yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ScratchSF:
No comparison. The Motorola phones do a much better job than the Samsung phones when it comes to 1. Time to lock signal. 2. Ability to maintain a lock. 3. Low signal performance.

I've compared several Samsung phones and while some are better than others, I have found that other brands works better overall. So in this case the razr wins. Now, if you are taking about sound quality, that's a different story. :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mannyAk47:
i forgot to mention sound quality on the Razr is awesome compared to the Galaxy S 2

so much clearer and louder in my opinion :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] blueis300:
I came from a Samsung Charge because of issues with the Gps. Didnt have a problem with my DX2 so Motorola has my vote so far.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] soudy1994:
what about motorola UI is it better than touchwiz 4?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mannyAk47:
Touchwiz is slightly better , but blur seems to be getting better by the new release builds , needs a bit of work but then thats when themes and dodexed custom roms come in handy

Also Razr has microHDMI and Galaxy S2 dont

also the Razr is splash proof and the back is kevlar the stuff they make bulletproof vests from :D
[Motorola Droid RAZR] onslaught86:
RAZR has GLONASS support, SII does not (Galaxy Note does, though). GLONASS support is a massive advantage in some countries, can see twice as many satellites et cetera.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Saeen:
I guess the camera of S2 is better than RAZR I saw recorded video recording.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Seihaku:
I have a Droid Razr Maxx, the GPS is fantastic - fast lock-on, great accuracy and stayed lock-on.

Use it with Endomondo and with Google Nav regularly.

Probably not a ton of comparisons for the GPS modules on the two since both the S II and Razr have GPS modules that lock on quickly and tend to work well.

My buddy has the LG G2X, lock-on on that thing is ridiculous (upwards of 5 minutes, he uses the GPS toolbox though which speeds it up (to about 1 minute on first use then instant after that)).
[Motorola Droid RAZR] alpha beta gaga:
how does the audio quality compare between the 2? i'm only really interested in audio quality via headphones. i know it is subjective and more to do with quality of headphones used but all opinions here are gladly welcome :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] occupational_hazard:
I found this article last night and really cannot find anything else about it. Don't know what truth it holds but curious if anyone else could chime in for those of us who do not care to root at this moment.

http://www.gmachine.net/tag/galaxy-s-ii/
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] cdshepherd:
Very interesting. First I have heard of it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Tarkatronic:
True story. I just downloaded and am installing it now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] cdshepherd:
Cool. Let us know what you think
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] occupational_hazard:
Any noticeable changes made?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] delucad1:
I got the notification earlier today, it downloaded the entire thing, rebooted, starting installing then went back to lock screen saying install failed. Now when I try to check for updates it says I have to wait 23 hours to check again :( epic fail lol...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] eagercrow:
Look in the cache partition and try reinstalling.

For those of you who have it, can you upload and post it somewhere?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Tarkatronic:
I got a very similar result. It downloaded, rebooted and then said "Install Interrupted." Now I can't even choose the "Continue update" option and my phone is still reporting:

Android: v2.3.5

Baseband: I727UCKJ2

Kernel: 2.6.35.11
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] delucad1:
That is exactly what happened to me, wondering if anyone has successfully installed this yet

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I assume you'd have to be rooted to do that and unfortunately this is a corporate device which is airwatched (so not an option :[ ). I'll be patient and hope that this works tomorrow when I check again
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 00mred00:
Oooo...looks like there is a fix in there for the battery meter sticking
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] cdshepherd:
Go to about phone. Date and time. Uncheck use network values. Change the date to tomorrow go back and try to check for update again
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] kornklown69:
kinda wanna go to stock and see what it's like
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] delucad1:
Haha brilliant... it's downloading right now

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Failed again... not sure what is going on
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] cdshepherd:
Are you pure stock?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] eagercrow:
Am I retarded (don't answer that! lol) How do I force the update? I'm not seeing the "check for updates" in settings anywhere.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] delucad1:
Yes, complete stock haven't rooted or done any customization to the device
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] c_spencer:
tried to download it 3 time now and still get interrupted install on completely stock phone
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] delucad1:
Settings --> Software Update --> Check for updates
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] eagercrow:
hmmm. Im on the qikqiz rom and that is missing. I'll go back to stock and see what happens.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] njbballjerzy5:
My phone is rooted and I've tried to update this at least 5 times. the update process goes to 75% and then says Update Failed. When the phone reboots its says the update was interrupted.

