yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
I'm sure the fix (if one comes), will include you guys. It's the same phone with minor differences.

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Deebo took your bike too?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Longcat14:
Yep, we can even flash your ROM's!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shehrammajid:
Actually, I believe that if supercurio can't fix it, then no one can. Samsung doesnt give a crap and wont do anything except software reset if you send it in to them
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Longcat14:
Once Samsung realizes the dev community is fixed, I'd give it a week before a patch is released.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ApexZeph:
this only works if you don't have your camera adjusted from stock settings I have a low dpi set on my camera due to the noise you get in dark pics with our camera and this method resulted in a perfectly black picture and masked the bars I KNOW my screen has. For anyone looking for the blobs picture used to see the defects, here it is:

Sent from my SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] clninja:
I just opened up that picture and my screen has zero blobs on it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Babyj303:
With brightness all the way down in a dark room you cabt miss them.

Sent from my JUGGED out finger flicker!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Simer03:
No blobs here either....dark room and brightness all the way down! Weird...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] clninja:
yeap... brightness all the way down and in a very dark room... no blobs... i do have some lines but very minimal and they are only noticable when i do the stupid brightness all the way down and in a dark room test with the grey/black screen...which is never how i use my phone
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mikeb85:
I only have lines also.... until I'm in a pitch black room and shut off the phone after the shutdown animation when the screen turns off and the buttons are lit up there are really black spots on the black screen this is the only time I can see them on mine
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] steven178s:
I haven't been here in a while. Did he ever get the phone??
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jangst123:
No confirmation yet!

Last info we have..

ON - 8th December 2011, 01:20 PM

So cross your fingers! With any luck he picked it up.

But we haven't had a whole lot of luck around here :eek:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] skadude66:
From supercurio's twitter:

http://twitter.com/#!/supercurio/status/145714712640888832

:D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jangst123:
That's not confirmation.

I'll be happy when he says it is in the palm of his hand!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] supercurio:
I told they I was going to pick up. Wednesday it was raining a ton all day and Saturday I woke up too late (such a nerd ^^)

Monday should be fine ;)

I have no worry about the shipment outcome whatsoever.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Babyj303:
So tomorrow it is? I really hipe so.

Sent from my JUGGED out finger flicker!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] supercurio:
Tomorrow is fix release day !

Just kidding :eek: ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkamikaze:
Lol awesome. have fun with your new toy!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Longcat14:
I can't wait for you to do your magic.... :D:D:D:D:D:D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
Glad to hear at least one of the bounty forums is going great. Great news!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 513263337:
I feel so relieved that at least this bounty is going great and our supercurio is trustworthy...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] supercurio:
BTW I bought a Galaxy Note, available in my area and interesting because its off-charts specs. Its screen situation is similar if not worse :/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] steven178s:
I was aroused until I read the "Just kidding"
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] supercurio:
Hehe got ya :)

Some things needs time − I mean work.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Babyj303:
Yay :D

Sent from my JUGGED out finger flicker!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 513263337:
You actually got the Galaxy Note????????????

WOW, I want one too.. hmm, actually, it's my gf who wants one. She likes big, as usual...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] supercurio:
Yeah I have one but don't clearly don't recommend it as it is now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] j0hnZ:
Was it my sadface I sent you in that email that got you to check this phone out haha? johnz7777@gmail.com
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
Were you able to get the phone today?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ThC23:
Ooh, ooh! Did he pull a bubby?

Of course I'm just joking, I'm sure phone is in hand and he's working his magic.

Powered by the SGSII....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] HRodMusic:
i wonder if supercurio will bring voodoo to the phone =D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] horatiob:
Let's not get ahead of our selves. BUT BOY OH BOY!!!!!!!! :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] HRodMusic:
;) lol so exited, maybe even see ics before xmas, dev forum has been real quiet lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkamikaze:
not so long ago.. supercurio updated his github.. someone posted it in one of the dev threads
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Simer03:
i see these blobs now...in a dark room, if i choose hot reboot option in juggernaut, all the blobs and lines are clearly visible.....WTF??!!??!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jangst123:
Answer to Voodoo lagfix and Sound!

Not to burst any bubbles but..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] HRodMusic:
jangst123, you party pooper =(

lol i kinda expected that i remember reading a while back about what he said.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jangst123:
lol, that's what I'm here for :D smashing hopes and dreams,,

then building them back up!

