Samsung Galaxy S2 Tips and Tricks

Samsung Galaxy S2 is a flagship smartphone from Samsung. Even though Galaxy S3 is on the way to launch, Galaxy S2 is the most popular high end smartphone from Samsung.  Here are some Tips and Tricks on Samsung Galaxy S2 compilation from different forums and users. You are welcome to share any tips you might know.

Samsung Galaxy S 2 tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks for Samsung Galaxy S2:
Adding shortcuts in Touchwiz user interface of Galaxy S2: In the home screen, press the screen in the blank space where it is free from icons.  The phone will pop up a menu which consist of lot of options which includes shortcut options.  Using the shortcut option you can set shortcut for your favorite app.
Factory Reset of Samsung Galaxy S2: There are three ways to reset Samsung Galaxy S2 to factory defaults. First one through dialer, second one through settings and the final one by Recovery mode. Let us see one by one.

Factory reset through Dialer:  In dialer enter 2767*3855# and dial. Your phone will reset to factory defaults.

Factory Reset through setting: Go to settings from Menu, and select Privacy, Factory data reset.

Factory reset through Recovery mode: Power off the phone, press and hold Vol Up + Home + Power. Use the Vol keys to navigate the menus and Home to action.
Adding contacts to Home screen:  Hold down on any home screen blank space, select shortcuts from options, then you chose contacts then you choose a contact to stick them on the home screen, or you can choose direct message/dial and then a contact to do the same with that feature. 

Fixing Home screen and apps disappear on start up: Some users are reported that, by going to settings-> accounts->and Sync. Uncheck both background sync and auto sync will solve this issue.  

Sort videos by list : Access the movie through your file explorer instead of the gallery, that way you can see the name of the movie on the file.

Increasing call volume:  When max volume is set, it is actually sets default setting of 87 out of 100 . For changing default setting please follow below steps.

• call this number *#*#197328640#*#*
• This will open the service mode menu.
• choose option [5] AUDIO
• choose option [1] (VOICE CALL)
• choose option [1] HANDSET
• choose option [1] Volume
• choose option [1] SRC Speech RX Volume
• choose option [5] 5_lvl : 87
• press the menu button (left side)
• choose Key Input
• enter a value between 0 and 100, I choose 100 the loudest setting.
• press ok
• now press the menu button and select back this should save (don't use the right side back key you normally use to navigate the phone or you will quit out of the settings) keep hitting the menu and back until you leave the service mode menu.
• You will also note you can change volume settings for other things like bluetooth, head sets, video call etc.

Note: This is not permanent. When phone get restarted, settings resets back to the default levels .

 Other miscellaneous tips on Samsung Galaxy S2: 

• Pinch on home screen to get homescreens overview, from there you can either skip to a particular screenshot or bin ones you don't need, that way you will have less homescreen dot markers.  
• In Applications menu, Press Menu key and then edit.Here you can move the Phone Contacts and Messaging widgets from the bottom of the screen into the applications area and replace them with other applications, or just remove them altogether to leave just the blue applications widget for every home screen.
• If you deleting all the info from the twlauncher app, then your apps drawer will sort automatically (once) however your homescreen layout will revert to default.
• Long press on the menu key will bring up the search function. 
• Press the home key and Power button together to take a screen shot. The screen shot will be saved on gallery.
• Double press the home button while the screen is not locked will auto open voice commands. For the  first time setup go to Apps and voice commands and do the tutorial and to change/setup voice commands go to settings-voice input and output.
• 
  
• If you turn off Auto brightness in Settings --> Display, then long pressing the notifications area and sliding left and right will increase/decrease the screen brightness.
• If you are having trouble with the initial pairing of your SGSII to a bluetooth device, restart the SGSII and try again (this bug also present on SGSI with same fix).
• 
  
• If you don't like the screen colour temperature you can change it (system-wide) in Settings --> Display --> Background effect. Movie mode makes things more drab, dynamic mode tends to pump up the colours a lot (will help with sunlight legibility).
• There is more than one speech-synthesis engine in the phone, by default it will be set in Voice Input and output to Pico TTS, but Samsung TTS is much more pleasant sounding (less robotic). Samsung TTS removes spoken street names in Google Navigation though.
• In the browser type about:useragent into the address bar, hit enter, it will come up with a list of user agents.Choose desktop to have the browser stop defaulting to mobile versions of websites.
• On both the homescreen and the apps menu you will see a row of dots indicating which page you are on. hold the dot and scroll left or right. The pages will quickly scroll until you see the page you want.
• If you hit edit on the home screen you can edit the number of screens availble, to a max of seven screens.
• You can rearrange your applications by pressing edit in the applications screen, then moving them. Also folders can be made there too.
• Long hold on Widget will expand the widgets.

