yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
Have you already tried to wipe cache partition (and Dalvik cache) in recovery mode?

Maybe it helps before re-flashing the kernel.

Good luck !
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
SEARCH you may find other O2 GB firmware that has been posted starting with the early version for O2 of KDD firmware from the branded /providers roms post .

Sometimes that new Android tool Google can even find it .

STOP PRESS

Just found my old KDD O2 original firmware .

http://www.multiupload.co.uk/LSLRGURR57

jje
[Galaxy S II General] IWillExplain:
or you can use our site http://samsung-updates.com/

every firmware really fast download + torrents + separate modem / kernel packages

no password / no registration, enjoy!
[Galaxy S II General] pawmadsen:
Nice site but cant download from phone.
[Galaxy S II General] Shahrokh.KING:
hello, thanks for the frankenstein firmwares

i'm using XWLP8 & i'm looking forward for XWLP9 frankenstein

u gonna make that?

ynx
[Galaxy S II General] GDF01:
Read Intratech's post on previous page.
[Galaxy S II General] nitinvaid:
i need a indian firmware with 4 files including pit

like csc,modem,pda ,etc

please which one to download
[Galaxy S II General] jonny_ftm:
Any people on LP8 and having the wifi sleep of death issue

This bug is present till LP7, was it fixed?
[Galaxy S II General] :
Still present on my phones lb8. I switched to sperdmod k3-16 kernel today what is said to fix it, but I'm not running it long enough to confirm.
[Galaxy S II General] jonny_ftm:
This is making me think to be back to GB

These reboots are really making ICS expierience a mess
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
What reboots? Running Frankenstein LP8 + Siyha kernel and it's perfect here.
[Galaxy S II General] nio_insane:
No problems here. Remember always wipe cache and do a fact reset then flash new room. Use TB for backup heavy apps.

Sent from my Home using a Pidgey
[Galaxy S II General] jonny_ftm:
Well, since some people reported it present on LP8, I assume it's not fixed

Of course, I wipe, hard reset, clean install...

Look at the "wifi sleep of death" issue to guess what I'm talking about

People affected are also on speedmod and Siyha kernel, all ICS builds affected for now

Some are not affected, you're lucky
[Galaxy S II General] GDF01:
I had it happen once right after flashing LP8 (I did wipe) but it has never happened again and all is running fine and smooth.
[Galaxy S II General] nitinvaid:
any one

Europe firmware will also work please tell me which one to download
[Galaxy S II General] redzion:
After flash LP8 and make full wipe must say.. This rom has no fc, very stable, fast and no problem with wifi.. No problem at all.. Once per time full wipe is recomended..
[Galaxy S II General] LenAsh:
Use Sammobile - all the files for Odin flashing are there...

http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&t=1&o=1&m=GT-I9100&r=1#regiona
[Galaxy S II General] ICUDeadNow:
I was trying to download GT-I9100_INU_I9100XWKF3_I9100DDKE4_I9100ODDKF3.exe stock rom but is showing that it has been deleted from all sites,some one help me :(
[Galaxy S II General] myname70:
ICS and HD Voice

Does anyone could managed to activate the HD Voice in ICS? I tried all UCS versions, including several CSC (the lastest one is XWLP8 and XEO CSC), but the WD Audio option is still OFF and cannot be switched ON. I tried:

*#*#197328640#*#* from the phone dial, then select 5-Audio then 7-WB-AMR, and while pushing it to change to ON, it simply doesnot chnage it. Still OFF.

Please check your setings and advise.

P.S. It worked with GB
[Galaxy S II General] camspy:
I didn't find any Firmware with ICS 4.0.x for my specs:

PDA: L9100XWKI4

PHONE: L9100XXKI4

CSC: L9100DBTKH1

Any idea which ICS 4.0.x firmware should I download and flash?
[Galaxy S II General] nio_insane:
Any ICS rom will work. Use LP8!:thumbup:

Just remenber do a nandroidbackup and then do a full wipe and run kernel cleaner.

Sent from my Home using a Pidgey
[Galaxy S II General] T__:
You're guide is so simple to follow, I salute you!

Fogot how ugly stock is tho, so I think I will go back to custom.

But you really made my first experience with Odin easy.
[Galaxy S II General] camspy:
Do you mean any ICS firmware will work?
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
Look at the first post.

There is a list of the first two characters of the firmware versions and its contained languages.

If the language you need is included in XX and XW versions, then you can flash any XX or XW ROM.

