yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keithross39:
Simple.....Samsung ain't gonna continue to support an out of date device because to do so would be to potentially lose money from a drop in sales of newer devices.....who in their right minds will buy a new phone if they know that the one they have will be running the exact same software as the latest one?

Even CM will stop supporting this phone eventually.....especially as they've gone all 'inc' and now have close links with (is it) oppo.......
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
You're honestly that dim you have no idea how much money/resources this kind of thing requires, aren't you ? Samsung isn't a charity, they're a business. Their sole purpose is to make money. If they're still supporting 3 yr old phones with the latest firmware, people aren't buying new ones. They ideally want people to buy new phones every two years if they get a phone on contract with their carrier, or even more frequently in the case of people who buy outright/must have the 'latest & greatest' And the two phones which superceded the S2 **** all over it in every possible way (performance/features).

You'll get custom roms based on it, but that's it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beicuxhaven:
The s2 is over 2 years old. There is no official 4.2.2. No 4.3 and certainly no 4.4 I think.:(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sumanthsv:
CM11 Love??

Has anyone given indications if they Cyanogenmod team is going to save the S2?? I understand through various forums that the Exynos non-support is a major issue..but fingers crossed! Any update would be great! (Hoping for some codeworkx magic here!!):)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] narspt:
As some said it may be understandable that Samsung doesn't continue updating S2 for free, however they could just do it requiring some small fee to update, to pay the work put on that... why not?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paul Blake:
Well a fee for upgrade sounds great but will never apply
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dakura:
I don't think our S2 will be updated too, but it would be good business move from samsung if you ask me, and so far all jelly bean firmwares were so full of bug we couldn't even run it without stock custom roms, getting 4.4 would make sense and give +9999 to customer happiness.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
How exactly is it 'good business' to provide major updates to a phone released 2.5 yrs ago which means people keep that phone rather than buy a new one ? I'd suggest you have a very poor grasp of business if you believe that to be the case.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dakura:
"Good business" doesn't always mean making more money, my grasp of business may be poor of course but i think making people happy with a phone will make them keep buying from you, nexus 4 made a lot of people happy and even though its getting kitkat, many people bought nexus 5 because it was just awesome, if samsung would commit themselves to making great phones instead of making money, they would get a lot more customers, in my opinion, updating this phone would be an investment to the future instead of getting some money today, that is my grasp of business.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpdoliveira:
Where did you read that? It's proved by the comunity that 4.4 fits pretty well on S2 but i think they wont make it to try people to buy their new phone
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
The only point to business from a company's perspective is making money. That's it. There is nothing else. Spending a lot of money to provide major (Android version) updates to a phone released almost 3 yrs ago which would then mean instead of buying another phone people keep those phones costs Samsung money to provide the updates and also, most importantly in lost sales. It would be bad business. And it's why they haven't done it & won't do it.

Your grasp of business would cause you to go broke within a few months.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] narspt:
Again, that's why I think they should ask for some (reasonable) upgrade fee, they could still profit and make users happy.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RobyGalaxy:
just be patient and wait..using CM isn't bad..it's just lack radio n stock music player,but the rest is good,you might want give a try :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XorPP:
Can anyone tell me what are the differences between the CM11 versions that are available today for our GS2 ?

There is the Unnofficial build, Omni Rom,CyanFox and Linaro / Toulchain Version... and i don't know which features are different between them.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keithross39:
Don't know what the differences are, but I doubt that ANY of them are stable enough (at the moment) to be used as daily drivers......this will change (given development time) and then you can flash away to your hearts content......please don't ask for comparisons though.....it's almost as bad as asking 'which ROM is best' which by the way is against XDA rules......you just gotta 'suck it and see'......

sent from either my Alliance powered S2 or my ArcoCM powered W via XDA Developers App
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XorPP:
Ok, thanks! :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keithross39:
One more reason why CM *might* see developing for the S2 as a lower priority........

