Own a Samsung Galaxy S II? Read this!

[IATV]

Dear Spacetime Studios,

plz give us a quick update: what's the deal with the big, big, big "Samsung Galaxy S 2 - Freeze" problem?

1. Are you working on it?
2. Are you talking to Samsung about it?
3. Which perspective do SGS2 owners have?

Thanx!

[Samhayne]

Hey IATV,

The Samsung Galaxy S 2 has only recently (in the last month) become available here in the USA. We have a couple in house for testing and we have NOT be able to reproduce the sound crash on them. Flip played something like 8 hours straight one day and it never crashed on him.

So, we can't reproduce the crash in house. I'm not sure what is different between the phones we have here and yours, but something must be.

Can you give us some specific details of your phone?

[Flip]

That's correct I'm afraid. This phone stubbornly refuses to break for me! Asommers sadly vetoed the "hit it with a hammer" method
Sam has the right tactic. Let's all compare notes on our Galaxy S2's and see where they differ. I'll start!

• My phone was purchased in the USA
• The only apps I've installed are SL and PL
• Settings -> About Phone:
  Model number: SPH-D710
  Android version: 2.3.4
  Kernel version: 2.6.35.7-SPH-D710.EG30-CL435734
  Build number: GINGERBREAD.EG30
  Hardware version: D710.10

Please respond with this information if you have a Galaxy S2! Does anyone else have an S2 that doesn't crash?

[Zeosar]

My phone was purchased in the Poland
Model number: GT-I9100
Android version: 2.3.3
Kernel version: 2.6.35.7-I9100XWKE7-CL215725
Build number: GINGERBREAD.XWKE7

[Flip]

Well, that one result seems to explain it. The phone sold in the US as a Galaxy S II has different hardware and software compared to the S II sold elsewhere. Our phone is newer and seemingly doesn't contain the faulty code that crashes SL/PL. Thanks for helping us figure this out Zeosar!

[Zeosar]

Can you do anything about it?

[csb]

...we have NOT be able to reproduce the sound crash on them. Flip played something like 8 hours straight one day and it never crashed on him.

Wow, nice job. Testing PL 8 hours per day on new devices. Got any job openings?

[Flip]

Can you do anything about it?

We're investigating a potential way to workaround the bug but I don't have anything solid to tell you yet.

Wow, nice job. Testing PL 8 hours per day on new devices. Got any job openings?

Yup!

[Zeosar]

We're investigating a potential way to workaround the bug but I don't have anything solid to tell you yet.

Thanks and good luck with that! I thought it could be helpful, I haven't had a single freeze when i was outside waiting for a train, it's almost winter so it's cold outside. Maybe the heat is the problem?

[iamnobody]

That's correct I'm afraid. This phone stubbornly refuses to break for me! Asommers sadly vetoed the "hit it with a hammer" method
Sam has the right tactic. Let's all compare notes on our Galaxy S2's and see where they differ. I'll start!

• My phone was purchased in the USA
• The only apps I've installed are SL and PL
• Settings -> About Phone:
  Model number: SPH-D710
  Android version: 2.3.4
  Kernel version: 2.6.35.7-SPH-D710.EG30-CL435734
  Build number: GINGERBREAD.EG30
  Hardware version: D710.10

Please respond with this information if you have a Galaxy S2! Does anyone else have an S2 that doesn't crash?

Hi

I am happy to hear that u guys finally look into the case.
But I am also so sorry to hear that your Galaxy SII (i think it was called Galaxy S2 EPIC in the net) is totally different from mine or maybe most of us which has the crash issue.
For me, I am using Galaxy SII I9100 not SPH-D710... which the hardware spec/model/phone is totally different

Anyway FYI

My Phone firstly come with ROM ver. ZSKE7 Android 2.3.3 (ZS is Asia rom) then
ZSKF1
ZSKF4
ZSKG2
Now ZSKI3 (Android 2.3.5)
Also tried XXKG3 and XXKG6 (International)

All have the crash issue.

Hope u will release work around ver. soon.

[apoceq]

So you guys respond to the S2 crashing but nothing about the droid bionic HORRID performance issues?

[Zeosar]

So you guys respond to the S2 crashing but nothing about the droid bionic HORRID performance issues?

There are only a few people working in Space Time Studio. Give them some time and I am sure that they will fix everything

[Beanstatus]

Devs the Droid Bionic is important too!! It's having problems as well

[Gazroast]

STS,
If I could test games for you from here in Canada it would be my dream job, AND I'll work for only 50K(55K w/o Benefits) a year!

Message me any time if you would like a copy of my resume!

P.S. Resume only contains boring-non-gaming jobs. I am only able to play games for (8 hours of work + 10 hours of sleep/wife/baby/driving etc that life takes) = 6 hours a day.. But I do actually play during work (Will probably get fired soon!) and cutting down to 5 hours of sleep/wife/baby/driving etc that life takes helps too!

[Zeosar]

Any news on galaxy fixes?

[Samhayne]

Any news on galaxy fixes?

Have you tried to get any updates from Samsung? Obviously, they fixed/changed stuff with their latest versions of the S 2. Can you get that for your phone?

[Zeosar]

I have just uninstalled and reinstalled this game, it still crashes.

[Gazroast]

I did a little digging on the Evo 3D and found that many users are experiencing similair issues. I would suggest you do the following if you haven't already.
1. Update your firmware by going to settings>system updates>firmware update. While your there, you might as well update everything else. Note if your rooted this could remove your root/super user permissions, in that case you will have to re-root.
2. Uninstall your application but only if you have a registered PL account.
3. Clear your Marketplace cache and data in your applications manager.
4. Finally, download and install the game from the Marketplace.
5. Restart your phone.

Try this and keep us updated. Good luck

This helped a little for my Driod, even though its not a GS2, the process should be the same.
The Firmware/Software on a phone from over seas is out-dated compared to the GS2's shipped with-in the U.S.A.
Update your phone and you should be fine.

Restarting a lot after re-installing and updating the game via the .apk files helped me too.
Restarted like 4 times LOL.

Good luck!

[Zeosar]

@up I did what you said and this happened :s









At least map is working ^^




Also it still crashes, crash pic here

[Zeosar]

I fixed the black textures by reinstalling, but it still crashes like before.