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[Galaxy S II General] pixate:
I agree, it's time for a factory reset, and if that doesn't fix things then it's back to the shop. Unfortunately it's a return to base warranty with a 2-3 week turn around from the retailer I bought from (carphone warehouse). We'll see...
[Galaxy S II General] Isadora:
Ok then here's what I would do: factory reset, don't reinstall any apps for a day, see how your phone is doing. Then reinstall apps one-by-one, making sure you leave some time in between installing each one to check if a specific one is causing battery drain.
[Galaxy S II General] ruskairabbit:
I've had mine for about a month now with no real issues...

"1. Random crashing and subsequent battery drain."

Mine has never crashed (that I have noticed)

"2. Ongoing battery drain from full to empty in under 5 hours! (although better with KE7)"

Battery lasts approx 2 days on mine. I would suggest that you have an app running in the background that is draining your battery. Have a look at your battery stats to see if you canfind the culprit.

"3. Stock application crashing (email app, music app)"

Never happened to me. Could be a memory fault or similar. Try a full factory reset and if there is no improvement then exchange the phone.

"4. phone lockup requiring the battery to be removed to boot it again."

See above. This has never happened to me either.

"1. The sound quality is terrible, it has the dynamic range of a very cheap mp3 player. Having used it through studio monitors, high end Sennheiser headphones and component car audio it really does perform very badly. (Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to clear their ears out or expand their musical choices beyond R&B, Dance or chart music.)"

The sound quality on mine is excellent - when used with a good set of headphones. There are apps on the market that allow you to tweak things if you like - try equalizer.

"2. The android apps and app store is miles behind the iphone store and app quality (event the cross platform apps are inferior on android)."

I guess this boils down to personal preference. There are also many apps on the Android store that are simply not possible on the limited iOS devices.

"3. Everyone goes on about how fast this phone is, but there is very little available which shows it off, even BBC iplayer stutters frames on the s2, an app which is installed as standard!"

There seems to be a bug with iPlayer - it stutters on mine as well. There are games available which show off the power of this phone though - and the ability to watch HD video is amazing on the SAMOLED+ screen. As with any new technology, it will be a while before developers can really learn to take full advantage of it - and until other phones catch up a little, there is little incentive to do so.

"As a phone for daily business and personal use it really needs some work to make it worth the money. This is the same price as a sim free iphone 4, so should be similar in terms of quality, stability and reliability"

You easily forget the problems that the iPhone 4 had on launch.. the signal issue due to the aerial design, the yellow discolouration of the screen, screens shattering, etc.

"By the way, I'm a genuine user who has owned this phone since it's launch in the UK, and use it daily. Not a troll, just a disgruntled user, who has got passed all the hype and feels let down by the experience!"

Since your issues are not all normal, I would suggest trying to resolve them - even if it means swapping the handset. This phone is awesome when it is working correctly, and as the OS evolves and developers get to grips with the new hardware it will only get better.
[Galaxy S II General] Wapu:
other suggestions:

-turn off 3g & wifi when not in use.

-put in airplane mode if in area with no signal.

-check running services for crap-ware that doesn't need to be running. (3rd party apps will prevent auto starts)

-turn display brightness down (actually the biggest battery drainer)

-don't use task killers unless absolutely necessary.

Btw: even with all the above, active internet usage (wifi or 3g) will drain your battery in approx 4-5 hours.
[Galaxy S II General] Bus Driver:
I guess this is already OT but since you asked,these few things are related to the safari browser as the stock browser,smoother and is able to copy/paste with ease and maintains formatting from secure websites.

The retina display and of course the camera particularly night shots.Having said that i've never once regretted moving to Android especially on the Sgs2
[Galaxy S II General] buddy01:
What bothers me now is that whit this second SGS2 i also had to remove the battery because it totally locked and drained in the magic 5 hours. The first SGS2 i had stolen was flawless. However even this new one worked for a few days just like the stolen one but then suddenly went bad. Im 90% sure it's one of the apps i mentioned before.. will have to play around and see.. currently waiting to have enough battery to update firmware through kies.
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
Some recommended apps are

Juice defender (i have the plus version €1.99)

System Panel - another paid app

Battery Monitor widget

Android System Info

all these apps if tweaked will work in your advantage.

