And So You Bought The Sg2

[Somtamnication]

I use the Lightning rom, 6.1. It has it built it.

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[Phil Conners]

^

Looks good! Might consider that for when (if) I ever get a SGS2.

How's it for stability, battery life, features?

[Jayman]

Yeah I have been looking at lightning as well. Right now I 'm just running rooted stock. I figured I should test it out so I could compare it to some of the custom roms out there.

Somtamnication, do you notice any negs to running lighting vs the stock? Is any hw not functioning to 100%?

thanks...

[justsumhelp]

This might help your decision process, http://www.galaxys2roms.com/ I personally hate/dont need all the samsung bloatware. If sticking to a samsung based rom I recommend ASOPized http://forum.xda-dev...d.php?t=1220283, I have been using Insanity which is a stripped down Cyanogenmod build, only 47mb, compare that to any samsung based rom 200mb+. Oxygen and devnull arent ready for daily use, many problems. Isn't there already a forum for this http://www.thaivisa....ter-market-rom/

Yeah I have been looking at lightning as well. Right now I 'm just running rooted stock. I figured I should test it out so I could compare it to some of the custom roms out there.

Somtamnication, do you notice any negs to running lighting vs the stock? Is any hw not functioning to 100%?

thanks...

[Jayman]

This might help your decision process, http://www.galaxys2roms.com/ I personally hate/dont need all the samsung bloatware. If sticking to a samsung based rom I recommend ASOPized http://forum.xda-dev...d.php?t=1220283, I have been using Insanity which is a stripped down Cyanogenmod build, only 47mb, compare that to any samsung based rom 200mb+. Oxygen and devnull arent ready for daily use, many problems. Isn't there already a forum for this http://www.thaivisa....ter-market-rom/

Yeah I have been looking at lightning as well. Right now I 'm just running rooted stock. I figured I should test it out so I could compare it to some of the custom roms out there.

Somtamnication, do you notice any negs to running lighting vs the stock? Is any hw not functioning to 100%?

thanks...

cheers for all of that.

[Phil Conners]

This might help your decision process, http://www.galaxys2roms.com/ I personally hate/dont need all the samsung bloatware. If sticking to a samsung based rom I recommend ASOPized http://forum.xda-dev...d.php?t=1220283, I have been using Insanity which is a stripped down Cyanogenmod build, only 47mb, compare that to any samsung based rom 200mb+. Oxygen and devnull arent ready for daily use, many problems. Isn't there already a forum for this http://www.thaivisa....ter-market-rom/

Interesting to hear Oxygen doesn't work well on SGS2. I've used it for months on my HTC Desire and it's been rock solid for me, but of course that's a different piece of hardware.

Agree with bloatware, HTC is terrible as well, that "Sense" thing, happy to have gotten rid of that.

[justsumhelp]

It will work well, just facing small problems but the update cycle is really slow as of now, AdamG had a fallout with xda so now they do it all from their own forum and its not the friendliest place, Insanity and Oxygen are pretty much the same but the developer for Insanity is alot friendlier and keeps everything up to date with the cyanogenmod builds.

This might help your decision process, http://www.galaxys2roms.com/ I personally hate/dont need all the samsung bloatware. If sticking to a samsung based rom I recommend ASOPized http://forum.xda-dev...d.php?t=1220283, I have been using Insanity which is a stripped down Cyanogenmod build, only 47mb, compare that to any samsung based rom 200mb+. Oxygen and devnull arent ready for daily use, many problems. Isn't there already a forum for this http://www.thaivisa....ter-market-rom/

Interesting to hear Oxygen doesn't work well on SGS2. I've used it for months on my HTC Desire and it's been rock solid for me, but of course that's a different piece of hardware.

Agree with bloatware, HTC is terrible as well, that "Sense" thing, happy to have gotten rid of that.

[woodyleonhard]

Just to give an update on 3g in Phuket. The server is to Tokyo...

Have you tried the speed test on the Phuket speed test site?

I'm trying to get my TrueMove-H "3G+" system to work, and so far the results are disappointing...

[Phil Conners]

Slow update cycle suits me fine. I have better things to do than upgrade my phone rom daily Regardless of this Oxygen seems to be ahead with Android 2.3.5 where most of the rest are still on 2.3.4.

[Orac]

True promotion stand in Big C Extra Pattaya foodhall offered me an SG2 for 16800 today including 10 month free 3G - said the offer was only valid for today.

[Somtamnication]

^

Looks good! Might consider that for when (if) I ever get a SGS2.

How's it for stability, battery life, features?

