yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] InspectorFrost:
Hi

I'm pretty sure this isnt a new thing but just wanted to check with other users.

Google Goggles (cant enable search history) ive read on other forums that this seems to be a universal bug on the s2, the spinner just seems to go around and around till i quit out of app....but the stranger problem is that when i scan an object etc the little scanning bar only goes about a centimeter across the screen befor saying "no match found" and just displaying a bunch of vaguely similar coloured stuff in the images at the bottom.....odd

the other issues with Google apps ive found are

(these could be due to a faulty sensor on my device tho)

Google Maps (street view,compas mode) & Google Sky maps

on both of these apps i can spin thro about 180 degrees fine (everything as it should be) but once i go past a certain point ie: halfway through a 360 rotation, the second half becomes all crazy and jumps all about the place ie: back to the start point of the 360 turn......you know what i mean ?!?

anyway, these are not things i use every day but am curious as to if anyone else has issues with these apps

cheers

EDIT: just found some youtube vids showing the nexus S with same issues,

hopefully when CM is released it may sort the issue
[HTC Sensation] camspy:
Well, i gave up setting default actions to "call mobile" to all contacts that i have inside of this widget, as every time i reboot they all are gone except the #1 contact in it, that has the setting stored.

Do you have the same behaviour?

Maybe there's some possible fix for that?
[HTC Sensation] chrisg1548:
I have the same thing going on with mine. I have about 8 contact so far and only 5 of them will keep the default action, so i just gave up until its fixed. Hopefully it will be fixed in the update.
[HTC Sensation] Andy-D:
I had this problem and have found the fix....works for me.

Go to the web site for Gmail and put the contacts that you want to keep a "default action" in the "Starred in Android" folder.
[HTC Sensation] crisisinthecity:
No issues here. All mine are sticking. I have them backed up to my exchange server though and did my initial sync to bring them in.
[HTC Sensation] chrisg1548:
Ok, what is the proper way to save your contacts so that they sync with the phone and gmail account. noob to android and this is confusing me.Or is there a step by step somewhere that tell you the proper way of doing this. searched and found alot of different ways of doing this but still confused. please help.

Thanks
[HTC Sensation] crisisinthecity:
I'm not sure. I've been syncing with exchange since smart phones existed and when I setup my exchange account on my new phones it just pulls everything in. My last phone was an HD2 so I had the people widget setup on that. Every sense Rom I used after that has just synced and pulled them in.
[HTC Sensation] camspy:
It helped, i sent you thanks ;)
[HTC Sensation] camspy:
What i did was exported all my contacts from my previous phone (nokia n900) to vcard, then in gmail i went to contacts page, imported all contacts from vcards. then in my HTC i just set to sync with my google account and voila, it works ;)
[Droid X General] nspbass:
So, I was SBFing back to stock .340, returning to rooted .596 from CM7. Just got tired of trying to keep up with everything. During the SBF, I must have clicked the wrong thing and exited the RSDLite program mid-flash.

Now, when I try to re-SBF, it won't complete and won't leave the bootloader screen. Anyone have any idea what I can do to bring my phone back to life? Thanks.

nspbass
[Droid X General] bigshotrob22:
Ttry doing the ''SYSYTEM" only SBF after the FULL sbf fails.
[Droid X General] monkeybone12:
http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/d...-solution-your-windows-rsd-lite-problems.html

This is what worked for my bud. It didn't work using USB, had to burn the ISO onto a CD, then it was gravy.

My 2 cents.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marine6680:
I while preparing to flash a new ROM I scrolled one to many selections in the format menu and selected "format sdcard" by mistake. (anyone else think the little warning notice up top should inform you which area you are about to format and not just a generic "formatting can not be undone" warning... I have thought this before but never voiced it to anyone and it seems my fears were well founded)

So now I have lost my app data backups and ROM backups, along with various other data.

I have used a couple programs to recover the data on the sdcard and have managed to get the clockwork backups back. Problem is, I want to do a partial restore of just /data (from the advanced restore menu) but the md5 sums are not matching. As I as just restoring /data and from the same ROM currently on the phone, I am not overly concerned by that. I just need to get as much of the original app data back as I can so I can do a new backup of the app data and then do a proper wipe and flash of a new ROM.

I know there was a way to force a restore with ADB when I had my old N1, is there a way to do so with the current recovery on this phone?

