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[Galaxy S II General] rogeriok:
I'd like to try this cm9 but there's to many things to flash,I give up yesterday:eek:

Is this really fast and stable like litening rom?
[Galaxy S II General] wjchen0:
CM9 no stable version till now.All is nightly ,samsung official rom is more stable.
[Galaxy S II General] SimmoF:
I'm wondering what Keyboard you are all using. Japanese and English with dictionaries are a must.

I have tried Samsung Keyboard, Swype, OpenWnn, Go, Smart Keyboard Pro, Simeji, Google Japanese Keyboard, and a few others.

But the best I have found is MultiLing, what do you think? I like that I can fully customize it and that it can be made very small.
[Galaxy S II General] rogeriok:
thanks, i think I gonna keep litening rom for now

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I use iphone keyboard because is more easy to write, but there's no japanese
[Galaxy S II General] wendac:
Why u don't like Go keyboard?
[Galaxy S II General] wendac:
What about wanamlite?
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
I just use the Google Japanese version but my friend loves atok.
[Galaxy S II General] wendac:
The siyah 3.2.1drain battery much faster than before. Have you guys got the same problem?
[Galaxy S II General] jaybot80:
Feasibility of SC-02C as 'full' desktop computer.

Hi all,

Got an SC-02C here in Japan, current setup is working very nicely indeed :) THANKS goes to all who are involved:

ROM: Resurrection Remix v1.8.1

Kernel: Siyah v3.2 (Simmo's Mod)

My wife and I share a netbook which is a bit annoying when we both want to be doing something on it at the same time :confused:. We are mainly web surfers/media consumers/doing stuff in the cloud (read: using Google Services) but I am a habitual tinkerer/hacker so our needs are not great.

This scenario got me thinking (directly inspired by Canonical's "Ubuntu for Android", can't post the URL yet as am a new user), as opposed to shelling out for more hardware why not make better use of my SC-02C and use it as my own 'full' computer ... all I'd need to add is a display, keyboard and mouse.

I have a spare LCD monitor with HDMI connection so I could use that:

1) are there any ICS ROMs out there which have HDMI MHL working for the SC-02C?

2) anybody know how soon HDMI MHL will be working with the Resurrection Remix ROM?

(haven't bought the adapter yet)

Keyboard and Mouse over Bluetooth. Haven't done this before:

1) Can they be connected simultaneuously? (surely they can!)

2) Any recommendations on what products might work well?

3) Any quirks?

Software environment setup options:

A) Use Android as it is so the phone GUI is outputted to the monitor and just running Android apps (and therefore smooth video!).

B) As I use Ubuntu 12.04 on my shared netbook I had a little play with Ubuntu Installer in the Play Store and got Ubuntu 10.10 running on the phone (will try 12.04 soon). It seemed ok. This would be a great option as then I'd have full desktop apps available - close to Canonical's approach.

C) ??

Feasible/practical? Your thoughts/suggestions are welcome.
[Galaxy S II General] wendac:
Hi anyone use the Samsung dock? I flashed wanamlite rom and now I insert phone on dock there's no interface comes out and audio cannot be output to my av equipment. Any application control this function?
[Galaxy S II General] wjchen0:
For me there is no battery difference.

If you want to get long battery life,you should confirm no bad app eating your battery.

After that,you can choose "battery profile" in CWM-Kernel Specific Option.

You can also undervoltage use voltage control,but don's undervoltage to much.

In my device undervoltage more than 50mv cause freeze after a long time usage.
[Galaxy S II General] SimmoF:
The preditictions suck.
[Galaxy S II General] wendac:
I think it will learn.to predict smartly if u use it more and turn on the learning mode
[Galaxy S II General] SimmoF:
I had it on, but I type really fast and inaccurately, the best is Swiftkey but there is no Japanese yet, they are working on it. This one fixes my mistakes easily.
[Galaxy S II General] wendac:
bln works

finally get my bln work on wanamlite rom.

bln pro is the solution.

bln is really convenient!

you guys should definitely try it
[Galaxy S II General] rogeriok:
Works well but the battery goes way too:mad:; I've unistall to save battery here...
[Galaxy S II General] wendac:
U can set it to stop bln if battery is lower than certain level
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
SC-04D Radio?

