Want to enjoy real Google Android phone experience like Samsung Galaxy Nexus? Clean Blank ROM (CBR) for Samsung Galaxy S II is the one that you should try. Clean Blank ROM is a user build, OEM-like Nexus system for Samsung Galaxy S2. It is loaded with full Google applications just like Galaxy Nexus. ODEXED (faster, less ram and data consumed), OptiPNG and zipaligned. Of course, it is rooted by default. And using CM Kernel. Finally, it has OTA Updater app to ease future update.
CyanogenMod 7.1 is out. CyanogenMod is an aftermarket firmware based on open-source Android operating system. It is a light and fast Android ROM for my HTC HD2. If you want the latest Android version, CM is the one that you want to get. There are stable mod, experimental mod and nightly build for you to play with. And good news for Samsung Galaxy S II users because official CyanogenMod support for the Samsung Galaxy S II was added in CyanogenMod 7.1.
I love Samsung Galaxy S II Super AMOLED Plus screen. The black is really black. I always want to turn my phone into a LED night clock. Samsung Galaxy S2 can perform this task perfectly because I don’t see backlight in black colour like my other Android phone HTC HD2 which use normal LCD screen. However, it is not advisable to turn on AMOLED screen all the night because it will reduce its lifespan. Anyway, here is the top free Android night clock for Samsung Galaxy S2.
Chainfire3D allows you to play Tegra, Snapdragon & PowerVR games on Samsung Galaxy S II with ARM Mali-400 MP GPU. However, by installing Chainfire3D itself does not allow you to play these games yet. Additional plugins are required to install before Chainfire3D can perform the task. Besides, you need to root Samsung Galaxy S2 first in order to use Chainfire3D. Not a simple task for beginner, so I created a step by step guide to install Chainfire3D on Samsung Galaxy S2.
Prerequisites
First of all, please get your Samsung Galaxy S2 rooted. Please follow this guide to do so – How to root Samsung Galaxy S2 with CF-Root? (Video). And make a full system backup before install Chainfire3D for just in case – How to backup Samsung Galaxy S2 with ClockworkMod Recovery? (Video). Nothing should go wrong, but no harm to make backup, right?
