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[Galaxy S II General] Ok_Kaleidoscope5109:
Some good points but other points are "trying too hard." Like the fast call response. I'm sure that comes in handy when iOS and Android go Battle WP7 in the Windows Phone challenge and they want to see who can pick up first.

Also this one:

Dear God. Let's not even talk about how BAD Android text input was to begin with. In 2.0/2.1 we didn't have multitouch. You can't even type fast. The spell check and autocorrection was horrendous. Gingerbread finally brought multitouch but the autocorrection was still eh at best.

ICS makes it a LOT better, but I swear the iOS keyboard knows me better. I say this as an iPod Touch and Android owner. There are other keyboards that outdo Android's ICS keyboard if you want a good typer. Smart Keyboard Pro for example is amazing. The ICS keyboard is still stupid in that I'm forced to insert a space after I pick one of their suggestions. Smart Keyboard Pro lets me customize those features and choose when to insert an auto space, etc. If it weren't for all the clunky Android stock keyboards, we wouldn't invest so much time into developing 20 billion keyboards such as Swype, SlideIT, Swiftkey, 8pen, and some other ridiculous input methods.

The iOS keyboard set a standard in terms of soft keyboard input. It took Android 2 years to figure out how to get a decent keyboard out the door, and it still pales in many ways. I'm glad we've improved, but in no way can you say the ICS keyboard is a definitive winner. There's nothing about it that kills the iOS keyboard...yet.
[Galaxy S II General] Missery:
there are more than 10 reasons^^ but in some points the article isn't correct.

Android is much more open and it's open source.

you don't need mac to develop apps.

If you want to develop Android stuff. get the free SDK and start.

With root you can do everything.

Android: Wanna share Apps and stuff? no problem.

IOS: Wanna share Apps? jailbreak^^

tethered jailbreak? Oh my ios crashed. I have to get to my pc to reboot xDD

And IOS isn't faster than Android. If you have a 700$ Android dualcore phone, there'll be no lags.

If you like the ios interface get an iphone if you like android interface get an android device. This is a question of taste.
[Galaxy S II General] aydc:
Sorry but even a latest gen dual core Android phone like SGS2 doesn't feel as fast as an old iPhone 1 did. It's because of the difference in design philosophy. Read more about it:

http://androidandme.com/2011/12/news/android-may-never-be-as-smooth-as-ios-says-ex-googler/

I don't think I'll ever return to iPhones unless they start coming pre-jailbroken, but I miss the smoothness of the UI so much.
[Galaxy S II General] Ok_Kaleidoscope5109:
Agreed, my SGS2 tweaked whether its CM7 or CM9 lags behind my friends' iPhone 4Ses. Granted that's not a dealbreaker to me, but it certainly is something that's annoyed me since Day 1. I don't know about an iPhone 2G, but my iPod Touch 4G isn't that fast once jailbroken. If unjailbroken my iPod Touch 4G definitely looks smoother than my SGS2.

Dual core is nice, and it may mean my apps launch super fast, but it doesn't take a dual core phone to activate the camera quickly (just look at Windows Phones)
[Galaxy S II General] Orginator:
Hmm well I don't really know about what lag you guys are talking, as my sgs2 with the latest cm9 build is just butter smooth.. Even when scrolling thought a 300 message long sms conversation or going thought all the contacts.. same goes for the app drawer or homescreen, so hey what lags?!

But then I don't have an iPhone to compare it directly, it just feels smooth to me..
[Galaxy S II General] norpan111:
Think you might misunderstood that point, it was to fast reply by sms directly to caller instead of just answer or reject
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
So what are you doing here in SGS2 section?

Get an iPhone and jailbreak it
[Galaxy S II General] admartian:
While I may not necessarily agree with all those listed in the article; I think it is extremely incorrect to say that the SGS2 or any other equivalent/better Android phones aren't

AT LEAST

as fast as an iPhone 4S.

I understand an

individual

may incorrectly perceive it to be slower, but it really isn't.

Run MIUI-only or a similar launcher, and you'll see why it "feels" faster..
[Galaxy S II General] LNJ:
You guys are nuts...iOS is not fast. It seems so cause of the transitions which makes it look smooth and your brain perceives it as fast. If you could turn off the transition animation, you can see it see how slow it is.

