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[Galaxy S II General] billcouper81:
So far so good with my SGS2

I am getting decent battery life - not quite as good as my heavily modified SGS1 which was lasting me up to 72 hours average use, or 12 hours solid playing games

The performance is good - quadrant scores prove that - and so far everything is silky smooth

Stable - no spontaneous reboots like some people mention - although, I must admit, I only ran the stock samsung rom as long as it took me to drive home, do some research and download a custom rom :) GO XDA! :)

My only REAL problems with the phone are the actual design of it.

Who had the idea of putting the USB connection at the BOTTOM of the phone? And not even putting a sliding dust cover on it like the SGS1 had? STUPIDITY!

Oh and I can't find any full case/cover thing where it can be charged with the cover closed - because of the stupid placement of the usb port!

Why isn't the headphone jack more to the edge of the phone? I cannot find any full cases that allow me to use the headphones with the case closed up - the magnetic latch part covers most of the headphone jack!

Apart from these basic design flaws - the phone is great!
[Galaxy S II General] naguz:
- No notification LED. Who the hell manages to omit this basic, must-have feature in a smartphone?

- Battery life after ICS update is a JOKE! The phone doesn't enter deep sleep at all with wifi turned on. Completely hopeless/useless.
[Galaxy S II General] Jeegsawk:
I totally disagree with you. Usb port on the bottom is the only reasonable place to allow car recharge

Inviato dal mio GT-I9100 usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] twistedh:
There isn't really anything that bothers me about my S2. I've loved it, and it's one of the best phones I have ever owned. But the poor software updates from samsung regarding ICS have disappointed me and I have now turned my attention to getting a HTC One X when it is available as customers seem very satisfied with the Sense UI and the general stability of the systems.

That is unless Samsung announces the S3 before April 2nd!
[Galaxy S II General] whitelightercarl:
My disappointments:

Camera has pink spot on low light conditions

Time between new camera shots takes a lot of time (don't want to use low quality fast burst app)

Battery life sucks

No FOTA unlike Asus transformer

Support sucks

Samsung does not address bugs immediately

Overheating

No LED notifications

SLOW CHARGING TIME!!!
[Galaxy S II General] M1cha84:
My disappointments of the s2 so far:

- Battery life! Without the 2000mAh Batt my phone didnt even get close to the end of the day :mad:

- Extremely slow charging speed! When I use my phone as a navigator in my car and have it on the loading cable it sometimes still loses charge!!! :mad::mad::mad:
[Galaxy S II General] mr_tris:
Pros: Everything it already does.:D

Cons: It doesn't make my dinner!!:(
[Galaxy S II General] nikzDHD:
Only con for me now I've got a small strip of screen burn under the notification bar, only visible when viewing bright colours such as when on the browser, watching videos or going through the gallery.

Had phone since first batch in May after Phones4u exclusive. Only appeared a couple of days ago doh!

Other than that still going strong. Bar a couple of nasty dents on the bezel after a heavy drop which was my fault for not having a case on whoops!
[Galaxy S II General] Slow N Stupid:
i havent read the whole thread... but i want to point out few things...

are we talking about the SGS2 out of box? or modified to our personal preferences?

there is HUGE difference between out of box and modified to our personal preferences..

i see alot of camera,bln notification, battery and double-click home button complains..

those are quite easy to change/fix O.o...

i dont want to sound like an asshole or anything but when i was handing the money (yea i bought in cash) to the seller for this phone, i knew what i was getting into.. modifying the phone, playing around with it like a toy, break it few times (soft-bricks) and finally settle downs to what i like.. this is the only reason i went for SGS2 not iphone4s....

yea sure SGS2 has better spec and blah blah... but there isnt that many apps/games that currently uses all of SGS2 potential.. so in the end the biggest difference is just OS.....
[Galaxy S II General] Red_Vex:
Im disappointed how samsung is managing release of ics. Buggy versions and fails the goal of 1st quarter release in most country.

Inviato dal mio GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] moemzn:
I've had my S2 for 3 month now, didn't use screen protector and it looks like a bran new screen! no scratch

Battery life, thats not a topic to talk about in smart phones world

The phone overall is great, nothing can compete with SII Imo..
[Galaxy S II General] garylala918:
I have always never been happy about the battery. At one point I used a rom, and it was doing really good, lasting me 1 and a half days on moderate use. However it wasn't updated to ICS, and right now, just can't seem to find the correct rom with good battery life =(
[Galaxy S II General] aceofclubs:
Instead of looking for a Rom to give you good battery you could learn to do it yourself. It's easy really.

