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TameRacingDriver
8,543 posts
142 months
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Tyre Smoke said: Whoohoo!
Finally got CM9 downloaded and working. Very impressed with it.
One probably stupid question, but if you download the latest nightly build, does it wipe all your stuff, or does it just apply a patch over your existing set up - home screen icons, email, etc? Just apply it over the top, works fine. Ironically, although I do like CM9 I am tempted to try and find a really stable, battery friendly ROM, and that probably means going back to a Samsung based ROM.
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Rollcage
9,470 posts
62 months
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If anybody is struggling with battery life, try Easy Battery Saver. It's pretty much fully featured for free, and significantly increases the battery life on my SGS2
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Tyre Smoke
9,252 posts
131 months
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I used easy battery saver on the old ROM (lite'ning) but have nothing on CM9 and not really noticing much of a difference. with fairly heavy use of everything - calls,texts,internet my phone lasts around 18 hours.
Must say the CM9 is brilliant. Much quicker than anything else I've tried.
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big dub
3,516 posts
87 months
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Had my SII for a few months now, and there is really only one thing that pisses me off about the phone..... the noise reduction! Anyone on the other end of the phone complains of bad feedback, especially if I have a protective case on. After a bit of forum searching I finally found out how to turn it off, but you can't turn it off completely, you have to do it on EVERY call.  Another issue was the upgrade to ICS, I tried numerous times on my Macbook, but it kept failing. So I gave it a try on my Asus laptop and it worked first time. Battery life has been pretty bad, normally getting below 20% in under 12hrs, but recently got a 3500mAh battery off ebay, so no problems now.
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timskipper
1,203 posts
136 months
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Finally the ICS upgrade appeared for my NFC enabled SGSII, so I upgraded this morning.
Now my exchange push email isn't working. Epic fail. :/
Anyone else experienced this?
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andyps
4,784 posts
152 months
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My Dad has an SGSII and when I saw him on Sunday he said how could he get the ICS upgrade so I downloaded Kies to his laptop and set it working. Over 24 hours later it still said it was doing something so he gave up. ON disconnecting his phone the phone said it couldn't install because it only had 64mb space available but needed 3gb - this is available in the storage but not the phone memory. How do you get over this? Unfortunately I don't live particularly close to him so easy instructions would be really helpful so I can explain them by phone. The phone is as delivered from O2 with their add ons etc. if that makes a difference.
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Devilstreak
7,042 posts
51 months
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I got the ICS update last night over the air. My battery is woeful now! I used to unplug it from charge around 8am and it would die around 6pm. As I sit here now it is at 1%  Oh well, My S3 should be arriving shortly!
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LC926
667 posts
42 months
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Devilstreak said: I got the ICS update last night over the air. My battery is woeful now! I used to unplug it from charge around 8am and it would die around 6pm. As I sit here now it is at 1% Oh well, My S3 should be arriving shortly! Mine updated over the air too, and like yours the battery is terrible now, also it takes an age to charge. Not impressed at all, i'd rather go back to what i had before, if that were easy to do.
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durbster
3,112 posts
92 months
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andyps said: My Dad has an SGSII and when I saw him on Sunday he said how could he get the ICS upgrade so I downloaded Kies to his laptop and set it working... Can he not just upgrade to ICS directly on the phone over wifi? I did this and it was only a 230Mb download iirc.
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timskipper
1,203 posts
136 months
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Well my exchange woes were sorted out by deleting both accounts and re-adding them again. Battery life is now better than it was on Gingerbread. 
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Tyre Smoke
9,252 posts
131 months
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Just done the nightly update and I seem to have lost the sound for my message notifications. It's all set up correctly as far as I can tell, it just doesn't make any noise. The call ringtone is working fine.
Anybody else found this?
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Tyre Smoke
9,252 posts
131 months
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Just done the nightly update and I seem to have lost the sound for my message notifications. It's all set up correctly as far as I can tell, it just doesn't make any noise. The call ringtone is working fine.
Anybody else found this?
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ZesPak
Original Poster
11,662 posts
66 months
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Just installed the NOVA Launcher, my first launcher I installed and I must say I'm impressed, looks about 50x as nice as the default touchwiz. My guess is that Samsung downplays the ICS interface so the phone feels more like the lower end ones in terms of interface, very odd move imho.