And you can combine the ROM (PDA section of Odin) with another modem file (in Phone section of Odin) and CSC file (in CSC section of Odin) ... and flash all at once to your phone.

Only if you want KIES to recognize your phone, you should flash the latest ROM (and CSC) officially released by Samsung for your region.
[Galaxy S II General] nio_insane:
This ^^.

Sent from my Home using a Pidgey
[Galaxy S II General] sdoc96:
Was loving XWLP7 (DBT) in every way, until I tried to save a static IP.

Even after hard reset and following several guides, could not get the IP to save. It just reverts back to some other 192.*.*.* number. It's a dealbreaker for me, but other than this (and the WiFi freeze, which I could deal with) I really liked my first ICS experience.

Hopefully they fix it in the next release.
[Galaxy S II General] Shahrokh.KING:
LP9 problem is for its kernel, i installed CF-root LP9 on my LP8 rom, it has that sleep problem, so the rom is fine the kernel is messed up, no chance for LP9 frankenstein?
[Galaxy S II General] d3l1:
Wifi freeze is a stock kernel issue, siyah is said to have it fixed with the newest wifi drivers.
[Galaxy S II General] d3l1:
XWLP7 DBT is the next in line for your current Rom.
[Galaxy S II General] huskysdg:
I'm in XWLP8 and I also do have those ugly reboots (one or two everyday) I didn't have in xwlp2 and xwlp3...

In addition the wifi problem seems to be decreased (but not completely dissapeared)
[Galaxy S II General] bernard134:
No such issue being encounter. I flash from deodexed custom checkROM v6 running XWLA4 Gingerbread v2.3.6 with ICS Domination theme v2.0.3 straight away flash to ICS stock odexed XWLP8 (non-wipe) from Intratech then flash ICS Domination Theme v4.2 and siyah ICS kernel v3.1.2. I didn't even wipe or factory reset anything, all data/personal stuffs/games all intact. No reboot encounter!
[Galaxy S II General] bernard134:
Didn't you read pages infront? Intratech will NOT release the XWLP9 rom due to a critical bug causing many reports of SOD.
[Galaxy S II General] freakyfingers:
Flashed Official Europe ICS on an XSG Samsung Galaxy S II and want to go back to GB

Hello Group,

Maybe this is unusual, but I would like to go flashback to GB on my Samsung Galaxy SII.

I know that my phone Sales Code "WAS" XSG (middle east, united arab emirates). I said was because after I flashed my phone with the official ICS, the internet browser was not working, so I changed the Sales Code to something in Europe and after that was working (after a factory wipe as well).

Now, I'll like to go back because there are no chances to update further the firmware via Kies anymore... my phone is not recognized by Kies...

Im desperately looking for a XSG stock GB firmare, so my Kies will start to recognize my phone again.
[Galaxy S II General] huskysdg:
Anyone knows what's the "critical bug" in XWLP9 that Intratech is talking about?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] pawmadsen:
you do know that the kies updates are not "better" they are the same, but you will have to wait a long time in between each update. if you are on ICS now and you want to downgrade just to upgrade.. ? does not compute in my head.

just my 2 cents, but you are welcome to do it anyway. just a lot of work for nothing. (except going backwards)
[Galaxy S II General] huskysdg:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&t=1&o=1&m=GT-i9100&r=7#regiona
[Galaxy S II General] Rinoko72:
Dose anyone care.. ;)

I've not seen him post anything like that before, so that's enough for me to not touch LP9 with a 10ft barge pole.. :)

Sent from my S2
[Galaxy S II General] ancilary:
can any one give me official firmware download link to XWKF3 or XWKL1

all links are dead in above post please help
[Galaxy S II General] yugisop:
You can find xwkf3 here www.androidfirmwares.net. Click the firmware tab n scroll to almost the bottom.
[Galaxy S II General] CommanderThor:
Hi, every single arhive i tried to download will not extract. It says unsupported compress method. Which means it is unsupported, or more probably corrupted.

Is there any chance all files are corrupted, or WTF rly. I tried also downloading from another site, same thing. There is supposed to be some password i am never asked to type it, when i click extract, tried both RAR and 7ZIP.

Oh i noticed all files from intratech are the one not working(androidfirmwares.net also has intratech). Older files are all working(mostly megaupload based)
[Galaxy S II General] mbevc1:
Try upgrading your 7zip (or other favorite sw), every archive I tried worked just fine. ;)
[Galaxy S II General] redzion:
Was on LP9 rom.. Pronlem was that when screen goes off you could not wake up device unless you put battery out and back in and power on device again, until next screen off and you repeat the whole step again, again and again...
[Galaxy S II General] shaq1907:
LP9 has sleep of death problem. Use another kernel.
[Galaxy S II General] bammert:
Is there a way to flash an official samsung rom trough cwm?
[Galaxy S II General] damirbusic:
Now I have XWKJ3 which has Croatian language, what is the latest ICS original firmware here that I need to flash in order to have 4.0.3 and Croatian language ?

