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[Fascinate Accessories] iofthestorm:
Anyone using a 32GB SDHC card in their Fascinate? Just asking because there's one on sale on the Newegg Shell Shocker later today (check at 10AM pacific time). Wondering about speeds and such, and whether Class 10 is worth it (seems like if you want to fill such a big card, it'd be nice to have the faster write speeds of Class 10 but I've seen some reports of incompatibilities/problems with C10 devices).

I was just benchmarking the card that came in my Fascinate (which is supposedly Class 2) with SD Tools and I get 5-8MB/s writes and 16-18MB/s reads which is way better than the Class 2 minimums. The one on the shell shocker is a Class 4 so I'm just wondering whether it'll be a downgrade in terms of speed (just because it's rated for significantly lower speeds than what I'm getting with the internal one). I'll probably end up getting it anyway because I've got ~1GB free on my current one and I want to play with an Ubuntu chroot install.
[Fascinate Accessories] drose6102:
i got the sandisk 32g class 10 it was worth it. Seems to R/W faster but that maybe due to the SD card boost read ahead cache hack. I think mine is set to 512K. Whether its faster or not the extra space is always a plus
[Fascinate Accessories] MattRussNC:
Guess ill find out the hard way with ya, bought one as well. Was also wandering about the speed difference. Noticed the one that came with was class 2 and the 32 was class 4, hoped it at least wouldn't be any worse as i am content with the speed of the included sd. Was really surprised to see that it was a class 2.

Oh well just have to wait until it gets here and see.
[Fascinate Accessories] viceless:
DO NOT BUY THE Patriot LX Class 10 32GB CARD!!!

After a few months of light usage (i hardly ever connected it to transfer anything, just had HD seasons of breaking bad, chuck, human target and sparta that I never had time to finish watching) I finally hooked it up for maybe the 6th time since i purchased it, and after transferring some music and more shows, i got a "Damaged SD Card" error. For the last month since that occurrence, I have had to reformat the card at least once a week, and set up my music and just a few episodes at a time (because whats the point of putting seasons on if i'll just have to transfer them over again in a few days) consistently. Sure, it moves along at 12MB/s, but certainly not worth the hassle.

This is not an issue that I have heard of with Class 2 or Class 4 32GB micro SDHC cards, and Patriot says they are working with Microsoft and Google to determine the cause of the issue, but Newegg reviews indicate that this is not an isolated incident.

Good luck with the SanDisk card!!!
[Fascinate Accessories] iofthestorm:
Mhm, I got the A-Data 32GB class 4 from Newegg. I benchmarked it and it's not as amazing as the built in card (around 5-6MB/s write and 12MB/s read) but it's not super slow. Yeah, I ended up avoiding the Class 10 cards for that reason actually. It's nice to have so much free space now; I think I'm going to try installing Ubuntu in a chroot jail again.
[Fascinate Accessories] kwinders:
The new PNY class 10 for tablets is now in stock at Newegg, just ordered one with free shipping.
[Fascinate Accessories] bschrib:
I got this exact card -- Just arrived yesterday.. I am getting AWFUL performance from it. I mean it performed like 3MB/s write and 8MB/s read.. It only fluxuated by about +-1MB with various SD read_ahead changes.. So disappointed. The worst thing is my phone is NOTICEABLY worse-off with the card in (weird stutters, etc).

Which leads me to something else altogether -- Has anyone noticed that with no SD card in the phone it just flies? I mean even the old SD card which didn't SEEM to give me any stutters was a matter of night and day with it in our out.

jt's CM7 Test Build 10 / EC09 radio / OBT .13 kernel @1400mhz

Old radio was EB01.

_______Update________

So I hadn't tried the card today with the EC09 radio (why should it make any difference?). It seems to have made a difference. Below are my results (with SD Booster app to change Read Ahead value, and AnTuTu benchmark just doing SD Card IO).

