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I apologize now for the long explanation but feel the info is needed.
I had a replacement phone in March so I could root and after that all was good, I finally in May got frustrated with my lead bunker of a house and no cell signal so I got a Verizon Network Range Extender (Samsung). After I got it and a week of getting it working right my cell signal hasn't been the same, I know the bar graph isn't an accurate representation of the signal so I was watching the Db levels and the fact when I was in the middle of town in the open I had one or no bars and a -104 signal.
After Kaos and Conap got Froyo up and usable I tried using the ROM's but after a week the phone would be so unresponsive it would take literally 5 minutes to find a number and dial it. I would miss calls all the time and constantly would have to reboot. I was at first trying 768 on the OC but eventually stepped it down to 710. I have tried KaosFroyo V19-33 with no luck, each update I do has less and less time between flashing and when it becomes unresponsive. I have Tried CLEB 1.6-2.4 same thing. The only ROM that I can use with the best results is Plain_JaneT2 OC'd at 710.
I currently still have cell reception issues and sluggishness on most ROM's, I am on the current 4.27 radio and have formatted several times the SD card to start with a blank slate. I am not using swap or ext3 for AP2SD. I have unrooted and rerooted 2 times. This phone was pre legit 2.1 OTA.
Not sure what I did or what to do next to get it back in order
morphius2036 said:
I apologize now for the long explanation but feel the info is needed.
I had a replacement phone in March so I could root and after that all was good, I finally in May got frustrated with my lead bunker of a house and no cell signal so I got a Verizon Network Range Extender (Samsung). After I got it and a week of getting it working right my cell signal hasn't been the same, I know the bar graph isn't an accurate representation of the signal so I was watching the Db levels and the fact when I was in the middle of town in the open I had one or no bars and a -104 signal.
After Kaos and Conap got Froyo up and usable I tried using the ROM's but after a week the phone would be so unresponsive it would take literally 5 minutes to find a number and dial it. I would miss calls all the time and constantly would have to reboot. I was at first trying 768 on the OC but eventually stepped it down to 710. I have tried KaosFroyo V19-33 with no luck, each update I do has less and less time between flashing and when it becomes unresponsive. I have Tried CLEB 1.6-2.4 same thing. The only ROM that I can use with the best results is Plain_JaneT2 OC'd at 710.
I currently still have cell reception issues and sluggishness on most ROM's, I am on the current 4.27 radio and have formatted several times the SD card to start with a blank slate. I am not using swap or ext3 for AP2SD. I have unrooted and rerooted 2 times. This phone was pre legit 2.1 OTA.
Not sure what I did or what to do next to get it back in order
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i cant attest for the network extender but i have noticed if the rom has an overclocked kernal and i use setcpu it turns into a slugg real quick especially with autokiller installed. u might just try a rom and not overclock it and and uninstall autokiller that is if you have that..
Are you using the setcpu widget? That messes things up quite a lot. The degradation in performance is enough that you'll have to pull the battery waking up, even when you're overclocking to 768mhz.
No I never use that I just go on the hopes that the OC is working but I wasn't aware that the OC Kernel and the Autokiller was an issue. May give that a try.
Usually the sluggishness is there but not terribly bad but I am lazy after I flash a new rom and don't set up my screens or apps for a couple of days so that may be the reason there is a window of time that the performace isn't teribble and tollerable but as soon as I do a SetCPU it goes out the window.
Thanks for the advice, just wish you had something for my cell signal.
I don't know about the extender. But yeah don't use the widget. What settings do you use for SetCPU? You may want to call Verizon for the extender.
Ok so day 2 of CELB 2.6 and all is good I didn't go to SetCPU and I noticed when I put the Facebook widget on the screen things got somewhat slow so I took it off. Still have some slow response in the app drawer but that may be from my screen replacement. It is a Verizon screen not a third party but don't know.
As for signal I am just going to suck it up and wait till August and get a newer phone.
Thanks for all the ideas
I would remove setcpu altogether and maybe try a different rom just to be safe.
