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[Motorola Droid Bionic] Mattb7:
My data is worse now. I'm lucky to have a connection at all the majority of the time. I called today and they're sending me a replacement. We'll see what happens. I think I may upgrade to the nexus if it doesnt change.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] lykofos:
Mine's worse as well.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Startacus:
Mine is also worse. I go maybe 80% of the day without data now.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] WScottCross:
Worse here as well. I'm also getting a replacement.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] hoola20055:
Mine is ok with minimal drops as long as I keep lte turned off. If I have lte on my data is out 90% off the time. I do not have4g here yet so I keep it turned off
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Pajallen:
At home, where 4G is marginal, it is much worse. It seems reluctant to step down to 3G leaving me with no data for hours unless I disable 4G and restart my phone. In strong 4G areas it seems to be better.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] RK KINGKONG:
4g limited in certain ares

for me at least now i dont have the constant drops in data .. i get 4g where its available to me and 3g when not .. other than this YES much much better .. i dont have to deal with the drops and waiting for data 7everal minutes at a time .. thank for the update as for the camera , i think it sucks on all Motorola phones ....IMO the only time these cameras are ok is in the daytime ..
[Motorola Droid Bionic] jmcdade:
After the update my phone is no way better than before except for the camera speed. This is my second phone since the update and forth since buying the bionic. I bought this phone the day it came out and definitely regret it now. Verizon will replace or loose a customer.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rts63:
My data is better than before the update, but not perfect. I DID do a factory reset after installing the update (not sure this had anything to do with it). Previously, my data would drop out and require toggling airplane mode to get it back. Now if my data drops, the phone can usually work things out on its own within a few to perhaps several seconds on a worse case scenario.

So far, everything about my phone seems improved EXCEPT for battery life. Battery life actually seems a little worse. The rest, camera, data, dissapearing apps are all improved. Like the data, none of them are perfect. I'm hoping Motorola will be releasing some of the leaks (5.7..., 5.8...) in the near future to further improve how this phone opperates ICS too!!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Despiser:
My Radio issues have improved since the OTA. Our local tower was upgraded to 4g last couple of weeks so I don't know if that helped. As of right now I get a couple of bars on a 4g connect and have no issues when switching between 1x, 3g or 4g networks since the OTA.

My battery life is horrible since the update though. Ill take that to the other thread.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rsacipher:
Mine is slightly better, I still notice where I have no data connection but I would have to say it's about 60% less than before.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Kipland007:
So along these lines... I have yet to update to .893 (mainly because I have been busy) and am wondering whether people think it's worth it. I don't have any data issues currently and my battery life isn't great on data (about 10% an hour) but it doesn't seem like there's much of a point to updating. Anyone have any wisdom for me? Cheers!
[Motorola Droid Bionic] docabe:
Terrible connectivity since update

I still lose 4g often. More often than before. Sometimes it switches to 3g and sometimes I lose all connectivity. Before, it only would only switch to 3g and stay there. I also am getting reboots more often now.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] dylanear:
I had no problems with my Bionic before the update, now if I take a call while on 3G data, I won't get data back unless I reboot. And the phone has crashed twice, once while talking to someone. It never crashed before, at least not while I was using it and noticed.

Can I remove this update????? I was SO happy with my Bionic. I'll miss the faster camera, but that's not why I own and use this phone.
[General Topics] vilasman:
Any body succesfully taken there key pass data from their desktop and used on keypass droid? Do you have to use drop box to do it?
[General Topics] FlamingGoat:
I do and it works great. I copied over via usb first time but now i use dropbox as its handier - that shouldn't make a difference though.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kainjinez:
now, i cant hear music ( wm is playing) with speaker n' earphone.

before, i edited some registry in MSIE.