According to this http://www.japanmobiletech.com/2012/05/b-mobile-visitor-sims.html#comment-528565835

we can flash a SC04D radio on out SC-02C? Since this guy did for his i9100 I would think that we could do it on our SC-02C with one of these radio's

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1369382&highlight=sc04d

But since these are regular image files not modem.bin files I am a little hesitant to start flashing a ZIP file that uses DD ...
[Galaxy S II General] rogeriok:
I did it and my baseband still the same SC02COMKG5;strange

Do not flash this;my phone is freezing
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
are you sure it flashed? I read some posts on the Galaxy S and Nexus S where you could rename the modem.img to modem.bin. I did that with the Galaxy Nexus radio.img and tried to flash it with heimdall but it gave me an error

Uploading MODEM

100%

ERROR: Failed to confirm end of file transfer sequence!

MODEM upload failed!

Ending session...

Rebooting device...

Re-attaching kernel driver...

So I know it didn't work and I am still on the OMKL4 modem. I guess we will just need to wait for an official newer modem, it can't be too far off now.
[Galaxy S II General] rogeriok:
Yes,it was flashed , but my phone starts to freeze so I flashed the docomo stock modem back;now everything is ok and stable:)

I flashed that zip using cwm flash sucessfuly...
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
well thanks for being the brave one and testing :)
[Galaxy S II General] wjchen0:
LOL.

I think no need to test a SC-04D modem...
[Galaxy S II General] rogeriok:
no problem,our device is amost "unbrickcable" "is that right":cool:

I had hard bricked my tramsformer prime this year flashing custom roms and I was unable to fix it:( so sent it to RMA and Asus changed the motherboard for free:eek:,with my prime I just flash stock firmwares now
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
Nice, if it was a normal modem.bin file I would have no fear but when it is using DD to flash somewhere it makes me pause. I am glad you are braver than me :-)
[Galaxy S II General] takoyaki17:
Can someone make a step by step guide on flashing stable ICS using Mobile Odin?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] rogeriok:
Mobile odin doesn't work very well,better you use a computer and odin 1.85 but if you wannna try...

Download a rom of your choise like a stock rom or a custom stable rom like litening rom or another else...

Open mobile odin tap open file and search for the rom that you donwloaded and mark the boxes wipe cache and data and tap flash rom

if you are using a Docomo galaxy s2 variant just flash Siyah kernel and a fix for make your gps works

this fix you gonna find a few pages back on here good luck
[Galaxy S II General] takoyaki17:
Did you mean flash the zip file of the rom and kernel?or extract the zip and choose a file in it?

What file goes to modem?to kernel?

Can you post an easy 1 2 3 step?tnx
[Galaxy S II General] rogeriok:
Flash only the zip first just tap open file and search for the zip do not extract the rom

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What rom yo're goin to flash?

Sorry my mistake

For odin you must estract the zip and you will se a md5 file flash this file

Open mobile odin

tap open file search for the md5 rom

tap flash firmware
[Galaxy S II General] takoyaki17:
The one uploaded by simmof.

I only got the .tar file.do i need to flash a modem or kernel?can i flash it all at once?
[Galaxy S II General] wjchen0:
First of all you should know the partition diffrence between I9100 and SC-02C officiall rom,it's very important for flash a *.tar(or *.tar.md5) file use odin(Just for odin,no need to care about partition for a CWM flashable rom).

You can format internal sd partition by a I9100 pit file "u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4.pit" to get same partition as I9100. Then you can flash all I9100 official rom.But you must be sure,if you partition is the I9100 one and you want to flash back SC-02C stock rom,you must format internal sd to SC-02C partition use "sc-02c-stock.pit".

Optional you can fix compass by repalce some files, fix GPS by flash a third party kernel.
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
You don't really need to re-partition to i9100 partition though, it only makes it more difficult if you want to run a stock ROM later.
[Galaxy S II General] wjchen0:
Yes,there are two other ways no need re-partition.

1.resize hidden.img of official i9100 rom.

2.flash cwm flashable unofficial rom.Many roms based on i9100 official here:http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1204
[Galaxy S II General] takoyaki17:
Can someone make a guide using mobile odin.i'm on dlevrom2 3.1 siyah 2.6.6 omkj4 baseband.

I want to try ICS post by simmof.and try mobile odin as well.i dont wanna brick my sc-02c so please make a detailed guide...

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
Check my signiture and start on Part 2

You don't need mobile Odin unless you need to install a new modem but at this point you don't need to. You can do everything from recovery.
[Galaxy S II General] takoyaki17:
Thanks.i'll try it later.
[Galaxy S II General] liver9999:
hi all, I am a new buddy, I just got a SC-02C for a few days.

