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With these numbers,

Galaxy S Series Sales
Samsung Galaxy S - 25million units and counting...
Samsung Galaxy S II - 40million units and counting...
Samsung Galaxy S III - 41million units and counting...

Galaxy Note Series
Samsung Galaxy Note - 10 million units and counting... (as of August
2012) Samsung Galaxy Note - 5 million units and counting... (as of
December 2012)

It's safe to say Blackberry has been failing.

UncleJJ: See https://www.nairaland.com/1131501/galaxy-s2-galaxy-s3-expert/1#14194240 ... thanks to stanley08

You are welcome mate.

mikky4all: It is the at&t version bro. So I guess it is international

At&t is American bro. NOT International mate!

geefivez: Hello guy, please I need an urgent help on my Samsung galaxy s GT-19000.when I power it,the screen will display the welcome message but refused to boot. It will be vibrating periodically.
Please what can I do to make it work.

This is called a bootloop mate, probably you didnt wipe your phone before upgrading or something. Here is how you can fix it

1. Turn phone off.
2. Reboot into recovery mode (Hold down Home + VolumeUp + Power buttons together; keep holding till you get the recovery screen)
3. Wipe Data/factory reset
4. Wipe Cache partition
5. Reboot system now.

How to control
Up - Vol Up button
Down - Volume Down button
Select/OK - Power button (single click)

atilla: How do I check my os?
Not sure if this is what you mean but I see android 2.3.3 also gingerbread.xwkf3


Please what is a custom rom and what does root phone mean. Does it mean to plant my phone

Baba! Plant ke?!!!

Rooting - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_rooting

Custom ROMs - OSes modded by developers that you can flash on your phone for better battery life, more functionality, increased performance and what have you... And you MUST be rooted to flash a custom ROM. Read rooting above.

Below is a screenshot showing my International Galaxy S3 IN BEAST MODE! Running a Custom ROM and a Custom Kernel!

Okay oh! BB Fans! Finally Available in Nigeria at Affordables (They have the cheapest phones oh! Remember that)

180,000 Naira! LOOOL! For a blackberry! Oya go and buy now!

INSTALLING CUSTOM ROMS ON INTERNATIONAL VERSION S2 (GT-I9100)

IMPORTANT - MAKE SURE YOU ARE ROOTED

How to root here - http://www./OfficialSamsungGalaxySII/doc/513893181957772/


BACKUP! BACKUP!! BACKUP!!!


1. DO A NANDROID BACKUP from recovery (IMPORTANT!!!)

Reboot into recovery (Home + VolumeUp + Power) keep holding till you get the recovery screen OR Just Open the CWM app in phone and hit Recovery under Reboot.

Go to Backup and Restore, select backup to external memory (make sure you have at least 2GB Free on ur ext SD).

Wait for it to finish. After done, +++ GO BACK +++

Then select the 'Reboot system now' option.


2. Backup all USER apps using Titanium backup (DO NOT BACKUP ANY SYSTEM APP unless you know what you are doing : The ones in red colour are SYSTEM apps)

(Titanium Backup PRO - http://www75.zippyshare.com/v/84419695/file.html)


3. Backup SMS, Call Logs, and contacts using 'Super BackUp' app. Download from store for Free.

(Super Backup - http://www.sendmyway.com/hwfbvpinnx3g)

BACKUP DONE!


Now ready to flash the ROM...


1. Copy ROM (zip file) to a special folder in phone, anywhere! internal or external SD (I advice you name the folder 'AAAAA' to make it easier to find)

2. Reboot into recovery (I wrote how to do this above already)

3. Do WIPES (Note: FULL WIPE is only needed when going to a different ROM. So when upgrading same ROM to a newer version, only Wipe Dalvik and cache partition. )

i, Wipe Dalvik Cache (under Advanced in recovery menu)

ii, Wipe Data/Factory Reset

iii, Wipe Cache partition

iv, Go into 'Mounts and Storage' then select 'format /system'

WIPES DONE!

+++GO BACK+++

4. Flash the ROM using 'Install Zip from sd card option' then select install from internal or external SD'

Of course, depending on where the zip file (ROM) was copied to.

