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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] maizein:
SGS II ICS >= Galaxy Nexus...

When the SGS II gets ICS (officially), is it possible that it'll be a more powerfull phone than the Galaxy Nexus? SGS II's processor is faster, the camera is more powerful (and hopefully will be as fast as the Nexus'), and it has the micro SD slot...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AllGamer:
+1

indeed....

they are just delaying the inevitable ;) :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dinan:
The only thing stopping me from using the Galaxy Nexus is the CPU/GPU setup. I have one... it just feels slower than my S2. Yeah it has more pixels to render, an outdated GPU, some bugs in ICS to be worked out... whatever. It just feels slower.

About the camera - yea the zero shutter lag is really nice but my S2 takes better pics and video, it's pretty obvious when I check on the computer.

My S2 gets better battery life too, but that might be because I'm running a custom ROM and undervolting compared to the Nexus which is stock. Apples to oranges, but that's been my experience so far. I do love the screen though (although the blacks aren't as black as the previous SAMOLED screens).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] djmcnz:
If you're happy with your current phone keep it.

There will be a better one next month and the month after that and...

The benefits of a Nexus are a supported unlocked bootloader and direct software updates, all other features will be surpassed before the next Nexus.

/unsubscribed
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nbeebe24:
Nexus devices are the pinnacle of android phones. I've owned all 3 and nothing has compared to them at all. I also like the feeling of having a phone not many people have, I like exclusivity
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] andoruB:
I've tried fixing something in recovery console (with the charging/data cable plugged) once, but I suspect the battery ran out of energy and now I'm stuck with the phone not starting. I've tried removing the battery and putting it back in a few times and additionaly tried starting the phone without the SIM card or the SD card. Whenever I plug the cable in, the white led near the socket lits, and stays like that at least for an hour or so, then it turns off (sometimes it stays lit for more), when I try to unplug the cable, and put it back in, it never lits up again. When I remove the battery, put it back and the plug the cable again it lits again. Also, what I noticed is that the led only lits when I connect it to the PC. If I try to connect it to the outlet adaptor, it never lits. I've tried taking it to a shop nearby, and asked an employee if he could try to put in a new battery or try with a different charger. I'm not sure if he used a wall charger or connected it to the PC since he did it behind the counter, but he tried charging the phone with the old battery and with the new one, but it didn't budge, he said the phone's dead or bricked. So now I ask you, should I persuade into buying a new battery, or could it be salvaged with the fact that it could link to the PC?

Oh, and forgot to mention the battery was from another Milestone's that the guy said he used to showcase. He said he used that phone to show the menu, launch applications, he turned it off and then he couldn't turn it on, so I suspect that battery might have been busted.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] skadude66:
Not 100% sure if you have tried this yet or not, but you should try taking the battery out and plugging the phone into the wall charger, leave it to charge for a bit and try booting it up then, and then put the battery back in.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] andoruB:
The guy at the shop tried that...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jgotti107:
Ok I was walking into my house when I received a call. I answered and since there were no lights on I noticed a red flashing led on the left side of the AT&T logo between the front can and promixty sensor. I didn't know the SGSII had a led till this point, and since it does, any way to make it brighter and configure it for SMS etc? Sorry if I'm late. News to me...lol.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S 2 using the mind reader app...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Shammyh:
Not a notification light, its the infrared led used for the proximity sensor.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] morrichad:
That faint light is promixty sensor, put your finger over the light and your screen goes black.;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jgotti107:
Oh damn...sorry guys...thanks tho!!!

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S 2 using the mind reader app...
[myTouch 4G General] track40:
Hello,

Been using Android for about a year now, and am looking for someone who wants to make some fast cash to get Cyanogen 7 on my phone. I'm currently running the myTouch 4G on T-Mo, and have Gingerbread 2.3.4 running.

I normally might attempt to do this myself, but knowing that I have to downgrade, and then Root, followed by the Cyanogen load... I'm too nervous that I'm going to achieve brick, not root.

Anyone interested in some [easy] money? Reply or PM me.