I have some problems with flash rom.

1. After I flash the CWM recovery to my phone with Odin, then reboot, it cannot boot into CWM recovery, stopping in DOCOMO screen.

2. I have try to flash a rom with Odin including CWM recovery. Then I use the CWM recovery to flash a CM7 rom and reboot. It cannot boot into the CM7 system. Also stopping in DOCOMO screen.

3. I have flash CWM 5.5.0.4, and try to flash rom. Sometime it has no respone. sometime it is OK. I don't know why ?

Would you all mind to answer me the questions ? Thank you so much !!
[Galaxy S II General] wjchen0:
Which CWM recovery do you flash?

The best way to get CWM is falsh a third party kernel such as siyah(2.6 for gb,3.* for ICS).

I sugest you flash back ntt official rom OMKL4.

You'd better know more before flash any ICS rom...
[Galaxy S II General] liver9999:
I am now using CM9 nightly + Siyah 3.2.3. After flash Siyah 3.2.3, the CWM 5.5.0.4 is bundled. Then, I use the CWM 5.5.0.4 to flash the CM7, it is no respone. What can I do ?
[Galaxy S II General] rogeriok:
Try to flash cm9 back,can works

if not I sugest you to flash a stock based rom like litening rom or wanalite rom with a computer and odin,always wipe cache and data and dalvik cache before a new rom...
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
Siyah 3.x is for ICS ROMs only! You need one of the older 2.x versions for CM7 because it is gingerbread.
[Galaxy S II General] liver9999:
Thanks all, I have flash Siyah 2.6.x, the bundled CWM work perfectly. I flashed CM7 now.

But, the CM7 is not really good rom, any suggestion to me? Thank you so much.:):)
[Galaxy S II General] SimmoF:
I just tried flashing the modem in the new firmware of SC02D, it does not work. The phone gets bars, but no data. Just thought I'd save you the trouble.
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
If you want something that is Gingerbread I really liked GingerMOD but the GPS was pretty bad. Right now I am running CM9 and it is pretty good so far but does have a few minor issues.

I think the ICS ROM's are coming along nicely but the battery life on them is not so good yet.
[Galaxy S II General] liver9999:
I am also using CM9 before. But I feel the speed of CM9 is not really good than 2.3 ROMs. So, I want to try back the 2.3 ROMs.

GingerMOD, Let me try. Thank you.
[Galaxy S II General] rogeriok:
http://gs3central.com/content.php?r=137-Japan-Gets-Galaxy-S3-with-2GB-Ram

Docomo will release a diferent version again

Docomo's galaxy s3 version will be a dual core s4 processor with 2 gb ram and one sec tv

What do you guys preffer?! a dual core chip with 2 gb ram and 1 sec tv and lte or a quad core chip without lte and a fm receiver?
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
I don't care about 1seg. Too bad it doesn't have a exenos CPU but if battery life is good I don't mind.
[Galaxy S II General] rogeriok:
I don't care about 1seg tv and lte either but this docomo variant will be very diferent from the internacional model so no customs roms for us:(
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
The GS2 is still good for me unless I break it I will keep it for another year or two. Maybe just buy the extended battery.
[Galaxy S II General] liver9999:
Buy a phone, custom rom is my main concern, although it has a extremely power hardware. GS2 is a good machine and at least will last for 1 year more. :)
[Galaxy S II General] wendac:
Buy the 3200ma battery for 1000yen. U won't be regret
[Galaxy S II General] wendac:
S2 hardware is pretty enough for daily app. unless u R really knee to play large 3d game on the phone. So I think it's meaningless to compete on the hardware. 2g ram sounds nice but can normal user really feel the difference?

I doubt so
[Galaxy S II General] rogeriok:
if a buy a new phone will be the internacional version.

I want to see some benchmarks and the camera quality first and wait to the price drops too...

I'm using a 3500 mAh battery,I'm happy too
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
Its not too thick?
[Galaxy S II General] wendac:
if Get used to it ,u will feel it is good to hold for man: )
[Galaxy S II General] wjchen0:
New ntt official rom OMLE1(still 2.3): http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/support/utilization/product_update/list/sc02c/

Need test the new modem with ICS.
[Galaxy S II General] rogeriok:
could u upload this new modem please?

