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[Galaxy S II General] intruda119:
Why couldn't this be added to the many other threads. Please stop speaking for every sgs2.

1- only time I can see any kind of blue tint is if my eye is literally at the charging port. Non issue here.

2- wtf are you talking about. No lag/blur whatsoever here. Only time I see anything considered lag is on the lockscreen but that's the CPU.

3-my phone gets warm when playing intensive games(samurai 2-ps1 emu) after playing a long time. I've had phone since release day and never have gotten uncomfortable hot. I also ran my cpu at 1.7 for 2 weeks using tegrak. Running at 1.5 with cognition rom now with no overheating.

4- I run a grooming salon with mostly dogs, cats and some birds. I listen to my 30gb of music from 9-6ish. I can clearly hear music from speaker over barking dogs all day. Volume at 30% with stock headphones. And this is over music/advertisement playing from loudspeaker. I do use dsl manager to add more base and also poweramp.

5. See number 1

6. Can't see a white pixel left right up or down the screen. What I thought was a dead pixel the first day of ownership quickly disappeared. I have no issues besides the useragent desktop default.

Please stop speaking for everyone. I think there's roughly 3+ million sgs2 sold, we would see more people having your issues.

Remember specially with forums people(noobs/trolls) with complaints typically post more in general section than user without. If you actually read thru threads there's not that many users having the issue.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Was it the "many other people" reference that tipped you off ;)
[Galaxy S II General] blunted09:
This is a silly post. Please speak for yourself. No problems other than the phone getting hot sometimes which is expected. Go get an iphone
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
That's harsh. There's a vocal minority that gets revved up about certain issues. It's real to them and I think they feel it is or should be to everyone else too. The ironic thing is when you look at the other dual-core phones the SGS2 has 1/10 the issues. Perfect's a great ideal but doesn't exist. It's always funny when people pick one feature from another phone and bash the SGS2 because it's not as good. Life doesn't work that way. If your Nokia camera's so great, swell. Than stick with a single core Symbian phone. Unless a do-it-yourself hardware kit is released that allows you to use a Nokia camera, SE display, Nexus Wi-Fi, and someone else's GPS you take the good with the bad. For the vast majority the SGS2's good way outweighs the bad and judge the phone on the sum of its parts. Different strokes for different folks.
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
no clue what you guys are trying to proove except that youre oblivious to these problems... its how the phone is made, theres no such thing as oh they probably made a worse manufacturing process on ur phone screen, you just cant notice it because u dont know how to look for it...

PS for anyone who says they cant see any blurr in motion, if u cant see it on a 2msgtg lcd screen then you will surely not know how to look for it in this oled phone as its alot less noticeable.

Ive never said yellow tint phones were normal, i said that blue tint when changing angle of view is.
[Galaxy S II General] Sp1tfire:
Actually, i thought of starting a thread named something like "The perfect phone" where you add different parts/hardware/software from different phones and build your ideal phone. Obviously, i won't, although would be fun to see people's opinions about the perfect screen, perfect camera, etc. :p

P.S. Thank God i have a poor eyesight and i'm such an ignorant, this way i can consider my phone to be very close to perfection :D
[Galaxy S II General] slick69:
So you're saying that if someone wants a phone without any issues, they should "go get an iphone"?
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
rofl im amazed at how many trolls are in this forum, but i guess i should be used to amateurs talking trash... eh? forgot to mention another issue as normal, will update thread soon

EDIT: first post updated, im considering adding gun bros and pocket legends to overheating list, what do you guys think?
[Galaxy S II General] Sp1tfire:
May i add another issue to your list ? Out of the 3 million units sold, some have psychotic owners. Fortunately, problem is not that widespread as the yellow-tint issue.
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
I cant see how that is an issue with the phone though :P
[Galaxy S II General] DSF:
OP thanks for the post - very good & informative, at least for new SGS2 owners or potential SGS2 owners.

Too bad that some people here act so pathetic and start bashing.

I can confirm the "issues" on mine.
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
thanks, glad youve found it usefull, that was the whole point of the thread, to make people rest knowning that these are not faults experienced only by them, it happens on all phones, even though someone mentioned there are 5 million of those phones sold, seeying 4 random samsung galaxy s2 phones with the exact same list of "issues" is more than just a "coincidence" as a user pointed out.

Ive also specified why some very rare phones have no blue tint visible.

