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[Galaxy S II General] Pavol.Slovakia:
Hi everyone!

I think sgs2 is one of the best phones for someone who uses all its capabilities. As for the battery life - I bought a japanese 2450 mAh battery which fits with the original back lid and the phone lasts significantly longer. You can find it on e-bay (called Golden battery). There are some minor weaknesses as you mentioned. For me the worst is the loudspeaker. I run with gps software and honestly, I can not hear a damn thing when the phone is in a case on my arm. (To hear speed, distance etc.) Mechanically I think it is quite good. HTC is better, but much heavier. The best speakers Sony-Ericssons...

(my first post, yeay!)
[Galaxy S II General] elmo198:
con:

* good looking

* slim

* light

* beautiful display

* android (so is moddable firmware wise)

* nice CPU speed for a phone

bad:

* shockingly bad built in DSP chip. (music comes out just rubbish compare to my ipod. and no is not the earphone I use. I use a pair of sennheiser flagship IE8 earphones. maybe thats why, those earphone are so sensity to bad music it picks every noise.. I dont know.)

* short battery life.

* camera isnt all that good, (but I expect that from a phone)

* the mini USB port. (feel like I will break mine soon from all the flashing and unpluging of the cable.. need something larger, chunky like iphones port. big and yet look small and feel solid)
[Galaxy S II General] saywhatt:
"Con"? I think you meant Pro's :P

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Seriously man? 2450mAh and it still fits the original back cover?!:eek: how much is it?

Edit: do you mind taking a picture of the battery with the original 1650?
[Galaxy S II General] drraptor:
Battery life. Screen as it ages.

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[Galaxy S II General] mcpdigital:
I really like it, for the same reasons as everybody. Screen, speed, light

The things that annoyed me during the 7 months of daily use:

- So thin and kind of flexible that I was forced to put a small piece of paper under the battery to avoid unwanted reboots from bad contact.

- Handle is not good for medium to small hands. Almost impossible to use it with one hand only. Its not G2 fault, its the size of the screen.

- Camera focus not reliable

Now I'm with Supernexus JB and its running much better than ICS. The old ICS is installed on the secondary ROM and feels so slow now.
[Galaxy S II General] elmig:
So much power and potential and not fully use it because it's not fully supported. And I mean not being able to run any version of Android with full hardware support or use the source of any Linux kernel.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Not happy even with CM 10 Rom??
[Galaxy S II General] bobdoblo:
Can be hard to handle, easy to slip out of hand!
[Galaxy S II General] iAnoop:
Except Battery and little slippery body..

It's a Boss of all Badass ,

that is why even after 1.4 years of launch people are going for it. :cowboy:
[Galaxy S II General] chris2busy:
u obviously never used one have u?my sister that now has the 4s right next to me is sitting on 8 hours usage time and 22% batt left...
[Galaxy S II General] GaboWinter:
I've had mine for over 6 months, it's a great phone but in my opinion, too much plastic. The idea of physical home button don't like me so much and the battery could be better, yes i know there are several options for this but i talk about what comes in stock.

In the other side the screen is awesome, the software update (the developers do a very great work) the weight and speed are great too. :)
[Galaxy S II General] Krauxe:
Excellent phone. Grabbed it 6 months ago and never looked back. :)

Battery life is fair enough for my use but could be better. :p
[Galaxy S II General] nghockcheng:
Hi, I also posted the experience in another topic. I just switch to SGS2 from HD2 running Hyperdroid since last week. Currently running Hyperdroid on SGS2 too. One of the annoying thing about SGS2 is the wake up lag of the screen. I have went thru the forum discussing this issue and it seems most people have this lag and there is no solution for it. On my phone it feel as bad as the early HD2 Nand ROM without the wake up lag solution. I hope that with ICS this issue can be solved.
[Galaxy S II General] King Shady:
My GSII is perfect in about every aspect possible except build quality. Hate the plastic build quality.
[Galaxy S II General] manmikey:
No complaints whatsoever ever, my gs2 is totaly stock and it is still an awesome smart phone after 10months, any frustrations I have are due to poor network performance when you need it, such as downloading mapping or direction info when you are in a rural area but that's not the phones fault. I carry a spare battery but have never had to use it.