Thanks in advance... I been up way past my normal time so I am dead and can't focus well. So its off to bed and hopefully will come back to some good news after work.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marine6680:
Nobody.. anything?
[General Questions and Answers] dazkyl:
Which one to get ? thanks
[General Questions and Answers] anonimo95:
samsung galaxy S without thinking twice , in my opinion
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tangiers:
Is there a way to view all mail combined in the Inbox (i.e. all email from subfolders and Inbox) in Exchange?

Also, I notice that new email sent to a subfolder does not trigger a notification?

This suggests that the stock email application in Touchwiz isn't synchronising the subfolders (except if one views the subfolder).

I can see a combined email folder in Touchdown but I would really like to use this stock app as the interface is very nice.

Any help would be appreciated.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B-Hard:
Im also interessted in a Solution to this!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tangiers:
I gave up and went back to TouchDown.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B-Hard:
Bad to hear this.

So i have to went back to my iphone - i won't pay 20$ for Touchdown - for a Function who is standard in outher Phone OS!:mad:

I hope Google will bring there better Compatibility with Icecream Sandwitch... :confused:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jsauce75:
This is really pissing me off. I am missing tons of emails.
[HTC Sensation] familyhousing:
A Vodafone customised version of Android Market has just been silently pushed to my Sensation.

"My Apps" tab has been replaced by "Vodafone" - a list of vodafone apps and other recommended apps.

I do not want this crap - I was just about happy, putting up with the minimal branding as it existed. Now I need to be able to flash a generic ROM again.
[HTC Sensation] Electronic Punk:
What region?
[HTC Sensation] Mansn:
I just noticed something like this, but after a reboot it disappeared (please note that I have fast boot deactivated).

I'm in the UK.
[HTC Sensation] Solidus_n313:
welcome to the club, TMO has i think 8 apps/links that are completely useless, and 3 or 4 are ALWAYS running, chewing up the ram :(

and im still on stock out of box OS version :/
[HTC Sensation] familyhousing:
You're right. I just rebooted and it returned to normal. What are they up to?
[HTC Sensation] jivemaster:
My unbranded UK Sensation has a HTC button in place of the normal My Apps. I find it a tad annoying, as I'm used to clicking that button to check what updates I have available.
[HTC Sensation] cjm1979:
What market version is it? Mine is 2.3.4 but i saw on the Vodafone forum about this this morning.
[HTC Sensation] familyhousing:
Mine is also 2.3.4 now, but I didn't check it at the time, before the problem went away on reboot.
[HTC Sensation] agent.m:
from what i know its not crapware just an extra channel with apps reduced or free. It makes sense that if this takes off then there will be no need to have all the bloat on your phone in future.

http://www.coolsmartphone.com/2011/07/04/vodafone-add-their-own-android-market-channel/
[HTC Sensation] apprentice:
Really angry about this decision to hijack my Market app without consent. I prefer the much more useful "My Apps" tab not some link to crap 'partner's apps.
[HTC Sensation] ratchetnclank:
On unbranded you get HTC.
[HTC Sensation] BonesRed:
Freeze the stock market using temp root and then put an intended market on your phone using gapps.
[HTC Sensation] cjm1979:
As anybody else on vodafone uk notice the hidden vodafone rescue app start to install itself whenever debugging is on and you reboot? Even when you un-install it it will reinstall when you reboot.
[HTC Sensation] redesignni:
I need a generic rom as well... I bought a sensation from ebay and love it but its vodafone rom and im using O2 and some things dont work right like mms
[Xoom General] omnia1994:
model: xoom for china (nt sure is z606 or z608)

from a chinese forum i just know that china's version xoom has sdcard support and a motorola apps market for tablet apps! wth? how about us? we get nothing except waiting!
[Xoom General] Arun01:
Wow that sucks big time!
[Xoom General] marctronixx:
all xooms outside of the US are not GEDs so they can get retrofitted support. there is a certain method that google and moto have to adhere to in order to get SD card support on the MOTMZ600.
[LG Optimus 2x] devazg:
Hello!

