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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingofthebraves:
Is there really a big difference to speed, battery life etc? Sometimes I think with all the flashing there really is no difference and just pure placebo lol

Can anyone attest to real life performance increase? Does this phone have issues that are resolved with custom roms?

Thinking of getting this phone.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Reviewers:
This phone is amazing with a nice custom ROM , OCed & Underclocked .

It reach's +4000 in quadrant .

First you need to ROOT it .
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingofthebraves:
Root aside, I am talking about custom roms and real life day to day performance increase.

Quadrant scores and other benchmarks are not really useful because they can easily be "cheated" or tinkered to give a better score.

The first time I flashed a custom rom was with my N1 and speed and battery was noticeably much better. I was on stock for almost two months and the difference was amazing. I dunno with other users but with my NS i can't really tell a difference with stock and custom, that's why I am curious with the SGS2. I believe some people just flash custom roms or even make custom roms just to satiate their craving to do so :) Not that it's bad though
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CarpathianUK:
I'd say no - you can do all these things, obviously, but I wouldn't say you had to in order to have a good phone in your hand.

Mine is KE7 unbranded out of the box and I'm completely happy with it unrooted & unflashed etc. Getting at least 20 hours per charge and no real issues to report. Yes, some people have niggles they want to solve but not all models/releases/versions of the SGSII seem to have them.

Get one, run it for a bit as it is then decide later on whether to fiddle with it and how much. It's a no-lose deal!

All depends how far you want to push the lump of plastic in your pocket, I guess! :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Not a great deal of difference as of yet custom roms only a few weeks old as is the phone .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingofthebraves:
This is exactly what I was thinking! But if you see the descriptions on the custom roms you'd think this phone would be able to bring you to hell and back! lol

This lifestyle of our's (flashing roms and all) can be really addicting and a waste of time and I really believe there's nothing really different about performance. Features yes but performance no. Maybe on the old SGS and N1 performance was highlighted with custom roms but with these newer phones I doubt.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingofthebraves:
Well I guess one reason to use a custom rom is to take out the beep whenever the battery is charged lol
[Galaxy S II General] neock:
as of the title showed, i've experienced poor performance in playing flash movie on website. this circumstances usually comes with some flv providers such as youtube, or youku.com.

it feels like the flv movies are very lag, some of which are barely noticeable but most of them are in this condition, which likes playing "powerpoint"(though, not that serious:D, but laggy).

and, some of which have a resolution below 480p are in very poor quality. it looks like the whole image was created by many tiny mosaic, not smooth at all. but movies above 480p are normal, but still can see some noticeable "dots matrix" or crossing line on the movie.

i've tried both flash 10.1 and 10.3, and 10.3 is slightly better. i've also tried official rom and custom roms like lite'ning and cognition, they are the same. and different browsers, such as dolphin(which even worse compare to google's).

has anyone in this forum got the same situation?

or any clues?

i heard that flash 10.3 has worse performance than 10.1 in some devices, but with dual-core 1.2g cpu, i don't think gs2 has no capable of handling the flash stuff.

ps:now im using cognition rom with tegrak build24 kernel, tried using setcpu to 120400 and profile of performance, same as before.
[Thunderbolt General] k2trill:
need a dev to port a theme that I have on my Inspire to/for use on my Thunderbolt. Both are 2.3.4 GB ROMs with Sense 3.0. Post or PM me if interested please. Thanx.
[Thunderbolt General] k2trill:
Anyone.....??
[Thunderbolt General] BlackHoleSlam:
If u post a link to the theme devs may consider doing it
[Thunderbolt General] k2trill:
ROM/Theme in question....

