yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bhowanidin:
Haha, far from rich. More like extra money used before bills come in.

Sent from my Juggernaut SGSII or my "Galaxy Tasked" 10.1
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] russianDroid:
Then he lucky to be skilled......I wonder how do u exacly learn all this phone advanced coding.what exacly is it??I mean like c++ or sonething else???sorry if I'm askin wdirx question I just wanna know
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mstrk242:
It depends. If your talking userspace (rom) its a lot of java. Kernel is more c. Also with android at some point or amother smali gets involved as well.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] skadude66:
Linux and Java is what I've heard. It is based off of C++, but most of it is Java and Linux to navigate and build ROMs.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] russianDroid:
Thx both u guys...java and linux..two things that I know zero about
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Royalknight6190:
Agreed this is what I like seeing no other real complaints besides the ones we already mentioned. Its a good start for a great rom. Can't wait till I can deliver more to you guys. Next besides updates for this rom Raycaster and I have a surprise up our sleaves, well two. We have two ideas for two cool Roms just gotta make it happen. Thanks again all for your patience while we tested and built this rom.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mstrk242:
Temp fix for the notification while listening to music is to turn off notification focus under cm settings.

So far all is running well. Ill report back tomorrow when I can really run it through its paces. One hour isn't a good enough test.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] SGS2X:
I can't seem to find my external sd card? or access it..

edit - nvm after a couple reboots it showed up :) extremely snappy rom! love it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Royalknight6190:
Thanks a lot, I will add that to the OP and attach your name to it for finding it. I would say also to shut off the vibrate option to. I have said it once and I will say it again "On the fly tweaks are never as good as hard wired tweaks." CM settings is nice but it causes more issues then helping.

If you read the OP under the issues section we have already stated that and how to access it. Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mightymike889:
+1 that fone was my baby :/

I love my gs2 wish there was more development but hey we r starting to get cm :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] SGS2X:
I read it but then I forgot :P sorry about that
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Royalknight6190:
Your good bro, usually a friendly reminder will help. we also found out if you dont change the CM settings at all and keep it going to your external SDcard then you can access it the old fashion way, its just when you change it to use internal.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] knickfan5745:
You're "pissed"? Another tmob sII user making us all look bad .

Roms are gifts from developers. The sense of entitlement around here is disgusting.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kenvan19:
Okay, so its been a bit since I last posted (setting things up, chatting with the wife, etc etc) and here are my impressions:

Its very smooth, MOST OF THE TIME. I get very occasional hiccups (I am using setCPU) and they tend to bring the phone to a standstill. As with the old CM7 I've been having a strange issue where upon boot it tells me I have a voicemail, which I don't. I've been able to make it go away if I disable voicemail notifications.

Another odd issue I've noticed is that using GoLauncher, when switching between screens it goes VERY quickly. I've been going through settings trying to find out if there i a setting somewhere to fix this, but so far no luck.

One final thing, you should include a Gapps flashable because it took me a bit to realize that I had no maps, no search, no gmail etc.

Aside from the standard issues, thats all I've found so far.

Overall, its very smooth and definitely a daily driver. Tomorrow will be a good test of battery and I'll post again after that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Royalknight6190:
Sounds good, thanks. I only had that issue once when I restarted then I checked my voicemail and it went away. Thanks for the other stuff, I dont use GoLauncher so I am not sure, I use Launcher2 and if its going to fast well I cant really slow the Rom down....lol....:D

Gapps is in the rom, I removed all the apps that you can find on the Marketplace to which you can download yourself, this helps to keep the size of the rom down and to allow you to have the freedom to install what you want. When I made the post asking questions in the General section that is what people wanted so I went with it. I personally would rather install my own stuff. I like roms that only have the basics, no extras.

Thanks for the great post, Hope the battery life treats you good like it treated me. Remember it takes a battery like 2-3 days to settle down and get into a good stride after a fresh flash.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kenvan19:
I intend to calibrate it before I leave for work tomorrow as I always do after a new flash. This isn't my first time at the flashaholics rodeo ;D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Royalknight6190:
As you can tell I just ignored him and moved on, there is always going to be people like that, we wish there wasnt, it would make the Android community a better place but there always has to be a few bad seeds in every family, I guess we found ours. lol :cool:

Thanks Knickfan, I might have a Rom for you very soon that delivers you your Google Music. I am working on it as we speak.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Royalknight6190:
Sorry didnt mean anything bad by that, Just pretty much stating a fact for anybody else who is watching and reading. lol, sorry about that. Trust me I am not one to be cruel.

