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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Hey guys! This is my first post on XDA, though I've been using it for quite a while.
I'm not exactly looking for answers/solutions, but rather sharing my problem and see if someone else is having them too.
I have a Latin American version of the I91000 (TTT). I recently upgraded to ICS using the official firmware from Samfirmware (UHLPE). At first everything looked great. The performance improvement was noticeable from the first bootup. Not only was it faster, but the intro video was far smoother and looked nicer. The general UI changes are very nice, and I did notice an improvement in battery life.
However, I've been experiencing a couple of glaring issues that really mared the experience enough to make me want to go back to Gingerbread, which I will probably do.
These are the problems:
1. The mobile data connection is very unstable. Sometimes it just doesn't load anything, and sometimes I lose the signal altogether. The 3G/H/H+ icon disappears and all. I never had this problem in GB during the 6 months I've had this phone.
2. The Bluetooth audio connection also has problems. It's now more unstable and susceptible to interference, and the lag is also much more noticeable now. It was about .5 seconds before, but now it's more than a full second.
But that's not the worst issue. The media remote control functions just stopped working altogether, namely, the |<< , >>| , >/|| buttons on my headset. I have a Nokia BH505 Bluetooth headset, and I didn't have any of these problems before either.
So that's it. I would like to know if someone else is experiencing one or both of these issues. I'll also check the Samfirmware forums to look for replies on the matter. Thank you for your feedback.
i can't remember having this issue while running older roms, but now since the update it hangs...i have the feeling that it happens when the signal is poor, but m not sure...anyone having the same problem ?it's bothering me because i have to turn the phone off
Hello everybody.
I have little bit mystical problem and wanna share it with you - may be someone faced the same and could explain me the nature of this case.
My SGS3 is very stable and usually it works for 36 hours after charging. I turn on 3G and Wi-Fi only when I need it and I need it not very often. Maybe 2 or 3 times a day. Also I don't have a lot of incoming or outcoming calls.
And some days ago I've noticed crazy battery lifetime: it lives more than 3 days! Without any warnings, flashes, cleaning cache or reboot it wastes only 20% of battery a day! I can't post external links but I have a screenshot of battery monitor when it happened.
If it would happen after flashing another kernel or ROM or anything else, I could trace the nature of this case but I didn't do anything with my smartphone at all!
First time it happened on stock ROM + Siyah Kernel 1.8.9 and the last time it was with Android Revolution HD 23.3 + speedmod K2-11 so I can assume that kernel and ROM are not the reasons.
Maybe there is a way to trace it or to repeat? I really don't know when it can happen again but I really loved such battery lifetime experience and I wanna make it permanent. Or it's still a mystic?
Thank you for any help.
Every now and then, I completely loose signal during a call on my I9100. The signal comes back within a few seconds but the call is dropped. I am running CyanogenMod 11.2 M9. Anyone have similar issues or a potential solution?
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Every now and then, I completely loose signal during a call on my I9100. The signal comes back within a few seconds but the call is dropped. I am running CyanogenMod 11.2 M9. Anyone have similar issues or a potential solution?
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You should try another modem.
In one of the posts in this forum, I have even read that if the battery is really old then it doesnt pass enough energy/charge to hold the signal. You could try with another battery if yours is quite old.