Russell Coker wrote:
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.
Not clear whether you are suggesting gaining root via a Cyanogenmod etc instal or somehow via the existing Android; but same problem with either ie retail value will be small afterwards; maybe I should keep an eye out for a phone which either provides, 1/ 'off-the-shelf' application deletion' 2/ something which comes with root capability 3/ something which is so cheap that installing Cyanogenmod etc won't matter when the ZTE F165 dies. Anyway it's all a bit academic the ZTE phone works fine and for remote web access; (eg.an off track hut between Daylesford and Castlemaine with no power) I have a 12V 40AH car battery in a box with a built in inverter.(non-sinusoidal) and a USB mobile router ZTE Elite, which just works on the single USB 1.00 port; providing I use a powered hub.(low signal strength ?) I have put a 240 VAC Dick Smith power conditioner on the output of the inverter, after it seemed to take out the PS of the laptop (Compaq Armada e500) The theory being that it was the corner spikes which were the problem ......................so far so good thanks for the suggestions Russell, regards Roha McLeod