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I don't know if this is in the right area so if it's not please move it. I know there is a lot of questions revolving around the GPS for the Vibrant.I was just curious to see how you guys are getting the best performance from your GPS using Bionix 1.3.1. So please post and tell me, my GPS sucks and I've tried all fixes that I know of including the hardware fix. THIS QUESTION IS FOR BIONIX 1.3.1 USERS ONLY THANK YOU!!!
Nobody ??????
Pretty sure it's working here without any tweaks. What is it doing?
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Mine worked great on Bionix...
Mine works great with bionix after i got the samsung gps fix off market
my gps never worked until they sent me an exchange. now it is amazingly good. i even tried walking from one end of the driveway to the other using My Tracks and it had me the whole way. i think one night i even locked on to 9 out of 16 birds. i never even heard of anyone seeing more than 13 birds! sometimes when i first turn it on it has me a few blocks away but within ten seconds i'm locked on. even works pretty well inside. the warranty exchange definitely did the trick, although i believe i got a brand new phone, who knows? definitely a hardware issue IMHO
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my gps never worked until they sent me an exchange. now it is amazingly good. i even tried walking from one end of the driveway to the other using My Tracks and it had me the whole way. i think one night i even locked on to 9 out of 16 birds. i never even heard of anyone seeing more than 13 birds! sometimes when i first turn it on it has me a few blocks away but within ten seconds i'm locked on. even works pretty well inside. the warranty exchange definitely did the trick, although i believe i got a brand new phone, who knows? definitely a hardware issue IMHO
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Any idea what kind of accuracy you get?
It will find sometimes up to 13 sats, but from that point it will never lock. I've left it on for 30 minutes before trying to get it to work. It never wants to lock though. The accuracy is always terrible to, it always ranges from 3500 to 2700 meters never gets below that.
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It will find sometimes up to 13 sats, but from that point it will never lock. I've left it on for 30 minutes before trying to get it to work. It never wants to lock though. The accuracy is always terrible to, it always ranges from 3500 to 2700 meters never gets below that.
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Yeah, that is terrible. Did your GPS ever work? (Before Bionix)
I got it to lock one time. I had to leave it on for 45 minutes though before it would lock and after that it never locked again. I know this is one of the devices mfg before OCT 2010. I already called them and they want me to send it in. If there is a fix that I can use to get it working before I send it in though, that would be great.
Oh and I have tried the gps restore app from the market and that always fails too.
That sux :-/
Delete gps data. Change gps to cold Start. Reboot. get a good lock.change gps to hot start. Reboot.
If that disney help, try hethens gps fix
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use a-gps is fast.
Well .. It's a little bit awkward, because everyone here says gps on bionix 1.3.1 it's working well but mine sucks. Utterly bitterly sucks. It always says "could not get your location" and stuff..
Mine works great with Bionix 1.3.1 & Sgps. I flash it at the same time I flash Bionix. I don't know if it makes a difference to do it that way. I'm also running Overstock. I can usually get a lock in 5 to 20 seconds even indoors. I've had lots of trouble getting it to work in the past but Sgps seems to work for me.
PS: Before launching my GPS app I use GPS test to get a lock then launch my GPS app of choice.
Hmmm... Sgps? Where is that? I'm gonna give it a shot.
Okay I guess I'll just have to send it off lol. I've tried all of the software fixes and I've done the hardware fix and none of that has helped in anway. I think the GPS in there is just bunk lol. Thanks for all your suggestions though guys. I appreciate it. Well a week without my phone, I don't know how I'll live.
en，GPS also drove me crazy at first，but when I reset APN without any software，it‘s working perfectly~
I sent it off couldn't find a fix that worked. Oh well hopefully it comes back working. I just don't know how I'm going to survive a week without my phone
I have an SGS1 now. Considering upgrading due to unfixable lag with it. Is the SGS2 free from major problems?
Experience may vary .. but for me, after 1 week (coming from HD2), it's a dream phone. Biggest problem seems to be battery life. My is comparable to HD2, but some people have considerate problems with it.