Tnx a lot
[Galaxy S II General] pawmadsen:
If i am not mistaken you can flash all firmwares that starts with XW*** like XWLP8 try to backup you current rom with cwm and then flash the frankenstein lp8. Its quite good. You can check if all the stuff you need is there, if not, you just restore the backup
[Galaxy S II General] redzion:
This post was just reply to huskysdg question.. I am in LP8 which works fine..
[Galaxy S II General] damirbusic:
Sorry, but what is this frankenstein ROM ? Some custom s..t or original Samsung ? I dont want any custom ROMs because I dont have the time or the nerves to lose on zillion bugs.

Tnx
[Galaxy S II General] pawmadsen:
frankenstein means that intratech took a modem, a csc and the firmware from different packages. normally to get rid of the bloat that carriers put in the roms, all the parts are still original samsung, but mixed to get the newest version and no bloat.
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
Is there going to be Frankenstein version for the new LP9 released today?

I'd love to see other languages on it if possible.
[Galaxy S II General] drelite08:
+1
[Galaxy S II General] bernard134:
Waiting for Intratech to update Singapore ICS for S2 - DXLP9 v4.0.3
[Galaxy S II General] shagunkari:
Did you try this on a PC or on an Android smartphone? I had the exact same problem but on my android phone only. Went on trying many archiving tools and file managers from the play store until I found ZArchiver that worked. I flashed the thus extracted firmware (LPS) using Mobile Odin and it is running great.
[Galaxy S II General] freakyfingers:
I just wanted to stop hunting for leaked firmwares to update my ICS, preferring Kies to do it for me. What if there's no more official leaks?
[Galaxy S II General] rizdroid:
Are you from/in Venezuela? If so, you want VNO.

Anyways, you can download XSG, TTT (which has VNO in it) or VNO directly from Samsung FUS - Firmware Update Server: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24990413&postcount=4779

If your PCode (*2767*4387264636#) won't change after flashing, use *#272*your IMEI# and select the CSC you want (

this will wipe

). You're done! I mean, Kies will recognize your SGS2 again.

Hope this helps. Cheers
[Galaxy S II General] hello_dbm:
Battery Backup

I am running on Stock ICS LP3 with LP8 modem with all Samsung bloatwares removed and very little mods. Still I do not get more than 6-8 hours of backup. Something is terribly wrong with my S2. However, my calling is huge and I do around 3-4 hours of talktime in a day, but still I believe my phone's battery should not die away before reaching home in the evening. Please help me!!

Thanks in advance and warm Regards,

Amit Daga
[Galaxy S II General] doongoo:
did you already try a factory reset, if it solves the problem
[Galaxy S II General] MaheshSolanki:
I am unable to unzip the file and input the password as it does not ask me for the password hence unable to use the stock rom, can you please help.
[Galaxy S II General] morg01:
Just use 7-zip

http://www.7-zip.org/
[Galaxy S II General] arthurd123:
Will try Frankenstein XWLP8 do I need re-root my phone I have rooted the phone using CF-Root v5.4 LP7 ???
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
After flashing the XWLP8 ROM using Odin, you will have stock kernel - un-rooted.

So, yes ... you will have to root your phone again.

I recommend to flash the XWLP8 ROM with Odin.

Then flash CF-Root kernel for XWLP8 to root your phone.

Then use TriangleAway app to remove the yellow triangle and reset the counter.

Create a nandroid backup with CWM Manager app before flashing, so you can restore this system in case of an emergency ;-)

Good luck !

EDIT: There is another way of flashing a new stock ROM without re-rooting it. Search for Mobile Odin app. The paid version from Google Play store has EverRoot option to keep root even after flashing a new stock ROM.
[Galaxy S II General] Codename_Falcon:
Can we get the North American UGLD3 ROM? It is being pushed by Bell via Kies.
[Galaxy S II General] MaheshSolanki:
Please Please Help

Can someone please help. I just had my phone returned from Samsung after it was repaired and they installed the stock rom on it. I then rooted it to install the ICS rom and all was fine. Then I made the fatal mistake by installing the stock kernal meant for Galaxy Note to remove the yellow triangle. A very silly mistake. Now I am unable to get into download or clockwork mode to reinstall the correct kernal, however I am still able to boot into the rom after having a blank screen.Once booted the phone works fine. Any suggestion how I can get this phone working properly by installing the correct kernal.
[Galaxy S II General] SaneinOne:
It's here http://www.samfirmware.com/
[Galaxy S II General] Codename_Falcon:
I am looking for the ROM with old bootloader to reset binary counter.
[Galaxy S II General] SaneinOne:
Old bootloader available in Intratech's thread.
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
Oh oh ... very bad !