To be honest you don't even need to sacrifice functionality to gain great battery life. Or need to be a programmer/script writer.

Root your firmware and do a few simple housekeeping tasks for starters. Freeze unused apps (bloatware) using titanium backup.

Install siyah kernel and apply geks magicconfig using voltage control app.

Using this simple method I get 6hrs+ constant screen on time and days standby on gingerbread. Still working things out on ICS.

It's not hard and all done with apps.
[Galaxy S II General] :
i was about to buy an iphone, but then the S2 came out. guess which one i bought ? :D

S2 really rulez. and with all the customization options... you got to love it !
[Galaxy S II General] batman372:
Hi All, bought this great S2 form 10 days ago >>>

I am coming from iPhone4, BlackBerry 9700 & 9800, newbie to Android :cool:

I am using the stock firmware/rom 2.3.5/JPKG2 - the battery remain 2.5 days for average use ...

Over all loved the S2 so much .... :) & waiting for the S3 :D

Thx.
[Galaxy S II General] androidkid311:
The back button is terrible! But aprt from that im happy! :).
[Galaxy S II General] zebosk:
we have bluetooth, but somebody ever miss FM transmitter? use to travel with some friends in their old car, whenever they ask me "which songs you have in your phone" I really miss this transmitter
[Galaxy S II General] aceofclubs:
Theoreticaly it's possible.

As far as I know the hardware in our phone is capable of transmitting fm just no ones had a crack at writing an app for it??
[Galaxy S II General] MatangaChanga:
Sadly, the problem is not the phone itself but the apps.

I went root and with undervoltage and with an app called autorun manager I can get now up to 2 days of battery life moderate use.

What drains the battery are the apps running in the background and not letting the phone go in to deep sleep.

I advise you root your phone and try what I have done. Rooting is not so hard.

Cheers.
[Galaxy S II General] Mezzi:
My disappointments are:

Can only send text messages to 10 contacts at a time

Cannot view number of contact being conversed with in text messaging threaded view

Phone doesnt alarm when turned off

EXTREMELY poor battery life

Overall built quality in my opinion is questionable so this is the first phone I have in a protective case.

Cannot view sim card contacts without copying them to phone

Poor loudspeaker

Sometimes touchscreen is not responsive eg you have to press an icon twice sometimes for it to be selected and ive seen this happen to others in youtube videos as well.
[Galaxy S II General] Benfran:
Overall i'm very happy with the phone.

The only big problem i had was with the spurious battery and usb charging issue. When the phone thought it was suddenly charging when there was no cable connected to it.

Got fixed when i upgraded to ICS.

Besides that it's by far the best android phone i've had (had HTC Hero and Moto Milestone before).
[Galaxy S II General] pkrstr:
GPS lock is tremendously slow, and the pink dot in the camera makes me quite sad :(
[Galaxy S II General] copponex:
Basically the only disappointment I have is the overheating caused by even browsing on the internet. This really bugs me out.
[Galaxy S II General] aa76:
Overall, I'm very happy with sgs2

But, I do not really like the shutter speed because it's very slow

Hopefully, samsung will improve it in the next model
[Galaxy S II General] patelbhai:
yes some time at camera
[Galaxy S II General] Mezzi:
Dont like how google device search cant include gallery images and videos

Sometimes green tint when camera application is open

Dont like the fact that you cant assign your own tone for text message alarm
[Galaxy S II General] aceofclubs:
Not sure what you mean here. I can assign my own txt msg notification that is different from system. Can do it for gmail too. You do it in message and gmail apps settings.

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[Galaxy S II General] 04muim:
LED notification

Hi,

The one thing i miss the most is the LED notification light, at first i thought it wasnt that big of a deal but something that small can have a big effect. I miss the colourful notifications but BLN does compensate for it i guess
[Galaxy S II General] Holyboy27:
Coming from a HTC,

I miss

1. HTC Sense

2. LED notification light

3. Solid build

4. Dual LED flash - it's less bright but somehow I like it

5. Capacitive buttons! - I thought I'd like the physical button on S2 but..

6. Top Power button - Wasn't really comfortable with side power button

7. Data Toggle from notification bar

I love

1. Screen! - Bright and huge

2. Dual core

3. Light phone

4. Better camera
[Galaxy S II General] franki_667:
For me the screen is my biggest issue. Hopefully the sgsIII with its 720p screen will be an improvement.
[Galaxy S II General] Spade616:
i dont like how the back panel doesnt fit 100% perfectly. theres this tiny tiny creak, like maybe .01mm of space between the upper part of the battery cover and the phone itself.
[Galaxy S II General] Gnarfsan:
I love this phone. But it needs better battery life. Other than that it is by far the best gadget I have had.

