yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
You really think we will get it that quickly? I would think that Samsung would take their sweet time rolling it out for us. I am mainly just waiting for some ICS kernel sources so we can then install any ICS ROM. I'm not sure how badly Samsung is going to bloat the install.
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
Basing it on the fact that we were among the first in the world to see 2.3.5/2.3.6 on the S II.
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
I didn't realize we were the first for those, I won't hold my breath but it would be pretty nice :-)

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actually it looks like Europe is getting it right now! http://phandroid.com/2012/03/12/sam...officially-receiving-android-4-0-updates-now/

Hopefully we are not far behind.
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
I downloaded the European firmware for ICS and was going to test it out but then I noticed it includes boot.bin, Sbl.bin

Now I am not brave enough to flash my primary and secondary boot loaders unless I am sure it will not brick my phone.
[Galaxy S II General] susteki:
Odd.....

Well, what is unusual about this time around is there have been no leaks for us.....http://armalitexyz.jp/ has not been updated since Jan....
[Galaxy S II General] KOBE BILLY:
Hey guys,

Sorry, complete noob here!

Will be arriving in Japan in a couple months and looking to get my first Android phone with Docomo.

Couple of questions, I can't find anywhere else to ask.

1. What are the plans like with this phone? There seem to be so many different plans and I can't work out which is which!

I don't want to spend more then 5000yen per month, is this even possible with a Galaxy SII?

2. What are the benefits of rooting the Galaxy SII in Japan?

Most of you seem to be having problems with GPS after rooting. I think that will be a feature I will use a lot!!

Thanks heaps in advance guys, hope this was the right place to post these questions.

Cheers,

Billy.
[Galaxy S II General] devilangellus:
galaxy sII for 5000 yen...

maybe without data plan...

the galaxy s2 LTE is more cheaper than is older brother (and faster) but still around 10.000 yen/month
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
Check out softbanksucks.blogspot.com and look at the posts under XI.

As far as GPS goes it is fine after.rooting but if you use a custom rom you need to replace the kernel with one that supports the sc-02c and put the original radio.

Check my signature for links.
[Galaxy S II General] takoyaki17:
Any news regarding ICS for our sc-02c?
[Galaxy S II General] zack.vaan.seph:
Sorry, been busy for a couple of days. I managed to fix everything on my phone, power on issue and missing charge.jpg were both resolved when I flashed the official Samsung firmware that I got from CheckFus (SC02COMKL4/SC02CDCMKL4/SC02COMKL4/SC02COMKL4).

Now, I tried flashing Siyah-v2.6.12, but my WiFi broke. So I tried Siyah-v2.6.13-ntt (the one for SC-02C) and somehow it's doing the same thing. So, I decided to switch back to the official Kernel. Do you have any idea what went wrong or why my WiFi broke when I installed the Siyah Kernel?

I tried both methods, via Odin and Heimdall and both lead to same results.
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
hmmm WIFI has always worked for me asuming I had WIFI enabled. You may try a kernel called sakuramilk, I have noticed that siyah doesn't have working GPS for me. I'm not sure if I am the only one but it seems that way. Sakuramilk has been working pretty well for me the past few days. However the only one I could find was a multi boot one where you can boot multiple ROM's which is cool but it seems to act strange when restoring backups.

Does anyone have a link to a single boot version? There are also ICS based kernels the dev has made for the SC-02C so maybe if I have time I will mess around with that this weekend.
[Galaxy S II General] mr_villagomez:
I got the same problem as you so i messaged the siyah developer directly... Hopefully they'll look into it and fix the problem for us
[Galaxy S II General] SimmoF:
Hello. For those of you who want to use ics early (without tv tuner working) I have a solution for you.

I have made a pack that has all the required files in it. I am currently uploading it, I'll post the links soon.

UPDATE * LINK HERE *

Inside:

System: LPQ 4.0.3 International

Modem: SC-02C KL4

Kernel: CFROOT to be replaced with SakuraMilk for ICS

Procedure:

1. Backup your apps withg Titanium Backup or similar.

2. Extract the 7z file using 7zip or Winrar.

3. In download mode flash LPQ-BASE_SC02CKL4-MODEM_CFROOT.tar with Odin3.

4. Reboot into Recovery mode and perform a wipe.

5. Reboot. It may work or it may have a black screen.

(this step is necessary needed to install root)

6. Don't do any setup, just reboot into download mode again and flash SC02C-SKRMLK-V2.0.1-SINGLE.tar

7. Reboot into ICS (it might take a while) and set up your phone!

Enjoy ICS. When the official version comes out, you should be able to just flash over the top without losing anything.
[Galaxy S II General] clement.km:
I am also using this config. However GPS and compass dosen't work for my case.