Oh I just thought of one thing....built in notification reminders please
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
With Ics leaks don't you feel the call receiving option really wired??
[Galaxy S II General] Virtualsk:
- I am disappointed, when I have SGS II with Samsung ICS on it. It does not look like ICS at all. :(

- I am also disappointed with Screen Resolution Samsung used for SGS II. at least they should have complete with Iphone 4S on that department with same resolution. Mali GPU is capable of higher resolution.
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
Mali is capable, but what about the display unit? Its not capable. Every OEM will change the ics to their own design. Just saw a video of HTC ics rom, people are complaining the same that it doesn't looks like ics but looks like sense. That's the sad part of android, either we have to get on with it or should go for nexus.
[Galaxy S II General] brainFonsi:
I've been using my SII now since 7 months. I never used TouchWiz, instead I've been using Launcher Pro Plus and since last month Go Launcher Ex.

What I don't like:

- The position of the speaker on the back. When listening to music, the device is lying on the speaker :mad:

- The range of the wireless lan could be better ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Fatal4u:
Perfect phone, everything is fine except the camera with SAMSUNG(not SONY) sensor, in my case, so pink spot and low fps in videos(mostly in low light situations),

and also in the beginning, when I get the phone, with that first firmwares battery was bad, but now with XWLA4 and Phenomenal Extreme, it's OK! =)

But if I had a chance I will change my phone to Galaxy Note...
[Galaxy S II General] B3311:
Depends on your kernel.

Nimphetamine charged insanely quickly. I could go from 0% to fully charged in approximately 80 minutes.

Haven't found another kernel that approaches that speed since, sadly.
[Galaxy S II General] Kaze105:
iphone would charge faster since its got a smaller battery. iphone 4s has a 1432mah battery compared to some people with 1650mah (mine came with 1850mah)
[Galaxy S II General] AloneOnTheDark:
Cons:

- pink spot

- low grip (it slips very easy)

Pros:

- fast

- nice design

- lightweight
[Galaxy S II General] jimakos29:
well you seem a little outdated regarding your info. Razr maxx with its in built-in 3k+ mah battery lasts a lot longer than that. And iphone 4s does have that range of usage (9hours). I own one. I also have an o3d which more or less has same battery life as s2 i.e last through a day or so. Android dual cores can only last so much with this kind of batteries (1.5-1.8 mah). which is pretty decent if you consider that less than a year ago it is what you would get out of a single core phone with the same battery.
[Galaxy S II General] d10brp:
Having come from an Atrix I would only up the screen resolution.
[Galaxy S II General] kabecilhas:
You don't never have a LG Optimus 2X in your hands!

It's the worst phone I buy, and the Tegra 2, is dead!

The Nvidia do not doing the updates to Tegra, they don't really care...

Stay happy with your Exynos and Galaxy S2!

TEGRA is a Chipset not a GPU!
[Galaxy S II General] melorib:
We can set the delay on CyanogenMod, both 7 and 9... :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
I think Cyanogen Mod has its own problems and issues!! we are here discussing what samsung gave us (stock) with SII:)
[Galaxy S II General] Amritttt:
Loud speaker and in call volume its bit low
[Galaxy S II General] Idan73:
You do realize that sgs2 came out 6+, months before and you want it to compete with 4S. Dude it competed so well that 4S did not dare and was not ready to be released in their traditional summer time slot.
[Galaxy S II General] luminus:
In general the software of Samsung! they can't get it right. What did they achieve in software updates in the past 9 months? from 2.3.4 to 2.3.5.

Still full of bugs, lags on unlocking, the OS battery bug, lots of bloatware, etc. Nothing solved.

The update to ICS doesn't look promising either, a mix from GB ,ICS and touchwiz.

Thats not how it should look from a company that sells most android devices.

The hardware of the SGS II is great and i'm happy about it.

Codeworkx doesn't seem to be positive either how the software team at Samsung develop. They have a long way to go before they reach a level of how it should be.

