yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Lifeflare:
I am presently pulling this one down (just about done) and will keep it on my 'forever upload' list for anyone who is after it (my torrent is open just about 24 /7).

I have been running Darkside for the longest time but having some issues with it of late so figure why not try something new? :laugh:

I will post back with comments in a day or three...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] pychen2001:
A dummy question:

How to turn off/on data, and how to manage the data use with this ROM?

Edit: found out the answer.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] juntjoo:
com.google.process etc...

and all other variants of this message are going nuts on my phone. I don't know if its specific to this Rom as it was happening before on others but I just pulled this phone out of the attic and thought I'd try to boot it up with a fresh Rom, grabbed this one as it doesn't have the bloat. Anyway, searching for this problem seems like its common but so many confusing results I'm hoping someone can just start me off on the first most common solution. Do I need to wipe some cache or something? Ive got twrp. Maybe I need that super wipe thing mentioned? Idk. It's been a while since I've played with roms. Seems to work otherwise aside from being so ancient no apps are compatible. Actually, without play store I can't install anything. Get an error message every time try to install an apk manually. Don't know if that's related. Any way, thanks...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] juntjoo:
Can you not install APK's with this ROM? I've reinstalled it a couple times solving my other errors but still cannot install APK's. Anyone know what the problem is?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bubby323:
CRT off is in framework Res. Just saying.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
Sure if you edit the bool to turn it on, which i have not, instead i used a method found on root wiki to turn it on in the services.jar
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
With further chats with some of the devs i work with, it looks like even with CIQ defined as off, there are still bit of it that are implemented, and need to be removed, by hand. i am looking into this.

EDIT: looks like it does not affect the telus source three but here are examples found in HTC source

so 64k of ram is being reserved for the rootkit.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Rekzer:
Hmm, so from reading your posts, it looks like since ive wiped data etc, i have no CIQ, am i assuming correctly? (barring ofcourse if you do discover some at a later date)

Also, one thing that aggrivates me is that slight delay in the home button that was removed, are you able to do that? That would be my main request haha :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jasontx:
Interesting stuff Mr X, thanks for bringing this to light. I hope every ROM dev gets with you to figure out how to disable this as it would benefit every one of us.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] topdollar175:
I am Currently running beastmod with the kernel it came with and a battery mod to show the percentage. Any thoughts on setting up a 5 icon dock and the scrolling choices in the notification bar? Battery percentage? Is there away to just add these things to a Rom? I am new to this but like the idea of goin back to a telus based rom. Thanks for any info
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
as far as i have tested there are no ciq libs, the ciq in the framework is removed or has no function (voided or no-op code) and the open port in netstat to ciq server does not exists at all in the telus rom or kernel so it appears to be inactive, i have also checked the known locations for ciq logs and they are empty.

i am mostly just using information that i have researched via TrevE's research, as well as the rest of the devs who are working to remove CIQ we know where a lot of it is but there is a lot in kernel code (HTC mostly) it seems, ciq has its dirty hands in every one of our cookie jars in some cases. wifi drivers, tty console support with root... its a cluster **** in some kernel source it appears. According to my research on the source tree telus kernels are based off and what i base my custom kernel off, there is no ciq active, but who know what we will find we are digging into it now.

As for the home delay, this would kill Vlingo voice commands, something ive actually been having fun playing with at the moment.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
i actually talked to melvin a while back when he said he was looking into ciq, this is what prompted me to work on a rooted telus rom because as far as i can tell so far CIQ is not in it, i sent him my rom and he has expressed that he is moving hiss rom over to the telus base so CIQ will be gone for BeastMod when he gets the base ready to release.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] evilgabbie:
Is the Telus boot animation removed ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] topdollar175:
That sounds great. Looking forward to it. Just for my own interest though is there a way to just add those things or does it have to be built right into the Rom?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] SheCo:
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

Using this ROM and the Bullet kernel I am getting unbelievable battery life.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Rekzer:
Im basically not going to touch a rom that isnt Telus based now..this CIQ stuff is scary and last night i switched to this rom, and viola, battery doesnt budge AT ALL while i sleep. So the telus source would probably fix the issues with battery people are having.

Other people should do this too though, get the ROM dev's to switch! :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
My intentions were not to get users to start treating other roms like the stinky kid in class but to inform in hopes of helping others get rid of ciq if they are victim of its data logging and spying.

