Samsung Galaxy S II

Francie Barrett · 01-03-2012 10:32pm

RangeR wrote: »

Phone ****ed. Bring it back asap. Nothing else you can that won't void warranty. Having said that, I've NEVER heard of this happening direct from retail. Dubious.

Me neither, sounds very suspect.

newbie2 · 01-03-2012 10:37pm

Thanks folks,

Will bring it back in the morning before work with an angry head on me.....

FWIW - does this happen with refurbished phones a lot? Not that I bought a refurbished one - just wondering if they are trying to pull a fast one. The sticker 'do not accept if seal is broken' was on the box - but hey - it's a sticker.

RangeR · 02-03-2012 7:33am

newbie2 wrote: »

Thanks folks,

Will bring it back in the morning before work with an angry head on me.....

FWIW - does this happen with refurbished phones a lot? Not that I bought a refurbished one - just wondering if they are trying to pull a fast one. The sticker 'do not accept if seal is broken' was on the box - but hey - it's a sticker.

Ive only heard of it happening with the flashing of after market firmware of some sort. If this was brand spanking new, id be asking O2 an awful lot of difficult questions.

newbie2 · 04-03-2012 11:53pm

FWIW - I brought it back and the rep thought it might have been my old sim card - changed it to a new one but probelm persisted. DId the IMEI number dialing thing and couldn't get a result. Rep was as perplexed as me. Immeadiatly exchanged it for a new one. No problems since....

squareboy007 · 05-03-2012 11:06am

http://www.gsmarena.com/android_40_update_for_galaxy_s_ii_said_to_arrive_on_march_15-news-3930.php

choronzonix · 05-03-2012 1:40pm

squareboy007 wrote: »

http://www.gsmarena.com/android_40_update_for_galaxy_s_ii_said_to_arrive_on_march_15-news-3930.php

Sweet. Not that i'm particularly dying for it or anything - running CheckRom v6 which has pretty much satisfied my needs as far as my phone's functionality goes. Looking forward to seeing what the mod community will do with it!

Irish Gunner · 05-03-2012 3:01pm

Probably been said before on this forum but is there anyway to increase the sound(to lazy to look through this thread :rolleyes:)

Have a Sansa MP3 player that went dead while on Public transport so took out S2(try not to on my bus route)to listen to Radio(Spirit/FM radio) sound quality is so low.

Running Ultra Toxic Rom and Siyah Kernel so anything that can be done on the low low sound?

Cheers

RangeR · 05-03-2012 3:39pm

Irish Gunner wrote: »

Probably been said before on this forum but is there anyway to increase the sound(to lazy to look through this thread :rolleyes:)

Well if yer too lazy, we'll gladly oblige. The first thing you have to ...

... hang on, can you not just click SEARCH THIS THREAD, above, and enter in "increase sound" to get your answer. Takes all of 10 lazy seconds.

Irish Gunner · 05-03-2012 6:52pm

RangeR wrote: »

Well if yer too lazy, we'll gladly oblige. The first thing you have to ...

... hang on, can you not just click SEARCH THIS THREAD, above, and enter in "increase sound" to get your answer. Takes all of 10 lazy seconds.

Great help but nothing on this thread:P

Search Result

RangeR · 05-03-2012 8:39pm

Irish Gunner wrote: »

Great help but nothing on this thread:P

Search Result

I know. I searched before I posted. But it answered your question.

Elessar · 05-03-2012 8:47pm

I installed the Ice Cream Sandwich update on my SGS2 earlier and first impressions are it is...slow. Slower than Gingerbread that's for sure. The display seemed nicer to look at on GB too, the ICS display seems much more pixelated and off colour. Can't see too many major differences after that...

I might just change back to GB.

marcbrophy · 05-03-2012 9:04pm

Elessar wrote: »

I installed the Ice Cream Sandwich update on my SGS2 earlier and first impressions are it is...slow. Slower than Gingerbread that's for sure. The display seemed nicer to look at on GB too, the ICS display seems much more pixelated and off colour. Can't see too many major differences after that...

I might just change back to GB.

Where did you get this ICS update?
There is no official version released as of yet!

Elessar · 05-03-2012 9:09pm

marcbrophy wrote: »

Where did you get this ICS update?
There is no official version released as of yet!

It has been leaked the past few weeks.

Can't say I'm impressed with it.

marcbrophy · 05-03-2012 9:16pm

Elessar wrote: »

It has been leaked the past few weeks.

Can't say I'm impressed with it.

The latest leak 'LPH' is still a beta version, so don't be too harsh on it, it's not a finished product yet!

