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[Galaxy S II General] nakagusukumike:
i'll have an answer for you in an hour or two on if you can install a root kernel and keep your GPS.

As of right now, what I've gathered is: you install a root kernel, you loose your TV for sure.

Install a full rom and loose your base band and your GPS is borked too.

My buddy is coming over my house right now and I'm gonna try to dump his good binaries and inject them into my phone. I'll let you know how it goes...
[Galaxy S II General] gaikokujin:
thanks! I have not even put my music on the phone yet. I will wait a bit!
[Galaxy S II General] R3wt3d:
making backups

I need root to do that don't I? :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] nakagusukumike:
you need a root kernel to do it with a terminal on your phone, not sure if you need to have a rooted phone to do it with ADB from the Android SDK or not.
[Galaxy S II General] ManInCamo:
I was literally minutes away from rooting when I saw this thread. Thanks for your insight -- hopefully you get this figured out. I don't care about the TV, but I'd love to return to using my root required apps and custom roms without breaking everything else.

I'm 100% stock still -- I can't manipulate and hack away code myself, but I can follow directions and type out command line stuff if you want me to try and get something from the phone.
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
This will really all become moot the first time there's a carrier update and we can download/extract the files from off the Kies server. Then we'll have good PDA/Baseband files so we can always go back barring a total brick.
[Galaxy S II General] nakagusukumike:
For sure!

So is there ANY good way to make a bit level backup of this device without having a root kernel installed?

obviously dd won't work on block devices without root. :-(
[Galaxy S II General] nakagusukumike:
hopefully I can get this GPS thing worked out. Just waiting on anyone with a working GPS on an SC02C to send me dd dumps of their 2 through 6 partitions...

su -
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 of=/mnt/sdcard/mmcblk0p2.img
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=/mnt/sdcard/mmcblk0p3.img
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 of=/mnt/sdcard/mmcblk0p4.img
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 of=/mnt/sdcard/mmcblk0p5.img
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 of=/mnt/sdcard/mmcblk0p6.img

onegai..
[Galaxy S II General] susteki:
I think it has to do with the office PC.. will try once home on my box.
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
Wen I try and install the ota update it just fails.

It looks like it might be because I uninstalled most of the docomo bloatware. Which files should I install with Heimdall ?
[Galaxy S II General] tianqi:
Also anyone have a contact email for docomo support? Rather than a phone number?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] susteki:
Camera volume, shutter/focus

Anyway to kill this annoying sound on our devices?
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
use root explorer or what ever to rename these files

/system/media/audio/ui/Cam_Stop.ogg

/system/media/audio/ui/Cam_Start.ogg

/system/media/audio/ui/camera_click_short.ogg

/system/media/audio/ui/Shutter_01.ogg

/system/media/audio/ui/VideoRecord.ogg

then make a backup copy of

/system/app/Camera.apk

and download and replace it with this one and reboot

http://hotfile.com/dl/123085974/29b7747/Camera.apk.html
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
I got caught up with upgrade and saving a copy of the official image issues yesterday and didn't comment on BLN.

Summary: Works, but uses more power than I'm comfortable with in the current incarnation.
[Galaxy S II General] chrono1g:
Did anyone upgrade (officially) to firmware KG5? For some reason it still shows up for me as 2.3.3 even though for everyone else around the world its 2.3.4
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
It is 2.3.3. Not all builds of the same date code are the same across different regions.
[Galaxy S II General] JuNyA8971:
I got a quick question.

If we were to update to the new version, do we root as we did previously? or Is there a different way to get root again.
[Galaxy S II General] musicconnect:
Hi all~ Thanks for reading my message!

Total noob here (have been an iPhone and handphone user for many years) but I was given Samsung Galaxy SII, unlocked, international version and I have decided to keep it. I really love my Android experience! I am a Docomo user.

I created an account to ask this question because I have searched all over the internet (in Japanese and English) for an answer to my problem, but haven't had any luck.

I really want to install the docomo Palette UI to my phone, however I get the message: "This app is incompatible with your NTT docomo Samsung GT-I9100."

Crazy, because it is the same phone as the SC-02C!

