy S II General] nhat2991:
I think you failed to mention that sense ui, though loaded with features, is very sluggish and is nowhere as smooth as touchwiz. I have my CPU scaling down to 800MHz max and never notice any slow down with my GS2, while with a sensation I played with in a shop, even pulling down the notification bar feels sluggish.

And I don't know how you manage to drain the battery in 5 hours, my usage is pretty much like what you describe minus the auto-syncing and I've have 30% battery after 24hrs.
[Galaxy S II General] Tekguru:
I found both had loud ringtone volumes and I did comment about both machines having decent volume levels.

The photographs were taken as honestly as possible and I aimed to take the same shots under very similar conditions.:cool:

I reviewed what I found and I'm impressed by both phones. The raw power of the SII is outstanding that coupled with the NAND storage makes it a winner. The Sensation does score better on build quality, Sense (for ordinary users its a great interface), and build quality / housing design.
[Galaxy S II General] Tekguru:
I'll not disagree it does slow the phone down and I have intimated that HTC do need to speed up the machine.

Ref the battery this is still a mystery to me. I've been using the SII for around an hour adn 10 minutes this morning. Read soem emails, checked in via foursquare, read 10 minuets of an ebook and already it's down to 81% of charge.

Now this is using the O2 ROM which is kernal 2.6.35.7 KE2, so is this the issue?

Looking at the in built chart that is showing use as:

Display 40%

Wi-Fi sharing 20%

Android OS 16%

Voice calls 6%

No what is interesting is that I've only used regular WiFi briefly for around 5 minutes and no tin any sharing mode?
[Galaxy S II General] godutch:
Sense is not just a launcher, it's complete experience with many apps and widgets(friendstream, gallery, email, sms, keyboard, locations etc. etc.) that tie into each other, Rosie is Sense' launcher and it is not slower than other launcher and doesn 't have much extra features other launchers don't have. Why would having these HTC apps make your phone slow, especially when they are not running when you are not using them?
[Galaxy S II General] Richdog:
Disagree? Just a bit. Someone on OCUK forums did the kind job of running side-by-side comparisons on an SGS II, Sensation, and iPhone 4... results can be seen ehre http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=19372989&postcount=283

It is obvious to anyone with more than a passing in terest in photogaphy that the overall winner is the SGS II, and that the worst results by FAR are the Sensation... which captures half the detail, has uneven colour tone, and seems to add a blurring effect the more you zoom in. In short, it produces comparatively poor photos.

As for the SGS II having "dismally poor battery life", well... that really does say a lot considering that almost every other professional review has praised it for its juice longevity, and said the Sensation suffers more in that respect.
[Galaxy S II General] vegetaleb:
Can you compare the Sensation ringtones volume with Desire, DHD and SE Arc?

I had all three phones and I can say there is a huge difference between both HTCs and the Arc.

You won't hear HTC ringing in a noisy place like a mall while the Arc was easily heard.

I agree about the lockscreen and weather of Sensation but you can have something similar thanks to 3rd party apps(Go weather...)

Also what's stopping me of buying the Sensation is the locked bootloader, all the big names of xda couldn't root it yet and HTC is still willing to let them locked (despite all the htc fanboys rumours)

SGS2 is not a perfect phone either! The yellowish left screen can be like a loto and the xda devs supporting SGS2 are still not as half many as on any HTC device...CM7 could change many things though
[Galaxy S II General] Tekguru:
Ref the camera well you can see the shots I took which were comparable. And unless I was very unlucky when taking them with default settings then I found the Sensation to be better.

Battery life is still a mystery here as I'm now down to 76% with the phone not used apart from bringing in email since my last post. If I can resolve what is causing the issue I'll be very happy. I'm still half convinced it is ROM based.

Ref the ring tone volume I'd say that it is around maybe 10% louder than on the Desire. Alas I don't have the other phone to compare with.
[Galaxy S II General] pahardie:
Without getting into the one sided review.

Wifi sharing is what's killing your battery. I found the answer on xda somewhere but essentially I renamed fts.apk in system/apps so it couldn't fire it up (it defo wasn't turned on) and this gave my battery new life. (Root required)

Try it. Like I say the answer and better explanation are on here somewhere. Oddly I renamed it back later and its not reared its head again!
[Galaxy S II General] Richdog:
Just looking through the photos you posted, and the recurring theme is that the Sensation completely destroys the shadow detail, and instead just turns it all to black murkiness. The SGS II, on the other hand, clearly handles the light gradiations with much more finesse. Added to this, if you zoom in on each picture you can also clearly see that the SGS II resolves more overall fine detail (seriously, this is evident on zooming into each and every photo), while the Sensation has that blurry, distorted effect I mentioned earlier and also very clearly shown in the great comparisons pics from OCUK (which I hope you have checked out as they provide a much better comparison basis than yours do). In short, no offence intended, but you may not have the best eye for photography. :)
[Galaxy S II General] Tekguru:
Ref the Wi-Fi sharing issue I've force closed the task for the moment and will see if that makes the difference. TO perform the rename I'm assuming that the phone will have to be rooted which okay may be a solution but not one available to a lot of ordinary users. So with that issue built into the phone as 'stock' I'm right in saying what I've seen concerning battery life.

Grin I'm no photographer I admit that which is why I asked a colleague who is camera aware for comments on the photo quality and those went into the review. To me though the SII does seem to suffer from white balance issues, that is the faded out look to the blue sky? Or is that just me?
[Galaxy S II General] NZtechfreak:
Will be getting my Sensation soon hopefully, so an interesting read, will compile my own mega-comparison review in due course.

Not sure what was causing your force close issues in the SGSII though, I had multiple force-closes in one of the Fede's music beta versions (since fixed by the dev, I don't consider force closes in a beta app anything to do with the SGSII), but besides those only one other force close in over a month of owning my SGSII. Strange.

Incidentally, I agree with the commentary here on the photos. I wonder if you are making your judgements based on how they look on the phone screen? Because on a computer screen at full zoom you can clearly see the SGSII hand the Sensation a generous whooping, with much better detail preservation, and much less chromatic abberation.