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[Galaxy S II General] kimcirrius:
can anybody please here upload m250l pit file plz .. :(

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Dear all,

I am from indo and i have problem with my samsung galaxy s2 M250L by using odin to update firmware failed... now i can not reboot machine again

#I try flash to i1900 rom . but FAIl ..

Anyone can help me ? pls give me some ideas to recover machine. :crying::crying:
[Galaxy S II General] MemoryController:
If you also flashed sbl and pbl then your only option is jtag or Samsung service

Sent from my GT-I9100 running CM10
[Galaxy S II General] davidspwy:
[GT-I9100-ICS-XWLPX](09-17-12) Mystic's Glory v5.0 Official with NFC

you could try this rom, highly recommended. i'm using it with my M250K.
[Galaxy S II General] mubeenshahid:
You can flash wanamlite 12.3 rom its so perfect o my m250s
[Galaxy S II General] mmannanmasood:
Thanks for ur reply.. i will give it a try.. can u plz tell me how much time ur battery last on which use?? sorry for my bad english...

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Thanks for ur reply... i will give it a try too.... but plz mention the battery timing....
[Galaxy S II General] skim0322:
Hey guys. I've just gotten my gs2 Coming from desire s. Well my model is M250L.... I've been reading this thread trying to figure out how to root and to see if theres a safe way to do this without bricking my phone. Well, I couldn't read anymore because there's just way to much to read and the guides were all too old.

Is there a newer guide for me to follow to root -> custom recovery -> and then be able to flash CM10?
[Galaxy S II General] shamalh:
Hey guys, any of you try the Leaked Jelly Bean official OTA for your phone?its on Sammobile!:D

Give it a go guys!!
[Galaxy S II General] robertogl:
Probably it's not for us...

Inviato dal mio GT-I9100 usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] mubeenshahid:
I have specially converted my korean one to i9100

Korean M250S >> I9100 Wanamlite 12.3
[Galaxy S II General] skim0322:
Has anyone tried this with M250L??
[Galaxy S II General] kaizer216:
Yes

Try wanamlite. I'm getting 1day and 3hours battery life with music, sms and calls. For continous usage of WIFI(like youtube, internet, games as well), it takes me up to only 15-19hours batterylife. I say wanamlite is the best ROM as of now. Good support, fast and stable ROM :D

You should have read that the do not try to flash an I9100 ROM to an m250L. M250L is very different compare to m250s/k. Try usb jtag or send it to samsung service.

http://goo.gl/ZVYfP Try flashing this using ODIN. Although I'm not sure if you can flash CM10.

Leaked jelly bean? There is no leaked jelly bean OTA for S2 yet but for S3, there is.

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Do not try it on M250L or you will never wake your phone again. :D This guide is only compatible with M250S/K

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Really Really???? I will try this one. :D thanks for being a brave soul.LOL

Try going to page 119 and post #1182. I posted there how to make your lock screen working again. Give thanks to memorycontroller for that ;)

Try doing a factory reset if you're stock on boot screen or try flashing a different ROM. Any I9100 ROM is compatible with m250S

Try flashing different ROMS and modems that match your place. Actually, even though I am living at the Philippines, I'm using a custom ROM based on a European ROM. I think it will work no matter the carrier is. :D
[Galaxy S II General] magarto:
Could anyone try to flash the JB leak and copy all the content to us? Teamhacksung and CyanogenMod need it for CM10.

Maybe thousand people will thank you... Thanks again!

Once upload the files in a zip or similar, you can share it here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1794758

Enviado desde mi Samsung Galaxy S2 usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] robertogl:
Jb leak doesn't exist.

Inviato dal mio GT-I9100 usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] bluefa1con:
Yes there is a jb ota leak

Its your time to be a hero og thousands of s2 users
[Galaxy S II General] Zaldi00:
No, this firmware is for note2

-------Mi batería es como mi conocimiento, lo justo para pasar el día-----
[Galaxy S II General] hoseth0711:
Here http://www.teamandroid.com/2012/09/...rmware-ota-samsung-galaxy-s2-shw-m250k-korea/
[Galaxy S II General] robertogl:
It is for note 2, like Zaldi00 said.

Inviato dal mio GT-I9100 usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] magarto:
It was a mistake so DO NOT FLASH IT, it is a Note 2 firmware. Do not take in account my last message.

