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Hello..I am thinking of retiring my sgs for sgs2..Until a few days earlier i had even planned, when to get it..i have played with the phone on stores and its more than amazing..its so much better than everything else out there, its almost alien..
BUT..For a few days i have browsed to reaserch before i spend that kind of money.And it turns out it has MANY issues..
yellow screens
short wifi ranges
pink photos
rf-flaky gps
battery drains
sudden reboots
and worst of all overheats..
I guess for the most part they "could" be software problems..But overheating is a real worry for me..I live in a country where summers , ambient temperatures easily climb to 40-45 degrees celsius..An overheat combined to that could litteraly melt the device..
So i ask of you , already owners..Is it really as bad as reading about it looks?or is it exxagerations?It is not a cheap device so i should proceed carefuly.Thank you..
Its a dual core so its going to get hot and as it has a thin case will appear more hot .
But its not what i term a HOT hot i would term it warm mostly .
The other problems you mention dont doubt that they exist on someone's phone but not on mine from day one .
jje
I am using my second sgs2 now. The first one I had had no issues except a pink spot on photos. (this was gone after firmware upgrade)
Then the phone got stolen....
Second sgs2 now and everything works fine, no overheating or anything, I would say my old sgs got even warmer at times especially when gaming on the charger.
I would say it depends a bit on your device, but overall it should be ok! Im extremely happy after upgrading to be honest (Hence I bought a second sgs2 after the first one got ripped)
JJEgan said:
Its a dual core so its going to get hot and as it has a thin case will appear more hot .
But its not what i term a HOT hot i would term it warm mostly .
The other problems you mention dont doubt that they exist on someone's phone but not on mine from day one .
jje
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Hello..I remember seeing you often on sgs subfora.I hope you are happy with your upgrade!
Would you say it is like 40 degrees warm?or 50 degrees warm?As i said if it escalades too much on an already high ambient temperature it could fry it..
Also..Do you use a case?I suspect that would make heat problems worse?
I'm planning to retire my 6 months old SGS and get an SGS II!
I know I can't go wrong with this choice ;-]
Hi,
-yellow screens
if my sgsII screen is yellow, than it should be So no problems there, all colors are like they should be. I really like the display
-short wifi ranges
I heard that from a friend, he tried with another friend and iPhone 4 had better range for wifi. Where the sgsII had no connection, the iPhone still could use wifi.
in my apartment I can use the phone everywhere. router is on the one side of the house, bed on the other side (~10m, 2 walls) and it works. It shows 2 of 3 for wifi. So its okay for me
-pink photos
none, I read the post here and tried it out with a white wall, flash and no flash. Bad light. But picture was still perfect.
-rf-flaky gps
GPS works fine for me
-battery drains
its a smartphone, so you need to recharge every day or every second day. Depending on how much you use it. Like any other high end android device.
-sudden reboots
No reboots yet
-and worst of all overheats..
it is getting hot.
but no problems for me.
It's gettin colder very fast if you stop to use it.
But even when I used it over an hour (plugged in) I had no problem with holding it.
Overall I like the phone. I dont want another one
buy it. i love this phone. Nothing to complain about. I came from a decent phone too!(atrix)
Please don't take the general section at face value. I have a sgs2 from first batch with no issues. After any device release, the section will be filled with false complaints.
Most complaint threads will have the most post versus positive threads. Most if not all complaint threads are bs with very few actual members having problems.
No phone is perfect but my device is running great.
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HEHEHEHHEHEHE...
Similar post have been made 100 times. Do your research you'll find your answer. I have none of your posted issues
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HEHEHEHHEHEHE...
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You answered your own question having researched the forum. You may or may not experience any or all of the issues you listed. Just like some existing owners have and haven't experienced them. Are you looking for someone to tell you everything's going to be OK? Fine. Everything's going to be OK.
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I guess if I really realy try I can see this yellow tarnish on my screen too, but onlu if I really try and only under certain conditions
short wifi ranges
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range is okay but I have disconnect/reconnect every so often
pink photos
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this clearly is a software problem, you can work around it with camera settings
rf-flaky gps
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gps has been very fast for me
battery drains
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general android problem, if you leave your phone alone you can get very decent standby times
sudden reboots
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never had them
and worst of all overheats..