THx.
[myTouch 4G General] saranhai:
lol i'd love to but can't :\
[myTouch 4G General] absoluthamm:
How much? I'm in Oak Park and just curious.

I've rooted 4 MT4G's, 1 recently(old one didn't agree with the pool), 3 G1's, a Desire, and a Nook, so I'm pretty familiar with rooting.
[myTouch 4G General] neidlinger:
If i were you, i wouldn't relay on someone else. If something goes south how are YOU going to fix YOUR phone?
[myTouch 4G General] track40:
I know. That is something I've been wrestling with. Not sure how to do it otherwise. Wish I knew someone that I could trust.
[myTouch 4G General] neidlinger:
Everyone has to start somewhere. I'd take a look in my new comers thread. Link is in my signature.

That is a good starting point.
[myTouch 4G General] track40:
My biggest concern is undoing Gingerbread and rolling back to Froyo. Other than that... the tools along with everything I've read seem pretty solid.

Damn Gingerbread.
[myTouch 4G General] jigajay:
I'm have the same issue downgrading with no home internet I was asking the same for someone in N.Y.C area. After a downgrade is done I can easily root and put a rom with no home internet.
[myTouch 4G General] mrmako777:
guys, take your time, READ THE DIRECTIONS, and you'll be fine. you can do it!!! ;)
[myTouch 4G General] track40:
I think the ideal thing to do would be to snag a cheap MT4G on eBay, and mess with rooting that way.

Then if I mess it all up, no worries.
[myTouch 4G General] sunlaw2:
Best thing to do is to read,read,and re-read.its not very difficult to figure it out.all the info is here.why pay me to read instructions,and usr a little deductive reasoni.g,when you can do the same.

Well,

Oh,ok.

$100 bucks.drop it off over here by the HIP mall.lol.
[myTouch 4G General] sunlaw2:
Just kidding.dude,its not difficult.just search and think about it.you'll do it.

I didn't even know what a zip file was,and now I've rooted,hacked l kinds of stuff,using adb,etc...but I did spend a lot of time reading about Linux,cell phones,etc...

Then,I read some more,and paid attention to the problems others had,and figured what to do,and what not to do.

Other words,u can do it.don't pay someone.
[myTouch 4G General] track40:
Thanks guys.

Will try it myself after a little more research.
[myTouch 4G General] Jms122589:
The unlockr.com was a good place to start for me, real simple step by step tutorials and they have some good roms, ( linked to xda), to start with. I don't know if it has been updated recently but it couldn't hurt. Rooting took me like 10 min to figure out by the way, it really isn't that difficult of a process. Good luck!
[myTouch 4G General] Skipjacks:
The step by step wiki is SUPER easy to follow.

When I first did it I didn't know what half of the steps meant. But you just follow them in order, trust that the people who wrote them weren't playing some prank, and everything works fine.

It's more cutting and pasting from the wiki to your terminal screen than anything else. If you can cut and paste, you can root the MT4G
[myTouch 4G General] track40:
theunlockr.com seems to have very straightforward instructions on how to roll back to Froyo and then actually root the MT4G.

Once the phone is rooted and running a third party rom, if you ever have a problem with cell service, like not getting voicemails, or something like that, will Tmo even help you?

Do you have to reload the stock rom prior to ever making any service requests?
[myTouch 4G General] Jms122589:
Yea they won't help if you are having issues with whatever rom you are on. No rom Is perfect so you might have issues like that, if you do you just load a new rom. Trolling around the forums is a good way to see what roms have issues and what dont. Team Royal, Unity, Faux123, CM7, and evil D (unity idk if he does work by himse

lf), all make solid roms. Rooting voids your warranty (as if you didn't know that), so if by any chance you destroy you phone, un root it first then send it back. One thing I have found however is that it is almost impossible to brick you phone, ( unless you are messing with the radios so DONT!, unless you know what you a doing), that is because you can flash a backup so, if you already knew that stuff...well sorrys! If not...your welcome.
[myTouch 4G General] mskater182:
Dont worry you can do it! I was super worried my self and it took me weeks to finally jump in but now theres no turning back for me!
[myTouch 4G General] track40:
I gotta say this community sure is supportive. Thanks guys! I gotta read everything on "theunlockr.com" a few dozen times now.

