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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qbasicer:
I've heard of some issues with the SGS, a phone that I was planning to buy last year but had to spend my savings on a new laptop that died instead, so I wanted to make sure that the SGS2 is performing better than the SGS, and that no major problems have been reported (such as the GPS or similar). I've been unable to find any issues with the SGS2, thus why I'm asking if they'd recommend it :).

Thanks for your input!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Archer:
You'll obviously see people with issues on here, as this is a hub for people asking for help with issues. But you'll also find lots of people with no problems at all, like me. It's the fastest, smoothest Android experience I've ever had, and I really do recommend it.

I get a day of regular use out of the battery, or 2 days of minimal use (when it's basically just a phone). GPS and Wifi work perfectly for me, and I don't see any yellow tint on my screen.

Personally, I think it's one of the fastest selling pieces of tech ever made for a very good reason.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qbasicer:
Thanks for your input! I realize the XDA forums is a place to go for issues, I see a lot of relatively little issues, not like, "THIS PHONE IS JUNK". I'm glad to hear that everything seems to be going so smoothly. I'm anxious to move to the Android Platform and get started in dev work (coming from a HTC Touch Pro (winmo, my friend conned me into it) and then a Blackberry Bold 9000 (a handmedown from my girlfriend after my touch pro died).)

Now I just gotta figure out if I want to be in a contract or not :).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Archer:
I had a Touch Diamond, a Touch HD and then a HD2, and being a Windows developer I thought it was great being able to port my current skills with very little effort. I am now started down the route of app development for Android though. If you've done any java then it'll be a breeze, and if you've done any C# then it's almost as easy. If you've done .Net then you'll get it as well. Android is definitely gonna be around for quite some time. Unfortunately the same can't be said for my old friend Windows Mobile.

Ah well :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ithehappy:
Its highly recommended by me, no question asked. Even it should be recommended in htc Sensation forum too ;)

Sent from GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonny68:
ditto...... :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] allanon+:
If you clearly understand what you want out of the phone, you will not have a hard time deciding which phone you want to buy.

For me, the hardware spec of this phone fits almost all of my requirements, plus an active community in this forum, I can decide easily. And I'm very happy with this phone.
[HTC Sensation] n1ghtl1fe:
So many options when it comes to browsers on the market today. I figure some of you bounce around from browser to browser like I do.

Whats your favorite and why?

My vote is probably XScope seems to be smoothest and nicest UI for me.
[HTC Sensation] EddyOS:
Dolphin HD myself, nothing comes close
[HTC Sensation] n1ghtl1fe:
lets get some reasons why. not to be annoying just bored at work :D
[HTC Sensation] smoochiezz24:
Yeah, I also like xscope. I have dolphin installed also though.I like how xscope doesn't have to reload the pages when you go back to a previous page.in dolphin, I had to keep opening and closing multiple tabs to circumvent the problem. And xscope's layout is pleasing also.
[HTC Sensation] HoOnZ:
I use Dolphin HD because it's the closest thing to a regular browser. I have never used Xscope but I think I'll check it out.
[HTC Sensation] n1ghtl1fe:
I think i might be making the change to Opera since it uses their servers and reduces data usage on your phones end. Im a broke college kid with T-Mobiles ****ty 2GB 4G cap :(

2 Days and im at 300mb already..(no wifi at work)
[HTC Sensation] smoochiezz24:
That seems to be a good work around to your problem. Does it save even more data than just changing your user agent to android rather than computer?
[HTC Sensation] Mainspring:
I've been using stock since release but recently decided to test out Dolphin HD.

so far, I really like it.

feature I love the most is the gesture.

I can just scribble a pattern and it will take me to the webpage I assigned that particular scribble to.

very convenient.

also the tab feature with shake add-on.

it's like Google Chrome and you can shake your phone to change tabs.

speaking of add-ons, some helpful ones like the shake and screen cut.