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not had them
I guess for the most part they "could" be software problems..But overheating is a real worry for me..I live in a country where summers , ambient temperatures easily climb to 40-45 degrees celsius..An overheat combined to that could litteraly melt the device..
the device should shut down automatically so no worries....
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intruda119 said:
Similar post have been made 100 times. Do your research you'll find your answer. I have none of your posted issues
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Yes i did.And when entering new post title none comparable was found as well..i found clusters of others, asking about each of the issues separately,weeks apart..so i thought instead of asking in 7 archived topics , to ask in a new one..could have even been possible many of them to have been resolved by updates, since then.
Nah this phone is terrible. My nokia 3310 does everythong sooooo much better!
The screen is better
Battery lasts longer
Its even overclocked!!
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More comments on my main concern please..Overheat..Has anyone seen from spare part or similar app how many degrees it can reach when getting hot?
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Hello..I remember seeing you often on sgs subfora.I hope you are happy with your upgrade!
Would you say it is like 40 degrees warm?or 50 degrees warm?As i said if it escalades too much on an already high ambient temperature it could fry it..
Also..Do you use a case?I suspect that would make heat problems worse?
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Using a case now and it does make it a bit worse, but I havent seen the temperature going above 37 on the SGS2 yet. SGS1 got 42 sometimes. never saw 50 or something like this..
I do have a small problem now..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14537539&postcount=135
If I open the pictures fullscreen on this post, I can see some lines on my screen. On full brightness I dont see them, but with lower there are vague lines. I might check if other phones have this to, can some people here check it for me?
This is a minor problem, and I havent noticed it before someone pointed it out. The branding is also an issue if you make it an issue, this is software not hardware so can be fixed.
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More comments on my main concern please..Overheat..Has anyone seen from spare part or similar app how many degrees it can reach when getting hot?
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I've got to 50 before, using google maps and navigation beta simultaneously. It is a dual core phone though, and obviously is going to have a bit of sizzle behind it when pounding the processors.
I'd say go for it, it really is an amazing phone. The so called problems that have been raised are so superficial that they are near to non-existent. e.g. to see the yellow tint you have to turn down the brightness, use a certain coloured grey background, use a camera to take a picture of it, and then use photoshop to compare the colour of the two sides.
Come on folks, really.
I've used it heavily for a week and have had no overheating problems, you can always check the task manager if an application is misbehaving, it even blinks red if it's hitting the cpu hard.
Stitch! said:
Using a case now and it does make it a bit worse, but I havent seen the temperature going above 37 on the SGS2 yet. SGS1 got 42 sometimes. never saw 50 or something like this..
I do have a small problem now..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14537539&postcount=135
If I open the pictures fullscreen on this post, I can see some lines on my screen. On full brightness I dont see them, but with lower there are vague lines. I might check if other phones have this to, can some people here check it for me?
This is a minor problem, and I havent noticed it before someone pointed it out. The branding is also an issue if you make it an issue, this is software not hardware so can be fixed.
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thanks for the answer on overheating mate..your problem is nothing to worry about..its called banding and it exists on all amoled screens...it is more apparent on shades of grey colour..if you use winamp you can probably see it there on the main screen as well..nothing to worry about.i guess the new samoled+ will also have slower burn in time so it will not become worse soon..
i am not an expert in matters like this,but woulddn't it help if we could get replacement back covers made of thin aluminum?it would also ensure that if the phone dropped it would land on its back and not on the screen probably.
Blimey
Wifi weak
GPS issues
Display yellow tint
wake up lag
overheating playing 3D games
sound quality issues
battery life problems
Anyone wanting to find out if this phone is worth buying would turn away very fast.
When I owned my SGS2, my wifi was fine, GPS was spot on and fast, never noticed a yellow tint, cant work out where the wake up lag was, ok it overheated playing pocket legends but nothing else, sound was pretty good, battery life seemed to improve over time.
Anymore positive comments or links to threads, that might make a new comer welcome.
THUDUK said:
Blimey
Wifi weak
GPS issues
Display yellow tint
wake up lag
overheating playing 3D games
sound quality issues
battery life problems
Anyone wanting to find out if this phone is worth buying would turn away very fast.
