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[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
Results for SpeedMod / Phenomenal / N.E.A.K. / Siyah / RedPill / Fecality / stock kernels

Everything is specific to my phone, my "normal" usage and my home location. Most values are exact results, but some are rounded. I usually have wifi, synch (three email accounts, calendar and news), Google Talk and Skype on.

For all custom kernels, I was running on Frankenstein XWLA4 ROM (Modem: XXKL1).

For stock kernels, I was running on the corresponding stock ROM.

Always using the Samsung's standard / stock 1650mAh battery.

For Siyah, as it has many, many configurable settings, I have changed nothing - just default settings.

For N.E.A.K. I tested VR schedule, Lulzactive governor, only enabled sched_mc (and AFTR idle mode) and the rest unchanged defaults.

For RedPill kernel, I tested completely default settings (deadline / ondemand) without any change.

For RedPill (sio/conservative) kernel, I tested completely default settings, only changed io sched to sio and governor to conservative.

I have just flashed and tested ICS XXLPQ and added its results.

Here are my current results:

Benchmarks (in Performance governor if available)

Battery stats

ICS XXLPQ stock kernel is smooth on my phone, but battery savings are a little bit worse than battery life on latest GB stock kernels (such as XWLA4).

As the whole ROM is new, I think that I will test battery life on a second battery cycle.

Will post my updates, if there are significant changes.

EDIT:

Updated Antutu benchmark and Night use battery stats results for XXLPQ.

Will update the Mixed usage battery stats as soon as my tests are finished.

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If the list is empty or consists of only one element, then it is not a multi CSC.

The code to change the active CSC does only work for multi CSC files.

If you have the correct CSC file and the phone (and KIES) does not recognize it correctly, you may flash the CSC file again.

Good luck !
[Galaxy S II General] mattft86:
hi all eversince i installed 4.3 ics i can no long get a 3g signal the best i can get is

the G anyone know why
[Galaxy S II General] :
Question...anybody noticed that the car dock feature is gone (on LPQ)????

I had Google Car Dock installed, but it wasn't working any more, so I removed it (uninstall)

Now there is actually nothing appearing when I dock into the car, just the identifier in the notification bar (the steering wheel) but nothing happens.

On GB it started the voice App by default, but this is gone completely (the voice app - forgot the name of it as I never used it - remember: VLINGO)

?????
[Galaxy S II General] OGroteKoning:
Re-done everything: I restored XWKJ3. Then checked if all the links are there and yes, they were. I moved all apps to internal memory from SD. Then flashed LPQ and let install go through it's paces. First thing I did was check the store if my links are there and it was. A lot of them had to be updated so I clicked on the update link. And almost immediately all the links were gone. Back to square one ...

With the installation of LPQ I lost some apps too. But I am busy getting them restored now.

Is it possible to contact someone at the store to assist? I'm at my wit's end...

Sent from my Galaxy S II
[Galaxy S II General] Slimboball:
I had the same problem, so I logged into my market account via my laptop, all my apps were there. I changed my device nickname & saved it. Then I cleared the data from my market app on my phone, rebooted, then went into the market app, accepted the disclaimer & all my apps re appeared. Don't know if this will work for you, but the market stores all your apps even if they don't show up on your phone.
[Galaxy S II General] danieldmm:
Like i sad, here i have no problem, wifi take a litle more time to connect in compare to XWLA4 i have... But its aceptable (10seconds maximum)

Gallery e muiltimedia serarching its fast and i have about 1600 photos and also music albuns... Its minimun WIRD the problems you have...

Cheers
[Galaxy S II General] eRPeeX:
The ICS face unlock is bull****.

Face unlock was active on my SGS2. My friend took a picture of me with his cell phone and kept the picture (on his phone) above my front camera. device unlocked! :D :D :D
[Galaxy S II General] aceofclubs:
Contacts tab is now a menu option.

Currently checking to see why cpuspy is showing deep sleep as unused after a couple of hours. Must be a process running.

Edit: wipe cache and battery stats, reboot fixed deep sleep issue. I'm guessing it's to do with fuel gauge.
[Galaxy S II General] Steve_max:
Use TB to detach from Market (out simply uninstall) the AccuWeather crap from Samsung and the Gallery. That did it for me on at least three different situations.

