****The Official Samsung Galaxy S II Thread***

[Pulse]

Yes it takes 3 hrs to charge from dead - a more powerful charger won't help as the SGS2 is setup to draw less thaN 0.7A.

With regards to this, I remember reading something this morning, I'm positive it was something to do with changing the rate at which the phone charges from AC charger and from the PC USB cable. I'll see if I can find something.

On a side note, some screenshots. If there is another thread I should post these in let me know and I'll move them.
Just thought I'd like to share them as I'm really liking them, had a bit of clean up as I was using loads of the stock widgets which looked overcrowded and down right pants.

LS:

Go Launcher:

Launcher Pro:

Haha, has made me realise the background wallpaper is messed up

 

[Cyclone]

For a 32gb card have a look on mymemory.com. A class 10 should be about £30. Class 4 for about £20.

The higher the class the quicker it writes.

 

[reflux]

Mine seems to auto connect to open zone randomly too when out and about - It's weird!

Got the Vodafone app installed? It's set to auto connect to OZ whether you have OZ membership or not

 

[mrk]

Got the Vodafone app installed? It's set to auto connect to OZ whether you have OZ membership or not

So that's what it is!

Uninstalled Vodafone app!

 

[Egon]

Got the Vodafone app installed? It's set to auto connect to OZ whether you have OZ membership or not

Ahh... now that's just bloody stupid!

So that's what it is!

Uninstalled Vodafone app!

ditto

 

[Egon]

Rooted the phone last night using Chainfire's method on XDA. Couldn't have been easier, don't know if it's just me but the phone seems a little snappier.

Anyway, I tried installing a theme last night (first ever), downloaded the zip, dropped it on the phones memory (don't have SD yet), opened CWM, tried to install theme, phone reboots, no theme

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? It says something about choosing odexed/deodexed, when I download. I'm pretty sure mine is odexed as all I have done is root the phone, not installed a custom ROM!?

 

[Bloomfield]

Yep, stock ROMs are odexed. Was it the JKay thing I linked you in the other thread? I haven't used it personally, but I imagine there's a few here that do that might know why.

Have you downloaded the JKay settings app and installed it on the phone? I can't tell whether they don't work without it or whether it's just used if you don't want to use whatever is set by default.

 

[Sem]

For a 32gb card have a look on mymemory.com. A class 10 should be about £30. Class 4 for about £20.

The higher the class the quicker it writes.

what about random writes
it seems most 32gb ones have nice speeds transfer speeds but really poor random writes

am i better off getting a 16gb one or can you recommend a fast 32gb class 10 with good random writes

 

[xGBHxPegasus]

Got the Vodafone app installed? It's set to auto connect to OZ whether you have OZ membership or not

Vodafone App -> Wifi Finder -> press the options/menu key -> Settings -> Enable BT openzone/Auto Connect (untick them).

 

[gumbald]

Am eagerly watching the progress of the ICS porting on IRC, but was going to go from MoDaCo to CM7 nightly - however it seems the CM hosting is down? Presume everyone else is seeing the same?

 

[_Jimlad_]

what is the time frame of a ICS port? are we hoping for anything before xmas?

 

[loltim]

what is the time frame of a ICS port? are we hoping for anything before xmas?

I should think so yes, though not from Samsung.

 

[Bloomfield]

I think ICS will be leaked by Samsung before Christmas tbh.

 

[gumbald]

Latest thing is getting hardware rendering working using drivers taken from Galaxy Tab running HC. Still errors everywhere, it does seem to be a race before the leak though.

To the CM7 nightly runners, is there a recent one you've found to be a relative milestone in having things working? Just wondering if it's wise getting the latest when they do become available.

 

[Egon]

Yep, stock ROMs are odexed. Was it the JKay thing I linked you in the other thread? I haven't used it personally, but I imagine there's a few here that do that might know why.

Have you downloaded the JKay settings app and installed it on the phone? I can't tell whether they don't work without it or whether it's just used if you don't want to use whatever is set by default.

Yes it was the JKay thing.

I followed his instructions in his post, he said to install the theme.zip first, reboot then install the .apk

The theme didn't install but the .apk did. Tried installing the theme again after that, still no joy

 

[Ducky Spud]

I follow the MIUI ROM and they're working on it now. There was an update on facebook this morning saying they hope to have it out by Christmas... Fingers crossed!

 

[nam]

2.3.5 XXKI3 Battery Life

Hi All

Recently upgraded from 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278

Can anyone compare if similar battery stats, this a normal day without constant email or facebook sync running

 

[JAMAL]

That was one thing i liked about apple, they did a show and the OS came out that night.

Samsung should have started work on this for the SGS2 a long time ago and had access to ICS code obviously they did for the Nexus......

 

[benjo]

I follow the MIUI ROM and they're working on it now. There was an update on facebook this morning saying they hope to have it out by Christmas... Fingers crossed!

Be interested to see MIUI's take on ICS. Is it going to look the same as 2.3 MIUI?

 

[gumbald]

Samsung should have started work on this for the SGS2 a long time ago and had access to ICS code obviously they did for the Nexus......

This. You're not telling me the first time Motorola and such saw the code was the other day too. I don't get the delay.

Maybe ultimately it comes back to Google and the fact that they probably can't be seen to be helping the bigger vendors by giving it to them very early.