When I owned my SGS2, my wifi was fine, GPS was spot on and fast, never noticed a yellow tint, cant work out where the wake up lag was, ok it overheated playing pocket legends but nothing else, sound was pretty good, battery life seemed to improve over time.
Anymore positive comments or links to threads, that might make a new comer welcome.
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Wifi - Yes its weaker compared to the Iphone4 or any of the Netbooks I have at home, In a spot here the netbook can still hold and maintain the signal the SGS2 doesnt even see the router to be in range anymore.
GPS issues - I dont use the GPS that much so its a non-issue for me.
Display yellow tint - Biggest downside of this product, its supposed to feature a great screen (not perfect but great) lots of other quality control related issues on the screen.
wake up lag - I think all andriod phones have this wake up lag, but someone correct me on this. The S1 also had this after the 2.2 update.
overheating playing 3D games - I've been with 3 units and my first 2 phones barely heated up when playing games, this 3rd phone runs significantly warmer.
sound quality issues - S2 uses a lower end sound chip so this must be the main culprit.
battery life problems - totally subjective to the usage and expectations, Im getting great battery life my self, nothing extra ordinary.
Dont forget about the pink spot on the camera and video stutter/frame drop issues too
Nothing subjective about weak battery - it's WEAK....
Only + point i can think about is a decent camera. But on mine it broke 2 weeks after purchase.
Korean trash.
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Blimey
Wifi weak
GPS issues
Display yellow tint
wake up lag
overheating playing 3D games
sound quality issues
battery life problems
Anyone wanting to find out if this phone is worth buying would turn away very fast.
When I owned my SGS2, my wifi was fine, GPS was spot on and fast, never noticed a yellow tint, cant work out where the wake up lag was, ok it overheated playing pocket legends but nothing else, sound was pretty good, battery life seemed to improve over time.
Anymore positive comments or links to threads, that might make a new comer welcome.
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My experience:
Wifi weak = Good enough for my use
GPS issues = nope
Display yellow tint = nope
wake up lag = You got to be kidding me
overheating playing 3D games = True it gets pretty warm
sound quality issues = Good enough for my use
battery life problems = Battery life is good
I have 4 friends with the same phone, and they are not experiencing these issues.
Positives:
- It is fast. It laughs at your iPhone 4 and Sensation.
- It has a big beautiful screen but it is still thin and lightweight
- Enough RAM (1 GB)
- Touchwiz 4 is super smooth and it is in my opinion better than Sense
- Very smooth web browser
- Good camera
Overall:
Best phone on the market at the moment.
Well for me it is mainly the Web Browser (Stock only), I don't even turn my PC on for normal browsing anymore. Full Flash support is awesome. Hardware acceleration is great too.
Besides, Video Playback capacity is great too, it can even play 1080P MKV's, and that with subtitles, nice. We shouldn't forget the awesome 4.27" S-AMOLED Plus screen.
Having a Noise Cancellation Mic is very nice too, especially when you are in noisy areas.
What else? Can't remember atm, will edit post if I do remember.
Regards.
lynzoid said:
Nothing subjective about weak battery - it's WEAK....
Only + point i can think about is a decent camera. But on mine it broke 2 weeks after purchase.
Korean trash.
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Ill-informed and racist - good work.
Pity you didn't manage a spot of sexism or you'd have had the hat trick.
Rytkonen said:
My experience:
Likewise from my use .
Wifi weak = Good enough for my use >>>Strong signal for me up to the limit of routers range .
GPS issues = nope >>> near enough perfect
Display yellow tint = nope>> some insist i have it but yet to find it
wake up lag = You got to be kidding me >> dont really understand that one
overheating playing 3D games = True it gets pretty warm >> dont play games
sound quality issues = Good enough for my use >> Absolutely no complaints but i understand that those that like bangy bangy find bass low .
battery life problems = Battery life is good >>> Sorted good battery life .
6 million sold and how many returned due to above complaints ???
Very noticeable that the majority that complain do not return the phone .I i had the claimed problems then the phone would have been returned .
jje
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The yellow tint was just a manufacturing problem, and if you bought a device now (new) it wouldn't have it.
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Nothing subjective about weak battery - it's WEAK....
Only + point i can think about is a decent camera. But on mine it broke 2 weeks after purchase.
Korean trash.