I learned how to root my phone and successfully done this. But is there a solution to my situation? Is there anyway I can retrieve the APK file from Android Market? Then I can install it myself.

Hope someone can help me.

Thanks for listening♪
[Galaxy S II General] nfoboy:
This is something very interesting... gonna try it out... I have been using a modified MMS.APK I hacked, to get MMS working with my S2 on Softbank (black iPhone SIM using smile.mms APN, and my hacked MMS.APK changing the UserAgent to iPhone). Does this mail.apk work in addition to the stock MMS.APK? Over it? Around it? Will it matter that I have iPhone SIM for using this APK? (If all that makes sense). Will of course do the proper NANDROID backup... but any experience on how to use, is much appreciated! Currently, whenever I change to a new ROM, have to remember to look at the MMS.APK to see what I need to modify, but if this works without that... much better! (dunno why Handcent took the option away to change UserAgent there!)

Ross
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
Root procedure is exactly the same if you're updating via Kies.

If you use the OTA update you retain root and don't need to reroot though.
[Galaxy S II General] JuNyA8971:
Thanks! I tried the OTA update and it always fails, so I guess I i will just update with Kies　and do the root as I did before.
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
http://www.multiupload.com/JVIC1ASLVU

The .apk seems to work on even very non-docomo phones, i.e. my Galaxy Ace that is not sold by any of the japanese carriers.
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
Judging from the comments here, I think I'm the only person who OTA actually worked for.
[Galaxy S II General] JuNyA8971:
Another question.

Can I still use this after the KG5 update?
[Galaxy S II General] lations:
Hi all,

I am after an SGS2. I'm looking for the best place to get an international unlocked version, as 1) I have zero interest in using the TV/antenna on the Docomo branded model, and 2) I heard the Docomo model was actually slower in terms of HDSPA speed than the others (14.4 vs 32). Not big changes, but enough for a picky person like me.

Anyway, here is what I wanted to discuss:

hxxp://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s2/361794-3g-doesnt-work-after-regaining-signal.html (replace hxxp with http)

Apparently, a few people have been having the problem mentioned in the above thread. Once they lost 3G connection (IE going through a subway tunnel), they would be unable to get it back unless they manually reconnected, powered off the device, or waited up to 30 minutes.

This is a serious flaw if you ask me, it would become incredibly annoying living in Japan and losing data connection while going through tunnels, and having to manually reconnect every time.

I'm wondering if anyone here has experience this issue or has any more information on it?
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
So much misinformation in one post, where to start?

3G spec wise there is no difference between the SC-02C and the I9100. Docomo specs may look different, but its because they skipped rolling out the higher-speed HSDPA upgrade across their network in favor of rolling out a production LTE network.

I have no issue with regaining 3G/HSPDA links after going through subway tunnels. In Tokyo I don't even lose 3G sometimes and I'm almost shocked at how fast 3G reconnects compared to horrible times with Softbank. Anyone who does has probably misconfigured their settings or had them set wrong from the factory or by meddling hands at the docomo shop (this is probably the likely offender, every time I've brought my phone in for something I've had to hunt through and undo all the unrelated settings they've changed).
[Galaxy S II General] lations:
Excellent, this is great news. As you can probably tell, after I read the post in the link I provided, I became kind of concerned, especially after googling the issue seemed to return multiple other results, including from Japanese people.

although, despite the HSDPA　being the same, I'd rather not have one with Docomo branding on it. Does anyone know of a good place to import one from overseas sites? And I assume I could just purchase a wall charger here in Japan and that it would work with an overseas SGS2?

Edit: It seems like Amazon Japan might be the best bet, with a sim-free overseas model for 6man. Though probably without a warranty.

Edit2: Wait, even if I got an international unlocked version via Amazon Japan, wouldn't the handset still be covered by the manufacturer's warranty, even if the Amazon reseller doesn't specify a warranty?
[Galaxy S II General] musicconnect:
Wow! Thanks! That's very kind of you~!

I just downloaded the file and installed it. It's a very smooth UI! I can see why many people would dislike it (perhaps, more hardcore/advanced Android users?) but this is very appealing to mainstream customers etc.

I'm looking forward to customising :D

There are a few extra widgets for the SC-02C that I'm also unable to download via my phone.

