yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheSniperFan:
As for the battery-life I have more good news for you.

If you choose to install a custom-ROM later, you have the possibility of literally boosting your battery-life. MIUI+UC+UV=....well, my personal best was not charging the phone for three days and still have more than 60% on moderate usage.

And the second thing is the	SAMOLED+ screen. While it has its downsides, the upsides make it clearly a winner when compared to a LCD. The contrast and brightness are high enough to make me use a low brightness-settings most of the time and still see everything, even if it's bright outside. This results in a better battery-life too.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ste1164:
If you want a galaxy nexus for under £500 you could buy one from handtec or clove.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] POLO_i780:
Yep, the amount of time spent using the phone, doing activities that require the screen to be on.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmaximax:
Buy a 16gb micro sd or a 32gb sd remembering the phone has 16gb internal memory too (give or take customizations) and put all your films on your phone no need for anything else apart from a player app such as rockplayer or vital player to play back pretty much any format of video including xvid/divx and mkv with or without subtitles :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ultramag69:
I don't know, I have a 32gb card in there and I like to be able to add extra storage occasionally... Also adds to the convenience... I don't always have my usb cable for the phone but I generally carry a usb stick. Its plugged into the sgs2 adaptor so I always have that too. Good to "steal" stuff off of mates pc's without needing drivers to be installed...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JonM1988:
How much actual usage is that with though? I looked through a thread and seen a guy getting an incredible 5 day battery life with a combination of things but he only used his phone around 6 hours in them 5 days. My general usage on the iPhone would be around 6/5 hours a day

Would much prefare to buy one from the high street cause then I can take it back in-case its goes dodgy and not have an extra day or 2 each way for repair
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veyka:
You get about 4-7h screen on time, aka using it, how you spread that out over days is up to you!

Idle drain is very low as long as the phone manages to deep sleep, aka you dont have any rouge apps.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JonM1988:
The apps I use the most on my iPhone are Facebook, text messaging, Whatsapp and Twitter.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -pól-:
Good to see another Derry head on here. Get the SGS2. Great phone. Root it and stick Cyanogen mod on. I am a heavy user. I get about 6hrs screen time on average. Whatsapp uses next to no battery.

EDIT: I use all the same apps as yourself. My battery holds out for the full day everyday. You'll be grand.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JonM1988:
Seems a far more complicated process than Jailbreaking an iPhone just, and I have a iMac too, can you even root/flash on OS X?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xalaras:
could you be more specific in which miui rom you are using?

also what is uc and uv?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -pól-:
It's really not complicated. You just need to read a little bit. Pretty sure you can do it on the Mac with a tool call Heimdel (or something like that). You only need to do it through your computer once and then you can update/switch roms using ClockworkMod recovery in mere minutes. The only time I hook my phone up to the PC is to sync my music or to mess about / pull stuff off it with adb. Totally unnecessary to do any more with it attached to the computer.

I rooted mine the day I got it. Just read this thread and it explains a lot http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1125282
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sxi200:
Miui and Cyanogen are non-samsung based custom roms. Personally I like the Sammy custom ones you can find in the development/original development sections. Checkrom has a great app (kitchenpro) which makes customizing pain-free. From within the app you download the base firmware + any mods etc.

Whichever way you go, I think you'll like it after you get used to it. I also still have a shiny iPhone4 but really don't use it any more. Just too boring, even on 5.0.1 jailbroken.

