yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
is this a joke???????? :)

Or you just did not own an original Galaxy S? :)

ext4 is a widely used linux/android file system. In the original SGS Samsung decided to use a different file system called RFS.

The key difference between these is how they do journaling of files.

RFS would "fsync" every file upon close. The more files you have on such RFS filesystem the slower your device becomes! So the original SGS was progressively becoming extremely slow when you put hundreds of files and apps on it.

EXT4 - there would be no noticeable slowdows when the number of files in ext4 grows.

We are ALL VERY HAPPY to hear that Sammy decided to use the simple EXT4 this time around.

There is no change to your user experience, your Windows 7 would not even know the difference.

hope this helps.
[Galaxy S II General] mbernstein:
No, no joke at all... :)

Galaxy II will be my move to Android from WM 6.5.3 which up to Galaxy II still seemed more complete for my taste. With this device it makes sense (for me, again) to make the move, so I'm still learning my ways around Android, Linux related stuff etc.

Thus I didn't know Andoird (or Galaxy I) uses a different file system than FAT, or FAT 32).

Thanks for the clarification. Appreciated.
[Galaxy S II General] maxnik1:
Another Russian preview from hi-tech.mail.ru:

(in Russian)

(Google translated in English)

There are some nice photos. I think I saw and some benchmarks. I haven't read it though.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
I posted this in another thread with some short summary

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=12953806&postcount=34
[Galaxy S II General] maxnik1:
I started writing my post and after I posted it I saw yours. Anyway, it's not that bad to have it in this topic.
[Galaxy S II General] kersh:
Looks like exynos will be a failurefor gaming enthusiast.

Great i dont care about games.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
No, no, I was just saying I had some short summary in that post. This thread is the right place for that link. thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] diSke:
http://hi-tech.mail.ru/static/img/review/2489/72e83d03d08f1f0a18906b5322f7997b_big.jpg

This is not so good :(

I hope this won't happen so often...
[Galaxy S II General] scorp1on1899:
That's the SGS1.
[Galaxy S II General] diSke:
Wow I'm ret***ed

Thanks for that!
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
exactly. the guy says this :

"the sgs2 is not making sounds when gripped firmly, and is very sturdy UNLIKE sgs1. but I am sure sgs2 may break after a few months just like my sgs1 did, because they are both made of plastic."

And then he is giving that picture, saying it was not even a result of dropping the phone. He probably was clumsy with battery cover removal.
[Galaxy S II General] Funkym0nkey:
That happens with careless handling. My SGS is now in hands of 3rd owner. Still spotless with multiple drops. (with gel case ) I am sure this guy got his SGS for free from Samsung and is one of those who just dont take little care while yanking out battery cover. Its clear that this can only happen when you pull out the battery cover without making sure you pull it properly with equal force on both side ensuring it comes out of those small notch locks properly.

Having said that, i wouldnt mind little heavier phone if it used aluminum casing like HTC. I quiet like my DHD. Its heavier, and I actually enjoy holding it.
[Galaxy S II General] i9100:
Looks like they are not using the production version that Eldar benchmarked. This is more like the prototype scores we have seen before.
[Galaxy S II General] kersh:
That doesnt change anything.

If the preproduction model was 1ghz and got 54fps, the 1.2ghz will not pass 65 and tegra is getting 75, and will got a lot of more attention of gaming devs that will focus on optimization for nvidia devices that will sell much more than exynos and they will give him more sales.
[Galaxy S II General] OHDUSER:
dont give a dam about DEVS.. trust me, sgs2 will have enough ROMS and support.. dont really care about games. all I want is movies..
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
actually multiple previews are suggesting that SGS2 was limiting the fps at 60 for some reason.

I myself am 90% confident most of those pre-prod versions did not have optimized libraries and drivers, or proper two-core support.
[Galaxy S II General] touness69:
Don't worry guys, those benchmark tests at hi-tech.mail.ru (and therefore the entire review) were done on the FIRST prototype that were at MWC, just look at the android version : 2.3.1

The latest GSII protoypes where we get 2700+ at quadrant are the ones with 2.3.3 and with much more optimization and final GPU drivers

Look :

Comparison between two quadrant tests done at two different moment on two differnet GSII prototypes

Test done at MWC in Barcelone in february :

[youtube]u0QBK5Etl44[/youtube]

Latest test done yesterday :

[youtube]d_mB-KA-a3M[/youtube]

Now we can safely say what we all knew since the begining, exynos processor and its GPU are much more powerful than TEGRA 2

And for the one that said that 59fps in neocore is less than TEGRA 2 apparently don't know that Samsung is blocking the fps count to that limit (60fps) for battery savings because it's completely useless to go over that limit since no one will see the difference. Just like the original galaxy S was blocked at 56fps...