Get a fast ROM and kernel, tweak and overclock it and it will bend the fabric of time.
[Galaxy S II General] ars_92:
A better screen, a better camera + a bigger battery. The screen currently is just too low in resolution(everything is so big and jaggy!!). Camera performance indoors is disappointing and one day of battery life is not so nice.(even two days of heavy usage will make me a happy man)
[Galaxy S II General] anirudhshirsat97:
There are lots of pros, but i would like to specify only the cont which I felt needed to be rectified.

1) Notification led

2) Hardware camera key

3) Better build material
[Galaxy S II General] Spade616:
i agree with this. a dedicated cam button would be so helpful. also, i am actually pretty contented with the display resolution.
[Galaxy S II General] norpan111:
I always lol when I scroll past this thread, just get a glimse at th title : "what you think guys!" sorry just had to drop in and say that
[Galaxy S II General] Parkop:
The screen is excellent on gs2, i would just say battery life is the main problem. Yes the build is a bit plasticky but i have a cover anyway so it doesn't bother me too much. I'll soon have the phone a year and it's still so fast and capable, don't feel any need to upgrade at all.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Now S3 buzrrrin around and most people have know the specs of upcoming S3.

Do you people,thinks that Samsung learnt from mistakes?
[Galaxy S II General] virus786:
The pentile screen in the sgs3 is disappointing. Should have made it a true RGBRGB HD display.
[Galaxy S II General] yottaFLOPPS:
Yep

If compared to Iphone V, the only mistake made with Samsung III is its big screen, even bigger than SII. Note that Apple did not increase the size of its upcoming IphoneV. The problem might arise while browsing your device while holding it with one hand, for someone with small hands, it might be icky to use. What d'ya think?
[Galaxy S II General] sohebq:
it,s not that big man, i checked a lot of hands-on reviews, no one complained about the size,, they have shrink the bazel so it won,t look to big

sent from S2
[Galaxy S II General] Emexrulsier:
I upgraded to the S2 from the S1 my pros and cons are mainly based on this transition.

Pros

* Large screen with vibrant colours - Never really noticed how bad the S1 colours were until it was sat side by side.

* Processing power - this is not purely noticed when playing games but just running tasks such as installing applications.

*Network - Now supporting 5Ghz means I am actually getting better download speeds

* Connectivity - Xbox sees the device via usb, didn't used to see the S1

* Camera Quality - Produces some pretty decent shots but it does need some good light (always will be case on crappy phone lenses).

*8 Browser tabs compared to the 4 on S1

*NFC - though not actually used it yet :D

Cons

*Micro SD slow - Never liked how phones position them in places where you have to remove the battery

*Constant browser FC - Not sure if this an inherent firmware fault, or an adobe one.
[Galaxy S II General] yottaFLOPPS:
The SIII will not be easier to carry around or, say, leave it in poket with its bigger size. I guess the next generation will be downsized so that you won't have to hold it with both hands. What about the quad-core processor then, I would be surprised to hear that there's a big diff in performance with the SGII. All in one, the only improvements comes from the increased amount of RAM, 2GB DDR2, and better BT connectivity plus 4G.

EDIT/ not to mention a camcorder not even upgraded to 12mp. For the price it's worth, thoses minor upgrades stand as minimum requirements.
[Galaxy S II General] ccrows:
I don't know about the "function" onlf the SGSIII, but IMO I was disappointed with the "form factor".

Personally I would easily take the "form factor" of the SGSII over the SGSIII. I would probably buy my "2nd SGSII" before purchasing a SGSIII, but that's just me...
[Galaxy S II General] friz:
For now I didn't see reson to upgrade from SII to SIII 4.8inch screen is very big for me and GSIII is a way uglier than the SII. Quad core? for now not necessary.
[Galaxy S II General] yottaFLOPPS:
Not necessary, not available on the U.S market either. I wonder whether the dual-core version sold in the U.S has better benchmark tests results.
[Galaxy S II General] lufc:
These kind of posts make me laugh

How far has the smart phone come in the last 5 years so how can you be disappointed

