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[Galaxy S II General] Hrti:
This thread got me looking for a plastic cover on my home button, cause I can't remember taking one off. Still can't find anything though :D It has some very tiny scratches, but guess that's just because the home button is plastic anyways :o
[Galaxy S II General] guidox79:
hahahah and also happened to me, indeed I always do!

I am distracted!
[Galaxy S II General] GPSSerbia:
OWNED

just pulled it off. feels much better now!

thx!

x2, OMG, OMG!!
[Galaxy S II General] MJ-12:
for any noobs who have not noticed yet...

:)
[Galaxy S II General] lukeaddison:
Thanks - I had noticed until reading this thread. Much better now!
[Galaxy S II General] Filgaliel:
Thanks for sharing. B-)

Samsung Galaxy S2
[Galaxy S II General] ukdtweak:
Lol, had my phone a few Weeks and never noticed... Thanks for the heads UP.
[Galaxy S II General] ephraim:
Noticed it the day i bought the phone.. Well, i forgot and my girlfriend saw it.. But on my sgsl i noticed it right away..
[Galaxy S II General] rayleterleir:
Oh wow lol, totally did not notice that :)
[Galaxy S II General] aers99:
Hahaha.. Already notice from this thread.. I think almost 4 month... Very funny...
[Galaxy S II General] kranti2064:
2 months and I notice this today after seeing this thread... LOL
[Galaxy S II General] MistahBungle:
Heh ;-) *sheepishly raises hand*

I now have a shiny/glossy home button rather than one with a "brushed" look.

Cute MJ ;-)
[Galaxy S II General] Deeco7:
I never noticed it either lol until you pointed it out. I'm not taking it off tho..;)
[Galaxy S II General] andybrumz:
+1 here too

Been an owner for two days now. Came over from htc desire hd. Not sure about touchwiz yet. Guess im too used to sense ui which is highly polished but a huge resource hog. Can wait to get back to the uk and root this bad boi .
[Galaxy S II General] moedin:
HA Ha HA ! I just closely inspected mine and EUREKA! I have a little plastic cover on mine... I'll leave it because well I put a screen protector and case on out of the box... a bit of a suck when it comes to keeping my phones safe lol

thanks for the tip :)
[Galaxy S II General] d3ck4rd:
Hahaha mine still has it on too. Wouldn't it be funny if someone put a button protector on over the button protector Hahaha!
[Galaxy S II General] Ian Jones:
i noticed mine when i got it, but have left it on there. after a few weeks its still on and giving it that little bit more protection
[Galaxy S II General] :
It only took me a week or so to notice the protector, a few more weeks to actually do something about it.
[Galaxy S II General] MrHome:
enlighment...
[Galaxy S II General] stylez:
Lol ya plonka :D jk :P

Mine had one and it's grade a second hand wonder how long really been on there....? :O
[Galaxy S II General] barryyam:
ho ho ho.. after 3 mths i notice this!
[Galaxy S II General] spdapimp217:
Haha...just read this post and then checked my phone. I had the plastic on my button too and have the phone for almost a month!!
[Galaxy S II General] patt2k:
lol had the phone for more then 3 months... just took it off ^_^ LMAO! good one
[Galaxy S II General] unihumi:
Exactly the same. Thanks OP!!!
[Galaxy S II General] sgs2.5:
lol, i thought "i'm not falling for that", but checked anyway...

Just peeled the little sucker off...

It's been there for one month ;-) Thanks for the heads up!
[Galaxy S II General] 7unk3r:
Wow its true, i was thinking that it was scratched because it was normal glass and not gorila glass, now that i took it off it looks great, tks for the tip!!
[Galaxy S II General] :
ROFL, just took it off.
[Galaxy S II General] kwhkkwhk:
we should leave it on cuz it might get scratched..
[Galaxy S II General] vnvman:
Lol i removed it even before than the film on the screen :D
[Galaxy S II General] Bopster1888:
Lol had mine for 2 months and never noticed it prob wouldnt have until you started the thread.
[Galaxy S II General] a1exander:
Haha this is so true! :D

I removed it now.
[Galaxy S II General] JAG131990:
Holy crap lol. I read the OP thinking how painfully bliss and how simply ignorant some people are and how little others care for my love of details. Then I thought actually I've had this for over 3 months now I don't recall taking that off. Sure enough the little sticker staring me in the face