Battery life (fixable - there are some rogue processes that eat it up), banding (16bit color instead of 24bit - fixable, driver issue).
phone gets very hot when gaming, radio is a bit f***ed in that sometimes you cannot get the internet to work when going from wireless to 3g (workaround is to toggle flight mode, bit annoying to be honest). some are experiencing a yellowish left side of the screen, though i personally do not have that problem.
all in all it's a good phone with a few quirks, but comparing to sgs1, (had it previously as well) i must say that it is quite a leap in the right direction.
speaking of lag on sgs1, have you updated to 2.3.3? i gave the phone to my mom and installed 2.3.3 and the lag is almost gone to be honest.
My Wifi signal seems week ?
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phone gets very hot when gaming, radio is a bit f***ed in that sometimes you cannot get the internet to work when going from wireless to 3g (workaround is to toggle flight mode, bit annoying to be honest). some are experiencing a yellowish left side of the screen, though i personally do not have that problem.
all in all it's a good phone with a few quirks, but comparing to sgs1, (had it previously as well) i must say that it is quite a leap in the right direction.
speaking of lag on sgs1, have you updated to 2.3.3? i gave the phone to my mom and installed 2.3.3 and the lag is almost gone to be honest.
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Have 2.3.3. but lag returns after a while...
OP, go visit a few forums for phones that have recently been released. The new question isn't "are there any major problems?", but "which major problems should I investigate?" I would challenge any existing SGS2 user to point out a dual-core phone that has fewer issues. You'll find "different" issues, but not "fewer." For now, for me, there's no phone currently out that I'd replace the SGS2 with.
And OP, the direct answer to your question is find the threads on display banding, Wi-FI performance, GPS, 2/3/4G radio, audio, camera, and battery life and if, based on your needs, you're OK with what's been discussed you should be fine.
OP, just read across this board and see! No need for a new thread.
Had it for a few days. My wifi works fine, no light leaking out of the sides, battery life is normal for an Android smartphone. I don't notice any banding (and I'm not going to go looking for it).
Coming from a Nexus One it's a massive upgrade. Couldn't be happier with it (aside from the loudspeaker quality, iPhone 4 is better in this regard).
By all means take the plunge. It's the best phone currently on the market.
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I have to keep resetting my internet connection (Go into Airplane mode, and out) as it seems to get stuck when switching from H(SDPA?) to 3G...
I'd say it's a major... but only effects a few people, it seems.
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I have to keep resetting my internet connection (Go into Airplane mode, and out) as it seems to get stuck when switching from H(SDPA?) to 3G...
I'd say it's a major... but only effects a few people, it seems.
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Which network are you using? It could be an issue on the provider's end! I am on Telstra NextG and find that the issue occurs only in certain areas. I believe it is very tower-dependant as I can go into areas where it flips between 3G and HSPDA+ many many times without fail and then I can get into an area which I assume have not been upgraded and I will end up with the phone stuck in one of the two modes and not be able to transfer data.
I really want this phone when it comes to Canada. The issues seem either minor or limited to small percentage of units. No different than the SGS1 or any piece of technology for that matter. Defective units do make it out the door, that is why there are warranty and return periods.
As to the issue some of you guys are having with loss of data signal, the SGS1 had an issue while on Eclair where when you were in a no signal area the phone would totally freeze and you would have to reboot. It's been fixed since Froyo along with many other bugs.
Enjoy your phone, I hope to join ya'll in the not too distant future.
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I am assuming the connectivity issue people are having is with the "up arrow" constantly lit up but not the down arrow. This problem I have seen in every single android handset I have used (G1, Optimus T, SGS1, and of course, the SGS2). The only common denominator is that I have used all of them while on T-Mobile USA's network. It almost always happens when I am in areas with spotty reception, or in other words, instances when I lose signal, momentarily.
