Use this tag if your issue is *specific* to any variant of the Samsung Galaxy S II (GT-I9100).
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Samsung Galaxy S2 upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich now Bluetooth headphones won't pair
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 which has just received the upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich (I'm on T Mobile in the UK if that matters).
I have a set of bluetooth headphones. They worked fine before the ...
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Galaxy S2 SPH-D710 Exchange ActiveSync Settings & Mail Disappear? 4.0.4 Sprint
I have a user with a Samsung Galaxy S2, 4.0.4 on Sprint. She said she took her son to senior photos and when she got back to her truck with her phone sitting on the console, all the Exchange Server ...
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Galaxy S2 is possibly bricked. What can I do?
Background:
Browsing on Chrome, device suddenly freezes. Hold down power button to turn it off.
Turn it on again. "Galaxy S2 i9100T" logo keeps displaying nothing else happens. Tried rebooting ...
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Why does my Samsung Galaxy S2 have duplicate calendar events?
Why does my Samsung Galaxy S2 have duplicate calendar events? I am using Outlook calendar and have downloaded the Google calendar to allow it to sync. When I use the Samsung Kies Program to sync the ...
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Calling causes freeze
I own a Samsung Galaxy S2 I9100, currently running Android 4.0.3 XWLP7, rooted. My problems however started even before rooting the phone.
The problem is that whenever I try to call someone, there is ...
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Retry System Update Not Working
I just bought a new Galaxy SII 4G Touch and was updating it to ICS and I lost connectivity while downloading the update. Now when I go to About Phone > Update Android, there is a button saying "Retry ...
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Marking an e-mail as unread pops a “new email” notification
My wife and I both have Samsung Galaxy S2 phones, and use the GMail app for reading and writing emails.
In that app, when I mark a read mail as "unread", it throws me back into the previous screen ...
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Galaxy S2 restarts
My Galaxy S2 restarts occassionally. In addition, it sometimes loses connection with my service provider (even when the signal strength is good). I just have to switch it off and back on again.
I ...
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Haptic feedback turns on only when I insert the jack… why?
My phone (Galaxy S II) is behaving in a rather strange way: haptive feedback seems not to work even when the battery is full, the "haptic feedback" checkbox is checked and the phone has been rebooted ...
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Wiimote Working on Samsung Galaxy S II Without Root
I've been reading everywhere that the Wiimote doesn't work with Samsung Galaxy S II because of the bluetooth stack on the device which is not able to pair with the Wiimote.
Many claim that it's ...
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How to access Samsung Galaxy S2 storage while phone is off
My Galaxy S2 recently froze while browsing facebook using Firefox (the loading animation kept playing though), then shut down after a minute. I haven't been able to turn it back on since then. I tried ...
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Samsung Galaxy S 2 new software won't connect via USB with Mac?
My Samsung Galaxy S 2 just got updated software over the weekend and now it's completely different to use. I've nutted out most of it but it is no longer recognised by my laptop and I can't share or ...
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Samsung Galaxy S2 no usb connection
My Galaxy S2 decided that he would connect to PC anymore.
The things that I tried:
with 3 cables.
on 4 computers.
cache partition clean.
restore to factory defaults.
clean the micro USB port with ...
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Samsung Galaxy S II won't start
I shut down my phone last night like I always do. I went to start it up the next morning and it wouldn't boot. I knew the battery was at least half charged but I put it on the charger anyway. I didn't ...
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My Samsung Galaxy S2 is constantly shutting down
Recently, whenever I am using an app or doing something on my phone other than texting or reading, my phone will up and shut off on me. When I try to reboot sometimes it will get all the way back to ...
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Samsung Galaxy S2 doesn't play music
New Samsung Galaxy S2 doesn't play audio files. I tried using different players, but none worked. The track ether plays for 1-3 seconds or mixes different tracks into one. Considering trying to return ...
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Samsung Galaxy S2 Join contact Conflict
I have joined my facebook, google, whatsapp and phone contacts. The problem starts when the display names are different.