Like i has stated before im basing my assumption that custom roms are still victim of ciq because i have not see it removed in change logs, and this would be noteworthy for them and last time i was running custom roms (besides my own rooted telus one) ciq was present.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] immunityx:
does this has the Telus boot logo ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
yes the kernel built in has the telus boot logo, you can flash another kernel if you wish to get rid of that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
Found some more CIQ **** that was actually in our kernel, it was not removed by defining that CIQ_Support as not set.

/arch/arm/mach-msm/makefile = obj-$(CONFIG_MSM_SDIO_TTY) += sdio_tty.o sdio_tty_ciq.o we see the out file being built here to be included in the kernel

/arch/arm/mach-msm/sdio_tty_ciq.c and sdio_al_test.c have ciq **** in them, and are being built with out defining CIQ_SUPPORT

dhd_cdc.c and wl.iw.c in the wifi have CIQ **** but its ifdef'd so its not enabled in compile, thankfully.

sdio_tty_ciq IS being built when i build my kernel its just hammered in there.

all in sdio_al_test.c
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ericqt:
Mr. x it show 3g on the bar. is there a way to fix it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
For some reason the tmobile system UI breaks telus 4g and the telus UI breaks the tmobile 4g icons.

other then the icons being wrong it does not effect service, i'll look into this at a later date, right now its nop a priority.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ericqt:
thank you very much Mr. x
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rmarquez1974:
I have a question regarding theming this. Basically i want to drop some of the pngs into this zip file from beastMOD. Can i do that and it will flash? Or is there another preferred method?

Dfjcisnv
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rmarquez1974:
Yes thank you very much. Was wondering why my data icon was constantly saying it was sending/recieving when i wasnt doing anything related to browsing or needing network connectivity.

Dfjcisnv
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jdom58:
wouldn't this be a drain on the battery though? just a thought.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
yes which is why we don't want ciq
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
Alright guys,

Here is a list of ciq **** i found and have rmoved in the framework, its present in tmobile and telus frameworks, with the acception that

tmobiles CIQ is turned on

with a system lib and a framework jar, that telus roms are lacking. so CIQ is dormant on telus roms. i still dont trust the fact that it appears dormant so i have started removing it. so far i have it ripped out of the framework in full, not a single speck of code pertaining to it is in the framework now.

I am moving on to decompiling the apps and checking them all for ciq code as well.

if any one wants a good read wired just did an interview with the CIQ guys, asking about there rootkit.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/rootkit-brouhaha/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] evilgabbie:
Know of a Kernel with a STOCK boot animation ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rmarquez1974:
Screw that. Android is open source for the most part and as a user I WANT to be able to keep my stuff private!!! No root kits please!

Even so far as to be able to read the contents of my txt msgs!?!? That's too far!

Dfjcisnv
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] volkly:
Try Jugs Kernel, it has the stock tmo boot animation
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
updated first post with a flashable zip that will remove any ciq present in rom
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] volkly:
Tried the patch and after each reboot, it puts me in flight mode?

Im on Tmo US
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] v8dreaming:
The patch is only for your rom, correct?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
thats odd what rom and ill try.

I wont know untill others try it, im going to be flashing other roms in a bit to test though.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] galaxys2noobs:
oh damn!!! hey Mr. X i was wondering, will other devs from other ROMs start to work with you and take out the CIQ in their ROMs?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] v8dreaming:
Backing up now. Will try to flash it. I'm currently on newest Juggernaut with newest Bullet kernel.

Edit: Flashed the patch. Got stuck on the Bullet splash screen.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
i'm sure other devs are already doing so or have, i know the test app TrevE made may possibly be giving false positives for "ciq free" results. i talked to him today he is digging into the tmobile rom to see if ciq is active and seeing why his app missed the ciq files present in it

I know its there and i dont trust it one bit thats why i've removed it in my patches and fragments in kernel

EDIT: So i've tried it on Juggernaut rom, as i kind of expected it does not boot, mix and matching framework is most likely the issue, i also know that the devs may put some mods in some of the jars that i removed ciq from so overwriting them could cause the loss of some features.

the android version the telus rom is built off of iss slightly newer then the tmoble version so this could also be a factor.

I'll try bombaridier rom as well in a few moments.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] volkly:
Im on your telus rom,

Update: after 4 reboots which puts me in airplane mode, i can get out of it by unchecking airplane mode, but after a while phone app is FCing!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
I have not got any of these issues on the same rom, once im done testing these tmoble roms, im going to flash back and flash again see if i can get your issues,

if you want to post a logcat that would be handy i can see whats causing the fc that way.

