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[Q] Should I open my new Galaxy S 2?

So I ordered this phone, it's sitting here in the box...I am coming from the Vibrant...**** gps and now no 911 calls on 2.3/cm7/miui...
Was on monthly contract expired...signed 2yr to get this phone at 333 overnighted+tax...haven't opened it yet..I guess as soon as I do, I actually sign the contract?
Only thing is I'm not too happy about spending money on a phone that has basically only 2 roms available both stock looking GB...I am so used to the beautiful look of miui, not to mention the built in backup that has failed 0 times...its so flawless, anytime I flashed a new miui variant, it took 5 minutes to get all my apps/settings/alarm back to what it was...lockscreen music controls...custom boot animations, status bars...well everything...
Reason I am debating is, when I got the vibrant home a few weeks after it came out there was like a hundred roms available...here..not the case...and I am not writing this as any kind of a knock against the devs that ARE actually working on this phone, so please don't take it that way. I just want to be sure that there are things to come for this phone. The vibrant was a horrible experience as far as updates and Sources from samsung...already I see the ATT ver of this has ICS...again ALREADY t-mo's phone is behind...will this trend continue?
Thoughts?

You don't deserve this phone. Send it back. Now!
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I agree. I think you should just go ahead and ship it to me and ill open it. Sound good?
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Send it back. You don't appreciate the phone or the devs.
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DensoYamaha41 said:
Send it back. You don't appreciate the phone or the devs.
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Did u read the whole post...I specifically said this is no way a knock on the devs that ARE actually dev. for the device...sorry If i came across bad, but I was looking for feedback from someone who has something constructive to say to my specific situation...

Send it back and put the 333 and your time into learning some of this and then you won't have to wait...you could contribute.
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Is this phone going to have all the devs and rom's the vibrant had? Maybe not. A lot of people supported the vibrant and there were not as many phone choices. Android phones have expanded with more choices so the devs are more spread out. Does this phone have good roms? Yes, yes it does. And I bet more to come. Should you open your phone? Probably not since usually every time someone post something like this they turn out to be rom and dev bashers and trolls. Trade it for an amaze if your in doubt. Or appreciate what is here and have fun.
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First of all guyz, lay off.. He's not being a mcdouche he's just really worried!
I was too bro.. I came to this phone from the nexus s and at first I was like.. Wtf?? 4 roms? No ics? This was about 2 weeks ago. After spending some time with beastmod though, there is no more looking back.. It's beautiful, blazing fast.. Battery will rape the galaxy s battery.
Keep in mind that this phone is only a few months old so things will pick up. There is a cm9 in the works and an miui rom as well... Unless you have way to get a galaxy nexus, this is the phone to have.. Do yourself a favor and open that box!

Your contract and buyers remorse period starts when fedex/ups drops it at your door not when you open your phone.

I Actually on tmobile USA you can return the phone within 14 days of getting it
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Actually on tmobile USA you can return the phone within 14 days of getting it
Edit: even if you open it up believe

Coming from the Evo 3D forums to here all I see are POS's and rude people.
But to be honest I would wait until you can get it for cheaper if you really really want it.
$333 is A LOT, they had the whiter version for $99 on contract a day or two ago.
As for the dev for the phone it gets better, when I got the GSM e3d it had nothing....after a month it had a great amount of tweaks and roms

look, if you are on t-mobile you basically have two options unless you want to buy a gsm unlocked phone such as the nexus. Amaze or GSII neither have ICS. We have a cm dev with an alpha cm7 and is working on cm9. Does amaze have that? I prefer sense over touchwiz but use go launcher and don't see much touchwiz anyway. How many roms do you need? I had an evo 4g before this which has a crapload of roms but really you had sense, aosp cm based, miui.
You can wait for the next phone but when will that be? next month? spring? summer?