need some sollution without reinstall rom

tks n' sorry for my bad english
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muro18:
Did the problem start after you removed earphones?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TupiX:
Why don't u try another player, like GSPlayer, TCPMP, CorePlayer, ...??? Anything is better than WMP!
[Galaxy S II General] Tyrany:
I've read on other topics people talking about ics on our gs2, so i decided to create a thread to express opinions

instead of spamming other topics hehehe

So if you want to say twiz is fugly or i like it, this is the wright place for you hehehe

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1396647

For the ones that seek aosp feeling in sgs2 folow the link and post there hehehe
[Galaxy S II General] Tyrany:
If you ask me the ics in the s2 looks like a car wreck hehehe its the ugliest thing i've ever seen XD

(bla bla if you hate so much why did u bought a s2? Because it was the best smartphone on the market, and still is one of the best)
[Galaxy S II General] xxhorseriderxxx:
Personally I like touchwiz way more than the LG, Motorolla, and HTC overlays. The launcher is the only thing I don't like about it, and that's easily fixed with launcher pro. I personally think the TW stuff adds some nice functionality without causing speed problems. The only thing I wish touchwiz had is the inline spelling correction... other than that it's fine for me.
[Galaxy S II General] Tyrany:
Thats true, tw introduced a lot of things that were missing on gb, but for the best sammy phone it would be expected something better in aspect, not a expensive android copy of bada os
[Galaxy S II General] SiSL:
Business and Marketin Wise:

You can't sell a phone and later with an update, force people to change their entire experience with their phone.

So yes, ICS will have TW similiar to Gingerbread TW, there is no escape from that.

Luckily, unlike Apple users, we have options to "choose" from any launcher, even allowed to install different types of Android distros...

However, what I would like is similiar experience to AOSP launcher especially in App Drawer like Widgets, slides etc.
[Galaxy S II General] Gorjess:
Touchwiz is by far the smoothest launcher for the s2.. The modified 4.5 version is even better..

So ill stick to tw.. Other launchers tends to be battery hungry..

Sent from my GT-9100 using SMS
[Galaxy S II General] pk1980:
Better if samsung provides an option in settings to switch between touchwiz and ics launchers. Default being tw will not change the end user experience drastically.
[Galaxy S II General] Tyrany:
Unfortunately thats not gonna happen, but we have the option to install a custom ics launcher like nova launcher or trebuchet, and enjoy ics but the framework of samsung will be there =(
[Galaxy S II General] killall:
+1 10chars
[Galaxy S II General] qubz:
You see the problem is that any other UI on top of vanilla android is just a wrapper. At an expense. Sense, Motoblur, Tw all consume extra resources. I hear you say, "but our phones have monster resources". True, although unless the interface is offering extra functionality compared to stock, why use a wrapper?

After all the current iteration of android; ICS has proven that as an OS, android has matured in functionality, UX and eye candy. The only reason I use Tw on my phone is cause it enables video calling via the phone, which I hardly every use. Why should I be strongly coupled to Tw just cause I can not get that functionality form stock? I don't know. Here's hoping video calling get implemented in the stock Phone.apk soon...
[Galaxy S II General] robt772000:
A lot of people say Launcher pro and other 3rd part launchers are a smooth as TW but its a false smooth. In order to be smooth they must use a high CPU clock speed which chews up the battery. TW uses the GPU to make it fast and smooth. Underclock your CPU to 500mHz and try LP etc. and compare them to TW. TW will still run smooth but 3rd party launchers will stutter.
[Galaxy S II General] crobat:
Initially I didn't like TouchWiz because of its rather iPhone-ish icons which in my opinion looked pretty bad on the original SGS which had an older version of TouchWiz.

After trying it out myself, though, I've gotten used to it and am starting to like it more than LP because of the ability to resize widgets and so on.

Its inevitable that Sammy would include TW into the update of one of their flagship devices. While I do like the original interface of stock ICS I wouldn't mind having TouchWiz in ICS since it was rather pleasant to use in Gingerbread.

