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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vnvman:
For me it's quite simple. Many people tend to enjoy puzzle games and such on their mobiles (e.g. Angry Birds, Cut the rope), because no matter what more complex games are hard to handle on a touchscreen. If you're that kind of person, then the SGS2 is the way to go: i can't see puzzle games becoming too good for this hardware in at least a couple years, plus the AMOLED screen of this device makes cartoonish graphics look really awesome, and the huge sizes deliver you a great experience.

Otherwise, if you want console quality games on your phone, with a complex story, complex controls and amazing 3d graphics (e.g. Shadowgun, Modern Combat 3) then the iPhone is the only way to go: it will be supported for a long time and its hardware will grow older much slowly because of the dedicated development.

Imho at the end of the day complex games will never be very suitable to a mobile device: controls have to be weird and unintuitive, and will take up most of the screen; also, they're not very suitable to be played on the go. Games like Cut the rope for example are a much better option when you are on the go, they will take much less effort and headaches to be played and in the end will give you more fun. All in all mobile games should be those time wasters we can use while we need to wait for the bus or something like that, a fully blown gaming experience feels out of place imho. I've played most of the high end 3d games to date on my device, but if i think about it most of the times i did i was at home on the couch, while instead i hardly touched them while on the go, when simple games like Trial X or Cut the rope are the best way to have fun imho. In the end you gonna do what i did, and realize that high end games are a waste on mobile devices, because they are so complex and involving that the only way to enjoy them is being at home, where you can have your console/gaming pc and have much more fun. Just my 2 cents.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qwerty warrior:
u want gaming get an iphone

u want a bigger screen get sgs2

u want gaming on a big screen

wait for iphone 5

OR

gaming on a portable device

PS vita

3ds

etc
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angelomaldito:
You can have an idea looking in the SGS1 forums. Probably when SGS3 be out on the shelves, SGS2 will receive the same treatment SGS1 is receiving since SGS2 was released.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Freakgs:
^ Very likely right.

The price we have to pay for this open plattform is that there's a high degree of fragmentation. I wish they would make phones a bit more expensive, but stop releasing them so fast.

Then again:

the advantage of Android is, that we don't have to rely on Samsung at all, when it comes to updates.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peterdan1506:
i dont wanna particulary read more forums again!

can someone just tell me the answers 2 my damn questions?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] selfinflicted1:
I am sure with your greatfull attitude, you will get the answers you seek promptly.....surely nobody would expect you to use a forum search and find the answer like everyone else does ....

Sent from my HTC Vision
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vnvman:
Ok, i'll write it down in more simple manner, directly addressing your op:

1)Benchmarks mean NOTHING, especially when comparing 2 completely different platforms, ran in a completely different manner. Anyway, fwiw the gpu in the iPhone is about twice as powerful as the one in the the GS2, so expect that the high end games specifically designed to take advantage of the a5 soc will SUCK on the GS2 simply because there's no comparison. They may be ported to the GS2 because it's a well selling phone, this is very likely to happen, but they'll probably have much less detail/effects and will probably lag and stutter. You can't really see that now, but trust me: in a few months some of those will come out, and you'll know i was right.

Even assuming that the GS2 will be fast enough for those (and it won't) they will still run better on the iPhone, basically because Android games are ports of games which were born with the iPhone hardware in mind.

2)iPhone version will always be the one relased first, and also the one receiving more updates/bugfixes (e.g. the iPhone version of MC2 has more maps in the multiplayer version).

Now i'll also write it in caps so that you won't have more doubts about it: GET THE FREAKING IPHONE.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qwerty warrior:
just like what vnvman said

get an IPHONE !!!!

or

get a 3ds or something
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carpenter01:
Hey if you are smart enough you can type g o o g l e. com and find your damn answers cry baby.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChongoDroid:
Emulators flawless victory... You don't know how many iphonerz have seen me playing super Mario 64 on my tablet and asked "is that an iPad? What's that app called?