Mrcojocaru said:
First of all guyz, lay off.. He's not being a mcdouche he's just really worried!
I was too bro.. I came to this phone from the nexus s and at first I was like.. Wtf?? 4 roms? No ics? This was about 2 weeks ago. After spending some time with beastmod though, there is no more looking back.. It's beautiful, blazing fast.. Battery will rape the galaxy s battery.
Keep in mind that this phone is only a few months old so things will pick up. There is a cm9 in the works and an miui rom as well... Unless you have way to get a galaxy nexus, this is the phone to have.. Do yourself a favor and open that box!
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Thx...glad u actually read what I wrote...to say I don't appreciate the development team is bull****...again I've had the vibrant for a long time and have had every rom u can imagine ....so to say I don't appreciate the devs is ignorant...I am aware thing will pick up...I was mainly worried that sources will come out for every carrier but tmo like on the vibrant and ill be stick with non working parts of the phone due to the tmo Samsung practice of doing business....thanks guys ill opener er up...sure ill love it...
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There's actually 4.5 roms here, you have stock(and the updated stock), cm7, juggernaut, beastmod, and a half working miui build.
On the nexus s you have vanilla android, cm7(vanilla android though it's definitely the best vanilla android), ICS(vanilla android) and miui.
Looks fairly even to me...any touchwiz roms on the Nexus S? Where's the real variety?

accordex said:
Thx...glad u actually read what I wrote...to say I don't appreciate the development team is bull****...again I've had the vibrant for a long time and have had every rom u can imagine ....so to say I don't appreciate the devs is ignorant...I am aware thing will pick up...I was mainly worried that sources will come out for every carrier but tmo like on the vibrant and ill be stick with non working parts of the phone due to the tmo Samsung practice of doing business....thanks guys ill opener er up...sure ill love it...
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Yeah there are some drama dudes in here for sure! I understand your concerns.. But I'm not aware of any phones with a better combination of good support and hardware Besides that blasted nexus.. Don't know why it's only on Vaerizon.
Btw, I noticed you live in kent.. Is that kent, wa?

You should leave it in the box until it becomes valueless

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There's actually 4.5 roms here, you have stock(and the updated stock), cm7, juggernaut, beastmod, and a half working miui build.
On the nexus s you have vanilla android, cm7(vanilla android though it's definitely the best vanilla android), ICS(vanilla android) and miui.
Looks fairly even to me...any touchwiz roms on the Nexus S? Where's the real variety?
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I just checked and they have almost 10 just on the first page. They have ics and a full miui rom.. So that's hardly even

Mrcojocaru said:
Yeah there are some drama dudes in here for sure! I understand your concerns.. But I'm not aware of any phones with a better combination of good support and hardware Besides that blasted nexus.. Don't know why it's only on Vaerizon.
Btw, I noticed you live in kent.. Is that kent, wa?
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Yup. There are some "drama " dudes. Like the OP.
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Well, I think you should return it, i wish i could return mine ( bought a month ago, $570)
for monthly4g $30 plan. First because the screen and lines really piss me off, and i think me buying a vibrant would of have been a better choice and upgrading my pc with the rest of the money. I'm 15 so $570 was alot of savings. If you work i guess buying it off contract and getting monthly4g wouldnt be much a loss as you would have no contract.
Also, the roms here piss me off to, and accessories available and how the colors, build quality is higher on my old $200 prepaid phone.
Edit: Also, coming from the Optimus V roms, I had alot more roms and even miui on there, just stock upgraded here.

Hey, guys. He was looking for opinions, not a lynch mob. Stop going on the offensive because some people have the gall to give a little criticism toward the phone you have - it makes the community seem worse in everyone else's eye. This isn't 4chan, and there's no need for such rude behavior.

Who actually likes this phone?