I rooted my phone the first day i got it, don't worry about warranty you can always unroot it no problem and it's advisable to buy a USB Jig which im getting.

Freezeing the Samsung bloatware 100% saves much battery, set brightness to auto or a low setting, if the brightness is at 100% or high it will drain the battery, only use Wi-Fi/GPS/Bluetooth when you need to,keep off at other times, unless you use Maps i would freeze this as well another one that eats the battery, don't have too many widgets as they too can drain the battery.

Do all the above and you'll see a noticeable difference.
[Galaxy S II General] JAG131990:
So basically to some it up dont use it as a smartphone..
[Galaxy S II General] pixate:
Thanks for the advice guys I agree a factory reset is the next step, and if no success there then it's back to the shop. I didn't mean for this to become a droid v apple pissing contest, I just started off there as it's the only comparative I have with a high end device.

But since some of you are asking...

The sound quality is superior on the iphone. The email app is quicker at handling attachments (pdf's etc) than the Samsung mail software (Although I've not installed an alternative mail client yet to see if it's better).

I happen to love the screen on the g2 over the retina display on the iphone. but I think that's due to the bigger size and easier web browsing experience. I also love the camera, the camcorder. So I'm not a total hater ;-)
[Galaxy S II General] buddy01:
I would stay away from both of these apps like plague!
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
I have none of those issues stated, Im using a fairly decent in-ear headphones and the difference between the SGS1 and SGS2 is barely noticeable, the app issue with google compared to iOS is actually true but not the phones actual fault.

I have zero battery drain issues even with the full stock KF1 kernel, no crashing issues nothing at all. The only real issue i *had* was the yellow tint but KG1 alleviates that. Im very happy with the phone.

Whats odd is that factory resetting fixes a lot of strange issues on the phone even if its totally out of the box and no user change yet, the strangest I've seen is on my buddies phone.. his whites are reddish even with auto adjust power unticked and made sure that the color mode is in standard. After a factory reset his white levels are better, no mo re red tinting.
[Galaxy S II General] Isadora:
Well I think I use mine as a smartphone... wi-fi is on when I'm at home, gps is on, my screen is on auto brightness, live wallpaper, email/calendar/contacts sync on, about 15 rss feeds updating every couple of hours, stalk-o-matic (sorry, I mean Latitude) enabled and a whole bunch of apps like the Go stuff, Widget Locker, automatic profiles, etc and my battery will more than comfortably make it through the day (the biggest drain being the screen on anyway)
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
who on earth would you say that:eek:

both those apps have been brilliant and have saved me much battery.

your definitey wrong on this one.
[Galaxy S II General] jonny_ftm:
Yes, all those "live" widgets suck battery, just never install them if no vital need.

I had issues with battery once when installed some third party lock screens by the way. Sinc then, I use the stock lock screen.

The hardes on a smartphone is to decid which apps to install. Just imagine you install every bit of shareware program on your windows or any other OS. After a few weeks, it will slow down a lot.

I also don't expierience any of your issues depite many applications (I really do need) installed.

What I also do is to limit the number of new on-start running applications installed. I disable AutoUpdate of aplicatiosn from market. I disable Auto check for updates in individual apps.
[Galaxy S II General] buddy01:
In my experience all the task killers (juice defenders) have only messed up the delicate app management of Android and either made the phone super slow or plain worsen the battery life. Just my 2 cents.
[Galaxy S II General] pixate:
Ha ha, I can't even make a phone call now. "the application logs provider has stopped unexpectedly. please try again"...
[Galaxy S II General] Isadora:
Well, it looks like something is seriously wrong with your unit... I would not be happy with that either... Hope you can solve it one way or the other.
[Galaxy S II General] Sgs2(ab)user:
maybe you have refurbished unit as iplayer is not installed as standard !!!!!!!????
[Galaxy S II General] Archer:
I think it depends where you're from. In the UK my stock device has both BBC iPlayer and ITV Player.
[Galaxy S II General] pixate:
What is your experience with playback? does it judder?
[Galaxy S II General] Archer:
Not at all, over wifi of course. I've not experienced the slightest lag or judder in any app yet. In my mind, this is the slickest mobile device I've ever seen! I can only assume that some people have just been unlucky and got one of the "wrong ones" out of the many good ones out there.
[Galaxy S II General] THUDUK:
I do terribly miss the fantastic range and quality of the Iphone4's applications and to be honest far better gaming, I hate having to root my phone and search/download and faff about just to get the games that really start to match the iphones quality the Tegra games, and even these are not really designed for this device, and there are very few of them.