If you can't boot into download or recovery mode, you have a real problem.

You can try to restore a backup with Kies ... emergency backup ... but I don't know if this will work.

Boot your phone normally, attach the phone with USB cable to your PC and start Kies software.

Then check the options that Kies is giving you.

If you are lucky, there is an option for restoring a backup or flashing a stock firmware.

Good luck !
[Galaxy S II General] :
If you are still rooted you can try Mobile Odin to change to a different kernel.
[Galaxy S II General] d3l1:
Mobile odin or cwm app can flash from within the rom. If that doesnt work you might be screwed. :(
[Galaxy S II General] aceofclubs:
Try using a USB jig to see if you can get into download mode that way.

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GTI9100 LP8
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
Hey Intratech, are you planning on releasing a Frankenstein version of the new LP9?

SOD issue seems to have been resolved and we need a pack with other languages on this version too.
[Galaxy S II General] Dheano:
I have no idea what I'm doing.

I was running the official ICS update for T-Mobile UK and I tried to install an insecure kernel. I am stuck at the Yellow ! screen. I have since installed the XWKF3 original from this thread, and now the device is stuck on the SGS2 boot screen but obviously without the yellow !.

Any help here is appreciated, I understand how to do all of this, I'm just unsure of which Kernel is for me!
[Galaxy S II General] MaheshSolanki:
Please explain how do i use mobile odin and where can I get that from
[Galaxy S II General] aceofclubs:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1347899

Both answers here.

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GTI9100 LP8
[Galaxy S II General] arthurd123:
Which root do you recommend?
[Galaxy S II General] MaheshSolanki:
Hi All, many thanks for all your suggestions and advise, I managed to get the phone reset to factory stock rom and now I will reroot it. Apparently the phone was going into download mode but only the screen was blank. Many thanks once again.
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
I already wrote what I recommend: CF-Root kernel for your ROM.

So for XWLP8 ROM use "CF-Root-SGS2_XW_XSA_LP8-v5.4-CWM5.zip" from Chainfire's CF-Root thread.
[Galaxy S II General] arthurd123:
Apologies for being a pain! Not very clued up on the rooting business I'm afraid.
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
I recommend to flash the whole ROM again - not only a kernel.

Try XWLP8 Frankenstein ROM (post #4), which is very stable, fast and has good battery life.

It contains your language and has already an ICS CSC file with XEU.

If you want to root it after flashing the ROM, then just use CF-Root kernel (CF-Root-SGS2_XW_XSA_LP8-v5.4-CWM5.zip) from Chainfire's CF-Root thread.

To get rid of the yellow triangle and to reset the binary counter, just use TriangleAway app, which is from Chainfire too.

Good luck !
[Galaxy S II General] xlmohi:
right Firmware suggestion

Please anyone can help me to chose right firmware for model code GT-I9100RWAXSG, because I having heating issue with other firmwares.
[Galaxy S II General] cinciopillo:
I've the same problem with LP7.

Often my Galaxy S2 is unable to turn on WiFi (it stays in a middle status, neither ON or OFF).

In this case, the only way to have WiFi ON is reboot it.

Then WiFi is ON and working.

Did someone found a workaround or a solution?
[Galaxy S II General] Beowulf_pt:
+1 for the problem of the Wifi state being stuck in an intermediate On/Off toggle.

I wiped/flashed/rooted LP7 with Mobile Odin Pro and have been happy in general, but the wifi problem is new to me. Sometimes I have Tasker shutting off Wifi (or I shut it off myself manually) and when turning it back on it gets stuck. Not critical, but still annoying...
[Galaxy S II General] CommanderThor:
Originally Posted by CommanderThor

Hi, every single arhive i tried to download will not extract. It says unsupported compress method. Which means it is unsupported, or more probably corrupted.

Is there any chance all files are corrupted, or WTF rly. I tried also downloading from another site, same thing. There is supposed to be some password i am never asked to type it, when i click extract, tried both RAR and 7ZIP.

