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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] InSaiyanone:
LOL I experience the same problem on a daily basis...though I get white colored hair instead. I think it has to do with the fact that your phone is 99.8% badass...if we get that ciq removed you'll probably grow a tail.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bekarhoo:
Cool..

Thanks..romracer..will try it tonight..Love your work on Atrix 4G, can we get your cool CWM for Skyrocket? Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] kurtolson:
Bluetooth -HID will pair but not connect

I have been an Alien #3 user, with the occasional FC storm upon reboot always after the battery had stuck at 100% charge. The only way I could resolve was to reflash the ROM and rebuild everything.

I went through the painful process of restoring stock recovery, factory defaults, restoring the CWM recovery, and flashing Alien #4.

Everything is working fairly well, but I have been getting FC from time to time in Market with very heavy use (install app, not let it finish, find another app, install, etc).

However, with two different Bluetooth HID keyboards, I can get them to "detect" and even "pair" but once paired, they won't stay connected with this ROM. Help!

*EDIT*

I have finally fixed the FC storm and can report 100% success -- in line with others.

It was pilot error on my part. When you flash stock recovery back, and "factory wipe" it's unclear that to kick off the process you don't use the "power" button, rather you use the "home key" to kick off the process. I guess for some that's a duah, but not for me. Once I went back and did that, and moved back to #4 and now everything is fine 40 reboots later. Ironically solved my battery meter stuck at 100% issue too.

That's the good news. THE BAD news is that my HID keyboard Bluetooth issue remains. It's a think outside folding keyboard. It will pair but not connect. If I click on options for the device and try to throw the checkbox to connect that fails too. From time to time I even get the "Bluetooth Authorization request" dialog, "Think outside keyboard is requesting permission to connect and access your phone "X" always allow and press "allow". After this happens, it goes back to "paired". Any ideas? Bluetooth in general works. I was able to successfully pair with a Ford SYNC system and download the phonebook, and use hands free profile.

I'll also add that on Alien #3 this worked. It's only broken in #4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Barsky:
3 was fine. 4, for me has an FC storm on twlauncher at boot up. Can't get in. wiped everything, reflashed same. Odd. never ran into this one before having flashed many many roms. back to 3 for now, I guess unless someone has any ideas.

ver 3 is fine. go figure. :-)

this will do nicely for now. Like your rom a lot, btw

Go Figure! installed 3. booted up. all was fine. then before resinstalling any apps, rebooted recovery and installed 4 and now my first boot is good.

No idea what that fluke was about, but it's over now :-)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Don't know, untested. Try a nandroid backup and give it a shot and report back I guess.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Screenshots need to be updated, they are from Alien 3. The app drawer is still 4 rows but 5 columns. It can't be changed back unless you feel comfortable editing APKs and XML and rebuilding them.

The feature is mentioned in the OP along with the 5 icon dock.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
I'd love to kill CIQ too. But for now, I'm focusing on AT&T ROMs as that is what kind of phone I have to test. I have k0nane's patches to remove it and if I get some time I'll dig into the MMS issue. For now though, we live with CIQ and MMS if you want true AT&T ROMs.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
I've seen the Market crash like that on other phones and ROMs. I don't really know why it happens. I don't have a Bluetooth keyboard to test your other issue.

Logcat's might help me troubleshoot both issues though if you can capture them when the issue happens.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
That seems odd. As I've mentioned in other posts, I was able to reproduce the issue on 3 but I've rebooted probably 50 times or more on 4 and have not been able to reproduce it. Make sure you've followed the directions below.

The FC bombardment happens because /data is read only. The only way to really fix it is to do a factory reset through the stock recovery. This means flashing the stock recovery using Odin. Not the option in Privacy, not the wipe options available in CWM - it has to be the stock recovery. The poster above you mentions doing this.

Your other option is to reformat /data using some commands I posted towards the end of the Alien 3 thread, but I strongly only suggest that for advanced users.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Barsky:
Haven't benchmarked this, as I think feel and perception are almost more valuable a measurement, but I have to say this feels insanely fast. Weeeee
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] InstigatorX:
My CPU runs at 1.5Ghz all the time. Anyone else have their CPU pegged? Deep sleep kicks with phone off. Just nothing in between.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] -Kevlar-:
ROM is running great right now. selecting recovery on the extended menu just reboots the phone.

Had to have 4x4 so I just installed the modified touch wiz launcher
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Surprisingly, or not so surprisingly, these are both caused by the same thing, which in turn happens to be boot animations being enabled. Fear not, for I have fixed them both :)

If I get time, I might post a TW Launcher APK with the app drawer mod undone. Its easy enough for those comfortable with editing APKs (which I understand many are not - nothing wrong with that).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] takerfan:
How did you go about enabling SIP over wifi and 3G?

