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[Galaxy S II General] scottspa74:
How can you people stomach samsungs plasticy crap materials and awful build quality?

K will admit, I bought my mom a GNex for mothers day, and I'm fairly impressed with it. But the SII SIII , ..eewww
[Galaxy S II General] scottspa74:
Idiotic onscreen buttons???! Um, yeah, cuz the code/format Google wants everyone to abide by is, of course, idiotic. Wow. Grow up, think, read, THEN consider posting.
[Galaxy S II General] victorator:
Taking up pixels on the screen with buttons? What is the point exactly?

Also I can press the main button and wake up my phone on my s2/s3 without looking. Who are you telling to grow up. Yes, I think the onscreen buttons are idiotic. Not only me. Most users agree.
[Galaxy S II General] MemoryController:
Hmm actually I prefer on screen buttons :)
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
Don't say anything about S2 in this section with posting with your HTC phone, will just get you bashed.:laugh:
[Galaxy S II General] sam razzy:
Hello... I don't regret for s2... I gave my s2 to my swthrt.. my gf.. I bought gnex.. now this is the beast all bcoz of jelly bean butter.... it bcom as smooth more than butter. . It become a beast more than s3.. u can expect more android version to this .. ;-) why u say worst battery.. yea its worst... but Franco kernel made it better with extender life... I can get 4hour screen for 24hours battery life.. I love it ;-)
[Galaxy S II General] sam razzy:
Now every phone uses on screen button.. also called Nav button.. I agree with you.. ;-)
[Galaxy S II General] sam razzy:
May b you are right .. may be not.. but v hold s2... or some ppl comment may be bcoz they moved from s2 to some other phone... sorry.. this post not to hurt you bro ... jus my tot . Correct me if m wrong
[Galaxy S II General] Vink67:
I hate the galaxy SIII !

Don't like he's round corner !

He's crappy colors !
[Galaxy S II General] irish-sid:
I think you know what i mean. Jesus.

Are you wearing hot pants or something? Lol.

But you like the nexus? Lol.
[Galaxy S II General] edgeqwerty:
I still use S2. And I'm very happy with it. The android 4.0.4 made him faster and battery friendly. In my opinion S3 it's too expensive at the moment. I ask: What can the S3 do, that the S2 can't? I don't know the answer. Do you?
[Galaxy S II General] irish-sid:
You haven't read through the thread have you? -_-
[Galaxy S II General] sam razzy:
He doesn't know.. what exactly s3 is ?
[Galaxy S II General] Galactus:
PPI NOT DPI. The Galaxy Nexus has a PPI of about 315-316. The S3 is 306 PPI....NOT DPI
[Galaxy S II General] sam razzy:
My mistake accepted... Thank you :-) but yea... that's why I said nexus as 14ppi more den s3... 320-306=14 :P as you say its 316.. in my phone it shows 320ppi
[Galaxy S II General] veyka:
My mother just got a gnexus, and the onscreen buttons are great, rather than losing a space on the front to hardware buttons, it's all screen.

Using the multitasking button on the gnexus makes task swapping quicker than using the home button, and the way the buttons change in context is nice.

Anyway, with capacitive menu and back buttons on the sgs2, all you are "losing" is the home button, and I generally wake the phone up with the power button anyway.

I suppose it's a matter of taste, but i much prefer the onscreen buttons, and so does my mother who has the phone.

Also jelly bean is amazingly fast on it, puts my sgs2 with cm9 to shame.

Maybe if you want to play a lot of 3D mobile games, the weaker gpu isn't for you, but for Web browsing and other stuff I found it faster and easier to use than my phone.

And this is stock, with custom kernels and other stuff, I am sure it will get even faster, but I'm not going to screw around with her phone :p

Personally I would side grade to the gnexus if I had the cash, at least in part due to the speed of software updates, and garenteeded support for a very long time, from both Google and xda.

The nexus s is still going strong and that's pretty ancient these days.
[Galaxy S II General] mckeowngoo:
Here we go, another merry-go-round thread achieving absolutely **** and all.

What do you expect, of course people are going to move on and get a phone upgrade to the S3 if they can. Can you blame them?

Hey, if you have the cash or you're due an upgrade then go for it. I know I would.

If you're locked in a contract or you can't afford the price of a new Nexus phone then you're going to have to rely on some of the fine devs on here.

