On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:17:10 PM Rohan McLeod wrote:
Picked up a Samsung Galaxy SII m/n -191100T amoungst large collection of old laptops (most faulty) and other IT stuff which were being disgarded'; looks like it works fine; charges OK.
It's an OK phone, but not particularly good. It's got the same screen resolution as the Galaxy S, the same storage (in most cases), and the only real benefit is extra RAM.
Just contacted their support after a quick look through the user manual; It's authoritive one can't delete the supplied applications ! So it gets flogged on Gumtree
If I'm ever in the market for one of these sort of phones; application deletion will be high on the feature list!
Ah theres nothing like a sense of high minded outrage; to set one up for the day; but not quite as good as coffee, which comes next ! ;
The preloaded applications are installed on a separate partition in the phone storage, it IS possible to delete them if you root the phone, but that just makes space on a partition you can't use for anything else - unless you copy downloaded apps to that partition (which is another unsupported operation that requires root access). TitaniumBackup can do these things if you have root, but I don't know if it works with the old version of Android on the Galaxy S2. Many of the preloaded applications will have updates available, if you update them then the new version will be stored on the partition that has all the other apps. That partition is probably going to run out of storage space so this is a bad thing. But if you have them without the upgrades they will be at the top of the list in the Play Store app and generally annoy you. Some of the preloaded apps will run in the background and use RAM even if you never use them. If you can't disable them then that's a major PITA even though the S2 has 1G of RAM which is a decent amount for the tasks that you might want to use on such an old phone. One final thing to consider is that a phone of that age makes a nice little 3G- Wifi AP with built-in diagnostics. I always like to have such a phone on hand for the next time one of my clients cancels their ADSL phone line (no-one was using it for calls). -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/