PNY 16GB MicroSDHC P-SDU16G10TEFS2

Read Ahead, AVG Write, AVG Read

4096, 6.4MB/s, 15.4MB/s

2048, 6.5MB/s, 15.4MB/s

1024, 6.5MB/s, 15.5MB/s

512, 6.0MB/s, 16.1MB/s

256, 7.4MB/s, 16.3MB/s

256 (2nd pass to verify), 7.4MB/s, 15.9MB/s

128, 6.9MB/s, 14.8MB/s

FAT32 / 16GB Partition

I hope this helps someone. Still not sure why my write speeds are so slow on Android when I've seen them hanging around 12MB/s in Windows (When using FAT32).
[Fascinate Accessories] bswright:
Patriot has a lifetime manufacturer warranty on most of their memory. You should contact them about getting a replacement. I run their RAM on my custom built personal pc. It is super stable. Just hoping to help.
[Fascinate Accessories] mmtoman:
My 32 gig card doesn't even work in the fascinate at all

It works in my thunderbolt my transformer and my laptop... but no fascinate!!

Its so annyoing and I can't fins the problem
[Fascinate Accessories] sic4672:
I've used both the Patriot class 10 32gb card and the wintec 32gb class 10 card. Both have corrupted my data after a few days. Heard the sandisk and the lexar cards are good, so you may want to give them a shot.
[Fascinate Accessories] zanktank:
Got the scandisk class 4 32gb and it's satisfactory
[Fascinate Accessories] cyonsinn:
i was just about to buy a larger card when stumbling onto this post.

Does the read/write speed slow down as the card gets bigger in size?
[Fascinate Accessories] blee9999:
No, but I have found that cheaper/nonbranded cards tend to be slower. Read reviews before buying.
[Fascinate Accessories] cesium:
I've got a lexar 32gb class 10. It's absolutely terrible. It takes so long for pictures from the gallery to load after you take a picture for example. Anything using hte SD card is slow as molasses. Oddly every benchmark I throw at it shows high speeds, so I have no idea what is going on with it.
[Fascinate Accessories] tulalhyt:
may be could try this (get rid the lba) could help the perfomance and compatibility ?

try read this thread (hope help), I'm not try it my self on my fasci, since my class 10 msd still on it's way send to me.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1010228

the author test it on motorola defy
[Gen8 General] Lenn:
Hey everybody,

Most of the people says "You have only 256 mb Ram on your Device, you don't get Honeycomb!"

Pah!:D Are you kidding me?

Sibere did a test in the emulator with same specs as Gen8 Devices:)

root@android:/proc # cat meminfo
cat meminfo
MemTotal: 256596 kB
MemFree: 54432 kB
Buffers: 40 kB
Cached: 109068 kB

HC uses just 93 MB Ram:)

Froyo needs ~50-60 MB Ram!^^

So, thats good news i think:D

Just want to tell it everybody..

What do you say about this?

Thanks goes to sibere for testing;)
[Gen8 General] marcusmarcus:
To be fair, Sibere did that with the SDK, correct. The full source Honeycomb might use a bit more than that. I hope we can run it though, I'm sure Honeycomb would probably run OK. But I get enough launcher reloads using Froyo after playing games or browsing the Internet. If Honeycomb uses more RAM than Froyo, I wonder how much more it would have to reload stuff after using Internet browsers or games, plus if it uses more RAM, that would mean when it reloads the launcher it would take longer to load, right. This may not be as much of an issue in Honeycomb because I'm sure it manages memory better than Froyo, but it still leaves me wondering and we wont truly know until someone gets Honeycomb running on our Gen 8s.

I'll keep hoping that it can run Honeycomb and that we eventually get it (or Gingerbread)
[Gen8 General] sibere:
93Mb is just the system and the launcher.

As you start installing apps, some of them will need services to run in the background, sucking precious MB of RAM.

So yes HC could run on 256Mb, but we will never get an user experience as good as a device with 512Mb or 1GB or RAM.
[Gen8 General] bug splat:
I'd love to try HC on my 70. I don't run many apps anyway at the same time so if 90mb is needed for the core OS, 160mb for apps is enough for me.
[Gen8 General] gbohm:
there will never be 160mb free if you have 90core

on a nook with hc you have less then 200free on a running system.
[Gen8 General] sibere:
Ram used for GPU is about 4mb. (adjustable in kernel build parameters if I'm not mistaken)

The thing is: Do we really want HC now? Look at the HC market... almost empty.