At the end of the day the S2 is getting old and everyone will eventually have to get a new phone but why the autopsy now? The phone development scene is a long, long way away from being dead and the phone can hardly be classed as obsolete. I have no doubt the phone will get JB, be it through an official Samsung release or an after market ROM.

Just be happy with what you have now.

Why bore needlessly with threads of jealous words.
[Galaxy S II General] sam razzy:
Hello.. why u want to blame the people who suggest abt the phones choice.. This thread can be closed if u want.. you can go for it... don't use f*ck ... for this thread creater ... actually I made it to know why they have moved... even each n every developer.. not all . . Few.. moved to s3.. so when I had my s2 I made this thread bcoz I saw ppl going out from s2 to some other... so finally I made my choice on Gnex... let the ppl decide which phone is best.. if I'm wrong... then pls don't blame me... don't use fu*k **** .. jus use it yourself for what you are..

This thread is not to hurt anyone.. sorry this guy blamed all ppl who gave suggestion here... sorry.. :)
[Galaxy S II General] mckeowngoo:
Do me a favour mate, don't ever apologise for me.

Don't know why you're trying to make out as if this is some kind of personal attack but I'd have a coke and a smile and chill the **** out.

I stand by what I said above.

Peace.
[Galaxy S II General] Tototony:
True Story Bro

I hate it ... the best roms vanished :< and moved too S3 :crying:
[Galaxy S II General] augustofretes:
Of course it isn't worth upgrading, I can't believe people is ditching their SGS II so fast for a marginal improvement in speed while paying the price of not buying a Nexus device.

I will simply and patently wait for the neew Nexus, even more so, rumors say there will be a line of Nexus devices, instead of 1.
[Galaxy S II General] :
Marginal improvement? Nexus+JB much better than SII will ever be, even with Android 10. Nexus: freedom, awesome custom ROMs with no boundries, long support
[Galaxy S II General] irish-sid:
Itt: people who don't know how much off an upgrade the s3 is.
[Galaxy S II General] yogisays09:
S2 on jelly bean is also smooth as butter. Very veryy smooth.
[Galaxy S II General] :
On i9100G ;) i9100G will have a better JB than the i9100. Exynos sucks to develop, that's why i9100G will have a better JB, since it uses OMAP.
[Galaxy S II General] lordemil:
isnt the GPU in I9100 more powerful than the one found in the I9100G?
[Galaxy S II General] bartoloandre98:
Yes

Sent from My Samsung Galaxy S2 running Paranoidandroid Rom.What else if not?=P
[Galaxy S II General] sam razzy:
Actually jelly bean is made bcoz of OMAP ... galaxy nexus and I9100G use same CPU I guess... correct me if m wrong

SeNt frOm gOOglE NeXuS with CM10 jelly taste
[Galaxy S II General] :
Both are OMAP4. Don't know if they are exactly the same, but they are very similar, so it makes i9100G development easier. It's like Galaxy S and Nexus S, they have similar hardware, that's why Galaxy S's development is so great.
[Galaxy S II General] Bl@ck:
Someone, please, destroy this thread.

Sent from my Cyanogen modded GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] sam razzy:
Hmm you are right.. now I understood.. Thank you bro
[Galaxy S II General] yogisays09:
Atleast now people wont say that 9100G is inferior or samsung's $hit. If my budget permits i will give my G to my wife and get S3 for me!
[Galaxy S II General] augustofretes:
I am talking about the SGS III, of course the next Nexus is going to be worth every penny.
[Galaxy S II General] mahtew:
It is normal situation.. that devs move to newr hardware;) look at i9000 forum

And personaly-- i won't buy any new samsung. I'm tired of thinking about if there will be any new update.

Only google phone

By phone
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoNz0:
is there a fix to the streaming to car audio soft reboot with 4.0.3 stock rom ?

i see lots of posts about it being fixed in 4.0.4 but it has a few bugs left that bother me like the mnt/emmc issue.

I am running the stock rom and like it as everything works apart from the bluetooth issue, if i can fix that without using 3rd party roms based on 4.0.4 i would be happy!

i have read lots of threads but there doesn't seem to be a 100% fix :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoNz0:
anyone ?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] kamleshbhanvadia:
hello anybody can help me upgrade my device samsung galaxy i899 android 1.5 to 2.2or 2.3 please helpme i dont now how to upgrade i am thanks full to him who help me
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vladko1:
Hello guys. After updating to Android 4, the old kernel ate my nervs and now i'm in thought to change the kernel. Today i saw an awesome very good working kernel 7 on 1.6Ghz for my LT15i. Please, can you guys help me with the steps of achieving the desired effect with first starting with backuping my current OS?