If anyone really hates TouchWiz that badly, an AOSP version would be released by CyanogenMod anyways. :)
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
I love touch wiz its so cool ..!! :D

BUt when it comes to ICS :D :D :D
[Galaxy S II General] Tyrany:
Indeed, but with ics the ui is hardware accelerated so the advantage of tw is lost

unless they make a real improvement from the leaked alpha to final, its almost certain that ill stick with cm9 when the time comes....

i personally use adw ex and its pretty good no lags, lacks some tw options but have plenty of room for customization, and goes great with ics 1.6 theme by the great vert XD
[Galaxy S II General] gnan10:
i like TouchWiz when its gingerbread........

but i like ics framework and launcher than TW4.....

so i want to install ics launcher and frameworks very badly.......
[Galaxy S II General] sooyong94:
CM9 anyone? :D
[Galaxy S II General] Archer:
AOSP all the way for me. I'm looking forward to the necessary code being ripped from the Samsung "release" and being applied to the Nexus build. I've always much preferred to start with the basic AOSP experience and then build from there up.

As for the comments about GPU acceleration, this is not something new that is being brought about by ICS. GPU acceleration is an option that developers can enable in their apps when they build them. It needs nothing more than a value being set to true in a manifest file. The only difference between GB and ICS is that it is on by default in ICS.

You can't say that existing launchers don't use GPU unless you've decompiled the apk and checked. My guess is that any developer worth their salt would know this, and would be using GPU acceleration already.
[Galaxy S II General] idesire:
Trebuchet launcher:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4s2EVdvKeY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Galaxy S II General] Tyrany:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1396647

For the AOSP lovers like me hehehe folow the link and lets help supercurio lets make the diference xD

Sent from my GT-I9100 using the force
[Galaxy S II General] MiG123:
TW is the only launcher i've tried so far that maintains iOS-like smoothness on full widget/shortcut load over 5 pages. Everything else either skip frames or just plain stutters in this task.

and dont even get me started on the yet unmatched spectrum of hardware video codec support that the TW framework provides.
[Galaxy S II General] carloslopescj:
Can i download it?
[Galaxy S II General] Gnarfsan:
It's a very good launcher. The only thing I miss is an option to sort apps in the drawer.
[Galaxy S II General] idesire:
I think it's only for ics roms.
[Galaxy S II General] borchgrevink:
My problem with TW is the lack of customizing options. Go Launcher gives me tons of this.
[Galaxy S II General] Tyrany:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1396647

People help supercurio, see if sammy gives us more options XD

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] titooo7:
Some pople hates TW just because it was laggy on SGS, but on SGS2 it's simply great. As some of you mentioned it has some gret features such as smart dialer or slide left/right in the contact list to send a messge or make a call.

By the way the blend of TW+ICS of the alpha is horrible... it took the worst of both worlds, lol
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00111:
Hi,

having registered here some time ago i've been reading many threads about custom ROMs and the kernels used. Many of them seem to support overclocking your phones CPU. The thing i'm wondering about is that there's kernels which actually overclock your CPU to double the speed its CPU is supposed to be running on (!!), giving the CPU some more voltage i believe.

Actually i'm a bit sceptical about how setting the CPU to such sick frequencies has a bad effect on the CPU's lifetime. The way i understood the problem with clocking the CPU high is always the heat development, meaning without proper cooling the CPU will simply "melt away" (at least that's how it is on desktop computers). Of course, CPU's on smartphones are not cooled or anything. Now that there seem to be many people here, developpers or not, who got deeper into the hardware, probably already opened up a phone, or have some experience with the long term consequences of overclocking.

