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Tip: How To Copy and Paste in Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for the Samsung Galaxy S II

Copy and paste has been a hallmark of the digital technology age, forever freeing us from the chains of retyping oppression. The functionality of copy and paste is different in all of its various manifestations and its upgrade on the Galaxy S II is no different. At first I was slightly confused as the copy [...]

Read the full article → May 9, 2012 How To

Tip: How to convert Samsung Voice Recorder’s 3GA file to MP3 format

I was recently recording some voice overs with my Galaxy S II and I was importing the files to my computer, I was slightly befuddled when I was greeted with this: Now here I am with a time sensitive project and now I gotta go digging through the internet looking for a file converter for [...]

Read the full article → May 4, 2012 How To

How To: Replace your Screen/Bezel–Galaxy S II Disassembly Guide

Let me guess–the one day you take your beautiful Galaxy S II out of its case, you drop it right onto the bottom right corner, dinging the bezel and chipping or even cracking the glass. I feel your pain: Fear not readers, for your Galaxy S II’s beautiful looks are still salvageable. Sure you could [...]

Read the full article → May 2, 2012 How To

Individual Notification Removal: the single best feature of Ice Cream Sandwich for the Galaxy S II

One thing that always bugged the heck out of me was how every time I would queue up a lot of notifications on my Samsung Galaxy S II running Gingerbread, I would have to either Select every single notification and manually take care of them or Clear all of them at once with no chance [...]

Read the full article → April 23, 2012 How To

Tip: Reduce Long press (tap and hold) Duration on your Galaxy S II

Long pressing is one of the cardinal navigation features that extends functionality of multiple areas of your Galaxy S II including the browser, home screen and gallery. Long pressing is an excellent feature until it becomes a too long press. When you are moving multiple icons on a home screen, or frequently saving images from the [...]

Read the full article → April 19, 2012 How To

Tip: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Data Monitor Setting–Limit Individual App Data Usage

One really nifty feature of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Galaxy S II is the integrated data monitoring feature. Rather than having to download a separate widget or application to monitor your data use, you can use the built in settings to track data usage as well as set alerts for overuse. To [...]

Read the full article → April 11, 2012 How To

Tip: List of 10 Important Changes for Galaxy S II with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Update

After upgrading my Galaxy S II to Android 4.0.3, I’ve found a fair amount of changes to the look of Android as well as the structure of the UI. For the most part its pretty intuitive, but we thought we’d give you a heads up. 1. Menu Button The old menu button used to being [...]

Read the full article → March 22, 2012 How To

Samsung’s Official Galaxy S II ICS Changelog and Usage Guide

You may recall that Samsung has kept their promise for a Q1 ICS release with the Android 4.0 update for the GT-I9100 Galaxy S II, posted last week. To accompany the continued release across the globe, Samsung has published a nice guide explaining what updates users can expect to see. The guide features a full [...]

Read the full article → March 20, 2012 How To

5 Reasons to update your Galaxy S II to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

Samsung has finally released the long awaited Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Galaxy S II. Hometown fans who use SK Telecom’s services started seeing the update yesterday, but eager developers have already repackaged the latest firmware so that it can be flashed to any Galaxy S II GT-I9100. Although the update is [...]

Read the full article → March 14, 2012 Applications

Tip: Where did Android Market Go? Google Play on the Galaxy Honeycomb

If you haven’t been living under a rock, you probably noticed that the new iPad was announced the other day and more importantly, that Google market is no more. More specifically, it has been supplanted by Google Play-the one stop shop for all the content Google offers be it apps, music, movies or books. Essentially, [...]

Read the full article → March 9, 2012 How To

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