Enviado desde mi Samsung Galaxy S2 usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] ronak_143:
Any Kernel updates for S2(M250s) which will make the vibration in the phone higher? I am using Siyah Kernel :)
[Galaxy S II General] lezwire:
can anybody share me a backup copy of good EFS of m250s. i want to try to write it using efs pro, because my m250s has a blank imei and baseband unknown. so maybe this method will repair the said problem.

thanks in advance.....:)
[Galaxy S II General] MemoryController:
It's not :( it's for the Korean note 2

Sent from my GT-I9100 running CM10
[Galaxy S II General] sanchir1206:
Korean Samsung Galaxy S2 SHW-M250K successfully changed into european versionGT-9100

Yesterday I changed my Korean Samsung Galaxy S2 SHW-M250K successfully, into European version GT-9100 and Jelly Bean ( 4.1.1 ) rom installed successfull Awesome!

facebook: /sanchir1206
[Galaxy S II General] mrmaximuz:
M250S

Hi,

I've done a lot of reading on this post now. Is there a complete guide to rooting and turning a Korean M250S running stock 4.0.4 to international?

My boss want's JellyBean on his phone. Can somebody please help me.

It's one thing to brick your own phones (Tablet,s2,s3), but I don't dare to brick my bosses phone.
[Galaxy S II General] mmannanmasood:
Try resurrection remix Jealybean v3.0.6 and it works fine for me. i am using it on my M250s. But first convert ur phone to i9100. :)

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I got a serious problem in my set. I have flashed number of roms. but after some flashes i found that on data cable connected my phone only charges it but not connect it as mass storage and also on download mode my computer dont detect it. some times it detect it as mass storage but mostly not especialy after charging. I haved checked my data cable its working on all other sets. What can be the problem?? I have also tried other roms but same responce.... Help me plz.....
[Galaxy S II General] mrmaximuz:
Nice,

But how do I convert it? What did you load into Odin?

Sorry, I'm a n00b. I can use Odin, i'm just a bit unsure about this korean bug and wich kernel to use.
[Galaxy S II General] mmannanmasood:
I got a serious problem in my set. I have flashed number of roms. but after some flashes i found that on data cable connected my phone only charges it but not connect it as mass storage and also on download mode my computer dont detect it. some times it detect it as mass storage but mostly not especialy after charging. I haved checked my data cable its working on all other sets. What can be the problem?? I have also tried other roms but same responce.... Help me plz.....

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For i9100 conversion.

Google for i9100 pit. download it. then go to samfirmwares download ics rom 4.0.3 rom for i9100. now u have two files one is pit and the other is the i9100 firmware. put ur phone in download mode. connect it with ur PC. open odin put pit file in pit and firmware in pda. Confirm repartition,Auto reboot, f.rest Time check boxes are marked checked. then click Start. After that ur phone will be converted to i9100.

For installing Rooted Kernel:

Now download CF-Root-SGS2_XW_XEN_LP7-v5.4-CWM5 . after downloading in odin put it in PDA and click start.

Now for Jealybean. download the rom which recommended u earlier. put it in ur phones internal memory root. shut ur phone down. After full shutdown Press vol up+home button+Power Button. The phone will start in CWM. factory reset ur phone. format ur system memory. then install the rom from "install zip from internal memory". and restart ur phone. now u have installed Jealy Bean... Sorry for Bad english.... :)
[Galaxy S II General] oniotv:
hello

hello all

i have a korean samsung s2 SHW-M250L

firmware version : PDA:UG28/ Phone: UC21

how to root ?
[Galaxy S II General] kaizer216:
Follow my guide at page 19 post #1182. Follow the instructions carefully. If you encountered any problems, feel free to post or send me a pm :D

As for jelly bean, there is till no official jellybean for S2. Though there are AOKP ROMS based on 4.1.1 but it's kind of buggy and laggy.
[Galaxy S II General] CoolMax_86:
Help me

Help me, I've updated the SHW-m250L for I9100 firmware. The phone works good but after the lock screen, the display does not work just a black screen and not see the IMEI

1. Using a root browser navigate to /efs/imei

2. Create file "keystr"

3. Open it as text and write "ON"

4. Set permissions to rwx rwx rwx

5. Reboot[/B]

after that does not work either!!! Help Me
[Galaxy S II General] kaizer216:
I don't know yet if any other than you have tested doing this on an m250L. Is what you mean is every time you unlock your phone, all you see is a blank display? Not even your home screen or app page?