PS: Do anyone saw another android phone that have 45fps in the 2D test ? O.o
[Galaxy S II General] Nameless21:
sorry wrong. can't delete.
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvmalik:
Whether if Samsung is limiting the FPS to 60 for the purpose to push Tegra 2 later on in time OR to conserve battery, I know this processor has more potential then it is currently producing.
[Galaxy S II General] why_999:
You aware your on a forum originally a developers forum/website..
[Galaxy S II General] OHDUSER:
all I meant was that there are majority of devs we shouldnt care about (the majority who devs for tegra 2 and etc... ) as they wouldnt help us..

we should care about the devs that will..
[Galaxy S II General] walk.away:
The SGS2 wont "suck" for gaming. There is another article somewhere explaining the fps given by the GS2. Think it's an anandtech one.

But anyway, like the GalaxyS, the phone uses v-sync so that fps is linked to the refresh rate of the screen, therefore is limited to 60fps. Hence benchamrks will have values slightly below 60fps as during the heavy intensive graphic sections the framerate will dip, so the average will be below 60.

If any benefit from having a framerate greater than 60fps on a phone I'd like to know what it is.
[Galaxy S II General] MoonRaven:
It's nice to show off an FPS counter? :o

No real purpose though for over 60 fps imo. The video's/games will be smooth with the cap.
[Galaxy S II General] walk.away:
Yeh, pure e-peni boosting pleasure is the only reason.

I still think I would take slightly slower fps on an SuperAmoled than higher on an lcd.
[Galaxy S II General] silverwolf0:
How about create a 1x1 pixel game that displays a single white dot. That would be a great fps booster.
[Galaxy S II General] teh_pwnage:
I have version 2 of that game planned for you... it will have a black background :P
[Galaxy S II General] speedfrog:
1.2 Ghz model?

is there any articles or videos with the 1.2ghz model with the samsung logo?
[Galaxy S II General] ankushkatari:
Theres one tv ad floating around and some images available on their microsite.. i think thats about it.
[Galaxy S II General] speedfrog:
yea, i have seen it.

but thanks anyway :)
[Galaxy S II General] dehem333:
lol what a troll. Also , i removed the back of my sgs literally a million times(2 batteries and sims) and its still all good even when removing careless.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
An article in Russian from Eldar Murtazin, about Nokia .

http://mobile-review.com/articles/2011/birulki-115.shtml

He however briefly mentions Samsung SGSII, says full review will be out this week. Some points he made:

1) he is very impressed with the phone in general

2) the battery life is great (twice better than the original SGS and one of the best in the class)

3) the CPU is very speedy (Quadrant score 3000 without any tricks, up to 3500 with some tune ups).

4) the SAmoled+ on the retail version he is using is an improved version of SAmoled+ that was present on the prototypes. Changes are in the areas of power savings and color temperature settings.
[Galaxy S II General] ankushkatari:
Thats excellent. Cant wait to read the full report.
[Galaxy S II General] rons_sacramental:
Thanks........
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvmalik:
Sounds great, aside from the benchmark scores, I think this device will have a pleasant and useful user experience.
[Galaxy S II General] rons_sacramental:
Did u get any news on the release in mumbai??
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvmalik:
Android_master is heading there, he should be able to give some updates this evening.
[Galaxy S II General] NZtechfreak:
Nice headsup on the Mobile-review statement there, now looking forward to the full write up this week :)

Good thing too, the drought in news since the Phonearena piece is making me twitchy!
[Galaxy S II General] sckc23:
Thanks for sharing this great info mate. Would be so impressed if battery life is really twice that of the original SGS.
[Galaxy S II General] Master05:
Seriously guys, this is almost getting fishy as I hardly see any downsides on this great phone :D

