samsung galaxy s2

Hello, my name is Catalin (even the username says differently) and I have bricked an S2 GT-i9100 bought from an online store called eMag from Romania two years ago. I tried to upgrade from stock 2.3.5 gingerbread to jelly bean following some tutorials on the internet, seemed easy. First I...

I have a galaxy s2 that will not turn on. Started out only staying on while it was plugged in. now it will not turn on, either goes to the samsung screen the turns off or the boost screen. when I plug it in the battery charging icon shows up showing fully charged. Every once in a while it will...

Hi! Sorry my first post is a plea for help... I upgraded my S2 to the latest config using Kies - nothing exotic just standard. The upgrade seemed to go well and the phone rebooted ok. I then updated snapchat and put the phone down. 10 Minutes later the phone was very warm and refused to...

Hi, I'm considering rooting my phone, however I have no idea where to starts as most of the guides I find for this kind of old phone are for earlier version of android. I'm looking to accomplish 2 main things: 1) Expand the amount of device memory (2 GB is not enough) 2) Unlock the...

I received a galaxy s2 from my uncle and it is from Korea and I think it is locked on T-mobile Can you please help what to do in my phone because I want to upgrade it and want to convert it into...

I have screen rotation problem,samsung s2 gt-i9100, android version 4.1.2. Screen rotation works sometimes on strange angles. Already tried calibrating but still not fix. I tried flashing another kernel to solved the problem using SiyahKernel S2-v6.0beta5 but it doesnt rotate anymore no...

Hi everyone, I'm trying to find a way to add a shortcut to my homescreen or nova app drawer that will get me to the "clear cache and stored databases" option in my browser settings. Can anyone help please? A couple of things: Mods if this is in the wrong place I'm sorry, please move my...

Hi guys! Please Help! I decided to make this thread, because I have never seen this problem before anywhere on the internet and I need some help. Basically it is that I have some really annyoing black (or so) dots on the camera whenever I use it. I don't know if it's dust or scatches on the...

Hello, I have an odd (and extremely annoying) problem. Last night my phone died 'cause it ran out of battery. I was in the car with no way to charge it, but I always carry a spare battery so I pulled over and popped it in and turned the phone back on. Right after the splash screen it had a...

Hi, after many hours of desperately scouring the internet I found Ironass' guide to rooting, I managed to root my old Samsung Galaxy S 2. I did this because I wanted to find my old text history from a free text app called textplus, which I was told might be in the app data in the system files...

Hello Experts My Samsung Galaxy s7582 is rooted before some days & yesterday when i tried to restore my phone from settings, it took a lot of time to restore & hence i took out the battery & after that it doesn't start i mean it starts but doesn't go beyond the Samsung logo in the starting ...

What does a factory reset delete? i have important things on here..

Spyware found on my Samsung cell. . How was she able to put spyware on my cell if she has no access to my cell phone? How did she find my cell's imei number?

Hello everyone, A friend of mine has installed some application named "ROMmng" I think, he changed Dpi (pixel density) to a higher value, then after rebooting his SGSII has become simply unusable.., he did a factory reset, but this didn't solve the problem, now he's stuck with his a phone on...

First let me explain. My Boost Mobile Galaxy S2 (Epic Touch 4G) has been flashed to hell and back with over 40 different roms. Over the last 10 days my phone was rebooting and throwing errors while on Cyanogenmod 11 Dailies. So I tried to flash to a previous version when during the flash it...

Hi there. I use the Puffin browser and there are some websites I'd like to be able to block. I know on browsers like Firefox you can install an add-on for a blacklist app but I'm only aware of this being doable on laptop and desktop computers and not androids. I don't want to download another...

I disabled the Accuweather, AP Mobile, and Yahoo Finance widgets that came pre-installed on the phone to try and extend battery life. And it did seem to make the battery last longer. However I want to get the Accuweather widget back. When I click "Enable", this widget does reappear in the...

Hello, I'm new here and I did check the search box for my problem as well as an internet search and can not find the answer to my problem. My wife and I each have Galaxy S2s and have had them for two years. Upon low battery, we get a visual notification (red battery) on the notification bar...

please i need your help ..... i have s2 international version work on official 2.3.3 (non- rooted) the problem that Battery empty very fast .... and re-charge many times a day ... and then I discovered that there is a service called ( security storage) takes a lot of battery about 13% from...

I have a Virgin s2. I just have original stock rom, Ive done nothing at all to it. I changed out my batteries, turned it on, then after it got loaded I got a popup saying "unfortunately the process com.android.phone has stopped"! I restarted then as soon as i tried to do something, i recieved it...

This may be a stretch but... is there some way to hack the phone in such way to remove the "video call" option from the call screen? This here: I'm asking cos I gave my galaxy S2 to my dad, and getting him to use a touchscreen is like teaching ballet to a cow. He keeps accidentally video...

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I am aware that this question has been posed a lot here in the forums. But I feel like mine's a bit different. I have combed through those countless threads of the same issue. I've done everything suggested; Wiping system cash, doing a factory reset from teh Recovery screen, doing a factory...

Hello, I disabled background data a few months ago, since i was going out of town and that area only has partner service. after my trip i renabled data on all the apps but i am still not getting notifications,and apps that normally load in the background like my weather app wont update unless i...

Hi Guys My S2 runs Android 4.1.1, unrooted. I used to get a solid 12-14 hour battery life from the phone, then one day, IT happened. I was browsing the web and listening to music at the same time, and the battery began to drop really quickly. I thought this was just heavy use, so no alarms...