How about you?
[Galaxy S II General] SimmoF:
clement. GPS is not working but A-GPS is working fine, which will do for a week or so. If you check SakuraMilk's twitter , he said that Samsung has released source code for the kernel and you can see he has started work on a kernel for us here https://github.com/sakuramilk/sc02c_kernel_ics

From what I can tell SakuraMilk appears to be a Japanese person but will answer to English tweets in English, so feel free to contact him/her.
[Galaxy S II General] rushter:
Anyone else have all of their Docomo apps updating today? I had like 6 manual updates show up for me just about half an hour ago. Is ICS imminent for us?
[Galaxy S II General] SimmoF:
Check here to see when ics is ready.

Http://twitter.com/samkiesupdates
[Galaxy S II General] clement.km:
Yes AGPS ok for me but the digital compass is pole reversed. Hope either sakuramilk or siyah will release a NTT version kernel soon:D
[Galaxy S II General] clement.km:
Tried latest Sakuramilk 2.1.0 ICS Kernel, but GPS and Compass still not function yet.

Clement
[Galaxy S II General] ygvuhb:
hi japanese user

can you guy help me to test one thing

i wants to know the 3g network chip

is it the same as eur's one

can anyone use a eur rom and flash a eur radio to test?

in phone press

*#*#197328640#*#*

will go to services mode

and then go [8]->[7]->[2]BAND SECETION->[2]WCDMA BAND <-ENTER in

do it have a WCDMA 900 option?

please help if you guys have free time to check

and if using original japanese stock

go to this services mode

in the WCDMA BAND

is there only have WCDMA 2100 & WCDMA 800?
[Galaxy S II General] reazbuet99:
If this is helpful :
[Galaxy S II General] ygvuhb:
it is helpful

thanks:)

my phone show follow

i will try flash a japan radio

if it change and show WCDMA 2100/1700/800, may be the WCMDA BAND is only limit in software level

if it still show WCDMA as same as my eur radio, they must not same network chip, limit in hardware level:(
[Galaxy S II General] khoaak01:
Did ICS release for SC-02C? Waiting so long time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Galaxy S II General] vipsavior:
Nope still waiting . Simmo posted a link above on when ics gets release to each country .
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
We're not getting ICS from Docomo until July.

http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/120326_01_m.html
[Galaxy S II General] clement.km:
Bad news, can save time in hiting F5 button:(
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
that sucks. I wonder what the hold up is.
[Galaxy S II General] clement.km:
kernel, and modem for oneseg GPS and compass with is different to international version

Local weather boardcast and......

Ntt UI for 4.0, personally I think it is the main reason
[Galaxy S II General] gdflash:
Anyone tried using Tor with Spmode? I'm not having much luck, but seems like a good way to get around any packet sniffing docomo might do to catch tethering users.

I'm still reading up, will post any success stories .
[Galaxy S II General] rushter:
It does say sequential...

It does say sequential...planned July 2012. Could that be the date that everything should be done and that they are starting now?

Just trying to be optimistic here.

I would think that by July with the source already out there someone is going to have us an amazing ROM by then with everything working.

We'll all be using ICS by then...lol.

This does suck and pisses me off a bit. Docomo - huge company. Vietnam, Thailand, China and many other Asian countries can laugh at Docomo now. They'll all be running Jelly Donut (or whatever the next version is) while we are still waiting for ICS. Pathetic.
[Galaxy S II General] SimmoF:
I wouldn't worry about that date, I suspect as usual there will be pre release versions to tide us through.
[Galaxy S II General] rushter:
Par for the course...

When I lived in the US and the first Droid came out with Verizon, I got it. My first droid and the original OG. I liked Verizon - big company, best phone service.

I get to Japan and find out the Docomo is the 'Verizon' here and I also get the best Android (at the time) phone in existence. Picking the big companies comes with one small caveat though, they are always the last to release updates. They have to try and add so much damned bloatware that it almost renders the phone useless. Now it happens again for me - shame on me for doing the same thing I did last time.