Well maybe the backcover, the missing camera button but that's all if you ask me. The rest seems to be impressively good and what is most important to me, it has a great performance from what we've heard (I'm one of the pitiful Omnia HD users so I know how messy Sammy's work can be :eek:)
[Galaxy S II General] silverwolf0:
I dunno Russian and Google translate isn't very clear. Is his full review going to be with a prototype or a finalized retail product? He seems to go on about the invalidity of prototypes compared to the actual shipping phone. And is that color temp thing he mentions the same thing as the color tone option you see in videos of the movie player, or a complete change of the temp of the display itself?
[Galaxy S II General] NZtechfreak:
In the phonearena video review he goes into Settings to change the colour temp, it kinda looked to me like it was system wide (then when he's playing the video he shows another, separate, set of colour temperature settings within the video player app - the settings even have different titles, so they don't seem like the same ones only reproduced in the video player UI). I'm quite interested to know if its system wide also...
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
Yes has been criticizing other reviewers for releasing reviews of prototypes, in a number of articles on different sites last week.

He has an SGSII retail for ONE week and counting now. That is why I am checking his sites practically hourly. :)

The display - hard to understand what he means and if that is even true. He says the new (exist in his SA+ retail, did not exist in SA+ prototype) screen temp settings allow you to achieve softer tones and less vivid picture that is great when watching movies. I swear I saw this done in some prototype video. So I am not sure if he is describing the same thing, or there is something new on top of that. I think it is possible that he is comparing to a very old prototype, and some newer prototypes are closer to his retail unit.

I think I saw that there has been a couple of logo-less units with NO "not for sale" etched on the back? This tells me there are different batches of prototypes, of different dates :)
[Galaxy S II General] spyrale:
Focus on internet browsing (eng)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSZTRGvHo6s&feature=player_embedded
[Galaxy S II General] Cayenne Pepper:
Nice video.

Fast and smooth browsing. I'm more and more impressed by this phone. :)
[Galaxy S II General] sckc23:
Heres the english version:

http://mobile-review.com/articles/2011/birulki-115-en.shtml#6

"The resulting review will be quite long as I am passionate about the model. I am pretty sure it will be one of the best in 2011."
[Galaxy S II General] mimstyle:
wow it kill my lg optimus 2x
[Galaxy S II General] silverwolf0:
I have never kept up with a phone as closely as the sgs2. Is it normal to have so many different prototypes spread out over half the globe from Russia to Vietnam to china to Korea to France with individual testers in every region? I would think they would have a more finalized version of the phone before spreading it around for elaborate testing. There seems to be so many prototypes. Is samsung purposely leaking or letting testers leak all those millions of YouTube videos, as well as sending prototypes to every mobile site imaginable every week in a staggered fashion to keep interest constantly high?
[Galaxy S II General] harpstar:
"The resulting review will be quite long as I am passionate about the model. I am pretty sure it will be one of the best in 2011."[/QUOTE]

Seems as though the author is hedging a bit...

I am PRETTY sure it will be ONE of the best in 2011.
[Galaxy S II General] fracmo2000:
Seems as though the author is hedging a bit...

I am PRETTY sure it will be ONE of the best in 2011.

I dunno, its getting to almost the half way point for 2011, after the summer its gonna be the sgs2 and the iphone5 leading the pack...nvidia will show off its quadcore tegra powered phones in august...but I doubt they will get them out to customers until Oct earliest...prob Dec. Then the rest will follow suit (samsung have accouned they plan to release a 2ghz per core cpu for next year). Nvidia could mess up the balance big time if they could get their chips out just a month or two before the others, they would really spice things up. The tegra2 was waaaay overdue (think it was demoed in feb2010).
[Galaxy S II General] SeaWaLK:
No doubt at all. Plus keeping us all waiting for the phone. Heck, maybe leak rumours are released by them like India Samsung mobile.
[Galaxy S II General] NZtechfreak:
Few more previews etc coming in:

Phones4U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvmmmah_dVs&feature=player_embedded

Dialaphone

http://blog.dialaphone.co.uk/2011/04/18/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-galaxy-defender/
[Galaxy S II General] gabby131:
hmm.....so it ended up being a 1.2ghz dual core cpu.....was getting confused before....home mine will arrive early May...... :)

a CNET preview.

kinda lazy to look, but please let me know if this is a double post....
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
The dialaphone bird needs to buy a nail file.

None of those seem to be retail models as none have the Samsung logo on the front.
[Galaxy S II General] drmz86:
He also mentioned on his Tweeter account that the CPU and camera module are different and of course improved :D.. he said that the camera has completely new level of quality and much better than in the HTC Sensation; also, the phone will come with more software preinstalled..