But you never know what great stuff Supercurio will come up with! :eek:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] HRodMusic:
aslong as we get a color fix im good, =D but supercurio has some tricks up his sleeve lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] supercurio:
See the signature :)

Now there's work to do.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] onajjar1012:
Congratulations on your new phone supercurio. I hope you enjoy it and perform some of your magic on it. I hate to ask for this, but who collected the donations so I could ask them to pay me for the phone? With christmas around the corner I kind of need the money.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] supercurio:
Hi onajjar1012, great job with the package it was very solidly prepared!

Also the device is in perfect condition... and I must say this screen is pretty aweful. ARGH :eek:

I really didn't expect something so bad.

For the payment, that's perfectly legitimate especially in this period and because the shipment took a bit more time than expected; Romanbb will proceed to the transfer as quick as possible.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] onajjar1012:
Thank you supercurio. I'm glad everything reached you in one piece. I guess it's a good thing that the screen is awful since this will allow you to perform some of your magic on it. Good luck with everything and thank you for all of the work you've done in the past and the work you will do to your new phone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ApexZeph:
And thank YOU for supporting this community by trusting the dev to get the phone before payment.

Sent from my SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Simer03:
Its awesome to see that we got lucky with a trustworthy dev in a situation such as this! Unlike some.....they know who they are....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Girn:
Hi supercurio,

Congrats on finally getting the device!

Once you make voodoo for it, can you make it cross compatible between t mobile phone and skyrocket? They do use the same screen
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
Hey op, should you update the title to say somethibg like Supercurio - galaxy s2 screen development progress, or ? :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PoisonWolf:
I would suggest donating to the right person but the OP in this thread, someone who has been around longer and with a more well-known sense of credibility.

This is not to offend OP (really), but along the lines of common sense. You joined in October, it doesn't make sense if people started sending you money and you just vanished.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] supercurio:
Thanks guys.

@Surfacet: I'll be more comfortable if you remove references to in the first post to Voodoo Sound, as I don't want people to donate for something I can't provide.

To be clear ;)

What I can do:

Re-use a color profile (aka gamma set) built by Samsung like those already available in other Galaxy S II, like GT-I9000 or AT&T/Sprint Exynos Galaxy S II, or maybe even Infuse 4G.

Gamma sets, defining entirely color rendering are hardcoded in kernel and in theory it's impossible to change it without flashing a custom kernel.

However, it's inconvenient for most users, why I'm writing ATM a cracker's style kernel driver, messing with Linux's internal and allowing to replace active gamma set by another customized one. (what I write today works only on Exynos devices)

Short story:

- I can fix the color rendering

- The user only have to install an app and choose the fixed color profile.

- root is a requirement, custom kernel is not.

- the app is free, will stay free.

- written kernel driver is GPL and will be re-usable in any custom kernel, like the many built by developers here (hello guys!)

If I can't adapt an existing gamma set, I'll have to build one myself − tricky, but with experience and a colorimeter: possible.

What I also plan to do, but will be a commercial optional feature:

The project I'm working on is named Voodoo Screen Tuning R&D. I'll soon kill this application and replace it by a more refined one.

Base features like screen presets and screen fixes are free and will stay free. However, my business model for this app is to sell powerful screen tuning options like saturation, sharpness, color rendering customization as optional in-app purchase.

Presets are what most people want: just does the job and make the screen beautiful (free). And I hope power users will love playing with advanced screen controls & customization − and buy those features

What I can't probably fix:

- Lines:

I'm not 100% sure of what it is before seeing such a device but it seems to me it's related to the manufacturing process.

What I can't do:

- Blobs:

I'm 100% sure blobs are a shortcoming due to the current Super AMOLED Plus manufacturing process.

Those are seen only at lowest brightness. As fixed color profile are basically brighter and more balanced, blobs will be less visible but still here, the same.

- Voodoo Sound:

Galaxy S II audio hardware doesn't have the required abilities (like headphone amplifier analog control, DAC tuning options) to implement it. I won't work on this device sound at all.

What I won't do:

- Kernels:

I don't build or repack kernels anymore. Instead, I provide tools for other kernels developers and users, aiming at the easiest usage, installation possible and widest compatibility in order to reach a maximum of users.

- ROMs:

Well, there are many ROM specialist out there.. and I'm not :D

However I'll be able to help them out if for some reason it doesn't work as expected.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] movieaddict:
ty for clarifying!! much appreciated
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jdlorinser:
Sounds great Supercurio. Can't wait!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Surfacet:
Thanks romannbb for the efforts. We could definitely use someone like you to buy him the phone.

Now we need poeple to post how much they whilling to donate so we could properly calculate it and put it on the OP.

I will chip in some cash too (I'm 15 btw so no credit card)

this is a well deserved bounty for a well deserved developer.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Surfacet:
As much I want to agree with you on this, I don't think its going to work out like that. The bounty guidelines were made for other poeple not you. You have a well known and respected reputation around the android world. I know you won't do such a thing stated on bounty guidelines :P

Also poeple tend to forget about it in time passing so I would say to donate right now than later to speed up the process.

