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[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Have you had the time to return it back for another exchange? Maybe consider getting a refund and rebuy it 15-25days after.. probably a new batch will arrive..
[Galaxy S II General] warfanax:
To be honest I am so sick of exchanging all the time. It started to give me headaches. So now I am planning to buy at the end of august.
[Galaxy S II General] GIR:
So you had a huge blob of 1/2 cm on your screen, you looked for it in the store but couldn't see it, but only after you got home... wait what?

Why are you so defensive anyway? What's the problem? I'm just a random stranger on the net, why do you have the need to defend your story?
[Galaxy S II General] RjYslf:
you're so clueless it almost hurts my eyes.
[Galaxy S II General] warfanax:
Funny things is, you constantly wrote on this thread maybe 4-5 times saying " OP should explain this huge blob, how come he doesn't see right away". And when I explain you are accusing me being defensive. My attitude is because of ur posts. You wouldnt stop repeating the same and only sentence unless I explain my situation.

Well Congrats I was wrong. eventhough I explained it you still keep repeating the same thing in your last post.

I should have ignored you long time ago :-) nothing is too late;-)
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
When I also got my phone, I didnt notice the strong red bias on the screen aside from the fact that it still had the screen protector and the store was extremely bright.. I noticed it right away when I got home along with OTHER issues like white blotches and a strong blue color shift when tilting the phone, I do have to say that there was absolutely no yellowtinting what so ever on the first phone I got.

I believe this forum has an ignore function, you may wish to look into that.
[Galaxy S II General] GIR:
I never said such a thing, there's a difference between a remark and a question.. I said that I find it to be strange you didn't notice the huge blob on your screen rightaway but needed to pull the statusbar down to see it. After that you replied that you didn't see it against the white background and needed to pull the statusbar down, which I found even stranger because the stock background isn't white. It's really strange that you would have a unit with a white wallpaper.

Thank you, but you haven't explained anything. Only thing we know is that somehow you got a unit which has the stock wallpaper set to white, which is an odd choice as a wallpaper but hey I'm not judging.
[Galaxy S II General] kbiz90:
I don't see the point of this thread. BarryH_GEG presented many logical arguments why there aren't more complaints against the display. GIR concurs after observing many many displays in his shop. Then there are a bunch of others in this thread that are happy with their displays.

So, basically we have three disgruntled posters in this thread: EarlZ, who personally has a near perfect display (after many attempts to find his favorite). GalaxyWings, who believes every display is defective. And poor warfanax, who just wants a kickass SGS2.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Wait, why am I discontented with my phone when I have a near perfect display?

Actually Barry also posted that he believed all phones are affected with the yellow tinting, severity differs from phone to phone. ( Maybe not on this thread but he posted it on the other thread though )
[Galaxy S II General] kbiz90:
Because, while your display may be near perfect. It's not perfectly perfect. :D

I think I've got a bit of yellow tinting too. But it doesn't bother me. Didn't even notice until I came to XDA because it's difficult to notice.

The point is most people are gonna love this display, EarlZ. :D
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Actually, it was my girlfriend who noticed that the left side of my screen is yellowish, saw the issue before I even posted it on the other thread.

And how did you come to the conclusion again that I didnt love the display after getting my replacement, Please remind me as you might be reading from a different thread on a different forum from a different user or maybe just went into some assumptions?

Im actually offended by your comment and take note, Im not the thread starter so you should be aiming your comments towards him.
[Galaxy S II General] kbiz90:
Uh oh, if your girl noticed that, we can only guess what she'll notice about you.

You said the SGS display was perfect. You said your SGS2 display was near perfect. You're bothered by that. Trust me. Your waterfall of words in display threads makes me think the QC at Samsung is not good enough. That may be true, but most people love the display.

Don't be offended. It's only me. :D
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
If you have a beef with me why not settle it directly this is the second time you've done it I can clearly read in between the lines on what you are trying to imply!

Yes I did say that, but how does that come into your assumptions that Im really unhappy with the phone, voicing out my experiences in looking for the better display or letting other people actually understand why this issue is a big deal to others makes me unhappy?

