Samsung Galaxy S II

ciaran75 · 30-08-2011 01:57PM

Mega Chin wrote: »

Youre using hotmail :pac:

Really though I dont think the stock app can sync folders with hotmail (or at all maybe). Try something like K9. That could be able

Thanks for this. Just tried to install.
not working yet. will look at it further later.

Cheers

Zagato · 30-08-2011 05:25PM

ciaran75 wrote: »

just got my S2

when i setup my hotmail i can see the inbox fine but i can not see any of the folders. Anyone know what i am doing wrong or how to fix?

Cheers,

If you press inbox at the to of the screen, it should give you a list of folders, failing that get a gmail account :-)

AntiRip · 30-08-2011 07:37PM

Does anyone else have an issue with very weak wifi signal with the S2. I mean having one bar or none in one place where you'd be getting full bars with another phone (i.e. iphone 3GS) ??

evolutionqy7 · 31-08-2011 12:23AM

Any one else got the phone overheating when you turn the brightness up to Max. It drained half the battery in an hour with wifi only and no cellular connection.

When I went into settings to turn it down it had it maxed at 75 with a note saying phone turned it down to prevent overheating problems lol

PrzemoF · 31-08-2011 07:29AM

jammer84 wrote: »

Nope, you will need to flash into a root kernel in order to unlock the phone.

If you don't want to flash to KH3 you can download the CF-Root that matches your kernel.

My S2 is now rooted & unlocked

I used heimdall - it was very, very easy

A next step will be Cyanogenmod

marcbrophy · 31-08-2011 08:48AM

PrzemoF wrote: »

A next step will be Cyanogenmod

Let me know what you make of Cyanogenmod?
I think it's still got a few issues under the hood though

jammer84 · 31-08-2011 09:11AM

PrzemoF wrote: »

My S2 is now rooted & unlocked
I used heimdall - it was very, very easy

A next step will be Cyanogenmod

Good stuff!

AntiRip · 31-08-2011 09:46AM

AntiRip wrote: »

Does anyone else have an issue with very weak wifi signal with the S2. I mean having one bar or none in one place where you'd be getting full bars with another phone (i.e. iphone 3GS) ??

Seriously guys, simple question. Any issue with wifi signal?

Professey Chin · 31-08-2011 10:40AM

Cant say there is with me anyway. Getting pretty much equal strength all over my house with a GS2, my laptop and my tablet

Zith · 31-08-2011 11:03AM

AntiRip wrote: »

Seriously guys, simple question. Any issue with wifi signal?

Yes, it has always been reported very low on my SG2. I think it underestimates because even with 1 little bar showing I get full speed from the Wifi.

AntiRip · 31-08-2011 11:33AM

Zith wrote: »

Yes, it has always been reported very low on my SG2. I think it underestimates because even with 1 little bar showing I get full speed from the Wifi.

The most I get around the house is 1 bar. I need to be beside the router to get full bars. I used to have full bars with 3GS.

I'm just underneath the router now and still only getting one bar and Wifi Analyzer is telling me the signal is -70dBm.

Only have it 4 days and wondering should I take back for replacement?

Zagato · 31-08-2011 04:04PM

AntiRip wrote: »

Zith wrote: »

Yes, it has always been reported very low on my SG2. I think it underestimates because even with 1 little bar showing I get full speed from the Wifi.

The most I get around the house is 1 bar. I need to be beside the router to get full bars. I used to have full bars with 3GS.

I'm just underneath the router now and still only getting one bar and Wifi Analyzer is telling me the signal is -70dBm.

Only have it 4 days and wondering should I take back for replacement?

Find out what radio you're using, settings > about phone > what baseband does it say you have? Just look at the last 3 letters/numbers i.e. KF3 our whatever.

Now have a look at some forums and see if others have wifi problems with this radio. If it is a problem with the radio you have you can just download and flash a different one, 'cos if that's the problem, then changing it for a new phone (with probably the same radio) won't make a lot of difference. I'm using the latest one KH3 and find wifi pretty good. No problems surfing upstairs when my router is downstairs

jos28 · 31-08-2011 07:10PM

Apologies if this in the wrong place. Could someone recommend the best way to store birthday reminders in the s2. In my older phones I entered them all manually using the calendar. Is there a better way ?

