Android OS

Original post by RedGuy

Mine has been dispatched and should be with me tomorrow :biggrin:

How are you finding the battery life? My Orange San Francisco can only get around 12 hours with medium use.

I used it quite heavily today, managed to stay around 50% by the end. It's so thin and light, I was comparing it to the DHD and me and my mate couldn't believe it. Samsung have done a good job with this phone, some nifty features included too.

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RedGuy

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Original post by bigmo7

I used it quite heavily today, managed to stay around 50% by the end. It's so thin and light, I was comparing it to the DHD and me and my mate couldn't believe it. Samsung have done a good job with this phone, some nifty features included too.

Nice. I finally went with an 18 month contract instead of a 24 months contract. 24 months just seems too long, and I am willing to pay a bit more for 18.

http://www.buymobilephones.net/mobile-phones/Samsung/Samsung-Galaxy-S-II/T-Mobile/T-Mobile-25-(18mths)-inc.-Internet/9637475

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Original post by RedGuy

Nice. I finally went with an 18 month contract instead of a 24 months contract. 24 months just seems too long, and I am willing to pay a bit more for 18.

http://www.buymobilephones.net/mobile-phones/Samsung/Samsung-Galaxy-S-II/T-Mobile/T-Mobile-25-(18mths)-inc.-Internet/9637475

That's not bad, I went with the cheapest O2 contract I could find and put my Tesco SIM card in, the contract works out ~£320 over the two years but I don't intend on keeping it for that long...might pay it off as soon as the cashback comes through. :biggrin:

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Original post by alex_hk90

Thanks for the detailed reply. :smile:

I've actually been using custom ROMs since I got my phone about half a year ago as well, but just didn't know why they wanted to prevent people from doing so.

That's great. Glad I could help :smile:

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Original post by G8D

Rooting doesn't make pirating apps any easier... this isn't IOS.

Can you pirate an application off of your phone without rooting?

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Original post by bigmo7

This phone is amazing, no lag whatsoever and even on stock its so functional. Touchwiz 4 isn't even that bad anymore...I think the only problem is I might get a bit bored if there isn't anything to fix :p:

There's always hacking and installing ROMs/kernels :wink:

I honestly can't wait until they come over here to the states.

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Original post by G8D

Rooting doesn't make pirating apps any easier... this isn't IOS.

Yeah it does. Some times. For instance, no need SU to disable the licence check part of SPB Shell 3D.

Edit: Or to enable side loading of apps in the first place if your carrier is a dick.

Doubledit:

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RedGuy

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Samsung Galaxy S II arrived today. Been playing around with it and decided to fire up a benchmark test. :eek:

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Original post by G8D

Yes. You can install APK files with ease on most phones as standard.

I said off of. As in, paying for the App though the marketplace, removing it and cracking it, then refunding the application for the refund, effectively stealing it. That's what people are doing.

Installing an application doesn't' really rely on root access if it isn't a root centric application.

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if you order it from the vodafone website, as opposed to getting it in carphone warehouse, will you get ugly badges on it?

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Original post by Young Spade

There's always hacking and installing ROMs/kernels :wink:

I honestly can't wait until they come over here to the states.

Yeah but with a phone like this which has fixed a lot of things over say the SGS it's gonna be a bit harder. I'll deffo root it and get a custom rom but what else? OC/UV maybe? :p:

Original post by mikeyd85

Yeah it does. Some times. For instance, no need SU to disable the licence check part of SPB Shell 3D.

Edit: Or to enable side loading of apps in the first place if your carrier is a dick.

Doubledit:

Spoiler

Is that legit or is using something like stagefright (dunno if you've ever heard of it or not) to boost the score? :p:

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Original post by bigmo7

Yeah but with a phone like this which has fixed a lot of things over say the SGS it's gonna be a bit harder. I'll deffo root it and get a custom rom but what else? OC/UV maybe? :p:

Meh, there are always improvements to be made. Of course rooting it will be a priority to download the applications that I like, however OC/UV is a definite plus; overclocking each core to 1.4 would provide a huge increase in speed. Albeit the battery life would go straight down the drain.

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Original post by G8D

But that's a lot of effort when you can just go online and get it...

But the people have to get it from somewhere don't they? I mean, of course you could just go download an application and steal it the easy way, however if it isn't a very popular application you might have to go get it yourself.

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Original post by Young Spade

Meh, there are always improvements to be made. Of course rooting it will be a priority to download the applications that I like, however OC/UV is a definite plus; overclocking each core to 1.4 would provide a huge increase in speed. Albeit the battery life would go straight down the drain.

Yeah it's already rooted now :p:

That's one thing that I couldn't live without...

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jermaindefoe

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Original post by bigmo7

Yeah it's already rooted now :p:

That's one thing that I couldn't live without...

8am yeh

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Original post by jermaindefoe

8am yeh

Tell me about it, so far this week I've got up this early everyday! :biggrin:

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Mad Vlad

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Original post by G8D

If an app isn't popular on Android then it's usually not worth having.

This. In my experience, there's barely any apps that I've wanted that haven't had over 100000 downloads.

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username234673

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