Games like Dead Space, Uber Racer, Real Racing 2 completely make the best Android 3D games look ten years out of date, even the Tegra games don't really match up. All the Gameloft games are very sub par, hardly any utilise the Gyroscopic control so fantastically implemented on most of the Iphone games, this really enhances the game incredibly.

Its a real shame I love this SGS2, its faster (just) than the Iphone4, has lots more customisations and has the quirky techy Android feel to it, but I think it wont be long before I return to the big Apple world, just to much amazing software I miss...

But the SGS2 is superbly fit for purpose, fast slick and battery life improves with time.
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
1oo% fit for the purpose is my phone as stock . No repeat no problems .

A few dislikes like power off needs a yes answer .

Not fit for purpose it would have been returned as not fit for purpose as i see no reason to keep such a product .

No random crashing

Long enough life on battery one day as per most Smartphone reviews .

Stock applications dont crash .

Phone never locked up.

I find sound excellent and as good as my expensive MP3 player .

Dont find the apps store bad but accept its not brilliant .

No stutter on BBC iplayer .

Point one if you say its not fit for purpose you should have returned it to the seller under SOGAT .

Two failing that i would have sold it by now and cut my losses .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] ruskairabbit:
I definately have the iPlayer issues :( Its OK if I turn the resolution to low, but on medium it is almost unwatchable!
[Galaxy S II General] slippyr4:
I also am not having any problems with mine, after nearly a month.

Especially, re: sound quality. The supplied headphone are particularly bad; the worst chuck-in headphone i've had with any consumer electronics device in years.

I'm now using klipsch s4i headphones and the sound quality is great.
[Galaxy S II General] kerman19:
I'm being attacked by the 'Android OS' bug, but it's not a massive deal as it only takes a little battery from me, I still tend to get a couple of days before it runs out of juice.

I've Frozen most Samsung Apps, I've got Push Email, Facebook updates every 30 mins, frequent twitter updates, half hourly weather updates, WiFi only sleeps when the phone is sleeping, or it has no wifi connection, data is always on, bluetooth is always on and finally GPS in on-demand.

With Medium to heavy usage it will survive the day, with light use it will happily go 2 days.

I also don't experience any of the issues you mentioned, so I'm just going to point out what everyone else has, and that your phone is probably defective.

And I don't agree that with the suggestion of having to disable all the things that make the phone smart in the first place, my dad does that with his HTC Deisre, it's totally gimped; I don't see the point!

Phil
[Galaxy S II General] buddy01:
I updated to the latest firmware through kies and have been using it for 4 hours now. 94% battery left (pretty much idle so android OS shows 79% usage).
[Galaxy S II General] pixate:
How has your phone been since then, as my battery life improved after updating the firmware, but still get the hard crashes which suck lots of battery life when rebooted.

I did a factory reset last night, and since then the thing seems to lock up constantly. So it's going back to the shop today...
[Galaxy S II General] buddy01:
My phone has been perfect ever since. 44% battery left after 21hours now! No crashes,no lockups, everything working as supposed to. I don't know if there is the service menu in home+power+up, sometimes the factory reset done there actually does the reset.. or then that was just the miui port of SGS1.

Edit* best of all, i didn't need to remove any of my apps.
[Galaxy S II General] Lakitu:
The only way I could be happier with this phone is if I'd got it for free.
[Galaxy S II General] kr00t0n:
Had mine for 2 months and it does everything I could possibly ask for from a phone.