Angry birds is so yesterday.. N64 was last decade :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisjcks:
Android also has a much greater market share than IOS (44.8% compared with 27.4%) - its no surprise that the Android Market is set to surpass the Appstore in 2012 as Android IS EVERYWHERE! Developers can earn much more money developing for the majority! .... Apple are seriously worried, releasing this poo iphone and Steve jobs dying aswell. Oh Dear - samsung & google are booming,

Ice cream sandwich is supposed to give our GPU a massive boost, so exciting times.

Apple does seem to get the games first, however as ive said - this is slowly changing, ive also failed to see a game run smoothly on the SGS2.

Browsing, watching movies and playing touch screen games are much better on the bigger screen, with the much better colours. You have to remember, on a 3.5in screen, your fingers dont get any smaller!

I wouldnt go for the iphone, its a poor release from apple, i think its more of a desperate release than anything.

Sure, the screen on the iphone does have a greater resolution, there is no denying this - however, they fail to tell you that this is only noticeable when zooming in 'further than' a double tap zoom. They also fail to mention that the iphone screen as a contrast ratio of 1400:1, the SGS2 is 100000:1 (everyone sees the contrast without zooming in, its the vibrant colours, the depth of colour and the blackest blacks etc)

But half the ram?

No customization?

Smaller screen?

Thicker?

Heavier?

Easily smashed?

No flash still?

No external sd slot?

No hdmi slot?

Underclocked 800mhz cpu?

Smaller battery?

No bluetooth file sharing?

Poor integration to social media?

I could go on...

to me - the SGS2 is a clear choice.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richyy74:
3d intensive high-end game development takes time and I think those games are optimized not the latest but a strong mainstream hardware in mind. I think gs2 have enough juice to deal with any upcoming games for a year or two especially on a 800x480 screen. Iphone pixel count is cca 33% more so needs a 33% stronger gpu for the same performance and cpu performance is inferior. At the end I do not think that in real life gaming a 4s could really show its gpu advantage.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarkSkov:
Not a big fan of benchmarks myself, but I have looked into GLBenchmark comparisons between the 4S and the S2. Here are my impressions:

- Both the S2 and 4S are essentially vsync limited for the Egypt and Pro onscreen tests, comparing them therefore is pointless. Although what I would say is it becomes exponentially harder for a framerate to get closer to 60fps when vsync limited, what I mean is it's harder to go from an average of 58fps to 59fps than to go from 57fps to 58fps.

- In the offscreen tests run at 720, you should expect all devices to have a reduced framerate from their native resolution for obvious reasons. The 4S is the only device I have found in the results database (with a lower than 720 native res) where the framerate actually increases. This strikes me as rather suspect and I would suggest that the iOS implementation of GLBenchmark is somewhat ballsed up.

- When I ran a lot of the specialised benchmarks used GLBenchmark what I saw is that actually a number of the tests are vsync capped at 60fps for the S2, so even overclocking the GPU does not increase scores. Somehow the 4S gets around this cap also on the individual tests and so its scores are significantly higher naturally. Furthermore the tests which are capped on the S2 are the ones where it already outscores the 4S. The GPUs on the 4S and S2 are very different and so you would expect them to perform better at different things and this is borne out in the results here.

Essentially what this means is that even with the cross platform nature of GLBenchmark, you still can't really compare the GPUs or 3D performance. I have yet to come across a game that has produced any noticeable framerate drop on the S2 and so it surely fits the purpose at least until the next generation of phones come out. It is only likely to get more buttery smooth under ICS and so I can't see anyone having a reason to complain.

Question boils down to do you want the earlier access to games or do you want the freedom of android? It seems to me we are seeing more simultaneous releases than in the past and the reported numbers from the App Store vs the Android Market are suggesting that Android is catching up fast in revenue terms in which case timing may be a moot point in the near future.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] angelomaldito:
+1
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kromosto:
Best answer
[General Topics] fifa.abhimanyu:
Guys I ve a HTC wildlife s...I checked in bootloader I ve s-on...is there any way I can root my phone.

Thanx in advance.
[General Topics] killall:
Try searching XDA for the appropriate thread, then read, read, read:p

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1035
[General Topics] emuinthebox:
You should be able to. Go in xda forums from desktop. Select your phone model from top middle-right corner, select android development forum, you will get information.

