My device is made by samsung also. I think all SME also made by samsung but I have no defect whatsoever in my screen. Could be related to just certain batches during production. Better go complain at samsung and get replacement screen.

all Android user must go through this..

i havent bricked mine yet, so still stuck at degree level ROFL

Actually brick means u fail exam. Should be demoted. All my previous device WM until now Android i have never brick any before. If you follow exact instructions and read alot before doing anything you should be safe.

The experience learning how to recover from a brick phone is better than just learning how to flash. I have " purposedly" brick my phone already several times after reading how some guys did it - I just follow and than I go through several trials to recover it. Touch wood, I have been successful so far recovering it. I have bricked my galaxy Tab at least 5 times this 2 months just to test various combo of roms/kernels - the Tab is more tricky as some involve changing file system from default RFS to EXT4 .Compared to the Galaxy S II , the chance of bricking Tab is 10 to 1 as in SGS II you need not worry about changing the file system

isnt bootloop considered brick/semibrick ady? (or not)
if not i aslo have yet to master level

This is for new users who wish to try root/flash the SGS II. It is I say freaking easy to root/flash the SGS II. How easy. If I rate a score of 10 for most difficult/high risk of bricking and 1 as most easy/no risk of bricking: This is my experience

10: Dell Streak
9. ALL HTC Windows Mobiles
8. HTC Flyer
7. Motorola Atrix
6. HTC Android
5. HTC HD2 ( from WM 6.5 to Android )
4. Galaxy Tab 7"
3. Google Nexus
2. Galaxy S, Galaxy Tab 10.1
1. Galaxy S II

This post has been edited by benny888: Sep 1 2011, 11:26 AM

Nice one..!

I'm from 9. ALL HTC Windows Mobiles to 1. Galaxy S II..

Semi brick : Phone cannot be switch on but can be booted into download mode. SOmetimes you will se this screen of death



Hardbrick : Phone cannot be switch on. Phone cannot be boot into either recovery or download mode using hard 3 buttons

Bootlooping is just a fail flash, easily corrected usually by rewiping cache and clear data/factory reset

You want to experience bricking, you can try this at these conditions :

- phone at 5 % battery charge - flash Litening 5.0 and above
- download samfirmware rom : put in a incompatible PIT file
- pull out the USB cable while flashing is at midway stage
- flash a SGS rom ( the old model )
- if you use any of the cook rom - extract the zip file : change the core system apps ( 2.3.4) with 2.3.3 from another rom. Zip it back and flash

Sorry Android feature ( or you can call it a failure ) : Alarms will NOT work if phone is switch off. For this have to use good old Nokia. So far there is no software solution for this

You need ROOT to remove ads using AD Free. Even other solutions removing ads need root as simply such apps/solutions need to access system files. Without root enabled, system files cannot be access

And just use Odin to root - refer page 1 post #5 : Many available solutions - take your pick. It is easy and fast and you can NEVER and UNLIKELY will spoil your phone; the chance you brick/spoil is 1 in a million or more . you must be the most unlucky guy in the world if you brick rooting it. I always quote rooting your phone is turning your builtin 3000 cc sports car engine into reality instead of running it as just a normal 1600 cc car

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thank you very much!

Have to agree with Benny. SGS2 is one of the easiest to root/flash. Very little risk of brick. If you use recovery to flash rom i think you cannot make any mistake at all except using a wrong/corrupted zip file.

This post has been edited by antt00: Sep 1 2011, 11:54 AM

And if all else fails to un-brick , here is a solution which MIGHT work for SGSII but since it's Samsung , it should work
One-Click Unbrick

sorry uncle benny i dare not to try..im not that adventurous ,
but at least i know what to expect if mine got brick, and what not to do

wan try oso mz wait holiday first. now if my phone kong den my life wud be miserable

baru best to the max ...
how is the newest battery life ???
any improvement ?

who u r quoting and wat u r asking about? sm1 please lend me a mars language translator

if i have rooted my phone.. and i flash a newer stock ROM to my phone.. is my phone still rooted?.. and factory reset wont unroot the phone either right?

Flashing stock official rom will UNROOT your phone. Factory reset will not remove root

purposely brick the phone to train up skills to recover? that's PhD in android already

@benny the problem i have is i can't detect sgs2 on heimdall. I have installed the sdk sometime ago already.. still no.