I mean, common, with all the people asking if they should get an iphone or this, or what's better, this or the nexus, or all that other crap, am I the only one who realizes the absolute potential of this phone and how it pwns (excuse the crude terminology xD) basicly every other device out there including the crackberries and isucks, like just today I got about two hours total talk time, bout 5 hours online, wifi on for about 4 hours, bout 5 hours music through bluetooth and bout two through 3.5mm (damn thing lasted longer then my s10-HD), Data/gps and bluetooth on all day and going on 15hours uptime with 22% left on battery.
It performs extremely quick, compatible with basicly everything droid and ahead of the current market including the new nexus in specs, what's to question? The fact that carriers are being slow to release an update?
We already know that itl be comming fully touchcrapped out, and most people on this forums definitely aren't experienced enough to lay their hands on a system file let alone build a rom and will have to wait till someone releases a AOSP style build, with that being said, we don't need the carriers, only the drivers, then we can port what we need, so, why all the complaining, I say simply, if if you question the purchase, go for the alternitave, you probably couldn't handle the device properly anyways.
Opinions? And keep it clean, believe it or not, I'm actually going for a "healthy" discussion xD

I choose this one.
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Ya... i had this phone since early november. Everthing u said i agree and most of us already knows..Whats new? I dont get the point of this thread.
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I do + characters n ****
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This phones awesome in every sense (obviously personal opinion)
I don't know how anyone could question it you can do so much with it its incredibly user friendly and poweful, easy as hell to flash, (although that counter sucks...),
Good lineup of cases, amazing screen and perfect resolution, I even like some* (very little) of TW,
I still say if you have to ask yourself, take the iphone xD
@anomy13
Just a little speal or rant about, well, wverything in my first post..

Suxs.....OP, not phone

Are u aware of the lines and blobs problem?
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I LOVE this phone, it's a monster!
I can close to literally do anything and EVERYTHING with it.
A side note is that this is Android, and if you're not too bright then you're just wasting your phones potential and would be better off with an iPhone.
Idk why so many ppl worry about these lines and blobs, you obviously have to look for them in order for them to get annoying... Either that or I don't have them as bad and atrocious as others say they are.
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anomy13 said:
Are u aware of the lines and blobs problem?
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Sure am and sad for the few that have it, mine didn't, first one didn't either
@audscot
Lmfao ur a moron what u one of the n00bs I've shut up b4 and back winin or sumthin?
@above
Ye lol I like the processor and gig of ram part with my 16gb sdcard xD
Even compressing large zips are a breeze on it, and even with apps like android hexeditors and droidedit (notepad++ for droid with awesome features basicly) you don't even need a pc really xD you can basicly do what you need right from it,
haven't turned on my pc in about 3 days, on fibre optics and 802.11n router, I burnt through 400gb on my bandwidth last month xD)

I love this phone no doubt despite the lines problem i notice sometimes. But you actually get used to it.
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tdizzle404 said:
I choose this one.
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Least you got a white obe xD telus didn't have any when I exchangex my first one, which they didn't have any then... and probably don't now...

Love the phone, I get bored pretty easily but have had this phone for a while now. Maybe it's the wait to see what ROMs come out of it (knowing Eugene is working on cm7 is great). Maybe it's just that there really isn't anything better at the moment for me.
Also as far as I know, Telus never got the white SII X
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I love this phone, even with touchcrap and lack of ICS/CM (for now) its great. I'm excited to see CM 7 better supported soon and eventually CM9, that will be a great day for me lol.
As for the lines and blobs...after flashing newer kernels with updated skyrocket drivers it is reduced quite a bit.

zander21510 said:
I love this phone, even with touchcrap and lack of ICS/CM (for now) its great. I'm excited to see CM 7 better supported soon and eventually CM9, that will be a great day for me lol.
As for the lines and blobs...after flashing newer kernels with updated skyrocket drivers it is reduced quite a bit.
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Ye I love the lil things in crapwizz like turning of auto brightness and holding the status bar to adjust, and other **** like that, the GUI is to big in my opinion, icons are huge, fun to theme though, got CS5 so pngs are really fun
CM9 will definitely please a lot of people that's for sure, I just want drivers its pretty bad when I can build ICS for my old ass 3g lg (fun times.. good old days..) and I can dev all I want but its useless without proper sources xD
Those with like first edition s2x are probably having the blobs worse, samsung being cheap again, (look at the nexus..)
Find an excuse to RMA, that aughta do it
@christ1119
Ye it sucks... they look ballin woulda looked weird in a ballistics case though I guess..

