Samsung Galaxy S II

lewis

HeadPig wrote: »

Can anybody advise me on wallpapers?

I just want to turn a pic of mne into one, I believe the correct resolution I need is 960x800?

Is there an app that will do this for me?

Get wallpaper set and save from the market.

Kenny Logins

HeadPig wrote: »

Can anybody advise me on wallpapers?

I just want to turn a pic of mne into one, I believe the correct resolution I need is 960x800?

Is there an app that will do this for me?

When you choose 'set as wallpaper' does it not give you a crop box?

lewis

Kenny Logins wrote: »

HeadPig wrote: »

Can anybody advise me on wallpapers?

I just want to turn a pic of mne into one, I believe the correct resolution I need is 960x800?

Is there an app that will do this for me?

When you choose 'set as wallpaper' does it not give you a crop box?

Nope, that's what's so good about it.

Kenny Logins

lewis wrote: »

Nope, that's what's so good about it.

Hmmm, mine does.

lewis

Kenny Logins wrote: »

lewis wrote: »

Nope, that's what's so good about it.

Hmmm, mine does.

Well I'm still on the SGS 1, so I wouldn't have thought it would be any different.

Kenny Logins

This is what I get from the standard gallery app -

jammer84

guys, I took a video yesterday in full hd. Transferred it to the laptop today and it plays upside down.

Any way I can fix this?

Kenny Logins

jammer84 wrote: »

guys, I took a video yesterday in full hd. Transferred it to the laptop today and it plays upside down.

Any way I can fix this?

Turn your phone up the right way (when taking the video).

or - http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14751/rotate-a-video-90-degrees-with-vlc-or-windows-live-movie-maker/

Blisterman

Does anyone else find that the GPS barely ever seems to work? It seems unless I'm outside in a wide open space, I get nothing.

My apartment is on the 10th floor with floor to ceiling windows along two sides, and even in here I get no GPS signal.

Ponster

Blisterman wrote: »

Does anyone else find that the GPS barely ever seems to work? It seems unless I'm outside in a wide open space, I get nothing.

My apartment is on the 10th floor with floor to ceiling windows along two sides, and even in here I get no GPS signal.

Since I installed the latest official firmware my gps is wonderful. Much better than before.

vicM

Blisterman wrote: »

Does anyone else find that the GPS barely ever seems to work? It seems unless I'm outside in a wide open space, I get nothing.

My apartment is on the 10th floor with floor to ceiling windows along two sides, and even in here I get no GPS signal.

I may be wrong but I think for the GPS to lock to a satelite, the phone has to have a clear sight of the satelite, doubt that would be possible indoors

Blisterman

I dunno. I never had any trouble with my iPhone.

Cossax

Blisterman wrote: »

I dunno. I never had any trouble with my iPhone.

I get a GPS signal indoors but it's not accurate as outdoors - inside tends to bounce my location around within maybe a 200m radius of my actual position whereas outdoors its accurate to a few feet.

Dozen Wicked Words

Cossax wrote: »

I get a GPS signal indoors but it's not accurate as outdoors - inside tends to bounce my location around within maybe a 200m radius of my actual position whereas outdoors its accurate to a few feet.

Is that your phone getting your position from your GPS or from your network signal though?

Keith186

If it has big blue circle in maps then it's using the mobile network to get the location while the GPS tries to lock on.

GPS isn't supposed to work indoors but the odd time it does somehow even though it needs to lock onto a satellite. Mine works near the window in my place.

Saaron

I haven't noticed much problems using my GPS indoors. It may get confused with which house I'm in but it generally points to ours or the house next door which is no big deal...

Cossax

dooferoaks wrote: »

Is that your phone getting your position from your GPS or from your network signal though?

I tend to turn off the wifi based location, pointless drain of battery most of the time.

BenEadir

Hi all,

My SGS 2 has suddenly developed a charging problem. When I try to charge it (I've tried two different chargers in two separate sockets) it starts to charge then within a minute it flashes up a warning stating

"Charging paused. Battery temperature too high or too low"

WTF????

The battery is definitely not hot to the touch and the phone is inside the house which is currently 18C.

The battery is down to 1% so I'm pulling my hair out here.

Please help!!!

Ben

marcbrophy

BenEadir wrote: »

Hi all,

My SGS 2 has suddenly developed a charging problem. When I try to charge it (I've tried two different chargers in two separate sockets) it starts to charge then within a minute it flashes up a warning stating

"Charging paused. Battery temperature too high or too low"

WTF????

The battery is definitely not hot to the touch and the phone is inside the house which is currently 18C.

The battery is down to 1% so I'm pulling my hair out here.

Please help!!!

Ben

As a temporary workaround, have you tried to turn it off, and charge it powered off?

BenEadir

marcbrophy wrote: »

As a temporary workaround, have you tried to turn it off, and charge it powered off?

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

x in the city

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kenny Logins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

unfortunately not, i never spent much time with

marcbrophy

Thanks anyway!

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

ciaran75

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

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

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.?