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Ok if its not subjective to usage then anyone who cant reach 6days of battery life has a defective phone since I can get 6days with well over 40% of battery left. This is ofcourse taken from what you said.
See how others would comment about the battery life or screen, they have different feedbacks according to what their usage is.
Ex.
Someone who just uses the phone for call/sms will have insanely awesome battery life but someone who has wifi/bt/gps/HSPDA enabled 24/7 might with regular push and updates and uses this phone as an alternative to a netbook will only get between 6-10hrs of battery life.
Same goes for the people who dont see the yellow tint as an issue because they bought the phone not for its screen but for its phone features or just plainly accept the defects thus causing a low quality product.
Everything is almost subjective to the user.
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The yellow tint was just a manufacturing problem, and if you bought a device now (new) it wouldn't have it.
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Not being anal here but Id like for you to prove that with pictures that the new batches dont have yellow tinting, so that those who bought the initial batches that came out can send it so the service center and have it replaced.
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6 million sold and how many returned due to above complaints ???
Very noticeable that the majority that complain do not return the phone .I i had the claimed problems then the phone would have been returned .
jje
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Thats the problem, a lot of us assume that the 6 million figure released by sites is 100% accurate and even if it is we dont really know how much the return rates are but if they are indeed pretty low how come a few folks ( regardless of how few this ppl are ) have exchanged the phone more than twice..
Also a lot of people have been getting misinformation from forums claiming these issues to be "normal", with enough returns samsung will surely rectify some of it.
Think about it if samsung will silently introduce a new revised hardware with a significantly higher screen quality control ( including the total elimination of the yellow tinting, darker spots, white blotches and vertical banding ) and a fixed camera w/o frame drops and pink spots, a better GPS antenna configuration.. for sure those who claimed that they dont see the issue suddenly will see the issue if they know about revised hardware. Just saying but its gonna be a fact when this happens, not asking for perfection just asking for better quality =)
Then again the issues we see (aside from quality and manufacturing issues) are pretty much subjective to the user experience.
The positive thing about this phone is that its blazing fast! No other phone can compare but it also has a lot of issues and down sides especially the AOS bug when you have wifi and IM apps running, compared it to a 2.1 / 2.2 or 2.3.5 nexus reference device the N1 and NS outlasts the battery on this phone, heck even the iphone4 outlasts it when the AOS bug kicks in.
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The yellow tint was just a manufacturing problem, and if you bought a device now (new) it wouldn't have it.
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LOL, Negative. Prove what you say.
If you are trying to spoil the mind of the old buyers, then that won't happen.
Regards.
My SGS2 is only couple of weeks old , no yellow tint on it, can post pictures compared to my captivate later.
Rytkonen said:
My experience:
Wifi weak = Good enough for my use
GPS issues = nope
Display yellow tint = nope
wake up lag = You got to be kidding me
overheating playing 3D games = True it gets pretty warm
sound quality issues = Good enough for my use
battery life problems = Battery life is good
I have 4 friends with the same phone, and they are not experiencing these issues.
Positives:
- It is fast. It laughs at your iPhone 4 and Sensation.
- It has a big beautiful screen but it is still thin and lightweight
- Enough RAM (1 GB)
- Touchwiz 4 is super smooth and it is in my opinion better than Sense
- Very smooth web browser
- Good camera
Overall:
Best phone on the market at the moment.
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+1.
Battery life is proportional to use. Wi-Fi+sync = battery drain. Have been using Juice Defender Ultimate for a few days and it help to solve this as it turns Wi-Fi and sync on only then the screen is on and when it is scheduled to do so (for 15 seconds every 15 minutes in my case) in order to receive e-mails, updates, etc.
About the rest, well, no issues at all! Just perfect.
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My SGS2 is only couple of weeks old , no yellow tint on it, can post pictures compared to my captivate later.
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About the rest, well, no issues at all! Just perfect.
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Please post pictures as it will be a great news for those who are still waiting for a fix on this before sending it to the service center. Also post the kernels used after you guys post the pictures.. hopefully its still a 2.3.3 kernel
Now I'm about to post the negatives and positives about this phone. I love this phone despite its negatives though. I just hate how Android isn't really optimized atm (little to no hardware acceleration and no proper multi-core utilization). I bought mine 3 weeks back.