So my final question is: What is safe and what is not? I saw for the Galaxy 3 for example exist different kernels, some non-overlock kernels, as some kernels only doing limited overclocking up to 800 MHz (which seems to be the most healthy option to me), but also some kernels overclocking up to 1300 MHz, which as i said seems kinda sick to me. Well i bet there's someone out there with a bit more experience than me regarding this so i'd be thankful for any answer. :)
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bscraze:
I believe its safe as long as you dont keep the phone at high overclocked spds all the time. Besides, this chips are designed to last 5 years at least so if you overclock and shorten its life, you would have already changed your phone. In short, dont worry, just dont leave your phone at above 1000mhz all the time
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00111:
You got a point there hehe. Technical progress is moving in light speed. :) Anyway, i want to make my phone last as long as possible of course. But it's true, with CPU stepping it won't run on the highest frequency the whole time, even if overclocked, so i guess that overheating won't be an issue.
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bscraze:
The only time i overclock is when im playing 3d games. Other times mine is 700mhz at most
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LooksLikeSmart:
hi bscraze..,& others...

pls share ur setcpu setings...i've started a thread in Q&A...so that we can get an idea...

i'm always using 1200mhz...is it safe...??
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bscraze:
No.. 800mhz should be your main profile. When charging i put 1200mhz 300mhz on demand. You shouldnt always leave it at 1200mhz. Only when you need it
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dharam_Maniar:
if you use a governor like OnDemand/Conservative, your phone wont always be on 1200 but usually on the lower values...It will go only to 1200 when needed :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nuclearmonkeyuk:
Noob here.. what is it? Why is it? And what happens if i change it? Oh and how lol

Cheers :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DMax99:
quick simple explaination is:by changing the density you are changing the size of everything that displays on the screen.eg. icons and letters.

to change the density you need to:

1. root the phone: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1329360

2. download root exploer from the market.

3. open root explorer and look for the file "build.prop" in the system folder.

4. in build.prop, look for density and change the number value next to it. it should be 320 by default, but my fav. is 240.

5. save the file after edited and then reboot your phone.

hope this helps....if not, you can always do a search here, Google or YouTube. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxh:
What he said. Another way to think about it is it's similar to when you change the resolution on your laptop or desktop computer. If you don't want to do it manually, there are apps available for doing it (still require root.)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nuclearmonkeyuk:
Cheers for the info.. i will try it :)

And yes i know i would normally search but you know what its like when you have something new and shiny and wanna find new ways to break it ;) plus i've always found the community here to be really helpful..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eksasol:
You can also use the free program FontChanger, but its worth buying Root Explorer.

Android 4 will have option to change font size.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nuclearmonkeyuk:
Ok so I changed the density to 240 which yeah looks nice in things like the xda app.. browser etc but it makes my home screen smaller plus my app drawer.. very strange.

Is there a workaround for this?

Sent from my awesomely awesome Galaxy Note with XDA Premium
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxh:
There is definitely a fix/work around for that. I don't know what it is, though; I asked in another thread, but wasn't answered. You might have to use a different launcher (abandoning touchwiz.)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DMax99:
oh yeah...forgot to tell you that touchwiz won't look properly after density change. so you will need to use another launcher. my personal favourite is ADW EX Launcher.

S memo will also look weird. but there is a thread in the apps forum to fix this problem. :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1361462
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cinciopillo:
I don't understand...

...why icnreasing density make all things greater?

Why it isn't the opposite?

And what is vm heap? which is the best setting for this value?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ranova:
Is there any app that downloads a high resolution Facebook contact picture and assigns it to your contact on the phone?

Theres a plethora of apps that sync "high res" pics (Syncmypix), but attaches it to your gmail account, which then downgrades the quality to all hell, because its like 48x48 res.

You can obviously manually download pictures and assign it to each contact, but that will take forever!

The only other solution is to contact everyone to sign up for Google + and upload a high res picture as their profile picture
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Legacystar:
friendcaster
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Bad Liar:
Thanks. I've been wondering as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beejizzle:
If I remember correctly, the low-res limitation is due to Google Contacts sync. I believe when google grabs the picture from the contact (which is in high-res first time) it uploads it to Contacts and converts to 64x64px (?) and then it use that low-res picture for all things.