Samsung Champ 2 C3330 Review Price Specification

Samsung Champ 2 C3330 Review Price Specification

Samsung Champ 2 C3330 is stylish and sleep touch screen phone from Samsung with metallic finish. Champ 2 measures 96*52.6*12.15mm in dimensions. It has 2.4 inch Resistive touch screen display with screen resolution of QVGA 320*240 pixels. This Samsung touch screen phone sports 2 MP rear camera.

Samsung Champ 2 C3330

Samsung Champ 2 C3330 Features:

• 2 MP rear Camera
• 2.4 inch Resistive Touchscreen
• FM Radio with Recording

Samsung Galaxy S2 GT - 9100 tips and trick

The Samsung Galaxy S2 is the phone the Korean firm deems the successor to its best smartphone so far. And with a 1.2GHz processor, super-slim chassis and feather-light innards, it's easy to see why. The dual-core race is set to heat up massively over the next few months, with the LG Optimus 2X already released, and the Motorola Atrix, HTC Sensation and iPhone 5 all set to bring the tech to market too

The Samsung Galaxy S2 is almost impossibly thin when you pick it up – dimensions of 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5mm mean it's one of the thinnest smartphones on the market at the moment, rivalling the likes of the iPhone 4 and Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc for the title. It's crazy-light too – when we show you what tech is rammed under the hood, you'll be amazed that it all goes in a device that weighs only a shade over 100g (116g, to be precise). Samsung clearly traded the premium feel an all-metal chassis might have brought to keep the grams off the Samsung Galaxy S2 – pop the battery cover off and you'll find you're holding a piece of pretty flimsy plastic.

However, most of the time you won't be removing this and it fits nicely into the contoured chassis – the mesh feel on the rear also helps keep your hand from getting warm during extended holding. The other thing you'll notice when you first pick up the Samsung Galaxy S2 is the screen – at 4.3 inches it's hard to miss, and when you turn it on the Super AMOLED plus technology hits you square in the eyeballs (once it's got through the toughened Gorilla Glass).

Samsung Galaxy SL i9003 tips and tricks and reviews

The Galaxy S is the most successful mobile phone Samsung has ever produced to date. In the vulnerable period of 7 months (June 2010 - Dec 2011) Samsung claims to sell 10 million units worldwide. Recognized or not, this is exactly what is one reason Samsung is launching its newest product-I9003 GT or more popularly known as the Galaxy SL.

 

Design 
Dimensions 12:37 x 6:42 x 1:06 cm, weight 131 gram, Gorilla Glass display, glossy plastic on the back, three buttons below the screen (menu, back and home), the power button on the right side, volume control on the left side. Design Galaxy SL is identical to its predecessor, the Galaxy S. The difference lies in the new dimension and feel when held together. Although using the same material, Galaxy SL feels more solid and steady grip than the Galaxy S. It may be the effect of weight that is slightly heavier. The composition of matter, PULSE deplored the absence of a camera shutter button that previously did not exist in the Galaxy S.
 
Screen 
SC-capacitive touch screen LCD, 16 million colors, 4 inch, 480x800 pixels, Super AMOLED clearly have a much better contrast when compared with SC-LCD, but that does not mean SC-LCD has the quality of the ordinary. Because in fact PULSE display Galaxy SL feels somewhat better than TFT LCD screen embedded in the smartphone class. If the back compared with the S-AMOLED, SC-SL LCD's Galaxy reportedly consume more power, but you need not worry because for this phone Samsung has included a battery with a greater power of 10% compared to its predecessor.
 
OS and Menu
 Android Froyo (v2.2), Touch UI WIZ, 7 pieces on the homescreen panels (can be edited), 4 pieces shortcut icon on the bottom of the screen on the homescreen and the main menu (phone, contacts, messaging and application / home) When compared with the version Eclair (2.1) on the Galaxy's experience gained almost the same. It is thanks to an embedded UI Touch WIZ on both phones. This is different from previous versions of PULSE get on the notification tab that can be accessed by sliding from the top of the screen down. If the notification tab Galaxy S with Android v 2.1 there are only 4 pieces toggle the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and Mute, then at version 2.2 installed on this SL Galaxy Samsung adds a toggle auto rotation that previously could only be accessed in the settings menu. In addition to this version of the Samsung also adds task manager that is not innate found in previous versions, so at least you do not need to add third-party task manager application if needed.

Photo Cameras 
5 MP (2592x1994), autofocus, geo-tagging, the focus through touch, smile shot and face detection, a VGA secondary camera. Feature photo camera Galaxy SL has 4 shooting modes and 14 scene modes that can be accessed directly from the panel on the left of the screen. Operation is fairly easy. To get the focus you can hold a virtual shutter button or touch parts on the viewfinder that wants to become a focal point. Disadvantages Galaxy SL is still the same as its predecessor which is located on the unavailability of two important elements of the camera, ie flash and physical shutter button. When used outdoors with good lighting the camera catches the Galaxy SL shows the results with the sharpness of the slick. Any color that is displayed in accordance with the original color. Unlike when brought into the room with makeshift lighting, a maximum 5-megapixel resolution camera is still generate noise.