Sure, the wifi and cell signal isn't as good as my Desire, but that's a small hit to take for all the pros!

Tweaked equalizer in Poweramp has me more than happy with the sound capabilities of this as well.

No software issues at all, battery is fine running KF2.
[Galaxy S II General] Paper Ape:
this phone is by far the best phone that i've used so far...

with intense use i can generally squeeze about 10 hours of usage... (gaming, browsing, youtube, calling etc)

but with casual usage i can get well more that 15 hours+ easily...

everything is quick and fast... applications loads up pretty much instantly

Have had the phone froze on me twice within the 2 months that i've had it... could be better... but not too bad at all

overall very happy with this phone...
[HTC Inspire 4G] -Kevlar-:
http://db.tt/gsfOXwN

download and extract using Root Explorer, click on file and then install. Works perfectly.

All credit to mazook98. I just happened upon these and thought i would share.
[HTC Inspire 4G] telltell624:
Works great. Love the beer. thanks
[HTC Inspire 4G] Simba501:
Awesome. Thanks.
[HTC Inspire 4G] svassh:
Link dead, can you repost please? Looks cool, thanks
[HTC Inspire 4G] ycode90:
Someone re-up the link.
[HTC Inspire 4G] akira02rex:
Yea I can't find these anywhere else.
[HTC Inspire 4G] maverick1970_2000:
The link is deed man. Deed I say :-(
[HTC Inspire 4G] mircony:
Yes please, repeat the link
[HTC Inspire 4G] mrrick:
Booooooooo <10char
[HTC Inspire 4G] akira02rex:
These HAVE to be available SOMEWHERE!
[HTC Inspire 4G] mazook98:
Hey y'all, I got a PM from akira02rex, and replied, but he may just be working now, or whatevs..

Anyhow, I remade a zip of all those and a few more for him.. The link is posted here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=16711829

Hope they work for y'all!

Sent from my Evo3D
[HTC Inspire 4G] akira02rex:
You guys better jump on this while you can. Some of these LWPs are pretty nifty. Could one upload these to the android market somehow?
[HTC Inspire 4G] I11EVEN11:
SOZ for waking the dead....

But could someone re-up the link? Would love to check these out!

Ps: Would they work for Evo V 3D?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haythams:
GTP1000 Rooted I'm using Install Manager, Android Assistant, Quick application Manager and Root explorer to shift all my application from the phone to the SD card unfortunately I figured out that I have only 200 MB remaining in my phone memory ! Only 4 programs installed on there as per of the previouse listed applications and the remaining on the SD card as it shows I start searching to figure out the problem using root explorer I found the root

Phone Memory/mnt/asec/secure/asec - 990 MB so I tried to move it to the SD card but once moved it will return back again to the same path!! Even if I tried to delete it will remain the same! also I found another root phone/mnt/asec -670 MB which has almost the same applications by all means using root explorer I cut& paste the first root to the SD card and reboot then only the installed programs in phone works and the other application icons disappeared I was shocked cause even trying to backup my mistake was a hectic work, by all means its again as it was and still facing the same problem any help

Solution

After fed up of finding any solution I start clear all the programs data manually at least to preserve some space and while clearing my phone explorer application data I shocked it was loaded with 1.53 GB!!!!! Don’t know where it came from!!! But finally my sole been relieved thanks for all the assistant been given by every one answered my query
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alterbridge86:
Ok a few issues here....

1) You should be asking this in the Q&A forum, not the Dev forum, it has nothing to do with development

2) You don't need four third party apps to move your apps to sdcard. Apps2SD is a function of the android system. You can simply go into Settings->Manage Apps and then go into whatever app you want to move and press the button that says "Move to SD Card"

3) You really shouldn't be rooting around your phone deleting or moving stuff without a thorough understanding of Linux and Android.../mnt/asec/secure/asec is a symlink to .android_secure on your sdcard. Those files were not actually on your internal memory, just links to files on your sdcard.

