Samsung Galaxy S II

Trojan00

Trojan00 wrote: »

I got the update yesterday. I am on bill pay with 3.

Was the update via KIES?

Dozen Wicked Words

updating my (on 3 Billpay) via kies. All good, just taking forever to install applications, hopefully its not a fecked up installation and that I am being impatient

SuprSi

Does Kies prompt you to install the update or do you need to do anything to make it happen?

Headshot

Im on Meteor, I see no update yet

Dozen Wicked Words

SuprSi wrote: »

Does Kies prompt you to install the update or do you need to do anything to make it happen?

Kies prompted when I plugged the phone in

Trojan00

Deleted User wrote: »

Was the update via KIES?

Yes, with KIES. I started up KIES and it prompted to update the program and then I connected phone up and it said there was an update.

ShaneU

I'm sim free, no kies update.

I have been checking out the Samsung UK facebook page and there are lots of people complaining that they have SIM Free phones and are not getting the update as promised on March 19th.

UPDATE: Posted a comment on Samsung Ireland Facebook and got the following response:
Samsung Mobile Ireland: HI Derek & Mark - It will be available over the coming weeks as will the operator updates. All updates will be rolled out by end of April. The roll out kicks off this week. Can't give a specific date yet for any operators / SIM Free.

Dubba

I found out what I was doing wrong. I was connecting via Kies Air (through the router) while I should have been connecting via Kies PC App(& USB), download here: http://www.samsungapps.com/about/onPc.as
I'm only new to the phone but maybe others here are in the same boat and this will sort them out.

SmartFox

Got the ICS update on 3 bill pay, via KIES, all good so far. Was quick to install and everything working well.

ShaneU

Complete joke that three users have it and sim-free users don't.

-Corkie-

If you install a custom rom how do you go back to the stock rom via kies???

Zagato

-Corkie- wrote: »

If you install a custom rom how do you go back to the stock rom via kies???

Don't think you can go back to it via Kies, but you can flash a stock ROM via Odin and then you can connect to Kies and upgrade to the latest available stock ROM that way.

Ghandee

I upgraded to the official 3 Ireland ICS (through Odin)

Am I missing something, or can anyone else confirm that Swype is missng from ICS (I only switched from Darkys because it was missing on that also)

Another niggling problem, constantly getting a warning about lost data connectivity because of data roaming.


I have selected data roam, national, all networks, and disabled, still getting the warning.

Of course its no biggie, but I'd prefer not to have it at all.

SmartFox

Ghandee wrote: »

Am I missing something, or can anyone else confirm that Swype is missng from ICS (I only switched from Darkys because it was missing on that ...

Swype is there, using it now, just select it from the notification bar when in a text box. It'll then remember your preference.

Ghandee

Definitely not here on mine.

Might be a deal breaker tbh

bobmyster

SmartFox wrote: »

Swype is there, using it now, just select it from the notification bar when in a text box. It'll then remember your preference.

Nice one, cheers, was wondering why long press in a text field was not bringing up the input method option

SmartFox

Ghandee wrote: »

Definitely not here on mine.

Might be a deal breaker tbh

Are you using the ICS update from KIES?

StaticNoise

I'm not trying to knock this thread off, but I am planning on buying the phone tomorrow.
I was originally going to buy the phone on Three (moving to a FlexiFix 25 plan, just to get subsidised price from my 3Pay), but it's more expensive (€529) on Prepay.


Seeing as Meteor are doing it for €499, is it better, do you think, to buy it from there and just unlock it? Can you see any advantage at buying it from Three.

It's a lot of money and I want to do it right. 3Pay is super for me, and I even get €20 per month bonus as I was an early Three customer, but it's just such a high price.


Any S2 advice folks?

Ghandee

SmartFox wrote: »

Are you using the ICS update from KIES?

No, but it is the official one for three Ireland, downloaded via samfirmware

,tbh I gave up on Kies refusing to connect to the phone, installed, uninstalled, USB debug, over and over and over again.
Just downloaded that, flashed via Odin.

Ghandee

StaticNoise wrote: »

I'm not trying to knock this thread off, but I am planning on buying the phone tomorrow.
I was originally going to buy the phone on Three (moving to a FlexiFix 25 plan, just to get subsidised price from my 3Pay), but it's more expensive (€529) on Prepay.


Seeing as Meteor are doing it for €499, is it better, do you think, to buy it from there and just unlock it? Can you see any advantage at buying it from Three.

It's a lot of money and I want to do it right. 3Pay is super for me, and I even get €20 per month bonus as I was an early Three customer, but it's just such a high price.


Any S2 advice folks?

Buy it wherever your getting the better deal from mate.
The phone is easily rooted/unlocked regardless who you buy it from.


Would you not consider going down the done deal/adverts.ie route though?
Hell of a lot cheaper!

StaticNoise

Thanks for the reply Ghandee.

Yeah, it's a lot cheaper, but I would prefer a new phone, and the fact that the warranty is there for me, as well as backing up from a network is good. As an avid rooter and modder (if you want to call it that), I am very familiar with the procedure- my HTC Wildfire has been modified so much- but I don't envisage myself doing it to the S2, as the rule generally is, if you can't afford the phone outright, do go fecking with it and rooting it.

