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Funny my gut instinct was to stay the fck away from Samsung. I've never been impressed by anything I've owned/used of theirs but I'll take on users experiences.
I was the same but went for it when T Mob fucked me over on a faulty Desire S. I can't recommend the sgs2 highly enough, although I would also recommend getting rid of all the operator guff by flashing a streamlined custom rom. That's probably more down to my hatred of the operator rather than reaching the limits of the phones performance though.
Tell Vodafone you're leaving them and see what deal the retention section can do for you. I complained about my treatment by T Mob and I got the sgs2 on an 18 month unlimited everything plan for just over £20 a month. It can go wrong however, and leave you searching for a new deal altogether.
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Howzat, Multi Grooves?
Much better.
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My sister's still got an SGS1 which I rooted using Odin and also installed an OEM spec 2.3 ROM and it's going strroonngg. I'm tempted to put something else on it to speed it up a little though.
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I understand many hacks require rooting the phone and risk bricking it. Are there any other options? I don't understand why one user would have so few problems, despite more stuff on it, and I have so many!
If you use the right tools there is virtually no risk of bricking when you root a Desire. Basically because the tools are intelligent enough not to proceed with the flashing if anything is wrong. I'd highly recommend rooting and sticking CyanogenMod7 on it. I was in the same situation as you before: could hardly install any apps and my wi-fi hotspot didn't work.
Cyanogen has fixed my wi-fi hotspot: it now works perfectly. I have better battery life, a better 3G signal, weirdly, the phone is smoother, faster and nicer to use and I've now also got about 16 apps installed with 35Mbs free :)
Are you running Gingerbread?
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aparently the tf101 Transformer (pre-prime) is getting the ICS upgrade finally!!!
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If you use the right tools there is virtually no risk of bricking when you root a Desire. Basically because the tools are intelligent enough not to proceed with the flashing if anything is wrong. I'd highly recommend rooting and sticking CyanogenMod7 on it. I was in the same situation as you before: could hardly install any apps and my wi-fi hotspot didn't work.
Cyanogen has fixed my wi-fi hotspot: it now works perfectly. I have better battery life, a better 3G signal, weirdly, the phone is smoother, faster and nicer to use and I've now also got about 16 apps installed with 35Mbs free :)
Are you running Gingerbread?
I'm running what came on it! I want to get rid of half the stuff that was on it but didn't know you could until I started poking around on the internet to find out why it kept telling me there was no space.
I'll try out your first suggestion, but what is Gingerbread? Wait, googled it. Umm...my phone says I'm using Android version 2.2.
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aparently the tf101 Transformer (pre-prime) is getting the ICS upgrade finally!!!
Ive had it for a couple of weeks already Ian!
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no one tells me nothing round here
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how is it?
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This looks like a stonking deals
running ICS too.
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I'd be lying if I said I wasn't interested.
Worth a punt for £80 I reckon. Rootable?
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Also the list has been released of HTC phones getting the ICS update;
http://blog.htc.com/2012/03/ics/
Surprised to see the HTC Desire in there!
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My phone was delivered with a mediocre build of Android 2.1 assembled by Samsung and Orange.
Samsung's Kies tool, which is like a knock off of iTunes, recognised the presence of my phone when connected using the USB cable (I did not share the woes described in the rant above) however it always informed me that no upgrade existed for my particular device, despite other Samsung Galaxy S owners on the Orange network having reported successfully upgrading.
I therefore used the more technical Odin tool to install Samsung and Orange's build of Android 2.3, colloquially known as Gingerbread. This tool carries more risks however I never experienced any failures.
More recently, I have installed a build of Android 4.0, which carries the Ice Cream Sandwich moniker, prepared my a community of geeks led by an ubergeek who goes by the pseudonym Cyanogen. Their builds are dubbed CyanogenMod, and version 9 is their first Android 4 build. The Alpha suffix indicates that the build is still under intensive development for my particular device and may not be suitable for daily use by those who would find bugs unacceptable.
Having used the 12th Alpha version of CyanogenMod 9 for the Galaxy S, the only shortcoming I have experienced is an occasional inaccuracy in the location indicated by the GPS subsystem. Rob, the often drunk polo player who posts at LFGSS under the name Snottyotter, has the 14th Alpha version installed on his Galaxy S, but his GPS problems are attributable to a fault in the GPS chip which was common in the early batches of the Galaxy S.
I thus refute the besmirching of Samsung's reputation as a producer of Android handsets.