Oh i noticed all files from intratech are the one not working(androidfirmwares.net also has intratech). Older files are all working(mostly megaupload based)

Ok, figured it out. Yes it does work with ZArchiver, it also work with latest 9.2 7Zip.

But it DOES NOT work with LATEST Slovenian 7-zip, which is sadly 4.62, i had to install the international. I rly had no idea the slovenian version is laging i just clicked what link google gave me...

I dont know who should i be angry on, firstly on mainteiners of 7zip naturaly and secondly on intratech WHY use such new compression method. It brings us lots of lost time, what does it bring so much to you?

Ah.... Maybe update the first post with exact 7zip version... Hours damm it...
[Galaxy S II General] flogger:
On Intratech?????!!!!????

Everybody is always complaining of something, I don't understand.

First he does a great job helping everyone the best he can and giving up on his own time to do it, so you should be thankful.

And about the 7zip, I don't understand why such fuss even if the last version. Hundreds of posts says exactly that along this thread. People just have to read first.....
[Galaxy S II General] shaq1907:
Try another modem. LP6 modem fixed it for me.
[Galaxy S II General] Slimboball:
You may find this thread useful: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1108499
[Galaxy S II General] Techno_Astra:
Now, Galaxy SIII is out, so can we expect more 4.0.3 improvements or, as a hope, 4.0.4 for our SII?
[Galaxy S II General] MeX_DK:
Dont know. I at least have joined the row of people looking to upgrade. I will get my SGS3 the second the 64 Gig version becomes available.
[Galaxy S II General] shaq1907:
Sammobile tweeted last week that samsung is busy with 4.0.4 on galaxy s2.
[Galaxy S II General] sopskysalat:
Hi Forumer,

May I know how do I revert back to gingerbread after upgrading to ICS due to the need for instant keyboard switch function during input which apparently ICS doesn't allow now.

I downloaded 2.3.6 rom and flash it via odin. Flash was successful and during startup, when I click on the green android icon to start the guided setup, it will crash, giving error message and stays on the same step without going to the next step. I am wondering if this is due to error in flashing the wrong CSC during ICS update and now I can't revert back to GINGERBREAD.

Anyone here can advise? Thank you.

** Current status is PDA: LP4, PHONE: LPS, CSC: LP1
[Galaxy S II General] Ramelov:
ICS does allow you to instantly switch keyboards but in a different way. Just expand your notification bar when you're writing something. There is an icon of keyboard, click on it and you will see keyboard change menu. You can change on the fly.
[Galaxy S II General] nichi4ov:
HELP

If some one fashed ICS I9100XXLPJ and used .pit and now phone has problems:sim not recognized and when pressing log power buton phone turn off. what should he do ?
[Galaxy S II General] RovG:
+1
[Galaxy S II General] damirbusic:
Just flashed Frankenstein XWLP8 with Odin Mobile PRO + root and I got almost all apps when the phone booted, but it was not working great so I tried to make factory reset and then some stupid error told me that I need to delete Samsung account first, of course I have no idea what that was so I booted in recovery and formated phone from there and then restored with Titanium Backup. For now it works great, battery is on 50% in 4-5 hours but I hope that is the case only because I was on the phone all the time because of setting it where it was.
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
Try to boot the phone into recovery mode (press Volume UP + Home + Power button as long as the recovery menu appears).

Then wipe cache partition and reboot the phone.

If that does not help, he may have to flash another ROM.

An do not flash pit or bootloader, if you are not sure what you are doing.

Good luck !

---------- Post added at 01:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:28 PM ----------

Just a suggestion for the next time, when you think that your phone does not work fine:

Boot into recovery mode and only wipe cache partition.

It is faster and can solve many issues.

Only if that does not help, do a factory reset.
[Galaxy S II General] damirbusic:
One problem already, how can I solve the problem of showing country code for every number that is not in my phonebook ? This is pretty stupid thing. I get +385 98 XXX YYY instead 098 XXX YYY. I am on XWLP8.

Tnx
[Galaxy S II General] hassan11:
Kies

Hi everyone, i've installed XWLP7 (the version that supports arabic), and my device is not recognized by Kies, the problem is that i want to restore my sms messages !

Help please :)
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
If you want Kies to recognize your phone, you have to flash a firmware that is already officially released by Samsung for your phone in your region.

You can use Check Fus Downloader (=> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=834884) to check, which is the latest officially released version for your phone in your country (and to download it from Samsung servers).

Maybe this ROM version is "old" and you do not really want to flash it.

So, you might have to search for an alternative backup for your SMS messages.

Good luck !