What kernel are you on as well?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] volkly:
On your telus stock rom with bullet kernel,

Im gonna redownload and try reflashing again the rom and your ciq patch.

phone is very unstable now so have to reflash, will update you with logcat once i get phone up and running.

What i meant to say earlier was that i am on tmobile network in the US and using your telus rom.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
Bombaridier V3.0 Works with my CIQ framework and contacts patch. It is also running my custom kernel. Just as a note, My tests for this framework patch were also done on my custom kernel.

Juggernaut V3.1 Does not boot with my CIQ framework and contacts patch, tested with the included kernel in the rom.

Flashed the Telus rooted rom in the first post then my CIQ framewrok and contacts patch, it boots. No FC's and the phone app is working, stock telus kernel included in the rom.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Reviewers:
Once you test this on my ROM , i'll be implementing CRT OFF / NO CIQ in a update for Domination V1.5 .
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rmarquez1974:
I'm using this ROM, with your latest kernel, and was able to patch this just fine. I'll let you know if I run into anything over the course of tomorrow.

Thanks for ripping that crap out. privacy, to me, is more appealing than just the pretty stuff the talented developers are putting out. I admire their hard work and dedication for sure, but I think i'm going to be staying on this setup.

I'm wanting to try my hand at making a theme for it...probably make something over the holidays...

Dfjcisnv
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] volkly:
no logcat needed, it was a bad download, reloaded my nandroid backup, flashed your ciq zip and now all is fine

Much thanks!!!! loving this telus stock rom more and more everyday!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
if something goes weird on you just post, give as much info as possible and a log cat and i will try to reproduce and/or fix as soon as i can.

pending tests the main rom zip will be updated will all my fixes
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
right on, TrevE is working on his Test app update, it may give more insight on just what ciq does on our devices, but i feel better knowing its just plain gone. Especially since there PR rep admitted in an interview today they can most likely ready our text messages among other things.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] eksasol:
THANK YOU for the no CIQ patch, this has been my main concerns with this phone. But can you be sure that only the contact apk and those frameworks are the only ones infected, even with stock T-Mobile roms?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
Made a small modification to the CIQ patch, contacts was missing the dial pad, so i fixed it.

new link in first post.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] madizmo:
Running this rom with synergy kernel and set on smartassv2 I am getting insane battery life even with heavy usage, best battery life over any rom/kernel by far. After flashing all the other roms I like the stock telus rom the best. The only thing I miss coming back to stock is the extended power menu, would it be hard to implement that into the rom? Thanks for all your hard work.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mettleh3d:
Hi Mr. X, should your CIQless patch work for Jugg 3.1 now?

Thank you very much.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Challenger:
Thanks for clearing this up. Im using it with bullet kernel. Battery life is good so far.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
took a quick look at the files i modify in Juggernaut 3.1, it looks like they modify them, so this is most likely why my fix does not boot on this ROM. I could take there framework and remove ciq, but I don't really know if i want to do this, Not saying i would be accused but i can see a few Rom chef threads that have been flooded with drama and accusations of theft and what not lately and i do not wish to be a part of any of that, I'm a grown man and have no such time for things of that nature.

Any ROM chef or developer is more then welcome to take my work disassemble it and see how and where i removed things and do the same. I am am not trying to keep my methods secret, I'd rather every one have a 100% ciq free experience. Just so we don't have to worry if it is logging or not.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mettleh3d:
Thank you X. Btw, how does one confirm ciq is removed?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
I have not spoke to TrevE today but he was working on his logging test app and updating it to detect the ciq stuff thats included on the device we have, since it was not, and appeared to possibly be giving a false positive of a ciq clean device.

things to look for would be for starters the lack of the ciq lib in the rom, its called libiq_tmoble_service_2.2.so, and i guess just trusting that the dev went into the framework and contacts and removed all the logging from the keypads, sms and browser ect.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] redz1234:
Thanks for bringing the CIQ to our attentions... I honestly haven't heard of this before and when bringing it up to a few other guys they were blue in the face also...

I'll be flashing your rom/kernel again this evening when I get home from work...

What steps should I take with flashing to your rom?

Reason for asking is I haven't really flashed roms/kernels much on Android...

- When flashing a rom do you lose apps, contacts, etc etc...

- If I'm already running your kernel, after flashing the rom do I need to re-flash the kernel?

ReDz
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
Flash the telus rom first, then flash the swype fix i posted in the first post, after that flash the CIQ patch and lastly my custom kernel

then you are set.