Edit: so now I took it off and its much cleaner than the rest of my phone. Stand out like a sore thumb :(
[Galaxy S II General] RMonst3r:
lol mine still on, i want to see how long i can leave it before it starts to bubble.
[Galaxy S II General] Knight77:
Same here! LOL 3 weeks with the phone. Noticed thank to your post :-D
[Galaxy S II General] norpan111:
Thanks..you made me peele of my entire homebutton:(
[Galaxy S II General] Wiley87:
haha just seen mine, didn't even notice!

gonna leave it on like the cheap ass i am.
[Galaxy S II General] Damienoid:
Had my phone for a couple of months, came across this thread, but couldn't see any film on my home button.

Had a scratch, and sure enough some film came off lol

Actually wish I left it on, as I couldn't tell otherwise, oh well...
[Galaxy S II General] byobodybag:
I noticed it the first time and left it there. What I didn't notice was it peeled off by itself and was gone.
[Galaxy S II General] Downisthenewup:
Oh too funny. 1 month later..........
[Galaxy S II General] MJ-12:
Bumped for any noobs.

And some more laughs...

:)

MJ-12
[Galaxy S II General] SamKia:
still on even after 4 months :D
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
Yeah. It's kinda funny because back in June, was the first thing I did (Pull off plastic), caught it right away. :P
[Galaxy S II General] jonnyhall1bmx1:
haha just noticed mine today 1 month on ;) i thought i had a big scratch on my home button, looked again and it was the little plastic bit that had like wrinkled up abit :)
[Galaxy S II General] dadyal:
its better to have it there :)
[Galaxy S II General] maxiordoqui:
LOL i've experienced that too! I started to feel weird the Home Button key and i thought, damn, i broke it already? :S So started touching it carefuly, later i looked at it closely and then i said, lets remove this thing, and OMG was simply a stupid sticker cover, sure it looks better now!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roycantos:
in galaxy tab 7 & s2, rf band can be set by typing *#2263# in dialpad. but there is no dialpad in 10.1 3g, so how can it be set? thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] oswade:
Very nicely written and informative post. But perhaps it would get more attention in the general android section? It really deserves it!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jimbo77:
Very nice reading my friend!... I think you have a really valid point... "Hardware may come, Hardware may go...." If Google doesn't take FULL control of Android it will fragment to much until it dies... If the companies (Samsung, Sony Ericsson, HTC, LG etc...) Want Android to power their devices then is up to them to standarize some sort of hardware and Not Android to accomodate to each one of them...

At the end only time will tell what's going to happen as you clearly mention with Palm vs Microsoft example...

My 2 cents...

JIM
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Fremen567:
Yup, RIP webOS. It really is freaking awesome OS, my other phone is palm pre. It's a shame it never really took of, ot would be killer OS on a proper hardware.

Hope they make it open source and/or license it to OEMs.
[HTC Sensation] Arthur Hucksake:
Hi folks,

I've had my Sensation for 3 days tops and something has happened to the back cover. It doesn't wipe off, have absolutely no idea what caused this.

Pretty poor considering it's two days old and treated with kid gloves, couldn't have looked after this phone more if I tried. Crazy.

My GS2 is still prestine, not a mark or scuff anywhere.
[HTC Sensation] Spekko:
ive had the exact same problem, treated phone with super care. i sent it in last tuesday because of this... makes no sense :<
[HTC Sensation] aNYthing24:
Nothing like that on either of my two back covers. I'd get it exchanged.
[HTC Sensation] Arthur Hucksake:
ffs... you had to send the entire phone back?

I've changed roms and allsorts already.
[HTC Sensation] fishluke:
Yeah I'd ask HTC to supply you a new one, not acceptable really. Probably only a minor problem on a select new units because the build quality is usually top notch.
[HTC Sensation] Arthur Hucksake:
I've emailed HTC via the customer service channels on their site and attached a pic. See how it goes. Sending the entire phone back would be ridiculous. Cost them more in shipping, hassle and man hours.
[HTC Sensation] bobsbbq:
I had a similar issue I think with my original cover. I had it less than 10 days, always on micro cloth etc. and I had a spot in the back cover. Of course everyone here will tell you it is something you are doing wrong but I handle my phones with the greatest care and always get top dollar for resale.