I, too, love this phone. There's not a phone on the market I would rather being using.
It's got the best hardware of any current phone (except the Skyrocket, and that's the same phone for all intents and purposes since I'm not on AT&T).
Only thing I miss from it is AOSP ROMs, but that's just software, and those will come in time.
Nice to see some positiveness on this forum.

I was just about to order a galaxy nexus and this thread is holding me off for a bit.lol

I effin love this phone as stated in this thread it does everything i need it to and more. The fact that it is a qualcomm does not bother me it is more then capable of tearing anything u throw at it up. And as far as the lines go i dont see them even on low setting nor do i care to look for them. I think this phone hulk smashs every phone out there and can only imagine how much fasrer it will be when we do get ics and use the processor to its full potential coupled with true hw accelaration. I cant wait

Couple screenies....i think this is my new setup for awhile
Heres lockscreen and home screen
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if ur on tmobil, this device gives you the best overall performance/network experience.
the original sgs2 has.better hardware but cant do dual band hspa+ 42mbps.
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I agree with everything in the OP, to be honest, I had issues with GB and bugs on my other devices like my G2x (major issues on that, didn't wanna root it cause the dual core was pretty awesome but still did because of the ****ty stock rom). But ever since I switched to my SGS2, although being different from the original, no update to ICS in sight anytime soon, I'm least bothered by it, this is probably the most complete and bugless stock rom I've had on any device, I don't mind touch wiz one bit, know others don't like it but it's cool by me, there is a few things I wish I could change on it but ey it works, it's smooth and all the neat little features are actually pretty sweet. I actually use the default apps for just about everything, the response and performance is awesome compared to my previous phones (G2x response was pretty nice too btw just crappy bugs), only thing I had an issue with is my gps signal being lost at times or taking a while to lock on, but I kinda figured out why since it only happens in certain areas where I live, other than that, I'm pleased and loving my phone, not in much of a hurry for ICS since I can do everything I need to on the current system software and data speeds are awesome and the camera takes beautiful pics, what more could I ask for?
(Wish we had a little more support on accessories though, like cases and stuff like iPhones do, I have about 10 cases to choose from, most being plain, they have a bloody wall full of 'em in all designs and patterns you could think of, unfair much? Lol)

[Q] Back To The Future: 4.0.4 --> 2.3.* ... ?

Hi XDA users,
I have a Sprint GS3 with 4.0.4 on it, but it pales in comparison to my previous GS2 on 2.3.* ...
(calendar [Mark/Space MIssingSync] swipes from week to week are MUCH slower, 4G data NEVER connects, data seems slower in general, etc., etc.)
All in all, i'm just extremely disappointed with this phone; and although the last time I was digging into my phone's ROM seemed like it was in the Palm Pre days, I believe I'm ready to take the plunge.
The GS2 still screams on 2.3.* and I can only imagine/hope that this GS3 would see great benefit from a down-grade...
Might anyone offer any pro/con advice on this effort? Am I crazy?
I found a thread for MAC (10.6.8) users, and am getting ready to give it a go... (right after I do some massive data back-ups, etc.)
thanks, in advance, for any input.
jim
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newalker91 said:
I vote XDA requires new users to take an IQ test to register.
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a BIG +1
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No gingy for gs3, have fun building
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Yikes
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To answer your question:
It would be quite interesting to see older versions of Android run on this phone.
However, you'll need kernel building experience to make one capable of booting Gingerbread as well AOSP experience. Not sure how easy it would be to backport older software to new phone in the case of Stock TouchWiz.

freeza said:
To answer your question:
It would be quite interesting to see older versions of Android run on this phone.
However, you'll need kernel building experience to make one capable of booting Gingerbread as well AOSP experience. Not sure hot easy it would be to backport older software to new phone in the case of Stock TouchWiz.
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Don't forget proprietary library implementation for "multi core support"
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please uninstall xda-developers.com from your IE browser.