Anyone else having this same problem??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bacheezy:
Anyone else get the weird T-Mobile APN after update?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] cdshepherd:
Mine just has the regular PTA apn from att. That's very strange
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] drizzit03:
I had the issue yesterday as well where it would stop installing after 75%. I tried to look for the update today and it is no longer available. It says my phone is up to date. I tried the factory reset, same result. No update available. Did they pull the update?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jjbottone:
They must have pulled the update same thing is happening to me now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NativeTxn:
I just tried checking for the update as well, and it said my current software is up to date.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] akhnatenor:
In my case I think the problem was that I had removed the AT&T bloatware (as much as you can on a nonrooted phone). The factory reset restored all that. Two other conditions that I had in place, but seem unimportant are 1) SD card removed and 2) plugged into external power

Akh
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] gupter:
**Thread Summary**

A. If you are running a stock setup (Unrooted, stock ROM, stock Recover) and your update fails (usually can't install the update past 75%):

1. Turn off phone

2. HOLD vol up and Vol Down buttons and press the power button.

3. The Recovery mode (e3 recovery) will open, use the vol down key to select "Clear Cache," When that option is selected use the home key to rest cache.

4. Reboot the phone normally.

5. goto menu/settings/Sofware Update and continue normally. . .

6. If your phone tells you you must wait XX hours to check for an update or if it says your phone is up to date then goto menus/settings/applications/manage applications/All (tab). Find "Device management" in the list and select it, press the clar data button. Now you can check for an update immediately.

B. If you are rooted but running stock ROM and stock Recovery.

1. Follow the steps above as if you did not have root. You do not lose root with this update.

C. If you are rooted and your recovery is something other than the stock (e3 recovery). Most people in this situation will have cwm (Clockwork MOD) recovery.

1. Visit this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1509978.

2. Currently baseband doesnt stick with the flash to get the update UCLA3 modem (baseband) software.

3. Some are flashing recovery and custom ROM back to stock to update the baseband software.

D. You successfully updated to 2.3.6 but now you want to know if you can root

1.Copperhed's method for 2.3.6 seems to work http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1340526

Included in the update:

(Some of this info came from here: http://www.gmachine.net/tag/galaxy-s-ii/)

Removed Carrier IQ (YAY)

Improved performance from several Qualcomm patches and other refinements

New screen unlock swipe

The ability to ‘reply all’ in MMS messages

Exchange ActiveSync wipe to remove all content from the device and microSD card

Improved battery indicator icon accuracy (I hope this means fixing those with battery meter getting stuck at 100%)

Fixed Bluetooth problems

Removed Nexus live wallpaper (you can get a better one in the market)

Removed Microbes wallpaper (can be installed from apk in second post on this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1079287)

Changed the phone Icon

Change in baseband software
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] DoctorQMM:
Agree.... I flashed 3e Recovery and the UCKJ2 radio... still failed (but kept stock 2.3.6). Now it's not available (software up to date message). Hoping someone can create a rooted UCLA3 zip and twopumpchump can create a UCLA3 radio zip for the community.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] lyndone58:
Is this safe to do? Will I lose other settings in my phone?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jnewell05:
double post
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Longcat14:
Guys, clear your device management in manage apps, that should let the OTA reappear, I haven't seen any articles of AT&T pulling the OTA, since it worked fine.

Thankfully, I've got the modem running now, so I'll just dump it when I get home, so people can use it.

This new modem is great though, it holds LTE much much much better, faster speeds, lower pings, and hardly uses any battery, I've been connected to LTE for 2 hours browsing the web and streaming pandora, and it's only like 10% battery lost, which is REALLY good for LTE.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jnewell05:
Nothing to worry about. You will not loose anything from your phone. You are only clearing data on that one app not the whole phone. I've done it 15 times at least.

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Phone tells me 4 or 5 times now that Current software is up to date. Where as Last night it allowed me to download several times. Still android version 2.3.5. Failed at 75%. I'm thinking it was pulled. But someone i'm sure has it somewhere.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] lyndone58:
Looks like the update is gone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rjohnstone:
Yep... appears they pulled it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ItsDon:
Yup, it's gone. Anyone have a copy of it you'd be willing to share?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Longcat14:
Someone posted the OTA in a thread here, but no modem.

Thankfully, I've got the modem running now. ^^

Gotta resist the temptation to flash something, in fear of losing the modem.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Gr8Danes:
And broke wallpaper scrolling. ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Nakel:
Yes it did. :( Also, the "calls" widget is gone. (Showed missed calls and accessed the dialer.)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] LoSt180:
I did that too, flashed stock recovery only for update to fail at 25%, then realized I was rocking the KK1 radio. Changed radio back, update completed successfully. Re-rooted, then went about freezing the bloat.