In the End HTC sent me a new cover and I have not had anymore problems so far, knock on wood..
[HTC Sensation] Arthur Hucksake:
T-Mobile have said I would need to replace the whole handset if I go through them. I hope HTC have a better answer, got it setup how I like, the battery is warmed up and broken in nicely too.
[HTC Sensation] Spekko:
i sent it back rooted with a custom rom and all that ish to my carrier, wasnt still going to waste time going to stock,. Tried going through htc first to see if they could just send me a new cover, but they fail in south africa :/
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] BRICK0044:
I was wondering what is considered a good score on Quadrant Standard? I have a Galaxy S 4G and my score is 3100.View attachment 696008
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] bkoon1218:
That's an excellent score. Stock KB5 or KD1 only gives 900-1,000. I'm only hitting 2,000-2,200 with the ROM in my sig.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] daxecutioner24:
Good score,just dont overkill your CPU etcc..surely your overclocking to high levels,like 1.4 etcc in my opinio.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] shotchacokov:
that's definitely a great score. I am nearing 3600 right now.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] BRICK0044:
it is OC to 1.3, and using ICBINB KH1.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] daxecutioner24:
Its good:)
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] iNeedICS:
are u overclocked? thats a really high score!:eek:
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] Martin "skunk" Rotter:
I'm bored right now. School is one month away. Weather is (too) hot for me. So the only thing i can do is study JAVA (and android develpoment).

In the meantime i created this (in 3 minutes :) )

Aspect ratio is just fine for LG OO devices. If you like it (this pic is nothing special), then just can just "thanks", i can do other resolutions too.

Link

http://csko-16.ic.cz/123.jpg
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] Vip_blast:
You know how to work out GIFs? You could make a cool bootanimation! :D
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] Martin "skunk" Rotter:
Hi. I could try. GIFs are just compressed pictures.

:)
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] masteryx:
Nope. He doesn't want that kind of .gif, but an animated one - the keyword is animation, as in "bootanimation". ;)
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] Martin "skunk" Rotter:
ok, i get that :)
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] Vip_blast:
That's right :)

You could create something really nice, like a cool custom LG Optimus One P500 animation, only for our phones. ;)
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] Martin "skunk" Rotter:
Thats not bad idea. I will try to do something in upcoming weeks. I am quite occupied right now. :)
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] Martin "skunk" Rotter:
Can you give me link for any "bootanimation".

I simply dont know, which graphical format for animation i should use.

If not GIF, then what? Flash animation?
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] Martin "skunk" Rotter:
Well, what about simple "Optimus one" text with fade-in-out effect?

Something like this (crappy try-2-minutes-made-animation :D:D ), download it and open in better image viewer than your internet browse (that fade-in-out effecz should repeat endlessly)

http://csko-16.ic.cz/123.gif
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] masteryx:
You're getting closer, but:

1) you should also add a fade-out effect at the end, so that the animation will feel continuous; now it looks like "skipping" because from full white jumps back to dimmed white;

2) I highly recommend you to output a 320x480 gif. The one you posted is too much for our phone's processing power and it will definitely play in slow motion :)

But then again, I'm not interested in changing the boot animation on my phone. These are just my advices, if you ever get bored again and feel like experimenting.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keung18:
I playing the game Japan Life while using AC charger, the temperature rised up to 61C. Do you know any problem will be affected to my phone?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mayanks_098:
61 °c! And you were able to still hold it! My phone is hard to touch at even just above 40 degree celcius
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bala_gamer:
61c is insane....... you are lucky not to burn anything inside your s2.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keung18:
What is the accepted max. temperature?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ithehappy:
Well don't say that if you are not sure. 61°C is high, but no way you can say that as insane.

I was reading some articles about Cortex A9 CPU's and found this,

http://www.phytec.com/products/som/Cortex-A9/phyCORE-OMAP4430.html

So the TJ Max of the CPU is 85°C. But for safety you shouldn't let it go above 70-72°C.

But do remember one thing, that is the CPU temp I was talking about, not Battery temp as you mentioned. It's very common that Battery temp will get higher if CPU temp increases.

Regards.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sp1tfire:
Yeah, people see battery temperature, but 61 degrees seems pretty high. My battery didn't pass 48 degrees, even when playing complex games. A high temperature will shorten battery lifetime and there has been one report on this forum about plastic inside SII melting down cause of heat, but no info about the temperature that melted it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ithehappy:
Well the battery & CPU, both temperatures are also depending on the ambient temp. It is also advised to mention the ambient temp along with battery temp.