This theme from this ROM:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=965207

To this ROM:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1140967
[Thunderbolt General] k2trill:
anyone...?
[Thunderbolt General] joshnichols189:
Try the themes and apps forum
[Thunderbolt General] k2trill:
okay. thanx
[Thunderbolt General] joshnichols189:
Sorry, just saw you weren't having much luck here and noticed you hadn't yet made a thread over there ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingofthebraves:
Why are you happy and from which phone did you use prior to the SGS2? :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] intruda119:
Finally a phone I dont need to flash on a daily basis. Im one of the few lucky(according to xda) that have no issues or defects with my sgs2. My last couple devices were orginal sgs(vibrant) dell streak, Desire hd, Hd2, Moto atrix(poor excuse) and Lg G2x.

This device is the best ive ever owned and see no need to buy another device until the sgs3 comes out. Everything works out of the box and never any lag. It outperforms every device Ive tested it against including sensation.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skull7545000:
Switched fr N1 for almost a mth, I've experienced an improvement under most of the aspects, the only thing I'm not satisfy w/ is the battery, the different to other GS2 owner is huge, I can hardly stand for 12 hrs and trying to use under voltage to solve it, hope it helps

Anyways, this is a very good smartphone and I like it much
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beowulf_pt:
I use an SGS2 now and then and it is a good unit. What the SGS1 should have been.

Before that I had teh SGS1 (a piece of #$t I was lucky to be able to return) that was laggy, buggy, lacking basic features (like a LED) and had major hardware design flaws (GPS was a joke). It was so crippled it could not be used out of the box, but would become decent after tuning (if you were willing to spend time with it).

I also have a Nokia E72, with the famous Symbian zombie-deathland OS. Ugly, unstylish but very reliable. In several ways, it is still great. Probably will keep it along with an SGS2... just in case.

Only problem with the SGS2 so far is the nasty pink hue in all photos and videos, but I have not updated above KE5 yet. And a pity it doesn't sound as good as the SGS1 on the 3.5mm jack with good audiophile gear.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ohyeahar:
Previous phones: HTC Touch Dual, HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch Pro2, HTC Desire.

It's hard to argue that any other phone on the market is better than the SGS2 right now. I mean, who's the competition?

Motorola Atrix

HTC Sensation

HTC Evo 3D

LG Optimus 2X

Seems to me the SGS2 has them all beat when it comes to specs, performance, formfactor, and display quality.

Battery life does appear to be sub-par but it's a compromise I'm more than willing to accept.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EvilGeniusHST:
Previous Phones: HTC Touch Pro 2, Sony-Ericsson P990i

Well, I think I do not have to say anything about the previous phones compared to the S2 - it beats them all with ease.

The only two things Samsung should have made better/in another way:

Battery and heat dissipation. I would not had any problems if the phone would be some mm thicker and a little bit heavier for a more powerful battery and no (or even less) heat problems.

Well, but this is just my opinion...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SingaporeAirlines:
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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tosin01:
I just vannot put this phone down. : D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Epic-Emodude:
I've come from a HTC wildfire and before that a T-mobile pulse and I love this phone. Everything about it is better than my last two phones.

The only problems are the battery life (which im hoping to fix by flashing KF2) and the fact I physicaly cannot use any other device now because they're all too small compared to this (seriously try picking up a 3.5inch device and it just looks small)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mancuk29:
i came from an iphone 4 and am a real phone geek where i swap my phone regularly but i have to say im gonna stick with the s2 its easy, beautiful , certainly has the wow factor and its not locked down like ios ..... out of ten the s2 gets 11 :) just hope Samsung don't let us down by not updating the firmware regulary
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phone_Guru:
I came from an original Galaxy S which was the best phone in the world at the time. I love the SGS2. It's so much better in every way. Everything flies with the dual core processor. The screen size is great and there are subtle changes in the software which make a big difference such as the ability to assign your contacts to groups on the phone with out having to sign in to gmail via a browser.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -A-P-M-:
I have SGS2 for about one month and it is the best phone I ever had. Not a single problem so far, everything works fast and perfect, battery life is great - battery lasts one day and a half on a heavy usage, which is better than 1 day with my previous HTC Desire. It is big step forward compared to my previous phone. I didn't root it yet, because everything is perfect out of a box.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iznee:
I have been a long time user of smart phones since the days of palm smart phones than to O2 devices than to Dopod and HTC..even tried a toshiba and acer phones..my last device was HTC Desire HD..