PS: Even though i see an updated version of gun bros today i can still sense it heating up a bit, im not letting this one reaching the point of overheating but if anyone is interested in knowing where it overheats, it happens mostly on the upper side of the phone leaving the down side only a bit warm, to avoid this overheating what i do is go to applications and exit all of them, go to ram manager and clearing it up, this prevents my phone from overheating in that game to insane levels.
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
added gun bros, pocket legends, wifi conectivity issue and light sensing to the list.
[Galaxy S II General] Sp1tfire:
Really now, no bashing or anything else, but i'm surprised you are still an SII owner. With all those problems you could have just returned the phone, get your money back and buy a perfect phone made by another company.
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
Ah now youve finally come clean ;) it wasnt a matter of you thinking i was "psychotic" it was just you hated to see some of the problems of the phone posted... i really dont care about fanboism so move along if thats the only thing you can say and if you must know, the reason im sticking with this phone is that its a OLED that has the best performance and records 1080p at 30fps, but if any other brand offered the same and maybe lets say a slightly better wifi connectivity in addition to all that, i would buy that instead in a heartbeat, because unlike you i dont let my fanboism brainwash me, since i have choosen technology and performance i cant find anything that replaces this phone.

For all the people who get hurt somehow somewhere because i point some flaws that needs to be known for the reasons ive specified in the first post, get a life... fanboism is useless and adds nothing of value to your personal life.
[Galaxy S II General] intruda119:
Please stop feeding this dude. Let it fall to the bottom with the rest of the stupid threads.

1 person out of 15 agreed with you, that should give you a ratio for your first post. But since we didnt agree with what you said we are trolls/oblivious/fanboys etc... Theres no point

Keep pressing refresh.
[Galaxy S II General] Sp1tfire:
No fanboism here, i'm surprised you didn't notice the wake up lag, the yellow-tint and the pink camera spot, which, by the way, are present on all devices, unlike some of the problems you called "universal".
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
14 persons disagreed with what? that it wasnt normal? i have thousands of ppl telling me LCDs dont blurr because their 2ms GTG response time, does that makes it even remotely true? This isnt a debate, this has nothing to do with who agrees with who, if you find any of my points to be untrue please proove it and if it trully is against any of the flaws that i consider to be normal then i will gladly change it and add your name to it if you want.

All i see is amateur comments of: HEres a video of youtube calling you noob, im so clever...

IF you want to talk about ratio, 0 of 14 persons pointed out objectively anything wrong with my thread and as far as i know 1 > 0, what does that tell you?
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
Could you please tell me where is the yellow tint noticeable? ive found many ppl talking about it but never noticed it on any of my phones on a white background.

Which problems that i called normal you do not find them normal?

PS: im not sure that the wakeup lag is an issue, its probably made like that on purpose to conserve battery life.
[Galaxy S II General] Sp1tfire:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1078700

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1079444

Pink camera and yellow tint threads. When you get the same amount of users like in the yellow tint thread, then we can agree every SII has all those problems you posted. Sound is perfect on my device, as well as wi-fi connection even if i hold it with 2 hands and gloves. No blurring issues in motion on my device either.
[Galaxy S II General] Life Engineer:
Ok guys! So i'm a potential new buyer of SGS2! Tomorrow i can sell my DHD and pay 100$ in addition to get this phone.

But seriously... After reading all the problems about this phone (especially the display, which is the most important thing in it) i'm really thinking about it.... :-s

So is it worthy?! Should i get this phone?! I'm now a happy DHD user but i liked this phone a lot (before browsing a bit this forum), so what to do now?!
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
to properly confirm the blurring issue, try reading a white text on a black background and scroll it as quick as your eyes can follow the text, if it reaches a point its unreadable then thats what im talking about, im going to re-investigate this yellow tint issue even though ive never seen it on my phones, if you think its detectable in a camera snapshot ill gladly snapshot mine on a white background to show that its not normal and not a feature of all phones.
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
if you compare this phone to any other LCD phone its a clear winner, the image quality makes any lcd screen look bad when it comes to contrast, you can notice the color banding in gradients a bit more than you can in a lcd but im not sure this is a problem because you honestly can notice that banding too on lcd screen if you view them at different angles (at least in TN panels).

This has the best performance of all phones ive seen so far, i dont normally bother with benchmarks but mine scored between 3100 and 3600ish in Quadrant.

The camera is not super awsome but its good enough and it has 1080p at 30fps video recording which is quite good.

IF you have proper headphones the sound is good, not audiophile good but still good while its speaker reproduces sound at average quality at best.

Many users complain about battery dropping to fast when playing games but lets get real, for this performance it should be expected really...

Ive traded 2 of this phone and my third choice was still the same, not because im a fanboy, i couldnt care less about names all i care about is what they have to offer.

I hope the overheating issue will be resolved soon thats the thing i consider most dangerous about this phone, sometimes it can reach heat levels so high you can barely touch the upper side of it but this only happens with some applications.

All i can say is, if you dont care about performance and/or Screen quality then you can choose any other phone really, be it HTC or Sony Ericsson or even Samsung, maybe there are going to be alot of people who will disagree with this too but those 3 brands are the ones i find most successfull when it comes to android phones.