As for the instruction above. BE SURE THAT YOU ARE ROOTED. Download ES File explorer from the playstore. Open the app, go to settings then root settings and check all options. Now follow the instruction given carefully without missing a step.
[Galaxy S II General] CoolMax_86:
power on phone work . lock screen or sleep display off. after unlock the screen, the display is not included, and the screen is black, the sensor operated push button screen sound works, only display not working
[Galaxy S II General] MaD-DoC:
hello there ,

have m250s korean version SII today i flash in to i9100 firmware.

but after that my screen lock doesn't work.i try slide unlock pin unlock but i wont work.

and when i long press the power button it will automatically power off. previously m250s version it will ask poweroff or restart.

how do i fix these thing.

thank you very much

have a nice day.

phone info after flash

model - GT-I9100
android ver - 4.0.3
baseband - I9100DLPA
Kernel ver - 3.0.15-i9100XWLP7-CL340913 dpi@DELL134 #3
build No - IML74K.XWLP7
[Galaxy S II General] alexecus:
To solve this.. You must root your phone first...

Next... Using any file explorer having root access (I prefer Root Explorer or X-plore) Navigate to /efs/imei/ folder then create a file with a filename keystr... Reboot...

PS: This issue was resolved a long time now... Next time please use the search button...
[Galaxy S II General] kaizer216:
Just like Iandono said, learn to use the search button. I also posted this on my tutorial on page 119 post #1182
[Galaxy S II General] appagom:
I'm new to this particular device (and might not even keep it).

Sorry I haven't read the whole thread yet (got distracted catching up on the emmc bug )... and the OP didn't update the first post with any summary information... so .. two easy questions hopefully then:

1) Does anyone know if the UE12 ROM for 250K is emmc brickbug safe? It seems to be just new enough that samsung SHOULD have made it safe.

I searched emmc on this thread and see a emmc safe kernel posted by kgp700 says he removed the MMC_CAP_ERASE on a 250 UG ROM, so I assume that means it wasn't already removed by samsung. I have the UE12 250K ROM that kies gave me today, which sounds earlier, but I don't want to assume too much.

2) Can I flash all parts of a 250S ROM to a 250K phone? (I'm in Korea on SK, although it works on SK's network as is anyway) Are the pit files different?

Most of the discussions are obviously related to flashing I9100 roms. I might actually use DMB on occasion though.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] alexecus:
To be on the safe side... You should manually check whether the kernel has the brick bug code (I really don't know how) Maybe using chainfire's brick bug app?

As for the 250K Rom... As long as the PIT files are identical, it should be fine.. Both phones share the same internal hardware (motherboard part) so flashing should also be alright... But please be aware that there is no report yet being submitted regarding 250S converted to 250K... Proceed at your own risk...
[Galaxy S II General] appagom:
Thanks. The CF app only tells me that my phone's hardware has the brickbug. It doesn't report anything about the kernel work-around. I would think it's pretty hard to check this in a compiled kernel. I guess it's the kernel that breaks dmb and causes compass bugs etc, so for my needs, I'm restricted to original, not i9100, brickbug-fixed kernels.

Actually after I posted I found somewhere before page 35 someone did mention flashing an S rom on a K by accident temporarily and it ran.. so I guess that's probably the answer, but then some roms probably don't include pit files or modems or kernels either. Anyway, short of emmc bugs there's hopefully not much trouble I can't get myself out of so I'll play with it.
[Galaxy S II General] appagom:
By the way, I found some old ROMS here:

http://shomblingteam.blogspot.kr/2011/11/m250s-m250l-m250k-galaxy-sii_5143.html

I still havent' bothered to get a matpclub account.

I don't know if they are stock or pre-rooted.

I'll probably downgrade and then rip the latest ROM files off of kies.

I like to have a few stock or near stock ROMS before doing much else.

UPDATE

So I flashed with linux heimdall, compiled from source. Version 1.3.2 gave me this bug:

https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall/issues/43

which leaves the phone not working...

So I used 1.3.1... which worked.

After flashing the K.EE31 version bootlooped until I wiped it. then it kept force closing during setup and starting the setup over.

The K.EG26 version seems to work fine without any of that fuss (although the wipe had just been done before flashing it).

I did not flash the secondary boot loaders in either case, only factoryfs, kernel and modem.

Next I'll try the S versions and see if it works and if kies thinks it's an SK phone.
[Galaxy S II General] sikander3786:
Hi all. Sorry if this has been asked before but I wasn't able to find any related stuff.