Too new here, so can't post in development section, but I'm willing to help dump radio if needed so we can update the radio thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1384865
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Budge:
So should we assume that AT&T has pulled the OTA update to fix any issues and will bring it back? It seems strange that they pulled it after just one day. Maybe they hit their data cap. :rolleyes:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] gupter:
Humm, what was wallpaper scrolling? (guess i never used it)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] freeman9911:
I just loaded the stock ROM and tried to update it said no updates!! I advanced the date 1 day ahead and tried again..it went through checking then came back with no updates available!!

Was it pulled out or am I missing something here?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] notacyborg:
I am getting the same problem. I thought I would be clever and revert to the stock ROM and try to get it and it keeps telling me that no update is available just as it is with you. Was working earlier in the morning. I only went to stock because mine would halt at 25% and reboot. I think they didn't plan this update through all the way.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Gr8Danes:
Where the wallpaper moved when you Swyped side to side on your home launcher.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deadman_raziel:
I had the same issue. I just kept kicking the date forward and redownloading the update while on WiFi. IT was giving issues over 4G/LTE so I went to wifi and it fixed the issue. I would download the entire thing, but then fail at the 75% preparing screen.

This is NOT ICS, but just a functionality update for issues that were inherent on the previous build of Gingerbread. It's more fluid and more reliable since updating. Not nearly the force closes. HOWEVER, you will have to refreeze/uninstall the bloat ware that is removable because it gets put right back.

I'm not rooted, yet so it's a stock phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] freeman9911:
Same for me since last night been trying and this morning too. It goes and download the update but reboots into CWM and stops there. I couldn't disable or remove CWM, so after many hours of trying decided to odin the stock ROM and now it say's NO UPDATE!!! :mad:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Scythe024:
phone went to look for a update today on its own when I already rang up the timer 120hrs lol. So wondering if att is checking to see how many people actually got the update
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Lucidmike:
It is a bit too early to call, but I felt like when I did wifi tethering, the phone got less hot. That usually means better battery life when wifi tethering.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] notacyborg:
You could have reverted to the stock recovery if you still have CWM on. More details here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1360943

I did that, however it didn't work for me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] freeman9911:
Thank you! Wish I had that information last night or this morning! I've been looking for that, I even stupidly was trying the one for the infuse!!

I was trying to get this to work just to make sure when ICS update is released I would be able to install it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] DoctorQMM:
It appears you need to be on stock 3e recovery..... KJ2 radio (modem).... and 2.3.5 stock rom to successfully get UCLA3 OTA installed. I flashed 3e stock recovery and KJ2 radio but left my rom 2.3.6 and it failed to OTA update.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Lucidmike:
Changed Memo Icon...probably the most insignificant update. Not sure why they bothered. Liked the older one better.

The auto brightness...is actually tolerable. It used to be always too dim. Now seems just right 95% of the time.

Also, is Wi-Fi Direct a new feature? I don't remember ever seeing it there. I know Galaxy Nexus was the first one to have this feature. So that probably means this is a new feature after the update. Please correct me if I'm wrong though. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] notacyborg:
I was originally on KK1 when this all started, but it failed for me. Then I checked the other thread in the forum that stated you needed to be on KJ2. My phone is currently 2.3.5 with KJ2 non-rooted and it reports "up to date" every. single. time. So the instructions in the other thread are either incorrect or there's something else going on.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] DoctorQMM:
I can't get update today either... I'm going to flash CWM back on phone, leave the KJ2 radio... and wait for someone to package up the UCLA3 radio and rooted rom in a zip for us.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deandec:
What's the deal with this update?

On my unrooted Skyrocket I tried this most updated 3 times and it died at 75%. My wife inadvertently let it go and her phone was stuck at the 0% update screen. I couldn't get to the CWM screen so followed the directions on the sticky in this forum and reloaded the stock ROM and the phone is back to life with no lost data. Guess we'll wait for the ICS updates next time. Many thanks to the forum!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] skrambled:
Someone in the other thread on this reported that the update was pulled. Can anyone confirm this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] LR07:
yea. just tried to update. Not found no more
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] niezek:
Same here maybe they will push the update again after some debugging.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Lucidmike:
I'm pretty sure Samsung gets a message every time the update is "failed", interrupted, or successful. That's what you see happening when you boot back up after an attempted update.