I need some help, how to install google maps on Cm7, can't get off market (I'm in croatia) ...
[LG Optimus 2x] bedevil99:
Here you go:

http://goo-inside.me/gapps/

just download and flash this via CWM
[LG Optimus 2x] devazg:
I flashed it right after flashing CM7, but maps weren't installed, I'll try flashing it again ...
[LG Optimus 2x] Rusty!:
Use Market Enabler, then get it from the Market.
[LG Optimus 2x] devazg:
Thanks, it worked!
[Galaxy S II General] henkyie:
Hi everybody,

1st

I just want to say that I love this forum. I learned a lott.

2nd

USB and WIFI thethering works like a charm. But I would like a way to tether internet via bluetooth to extend the battery life of my phone. Also WIFI tethering is fine when connecting several devices, but I just want to connect my new Asus Transformer.

I have tried to find the awnser on this forum and via google but I only find guides about USB of WIFI tethering.

I hope there is a way. If there is please let me know.

Thanks,

Henkyie

Ps. Replies about my search capabilities are also welcom but please include the link where I could have found the information :D
[Galaxy S II General] Ingvarr:
I have used "Wireless Tether for Root Users" app on my previous Android phone, it has Bluetooth tether mode which worked perfectly for me. Not sure if it will work well with SGSII but may worth a shot.
[Galaxy S II General] f1ux:
Wireless tether for root doesn't work in bluetooth mode on the sgs2 (yet)
[Galaxy S II General] EarthLord:
As per the description in the market 'Wireless Tether for Root Users' requires Netfilter-enabled kernel for its working. I don't know if it is added in any of the kernels for S2.

Yes, bluetooth tethering would be helpful. Any other way to achieve it?
[Galaxy S II General] gergohad:
Competition: how many times can you lock the screen with one hand without pressing the volume button!

Winner gets a 4-am wake-up call when the battery is recharged.

The second place gets an e-mail written by my pants when the screen-lock fails to turn on, following a headset call.

Third place will get a special mod that allows you to start your audiobook player with the headset button with the screen-lock on, and the screen off (a usefull feature when your hands are not free).

Just kidding, there is no such mod, the third place gets nothing.
[Galaxy S II General] Zheiko:
What annoys me the most? Appart from pressing volume button while locking screen, its the fact that all my callers are complaining that they hear echo... going to exchange the phone today...

Non of the other things bothers me... I usually sleep very hard, so 4am wakeup tone that my phone is being fully charged cannot wake me up:D neither my girlfriend was complaining...
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
I had nothing to report as nothing annoyed me till today unless when I plugged my Headphone and made a call. The Volume in a call through the headphone at even maximum level is pathetically low.But that is not the case with Earpiece or Bluetooth headset.

Regards.
[Galaxy S II General] tolis626:
What I hate about the device?Well,I wanted to buy a Tegra 2 tablet.After buying the GS2 everything else seemed slow. :mad: :p
[Galaxy S II General] intruda119:
Noons and people with no life being able to make threads
[Galaxy S II General] Teio:
+ 10000

I can't use my x10 anymore without being pissed
[Galaxy S II General] AllWin:
1. I can live with 1,5 second delay when waking up phone, but home button lag is killing me. I know, this ks because of voice command "feature", but what about users like me who will never "talk" to their phones (unless being completely drunk)?

2. The famous game freezes. I bought this phone mainly for gaming, but they are simply freezing or crashing to home screen. On all (official) currently available firmware versions. Thanks to LitePro, now i can play with no problems.

I had few more very annoying problems, but thanks again to LitePro who ironed them out. Also i had to delete most of notification sounds. No need to explain why :-)

I know, my first impresions with this phone wasn't very good and i said some bad words, but thanks to this great community - i love my SGS2 now :-)
[Galaxy S II General] UUK3:
Lol i have never heard this fully charged sound. *g*

But the batterie drain is really heavy. Maybe i buy an extended akku.
[Galaxy S II General] Archer:
Every single time (see attached).