Android needs to polish its transition animations a bit better or maybe make everything hardware accelerated!
[Galaxy S II General] Markbaja:
Not so much jealous, just they probably had iStuff forever, then jump to android and wish they had stuck with iStuff, so they try and self justify to themselves they infact had made a good choice.

It comes to taste, and what you want from a phone. They will be compared, but at the end of the day, both have there equal amount of pros and cons.

Hey, I also sent this from my Galaxy S2 using Tapatalk..
[Galaxy S II General] jlevy73:
Well said.....
[Galaxy S II General] Bl!GhT:
I have something to add . . . i have used both phones and playing a 1080p movie which is the size of 9GB is damn slow on the iphone 4s compared to playing it smoothly on the galaxy s2.

BTW the movie is Dark Knight.

I like the ICS.

But i am not complaining.

After all To each is own...
[Galaxy S II General] THUDUK:
I think considering what andriod is running especially on our sgs2s, it handles and flows amazingly well, with ios it really is simply a structure of applications ready to launch, ok notifications push fairly reliably but not without problems and apps load smoothly and all run in a similar fluid guided designed way. If you load up ios with lots of jailbreak activities that try to get the phone closer to what android is doing for you, the iphone starts to run slower and laggier yet still doesn't bring you the freedom and choice that we have on our androids, the problem is most people want a simple hit the app and play type control and don't need the complete cuatomised world of android, for instance my wife loves her ipad and it suits her perfectly in its nice guided way, I wouldn't say ics brings anything more than gb did to android, yet perhaps it brings a little more guided ability to bridge the gap from android to ios. If all phones were the same it would be a terribly boring world, each have there strengths, if I could afford to own them all I would.
[Galaxy S II General] chmun77:
What about as compared to Windows Phone 7.5??

:D
[Galaxy S II General] zxz0O0:
Then there must be many people that are jealous of Android owners.

LMAO that made my day :D
[Galaxy S II General] ephraim:
You took the words out of my mouth :)
[Galaxy S II General] androidkid311:
OP have u owned a iphone? Seriously! ICS isnt that much better at all. They are on par in my opinion. ICS has probaly one or 2 things over ios.
[Galaxy S II General] norpan111:
I would like that to, I own a omnia 7 and it's mostly one thing I hate about it. It have a bing button. Bing isn't very good supported in my country and I keep accidentally press it. Oh sms lets check it BING ****...lets browse BING omg stop BING BING seriosly wtf BING BING BING BING stop BING BING BING please BING BING. this is madness...madness?THIS IS BIIIING
[Galaxy S II General] admartian:
Lol Thanks for that. The frustration made me laugh. :D

Yeah, anyone thinks that a jailbroken iPhone, trying to run more-Android like features; runs faster than a phone like the SGS2 is simply an APple nut-hugger.
[Galaxy S II General] jialongz2:
I will never change to iOS after I bought my SGS2 with resurrection remix rom v1.2

Google maps in android is much more convenience than iOS this is one of the biggest point.:)
[Galaxy S II General] speedyjay:
I said this before and I'll say it again, all these people comparing iOS to Android by speed tests, benchmarks etc shouldn't be doing so because they are two totally different file systems with different attributes. IOS has better features than Android and vice versa but in my opinion, purely for the development and open source side of things, I support Android :)
[Galaxy S II General] torpce:
comparison of these two platforms in most cases reduced to a silly competition my daddy is stronger...:mad:
[Galaxy S II General] JoNAsOS3:
Well said :)
[Galaxy S II General] charmthief88:
video evidence

Also I hear alot of well the iPhone is just smoother, kills in this benchmark (sunspyder) and so forth. But yet to see the proof in the pudding. Those iphone users who have looked at a SGS2 comment on the image, speed and ease of it.

For a comparison of stock SGS2 vs iPhone4S checkout:

http://www.smartphoneenvy.com/apple/face-off-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-vs-apple-iphone-4s/

This thread is similar to this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1557484
[Galaxy S II General] adem_7:
I have both an SGS2 and iPhone 4s. Dilemma solved ;).

I just have the feeling that Android has evolved a lot since it was first published, while iOS, in my view, only comes with incremental upgrades of things that should have been there in the first place.