AntiRip · 31-08-2011 07:11PM

Zagato wrote: »

Find out what radio you're using, settings > about phone > what baseband does it say you have? Just look at the last 3 letters/numbers i.e. KF3 our whatever.

Now have a look at some forums and see if others have wifi problems with this radio. If it is a problem with the radio you have you can just download and flash a different one, 'cos if that's the problem, then changing it for a new phone (with probably the same radio) won't make a lot of difference. I'm using the latest one KH3 and find wifi pretty good. No problems surfing upstairs when my router is downstairs

Think it was KG2. I've rooted it and put on Lite'ning Rom v6.1 XXKH3 which made no difference to signal.

Think is though, I can surf away with it and I did a speedtest with the speedtest.net app and the speed is pretty good.

Zith may be right, maybe it's underestimating the strength of the signal?

Blisterman · 31-08-2011 09:20PM

Switching over from the iPhone, one thing which has annoyed me is that writing "im" translates to "Important" rather than "I'm", resulting in several confused text recipients.

Is there a way to manually select what words are autocorrected?

Grassey · 31-08-2011 09:29PM

you could try the following see if it helps, I used it to stop words like "I'm, I'd, I've etc" spawning word suggestions after only 2 characters have been typed.

when on keypad for texting, press the "gears" symbol to go into settings,

1. under XT9 advanced settings change the word completion point to 3 or 4 letters
2. (optional) enable auto-substitution so im becomes I'm etc

Hope it helps some.

evolutionqy7 · 31-08-2011 09:49PM

Blisterman wrote: »

Switching over from the iPhone, one thing which has annoyed me is that writing "im" translates to "Important" rather than "I'm", resulting in several confused text recipients.

Is there a way to manually select what words are autocorrected?

Just buy a better keyboard. I've switched to smart keyboard and its miles ahead.

Using wp7 and IOS daily what Samsung included in the s2 for typing is a joke.

Zagato · 31-08-2011 10:58PM

AntiRip wrote: »

Think it was KG2. I've rooted it and put on Lite'ning Rom v6.1 XXKH3 which made no difference to signal.

Think is though, I can surf away with it and I did a speedtest with the speedtest.net app and the speed is pretty good.

Zith may be right, maybe it's underestimating the strength of the signal?

Maybe, I don't pay too much attention to the number of bars showing, just how long it takes to open pages, download things

marathonic · 01-09-2011 09:57AM

Okay so I've:

Receive the phone
Copied over my iPhone contacts
Ported my Three number over
Flashed Lightning ROM 6.1
Installed Go Launcher and a Theme
Installed a few Widgets
Installed TuneIn Radio (my most used iPhone app), JeFit Pro, QuickOffice, Facebook, Viber, Skype, WhatsApp and Cabbage Ultimate (another good one )....

Anything else I should be doing??

AntiRip · 01-09-2011 03:12PM

marathonic wrote: »

Okay so I've:
Receive the phone

Copied over my iPhone contacts

Ported my Three number over

Flashed Lightning ROM 6.1

Installed Go Launcher and a Theme

Installed a few Widgets

Installed TuneIn Radio (my most used iPhone app), JeFit Pro, QuickOffice, Facebook, Viber, Skype, WhatsApp and Cabbage Ultimate (another good one )....

Anything else I should be doing??

Think you're good to go

I might try VillianROM just to try it out and see if it's good. I also have LauncherPro instead of GO Launcher.

You should try Fancy Widgets also, has a pretty nice widget (Clock & Weather). FilmON TV is good (though better on iphone :rolleyes:), also try NoLED (will light up a pixal when you miss a text/call/email.

Enjoy!

marcbrophy · 01-09-2011 03:34PM

The FilmOn app in the market has been telling me for the past 2 weeks that it is incompatible with my S2 and won't allow me to install it!

Did you face the same difficulty Zag??