Anyone know if I'm starting from Gingerbread, rolling back, then rooting, then flashing CM7... How much time this should all take... Ballpark, assuming no problems?
[myTouch 4G General] Snakecharmed:
If you're working straight through without putting the phone aside at each milestone like I did and don't get stuck with mildly confusing errors like I did twice (SD card file system mounting confusion and an untimely update to the Android Terminal Emulator app that screwed up the keyboard—developer has since fixed the issue) and failure to CTFM (comprehend, not read) what I was reading after midnight on the first night, I'd imagine you could get it all done within a couple of hours, including backing up the stock ROM and installing the engineering bootloader. However, I would just take it one step at a time and not rush through everything.

Make sure to back up your stock ROM. The CM wiki for this phone completely ignores that process as well as any information on how to unroot, and I think it's unwise to believe that you won't ever need to revert to factory settings once you switch to CM.

I took bits and pieces from four different guides to revert and then root. I did what was most logical between the guides because none of the four that I used were as comprehensive as I think they should be for a complete newbie. The one that came closest in my opinion was the root guide for the HTC Panache from the HTC Glacier XDA wiki entry. That said, I'm not new to shells nor phone modding, so I figured it all out eventually. Installing the new ROM was the easiest part for me, followed closely by rolling back to Froyo. The middle part—rooting—requires the most patience and understanding of what's happening.
[myTouch 4G General] Skipjacks:
Snakecharmed is right.

It's a cumbersome process if you hit glitches.

It's a 20 minutes process if you don't.

The first time I did it I create a major problem that I still don't know what I did. Took 2 days to unscrew it (I still don't know how I fixed it either!)

The second time I did it it was about 20 minutes of actual work and 4 hours of trying to figure out why it wasn't working.

That's where you hit snags. There are so many little glitchy things that can happen that it takes time to figure out what occurred then time to find a fix. But you're unlikely to be the first to have the problem so a solution IS available.

As an example the 2 problems I had yesterday were that the 2.2.1 downgrade image file wasn't being pushed to the phone properly by ADB. It was missing exactly 53 bytes of data every time. That took several hours just to notice. But once I noticed the discrepancy it was about 8 seconds to put the file on the SD a different way.

The second problem I had was that adb no longer connected to the phone. Took 20 minutes of googling to figure out that I wasn't using adb as a root user. I retyped the server commands slightly different and was done the entire root and rom flashing process 10 minutes later.

And you learn so much a long the way about how all of this works. And while you CAN f--- your phone up, it's fairly hard too. You have to really try and do really dumb things like pull the battery out mid flash and other assorted moronic behavior.

The worst thing that will happen to you most likely is that you downgrade to Android 2.2.1 and can't get a new ROM on there. Not the end of the world. And then someone can help you go the distance.
[HTC Sensation] Aruman:
Hey guys, a friend of mine bought the Sensation 4G, but the problem is that it has no sound/audio at all, Can't hear Any music/ movies on the speaker and on headphones, no rings, you can make call but you can't hear anything and the other person can't hear you either so the speakers and the mic doesn't work, other than that the phones work great, but the audio problem, I've taught it was a os problem and I factory restore it, with no luck, then I flash it to the Sensation XE but still no luck, so is it a Hardware problem? do any of you guys have the same problem is there any fix for it?

Anyways thanks a lot.

Aruman.
[HTC Sensation] Shery4life:
the mic is broken probly better thing to do is get a new phone and replaace this if you can i hope your friend still have his recipt with him
[HTC Sensation] sn0warmy:
So it "works great" aside from the fact that the phone doesn't function as a phone...

Yeah, I'd get it replaced. Call HTC.
[HTC Sensation] jjdoctor:
probably there is a sound card in phone like we have in our computer... some IC might have burnt... repairing that IC wud be best option if your phone is not in warranty..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rev2008:
Hi friends,

i was an iPhone user since 2007 but now i bought Samsung Galaxy S GT-i9000, it has "Movistar" logo on its back,

i m completely noob on Android so please guide me.

when i bought my phone it was on 2.0 Eclair then i connected my phone with my laptop with data cable and Samsung Kies.