I hope you don't mind me asking, but do you also have the: Call Logs Widget, Docomo Market Widget, Photo Frame Widget, Web Page Widget and ecoモード APK files?

Thanks again♪
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
You should be able to extract everything you need out of the factoryfs.img in the official update from here.
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
If you guys want to be able to connect to adhoc wireless networks like you get from sharing a connection from your laptop check here

http://silverw1ndy.blog59.fc2.com/blog-entry-32.html

I just did this and it is working great
[Galaxy S II General] rushter:
So how can we get an OTA update with Docomo if it requires a Samsung login that refuses to work? I never set up an account but it always tells me that my password is wrong.

I also can't find where in Kies for Mac anything about updates when the phone is connected.

Am I missing something?
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
No clue, it Just Worked (tm) for me.
[Galaxy S II General] rushter:
OTA Update

@evildave_666 - your signature still saysOMKF2 as your baseband. Did that not change for you? That's what I am running now.

All I am asking is, is there a 2.3.4 Gingerbread update for our Docomo based Galaxy S II's already floating around?
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
The update is still 2.3.3. AFAIK, the ONLY documented change is the bugfix to the one-seg.

Post-OTA I have:

Android version 2.3.3

Baseband version SC02COMKG5

Kernel version 2.6.35.7-SC02COMKG5-CL382988 se.infra@SEI-29 #2

Build number: GINGERBREAD.OMKG5

The only phone in my signature that reflects the current version on it is the Galaxy Ace at the moment. Been too lazy to change it.
[Galaxy S II General] rushter:
OTA Update - non-existent on my non-rooted S II????

OK I see where it is just a minor update.

Let me just say for the record - KIES SUCKS!!!! - CAN YOU HEAR ME SAMSUNG? - LOL

OK that's outta the way..

So I am on a Mac (disclaimer - with OSX Lion) ...big NO-NO with Kies apparently.

So I decide to go ahead and install Kies on my wife's PC - Windows flavor - nice to have options.

So after I install Kies on it I am told that I need to reboot to make sure it all works right. As it is rebooting the message of the update to the firmware pops up (like I did not need the reboot) and I cannot do anything as the reboot is still happening. LOL.

So I reboot and then finally reconnect and am told about the firmware update - I do the update....in process now....will post results in a few minutes/years/parsecs????

As if...

My first Android phone was a the original Motorola Droid and my daughter now has it and is loving it. Of course I gave it to her over clocked and rooted. Muahhhahaha....

But this Kies crap is beginning to piss me off...
[Galaxy S II General] JuNyA8971:
I used that kernel after I updated to KG5 and have root now, but I was curious on how do I dd the stock kernel from the official image to 0p5?
[Galaxy S II General] robotsapiens:
Well, for iPhone SIM cards I believe everything will be just like what I did, but with the "smile" APN setting.

The Smail MMS program that Softbank offers disables the stock one when installed, to avoid redundant messages (notifying twice on the same message). What I can say that works for sure is SMS from both programs (Smail and stock) and MMS from Smail. I couldnt send MMS from the stock (maybe because I didnt install the modified version, like you said.
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
Just extract the zImage file, get it onto your phone (adb or via sd), and dd it to /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
[Galaxy S II General] JuNyA8971:
Thank you!! Greatly appreciate your assistance.
[Galaxy S II General] JuNyA8971:
My apologies on being a noob at all this as I am still learning.

I looked into the /dev/ directory on my phone and it was empty. Is this normal? or Do I have to create the directories /block/mmcblk0p5 ? I still have no understanding what "dd" means. Again my apologies on my noobness, but I will eventually get there.

Edit: Figured dd, I must of been drunk, lol Just didn`t have those directories other than /dev. Do I create them? Thank you in advance.
[Galaxy S II General] tianqi:
so anyone know what roms we can use for our sc-02c without too much tinkering?
[Galaxy S II General] lations:
Alright, well I picked up a sim-free UK model from Dospara today, for a surprisingly cheap 50,000 yen. Didn't come with a Japanese charger though so will need to get one from Docomo before I can even start using it.

