Run the clock program. It will stay. But leaving the Amoled screen on for the extended period of time is not advisable.

Use the one that come with the phone.

SMS2PC - Paid
EasySMS - Free & Donate
MightyText - Free

This post has been edited by Bugeca: Aug 15 2011, 09:26 AM

Hello...,

MIUI on SGS2 (MIUI Android variant).... Here are a few screenshots after two days using it.

Beware, this ROM is not for the faint hearted people. You need to graduate from CF-Root, Lightenin, Villian, Nimpo, SpeedMod, Batista, LeoMar classes before even venturing into MIUI or CM7 or any other AOSP roms.

Thing that does not work or not available at the moment...

1. No 3G Video Call
2. Bluetooth won't save settings and pairing records
3. Not so smooth Full HD video play (This is a really high def video, something like DIVX HD standard. Others are ok)
4. Data connection has to be manually activated on every reboot
5. No Samsung craps...
6. MIUI was derived from CM7 source and kernel thus it will inherit some CM7 bugs although the kernel was tweak by bmarko himself.
7. Some hiccups on media scanning, Music player will list the songs after couple of scanning process
8. File Explorer quit of following your instructions, can't rename, can't delete etc. (happened to me after first time flashed but was ok after few reboots).
9. External SD-Card is not shown in Storage and About page (so no management function available from phone UI), it can only accessible thru File Explorer. Apps will not use External SD unless it accept hard coded path or has some kind of scanning mechanism like Music player.

Pros
1. Very themeable ROM. Can change anything on the UI, lockscreen etc.
2. Torchlight application is a nice app (never like torchlight thou) coz it can switch on by pressing the home button on the lockscreen.
3. Nice UI transition and very well design.
4. Very well design camera interface (compare with other non-stock ROM), second only to stock.
5. Got Firewall program to control blacklist, data connection etc.
6. Ability to hide programs and Guest mode (if you wanted to do some demo), but I prefer if it comes with Incognito mode.

Cons
1. Default theme may look like iphonish.
2. There is no App Drawer in the launcher. The app was cluttered on the screen (iphone style with widgets), but a trick of folder management can bring the apps back to Android way of life or install other launcher.
3. Currently it drained 3% of batt juice hourly.

More info...
Official XDA Thread Official Website

Think of... Linux with KDE (MIUI) and Linux with Gnome (AOSP), then you can get the basic idea on it.

Some screenshots....

Nice....

Just using it after a long held back since SGS1 coz of the iphonish look and lack of theme. The newer one has changed much on graphics department. Something refreshing from the stock... although some features are unavailable (minor to me).

Please read the first page on XDA, got extra list of drawbacks.

I'm going to stick with it a while longer until I find something that really pulling my hair off.

Trying for IOS simplicity on Android openness.

Some MODs for MIUI...


Modified Carrier Text; Removed Clock



All is done within the settings menu. One time flash.

This post has been edited by Bugeca: Aug 15 2011, 03:24 PM

If you wanted to move to AOSP kind of ROMs from stock based , you need to do one extra task before flashing in CWM. You need to format /system under mount menu. Likewise if you wanted to return to stock from AOSP.

Under CWM menu there is Wipe Data.... , Wipe Cache..... etc. On the same menu you'll see "Mount...." select it and find "Format /system" and execute it.

Beware, do not format the EFS. This one sure ICU. After formatted the system, you have to flash ROM straight away like usual coz you phone will not boot into Android OS (Only Kernel left) after that.

I've a heart attack before this. When using SGS1, flashing maniac until the internal SD corrupted. Gone all the Titanium, Clockwork and other backups.

Yup, lesson learnt.... the most important thing is don't panic. Flashed back stock ROM and format from its recovery menu, even CWM cannot recover the internal SD.

Maybe Google wanted the patents... since Google has been bullied by other lately.

Acquiring Motorola is a good move since they have a good track record in phone industry but not their bootloader and support hahahah.....

There is saying... "Android is not free anymore". On fundamental, yes it is free and community driven but on final product it has to pay some royalties like HTC with Microsoft and soon Samsung with Microsoft (if Microsoft win the case).

Odin cannot find your phone.

Need to download Restore Samsung App package from here.

All the bloatwares are in there.

Yesterday, Google acquired Motorola Mobility.

Today we have this....



Source

Touchwiz on CyanogenMOD?

This post has been edited by Bugeca: Aug 16 2011, 10:31 AM

Hopefully it is not a joke. Looking forward on how they gonna shape the ROM. Maybe like Redhat? One official (Redhat Enterprise) and another version from community with bleeding edge features (Fedora)

SMS is nowhere to be seen during that time , but Atur coverage is top notch.... that is why it looks like military communication backpack. I wonder what kind of battery supplied to the unit?

This post has been edited by Bugeca: Aug 16 2011, 12:47 PM

That one quite ok laaa compare with the one that crawl under your blanket.