Zagato · 01-09-2011 04:11PM

Just seeing your post there I went to the Market, and searched for it, it says that it is compatible with some of my devices

It is not compatible with my S2, but is compatible with my Vodafone phone

I can only assume that this 'Vodafone phone' is my old Hero, which I still have, but I bought it sim-free from the UK and stuck vodafone sim in it.

I am still with Vodafone too.

Strange that it would be compatible with much older Hero, and not GS2

Can't get market to tell me why it's not compatible with my GS2 either??

AntiRip · 01-09-2011 04:41PM

Zagato wrote: »

Just seeing your post there I went to the Market, and searched for it, it says that it is compatible with some of my devices

It is not compatible with my S2, but is compatible with my Vodafone phone

I can only assume that this 'Vodafone phone' is my old Hero, which I still have, but I bought it sim-free from the UK and stuck vodafone sim in it.

I am still with Vodafone too.

Strange that it would be compatible with much older Hero, and not GS2

Can't get market to tell me why it's not compatible with my GS2 either??

That's funny because I downloaded it no problem from the market a few days ago. But when I go into "My apps" on the market it isn't there anymore but is still on my phone. It works away. But like I said above, it did work a lot better on the iphone. The resolution was a lot better so maybe that's why they pulled it, maybe

marcbrophy · 01-09-2011 06:29PM

Zagato wrote: »

Just seeing your post there I went to the Market, and searched for it, it says that it is compatible with some of my devices

It is not compatible with my S2, but is compatible with my Vodafone phone

I can only assume that this 'Vodafone phone' is my old Hero, which I still have, but I bought it sim-free from the UK and stuck vodafone sim in it.

I am still with Vodafone too.

Strange that it would be compatible with much older Hero, and not GS2

Can't get market to tell me why it's not compatible with my GS2 either??

Same here, not compatible with my S2, but just checked and it is compatible with my previous X10 and X8!!

Maybe i could d/l it to my x8 and get the .apk from it!!

BopNiblets · 01-09-2011 07:58PM

Hello gents, has anyone tried to get the Gtalk with video working using this method?
http://android.modaco.com/topic/339394-installing-google-video-chat-on-your-samsung-galaxy-s-ii/
Is there a way to do it without removing all your Google accounts?
I take it this can be done in stock rom (2.3.4)?

jonnny68 · 01-09-2011 08:50PM

jos28 wrote: »

Apologies if this in the wrong place. Could someone recommend the best way to store birthday reminders in the s2. In my older phones I entered them all manually using the calendar. Is there a better way ?

recommended app big time

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.evernote&hl=en

jonnny68 · 01-09-2011 08:53PM

marathonic wrote: »

Okay so I've:
Receive the phone

Copied over my iPhone contacts

Ported my Three number over

Flashed Lightning ROM 6.1

Installed Go Launcher and a Theme

Installed a few Widgets

Installed TuneIn Radio (my most used iPhone app), JeFit Pro, QuickOffice, Facebook, Viber, Skype, WhatsApp and Cabbage Ultimate (another good one )....

Anything else I should be doing??

Freeze Samsung bloatware for superior battery life,your obviously on XDA if you flashed Litening ROM (tip -Cognition is the best ROM)

In the Themes section look for the thread applications to remove,on page 13 there is a spreadsheet with a list of Samsung bloatware you can freeze with Titanium assuming you don't use it and watch your battery last much much longer.:)

jonnny68 · 01-09-2011 08:56PM

AntiRip wrote: »

Does anyone else have an issue with very weak wifi signal with the S2. I mean having one bar or none in one place where you'd be getting full bars with another phone (i.e. iphone 3GS) ??

i wouldn't say weak signal but certainly that is about the only flaw the GS2 has the WiFi isn't as good as my old HD2 and that is something Samsung need to address for future reference

jos28 · 01-09-2011 10:41PM

jonnny68 wrote: »

recommended app big time

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.evernote&hl=en

Thanks a million Jonny, just downloaded it, will let you know how I get on. Cheers

cantthinkof1 · 02-09-2011 02:16PM

jammer84 wrote: »

I didn't get any screen protector :-(

Any recommendations on what screen protector to purchase?

I bought one from ExpertShield and its 1st class. Great company to deal with.

Samsung Galaxy S II

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