I tried it myself, but went back to GB too!

Elessar · 05-03-2012 9:19pm

marcbrophy wrote: »

The latest leak 'LPH' is still a beta version, so don't be too harsh on it, it's not a finished product yet!

I tried it myself, but went back to GB too!

Hmm think I'll wait for the finished product like yourself!

Can you tell me what the name of the firmware you use for GB is called? Think mine ended in KE1.

marcbrophy · 05-03-2012 9:29pm

Elessar wrote: »

Hmm think I'll wait for the finished product like yourself!

Can you tell me what the name of the firmware you use for GB is called? Think mine ended in KE1.

KE1 is fairly old (think it was version 2.3.3) so I doubt it was that.

The latest one I tried was LPH custom rom from wanam. It was the V9.0 that I tried (based on 4.0.3).

ShaneU · 05-03-2012 9:32pm

Touchwiz ruins ICS on the SGS2 anyway, I'm not exactly counting down the days til release.

Elessar · 05-03-2012 10:42pm

marcbrophy wrote: »

KE1 is fairly old (think it was version 2.3.3) so I doubt it was that.

The latest one I tried was LPH custom rom from wanam. It was the V9.0 that I tried (based on 4.0.3).

Yep it was 2.3.3 - never saw the need to update (couldn't anyway I use a mac :rolleyes: )

2.3.6 was the last GB release, correct?

Professey Chin · 05-03-2012 10:43pm

ShaneU wrote: »

Touchwiz ruins ICS on the SGS2 anyway, I'm not exactly counting down the days til release.

Sooner its released, sooner samsung release the source, sooner we have fully working CM9

rommy · 06-03-2012 4:42am

@Elessar 2.3.7 is the last gb atm,as for ics i gota say so far i dont like it but as ppl have said its not the final yet.......

marcbrophy · 06-03-2012 9:29am

ShaneU wrote: »

Touchwiz ruins ICS on the SGS2 anyway, I'm not exactly counting down the days til release.

I don't use TW launcher anyway, so I really don't care about it's existance!
Once you get into the menus, it's all the same thing :pac:

CraigSmith_IO · 06-03-2012 9:42am

Mine is dying.

It now activates car mode itself (didn't even know it had a car mode) and it also activates the speech recognition too. Now when I walk anywhere all I can hear every now and then is "What would you like to do?" coming from the phone.

Battery life is lasting say 4 hours max now and the phone goes into a self imposed coma when it wants to. Refuses to charge sometimes. No doubt when it's sent to Fonfix I'll be told water damage or something. :mad:

Johnniep · 06-03-2012 11:14am

CraigSmith_IO wrote: »

Mine is dying. It now activates car mode itself (didn't even know it had a car mode) and it also activates the speech recognition too. Now when I walk anywhere all I can hear every now and then is "What would you like to do?" coming from the phone.

Battery life is lasting say 4 hours max now and the phone goes into a self imposed coma when it wants to. Refuses to charge sometimes. No doubt when it's sent to Fonfix I'll be told water damage or something. :mad:

I had the same issue with mine. Also had an issue with it charging so thought it might be a problem with the charging port. They are available on ebay quiet cheap so changed it out and not a problem since. Something like this should do the trick!

joker77 · 06-03-2012 3:45pm

Bit late to the game I know, but was waiting for my upgrade to roll around, it did today so I'm moving from the old HTC Desire to the Galaxy S II

Really enjoyed the Desire, battery life obviously the main gripe, sh*tty camera the second.

Hope the Galaxy is a little better than the last Samsung I owned - the F480 tocco - easily the worst phone I've ever had, absolute piece of junk

Irish Gunner · 06-03-2012 6:14pm

In relation to my question on how to increase the sound/volume on the phone has anyone tried the below taken from XDA

If so does it work and what settings did you adjust it to?

A) Enter service mode by typing below code on your dialer :
*#*#197328640#*#*
click the following:
[5] AUDIO
[1] NB (VOICE CALL)
Choose Handset, headset, Speaker (which ever you want higher volume)
[1] VOLUME
[1] SRC Speech RX Volume
Change default values and higher the values any number of your choosing, here is an example:
[0]0_lvl : 68
[1]1_lvl : 72
[2]2_lvl : 76
[3]3_lvl : 80
[4]4_lvl : 84
[5]5_lvl : 88 Higher these values to until hear volume improvement.

