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[Galaxy S II General] R3Y:
I second that.

After almost 15+ attempts, Kies finally downloaded the whole firmware without losing connection, and I should tell you I have no antivirus or firewall or proxy server or anything of that kind running, that might have interfered with the download.

So after it downloaded the firmware, phone went into download mode, it was updating the firmware and just got stuck at 36% and said some error occurred. I was like WTF?

Tried emergency recovery option, no help, was getting stuck at 36% always.

Now I was left with the phone showing an icon which resembles a phone on the left and a PC on the right with a warning symbol in between them, I think that was recovery mode? I am not sure.

Turned off the phone, removed battery, restarted the phone still that icon. Phone wasn't booting. It was that piece of crap Kies responsible for this.

Got Odin, re-downloaded firmware form samfirmware, flashed it in under 5 minutes. All was fine.
[Galaxy S II General] Amrael:
Mind you but the same can happen with odin...

that was a soft brick .(happened to me once, with my old SGS during my first flashes with Odin, with a darkyy rom if i remember).

You could have probably solved that by turning the phone off and booting it in Download mode.....

for the problem with downloading the firmware, that is sadly frequent with samsung's FTP servers :/
[Galaxy S II General] zkyevolved:
I have never had an error before. But I guess a few in the thousands is acceptable. There are issues than can occur. Especially in this kind of forum where people flash and update all the time with unofficial roms. But like I said before; a few in all the phones shipped is a very acceptable number if and only if they are stock phones. If the people that have had this issue have voided their warranties and flashed other roms and hacked it and then had issues well then I find it null and Samsung shouldn't be held accountable for your hacking and voiding. Its the risk u assume I suppose.

I for one am running stock everything and I have never had any issues updating. Its crap software but it does what it advertises and that's all it needs to do.
[Galaxy S II General] JupiterdroidXDA:
@tomeks

5000 views and helped lots of normal people have good discussion on the problem, I don't call that pointless, I call that intuitive, but I guess you just don't have the mental capacity for a logical conversation. And I told you before troll, act like a man take it to the PM's instead of being like a kid in a playground, I will put you right there numpty....

Only constructive posts please from now on guys:))))

Kies is a piece of ****, Odin is safer guys. But if your happy with kies by all means still use it, we will be here to rectify any messy flashes;)

JD@XDA

Sent from my Samsung Galactic Crusader S II
[Galaxy S II General] xriel:
cant connect to samsung kies... it keeps saying i have to reconnect the phone through samsung kies pc studio mode... how to do that? sorry for the stupid question.. just getting started to samsung from sony...
[Galaxy S II General] JupiterdroidXDA:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Supposedly to the trolls its a fantastic program and works perfectly, has no problems whatsoever;)

JD@XDA

Sent from my Samsung Galactic Crusader S II
[Galaxy S II General] JupiterdroidXDA:
Would you want to after reading this thread;) disable USB debugging in settings/applications/development mate;)

JD@XDA

Sent from my Samsung Galactic Crusader S II
[Galaxy S II General] xriel:
thanks much for the help... really appreciate it..:)
[Galaxy S II General] evilsurfincow:
ota updates are working in various countries as of recent. i know sweden has it, and also here in finland.
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
Oh God! Samsung suddenly waking up so early in the morning. lol.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nic007rvs:
i saw many new release for android 2.3.4 and i`m using darky`s rom but not sure which rom is best to use . tell me what rom you are using and whihc one has best feature
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] budde85:
I like the Infusion ROM because it looks good and is fast as hell. Haven't used it long enough to evaluate the battery life, but so far it's looking pretty good.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1152693
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karakemal:
I am using latest cognition

Works fast and reliable aklso kernel supports overclocking.