But if you do care about performance and image quality, you will not find anything better anytime soon.

EDIT: ive forgot to mention that this phone can play some tegra games with a homebrew "plugin" but i think youll need your phone rooted
[Galaxy S II General] Sp1tfire:
If you are a potential SII buyer then you should check the XDA sections of the dual-processor devices and see which one of them has the most acceptable flaws you could cope with. No phone is perfect, be it Samsung, LG, HTC or Motorola. Check Atrix, Sensation and 2X forums and see what users report. I bought SII, my girlfriend bought 2X. Out of these two, i'd buy SII again. Didn't have the chance of playing with an Atrix or a Sensation.
[Galaxy S II General] Life Engineer:
10x for the reply!

Yes i want a good performance, coz beleive it or not, my pc is broken and i dont wanna fix it coz i'm using my phone to play games! I really like it!

However man, it's really freaking me out! I can read everywhere those words: bluish, blue tint, yellow tint, blurr, burn in, color banding, automatic brightness problems, wakeup lag .... And many many others!

How can that be the best display?! :-s i have none of these (exept a pink tint in camera) on my phone now!

I really like that phone but the last thing i want is to regret it!

I'm really torn up by that...

All my friends got the Sensation... I'm wondering if i should do that as well....
[Galaxy S II General] Sp1tfire:
It all comes down to what's visible for you when using your phone daily. Yeah, pink spot on the camera is present when meeting certain conditions (indoors, with no flash, taking a pic of a white object with auto white contrast on), yellow tint is present if you meet certain conditions too, but some users say they can see it no matter the settings and conditions, a little banding maybe, wake up lag which is noticeable, but not too bad (apparently fixed in 2.3.4 version), so i guess you should go to the store and play with an SII for a few minutes and see if the problems that users reported are noticeable and bother you. Guess you already asked your friends about Sensation. It must have flaws too :p
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
Then if you want good performance, i personally cant find any phone that beats this one.

The blue tint is only visible when youre looking at it from another angle, trust me i dont know of any better screen right now, some people argue super amoled (older phones) perform better when it comes to blurr (pixel response time) and doesnt have a blue tint but those phones also have a big problem it displays the image a bit fuzzy because it uses a cheap method to process the image.

IF you can wait, then wait a while longer, the only huge issue i have with this phone that happens to all apparently is that it overheats in specific applications, hopefully with time samsung will update the firmware and fix it because i have no reasons to doubt this is a hardware issue.

If you want a phone now and need a choice then i would recommend any of these (from the best on top to the worst on bottom)

Samsung Galaxy S2

LG Optimus 2X

Xperia Arc

Xperia Play (has a PSP pad which is quite good for gaming)

if you care mostly about gaming then either samsung galaxy s2 or xperia play, cant see anything that aspires more to gaming than those.

So my final suggestion is:

If any of those things ive listed bothers you really much then you are better of waiting for a new phone or buy one of the alternatives listed above.
[Galaxy S II General] kirdroid:
This is the best phone out there at this point ... compare it to any android phone,it will come out a winner. It may have some issues as some have brought up, but seriously every phone out there has some issue or the other. Just go to the g2x or sensation or any other forum and you will notice. If you are planning to upgrade to a high end phone, you can't go wrong with sgs2.
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
Ok ive tested the website that the OP of the yellow tint suggested, i can confirm that the contrast slightly changes to the left as mentioned, its almost unoticeable but its there, im not sure if its yellow though its just to small of a difference to conclude which color is it, but something between a weird green and a weird yellow.

Thanks for that tip, added to the list of normal problems, a link to the thread youve showed me and your name.

EDIT: i cant semm to be able to test the camera right now, ill wait when i can test it on low sunlight conditions as i get weird gradient effects with my chinese lamp xD
[Galaxy S II General] kbiz90:
Should've made this thread a poll so we can see where the majority stands. Personally, I'm not experiencing some of these "normal" issues.
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
what are you not experiencing?
[Galaxy S II General] kbiz90:
I'm not experiencing WiFi problems, audio problems, or overheating problems. White pixel on some images? I haven't seen it.

Seems like you're nitpicking. It's like you're pointing to the zit on the ass of an angel. I bet the vast majority of normal users doing normal things on SGS2 won't encounter, notice, or care about these "normal" issues. The reviews are overwhelmingly positive and I bet the vast majority of SGS2 owners would buy it again. But you're here putting fear and doubt into people like Life Engineer.

Maybe you should update your OP and say you'd buy the SGS2 again and that you're nitpicking over trivial issues.
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
I had the wifi problem on all 3 phones.

Audio problem is not really a problem, i was specifying the quality of the speaker itself beying average as something normal aka (not expecting much of it), you need a good ear to know what im talking about, any audiophile will probably agree.

