Samsung Galaxy S II

x in the city · 12-09-2011 06:45PM

just to let ye know my sgs2 is rooted and unlocked.

quite easy, i put the .apk file into the root folder and installed it that way.

worked first time.

now if only i knew where videos and photos were stored....:eek:

marcbrophy · 12-09-2011 06:53PM

BenEadir wrote: »

Marc,

Thanks for the workaround. It seems to be working.

Weird behaviour or what?

If anyone knows how to fix the problem please let me know. I can't be turning my phone off for a couple of hours to charge during the day.

Ben

No problem.

To be honest, it might have been a temporary glitch that rebooting might have fixed. Try wait for a bit more power in the phone then turn it on whilst still charging, and see if it keeps charging after it comes on!

A few weeks ago i was getting a messagge on mine when i tried to charge it saying "Battery disconnected", which wouldn't even be possible! That went away after a reboot, so maybe the same will happen for you!!

marcbrophy · 12-09-2011 06:56PM

x in the city wrote: »

just to let ye know my sgs2 is rooted and unlocked.

quite easy, i put the .apk file into the root folder and installed it that way.

worked first time.

now if only i knew where videos and photos were stored....:eek:

Good stuff, so you found the .apk somewhere on the net in the end?

The vids and pics from the onboard camera are stores in sdcard/DCIM/Camera

ciaran75 · 12-09-2011 08:23PM

the volume on the S2 is not very loud even at max 15

is there any music app that will raise the volume
or would rooting make any difference?

cheers,

Zagato · 13-09-2011 08:17AM

ciaran75 wrote: »

the volume on the S2 is not very loud even at max 15

is there any music app that will raise the volume
or would rooting make any difference?

cheers,

This is a pretty common complaint (often when coming from an iphone), think it's a hardware issue, tbh I think it's plenty loud enough

ciaran75 · 13-09-2011 08:44PM

found this online to increase volume on S2 if anyone is interested

http://droidtricks.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-boost-or-increase-earphone.html

Cossax · 14-09-2011 01:15PM

Turning on Wireless network based location absolutely eats my battery alive. Reduces the battery from 30-35 hours to less than 20 hours if left on.

Is there anyway to have this on but reduce the frequency with which it calculates location?

Nephew · 14-09-2011 02:59PM

Is it possible to display the phone on a tv through a hdmi micro usb cable or is the expensive MHL hdmi cable the only option?

nedd · 14-09-2011 03:03PM

ciaran75 wrote: »

the volume on the S2 is not very loud even at max 15

is there any music app that will raise the volume
or would rooting make any difference?

cheers,

Try Volume+ in the market. The free version will increase the volume a little, the paid version will increase it a little more.

Kenny Logins · 14-09-2011 03:05PM

Nephew wrote: »

Is it possible to display the phone on a tv through a hdmi micro usb cable or is the expensive MHL hdmi cable the only option?

This is the cheapest I've seen....

http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/bizlink-mhl-to-hdmi-tv-out-adapter-black-p29839.htm

x in the city · 14-09-2011 05:19PM

marcbrophy wrote: »

Good stuff, so you found the .apk somewhere on the net in the end?

The vids and pics from the onboard camera are stores in sdcard/DCIM/Camera

yea i eventually found an .apk for the unlock program.

phone is good, was at a wedding and everyone was looking at it, videos in 1080p are not to be sniffed at, and with 16gig and 32gig on memory its as good as a laptop thesedays.

will, look for them folders!

Irish Gunner · 14-09-2011 06:48PM

What Launcher are people using?

I am using launcher pro free version. The only issue I am trying to figure out is with the Go SMS and the regular Messaging app. My contacts are duplicated each time I go to send a text and select a contact ?

Tried everything but cannot remove it? Anyone got any tips on how to remove duplicates?

Tried Go launcher ex but did not like this. If I could solve the duplicate contacts would be happy with Launcher pro:)

pabloh999 · 15-09-2011 01:29AM

Is there any way to move text messages from my htc hd2 winmo phone to the sgsII?

Kenny Logins · 15-09-2011 08:27AM

pabloh999 wrote: »

Is there any way to move text messages from my htc hd2 winmo phone to the sgsII?

This comes up quite often and I'm astounded by how many people want to keep old SMS messages.