Battery consumption is good also.but this is 2.3.4 specific i thing, valid for most of the 2.3.4 roms.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
In my view be better to wait for Samsung to actually release 2.3.4 rather than work of a leaked test rom .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Archer:
I was thinking the same thing myself, but the ROMs using 2.3.4 are getting some good reviews. It's certainly tempting!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Likewise but just to many errors reported for me . Many from newb installs but as current rom is excellent and i want full 2.3.4 firmware flash on a clean phone before flashing custom i am trying hard to wait .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Archer:
Same here mate. I think I'm just getting itchy fingers, coming from a HD2 where I was deciding on my next ROM whilst flashing one!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peterperfect:
Im using Lite'ning with 2.1 (with 2.3.4) and it sounds the best to me. Fast and stable.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mvh_01:
I'm using VR2.0 at the moment and getting 1% battery drain per hour with WiFi on and push email. Everything else is manually syncronised. Insane, and I doubt it will stay this way. On VR1.4 I had 28 hours before the battery died.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] airuzzo:
Not easy to answer... lots of roms with much difference.... just read some roms 3d and find your own street....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nic007rvs:
yeah but leak rom working better then official 2.3.3 , so its worth trying
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nic007rvs:
yes i want to test gtalk video call and it was worked fantastic , my friend was on dell xps and i`m my SGS2 and quality was awesome , although i always feel samsung speaker could be more powerful. Right now downloading Cognition S2 want to try hand 1.5ghz over clock.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cangir:
just root only
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aydc:
All ROMs are nothing but skins and simple tweaks. They are all the same. Until CM7 or MIUI finals are released, we probably won't get a real alternative to stock.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mvh_01:
There's not a difference in UI, I agree. But my battery definitely lasts longer
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deepsleo:
To me, other than battery consumption, there seems nothing that could tempt me to move from stock....having had SGS 1 for quite sometime and been a flash addict, I think Samsung has done remarkably well for SGS2...its pretty much tweaked/optimized already, no lags...nothing actually warrants a custom ROM...but then who am I kidding...might as well sail on the custom ROM one day. :-)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tr3yt0n:
Atm i'm using Ficeto's 2.3.4 version, working fine but i'm thinkking on changing to Infusion 1.6 when the upload will be done :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willow09:
Litening 2.1 is best by far out of all the 2.3.4 ROMS I've tried out.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeWildDroid:
Dont forget about kitchen rom. That is also a beast imo.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Freyhk:
so far I like LitePro Ver2.00 most.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pacaskurban:
Using litepro v2.1 here, its a very stable rom and has improved my battery life greatly!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhaseShiftDown:
I was using Litening rom v1.5 and everything was very stable, but after upgrading to v2 and 2.1, it become very unstable and actually ran slower. I didn't full wipe, I simply upgraded from v1.5 via odin.

So now I'm on infusion rom and it works quiet well. Very fast indeed. Not sure about battery life.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gustopher:
As an option, flashing the 2.3.4 stock firmware that is available is low risk surely? There's no obvious indication that it's a testing ROM and I've encountered no issues with it all.

I'm tempted by the various customised ROMs but there isn't one (yet) in my opinion that offers enough benefit to justify the risk.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nic007rvs:
updating Cognition S2 v1.12

now i`m updating Cognition S2 from v1.11 to c1.12. and i also like the theme which i download from this thread WhiskeyX_Blue for Cognition S2-1.08/1.11 (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1152226)

but problem was in social hub , thei not added another gtalk as i use 2 different IM on gtalk.

check this post i also attach images

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=15586491#post15586491
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alsafady89:
VR 2.0,took me over 12 hours to drain given that i never turned 3g off, had almost 3 hours of voice calls, and and hour of high quality streaming!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mighty_X:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1152693

Infusion is for sure the best out there imho.

But the ver 1.6 got some blue changes in the dialer which I do not like. Just update to stock dialer and done. This is now cahnged with 1.7
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jihad696:
Bump :)

Some more opinions?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knights.JayTana:
im on Litening 1.5 which is the fastest and most stable ROM for S2 that ive tested(ihmo)...

im Eyeing to upgrade with "BATISTA" for its "looks" and many features compared to other ROMs... maybe i can feedback later after upgrading...