I like the true desktop view option.

you can access your bookmarks and tool bar by just sliding the page left or right.

also very convenient.

doesn't seem to load all the flash ads as fast or well as stock. most of the time I just get a little emblem where the ad should be. guess if I clicked on it it would load the ad... not complaining though. who needs ads.

I'm still in the testing stage with different browsers, used to use Opera on my old phone, but so far, I'm really digging Dolphin HD.
[HTC Sensation] nicky041192:
I use stock. I see no reason to use a 3rd party browser. Stock does everything I need.

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e
[HTC Sensation] n1ghtl1fe:
honestly thanks to 3G watchdog ive noticed about 30 min of web surfing using stock browser only takes around 35mb tops (with flash enabled). Its not to bad but im going to test out opera to see the difference in data use. As for changing the agent im desktop allll day i hate the little mobile sites if i got 4.3 inchs of screen im gonna use it haha
[HTC Sensation] nljelmer:
Same. Stock browser is good for my.

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e
[HTC Sensation] greengoldmello:
You all are missing out by not using opera mobile (not mini)..

I'm not sure it has quite as many features as dolphin, but its page rendering and smoothness make it stand out
[HTC Sensation] everyday48:
Miren browser.

It's in top 3.

Send from: gplus.to/everyday
[HTC Sensation] smoochiezz24:
I've tried opera, the best feature in my opinion is the smooth scroll. I love that feature because the sensation lacks a trackpad. How does rendering affect how you view the webpage? does it make it load faster or something? I haven't really noticed any differences.
[HTC Sensation] n1ghtl1fe:
I used that when it first got popular. Wasnt crazy about how it doesn't display anything till page is fully loaded, it also had a bad battery drain issue when it first was out.
[HTC Sensation] n1ghtl1fe:
It renders pages on their servers first, taking stress off your phone and reducing data. Speed's things up but I believe it does reduce image quality a little bit. (image reduction is honestly not really noticeable)
[HTC Sensation] RaDeN305:
Dolphin HD for me. I love the add-ons for Last Pass and Read It Later. Feels like a full browser.
[HTC Sensation] CB620:
Dolphin hd
[HTC Sensation] H0CKEY:
Dolphin HD , its always getting better and great for one hand surfing
[HTC Sensation] s0cc3rstud:
Web brower opera

I use opera mobile and opera mini, opera mini is the fastest one I have seen, but mini cant always the graphic website, opera mobile can do everything and in the setting it a setting call opera turbo which help it go even faster!!!!!
[HTC Sensation] turbo_k:
Opera. Fast, simple, smooth scrolling, doesn't need to reload a page when going navigating forward or backward.
[HTC Sensation] NinetoFive:
I was using stock for awhile then I wanted actual tabs so I went to Opera.

I'm getting annoyed with ads though, as I typically browse without them. Is there a decent browser that has built in adblocker?

From what I understand you can block ads on the phone itself but that requires a root and I'm waiting for that whole boot unloader thing to come out from HTC before I go brick my first smart phone.
[HTC Sensation] Jayedamina:
Miren browser for instant back, battery friendly, fast and smooth. i have try all mentioned here but i always bounce back to Miren.
[HTC Sensation] brusko1972:
Stock browser for me. Never tried other browsers.
[HTC Sensation] snowblindd:
I choose Opera over the other two ( Stock and Dolphin, the others i didn.t try and don.t need to ) because of these reasons :

Flash playback: Choose a site with a flash video on it, start playing it and after it starts just pinch and zoom in and out really fast, you will see the video still going on while on stock browser and dolphin the video freezes while you do this ( at least on my device, everytime i.ve tried it i got the same results)

Downloads: You can download everything with Opera, while with stock and dolphin, this is a major problem, no .apk-s and no downloads from big sharing sites like rapidshare and megaupload ( there are 3rd party apps like ,,my downoads,, but as far as i tested them they work randomly)

Opera sync: I use opera on my pc so it.s really easy bookmark and history wise to have the same things on my Sensation as i do on my pc

Opera and Dolphin are hardware accelerated while Stock isn.t ( i may be mistaken here, but as far as i know stock isn.t accelerated as in SGS 2, please do correct me if i.m wrong ) but i feel Opera to be faster, this is subjective of course but here are my 2 cents about browsers.