We'd better have gingerbread for now and wait for ice cream sandwich IMHO.
[Gen8 General] fzelle:
+1 for GB.

Better GC + SIP is prob. worth the hassle
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
OK so it seems a lot of people are having issues with boot loops when they are messing around with things. First thing. Your phone is NOT bricked or broken.

It's just unable to start due to something missing or broken. Don't panic, there's no issue. I did this the day I got my phone, and there was nobody to "help" as such, so I just fixed it myself.

These are the steps to fix a boot loop. If you do this correctly, it WILL fix it. But you must do it EXACTLY to the letter.

So here we go...

1) Turn off your phone. Unplug it from your computer etc

2) Hold down home, power, and volume UP. This will enter recovery mode. If you are using CF-Root, you'll get CWM recovery. If not, you get stock recovery. It doesn't matter which appears.

3) Choose to wipe user data from the menu.

4) Turn off the phone by long-pressing the power button.

5) Prepare ODIN on your PC by using task manager to kill any KIES processes, then open ODIN.

6) Put your phone into download mode (home + power + volume down)

7) Plug your phone into the computer using the factory USB cable. The leftmost box should go yellow and an ID number will appear.

8) Flash a stock ROM from those available in ODIN format, and the phone will boot correctly.

Alternatively, it is possible to flash VillainROM 1.1 if you are not comfortable in wiping via recovery, or if you cannot do so for any reason (corrupted kernel etc), as it wipes all users data when installing. Simply ignore steps 2 to 4, and flash VillainROM 1.1 via ODIN instead of the stock ROM.

Any questions about boot loops? Ask them here rather than making new threads.

Adding a nice little video from user "dullah"

[youtube]pvdC2Exxm0M[/youtube]
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greigster:
Great instructions, I wish I had these 2 nights ago.

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkstar09:
Yea me too :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] axt:
TNX !

You're a great, I risked a heart attack! :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] urmybaby:
noted with thx, I wish i had the correct instruction 3 days ago.

one more question, do we have to do one more step to flash the stock kernel after we flash the stock rom?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dannyboyni:
I plug the phone into the pc, but my drivers dont seem to be working it fails to be recognised. I tried with another Galaxy S II, and this phone does appear on the pc. Im thinking its because my phone isnt in download mode?

Any ideas?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mitchell.tamsett2:
Legend, thank god for this topic :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knitterb:
Filed under "Need to have handy!"
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
You can also try just 1 2 3 & 4 and see if phone boots .

Its done just that for me as i try to clear a bootloop from a wipe to stock .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] (•.•):
I had it myself and i was pretty happy that i uses the backup function from recoverymode cwm.

I would really really recommend that u use this BEFORE doing any critical changes to your phone.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jody2k:
I have a Boot loop after doing a full reset, It was installed with lightning rom

Now Odin doesnt recognize my phone, thats bacause i'm on other computer now (havnt installed the drivers jet)... i tried installing kies 2.0, didnt help... any suggestions?

Edit: is there no manually way to install you phone on you computer with manual drivers or something.... it's bacause odin still doesnt recognize my phone

EDIT2: I fixed my problem, for everyone that had same issue: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=961956 => these drivers work
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jody2k:
I have done all the instructions and flashed with a stock rom with odin but my phone still does the boot loop :( any suggestions?

Edit: fixed it with the villainrom, sorry for my post

thx!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] din5353:
I also got the boot loop.Here what i have been done:

1.flash villain rom.

2.want to change to lite'ning rom = boot loop

3.clear into factory data reset and flash stock rom = success

4.i still want to use lite'ning rom and flash it = boot loop

5.clear into factory data reset and flash lite'ning = boot loop

Is it somethin wrong with the villain rom or lite'ning rom?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crucio_:
If when connecting phone to your pc and your phone is ON then download the latest version of kies from samsung as this holds the drivers to connect to your computer properly.