Thanks in advance!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vladko1:
Thanks for the response but i've already searched the QnA threads(btw sorry for posting in the wrong thread). Nothing matches the information i require.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtacy!:
He meant that questions need to be posted in the Q&A section and not here in the General section.

If you're looking to back up your apps and associated data, you can do it with Titanium Backup.

Regarding your other queries, there are many threads already on unlocking your bootloader, rooting as well as flashing a kernel. [HINT: Try reading a couple of the stickied threads in this very same section].

Unlocking your bootloader is quite simple. Just visit the Sony website. [Link]

I'm sure you can manage the rest on your own.

Good luck!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OverLo4d:
i posted this because you need to post this question in the Q&A section:)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vladko1:
Thanks guys. About the backup i wanted to backup my OS. I mean if i want to reset my phone, to reset it to my current state right now.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OverLo4d:
than you need a nandroid backup.:D
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vladko1:
The only problem is that I am with stock 4.1.B.0.431 and far as i know even the stock .62 cannot be rooted. And the backuping part is the hard thing of all.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vladko1:
The phone doesn't want to root. I've download rootable 4.0.4 but no root options available. I've tried to downgrade to .42 to root, but Flashtool aborted the flash... Help guys, i can't stand that stupid thing to eat my nervs before i've crashed it to the ground.
[HTC Incredible S] ZaySk:
Hey guys, I'm a massive tech nerd and absoloutely love Android and its customizability. I love flashing roms, and kernels to test different combinations to see what offers the best performance.

I don't have any experience programming or developing, but I'm very good with computers and technology in general. I figure I can handle learning how to code, but have no idea where to start researching. I would love to be able to make my own custom ROM someday.

Any good resources for learning to code for Android? Can any devs point me in the right direction for where to start?

Thanks. :D
[HTC Incredible S] poondog:
Have you read any guides like this?

I wanted to start porting but the first one I tried bootlooped about 10 times, so I gave up for the time being :/

I would look at the guides from developers have posted in this forum :)

Best of luck :)
[HTC Incredible S] itsbeertimenow:
Spend a few months learning to java and everything will make sense.
[HTC Incredible S] ZaySk:
I'll definitely be reading as much guides written by devs here as possible. Awesome I'll also look into java. Thanks for the suggestions.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] ranjith.patavardhan080:
I want to instal stock rom. Bt odin is nt detecting my mbl. What to do. Plz help me.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] "theviper":
Install kies or samsung drivers and then try
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] pustinjak:
Insta Kies nd before flashing remove sd nd sim card

sent from Serbia
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Srahman:
I am using Nikhil's WE WANT ICS v3. Everything works fine there except

* There is no option for Gmail in ACCOUNTS & SYNC, hence Gmail doesn't sync automatically.

* It doesn't work smooth while browsing Net.

Does anyone have any kind of solutions for these problems??:confused::confused:
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] AndroidTeam(Dev):
How do u unbrick a sidekick it my sister and I rooted it and install cwm and 1 rom it was working fine then crashed now Odin doesn't read it so wat do I do
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] AndroidTeam(Dev):
I got it fixed thanks
[Galaxy S III Accessories] bldon2:
whats the best skin for the sgs3 ?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jcbofkc:
put the lotion in the basket...in creepy guy voice
[Galaxy S III Accessories] bldon2:
you lame as hell
[Bravo General] Blackl3232:
Hey guys, got myself into a bit of a problem here. First, an app I'd installed disappeared....I went to the market to redownload it, and it kept saying "Package file has a bad manifest". So I went to the Application settings and uninstalled it.....same problem. So, I figured I'd wipe the system cache to see if that helped. So I booted into recovery (stock recovery, stock rom) and wiped the cache. Rebooted.....and the Market started telling me that I didn't have enough internal storage and all my downloads would fail. I read some things saying to wipe the market cache and data, etc, so I did all that and uninstalled the market updates, leaving me with the old market instead of Google Play. Now, it still wouldn't download anything. I managed to find an apk of a log viewer, since I couldn't download one from the market, and it was saying download aborted - internal storage is full whenever I tried to download an app. I have plenty of storage. From what I could find, the market downloads apps to /cache. I tried to copy some files to /cache, just to see what would happen, and they copied fine. They disappeared a few minutes later. I've tried wiping the cache a few more times. It says it wiped it, and then says it can't mount cache:recovery/log. I found one guy who fixed this by repartitioning his cache. Can I do this? I'd try a hard reset but I'm a little hesitant because if it didn't work, I'd be stuck unable to download any apps. At least now my phone is usable. Amy help would be appreciated. Thank you.
[Bravo General] Blackl3232:
Well, what a surprise. I installed 2ndInit for the Defy, booted into its recovery, wiped the cache, and it's good as new all of a sudden. How strange.