Is the browser bug really fixed on latest 2.3.4 updates?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoran89:
My sister bought galaxy tab and I decided to convert her to overcome :-)....i did step by step instructions from install guide....and all works flawlesly except CWM, or to be more precise error mounting cache (logs,........)....cant mount cache in cwm setings, cant format, cant wipe.... but othervise phone boots normal with no lags....

what can i do? what will this affect?

i just realized that in voodo control there is no cache in ext4 paritions (on my tab there is)....help me what should i do??

Sent from my GT-P1000
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Useless_Alias:
Sounds like your kernel/CWM is incompatible with the filesystem.....either try flashing a different kernel via Odin or Heimdall in download mode or a full restock is your only choice. I've had that happen before and that's how I resolved it.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoran89:
How it can be incompatible when I use same combo on other tab?

Sent from my GT-P1000
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoran89:
I did full restock and its the same... I did it with the same files I used on my tab...

Sent from my GT-P1000
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoran89:
I finaly solved the problem.... did the full restock with stock rom found in galaxy tab general, installed dip7 kernel trough Odin, installed ext4 app from chainfire.... converted partition with this app ... and checked to see if cache is normal.. and it is... and then installed overcome trough cwm.... weird voodoo enabled lagfix again (it was already on ext4)... checked to see if cache works... and everything is back to normal ...

Sent from my GT-P1000
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ghoch:
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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] NattyGuy:
Hello,

I'm using the newest Version of [10 JUL 11]PATs JW MIUI Sense like v1.7.8 v2 Multilanguage[MAGLDR/cLK]

http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1138088

I'm very pleased with this ROM but I have a crash problem

with the tool FRITZ!App Fon.

https://market.android.com/details?id=de.avm.android.fritzapp&feature=search_result

With former ROMs I have no problems to connect to my FritzBox and

use my HD2 as mobile.

With this ROM every time the App connects to the FritzBox it crashes,

but stays as inactive in background. The icon is shown already in headline.

I have to reboot to get the App stopped.

Is there any solution?

Thanks for your help.

Regards

NattyGuy
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nixda99:
Had the reboot problem with the same rom with Sipdroid, but the reboot occurs when I will make a call. Installed FRITZ!App Fon from my backup and the same reboot problem after a call.

You have to open the blue SuperUser app and set Phone Rights to Allow for the FRITZ!App Fon app. This was working for me for SipDroid and the Fritz app.

In Su app you will see a reject logitem for your app, when it was rebooted.

The answer in rom thread

Edit: I can make a call, but settings and phone book will close the app, but no reboot. I use Sipdroid for calling and BoxToGo for the Fritz call list, change call redirections (Rufumleitungen:D) and disable WLAN. The call quality of the Fritz app was too bad for me and it didn't work via 3G.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] NattyGuy:
I have done this before I posted this, but nothing changes.

Seems MIUI and Fritz!App has a Problem using WiFi. :(
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Adolf1994:
are you familiar with Logcat? If yes then try to take one and upload it. It can help a lot solving this kind of problems.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] NattyGuy:
Thank You!

Thank you very much for your help and your post in PAT's thread! :)

I'm not familiar with Logcat, but I have found it in market and would try to use it this evening. :rolleyes:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] NattyGuy:
Update, but no fix!

Hello,:)

have made the update to 1.7.8 V3 and today

[17 JUL 11]PATs JW MIUI Sense like v1.7.15 Multilanguage[MAGLDR/cLK]

Sadly the issue is the same! :(
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] NattyGuy:
Error Log

Hello,:)

I have made a Logcat file and extracted the errors forced by Fritz!App.

Anybody an idea what this means!?:confused:

E/InputDispatcher( 274): Received spurious receive callback for unknown input channel. fd=247, events=0x8

E/InputDispatcher( 274): channel '4080f318 de.avm.android.fritzapp/de.avm.android.fritzapp.gui.FeaturesActivity (server)' ~ Channel is unrecoverably broken and will be disposed!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] raffer1970:
i have the same problem...

FC with Ladymiui V31b. on EU HD2.....