Now the phone has its own mind which contact name to display. I tried ...
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Reduce message textbox size
I have ICS on my Samsung Galaxy S2 using the stock messaging app. When unlocking the phone after getting a new message, I'm taken straight to the message itself. This is good. However, it seems to go ...
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How can I answer a call using the HOME button in CyanogenMod 9?
Just flashed CyanogenMod 9 RC2 on my Galaxy S2.
While I appreciate the enhanced customization and loads of options as well as the removal of some bundled Samsung bloatware apps, I do miss certain ...
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How to make Message app search for phone number, not just email
Even if I have the correct information on a person in the contact app, I am unable to make the "To field" in the message app find me the phone number (the auto-suggest feature). All it does is display ...
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Galaxy S II - USB debugging not turning off
I have a Samsung Galaxy S II. Instead of Samsung Kies, I have installed MyPhoneExplorer to use for synchronization. This required me to enable USB debugging.
After I turn it off and connect Kies ...
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Why won't my SGS2 allow me to perform device encryption?
I upgraded my Samsung Galaxy SII with the new 4.0 OS. The option to encrypt my device is enabled, but whenever I try to encrypt it asks me to plug the device in to have at 80% battery charge. I tried ...
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Resume play function on standard music app for Galaxy S2?
How can I get the standard Music app for my S2 to resume play from where I had got to in a podcast, rather than having to start the whole 90 minutes again?
I operate on Android version 4.0.3
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Gtalk audio notifications with the application in focus
I have recently upgraded my Orange UK Samsung i9100p to ICS and have been having trouble with audio notifications for new gtalk messages. It seems it notifies you while you are in conversation with ...
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How can I stop Friendcaster automatically attempting to upload every picture taken on my Samsung Galaxy S2 running Ice Cream Sandwich
Every time I take a photo on my Samsung Galaxy S2 it then prompts me to Save or Delete the photo, and then a Friendcaster prompt asks me to give the photo a name to upload it to Facebook. While this ...
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ICS - Automatically syncing all exchange account folders
The standard e-mail client of ICS offers greater flexibility in choosing the sync. settings for individual folders of an exchange account. I use an exchange server for my e-mail and use several sub ...
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Gmail app not sending Email with attachments
I have a lot of images I want to send from my phone to an email. I had in the past some error messages about emails being too big, so this time I sent in most emails 3 pics, which all queued in the ...
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Activity Camera (in application Camera) is not responding
I am having a strange issue with my Camera app. When I open the application, I received the following message:
Activity Camera (in application Camera) is not responding
after about 5 seconds. ...
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Galaxy S2 launcher repeatedly crashes and reboots phone following software update 20/12/2011
I updated the phones software using its own software update menu option. As part of the update process, the phone rebooted automatically. After that, the phone just keeps rebooting itself. As soon ...
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Setup (Premium-)Push in SGS2 Social Hub Facebook SNS
I have linked my device with Facebook via the Social Hub which is quite compact and exactly what I need. Messages and status updates... however I don't get Push notifications by the Hub, only the ...
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Sync My Calendar with Outlook/Exchange 2010 using Kies messes up dates on Galaxy S II
I have a Samsung Galaxy S II running Gingerbread (2.3.5). I tried synchronizing My Calendar with Outlook/Exchange 2010 (Outlook running on Win7) using Kies (over USB).
I started with a clean calendar ...
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DLNA app that supports output orientation?
On the Samsung Galaxy S2 is a DLNA client / server application called AllShare.
This can direct audio, video and images to a DLNA consumer on the network the phone is on.
In my case, this happens to ...
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Does Samung Galaxy S2 support the use of Client Certificates for ActiveSync?
Does Samung Galaxy S2 support the use of Client Certificates for ActiveSync ?
Most other Android phones need to rely on TouchDown or other third party applications. Can anyone confirm if this is ...
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Mediaserver is eating my phone's battery?