Only for that reason i might consider going to that company in Cupertino ( from android to iphone and back to android), we will see what the next coming months bring.
[Galaxy S II General] :
Get a Nexus phone. That way you will get to avoid all the above problems you have stated. And i am actually really considering buying as my next phone the new nexus when it comes out later this year as Codeworkx really recommends it. Pure Google no problems at all and from development side that is the phone to have..So like you say..Few interesting months..Either i stick till say after summer for the new nexus to come out or either wait for reviews regarding S3 and new iphone
[Galaxy S II General] Idan73:
@luminus i respectfully disagree with all of your points.
[Galaxy S II General] 2oo2:
I had two problems with my S2.

1. When laid on a table the camera lens touches

2. Battery life

Both a solved. The 2000 mah battery make sure that the lens doesn't touch the table and improves the battery life. I also installed JuiceDefender, which for you who doesn't know what it is, basicly turns wifi and data off when phone's locked and only reconnect to update when you unlock the phone and as often as you've chosen.
[Galaxy S II General] RorixRebel:
ok so im coming from a SGS1 which i loved and had fully optimized/modified with lot of stuff, sold it and moved on to a SGS2 and to be honest its beyond what i expected, it does everything except breakfast really.My only concern is the battery which doesnt last long but im trying to fix it with apps/tweaks.

About the plastic materials i believe it may feel cheap but hell its a little bit harder to break imho

any tip on tweaking the battery performance is appreciated

Regards
[Galaxy S II General] imlgl:
All I wished for is for all of them to have the NFC not select models. Would be useful for quick purchases when I grab my lunch from the store instead of getting my wallet out and my debit card.
[Galaxy S II General] Rayvenlee:
I just stick with the battery problem, 10hrs is not enough for me...
[Galaxy S II General] rudolf895:
Buy some extended battery dude, many are happy with them.
[Galaxy S II General] Virtualsk:
Thogh i camr afterwards ... It has high resolution n awesome camera. :p

Not that i like iphone but fact is fact.

Came from S2 with ICS via Tapatalk.
[Galaxy S II General] milan188:
Sound quality of videos is terrible really disappointed about that
[Galaxy S II General] drigz08:
Found the perfect device!
[Galaxy S II General] Timo D:
Now I have found a workaround for the streaming-quality of bluetooth-audio on android-hilfe.de. Now bluetooth in my car is great

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9100 mit Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] tameracingdriver:
My main disappointment is probably its music playback. Not quite loud enough in all scenarios, not particularly impressive sound quality, no gapless playback of MP3s in stock player, and when Android kills the Music player process because it hasn't been used in a while, it loses where it was playing so you can't carry on where you left off.
[Galaxy S II General] Cruze712:
I am very aware that you cannot find a perfect device and never will, after making this statement, I personally think that my Galaxy Sll is quite satisfactory to my needs
[Galaxy S II General] rubiks01:
It's a good phone but the sound in call is not very good compare to my older Samsung jet s8000
[Galaxy S II General] digitallysick:
I complain about it all the time

The screen quality isnt that good , compared to the iphone4 it often has lines in it or a faded spot

The signal is bad, or low compared to other iphones in the same apartment

Sound quality is bad, speaker is weak , volume is low

Vibrate isnt enough to even feel it at all compared to other phones

No dedicated camera button
[Galaxy S II General] m2smoe:
I've had my phone break 48h with 5h screen on time, and moderate/heavy use.

This beats the iphone 4 anytime.

Fact is, if you optimize the phone properly, if you're not afraid of flashing and trying things out for yourself, any of the issues mentioned in this topic can be completely fixed and/or customized exactly the way you want them.
[Galaxy S II General] Angel.CT:
Well... what I don't like is:

- Touchwiz

- Caller id picture size and layout

- No unlock direct links to applications (like jkay has)

- More customization (like MIUI has)

- Battery life is too short

Of course all of it is solved via custom ROMs :)
[Galaxy S II General] Xroom01:
I like it much
[Galaxy S II General] :
The only disappointment I've had, lately, is the locked down nature of the phone. The HW is phenomenal, the phone itself is a beast, but I'm buying a GN so EVERYTHING is open source and CM9, AOSP roms, etc... are able to be fully functional without waiting on Samsung, or any other manufacturer, to release source. If I was fine running a Samsung based ROM I'd likely still be entirely pleased with my phone for a long time.