SCROLLING

Up - Vol Up button

Down - Volume Down button

Select/OK - Power button (single click)

Back - +++GO BACK+++

U can also Navigate using the touch screen, but i will not advice this, so u do not make a mistake (Because you are a NOOB! ).

5. Now you should scroll to where the ROM is 'AAAAA' folder if you followed my suggestion.

6. Select the ROM with the power button and scroll down to yes and acknowledge it.

(!!!FLASHING WILL NOW BEGIN!!!) - This should take a only couple of seconds

(though it is depending on the ROM flashing method - IF an AROMA installer comes up, you just select the options you want like you are installing a PC software)

When Flashing is done, you will get a message saying Install successful.

+++ GO BACK +++

8. Reboot system now.

First Boot will take longer than usual (As you have cleared the dalvik cache), so DON'T PANIC, be patient.

9. After phone boots up, you can set it up with WiFi if you wish, or skip the setup to do with WiFi or 3G later.


ENJOY YOUR CUSTOM ROM!!!


OPTIONAL

10. Restore your Apps and data using Titanium backup.

11. Restore your Call Log, SMS and Contacts (if you do not sync your contacts with google) with SMS & Contacts Backup app.

ENJOY!!!

2kurupt: Nice job your doing here mate.

Can I update to jellybean or any OS version on an unlocked gs3, without losing the network unlock?

I know iPhones have such issues but how does Android fare?

Unlocked or International version? GT-I9300?

mikky4all: Dis is it bro

Hey mate! This is Not an International version S3. So i really can't help you there. Also, that might probably be the problem.

flameforx: i have been hearing u guys talk about custom roms but i dont know much about it,plz guys how can i instal custom rom in my samsung s2 19100 running on jellybean,which one is the best for it(cos i think they are many out there) and whats the benefit.

i really need help plz

See my next post (i just hope it doesn't get hidden)

mikky4all: Don't seem to get the custom ROM or the Original samsung stock ROM. Hw am I to check this. Someone told me I will require a minimum of 5GB to use the s3 tehtering. Hw true is this

5GB of what?! And I want to believe that is A LOAD of Bullocks!

To know if you using a custom ROM, go into Settings > About Phone. either write everything there and post here for me. or better still, scroll down to the end of the page and take a screenshot.

How to take a SS - Hold down power button and home button together for about 2 seconds.
Then get screenshot from sdcard/pictures/screenshots. Upload scrrenshot here.

mikky4all: Yes, I can browse. Very well. Just the hotspot tethering not working

And i asked if you were using a custom ROM or Original Samsung stock ROM. Did you try resetting the phone?

mikky4all: Am having a problem with my samsung galaxy S111. When I try putting ON the hotspot it will report MOBILE DATA UNAVAILABLE or INVALID SIM, and am still having about 3GB data on ma aitrel.

Can u browse normally on ur phone?

mikky4all: boss I didn't get the mail. Somoyemikail@yahoo.com dats my email

What exactly do yo even want?

slumbee: I got it bruv! i tink i sent u an IM, did nt get a reply tho.

Sent me! :O

nell07: Yo Stan.
You haven't answered my question...or have you??
I really need you're help mate.

Try to factory reset the phone.

slumbee: Yo! y re stanley s post hidden? y'll moderator free him up. Stanley bruv here's my email...s.suleiman202@gmail.com.
thanks G!

I added you on Gtalk mate.

mikky4all: pls I need a reply abeg oooo

Please give me your current ROM details and explain what exactly is the problem. Also, give me a screenshot of this screen Settings > About phone. Upload here for me to see... (How to take screenshots - Hold down power and home button together for a few seconds, about 2 seconds; then find pic under screenshots in Gallery or sdcard/pictures/screenshots)

HERE IS THE POST GUYS!!! I don't know why it was deleted the first time

FOR INTERNATIONAL GALAXY S2 PHONES ONLY!!! GTI9100 (NOT FOR GT I9100P or GTI9100G or SGH-i777 or ay other variant)

DO YOUR BACKUPS! (optional Of course. Just reminding you)

BACKUP! BACKUP!! BACKUP!!!

BackUp apps

1. Astro File Manager (Extract apk of installed apps) - Get from play store

2. Super BackUp (Messages, Contacts and Log) - Get from play store

3. Titanium Backup (Root only) - BackUp app and app data (Not SD data files though)

Also, backup the files you have in your Internal SD to a folder on your computer. Simple copy and paste backup as Factory Reset below would wipe Internal SD too)


NOW! Factory Reset your phone (I said this so won't have problems on first boot)
Settings > Backup and Reset > Factory Data Reset.

Unless you know how to wipe using ClockWorkMod (CWM) please, factory reset+wipe your phone.


MAKE SURE BATTERY IS FULLY CHARGED!


NORMAL WAY (OFFICIAL WAY)

1. Download KIES and connect mobile (wait for it to install phone) then search for update.

2. When you find update follow steps there to update mobile (read carefully).


DOWNLOAD KIES - http://org.downloadcenter.samsung.com/downloadfile/ContentsFile.aspx?CDSite=US&CDCttType=SW&ModelType=N&ModelName=FM_UPDATE&idyn=N&VPath=SW/201208/20120809103126135/Kies_2.3.2.12074_13_13.exe


THE ODIN WAY (UNOFFICIAL WAY)

1. Uninstall KIES if you installed it (This is VERY IMPORTANT because KIES can disrupt flashing with ODIN) - You REALLY don't want this to happen!
(during uninstall, tick the box so drivers will uninstall also). Restart ur pc.

2. Download and Install Samsung Mobile phone driver from here - http://www.mediafire.com/?4gwen7qlbpmeqck
Restart your computer again after installing. Important!

3. Connect phone to PC to install drivers. Wait for it to finish properly then disconnect phone.

(also go into Settings > Applications > Development. Then Tick USB debugging. Connect phone to PC again and let ADB drivers install)


4. Download the latest ROMs from here http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-I9100 (the higher the Changelist, the later it is. Meaning one with a changelist of 1418025 has more stuffs or fixes than one with 914166 even tho they re the same 4.1.2).
The ROMs always come in .zip format and what you need to flash is .tar, so naturally... you need to extract to get it.


5. Download ODIN (Samsung Flashing tool). Link - http://www.sendmyway.com/vju6egzhj0al (Uploaded by Stanley08)

Unzip it to a New folder in your desktop maybe (to find easily). Or any other path you want to keep it.


HAVE YOU DONE YOUR BACKUPS?!!!


6. Turn off mobile phone.


7. Open up ODIN (I always advice Windows 7 and Vista users to right-click and open as admin instead)


8. In ODIN, Just click on 'PDA' then browse to the folder where the extracted single file in step 4 is. (.md5 format)

Select the file. (check desktop if you extracted to desktop).


9. Put phone in download mode. (Hold the following buttons = Volume down+Home+Power)

Keep holding till you get a warning prompt asking if you are sure you want to enter Download Mode.

Press Volume Up button to accept. Now you will see an android logo and a sign dat says 'Downloading...'

Don't worry, Its not downloading anything yet, its just a confirmation that phone is now in download mode.


10. Connect the phone to PC using your USB cable. Now wait a little bit and ODIN will detect that a phone is connected .

You know this when the first 'ID:COM' box in ODIN lights up.


11. Make sure the 're-partition' box is NOT ticked! Leave every other thing the way it is. Just make sure 're-partition' is NOT ticked! DO NOT TICK!!!


NOW WE ARE READY TO FLASH STOCK JELLY BEAN v4.1.2


12. Just click START! Sit back and sip your coffee while your phone upgrades to JELLY BEAN (shud take about 5mins).


When Its done, phone will restart itself and you will be running on JELLY BEAN v4.1.2


ENJOY!!!

POST is now below.

slumbee: Hello! is thr anyway i cn get d official ICS for SG2...not by rooting my phone tho..thanks

Yes you can, its in the next post... But now, even better! Official JELLY BEAN v4.1.2 (Premium Suite Upgrade)

Jeffy1206: Hey I got an s 2 gt 19100p pls can u recommend whr and how to upgrade de fone from version 2.3 to ics am fed up with ginger bread as I want ice cream lol

Follow instructions in the next post, except that your will be ICS. And i won't advice you flash your own phone. It 'might' SIM-Lock your phone. Unless you want to take the chance.
AND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Flash this one instead - http://www.hotfile.com/dl/171794012/1c0dd5e/I9100PBVLPC_I9100PORALPB_ORA.zip.html

DO NOT TRY USING GT I9100 Firmware as you have GTI9100P. There is a reason they are different. Even there is GT-I9100G. They all use different ROMs.

jedisco: That's good.
Next time you would think twice before coming here to spew trash.

Ok! Whatever mate!

enquirydon: 165k for del xps core i7 ,750gb,8gram normal 15
155k for del xps core 15 15z 500gb,4gram

Okay, i don't want again.

jedisco: Well for starters I don't use a BB. I know your little mind would find that hard to believe. I'm sure you're asking yourself why anyone would be so open-minded about phone OSes? Well not everyone worships devices they buy with their money.


So to you BBs are not smartphones? You are one ignorant fellow. You should look for blinded folks like yourself to argue with.


What disgusts me is your repeated use of the word 'Nigerians' as if we can't choose the phone that best suits our needs. I'm sure your main reason of using an android phone is because its popular in Europe. What a fool you are. Well let me tell you that android and iOS were once very small startups in the US.


You should leave the talk about shares to more intelligent folks seeing that you do not have the capacity to understand the very basic smartphone world. If I were to reason like you, I would say the iPhone is rubbish because Apples stocks has fallen almost 50% in the last 6 months. Mind you, they still make more than double of ALL what android OEMs make put together.


I don't know when you started using a smartphone, but you should ask yourself where android was 5 years ago and you would see how silly you really are.

OMO! See control + P oh! LOOOL! This guy sef. No wonder you call yourself a jedi. Guy abeg go rest jor! You dey Nairaland dey flex muscle. Oga behave urself.

Blackberry Lost nearly 8% Value of their Shares after they unveiled the OS10 !
Seems the investors don't like where RIM is heading.
Whats your take on this?
Will Blackberry survive with their new OS10?
Or Android and other leading OS will just swallow BB down?

henry007: look at this iphone copy you are touting as innovative....what can this do that the iphone cant samsung lagdroids are best at being 2nd best. as for blackberry 10 i hope they catch up and i mean more than just business

It's not copying if it's Better! Loool.

jedisco: I don't like insulting people but I feel like calling you a fool.


Your post is as childish, senseless and stupid as going out on the road and telling everyone who doesn't use thesame brand of car that you have that they are archaic.


What's worse is that I'm disgusted at your statement about Nigerians using BBs. That just goes to show you've got inferiority complex issues.
I can go on and list countless devices and services that are mainly limited to the US and still I don't see Americans criticising then for not being available all over the world.


Even if its only Nigerians using BBs, I see nothing wrong with that as far as it works for them.


Over 50% of smartphones in Nigeria are BBs and still I don't see them displaying such moronic attitude you and your folks continue to display here

Who took this one's bread? Blackberry shares are nose diving. I'm sure u are one of the many nigerians that think blackberry is a 'smartphone'. And definitely use one. You feel like calling me a fool, good for you. but I am calling you a fool. Be lucky if dat company is still standing after 5 years.

My friend uses a 9900 Bold or whatever its called, he saw my S3 and said, "This is my last blackberry phone". Laugh no gree me. LOOL.

enquirydon: Nvidia's GeForce GTX 660 graphics card

Okay. Whats the last price?

UncleJJ: Ha Ha.... hope the BB, has touch screen, atleast 10GB internal memory, 4g, wifi,btooth,NFC, acurrate gps,

Ha Ha..... frgt you still in the dinasour age.... get on the android train....

Leave Nigerians! Let them keep pinging, Technology will pass them by! Blackberry is the least innovative mobo ever made.

As for me, Android all the way! Rocking my S3 to the Fullest! Custom ROMs, Custom MODs and stuffs

https://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/603262_10200303190049131_731405850_n.jpg

moneynetwork: hey friends i just open new forum site now wwww.rumdin.com pls help me post there too

This website has been suspended. Lool. u go tif domain?

[quote author=Osita_inklord]But facing reality, the device is quite overpriced, its not like the body is made of kevlar (bulletproof) like motorola droid razr! Its trying to make a come back with the android app crossover but being overpriced with regular hardware is a fail!, im glad to see the epiphany of nigerians smartness in mobile gadgets considering the fact that We were all suckers to rims bulls**t a few yrs ago. (even though theres still the pennywise pound foolish lot who are still using that stupid bb porsche crap just for swag)
But wait oh--,
If the threadowner decides to give away 3 z10's to the best android peeps who can write an essay on the GLORY of bb, im sure everyone will fly @ d opprtunity[/quote]Keyword there is 'give away'. Get it, sell it! Money in ur pocket... Life goes on...

repogirl: You would think RIM would learn. first they ignored Africans who stuck with them when they were going under, personally i think it was Africa that kept their company in business. They've finally acknowledged us over here, we thank goodness for that. Now they are releasing such an expensive phone, why would someone pick their phone over any other android? what makes the bb10 software better than any other android one? the same apps only the chat thingy stands out but theres whatsapp so no one is missing bbm and the data services which is a bit cheaper with BIS but an iphone or S3 user doesnt mind that. I love my bb anyday anytime but i've started coverting my husbands nexus 4 which costs just abt sixty something thousand and has everything a phone needs including a 360 degree camera. Im sure z10 camera is not even as badass as d iphone's. The pricing should've been better this time since they are trying to get customers back, that would have added some points for them. We go dey watch sha.

Well said, but just one correction. Not africans, Nigerians! I would know, because I school in Accra. And Whatsapp is ALOT more popular than BBM here, even those that buy blackberry phones mostly use Whatsapp. No lies. Which also isn't a surprise considering that mobile internet is alot cheaper here. converting is 1.5Kobo/KB as opposed to 5Kobo/KB and 15Kobo/KB. So, u can say 10 times cheaper.

In school, also have friends from ivory coast, togo, SA, Guinee, Congo, Niger, Cameroun, Benin, even India. Its all about Droids, Windows Phone and iPhone (have no idea why people buy these tho)

THIS IS NO SURPRISE WHATSOEVER.

ALL initially released Blackberry phones i can remember, started out at 100K+ even Curve 2 i can remember.

Now, Curve 2 is like what? 20K? or Less?

Torch, Bold, Bold 2, all started at 100K+

Again, this is no surprise

Nothing they will not say is Demonic! We Nigerians sef! Any small thing!

I'm here in Accra. Where Azonto was born! People have fun with this dance here man! So don't bring Any demonic crap into this.

I am a christian! I love to dance Azonto! PataPata! I go pray before i dance! Good riddance!

If you are Approximating, Why not just say 120,000 instead of 119?! Smh!

enquirydon: 1 gig dedicated graphic nividia

Which Nvidia? Whats the model. I have an Nvidia GT 540M (1GB) running 96 streaming cores @672MHz and 900MHz memory, hence shader of 1344MHz.

Graphics cards are different. 1GB graphics memory does not automatically make it a gaming machine/card. Might just be for light graphics and Photo editing.

Take for instance, The ATI Park XT Radeon HD 5470 graphics card has 1GB video memory has only 80 streaming cores @750MHz. And when you put it to test, even less demanding games like FIFA struggle on it.

So, again... What graphics card bro?

odume10: Pls what stable jelly bean custom Rom can u recommend for me to flash to my galaxy s2 sgh-i777.
Thank u.

If you are talking about the AT&T i777 S2, then you anyone from this page - http://galaxys2root.com/category/att-galaxy-s2-roms/
BUT since you asked for a recommendation, here - http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/GalaxyS2ATT/roms/ShoStockJB/SHOstock3-XXLSJ-v1.8.5.zip

atilla: Is there a shortcut to switch on the tethering and mobile hotspot in the s2

I hate having to go all the way menu,settings.wireless and network.tethering then clicking it

Sorry bro, unless something custom. But this will likely not be supported.

tunamania: pls am on samsung s3 i need a direct ungrade link for jellybean 4.2 a resumable link pls and what will be the extra features

I use an S3 also, I will upload the Latest firmware for you before the end of tomorrow. Or do you want the latest Nigerian one (I9300XXELLB_I9300OJVELL3_ECT)?