Just venting I suppose....
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
Docomo was AFAIK the first 2.3.5 and 2.3.6 carrier rollout for the S II in the world. Don't generalize everything.
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
Does anyone know the current status of sakutamilk for ics? Or does anyone know where a single boot version of the gingerbread version is? I might just try and compile one. It looks like it has a Samsung only configuration target.
[Galaxy S II General] rushter:
Maybe I shouldn't have generalized things. But it is frustrating. Just think about this...

Samsung promised this update for their phones (specifically, our phone model) in the first quarter of this year with the caveat of "details of OS updates schedule for each market according to market situation and carriers’ requirements."

That definitely leaves the door open for Docomo to 'screw' it up as far as a release date.

The speediness of the 2.3.5 and 2.3.6 updates for us was really just updates for general things to improve the phone and really didn't rise to the level of what the ICS 4.0 update will do.

Android released ICS 4.0 in October. Now Docomo says nothing until July?

You have to admit that something is fishy with Docomo taking this long...or maybe it is Samsung's Gingerbread-looking watered-down ICS .

Just sayin.....

and evildave_666 I think you are the person who has provided me with the best info on this forum. So thanks for all you do here...

I just think that we should help out as much as possible to get a good, solid, stable ROM of ICS that works for us way before July.
[Galaxy S II General] SimmoF:
I spoke to him a little. He is working on an ICS kernel, but something messed up with his last release and the phone would not boot, so he pulled the release and is still working on it. Also a proper working kernel (GPS, TV, etc) is not available becasue there is no source code for it, because there is no rom for it yet.

The Gingerbread kernel can be downloaded here

Scroll down to 「純正 ROM向け」　 V1.5.8 is the newest.

I am using Siyah kernel at the moment, AGPS with reversed poles/direction will have to do for now.
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
Oh is that the single boot one? Sweet. I get better battery life with siyah but GPS stopped working for me completely so I switched to sakuramilk. I don't care about 1seg but I need useable GPS.
[Galaxy S II General] kerol_my:
did i brick my sc 02c?

i dont know if i should created new thread but i m using sc 02c.so,i thought there is no problem to post here.

i need help.

1.Before this i m using thebyani v3.2.its works perfect and beatifully without tv tuner.

2.One day,i wipe cache,data then flash thebyani v3.5. Here the problem come,i ....(didnt remember what happend).

3. But,luckyly i can boot to cwm recovery then restore to factory rom maybe (ntt siyah kernel 2.6... , gingerbread.omkj4 , i9100 ).

4. But, i dont like it.so i try update to omkl4. Using odin i flash SC02COMKL4_SC02CDCMKL4_SC02COMKL4_HOME.tar.md5 which i download using checkfusdownloader. when flashing evrything(kernel,modem..) pass except when come to factoryfs it failed.

5. And Now when i start phone it stuck on screen showing (green font)

'nps_fns_ntt.jpg' draw failed.

6.still can boot to download mode (may be not bricked yet).

but what should i do now?

p/s: i love htc (excuse my english :) )
[Galaxy S II General] wendac:
kernel for good gps signal also working oneseg

Any good kernel for gingerbread with good gps and oneseg receiving?

Or the original one is best? anyone can provide me only the original kernel pls
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
Extract the firmware file and install using heimdall. Someone had the same problem a few pages back.
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
The Gingerbread kernel can be downloaded here

Scroll down to 「純正 ROM向け」　 V1.5.8 is the newest.

The original kernel is in the firmware in my signature.
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
At some point you must have repartitioned to i9100 .PIT. SC-02C FACTORYFS cannot fit into that partitioning.
[Galaxy S II General] kerol_my:
thank you your reply

i will read and try what did zack.vaan.seph tomorrow.

(actually i did read,but not really understand.i will read again tomorrow)

yes.done.

-run cmd.exe as administrator >heimdall > flash factoryfs > get error at 20%

_____________________________________________

Uploading FACTORYFS

20%

ERROR: Failed to confirm end of file transfer sequence!

FACTORYFS upload failed!

Uploading FACTORYFS

Ending session...

Rebooting device..