Has anyone tried going into call settings and see if internet calling is actually there?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] InstigatorX:
Is this something I can disable myself until your next build comes out? I'm flying all around BFE for the next few days and need as much juice as possible.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Run "adb shell /system/etc/init.qcom.post_boot.sh" or maybe "adb shell /system/bin/sh /system/etc/init.qcom.post_boot.sh"

But it will only stick until you reboot then you'll have to do it again. I'm uploading a small "fixes" zip file that will contain the fixes too. It should be up in half an hour or so at http://server1.underpants-gnomes.biz/~romracer/sgs2sr/Alien-4-fixes.zip

It will be up as soon as my re-upload of Alien-4.zip finishes :P
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] InstigatorX:
Excellent. Will look for that fix package and try the ADB cmd in the meantime.

Btw, why a "re-upload" of #4? Anything different?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Roll in these fixes. Some users can only be trusted as far as the first hyperlink, so they might miss any sort of "fixes update zip." ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] InstigatorX:
Makes sense. Thanks.

ADB shell command worked like a charm. I had to change perms on it to 774, though. Executable bit wasn't set.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Its a framework tweak along with additional permissions. I don't think it shows up in Settings, but look in the dialer under Contacts -> Edit Contact -> Internet Calling or use something like CSipSimple.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Check the OP for a fixes zip which should hopefully fix the "Power off reboots phone" and CPU stuck at 1.5Ghz issues.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] -Kevlar-:
fixed for me. thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] kurtolson:
Thanks for the offer to help. You are a great developer.

This is the requested Logcat data for the BT HID keyboard issue only seen with Alien #4 (worked great with #3). Remember, other profiles seem to work (Ford Sync/Handsfree and phonebook exchange, etc)

Thanks much
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tacotino:
Anyway to get a smaller today agenda??? Like when you google gs2 and look at the photos??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Maybe you can try the btld from Alien #3? I really don't see much else in the logs. It seems to be pairing fine and then just decides to unpair. I've attached it here. Its not a CWM zip, so you'll have to pull it out and push it manually like so:

adb remount

adb push btld /system/bin/

adb shell chmod 755 /system/bin/btld

adb shell chown 0.2000 /system/bin/btld

and then reboot. They are different file sizes so if you do an ls -l on the original one first, you can be sure this one is a different size afterward.

You should also apply the fixes update in the OP if you haven't yet. I see at least one error related to that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] skrambled:
Thank you for the fixes! Seems to have fixed the power button menu problems.

Rom is running great, really kicking ass right now. I've been getting the highest benchmark scores of any non-OC'd rom I've tried on the Skyrocket so far. But the scores aren't important--I can feel the speed and quick response, which is what really counts.

Thank you again for picking up on the development of this rom. Skyrocket development has been sorely lacking and more work on this Alien build was very much needed. Cheers!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tacotino:
Side this room is so sick!!! I'll be a tester if you want, PS fixes made this phone do much better, Barry life is nuts 6 hours of use dropped 6%
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] kurtolson:
I just flashed the update .zip file from recovery. Thanks. I missed that one. I am unfamiliar with ADB (debug bridge). Please forgive me, I'm really a 15 year Windows Embedded developer and am just getting started on Android.

I installed the SDK (with every option under the sun checked) and I am at a loss for when I open a command prompt and type "adb" I can't seem to find the tool.

Is there a FAQ on this, and I'll be glad to try the updated/downgraded file for Bluetooth. Thanks much

ULTIMATELY: This fixed it.... Now... what changed that broke it in #4? ;>
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
For adb, I'd suggest going to Control Panel -> System -> Advanced Settings -> Environment Variables or so (depending on your version of Windows) and putting the path to the SDK\platform-tools folder in your PATH environment variable. Then you can run "adb" from any folder in Command Prompt. There's probably more detailed guides on editing the PATH variable out there but that should get you started. :P

So the reverted btld did fix it then? I had to base some of my "changes" off what Kenn had already done. When you reported the issue, I started looking at "Okay, what might be different?" Most of the binaries are exactly the same, but that one was not and so it stood out.

btld is a proprietary Bluetooth stack from Broadcom, so I had an inkling that might be it if everything else checked out. I suspect Kenn pulled that one from a device with a working HID interface (not all providers have it enabled). If the one from Alien #3 works, I'll roll it into the next update.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] -Kevlar-:
can we use da g kernal with this rom?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tacotino:
Yeah but it's not needed, this ROM is super fast with the stock one, go a few pages back and look at my score, also battery is sweet
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] droid512:
Does this install overwrite da_g kernel with stock again? And is the latest zip packaged with the boot fix?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ozone777:
Why the boring gray icons in the settings and power menus?:(

Is the performance really that much better without the color?