I second that. The signal-to-noise ratio on the custom ROM forums has gotten way out of hand over the past 4 years or so.
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Woooow thing is jelly bean is vastly superior but. .....yeah please for your own sake.. .....go read the technicals before you post >_<
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uh.
well hey, that's why i thought i'd ask the smart people - wasn't really needing the smart-ass answers but i guess that's what i get for thinking outside of the [fish in a monitor] box...
regardless, i still think 4.0.4 sucks, comparatively. not sure what you guys are doing that makes it so superior... i just try to make phone calls; keep a calendar current; post pictures and use the internet... seems painfully slow... even typing on it quickly seems to bog it down.
anyway - guess i'll try the ol' factory reset, with a fresh 4.0.4, and see if it snaps out of it, a bit.
happy programming guys.
:/

2.3.x on a GS3 .... I'm sure you could. Would take a bunch of effort and extensive knowledge .... all for the equivalent of retrofitting a 1979 dodge charger's 4 barrel Carb onto a v12 Ferrari. Hmmm.
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Some guy on here actually ports older android OS' to other phones. I forget his username though

Yeah thing is stock 4.04 sucks , but not so much when you read first then go flash, configure, maybe even write some fanciful .conf or init.d files don't take xda people's. Word on stuff Linux is a great big multiverse composed unlike those of us in it for fun of many professionals whom write books. ...whole websites and of course when coding in Linux man pages, white papers, tutorials, help files .by far the underlying traits of Android are documented perhaps more then any thing on the internet. .......subject matter i mean
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you must have a detective phone my gf gs2 is a joke compared to the speed on this phone . This isn't the fastest phone out there but it's not slow by any means.
And if you having speed problems with internet we all are. Idk if it's a gingerbread versus ics issue it could be your phone is only running one core because you flashed something. Try running some benchmark test to see how bad your phone is performing. Hope that reset help you.
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bonebeatz1234 said:
you must have a detective phone my gf gs2 is a joke compared to the speed on this phone . This isn't the fastest phone out there, but it's not slow by any means.
And if you having speed problems with internet we all are. Idk if it's a gingerbread versus ics issue it could be your phone is only running one core because you flashed something. Try running some benchmark test to see how bad your phone is performing. Hope that reset help you.
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go2car said:
Hi XDA users,
I have a Sprint GS3 with 4.0.4 on it, but it pales in comparison to my previous GS2 on 2.3.* ...
(calendar [Mark/Space MIssingSync] swipes from week to week are MUCH slower, 4G data NEVER connects, data seems slower in general, etc., etc.)
All in all, i'm just extremely disappointed with this phone; and although the last time I was digging into my phone's ROM seemed like it was in the Palm Pre days, I believe I'm ready to take the plunge.
The GS2 still screams on 2.3.* and I can only imagine/hope that this GS3 would see great benefit from a down-grade...
Might anyone offer any pro/con advice on this effort? Am I crazy?
I found a thread for MAC (10.6.8) users, and am getting ready to give it a go... (right after I do some massive data back-ups, etc.)
thanks, in advance, for any input.
jim
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If your SG3 isn't running way smoother than your old SG2 on Gingerbread, you've done something bad to your phone. ICS on my SG3 is a quantum leap smoother than Gingerbread every was, and JB will be even better. Perhaps you should look at what tweaks you've done to your phone.