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13funeaux32tnekm22mxd2xonvddxqln

sent from either my Alliance powered S2 or my ArcoCM powered W via XDA Developers App
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Destke:
Considering you want to pay for good apps.

FM Radio: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mikersmicros.fm_unlock&hl=nl

Music Player: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer&hl=nl
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nelsontky:
lol samsung

Samsung has so many models, it will not continue supporting the s2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Donnie Sins:
Really? We all thought it would;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jedics:
agreed

I bought a brand new S2 a few weeks ago after lots of research, its the largest I want to go in phone size, does everything Ive wanted to do with it, which is a lot. and costs 1/4 the price. Put a cover on the S4 and it becomes so un pocket friendly.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] corvus.corax:
Still, KK is supposed to be backward compatible and the S2 is quite functional, with over 20 million sold. That ought to matter.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctam:
I really doubt Samsung will develop KK for S2. Even if they are going to do so, you will be waiting for a long time. I remember hearing the news when S2 will be getting JB upgrade back in Jan 2013. It took at 4 months before my phone get the upgrade from Kies (I am in Singapore).

Even if they will develop KK for S2, I doubt it will have the improve speed that KK acclaims to have for older models of Android. My phone was very slow after JB upgrade. Samsung added a few custom Apps that makes my phone slow.

Lastly, even Google is not considering developing KK for their Nexus phone. They release it two years ago and is outside of their 18 month window of upgrades. If Google won't support their older generation devices, I doubt Samsung will follow suit.

The good news is that there are developers out there who are cranking KK for S2 :) So in a sense, I don't feel too bad.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paul Blake:
Sorry to dissapoint bit there are 40 no 20 milions units sold

Edit read this you will be excited and fell something strange when you finish reading this

http://www.sammobile.com/2013/12/06...ace-3-galaxy-core-and-other-low-cost-devices/

Thats not fair....THATS NOT FAIR , WHY SAMSUNG WHY?:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mareers:
no way!

Galaxy S2 with GB was the most stable and fastest around at the time it was released. ICS upgrade was still fine, and got in new features. JB upgrade was probably the worst - phone slowed down a lot, battery drained faster etc. I still remember how iPhone fans mocked at the speed with which the dialer on my S2 (with JB) opened. Samsung is already struggling with 4.3 upgrade for its S3 and Note 2, forget 4.4 itself. Why would it bother to upgrade S2, in this context?

Long story short, I don't think S2 will get an upgrade. AND our phone will be better off not getting an upgrade from Samsung! :angel:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Code SyGma:
You know what...

Just keep calm and love CM.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
I've never had any issues with JB.

I flashed GB in one of my devices a couple of months ago, sucked big time.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrAndroid12:
It might but the chances are very very slim
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vivek_Neel:
List Of Smartphones Getting Android 4.4 KitKat Update

Sony*

Sony Xperia Z1*

Sony Xperia Z*

Sony Xperia Z Ultra*

Sony Xperia ZL*

Sony Xperia Tablet ZHTC*

HTC One*

HTC One X+*

HTC One X*

New Desire series phones launched in 2013*

HTC Droid DNA*

HTC J*

HTC ButterflyLG*

LG G2*

LG Nexus 4*

LG Optimus L7, L5, L3*

LG Optimus G*

LG Optimus G Pro*

LG Optimus VUSamsung*

Samsung Galaxy S4*

Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom*

Samsung Galaxy S4 Active*

Samsung Galaxy Note 3*

Samsung Galaxy Mega (no confirmation whether the 5.8, 6.3 or both)*

Samsung Galaxy S3*

Samsung Galaxy Note 2*

Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini*

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 & Tab 2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timetravelller:
very unlikely. by the time it release kitkat, Android Lollipop already available in CM12. :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tyaginick:
newbie

this is Nitish Tyagi, ofcourse from India, wants to ask some questions about the android...i am a newbie to this world of rooted phones.

