Hello,
Anyone one got one from three.co.uk? I'm finding the software is clunky out of the box. Is that because the three ROM is rubbish?
Thanks
What part do you find clunky?
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When answering a call the screen transition lags, the animation when closing and opening apps stutters.
Have you tried upgrading the firmware?
The newer ones are significantly smoother than the original stock.
If you want more "smoothness" then I'd recommend a custom aftermarket rom such as Wanamlite or Omega
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When I connected it to the wireless internet for the first time it said there was a software update. But when I clicked on the update it said there wasn't one? Where do I get the update from? I've currently got 4.0.4 (API 15)
elrasho said:
When I connected it to the wireless internet for the first time it said there was a software update. But when I clicked on the update it said there wasn't one? Where do I get the update from? I've currently got 4.0.4 (API 15)
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Via Kies
Samsung.com support software .
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Hi,
I'm also on Three UK. Currently using Omega 9.1 (Firmware:XXBLG1, Modem:XXLFB, CSC:H3GALE4).
It functioned better than the original stock but I bought the phone 2 days after it was released in the UK so I never tried any of the stock firmware upgrades via Kies. I'd be interested to hear how you get on of you go this way. What version on you on?
Aside from using it as a phone I primarilly bought it to act as my home broadband provider on the "All-you-can-eat" data package as my landline internet connection is appalling (I live in rural Cornwall!).
So I'd also be interested if you ever experiment with different ROM/MODEMS & CSCs and what works best for you. Three in the UK are unique in that the transmit using UMTS protocol on 2100MHz frequency so I wonder if the Three specific modem which for me was originally NELE4 works better - I am thinking of re-flashing that modem but at the moment I am offshore so there's little point.
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I purchased an unlocked UK version of the SGS2 but I'm located in the US. When an update is released for the UK version, will I be able to update it using Kies or will it tell me that an update isn't available in my location yet? Thanks.
I can't see Samsung putting any sort of IP filtering into place. Kies will probably only look at the device itself and not the internet based location it's being accessed from.
Hollow.Droid said:
I can't see Samsung putting any sort of IP filtering into place. Kies will probably only look at the device itself and not the internet based location it's being accessed from.
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Thanks. Can anyone with the UK version in the US confirm?
Not a clue but it doesn't matter. KIES is useless for updates. Use ODIN instead
Yup, I bought the UK phone from Handtec and I am in Canada. Kies recognize my phone and offers updates just fine.
The downside of using Kies is that it is not a stable program....I suggest you update to KE7 using Odin as described under the Dev section.
The only thing Kies is good for is WiFi update/sync IMO.
Perfect! Thanks for the help.
So after reading through all the posts about flashing my phone to ics from droidstyle's post, i ended up trying to flash my phone from 2.3.5 (which I was not able to update normally by my crappy carrier) to one of the ics roms. Which ended up giving me zero 3g access. My question is are their specific files i can pull from a working Showcase with the latest carrier supported os, to put on my phone after i flash it to ics to get it to access 3g again? My problem is all these roms and what not tend to be based off verizons phone the fascinate. Which as far as i can tell are almost identiacal except a few differences. I dont have verizon as my carrier but a little kansas based one called nex-tech.
there is a 3g data fix.zip floating around here somewhere in this section...thats what u need.
*edit found it
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/59704791/Data_fix_ISC.zip
So that'll fix it? Ur awesome. I tried searching about 3g but I couldn't find anything
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OK so another question... if that doesn't work how do I revert back to the stock OS from my carrier that gives me 3g access
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Birdman2007 said:
OK so another question... if that doesn't work how do I revert back to the stock OS from my carrier that gives me 3g access
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go to rootzwiki and download the stock eh09 or ei20 package then follow the going back to stock part of the guide.
ok, so after all that i still dont have 3g access. Tried reverting back to 2.3.5 but it wont give me my 3g back at all.
Birdman2007 said:
ok, so after all that i still dont have 3g access. Tried reverting back to 2.3.5 but it wont give me my 3g back at all.
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most likely you will have to call your carrier and have them do a esn swap or activate a old phone on your line then switch back.