Sent from my Nokia 3510 using Telepathy
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
Is the phone's USB or charger cable plugged in?

Charging will prevent deep sleep.

If your phone is unplugged and it does not enter deep sleep, try to wipe cache (and Dalvik cache) in recovery mode.

Good luck !

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As it is just one option, use another method to lock your phone.

PIN/Password has higher security - and can be combined with encryption.

The locking method is your choice - do not blame Google (or Samsung) for providing less secure features, if there are better options available.
[Galaxy S II General] redzion:
Question about battery:

Before upgrade (was on LA4 2.3.6) my battery last for about 10-14 hours, now it last for about 7-8 hours on same phone usage.. Does anybody has the same almost 50% battery life drop after upgrade?

I'm using 15 imap + 1 pop3 e-mail accounts, twitter, fb, g+, linkedin, skype, google talk, ms messenger and other.. all apps runing all the time.. Also I have 151 apps installed via google play and about 20 extra via black market..

So, question 2:

If I buy orginal samsung 2000mAh battery, do you think that phone would last for almost 1 day? I am heavy phone user..

tnx for answer..
[Galaxy S II General] eRPeeX:
Where can one find CSC files? Wonna get rid of the KOR CSC. :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] anuj25:
Can't install large files from market.

Package file invalid error. Wiped market data n cache.

Also wiped cache and dalvik cache.

Did a clean install.

Any suggestions? Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] hallydamaster:
It has been a long time since I last tried out a stock ROM! Now I am on LPQ, and can it really be that there is no built in flash light? Or am I missing something?
[Galaxy S II General] aceofclubs:
Thanks mate. Charger was unplugged for over 2 hours with no deep sleep.

Tried to find a rogue app/service using the usual apps, bbs etc, which was worth the effort as I found a few more services I don't need and got rid of them.

Ended up wiping cache and battery stats. Fixed it.

Now trying to reproduce it but I hope I don't.
[Galaxy S II General] nutzuTo:
try the XLPH radio it will give u more speed and battery life
[Galaxy S II General] KennyLegend:
Buying a bigger battery will certainly help but you still won't be solving what's causing your battery to drain that quickly.

You are using some of the most heaviest apps on battery there by the way. Skype, Gtalk etc. They can keep ur phone awake when idle.

Have you checked for wakelocks, deep sleep, removed Bloatware, frozen wifi sharing and wifi sharing manager etc?

That should buy you a few more hours.
[Galaxy S II General] otester:
Just get one off the market...
[Galaxy S II General] aceofclubs:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.flashlight

Telsaled is not bad.
[Galaxy S II General] A_Silva:
That was an annoying one for me and I didn't manage to ever fully fix it (had to re-flash in the end), but I read a bunch of articles and they said to also wipe "Background downloader" data and cache. Now that you're in ICS, try Disable/Enable as well. Also (dunno if you use it), remove the Backup feature and try again

Sorry I couldn't help much, but it might require a re-flash, so just try what I said prior :(
[Galaxy S II General] anuj25:
Thanks will try.

Also i would have to root again?
[Galaxy S II General] KennyLegend:
Yes unless you use Mobile Odin to flash the rom.
[Galaxy S II General] sachinaik:
Yes, 2000Mah battery is a necessity if your data connection is 3G.

On top of it Use JuiceDefender Ulitmate and disable data connection when screen is off and schedule data connection (every 30Mins or so, the value is configurable). This will save a lot of battery.
[Galaxy S II General] atifsh:
1: thats not 50% drop... if you had 14 - 16 hrs thats 50%

2: let it run for couple days so it cycles through the battery on new flash. should comeback to ur usuall

3:if u didnt full wipe, i always ask ppl to do full wipe unless they have no options... and stay away from any backups aswell.

we are talking about major OS change here not increment so we can play those games again :P
[Galaxy S II General] redzion:
Tnx for answers, now I know that there is no help for me... data connection should be alive all the time (skype, gtalk) so the only way for me is to try 2000mAh battery and we will see..