firstly i would like to ask about the rooting technique what i have used is ok or not? as i have used a software kingo android.

secondly, it was having some cwm version i dont remember actually but was something like 4.xx. then i have installed a new kernel for some new custom rom. But unfortunately i have got with the wrong one hence soft brick my phone, a yellow triangle and galaxy s2 screen, after installing some more i got to a new kernel for the galaxy s2 named siyah kernel having cwm 6.0.x then my phone started with a yellow triangle got a new life. so want to ask that how to know that which kernel is applicable for my device?

thirdly, now i want backup my rom (procedure) reinstall(procedure) or stock rom will work,(how and how much to define the partition for different things) afterwords so that i can come back to my original phone in what so ever is the condition with my phone after installing a new custom rom.?

fourthly, how to calculate (what firmware or what kernel or what pda version or what modem version or what csc version is to be matched with which firmware, kernel, pda, modem, csc, etc respectively) corresponding software for my device? exactly how to match the req. firmware? :(:confused::confused::confused:

lastly i want to try the new custom rom,s available for my device.

MODEL NO:GT-I9100(SAMSUNG GALAXY S2)

PDA:I9100XWLST

PHONE:I9100DDLS9

CSC:I9100ODDLSE

BASEBAND:I9100DDLS9

BUILD NUMBER:JZO54K.I9100XWLST

KERNEL:3.0.31-1155691 SE.INFRA@SEP-91 #3

MODIFIED KERNEL:3.0.31-SIYAH-S2-V6.0B4+GM@UBUNTU #57
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeandritoG:
Create a petition for Kit Kat for our Galaxy S2 devices.

Come on!!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keithross39:
Total waste of time.......Samsung has officially stopped supporting the S2 now that the S3 and S4 are on the market.......
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
And you honestly believe this hasn't already been thought of & done, eh ? :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewwright:
And that's the lot for the s3. Sammy phones seem to get three update and then there dead to them.

S2 = GB/ICS/jb

S3 = ICS/jb/kk
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mano2:
It's interesting to see people's opinion.

As for myself I'm silently hoping for at least a 4.2 update.

Especially for the screen crop bug... which is ridiculous for a phone like this.

However the problem with most of the custom ROMs is that they mostly remain unfinished... for example I had a galaxy mini 2, there is cm 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and none of them has a working camcoder.

The official updates are 'mostly' bug-free and suits the average user's needs. I really like my S2 and I'm absolutely sure about that I won't buy a new phone for Android 4.2 or 4.4 just because Samsung marketing policy is pushing me...

I think the situation is exactly the same for this phone as the mini 2. I flashed even the KitKat on it and it ran smoothly... however officials stated that mini 2 is not even capable of running Jelly Bean.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nickjg11:
Seems the s2 Android developments is still very much alive. :) thanks to all the devs.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xhddlf96:
GT-I9100 final verison is 4.1.2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Muthzer the One:
I know this is very old but I just feel like I have to mention making an official rom for the s2 wouldn't be a good idea cause of the production costs of the new firmware either.

So it's not just people aren't buying new phones, it also means they have to pay somebody for create this firmware update.

All in all just negative aspects :D

Sent from my gt-I9100 running miui v5, alongside speedmod kernel and pure performances x :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samukinson:
go for custom roms. slimkat works great.

tapatalked.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koko_john98:
Hello friends

i have a very strange problem in music player on my i9070

here is the problem :

i play the first music no problem

but when i click on the next music button , it play random not the next music :(

what is the problem here ???

my i9070 is rooted and have Light JB 1.2
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shut_down:
Turn off shuffle in player.

It should be someting like this: - tap it untill it is not going random. Some of options is to repeat one song all the time, just to know.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koko_john98:
Thanks bro for answering . but how to turn shuffle off ?
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shut_down:
I am on Cyanogen mod - I do not have stock JB music player, so I can't tell you where that option is. Probably when you play song, it should be somewhere down. Or try to go to options, and look for it there.

