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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andpol:
I also have a Bell/Virgin GS2 and have a couple of questions.

I have replaced the kernel with CF's version: I9100ZSKG2 and SIM unlocked it.

1) I am having an issue with the GPS locking, it almost never works. It worked perfectly (~5 seconds to lock) before I used the rooted kernel. Is there a way to correct this? The only way I've gotten position fix is with "GpsFix" from the market, and that takes more than a minute usually.

2) What is the "Baseband" in baseband version. Mine, being a Bell phone is: I9100MUGKG2. Does this need to match with the kernel version?

3) When you say ROM version, this is the same thing as "Android Version" in the Settings->About? Does this need to match with the kernel version? Why/Why not?

3) I am running Android 2.3.3 at the moment, how would I go about upgrading to 2.3.4? Can I choose any 2.3.4 rom and any CF-root kernel? Does the locale of the kernel make a difference at all?

4) I tried to connect my phone to the Windows Kies application to see if I could update the firmware and it said something like "Not Available". I assume this is because of some versioning mismatch or something. Is there a way for me to update/restore my phone with Kies?

Thanks!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] euphoria47:
When 2.3.4 is available to canadian sgs2 owners, will kies give us our update or will it say our firmware isnt upgradable? as of now thats what it tells me using JP KG2...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
If you're on JPKG2 you will never get Canadian firmware updates. Only Hong Kong updates as that's the rom you have installed.

For anyone that's still on UGKG2, you will get any Canadian firmware updates through Kies once available.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
1. The original UGKG2 kernel almost certainly had Canadian geolocation fixes built in. Now that you're no longer on the Canadian kernel, you might be out of luck.

2. Baseband does not usually need to match unless you run into issues. Being in Canada, I suggest leaving it as is.

3. Android version = 2.3.3 or 2.3.4

Rom version = UGKG2 or ZSKG2

If you want to upgrade to 2.3.4, I suggest going with one of the XXKG3+ roms and flash the appropriate CF-Root kernel with it.

4. This is because there is no update available to Canada yet. If there was, we would have an option for restoring our phones to stock. But no Canadian firmware has been uploaded to the Samsung servers yet.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] euphoria47:
thanks for your replies electroz, im sorry for being such a newb, im used to winmo i didnt realize how different flashing is with android!

I think we were both asking you the same thing. because our kernals are hacked/insecure/rooted/whatever, kies will give us the option to restore stock ugkg2 kernal, then update to 2.3.4? Once the update is complete, will we want to / need to reroot via odin, to continue using the phones on our non-bell carriers?

Like the op said, there is new/old/conflicting info, and so much info its hard to find what we need to do. thx again!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
Chances are, Kies will not give you back UGKG2. However, once kies does have an update, it can be extracted and turned into an Odin flashable file allowing us to return to stock (new update would still be considered stock) which will let us get any future updates through Kies.

Also, once this happens a CF-Root can be made based on the firmware from kies so we don't have to mix and match kernels.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] euphoria47:
Thank you for all your help electroz. One more question and ill be done. Would flashing this via odin wipe memory and or settings?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
Yes, an Odin flash wipes everything.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kennypowersnow:
euphoria47 are you on rogers?

So after learning how to root and unlock, now i must wait for an update through kies to root back to "stock" so i can get futuer updates, and gps locking once again :eek:

the learning curve :o
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kennypowersnow:
Noobie Question: when I try to launch the GPS Navigation app on the bell sg2 (im on rogers) it says "carrier not found". Is this app bell specific?

If it is, anyone suggest a good gps app?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yeeahnick:
Same problem here, im on rogers with bell sgs2 and i get the same message so i either use navigation or copilot!

I also have the SMS time bug where the sms received are marked 4 hours earlier. I guess its because rogers doesnt have the phone yet so its confused with the network times i dunno. SMS Time Fix app fixed that problem for me. I tested the calendar and the time seems to be good.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yeeahnick:
I have a BELL galaxy s2 and im wondering why am i on KF6 and people in this thread seem to talk about KG2. I ran Kies and it says the version cannot be updated. I would like to root the phone but im scared because people are having certain issues like GPS being bad, reception being bad after the root. If i root the phone which kernal should i use? Also if that is done can i eventually go in Kies to do a Emergency Firmware Restore to reset to stock kernal? Should i just install the KG2 2.3.4 and then root the phone? I dunno what is best, id really love to root the phone for just couple things but i dont want things to start working bad.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unleashed12:
The people in this thread talk about KG2 because KG2 is the factory stock firmware the "bell" SGS II comes with; It is what your phone came with before you (or someone?) flashed it.

As for rooting; as far as i know not many people (and myself personally) have had any issues by rooting such as gps or anything bad happen to them from rooting, its safe in my opinion.

As for your firmware question; KG2 is actually a bit old now, bell just hasn't really updated their SGS II just yet as it just released. Id personally recommend either the stock KG3 or stock KG6 rom. Ive personally used both and they work great! Using stock unrooted KG6 right now and its amazing. It works perfect no problems and gives me way better battery than the bell stock rom did. So I would personally advise you to go for either KG3 or KG6 and root either one; they work fine and no problems with rooting.

Or you can just stick with your kF4 and just root the phone using cfroot; that would be fine too; but Im not sure how old the kf4 firmware is or aware of any problems on it.

Regards.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kennypowersnow:
unleashed12 you're using an unrooted KG6 Rom im assuming that you're on bell?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unleashed12:
Noope, Rogers :P
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yeeahnick:
My Bell sgs2 came with I9100BMCKF6. It wasnt flashed or rooted before. Can you link me to all the KG6 (is that 2.3.4?) files including the CF KG6 kernel to root (its original right? i dont want nothing modified that looks different visually). Perhaps ill try it even if theres no way to go back to stock =(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unleashed12:
Thread for KG6 (yes kg6 is indeed 2.3.4) http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1194550

Look in the thread, several people have given download links.

Cf Root for KG6

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=673338&d=1312203859

NOTE!- PLease please please, do your research before you even THINK about flashing your phone, read up carefully, read all the tutorials. I've read way too many ODIN horror stories on this forum about people not taking care when they flash and then they end up with a 600$ paperweight.

Regards.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yeeahnick:
Thanks alot!

I just read that Kg5 and Kg7 were released officialy in Poland.... Are those rootable? They say that kg5 wifi is much better and that the wakeup lag is gone. Should i still go with Kg6?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1200044
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unleashed12:
Up to you totally, try whatever you like :) I'm still using KG6, might try 5 soon just don't want to wipe through odin and lose my stuff.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] super_sonny:
Its Working alright, I got mine working and tried using it with roger sim and work.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yeeahnick:
which CF kernel are you gonna use to root KG5?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kennypowersnow:
Just throwing this out there becasue of all the flashing you do with an android phone. i ordered a usb jig for 5$, anyone have one?

thought it would be worth the investment not to have a 700$ brick
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] euphoria47:
Yes i am with rogers. when i flashed with cf root, i cant tell you if anything stopped working well, but for me its all working ok. gps takes a minute to lock, which on a cold start is ok. it stays locked on, ill have to test it with a waas enabled aviation gps to see if its out to lunch, but assume its not off.

I dont think kies will give us our update, unless you remain unrooted.

Have you tried chartcross gps test? When i was on winmo, my gps would search for ages, but this somehow forced it to get a quick lock, less than 1 min usually. its in the android marked too
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avinash4:
Hey guys, I have a Bell Galaxy S2 that is unlocked to Fido but is running the default MUGK2 software. I noticed that my battery life is not ideal and was wondering if it is the fault of my phone or if that's just how the samsung galaxy s2 is. I am browsing on HSPA+ and for every 10 minutes of browsing I lose 4% of battery on lowest screen/browser brightness. Sync is turned on and GPS is off with no other Apps running in the background.

Can you guys post how much your battery is drained in 10 minutes of browsing HSPA+ so I can compare?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] euphoria47:
My battery is about the same, hopefully 2.3.4 will fix the drain
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kennypowersnow:
I agree my drain is pretty bad. with the current ROM i have
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avinash4:
Thanks for the replies guys. I went into a Bell store today and browsed for 10 minutes on HSPA+ and noticed similar drain. Lets hope 2.3.4 gets to us soon!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacsha:
I'm currently have the i9100MUGKG2, is it ok if i flash i9100ZSKG2 onto it?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
It will work, but you'll void your warranty until the stock ugkg2 or newer is available for download.

Sent from my GT-I9100M
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yeeahnick:
So i used cf kg6 to flash and root to official kg5. Everything works flawlessly, been testing for 3 days. Gps locks within 15 seconds. No reception problems so far, wifi seems better and same goes with the batterie.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacsha:
thanks for the reply, i dont mind the warranty, all i want is the other language for my bell i9100, so can i still root the KG2?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kennypowersnow:
I don't get it, u used cf kg6 then flashed to kg5? why not go straight to kg5? i'm asking because im wondering how to do it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yeeahnick:
well if you want KG5 and want to be ROOTed you first install the official KG5 update with Odin, then you need to install a modified CF-KG6 kernel (this will ROOT the phone). Then you download the official KG5 kernel and reinstall that on top of the modified CF-KG6 kernel. And then you should be rooted and have a official version of KG5.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kennypowersnow:
thanks for the info. How is the testing coming along with the KG5?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unleashed12:
Im convinced that the bell stock rom has bad battery, Ive been through two galaxy s II's (sold the first) and on my first one with KG6 i had way better battery than this new one thats still running the bell KG2 still. The bell KG2 for me on both phones has this nasty "wifi sharing" bug where wifi sharing will turn itself on and waste my battery for no reason.

Just my 2 cents.

Regards
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kennypowersnow:
Has anyone loaded this? is it better on the battery?

XX_OXA_KG6:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Squishie:
I'm on bell as well, not unlocked but rooted and running custom roms. my big question is if I will run into issues flashing a different modem file to my device. most roms come with modems attached and are primarily for overseas devices.

finally could I just go into the rom's .zip and delete the modem.bin and not run into scripting issues?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -jop-:
Hi guys. I have SGS2 on Bell, and my battery is just awefull. I rooted after 1 week 'cause I couldn't stand the battery life (this after not rooting my N1 for the 2 years I had it!). I went with VillainROM 2.4.2 which comes with Ninphetamine kernel. And this is my first day with it after 100% charge last night, and with 45 mins on battery, I'm already down to 73%. :(

So here's my question (no doubt I'm going to get shut down for noobish question, or for not finding the info elsewhere, but I'm kinda desperate here. And the thread does say "for laymen"!!!); I'm still confused as to the difference between CF-root and other kernels. And kernels and ROM.

Unleashed

, you say: "Using stock unrooted KG6 right now and its amazing". Not sure what that means. I can install kernel without rooting? What ROM do you have, or is that the ROM? Who am I? What?

So is it the ROM or the kernel that affects battery? (or both, whatever). I've read that it depends, or that both do, or somethings.

Aaaarrrggghhh... Someone save me.

I'd be deeply in debt to anyone who replied with:

1. Download this kernel: XXXXXX (insert link here)

2. Flash it with ODIN.

3. Dowload this ROM to your SD: XXXXX (insert link here)

4. Install using CWM

I'll pay. I swear I will!!! BOOM! Better battery.

Please? Anyone? Bueller?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bringit8:
I had no battery problems with my Bell phone rooted with CF-Root and unlocked on the stock rom.. A few days ago decided to flash the TouchExtreme 5.01 and the first day I flashed I had a problem with the battery draining quite rapidly. What I found I did wrong was after the flash I didn't recalibrate the battery.

On my hour commute to work listening to music, my battery went from 100% to 80%.. which I thought was pretty crazy.

I thought I did something wrong so I re-flashed it, then ran the battery calibration program found in the market and tried it again. Now, after an hour commute, my battery is at 92-93% which is pretty reasonable.

In that 45mins, what are you doing on the phone?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -jop-:
Doggcatcher, GReader, Twitter, Words with Friends (even if I don't have any).

That's it. No widgets, lowest screen setting, no wifi, no gps. No NATING. And I recalibrated after the first full charge after new ROM.

Oh, and this is my 2nd GS2 as I got a new one after the 1st week 'cause I thought there was a defect. So it might be me. I guess I might have the one app that just drains it like crazy.

I'll give it another day, just in case. Then I'll try another ROM. Or something.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bringit8:
Maybe for the first while... keep it consistent and try one at a time to see how much power each one is draining because you need something to benchmark..

and watch the processes to see maybe if there's a program that's running even after you exited it..

I find a lot of these programs run in the background even after you turn them off.. I use that Application Task Killer and kill everything after I'm finished..

I did find this a little extreme as I'm coming from an iphone 2g where I never had to turn off the wifi and do all this task killing ..

that's the one thing I liked about that phone..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] euphoria47:
You have unwittingly solved your own issue, friend.

When flashing to a new ROM your battery calibration is reset, so the phone's understanding of what is a full charge, vs what is "needs-to-charge" are arbitrary values until 2 or 3 power cycles. At this point, all you really need to do is make sure you have your charger, go throughout your day and when it asks you to connect your charger <15% remaining, plug it in. Charge it to full.

To be honest it knows what it needs, when it says charged you can disconnect it, there is no magic to leave it plugged in, and when it asks to be plugged in do it; don't wait. After 2-3 days you will find you can go to work and come back and still have some juice left.

Now maybe your ROM or an app you have installed is sneaking power when you aren't looking. Pushmail and H+ are good culprits; leaving GPS, Bluetooth or WiFi radios on idling all day is not going to help.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] euphoria47:
Actually I found idling wifi to be source of battery drain in the iphone 2g(metal). Maybe not as bad as some devices, sure.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -jop-:
Glad one thought I had was right! Ok, I'll give it some time! Thanks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kennypowersnow:
Hi there anyone loaded the new ROM

XX_OXA_KH1?

if so thoughts?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GetHyper:
I'm on Rogers and had the same issue, just download "SMS Time Fix" from the Market.

While I'm here... I'm hoping someone can shed some light on an issue I have.

I'm running MUGKG2 on Rogers and haven't seen higher than 2Mbs on any of my speed tests (Auto Network settings). If I change the network settings to WCDMA only, I get 3Mbps. How do I get it up to at least 7Mbps?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThaiM:
I think only the Rogers server has the timestamp issue.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kennypowersnow:
Question: if i flash Lite'ning Rom v6.1 XXKH3, will i loose applications and contacts that i have stored on the phone?

Cheers
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jon3sh:
It works like a charm I am using my SG@ now with Rogers Network.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SugarySnack:
Litening does not wipe as far as I know. Best find that info on the litening rom thread.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jon3sh:
You ever use KG5 (Poland)? I am using it right now and wondering if I shoudl flash it to KG6. Also one problem I am having is when I attach images when sending MMS when they open my attachment it will come as MP4 format like Video format any fix for this problem?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yeeahnick:
Your right, this is what i was doing before, but then i found out about APN Global which reconfigures your APN settings to the proper Rogers settings of their servers or what ever. This fixed my problem permanantly, even after a firmware flash it still works, no need to have the SMS Time Fix app service running :)

Im using KG5 btw.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theirlaw:
I'm currently on Rogers and using SMS Time Fix. Can you please go into more detail about the global APN fix? I tried Googling... didn't really come up with anything specific. Is it an app? Phone setting?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shinku:
Its an app in the market, worked great for my phone. I'm on rogers.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hmm...does this look alright? Not sure if I have a mismatched kernel or not? The phone works well, so it's more of an "OCD" thing.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KayvinM:
That's not the stock kernel you need the one that says UGKG2. You can find it here if you want to flash it. You will loose the ability to use the CWM app though.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Any way to get that functionality back? Or would I have to do some additional flashing...wiping, etc...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KayvinM:
I guess we have to wait for a Cf-root version of our kernel which has cwn recovery built in. Chainfire has already received requests for this so I'm sure he will include it when he can
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
So plenty of rooted Canucks without cwm? I want root, but hope I didn't go about it in a hugely onorus way.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KayvinM:
Not at all. I'm also impatient and can't wait to have cwm. For some reason I can't get myself to flash a different rom. I just want to be at stock but with some of the perks...at least for now lol
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
So in this case I'm wondering of I should leave well enough alone and stick with this, and hope I don't need warranty work?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KayvinM:
It's really up to you, if you're happy with the way everything is working then I would leave it. If you need warranty work all you really need to do is flash the stock kernel and get rid of root. Personally I'm happy with stock as long as I have root and cwm.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] korrez:
does anyone on rogers experience an issue where the phone just suddenly becomes disconnected from the network? the only way i've found to restore this is to reboot the phone.

i've experienced this about 4 times since i bought the phone 3 months ago on stock rom/kernel/modem and now as well with litening rom 6.1 / ninphetamine 2.0.5 / KH3
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I flashed the stock kernel back on. Like you, I wanted the benefits of root without stepping too far outside the box. Could be placebo, but I have smooth screen scrolling back.

I can still open and use CWM for reboots, etc... but am unsure what functionality is lost since I hadn't dove too far into that side of things when I was on the non-stock kernel. Thanks for your help.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IronMit:
wait what did i read ..all i have to do is download galaxy_s unlock to root my phone and get busy box??

If yes then what do you get from going to the trouble of the CF-root method. sorry im new, i rooted and flashed custom roms on my motorola xt720, but this is different plus information overload.

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oh no wait..its to unlock it so you can use any sim...sorry

ok on my motorola all i did was put super one click file on my phone....connect it to my pc...find the sd card on my pc and start superoneclick...and 5 seconds later..boom it was done. Does superone click work anywhere near this simple on this device?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KayvinM:
I was only on a different kernel for a brief time so I didn't really notice any difference, but what your saying is possible. The only functionality you lost was cwm recovery. The app will still work but some options that rely on cwm wont since you have the stock 3e recovery now.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KayvinM:
I have had my phone about a month and this has happened probably twice since then. The times it has happened, I toggled airplane mode on and off and It was able to connect fine after.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] korrez:
This worked for me as well. I was able to reproduce it by just losing signal while I was in the subway. As soon as I should have had signal again (had 4 full bars) it would not reconnect to the network until I toggled airplane on/off.

It is rather annoying though as I rely on my phone for work and being on-call for my job. Hope there is a way of fixing it in the near future.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talhawasti:
Is anyone else experiencing major GPS issues? My GPS won't even fix on any satellites. I have my phone rooted but with the Bell firmware and kernel. I'm also using this phone on Rogers. Does anyone have a fix for this. Which firmware works best to fix this problem?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LesterC:
Also have the time stamp issue on rogers, using a self unlocked bell phone. Using sms time fix, works well
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I'm on Bell, but find the GPS "lock" times fairly slow. Sometimes it helps to be in motion if you haven't already tried that.