I have my SGS2 for almost a year, and iPhone for two months. You would expect that I should neglect the SGS2 and turn to the newer toy, but I still turn to it for important tasks.

And lastly, Android is better at doing things that are personally important to me, but may not be for other people.

Ultimately, the stronger the competition, the better devices we will have.
[Galaxy S II General] ephraim:
The only thing i hate about apple is Steve Jobs and the Fanboys.
[Galaxy S II General] Tool-kit:
I can do whatever I want on my device, Flash whatever flavour of ROM I want. Own my Device.
[Galaxy S II General] aydc:
I haven't been to any iPhone forums lately, but I don't suppose you can find many "10 reasons why iPhone is better than Android" posts. On the otherside, on Android forums there's one new such thread opening daily.

While iPhone owners are simply enjoying their phones, Android fanboys are busy trying to convince themselves they made the right choice. Just because you bought a phone doesn't mean you have to be its fanboy.
[Galaxy S II General] grudas:
tbh my gf's iphone 4 is no way faster/smoother than my s2.. once i take it do so simple task it just lags behind a lot - browsing/photo editing/facebook app lags like hell.. when it does none of that on my s2
[Galaxy S II General] godutch:
For me it used to be you enjoy your device and i'll enjoy mine but this all changed since overscroll bounce was replaced by overscroll glow, now apple is my enemy and I want to see them destroyed
[Galaxy S II General] uiterlix:
Ok, I've owned quite some IOS and android devices and am not in favor of either ios or android in particular.

What do I like about android:

- it's open, so I can customize my device in anyway I want.... But... This is not possible on all devices. Some manufacturers like asus still lock their bootloaders which make it impossible to switch to another rom. So openness is not an android advantage but is manufacturer specific.

- it uses a traditional filesystem which makes file sharing between apps much easier.

- i can use java to write software for it, but that's just a personal preference.

What I don't like about android (in favor of IOS)

- It's up to the device manufacturer whether and when you will receive an update when android has been updated to a newer versions. Most devices will receive about 2 major updates maximum and are left abandoned from then on. And if you do receive an update it's often heavily customized by the manufacturer which often introduces bugs and is really a user experience consistency killer. I'm for instance really annoyed Samsung killed the rSAP bluetooth support as of ICS just like that.

- Poor tablet experience. The fragmentation in android versions and devices led to developers being hesitant to release tablet optimized versions of their apps, that's why android tablets are still leapyears behind in user experience compared to the iPad (and yes, I have both an eee pad transformer and the new iPad).

So neither is actually better. I actually use an i9100 phone but an iPad tablet, just because thats what works best for me.
[Galaxy S II General] valentinrascu:
is no way to be fanboy with your money and discomfort. If that thing is better,is better! nobody support a lagging tablet just because are you fan of this OS .personaly. i want the perfection no matter in which side is.

Inviato dal mio GT-I9100 usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] felixg123:
I had an iPhone....i found having it for 2 years (with its locked theme) got abit boring...loving my S2 and the fact you can customise the operating system and everything
[Galaxy S II General] pacc:
Couldn't agree more.
[Galaxy S II General] admartian:
Thanks.

Lucky they used a stock S2 rather than a fully optimised one.

That would've been unfair. :o

Um, no. You are wrong.

Respectfully of course.

I see a lot of Apple people on comments sectinos; where 'casual' users tend to hang out more, rather than on forums.

It's very even I think.

And I'd rather these kinds of threads than the reactions of Apple-users had like they did when Instagram went multi-plat.

wouldn't you?
[Galaxy S II General] MafiaDroid:
yeahh ICS rocks, i have a iphone 3S and..forget, not really like

Nice Post
[Galaxy S II General] Mcjim113:
Very good post there very much sums up what most would like to say who have had the benefit of using both android in multiple guises and apple products too.

I have an iPod touch 4g and it is very smooth most of the time can lag like any device though. no problem with app compatibility like on android but, it just doesn't feel open and free to do what I would like with my phone like android based ones do even when jailbroken.