And look for that icon I posted in last post.

P.S. Some googleing: http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...how-turn-off-shuffle-option-music-player.html
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koko_john98:
Thank you bro :D

Done
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coowkeee:
Newbie here.

I saw this thread about [ROM] CyanogenMod OFFICIAL NIGHTLIES - 4.3 - CM10.2 - D80 and I don't know about 4.3? Is this means that my G2 will upgrade to 4.3 with CM10.2? Thanks guys. Just want to know before rushing to CM10.2. And lastly does CM have bugs on camera/video settings/modes? Thanks guys!
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cggorman:
I don't keep up with CM revision number nomenclature, so this may be wrong... Best place to ask is probably inside the thread you're asking about.

That said, I'm assuming CyanogenMod 10.2 is built from AOSP 4.3 source and has been ported to the G2 D80x models.

As of yesterday evening, I believe all the 4.3 ROMs were reporting a few bugs involving audio, wake lock, and camera. The latest GOO.IM GAPPS camera.apk seemed to be working, including panorama.

Again, I'm not actively monitoring the D80x models or CM, so this could be slightly inaccurate.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] smokes:
Once i unlocked i found my self with the same problem and then i realized that is the email attachments on the SD card that originate this problem.

Once deleted the all inbox from the card everything went back to normal.

Noe i have EXTROM plus storage card only no more storage card 2

Hope this helps.

BTW BUzz u rule man
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] ddkAh:
Hi Guys,

I have a rooted Xperia V with the original 1.140 -Version.

Since a month I do have the problem, that the phone turns off, at 5-8%.

My battery monitor widget, which I have since the first day of the Phone, shows me: 0% at 3010mV

But it turns of at 3400-3500mV.

I tried about 10times in a row to fully unload the phone and then a full recharge. But it didnt helped.

I deleted the batterystatsbin. Didnt helped.

I remember from my old Defy with CWM, that there was a point in recoverymode which allowed me to wipe my battery.

I would like to do that, but I dont get into recovery mode.

Volume + and power didnt helped, volume - puts me in safe mode, like windows safemode.

Can somebody help me to get clean batterystats again?

plz? :fingers-crossed:
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Mad Marty:
Wiping batterystats has nothing to do with calibrating battery, it just wipes the stats shown under Settings - Power - Battery.

You should search for how to calibrate battery, there are several options available here on XDA.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] ddkAh:
I hope you did not simply mean by calibrate battery:

Deleting batterstats.bin.

In fact I searched XDA and the german forum android-hilfe.de for some days and didnt found an answer.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Destroyedbeauty:
My best advice is to let phone discharge so it dies by itself, then fully charge it to 100% without any powering on under charge process. When charged to 100 - turn on phone and let it charge additional 1 hour so it can add back the lost procentage values that was lost during boot up..
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] ddkAh:
I followed your instructions. After that I let the phone discharge so it dies by itself. Same problem... 7% at 3208mV and it dies.

Furthermore theres a new "problem". As it charges while it turned off, the battery-icon wasnt fully loaded, it has a space between fully loaded and the acutal status. The green LED was on, as it does by 90%. After half an hour nothing changes, I turned on the phone, charger still plugged in, and it showed 99%. With this status it loaded 10-20min till it has 100%.

After some minutes, it might be 15, I removed the charger and used the phone normaly.

So it was an uninterrupting loading time of nearly 4h to 100%. But normaly it takes only 2:30h from 0%-100% with the 1760mAh Battery and the original 1500mAh-Charger.

Now the funny fact:

Normaly I have till now 70% Battery left. I do have at the moment 86%.

I dont get it...:confused:
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Destroyedbeauty:
Sounds like an battery status-reader issue.. Send it in for warranty!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] callif:
My version of gear manager will not let me access samsung apps. Hitting that button simply causes the program to freeze. I then have to manually force close it. Why is this? How do I rectify it. BTW, I have installed the newer versions of the app...