Loving the launcher so far, no problems with widgets either, all of mine work.
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TameRacingDriver
8,543 posts
142 months
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ZesPak said: My guess is that Samsung downplays the ICS interface so the phone feels more like the lower end ones in terms of interface, very odd move imho. I doubt it. I just think Samsung are relative newbies to designing smartphone UIs. In some ways I like TW but there is an awful lot to be desired too. I personally prefer vanilla Android, which is why I am running CM9 on mine. Its not completely bug free, but its more than acceptable for day to day use.
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smartypants
17,775 posts
39 months
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Just ordered one, coming tomorrow. Toyed with getting my slightly broken 3GS repaired but thought I'd give an Android a go.
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ZesPak
Original Poster
11,662 posts
66 months
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smartypants said: Just ordered one, coming tomorrow. Toyed with getting my slightly broken 3GS repaired but thought I'd give an Android a go. May I give you 2 advices I give to anyone buying an S2 - Do the factory updates to 4.0, and if you want some more eyecandy, install "novalauncher" from the app market
- Get the official 2000mAh battery kit, transforms the phone really, and at under £25 it's really a no-brainer. ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-EB-K1A2EBEG-EB-K1A...
Other than that, I've got no doubt you'll love it once you get used to the interface a bit .
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smartypants
17,775 posts
39 months
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Cool cheers. I was thinking about staying with Gingerbread for a bit to get used to it and then it might be quite nice to refresh to ICS? But you think I should go straight for ICS? And thanks for the battery idea - will do that also. I no doubt will be coming back for lots of questions 
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TameRacingDriver
8,543 posts
142 months
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smartypants said: Cool cheers. I was thinking about staying with Gingerbread for a bit to get used to it and then it might be quite nice to refresh to ICS? But you think I should go straight for ICS? And thanks for the battery idea - will do that also. I no doubt will be coming back for lots of questions Not much difference in user experience to be fair. Gingerbread is arguably a little quicker / more stable but I doubt you'd notice any difference in those areas between one of the later ICS ROMs. As for custom ROMs, I'm actually back on a Samsung based ROM. I got tired of chasing bugs in CM9, and overall, the Samsung ROMs are IMO still the most stable, smoothest and have the best battery life... and I'm also bored with the colour scheme of ICS. Give me COLOURS!!
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ZesPak
Original Poster
11,662 posts
66 months
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smartypants said: Cool cheers. I was thinking about staying with Gingerbread for a bit to get used to it and then it might be quite nice to refresh to ICS? But you think I should go straight for ICS? And thanks for the battery idea - will do that also. I no doubt will be coming back for lots of questions Well, gingerbread is brilliant in it's own, but ICS is just better. It feels better, has a different font and generally nicer Google apps (gmail/play/calendar/browser). There really is no reason to stay on gingerbread when you can just update imho. As for the battery, I think Samsung did something wrong when releasing the SGS2. The 2000mAh battery & cover just looks and fits so well (imho better than the "normal" one!), it feels like the phone was originally designed like this. But then someone in marketing probably said: can you make it thinner and lighter than ANYTHING else? And the engineers shaved 1,5mm and 20% off the battery and ended up with the SGS2 to launch as we know it. On heavy use you'd be hard-pressed to last a full day. With the bigger battery it really is no sweat, very intensive use (games, GPS, browsing) and will easily see you through the day. Yesterday was a long day for me, riding over 200km with the GPS on (3G, screen on full brightness, bluetooth on for instructions, GPS,...), at 2am at night I had about 15% left, which is very good imho.
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durbster
3,112 posts
92 months
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TameRacingDriver said: ...the best battery life... and I'm also bored with the colour scheme of ICS. Give me COLOURS!! Take your pick, can't have both I set a personal best with my SGS2 at Le Mans, making the standard battery last a full 3 days. This includes making three phone calls from France and at least a dozen texts too so not just in standby. When not in use I put it in flight mode so it wasn't trying to find a network, and regularly cleared the RAM (I'm not convinced the latter made any difference but still). I also put the screen on minimum brightness and tried not to check it more than once an hour. I actually forgot to use the built in power saving feature, so maybe I could have got more. I switched it off at night but I'm not entirely sure whether the power used shutting down and rebooting negates any savings made by powering off. There must be a crossover point. Anybody got more than three days?
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