Sorry, can't help..

subway · 15-09-2011 11:49AM

just wanted to post this up as i am pretty impressed by the battery stats i have been getting recently
running batista rom, 2.1.3 ninphetamine and juice defender.
i do a fair bit of browsing, videos online etc and the phone has been great the last while

subway · 15-09-2011 11:52AM

pabloh999 wrote: »

Is there any way to move text messages from my htc hd2 winmo phone to the sgsII?

from a quick search online, there is no way to back up from winph7.
if there is, then it will prbably be xml format and you may find a way to import them (eg sms backup and restore)

other than that, there might be a bacth forward feature that you could use to formward them to gmail or another phone number using free same network texts

vicM · 15-09-2011 12:47PM

subway wrote: »

just wanted to post this up as i am pretty impressed by the battery stats i have been getting recently
running batista rom, 2.1.3 ninphetamine and juice defender.
i do a fair bit of browsing, videos online etc and the phone has been great the last while

How long was the display on?
You also did a little charging (probably connected to a PC) as the little spike implies..
All in all looks impressive

subway · 15-09-2011 01:04PM

looking at it now, it was only on 3 hours so i mustnt have used it as much as usual.
i dont remember plugging it but, sure enough it did charge for a few minutes at some point.

guess its not as impressive as i thought.

vicM · 15-09-2011 01:14PM

subway wrote: »

looking at it now, it was only on 3 hours so i mustnt have used it as much as usual.
i dont remember plugging it but, sure enough it did charge for a few minutes at some point.

guess its not as impressive as i thought.

Yea, pretty hard to achieve 6 hours of browsing due to the white backgrounds of most sites..wish there was a browser that inverted bright colours to darker ones for the benefit of phones with amoled screens
Anything special with batista? Was using litening but disliked the icons and reverted to stock with root

subway · 15-09-2011 01:20PM

he does claim to have some battery saving stuff going on and i've noticed the improved life in the past few weeks, but basically, i flashed it and have stuck with it for a while.

until an AOSP rom is available i'll probably stick with this although the dev has put "final" in the thread on xda so if he stops supporting it ill move on to something thats active

vicM · 15-09-2011 01:38PM

subway wrote: »

he does claim to have some battery saving stuff going on and i've noticed the improved life in the past few weeks, but basically, i flashed it and have stuck with it for a while.

until an AOSP rom is available i'll probably stick with this although the dev has put "final" in the thread on xda so if he stops supporting it ill move on to something thats active

I really dont mind TouchWhiz, i actually like it!

Zagato · 15-09-2011 01:38PM

Is it not kind of cheating when the phone is clearly in airplane mode for periods of time -when the phone signal is switched off

subway · 15-09-2011 01:45PM

i dont consider it cheating when i said it in the post... ive had 3 android phones in the past 2 years and all go into airplane mode and night screen for the night. thats what juice defender is for.

in the past, at most i would get ~16 hours (incl airplane mode) so i think this is pretty good.

subway · 15-09-2011 01:46PM

vicM wrote: »

I really dont mind TouchWhiz, i actually like it!

its not touchwiz that i dont like (although the random app drawer sorting is something i never liked) but all the multitide of samsung apps and services that run

marcbrophy · 15-09-2011 02:00PM

subway wrote: »

its not touchwiz that i dont like (although the random app drawer sorting is something i never liked) but all the multitide of samsung apps and services that run

Do you know of any way to get apps to show up A-Z in grid view, without having to change launchers?

subway · 15-09-2011 02:04PM

unfortunately not, i never spent much time with

marcbrophy · 15-09-2011 02:23PM

Thanks anyway!

That's my biggegst gripe with touchwiz! Looks like I'll just have to get a different launcher now

ciaran75 · 15-09-2011 02:29PM

pabloh999 wrote: »

Is there any way to move text messages from my htc hd2 winmo phone to the sgsII?

if you don't mind paying €15 for it, carphone warehouse in dundrum have a device that can copy texts, contacts, pictures etc. over i believe.

pabloh999 · 15-09-2011 09:35PM

ciaran75 wrote: »

if you don't mind paying €15 for it, carphone warehouse in dundrum have a device that can copy texts, contacts, pictures etc. over i believe.

Ah im not that bothered! thanks anyway
Its a really slick phone, but the battery life gets eaten up with all this playing around, what app is best for saving the battery?

x in the city · 16-09-2011 11:17PM

one thing lads

the screen constantly goes black while you are on the phone.

seriously, wtf.

the gs1 was the same.

how do you fix this without having to hit the home button all the time.?

Samsung Galaxy S II

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