I went down to the office and they did a swap of a phone they had in the building. No luck what so ever. My girl friend and i have the same exact phone, minus a small hardware update between them. Ive completely erased all of my phone and flashed a generic showcase rom and updated through their website. They programmed it and all that jazz but no luck...
phone info
hardware version 1500.05
firmware version 2.3.5
Baseband version S:i500.05 K.EI20
Biuld number SCH-I500.EI20
If u need any other info im happy to do anything to get this damned 3g back
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I went down to the office and they did a swap of a phone they had in the building. No luck what so ever. My girl friend and i have the same exact phone, minus a small hardware update between them. Ive completely erased all of my phone and flashed a generic showcase rom and updated through their website. They programmed it and all that jazz but no luck...
phone info
hardware version 1500.05
firmware version 2.3.5
Baseband version S:i500.05 K.EI20
Biuld number SCH-I500.EI20
If u need any other info im happy to do anything to get this damned 3g back
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You want an easy fix? Activate it on a Verizon account....
I'm not trying to offend you, but Samsung created it for Verizon network...you might be able to program it to work on another, but you might not...idk
DROID DOES, Apple did...like I forgot when
Well the phone is a Nex-tech phone, that is where i bought it from. That is the local cell phone provider here. Its worked flawlessly rooted for almost 6 months. Then i decided to try and get ics on it and followed the guide droid so awesomely wrote up for everyone. It didnt work so well for me, because Nex-tech is some random generic cdma cellphone provider.
Birdman2007 said:
Well the phone is a Nex-tech phone, that is where i bought it from. That is the local cell phone provider here. Its worked flawlessly rooted for almost 6 months. Then i decided to try and get ics on it and followed the guide droid so awesomely wrote up for everyone. It didnt work so well for me, because Nex-tech is some random generic cdma cellphone provider.
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I had a Sprint Epic for a brief time but live in an area where it was using Nex-tech's towers since Nex-tech is part of Sprint's roaming alliance. I was running custom Froyo roms from XDA because there was no official Froyo release at the time. After a few months it had the same problem with losing 3G. I spent two hours on it with Sprint's tech support and never got it to work again. They even sent me a refurbed phone and it failed right out of the box. They wanted me to drive to the nearest store to have them activate it, which was 1 1/2 hours away when it should have been able to activate thru Nextech's system. Needless to say I ate the ETF and got a Fascinate.
My theory is Nextech has some kind of black list that shuts off data on phones it thinks are roaming for an excessive amount of time. Maybe switching to an ICS Rom designed for the Fascinate might have triggered that.
Good luck with getting it working. The main thing that keeps me from going back to Nextech is their lame tech support and huge repair times instead of refurbished swapouts. I keep hoping when Nextech's contract with Sprint is up next year maybe Sprint will come out here.
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I have not moved or changed locations or anything but after updating the newest samsung firmware (on friday) my phone is now 100% of the time roaming. I've checked the network settings and it says Tmobile in there as it should (i'm on Tmobile in america with the i9300).
Is there something i did wrong? I updated it with Kies, what can i do to downgrade back to the old firmware if i get tired of this roaming business?
try changing your modem
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Electricview said:
I have not moved or changed locations or anything but after updating the newest samsung firmware (on friday) my phone is now 100% of the time roaming. I've checked the network settings and it says Tmobile in there as it should (i'm on Tmobile in america with the i9300).
Is there something i did wrong? I updated it with Kies, what can i do to downgrade back to the old firmware if i get tired of this roaming business?
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How did you be able to update your i9300 cause i am using i9300 and t-mobile as well. But no update for me at all.
I am located in NY btw so do you think I have to wait or not gonna get the update at all
Edit, Just updated mine via odin and working good
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How did you be able to update your i9300 cause i am using i9300 and t-mobile as well. But no update for me at all.
I am located in NY btw so do you think I have to wait or not gonna get the update at all
Edit, Just updated mine via odin and working good
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I am not sure, but its funny my friend has the BLUE i9300 bought 3 weeks after mine, and he was not getting a notification of the update via kies either, but it did give it to me and my phone the exact day it was out (uk firmware).
about changing the modem, will I need to root for that? i prefer to run stock for now..
that's bizarre but it probably has something to do with the phone being an internation model with a uk csc, but i've used my S1 from the uk several times in the u.s. with t-mobile and never had that problem .....can only assume it is a bug
tmzbeme said:
that's bizarre but it probably has something to do with the phone being an internation model with a uk csc, but i've used my S1 from the uk several times in the u.s. with t-mobile and never had that problem .....can only assume it is a bug
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Yea becuase when the phone arrived it worked great (even had a minor firmware upgrade the day i opened which was like june 15th ish or a few days later) and still worked great, no Roaming at all, then with last weeks update now it roams
It's worth pointing out that changing the modem will not work as a valid solution in this case. If one uses a non-LFB modem with the LFB ROM, the mic doesn't get used. One would have to also go to an older rom in addition to a different modem.