PS. If WiFi is presented I use it, but if there is no WiFi I use H+ (3G).. but internet is constantly on-line..
[Galaxy S II General] varshil:
I installed on two devices, out of which one is nt able to dwnld anything frm d market n d other 1 is able to dwnld evrything n is bug free
[Galaxy S II General] sayem_unlimited:
Hi guys,

I'm on the way to update ICS XXLPQ firmware.

Please clarify some doubts for me.

Can i use "CSC_INU_I9100ODDKF3" CSC along with the ROM?

As i'm located in India region, so which one should i download? The multi CSC version or the Poland Version??

And can i flash it using Mobile Odin Pro with ever root enabled??

I have a great friend here.. More advise will be appreciable....

Waiting for reply...
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
You can use either the Multi CSC or the XEO (Poland) version - it doesn't matter if you flash your CSC file along with it to your phone.

You can use Odin (put the ROM file into PDA and your CSC file into CSC section of Odin and flash all at once to your phone), or you can use Mobile Odin (as you do not need to flash the bootloader).

And remember to make a (nandroid) backup of your Gingerbread system before flashing.

Good luck my friend !
[Galaxy S II General] :
As a first conclusion on my switch to ICS (LPQ) on the SGSII is not as good as I hoped.

Actually, I found no real benefit of ICS, as TW is anyhow the same as before (not even anything looking new beside the google search widget)

- Charging via USB while device is on seems to be slower than draining...or at least not working always

- mediascanner is slow...actually it reports to be finalized soon, but when I then try to open galery it does not work yet, stating, mediascanner still running

- MP3 files with working mp3 tags on PC as well as on Nexus S (ICS) and that worked on SGSII (GB) not recognized any more, showing unknown interpret

- The new mediaplayer doesn't work with my iSync (good, I hope I sync adopts soon)

The only good thing is the internet browser...that is more capable than before.

Waiting for the next releases of ICS, hope they will fix the bugs soon. And I hope that from one ICS build to the next, the home screen and app drawer settings remain...had to setum my phone completely again (I did not need to do this when changing my Nexus S from GB to ICS....)

So in total from my view Samsung did not do a good job on this ICS update...
[Galaxy S II General] MaFiBoSS:
Hi :)

Where can I find XLPQ modem, for flashing with ODIN PC and not with CWM (.zip)?...

PS: just found this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1277593

Thanks...:D

EDIT: I have found: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1544487
[Galaxy S II General] BrandoHD:
Intratech, since there are going to be new firmware releases next week and a "mad rush" may ensue, seeing as some people have volunteered their services to host mirrors, are you going to give them a link to the firmware before it goes "live" for the rest of the users, just to ensure that the one link is not hammered and it takes the mirrors a few hours to come online?

It might be better to have your link and the mirrors go "live" at the same time.
[Galaxy S II General] mbevc1:
Great, well with kbd a mean keyboard :) If there is also one for Slovenian language the it really look they have combined XW and XX? Thanks for info.
[Galaxy S II General] st@r$k!:
Hi, could you check if there is Czech/Čeština language in keyboard (in both samsung keyboard and swype), I really need our special diacritic characters, thanks :)
[Galaxy S II General] awjunk:
Over all quite happy with the LPQ release. Nothing in and of itself is broken compared to LA4.

Boot up is faster. Otherwise TW and the Samsung apps are all the same.

Only niggle I've found is that the wireless notification icon stops updating (freezes). Switch off the screen and on again and it's back and functional.

Battery life is just about the same so far.

So why change. Not sure I would apart from the browser and it's newer ;)
[Galaxy S II General] gevans35:
After a day or so with LPQ XEO (Poland) version with XEU CSC, I'm reasonably happy.

Compared to my previous KL2, the GPS is much improved when driving with satnav, it now moves when the car does rather than waiting for a movement of twenty or thirty yards before responding after stopping at traffic lights. That is important to me and on it's own makes the upgrade worthwhile.

Mobile Odin routed it fine, but I needed to confirm root permissions the first time I opened any root applications.

On the minus side, it takes about ten seconds to connect to WiFi and about two seconds for the screen to come on after pressing the power button unless it's plugged into the charger.