go2car said:
Hi XDA users,
I have a Sprint GS3 with 4.0.4 on it, but it pales in comparison to my previous GS2 on 2.3.* ...
(calendar [Mark/Space MIssingSync] swipes from week to week are MUCH slower, 4G data NEVER connects, data seems slower in general, etc., etc.)
All in all, i'm just extremely disappointed with this phone; and although the last time I was digging into my phone's ROM seemed like it was in the Palm Pre days, I believe I'm ready to take the plunge.
The GS2 still screams on 2.3.* and I can only imagine/hope that this GS3 would see great benefit from a down-grade...
Might anyone offer any pro/con advice on this effort? Am I crazy?
I found a thread for MAC (10.6.8) users, and am getting ready to give it a go... (right after I do some massive data back-ups, etc.)
thanks, in advance, for any input.
jim
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Jim,
I am not going chime on some of the trolls who are above all but I will have to agree that your statement was a bit ludicrous. You have to take into perspective what you just said to a bunch of Galaxy S3 hackers. It's obvious that there is something wrong or we would've saw an iPhone ad bragging about the S3 'downgrade' and that didn't happen.
So, the first thing I would suggest is a factory reset. Assuming you are/were not rooted, let it run for a day and see what happens. Its possible an app could be causing your problems. There are many things you can do to slow things down but its impossible for me,us, xda to guess. Perhaps change up some applications that you are using...?
If this persist, I would suggest taking it back to Sprint and see if they can swap/fix it.
Your next option would be to root and try a different rom. However, if it is a hardware issue, I would want to replace it before I start rooting/making it my own.
As some of the people here mentioned, there might be some very useful information to achieve better 'speed'. I personally use JellyBomb specifically because of the dev and support amongst its users willing to help. You may benefit from others, each their own...
I sympathize as I myself was a webOS fan and can definitely tell you, this is not a walk in the park like webOS Internalz made it but definitely achievable considering almost every process (root, roms, themes, hacks, flashing) has a pretty thorough explanation if not a video.
Hope it works out.
JohnnyPre aka JohnnyEpic
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hey guys just wanted to say hello

Man ive had this beast of a phone for a little over a week now and I must say I FRIGGIN love it.. Everyday i have come across something i didnt know this phone could do.. the s pen is awesome.. I love my gs3 but this phone is a totally different animal.. Its everything ive always wanted in a phone.. the music is more crisp and a little louder the pics i take are just so clear.. ive found my soulmate.. lol
Anyway just wanted to share the love.. anyone on the lines of if they should get this phone are the nexus 4 do yourself a favor and get this.. the screen the s pen and soon the true multitasking.. its a nobrainer this phone is OFF DA CHAIN.. Anyhow just wanted to share... I love when i put my headphones in and it automatically goes right to my music.. MUCH LOVE!!! im out..

Same here i had the gs3 for a week then the note 1 until the 2 came out...and this is by far the best phone i ever had...the first phone i didnt feel the need to root and run a custom rom on
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recepo1 said:
Same here i had the gs3 for a week then the note 1 until the 2 came out...and this is by far the best phone i ever had...the first phone i didnt feel the need to root and run a custom rom on
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Exactly i usually rooted my phone cause i wanted particular things the Rom would have to offer.. this phone has every Damn thing I've wanted.. on one serious note tho just my opinion.. i really don't think aokp are cyanogen would really be right with this phone.. i don't wanna get flamed i just think with what this device does we would lose allot of particulars of why we purchased it.. as i said just my opinion..
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think i will buy one myself!

PA212 said:
think i will buy one myself!
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You should bro you won't be disappointed.. gs2 to gs3 there were some differences.. but coming from gs3 to this phone...Wow!!! I'm just totally amazed with what it does.. just like this morning i used the s pen to check out my emails.. my phone started reading me each one when i hovered over each one just another awesome thing it does...
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I've had this phone for two weeks now and like the OP, I find new things with it every day. Battery life is great! UI is smooth! I haven't had any issues with it. Only android device I've owned prior to this was a rooted htc hero (sprint). I went to an iPhone for awhile and I'm glad I waited till now to switch back! Once you've got a taste of a big screen. You don't want to go back to anything smaller. :laugh:
Looking forward to rooting this baby and trying out the different roms!
Also, glad to be back in the xda community! :victory:

Agreed that this phone is awesome. It's honestly the best phone I've ever owned by far. The S-Pen is quite cool as well. I'm always finding uses for it.
BTW, if you haven't checked it out yet, check out Samsung's user guide app for it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kr.co.samsung.note_2
I usually root my phones but I don't think I will on this one, at least not for a while. I don't think it's a good idea anyway because I don't want to have any issues when T-Mobile gets around to pushing and OTA update for LTE.

kidchunks said:
I've had this phone for two weeks now and like the OP, I find new things with it every day. Battery life is great! UI is smooth! I haven't had any issues with it. Only android device I've owned prior to this was a rooted htc hero (sprint). I went to an iPhone for awhile and I'm glad I waited till now to switch back! Once you've got a taste of a big screen. You don't want to go back to anything smaller. :laugh:
Looking forward to rooting this baby and trying out the different roms!
Also, glad to be back in the xda community! :victory:
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Yeah i feel ya. so much more to do with ALL android devices.. I had a htc hd2 back a few years ago i liked the screen on it but it didnt have android market it had the windows apps... jesus i started missing android quite quickly.. i never rooted a phone when i had the hd2 didnt even know about rooting in the first place... the vibrant changed all that.. I may mess around with kernels but im really happy with what i have in this phone....

_Motoki_ said:
Agreed that this phone is awesome. It's honestly the best phone I've ever owned by far. The S-Pen is quite cool as well. I'm always finding uses for it.
BTW, if you haven't checked it out yet, check out Samsung's user guide app for it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kr.co.samsung.note_2
I usually root my phones but I don't think I will on this one, at least not for a while. I don't think it's a good idea anyway because I don't want to have any issues when T-Mobile gets around to pushing and OTA update for LTE.
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Thanks motoki VERY GOOD stuff bro....

_Motoki_ said:
Agreed that this phone is awesome. It's honestly the best phone I've ever owned by far. The S-Pen is quite cool as well. I'm always finding uses for it.
BTW, if you haven't checked it out yet, check out Samsung's user guide app for it:
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Thanks! :good:
_Motoki_ said:
I usually root my phones but I don't think I will on this one, at least not for a while. I don't think it's a good idea anyway because I don't want to have any issues when T-Mobile gets around to pushing and OTA update for LTE.
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I agree, I'm happy with how the phone is running now and don't find a need to root it. Although those roms coming out are looking VERY tempting!

Cant say i wont ever root this phone but as of yet i dont see the need to and i paid the outright price of 700 i think it was worth every penny
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hey go to the samsung app store and get the photo editor its free and it damn good btw..

So, who else is bored?

I have had nothing but Android phones (primarily) since the Nexus One originally came out. And I get bored with things real quick. I know Android is the best mobile OS at the moment but man, I am really getting bored of the same old thing every day and the new BB Z10 looks quite appealing..
Anyways, whats some stuff I could do to hopefully cure my boredness? I know about launchers but Apex, Nova and even GO all kinda look and feel the same. What are some things I could do to spruce them up a bit? I have tried new icons and slightly different arrangements but haven't had much luck.
Any ideas?

fandroid93 said:
I have had nothing but Android phones (primarily) since the Nexus One originally came out. And I get bored with things real quick. I know Android is the best mobile OS at the moment but man, I am really getting bored of the same old thing every day and the new BB Z10 looks quite appealing..
Anyways, whats some stuff I could do to hopefully cure my boredness? I know about launchers but Apex, Nova and even GO all kinda look and feel the same. What are some things I could do to spruce them up a bit? I have tried new icons and slightly different arrangements but haven't had much luck.
Any ideas?
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if your into designing and artistic stuff...go to mycolorscreen.com and check out some of their homescreens...you can find tutorials or draw inspiration from some of the pages
i often get bored when things settle and i dont flash a rom (with a purpose-new features etc..) or change the look of my homescreens for a while too