And i will hold of getting the S III until i know it can be rooted and the rest
[Galaxy S II General] garihc:
battery life is poor and camera also has clearity porblem and wifi problem of scanning connecting and dissconecting frequently,wifi sucks on gingerbread 2.3.6 any body could suggest abt wifi problem
[Galaxy S II General] pockobg:
Mate use a HTC phone and then use your SGSII again, then tell me where is the poor battery life :) The camera is great, only Sony is better for me. Also Wifi is great for me, no problem at all. All in all i am very happy with my SGSII!
[Galaxy S II General] vikas776:
best thing u can do is sell the phone and go for Nokia:eek:
[Galaxy S II General] yottaFLOPPS:
éexist

Now, Samsung and Apple have big tech differences and specs. The Iphone VI has a better over-all look and a smaller screen, but that's just me..... The SGII plastic feel abd aspect makes it look kinda cheap for a 600$ phone....
[Galaxy S II General] Trazzt:
They should've put a 2000 mAh battery in it as stock. The stock battery is a bit short on capacity
[Galaxy S II General] yottaFLOPPS:
Sure, there's an uppgrade available though
[Galaxy S II General] ccrows:
Not a fan of WinMo, and Symbian is out the door...
[Galaxy S II General] ccrows:
On my OG SGS, I have a Samsung 1650Mah battery and its the same physical size as the stock 1500Mah. I wish Samsung would make another phone that uses a 2000Mah battery but the same physical size like the SGSII. That would fix things like the 1650 did on my OG...
[Galaxy S II General] Flash05:
the rest are great. these are cons for me

1.) software update - updates it but half-baked. leave bugs all over

2.) wifi switch on bug

3.) should be 4.0.4

4.) should be vanilla. TW sucks.
[Galaxy S II General] RRhythmzxc:
Hmm impressed with my Gorilla Screen. Drop my SII on rock accidentally for a few time. Nothing happen to my screen but scratches and dent to my phone side. :(

Battery has been a bad boy for quite many time. Sometime it just drain itself damn fast.
[Galaxy S II General] alvin551:
Battery really needs improving..and dont no if anyone else has got the same problem but when i put my phone on charge the charger is really loose in the phone and easily comes out if just picking the phone up?
[Galaxy S II General] alc027:
The battery could stand some improvement, but the quest to improve my battery life is probably more satisfying than having a huge battery. Also the pixel density is too low. I can see the edges of letters. It could stand a higher resolution.
[Galaxy S II General] ccrows:
I'm the opposite. I got the Atrix, and I'm tweaking it to have lower resolution... lol
[Galaxy S II General] ccrows:
I'll be passing on the SGSIII's form factor, root or no root...
[Galaxy S II General] T3rran:
After nearly 5 months of owning GS2 I honestly have to say that it's been a dream come true. Everything I could possibly need in one thin classy device :) To be honest the experience got ten times more enjoyable since I rooted. Haven't regreted it since. The only small downside as other people here mentioned is the battery life. It can be improved using various tweaks, kernels etc etc, but it's not such a big deal since the pros of this smartphone outweigh its cons by a ton.
[Galaxy S II General] sweet_ashu2001:
no disappointments yet...
[Galaxy S II General] kebintiyan:
like a lot of people have mentioned, the battery life sucks
[Galaxy S II General] Lady_Chloe:
The problems I have are more so caused by Android than SGS 2 itself. Battery life is quite good after some tweaking the CPU governor and undervolting. I am also using dark themes in all apps where it is possible as well as the inverted rendering mode in the browser.

Regarding SGS 3, I do not like how huge it is and it just looks ugly to me.
[Galaxy S II General] kosmos2012:
I have this phone since november 2011 and i am very very happy

Reasons:

-my first smartphone

-Android software

-Gorilla glass

-Design i have the white version

-The community here on XDA and on frandroid

Its very good reasons

what do you thinks guys ????

:-)
[Galaxy S II General] randomseasons:
Well, I switched from a Nokia 1110 to Galaxy S2 so you know how happy I felt, just like moving from a tent to a palace :D

I think G2 should have a 2000 battery as default because I know.not.many people are good at tweaking their phones.

Galaxy S3...eww...it looks ugly, true story
[Galaxy S II General] calanizzle:
I love my GS2.

- For the battery issue, just bought some Anker batteries, I'll later post my experience with them.

- Got 1 scratch before using screen protector.

- Girlfriend has an iphone 4s, i've noticed, her phone charges faster than mine:mad:

Simple things, besides this, it's perfect.
[Galaxy S II General] PureLogic:
better out-of-the-box battery and it would be the perfect phone ;)
[Galaxy S II General] falconm11:
When I upgraded from the Galaxy Tab (Original) to the Galaxy S2, I was amazed. I thought the installing apps lag I had on the Galaxy Tab was normal, so when I installed an app and it didn't lag while messaging someone on the Galaxy S2, I was super happy.

The screen is amazing. Except for the fact that newer high resolutions screens are coming out, I would not trade the screen for anything. While the iphone's screen is a bettery resolution, the colour and brightness of the Galaxy S2 screen is truly remarkable.

There have been a few issues that made me a little dissapointed.

The Battery Backing did feel very cheap. I am happy now that it is the way it is as dropping my phone a few times, the battery cover looks the same as it always did.

The camera has caused me a heart ache with its slow focus, and taking of blurry pictures due to touchscreen autofocus (could really have been avoided with a camera button. This was solved by custom rom.)

Getting the black model (when it was the only model out). While I thought it was cool at the time, the white model does look pretty wow.​
[Galaxy S II General] Cryptostasis:
The only disappointing thing is the battery life but I can live with that. Is is an almost perfect smartphone!
[Galaxy S II General] buffhr:
Cons:

Unaccurate gps

Geotaging of pictures seldom works...

not 720p

Pros:

Screen sharpness and colours are amazing even at modest ppi.

Mainly everything is gd to great from this phone for me.
[Galaxy S II General] CarpeDiem_PT:
Not everything is roses (it does have a few thorns)

O.K., android is above and beyond but...

Well, sgs2 doesn't have a very good wi-fi (i felt "ashamed" when i updated my firmware to 4.0.3, certain i would have excellent wi-fi receiver, and an iPhone had connection and mine didn't);

Also, everything is meant for iPhone. So, i would love to have a proper dock by jbl, for instance, but all i can manage is the shaggy triangular dock by Samsung... Looks like "we" are always forgotten...

Alas, 10x for reading.

l8rz
[Galaxy S II General] 8axter:
600ms??? You lucky man!! I get like 1500!! I waste half my life waiting for my phone to unlock! It's faster to ask someone about the time than to check it by myself!!

On my Xperia Arc it was INSTANT!

Also music over A2DP Bluetooth is soooo quiet:(
[Galaxy S II General] rj3005:
My only problem with my SGS-II is that it´s not a SGS-III
[Galaxy S II General] nightcrawlerbr:
I have little problems with my S2, mostly comming from previous experiences with other brands/form factors. I was used to a physical keyboard and notification light, so I miss those, and I'm really clumsy with the onscreen keyboard, it annoys me a little. All in all, no bugs whatsoever, definetly the best phone I ever used.
[Galaxy S II General] ccrows:
Nah, IMO the GSIII is an ugly beast...
[Galaxy S II General] valentinrascu:
very cheep case.good hardware but ugly case....

Inviato dal mio Transformer Prime TF201 con Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II General] King_Rat:
I would say 'plain' looking rather than ugly...

+ it's so wide I'm scared I'll drop it every time it's out of my pocket :eek:

you really need both hands on to be safe ;)

otherwise it's a freaking speed demon ready to rip the eyes out & shiz down the neck of any iPhone it comes across :Hooraah:
[Galaxy S II General] mansellkarl:
The only real problem iv found is that there is no actual hardware key for the camera, as somebody already mentioned, aside from that i have been very happy with my phone, even more so since iv stumbled across these forums and had a tinker about with it and tweaked it.
[Galaxy S II General] syamsoul:
Everyone said like that with s1 when s2 first out. Then, everybody change to s2..
[Galaxy S II General] thunderbald:
adm octorni

There is some for me. First few updates from samsung and also from google and also the screen is too big for me

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Also i got a very annoying issue, when i flash the litening rom from criskelos rom my phone cant connect to mobile data anymore althoug i had turned it on
[Galaxy S II General] AndreiP.:
It's a good phone and only disappointment i have abot his design because he has a cheep case(but the pirce see that ) in the rest i like this phone and i recomand to all of us ;) (and i forgot the battery who stres me but i bought one more and it's ok now :))
[Galaxy S II General] defenderko:
I am not disappointed at all.. Loving it more every day! I was so happy when sgs2 came out I couldn't wait to buy it... Sgs III, I don't like.. I think I will pass sgs3..
[Galaxy S II General] NoNameNPC:
As for me, it dissapoints, that phone battery live <2 days.