Make sure you read and understand what you are doing.
[General Topics] emuinthebox:
+1
[General Topics] vatanatips:
my friend got that phone,but his not allowed root.it cost 20pounds to unlock. you can read more detail in wildfire s section
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SuperAce609:
Today I flashed my phone for the first time from stock 2.3.5 to CM7.1. Now I'm wondering, doI have to do some weird complex procedure every time I want to switch to a different rom? Or can I just put it to the root of the SD and flash it via cmw?

Also, I read that to go back to the stock rom, I need to flash the whole package back. I have no idea what that means. Can anyone explain what it is and how to do it? Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] consegregate:
You need to find a full package file, one that has different boot, modem and pda and csc to flash in Odin.

which is opposed to the one package containing only one tar file!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SuperAce609:
Wow. Where can I find the file? So far I've only seen the one package ones. :/

EDIT: Also, do you know anything about the different rom flashing processes? Or is it just one? (Flash all through cmw I mean)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] domnic79:
U can get d files on samfirmware.com or sammobile.com.

There r 2 ways. Flash using odin & flash using CWM.

Sent from my GT-S5830 using Grif's CyanogenMod

Dont jus say thanks, use d 'Thanks' button. [XDA-RULE]
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SuperAce609:
Thanks! I'd click but I've already given out my 5 thanks xD. So to install any random custom rom, I just put it to the root of my SD and flash using CMW? No other special random procedure needed? Nothing needs to be cleared or deleted? Lol, sorry for all the questions. Just making sure.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] aboobakr:
You have to backup your rom then wipe data/factory reset then wipe cache. Then you can flash ur desired rom
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] casiocas:
Hey!

Jeah, always do the BACKUP(better in CWM, but you can use the Titanium Backup too[its not backup ENTIRE ROM, only APPS and settings]), only then flash or do some serious things. You never know ahead, whats waiting under corner, if you flashing. Simple flash can break and you get stuck in the middle.

CHEERS! :cool:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] shriramc4:
I am new to flashing of ROM and have never done that,

After reading all above post, I want to ask if I flash any custom rom (Like cyanomod or modified stock rom) If I want to go back to stock rom of my Ace 2.3.4, can I restore the back up that I have taken from CWM. There are following files in the backup

Android.img

boot.img

cache.img

data.img

nandroid.md5

recovery.img

system.img

Sorry in advance if I am asking any silly question and Thanks in advance for the support
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Prawesome:
Those procedures change from rom to rom,for some you might need to be at a certain baseband while for others you might need to clear cache,data and dalvik cache.Flashing through cwm is the easiest method if you ask me and one precaution you have to take before flashing any rom is a FULL NANDROID BACKUP,you never know what might happen.

Sent from cyanogenmod7 Galaxy Ace...

Don't just say 'thanks',press the thanks button,if I helped you..
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] gughanbose:
Flashing

Basically, if u have those 5 files like MODEM CSC ... U need to flash with odin... If u jus have a .zip, u can flash it with CWM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jakar217:
For those of you with a Samsung Galaxy SII i727, I just wanted to point out that there are two methods I currently see to root it, and one of those methods installs CWM.

Here's a link to a page with both rooting methods:

android.jakaar.net/skyrocket-rooting.html

And another link that just explains how to install CWM:

android.jakaar.net/skyrocket-clockworkmod.html

I hope this helps someone.

I'd be interested to see any Roms or kernels for it if anyone can point me in that direction.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] AllGamer:
i guess you didn't search before posting, as we already have multiple in XDA in house solutions for Rooting http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1342712&highlight=root

and many more inside the DEV section
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] droidtwoseven:
Don't know if I just missed something or what. I can't find a way to set my own contact icon image (avatar) to show on messaging thread. Please help.

I'm on CM7 ICS 1.0 now.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] consegregate:
Go to your contacts, select and edit contact, and click on the avatar.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] disinweb:
Save your own number to contacts then edit. :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] droidtwoseven:
Are you serious? Its just like that? :D :D

This is a noob of me. hahaha.

Thanks fellas. :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Prawesome:
Yeah well,that's the way to do it but I wont tell you are being noob because cyanogenmod is way different from stock rom but I love the difference :)

Sent from cyanogenmod7 Galaxy Ace...

