[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fahdeen:
Hello guys. Been using the galaxy s2 for the last 4 months and am amazed at the speed and amount of customization that can be done. Have not rooted it till now, am thinking about it. I'm running the latest gingerbread version 2.3.5 updated through samsung kies.

Anyways I'm having the following issues

1) The phone gets heated up when there are no widgets running and sometimes also if I just keep it on the table. it gets heated up so much to the point that it becomes scalding hot. have checked it with battery meter and temp goes upto 55 degrees C. When i switch off the data networks it returns to normal. Are there any apps which run in the background without my knowledge? if so how do i stop these apps from running.

2) Recently bought a sandisk 16gb memory card and when I transferred my 3rd app (any app) to the memory card the phone goes into a boot loop, and also causes some of the widgets and app drawer to load slowly, which caused my phone too heat up toooo much!!! I changed memory cards (4gb, 8gb etc) still the same. When I tried to show the samsung service guys this problem everything was normal. I tried the cards on another s2 and there were no problems!!! I showed them a video of the problem and they were puzzled!!!

3) Before giving my phone for checks/repair of the above problems I tried to do a backup of the phone. Even after two hours the backup was at 0% and the phone had heated up! I used another PC the next day to do backup and it was the same case!!!!

4) When I gave my phone for checking at the samsung service they asked me how was the gingerbread update done? Did the samsung service center do it or was it installed through third party software? I told them that I updated the phone via samsung kies. They then tell me that its third party software and its not official. if it is done by the samsung guys it is official. I asked them since Kies is a software released by samsung for the backing up/restore/updation of their phones how can it be third party software. they tell me thats how it is! Now the question is why is samsung kies a third party s/w to even the Samsung guys?????

5) I also told the samsung guys about the fact that i couldn't do the backup (problem no.3) and asked them to do it. But they were saying that only contacts and photos can be backed up and not the sms or mms. Again I asked them that using Kies we can do the backup of everything including sms/mms; they again, actually they demanded that it was just a fluke, and sms/mms never get backed up by the kies software. so i was wondering whether it is true that sms/mms never get backed up?

6) After I got my phone back from the service guys (the phone was formatted and 2.3.5 was freshly installed Baseband version I9100XXKI4 Kernel Version 2.6.35.7-I9100JPKJ2-CL655700 root@DELL143#2 Build No.GINGERBREAD.JPKJ2). Now the question is how do I download the apps which I had before??? I don't remember all of them. Does the android market keep a record of the apps we have downloaded so that once the phone is formatted we can download the same apps by visiting the android market?

7) How do I get Need for Speed Hot Pursuit?? I'm in Qatar and I only see NFS shift in the samsung apps and that too is for galaxy S1!!!

8) the android market on the phone says I have an update for google maps but I cannot download since it is not available for my region!!! But when i access the market through a PC it says that google maps is already installed. What's happening??? Anyone have a solution???