After connecting:

Samsung KIES showed me Gingerbread Updates

So First KIES updated my phone to 2.2 Froyo

And then it updated it to 2.3.3 Gingerbread.

"""i have read many posts here and as far as i know i think i m on Stock firmware and i updated my phone using Official updates from Samsung KIES and one more thing i want to clear here is before updating my phone my SIM CARD was working perfect no issues and after updating my phone still my SIM CARD is working absolutely fine so i think my phone is fully Unlocked (Please Clarify if i m wrong)"""

So after that long time has been passed i am waiting for Official updates for my phone of Gingerbread 2.3.4 or above but did not find any.

i used 2.3.4 on my friend's phone it works much smoother and faster than 2.3.3 thats why i want to upgrade it unofficially because i cant update it officially.

Can you Please tell me the procedure to update my phone to the latest Gingerbread Stock version unofficially?

Here is what written in "About Phone"

Model Number: GT-I9000

Firmware Version: 2.3.3

Baseband Version: I9000BGJV1

Kernal Version: 2.6.35.7-I9000BGJV5-CL307695 root@DELL102#2

Build Number: GINGERBREAD.BGJV5
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carmanj16:
I updated my sgs to 2.3.4 JVR which works great for me, and I used a guide on the website androidsoul.com to go step by step how to do it with odin, and if you search around a little there are plenty if guides here on xda as well
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rev2008:
Which firmware should i go for there are so many

XXJVP = 2.3.4

XXJVR = 2.3.4

XXJVS = 2.3.5

and many more

And what is the difference between firmware with boot loader and firmware without boot loader ?

Sorry for so many questions i m new to Android.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geri.st:
you should go for XXJVS, or for XXJVT, i use a JVT ROM, and its pretty cool.

well, you always have a boot-loader... BUT, you should not flash a boot-loader, because that is one of the rare ways to really "brick" your phone.

the things you need, are odin, the .tar files you want to flash (you should find jvt or jvs here to download, as well as odin)

and just google for flash guide odin, or sth like that, after a few minutes you wil know what to do.

read carefully! and if some points aren't clear for you, don't bother asking.

(The reason why we don't write a full "how-to" is, because it is really done quite often and should not be hard to find)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rev2008:
I have flashed XXJVS Successfully and its working faster and stable than 2.3.3 its amazing. Thank you All for your Support
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anukilimanoor:
http://hdtechvideo.com/?p=54
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vnky12:
is this make warranty void..??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FransvB:
probably yes, but hea, you have a smoother phone, btw if you want to return it you search for the firmware you originally had, and you flash that, warranty back!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] empulse92:
if you really mess up and brick your phone its mostly the same as if an update via kies fail and brick it :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goothu99:
when on silent mode, how do i make the x10 play notification sounds when i have headphones?

thanks
[LG Optimus 2x] wewoapsiak:
Hey guys, I put this together and figured I'd share it over here. This is a mix of the nexus animation and the Galaxy Nexus commercial. It is a HUGE (22Mb) zip, but I've tested it running CM7 and it works. Just makes the boot a little longer sometimes since it plays the entire cycle. Then it'll loop the nexus animation until boot.

Edit: Now have a better playing 15Mb (still big I know) version.

The .gif shown here is lower quality and plays a bit different from the actual animation.

Please download from this other thread
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Krazy_P@:
I'm just starting to get onto themeing and wondered if there were any purple n black themes out there I could look at for ideas and maybe even borrow a few peices from the theme if I can. Feel free to PM me... or my gmail/gtalk is Krazycatpat@gmail.com

Touched from an Epic
[HTC Sensation] btbuck1:
I know in ADW Launcher you can hide the names of the apps either in the drawer, on the desktop or both.

I just want to hide the names on the Stock Sense desktop and don't want to run a different launcher (yes I'm rooted etc.)