What does concern me though is the "unknown" serial number in Phone Status, I don't know if it will ever be needed, but I like everything to be correct.
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
Look at Intratech's "Frankenstein Firmware" post => http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23064622&postcount=4

At the bottom of this post you will find some CSC files ... but not all download links are valid any more.
[Galaxy S II General] sayem_unlimited:
Thank you Sir.

Downloading the files now. Never tried CF-root method before. Pray for me :).

I've all the stuffs for rooting using CF-root. Wish me luck.
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
I'll keep my fingers crossed ;-)

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For flashing with Odin (or Mobile Odin) you just need the modem.bin file, which is in the CWM zip file.

Just extract the zip and take the modem.bin.

Maybe Odin needs the modem.bin in a tarball (tar file), which you can easily create using 7zip.

Good luck !
[Galaxy S II General] chris3lx:
Unfortunately the vlingo voice app loads when I dock my phone into car dock. I wish it wouldn't, I hate it! I'm running lpq
[Galaxy S II General] mbevc1:
No, you can just use .bin file, it works still with .zip ;)
[Galaxy S II General] MaFiBoSS:
Thanks for the explanation. :) But I used this file posted here (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1544487). :D
[Galaxy S II General] Hiisi:
I need the MultiCSC for LPQ which is OXXLPD. Anyone know where to get it? :)

Either Odin or CWM file will be helpful :)
[Galaxy S II General] shadow78:
Hi

I have a question. Is there any way to find out what was the original firmware on the phone? I installed XWLA4 on it (not the Frankie version!) the KIES sais: Your device does not support software upgrading via KIES.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Many thanks..
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
All you can do is guess Product Code Phone Provider Location and date of purchase may narrow down a stock rom .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
If you want KIES to recognize your phone, you have to find the latest stock ROM version officially released by Samsung for your phone in your region.

You can check and download by using Check Fus Downloader (from here => http://fus.nanzen.se/).

Make a backup before flashing.

Good luck !
[Galaxy S II General] danieldmm:
Note that not all roms are provided from kies or check fus, I me trying to find my stock ROM with out success, my operator are Virgin Mobile from France, if any one can tell me the original firmware i appreciate that, only thing I remember it is one ROM 2.3.4, also the phone are blocked to Virgin France, it's a wite version.

Cheers

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[Galaxy S II General] shadow78:
Thx for the replys.. All I found out that its a UK version provided by vodafone. But i couldnt find any simlock on the phone. So Im not sure what was the original firmware.

Thx anyway I think ill keep using Odin for flash..
[Galaxy S II General] delicious docsy:
heyho

Hey people, looking to debrand my SG2 (Orange UK) and load either the stock latest gingerbread or new ICS.

i've no issues with debranding, just finding the actual files i need to flash is proving to be the worst part of the process. i don't need a how-to just the files that i'd need to flash, would be greatly appreciated for any help on that front.

phone details:

pda: i9100pbvki3

phone: i9100pbvki2

csc: i9100poraki3

currently running 2.3.4 which is pissing me off as my desires running a 2.3.6!
[Galaxy S II General] akbarhash:
Do you think it'll be a good idea to start a bugs present in official ICS thread. Do you think Samsung would notice it.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] aceofclubs:
I don't think Samsung give a rat's arse about what's on xda. Some of their employees might see and try to reproduce in their own test lab but thats even a long shot imo.

Samsung will be testing and fixing and releasing updates for a while yet. Once Samsung release source code the xda community will fix what's needed.
[Galaxy S II General] sun-drop:
I900 OZSLPE

guys is this ICS with Asian language support?
[Galaxy S II General] :
Thats interesting...on my phone I do not find vlingo at all any more.
[Galaxy S II General] BrandoHD:
You need to do a full wipe/factory reset of your device, you would find a few other apps missing also.

Do you have Polaris Office, Swipe as an example?
[Galaxy S II General] :
Actually none of them are on my phone. Could this be because of the CSC file I'm using? I use the Freight.at CSC and not the one from the package.

I hate to do full wipe....everything from scratch....brrrrr
[Galaxy S II General] BrandoHD:
As far as I know, it's the only way, the apps are there but somehow they were not installed during the upgrade and I don't know if it has to do with the CSC, I observed that some apps were missing from my device so I went ahead and did the reset with a stock kernel.