Feel free to lock/delete this. Or leave it in case anyone else happens to have this odd issue..
[Galaxy S III General] kantk20111:
How do I get back to my music player home screen from the now playing screen? The music player home screen being the screen where I can select music album/artist/song/playlists etc. When I'm at the now playing screen I click on the small music list icon on the bottom right which takes me to the last used screen, i.e the music album list or playlists. BUT, when I click the back arrow on the top left, it takes me back to the now playing screen?? How to I go back to the main music home menu?

The only way I've found is I have to click the options button then 'End', which closes the music player. Then it comes back. However I've not found a way to get to the home screen without closing the app :confused:

I think I might have just missed something. Any help would be appreciated. THanks.
[Galaxy S III General] Motogp1:
In the playing now screen hit the back option (on the phone bottom right ) this takes you back to albums/artist etc option .
[Galaxy S III General] Shug69:
If you press the 'mood' button (furthest right just below the album art ) then you get a menu at the top with artist, album etc
[Galaxy S III General] Tsukurimashou:
This is the right answer, thanks a lot, thats stupid there is no simpler way to do it.

Sent from my beautiful GS3 int unlocked, rooted and beloved.
[Galaxy S III General] kantk20111:
Thanks,works perfectly.that's so stupid that there's no easier way to do it.
[Galaxy S III General] Wootever:
thanks
[HTC Rezound] AndroidCraig:
I'm stock S-on rooted and have frozen some bloat. However the phone takes about 4 min. To boot up. What can I do to speed up the boot?
[HTC Rezound] zetsumeikuro:
Select fastboot and that should help, it's under settings > power options I believe.
[HTC Rezound] AndroidCraig:
I've already got that set. Any thing else I can try?
[HTC Rezound] superchilpil:
Stop clearing the cache on boot?
[HTC Rezound] esheesle:
It is odd that the phone boots so slow. My old original droid booted faster.
[HTC Rezound] GrayBoltWolf:
My phone boots extremely fast even with fastboot off. It is usable in about 25 seconds from pushing power.
[HTC Rezound] jayochs:
yeah idk why yours is so slow, because mines relatively quick as well... and i never use fast boot.
[HTC Rezound] AndroidCraig:
Where's the setting for that? I'm pretty sure that I don't have that set.
[HTC Rezound] esheesle:
Takes mine a solid 1.5-2 minutes to boot(without fastboot checked). Do you guys have any frozen bloat? Wondering if something there could be causing it. Stock OS or ICS?
[HTC Rezound] Cares:
Mine boots in less than 30 seconds.
[HTC Rezound] jayochs:
crazy man..then again, you said you're stock right? i'm running a custom rom. but still, even stock i remember being like, wow this boots quick. and yeah, i froze ALL bloat lol
[HTC Rezound] esheesle:
And fastboot was unchecked? Mine boots that fast with fastboot, but not when unchecked.
[HTC Rezound] blestsol:
I remember stock with many apps booting fast. But with like forty taking forever.

ReZound
[HTC Rezound] AndroidCraig:
I'm stock, S-On and rooted. I have frozen some bloat apps, but nothing that should affect boot.

During the boot process it stays at the 4G LTE scteen for the majority of the time.

Once it passrs that it is quick. Whay would cause it to hang at that point?
[HTC Rezound] esheesle:
same here
[HTC Rezound] nrfitchett4:
I call BS on anyone that says their rezound boots in 30 seconds from a power off with fastboot unchecked. Post a video showing it after pulling the battery.

Even all the customs I've run boot slow, and even once the screen is on, it still has to connect to the radio, mount the sd, etc. ICS boots faster than GB.

