Originally Posted by phamilyman (Post 2887107)

Athani bhai,

This is thelink: Motorola Defy – xda-developers

Originally Posted by coolclouds (Post 2887372)

Can anyone please help me how to transfer contacts from BB 8900 to Samsung Note?

Edit: Note users, what is the battery back up you get for medium use? any ways to increase backup? It feel like the batter drains faster than my old Tab. (Its in stock condition)

Originally Posted by phamilyman (Post 2886507)

noooooooooooooooooooo.
Unless you know the dealer personally, this can be a darned pain. Buy the Indian version if you must. Warranty = peace of mind.

Originally Posted by rajanprash (Post 2886675)

Sir, you could have considered the Sony Xperia S as well. It is available for 27k with warranty. It would have checked all the right boxes.

Originally Posted by Athani (Post 2886777)

Sirji, he already bought. Let him enjoy now :-)

Originally Posted by Athani (Post 2887358)

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Originally Posted by nishantgandhi (Post 2887397)

In fact Athani, just to put to rest your doubts on locked bootloader of Motorola, here's a rather lucid explanation from the XDA forums:

LOCKED Bootloader, what does this means?
For some people is hell, for others (normally non advanced users) is a pretty cool insurance for their phone. This locked Bootloader thing means there is no (so far) way to rewrite the Stock Bootloader or the Stock Recovery.

When the phone turns on the Bootloader basically starts all the hardware and make your phone come alive.

Then we have the Stock Recovery, this little part of your phone is also locked and cannot be removed or changed from your phone, it will allow you to make Recovery stuff like Full Wipe (Data and Cache) and install Update.zip files.

At first this became a problem, because with a locked Bootloader there is no way to install a Custom Recovery like ClockworkMod or install a new Rom.

Here is where 2nd Init comes to play, this little awesome app kicks in right after the Bootloader and allows the Defy to load a different, non-Stock Android. With this, you can also install a Custom Recovery, which runs from the Internal Memory, and is not ran from the Recovery Partition (remember: locked, not accessible)

What does this means? That even screwing up your phone, deleting all your stuff, or screwing /system partition the phone can still get into Recovery, be recognized by RSD Lite in Bootloader Mode and be flashed with a Stock or modified Rom and it will come back to life normally.

Source: [GUIDE] All-in-One Defy Beginner's guide - xda-developers

Originally Posted by chevelle (Post 2886984)

Just like Galaxy Note 10.1, this will have a plethora of S-Pen friendly app. I am sure the display will be just as good as previous one even though it has a little less resolution.

I wonder why 2GB of RAM is not needed? Is will make everything more fluent and with JB's 60fps, it will be much better. Also those 2GB will definitely be useful when multitasking using S-Pen.

Originally Posted by Athani (Post 2887421)

2 init does not appear to work on all phones. And there's still the problem of flashing unsigned kernels.

Anyway, we were advising a friend here who was about to buy a phone. I see no compelling reason why anyone should buy a phone with an unlock able bootloader against one which can be unlocked. Hence, the advice to him.

Originally Posted by Nicky (Post 2887387)

3. activate contacts sync with gmail

Originally Posted by nishantgandhi (Post 2887446)

Let me rephrase - what are you trying to achieve by unlocking the bootloader anyway?

Rooting can be done irrespective of the status of the bootloader.

At the end, you will flash a custom ROM only na? If that can be done within the safe confines of a locked bootloader (if you read the highlighted text above, you will realize why I'm calling it safe), then why do you want to unlock it? Beats me.

The purpose of Android is to have maximum flexibility in modding the phone, while mitigating the possibilities of bricking it. Which means a locked BL is better. It protects your original ROM under all circumstances.

EDIT - On which model(s) does 2nd-init does not work? From whatever I researched, that's the ONLY proven method.

Originally Posted by coolclouds (Post 2887468)

Thank you so much.

I have my gmail account configured in BB but couldn't find the correct menu option to perform Contact Sync. Can you please let me know how to do above step in detail?

Originally Posted by roy_libran (Post 2886484)

Thanks to all for helping me out with making a decision on my next phone.

To bring closure to my question here, I should update that I have just placed an order for HTC One S, for 25K INR.
Finally it came down to a shootout between S2 and HOS, and after much deliberation, I decided to spend a couple of thousand bucks more and go for the more modern phone.

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