You should try them all and choose for yourself
[HTC Sensation] n1ghtl1fe:
a lot of opera love here im downloading nowww (dolphin is still the **** just testing other waters ;) )
[HTC Sensation] lokhor:
Opera Mobile is great, really fast and great UI. Only problem is some sites render incorrectly such as XDA Forums.
[HTC Sensation] melloyello:
Been an Opera fan for years & it's got better with age. Page rendering to minimise data & text display. Tabs, bookmarks, page saving & sharing are all easy to use. The search mansgement is fantastic as you can use multiple providers to check specific sites instantly. Using with Opera sync would is cool, but i use G-chrome on pc, but may rekindle that!

I only use stock for flash sites.

I'll give Dolphin a go, but Opera'll be hard to beat ;)

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e
[HTC Sensation] RaymondScrott:
Miren for me as a good all-rounder. Really like the home page and the folders for bookmarks. Been a while since I tried the others are any now up there with bookmark folders?
[HTC Sensation] Scoop24:
Opera for only browser that lets me download files from any site without issue.
[HTC Sensation] n1ghtl1fe:
opera mobile does seem not to render some sites correctly..
[HTC Sensation] gavin-phelan:
mizilla firefox for m e:) ;)
[HTC Sensation] melloyello:
...just found out Opera Mobile plays flash content really well also!

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e
[HTC Sensation] ciaphuas:
I use the stock chrome browser, it's effective
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shithead:
Hi everyone,

I'm going to send my Desire HD to HTC to repair it.

I got a few question though:

I guess I need to flash device with their original rom and turn on the ENG and Radio, right?

Also the CID I probably need to restore it back.

My phone was originally branded with German Vodaphone, but I imported to Belgium.

Can I just flash WWE ROM and change the CID to the unbranded HTC Desire HD or do you recommend to change the CID to German Vodaphone and restore it with the original German Vodaphone rom with their bloatware?:confused:

I hope someone can help me :)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andy:
I'd suggest just returning to a WWE RUU. I'm guessing by checking your IMEI HTC can tell what your firmware was before.

I sent mine back with MIUI on it and they "repaired it" and flashed it back to 1.32 WWE.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neandertaler19:
Yes from what I heard HTC can check via IMEI what your FW should be.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shithead:
OMG, I don't want Vodaphone Stuff :( Let's hope new Firmware is rootable

Thanks for your replies :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] veritas2884:
I have the Transformer on Android 3.1 and I can not for life of me find anything that uses the webcam for video chat. Google Voice, Qik, Skype none of them either show up in the market or allow video chat...

Are there any apps that work? Why have a front facing cam if you can't video chat?

Thanks for the help!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] jimbobalu:
Another issue you will likely have is the microphone is not sensitive enough for conversations.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] hyperxguy:
Can you give Google Talk another look. I've been doing video chat with my brothers (just one minor issue, the built-in microphone sucks. I hope Google will add a Gain-setting). If the other party has a video capability, Talk will allow you to do video.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] veritas2884:
I just looked for google talk in the market this morning. It does not show up at all.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] elislurry:
If you have a stock tablet its already installed.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] veritas2884:
Gotcha... I have prime 1.5 is there a way to get it installed?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] sassafras_:
Look in your apps folder? It's on Prime.

I think you're not looking hard enough.

sassafras
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] blanksuspect:
It's just called Talk. Some people have a hard time finding it because it's not branded with Google before it.

Talk works perfectly for text, voice and video communication. Together with Google+, there's a really awesome way to grab a few friends or co-workers and video conference on the fly.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] odlihp:
I use fring and it worked fine
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] baseballfanz:
Talk is preinstalled on the TF.

If you search there's a version of Yahoo Messenger floating around that work just fine.