I also bought 3 spare batteries and a wall box charger off eBay for about £10. They are generic ones from China but they are just about as good a stock. I keep 1 in the car, 1 in the phone and 2 at home. No battery complaint here. Usually 5-6 hours screen time per battery.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doug0365:
I've been a long time apple user and have bought all of the iphones but I was bored of IOS even though I like it along because it just works. I've been trying to find the right Android phone for a while I have the nexus se but after trying every rom I felt the performance of the nexus South subpar but after taking the bite and purchasing the Galaxy S2 all I can say is WOW! Finally a phone that doesn't make me want to jump back to my IP4s. The Camera, screen, performance absolutely rocks! And this Checkrom that I have running makes the phone run like butter. I did consider the galaxy nexus but the subpar camera was something I couldn't live. With specially after having such a great camera on IP4s.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ste1164:
Bit awkward to get a custom recovery/root on a mac. I ran boot camp in windows and then got Odin and used that to flash my phone. Stick with stock for now to see how you like it. Then do a lot of reading about rooting make sure you fully know what you are doing. Then root your phone :). Unrooting for warranty reasons is harder than restoring on an iPhone as there are more steps. And you need a USB jig.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JonM1988:
Ive been doing nothing but reading and watchin review videos an tutorial videos for the past 3 days.

One of the main reasons im buying from a high street shop too is the return policy. If I decide its not for me I can always return it within the 14 days
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gnarfsan:
There are some issues switching over from an iPhone:

- the headset doesn't have a music remote.

- iTunes music images and artist tags etc. will most likely not be recognized by the phone. All my m4a files has unknown artist and generic cover pictures.

- there I'd no lock screen controls for other media players than the stock Samsung players. There are lock screens that offer widget support, but it requires root and there aren't many to choose from.

- there aren't as many subtle transition animations in TouchWiz as in iOS and that makes the phone feel a little jerky, even though it isn't.

Still I don't regret the switch. These points are just things I noticed when I switched over.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamski123:
Flashing a rom can seem daunting at first, but trust, wen u get used to the idea its an absolute breeze.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imlgl:
I would also heavily recommend purchasing a usb jig. This will put the device into download mode if you brick it. Also you can reset the binary counter which goes up every time you flash a new rom. It can also get rid of the yellow triangle when booting the phone.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheSniperFan:
I've used Galnet-MIUI then. But not the "normal" one, it was a modded version, because of the German translation.

Uc= underclocking

Underclocking means that you lower the maximum speed the processor uses. 1 GHz dual core is enough for everything you usually do.

Uv= undervolting

Undervolting means that you lower the voltage the processor gets, when he's running at specific speeds. Undervolting has no effect on the performance whatsoever.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oneill2john:
My Galaxy S2 gives me 2 to 4 days on battery, depends on how heavy I'm using it. But on average I get full 2 days, because what is the point of having a smarthphone and not use all of its capabilities :D

Running CriskeloROM v34 + SpeedMOD v18
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JonM1988:
How many hours a day do you actually 'use' your phone?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] jessezx:
kind like disk clone. any way to do it?

i want to play my hd2 , but want a backup of wp7 that can be restored with one key.

install bttf 7001 & step by step upgrade is unacceptable.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jetbruceli:
Rom size in titanium says about 600? I not sure how the on board memory is split up but i hope it adjusts to a higher size
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] tshoulihane:
I think we'd need NVFLASH to work in order to re-partition. I assume this space is taken twice over to allow for the hidden staging partition
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] adampdx:
How big should it be? I'm not trying to be snarky, I just don't understand. But I will say that I checked the ROM space on my G2X and it is 719MB total as compared to the 543MB total on the Prime.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jetbruceli:
Yeah i have the g2x too and it has 1.2 gb of space but maybe its just how tb sees it
[General Questions and Answers] kherber0s:
Hello Xda! I hope you've all had a wonderful christmas eve and an even better new year! I've joined this site after headhunting and reading numerous posts touching different topics regarding one subject and one subject alone: Samsung Galaxy S2.

Now, on to the issue at hand. After tweaking and modifying my firmware, in hopes of getting Cyanogen 7 to run along with the ICS theme for it and having failed, my Sg2 has never been the same, of one simple reason: I haven't found the exact stock firmware that fits my phone. When I write "fits my phone" I actually don't refer to the fact that they aren't working as they indeed are, but no-one that's up to date.

The problem could've been easily fixed if Samsung Kies actually worked with my Windows 7 64-bit, which it doesn't, and please, don't point me in the direction of other posts such as "untick debugging mode", "reinstall Kies", "install those drivers by searching 'this' and 'that' on Google", because trust me, I've tried everything. It worked for a couple of days, but now as I really need it, and want to get out of the hellhole I call "KE2", it doesn't seem to want to help me, at all. "This device is not supported by Kies".