However, that isn't the biggest issue for me. I bought the SGS2 to play the Gameloft games I bought on my SGS1, and I can tell you right now that this is the biggest shock to me when I did get my SGS2: none of my Gameloft games work (Asphalt 6, MC2, NOVA2, Eternal Legacy). Although I am finding out more and more about why this is the case now, this was not something I saw coming in the research I've done leading up to my purchase of this phone. 2D games seem to work fine, but if you intend to play 3D games on this phone, I suggest running some searches here with the the name of a game-in-question to see if there are any threads already about its compatibility with the SGS2.
That being said, I do not regret buying this phone one bit. It is hands down the smoothest Android experience I have ever had. I cannot slow this phone down even when I tried, and I am a very heavy user--I can drain my Vibrant's battery in under 3 hours, with di.fm playing while I use feedly and the browser while talking on beejive. This phone can handle that with no slowdown, and last much longer than my Vibrant to boot. I've actually gotten through a full workday with this usage pattern, on a single charge. This is the first phone to last me through an entire day. Even my iPhone needed charging mid-day.
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Which network are you using? It could be an issue on the provider's end! I am on Telstra NextG and find that the issue occurs only in certain areas.
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I have just ported to Telstra, from Three ... and the whole train trip home has been perfect. On 3, I had to restart 3 or 4 times.
So, yeah, seem Telstra is OK.
borchgrevink said:
I have an SGS1 now. Considering upgrading due to unfixable lag with it. Is the SGS2 free from major problems?
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SGS1 does not lag with almost any recent roms. Major problem for me is that it dont have voodoo sound. A MAJOR problem that lol
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jay_993 said:
SGS1 does not lag with almost any recent roms. Major problem for me is that it dont have voodoo sound. A MAJOR problem that lol
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Hehe, well mine lags on every rom I've tried.
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Galaxy s2
That was the biggest pile of junk i had ever owned. In 5 months the charging port quit working. In 8 months power botten failed. So then, all the phone would do is boot over and over. Completly usless.
So I've had less than stellar luck with this phone. I purchased it and rooted it pretty much on day 1, (this was back in early May) and immediately started seeing some pretty awful rebooting. I switched kernels from Das Bamf's to Imoseyon's, which helped it go from mind-numbing to merely bad (used to reboot EVERY TIME the screen was slept and turned back on, went to happening maybe once an hour)
I switched back to stock, same problem, rebooting literally once an hour. I called Verizon for troubleshooting help and they immediately had me switch it out for a Hardware version 2.0 phone, which I've now had since May 15th. It does work a lot better, but it's still pretty bad. Here's the timeline:
Ran stock for about a week, was seeing 1 reboot every other day, decided to root. Installed BAMF remix 1.7 with the .7/.6 CDMA/LTE radio, which left it pretty much the same, rebooting every 30 hours or so. It's particularly likely to do it when using Navigation or on phone calls. It's not a stress thing, I can run Linpack, quadrant, make calls and surf, whatever, it runs fine at stock speeds, 1.92, 1.92x... and will do so for hours without rebooting (until it does)
Switched to 2.0 w/ the MR2 radio, and the reboots were even worse. Now more like 1-2 times a day. Thinking this was not a radio issue now, I eased down the clock speed (I was running 1.92x kernel) down to stock speeds, no affect. Upped the voltage by switching to 1.92, still no affect, reboots a couple of times day, ALSO with a few random shutdowns thrown in for fun. I tried Standard as well, letting it top out at 1.4, still having the issue.
MR2.5 came out, switched to that, and it became unuseable. Reboots literally every 5-10 minutes, and I tried running it that way for the better part of a day, thinking it was maybe the kernel settling or whatever, but it stayed that bad. I switched back to 2.0 and kept seeing the reboots a couple of times a day, so since they were worse on GB I figured I'd go back to Froyo.
Loaded 1.8 Remix, and the reboots are still happening a few times day. At my wit's end, I decided to go straight back to stock, no root. It ran fine that way for about a day, then randomly shutdown again. It has seemed good so far today, but the random shutdown happening makes me assume it's still not stable.