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could u upload this new modem please?
[Galaxy S II General] wjchen0:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qrvbybovwr2ko89/omle1-modem.7z
[Galaxy S II General] nakagusukumike:
i pulled the MobileTV_JPN.apk file but am unable to get it to install on another ROM. :(

I think the TV should be working fine on custom rom as long as we flash the NTT kernel and baseband back. Only problem will be getting this damn application to install.

For those who want to try, the application is here:

http://blacklinux.com/pages/public/computers/android/SC02C/
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
I was looking at the structure of a full samsung rom image. This is what it contains:

boot.bin

Sbl.bin

param.lfs

factoryfs.img

zImage

hidden.img

cache.img

modem.bin

With regard to factoryfs, rfs is a red herring - its an old samsung-specific filesystem type for the S1 that's not used on the shipping roms for the S2. S2 images are ext4 AFAIK based on looking at the .rc files on github.

cache.img in a full rom image just contains what's necessary to reinitialize things. Our "full-rom" odin image should probably contain such a cache.img.

Sbl.bin can probably be a rip from 0p2. In theory odin should always flash the "inactive" SBL (one that's not being used presently) so you can recover with a usb jig if the SBL is faulty.

I want to look at the source for heimdall to see if I can find any reference to where boot.bin goes and what hidden actually is.

Regarding the TV app, have you tried remounting /system rw and adb pushing it there, then rebooting?
[Galaxy S II General] nakagusukumike:
i just remounted the fs then copied the files. Also tried "installing" from a copy of the APK in the sdcard, but no dice.

mount -o remount rw /system

chmod 644 /system/app/MobileTV_JPN.apk

file is ownership/groups/permissions look the same as all other APKs in the directory.

Time for bed. Happy about the ODIN kernel/modem though, makes flashing ROMs WAY easier!
[Galaxy S II General] nakagusukumike:
another oddity I have found is that in ROMs that have the CRT screen off animation, it still works when using the SC02C kernel. I always heard that the CRT off animation was something that was in the kernel (and didn't seem to be present in the docomo kernel), or at least that's what everyone over in the vibrant section thinks about their i9000's on 2.3. Maybe it's different on this device?

Currently running Cognition ROM, docomo kernel and baseband and my CRT screen off animation is working (as well as gtalk video:cool:)
[Galaxy S II General] cphil19:
Hi guys,

I don't mean to throw the thread off the root topic, but I was wondering if I could ask you fellas how you feel about the phone overall.

I picked up the phone a few days ago and gotta say.....I'm pretty disappointed. Not to sound like an Apple fanboy, but coming from the 3GS, I wasn't as "wowed" as I thought I'd be.

First off, I'm having crazy signal issues. Everytime the signal drops and comes back, data hangs and I need to reset the phone. Also the battery dies crazy fast, and the GPS only works about 60% of the time.

But the thing that probably bothers me the most is....believe it or not....the screen. While the screen ITSELF is nice (watch HD movies is great), the overall reoslution leaves a LOT to be desired. Browsing the internet, text looks VERY pixelated/choppy and images are simply not sharp/vivid and pretty washed out. As I said, I'm pretty sure this is due to low resolution.....so is there a way, through root or otherwise, that resolution can be increased which would make everything sharper? I feel like everything I look at is an 8-bit bitmap picture :(

What do you guys think overall? Phone's a keeper? Or will it be out of use by the end of the year?
[Galaxy S II General] R3wt3d:
signal sux

u're right, I've been using iPhone4 on DoCoMo for a while and now switched to SC02C, but the signal just sux in general. Wi-Fi aswell.

Try to change the font to iPhone one.
[Galaxy S II General] cphil19:
How do you like the phone itself though?
[Galaxy S II General] R3wt3d:
not bad

well this device is the latest hardware with dual-core, so I like it for now.

iPhone4 was getting old.

It's a little bit big for my hand and I need to use both my hands to

scroll lol. I'm hitting somewhere with my hand on the screen it seems...
[Galaxy S II General] cphil19:
The specs are nice and all, but the screen doesn't bother you going from the iPhone 4 to this? I mean, the iPhone 4's screen is so sharp and clear, while the Galaxy is, while bright, is pretty pixelated and not even remotely as sharp as the iPhone.
[Galaxy S II General] dejanet:
There are probably some Lib's from the Docomo rom that we're missing to make the TV app work.
[Galaxy S II General] nakagusukumike:
Here in Okinawa I do not have ANY signal issues with the phone. It's 100% rock solid, battery life is awesome (on Cognition ROM with SetCPU clocking down to 200Mhz when not in use). As far as the "resolution", I set my DPI to 184 in build.prop and it's MUCH better.
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
I think most of us came from 3.5" screen phones of some type or another (A lot of ex-iphone users, I personally came from the Galaxy Ace, which has the exact same dimensions as the 3G/3GS within 1mm each axis.) so getting used to the size is an issue for most people.