When the device rebooted, there was a dialogue stating "Installing Applications" those I mentioned above and others like photo-editor were then installed, took about 3-5 minutes and the apps were now there when I checked

I can't explain it, maybe someone with the necessary expertise can shed some light on the situation
[Galaxy S II General] awjunk:
Exchange Email connection error: Unable to Connect in ICS 4.0.3

OK - in an update to my last post. I've reverted back to LA4 due to a couple of critical bugs (for me).

Firstly, when enabling/disabling the wireless the icon/switch froze graphically. When going into Wireless settings the on/off switch is greyed out and frozen. A reboot is the only way to fix.

Secondly, although internet access is ok and Hotmail and Gmail are syncing ok. I receive an intermittent "Unable to Connect <account>" error when trying to sync Exchange email. This appears to be a known bug: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=25315

Back to LA4 until the next round of releases come around. (Big thanks to CWM backups :) )

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Think a bug thread would be a great idea. At least we can keep problems in a single thread and much easier to search through as well for other XDA folks.
[Galaxy S II General] Aspi914:
Here's a bug for you.

Have installed XXLPQ Android 4.0.3 [XEO (Poland) Also has CSC (CPW, DBT, ITV, KOR, XEF, XEU)].

Tried to switch the phone to flight mode using side button - but got no logo nor data disabled.

Went into settings to see if I could effect it manually - and according to settings flight mode is ON !!! Phone is still active as far as phone and data is concerned.

So now I try to disable flight mode in settings, but it won't turn off - every time I "untick the box". leave the network screen, and then return to manual flight mode settings it turns itself back on??? [note that it seems to be affecting my phone].

Wondering if anyone else has encountered this - I did search the thread but nothing that relates to ICS.

No problem now - but will be when I fly on Tuesday.
[Galaxy S II General] SirRomie:
So I installed the new ics build kpq and did a full wipe. My apps were restored but for some reason when it reinstalled minimalistic text the data remained and clearing data has no effect. The problem is that if I restore the saved data that I had on gb then it crashes my phone and puts it into a loop of crashing my launcher. Anyone else use minimalistic text?
[Galaxy S II General] sayem_unlimited:
Updated to ICS. Samsung made it crap. Why same old look, same Touchwhiz, and this time taken out voice assistance and swype. Now how to live without Swype??

Have to get them form market now....uuggh!!!!:(
[Galaxy S II General] chris3lx:
I did a full wipe and restore. Voice talk is installed, as is polaris and swype. My csc is xeu.
[Galaxy S II General] chris3lx:
I'm experiencing this problem when connecting to exchange email. It syncs some of my email but not all. Really annoying as I need my work email on my phone, has made me install trial of Moxier Mail which is really good.
[Galaxy S II General] ROHIT345:
Both Swype and voice assistance are present in the new build..this release is crap for sure ...that's a separate matter..

I had the same problem when I flashed without doing a factory data reset some 6-7 apps didn't get installed did a full wipe and flashed again got the apps...maybe some expert can explain why...csc related??? I was on country code INU CSC DDKL1 when it didn't install the apps....
[Galaxy S II General] drelite08:
Whens this UK build hitting then?
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
Flight mode is working fine on my phone using the same ICS version.

Have you already tried to wipe cache (and Dalvik cache) in recovery?

If that does not help, have you done a factory reset?

Maybe you will have to re-flash the ROM again.

Good luck !

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Try to flash another kernel.

As there are not much ICS kernels, just use latest CF-Root kernel from Chainfire.

The "propper" one fixed this exchange account issue for some users.

Maybe it can fix this issue on your phone too.
[Galaxy S II General] :
Thanks for feedback.

Anyone out the having an idea if the mentioned "installing of applications" can be initiated manually without wiping / factory reset?

Maybe there is anything that can be started ...something like on PC a sitting or so....maybe the install process can be initiated ....
[Galaxy S II General] jenskristian:
March 19th.
[Galaxy S II General] danieldmm:
This apps are in hidden partition, you should notice when flashed with ODIN, WIPE data, cache and dalvik, this will force to reinstall the hidden partition assuming that ODIN flashed this partition.

Cheers

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