I would love to root it, for AdFree, backing up, controlling it and generally tweaking it, but I don't want to do something stupid by invalidating the warranty on such an expensive phone. I say this because I am aware of the Unlocking app on the market, which is root only.


Update: I've read that you can use a "jig" to make it look like you've never rooted your phone, enabling you to restore to the stock, out of box state, without invalidating your warranty. If this is the case, and hopefully it is, I'm on it!
Now, if I can only find somewhere in Dublin that sells them.

ShaneU

StaticNoise wrote: »

Thanks for the reply Ghandee.

Yeah, it's a lot cheaper, but I would prefer a new phone, and the fact that the warranty is there for me, as well as backing up from a network is good. As an avid rooter and modder (if you want to call it that), I am very familiar with the procedure- my HTC Wildfire has been modified so much- but I don't envisage myself doing it to the S2, as the rule generally is, if you can't afford the phone outright, do go fecking with it and rooting it.

I would love to root it, for AdFree, backing up, controlling it and generally tweaking it, but I don't want to do something stupid by invalidating the warranty on such an expensive phone. I say this because I am aware of the Unlocking app on the market, which is root only.

Why not buy it sim free on amazon? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-I9100-Galaxy-Free-Smartphone/dp/B004QTBQ2C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332378261&sr=8-1

StaticNoise

It doesn't really give much off it: only a tenner really.
Nice to save that tenner, but for the effort of it, not too much.

I want to start having fun with this beast of a phone!

shaunie007

I'm after cracking the screen on mine.

Absoutely ****ing raging!!

Any ideas? Im with meteor and I dont have insurance...

figuring i can go back to the shop and pay for it to be fixed, just wondering if anyone has any better solutions???

Jarren

http://www.adverts.ie/repair-services/samsung-galaxy-s1-i9000-s1-i9001-s2-i9100-quick-lcd-repair-genuine/1103250

Sully

Jarren wrote: »

http://www.adverts.ie/repair-services/samsung-galaxy-s1-i9000-s1-i9001-s2-i9100-quick-lcd-repair-genuine/1103250

Highly recommended, got my own phone done fast through him.

As an aside - anybody updated to ICS and tried removing apps? Samsung say its possible, that they become "disabled" and removed from app lists. Just curious has anybody tried?

Mr Bloat

Sully wrote: »

As an aside - anybody updated to ICS and tried removing apps? Samsung say its possible, that they become "disabled" and removed from app lists. Just curious has anybody tried?

Interesting. I just disabled Music Hub, Game Hub and Mini Diary and their home screen shortcuts and listing in the app drawer disappeared. It does give a disclaimer that other apps may 'misbehave' if built-in apps are disabled but nothing else. Obvious stuff like Internet and Camera can't be disabled but neither can Kies Air, which I would actually like to disable.

Dubba

Sully wrote: »

Highly recommended, got my own phone done fast through him.

As an aside - anybody updated to ICS and tried removing apps? Samsung say its possible, that they become "disabled" and removed from app lists. Just curious has anybody tried?

Yea its handy for removing some apps, but the bloatware apps like adverts, boards deals have uninstall updated as opposed to uninstall. This only removes the updates as it still there.

Sully

Dubba wrote: »

Yea its handy for removing some apps, but the bloatware apps like adverts, boards deals have uninstall updated as opposed to uninstall. This only removes the updates as it still there.

So you cant actually remove those apps?

StaticNoise

StaticNoise wrote: »

I'm not trying to knock this thread off, but I am planning on buying the phone tomorrow.
I was originally going to buy the phone on Three (moving to a FlexiFix 25 plan, just to get subsidised price from my 3Pay), but it's more expensive (€529) on Prepay.


Seeing as Meteor are doing it for €499, is it better, do you think, to buy it from there and just unlock it? Can you see any advantage at buying it from Three.

It's a lot of money and I want to do it right. 3Pay is super for me, and I even get €20 per month bonus as I was an early Three customer, but it's just such a high price.


Any S2 advice folks?

€449 on Pixmania and Sim Free. Rip off prices being charged in Ireland!

Dubba

Sully wrote: »

So you cant actually remove those apps?

Not ASFAIK, but I've only had the phone a week so maybe I'm missing something.

shaunie007

Jarren wrote: »

http://www.adverts.ie/repair-services/samsung-galaxy-s1-i9000-s1-i9001-s2-i9100-quick-lcd-repair-genuine/1103250

Cheers for that.

On a seperate note, the screen is blacked out due to the crack and im trying to up load my contacts/pictures etc to my laptop but it says that the device is locked i.e. screen locked.
Anyone know a way around this??

apope8

StaticNoise wrote: »

I'm not trying to knock this thread off, but I am planning on buying the phone tomorrow.
I was originally going to buy the phone on Three (moving to a FlexiFix 25 plan, just to get subsidised price from my 3Pay), but it's more expensive (€529) on Prepay.


Seeing as Meteor are doing it for €499, is it better, do you think, to buy it from there and just unlock it? Can you see any advantage at buying it from Three.

It's a lot of money and I want to do it right. 3Pay is super for me, and I even get €20 per month bonus as I was an early Three customer, but it's just such a high price.


Any S2 advice folks?

Theres a shop across the road from the central bank selling it new and sim free for €400

Might be worth a look if your thinking of buying the phone

Elessar

Please someone tell me, how, for the love of god, I can get rid of the voice talk app!?

Seems almost every time I hit the home button it opens! Really irritating! I'm on ics.

croo

Might you have the "double tap" enabled? Settings/Motion/Double tap.
I noticed when I had it enabled and was driving every bump in the road seem to register as a double tap

K09

Hi,

My GalaxyS2 on 3 upgraded to I9100XWKI8.

It has installed apps like Adverts.ie, RTE Pocket Player, RTE DocOnOne, Daft, etc!! Why is this??

And it seems I cannot uninstall them!?

How do I remove these?

Thanks!

srsly78

Root phone then you can remove them.

Also make sure to let your carrier know how unhappy you are.

Wetbench4

Sully wrote: »

So you cant actually remove those apps?

I have. I uninstalled the updates, then back out to app selection, then select app again and the disable option should be there. oh and make sure you in the all section of the applications screen, not just downloaded. I disabled all the hub apps, boardsdeals, pumps, adverts, daft etc... Once these apps are disabled they go to the bottom of the list where you can re-enable them

srsly78

Disabling them is not the same as removing. SGS2 has loads of space tho so not really a big deal.

lukester

srsly78 wrote: »

Root phone then you can remove them.

Also make sure to let your carrier know how unhappy you are.

See When will Android 4.0/ Ice Cream Sandwich be rolled out on Three? (Galaxy S2)


IMO, these crappy apps are a big deal- I'd be getting onto adverts/daft etc also to express your displeasure. Is this really how supposedly modern companies want to advertise, by having spamware foisted on users?

I was set to buy an S2 from 3 but am going to hold out for a Nexus when the prices eventually drop. These apps are one of the reasons.

Wetbench4

srsly78 wrote: »

Disabling them is not the same as removing. SGS2 has loads of space tho so not really a big deal.

Well the reason they bug me is because of battery drain, but once they are disabled, they can't run, and they disappear from the app drawer, so i think they are as good as gone.

SmartFox

Wetbench4 wrote: »

I have. I uninstalled the updates, then back out to app selection, then select app again and the disable option should be there....

Thanks for the tip, couldn't figure out how disable the evil 3 spam apps..

Unrealistic

lukester wrote: »

See When will Android 4.0/ Ice Cream Sandwich be rolled out on Three? (Galaxy S2)


IMO, these crappy apps are a big deal- I'd be getting onto adverts/daft etc also to express your displeasure. Is this really how supposedly modern companies want to advertise, by having spamware foisted on users?

I was set to buy an S2 from 3 but am going to hold out for a Nexus when the prices eventually drop. These apps are one of the reasons.

I always assumed that was an accepted part of the trade off when you bought a phone from a network. It's for that reason that I've always bought SIM-free. Although this is the first time I've seen a network specific software update come out ahead of the general update for SIM-free phones and it's bloody frustrating.

lukester

Unrealistic wrote: »

I always assumed that was an accepted part of the trade off when you bought a phone from a network. It's for that reason that I've always bought SIM-free. Although this is the first time I've seen a network specific software update come out ahead of the general update for SIM-free phones and it's bloody frustrating.

There are networks that don't install crap on their phones, Meteor for example.

I don't know who made the decision that it was a good idea to effectively install spamware on users' phones, but it's such a short sighted approach to trying to earn revenue.

It's akin to downloading software and having some crappy toolbar installed in your browser. All but the most naive users resent this kind of behaviour.

Vahevala

I used to be able to go into the service menu to alter the audio settings but after upgrading to ICS, it tells me the audio menu is blocked.

Any ideas on how I can resolve this?

stripysocks85

My battery was almost dead the other night and I couldn't charge it, so I turned it off. The alarm didn't go off.

Is this the way the S2 is? I can't have my phone off if I want the alarm to go off????

Vahevala

stripysocks85 wrote: »

My battery was almost dead the other night and I couldn't charge it, so I turned it off. The alarm didn't go off.

Is this the way the S2 is? I can't have my phone off if I want the alarm to go off????

No, you can't, put it into flight mode if you want it to go off. Most phones these days, if the phone is off, the alarm won't go off.

stripysocks85

Vahevala wrote: »

No, you can't, put it into flight mode if you want it to go off. Most phones these days, if the phone is off, the alarm won't go off.

Will flight mode use minimal battery?

Why is it that most phones won't allow the alarm to go off if the phone is off? Doesn't make sense to me! Really thought there'd be a setting I could change! Luckily I woke up in time for work anyway haha

Vahevala

stripysocks85 wrote: »

Will flight mode use minimal battery?

Why is it that most phones won't allow the alarm to go off if the phone is off? Doesn't make sense to me! Really thought there'd be a setting I could change! Luckily I woke up in time for work anyway haha

I believe so, I am regularly charging anyway at night!