But also being new to the SGS2 Scene I dont know who has been around for a while or who just jumped onto Androids band wagon.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tigerz0202:
CM7 has built in cpu controls maybe they are conflicting
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] raycaster3:
Just wanted to mention that throughout testing any launcher other than launcher2 fc's eventually. That's one royal is working on.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] UberFiend:
Would anyone be willing to upload some more screenshots, or is just basically stock themed?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rmarquez1974:
This kicks ass!!! I was running the cm7 slayher posted and only had minor issues.

This is fast! Loving it.

Thank you sir!

Dfjcisnv
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kenvan19:
I know you weren't being cruel man, I've read up on you guys and you're all pretty good people. To have around. I just wanted you to know your battery life will be tested justly :-)

Sent from my Hercules with xda Premium.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] drewtang:
I just wanted to pop in and say thanks for the release, and how quickly you got it out(especially with all the stuff you have going on) and to also say thanks for breathing a breath of fresh air into the sgs2 community. This thread is the most civil I've seen in a while here lol haven't flashed it yet as I use my Google music every day, but I'll be watching this one closely. Cheers :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tigerz0202:
one thing ive noticed dosent work and its not in OP is that the status bar brightness control dosent work and i havent used CM7 in a while but i forgot how to turn up backlight for the browser etc etc , they are dim and ive looked all through the rom...another thing i noticed when i check use internal storage in CM settings and then reboot i can access my internal storage card ,un-check and reboot and you can access your external storage card with any of the file explorers ...just another option if you need it for now till it gets fixed
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sarni84:
Nice to see u aboard..... Loved your work on mt4g...bro u will love this phone it is epic. Everything about it. dude the mt4g is a great device but man lol I picked up my daughters just to play around with and wow that thing is a dinosaur and ungodly slow compared to the s2.....your in for a treat my dude ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
Linux is a os not a programming language. Linux and all linux distro run off the Linux kernel, which was developed by Linus Torvalds. Android runs off a variation of the Linux kernel and apps are written in Java, c, c++ predominantly.

Sent from the .:: DARKSIDE ::.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
I hear great things. Can't wait

Sent from the .:: DARKSIDE ::.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] raycaster3:
And like that he drops the knowledge. Damn I missed you in the threads my dude.

DARKSIDE
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kenvan19:
I look forward to your work man. You seem like a great guy and welcome aboard :-)

Sent from my Hercules with xda Premium.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jmariconda:
So psyched for this, really looking forward to some good developement :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Royalknight6190:
I told you all once tdj gets here it will be awesome. This phone will get put back on top. We will show that crappy GN who is boss. :D

Sent From The DARKSIDE
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] raycaster3:
+1 now I can sit back and let everyone see what I meant and why I didn't have any qualms about talking up tdj and rk from the day I got this phone til now.

DARKSIDE
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Calz-:
Lol I'm stoked :) can't wait.

and to the dark we goooo
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Calz-:
And to that thank you :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] HRodMusic:
ima give cm7 a shot!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bhowanidin:
Exact reason i decided to move the donation chains. Itching for something new, I guess.

Sent from my Juggernaut SGSII or my "Galaxy Tasked" 10.1
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] skadude66:
Bingo! A far as I know though, you need to have a Linux distro to build and compile ROMs, correct?

Glad to have you on board TDJ!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] emmdub:
Go install linux then, if you enjoy fiddling w/ your phone, you'll enjoy fiddling w/ linux. virtualbox and ubuntu should be all you need.

If you've spent any time at all under the hood of an android rom, you'll feel right at home. (:

m.

---------- Post added at 01:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:28 PM ----------

Naw there's windows tools out there for sure, probably osx as well, but of course, not every tool will be available for every platform.

This looks like a really promising resource that's just getting off the ground: [GUIDE] The Noobs Guide to Android ROM'ing

Cheers!

m.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] pyraxiate:
For what its worth, OSX is BSD Unix so tools may exist. With windows I've yet to find necessary tools to build / compile *nix apps from source. Cygwin + a ton of effort may get it going but all of my attempts were failed.

On the other hand, I'm a Linux geek and have been playing with Android. Doesn't seem too hard to figure it all out, I'm just lacking time to dedicate lol. Thank god for TDJ / Ray / RK !! You guys rock :-D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
Nah my dude... you rock! :D

Sent from the .:: DARKSIDE ::.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DigitalJedi:
I'm coming from Nexus One land to the T989. Been tracking my shipment and I get my T989 tomorrow! Been checking out the threads for all the ROMs here and I'm torn between a couple, but I'm excited to see another good dev come to work on this ROM.

In the meantime, is this ROM solid enough for a daily driver? As much as I treat phones like toy, constantly flashing and modding, I also use it for my work and I travel a lot and need everything to work.