This is my first samsung phone..and i am really glad i made this switch..phone is simply amazing..does what ever i tell it to do and it does it perfectly..and now my wife is complaining becoz i often fall asleep with the phone in the hands.

About battery life..i know lots of people are complaining..but on my DHD..the way i trash the phone..battery will last 5 hours max..on this phone..still same trashing..i get about 11 to 12 hours..so for me no complains there.

Note: i never used apple products becoz i simply hate a device that tries to control me on how i can use the device.

Back to the topic..Hell yess i am absolutely satisfied
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingofthebraves:
Do we have BLN working on the SGS2 yet? Which kernel has it?

Do the custom roms take out the annoying fully charge sound notification?

Do custom roms make touchwiz reload faster? What about the unlock screen lag?

How many units (percent/batches??) are affected by the screen defect of the sgs2 wherein the left side is darker?

Why am I getting a lot of "battery issue" complaints whenever I google for problems on this phone? Is really serious or is that the fault of the user??

About the wake up and homescreen refresh lag, do you guys really believe that it's a problem on all phones or just how you set up the phone? Or rom or stock rom or kernel ???

I am still undecided if I am going to get this phone or the Nexus 3 which will probably have the same hardware as the SGS2 but better software.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ozzalbatrozz:
I'm not entirely satisfied yet. I have some problems with the GPS. Searched the forums for some info regarding the GPS and found that most people are happy with it. Sure, if I stand under a clear sky, it finds almost instantly, 10-12 satellites and also locks them up. The problem is the ACCURACY and SPEED.

Accuracy (testing with GPS test):

I sometimes get down to 6 meters. But most of the time it's 10+ and up to 20, and sometimes jumps alot higher than that for no particular reason even when standing still. Yesterday I had my phone next to a HTC wildfire. My phone had 10 satellites and about 10-12 meters accuracy. The HTC had around 6 satellites only, with less signal (I had a few green, the HTC had only orange/yellow sats) but the HTC NEVER goes below 5 meters in accuracy. Most of the time it has 3 or 4 meters, values I never see even with less satellites. I've had a HTC Legend myself and I could have it in my pocket without it going over 5 meters in accuracy in the middle of the forest, which is needed when I'm running...

Speed:

Possible problem with GPS outsignal maybe? When I'm using ANY app for walking for example, the GPS with always show 3,6 km/h. Always a fixed value. When I use Copilot, the same version as i did with my old SGS, the speed will jump 3 km steps for example: 80 km/h, 83, 86 etc.

I guess I'm abit more picky with the GPS than most people. Specially since everyone seems to be so happy with it when it works pretty bad in my opinion.

Oh well it's alot better than SGS atleast.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rj3005:
I'm now using a sgs-II for two weeks and am happy with it.

My previous phones were the nexus one, motorola milestone. The milestone was buggy and big, not to mention locked down my Motorola. The nexus one was generally good except the buggy touch pannel, and during it was running 2.3.3 it was draining the battery very fast.

I had some problems with sgs-II and its gps (it saw satellites but did not lock even after 20 minutes) after changing the ntp server setting in gps.conf it locks in under 10 seconds. I believe that the reported accuracy is more true than other phones. My nexus one typically reported better accuracy but the position was jumping the same as the Sgs-II
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neo_hito:
dropped it on concrete (car park) and watched it bounced on its sides and then finally slide some 1 metre flat on its screen...

All I had on it was a gs1 screen protector so the screen had some exposed areas but amazingly... no scratch on the screen or even on the metal rims around it. So I'm pretty happy with this phone =D

Also, the drop was so hard that the back plate came off but another thing I'm impressed with it is that the battery stayed in it. If this was my nokia, heck, battery, simcard, micro sd and just about any movable internals would've sprayed out.