TL;DR
The yellow tint is there (in addition to vertical lines), wi-fi is weak, wake up lag is there sometimes (about 1 sec), it gets warm (I hope this has no effect on the screen, I'd hate it if the heat ruins the screen), battery life seems to get better overtime.
These points might sound weird because I copy pasted the review I wrote to my friends.
Negatives:
1. Browser would sometimes get stuck on white blank page when switching windows (not apps, windows as in tabs), especially heavier webpages. One workaround is to switch orientations (portrait to landscape, then back to portrait).
2. This is true to all Android browsers. You will have problems with websites with scrollable frames. And pop-ups.
3. This is also true to all Android phones. Multitouch and copy paste implementations are not consistent throughout the phone. In Browser, you will find that the copy paste works wonderfully well. In some apps, copy paste isn't even implemented. This is the only area in which I think the S2 loses to iPhone.
4. Eventhough it's light, build quality does not win that of HTC. I dropped it once (more like threw instead of dropped), it has a little damage, nothing visible unless you shine direct light to it, mainly because it's black.
5. The charger you get out of the box is merely 700mAH instead of 1000mAH like those bundled by HTC. It takes roughly 3 hours to charge from 0 to 100% (if you use it while charging it can take you a whole lot longer). This brings us to next point.
6. The phone gets warm, warmer than what would feel comfortable when you use it extensively, especially when charging. This is probably why the charger supplied is less powerful, to avoid overheating. This is one reason I don't have casing.
7. The phone automatically turns down your brightness to 0% when your battery reaches 10%. This apparently has no workaround, unless you flash another ROM.
8. I've heard people saying that, eventhough this comes with Gorilla Glass, the Oleophobic coating makes it prone to scratches. I personally run around without a screen protector, and still no scratches after 2 weeks.
9. The wi-fi chip might be the low-power one. I'm getting the same amount of bars as my HTC Wildfire.
10. I'm not sure if the physical keys will play well with Ice Cream Sandwich. I heard ICS will be more like Honeycomb, meaning the main buttons are placed on-screen.
Positives:
1. 4.3" of Super Amoled Plus goodness. I can never look at my desktop and laptop monitors the same way anymore. Anything with black background looks absolutely stunning.
2. It's so powerful that I experience almost zero lag. Lags can still be felt though when you're running unoptimized apps. Whatsapp is one app in which you can feel the stutters.
3. Browsing is ultra smooth, there simply is no lag, even when browsing image-heavy sites. This is mainly because Hardware Acceleration is enabled in the Browser. And I think Samsung adopted iOS' method, you will see checkerboards sometimes.
4. Again, performance. I run Live wallpaper, listen to music, read manga, altogether without experiencing a single stutter, and I hardly ever use the Task Manager.
5. Apps are getting better. Almost all respectable companies are releasing iOS version of the app together with Android version. I downloaded a few addictive games and they're on par with the iOS version.
6. The Oleophobic coating feels really good on the fingers. Touchscreen also seems to register even the slightest of touch.
7. It is very very light, iPhone4 felt like a brick when holding them together.
8. It comes pre-installed with multiple codecs. I've loaded my phone with a few movies and they all play without a problem. 720p movies are played without any lag.
9. The hardware is pretty much future-proof. I believe it can run anything thrown at it for the next 2 years.
10. Touchwiz 4.0 is pretty good, I can't believe I actually like it.
ithehappy said:
Well for me it is mainly the Web Browser (Stock only), I don't even turn my PC on for normal browsing anymore. Full Flash support is awesome. Hardware acceleration is great too.
Besides, Video Playback capacity is great too, it can even play 1080P MKV's, and that with subtitles, nice. We shouldn't forget the awesome 4.27" S-AMOLED Plus screen.
Having a Noise Cancellation Mic is very nice too, especially when you are in noisy areas.
What else? Can't remember atm, will edit post if I do remember.
Regards.
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I love web browsing on here but NOT with the Samsung-modified browser. Main issue is it doesn't offer a desktop display options! With a screen this nice and we get dumbed down to the mobile displays? Whatthe?
Don't want the useragent browser workaround either? Doesn't stick.
FORTUNATELY I found the slim uberfast boat browser or this would've been returned.
Yeah, I browse a lot...much of it for work actually.