I dont know if it still works like this but as other people said, there is a bunch of threads about this "problem".
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ranova:
exactly, the current syncing apps sync it with gmail, therefore downsizes it to 64x64 pixels, which looks awful on a 720p screen.

I did do a search, and could not find a straight answer.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tct08:
I assume that Friendcaster also uses this method? I have "high res" checked but the pictures come out as anything but =/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dalumberjack:
Google Contact Sync (sorry cant post links yet)

Anyone tried it?

If you google it you just get the google version. there is another which if you search on facebook you will get. Wish I could post a link.. grrrr

heartofangel,com/google-contact-sync/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Br0wNb0y:
Tried it.. still gets 64x64 pics.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
This is a limitation with Google contacts online and not the phone. When you it syncs it resizes them.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dalumberjack:
It was worth a shot. Thanks for trying
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigjohns97:
Why would google release this OS with this new half screen picture UI on contacts and then not allow facebook to use high res photos, it looks like ****!

I can't understand how they looked at that feature and said yeah that looks awesome..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Riztnack:
Have you tried Syncmypix ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] p-slim:
from what ive been reading about this phone, the only way to get hi res photos would be if the other users are using google+, all other apps the pic gets downgraded in quality
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xHausx:
Wow people, some of the comments in here were completely uncalled for... If you see a thread that's a repost, than by all means respond like a normal human being and politely link them to the other thread. Then either report it or PM a mod so it can be merged.

But this BS about flaming each other for petty **** is going to stop.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joshnichols189:
So if this is the case, could I just sync with friendcaster, then go to accounts & sync and turn contact sync off and the pics would stay high-res?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dalumberjack:
Tried this, unfortunately it still does not work.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mg3point:
facebook vs google

From what Ihave heard, google is not agreeing with some policy of facebook and therefore facebook is not letting them sync. However i think its odd that its only with ics. Maybe it has something to do with the use of the large image?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mike_m:
Read more at http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/22/google-disables-contact-sync-in-facebook-for-android-only-nexus/ about the Google vs. Facebook spat.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] matt2053:
Its not only ics, its all nexus devices.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] IXIKelsonIXI:
On Sense, HTC used to have Facebook for HTC Sense which stored the high Res version. But as of 3.5 that is gone from Sense. It is very frustrating. They push the big beautiful picture point in their ICS presentation. But their default contact picture storage method totally botches it. Definitely should have been fixed a long time ago.

Rabble rabble rabble.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigjohns97:
Friendcaster doesn't even work i just downloaded and installed and set to high res photo and then told it to sync (checking the people list before and there wasn't anyone there) and when they came down they were not high res.

---------- Post added at 09:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:49 PM ----------

I agree who looked at this pixelated pictures you get and said "yeah, this looks good"

---------- Post added at 09:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:49 PM ----------

WOW this actually works!!

NICE !!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nokry56:
Syncmypix appears to still download lo-res images - let's all star and comment the issue here: http://code.google.com/p/syncmypix/issues/detail?id=120
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bigjohns97:
check maxium quality and uncheck crop and they are high res, at least they don't look like crap anymore on the full screen views.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nokry56:
Thanks for the tip - I tried this but still get crappy pictures... hmm
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] matt2053:
Guys, the ONLY way to get and keep your own or FB hi-res images is to turn OFF Google contact sync.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] p-slim:
Some people have trouble reading, Google doesn't allow hi Res photos currently unless the contact is using with google+ and Google+ is synced on your device
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] p-slim:
Or this method but this isn't even an option for me
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zeyoner:
Correct, if the contact has Google+ then you'll have hi-res photos. I've already tried it all.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dalumberjack:
Tried this even after a factory reset and it still didnt work
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mattdufrene:
try Haxsync. Its 99¢ and works pretty well. The only complaint I had with it was it created doubles for some of my contacts. No biggie. Pictures are Hi-res though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] senab:
The next version of FriendCaster out later today has a improved high res sync. Check it out.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Br0wNb0y:
Good to know. Any link to a source or changelog?