I have use both Talk and Yahoo IM and both work great with the built in mic
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] vinhtvu2:
So does this work with Google+ Hangout!?

I'd like to be able to use Google+ Hangout on here... that'd be sweet.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] david279:
Hangout is desktop only.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] veritas2884:
Yeah, I am an idiot. I found it and it works great. Thanks for everyone's help!
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
I don't have a history of random reboots other than the once in a blue reboot because the browser gets stuck. I was using my Xoom last night before going to bed checking out a couple of website. I laid it down and went to bed and this morning I just put it in my bag and left to work.

The Xoom doesn't get past the Motorola logo and then the screen dims a black-blueish tint as if it were on but not on. I booted into recovery and tried to do a nandroid restore to a prior date. The restore finishes but when I reboot the Xoom still has the same issue.

The last thing I downloaded on the Xoom was that new market but I didn't like it so I uninstalled it. Right now the Xoom is plugged in charging. I don't believe it's the screen because I'm able to navigate through recovery without it shutting off. I'm stuck. What could it be?

By the way I pressed Vol Up + Power to force reboot and it's not working. Still a blackish blue tint screen.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fleury14:
Not sure where to put this but I can't post in the development thread. I flashed to 3.2 stock from rooted 3.1 stock and I'm stuck in a bootloop.

Any thoughts?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
Not for nothing but you're thread jacking.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fleury14:
Not trying to. Just didn't want to litter with a whole new thread.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
It's cool but my Xoom is still dead

I'm going to try and do the update.zip for 3.2 after class and see if it boots up with that. This sucks.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
Update:

I downloaded the 3.2 update that's in the development section and installed it. It still won't boot past the Motorola logo. It goes to the Motorola logo and then the screen turns blackish blue. If I hit the power the screen goes black. It was working g fine yesterday and I'm out of ideas.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jase33:
Try going back to the beginning. Flash stock 3.0 and lock. If your xoom boots then you're back in the game. If not, at least its stock to send in for warranty repair.

Sent from my HD2
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
That will have to wait until tomorrow. What could have caused it?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jase33:
Dunno........just blame Motorola......Its fun! Seriously I have no idea, I hope you get it worked out. At least you can get into fastboot & recovery.

Sent from my HD2
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
I hope it's not an issue with my screen. I just find it weird that the screen shows that weird tint and if I hit the power button it goes black. It's as if the tablet is on but I'm not seeing an image on the screen. When I did a nandroid restore it got past the Motorola logo and went into the next phase (boot animation). It froze on the boot animation within 1 second of entering it. I left it alone for 30 minutes and it didn't do anything.

I don't want to send it back to Moto because G-D only knows when I'll get it back. Does anyone have experience with their repair ETA's? I'm nervous on sending it in because I read a thread where some Xoom owner got accused of having water damage. I don't want to them use that as an excuse so they won't fix it.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cam30era:
I have no personal experience. But there were a couple of posts in the General section (April, May time frame) from users who sent there Xoom to Moto for repair. All reported outstanding service. Call Motorola customer service and they will send you a shipping box overnight. Turn around in most cases was only 2 days. All had their devices back in under a week (departure to return). Good luck. Won't hurt to call Moto and talk to them about it.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
Thanks. I'm going to have to return this to stock and relock it again before I can do that. I will call today and have them send me the box. I'm frustrated that I have nothing to play with.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] okantomi:
You didn't use an app like screen off and lock did you? I had a problem with that app after the update...at one point my screen went completely black, I could see my soft keys and could access settings but that was it. Had to boot to recovery and wipe all over again.

It's a long shot but sometimes apps that behaved before an update can act whacky.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
No nothing like that. I remember I was watching some YouTube videos and ended my night. The last thing I downloaded was the new market but it looked hideous so I removed it. I'm trying different things and I can't get it to work.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oxirane:
I've not got a tablet (hanging out here since I'm considering buying a xoom), but have you tried wiping data, cache, and dalvik in cwm? That, or don't you guys have some sort of computer based flashing program like Samsung's ODIN? Wiping or a fresh reinstall has always fixed that issue on my Vibrant.