If I was genuinely unhappy with the phone, I could have taken the refund option (which is available for 30days).

I guess your not a part of that group since you just said you noticed a display issue, despite your denial of the issue you are bothered by it. Trust me.

Next time consider what you post and how you post it, reading between the lines is easy enough.
[Galaxy S II General] kbiz90:
I'm just saying this thread exists because of you and a few others. Most people are happy with their display. The fact that the thread is so long makes it seem everyone got five ****ty displays in a row. That's not true.

EarlZ, we can't settle it directly. You live in Cebu City. Besides, I'm just having fun. Before, you had plenty of :p :p :p for me. No offense to you or your girl. Just hurry up and get her a SGS2. That way she won't notice anything else about... your phone. :D
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Excuse me! Your directly blaming me when Im not even the thread starter of the other thread ( which was started by Erethnor ). I became active on that thread at about 110+ pages after, so please check your facts first.

The thread could have been shorter if you didnt needless comments to it :p

I dont think everyone here is as dumb as you think that they will assume that everyone else got 5 ****ty displays, Im not even sure why you would think so lowly of others to begin with.

Really depends on how you bring out the message, anyway this will be my last reply to your comment in this thread as it is starting to become very unsensible to the point that you even think Im unhappy with my phone :p
[Galaxy S II General] macdaddyau:
Mods close this thread please
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
For what reason If I might ask ?
[Galaxy S II General] kbiz90:
macdaddyau is correct. This thread should be closed. After seventeen pages, no one else has returned their SGS2 five times besides the OP.

EarlZ, I'm singling you out because you've probably got the most posts in this thread. Anyone else got more than you? And you've got a near perfect screen! In fact, the only reason you noticed the flaw is because of your girl.

Let the thread die.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Probably not because I addressed the replies one by one instead of using multi-quotes, You, the op and some other person comes in at a close second with in 5-7 posts.

If you genuinely wanted to let this thread die, then stop replying to this thread and stop directing things at me.
[Galaxy S II General] kbiz90:
EarlZ, you got 30+ posts, replete with multi-quotes. And, without a doubt, you've spilled more words than any other. Fact.

Now, let's move on to other things that we can agree on. There must be something besides the display that you like. :D
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
I never denied that I had more posts, I actually had 24 posts before you started your personal crusade against me, your trailing me in a close 5-7 posts.

If you wanna move on to something else then you already know what to do, theres nothing else I really like on the phone I bought it for its display so I can watch my movies, coz I cant watch movies on my Samsung UN55C9000 when Im on the go, I dont even have a simcard inserted on this phone to begin with.

EDIT:

Anyway its 6:30AM here and I need my sleep, its probably afternoon or whatever in where you are. Enjoy!
[Galaxy S II General] kbiz90:
You're right. I've got a near perfect display. You've got a near perfect display. Most people are happy with their display. It's awesome.

Let the thread die.
[Galaxy S II General] RjYslf:
Ok. Today I went to the shop from which I bought my Galaxy. They told me it was one of the later batches. We opened together some phones in order for them to check if it was a real problem. Guess what 3 of those phones(they didn't bother any further)had the yellow tint(mind you no other defects like circles, purple tint etc). The shop assistant also told me he's sorry but as far as he heard it's "a common problem to ALL galaxy-s" and that I "should live with it". So please pull the s... out of this thread. You most likely don't even HAVE a galaxy but most likely you're a pure fanboy.
[Galaxy S II General] seshmaru:
Had yellow tinting when I bought phone, upgraded firmware, tinting gone.

IT'S MAGIC! Wait no, it's just the fact that updated firmwares fixed some display issues.
[Galaxy S II General] RjYslf:
if you had read the thread that's what I said too, yet the darker left is still present. so please check your facts then come back

ps:in my country they I have looked in many shops and none ship with KG kernel and yes I know you can upgrade the firmware yourself...
[Galaxy S II General] kbiz90:
You say the same thing over and over and over. Yellow tint, purple tint, yellow tint! You're on your own personal crusade. It's as if you and your forty-ish posts discovered something new.