I really don't think it's a problem with 2 phones in a row, and there's thousands of posts of people experiencing similar problems, so it's not something weird I'm particularly doing. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it, as some people are rock solid with Froyo with the .7 radios, or the .6/.7 combo, or some are fine with Gingerbread MR2, or even 2.5. Me, I have no luck with ANYTHING.
Should I start another ticket with Verizon for another dud phone, or is the promised OTA update really going to do something magical that MR 2 or 2.5 haven't already tried to do to fix this thing?
If it were me Id be screaming at somebody at Verizon. If your sure that nothing u did rooting or flashing roms caused the reboots then get a new phone. Rumors say that gingerbread is coming tomorrow but you can't out to much stock in that and even if it does I doubt there is any miracle code written in that's gonna help you.
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Some people have had random reboots on stock rom. But since you were on stock for less than a day, it's impossible to determine whether the reboots are due to a defective phone or something that happened during/after you flashed the custom rom. You obviously know your way around various roms, radios & kernel/cpu tweaks, and nothing seems to help. If you have the patience, go to the IRC channel for more suggestions. If no one there can help, I would restore to stock & exchange the phone. You may have a defective device that will never work right.
Hi, I have recently come back to an SGS2 after dumping one after they first came out. The reason for me was terrible battery life, the 3G, H, H+ switching lockup issue, and poor GPS performance. At the time I think the most recent firmware was XXKE4. My original phone was originally on 3, which I de-branded and upgraded every time a newer version of firmware got released, after a couple of weeks use I noticed a duff pixel, so re-branded, took it back and swapped it for another, did the same customisation and it was still no good, I could be wrong, but I think the received signal strength was worse on the second one too. In any case the aforementioned issues still remained. In the end I got rid of it and went for a HTC sensation.
This proved, ultimately, to be a bad choice, what with all the dust issues, and an even bigger battery life problem than the SGS2, also, despite popular belief, i think the build quality of the SGS2 is better, sensation is horrible and creaky. Anyway, I ended up getting all disappointed with dual-core phones, and went back to my trusty old LG optimus one for a bit of normality. Eventually tho, I got the opportunity to own an SGS2 again, and I crumbled..
Now, I have an SGS2, I was immediately greeted with a software update, which I did, to XWKG4, still 3 branded, only mod was insecure kernel, root, reflash standard kernel. That's it.
Now I have no 3G, H, H+ switching issues, it takes its time sometimes but never gets completely stuck like it used to, GPS is better, Signal strength is actually good, no browser flash crashes, and most impressive, even set up as it was before with multiple push email, whatsapp, skype running constantly, twitter, constant syncing, wifi on all the time, gps on all the time, no battery saving at all, it's using about 4% an hour in standby. Which I think is pretty darn good. In fact, I can't find anything to complain about.
Seems to me, some of these problems could be related to individual handsets, so i'm keeping this one, and not gonna be messing with any ROM's either.
Anyone else got one that "just seems to work"?
Pink spot on camera is my only problem, playing with white balance almost solves this. I get 10 - 12hrs heavy use, 36hrs medium use and 48ish hrs light use. all with wifi on constantly, gps on, emails on push. no signal issues, no yellow or blue tint on screen. sound through headphones is great on power amp, never used stock player, no wake up lag. from reading on here we may be the lucky ones tho, either that or the other happy people don't bother posting
Btw I'm on unbranded voda UK, kf3, stock Rom without root
My wifi keeps dropping out. It'll work for 10 minutes and then stop completely yet still show bars of signal. Latest firmware i've used is KG3. I've now taken it in to be fixed.
No Probs with wifi here, seems to work just fine. Actually, just had my first issue, although nothing major, was using the built in email app, just went to reply to an email and it kept insisting that it was an unrecognized email address, wouldn't let me reply, so just binned it and gone back to using Gmail.
Had 2 phones from O2 in the UK and both have poor in call volume through the headset.
Music volume is fine. I think it uses different hardware for voice calls? Which means it might not be fixable via firmware. I'll make do tho cause everything else is smashing!
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