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Please post pictures as it will be a great news for those who are still waiting for a fix on this before sending it to the service center. Also post the kernels used after you guys post the pictures.. hopefully its still a 2.3.3 kernel
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Yes, sir! Here you are, with browser brightness at about 20%
I can't see any yellow tint or any other issue with my display. I'm currently on XXKG3 stock ROM, but I have used KE1 and KE7 stock before and I haven't noticed any issue either.
[EDIT] Before I used to use stock KE1 and KE7 Kernels (2.3.3). Now I use CF-Root 4.1 XXKG3 (2.3.4) and I have to say that it rocks. (Deserved donations to CF made!)
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Wifi weak
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The SGS2 doesn't like certain routers. Those of us with Netgear routers are getting terrific performance. Mine's better than any phone I've used. Traveling, the SGS2 isn't consistently better or worse than other phones I've used.
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I haven't had any problems and I've used it with Co-Pilot in both the U.S. and Europe. It locks fairly quick and stays locked. Accuracy is as good as my G2 (Desire Z)
Display yellow tint
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The screen temperature varies from device to device. Some have had a yellow tint but it doesn't appear to be the majority. There's a production/design issue that shows as a darkening on the left 1/4 of the display. The majority can't see it unless they take pics of their phones in dark rooms at 10% brightness. Screens with a yellow bias seem to exaggerate it.
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Doesn't bother me.
overheating playing 3D games
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Some games aren't optimized for the phone and cause it to run hot. Same thing for every other dual-core phone.
sound quality issues
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I use Shure 530's, a Yamaha YSP4000, and A2DP in my car and don't have a problem with the sound. If you're an audiophile stick with your SGS1 because it has a Wolfson (vs. Yamaha) DAC.
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I'm running stock and get 14-18 hours of moderate-heavy use including all the syncs synching every three hours, using Wi-Fi heavilly, and using Exchange push. Load your phone up with a bunch of questionable apps and use battery monitors, task killers, and other crap and you too will have ****ty battery life.
Anyone wanting to find out if this phone is worth buying would turn away very fast.
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And what phone's better? If you look at the Sensation, O2X/G2X, and Atrix forums there's a list of comparable issues. Many people that have issues have an expectation of perfection that's not realistic for a mass-produced electronic device. If you're one of them, and are seeking perfection, don't buy a dual-core phone. The vast majority on this forum are thrilled with their purchase and would recommend the phone to a friend.
rockky said:
I love web browsing on here but NOT with the Samsung-modified browser. Main issue is it doesn't offer a desktop display options! With a screen this nice and we get dumbed down to the mobile displays? Whatthe?
Don't want the useragent browser workaround either? Doesn't stick.
FORTUNATELY I found the slim uberfast boat browser or this would've been returned.
Yeah, I browse a lot...much of it for work actually.
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Yeah, I agree. The Samsung browser definitely could offer easily a decent desktop view. Messing with user agent doesn't provide a long term fix. For this reason, I have Opera mobile on my phone, which is great for that purpose. Nevertheless, I only use Opera when I want a desktop view, 98% of the time I stick with the Samsung browser, which for mobile view is good in my opinion.
angelomaldito said:
Yes, sir! Here you are, with browser brightness at about 20%
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You realize screen shots are what's being sent to the display, not what's being shown by it...
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You realize screen shots are what's being sent to the display, not what's being shown by it...
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yes, you're right. Anyway, if some of you guys can't trust me, I'll post some pictures latter at night in the dark. Just let me know if you wish any specific brightness, colour background, web page, etc.
By the mean time, I can only say that I've never had such issue with any ROM or kernel I had in my device.
Ok I recently installed Eclipse ROM on my MMX2 phone hoping it would increase the speed and extend the battery life, but no noticeable change in either of those categories. I use my phone alot and understand that is part of my battery drain, but I have noticed when using my phone to either surf the www or play a game or even talk on it, the heat is almost too much where I can barely hold the phone without thinking i am going to burn my hands.
Today I actually paid more attention to it and took the back battery cover off and it was surprisingly cool to the touch, even the battery wasn't hot, but below that it was scorching!! The heat is radiating from near the speaker cover (my speaker isn't near as loud as my friends Droid-X but that's a different issue for a different topic).