That is why we need to lock this thread. We already have a thread about the yellow/purple tint.

If you read more than you write, maybe you would have learned that both EarlZ and I both have the yellow tint. And it has been mitigated by the latest firmware. Looks like seshmaru and others are in the same boat.

Seems like you're trying to warn people of a defect that took you awhile to discover in the first place. I know you searched for defects when you bought it because you returned your Nokia phone a bunch of times. The OP didn't notice the problem either (as described in the other thread) and he scrutinized all the phones.

As you mentioned before, most or all phones/displays suffer from some sort of defect. The SGS2 screen might suffer from defects, but it is still great. Most of the professional reviewers love the display. Most of the consumer reviewers love the display.

Most people here are happy with the display.

Let the thread die.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Resist the urge to reply on this thread if you want it to die :)
[Galaxy S II General] GIR:
You are talking about something which might need a closer inspection or maybe even the right conditions to notice. The OP is talking about a batch of deadpixels with a diameter of 1/2 cm which is something which doesn't need much inspection. In fact it's something which would standout immediately.

Somebody pointing out mistakes, errors and poking holes in stories is always annoying, better to ignore them because you yourself are always right and perfect. :D

Just the fact that he ignored me is just proof enough his story doesn't hold water. This leads to post hoc propter hoc, the TS is hoc thus everything which comes after it is just useless and nonsense.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Well I we cant really blame him if he got 5 defective units in a row, its possibly a batch defect in manufacturing, I only went through 1 exchange but I had to weed out a few dozen of phones to get this one.

Not everyone has the same expectation, dont his expectations be yours and vice versa, getting another phone might not be an option for everyone, sometimes we just need someone to listen to our rants to make us slightly feel better even if it does not fix the issue.
[Galaxy S II General] warfanax:
+1

Some people are really weird. They are asking the same question over and over again and when you try to explain they say "I am a stranger why are you so defensive and trying to explain yourself. "

if I don't write I become a liar, my story is fake. I am even accused of being a fanboy and not having a galaxy phone :-) that's just sad. I have better things to do than answering trollers.
[Galaxy S II General] GIR:
So you still believe his word? After obvious false statements in his story... Guess some people will believe just about anything as long as it's inline with their own beliefs.

Actually you could've explained it in a calm fashion but you took a defensive pose rightway, why? You could just laugh at me or ignore me rigthaway. Instead you chose to acuse me of allkinds of things. Why? Why is it you are so irritated when people point out flaws in your story?
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
I never said I believed his word nor said his story is false, are you referring to the 1/2 CM white blotches that he is saying? Those things are quite hard to see at first especially in a bright environment.
[Galaxy S II General] GIR:
Yeah, really hard to see. Uhu.... And you say I have no idea what I'm talking about. So let me get this straight. You empathize with him for having to return 5 units, you talk about him returning the 5 phones as a fact but now you neither confirm nor deny whether you believe him or not. Nice... But keep going, people can see you for what you really are.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
You dont have any clue on what your talking about because you havent had any screen issues or had gone through over a dozen of phones to find a non defective batch, I did empathize with him because we had a similar experience in regards to the screen defects. Would you mind quoting me when I confirmed that he actually returned 5 phones? All I said was the possibility of it being true because I had to go over A DOZEN phones to get one w/o any screen defects

No need to take this so personal, your starting to sound like your even more affected by the issue than the OP or me.

Now I understand why he wants to ignore you, you put words into his mouth and then twist your stories. Have a nice day and see you around.
[Galaxy S II General] GIR:
Thar u gow...

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16146541&postcount=109

Looks to me you are talking about it as a fact, but hey who am I?

And yet again dictating my personal experience and what I do or do not know. How is it you know me so personal?

What you attack me personally and yet you complain about me exposing you for what you are? Nice... Do you even remember what you wrote a few days ago?
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
I was going by the numbers on what he and you said, 5 times for him and once for you. It does not mean that I have personally confirmed that he has went through 5 exchanges and a single one for you, it does not even mean that I have facts that you only had a single exchange or even own the phone to begin with.