4) Android will manage your internal memory as necessary...you really don't need to be worried about having only 200mb free. Once you run out it will start installing apps to your sdcard on its own.

At this point I think you're pretty fubar and will have to reinstall the apps then move them to SD if you so choose.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] haythams:
Dear thanks a lot for you respond also thanks to direct me to the proper channel to post my inquiry in, also thanks a lot for the advices and for the explanation but one more concern killing me, why once trying to install new application an red SD card icons appears on the tab upper left corner with memory full window listing that internal device memory is nearly full delete/uninstall some applications or data and try again! Any help
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hildi72:
Internal Memory full

You must have a ton of data on your internal SD and that is why the icon appeared. Also, some apps cannot be moved to the external SD. I would go into your applications and see what is vital and what you can delete. Keep the internal SD as light as possible. External SD's can be expanded to 32 gbs (i have one and it works well)..so use that for all your data and for moveable apps. Remember to check which apps you can move and which must stay on the Internal SD.
[LG Optimus 3D] mmace:
Anyone else having trouble opening MPO (3D photo) files on the Optimus 3D?

I was told by LG that the phone would work with them before I bought it but I cannot get them to open. They don't even show up in the gallery

http://twitter.com/#!/LGBlogUK/status/81020664512905217
[LG Optimus 3D] ik911:
Not tried MPO

can't you rename the extension to jps ?
[LG Optimus 3D] mmace:
probably not, jps is a renamed jpeg, mpo is an archive file with 2 images and an xml in it.
[LG Optimus 3D] mmace:
hmm, it's now showed up in the gallery 3 days after I put the file on my SD card!
[LG Optimus 3D] Alex Atkin UK:
As far as I can tell, it doesn't support them.

I have tried some myself via a file manager and selecting to open as an Image, it just fails.

Best bet would be to convert them to jps with Stereo Photo Maker for Windows (which also runs perfectly via WINE on Linux and so probably MacOS too).
[LG Optimus 3D] mmace:
it's working OK now, it just took 3 days for the phone to re-scan my SD card and see it.
[LG Optimus 3D] TheOnly1:
It must have been a tryly epic scan :D
[LG Optimus 3D] Alex Atkin UK:
Ah I misread that, I thought you said its STILL not showing not that it IS showing, doh.

Interesting as like I said when I tried to open one, it refused. But then this phone does seem to be picky about exactly how you go about opening certain file types.

For example sometimes it doesn't give you the 3D toggle button when opening videos and when that happens the 3D button wont work either. Generally you have to use the Gallery to guarantee it will give you the 3D option, despite the fact you are meant to be able to enable 2D -> 3D conversion for any video file.

That said, just applied the 10d software update so maybe that will change this behaviour?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shasaf:
In the stock rom, is there a way to lock the answering screens? I.E till I choose answer/reject the answering screen will be locked.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prodygee:
As far as I know, this is not possible on the stock screen. You'd need to run an extra lockscreen on top of your normal one if you want this feature. I think widgetlocker or some other had the option to disable answering buttons on the lockscreen.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] Tommebaas:
Hi,

I'm looking for the datel wii wireless retro controller for so long but can't find one!

Does anyone want to sell their controller?

Or is there a good alternative?

I already got the game gripper but I want to try it with this controller.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] mputtr:
I might be completely wrong here, but it might be possible if you have a wiimote + the interface app and plug in the classic controller. Not sure if it's possible but maybe it'll work?
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] Tommebaas:
Yes that will work, but i'm not a big fan of the wii-mote.

So I want that one
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] scottmog:
I have more experience on this then anyone else on this site.

There are no more wireless remotes that come close to what you are looking for. I myself made 3 different wiimote and classic controllers strapped to each other, inside each other etc etc... there is nothing else. unless u find a good bluetooth controller.
[G2 and Desire Z Accessories] brfield:
Have you tried any of these: http://www.google.com/search?q=datel+wii+wireless+retro+controller&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#sclient=psy&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=lDE&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&tbm=shop&source=hp&q=wireless+wii+retro+controller&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=1&biw=1280&bih=841&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&cad=b