Here are some examples of the new camera photos from his tweet:

h--p://t.co/Y2noJb5

h--p://t.co/efRMXCX

h--p://t.co/p5boDp4

h--p://t.co/QGSiUwt
[Galaxy S II General] coincoinlapin:
30 fps just doesn't cut it...Choppy cars in the 1080p video...
[Galaxy S II General] Beards:
That could be down to it being a YouTube edited version.
[Galaxy S II General] NZtechfreak:
Nothing wrong with 30fps at all, its the quality of the 30fps that matters - how many dropped and/or duplicated frames there are.

Just took a look at the full untouched video, and its certainly smoother than the youTube version, a few duplicated/skipped frames in evidence, but I think its hard to expect better at this stage on a mobile phone. Will be interesting to see whether the bump in CPU speed will smooth it even further.
[Galaxy S II General] d3sm0nd:
So there is no video review/preview of a retail version?

That's bad... it should ship soon, but the fact that nobody seen a retail version so far worries me...
[Galaxy S II General] ndnesh:
Agreed! And not to mention, all the videos we have been seeing are from Preproduction hardware with test firmwares. Once the retail unit is in the market, we should see how good the video is. I was quite happy with the video(I downloaded the untouched video and watched it on a 19 inch wide screen monitor)

Pure Awesomeness :) Cant wait.

Samsung, listen to our pleas/rants/prayers/outbursts/frustrations/etc.

Release the phone!
[Galaxy S II General] ndnesh:
Wow! Loved the previews! Thank you!
[Galaxy S II General] flooki:
You do know that movies are at 24 fps, right?

I'm sure I'm not the only one who is really turned off by this - the lock screen. I mean, I will still be getting this phone, but come on - this truly must be the most ridiculous lock screen I've ever seen.

NZtechfreak posted this video by Dialaphone a few hours ago (I'm not allowed to post links yet).

Skip forward to 1:06 - What the hell is going on there? Couldn't Samsung do any better? I'm usually not very nitpicking but you will be seeing this screen very often, and you will probably be able to replace it, but come on - it's just awful.
[Galaxy S II General] shorty083:
Guess I will be using widgetlocker again, until the 5 lockscreen mod is available for this phone.
[Galaxy S II General] tjtj4444:
24fps/30fps in general is choppy, easy to test if you have a monitor/TV with 24Hz support connected to your computer and move around some application windows in 24Hz mode.

A professional movie photographer compensates for this by using a small aperture when filming a movie, this causes a bluriness for everything that moves that hides this choppiness. This is easy to check by pausing a movie during fast movements, especially during outdoor scenes where there are no technical reasons not to have a sharp image.

But a phone like galaxy S2 probably gives razor sharp images for each frame (At least with the settings in the "bus-movie") and this causes choppiness. 50/60Hz is a minimum to have both a sharp and fluid movie. But 100/120Hz is even better of course.

Note: I'm not talking about the big lag in beginning of the "Bus-movie", I'm talking about the smaller chopiness all the time when the vehicles drives by.
[Galaxy S II General] golf2vr6:
Eldar's review planned for end of the week:

http://twitter.com/#!/eldarmurtazin/status/60306932694646784
[Galaxy S II General] ankushkatari:
thats too far...lol
[Galaxy S II General] aztekkakas:
New videos

Hi! I found two new full HD video samples on YouTube. :)

youtube.com/watch?v=HEhAt0IEv6I

youtube.com/watch?v=YfsX6oGNTKw
[Galaxy S II General] kersh:
choppy, choppiness everywhere.

God, why no one can make a stupid camera like nokia ones.
[Galaxy S II General] OHDUSER:
both vids looks perfectly smooth to me O_O

your browser/internet speed just sucks... or maybe even CPU..

I see its smooth as butter..

and its smooth WITH the youtube compression..
[Galaxy S II General] touness69:
Same here O.o I have just posted a youtube comment on the second vid saying how it was smooth and without the slight lag. Your PC/browser must suck I don't see what else it can be
[Galaxy S II General] Quist:
The sure-fire way of checking if choppy video is due to the computer or the film is to watch the motion in the 360p mode on Youtube. If it looks like there's no chop there, but there is chop in 1080p, your system or ISP is getting in the way.

I see a good bit of choppiness in the second film, but it's far better than any other camera phone could do at that res. There're lots of lines and fine details and panning will always cause frame drops or repeated frames.