Seeing as they are seeing success around 10% (just a number I made up in my head after reading through this entire thread), and they concluded it is not just the rooted users, it doesn't surprise me at all that this abomination of an update has been pulled.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tomtommy306:
The update has been pulled for now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] clocke:
Anyone know if the update helped the bluetooth bitpool, aka rock music via bluetooth doesn't sound like sh*t?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hotbyz168:
My whole process took about an hour... I had to odin back to 2.3.5 un rooted, did the ota update at about 2am est, re rooted using the method with cwm and superuser.zip, and finally was ready to go. Glad I got it done before they pulled it like some are saying.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Lucidmike:
Same here. After 7 failed attempts trying everything recommended here except going back to stock, I finally bit the bullet and went back to a stock rom. Updated. Rooted. Took about an hour. Spent 5 hours, debloating, installing apps, configuring everything the way I had it. Was a total hassle, but I'm glad I went through the trouble before it was pulled.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] akhnatenor:
Clocke,

Do you have any particular rock music in mind? I can test that fairly easily. What should I listen for?

Akh
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Longcat14:
The fact that they put something out means they are still committed to this phone.

Sent from my Rocket that is in the Sky!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] eagercrow:
It may be pulled but it's still accessible from the servers directly:

https://xdm.wireless.att.com/agents/10849/1488/samsung-delta-I727UCKJ2-to-LA3

I just don't know how to force it to install or extract anything from that download.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Longcat14:
I have no idea how in the hell you found that, but I'll try to figure out how to extract it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sporadic:
There is xdm.wireless.att.com/agents/10849/1488/samsung-delta-I727UCKK1-to-LA3 (won't let me link since i don't have enough posts) as well which I assume was suppose to be the UCKK1 version. Any idea of its possible to drop this somewhere and fake DM into thinking it's ready to install / generat the fota stuff needed? First time messing around with DM and don't know much about it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Longcat14:
Right now, I just want to figure out how to dump the modem from my phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ADMPell:
I can confirm that they did NOT raise the bitpool. Rock music still sounds like crap.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tomtommy306:
+1

I just want the modem to flash...

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I just PMd twopumpchump again for instructions to dump the modem.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jamesd86:
I don't know if this will work with our devices but seeing how ours and the Note are very similiar inside..Da_G posted up instructions over in the Note forums.

HERE

For those lazy people, here's the instructions to pull the radio:

adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13 of=/sdcard/amss.bin
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17 of=/sdcard/mdm.bin
adb pull /sdcard/amss.bin
adb pull /sdcard/mdm.bin

Here's how to put the resulting files on the phone

adb push mdm.bin /tmp/amss.bin
adb push amss.bin /tmp/mdm.bin
adb shell dd if=/tmp/amss.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13
adb shell dd if=/tmp/mdm.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17

I got these from the thread linked up there, go there and hit Thanks on Da_G for posting this, all I did was copy paste.

Disclaimer: I have no idea if this will work for our phones :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] eagercrow:
When I was playing around last night I saw that the link you posted actually changed to the one I posted. So there didn't seem to be different versions. I tried a bunch of different combos and most gave a 404 error, but the kk1 and the one I posted both downloaded the same file.

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I watched the log as the update was downloading and got that from part of it. I was hoping to see where the file was being stored but I was unable to figure out or see any commands that gave it away.

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I'll try this later if someone hasn't already.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] pingfl00d:
You can make a cwm flashable zip by taking one of the other modem zips and change the files in it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] silver03wrx:
can someone who is currently runing the update .please do this and send the 2 files to me so i can make an odin flashable and a cwm flashable

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adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13 of=/sdcard/amss.bin adb shell dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17 of=/sdcard/mdm.bin adb pull /sdcard/amss.bin adb pull /sdcard/mdm.bin
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] pingfl00d:
Or silver will do it lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] silver03wrx:
if someone can. please put there phone in usb debug...connect to pc....open cmd prompt.......navigate to the directory with adb... and run those commands..... then send them to me. il make odin and cwm flashable ( make surebyou do adb shell hit enter then su hit enter first)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Numpangx:
Sorry guys I tried updating using cdshepherd's .zip but the baseband didn't stick. I still have i727uckj2 baseband =/
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Nakel:
I'm running the update; I'll do this if you can give me step by step instructions on what you need done. most of what you wrote was in Greek... :o
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] silver03wrx:
Done. Thanks to superfire71.....its being tested
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Numpangx:
Goood I thought you guys went to sleep or something lol.