My HD7 booted in 25 seconds, which was kind of a waste because I only had to reboot it once in 9 months.
[HTC Rezound] tekhna:
Mine takes for freaking ever. Makes my ancient Palm Pre look like a speed demon. Rebooting is a walk away and get a snack affair.
[HTC Rezound] a.mcdear:
Mine takes about 4-5 minutes to boot the first time after clearing the dalvik cache and cache partition, but every subsequent boot takes like 30 seconds or so and I have fast boot disabled.

My girlfriends myTouch Q takes about 10 minutes to boot though, so don't be too worried about a couple minutes.

One thing that I do know is that the more apps you have on your device, the longer it will take to start up. It apparently does some sort of "optimization" on all the apps at each boot, making it take extremely long if you have a bunch of stuff on there.
[HTC Rezound] smartens82:
There is definitely a difference between restarting and powering on/off. I have fast boot on and if I restart the phone it takes a few minutes, but if i power off then back on it is quicker.
[HTC Rezound] Wendemixda:
I read your comment and decided to try. I am running Newt's one xxx with fastboot enabled. I timed from the time I pushed the power button to when the x disappeared from the signal bars, which meant radio was connected: exactly 1mn 5 sec. Not as fast as the 25-30 sec that some claim, but a lot faster than the 4 minutes the OP is experiencing. Sorry, I don't have regular standalone camera to make a video. My rezound's camera is good enough for me:cowboy:
[HTC Rezound] superchilpil:
I would suggest the op to run a full ruu after backing up anything.personal that they don't want to lose

Afterwards run a factory reset from hboot and this should fix the issues
[HTC Rezound] AndroidCraig:
I'm not talking about after pressing the power button to turn it off. But after switching batteries, or pulling a battery. That’s when it takes forever.
[HTC Rezound] Hawkeye12:
I just picked this up the other day, haven't even had a chance to root it and i have been surprised how long it takes to boot from a battery pull. I initially thought i was bootlooping cause it was taking so long at the 4g lte screen.

I have been timing it and it generally takes 2 minutes 30 seconds to boot from a battery pull.
[HTC Rezound] douger1957:
Nilsp's latest ROM...1:30 to fully populated home screen and radio on. That was the first time I actually timed it...but sometimes it seems faster, others, slower.

I had a Blackberry Storm that you needed to measure its boot time with a friggin' sun dial.
[HTC Rezound] hchristy2013:
Mine boots faster then a Blackberry in sleep mode.
[HTC Rezound] wlmeng11:
On stock GB mine took 3.5 minutes.

Ineffabillis was 1 min

ICS ROMs all around 45 seconds.

Sent from my Rez with fangs
[HTC Rezound] merlin66676:
Ha anyone looked at whether being in 3g or 4g area makes a difference. I'm on 3g only and have 4g off and takesa little less 2 min maybe.
[HTC Rezound] superchilpil:
That shouldn't affect boot time

It's all about the Rom you run, bare bones roms will always boot faster

Wait for aosp, it will definitely boot faster than sense
[HTC Rezound] AshtonTS:
When I had the Rezound it booted reasonably fast. My nexus definitely boots faster tho
[HTC Rezound] wlmeng11:
AmonRa boots fast lol.

Anyway, superchilpil is right.

Sent from my Rez with fangs
[HTC Rezound] platinumrims:
Mine boots in less than a minute easy. Idk exactly how long though. I'd guess like 40ish seconds with getting a signal.
[HTC Rezound] dwkeepinup:
First time posting, I've got a completely stock, never rooted unit and mine takes forever to reboot or after a battery pull. Super annoying cuz it's a good number of minutes without fail but I just assumed everyone's rezound was slow to load.
[HTC Rezound] wlmeng11:
The stock Rom is filled with bloatware so it takes forever to boot.

Sent from my Rez with fangs
[HTC Rezound] bsbudhwar:
Mostly slow boot is due to the hardware performance degraded main cause is the only EMMC chip.
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
OTA_update_062_to_068_17_delta_image.pkg

Like OP says, version 068 is out now for E-Mobile users.

Judging from the size I believe it is still a 2.3.5 rom, the SPro still doesnt officially have ICS yet, but they're have it in testing for months now.
[Streak 5 General] deysmacro:
so basically not much different from other ROM?