_____________________________________________

-Still stuck on docomo boot screen with yellow triangle

-But somehow i can get to cwm recovery 4.0.1.4

-BUT when i try to restore get error

E:Can't mount /sdcard

-i did :: cwm recovery > Mounts and Storage > mount /sdcard ::BUT

Error mounting /sdcard

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tq for your reply.

how can i repartition back to sc02c ?

i really dont know what i m doing.when i bought it was rooted and unlocked.i did flash lot of roms before.there is no problem until thebyani v3.5.
[Galaxy S II General] wendac:
If I only want the kernel which file should I use in your signature?
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
zImage and you can install with heimdall using the command "heimdall flash --kernel zImage" and then you should wipe the dalvik cache and system cache in recovery.
[Galaxy S II General] wendac:
I have installed sakuramilk kernel for original domoco rom. But the gps never works. Anyone got same problem?
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
I noticed that today. GPS on the multiboot one works for me. But backup and restores don't work on the multiboot one.
[Galaxy S II General] kerol_my:
i need to repartition i think

tq evildave.i think i did repartition my phone.so i tried to flash other country(malaysia) factoryfs.img...fuh,now i can use my phone.but i dont think i should stop here. i want to repartition back to sc02c partition.i did read your post about pit before.really helpful.but your PIT link is megaupload.

--oh, and one problem, everytime i boot i get ichannel force stop

can anyone upload sc02 pit please.

in case i m wrong,here is my heimdall print-pit http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4638475/sc02c_print_pit.txt
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
Here is the pit I got from my wife's phone a while back http://db.tt/ISqHEJDY
[Galaxy S II General] kerol_my:
downloaded. tq.
[Galaxy S II General] gdflash:
this is from the tor project wiki... does dlevrom support iptables？

I'll have a look.

You must root your device and update the firmware to an iptables-capable ROM for Orbot to transparently proxy all TCP traffic.
[Galaxy S II General] uukackac:
Compass and google map arrow

Dear All,

do anyone have same problem with compass or google map arrow?

My SC-02C got problem with that, compass and google map arrow show reverse.

I lost many time to search on google but could not find any topic talking about that.

can anyone help me to fixed it.

Thank you
[Galaxy S II General] evildave_666:
Just to confirm, you do have i9100 partitioning. FACTORYFS and HIDDEN are the same size. (On an SC-02C partitioning FACTORYFS is 100MB larger and HIDDEN 100MB smaller)
[Galaxy S II General] Lakitu:
Yeah, this is a common problem judging from this thread. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can comment, but I think this has something to do with the kernel.
[Galaxy S II General] wjchen0:
If you use samsung officle rom,just replace /system/lib/libakm.so and /system/lib/hw/sensors*(sensors.default.so for ICS, sensors.GT-i9100.so for EUR 2.3 rom) with files in OMKL4,the compass will work fine.

Here is a cwm packet just for official ICS. dl.dropbox.com/s/7gemtxyk7ya6udq/4.0zhinanzhen.zip
[Galaxy S II General] uukackac:
Thank you very much for your reply, currently my phone use

2.3.6,

DXLP7

2.6.35.7-I9100XWKK5-CL754841root@Dell144#2

I am going to root my phone to use root explorer.

so as your instruction, i have to download xxxOMKL4xxx.tar file and use root explorer to copy the files as you mentioned to the phone right?

Many Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] Tyrol:
Hello, I don't mean to hijack the thread here since I'm not a SC-02C user but I have a couple of questions regarding the use of I9100 in Japan here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1580982 regarding Japan's data network and such.

If any of you could shed some light on my problems, I'd be very much indebted to you. Thank you!

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サンソングガラクシS II からタパトクで書いた。
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
There is a gold mine of info @ softbanksucks.blogspot.com you best bet will be bmobile. Also check the post on how to fix the battery draining issue when using a data only sim.
[Galaxy S II General] Tyrol:
Thank you, I have read through that blog (and linked it in my question actually) and I agree that b-mobile seems to offer the best prices for prepaid. However, there are a couple of questions that I can't find the answers to, though I may very well be too blind to, in which case I'd appreciate some guidance.

Thanks once again!

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サンソングガラクシS II からタパトクで書いた。
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
Sorry I missed that part I was reading it over my morning coffee before I ran out the door :)

bmobile rides on Docomo's network and if you have a Docomo Xi (LTE) SIM with a non LTE phone it just falls back to FOMA (HSPA+). So I assume it would be the same for bmobile.

Your best bet though is to comment on one of the blog posts though and you will get a direct response.
[Galaxy S II General] wjchen0:
You should rename sensors.*.so(sorry I forgot the name) to sensors.GT-i9100.so or sensors.default.so first,then just replace the files.