FritzAPP Crashs.....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drexciya:
I want move from my branded vodafone rom to the latest stock rom. so am I correct in assuming all I have to do is get the latest stock rom from one of the other threads and flash using odin?

Is there anything else I should look out for?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] urandom:
You'll have to reset the phone after flashing, if you want to change the phone's csc
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Pick a rom with CSC for your area is the best method .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] x-cimo:
Bell Canada and Virgin Mobile Canada will be releasing the Samsung Galaxy S2 4G (the 4G is Bell's naming, its still 21Mbps) July 14th. Many retailer already received the unit, but they will go on sale only on the 14.

This thread is to collect information, tips, and rooting/unlocks tips.

Similar thread over howardforum: http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...will-sell-it-unlocked?p=14466326#post14466326
[Galaxy S II General] x-cimo:
Price is gonna be 599.95$ without a contract an around 150$ with a 3yr contract.

Sadly, it seem for reason I don't undersand that retailer, will not let the phone go out of the store un-activated (need a new contract or an existing customer transfering phone). The minimum "contract" seem to be a 30day 50$ plan from virgin, bell offer a similar but add initial fees, which virgin don't.

If anyone find a way around this, or store willing to sell without activating the phone, post it over here.....

So far Futureshop, Bestbuy and some the source all told me the same... But feel free to give it a try.

More to come shortly
[Galaxy S II General] knowthenazz:
From polling a few retailers (The Source, Future Shop, Bell Mobility Stores, Wireless Wave, etc.) I found it's pretty much hit and miss. Usually 1 store is willing to sell it to you off contract for every 4 asked, but, then that could change if they fly off the shelves.
[Galaxy S II General] x-cimo:
Most of the store I found had either them on order (avg 6 units), or in stock (avg 3 units)... So be there early.

Was there any Bell store willing to sell off contract? (I haven't tried thoses.) Assuming they would be less flexible.
[Galaxy S II General] knowthenazz:
I found one Bell store willing to do it, but, there was a condition that it would be a final sale.
[Galaxy S II General] dinan:
They can say whatever they want but any phone sold by Bell will have to be honored by their warranty program. You can talk to Bell corporate about this and they'll confirm it. They'll also tell you that if you want to buy the phone off-contract they can't refuse you. Store owners are just being dicks because they get no commission with no plan activation. Had the same sort of issues when the Nexus S was released in Canada and people wanted to buy off-contract since they were unlocked (despite Rogers/Telus/Bell claiming they were locked).
[Galaxy S II General] x-cimo:
I dont think that would be legal... How would they enforce this..

Sell a 599$ phone, but say, no warranty for you.

Really, I am looking at a the source flyer, and it say 599$ with no contract. There is no place where it say you need a minimum 30 days plan required.

Other than: to get the reduce price with a X year contract you need a minimum 50$ plan.

I just don't know how to force them to sell me the phone, even if I think they are lying about the 30 day
[Galaxy S II General] fongoid:
I'm definitely going to look in to getting one off-contract, as I'm currently with Rogers...

Anyone know of any issues so far that would prevent the phone from working properly on Rogers?
[Galaxy S II General] knowthenazz:
I got the impression that he was referring to not being able to return the phone within the 14 day return period. I don't think he was talking about the warranty.

Sorry for the confusion.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] horusray:
+1

but I just ordered it from Handtec. It's kinda sad that Rogers has let us down yet again.
[Galaxy S II General] knowthenazz:
My understanding is all that you'd have to do is root and unlock the phone, and it should work fine on the Rogers network.
[Galaxy S II General] knowthenazz:
News that the release date could be July 21st:

http://mobilesyrup.com/2011/07/12/b...p+(mobilesyrup.com)&utm_content=Google+Reader

When Bell announced they’ll be one of the carriers who will release the Samsung Galaxy S II 4G they never confirmed a launch date, only that it will be available “in the coming weeks”. Carriers usually state this just in case there are shipping issues or problems meeting software tests. Rumours surfaced over the past few weeks of a July 14th release, but we are now hearing the launch date is officially set for Thursday, July 21st.