Jay and Phil.

No known issues have affected me at all. To others, it has, as they may not burn the rom well (delete dalvik cache, etc etc, prior to installing).

Battery life is fine. People expect the battery to last more than their last phone, not thinking just how more powerful the cpu is on this one! I use setcpu to control the mhz when screen is off.

Stability on the 6.1 rom is close to perfect. I have had it since day one of 6 .1 release and it shut down once. No idea why.

The blue theme is nice. Easy on the eyes. Some people love it, others want luminescent pink (!). So hard to please everyone with color. The battery level is built in.

Features, well, the page I listed has some additional stuff for rooted phones. Most you can do without 6.1 but just root your stock rom. This phone is a toy for me, so I play with it and experiment to no ends. Got a jig on the way to delete that yellow crap on boot-up.

And, easy to install. I have no themes installed, just run stock 6.1.

[Somtamnication]

Slow update cycle suits me fine. I have better things to do than upgrade my phone rom daily Regardless of this Oxygen seems to be ahead with Android 2.3.5 where most of the rest are still on 2.3.4.

I agree. There are people who want nightlies on these roms and cannot wait for the new versions. 6.1 has been out since mid last month. No reason for the developer to do daily updates. with 2.3.5 around the corner, I better wait and get a stable update.

[lomatopo]

In the SGS world it has been generally preferable to use a custom ROM which is based on formal, or leak, release from the manufacturer as this matches up with all the hardware better.

For an SGS2 you might look at one of the KH3 (2.3.4 - the latest release from Samsung)-based custom ROMs? Lite'ning was one of the first, and most popular custom ROMs (the XDA thread has 2.75 million views!) but the developer seems to have abandoned the ROM. This happens all the time in the SGS world.

There are ~ 10 KH3 ROMs, and with the launch of the SGS2 in the U.S. (AT&T version anyway) the developer world should greatly increase. I did notice a DLEV SGS2 ROM and can say his SGSCap DLEV ROM was excellent.

[Phil Conners]

True promotion stand in Big C Extra Pattaya foodhall offered me an SG2 for 16800 today including 10 month free 3G - said the offer was only valid for today.

Really? That's a good offer! 10 months of 3G is worth what, 4000 baht or so? Was that prepaid or postpaid? I wonder if AIS/DTAC are going to match that promotion. Price war, yeah!

[Orac]

True promotion stand in Big C Extra Pattaya foodhall offered me an SG2 for 16800 today including 10 month free 3G - said the offer was only valid for today.

Really? That's a good offer! 10 months of 3G is worth what, 4000 baht or so? Was that prepaid or postpaid? I wonder if AIS/DTAC are going to match that promotion. Price war, yeah!

Not sure what the 3G package was. I bought mine full price last week and was tempted to get another for my wife today but she has decided that she doesn't need one as she can use mine

[lomatopo]

True promotion stand in Big C Extra Pattaya foodhall offered me an SG2 for 16800 today including 10 month free 3G - said the offer was only valid for today.

Really? That's a good offer! 10 months of 3G is worth what, 4000 baht or so? Was that prepaid or postpaid? I wonder if AIS/DTAC are going to match that promotion. Price war, yeah!

Not sure what the 3G package was. I bought mine full price last week and was tempted to get another for my wife today but she has decided that she doesn't need one as she can use mine

Presumably this was Truemove H? Living up to their "Free You" tag-line. And their plans: "Free to Surf", "Free to Talk & Surf"..., I didn't realize they were being literal!

Seriously it would be great if anyone could clarify this offer/promotion re: free 10 months of data.

Truemove H appears desperate eager to sign up as many new adds as possible. 16,800 is the lowest price I've seen so far, even ignoring the free data. There were some reports of 16,900 using a certain credit card, and 17,300 seems to be bottom for most of the box shops.

All True Corp. September promotions: PDF file downlaod. http://www2.truecorp.co.th/th/ir_getfile.aspx?id=5

Edited September 18, 2011 by lomatopo

[petedk]

I love this phone but there is one little thing bugging me.

I've tried making video calls with four or five different people on different networks but have never been successful. I myself, use AIS and I've tried with other AIS users and with True users. Each time I get a "not supported on network" error.

I used to use Nokia E72 and tried with an iMobile sim card when they introduced 3G and it worked perfectly. Any ideas why it doesn't work?

I'm not wild about making video calls but I simply hate when things don't work as they should.

[oMega69]

Are we still only have the 2.3.3 version on KISE Thai ? . ,

Lazy when 2.3.5 is out in EU . . .