If you are talking about when your phone is OFF and using ODIN then it should pick up your phone but you wont be able to flash until you are in download mode.

only other thing id add is try using a different usb port, one that is like a mainboard port not a hub.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jody2k:
Jep having same issues, not really an issue but i'm also stuck with the villain rom :) If i try to flash it with lighting rom i have boot loop

this all has started with a full factory reset, when I was on the lightning rom, the full factory reset caused my bootloop and ever sence the only rom that works on my phone is the villain rom
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pigglett:
Exactly same happens to me

I have literom v1.0 I cant flash 1.1 or even flash stock rom without boot loops :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
Guys it seems there's an issue with some custom ROMs. VillainROM seems fine, as people can safely return to it.

If you cannot get a ROM to flash, then instead of flashing a custom ROM at the end of the process, ODIN a stock ROM after the wipe. That should fix the issue.

It appears some custom ROMs have a bug with wrong permissions, preventing the system from booting.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
Yes, it appears lightning rom can't cope with a full wipe when it's running. VR is set up to work after the full wipe, provided you re-install it via ODIN :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jody2k:
I tried to install lighting after flashing with villain, also got boot loop... :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
Yes, that won't work, as the ROMs are not compatible. You would need to get Lightning ROM to fix the issue
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackWW:
Its not working for me :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x-timewinder-x:
Hardware issue?

I followed all the steps, i wiped everything and flashed a Stock rom (already tried about 10 different), and also tried the Villain rom but i still get a boot loop. :(

I can enter download and recovery mode without a problem and there never seems to be a error message while installing the rom but as soon as i try to boot im stuck at boot loop.

Is there something wrong with the hardware?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Acesi7:
Thanks! This saved me after 6 hours of searching around. Couldn't get CM7 to save myself... Just kept erroring out!

And couldn't get it out... Downloaded VillianROM and it worked perfectly... Can now use my phone again! Thanks!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strix75:
Need some help here. Flashed a theme in kitchen pro but when i installed the theme and i by misstake pulled out the battery. So can i flash a theme i odin and if so how??

Don´t whant to reflash the hole rom if i don´t have to.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hansation:
try to reinstall theme.. if not, reflash rom in odin
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tle05:
I'm having trouble getting out of the boot loop. I've followed the instruction and flashed 2 different stock roms as well as lite'ning rom and on either rom it is still stuck on boot loop. After each flash, odin always report back as a success with no errors. Also I can't get into recovery mode since the home button does not work. Does anyone know a way to get into recovery without using the home button? I can get into download mode. Any help? thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RealityKill:
how do you get into download mode with a borken home button??!

i don't know if this will work but worth a try. when you in download mode, try using adb command .. like this "adb reboot recovery" without quotes GL!@

my home button is also bORKen!

oh almost forgot. you might wanna flash this GT-I9100_ClockworkMod-Recovery_4.0.0.2 Kernel in odin just in case you ever get in recovery since this is the only kernel version with Recovery that support POWER button as ENTER
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tle05:
Press and hold volume down + press and release power button brings me into download mode without using home button.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thevarunfactor:
Hi guys,

I was running the latest version of VillainROM and after trying to flash stock kernel and rebooting, I am getting a BOOT LOOP at the VillainROM startup screen. I tried connecting to Odin in download mode but ODIN is not recognizing the phone. (I can get into CWM recovery and Odin download modes, but odin is not recognizing the phone!)

Please help out. I forgot to take backups using CWM before installing the kernel and now I am not able to connect to the PC either. Is there any way of flashing back the old kernel/ROM using external memory card? Will the device be recognized by Odin if I use a USB jig? Any suggestions? I would be really grateful! Thanks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whiteline_ni:
cheers Pulsar...was beginning to panic until i found this thread :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RealityKill:
Did you try wipe /cache partition and wipe Dalvik-cache in advanced from recovery!? and do you have Kies installed?

btw you can mount your sdcard from recovery!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thevarunfactor:
@ Wrapkill

Yea, wiped all the cache and dalvik cache too. I have Kies and made sure kies was not running when I started Odin as well.