I have converted a M250S to I9100 and it is working great. Just wondering what modem is better for this phone? The stock one or the one that comes with I9100 rom?

I have tried both of them. Signal reception is better with stock modem with a signal quality of -63dbm. The I9100 stays at around -73dbm which is not bad either. But with the stock one, the 'Mobile network type' defaults to 'GPRS:1' whereas I have got Edge signal in my area. Edge works with the I9100 modem but not with the M250S.

Any thoughts, insights would be greatly appreciated.
[Galaxy S II General] appagom:
An update if anyone cares:

So the 250S ROMS from that link were really buggy on my 250K. One wouldn't boot past the kernel. The other booted but acted very strange.. with the boot animation constantly interrupting the UI... sort of like a boot loop.

Anyway, that was good enough to get kies to recognize it as a 250S and I figured maybe I had bad downloads anyway.

So I captured the latest 250S ROM file from kies (suspend kies instantly after it decrypts the files and then grab them off the hard drive).

I flashed that and it ran and setup fine. I was getting emails... yay.. However, the settings menu always crashed in about 3 seconds... and something else also crashed once... I forgot what. No good.

I finally decided to flash the sbl too (if the 9100 sbl's don't kill either version surely it's all good). No change.. incrementally changed the modem and kernel back to the old K EG26 ROM. but it never got better until I flashed all the way back. This is strange since the I9100 ROMS seem to work fine on either version. I doubt it's a PIT thing either or it probably wouldn't boot... so that's weird.

Now I've ripped the latest K ROM off of kies so I have everything and can try mix and matching parts a little.

Anyway, with the ROM files in hand I can root it easily enough, a little trickier than SGS, but not much, the tools to convert the rom file to a regular partition image and repack again are here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1081239

and they seem to be working for me, so I'll just add the su stuff by hand (writing a quick script actually) and reflash it.

Most likely I'll end up staying on the K ROMS and just copying in the T-Store apps from the S ROMS.

I only want root to use market enabler. All the other good reasons to root are mostly gone these days.
[Galaxy S II General] appagom:
Yay, so I rooted it in 4.0.4 by modding the stock ROM with the method mentioned above.

.. now I can play with going back to the SK ROM again, and/or stealing apps from it.

edit: and now flashing starting from 4.0.4 K ROM and flashing just the factoryfs.img (ROM/PDA) from the newest 250S ROM worked fine! So it's rooted and essentially on an SK ROM.

Maybe having a new modem or kernel a similar generation 250K ROM is the difference. I kind of doubt it. I think something might have gone wrong earlier when upgrading from the older and also broken SK ROM.

By the way rooting this way did not increment the flash counter as far as I can tell since no custom kernels were used
[Galaxy S II General] zeus2026:
hi guys, I recently buy a galaxy s2 korean version , It is already rooted and has a custom room. But the thing is I want to change the installed kernel and the custom roms. How should i Start????? Can anyone help me or give me a tutorial how to do things here??

here's the detail of my phone:

android Version: 4.0.4

baseband: I9100XXK14

KERNEL: 3.0.32-CM-g12ef675inky-ghost@cyanogenmod #1 SMP PREEMPT -------->(Sorry, I dont know the kernel name so i write all the word that i've see)

CyanogenMod version 9-20120630-nightly

and Guys, can anyone suggest a best rom and best kernel for my galaxy s2??

thanks guys hoping for your help..

sorry for my english..
[Galaxy S II General] jaydvn:
help me plz...

Hi all, i'm from vietnam and I have a M250S, after convert to I9100 then flash custom I9100 4.0.4 ROM XWLPX via CWM recovery from siyah kernel, theres always be a box apears on my home screen(see attach picture). Any one show me how to fix this? And I wanna ask: can I use backed up EFS of I9100 to restore to my M250S? My phone will brick or not?
[Galaxy S II General] kaizer216:
You can try checking my tutorial: page 119 post #1182 of this thread. You can change the ROM and the kernel by flashing it via cwm or the traditional ODIN way. Just be sure to follow the instructions given for a certain kernel. For example is Siyah kernel, you could flash it via cwm or ODIN depending on the file you downloaded. File .tar is for ODIN. File .zip is mostly for cwm recovery. :D As for the best rom and best kernel, there is NONE! It depends on the user whether he/she would find it good. But try Wanamlite. It's pretty good if I say so. Check it out: http://goo.gl/J2l9W

You have flashed the leaked ROM which is XWLPX. Try flashing a 4.0.3 ROM or a custom 4.0.4 ROM like WanamLite. As for your second question, I don't know. Sorry for that.
[Galaxy S II General] jaydvn:
Thanks, I'll try flashing Wanamlite ROM, but the lastest version is 12.6, is it compatible with our device? I've just flashed CM10 nightly+siyah kernel 4.1.5, and it works perfectly, but I don't like CM, I like stock base ROM.