Regards.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prinzhernan:
Normally mine operates at 42-46. Maybe it's because I live in a tropical country. Once it got to 53 degrees celsius. Got kinda worried, don't know whether to take it back or not. Is this normal?
[Milestone XT720 General] androidlover123:
I recently installed this ROM and i have to say its very good! but theres this wired problem. I used titanium backup to restore some of my apps. i also downloaded some apps from the market. for apps that i restored, most of them i used link2sd to link to sd card but some (not all) of the apps that i downloaded via market are unlinkable via link2sd and it says there "on sd card" instead of the usual "linked to sd card". i used root explorer and found out that these apps were located in "/mnt/asec". while those linked with link2sd were linked elsewhere (eg:apk:"data/app", dalvik cache:"data/dalvik-cache/data@app@@com.something..@classes.dex", lib:"data/data/com.something/lib/") why is this so?

any help would be appreciated!!
[Milestone XT720 General] 3rdstring:
Those apps are using native froyo apps2sd. You should be able to go to Manage applications & move them to internal memory (assuming you have enough internal memory) & then use link2sd.
[Milestone XT720 General] androidlover123:
Thx for replying!! I had a suspicion that it was native froyo app2sd but now I'm sure!! Btw it doesn't require an extra partition rite? So it is just being moved to my main fat32 partition of the SD card rite? Thx for answering my noob qn!!
[Milestone XT720 General] 3rdstring:
Yes, native froyo apps2sd apps are stored on the main fat32 in the .androidsecure folder.
[Galaxy S II General] blackspp:
I've been in touch with Google the past few weeks cause I hardly get any updates through the market since about three months.

Google noticed that everybody or at least most users with a non-standard screen density have this issue. Many apps give a 'your device is not compatible with this application' error when browsing the internet/desktop market version (not the phone market app).

And than in the market you won't see your apps under 'My Apps'

When you switch back to 'default density (240) the problem is gone.

Google is investigating the issue but does not know yet if they will support non-standard densities.

If this is a double post, sorry for that.
[Galaxy S II General] mdalacu:
They dont't need to support non standard dpi but they should let applications to show up in Market. This is the reason I downgraded the Market version on my phone, but this is not a solution. I hope Google will let the users decide what dpi is best for them.
[Galaxy S II General] blackspp:
Yep but as long as they fear claims and complaints nothing may happen...

At the same time the 2 persons I've been dealing with have been very cooperative and asked me lots of questions. Gave them app details, logs and after a few weeks they came back with this conclusion.

Which sort of makes respect them, after all, I'm only one of nearly 200 million Android users!
[Galaxy S II General] bezeek:
Seen a couple of these pop up so far. The problem has been affecting me for a while now, but I just figured out what caused it last week. Lots of people (myself included) seem to have thought nobody else had this problem. :p

Post: Changing DPI and new market makes apps incompatibility

Post: [Q] Cannot update multiple installed apps, is it the new market?

I'm almost surprised it took so long for them to notice that trend, considering they surely have facilities to notice trends in their databases. Score one for XDA! (Very cool of Google to provide such tailored support, though!)
[Galaxy S II General] schizo:
So, no "permanent" dpi change solution for now?

I kinda missed my streak because of this high DPI on the SGS2. Everything getting so big, i losed some of my productivity... :(
[Galaxy S II General] bezeek:
To "permanently" change your DPI to "XYZ", add these lines to /data/local.prop:

ro.sf.lcd_density=XYZ
qemu.sf.lcd_density=XYZ

(Note: If /data/local.prop does not exist, you may create it yourself.)

- OR -

If you would prefer that the change not persist when flashing a new ROM, you could edit /system/build.prop, which should already contain the "ro.sf.lcd_density" property unless you're on a 160dpi device. /system/build.prop will be overwritten any time you flash a new ROM, even if you do not wipe first.

Both of these methods will require a reboot for changes to take effect.

---

Alternately, if you would like to avoid editing system files by hand, there is an app called Blade Buddy which allows you to modify various properties in /data/local.prop, including LCD density.

To save your changes from Blade Buddy, tap Menu -> Save. If you choose not to reboot, you can then tap Menu -> Apply to apply the changes in RAM and restart the UI to see them in action. (Applying density without rebooting seems to be hit-or-miss.)