Goodluck!
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhemke17:
No such odin for us...and I don't think an SBF has been released, but we do have stock images from motorola for 3.0 and unofficial 3.1 and they can be flashed quite simply using fastboot. In your case, if you can still get into recovery, I don't believe this is a screen issue. It just sounds like you completely botched your software...not sure how this could have happened...but honestly, if you are curious to see exactly whats going on and you have ddms, just type ddms.bat into CMD while in your platform-tools folder, and then boot up your xoom and read the output. This will tell you exactly whats going on. If it says cannot detect device, it may be an issue with debugging not being activated from your last flash...that being said, I have been stuck at the Moto screen several times and luckily, restoring to stock 3.0 has ALWAYS gotten me out of it, as long as you can get into fastboot, you should be good to go.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mitch Matrixx:
Wipe, wipe, repeat! :-)

This most certainly is a software issue. The fact alone that the device is showing the boot logo proves that the screen is functional. Sounds like a boot img problem.

I have had similar issues on a few occasions with my Evo, doing a full wipe and restore has always done the trick as has been posted above.

Good luck Gq.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
Thanks for the advice. I was too busy yesterday (Full Time Work and Student) to fix it. I will try today since I don't have class. I really want to see what caused the problem so I will try that command in CMD and will post the output on these forums. Hopefully a dev can use it in the future to prevent this from happening to someone else.

I miss my Xoom.

I'm assuming I would CD to the directory and then run that command, correct?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
Ok I guys I included the attachment so maybe someone can tell me what's wrong with my Xoom.

When I ran that command in command prompt a debug window popped up. Let me know if the attachment makes sense.

Uncaught Exception most likely has to do with software as I remember fixing Blackberry's that always had those issues but I could be wrong.

Update:

I followed this thread

Re-Lock & Unroot

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1084537

and everything successfully pushed. I ended up getting an error messaage in fastboot (Failed image SOS 0x0002) so I decided to unlock the device by running fastboot oem unlock command. It completed successfully and got rid of the error message in fastboot. When I hit reboot it got past the Motorola logo and froze at that honeycomb animation (right in the beginning. I turned it off and turned it on again and now it won't go past the Motorola screen.

I went on a chat with Motorola and they will be sending me an email so I can send my Xoom for repair. I'm going to lock it again and send it back. I'm giving up unless anyone recommeds something I can try.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jankhner:
Hi,

i was thinking to move back to 2.1. ROM (chocolate eclair) because there is not stable enough Sense RoM for 2.2 or 2.3 and battery life is so much better with 2.1. I was thinking what are the biggest differences between 2.1. and 2.2/2.3. roms? Is there many apps/games that won't work on 2.1.? Any other things i should be aware of?

TIA
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilbarbot:
I have often wonder this same problem myself

So..............

i brought a wicked 3500mAh battery from some generic online site for 10 pounds

including p&p and downloaded elelinux 2.9

Battery problem no more

Muhahahahahaha.

p.s

with minor tweaks the battery lasts about 6 days with constant use (internet/wifi/3G) all plodding along.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jankhner:
that's very nice but doesn't solve the Sense problem
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hesbond:
Att device froyo 2.2 baseband gausb1a35331-us

Kernel version 2.6.32.9-perf

Build 15697

When input sim card

Status show invalid card

Help me please
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheManii:
What card are you putting in?

Is it still good? Is it a different carrier and your streak is locked?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MYPaT:
Delete..........
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krohnjw:
You shouldn't need any additional drivers outside of the SDK. It creates a Remote NDIS device. Windows should search and pick this up automatically. Is this not working?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MYPaT:
i really don't know anything about that.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krohnjw:
Do you have the SDK itself installed? Is the phone recognized via ADB, etc? When you plug in and start USB tethering do you have an unrecognized device in Device Manager?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MYPaT:
yes but there is no such additional driver.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
It should come under "Portable Devices"

Mines appear as G:\