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Ok so I've owned my Samsung Galaxy S2 from AT&T for a little over a month now, I love this amazingly brilliant device. It's a HUGE step up from my motorola Razr (1st gen), and I bet you're asking "How in the hell did the razr even last so many years?" and the answer is no freaking clue. I had 3 of them total, most broke within a few months over some simple issue. Back to the real questions though.

Whenever I change the settings on my phone (ie. full brightness, screen timeout length, etc..) it ALWAYS goes back to default 15 seconds timeout, and low/auto brightness (can't remember which). I can have it stay that way for MAYBE a day at the most without it changing back. Now I thought it was a power saving plan, but it happens when I have near full battery also. Any thoughts on that?

Also, my sounds that I set for incoming texts or notifications are always the silent OR it says their name out-loud even if I change the settings.

The final question is, how come I switch my phone to the sound being "off" and whenever I get a text, it says the persons' name who texted me out-loud. It only does that when my phone sound is set to off. When the sound is on, the text I receive makes no sound.

Thanks in advance
 
Name announcement = Driving Mode turned on, TEXT TO SPEECH, under voice settings turn this "OFF"

low/auto brightness = Auto Adjust screen power has been enabled - Turn this off under Display settings..

I hope this workds for you... Good luck!
 
FYI, if you touch the notification bar for a second and then slide left to right you can adjust the screen brightness.
 
That tapping the notification bar thing is pretty cool and I didn't know about that, albeit a little glitchy, but definitely cool. My screen brightness is under full brightness because I don't like the auto adjust since it's too annoying/glitchy especially while playing games on this so it's not that. It has ceased to happen lately though, which brings me to my next fault with my phone.

Thanks for helping me with the driving mode, that was the problem that was occurring that I didn't remember to turn off. Everything is all good now, except for my screen timeout settings randomly changing. Is it because of when my battery reaches the battery saving mode and doesn't have a setup to put it back to normal? I'm not entirely sure if it changes when it reaches that as I don't get to that point often on it, but I'll try to pay attention to it for the next time. It ALWAYSS changes to 15 seconds when it does this, and it can't be because I click the button for it once by accident since I keep it at 1 minute and that's 3 clicks away for it.

I'll keep this updated if it continues to do so and I'll give more specifics, but thanks again everyone for he amazing help!
 
There are actually two places to set the screen timeout. One is menu>settings>display and the other is menu>settings>power saving mode. IF you have both enabled, it may be getting confused. I don't know which setting is supposed to override the other.
 
lunatic59 said:
There are actually two places to set the screen timeout. One is menu>settings>display and the other is menu>settings>power saving mode. IF you have both enabled, it may be getting confused. I don't know which setting is supposed to override the other.
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Screen Time Out
Settings -> Display - Screen Timeout (Important)
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Settings -> Power saving mode - Screen Timeout (not Imp)
 
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