Just hoping to get some opinions. Coming from a HTC device, Samsung devices are from a whole different world.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Rekzer:
Ive only been watching the Romming world for afew months. Is this TDJ like an expert dev? If so, thats exciting!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] armoguy94:
I've been using this ROM for a day and a half. I prefer it to stock, however this is definitely a bit less polished. Having said that, it's an overall generally stable ROM for day-to-day use, and it is what I'll be sticking to until MIUI or an official CM ROM releases. Try it out for yourself, I don't think you'll be disappointed.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DigitalJedi:
Thanx for the response.

I can deal with a few FC's here and there. It seems like I have looked over a few ROM thread that have a big list of known issues that I'm not willing to deal with. If a couple of bugs here and there is all I have to worry about with this ROM I'll probably at least test drive it for a couple of days to give it a chance to settle down. If I don't like I guess I can always just flash the other one I've been eyeballing. The fact that this is a CM7 hybrid draws me to is a bit because no matter how many ROMs I've played with on both my Nexus and my wife's Vibrant, I keep going back to CM.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] raycaster3:
He is DARKSIDE. Nuff said. Haha. He's not JC or anything but he is legit for sure.

DARKSIDE
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] emmdub:
Other than the kernel and drivers, what would there be to compile? isn't it mostly java?

m.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DigitalJedi:
Java with Google's API.

If I'm not mistaken, since Android uses Linux kernels it is just easier to try and compile a ROM from using Linux because it is a native environment. Apps can be made with the SDK and a Java VM like Eclipse but compliling a ROM goes much deeper. Microshaft doesn't like all things Linux based so compiling a Linux kernel or custom ROM in a Winblows environment might not even be possible outside of simply using a ROM kitchen app which seem to just make mods to an existing ROM rather than make one from source.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] armoguy94:
Just to let you know, I've experienced no force closes yet. :) You'll see once you try it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal. People know me. I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany. ;):D

Also, we shall use the term "expert" very loosely... ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] pyraxiate:
Rotfl..... I can feel the modesty :-D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Rekzer:
I may be keeping this phone longer than i expected :O
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] emmdub:
I approve of your attitude towards m$ (:

m.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] raycaster3:
Mr Burgandy! Rofl. Love it. The human torch was denied a bank loan.

Does Merlin Olsen stop by on occasion?

DARKSIDE
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
Everyone just relax, all right? Believe me, if there's one thing TDJ knows, it's Android.

Lmao glad someone caught on :D

Sent from the .:: DARKSIDE ::.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DigitalJedi:
Thanx. Been a Linux nut for years. For the first year I got into Linux I killed a couple of hard drives because I was wiping and installing every distro I thought was worth trying. I'm an IT guy so when I'm at work I find myself thinking "if they'd use Linux they wouldn't be having this problem". Viruses, registry errors, driver problems, pricey software, slow performance from machines with good specs....these are all things that would be avoided if they'd just use a Linux distro. On the other hand, if they didn't have these issues I wouldn't have a job.

Still, I like Microshaft more than I like Apple.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Serious_Beans:
I don't know who TDJ but everyone is making a big deal of him so I'm giving my ns to my gf and going with the sgs2. I can't wait to see what this guy can do.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
Now thats having faoth. Lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
I am just a regular guy. No better than next

Sent from the .:: DARKSIDE ::.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] emmdub:
yea, linux ftw... I didn't get sucked back into windoz til I switched from vinyl to traktor. and now I'm branching out into video as well, so mac is in my future too. Meanwhile, I've totally fallen for fiddling w/ my phone, and have a couple of apps to build, themes to design, etc so linux is definitely back on the menu too.

Soo much cool tech, and as of recently, soo much free time to play with it (:

m.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] manekineko:
From my experience, easiest way under Windows is just to run a VirtualBox instance and compile within that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Serious_Beans:
Well I've heard good things, and his rom for mytouch 4g looks good.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] HRodMusic:
windows is terrible, linux is decent, but osx lion just kills it all ;)

only good product that apple has are there computers =)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DigitalJedi:
I'll never deny that Apple makes a quality product. I just can't get past the fact that they are overpriced as hell and WAY too proprietary. That usually opens a can of worms so I'll shut up about that now.

Having 2nd thoughts about this ROM. Too many minor issues listed in the OP. I'll probably go back and forth and end up flashing a few the first week I have it although I kind of wanted to avoid that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kenvan19:
I don't want to derail the thread but let me just explain why I only buy apple laptops. I'm a tech geek. So year's ago when I melted 1.44GHz Athlon from ocing and not noticing my cpu fan died I lost my computer and wasn't too bothered. I just started accruing parts to build a new machine. In the meantime I borrowed a friends Macbook and fell in love with the simplicity. I ended up buying one and not long after the harddrive failed. I took it to he mac store and they replaced it on the spot with a newer model and then refunded me the cost of the os upgrade id already purchased. That's the kind of service you get from apple. I have dozens more storied just like that. Say what you will about their products, prices or typical buyer but you can't fault their customer service.