Don't just say 'thanks',press the thanks button,if I helped you..
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] droidtwoseven:
It's not working :(

1. Already save my own number and named it as "Me"

2. Saved my own number without the name. Just put avatar.

but still doesn't work. any idea?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] zxcycle:
go to settings > call settings > additional settings > my phone number then write your number there
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] droidtwoseven:
Thanks Kabayan. After adding my phone number on this setting what should be next?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] zxcycle:
after that you add your number in your phone contact then add a avatar and its done
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] droidtwoseven:
Got this working now. Thanks dude.

Anyway, do you have any idea on contacts duplicating?? Here's the scene: I deleted all my contacts saved on my phone to import contacts from my other simcard. It importing successfully BUT afterwards contacts has been duplicated.

PS: Sync off (no contacts saved on google anyway)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lsquare:
Does anyone here know of a camera app for the Android platform that not only geotags the images, but also store the compass information?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lsquare:
Does anyone here know?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] greeneperson:
I can't seem to get any wifi mouse apps working with my laptop. Tried numerous ones. I'm running starburst 1.9.5. Anyone having any luck running any apps over wifi? Any help appreciated.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iamtimmah:
I'm not on Starburst at the moment, but usually when it stopped working for me before, I just had to restart my computer.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] greeneperson:
I can't get any of the apps working. Irk if its just my phone or laptop. What app do you use?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iamtimmah:
I use wifi mouse and keyboard by tomneco
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rican408:
I used to use gmote
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] makmoneynslp:
Try unifiedremote it an free and a paid app it works great allows to control your xbox. And window media and other things also
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] greeneperson:
Ill give them all a try. I just want to be able to control my browser. I hate having to get out of bed to put a new movie on.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] makmoneynslp:
Tell me whu

Ich one u chosse

Unifed lol
[HTC Wildfire S] daxiaamu:
1st，tks to eoghan2t7's work，I use the PG76DIAG.nbh with XTC clip way（not the steps eoghan2t7 gives）.BTW, sorry for my poor english

someone successfully makes it s-off。but，he use a useless sim card with Two layer chips，he removed the one inside，leave the chip outside still there。

here are my steps

1,make a gold card

2,download and put PG76DIAG.nbh into the sdcard(gold card)

3,go into hboot,wait to scan and you will see this

just press Volume down

4,and then you will see

press power

press power again

5,

then you will see

6,go into hboot again to check if it is s-off now

sorry，the one who make it works uses the XTC gold card and replace the PG76DIAG.nbh with the one eoghan2t7 gives us,other copied the files from the card but not work.Now,I'm testing ghost of the XTC goldcard,hope it will work.
[HTC Wildfire S] eoghan2t7:
Checking it now thanks for the heads up ;)
[HTC Wildfire S] eoghan2t7:
Can you post a tutorial in the development section for users to s-off without xtc because the translation is messed up for me lol
[HTC Wildfire S] daxiaamu:
No problem,but I was a bit busy now.I will post it later tonight.you see ,here is china,it‘s just 2:51PM .
[HTC Wildfire S] eoghan2t7:
No problem just confirm this gives s-off without using the xtc clip?
[HTC Wildfire S] shaarky:
** I don't speak Chinese, so don't try this if you don't have possibility to recover bricked phone,

that translation could be totally wrong

**

I think it's something like :

create GoldCard

put following file on the GoldCard (PG76DIAG.nbh) - http://dl.dbank.com/c0pmlgo4rr

boot to the HBOOT menu

choose clean S58 data

after it's finished, power off , unplug battery and start mobile again

check whether it's S-OFF now

Better wait for official HOW-TO
[HTC Wildfire S] eoghan2t7:
Don't no lol ill wait for the tutorial ;)
[HTC Wildfire S] newklear85:
I just got the phone and was in despair until I saw your threads. Thank you for your dedication. :D
[HTC Wildfire S] Lt.Win:
You devs rock! I knew you guys would do it before lame old HTC. :-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-)

MAD RESPECT TO ALL DEVS TRYING SO HARD!
[HTC Wildfire S] d33ps1x:
Tried it out on a hboot 0.90 device with no luck. Got to the s58 section and had CID FAIL!

---------- Post added at 06:17 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:29 AM ----------

Got some camera shots of the process.