Edit: Prophetic words, I now have GN.
[Galaxy S II General] pants_marshall:
coming from a symbian satio to this phone then i'd say the S2 is as good as you can nearly get.

compared to the S2 the satio feels like the brick of a phone it is.
[Galaxy S II General] kibolues:
The SGSII is the better smartphone.

Realy the best.

Enviado desde mi GT-I9100 usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] KS_Ho:
Nope, everything is working just as good as it should be =) Battery life could be better, but with a few tweaks from these developers, all problems have been solved =D
[Galaxy S II General] Princeomi:
You may have started this thread to crib about what Sammy has not provided, but the fact remains that they have not locked the bootloader. Now we can customize what we don't like. I am on Gingernod 0.8, Siyah 2.6.7 & enjoying every moment of the beast. My screen usage is 5 hours. I always charge it every second day and I have a spare battery, just in case. Will get a Note, not now but its second edition.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] chinadude:
Yeah... right now the lack of support in 2 cores..

probably will be fixed in ICS but still....

and another thing.. there to many rooms to choose from XD
[Galaxy S II General] rustyguy:
Okay well gorilla glass isn't supposed to be indestructible, just means I'd you dropped your phone face down there's a better chance you'll be able to pick it up and just walk away. Its saved my ass a few times.

lock screen has so many options including just using the power button to wake with no lock screen.

My main gripes are battery life is less than I expected, but that's more an in general statement of moving to my first smart phone.

Camera focus sucks bad. Buddies beat up blackberry with a 2mpx camera takes more legible photos of documents or the classroom board and he doesn't even have to focus before shooting. Not always noticeable, but its bad.

BLN function should be stock.

That's all, sgs2 is awesome. Android on the other hand seems to be a tradeoff to ios with neither being better.
[Galaxy S II General] LegendZenify:
I'm disappointed in all the issues inherent on the phone.

Camera pink spot, yellowish tint, etc. though I've learnt to live with the problems since they don't bother me much anyways.
[Galaxy S II General] chargen2:
Love it, love it, love it.

Would really like a notification LED, but it's not a deal breaker by any stretch.
[Galaxy S II General] Toss3:
The SGS2 was pretty much perfect when it made its debut. In 2012 however I expect better performance, better battery life and a high resolution bezel-less display, which I think the SGS3 is going to deliver.
[Galaxy S II General] kazunorikobo:
The International version has 800x480 screen...not the best.

And I really miss the dedicated camera key.But is a great phone, one of the best I've seen last year.

I just don't know why I have only 837Mb of RAM usable.Is that normal?
[Galaxy S II General] olaf63:
Miss notification led and reception of my previous motorola phones.
[Galaxy S II General] vishpoison:
Only thing i dont like about my S2 is the lack of a good GPU.. phone heats up if i try to play high end games and also more the device heats up.. lesser the performance..
[Galaxy S II General] gyagapen:
Actually, I think that the GPU is very powerful, the phone is just very slim so you feel the heat
[Galaxy S II General] King Shady:
The GSII has the second best mobile GPU (iPhone 4S has the best). It overheats because of its thinness
[Galaxy S II General] vishpoison:
guys technically i understand that it is one of the best.. but honestly it did not give me a gud performance.. heavy games like those from gameloft often gave a buggy performance.. any problem with my device then or with the game ??
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
mali 400 cand handle even forced 16x anti aliasing for games.gpu alone is not the major factor for a game lag, it could be due to the poor combination of scheduler used , heavy background process etc
[Galaxy S II General] Kailkti:
What Gameloft games are you playing? O.o

Only one that has lagged on me is mc3, and that's only on the vechile and helicopter missions.

$1 gets you a reply
[Galaxy S II General] Wadelo:
My one and only gripe is that without a case on it the phone is too slippery in the hand.
[Galaxy S II General] vishpoison:
i tried Gangstar Miami.. Spiderman wrked fine

Other games like splinter cell didnt even start
[Galaxy S II General] Kailkti:
Ah I've never played gangster Miami so Iunno. You could play gta 3 of course but that crashes on gingerbread. Play it on ICS and it's oki.