Sent from my Hercules with xda Premium.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] nighthawk626:
back to subject at hands, is this dead in the water or are more people gonna at least make it bug free enough to use as a DD? not tryna be rude in any way. i just miss cm-roms. from the g1 all the way to the sgs2, i wanna keep it cm
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
Have you read the last few posts? New darkside dev comi.g soon. Be patient.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
What would make this "dead in the water"? Updates not fast enough or at your convenience? This stuff isn't instant. It's great that you have to take the time to download, flash, and setup the rom. But please be aware that there are hours and hours of searching and fixing, accompanied with frequent flashing and re-flashing just to get this out to the community. Development takes time. Please be aware of that and understand that this is far from over

..

Sent from the .:: DARKSIDE ::.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rmarquez1974:
Thank you.

Dfjcisnv
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mightymike889:
TDJ!!! Im hearing great stuff can't wait for u to bring the great roms my man!!! R u going to share some of ur ideas ur going to be bringing !!!:) :) :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
Yes, tdj is quite the monster over in the mt4g forums. I'm running his miui port right now. : D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Royalknight6190:
Like TDJ said this is not Dead in the water as you put it, I and once TDJ gets here will be working together to get this rom as close to perfect as we can even without the full source.

As others have stated multiple times in this thread, this rom is already a Daily Driver because the few bugs mentioned all have work arounds and those few bugs are barely noticeable. If you havent tried the Rom yet then I would say if your that much of a CM fan boy then you should flash it and enjoy the hardwork that has gone into building this rom already.

Sorry for sounding a little rude, I dont mean anything by it. Just getting a little tired of people saying this rom is Dead / Not a Daily Driver when this rom is most defiantly a DD. Yes it has its few issues but what roms that are hacked together dont, When you dont have full source you pretty much pull files from anywhere to try to get it to work. And thats exactly what I did, on a speed aspect this rom is one of the fastest on this thread, heck its also the smallest.

So flash it and enjoy it. :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mightymike889:
+1.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DigitalJedi:
You know, I've been torn between this and another. I like you're attitude about this and I'm a CM fan. I'll flash this one when I get my phone here in a few hours. Thanx for the hard work and I'm looking forward to future dev on this ROM. Without good devs that are willing to spend their own time building stuff like this for everyone our phones would be kind of vanilla.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jmariconda:
Might be a redundant question but doesn't Google release the AOSP source to everyone? Why is it that only cm has it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Serious_Beans:
Yeah but I don't think Samsung released the kernel source for this phone...building a working rom is only the first step, the kernel is what has the drivers needed. Don't take my word for it though cuz I'm no dev.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mstrk242:
They do. We're missing source from samsung. Mainly the ICS source, which they are still working on, or are in a testing phase. If google didn't release the source code, cm7/cm9 wouldn't be possible. (Or at the very least, VERY VERY difficult.)

CM has the source because they write what they need themselves. (Some of the devs on the cm team really have amazing talent.) And they're not releasing it yet, because it's not done. (Again, talking about our phone specific drivers and kernel source, NOT cm7, before people chime in with "cm7 has been out for a while." They're not really doing much for our phone with cm7 specific drivers because it makes more sense for them to work on cm9. We'll see that.) This is what they did with cm7 too if you all remember, they keep parts of it closed until the nightlies begin. Then they open it up.

This rom is very very good, with only a few minor bugs that are easy to get around if you read the OP. I'd say it really is ready for a DD, I used it myself for well over a week before I started my usual crack-flashing. (And this rom is the one I always seem to flash back to. :))
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jmariconda:
Alright thanks a lot for the helpful info, and yes this rom is ridiculously stable for not even having the source. I've been using it for a few weeks now and haven't really had many problems at all :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jim93:
from the cyanogen twitter it sounds like they are waiting for samsung to release video drivers for some devices.

Everyone is waiting for samsung apparently.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mstrk242:
That's one of the main pieces they need, yes. With ICS using gpu acceleration much more aggressively, the gpu drivers are going to be very different.

Anyways, sorry for the hijack royalknight.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Royalknight6190:
No, its all good bro, thanks for all the insight and clearing it up for people and doing it a very nice a polite way. I was eating sushi with a friend or I would've chimed in and helped. Great job and well worded. Thanks again