Let me know what y'all think.

I'm listening :P
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] woldy2:
I will donate...just need to know who to donate too
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Surfacet:
Romanbb offered us to buy the device. I just don't know who to donate to just yet. Hope someone comes up with an idea because Im kinda clueless on these such things.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tiguy99:
same here....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jasnmb:
Not great news about the lines. The lines are what bugs me the most.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Surfacet:
There is still high chance or hope of fixing the lines issues as he stated it as "probably can't do"
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
Okay let's get this going. I vote for romanbb to take the donations. He doesn't have to post a separate account just use his same donation link and donators just specify what it's for.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ghammer80:
+1 for romanbb, if he is down for it.

I will drop $50 to kick this off.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] daddymatt:
+1 Good idea, lets do that. I have $20 on it.... lets just get it going.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] supercurio:
I'm not English native so correct me if I'm wrong, but by "probably can't" I meant "its most likely I won't be able to"
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] supercurio:
Yup, I'm very cool with the idea of starting a collaboration with another developer involved this way.

@romanbb: as soon as you confirm, its a Go! :)

Now there is still a funky aspect. In order to allow me to fix this issue, it will be useful to verify that the device screen is affected by what actually bother users.

And.. if its too good, this time it will be useful to ask for a replacement in order to get a problematic device :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ThC23:
This Guy already has the phone, why not get him involved somehow?

@daddymat. This phone you speak of, does it have the lines and blobs?

Like SC said, in this case he needs a defective phone to test out and see if he's fix(es) work.

#Havingablast w/ my SGS2
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Surfacet:
Awesome guys!!

I vote for romanbb to make another account as some people might forget to state whats the donation for. Also please post how much your donating so I can keep records on the OP. Thanks

Well another idea is, romanbb should make a Chipin account and everyone donates to it. Its easier to track the progress on the website.

Let me know what you think, waiting for romanbb to reply :D

@daddymatt

So your 100% sure that sgsii is reserved for supercurio right? I mean like the original seller wont go around and make a post on craiglist about the sgsii right?

@Supercurio

Quick question (noob) can you make a Voodoo lag-fix for this phone? or its not possible?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] aaronpaws:
been anxious for Voodoo Color on my Galaxy S2. That was literally my favorite mod on my Nexus S. +100000 to this thread.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] iloveandroid16:
Im a broke 16 year old but ill do $5.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] goonx:
Only if you guys return the love with an ics rom or miui ics port our way. ;)

Sent from my SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AznDud333:
he already said our device can't do voodoo
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bhowanidin:
Not being a troll, but he has stated its not possible. Sorry. Plus screens don't affect sound...

Sent from my Juggernaut SGSII or Galaxy Tab 10.1 now "In Paris"
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bhowanidin:
Double post
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Girn:
I meant fixing screen issues. Sorry for misunderstanding
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArcticWolf91:
This is great! So glad to have such great developers like Supercurio on our side! :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] }{Alienz}{:
Sigh. Supercurio gets the phone and IMMEDIATELY tweets how ****ty scrollling is and its 2D performance? This is truly sad...and he is right.

Scrolling on this phone feels like a phone 2 generations old. Wtf is up with the 2D performance on it? Over TWICE slower when compared to an Exynos according to Quadrant 2D.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PikkonX:
Also, someone from Samsung saw those tweets and replied to him. The few issues with our phone are definitely known about in-house over at Samsung. So while we know they will never admit anything regarding the screen's hardware issues, hopefully all the Snapdragon GS2s will receive some extra special attention and optimization during the official ICS update process. Though I bet most people here will be using CM9 or switch to the Galaxy Nexus looooooonnnnnggg before the ICS update is officially available :p.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] horatiob:
This just sucks!!! I really shoulda stayed with the Vibrant! UGH!!! I dont think this phone is worthy of the badge "GS2" smh...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jasnmb:
Scrolling seems pretty good to me. But I came from a mytouch 3g, so I'm sure I just don't know any better. :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mintharis:
Yeah I'm coming from a bb so I don't know any better. Is 2d performance really that bad?

Sent from my SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PikkonX:
I really only had the scrolling issues on the stock ROM. Using Juggernaut with Faux's beta 006 kernel makes things perfect though.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] clninja:
Cyanogen is no longer supporting the vibrant.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
The stock rom has bad 2d performance. Faux kernel fixes that overclocking the gpu to 320 i believe. We all know oems are horrible at stock optimization. We could probably get better scores but samsung galaxy s2 is hardware cap at 60fps.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] supercurio:
Yes I'll make my best to make it work on skyrocket as well.