Now, I've visited another thread here on xda, more or less this one: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075278 and dabbled myself through numerous versions until I finally settled for XWKE2 - Generic NEE and successfully managed it to run on my phone with Odin.

Since my phone is operator locked and I'm paying for it monthly via a Swedish operator known as Telenor I'm not able to update the firmware via About phone -> Software update either.

As I said, Kies isn't able to update my phone to 2.3.5/ KE7 (or whatever version is the newest) and I'm thusly stuck with XWKE2 & 2.33.

The most major problem I have is that I don't know which firmware to download from the topic I provided above, and I'd really like to know which one to actually download in order to have the most up-to-date version.

I'd immensely appreciate any help!

Model number

GT-I9100

Android Version

2.3.3

Baseband version

I9100XXKDJ

Kernel Version

2.6.35.7-I9100XWKE2-CL187606 root@DELL101 #2

Build Number

GINGERBREAD.XWKE2
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bagit13:
I have a defy on GB kernel running 4.5.1_134 full sbf. Its Retail.en.DE.

I was wondering if roms from other motorola phones would work on this build? Also would flashing the recovery on ROM manager for a different phone help with flashing a ROM?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danirodrigz:
The arrow keys on the bottom of my keyboard desappear, how could i out them back?

I read about tap space bar and slide your finger up, but that doesnt worked for me..any more tips?

Thanks
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mengliyuan:
solve

what's the edition of your rom ,there is a flashable zip that can turn it back.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danirodrigz:
I've got the last version of energyrom, android 2.3.5 sense 3.5
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -Alaa-:
Have You Tried Checking The Tweaks? I Think There is 2 mods of keyboard one with arrows and one without
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danirodrigz:
Thats true, its under energy tweaks -> miscellaneous options -> keyboard with arrows.

I thought i did check everything.. :) thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] ZaIINN:
Hey everybody! Have any favorite apps or widgets you love using? Or anything in particular that makes your device that much more useful? Let us know!

I'll be updating this with some of my favorites as well over time!

1.) Zdbox (Very useful app)

2.) N64oid (Paid)

3.) FPSe (PSX Emulator)

4.) Nexus Reloaded theme

5.) Tegrak OC

________________________________________________________

Make sure to say whether or not said apps are Free or Paid!
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] GalaxySwifi4.0:
Go Weather MIUI skin
[Motorola Droid 3] ourtut:
can you guys check out my thread in the marketplace because I really dont want to sell my d3, I just want to fix it. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1432260
[Motorola Droid 3] mikedyk43:
I looked at your other thread and it seems you have a hardware problem with this phone. Unless this phone has a bad ESN, you should be bringing it back for a replacement. Even if you bought this phone off eBay, it would still be covered under the manufacturers warranty, but I suspect you already know this. It sounds more like you are trying to pawn off a broken phone that can't be activated or replaced to a fellow XDAer, that's not cool!
[Motorola Droid 3] ourtut:
No this has been my daily phone for almost 2 months now, clean esn and everything. The only thing that is kinda stopping me is it has not been activated with Verizon and has only been on pageplus.
[Motorola Droid 3] Manic_Dragon:
Who buys a Verizon smartphone to activate on a prepaid network?
[Motorola Droid 3] ourtut:
Well I originally got it off of craigslist for a decent price and I cant afford Verizon directly so I did some research and got it on pageplus. Pageplus actually uses Verizon towers, so I only pay $30 a month for 1,200 Minutes / 3,000 SMS/MMS / 100 MB Data on verizon service (win!), and of the 100mb of data I dont use much because im always on wifi. Also im not locked in a contract for 2 years (another win!).
[Motorola Droid 3] BenSWoodruff:
Good job getting a win on Verizon. I don't care for them much, though I dislike AT&T worse, so when T-Mobile goes, that's where I'll be taking my D3 most likely.

