If you swipe a contact towards the left, your phone will begin to call them. If you swipe them right, your phone will start a text to them. My friend's nexsus S couldn't do this.
I just tried TV Catchup through the Dolphin browser and it works reasonably well over wifi, not tried 3g yet. You just need an account, it's free though.
If you swipe a contact towards the left, your phone will begin to call them. If you swipe them right, your phone will start a text to them. My friend's nexsus S couldn't do this.
When I read this I had to try it
But on my phone it's the other way round; If I swipe left = text, and to the right = call.
New here, and to android (Been with Nokias for over 10yrs!) so hello all
Thought I'd share some tips with you... Top 3 (as a lot has already been covered)
1. When you add a "picture frame" widget to your android it will, by default, load in portrait mode. Press and hold the picture and yellow lines will show around the screen. At the bottom right of your pic, you'll see a grey tab. Hold and move the tab to change the size of the picture frame widget.
2. When watching a video, tap the power button once to lock the touchscreen. No more pressing a button by mistake
3. Google easter egg for you guys and gals
Go to settings > about phone > and tap "android version" 5 times for a secret picture
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New here, and to android (Been with Nokias for over 10yrs!) so hello all
Thought I'd share some tips with you... Top 3 (as a lot has already been covered)
1. When you add a "picture frame" widget to your android it will, by default, load in portrait mode. Press and hold the picture and yellow lines will show around the screen. At the bottom right of your pic, you'll see a grey tab. Hold and move the tab to change the size of the picture frame widget.
2. When watching a video, tap the power button once to lock the touchscreen. No more pressing a button by mistake
3. Google easter egg for you guys and gals
Go to settings > about phone > and tap "android version" 5 times for a secret picture
SilverDroid
Your second point! Didn't know that. Shall be using that next time I'm watching something.
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and OMG it actually works!!!!!! (although I did just start spamming/rapidly tapping) because 5 taps didn't work for me!! Zombie Art by Jack Larson.
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Here is an amazing tip, only just realised you could do this on the sg2, if you press the phone icon you can actually phone people, yeah i know, amazing is'nt it, had this phone a week now and not phoned anyone yet, too busy watching films and playing with all the cool apps, forgot it was an actual phone
If your device locks up, rather than having to remove the battery, press and hold the power button for 8-10 seconds. The device will then reboot automatically
(Not tested as my device hasn't locked up though is in the manual)
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When you have sent a text message to people, if you click on the speech bubbles you get the following options pop up
Delete Message
Copy Message text
Lock message
Forward
Copy to SIM
View Message Details
Hi this may be a stupid questions, but I am really curious as to what the Lock message does, it does not password protect the message, that I checked. So what exactly is its function ?
True though it still gives you the option to delete locked messages.
Though say you had a long convo history with a particular person but needed to keep certain messages... you could lock them individually.. then delete the thread without the "delete locked messages" being enabled.. I.e. dont tick it. And you wont have to scroll through hundreds of messages to get to the "important" ones. I doubt most use this feature anyway?
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Saw someone had asked this is another thread so thought I would post it here...
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Add a picture frame "widget" to the handset, and when it asks you to choose a picture, choose several of them and hit save at the top. The images will now rotate
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Not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not, but there's a way to take screenshots on a non-rooted S2. Simply hold the home key and the power key down for a few seconds, let go and the screen capture will save to your gallery. It's a bit tricky at first. You'll know it worked because a little message will come up at the bottom of the screen and you'll feel your phone vibrate a little.
1.Go to the market and get an app called 'Spare parts plus+'.
This is a huge enhancement of your settings!
You can change transition/window animation speed, wifi sleep policy to save battery and much more.
2.Get an app called 'noled'. With this you can get low power notifications on your screen when the phone is locked.
The SGSII has an AMOLED screen which means that Black things use no battery at all so this app displays a tiny colored dot on your black screen when you get an email or text or whatever you set it to. You can customize for them to be different colors.
This is a replacement for the LED notification light that many phones have but the SGSII lacks.
3.In the gallery pinch on a folder/collection of photos and prepare to be amazed by a dazzling 3D effect!
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Thanks every one for such a nice tricks and tips.
I have question
I have merge/sync all my ph contact with facebook contact. and also joined all this contact. Initially it was looking very cool where i can see all of mine friends photo in my contact list. But now i/m facing a very big problem.
*I can not see all of the contact in my contact list. I can only see those contact whichh was previously saved in on my phone. No Facebook contact.
** If i want to add a alternative/extra no and if i chose "UPDATE EXISTING" then it goes to the facebook contact list where i can not see my phone contact.
I'm getting irritating .please give me a solution.
That was handy, thank you very much! I've only made one call so far, but I noticed it was a bit quiet. I only went up to 98 on my max volume and also tweaked the other values to have some nice steady progression going up and down the volume levels.
Which other values did you tweak ?
Also does this hamper the volume when the media ?
I increased the value to 100 for this particular code, it definetely made an impact but wouldnt mind a bit higher volume..
Here's a link to a video showing some interesting things. I doubt there are a lot of things that haven't been said yet on this forum, but I'll post it anyway
Hold down the menu key (not the home button, the capacitive key to the left) to enable quick searching. Works on the home screens to search google, will allow for searching in the marketplace, youtube, messaging etc.
This works on all Samsung Android handsets without a dedicated search key.
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You press the home key which is the only key on the face of phone followed by the power button key on the right hand side in quick succession. If you hold the home key to long the recent program menu will come and ur screen shot will be taken of that. But all works fine for me.
If you would like to speed up the GPS lock and connection time on the Galaxy SII...
Try this...
Settings > Location and security > ensure all the boxes under My location are ticked.
Now download and install, free from the Market, GPS Test.
Put your phone into, "Flight mode"...
Settings > Wireless and network > Flight mode... check
Open GPS Test (outdoors with a clear view of the sky) and select Menu > Settings > Clear AGPS
Now just leave it for as long as it takes to get a solid lock on at least 6 Sat's (preferably more... 9->11 would be good). This can take 20 min's or more but be patient,
When you have achieved this come out of Flight mode and then select GPS Test Menu > Settings > Update AGPS.
Now reboot your phone.
N.B. Please ensure you have no Task Managers or anything that will close or interfere with this app.
Once rebooted you should find an improvement in accuracy and speed of your GPS.
This article explains how GPS on mobile phones works:-
N.B. The free version of GpsFix now comes with AirPush ad's. So if you like this app and it helps you then consider getting the paid version which is ad free.
I first ran it with GPS disabled on the phone and relied on WiFi for my initial fix before switching GPS back on. My fix time now is around 7-10 sec's.
You still need to manually check both boxes, but at least its better than some of the sync apps which only forces one check or neither with its push-pull once sync function.
The way to capture a screenshot without fail is to press both the power and home buttons at the same time, immediately release ONLY the power button and continue to hold the home button. After half a second the screen is captured and you can let go of the home button.
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just to clarify, i dont have a problem with the phone, its where i live. im classed as "country" where there is no 3g officially, but im NEAR it, so it swaps around alot.
i dont get many drop calls, but enough to know about it.
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i bought 2 more wall chargers off ebay, not official but the same specs.
My phone is still in the shop but the missus CLAIMS with her phone the generic charges charge a little bit quicker, BUT give the phone less battery life. I still want to do some testing but for now, it might pay to use your ORIGINAL wall charger for best battery life.
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though the fact you can load it is the main thing 
Surefire way to screen capture