For splinter cell maybe the one you have isn't compatible with the gpu on the sgs 2. Either try it with Chainfire or get one that's compatible.

$1 gets you a reply
[Galaxy S II General] rscarloss:
After 9 months of use the only problem remains the point in the pink camera, it may improve with ICE CREAM.
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
It won't:) its still the same
[Galaxy S II General] Mcjim113:
I Must have been lucky no pink spot in camera and no yellowish tint on the screen. Hope it don't die and i have to get a new one lol. :p
[Galaxy S II General] daxxid:
My cons:

- missing notification LED!!! (I know that BLN exists but notification LED should be a default option)

- pink spot in a camera, low photos quality in dark places

- plastic feel (I prefer metal case even if it is a bit heavier instead of plactic one)

- cheapish key button

- GPS position locating could be faster

- sometimes people cannot hear properly what I am saying

- it could be cheaper:P I spent almost all my month salary for this device. But still it's far better in this matter comparing to iphones.

Despite all above cons I am very happy with my SGS2.
[Galaxy S II General] ChrisTough:
I have Galaxy S2 & Galaxy Note I but I like the screen in my note coz it's HD. but my note is too big so I only use my note for watching movies LOL, samsung should've made the screen of Galaxy S2 HD!
[Galaxy S II General] Atomix86:
The front camera video capture is atrocious, but apart from that this is the single greatest phone I have ever owned, simply brilliant in every way.
[Galaxy S II General] vishpoison:
GPS could have been better.. any one know of any fix for the same ? though i think i did come across a thread which had smthng bout it. will try nd search it again.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
The only real issue I had with the Galaxy S2 was the uneven screen brightness and blotchy black levels.
[Galaxy S II General] benj9:
I second this, but apart of this it's the best phone around (some months ago :D )
[Galaxy S II General] amirhossein94:
Only problem I have is lagging in some games like asphalt6 with 2.3.5 offical rom and stock kernel which is disappointing

Sent from my GALAXY SII
[Galaxy S II General] theangi:
Imho, the things to be changed are:

Audio speaker

Less thin with more battery

Notification LED

Well, 2 of these could be somehow fixed, but the audio should be at least "stereo".

Sent from my Nokia 3310
[Galaxy S II General] dk206:
There's nothing really wrong with the gps. Its like any other phones which has decent gps. Its probably down to user error and where you live etc.

One thing I hate though is the text reflow. Can't even compare to Apple's one just yet, maybe ICS? Landscape mode typing is ridiculous, can't see a bloody thing.

Tried with offixial samsung Galaxy keyboard and the google ime one in the market. But useless for text reflow and writing inside text boxes...
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Most of the people discussing about LED notification!

IMO it is quite helpful feature. Specially in costly Cellphones like SII

I have missed lot many calls lack of this feature.

Any available mod cant take place for perfect Notification.

LED is really needed when u charge your phone, all the time we have to keep eye on phone whether it charged fully or Not..

Let's Hope for this feature may available In upcoming GSIII:)
[Galaxy S II General] chanrocky:
missing notification LED

speaker not loud enough
[Galaxy S II General] Mataro:
The best features for me were the camera and the overall snappy-ness of it out of the box. It was and is "I suppose" a sweet tasty rig for me until I took NOTE of something slightly different. I too look to see what the SG S III will bring to the scene. Quad cores? Bigger better screen and camera? 4000 ma battery and retain acceptable slimness? Lets see what sammy can do
[Galaxy S II General] pjonezki:
sii is great. but i think it needs a notification light and be about .2 inch smaller(i have small hands)
[Galaxy S II General] sanghaviraj:
Superb,only battery sucks,which extended battery to guys are using, suggest one for me, any stable ics rom for day 2 day use,

from raj's s2
[Galaxy S II General] M1ch43lk:
I've never got the Galaxy S2 to work reliably with my cars builtin bluetooth stereo (radiosat) :mad:

It worked a lot better with my old Nokia E52 and HTC desire

That what got me in to the rooting and flashing my phone every other day.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Try spike's pure Pics 6.1, comes with theme. I m using it very smooth stable