The first time I got this phone I thought the thing is so light and thin, I would have to take care of it like a baby. But man the incident made my day. (I bought proper screen protector and case the day before it though... just waiting on shipping, not gonna risk it =P)

Damn I sound like a promoter.

Back to the topic, I was kinda hoping that this phone would future proof me for a while... so not having NFC is a bit of a drawback in that department if that takes off. -1

+1 for replaceable battery =P I'm keeping an extra one around just in case (coming from an iphone 3gs)

+1 for dual core! being my first android phone it seems like I have been spared from the general laggy and buggyness of previous gen androids

At the moment I'm trying to make an app to globally control music via the volume rocker which is the only thing I missed from iphone (eg hold the volume down to get to next track) playerpro can do this but only from the lockscreen.

Other than that... I'm a very satisfied owner indeed.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angelomaldito:
Yes. M8800 pixon :P
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zylor:
I simply love mine eheh
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
All you say is pure bull$hit.This phone is a piece of crap.Yesterday I opened voice commands and told it to make me coffee.The coffee was BLACK while I want milk in it!And it was much sweeter than I want!I am really considering taking the phone back and buying that Buondi coffee machine. :mad:

:p :p

Anyway,joking aside,it's one step forward than a device that would already be many steps forward than what is available today(other than the GS2 of course! ;) ).Lagginess?Gone.Slow reactions?Gone.Bad performance?Gone.Battery issues?Gone if you take precautions(Simple as updating to KE7 and later with a wipe-factory reset).Incompatibility?Well,this one goes to Chainfire but gone too.Even with CF3D my Desire HD can't always keep up.

Am I satisfied?Hell yeah I am! :D

Oh,and about the coffee part,it's awesome there too.How?Overclock it,set it to performance governor and make a stress test.Flip the phone while the stress test is going and you can keep your coffee hot at all times! :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rikken:
I have had a lot of touchphones : SE x10, x10 mini/pro,Arc, Htc Desire/Desire HD, Sgs and now the SGS II. It is without a doubt the best one so far :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ph00ny:
Another thread with the same exact topic?

I'm extremely happy with the phone. Snappy, slim, samoled display, etc

I've had a lot of devices since the days of winmo 8525 etc.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingofthebraves:
Are we getting BLN support?

So all you have to do is update the software to Ke7 and do a hard reset for no lags?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seragnos:
hello! my last mobile was a nokia 5800 with custom firmware, and now S2,my first samsung device, im happy with it only two problems, the terrible battery life and the overheat,i have KE2 and i will have KE2 for a long time...im afraid that here in czech republik the dont use to release new firmwares...

PD i have a friend with a desire HD and he is always pissing me off about the S2,telling me how good desire HD is and how bad samsung is... i hope hes wrong :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidkid311:
Do u think i have good or bad battery life?? Plus im using watch dog n it keeps alerting me that android is at 99% cpu,grrrr. Not a noob just a lil confused lol xD
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gunchoz:
Only complaint right now is that it doesn't have Sense 3.0 yet =(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
Well,owning both,he's right and wrong.Yes,the Desire HD is one hell of a good device and still amazes me with its speed.But no,it's not better than the Galaxy S II.Unless you don't miss Sense that is.Although I liked the DHD's solid feeling(170grams! :eek: ),getting used to the lightweight SGS2,I think I'll stick to the second. :cool: :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andy2.2:
Love it, honestly can't fault it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricky56789:
So far so good. Had an LG optimus 2x for about a week but got a refund cos it kept freezing...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blue265:
My last phone was a Captivate which is honestly a good phone. The SGS2 does blow it away in terms of speed and 1080p video recording as well as having a front facing camera.