The "or" is there for a reason.

Also I may have forgotten what you posted about and probably even all of your comments on this thread as it may not have had any relevance, but both you have and I good working phones ( but I cant claim this as a fact ) we dont have business in this thread anymore even the OP isnt discussing this anymore.
[Atrix 4G General] Jonny Steele:
So it seems my phone is worse off now with the OTA update then before.

Rant

1. Lower Quadrant scores, before i was getting around 3000, now lucky to get 2300.

2. Menu seems to be lagging/ less responsive

3. New notification bar looks like crap

4. New icons are stupid

5. GPS takes forever to lock now

6. Unlock screen it very glitchy and slow

7. Battery life blows

8. No sound when text is receieved
[Atrix 4G General] Marcb:
did you wipe cache/data ?
[Atrix 4G General] Sinful Animosity:
Sounds like you need to downgrade!
[Atrix 4G General] bongd:
Obviously there's a problem (other than your personal complaints, deal with it). The OTA is fantastic and improves the Atrix by leaps and bounds.

Factory reset.
[Atrix 4G General] gnahc79:
+1 on factory reset given how your update to 2.3.4 was very problematic. I had to do a factory reset as well after updating to 2.3.4.
[Atrix 4G General] gpagador:
True but I wouldn't flash any of the .8.3 SBF's due to possible hard brick.
[Atrix 4G General] Sinful Animosity:
We have fruit cakes available for that.
[Atrix 4G General] blackalice:
Quadrant is concistantly slower with 2.3. Who cares? It's all about how the phone actually runs, rather than what some crappy benchmark tool says.
[Atrix 4G General] compewter:
The only thing I can complain about is that my .nomedia folders are showing up in the gallery now. But then again I'm new to the device (and android) and haven't really learned that much about it yet. Loving the fact that installing unsecured apps check mark is now there, as well as the ability to remove facebook contacts from the contact list.
[Atrix 4G General] Jonny Steele:
how do i factory reset? Will it go back to 2.3.4, or before? Also, would it get rid of any evidence of root?
[Atrix 4G General] parsa5:
My battery life improved pretty significantly and am getting quadrant scores of 3300-3400. The update has been nothing short of great for me.
[Atrix 4G General] jimmer411:
Im not running the OTA and my phone is running flawlessly.

1. Unlock your bootloader

2. Flash Kens GB

3. Flash faux kernel

4. Download launcher pro

5. Enjoy.

My phone is very responsive, especially at 1.1ghz. My quadrant is 3315

GPS is still pretty slow to lock on tho
[Atrix 4G General] Marcb:
Tutorial:

1. Power off your device.

2. At the same time, press the volume down button and the power button on the back until you see the text "Fastboot" appear in the top left in corner of the screen.

3. Use the volume down button to scroll through all the options until you reach "Android Recovery".

4. Pressing the volume up button will select the option.

5. You should now see the famous Android Triangle Exclamation screen.

6. Tap the bottom right hand corner of the screen, just above the search key and that should bring you into the main menu of the system recovery.

The volume buttons will allow you to scroll through these menu items:

reboot system now

apply sdcard:update.zip

wipe data/factory reset

wipe cache partition

To select the option, press "OK" in the lower lefthand corner of the screen.

http://www.atrixforums.com/forum/mo...3-how-enter-recovery-mode-motorola-atrix.html
[Atrix 4G General] Jonny Steele:
I tried to reset. Hold the power and down volume until it says fast boot. Then it just sits there..until I press the volume up button. Then it says starting protocol and sits there for at least 10 mind and does nothing. I ha e to take they battle out to get the phone back in service.
[Atrix 4G General] gnahc79:
Or you could always just go to settings->privacy->factory data reset. That's what I did :).
[Atrix 4G General] jimmer411:
When it says fastboot press volume DOWN 7 times and it will say android recovery. Then press volume UP to enter it.