It looks like the tests for the ciq patch are working out well so i will be updating the rom with the ciq and swype patches and updating the first post some time today.

First i have to get my kernel source uploaded since i updated the kernel today.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] redz1234:
Ok... Flash Complete... Couldn't wait till I got home... LoL

Flashed...

- Telus Rom

- Swype Patch

- CIQ Patch

- 0.06 Kernel

Upon boot I get error:

"The application CallRecorder process com.skvalex.callrecorder) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."

Aside from the error above everything seems to be working nice...

ReDz
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
Bah that app is such a picky thing, I'm goign to flash in the same posses as you so i can get that logcat and see why that app has its underwear up its ass crack.

Does the app work after the initial fc?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] redz1234:
I didn't do a full wipe... Should I have done this?

When I finshed the flashing steps in the previous post I cleared Dalvik Cache, Fix Permissions and then rebooted the phone via the menu.

ReDz
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
If you don't do a wipe it could cause issues with some apps especially if you are moving from one rom to another.

Edit: i just tested the flash, ill just move the app on over to the /data partition.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] redz1234:
Ahh... So far the error I mentioned is the only "issue" I found but if I notice any other issues I'll do a full wipe at home.

ReDz

---------- Post added at 05:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:03 PM ----------

Should I re-flash the kernel?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
I pulled the Call recorder out of the flash zip and am adding a link to the first post, it does not like to be included in some roms and FC's constantly.

Just use a file manager to delete the call recording apk from /system/app and reinstall it via the apk linked in first post. this will solve your issues. if you don't have any other issues i wouldn't worry about a full wipe.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] redz1234:
Done and Done!!

ReDz
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Rekzer:
Cant wait for the update, ill probably flash it with bullet as theyve removed ciq as well. Thanks for all the amazing work!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
its uploading right now, but im at wrok and currently we are using alot ofo ur bandwidth so its slow going.

glad to see CIQ was removed by them as well :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] lexcyn:
I am running the Telus stock ROM and can't seem to find any carrierIQ stuff at all ... is this mainly for the T-Mobile folks to have it removed?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
tmoble folks have it activly logging.

telus rom still has crap from CIQ and ciq services in its framework and contacts/phone dialer.

if its active or not, it doesn't appear to be but i don't trust it so i removed it all.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] lexcyn:
Ah gotcha. I am just wondering since I ran TrevE's logging check and it couldn't find any CIQ stuff. But I'm guessing it's because it's not activated.

I am going to try your ROM/Kernel any ways because that CIQ is lame.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
I mentioned before, I've talked ot TrevE and asked him why his app didn't detect CIQ in tmoble roms even though we both agreed ciq libs were present to run the services and log, so he is updating his app to detect these. So aqfter the update it will give us more insight on what ciq is doing exactly on the tmobile and telus roms.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Challenger:
Hey Mr.X ive been running this on my phone since last night with the bullet kernel and my battery life is horrible. is there a way to fix this?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
Maybe try and do a full wipe and a battery calibration?

From what i hear Bullet kernel gets great battery life, and this rom does as well according to reports.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] volkly:
Mr X,

This issue is totally unrelated to your Rom as i have ran your ROM stability for the past 2 days!

But today i flashed a different kernel (Bullet) and noticed something strange, everytime i shut down, it vibrates and shows the samsung splash screen and screen turns off. Takes me holding down the power button for at least 10 seconds before it would start up again and it does the vibrate and load up normally, no error logs in catlog at all.

So i reflashed your stock kernel and it does the same thing =( also tried synergy and it still does it.

Before when i shut down, it would display the shutdown logo and shut itself down, I can restart it by holding the power button down for 2 or 3 seconds.

How can i fix the shutdown issue without having to reflash your rom again?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
sounds like your shutdown video is missing check /system/media/shutdown and see if there is anything in there. You can just replace what comes in the rom zip and see if that works.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] volkly:
Its not the video but i did replace the shutdown.apk and issue is resolved. Could it be possible that the shutdown apk doesn't like being optimized like swype?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
that is possible ill look into it in the morning.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
Some one asked me about including the extended power menu, i may try to do this, and screen shot. as for including screen shot in the power menu i find this to take longer then tapping the home button and the power button at the same time which also does a screen shot by default.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] madizmo:
That was me :) I would love this included. And yeah the screen shot in power menu isnt needed but i miss having recovery and reboot
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] volkly:
Mr X,

Mediauploader.apk might also have a problem with the opitmization
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Mr. X-:
can you elaborate? on what problems you think its having