Oh you mean I can mount an EXTERNAL SD card from recovery?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x-timewinder-x:
@ thevarunfactor

i think what he ment was, that you can mount the internal sd in recovery, so if you connect the phone to the pc it will show up as a usb mass storage device.

that way you'd be able to copy a zip file onto the internal sd and install it from there.

if i'm not mistaken you should also be able to select the external sd in 'install zip from sd'
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] white ash:
Does anyone has this issue, after freshing the rom, it has boot loop and I can only enter download mode but not recovery mode
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mutley365:
I'm having issues with updating to 2.3.5

I have CriskeloROM V20 installed on my phone. I've tried wiping the partition cache, the Dalvik cache and did a factory reset (I even tried going back to stock and re-rooting my phone etc...) and I found that when I turned the phone off, or I loaded my backed-up apps from titanium back onto the phone, my Galaxy SII went into a boot loop and totally drained the battery. Luckily I had backed-up V20 using CWM recovery and have had to do a recovery several times as I tried different ROMS, Omega and CheckROM and had the same problems although one just wiped-out the baseband kernel and I couldn't pick-up a signal. Now at least I know it's something to do with my phone, so does anybody have any ideas what's wrong? Am I being ignorant about something I may have missed? I have reached my limits of my knowledge with this operating system and I'm worried about taking it to a point were I screw the phone up completely.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blue4004:
So, it is required to do a factory reset when downgrading a firmware?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rossonza:
Ive got that atm.. :S
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjondj:
Bootloop and can't boot to recovery: please help.

I cannot boot into recovery, but I can boot into download. However, odin is no longer recognizing my GS2 when I plug it into my PC.

The bootloop began when I was attempting to flash the cyanogen7 with the google apps.

I read every post in this thread, and have seen a number of people who cant boot into recovery, but can boot to download. I haven't seen anyone else mention that their phone is no longer recognized by odin on their pc.

Please help.

edit:

Perhaps odin doesn't see my phone because I didn't have USB debugging enabled? if that's the case, what can I do?

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

solved:

heimdall overwrites a driver and stops odin from seeing your phone. i attempted to remove it, unsuccesfully. but loaded odin onto a different computer (that had never seen heimdall).

i booted into download, connected to 2nd pc w/ odin, and ran CF-Root-SGS2_XW_NEE_KI8-v4.3-CWM4.tar (search forum) in PDA. this made my phone bootable again.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b11nov:
Thanks ! something handy to know.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonathan_337:
Thanks a lot for this thread.. I'm a new GS2 owner and when this happened... I just wanted to cry.. After hours of searching I stumbled upon this and said what the heck lemme give it a go and it worked.. LIFESAVER. Thank you :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C-bass00:
So I tried to put cm7 in my S II (AT&T) and i get to the boot loop and i can reset the phone and get the stock software, but i really wanna run the cm7 anyway i can get it to work? following the steps you listened and just using cm7 isnt working for me it still boot loops.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lifeslotz84:
i have a problem here ...i tried flashing litening rom into my new s2 via odin and da bad news is it fails for god noe da reason...and now i have a bootloop...i cant go to recovery mode.....and i only can go to download mode....anyone can help me pls....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] equinox24:
So I did all the steps on the first post, and my phone is still stuck on the boot screen.

I have used Odin and switched from GT-I9100_XWKI4_original.tar to GT-I9100_XWKI4_insecure.tar, the most that has happen is the yellow icon is gone but the phone will still not boot.

Please help!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] masterjayson:
Great solution! I am facing the same issue, but is there a way to recover my phone without wiping my phone? I need all my photos and videos and I don't want to lose all the media. Please help.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajaspidey:
Please install clockwork mod

PLEASE INSTALL CLOCKWORK MOD BEFORE DOING ANYTHING TO YOUR PHONE and DONT FORGET TO TAKE NANDROID BACKUP

With it you can restore your phone in the same state when backup was taken !!

if your backup was very old & you want all new applications then go to advanced restore & restore system alone [am not recommending this BTW & am not responsible for it] !!

i once messed up my mobile & did data restore alone it asked me questions as if my phone was just unboxwd but all my apps are present !!

___________________________________________________________________

USE YOUR COMMON SENSE :P

---------- Post added at 02:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:50 PM ----------

search XDA & install/flash Clockwork mod recovery(CWM) in your phone & do as i said in previous thread !!

& photos saved in SD Card wont be lost mostly !!

1 THING I FORGOT TO SAY IN LAST THREAD !! KEEP ATLEAST ONE NANDROID BACKUP IN YOUR SD CARD !!