I love browsing the web and never having lag. When its in my hands, I have a really hard time putting it down.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kirdroid:
This is the best phone i have had for a while...I have used iphone 3gs, couple of WP7 phones, mytouch 4G, Nexus S and LG G2X. While having all the those phones, i always felt the need of getting something new. But with SGS2 I'm completely happy. I mean dual core, slimmest phone, awesome screen, fastest android phone, unlocked bootloader, dev support what else can you ask? I have not had any problems with the phone and that is such a relief coming from G2X :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sumpo:
I can only say that I am really delighted with my Samsung Galaxy S2 :cool:

Just a couple of points that could be improved on, It would be nice if the battery could last a little longer, my only real gripe is that the audio is not loud enough through headphones etc, is there any fix for that.

I have just fixed the low volume audio problem in music and movie playback etc, via "Service mode" very happy with my SG2 now. :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kersey:
Can you give details of how you fixed the low volume in music playback, could do with mine being just a tab louder ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sumpo:
As soon as I get the privileges to post a link, I will do so, in the meantime I am sure that somebody on here knows far more than I do, and they maybe able to help you out.

I have just engaged my brain and have copy and pasted the information you need below.

When you come to select option 1, click on WB rather than voice call, and then headset and go from there, you have the option to change the volume settings in other modes such as speaker mode as well.

Enter this number *#*#197328640#*#*

This will open the service mode menu.

Select option [5] AUDIO

Select option [1] (VOICE CALL)

Select option [2] HEADSET

Select option [1] Volume

Select option [1] SRC Speech RX Volume

Select option [5] 5_lvl : 87

Press the menu button (left side)

Choose Key Input

Enter a value between 0 and 100, with 100 the loudest setting.

Press ok

Then press the menu button and select back this will save (don't use the right side back key you normally use to navigate the phone or you will quit out of the settings).

Keep selecting the menu and back until you exit the service mode menu.

You will also note you can change volume settings for other things like Bluetooth, handsets, video call etc.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zkyevolved:
I'm incredibly happy with my phone. This is the best phone I've ever EVER had!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vegetaleb:
This device is exellent and I come from Desire HD world!!

Though it needs some fixes:

-Camera pink spot

-Grainy wallpapers (banding)

-MORE choice of background effect (more brightness and less saturation)

-Lockscreen

As you can see all the bads are fixable via software :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Razer(x):
What about the background effect? Isn't the standard one good enough?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alcylon:
I can only say that I am really delighted with my Samsung Galaxy S2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] biffsmash:
I'm also delighted with mine :) The only problem I can think of right now that is annoying, but only annoying, is the wake lag.. but thats hardly a problem.

Camera on mine is awesome with no problems, screen shows nore more or no less banding than my HTC Desire, and it's the fastest phone i've owned or played with in any shop. The battery life blows my Desire out of the water.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I'm very happy with my GS2, cant complain as of yet.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shagunkari:
Yes. Very. Used an sgs and many feature phones before. The sgs was great but the s2 is a dream. Just hate the missing global proxy in android which is natural for symbian. Using proxy droid and cf root. My battrey is good and goes 30 hrs with moderate use.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mantian:
Yes i am. My last phone was the SE Vivaz(i usually like to touch things from the inside and Vivaz cannot be hacked) and the SGS2 its god compared to it.

The only thing i miss, by now as i only own it for a couple of weeks, its pausing video recording. I havent been able to find anything to solve that. Also it bothers me a bit not being able to zoom in and out while HD recording...but i guess i can live with that...xD
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tolis626:
You can zoom when recording 720p.We don't really need 1080p now,do we? ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] motodude:
Battery battery only battery
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ranjb:
coming from a HTC desire which was an amazing phone..this phone is just 100x better...can't complain.about it at all.

one gripe I have is the text messanging function..not as good as the HTC one.

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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] biplabbose:
It's an elegant beast. Unputdownable.

Moved to SGS II from Xperia X 10 mini
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmd512:
I'm so satisfied that I almost always smoke a cigarette after using it. :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daraj:
Do the settings stick after a reboot ?