The thing that annoys me most is the same thing that annoyed me about the HD2.... whining users that complain about utterly ridiculous things on xda, opening a new thread every time they come up with some vague idea of something their phone can't do. If you want a cup of tea, BUY A TEASMAID!!!
[Galaxy S II General] bilboa1:
i never hit the volume button yet i use the physical lock button :P

Matter of handling I suppose .oO(you're not handling it right! xD)

What annoys me is the lack of 2.3.4 update (not that I need much from it, but it feels like they're not working on it as much as on the I9000) and the lack of proper source (everyone uses the binary kernel cause the source one isnt as stable even after padding)

oh and the reason why they've hidden hw accelerated disk encryption, or the lack thereof :o
[Galaxy S II General] David Horn:
The fact that Driving Mode randomly turns itself on, leading to excruciating embarrassment when an incoming text or email is read out at full volume in a public place.
[Galaxy S II General] nicpol7:
the wifi sharing battery drain that starts randomnly...
[Galaxy S II General] greigster:
Lazy gits that whine and ask about the yellow triangle without even searching the threads
[Galaxy S II General] icehot666:
The stock email app, which is the only free one which works with exchange doesn't request the keyboard to bring up the spelling suggestion list - so only the samsung keyboard works with this, or using perfect keyboard and having it turned on permanently.

The stock music app hasn't been thought out well enough in that it allows you to access music bypassing the library list. This of course means using the back button never returns you to this list and they never thought to put a link in the menu to get to the music library (such a simple fix!) - solved that with player pro though ;)

Stock SMS app not allowing you to scroll up through the messages you are replying to whilst you are replying - of course handcent gets around that.

Touchwiz launcher - can't set a different home screen, folders created in the app drawer and then dragged onto one of the home screens are now 2 seperate folders, rather than a hard link - meaning you update one, and the other also needs updating.... Thanks to Go Launcher Ex this is no longer an issue.

Tbh hardware wise it's spot on - it's just that Samsung seem to have rushed the software out.
[Galaxy S II General] gergohad:
I found a fix for you problem: don't read those threads and don't post replies...
[Galaxy S II General] aydc:
What annoys me the most? The fact that I bought this phone expecting a huge improvement on battery life compared to my old phones. I'm annoyed at myself for being this naive. :)
[Galaxy S II General] Archer:
That doesn't fix the problem of the forums becoming diluted with repeated requests. You've just suggested ignoring the problem.
[Galaxy S II General] punshkin:
i am "annoyed that wifi-sharing" eats 15% of my battery (but i still make it trough the day without problems.

i never pressed the volume button while lokcing the phone and i have never ever heard a charged noise oO
[Galaxy S II General] gergohad:
What requests? Nobody is requesting anything buddy. We're discussing things about the phone that annoy us. If you dont like this topic, try another one.
[Galaxy S II General] a67543210:
What annoys me the most is that this phone is so nice,i can hardly seperate myself from it.
[Galaxy S II General] angelomaldito:
There is a tutorial which help to solve the problem using codes on the dial, just search the forums. I've solved that issue and I'm happy now. That said, what annoys me the most is that SGS2 even being based on a Linux kernel is not natively friendly to Linux apart from being used as a mass storage device. Kies for Linux would be nice.
[Galaxy S II General] maranello69:
tru dat, that's really messed up, sometimes at night i f scare myself with that sound :D
[Galaxy S II General] daivik:
YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES ME MAD ABOUT THIS THING :mad::mad::mad:

I wasted MANY POUNDS on what is (NOW) a pile of crap...an iPad. It's old...but the iPad2's hardly a "step-up" and my iPad was my multimedia device...

SuperAMOLEDPlus and tiny pixel demolishes the ****ty resolution of my iPad. :p
[Galaxy S II General] NZgeek:
The app list has circular scrolling (scroll off the last page and you get back to the first), but the home screens don't.

Hitting the volume button when hitting the power button (although not all the time).

Still waiting for the 2.3.4 battery drain fix...
[Galaxy S II General] THUDUK:
When you dunk a custard cream and half of it falls into you tea...
[Galaxy S II General] killall:
That I don't get that annoying battery drain that everyone else on this forum seems to complain about, I'm feeling left out:rolleyes:;)
[Galaxy S II General] zkyevolved:
Without a doubt..... battery life. I drained this bad boy in 6 hours with 3g on and 3 hours of screen on time. Hehe. I had a long transit to the dentist followed by a long wait!!! But my battery got me through with 5% left by the time I got home about 6 hours later. Battery life isn't bad. But who wouldn't want their battery to last longer ^.^

Nothing else bothers me about this phone. Its fantastic. Hehe.
[Galaxy S II General] RejjvarN:
That annoying extra icon and message that appears when the battery is charged to 100%...
[Galaxy S II General] zeitgeb3r:
What annoys me the most?