When we talk of customization though android still does not even encroach on what winmo could do years ago lol.
[Galaxy S II General] rossm1873:
i really dont know how people can say the galaxy s2 lags, i used to have a jailbroken iphone 3gs with alot of mods and it was so slow and laggy, but a thot a jailbroken iphone was the best ever, i couldnt see past apple and a thot id never change, then my brother got a galaxy s2 n i was amazed, unbelievably fast, no lag at all, and so customizable with all the live wallpapers etc, it made my iphone look ****, i couldnt believe what i had been missing for so long, so i had to get a galaxy s2 n since being on android ive never looked back, i love customization so android suits my needs better, and is so quick. not to say the iphone isnt a good phone, cos it is but only jailbroken, if its not jailbroken it gets so boring, the most u can do is change a wallpaper, how boring is that, both have pros and cons but apple has more cons.

one thing i say that gets every iphone user whos bragging away that his phones the best, is name something that an iphone can do that a top spec android cant? n i never get an answer, where as a could name a good few things that an android can do that an iphone cant, live wallpapers, widgets, themes, custom roms etc.

people will always debate on whats better out of ios and android tho.
[Verizon Droid Charge] beavermjr:
Since upgrading to fp1 I have been unable to set multi screen wallpaper. Is this something that was removed and how do I get the feature back?

Mike
[Verizon Droid Charge] Endless2232:
Yes it was removed, but I do not know how to get it back.
[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
It's a feature of every third-party app launcher I've used. I've used Go Launcher EX for months, and I didn't realize that Samsung took it out of TouchWiz.
[Verizon Droid Charge] beavermjr:
I just downloaded go launcher and still cant set multi screen wallpaper. What is going on?

Edit: i can set a portriat image...what about landscape like old touchwiz setting?
[Verizon Droid Charge] beavermjr:
I've tried a few of the launchers and ended up going back to touchwiz to get the stock notification number overlay on icons such as email and messaging. I now miss setting multi-home screen wallpaper and watching it scroll as the homepages move.

Since Samsung removed it from the latest version of touchwiz can i get it back by loading an older version of the apk from an older version of the firmwear... Say ep4d?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_desperado:
Hello

Here is my story

I was trying to upgrade to ICS by flashing the latest stock ROM XXLPS that I got from Samfirmware.

1- on the first try I did not perform a full wipe, the ROM was a no wipe ROM so It upgraded and all my apps are kept there,. after a while I start facing errors and restarts so I fall back

2- on the second try I flashed the ROM then I did a full wipe/factory reset. It was working well until I rooted it using CF-root and started to restore my apps using TB. I noticed that the problems are coming from Apps installed on external SD, sometimes it was unmounted automatically

Anyway I did a fall back using a CWM restore, I noticed after restore that CSC and baseband are still the ICS ones ? I thought that CWM backup and restore everything??!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZACQ8:
I have also had the same experience once....

when we select advance restore we can find these:

1) Restore Boot (which include boot image and Kernel)

2) Restore System (complete system files)

3) Restore Data (user data like apps and user data etc..)

4) Restore Cache

5) Restore Sd-ext (if we set a partition for applications in the externel SD card)

Unless the CSC is already integreted in system (2nd item) I believe these 2 items, especially baseband, are not backed up normally from CWM, otherwise there should be a restoring option too .....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElenaPower:
Especially if you go from one generation to another (Gingerbread to Icecream e.g.) its more complicated to go back a step. You should flash a base Gingerbread ROM from samfirmware e.g. with ODIN (not a CWM version) and then try to restore your Gingerbread backup.

After you flashed the base you may change CSC before you restore your backup. This is the cleanest way to get back.

CWM nandroid is not what we know as a real image backup of a PC.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_desperado:
Thanks guys for the clarifications

BTW regarding the upgrade to ICS what is the best option to do it and restore back the apps or keep them ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZACQ8:
This you have to do with Titanium back up not with CWM back-up...with Titanium Backup pro you can restore applications from nandroid (CWM) backup.

there should not be any problem while you restore only apps on the ICS, some may not work, just unsinstall such...better you select it individually and install... but dont attempt for any system data restore....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_desperado:
This is exactly what I have done, i tried to restore using TB but from backup taken by TB and not from Nandroid.

