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| Bane |
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| spoderman01 |
| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 11:58 am |
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wez_wildheart wrote: spoderman01 wrote: Managed to upgrade my S2 to ICS (4.0.3) last night. Had the usual repeated attempts with Kies but finally got it down and it looks great. Slight changes to the screen unlock, Smart Care which seems to be a diagnstic tool, slight menu and keyboard layout changes. And it could just be in my head but the phone seems faster.
On a similar note, got 3.2 for the Galaxy Tab as well but that could be out for months for all I know.
Can I ask what I should be looking out for on Kies? Just hooked up the USB and phone to the application and nothing to prompt me on any update.
Prob a silly question has it definitely picked up the phone? Sometimes it doesn''t recognise it first time out. You should see GT-I9100 on the side bar when it's connected.
You should then get a popup box telling you that there's a firmware upgrade available. Though I think there's a checkbox for turning off the automatic checking so maybe that's set. Kies can be a pain in the arse at the best of times. |
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| wez_wildheart |
| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:44 pm |
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| Yeah I get the GT in the top left of the program but no pop up as of yet. Looks like I will have to wait a while longer haha |
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| sludgewhore |
| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:46 pm |
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I updated to ICS via Kies (Three Network)
The scrolling was terrible on the browser, even scrolling between home screens and apps was slow and jittery.
I flashed mine back to Gingerbread.
Not impressed. |
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| wez_wildheart |
| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:35 pm |
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| I did read there were a lot of issues with 3 network and the upgrade. Something to do with bloatware? |
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| Bane |
| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 3:23 pm |
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| One of my colleagues is on 3 network and he got it alright. |
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| spoderman01 |
| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 10:10 pm |
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Hmm...have noticed a problem where the phone is no longer connecting to wifi. Have googled it and some suggestions are to reboot the router but I'm in a hotel at the mo so can't do that....without getting tossed out 
Will try to connect to the wifi in work tomorrow and see what happens
:edit: seemed to sort itself out after rebooting a few times. Still strange as it defo wasn't the wifi as the laptop and tablet were connected all along. |
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| spoderman01 |
| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:17 pm |
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| Also had to re-download Flash after the upgrade. Got some odd error message from the Adobe link but after installing direct from the Google Play store, it seems to be ok. |
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| skadk666 |
| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 4:30 pm |
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Got a Sony Experia S there the other day. First smartphone I've owned and wow, I'm a bit over run with what this thing can do! Fantatstic piece of technology!
Still finding things that it can do now and I havent stopped messing with it since I got it! |
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| Brox |
| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 4:49 pm |
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| I have a samsung omnia lite windows effort.......its pretty crap tbh......good internet and sat nav,thats about it......seems to freeze quite alot .In fairness to samsung though they did replace the screen for free and updated it when out of warranty.......i have never got Kies to work. |
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| Paul keohane |
| Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 12:14 am |
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point me in the right direction please lads,going to get a new phone soon,may as well get one of these smart phones,basically all i want is to brows the net and it must have a radio,pay as you go,150 euro price range.
One other thing,with smart phones,does the phone have to be left on for the alarm to work?? |
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| Padre Pio |
| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:46 pm |
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| Lads, what's the best mid range smartphone, say around €200. For my father-in-law to surf the net on as big a screen as possible and check the net. |
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| Naraka |
| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 4:14 pm |
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| I've been offered an upgrade of a Samsung Galaxy S3 or an IPhone 5. I have an IPhone 4 but I don't mind switching to Android if the S3 is better. Anyone got any advice as to which is the better phone? |
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| alsvartr666 |
| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 5:27 pm |
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| Galaxy S3 is without a doubt the better phone. |
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