[SweRob]

Are we still only have the 2.3.3 version on KISE Thai ? . ,

Lazy when 2.3.5 is out in EU . . .

Bought my yesterday and its on 2.3.3 out of the box, tried kies to see if there were any updates available but no. Is there anyway to get the European/International original ROM on the I9100T. So i/we can get the phone updated as soon as a new release is available?

[Jayman]

If you are concerned with always having the very latest firmware then google cyanogen as they have nightly builds you can get for your phone.

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/samsung-galaxy-s2

Edited October 9, 2011 by Jayman

[lomatopo]

I think www dot samfrimware dot com has the official releases. Understand that you may lose some functionality/capabilities if flashing FW meant for another region.

2.3.3 seems fine here, are you having problems which you feel a new version would address?

[Jayman]

2.3.3 works great for me. I would like to have the latest google talk with video support as it seems this is not avail via market but has been cooked into the roms. Not sure what roms start including it.

[lomatopo]

Found on XDA...

None of the latest revisions have Google Talk Voice/Video activated. If you want to install it, you're going to have to root/install a version with it.

Skype video chat seems to work fine on the SGS2? Sucks if the other person only has 1 camera.

[Jayman]

Found on XDA...

None of the latest revisions have Google Talk Voice/Video activated. If you want to install it, you're going to have to root/install a version with it.

Skype video chat seems to work fine on the SGS2? Sucks if the other person only has 1 camera.

I found a copy of the new talk2 with working A/V here http://sourceforge.net/projects/ficeto.u/files/KI3/

It is meant for a diff rom but since my phone is rooted I will just try and overwrite the existing files with that in the talk2 package. I'll report back if it works or not. I'm using the stock rom that came with my t9100t "True" version that all I did was root it.

[lomatopo]

Looks like you could just flash this zip via CWM in Recovery?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1277117&highlight=google+talk

http://goo-inside.me/gapps/gapps-gb-20110828-newtalk-signed.zip

[Jayman]

Looks like you could just flash this zip via CWM in Recovery?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1277117&highlight=google+talk

http://goo-inside.me/gapps/gapps-gb-20110828-newtalk-signed.zip

I did it this way and it worked just fine. I was getting errors about signatures when I tried to do it from recovery console. Also, this way I made backup of the talk2.apk incase I need to revert back.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16802374&postcount=181

[oMega69]

2.3.5 dont drain the battery as fast as the 2.3.3 . .

thats the major thing for me..

But not sure if iam ready to lose my warranty yet .

[peteinchina]

I have an SG2 in China.

I rooted it and installed a revolution HD rom and the battery life went from 10 hours to 48 hours! (light use).

This is mainly because I can turn data and or wifi off really easily, but also it's running really efficiently and the bloatware is gone.

It's way faster too.

Also the apps on the rom allowed me to change the unlock swipe, also change the apps on the bottom bar - so I no longer have the defaults there.

I use Acontact and go sms, which are great.

This rom turned a great phone into a stunning one.

Also rooting and installing the new rom allowed me to get to the app store in english (and not firewalled here in China).

I'm moving to CM in a couple of months, but for now I can't tell you how it will perform in Thailand.

A word of caution about topping up the battery. There are only 500 charges of whatever size on modern batteries, so if you charge a lot, the battery will need replacing much sooner.

I have an ASUS eeepad which runs the same rom and that's brilliant as well.

Hope this helps...

Pete

[Tywais]

I've been looking at the II also as a replacement for my HTC Desire which my wife keeps eying not so subtlety. A friend mentioned that a new version is coming and perhaps I should wait. This is what I've seen.

Samsung Galaxy S II HD LTE is an S II on steroids: 4.65-inch display, pixel density at whopping 316ppi

We’d usually leave the dramatic phrasing for something of the caliber of the iPhone 5, but this here Samsung Galaxy S II HD LTE is pretty much everything an Android aficionado would dream of - except it’s currently landing only in Korea. Hopefully, that doesn’t mean that in a certain time in the future, we won’t see it land in the States.

With this bright hope in mind, we’re looking at the S II HD LTE, where HD stands for the 720 x 1280 pixel resolution on the 4.65-inch Super AMOLED Plus display and LTE stands... well, for LTE for Korea. Yup, that’s 316ppi of pixel density, blowing away the original S II out of the water with its 218ppi.

phonearena

But sounds like it is an uncertainty if it will even be offered outside of Korea. //edit - just saw an article stating it has just gone through US FCC approval so would indicate going there also.

[lomatopo]

New SGS2 TV ad...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8RgFITKTRk