Can also edit the values from:
[2]DST I2S1 TX Volume
[3]SRC I2S1 RX Volume: 100
[4]DST Speech TX Volume: 94

Cloonbigman · 06-03-2012 10:51pm

Lordfranto wrote: »

Hi all just wondering if anyone knows where i might source a noontec A9 android tv box? Only places I've find em so far have been maplin.co.UK and they're out of stock till Jan and on Australian ebay but the dood wants nearly the cost of the box in postage? if anyone is browsing and they come across one please let me know thanx!

You can get it in Maplin Ireland now but I think it costs around 200€ so it's much cheaper to buy on eBay or Amazon from UK. I've ordered one, should get it this week. I'll let you know if it's worth buying

-Corkie- · 08-03-2012 11:29am

rommy wrote: »

@Elessar 2.3.7 is the last gb atm,as for ics i gota say so far i dont like it but as ppl have said its not the final yet.......

I am on 2.3.5 how do I update to 2.3.7???. My phone says I do not need a update..

RangeR · 08-03-2012 11:51am

-Corkie- wrote: »

I am on 2.3.5 how do I update to 2.3.7???. My phone says I do not need a update..

That's probably ASOP 2.3.7 and not Sammy's version. If you want 2.3.7, try DarkyROM.

ShaneU · 08-03-2012 11:08pm

ICS arriving on Saturday (in the U.S. at least)

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/8/2855598/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-ice-cream-sandwich-release-date-official

Elessar · 08-03-2012 11:13pm

No Flash support or Bluetooth 3 support apparently.

Why no flash support I wonder??

ShaneU · 08-03-2012 11:15pm

Don't know, I won't be upgrading until flash is there.

marcbrophy · 08-03-2012 11:56pm

ShaneU wrote: »

ICS arriving on Saturday (in the U.S. at least)

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/8/2855598/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-ice-cream-sandwich-release-date-official

It says that the international version gets it first, then the US version after their carriers have approved it.
It's worded terribly, but the international version is the GT-I9100, the one that Ireland got!

Dimithy · 08-03-2012 11:58pm

Flash works fine with ICS, the latest version of flash in the market even says it works with 4.0.

god's toy · 09-03-2012 6:29am

It's the Chrome Browser that doesn't have Flash support not ICS.

griffdaddy · 09-03-2012 9:38am

Official samsung twitter says it's actually not tomorrow, and that they'll let us know when they have a concrete release schedule. I wish they'd hurry up.

-Corkie- · 09-03-2012 7:50pm

griffdaddy wrote: »

Official samsung twitter says it's actually not tomorrow, and that they'll let us know when they have a concrete release schedule. I wish they'd hurry up.

Will each provider not have to approve it before you can upgrade or how does it work..

AntiRip · 09-03-2012 8:09pm

Tbh after trying out a few ICS Roms (I'm back on 2.3.6 now) I wasn't overly impressed by it. Not sure if that's a good comparison to make with an official release as all the bugs should be ironed out. Chrome was unusable it was so buggy as it's only beta.

Extremely happy with RevoHD v6 atm.

Shuwaaah · 09-03-2012 8:31pm

Hey, bit of a silly question but if anyone knows the answer it would be great. Got my S2 back in june, synced with facebook and google and whatnot, and the FB pics were appearing as my contact profile pics by default.

Had problems last week and had to reset the phone, a faulty hardware component was replaced and software updated. Got it back and restored my phone contacts I had backed up to Kies (my contacts are set to display phone only and not SIM, as it won't let me join my sim contacts with anything), and did the usual sync with google and fb, but the fb contact photos aren't coming up in the messaging app. I've tried deleting the facebook account and syncing through social hub, and still no luck, I've tried going into contacts>display options>facebook and ticking 'all contacts' and still no joy. Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

AntiRip · 09-03-2012 8:44pm

Shuwaaah wrote: »

Hey, bit of a silly question but if anyone knows thye answer it would be great. Got my S2 back in june, synced with facebook and google and whatnot, and the FB pics were appearing as my contact profile pics by default.

Had problems last week and had to reset the phone, a faulty hardware component was replaced and software updated. Got it back and restored my phone contacts I had backed up to Kies (my contacts are set to display phone only and not SIM, as it won't let me join my sim contacts with anything), and did the usual sync with google and fb, but the fb contact photos aren't coming up in the messaging app. I've tried deleting the facebook account and syncing through social hub, and still no luck, I've tried going into contacts>display options>facebook and ticking 'all contacts' and still no joy. Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Give this app a go a see does it resolve your problem

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsInJvLndlZWRuZXQuY29udGFjdHNzeW5jIl0.