Overheating problems only happens in some applications, like gun bros or pocket legends, it also happened on all of my 3 phones and everybody i know who also complained about heating issues were playing either gun bros or pocket legends, there might be other apps aswell which i am not aware of.

As for the white pixel, let me help you, open internet explorer from the phone itself, go to google images, type black color, open a pure black image in full size, zoom in as much as you can untill it fills up your screen and dont touch the screen, if youre holding it normally the white pixel will be located at the bottom left of the phone, if you view it in portrait mode or horizontally the white pixel travells to the top left, many people who scan for dead pixels might get in panic by it, i thought it was worthy to inform them that its not really a dead pixel its just a software issue.

if these issues for you are nothing then fine, i still have the phone even though with all these issues, do i care? i do, some more than others but it didnt stop me buying the phone, sure i will hate it when samsung releases a newer version with all these issues fixed and leaving me and other users into dust but i doubt thatll happen, they will have to fix at least some of them with software update if possible or else they will get a bad rep.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
No one here will deny there are issues with the screens. The blue tint thing is a fairly new discussion and not highly participated in so I'm guessing most people don't have it or don't care thus rendering it a non-serious issue. The left-side banding that shows on a grey background, in the dark, with the display at 20% or less and then photographed has been a raging discussion with 150 pages since the phone was released. The majority are fine with it and solved the problem by not taking pics of their phone. OP seems pretty detail oriented and the fact that he missed it sort of confirms it's in the non-serious category too. There have been a lot of QC related issues: suction cup circles from assembly, fingerprints inside the screen, dead pixels, blotchiness, wide swings in color temperature, and vertical or horizontal lines. Those are without a doubt defects and no one I've seen has questioned them or defended Samsung for allowing them past QC. So, if you're going to leap to someone's defense, you have to pick a category.

And OP, I think some of the negativity that people posted came not from you pointing out issues or talking about your high standards. There are a lot of threads started where people declare "Ah Ha!" moments and spend paragraphs railing on something assuming the whole user population shares their perspective. For me, your reference to "many people" experiencing the issue was kind of a tipping point. How "many" out of the XDA SGS2 forum? How "many" out of the 3MM population of SGS2 users? When someone responded to you with "not mine" I'm guessing it was because the tone of your original post made it seem like your were speaking for the vast majority. I don't know if you meant to or not but global assumptions of problems or issues typically irk users that have different perspectives.

And let me solve the mystery of the white pixel. It's there to keep a service alive in support of hardware acceleration in the stock browser. They chose white because the majority of web pages are white or lighter colors.
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
thanks for sharing that with me, ill update the thread and get the "many people" out to avoid the issue of flaming and thanks for letting me know of why that light pixel is there, i knew it was something software related i just couldnt really understand the point of it.

ill add that description and your name to the white pixel section of the thread
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
You don't need to do any of that. People on this forum are pretty resilient. I was glad to see your later post that talked about you enjoying the phone. There are a few people that post here that seem to be absolutely miserable and for some reason don't do the logical thing which is to return or sell it. Even with its faults it's still a pretty spectacular feat of engineering. And Samsung deserves props for paying attention to correctable issues and pushing out updates fast and furious. Compared to what's out there I think we're in a pretty good place.
[Galaxy S II General] kbiz90:
I think that point is missing from your OP. You should lead with it. It's stil an awesome phone even if it has minor issues.
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
Yep, it was never my point to bash the phone, even though im not impressed with samsung lack of quality when it comes to those issues, the guys at the store asked me both times: Are you sure you still want the same phone? Dont you want another model? And both times ive answeared "I want the same model", sure i could get a Sony Ericsson as i like gaming, but for what? its LCD and its single Core, the rest of the dual cores are less impressive than this one when it comes to performance and image quality, this is a beast of a phone when it comes to those 2 aspects and nothing comes close to it.

i just had gone through almost 3 weeks of swapping phones just to find out that my first one was just fine with no problems at all... thats the main reason ive made this thread, to let ppl know about my experience and not struggle to try getting a magical version which doesnt exist.
[Galaxy S II General] TheWarKeeper:
Added this information to the Thread:

After swapping my phone 2 times and finding these issues, i would surelly want to trade it for an alternative! but unfortunatelly reality came to me everytime the shop manager asked: "Do you want the same model or a different one?" Then it made me think, what model? Sure Xperia Arc and Play are cool phones, but they dont come even close to the performance of this phone and honestly none other dual core phones have OLED screen and even compared to those this phone is alot better in performance, so i came to realise there was really no choice, if i wanted the best in performance and the best in image quality then this phone was, is and will be the answear for time to come.

These issues do not bother me very much as my third phone is still a galaxy s2 but every person is different, if it bothers you that much then in the end you can always think of the future and what phones it reserves, if you want the best in performance and image quality right now then this phone is the answear.