Charlie
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] TroyLeeWells:
I assume it is because you are not running the newest software. Mine does the same thing but I am still on 4.2.1
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] callif:
no, its not that. I am running 4.3

but i do not have samsung bloatware crap on phone. wonder if that's the issue???

C.

edit: that did not work either. installed bloatware from elite rom and still the program freezes.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] OneGoodKnock:
I had same problem on my Note 2 (running 4.3) I uninstalled/ re installed samsung apps, this seemed to solve the problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] callif:
how do I do this? when i go to samsung apps, it tells me to dl the newest version via the phone...but the phone just crashes as i described before.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] mhoepfin:
Looks like the app needs whatever bloatware you removed.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noodles101:
I have a few questions about what I would loose if I rooted 4.3 on my s4 with the new update, the one with the whole knox secured bootloader and what not. I know there isn't a root method out yet or if there is i haven't been following these things for a while since exams are upon me, but i will continue and ask those that know better than me. I'm not looking for specific disadvantages of rooting but more the fact that doing so will void the knox warranty and well i was wondering how bad this really is.

So i proposed a question, if my knox flag has been set to 1 because of said rooting, or other means since knox is so fussy it seems quite a few things trigger this, what features would i loose from the ROM, the new update from Samsung to be specific not any other ROM. This shouldn't be specific to anyone of the versions of the phone, I'm talking in general with respect to all the versions across all releases. I ask as i have read in some forums that one looses some features such as miracast and the knox secure profile (not to sure of the actual name of that so sorry if that's wrong). Are there any other "features" that are disabled because of this flag and is it permanent. Feel the answer for the knox profile is permanent but for other things like miracast is there a way to enable them again? Hoping to get some insight from some who have been taking on 4.3 like champions to find out what its all about and looking forward to the replies.

Just for reference I have the i9500, non rooted south africa, still on 4.2.2. only reason i haven't rooted yet is again exams are keeping me way to busy and before uni work was taking up all my time but soon i will have the time to learn how to do it. My hope is this will also be helpful for beginners to decide whether to take the risk like myself of voiding said knox warranty or to wait it out.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcduck1:
Stuff that relies on HDCP no longer works with 0x1: Miracast, MHL > HDMI adapter, etc.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gnarfoz:
Why is that at all related?

How would it be enforced on a non-TouchWiz ROM where the only thing tat remains with KNOX in it would be the bootloader?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noodles101:
Is that all? mmm doesnt seem like I'll be missing much, so things like OTA and other sammy features like air view and the rest will work fine? Want to soft mod with 4.3 with xposed when I get it, this is specifically why i'm asking. Also this is permanently disabled right? Has anyone found a workaround, would like the option if its there.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndreiLux:
It doesn't work to begin with on a non-TW ROM.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gnarfoz:
OK, wasn't aware of that.

So Samsung has reduced the feature set of my phone with no means of recourse?

I wonder how the legal aspects of that are in Germany.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simonetti2011:
Source?

AFAIK, the only apps that would benefit from an untouched KNOX state are the ones that require a KNOX vault, so they can be run in a sandbox. So far, I haven't run into any of these apps.

OTA will NOT work anymore once the knox flag has been set, no matter what ROM you're in. That also doesn't bother me, since I can always download and install a new ROM.

like I mentioned in antoher thread, my phones KNOX flag has been set to 0x1. I haven't been able to use it to interact with my Samsung SmartTV (Smart Remote, media sharing, etc). I have no idea if that's because of KNOX or because my TV is an older, now incompatible model (40" LED D5500).
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjnhl68:
If someone with 4.3 would be so kind to check Knox version. It can be done in application manager. I am on 4.2.2 and have Knox v 1.0. I want to see if there is a difference between Knox on 4.2.2 and 4.3. Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simonetti2011:
With the German 4.3 you have the choice of installing or not the KNOX app. I chose not to.

All there is is a link to download the app, not the app itself.