So, as I asked on your other thread, I'll ask here; have you tried hooking your phone up to a PC and tried the fast/easy unbrick method I mentioned? It saved my ass and put my phone back to stock. It's in the D3 dev forum. Might work for you, if it's a software issue. If it really is a hardware issue (other than something which is not covered by warranty, e.g., your fault), you should be able to return it for repair/replacement from the manufacturer. Call their customer service/go to their website to find out more (if you can't fix it via the unbrick method). Then maybe you can sell a working, brand new/refurbished device instead of one which may never work again.

Just a suggestion :-)

Sent while mobile using Tapatalk.
[Motorola Droid 3] ourtut:
I have tried the unbrick method but my computer wont recognize the phone (cant get into fastboot or recovery).
[Motorola Droid 3] mikedyk43:
I apologize for being sceptical of your intentions, there are just a lot of con men out these days trying to take advantage. The warranty I was referring to is Motorola's warranty. You can contact them directly for a replacement as the phone comes with a manufacturer's 1-year warranty. You don't have to have a contract with Verizon for this warranty to be valid. As long as the phone has a clean ESN they have to replace it for hardware malfunctions.
[Motorola Droid 3] ourtut:
Thanks for the info, I didnt know Motorola had a warranty on their phones. Do you think I might run into problems since I was rooted? I will call them at 9am cst (thats when they open lol).
[Motorola Droid 3] Dri94:
you can easily unroot and then they cant tell
[Motorola Droid 3] ourtut:
Not so easy to un root when you cant get into recovery/ fastboot, device wont turn on, pc wont recognize it.
[Motorola Droid 3] Dri94:
Well if they cant get the device on then your fine. Plus i sent my rooted device in and they replaced it without question
[Motorola Droid 3] mikedyk43:
I would get a charged battery just to verify that does not come on. I could just be the charging circuit that isn't working.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] fergione:
Hi all,

Hope you guys can help me.

Two days ago I was digging my rooted device(2.3.5) and had accidentally uninstalled my "settings.apk",... Now I cant change my settings because I've lost my access to settings menu..Also, many functions like widgets, wifi config and sms service seems to be gone.

Can you guys believe I was able to do that?? haha...

I need someone to send me this apk again or..... Since My device is from Brazil and I dont know if there's something diff between verions, I need to reinstall my Android but I couldnt find a tutorial..

Could please try to help me??

Regards,

Fernando
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dco717:
look for the fastboot files for your device in the development section
[Motorola Droid RAZR] pulsarvp:
My razr is also from Brazil, but was bought in Canada. It is not rooted. Can I help you anyway?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] fergione:
Hummmm...Maybe....if you could send me the "settings.apk" I can try to reinstall it... Since your RAZR is from Brazil, I bleieve you'll find it with diff name, "Configurar.apk"

I'd be glad if you try..

Fernando

"fergione @ g m a i l . c o m"
[Motorola Droid RAZR] fergione:
Didnt work. still no access to settings menu. :(

:confused:Hey

A user has sent me the settings.apk, bur it hasnt worked, it finishes the instalation with the msg "Application is not installed"...I believe I'll have to reinstall 2.3.5 (brasilian versionagain... I saw lots of threads talking about it, but since I'm not familiar with this it will be hard to find the right one?

Could you please point me the right thread to follow?? Is there a step by step?

Thanks,

Fernando
[Motorola Droid RAZR] onslaught86:
You don't install system apks, you push them to /system/app, or drop them in there manually with a file explorer that has root access (root explorer, es file explorer, et cetera). User-installed apps live in the /data partition. ;)

Make sure you have the matching settings.odex in /system/app as well.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] MAX6500:
Hummmm.. i hope this will help u
[Motorola Droid RAZR] fergione:
Great...

I'll try that, but I also need the ".odex" as for razr 2.3.5 as well.

MAX6500, could you send me your ".odex" file too??

Thanks
[Motorola Droid RAZR] pty.ltd:
Hi all,

I'm facing similar issues...