Also, yes, the resolution of each frame is amazing. Looking at the samples on GSM Arena, you can pause it and literally read all of the license plate numbers of the cars passing by.

How ever you cut it, the SGSII is still the best performer for video at 1080p. Here you can't compare it to the N8, because the N8 only goes up to 720p for video.
[Galaxy S II General] paranoid2007:
Hmm, I'm unimpressed. The colors in the second video look completely dull and washed out. Just the look of photos I'm used to with my Galaxy S.
[Galaxy S II General] kersh:
Oh yes, i7 860, 4gb ram, gtx 580, but yes, it is my computer problem not people who havent see any decent camera running much better and fluid @ 24fps than the SII videos at false 30fps.

The videos are choppy and the cars doesnt move smooth. If you dont see any problem it looks like you should go to an oftalmologist or at least see a decent camera recording same things.

And choppiness cant be justified saying "even with that is the best phone camera ever". If is choppy is choppy, I dont care that are not other phones with this quality, I only see a 30fps video that looks like a 20fps video.

This is a true 30fps video

[YOUTUBE]54c4A707_Mc[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]ZRGRO1hXklI[/YOUTUBE] [youtube]XH6ij-pRL7w[/youtube]

Galaxy 2 isnt even close, and I dont speak about image quality, I only compare the smooth flow. The 30fps @ galaxy s2 are simply false advertisement and marketing.
[Galaxy S II General] spyrale:
the only thing that is choppy is your computer friend :D
[Galaxy S II General] M-en-M:
Shuddery? Absolutely.

Choppy? Something's wrong on your end, mate.
[Galaxy S II General] linhsiaohung:
I'm not sure if the car speed would have something to do with these comparison.
[Galaxy S II General] silverwolf0:
It's choppy no matter how you slice it. Not super choppy, but enough to make you feel like parts of the image are "stuck" for a split second at certain points, especially when panning. Shuddery and choppiness are the same words to me. However, I disagree that 30fps is a false advertisement. That would make almost every other smartphone, many cameras, and flipcams a lie. The definition is muddier than that as well as framerate consistency. A lot of the VGA captures on Nokia phones (the ones I remember like the N95, dunno about the newer crop) had super smooth capture even in low light, so it's not unprecedented in phones.

What makes the SGS2 stand out is how it adjusts to light (100x smoother than the likes of Moto and HTC) and the amount of detail and sharpness each frame captures, especially noticeable when paused. Blurrier captures will look smoother just on the basis of motion blur.The videos remind me a lot of *certain* h.264 movie encodes where the framerate seems to be deliberately jerky to put more bits into the resolved detail, as opposed to the equivalent WMV encode which is smooth but rather soft and blurry and individual frames that aren't keyframes are pretty blurry and smeared looking.
[Galaxy S II General] EleCtrOx666:
OMG is the Galaxy S II not better than dedicated cameras ? I'm not getting it !

[/irony]

It's a phone don't forget it, and a thin phone, so quality seems great here for the phone size. Don't expect the phone being better than a dedicated camera, seems very logic to me...
[Galaxy S II General] touness69:
I'd rather say "dedicated" camera
[Galaxy S II General] EleCtrOx666:
Yeah probably but I think it's pretty clear what I've meant. Replaced it though.
[Galaxy S II General] arjun90:
Are you still waiting for the Samsung Galaxy S2?

http://samsunggalaxys2review.org/

http://samsunggalaxys2review.org/are-you-still-waiting-for-the-samsung-galaxy-s2

Well, the wait for Samsung’s Galaxy S2 is almost over, for a few countries at least. With the hype and excitement for Samsung’s latest flagship, most Galaxy S2 fans will probably be disappointed to hear that Samsung already has its next-generation mobile processors in the works, according to a high-ranking Samsung

Official. Sporting a dual-core 2GHz Exynos Processor, this will essentially bridge the gap between the mobile-phone platform and desktop computers. Samsung hopes to release their next line of processors by next year; manufacturing these CPU’s not just for their lineup, but for other popular devices as well, like the Apple iPhone and iPad. Could this explain why Apple is pushing the iPhone 5 launch date? Hey, you never know.

We could potentially see prototypes of Samsung’s new CPU on display at CES 2012 or MWC 2012 next year; the CPU is still in the works.

The wait is far from over for the Galaxy S2 in some countries.

Are you still going to be a daddy of the Galaxy S2, or are you thinking to prepare for the Galaxy S “3″?

Share your thoughts below.