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well is there any other way to install the samsung official jelly bean update for s2 ?

I'm sure you can just flash the official ROM via Odin without voiding your warranty. But be careful if you are on official ICS atm.
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I'm sure you can just flash the official ROM via Odin without voiding your warranty. But be careful if you are on official ICS atm.

Won't it increase the binary counter though? Samsung use it know if Odin has been used to flash, might void warranty. Anyway if the counter does go up you can use triangleaway to reset it.

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I'm sure you can just flash the official ROM via Odin without voiding your warranty. But be careful if you are on official ICS atm.

 

I'm on official ICS (4.0.4) for now....there's no OTA update in korea as well :( Have to depend on that stupid kies, which says 'unsupported device' .... wtf :doh:

 

I see JB for only Europe and Russia right now.. no Korea for sure..

 

hmmm ok, one of my colleagues here said he installed jb....ok, will wait in that case !

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Won't it increase the binary counter though? Samsung use it know if Odin has been used to flash, might void warranty. Anyway if the counter does go up you can use triangleaway to reset it.

Odin is Samsung official. It won't void your warranty if you flash stock Rom. But the csc is region specific.

Anyways you can always use triangle away to reset counter. No issues.

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Get a launcher...

Nova or Apex

 

Tasker is a must.

 

Get a good music player

Poweramp / N7 / <so many out there>

 

Get a good video player

MX Player ( Supports hardware acceleration)

 

Get Chrome Beta browser

 

Get a good messenger app

Whatsapp

 

Get a good wallpaper app

Wallbase

 

Get a good cloud storage app

Dropbox / Google Drive

 

Get a good File manager

Ex file explorer / Root explorer

 

Get some good games

Temple run 2 ( I dont play much, so others can recommend more)

 

Get a good offline reading app

Pocket

 

Get a good RSS / Website reader

Flipboard / Google Currents

 

congrats on your purchase. Ask me in case you have more questions :)

 

 

Rad, my post regarding apps

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First you root... get an ICS rom preferablly stunner ROM.

 

Good apps

 

Lanucher - Nova on ICS, GO Launcher EX on GB.

ebook reader - kindle

comic book reader - perfectviewer

Music - poweramp

keyboard - swiftkey x

music recognition - shazam

messaging - handcent sms

dialer - exDialer

online storage - box, dropbox, google drive

maps - google maps, sygic

browser - dolphin hd on GB, google chrome on ICS

IVG browsing - tapatalk

movie tickets - bookmyshow

note taking - evernote, skitch

videos - mxplayer

movies - IMDB

football scores - livescore

social networking - facebook, twitter, whatsapp

games - temple run, angry birds space, fruit ninja, cut the rope etc.

email client - K9 email

backup - titanium backup

news - times of india

 

misc. - RSA Secure id, goodreads, adobe reader

 

phew! We should make a sticky out of this somewhere... every new android buyer asks the same questions.

and this.

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Google chrome on ICS is highly unstable on SII, crashes all the time, especially when used in combination with swype ! I still continue to use it , mainly coz of the bookmarks sync feature of chrome !

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@rad: get nfs most wanted. You will love it on your big screen. Even better than ps3 version :P

 

Great will do. thanks Paaji!!

 

Rad, my post regarding apps

 

 

and this.

 

Thanks a lot bro

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Google chrome on ICS is highly unstable on SII, crashes all the time, especially when used in combination with swype ! I still continue to use it , mainly coz of the bookmarks sync feature of chrome !

Get the JB from the links I gave above. These are official samsumg roms which can be flashed via odin. You can always revert to indian rom for warranty later on. JB would be worth it.

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Won't it increase the binary counter though? Samsung use it know if Odin has been used to flash, might void warranty. Anyway if the counter does go up you can use triangleaway to reset it.

Most all in one tools include triangle away.
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I am supposed to purchase Nexus 4 tomorrow from a local fellow, but I just read that Xperia Z is launching the day after, is the latter one worth the money? Just sold my iPhone 5 and need to fill the smartphone gap as soon as possible.

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Well it is a burning topic here :P

 

Depends what you are looking for in the phone...and Xperia Z price is still not confirmed, will be confirmed on 6th Mar. I would say wait and decide.

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It is still early days but def looks like a good phone also it is sold out everywhere, your friend will struggle to find it. Seeing the stuff your friend wants to do you can look at Sony/HTC/Samsung Dual core offerings, you should get some good phones for around 16k

 

 

Is the phone rooted, seeing your sis owns it, i am pretty confident it won't be. what is the Difference in timing of charge now.

 

Just buy it, you are good for 2 yrs.

No, the phone isnt rooted or anything. Im pretty sure my cousin can wait for sometime. Lets see. I'll let him know about this.

 

This is surprising as charge times have little to do with the OS, does she use a USB charger to charge?

Charging is done by the default charger given. Its a USB cable that can be connected to the plugpoint and then charged.

 

Sis says if the phone is below 20%, it takes longer to charge, like around 5-6 hours but if its at say, 40% or more, then it takes less time to charge.

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