Anyway, I want to root the device and put some nice custom roms and stuff on it. I'm wondering if I should take it to Docomo to get signed up first, or vice versa?

Despite being reasonably computer savvy I'm a complete noob at Android stuff.
[Galaxy S II General] musicconnect:
I've tried every which way to extract from any of the .img files within the .tar (which is in the .exe) on PC and Mac and each time I'm led to a message along the lines of the .img files being broken/read-only/not recognized etc.

There doesn't seem to be a way to extract easily from these (although my knowledge only goes as far as following numerous extraction guides online).

The APK files I'm after are also on the Android Market, but just can't get to them:confused:

If anyone has any suggestions, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks~
[Galaxy S II General] SaltyCat:
Weak GPS

I just bought the SC-02C (Samusung Galaxy S II) yesterday. Sattelite capturing by GPS is still as weak as previous Galaxy S (I have an T-MO US version). Is this a chipset issue or software issue in Samusung?
[Galaxy S II General] nakagusukumike:
I came to my SC02C from a T-Mobile Vibrant (Which I was using on Docomo). I never had any GPS issues with either phone (when I was running a ROM that had drivers for the GPS)....

GPS Test showing birds and just not locking for you? What server are you pointing to for SUPL?
[Galaxy S II General] nakagusukumike:
You can run anything you want as long as you blast the baseband and kernel back on (if you want reception and GPS)

I've run litening, cognition and a bunch of others all with zero issues....
[Galaxy S II General] JuNyA8971:
I can use Odin to put back the kernel and baseband correct? Or do I have to do it a different way. Also was curious on how to put back the baseband as I know of the kernel, just not sure of the baseband.
[Galaxy S II General] R3wt3d:
u can use sc02c kernel + CUSTOM ROM factoryfs. Will give u gps to work.

maybe 1seg too if u hunt logcat.

recommend to recreate the custom rom factoryfs to 612mb (normally created 512mb for GT-I9100) and copy busybox to somewhere like /system/xbin as custom roms sometimes has it in initramfs(its in zImage merged)

Sent from my MB860 using Forum Runner
[Galaxy S II General] JuNyA8971:
@R3wt3d Thanks for the info. Greatly appreciated! Now gotta find out how to recreate the factoryfs from 512 to 612mb.
[Galaxy S II General] emeng82:
Unlock SC-02C oversea

I left Japan before I could go to Docomo Shop to unlock my SC-02C, and I have to stay oversea for more than 1 month. What can I do now if I want to user other carrier? Does anyone have any idea?
[Galaxy S II General] JuNyA8971:
I have noticed there was Rom Kitchen for the Galaxy S and could not find any information on building custom roms for Galaxy S2. Could any of you point me to he right direction? This is something I would like to get into for I would love to build my own rom for my SC-O2C on my own. Any information is greatly appreciated and thank you in advance.
[Galaxy S II General] R3wt3d:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1081239

just change the "512M" to "612M"

u need Linux (vmware + ubuntu etc works fine..just need to be new image that supports ext4)
[Galaxy S II General] robotsapiens:
The bad news are that the available unlocking tools dont work for SC-02C, so maybe you should wait until you come back to Japan and pay 3150 to NTT.

There is some crazy idea that may work, but you would have to pay to see: Buying a dual SIM card and using NTT/Your Carrier at the same time. Maybe (and this is a very big maybe) you will be able to use yours alongside with NTT.

No guarantees here, and good luck!
[Galaxy S II General] JuNyA8971:
Thanx again! I have got Ubuntu installed on my Windows laptop.
[Galaxy S II General] lations:
I've just got an unlocked GT-I9100. Should I expect problems with flashing custom roms, etc in Japan? Or anything like that?
[Galaxy S II General] nakagusukumike:
So you've got a non SC02C that you plan on using in Japan? It will work fine but if you plan on using it with Docomo you are going to pay out the ass for data since it's not on their IMEI White list.....

as far as roms though, location shouldn't matter for anything...
[Galaxy S II General] emeng82:
Thank you for reply. What's dual sim card? do you have any information of that?
[Galaxy S II General] lations:
Actually, I just had another problem right now - I was told they can't sign me up unless they can visually verify a specific mark inside the cover of the cellphone - looks like the Japanese postal symbol with an electrical symbol over the top. They said it's illegal to sign phones up unless they have that symbol? Errr?
[Galaxy S II General] lations:
http://sinku-suigintou.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/uncategorized/2010/05/04/pre06022122.gif