Any help would be awesome.

Thanks!
[HTC Sensation] myxcon:
You can use Titanium backup to freeze the app thus making it unusable and hiding the icon in the app-drawer.
[HTC Sensation] btbuck1:
I just want to hide or remove the name of the app. So it just shows the app and not the description below it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] |Melvin|:
ROOT THE T-MOBILE SGSII​

This Method will flash a recovery Image and then you can flash the superuser .zip file to root the phone.

This requires minor knowledge. But BE CAREFUL Because this can harm your phone!

First Things you need to have:

*You Need ODIN 1.8++(CLICK ME)

*The USB Drivers for Our SGSII

*Clockworkmod which you are going to flash via ODIN

md5sum - 8bf6802a84d85aa7da0c1976c0f129d1

*Superuser+Su files to flash thru clockworkmod later on!

*SDCARD installed for CWR

How to Root the phone...

*Before We get things rolling, Make sure the Phone is recognized by your PC.

*Put the Superuser .zip file on your internal SD

*Take the battery out and place it back

*Hold both Vol up + Vol down, and plug the USB cable in.

*On ODIN, Select the PDA button and browse to the recovery-cwm-hercules.tar

*Select Start and see the magic do its thing.

*It should flash the file to Recovery and reboot the phone.

*Take the battery out again and now boot into recovery

*Power off phone, unplug USB, Hold Both Vol up + Vol down and Hit power

*PERFORM NANDROID BACKUP FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY*

*Select Install zip from sdcard, choose the Superuser .zip and let it finish.

*Reboot!

*Now Lets delete some bloat ok? Be careful of what you delete!

***Thanks To Slayher for ROOTING the phone, i just created this small guide for you all to use.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] fordstang99:
Thank u.....first time being first :p
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
Here we go!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] iPathik:
Alright!!!!! The moment is here!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] senkulpa:
Has this been tested before?

I got the balls.

Ima go for it. If I brick, then I'm sure there's a debricking method in a few days/weeks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] teshxx:
Su!!!!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] |Melvin|:
So worked ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] nbturbos:
UPS dropped my phone off earlier today at the house. Can't wait to get home and try this. I don't think it will boot up for the first time before it's rooted.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] CozzaFrenzyy:
Aweesomme can anyone confirm root?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] movieaddict:
cant wait to try this!!!!ty to everyone who helped
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] teshxx:
yes sir. making a full dump for entropy now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jasontx:
Amazing! Thank you, I'll try it soon!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] senkulpa:
The installation in recovery returns with an error that /sdcard could not be opened if one doesn't have a real SD card, I suppose.

It's not going for me...

Tips?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] |Melvin|:
Any of you guys can help me get a SGSII for development? Im gonna sell my sensation to a friend for around 340 - 50 and my TMO discount will get the SGSII to 441... Now Im needing around 100 but 10 people who donates 10 can make it. Help me out guys and see the GOODIES ill get for you all.. You might wanna open a thread here at XDA for BOUNTY...And you all can make it. You all know i never ask for donations or else but this is kind of a help for me to get the phone and pay you back with my work which you all know and know it aint a bad work. Please help me do my BeastMOD II (thats gonna be the name.) for the TMO SGSII... THANKS guys
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] iPathik:
Fnally

I'll be trying this once i hear a few more success stories lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] senkulpa:
"Error in /emmc/download/su-3.0.5-efgh-signed.zip"

after Creating SYSTEM:xbin/su sym link

---

ROOT confirmed working!

Error was unmounting /system in the update-script of the su*.zip file.

Will upload 3 pics for proof!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mikeyinid:
recovery is perfect, i did get an error when trying to flash su. i had to flash it from my internal storage. just deleted all the crap with root explorer :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] iPathik:
What do u mean by internal storage...can you explain please just in case i get the same error
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Nismo13:
Noob question

So if i follow the intrusctions on the first post, i will be "rooted" right

SO now after that is done, how do i proceed to remove all the tmobile crap?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mikeyinid:
the phone has internal storage and an sd slot. if you dont have an sd you only have internal