Android 4.0 update

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I am unsure what you mean by the first portion: are you saying that it has two files for every song? One being the actual song which plays and the other being some sort of empty container file? I don't know the answer to your question either way (I have not had this issue), but I was just trying to clairify in case someone else has an answer.

As far as the text part, try a different keyboard (not trying to get you to switch if you are otherwise happy, just trying to isolate if the problem is indeed the keyboard, or something deeper).

To your first part, yes. Track listing is: Song 1. Song 1. Song 2. Song 2, etc.

iirc, it's happened with both keyboards i've tried. Currently happening with swype ND I believe it did it with the stock one.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I had this happen on a Captivate. It cleared up when I installed Player Pro. Great music app, btw.

Thanks. I'll check it out.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Damn. That looked like a cool app but it's still duplicating.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Is there a way I can delete the database and restore it?

[resistanze]

+1 for PlayerPro, the one music player I use.

I've had that weird duplication thing happen to me when installing a new ROM without wiping, but I think unmounting sdcard/rebooting fixed it.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

This may be helpful. I don't use that Kies deal to put music on my phone. I just drag it to my SD card and that's it, but I never had this problem before this ICS update.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

+1 for PlayerPro, the one music player I use.

I've had that weird duplication thing happen to me when installing a new ROM without wiping, but I think unmounting sdcard/rebooting fixed it.

I did that but it just worked temporarily.

[resistanze]

This might work for you, I think I have done this once.
Settings --> Apps (All Tab) --> Media Storage ---> Force Stop then Clear Data

Then reboot.

[leemajors]

Samsung's next Galaxy reveal - Aug 15:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/20/samsung-next-galaxy/

[Viva Las Espuelas]

This might work for you, I think I have done this once.
Settings --> Apps (All Tab) --> Media Storage ---> Force Stop then Clear Data

Then reboot.

Thanks. Looks like it worked, for now. I see that clearing databases is what clear days does. Should stick. If not, i'll be back to yell at you

[TeyshaBlue]

This might work for you, I think I have done this once.
Settings --> Apps (All Tab) --> Media Storage ---> Force Stop then Clear Data

Then reboot.

Great tip.

That clears the data and then lets media scanner repopulate with a clean scan.

[resistanze]

No problem. Sometimes the old scan is retained with the new scan from the upgrade. I remember banging my head over this for a week

[Viva Las Espuelas]

We're talking about launchers for the Home Screen/Application drawer. You can download custom ones that handle your apps, widgets, dock apps, gesture controls, scrolling etc. in customizable ways.

you can check them out at Play store:

Apex Laucher

Nova Launcher

ADWLauncher

Ok. I'm currently using apex and kinda dig it. Haven't really done any serious tweaking. Just little stuff here and there and i'm liking it. Only beef so far is there's no badges on my messaging icon to show that I have new texts. It's up in my notifications but not on it's' icon. Is that a tradeoff in all these third party launchers?

[resistanze]

Ok. I'm currently using apex and kinda dig it. Haven't really done any serious tweaking. Just little stuff here and there and i'm liking it. Only beef so far is there's no badges on my messaging icon to show that I have new texts. It's up in my notifications but not on it's' icon. Is that a tradeoff in all these third party launchers?

Yeah, for some reason many launchers don't have the notification badge (I believe the LG launcher does). Apex launcher PRO has the badges, but of course it costs money.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Ah, cool. I may splurge then

[anakha]

Ok. I'm currently using apex and kinda dig it. Haven't really done any serious tweaking. Just little stuff here and there and i'm liking it. Only beef so far is there's no badges on my messaging icon to show that I have new texts. It's up in my notifications but not on it's' icon. Is that a tradeoff in all these third party launchers?

Before you splurge on the paid version of Apex, you might also wanna consider Nova Launcher and its unread texts/messages addon, TeslaUnread. Both are free, so it can't hurt to try them out before dropping money elsewhere.

[Creepn]

Ok. I'm currently using apex and kinda dig it. Haven't really done any serious tweaking. Just little stuff here and there and i'm liking it. Only beef so far is there's no badges on my messaging icon to show that I have new texts. It's up in my notifications but not on it's' icon. Is that a tradeoff in all these third party launchers?

Go Launcher EX. Free notification addons and lots of other stuff.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

That music horse is happening again. Now all my tunes are in triplicate.

[Drachen]

So I have read a lot recently about how samsung or sprint ed up the ICS upgrade for the s2. Someone called sprint who said that they are waiting for a patch from samsung.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

We'll i'm with att and I have a skyrocket, which I believe is an S2 with LTE capabilities.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Also i'm not sensing the better RAM management in ICS. Not a day goes by where I have to wait for my phone to catch up with what i'm doing. Stuff I never got frozen up on in gingerbread.

[Drachen]

That sucks, I am sorry to hear that since I am using a completely unofficial ICS port on my Evo 3d (there is no official ICS yet, and no source code) and it is substantially smoother than gingerbread. Maybe contact ATT about it. I am not sure what they can do, but if there are enough complaints, maybe something happens.

edit: my only other advice would, of course, be to root it and use a custom ROM, but I am not up on the various roms for the s2.

[Phillip]

everyone having issues with their S2 on the ICS update... truth is, you will never reach the potential your phone has until you root your phone and put a new mod on it

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Hmmm. Sounds I wonder if they'll give me a new phone if I enough. I've had text issues with this phone and had to send it to their shop once. I was never really convinced that what they did corrected my problem.

[leemajors]

everyone having issues with their S2 on the ICS update... truth is, you will never reach the potential your phone has until you root your phone and put a new mod on it

yeah, but if you have to wait the better part of a year for an update it should work. sorry job by at&t. Viva, you should also request credit from AT&T.