One of this phone's strengths is the ability to display vibrant color.

Just seems a waste to dull that capability with monochrome icons...and gray ones at that.

Can you create a .zip that will put the color back?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tacotino:
Yeah just wipe phone and go, you should be fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] LordGeek:
Installed and loving it.. One question I have and noticed it wasn't included in the ROM. My radio still shows UCKJ1.. Yet this ROM is for UCKK1.. Do you have the radio image that's missing so I can upgrade that also ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rawb123456:
Folders in the desktop aren't sized right in tw4.... Oversized and right aligned. Am I alone?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bradmikd:
any chance got rid ciq in future maybe #5 build?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bradmikd:
and most of all a BIG THANKS for the from running well for me so far no issues.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
The main zip has the fixes, but if you downloaded it before late at night on 12/5, it will not. The update zip is for those that might have had it installed from day 1.

You can use da_g's kernel but I think boot animation will be back to stock then. One part of boot animation is a ramdisk change. I've shared the changes required with him, but I'm not sure if he's packaging them yet.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Its a theme decision really. Personally I think the colored ones look cheesy. The OP mentions having a slight Gingerbread look, guess what Gingerbread has?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
There are two radios in this phone (the LTE and GSM one). Unfortunately not much has been shared in the way of flashing radios on this phone yet, so there's nothing packaged in the ROM for it. Its not something I'm willing to risk until we make more headway on that front, since flashing a baseband improperly is a sure fire way to end up with a paper weight.

You can flash via Odin the 2.3.5 tar and then use the OTA to 2.3.6 to get the radio. You can then flash whatever you want and have the new baseband. That's how I did it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Mine seem to work okay. I just put 4 items in a folder so they don't quite fill one row and looked fine. Then put 6 in another so they occupy two rows also seemed fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] LordGeek:
Well .. thats the weird thing .. LOL

I understand where you are coming from.. sure enough, when I received the Skyrocket, it had 2.3.5 installed .. now I've had the phone almost 2 weeks now and I have still NOT received any OTA's for 2.3.6 !!!!

So, I rooted the phone, installed this ROM .. so I don't really get as to why you would want me to ODIN back to 2.3.5 in order to get the OTA since I never received it in the first place !!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
I've attached a 4x4 launcher to the OP. I haven't tested it but it should work fine. You'll need to rename it to remove the 4x4 from the name and push it manually to /system/app via adb in recovery (mount /system first) unless you want your home screens to reset.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] t3chfr3ak07:
Boot Screen

Loved Alien #3 having the FC Storm from #4 but working on the fixes posted above. I saw that there was limited NFC usage enabled. Are there any apps that you have or recommend with that? As for the boot screen animation, how did you manage to mod that cause i cant seem to get any of the mods ive tried to work and the theme forum says that Samsung tweaked it and I still cant figure it out

I want to have the ATT logo fade into the Death Star :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] skrambled:
Sound advice. You may want to consider adding this instruction to the OP so people can get the KK1 modem. I'm finding data speeds to be much faster with KK1, and call quality is somewhat improved as well...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
NFC TagInfo should read tags. You can also look in a logcat and see the NFC chip working. Make sure to enable NFC in Settings -> Wireless Settings first.

For boot animations, you should just need to replace bootanimation.zip in /system/media with a 480x800 one. You can Google directions for that as the process is common on many phones. You have to use a kernel that supports them which so far only include my kernel I posted and the stock one included with this ROM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] netw0lf:
Works on Rogers

Hello all,

I have successfully installed it on Rogers network. You need to first save your APN settings (I used APN backup and restore in Marketplace) and saved it. Installed this version of Alien Build #4). I found that once rebooted into the OS, the network wasn't connecting. I connected via wifi to marketplace and redownloaded/installed APN Backup and restore. Restored the settings.

To enable these news LTE settings, goto Settings-> Wireless And network -> Mobile Networks -> Access Point Names -> "Here choose the Rogers LTE Internet". You should now see a 4G/LTE sign above.

I've been using it for a few hours and everything seems to be working okay. The LTE speeds are a little slow for some reason. But other than that, its pretty FAST!!

Go try it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tokoam:
I really like this rom I have been using it for 2 days now but my scores.in quadrant and antutu are quite Abit slower by 700 points compared to other roms can this.be optimized a bit more
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] beeroatsnp90x:
Speaking of the FC storm, I also went through it on alien #4 as well. This was after fresh wipe, install, and fixing permissions. Bluetooth also was flaky as well. Too bad I couldn't do a logcat because the FC storm happened after bluetooth went bonkers. Back at alien #3
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sam MF Jackson:
I was flipping out when my phone started being bombarded with force closes. But as soon as I reset the phone and installed the new zip I was up and running faster than ever.