I'm having the same exact issue.
Need a solution.
Tried a factory reset. No dice.
Hi guys,
Didn`t find answer for my questions, so decided to link myself to similar topic.
Since the SW update I have done today my phone doesn`t lock to a network
When I go to settings to find a carrier manually, It takes about 2 minutes to find 4-5 networks available around, I am picking o2 UK (as I have a contract with them) and it says : Registering to o2 UK which takes about 4 minutes. After this it says : Emergency calls only and there is no status bars at all.
Master reset didn`t help.
What steps should I take ?
For you reference :
- Phone took from CPW in UK as sim free
- SIM Card used is from o2 UK (contract)
- I don`t want to flash anything, I would like to stay to stock ROM (if possible)
UPDATE : Chosen `Select Automaticly` allowed the phone to find signal, could make a call etc, but after 30 minutes lost signal again....
Kris
on AT&T / same firmware, no roaming issues.
Any fixes for this issue?
Hey guys,
any solution?
my phone is suffering from the same problem!
phone got from India,
however when i contacted T-mobile they said am not on roaming!
achalasawa said:
Hey guys,
any solution?
my phone is suffering from the same problem!
phone got from India,
however when i contacted T-mobile they said am not on roaming!
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U Using it in india? Which network u using?
Any updates?
I did find out that the CSC that was applied by default was KOR. I went in and changed this to BTU using *#272*imei#, but still did not solve the issue.
Wondering if a repartition would help?
chri55tof said:
Hi guys,
Didn`t find answer for my questions, so decided to link myself to similar topic.
Since the SW update I have done today my phone doesn`t lock to a network
When I go to settings to find a carrier manually, It takes about 2 minutes to find 4-5 networks available around, I am picking o2 UK (as I have a contract with them) and it says : Registering to o2 UK which takes about 4 minutes. After this it says : Emergency calls only and there is no status bars at all.
Master reset didn`t help.
What steps should I take ?
For you reference :
- Phone took from CPW in UK as sim free
- SIM Card used is from o2 UK (contract)
- I don`t want to flash anything, I would like to stay to stock ROM (if possible)
UPDATE : Chosen `Select Automaticly` allowed the phone to find signal, could make a call etc, but after 30 minutes lost signal again....
Kris
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If u do not wish to root then your only option is to take it back to the store, so they can fix, u bought the best smart phone available on the market and u can't make phone calls or browse internet(without wifi).
To my understanding, still no resolution on this..
My friends phone after being updated (he just got his first update after having the phone a month) is now roaming as well.. So this is definately something either with our network (t-mobile) or the recent updates.
I've just started living with it, but it sucks becuase it does silly things like makes me click 'download image' when someone sends me a picture message in text...
with the few bugs could be ironed out of this phone kinda frustrating.
I do have similar problems since I installed an update 2 weeks ago. at home the phone says it is roaming at work approx 6 miles away and with a different station I am connecting to it is fine.
t-mobile USA
Marshal said:
I do have similar problems since I installed an update 2 weeks ago. at home the phone says it is roaming at work approx 6 miles away and with a different station I am connecting to it is fine.
t-mobile USA
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Thats interesting, no matter where I go i get roaming. Though a few times I have gotten the 'roaming' warning popped up, so maybe i went out of roaming and didnt know it? I'll keep a closer eye on it.
It is very frustrating and annoying. I've called T-Mobile and they said they would open a case with Samsung. If you guys could call too, we might get a fix.
I really suspect it is something in the CSC. Maybe if we could get the T Mobile SIII CSC and apply it?
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It is very frustrating and annoying. I've called T-Mobile and they said they would open a case with Samsung. If you guys could call too, we might get a fix.
I really suspect it is something in the CSC. Maybe if we could get the T Mobile SIII CSC and apply it?
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My suspicion is wrong. I pulled the TMB CSC from a T999 ROM and manually copied it to /system/csc/TMB, then used the CSC Selector App to change to TMB.
No dice. Still in Roaming.
I'm on stock Bell Canada ICS. Ever since the upgrade I have to keep turning on the Use packet Data setting once or twice a day. It just turns off and I can't access data without going into setting and manually turning it back on.
Anyone know how to get it to stay on?
Did you upgrade through kies? I've seen users have many different issues when upgrading that way.