It was working fine but later start to hang and restart. I noticed that the issue is coming from applications installed on external SD? Is there any issue with ICS or CF-root kernel and external SD card?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sun90:
try moving all apps from ext sdcard to phone for a while and check for any issues like hang or restart:)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_desperado:
I found an open issue related to crash and reboots when a large number of apps are installed on sd card.
[General Questions and Answers] MDG1992:
Does the unlock bootloader at HTC's dev website work for anyone or is it just me that is having an issue?
[Wildfire Android Development] Lesicnik1:
Last time I tried ROM manager, it broke my "phone" ROM, so I had to reflash :(
[Wildfire Android Development] lo2ay:
Me too, but it happened to me in an older version. The current one works fine for me except the part when I go back to my phone ROM.

Sent from my still alive, ICS capable HTC Wildfire.
[Wildfire Android Development] Scratch0805:
I haven't used it for ages, I bought it months ago but imo its simpler, the rom runs a little smoother, its less buggy and doesn't take up as much room on your sd card just to do a nandroid of every rom, then just switch them that way. Unless you'd rather have the novelty factor of using an App to do it.

A few things I noticed was it wouldn't work on cm7 no matter what I did, even with support from the developer (that may be fixed now though) on a sense based rom it worked first time everytime so if anyone has a problem with it not writing on the images switch your main rom to a sense based one.

It changes the boot path to direct it to the sd card so if you get stuck on the splash screen simply booting into recovery and advanced restoring the boot image should put things right again, as far as I know it doesn't touch the system partition so you shouldn't need to restore that. (saves a few minutes)
[Wildfire Android Development] lo2ay:
I already know that it doesn't touch the system partition and I tried restoring boot only but it didn't reboot. I had to restore system also. It's not a logical solution but it works for me :D

And sometimes restoring the system only works too

My mobile must be always different than other's mobiles I don't know why but it does :D

Sent from my still alive, ICS capable HTC Wildfire.
[Wildfire Android Development] lo2ay:
If you are like me, in a country in which billing in android market is disabled or you just don't want to pay for the pro version, do the following:

Although the lite version has only one rom slot but it creates 5 folders rom1, rom2,.... etc

And it only creates the files in the rom1 folder

Let's say for example you are running CM7 as your daily driver and you want rom1 to be LeWaOS and Rom2 to be CM9 KANG.

It's quite simple, first install CM9 normally, it will be installed to Rom1 folder. Then copy every file in that folder to rom2 folder and delete the contents of .android_secure folder in rom1, then install LeWaOS normally.

If you want to boot into LeWaOS u can boot normally using boot manager. If you want cm9 then copy the files inside Rom2 folder back to Rom1 then boot normally through boot manager
[Wildfire Android Development] rocker86:
Thanks for the guide...it is working fine...no issues in switching between Roms..

Scratch was right..my phone rom is Rempuzzle and Sd card Rom is Lewa..Since Rempuzzle is a sense Rom ..it didnt give me any sort of pain...

Those who wants to try take the base rom as a Sense and then try experimenting...

Bye bye good nite...
[Wildfire Android Development] lo2ay:
I'm on cm7 and it works fine except when I want to go back to the phone Rom. I have to make an advanced restore for boot and system first

Sent from my still alive, ICS capable HTC Wildfire.
[Wildfire Android Development] LucidSomnia:
So if it doesn't touch the system, i suppose there is no problem for people with custom mtd partitions? (Due to boot a rom, installing bravo-boot.zip is required)
[Wildfire Android Development] Scratch0805:
It creates a new system.img 250mb on the sd card, not sure if you can physically change that but your original mtd should be fine.

Why don't you test it out?

i didn't use mtd because i had to use sense as a base just to get the app to work, as previously mentioned i have no need for this app now, nandroids work just fine.
[Wildfire Android Development] dcos:
I'm using custom MTD partitions and can confirm that there are no problems with using this.

Primary ROM is CM7.2 and secondary is CM9, only issue is that when going back to primary, you need to do advanced restore of system.
[Wildfire Android Development] lo2ay:
I must say the following.

A few days ago I encountered another problem while returning back to the phone rom, in my case it's CM7. Some of my apps got deleted. I don't know what caused or why did it happen. They were about 4 or 5 apps. They weren't uninstalled completely as the data remained but the app itself got deleted.

Sent from my CM7 powered Egyptian HTC Wildfire.