However at first I'll work only on the T989 version until its finished. Than later if possible make a port (if there's something special to do, it may just work already).

Its much more efficient to work on 1 device first, with simple code instead of trying to make things work on several device, you get usable results a lot faster.

Plus I don't have the skyrocket so.. I'll need to collaborate with devs having it later ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] supercurio:
Ah so I'm not the first one to notice that !

That's the first thing I saw.. 10s after turning on the device. And I'm sure people see the same thing in store and.. buy an iPhone instead.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] supercurio:
I think the same.

Compared to the AT&T Infuse 4G I have (sent by Samsung, thanks to them) The Galaxy S II T-Mobile is marginally faster but smooth nowhere where the Infuse is.

Including the browser which is outstanding.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] supercurio:
Good to know.

About 2D performance I suspect a lack of optimization because of the launcher behavior:

- Launcher scrolling through panes is not smooth with a static background

- If you set a heavy 3D live wallpaper like Season Zen HD, despite the massive overhead scrolling in launcher becomes a lot smoother, which should make no sense ;)

My first bet here was that under 2D conditions the GPU, a bus or the CPU is heavily downclocked and fails to adapt to the required interactive conditions quickly enough.

(Power optimization so it makes sense if it's not over-done)

Why I thought about less GPU downclocking instead of overclocking but it's really the same idea.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] }{Alienz}{:
Faux's beta 0.06 has impressive 3D performance. But the 2D is still ****ty...and hence by extension the scrolling is still choppy. :(

---------- Post added at 07:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:29 PM ----------

You may have a good point with that. Though, even with demanding wallpapers, the scrolling performance is STILL not up to par with other Galaxy S2 variants. I have a friend with an international SGS2 and it's just another experience in smoothness. Something else to note.

The International SGS2 gets a 2D Quadrant score of ~900-950.

This T-Mo SGS2 gets a 2D Quadrant score of ~440 and that is when it is with a GPU that is OVERCLOCKED. Not overclocked it is under 400. There's just something wrong with that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
I have been using launchers like regina 3d and spb shell the performance gets a lot better. Its not like the adreno 220 is bad at 2d performance though. Other devices the 2d performance is fine. like sensation evo 3d and amaze 4g are fine with 2d performance. It is most noticeable in the web browser it will checkerboard even when the pages are fully loaded with no flash.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] supercurio:
Note to self:

I can't understand how lines can be so visible. It's really different from other Super AMOLED devices: not sure it's 100% a hardware issue.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Longcat14:
That's weird... my skyrocket is VERY smooth, even on stock.

I wonder why the T-Mobile SGS II lags in that department..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] supercurio:
Exynos Galaxy S II (GT-I9000) provides full 60 FPS browser scrolling.

T-Mobile T989 has hardware acceleration as well but there is some stuttering.

A good example is watching fps2d app.

The little green circle move is supposed to be totally smooth & constant.

But at least on the device/firmware combo I have here it's not. There's jitter/stuttering in its movement.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Nihonno:
I never heard of the app until today so I just downloaded it for a test. The movement was very consistent. I averaged 59 FPS and the "red" bars didn't come up like the green bars. (I have no idea if that's a good thing though). I think the performance issues of the T989 is largely in part of the T-Mobile factory ROM. I currently run the bombardier ROM.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] supercurio:
Thats good to know thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tdizzle404:
Yea I'm getting the same with beastmod 4.0
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Babyj303:
Im getting the exact same with juggernaut 3.7

Sent from my JUGGED out finger flicker!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] billydroid:
Lol,don't get our hopes up! :p
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArcticWolf91:
I'm running stock. Average was 58 but six red bars did pop up and I definitely noticed it lag a bit.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] }{Alienz}{:
Juggernaut 3.7, Faux 0.06 @ 1.7Ghz

average 59, standard deviation 14.27.

That standard deviation is huge. I was definitely seeing the ball jitter back and forth when it's not smooth.

EDIT:

If I set it to PERFORMANCE governor, results become avg: 59, std: 8.6

A bit more reasonable, still jittery though.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PJcastaldo:
I am so excited that your looking into this device for us Supercurio.

I ran the fps2d app as well and just like every one else i also got 59fps all green bars (what ever that means). Kills me that people report their Vibrant SGS scores in the 70's.. guess it doesn't really matter..

I wanted to mention, and im not sure if this is relevant and im sure you have already noticed but the lines and blotches are visible when the phone is off and the charging screen comes on.. So i hope that is not a sign of a real hardware issue..