Apparently us Canadians will be getting the latest software and Bell wants to ensure that enough supply is available. The internal doc we received says that Bell is “anticipating very strong demand for the device” and waiting for “adequate supply to arrive”. Samsung recently announced that worldwide sales of this Android has already topped 3 million in just 55 days. This will be available for $599.95 on a no-contract and it’s expected the 3-year price will be $169.95.
[Galaxy S II General] x-cimo:
Every store I been to told me july 14. I don`t think they will push it to 21.
[Galaxy S II General] TheSobadef:
My Bell rep forbade my Best Buy from selling it before the 21st and I got confirmation of this via an internal memo. We have it, but can't sell it.
[Galaxy S II General] x-cimo:
BS.... We will see..
[Galaxy S II General] TheSobadef:
Whether we want to believe it or not, it's the truth... I'm as frustrated about it as you are, as I sold my Nexus last week to pay off my Telus cancellation fees, and now I'm going to be phone-less another week and a half...
[Galaxy S II General] onlystreet:
go to wireless wave or phone booth. they let you purchase the phone out right. the warranty is void if you unlock the phone no matter where you purchase the phone.
[Galaxy S II General] x-cimo:
Yea. that was my plan, walk around im sure somebody will sell it..
[Galaxy S II General] knowthenazz:
Just got back from Future Shop. Their live display model is out, and I managed to play with it a bit.

They confirmed as well that July 14 is the release date.
[Galaxy S II General] horusray:
I got a question for you guys: Why don't you just buy one from a UK site instead of waiting for Bell/Virgin's release?

Warranty will be void anyways if you buy from Bell or Virgin without contract. You have to pay $599 + activation + possible minimum plan + tax + cancellation fee(?).

If you order from Clove or Handtec, you can get a UK warranty (meaning to ship back if anything unfortunate happen to the phone...better than no warranty!). It'll only cost less than $640 including shipping.

Anyone frankly explain it to me?
[Galaxy S II General] AndroAndo:
I don't know about Bell, but it's worth noting that Virgin's receiving days are usually Thursday's and according to them that's why Samsung and Bell decided on this release date because shipping was so tight.

The mall kiosk I went to said he had more than enough for tomorrow (claimed to only expect to sell 10 or so citing his 4 iPhone 4 sales on it's release) and that they are double stocking and gets tons more in the morning. Most populated places will have lots to spare, and the phone isn't as in demand for the first day as the hype would have you think.
[Galaxy S II General] chaoszero112:
There are only 3 at the location buy be with 7 on order that may arrive on Thursday morning.

And NO, you CAN'T. No Virgin employee in their right mind would. They don't get paid for it, and their RM will slap them.
[Galaxy S II General] bossman74:
I can confirm this, I just came back from Costco in Trois-Rivieres, and bought one outright for $598.99 plus tax, no additional fee.

I just inserted my Bell sim card in and it worked.

The phone is AWESOME !
[Galaxy S II General] Tri3Dent:
Can you unlock it?
[Galaxy S II General] nraudigy2:
Is it the same Exynos SOC? Not Tegra 2 crap right?
[Galaxy S II General] DvTonder:
Can you tell us the rom and modem/radio version the phone came with, please
[Galaxy S II General] chaoszero112:
Already posted earlier in the thread,

Firmware: I9100MUGKG2, same for baseband.

CSC: I9100MBMCKG2
[Galaxy S II General] knowthenazz:
Hi,

Did you root the phone yet with CF-Root? If so, which file did you use?

File Type: zip	CF-Root-SGS2_ZS_OZS_KG2-v4.1-CWM4.zip - [Click for QR Code] (5.97 MB, 1775 views)

File Type: zip	CF-Root-SGS2_JP_XSG_KG2-v4.1-CWM4.zip - [Click for QR Code] (5.97 MB, 1450 views)

File Type: zip	CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXA_KG2-v4.1-CWM4.zip - [Click for QR Code] (6.08 MB, 1851 views)

Thanks!