I feel the same way. Right now I have my phone exactly the way I want and the things I want running Jedi Masters 10:
1. Free hotspot tethering
2. Working Google Wallet
3. Wifi calling
4. Great speed and good battery life
5. some tweaks like auto-correct samsung keyboard, s-pen keyboard switcher (don't use)
I pretty much don't have anything else I need. The only thing I haven't done is update to the latest LTE firmware. I'm thinking about flashing the new Frosty rom, but it's missing the samsung and google wallet features. I'm sure I can just manually get these features in by tweaking but am just too lazy.
So kinda boring here but in a good way.
I think if you get the z10, it'll give you that couple of weeks of freshness and after that you'll need something new again...that's just the way it is.

fandroid93 said:
I have had nothing but Android phones (primarily) since the Nexus One originally came out. And I get bored with things real quick. I know Android is the best mobile OS at the moment but man, I am really getting bored of the same old thing every day and the new BB Z10 looks quite appealing..
Anyways, whats some stuff I could do to hopefully cure my boredness? I know about launchers but Apex, Nova and even GO all kinda look and feel the same. What are some things I could do to spruce them up a bit? I have tried new icons and slightly different arrangements but haven't had much luck.
Any ideas?
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Try searching outside the mobile realm, pursue a degree, meet new friends, I mean it's only so much texting, emails, phone calls, and mobile apps can get
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jdiddy_ub said:
if your into designing and artistic stuff...go to mycolorscreen.com and check out some of their homescreens...you can find tutorials or draw inspiration from some of the pages
i often get bored when things settle and i dont flash a rom (with a purpose-new features etc..) or change the look of my homescreens for a while too
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Yeah I never noticed they had a section just for tutorials. I'll definitely check that out, thanks.
safeplayer22 said:
I feel the same way. Right now I have my phone exactly the way I want and the things I want running Jedi Masters 10:
1. Free hotspot tethering
2. Working Google Wallet
3. Wifi calling
4. Great speed and good battery life
5. some tweaks like auto-correct samsung keyboard, s-pen keyboard switcher (don't use)
I pretty much don't have anything else I need. The only thing I haven't done is update to the latest LTE firmware. I'm thinking about flashing the new Frosty rom, but it's missing the samsung and google wallet features. I'm sure I can just manually get these features in by tweaking but am just too lazy.
So kinda boring here but in a good way.
I think if you get the z10, it'll give you that couple of weeks of freshness and after that you'll need something new again...that's just the way it is.
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Yeah that pretty much sums it up for me too, everything is working 100% properly with no bugs but I just want something different. Back in my HTC days I'd probably be bunny hopping between CM and Sense right now lol. But then again, not everything would be working and there would be tons of bugs so..
bipoler said:
Try searching outside the mobile realm, pursue a degree, meet new friends, I mean it's only so much texting, emails, phone calls, and mobile apps can get
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That is 100% true. No matter what a phone will always be a phone and we have other things to worry about then whats in our pocket.

Damn im bored aswell... why I change phones every 6 months on to the s4 ...
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Not me, android will never bore me. My first smart phone was obviously the first iPhone, and that was boring as hell. I love android and this phone is the best I've ever used, every time I use it, I love it.
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go outside and do something? get a hobby? read a book? go pick up on broads?

I guess I should have been more specific, I am bored with the Android. Not bored with my life. Thanks does the suggestions though, bigexpansion.

never bored with my android
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Can't go wrong with some fantasy role playing. Buy your note a nice nurse case...

fandroid93 said:
I guess I should have been more specific, I am bored with the Android. Not bored with my life. Thanks does the suggestions though, bigexpansion.
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go outside and do something? get a hobby? read a book? go pick up on broads? xD
seriously though. own the phone. don't let the phone own you.