Here is siyah kernel and speedmod kernel for sc-02c ics compiled by me, GPS works fine.I hope this can help.

blogger.wjchen.co.cc/?p=29001
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
Which radio are you using with ICS?

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You sir are a god!! I just flashed CM9 with your recompiled kernel with the sensor fix ZIP and am now running ICS :D

So far GPS looks like it is working but a not accurate since I am inside. I will need to keep testing.
[Galaxy S II General] wjchen0:
I use OMKL4 modem,work fine with ics roms,signal is better than any other ics modem.

The sensor fix ZIP just for official ics roms, not for cm9.

I don't know how to fix compass in cm9, if any one know, pls tell me.
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
Oh really? I haven't had a chance to test the sensor outside yet.

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Which ROM do you use?
[Galaxy S II General] wjchen0:
The newest XWLP4.
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
In CM9 under "/system/lib/hw" there are 2 files

sensors.exynos4.so

sensors.goldfish.so

SHould I replace one of these with sensors.default.so ?
[Galaxy S II General] wjchen0:
Sorry I don't know,but someone try to replace sensor files in CM9,then the phone stuck at boot screen.

Maybe the senors lib is different between CM9 and official.

:(
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
I just replaced sensors.exynos4.so and I think it is working :) I have to check from outside but I think it is showing the right direction. Also reboot was fine.
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
This worked and I can now use the compass correctly.
[Galaxy S II General] uukackac:
compass

Hi Man,

Would you please send me the sensor.xxx.so file to fix the compass direction.

anhtn0711@gmail.com

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
Here is the file you need

http://goo.gl/jWW5D

This is for ICS I only tested on CM9

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This one is for non ASOP ROM's
[Galaxy S II General] 3ror:
gps

can somebody tell me how to make GPS working in a ICS room

thank you
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
compass pole reversal fix

Here is a ICS CWM flash-able ZIP I made to fix the compass pole reversal problem . I only know for sure that it works on CyanogenMOD9. I am not sure about other ASOP based ROM's.
[Galaxy S II General] uukackac:
Thank you very much, my sc02-c's compass and google narrow is working.
[Galaxy S II General] wjchen0:
see my post at #1131

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24461124&postcount=1131
[Galaxy S II General] wendac:
cannot download the file now can you upload again pls??
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
I just downloaded from the link just fine.
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
Anyway here is a link to the file on Box: https://www.box.com/shared/a084daa6172622549e4d
[Galaxy S II General] wendac:
it is only 588B?? and i cannot flash it in

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I flashed the latest nightly version of CM9 and it cannot connect to pc now.

usb connection is gone and i cannot use odein to flash

any solution??

newbie to CM

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just want to know

if i flash any customize4.0 rom to sc02c

except the mobiletv cannot be used anything else？

i flashed cm9 nightly and use sakuramilk 4.0 kernel

seems nothing problem

except the GPS which I try to figure out.

BUt according to the thread it can be solved
[Galaxy S II General] fujimi:
I have a Docomo Galaxy S2 with the KL4 kernel. I'd like to use something like cf-root to non-destructively root it so I can use Titanium Backup to back up absolutely everything... but I can't find my kernel anywhere.

Is there another way I can non-destructively root my phone for Titanium Backup? Am I up the proverbial creek?
[Galaxy S II General] wendac:
can anyone explicitly explain how to fix the gps reverse problem in ICS4.0

I use several wjchen recombined kernels and rename the sensors.exynos4.so to sensors.default.so and then replace the file in system/lib/hw with this one?

But it still does not work...

Pls help

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dl.dropbox.com/s/7gemtxyk7ya6udq/4.0zhinanzhen.zip

OK i solved it . flash in this, problem solved
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
Just install siyah kernel and then reflash the official kernel
[Galaxy S II General] zaphod777:
Hey guys I created a CWM ZIP file that includes the latest Siyah 3.0.1 that wjchen0 recompiled for us along with the compass fix for CM9 and the OMKL4 modem.

That way anytime you want to install a CM9 or other ASOP based ROM you can just flash this right after to have it customized for the SC-02C.

http://www.box.com/s/7d803a7eba81f6478325

If your compass is still not working properly you will want to flash wjchen0's fix dl.dropbox.com/s/7gemtxyk7ya6udq/4.0zhinanzhen.zip after you flash mine as I only know that my compass fix works on CM9.