---

Regardless of how you set your LCD density, the Market will exhibit the incompatibility bug.

As a workaround, I have set my density "permanently" with Blade Buddy and use LCDDensity for Root to revert to default once and a while, so I can launch the Market and get all my updates. LCDDensity for Root is designed specifically to change density temporarily, on-the-fly, and on as many devices as possible.
[Galaxy S II General] schizo:
Thanks, Mr. Bezeek. Actually what I'm looking is the permanent solution of not having to temporarily switch back and forth. As for editing .props I already have experience before with my Streak. Hehehehe

But still, thanks anyway and hope you not offended. I like it the way you help others in precise and detailed manner. Keep it up, bro *thumbs_up*
[Galaxy S II General] bezeek:
Not a problem, just doing my bit to make sure the information is out there. :D

As far as avoiding the temporary switching goes, I'll be on vacation for the next week, but I intend to try a little hacking when I get back, to see if I can find a way to spoof the dpi. That is, if Google doesn't throw us a bone in the meantime.

Users have reported that older versions of the Market still work. The one shipped with the latest OTA for my Evo worked for me, and I suspect that any version released before they changed the Market UI will. YMMV.
[Galaxy S II General] tslovejoy1969:
Just thought I'd toss this out there... I have a Droid X. When running MIUI 1.8.19 on it, I don't have this problem. I can set my density to 200 and the newest market (3.1.3) still works as expected. Seems as though with all the other ROMs I've tried (both blur and 2nd init), I couldn't access a lot of stuff unless I set density back to 240. I can't remember for sure, but I might have been able to set stock .602 (rooted) to 200 with no problems as well - but I'm a little iffy on that. So it would seem that MIUI has done something (perhaps not intentionally) to work around the problem. I just wish I had the smarts to figure out what that might be. :o

Edit: I realize that this is not a Droid X forum, but I was thinking this info might help somehow. Thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] bezeek:
Good to know! Being able to compare a "working" ROM to mine will surely make it easier to identify a workaround.
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
Nice info never noted this before!! yeah i dint get any updates over a last few weeks. Im at 200 dpi.
[Galaxy S II General] randomtask16:
I've been switching back to 240 periodically to get updates, not a big deal to me, but would be nice if things worked normally. My only real issue with running lower dpi (160 here) is that some apps don't scale properly. IE the Dialer.
[Galaxy S II General] zakariae:
Thank for this information! I've been wondering why some standard apps weren't compatible.. It's weird, since they work if you side load them ...

I hope google finds a solution.

---------- Post added at 02:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:51 PM ----------

I just switched from 190dpi to 160. Angry birds seasons is now compatible( wasn't with 190dpi)

Dank U vriendelijk :D
[Galaxy S II General] Ke11ett:
Wow. This has been driving me crazy trying to work out why apps where missing. Guess I need to swap to 240 occasionally for updates.
[Galaxy S II General] pawandeep:
I am using 200 / 192 DPIs from day one. (3 months). its working fine.I never faced incompatibility issue with market. however some games doesn't run correctly which usually i don't play.
[Galaxy S II General] lordloki77:
i have a workaround idea, and i started a thread to discuss here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1288150
[Galaxy S II General] 1xinfusion:
The google support thread for this is here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=19744#makechanges

I still have this issue and if you do a web search you'll see that many still do. Reply in the support thread to raise awareness ! or if you have a workaround please share :) You also might want to check out his Idea thread, if you have some developing skill please help.
[Galaxy S II General] fone_fanatic:
I came from a streak as well and it's this is the biggest annoyance I've had with the sgsii.

The reason why i enjoy Android over any other mobile OS is because i can tailor the OS to how i want it. Not allowing me to download apps because I'm using a non standard density is crippling.

For now, i urge everyone to go to the google support thread and simply press click the star. No need to comment (unless you found a fix), the more stars the issue gets, the more likely Google will look into it.
[Galaxy S II General] Ke11ett:
Seems to be fixed with the latest market version.
[Galaxy S II General] Demon_man:
yeah i seem to be ok ive just got the version from androidpolice last night. im on 3.3.11 now, still cant install stuff from the website though says my phone is incompatible for everything lol
[Galaxy S II General] dima613:
They haven't fixed it to me . I am on 192. Just updated Market , wiped Market data as well. Still the same problem.