And how about the low vibration bug? Do you know how to fix it on 4.0.4 ROM?
[Galaxy S II General] appagom:
There's an ICS kernel thread in this sub-forum that shows where a kernel setting is to adjust vibration level. Of course you need to be rooted and be able to use a shell use it... and then need to add the commands somewhere to make it permanent... If this is known to not work or there is a user friendly solution already then well... just saying what I know or read anyway....but I haven't even searched the issue. I assume you have.
[Galaxy S II General] kaizer216:
All I9100 ROMS are compatible with our shw-m250s/k. This is as far as I know. I have flashed most of the ROMS in the forum I find good. Just like me, I don't like CM based ROMS and AOKP as well. Wanamlite is a stock based ROM with slightly customization. Like the 15 statusbar. Also different themes are available on the ROM. Like jellybean them, ICS theme, GB themes. For vibration, as far as I know there is none. I think it's a hardware fault since the software and the hardware doesn't match. Not so sure.

If what you said is true, I'll try to look for it. :D Thanks for the info
[Galaxy S II General] appagom:
here it is... an amazing piece of documentatin by droidphile:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1572937

The relevant part is:

In other news I just tried jobnik's hacked Camera apk for I9100 and it works fine on the stock korean ROM:

EDITED, (wrong camera app link previously):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1863362

After root, this will be the second mod that goes into my ROM modding script for this phone.
[Galaxy S II General] kaizer216:
I have extweaks with me for a long time. Still the same. Low vibration. I compared it with my shw-m250k(I9100) not rooted to my m250s(I9100) rooted with extweak and still the same. Vibration intensity is set to the highest possible value which is 6.

By the way, how do you that? Quoting a phrase from a different thread?
[Galaxy S II General] appagom:
Oh well.. anyway the quote is just cut and pasted

The box is just markup but there's a shortcut button to the markup tags on the above the edit window.

Oh and root isn't causing it, but the l9100 based kernel that you used to root or the ROM you then put on might have. I just rooted by adding su to the stock ROM before flashing it. No unsigned kernel to increase my flash count and no vibration problems, and/but of course not international ROM
[Galaxy S II General] appagom:
So the problems I was having with some 250S roms on my 250K seems to have been related to wiping (not wiping).

For the early ROMS I just didn't care because I was only using them to upgrade in kies, I don't think I ever tried to wipe. For the stock ICS ROMS I tried to avoid wiping since the emmc bug could kill the phone beyond repair. I did try to flash the old kernel and wipe and flash back, but either I messed that up, or something makes it not work. I ran into problems when I tried to reflash the 250S ROM (I was goofing around and deleted my root.. so reflashing).. lots of force closing making it completely unusable. Flashing the 250K ROM worked fine, but repeatedly the 250S ROM did not.

Anyway, since my ROMS are modded with root and now a couple other things (all scripted to apply easily to any ROM)... I booted into recovery mode and with root in adb wiped by hand, mounting /data and /cache and clearing them out (which is perfectly safe). I have a little 4 line adb script to automate it so it's no big deal now. So... it's possible to live with stock kernels. I'm using Chainfire's SuperSu for root which doesn't require android apps to be available to get adb root. In the past I did this kind of thing with a secondary standard linux su with a password file, but this is easier.

Wiping with an old kernel should work and while a bigger pain doesn't require a rooted ROM. It's possible I partially rebooted after wiping that way and tainted things again, so maybe that's why use the old kernel didn't work for me. This new way is easier anyway, but only relevant if you have a rooted ROM and stock kernel.
[Galaxy S II General] phatwin2004:
EFS ?!?

you can restore OLD EFS of your phone, not brick ! maybe difficult, if you have more EFS you can try one by one. and remember, if you flash so much your NAND Rw maybe corruption !!! my phone brick and i repair it, lost 2.5Gb, hope you success ! i'm in HCM city @:laugh: