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[Galaxy S II General] Tiu Fiu:
By the way, I've just checked sammobile.com and the TIM-branded firmware is also out (VJLP7, build date and changelist are the exact same as the unbranded firmware, so there is probably nothing new).

Also, on samsung-updates.com there is a new Oi-branded firmware (VJLP8) with a newer build date (19/04/2012), but the same changelist as the unbranded, Vivo and TIM firmwares - I guess there is nothing new to expect here too.

The only one missing now is Claro... Lets see how long it will take...

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Scratch that, I missed the Claro-branded firmware on sammobile.com, below the unbranded ROM. Sammobile.com shows the VJLP8 ZTA firmware as Claro - however, I can’t check the build date or the changelist right now.
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
Hi guys, sorry if this has been brought up before but I searched the web and I found a lot of different answers and I was hoping you guys could clarify it.

Is the Gorilla Glass present on the brazilian version or not?

Also, is anybody having problems with weather widget on lockscreen?

It always shows 0ºC. I'm using official brazilian unbranded LP7. Full wipe, no custom kernel nor rooted.
[Galaxy S II General] Brazooka:
Anything beyond that statement is conspiracy theory...

http://twitter.com/#!/SamsungMobileBR/status/157903385738223617
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
Opa, valeu pela resposta.
[Galaxy S II General] angelomaldito:
First of all, always do a backup before flashing a new ROM, unless you don't care about losing your data.

I wouldn't go back from ICS to GB just for the triangle, especially because a lot of people reported pesky problems after doing that (it seems that they're related to the ICS bootloader). Therefore, if I were in your shoes, I'd go for the CF's "Triangle Away" app, as suggested.

As soon as it was made available, I've installed LP7 ZTO ICS (comming from LPS OXA ICS) downloaded from samfirmware.com and flashed using CF's "Mobile Odin" with the "ever-root" option, without wiping anything other than cache and dalvik cache. Everything perfect so far, no FCs or problems whatsoever, and I've kept all my data and apps. Even those apps which often had "not responding" problems with LPS have been behaving very well so far.

Finally, you just have to bother about the counter if you're sending your phone back to warranty.
[Galaxy S II General] Robinho_sp:
New Modem UHLPF

Good morning everyone!

I'm using the ROM ICS CM9 a long time and I love it, I use the modem and UHLPE obsrvei that there is a modem UHLPF the most current, however I found it to install through the CWM.

Does anyone have it there?

Thank you!

Bom dia pessoal!

Estou usando a ROM ICS CM9 a muito tempo e adoro ela, eu utilizo o modem UHLPE e obsrvei que existe um modem mais atual o UHLPF, entretanto não encontrei ele para instalar através do CWM.

Alguém tem ele ai?

Obrigado
[Galaxy S II General] Simonetti2011:
Here 's my 2c on the newly released Brazilian ROMS (ZTA, ZTO, ZTM, ZVV).

I tried both ZTA (Claro) and ZTO (unbranded) ROMS, flashed through Mobile Odin.

ZTA has the newest PDA version of them all (LP8), but the CSC is LP3 (quite old). Phone is UHLPF.

The major problem with ZTA is that it comes with the search engined locked to Yahoo! and it cannot be changed. The only way to use Google as the main search provider is to edit /system/csc/features.xml and replace the Yahoo! search URL for Google's. It also prevents the installation of the Google Search application. This alone is a huge no-no to use this ROM.

OTOH, ZTA's ROM comes with the 4.0.4 Framework. Yes, you read correctly: Claro's ROM already features the newest Google Framework (I should have taken a screenshot of that before flashing another ROM).

The problem with ZTA's ROM - besides the Yahoo! terrible search engine - is its speed. Previously I was using XEN LP7 (Netherlands, unbranded), and it was great: with ZTA it came to a crawl, a near halt and the phone boot looped twice.

Clearing the Dalvik cache and a clean wipe didn't solve the problems with it, so goodbye ZTA.

The I tried ZTO (unbranded). It isn't as new as Claro's, since it features the 4.0.3 Google Framwork. It allows for changing search engines. It is, however, just as slow as Claro's ROM. It is bloated with useless crapware.

Samsung Brazil must have made something in these ROMs that made them perform awfully. Seriously: all the 2 Brazilian ROMs I tried simply suck compared to European ones.

I went back to XEN LP7 after a clean wipe (data + cache) and everything was back to normal.

Today there was a new ROM with a much improved changelist, from the Nordic Countries (NEE LPD) and I must say this is the best ROM I ever tried. I flashed it early today (no wipe, so I changed ROMs in under 3 minutes) and it is blazing fast. I am loving it.

So, in short: forget about all the 4 Brazilian ROMs. Get an European ROM (NEE or XEN) and forget about upgrades at least until ICS 4.0.4 is officially out.
[Galaxy S II General] nightcrawlerbr:
I've used TTT and O2, and now I'm using the ZTO Unbranded, so far its just like the others in speed and battery (of course after freezing crapware and setting it up). I couldn't find the slugishness you talk about. Will stick to ZTO for now.
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
Same here for me. I'm not having such problems.
[Galaxy S II General] Simonetti2011:
By now TTT seems a bit outdated, since it's changelist is way lower than the current ROMs. That means that a few bugs from the initial official releases might have been fixed in the latest ROMs.

IMHO, chagelist is the number to go by. The higher the better, because it means more changes (including bug fixes) have been made to the ROM.
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
So the new Nordic LPD >>> Brazil LP7?

Changelist is 2000 higher.
[Galaxy S II General] eric-filth:
Sure.

This XWLPD is a lot better than ICS Brasil
[Galaxy S II General] Brazooka:
+1.

Could you tell us in what aspects this XWLPD ROM is superior to the ZTO?
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
I'd like to know that too.

I was wondering if the Battery Percentage is present on this version as well.

Galaxy Note ICS already has it and it's awesome!
[Galaxy S II General] hebermc:
Is that faster then ICS Lite'Ning?
[Galaxy S II General] eric-filth:
What you think about almost double of changelist?

Newer, newer kernel, more bugs fixed.

If you want use old things, turn back to Ginger.

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[Galaxy S II General] Tiu Fiu:
Easy eric, easy...

Now, to answer the questions regarding LPD, I've been using it for 3 or 4 hours non-stop and everything seems pretty smooth...

Can't say much about the completelly stock XWLPD ROM, I mean, I went from a full wiped XWLP8 (australian) with SiyahKernel 3.2.2 to the XWLPD (just a cache and dalvik cache wipe) and flashed Siyah 3.2.2 again. And I kept all previous tweaks (CPU UnderVolting, GPU OverClocking, etc, etc).

Things seem smooth and all, and so far I haven't had a single forced closure or app freeze. No apparent overheat so far, and battery seems to be holding up well too (haven't noticed much difference from XWLP8 with SiyahKernel 3.2.2 in this particular point though).

Anyway, it is still too soon to give a detailed review, so maybe tomorrow or the day after that I may be able to give you guys a thorough answer. Everything seems great though, so I guess by the way things are going, XWLPD seems to be a solid ROM.
[Galaxy S II General] eric-filth:
Ok im calm now.

Your review explain what i said. Simple.

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[Galaxy S II General] Brazooka:
Sometimes things are like wine: the older, the better...

And a bigger number on a change list means nothing in real world. Have you ever heard the expression "placebo effect"?

Anyway, thank you eric-filth for your intelligent post.

Thanks. This is what I call a good post. No irony mode this time. :D
[Galaxy S II General] luizlee86:
This eric is really annoying and arrogant.

His last posts (not just in this thread) were totally stupid.
[Galaxy S II General] eric-filth:
Your Welcome.

I always prefer older whisky too. But we talking about ICS Stock Rom.

Good to see your mind was clarify.

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[Galaxy S II General] eric-filth:
With non-smart guys sometimes is needed.

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[Galaxy S II General] luizlee86:
Hahahahahaha!

You're funny, man! Hahahahahaha!

"You're welcome"????

Do you really think that guy was thanking you for your useless post? Couldn't you really see he was being ironic? (to make it sure you are understanding, he was thanking Tiu Fiu)

And this is a forum mate. There are a lot of people with knowledge and a lot without! There are even a loooot of people who are better than you, did you know that?! Be more polite!

For example, your english isn't good and sometime is really hard to understand, but I didn't see anyone treating you like a retarded because of this! But what if people do? How would you feel?

Geez...

@all (but eric) sorry for this off topic post.. but some things have to be said.. this guy really makes me mad..
[Galaxy S II General] angelomaldito:
I'm using the latest ZTO for a few days and I have to disagree with the quoted statement. The ROM (at least on my phone) is blazing fast, and the only bloatware included that I've noticed was "Livraria Cultura", "Netmovies" and a game called "Sparta", (all erased imediatelly after flashing) apart from the "user manual" which actually is not a bad idea to include in the ROM, even though advanced users (such most people here) will never use it. In addition, the last Dutch ROM I've tried was loaded with crapware as well, as do most CSC around the world (especially the carriers' customised ones).

If eventually I find any problem with the ZTO ICS ROM I'm using I'll report here. So far so good...
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
LPD fixed the Weather Widget on Lockscreen always showing 0.0ºC though, which I was actually looking forward to.
[Galaxy S II General] Simonetti2011:
Some of the initial official ICS production releases (all changelists <= 340913) have already started being upgraded to the latest changelist (524746) as new ROMs.

The XEN (Netherlands, unbranded) was the first ICS to receive a second upgrade within ICS. Several European ROMs will start receiving the rollup upgrade to changelist 524746 within the next days.

Therefore, all those using changelist lower than 340913 (such as TTT) are already using an outdated and buggy ROM. If you don't have noticeable problems, believe me: they are there!

Besides, the TTT ROM might not receive the updates to Google Services Framework 4.0.4 (I got it OTA this morning). See my screenshot in the official ICS ROMs thread.

If you're confortable with the crappy TTT ROM, by all means, use it! I'm just trying to help you folks by telling you that even Samsung has started ditching these older ROMs.
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
Oh, so that explains why the Youtube widget suddenly changed layout for me here on LP8.
[Galaxy S II General] Tiu Fiu:
Another thing I forgot: on these 25h of usage, I would say there were 3 or so hours on mobile network (3G, H and H+, as the Claro standard here in São Paulo) and the remaining on WiFi - I keep mobile network, WiFi and the GPS always on because of Cerberus.

And another important review, that I was waiting to say on monday after a few more tests, is that this new modem, XXLPW, seems to be a little less efficient than XXLPS - at work I usually got around -70dB and -85dB at home, and today I checked a few times both at work and at home and I got around -80 and -92, respectivelly.

I'll run some more tests during the weekend and I'll update you on monday on this particular subject.

Since WiFi reception is handled by the Kernel, I won't be reviewing this item - though I can't say I felt any difference between XWLPD and XWLP8, both on SiyahKernel 3.2.2.
[Galaxy S II General] guedes_puc:
Can you tell more about it? I don't know how to do that.
[Galaxy S II General] luizlee86:
Then just download Fasterfix from market. It's free and requires root.
[Galaxy S II General] Tiu Fiu:
There is a file in the /etc folder called "gps.conf". This file has the settings required by the GPS chip to download the GPS-related data, so it can function as it should.

This data is related to the 31 GPS satellites in geosynchronous orbit around the Earth and is downloaded from an international server, the NTP, which supplies the optimum data to the satellites around a specific region.

In other words, this NTP server, if correctly configured in your device, will send your device the information of the correct satellites for one specific region (there are 11 ideal satellites that when combined, are best suited for a fix here in Brazil).

The main problem with our SGSII is that, God knows why, Samsung always configures this file to the US region, regardless of the firmware region or country. This means that, if one does not change the server, a SII in Brazil or in Australia will always attempt to detect the signal from the satellites pointing to the continental US/Canada region.

That is preciselly why our GPS, if untanted, simply socks.

Now to solve this, you can use FasteFix, or just use RootExplorer to open this gps.conf in a text editor and change the first line, "NTP_SERVER=north-america.pool.ntp.org" to "NTP_SERVER=br.pool.ntp.org" (yes, we do have a specific server for our region, given the continental size of our country).

Either way, you will require root access to change this file or use FasteFix, since the /etc forder is in the main root of the Android OS.
[Galaxy S II General] nightcrawlerbr:
PLEASE don't mix the terms buddy. NTP servers are Network Time Protocols servers, they provide NO information about sattelites for GPS to fix to, but GPS is highly dependent on time, so, the more accurate your clock is, the better your GPS will get.

As you sync your clock, you get a time, and then an offset is added, calculated based on your connection quality to compensate for the time it took for the packets to come and go (if faster and reliable, you'll get less offset).

GPS time is then used to calculate your position, once you get more than 4 sattelites (you receive from the sattelite the time and the position in orbit), your device then calculates your position, based on YOUR time (that's the reason you need an accurate clock) and the delay it took for the signal to go from the sattelite to your device. To LOCK on a sat is simply to have an accurate time delay for the signal, very dependent on your clock.

Go to Wikipedia for more info, and ntp.br provides you with various time servers to sync to, including gps.ntp.br, wich is the one I use (the name just sounds right).

FasterFix has a CUSTOM option where you can type.

IF you have no data connection, no internet connection, then the GPS time has to be calculated without an base, you also have to receive more information about the sattelites from them, hence why it takes a long time to fix unless your clock is right or you have a data connection working to sync your clock (we are talking fractions of a second here).

Note this is about NTP server, AGPS servers can be used to gather more information (GPS almanac and ephemeris) that takes up to a few minutes to receive from the sattelites and thus speed up things. Now if an AGPS server can run simultaneos with an NTP server, that I don't know.
[Galaxy S II General] guedes_puc:
Thanks for all the useful information. I ended up going for FasterFix, as it seems to be easier to change between servers when I travel.

On that matter, I'm very fond on Google maps, but I'd like to know if anyone has good experience using a GPS app with pre loaded maps.
[Galaxy S II General] ark_daemon:
Brazilian GT-I9100 Retail - PDA:LP7 / PHONE:LPF / CSC:LP4(ZTO)

Downloading...

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It'll take ages before I can download/update via Kies...

Can anyone point me the right direction to Direct Download...

-____-'

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Nevermind... found it
[Galaxy S II General] Tiu Fiu:
Unfortunatelly I've never found an offline GPS app as good as GoogleMaps, and I've tested the ones available o the Play Store (Sigic, NDrive, and one I can't remember right now).

In the end though, I decided to go with NDrive 11, the one I think is the easier one to cope with. It is not as good as GMaps, but it will do the job as it is supposed to (act as a vehicle GPS) and it also allows you to easily update all data related to speedtraps (or speedcams, if you will) from maparadar.com. NDrive 11 also has (allegedly) a life-time license, but for a single device (or IMEI number). I don't know what will happen if you buy a new device (if you'be allowed to download NDrive to the new device or if you'll have to buy another license)

If I were you I would try the ones available on the Play Store before choosing one (keeping in mind that these offline GPS apps usually cost around 20 - 25 euros).
[Galaxy S II General] nightcrawlerbr:
If you ask NDrive, you can change your license 3 times (3 devices) wich is better than nothing but not as good as a permanent license like most Play apps. At least their service terms allowed you to do it an year ago when I checked.

In my humble oppinion, if you are willing to put some money, spend it on a data plan and use Google Maps, some people have no network coverage, but I always can get the data for offline use before its needed.

RadarDroid (the Pro version was free on GetJar.com a few months ago) is the way to go for speed and camera alerts. It goes well with Google Maps.
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
Have you guys tested S Voice on stock ICS?

Is it working fine? Does it have PT-BR?

If Samsung does not release S Voice in Brazil I'll be so pissed.
[Galaxy S II General] Tiu Fiu:
Sorry for this, posted the same previous reply twice... Thank you Claro for your always reliable 3G connection...
[Galaxy S II General] angelomaldito:
Personally, I use Gmaps and its "pre-cache map area" (via wi-fi) for offline use. Even though it's limited to 10x 10sq. Km cached areas, it works fine for me. IMHO, Gmaps navigation is top-notch!
[Galaxy S II General] nightcrawlerbr:
Regarding S Voice, do not expect PT-BR, even SIRI doesn't have it, I doubt Samsung will do it... I would really like it, but its a far fetched dream...
[Galaxy S II General] :
Which modem are you guys using? I still on LPS, but what about the LPF from the stock ZTO? [I'm using CM9]

P.S: the stock ICS ZTO sucks... Even Claro has a better firmware. Don't upgrade to the LP7, upgrade to LPD or CM9.
[Galaxy S II General] Simonetti2011:
I'm using LPW (from the NEE LPD ROM) and it is excellent.

About the ZTO ROM, what you wrote is exactly what I stated a few days ago in this thread: all the Brazilian ROMs suck big time. Not only they are already outdated (changelist 371K, while the current is 524K).

The NEE LPD (Nordic Countries) is a great ROM, it works flawlessly with the Brazilian Claro (and all the others, obviously), it has Brazilian Portuguese language, and it is the latest and most bug-free ROM samsung has to offer.
[Galaxy S II General] eric-filth:
Finally.

+1

Is so hard people understand this.
[Galaxy S II General] :
What up? hehehehe.

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Yeah, but CM9 is much better than the Stock ICS :) The stock has some weird color calibration, while the CM9 you set the default screen mode in the Advanced configuration and you're good. Besides that, CM9 is cleaner and has more features. I tested the LPW modem a bit and it seems to consume a lot of battery juice. Flashed back the LPS.
[Galaxy S II General] Simonetti2011:
The stock ICS ROM has 3 screen modes: DYNAMIC, STANDARD and MOVIE.

About being CM9 cleaner: if you're rooted, just use TitaniumBackup to remove whatever crapware you want.
[Galaxy S II General] :
That's the screen mode. In CM9 is something like mDNIe. Siyah has support to change this by a init.d script, but in CM9 is in the Advanced configurations. A ugly mDNIe mode is on by default, but the really default is the first one. I delete the GalaxySIISettings.apk here, so no problem. CM9 is cleaner because there's less dependencies and a friendly UI. And I don't need Titanium, is useless to me, much easier if I delete on Root Explorer. Did you try the CM9? If you didn't, I won't recommend, otherwise, you will never flash other ROM, :P
[Galaxy S II General] angelomaldito:
Definitely, it's not easy! :rolleyes:Personally, I haven't experienced yet any of the supposed LP7 ZTO flaws. I'm not able to comment on previous ZTO firmwares, as I've bought my phone in the UK more than a year ago and used mostly XEU, OXA and XEN firmwares until a few days ago, but IMHO the current ZTO is very good (no FCs so far, very fast, good signal, fast GPS lock, no issues at all). By my experience with Gingebread, not always the newer firmware is the better. While some bugs are fixed, a few new are often introduced. Therefore, in spite of respecting and appreciating the negative feedbacks on ZTO (even though the reported issues aren't much specific - e.g. "it sucks", "it's rubbish", etc.), at the moment I see no reasons to flash another ROM.

I really like CM9, but I'm waiting for it's official release in order to try it out. The only thing that put me off CM7 in the past was its camera. The camera on CM9 at least has "touch-to-focus."
[Galaxy S II General] hebermc:
In my experience:

Online Browsing: Waze*

Offline Browsing: Sygic

But if you have Symbian or a Garmin unit, Garmin with the "pacotão" maps is still the best.

*In some cities Waze seems to be better than google maps for online browsing, it has traffic reports and user reported events (like crashes and police). But it does not work everywhere, in Recife its excellent, but recently I traveled to Natal and it was almost useless. The odd part is that in Natal Waze was the only one of all gps map programs I tested (Google Maps, Sygic, Igo, Ndrive) that actually showed me the correct destinations, the problem was it could not route me to the destination.
[Galaxy S II General] G.Realest:
How to

Afater a few days running LPD with this Nordic Countries Stock Rom that was sugested on this forum i've came up with a coouple of dobts and opnions:

1. when i used the stocks Vivo's Rom and then Claro's Rom, i did had some noticeble slow internet (Wifi) cause here in Brazil 3G it's kind of ridiculous and some minnor bugs such as freezing my screen on a simple dialing process but enough to make me reeboot the phone. Today, after 03 daysa on the LPD kernel from NEE Rom, i got my first screen freeze but it came back to normal after less than a minute. Is this normal for all you using the NEE Rom?

2. I agrre with those who are wating for the CM9 rom to get more stable at least cause i usse too many diferent emails and Kaiten Mail, my client, ndoes have dificulty with CM (instability)

My question is, is there any Stock Rom in the world that has the features (Camera; Contacts Agenda and Dial Pad) with interface similar to the Nexus or even that are being being aprooved in ROM's like Ressurection Remix; CM9 and offcourse the G Nexus F1 Rom for SII (this last one was fiwed with bugs but gave me an opportunity to see and feel how ICS Pure (that i thought we would get) was supposed to be!

Many thanks on advance...

Currently Devices

GSII (I9100 Intern. Vers.)--> Nordic Countries ICS Stock Rom (Rooted)

GSII (I9100 Intern. Vers.)--> Claro's ICS Stock Rom (Not Rooted)(untouched)

GTab 8.9 (P7300)--> Claro's discusting Ginger 3.1 Stock Rom) (Not Rooted)
[Galaxy S II General] guedes_puc:
I have not experienced any screen freezes in a week of usage, but my SGSII have rebooted alone two or three times. It is the best and most stable ICS ROM I've tried so far, and yet I see a lot of room for improvements.

I may give LPW or LPF a chance later this week, as it seems there are some nice new things on them, such as battery percentage on status bar. Can anyone confirm that information? If I do try any of them I'll come back and report to you guys.