My worst problem is accidental presses on the lower-left part of the main screen when trying to thumb the menu button.

Given a couple more weeks using it I don't think it'll be so much of an issue, but I'm still using the Ace with my Philippines roaming SIM in it for catching SMS (and using smsdroid/websms/fishtext over wifi for sending at only EUR0.015/0.02 per international text) so I'm switching back/forth between the two screen sizes during the day.

No problems with signal. Vastly better than the Softbank signal I used to get, and the GPS signal is quite a bit stronger in a side-by-side comparison with the Ace using the 'GPS Test' app from market.
[Galaxy S II General] nakagusukumike:
I'm going to abandon trying to resolve any library/signature issues with getting the TV application to run. It hit me today that the investment is not worth the reward. It would be nice to have "everything" working that came in the docomo stock ROM, on a custom ROM, but in reality, the TV on this phone blows (when watching the same channel on the phone and also in 1080i on my TV with a good OTA terrestrial digital tuner) and I'll never watch it even if it was working. I'm guessing not many people will really miss it either.

My advice, just dive in and start trying different ROMs out now that it's easy to get the kernel and baseband back, and forget the phone even has a TV tuner.

..... what I would like to work on is getting an FM radio application with the japan FM spectrum to work :D
[Galaxy S II General] Lakitu:
Sorry to hear that some of you aren't having such a great experience with this phone. Didn't you guys know the resolution before you got it? It's often seen as the "weak point" of these SAMOLED family screens. I definitely noticed that the screen isn't as sharp as the qHD on my wife's phone, but I think it's still a great screen. 8bit? Really?

I have noticed that after using the TV, the screen goes a little "funny". It's hard to explain but it looks like everything is out of whack and a little fuzzy. It's annoying but I can live with it.

I've had no signal issues as you've described and haven't had much time with it to pass judgement on battery life.

I'm totally wowed by how fast the phone is, and how solid it feels considering the "cheap plastic" jibes people often level at the Galaxy S versus HTC or Apple phones.
[Galaxy S II General] cphil19:
Finally! Someone else who's noticed the "after-tv" affect. Yea, the only way to fix it from what I've seen is to go into "camera" then exit, and the resolution goes back to normal.

Btw, I live in Urawa myself, neighbor. :)
[Galaxy S II General] ManInCamo:
I don't believe the widely published SIM unlock methods in the development forum work for the DoCoMo version, is anyone aware of a method to SIM unlock this device? I'd like to be able to pick up a AT&T prepaid SIM when traveling in the US and use my phone.
[Galaxy S II General] nakagusukumike:
please bump this if you find anything:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1143434
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
They do not, a new hashing method (involving SHA256 instead of SHA1) is supposedly being used.

Docomo will unlock an SC-02C for 3000 yen and change though, and reportedly from people who have had it done it has no effect on your support on an ongoing basis contrary to the initial information.
[Galaxy S II General] keiko8:
Does anyone know where i can get the docomo Factory Tar file where kernal, baseband and everything is in default settings which is ready to be flashed with Odin? I screwed up my phone really bad lol flashed the wrong stuff and now my phone wont go in recovery mode. I can Only use download mode
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
No one has yet found an official firmware tarball. At one point it was physically present on the KIES server but permission not allowed to download but its totally gone now.

The way to go as close to stock as possible from a hosed handset is flash the factoryfs.img from earlier in this thread (with heimdall), followed with the kernel/baseband combo, then power on and do a factory reset.
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
How is the performance? Anyone feel like making a cwm ZIP?
[Galaxy S II General] rushter:
Where? Can you post a link for this battery?
[Galaxy S II General] rushter:
Any one figure out the changes in the update OMLE1?
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
http://bit.ly/LmWdC5
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
According to release notes, correct display of email addresses under some circumstances in contacts app.
[Galaxy S II General] SimmoF:
I posted on a new firmware, thought it was ICS looks like it's just Gingerbread.

Sad.
[Galaxy S II General] wendac:
How do u feel about it? Am quite happy with my wanamlite rom now
[Galaxy S II General] SimmoF:
I messed up, its Gingerbread, I thought it was ICS because of the L. LE1 is 2.3.6.