I'm using dual boot on my SGS2 with CM10.1 and JellyBam and both running fine but with some issue of mediaserver draining my phone's battery like a crazy nut. I have checked on Google and got many ...
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galaxy s2 wont turn on just keeps popping up us cellular symbol than re does it again
My galaxy s2 charges normally but when I turn it on, it starts up and then just randomly keeps restarting. I have taken out the battery and it still does it. It also charges just fine when I just plug ...
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Cant download any pictures/files/movies from the Internet on my Samsung Galaxy S2
Yesterday I downloaded a video online from the Internet on my Samsung Galaxy S2. When it took too long time, I stopped the download and pressed deactivate and force stop. I tried to download the video ...
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Text messages sent from Outlook do not show in my andriod's messaging folder
I can send and receive text messages with my Outlook 2010 on an Exchange 2010 server. Received text messages appear both on the phone and Outlook but sent text messages only appear on the device that ...
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Why isn't the Swype keyboard showing corrections?
Normally, while using the Swype keyboard, corrections appear at the top of the screen and it allows me to pick the right word. For some reason it isn't appearing at the moment.
Is there a way to ...
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Read/Write not working on external sd card - Android
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 and no applications can read or write to the external SD card - except the Root Browser. This happened a month or so ago after I installed a custom ROM (Alliance) and I have ...
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Rooting Galaxy I9100 S11 Jellybean without changing ROM
Am looking for a simple safe way to uninstall some Vodaphone branded apps without changing the ROM (if possible) I expect rooting will be necessary and possibly a temporary ROM will be required to do ...
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Which version of Heimdall to use with S2 or S3?
I think this is a pretty straight forward question.
I have a Galaxy S2 (i727) and a Galaxy S3 (i747) and I'd like to use Heimdall with both of them, but can't seem to find which version of Heimdall ...
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Galaxy S2 does not see MP3 files in any player
I transferred several MP3 files to the Samsung Galaxy S2. But, the player does not see the MP3 files, only the DCT files. I installed several different players, and had the same result.
How do I fix ...
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Galaxy S2 turns off randomly
I got a problem with my Samsung Galaxy S2 I9100.
I have it for round about 8 monthts now and experimented with some custom roms. I installed cynogenmod 9, 10, 10.1 tested Syah Kernel and installed ...
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My Android keeps squawking at me! It's torture!
My Samsung Galaxy SII I91000 (unlocked GSM) has started making a horrible Gestapo-toned alarm at any hour of day or night unless it is turned off. The state of battery charge does not matter and it ...
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Horizontal calibration and Gyroscope calibration is not working on Samsung Galaxy S2
Whenever I go into the calibration for the accelerometer and gyroscope, the blue dot is not moving around for the accelerometer and for the gyroscope. Also, all of the auto screen rotation functions ...
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Samsung galaxy s2 upgrade problem
I want to upgrade my Android version 2.3 to the newest firmware version. I am using Odin v3.04 but when I put file into the PDA section and turned the phone into download mode and started the upgrade ...
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Kaspersky fails to load
I have Kaspersky installed on my Samsung Galaxy S2. Since the last update it doesn't work anymore. I get a startup screen that asks for my email address for an anti-theft account. When I fill this in ...
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Unexpected battery discharge on Samsung Galaxy S2
I charged my smartphone yesterday to full 100%. When I woke up today, I saw that battery was 40%. Android OS has used 90% of the battery. My Android version is 4.0.3. What is the cause of the problem?
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Can't select date in calendar and Gmail not coming to phone
My question is 2 fold:
First, when I go into calendar monthly view and hit say the 15h of the month...it won't pull up the info that day. When I do a battery pull, it will work for a few hours then ...
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Tethering CM10 - high latency, high(ish) throughput
I am recently having an issue where tethering my PC (Arch Linux) to my Galaxy S2 has a very strange result.
While tethered, web surfing on my PC is painfully slow - not because of slow download ...