Does anyone else experience this issue with either the MMX2 or the DX2? I assume they are very similar phones.
Thanks!
Lee
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Ok I recently installed Eclipse ROM on my MMX2 phone hoping it would increase the speed and extend the battery life, but no noticeable change in either of those categories. I use my phone alot and understand that is part of my battery drain, but I have noticed when using my phone to either surf the www or play a game or even talk on it, the heat is almost too much where I can barely hold the phone without thinking i am going to burn my hands.
Today I actually paid more attention to it and took the back battery cover off and it was surprisingly cool to the touch, even the battery wasn't hot, but below that it was scorching!! The heat is radiating from near the speaker cover (my speaker isn't near as loud as my friends Droid-X but that's a different issue for a different topic).
Does anyone else experience this issue with either the MMX2 or the DX2? I assume they are very similar phones.
Thanks!
Lee
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I have a Milestone X2 and my phone has never gotten hot where I can't touch it. It gets warm when i am playing a game or something. You might have a bad connection with your speaker. Take notice if it gets warm when you listen to something? While charge or only if you are using your phone with a game.
But generally I have not experienced this with my phone. I would let someone take a look at it! I work at a Cell phone store and I have heard of devices getting so hot that it physically did burn an individual. The phone itself did this because one of the servos where not attached properly.
I would also try a different charger...
The only time mine gets really warm is when I'm constantly using wifi. Other than that its cool.
A big culprit of the DX2 overheating is the Flash software. Check to see if you have Flash 11 installed. Others who have had this issue have either removed it or used a previous version of Flash.
Hey everyone. I literally just got my G5 in the mail a couple hours ago and went through the setup process. It was plainly obvious that the phone was really hot. Has anyone else noticed this? I don't know if this is a common thing or if it may just be my phone....
My LG G5 is not received.So I don't know.When I get it,I will answer this.
Mine gets a little warm after heavy use and while charging, but I wouldn't call it hot. Try pulling the battery and see if the battery is causing the heat.
Mine also got hot during the setup process. I was adding my gmail account and fiddling around with it while it was charging and it got noticeably hot. Haven't had a problem since then.
I was playing with one in the ATT store and it seemed to be getting warm on the back just to the left of the fingerprint reader (if looking at the back). I wouldn't say it was hot, just warm.
Most phones heat up a bit during setup, just like some do during updating. I'm guessing it may be a little more noticeable with the metal design.
Verizon unit here and mine was also hot when setting up but quickly cooled down. I will add that i did not have my phone plugged in when setting it up.
Mine was really hot during the setup process. If I'm doing nothing with the screen off, it's cool. But doing anything with it, generates more heat than I would like. Taking photos feels like I'm holding a hand warmer.
I read LG isn't aggressively throttling the CPU like Samsung so at this point that's what I'm assuming is going on.
It would be nice if there was a straight forward way to compare temperatures objectively instead of subjective descriptions like warm, little warm, hot, too hot.
Honestly I wouldn't worry about it too much unless it happens after your initial device set up. Normally with the LG's I've noticed that they get hot during a first boot and setup. The only other time I've experienced it like that is if I'm playing a game or on Skype.
whitetyler said:
Hey everyone. I literally just got my G5 in the mail a couple hours ago and went through the setup process. It was plainly obvious that the phone was really hot. Has anyone else noticed this? I don't know if this is a common thing or if it may just be my phone....
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after setup, (not charging) installing all my apps it got warm but not where i would have to put it down.
it seem that this phone have a lot of problem............... should i go pick up my package?
Verizon user here. I didn't notice anything warm during setup but I noticed on my first test call that after about 10 minutes it was getting warm to the point of being uncomfortable. I've a text message restore running for about 10 minutes now with the display on and the phone is cold to the touch. Not sure what may be causing the temp variances. An unlocked CPU sounds plausible which i'm kind of okay with. Has anyone notice poor call quality. According to the person I was talking to my voice would go through periods of crystal clarity and inaudible garble. Not sure if it was on my end or theirs. I'll return with updates.
Got my My LG G5 from T-Mobile... After 3 days the phone has been overheating, and every 10 seconds it drops Mobile Connection...I went through a plethora of tests with T-Mobile Support and they determined that I need a replacement device...so waiting for the replacement...One other thing, I notice this happened after calling T-Mobile to Unlock the device...So not sure if there is any correlation between my issue and T-Mobiles Unlock App, T-Mobile said the two were not related.