Shuwaaah · 09-03-2012 9:25pm

Thanks a million, tried it but still no luck. You know when you go to write a new message and when you start to type in your recipient, it gives you a drop down menu with options? It gives me a rake of different options on this menu, lets say for 'Joe Smith' it gives me a 2 Joe options, one with the normal mobile number and another with the international prefix included, then I have another two with Joe Smith, one with the international prefix and without, and then on top of that I have the gmail option or whatever, I wonder could this be the root of the problem?

I've tried going through all my contacts on my phone and making sure there is just one phone number for each of them but when I sync with facebook or that app, all these extra numbers come up in messaging. This is driving me mental cos I did it before with no hassle whatsoever, I've no idea what I'm doing differently

AntiRip · 09-03-2012 11:07pm

Sorry I'm out of ideas only that I do remember being driven mad with my first Android phone Xperia X8 with contacts from twitter and Facebook coming in separate from my phone contacts.

What I did was synced all my phonebook contacts with my Gmail account and filled any extra information in my Gmail. I stopped syncing with facebook and twitter. Never any issues since on my third android phone but I don't have facebook anymore so it may not suit you if your friends change their profile pics alot.

-Corkie- · 10-03-2012 11:05am

Is ICS available here today????.

10-03-2012 11:08am

No, the announcement was a mistake.

-Corkie- · 10-03-2012 12:06pm

baz8080 wrote: »

No, the announcement was a mistake.

Google seems to suggest the 15th of March.. Can it be updated via the phone or will it have to be Kies???.

Shuwaaah · 10-03-2012 1:47pm

AntiRip wrote: »

Sorry I'm out of ideas only that I do remember being driven mad with my first Android phone Xperia X8 with contacts from twitter and Facebook coming in separate from my phone contacts.

What I did was synced all my phonebook contacts with my Gmail account and filled any extra information in my Gmail. I stopped syncing with facebook and twitter. Never any issues since on my third android phone but I don't have facebook anymore so it may not suit you if your friends change their profile pics alot.

Got it sorted after a LOT of messing around. I had the phone set not to display my sim contacts, but it was using them my default anyway, and I wasn't able to change it. Once I deleted all my sim contacts and synced phone contacts with facebook for social hub, was able to set the pictures and names and associated numbers to default according to my preferences, its all working perfectly now. Thanks a million for the advice, very much appreciated.

wreckless · 10-03-2012 9:02pm

setup Resurrection remix 9.6 today, seems very stable and works so well, so much customization. anyone else using it?

BenEadir · 10-03-2012 11:20pm

Just loaded Resurrection Remix 9.4 :rolleyes: Where did you get 9.6???

It looks very good. Can't get Handscent to work but that's probably more an ICS issue than Resurrection. Not sure what is the best launcher to use with ICS though. Have been using Go Launcher for a good while but it's not got that "ICS" sexiness going on.

Also, the Chrome browser looks potentially excellent. It automatically sync's your bookmarks with your Laptop/PC version of Chrome which should be useful.

Ben

AntiRip · 11-03-2012 9:35am

BenThere wrote: »

Just loaded Resurrection Remix 9.4 :rolleyes: Where did you get 9.6???

It looks very good. Can't get Handscent to work but that's probably more an ICS issue than Resurrection. Not sure what is the best launcher to use with ICS though. Have been using Go Launcher for a good while but it's not got that "ICS" sexiness going on.

Also, the Chrome browser looks potentially excellent. It automatically sync's your bookmarks with your Laptop/PC version of Chrome which should be useful.

Ben

Hi Ben

Resurrection Remix 9.6 can be gotten from the XDA forums:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1436854

One of the best launchers for ICS I've heard is Nova Launcher. Don't know if you've heard of it? More about it and download HERE

I use 360 Launcher myself and love it, but I'm still on 2.3.6. Looking at that link now I see it's been updated for tablet so must check it out!

Vahevala · 12-03-2012 9:22am

My SGS2 keeps from time to time randomly restarting :mad:, I also have the issue with low sound during calls, so I end up having to manually enter all the settings to raise the volume for incalls and then it could restart and I would have to do it all over again...

Does anyone else have this restart bug??

Cazale · 12-03-2012 10:58am

Vahevala wrote: »

My SGS2 keeps from time to time randomly restarting :mad:, I also have the issue with low sound during calls, so I end up having to manually enter all the settings to raise the volume for incalls and then it could restart and I would have to do it all over again...

Does anyone else have this restart bug??

I had this last month. It got progressively worse until the phone went into an endless loop of restarting. I factory reset it and haven't had a problem since.

Samsung Galaxy S II

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