＾＾This is the alleged mark that is supposed to exist inside the battery cover for phones to be allowed to be used in Japan. Which apparently, doesn't exist inside phones from outside of Japan? As I can't see it in my GS2. My gf's iphone displays it inside the settings of her iphone though, rather than inside the battery cover. Any ideas?
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
Could always try this and go to a different shop and try signing up:

Some overseas handsets actually have this.
[Galaxy S II General] lations:
Holy ****.

So let's just make this clear: My GT-I9100 definitely doesn't have the mark - it's not just a case of me not looking in the right place?

Well ****.

Looks like that sticker is my only option. I can't believe I didn't realize this sooner? Overseas (non-Docomo) S2's are being sold on Amazon Japan, do they have such a sticker?
[Galaxy S II General] lations:
Also, does anyone know the name of that mark in English? It seems to be a uniquely Japanese thing...
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
Telecommunication Ministry Certification Mark is what I usually hear it referred to in english. Its really no different than an american FCC approval number, nothing unique about it.
[Galaxy S II General] lations:
Right. But even if I somehow got a sticker inside it, or told them I was using a different handset and acquired a FOMA card, if I tried to use my foreign GS2 on Docomo then I'd be paying huge amounts? Like what?
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
Pakehodai charge increases to 10,395/mo if your handset's imei isn't in docomo's inventory database as sold by them.

Or you can go with one of the bmobile options (talking fair) for cheaper (initial fee 3150, approx 3500/mo for both voice/data service, 1 year contract, payable only via credit card) if you can hold your 3G data usage to 250mbyte/mo.
[Galaxy S II General] lations:
Is that 10,395yen/month for flatrate data? Assuming I add a small amount voice (say 1-2hrs a month) on top of that, I'd be looking at about 15,000 a month?

Or, go with a Docomo-branded SC-02C and pay about 6000 or so a month?

If I bought a Docomo-branded SC-02C would I be able to use it on an overseas network in the event that I leave Japan?

For some reason I thought the Docomo variant was worse or more restricted than the others...
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
Its always been that the japanese carriers expect you to do things exactly according to their service menu, and they're going to make things as difficult/expensive as possible to deviate from that plan. This has not changed much.

You'd be spending about 12,000/mo for 25 min/mo, and 21/half-min over that so something in that range.

I pay somewhere between 7000 and 8000/mo including handset installment payments on an SC-02C, I have the SS Value plan and have not gone over the basic communication allowance of the plan (and I do more SMS than voice).

If you already have the I9100 handset your least-expensive option is going to be the Talking Fair from bmobile (which uses the docomo network, the only difference from docomo service is you won't get a docomo sp-mail address, but I doubt you can get that to work on an I9100 anyhow).

Docomo will unlock an SC-02C for 3150 yen at the shop at any time, you can even have them do it before you leave the shop the first day.
[Galaxy S II General] JuNyA8971:
Okay I did all that and tar'd the rom. The original rom was a tar.md5 extension and was wondering if I need to make my tar file with that same extension. By the way I am using Litening Rom 5.0 for this to use in my SGS2.
[Galaxy S II General] lations:
Thanks for that information, that helps. I have known Japanese carriers (and Japan in general) to tend to be quite restrictive with the way they do things so I'm not surprised it's like this, I just find it amazing that they go to such lengths to protect it.

Talk about getting reamed though....seriously.

As for the b-mobile option - it's nice that I have the option of sticking it to Docomo, but I wonder how well I could make use of only 250mb a month. What's your average monthly data usage, by the way?

As for getting the SC-02C unlocked and using it overseas - does this 'break' anything in any way? GPS for example when flashing a custom rom (as I believe happens when you do so in Japan?)
[Galaxy S II General] musicconnect:
Or even some advice RE: extracting the files properly. I have a Mac but also access to a PC. Have tried following many guides and forum posts, but it's lead me to errors every time.

Thanks again~