I did factory reset and left for 10 minutes after first boot then setup my credentials and left phone on WiFi for 1 hour before I did start downloading
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The only 2 times i had the phone get warm was whdn i setup it up and when i tried to film a 4k video while charging it and it caused the phone to stutter and even the clips stuttered.
I think there are communication problem here, when people mention hot, how hot is it, as different people defines them differently, I know my friends phone is only warm, but he just say hot.
all the LG phones i heard get HOT or overheated. this has been happing for so many years, nothing new.
i notice this 4 years ago with my LG phone. i thought they would have fixed it by now.
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all the LG phones i heard get HOT or overheated. this has been happing for so many years, nothing new.
i notice this 4 years ago with my LG phone. i thought they would have fixed it by now.
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I had the V10 for about 4 months, only get s warm, not hot.
Setup no heat, installing all apps for 20 mins no heat. Lots of photos not heat. Not seeing an issue with over heating
Hello all,
I've used a z5c for a short time a while ago and my experience with it was downright terrible. It was overheating, getting annoyingly warm while doing basic tasks, whenever I got under 15% there was an annoying red light in my face, there was an orange light always on in the night when it was charging, and then the screen shattered from the tiniest drop. The battery life was also poor, despite it being great on paper. Anyway,
Did the (marshmallow) system updates fix the terrible heating situation?
Is there a rom out there that fixes the heating issues?
Is it in anyway possible to disable those lights?
I'm planning on buying a new one (with tempered glass protectors) if these things are possible.
Thanks in advance for answering!
ApplepieFTW said:
Hello all,
I've used a z5c for a short time a while ago and my experience with it was downright terrible. It was overheating, getting annoyingly warm while doing basic tasks, whenever I got under 15% there was an annoying red light in my face, there was an orange light always on in the night when it was charging, and then the screen shattered from the tiniest drop. The battery life was also poor, despite it being great on paper. Anyway,
Did the (marshmallow) system updates fix the terrible heating situation?
Is there a rom out there that fixes the heating issues?
Is it in anyway possible to disable those lights?
I'm planning on buying a new one (with tempered glass protectors) if these things are possible.
Thanks in advance for answering!
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The .224 update brought new life to the z5c but it still has all of its usual flaws. Overheating is still an issue, I regularly see temps in the 140*f range but it is a major improvement over the 170+ from lollipop. The battery lights are all able to be disabled so long as your rooted, I don't see how they're an issue though, every phone I've ever had has had them and I prefer them. Battery life is improved drastically. I used to not make it 4 hours before going dead on lollipop,now I can make it through a whole workday.
Also note that I've never tried the official build of marshmallow or the kernel. I went from lollipop straight to xpower ROM and androplus kernel.
I am currently on Marshmallow, there is still overheating issues. In fact, I'm just on facebook and its getting a little warm. If you're in hot countries too it can be quite a problem, I live in England so it isn't as bad, everything is always cold so I can literally just place my phone on something cold like a desk and it will just be back to normal temp, but then obviously increase again lol.
Yes lights can be disabled with root.
Cyanogenmod13 actually disabled unnecessary stuff, and actually stopped it from overheating multiple times. However, cons of CM13 is that the camera doesnt work etc..
Im on marshmallow and the phone got alot better but **** these sony phones bro. Think you might be better of with a other brand because this z5c will be my last sony for a loooooong time.
Is there anything else out there that's similarly sized? Is z3 compact a better phone?
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Is there anything else out there that's similarly sized? Is z3 compact a better phone?
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In battery wise, yes
tronjojo said:
Is there anything else out there that's similarly sized? Is z3 compact a better phone?
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As along as you can live with side charging and flaps the z3c is all around a better phone. Unfortunately there isn't anything even close to rivaling this phone or to replace it yet.I refresh news on the xianomi mi5 mini, htc h10 mini, and s7 mini weekly just to make sure lol
DON'T buy it, seriously i'm done with Sony , last android i'll ever buy
Ye, me too. I just want a smaller phone that's as powerful as the big guys. And I don't want to switch to an iPhone