I stupidly deleted some system files which I had backed up, the backup however dosent seem to work even after placing it in the system/app folder with the right permissions and ownership.

also I can't seem to find a leaked fastboot file for my system version: 65.1.21.XT910.PSHAsiaRetail.en.03

any ideas?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] fergione:
My RAZR is back...

I've downloaded SBF file and reinstalled using RSD file and now it's fixed...

Moderator can now close this thread.

Tks
[HTC Rezound] AlmosTryin:
Just picked up my rezound today and got the htc bootloader unlocked and did the root through the amonra recovery. So I decided to flash the business gingersense and it went good but now it gets stuck in the boot screen going from the status bar back to the title then back to the status bar and etc over and over. When it does open the phone the only thing I have is the top notification bar with a black screen, screen doesn't respond to anything and none of the buttons work. So I re flashed and still the same thing. Suggestions?
[HTC Rezound] andybones:
Happens to me on any ROM I'm on sometimes.

Try pulling the battery, doing a full wipe of everything, and make sure the download MD5 matches and re-flash the ROM
[HTC Rezound] qudwis:
did you install the rom using Amon ra recovery?
[HTC Rezound] AlmosTryin:
Just tried another rom, MD5 numbers match up, now its getting stuck on the beats audio intro and just keeps replaying it :( My thunderbolt and eris were no hassle this thing is already pissing me off haha....
[HTC Rezound] AlmosTryin:
Yes I flashed through the amonra recovery...
[HTC Rezound] NilsP:
Did you factory reset and try to wipe system, cache and dalvik.

Also, did you download to pc or phone?
[HTC Rezound] AlmosTryin:
Alright got it now, I had to delete the zip file a few times and dl again and flash like 3-4 times but it works now. Not sure what exactly was going wrong but all good now. Thanks!
[HTC Rezound] mjh68:
Definately , need to wipe Data and Cache like Nils suggested. Otherwise , I have installed it without issues.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Radsolutionz:
im looking to buy a galaxy nexus for t-mobile. first off i want to know, about how much should i spend? where is the best deal? how does warranty work? and how well does it work with TMobiles network? Do the cdma cases fit as well? any help will be appreciated thanks!:)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] theonebakery:
Best bet is newegg, they have an unlocked US GSM
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Radsolutionz:
yeah i saw new egg... they have a warranty plan too... is that n e good? what does it cover? do u know?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
I would try negri or expansys. You will have warranty through them. You will NOT have warranty with newegg or amazon. And I also suggest waiting till February and see if the 32GB comes out. 16gb version price will probably go down. You might find a good deal on a slightly used one from somebody unloading to get a 32GB nexus aaaaand, it gsm version might officially be released in the USA and then it will be safer to buy through newegg or amazon. Anyways, buying through newegg or amazon right will only only allow the exchange/return period as your warranty. Not good if you ask me.

My grandma beat me down and took my nexus. Sent from a jitterbug with beats by dre.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zephiK:
All GSM phones come unlocked.

Newegg, Negri, Expansys are all good choices. Can't really go wrong with either three.

I personally bought mines from Negri (look for coupons if any exist and you can get a good % off)

Keep in mind that the white GN and GSM 32GB GN is coming out at the end of February (or so) if you're interested in that.

Pretty much what rbiter said.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neok44:
personally i recommend negri electronics. they're one of the best places to get it. also currently the cheapest. and they honor the years warranty from samsung at no extra cost. they also include a US adapter.

i bought mine from them.

also, keep in mind that the 32GB version is coming in a little over a month, so if you need more than 16, you might want to wait.

https://negrielectronics.com/samsung-i9250-google-galaxy-nexus-black-unlocked.html

oh, and it works great with t-mobile in florida.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zephiK:
Adapter? I ordered mines and didn't come with an adapter. Worked in the wall just fine. I had a yakjuxw build. You might of gotten the UK version so it needed a US adapter, that's probably it.

But regardless, Negri has great customer support + fast shipping. Would buy again, take a look at them. Definitely the cheapest and google around for a coupon (as I mentioned before.. you might save some more!)