Inside that menu volume up and down scroll and power selects.
[Atrix 4G General] ccrows:
I always factory reset after every major update, just to avoid BS stuff like this...
[Atrix 4G General] JLHumbert:
I have most of the same issues as the original post, but a factory reset isn't going to help the ugliest notification bar in the universe that is covered with some of the most unrecognizeable symbols I've ever seen. Not to mention the putrid color scheme and other interface issues. No, the upgrade did not change my life.
[Atrix 4G General] trell959:
God i hope the inspires update isn't like this...
[Atrix 4G General] ZyanyaMJ:
I'm not too thrilled with the TV shut off animation when I lock the phone. And I liked the old notification bar and the color scheme before. All black with white text... simple, classy and stylish. This navy blue and grayish thing is too business for me :( Oh well I'm sure there will be a mod for this but I'm a super n00b so it'll be a while before I figure it out.

If I factory reset, how can I backup my data first? I'm coming from the iPhone so it was always backed up in iTunes. Is there something similar for the Atrix?
[Atrix 4G General] efishta:
That Quadrant comment made me run another test -- and today I'm getting something like 2600-2700 on average. A few days ago I was getting over 3300 every time I ran it.

All that has changed is that I've installed a lot of apps and I've de-blured it (mostly, kept dialer/contacts, but no social apps, and motorola home, replacing it with Go Launcher).

The benchmark seems to slow down particularly during the database read/write portion, which leads me to believe that the large quantity of apps/cache/data/files, or something related to it is causing these lower scores.

It does seem odd though. I kind of want to start a thread about it to see what others are getting, primarily because now that I've got the phone set up the way I want, i really don't feel like resetting to test this theory.
[Atrix 4G General] ccrows:
The more I'm reading GB reviews, the more I'm thinking about staying on Froyo when GB becomes available on Bell...
[Atrix 4G General] dLo GSR:
i guarantee you there are more people who love GB than hate it. the ones that don't are just more vocal because the complacent and happy ones are busy playing with their phones =P
[Atrix 4G General] slimslim:
My phone got better honestly, wakes up after standby almost instantly, it's faster, the fingerprint scanner also a lot faster. I personally think it made the Atrix better.
[Atrix 4G General] ccrows:
When Eclair and Froyo came out on my previous devices, there was a ton of love about the updates.

GB was supposed to be a more stabilized version of Froyo, yet the reviews are mixed.

I'll probably throw GB on my SGS soon, and then wait for a Bell Rom that seems to be more stable for the Atrix...
[Atrix 4G General] merril:
I was running the phone with no modifications and was content.

Now they made the phone button smaller and less recognizable.

The gui is now lacking contrast and has this blue mushy feel.

But I did not realize we were moved to GB. That is a step forward, and the above should be remedied by a new gui mod available here.
[Atrix 4G General] bwdavis59:
I don't like the new update. The new color scheme makes the phone harder to read and also wastes energy (white background vs black background). It also seems to have broken the APN hack to enable wi-fi hotspot.
[Atrix 4G General] blackalice:
That's not how LCDs work.

Anyway if you're really that bugged out about a theme, just flash a new one. Most of the problems people are talking fixable.
[Atrix 4G General] RedLineJoes:
GB Installation Aborted

Phone pre update:

8.3 Stock SBF

Rooted with Gingerbreak

LOCKED bootloaded

Tether APN Enabled

Webtop Hack Enabled

Phone post update:

Paper weight.

Issue with update:

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

Verifying update package...

Installing update...

Verifying current system...

assert failed: apply_patch_check ("/system/app/DockService.apk","GUID","GUID")

E:Error in /cache/Blur_Version.4.1.83.MB860.ATT.en.US.zip

(Status 7)

Installation aborted.

I read all the threads before performing the OTA update to GB, but I did not read anywhere that if you have Webtop, APN hack, or root, that your phone will brick during the OTA update. As far as I could tell, only downgrading bricks the phone.

I don't have a complete pile of junk at least now because I'm presented with the following options:

Use d-pad to highlight: center to select.

reboot system now

apply sdcard:update.zip

wipe data/factory reset

wipe cache partition

Any have experience with this scenario?

Cheers,

Joe