Remade a new Goldcard just in case and followed the steps and got through to the S58 clean screen and it just reboots with no error message after 3 seconds or so.
[HTC Wildfire S] hascimal:
hboot 0.90

CID FAIL

:(
[HTC Wildfire S] nihalot:
hboot 0.90

it says "verify str not found"

then aftr some time says "cid write error"

and Finally "cid set fail"
[HTC Wildfire S] MoneyFist:
Marvel Rom

hboot 1.03

"verify str not found"

then "cid write error"

"cid set fail"
[HTC Wildfire S] buber82:
So, you're S-OFF now, on which hboot? It worked on 1.03 but dont work on 0.90 ?
[HTC Wildfire S] Lt.Win:
It works on 1.03??????
[HTC Wildfire S] slavaman:
not working for my wildfire S locked on Orange FR eiher. it's a pity.
[HTC Wildfire S] Tera Tike:
Question: Are you trying this with your SIM card removed?
[HTC Wildfire S] Henry_1:
I removed my SIM card. I suppose you don't get errors then.

But there wasn't a message screen phone unlocked (and s-off?).

I think you only get that screen when the phone detects the xtc clip (and unlocks).

That's why this method isn't working.
[HTC Wildfire S] Tera Tike:
I think the XTC clip is reading the IMEI from the phone, then using it with the file unlock.

I attached what is on my goldcard SD. Maybe this would be of help. (I did noticed that the last part of the file are different.) -Wrong information!! Sorry

Good luck!

After using a file compare program it seems both files are the same. I wish I knew what the XTC clip is doing, reading info from the phone or emulating something to the phone. I am going to research more.
[HTC Wildfire S] Henry_1:
Thanks, but i won't test it.

When tested previous tutorial, it deleted all my apps and data:mad:

But i've set it up right now so its up to others;)
[HTC Wildfire S] eoghan2t7:
Its not working
[HTC Wildfire S] nadmail:
irc.andirc.net #thunderbolt
[HTC Wildfire S] jmz:
if the unlock in this thread works for cdma wfs I will get you a dump of hboot.
[HTC Wildfire S] buber82:
Cant do this, no saveprt2sd command in fastboot.
[HTC Wildfire S] eoghan2t7:
I'm making a script to get the dump to make it easier for people ;)
[HTC Wildfire S] bavo:
Laughed at that as a good quote, shouldn't really though ..
[HTC Wildfire S] thehumble1:
someone else just got it to work too, sk8tr5955.

Also a Virgin Mobile phone. The good news is that it's s-off, the bad news is that all the ROMs are based on GSM firmware and kernels and may brick the phone.
[HTC Wildfire S] billclay1988:
I have a US Virgin Mobile A510c and I haven't been able to get this method to work. I always end up getting the error message

"Security check failed.

Update failed."

I'm encouraged that several VM owners have been able to successfully get S-Off. Hopefully more research and testing will get us a more consistent method of applying this exploit. Appreciate all the hard work the testers have done.
[HTC Wildfire S] GotsOJ:
I'm working on a custom CDMA rom... I don't have any experience or time though, so it will take a while. Hopefully someone more experienced will help us out in the meantime? hehe
[HTC Wildfire S] billclay1988:
It finally worked for me. I now am S-OFF!!!!! :) :) :)
[HTC Wildfire S] logout20:
GSM or CDMA ?????
[HTC Wildfire S] billclay1988:
US Virgin Mobile CDMA. Now S-OFF and fully rooted all from a software exploit! No XTC clip needed! :D
[HTC Wildfire S] TrissyGE:
How to create the goldcard:confused:
[HTC Wildfire S] billclay1988:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1351409

This tutorial worked for me.
[HTC Wildfire S] TrissyGE:
I´ll try it as soon as i can i hope it works on an european wfs:rolleyes:
[HTC Wildfire S] slavaman:
it doesn't; checked already.
[HTC Wildfire S] TrissyGE:
and if i flash the virgin rom here?
[HTC Wildfire S] imlgl:
You need a phone that came from Virgin. They have different hardware, if I am correct they do not have a sim card. Even if you flash a virgin ROM it still wouldn't work.