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Did you upgrade through kies? I've seen users have many different issues when upgrading that way.
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No, it came in over the air.
RE-update again using Kies ?
It may not hurt......
It seems folks have different issues regardless of the method....and i think a re-do may solve a few using the secondary method...IMHO
Or if you have CWM just flash the Bell modem. If not, push it using Odin3.
Can I re-update without first downgrading to 2.3? If so, how would I go about down grading?
No CWM, do I need to be rooted to use ODIN? I've used it on my old phone, but not this one.
Root not needed to push modems with Odin3.
Bell CWM zip:
http://d-h.st/clP
To use with Odin3 download zip and unzip it. Use the modem.bin or the mdm.bin in the phone slot in Odin3. Nothing else should have checks in the boxes.
I too have noticed this issue since the ICS update (which sucks btw)
It seems that switching from LTE to 4g to HSPA+ is the problem, can't really say that this is the actual problem but I have noticed that every time I'm in an undecided zone, I lose all signal.
My updated from GB to ICS on the release date.
My GN was reset to original factory GB, then updated to ICS via OTA and I still get this problem, so I'm not so sure its a modem issue.
BTW, my GN was not rooted, until last night...let's see what will happen next
kyrotech said:
I too have noticed this issue since the ICS update (which sucks btw)
It seems that switching from LTE to 4g to HSPA+ is the problem, can't really say that this is the actual problem but I have noticed that every time I'm in an undecided zone, I lose all signal.
My updated from GB to ICS on the release date.
My GN was reset to original factory GB, then updated to ICS via OTA and I still get this problem, so I'm not so sure its a modem issue.
BTW, my GN was not rooted, until last night...let's see what will happen next
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I'm on cm9 with the bell modem and the phone loses signal whenever it switches from hspa to lte. It also takes a couple minutes for the phone to find a lte signal. When I was on UCLE2 it found the lte signal right away and never had any hiccups so I'm guessing its the issue with the modem itself.
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kyrotech said:
My GN was reset to original factory GB, then updated to ICS via OTA and I still get this problem, so I'm not so sure its a modem issue.
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In my opinion, any way you look at it, its a modem issue. The new modem with the ICS update could be no improvement over the modem with the stock Gingerbread.
But now that you are rooted, maybe you will flash other roms and see if there is any improvement for you. The at&t LF6 rom and modem is very stable and most of the custom roms are built on them. Enjoy the experiment.
hi. I have a samsung galaxy s2 i9100 (for now 3 and half years)
i am in the uk with 3 network
for some time i have been experiencing loss of network all of a sudden thoughout the day
specially if i tether my phone via wireless
i have changed its software (rom and modem) and I am still experiencing this loss of network
in order to get network again I must reboot the phone, it is the only way of getting it back working
I travel a lot to Portugal and take the phone but I do not seem to have experienced this there
tough i dont tether there nor i use the connection for data
currently i am using a slim rom 4.2.2 build 8 official
the baseband is i9100xxLs9
any toughts about what is happening? do you think the phone is to blame? software? hardware? sim card?
Modem is what the culprit.
Change to other modem and see
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corruptionfreeindia said:
Modem is what the culprit.
Change to other modem and see
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Hi! Thanks for the reply!
I already tried that. I reflashed and put a new modem aswell.
It improved the simptoms but they still persist
Any specific modem that you think i should try?
Some times my phone freaks out and just gets corrupt and i have to reflash
Do you think it might be going to die? Maybe replace it?
Best regards
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cromalhao said:
hi. I have a samsung galaxy s2 i9100 (for now 3 and half years)
i am in the uk with 3 network
for some time i have been experiencing loss of network all of a sudden thoughout the day
specially if i tether my phone via wireless
i have changed its software (rom and modem) and I am still experiencing this loss of network
in order to get network again I must reboot the phone, it is the only way of getting it back working
I travel a lot to Portugal and take the phone but I do not seem to have experienced this there
tough i dont tether there nor i use the connection for data
currently i am using a slim rom 4.2.2 build 8 official
the baseband is i9100xxLs9
any toughts about what is happening? do you think the phone is to blame? software? hardware? sim card?
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Flash with this firmware ,hope will help
I9100XXLPQ_I9100OXALPQ_I9100XXLPQ_HOME.tar
Put it on gsm mode which is also called 2g mode.
Monitor it if you still loose signal.
If so, then i would recommend you do a clean wipe, use any rom wipe script available and then install your rom back
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