Thanks for the quick fix!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] LinuxNewb:
Can anyone, or possibly the OP, share the boot animation? I installed this last night and my phone did not work right at all. Even after clearing the dalvik cache, formatting all mounts and going to stock 2.3.5 and reflashing. I'm at work so I can't download the ROM again and sift through for the bootanim.

Hoping to try this ROM again a few versions down the road!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dac1227:
"android system" process constantly running at 6-14% cpu load, never seems to quit.

PID 325 Android System

Process: System Server

MEM: 60M (33M) Thread: 80 Load: 6-14% (varies)

STime: 131 UTIME: 185 Nice: 0

User: system Status: sleep

device:

running Alien #4 w/ pre 12/6 fix

I believe this process is draining my battery, about 10% an hour. Another user advised me that 'android system' may be CarrierIQ.

Might you agree?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jmcgarrell:
Was about to come and post the same thing..... My battery doesn't even make it through the night with juicy defender running. I goto bed around 10 pm, and by 3 am phone is dead because of this process.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dac1227:
yea, its strange. I never noticed 'android system' even coming up in the battery usage near the top until more recently, counting all android phones Ive had. Its possible it has always been there though, never investigated until the pre 12/6 zip hadn't significantly impacted my battery drainage.

I've been using CPU monitor from the market to follow this process. I do no not know what to look for in the log, but it is long and definitely some patterns(whether that means something or not) I've calibrated battery too, but no avail.

Anyway, I had this posting in the q&a section until someone suggested CarrierIQ, which I believe has been restored in version 4 -to my liking b/c of MMS, being said that's the only reason....

I'm hoping not to have to reinstall everything unless Romracer tells me to!;) I'll stay with Alien regardless;I like Kens work and very happy Romracer is taking it over.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] aznrice2k4:
Regarding the CIQ, I found it with Rom Toolbox and froze it. Is it possible that this will disable the actual function or will there be an adverse effect? So far it has been good. I don't know if it's still functioning secretly in the back.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dac1227:
Cool, where did you find it and what was it named? Was it a process or service, something else?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] beeroatsnp90x:
I don't think the FC issue is because of this rom. I have experienced the FC Storm on this rom and several other roms. I am not sure where the FC Storm comes from. It sucks tho thats for sure. Also it is very suspect that you and romracer are the same person lol. Has anyone else experienced this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] skrambled:
All efforts that I have seen to disable CIQ in AT&T roms for the Skyrocket have resulted in non-working MMS (and who knows what else is getting broken).

Can you receive picture messages?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rawb123456:
Market wont update. How would I update the market manually?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dac1227:
I think you can go to the CM_7 thread, follow the link to download the 'google apps', then use CWM to install them from the zip.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] skrambled:
I was having high battery usage (25 - 30%) from Android System until I flashed the KJ2 radio, went back to stock and then flash this rom. Now Android System battery usage is holding steady at 4%.

I'm thinking it was the KK1 baseband that was causing the problem. After I got the OTA update from AT&T (which they pulled for some strange reason), I was carrying the KK1 baseband on any rom I flashed--even when flashing to stock.

I've been having bluetooth problems in my car so I thought I'd try to flash the old KJ2 baseband to see if it fixed it. Didn't fix bluetooth, but battery usage is much better now and the Android System battery suck is gone.

Radio's found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=20159562#post20159562
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Big Dawg 23:
What is the typically boot up time on the first boot up? I know it says long but how long? Mine just hangs, I did all the appropriate wipes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Building the Dalvik cache is the big part. When I wipe Dalvik and reboot, it takes maybe 2 minutes to boot. I'd say maybe 5 or so for the first boot, just to add some extra padding in there.

You might check the third post under Known Issues about factory resetting using the stock recovery if you ever installed Alien 3 in the past (regardless of whether it was the most recent ROM you used or not).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tacotino:
Hey ROM, this ROM is one if the best!! Good job. Any update coming out soon??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
I'm glad you like it :) I have a few minor fixes in the works that I hope to post soon-ish. I'm currently working on removing CIQ without breaking MMS. I have a good idea on where the problem lies. It'd be helpful if someone had k0nane's original release that he has since removed. PM me if you do, please!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] LinuxNewb:
@ romracer - I noticed in SkyRocket's ICS ROM and this one that the WiFi available networks no longer pops up. After doing a fresh install and turning WiFi on it keeps scanning and trying to connect, even though there aren't any keys entered. I did a nandroid recover to his 2.3.5 RC 3.1 and it works properly but then going to 2.3.6 Alien/SkyRocket it doesn't work.

There are a few other things I've noticed but so far I'm loving this ROM. I like the Gingerbread theme much more than ICS :)