When there isn't a god daym multimedia player that remembers the position of played audio/video when I pause it and switch to another app, and come back to it later. DoggCatcher is very neat and remembers the position, but can't find my DoubleTwist syched files.
[Galaxy S II General] -A-P-M-:
What annoys me most? I like changing phones but after using SGS2 it will be very hard to find good successor, because everything works great. I cant even use my iPhone4 anymore, because it feels so dated compared to my SGS2
[Galaxy S II General] David Roosendaal:
I use a little app that switches off all sounds at 11PM and enables them at 7:30AM. SO: not bothered by spam emails coming in, or battery full notifications.

What does bother me is the 'software update' kicking into action randomly, and performing a batery rundown :(
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
When I unlock the phone with my left hand, my thumb usually rests right above the volume buttons, I have this habit of really securing my grip with mobile phones so its not an annoyance for me BUT it did happen on the day that I got my phone.

The biggest annoyance is probably the yellow tinting on the screen, everything else is perfect for my day to day usage.

The effing battery full notification also wakes me up at times.
[Galaxy S II General] gergohad:
Mobo player (for video) is nice, and it remembers.
[Galaxy S II General] jkhrist:
The fact that I had to buy a g2x because the sgs 2 isn't in the states
[Galaxy S II General] tolis626:
I found another one.My Desire HD is now jealous and gets ****ed up all the time.

And I mean it.It was a Friday when I got my GS2.Thursday night,my Desire HD was fast as it normally was.Friday morning the beast arrived.The same morning,without having changed ANYTHING,my Desire HD started behaving weird and being slow as ****.Plus,it doesn't overclock at that nice stable 1.8GHz anymore,it crashes.

And then they say that electronics are machines with no feelings... :rolleyes: :p
[Galaxy S II General] chribruu:
Delete the file called something like tw_battery_caution.Ogg in system/media/audio/ui with root explorer and no more wake up calls.
[Galaxy S II General] kerman19:
That's more upsetting than annoying, not only do you loose a chunk of your biscuit, it also ****s up your tea! :(

On a more serious note, my phone only has one thing that really bugs me, and that's the stock LCD Density, it's just WAY too high and currently dropping it down just messes the dialler up and stuff.

Phil

P.S. I'm so having a cup of tea and some custard creams now!
[Galaxy S II General] ziggazee:
+1 i use to love my n8 and at the time when i bought it i thought it was super fast... Now i cant stand it, the speed of the touch response and things like ajusting the camera setting seem so slow to get on the options menu now.. Cant believe at one point i was putting up with this, wats more i actually thought it was fast. But ilthe gs2 does have its problems such as when taking 1080p vids the autofocus is rubbish so bad that i dont take 1080p vids anymore, but thats a software issue that can be improved as it was actually better when i first got the phone the once i updated the camera firmware it became ****e.
[Galaxy S II General] omersak:
What's the name of this app? Sounds exactly like what i've been looking for!
[Galaxy S II General] David Roosendaal:
Sleep silencer
[Galaxy S II General] godutch:
color banding
[Galaxy S II General] MasK:
The ~1-1.5sec wake up time screws me up pretty much. Second goes for the lousy music output to the earphones. That's abt it for now.

To those who accidentally presses on volume buttons while locking your phone:

Ever tried using a soft button to lock your phone instead? I use an app which resides in my dock at the corner that locks my phone. I use that like 90% of the time :)
[Galaxy S II General] David Roosendaal:
Not being able to browse the net using just one hand, because I can't hit the back button.

I do have big hands... But even then... Just not possible.... Need the other hand too
[Galaxy S II General] OrionCarl:
how easy the screen scratches, big disappointment!
[Galaxy S II General] pachi72:
What annoys me the most is that its taken to f'king long to hit US carries.
[Galaxy S II General] pulser_g2:
I can sit all day hitting lock key without going near volume...

I have big hands, and according to my colleagues, hold my phone in a strange way... But it means I am not even close to volume keys...
[Galaxy S II General] Artius89:
Banding issue, i simply hate this crap.

Inviato dal mio GT-I9100 usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] kbiz90:
The only thing that annoys me is the mechanical clicking sound of the home button. I want a silent SGS2.

The Nexus One trackball is under-rated too. It was perfect for SMS/Email/Voicemail notifications and clicking that tiny obscure link on a webpage.