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[Galaxy S II General] asaf-g:
Well, after trying the 19/04 build for a few hours, most things work. However the change in sdcard is causing some applications to miss function. I'll have to revert back to 04/14, right?

Or is there a way to "trick" the os, something like a Junction?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] kalani_mx:
...support this type of audio file

After the last build I tried to listen some music but ANY player throws me this error:

Sorry the player does not support this type of audio file...

PS:I removed the twitter app (one solution founded in a xda post) but no luck.

The file opens correctly from root explorer.
[Galaxy S II General] gaz617:
I believe that the change is how it's going to be for every cm rom issued from now on, you could try fix permissions or if you're having real problems backup, wipe and reinstall
[Galaxy S II General] iamsachin:
It's mentioned in the Play Store Apex Launcher page too:

"NOTE: Due to limitations of the Android framework, you won't be able to add widgets from the drawer unless Apex Launcher is installed as a system app (root required). "

Even on Nova Launcher's Play Store page:

"Permissions:

Root/Superuser: Widgets-in-drawer with previews is require Root due to Android framework limitations. Widgets will be displays in a list like Android 2.x if root is unavailable or denied."
[Galaxy S II General] SimboXXX:
It doesn't mean you can't use widgets, only that you can't place them direct from the app drawer.
[Galaxy S II General] D79_:
Ive finally solved the problem with my reception droppin, all i had to do is get the latest settings from my network provider. My old settings must of got messed up some how from updatin to a new build and all along it was nothing to do with the modem, but i am findin LPR faster so i think ill stick with this modem anyways :)

Just need to know why, since installin the latest build most of my music albums are not showing the album covers. Im usin google music player btw

Edit: my reception has dropped again so i put my simcard in my girlfriends phone and the reception also dropped so i put my girlfriends sim card in my phone and all worked fine, so its defo a sim card issue
[Galaxy S II General] iamsachin:
I think the limitation is for ICS based launchers only.

But my other doubt still remains. My Apex Launcher is a system app according to TB. It survives nightly flashes. I can place widgets direct from the app drawer. But Apex is there in /data/app

codeworkx help please.
[Galaxy S II General] SimboXXX:
Yes, the original question was about Apex.

Not sure I understand your issue. But if you want Apex in the system/app directory, why not just place with RootExplorer and set permissions 644. Sorry if i misunderstood.
[Galaxy S II General] irish-sid:
When using effects on the video player (Big eyes for example) it renders the video in blue like I'm from Avatar. Is this a bug in the nightly or is it supposed to happen?

Also, I seen in a few youtube reviews they could change the colours of CM in the settings menu, is there something I need to flash for this? Would also like to change the colour of stuff in the status bar?
[Galaxy S II General] iamsachin:
No actually there isnt any issue. There was a discussion about apps installed as system apps being removed while flashing a new nightly. My Apex Launcher is a system app but doesnt get removed while flashing. This is contradictory
[Galaxy S II General] ghassir:
Hi everybody,

can i find FM transmitter application for our GSII ?:confused:
[Galaxy S II General] coversnail:
It'll be because of the sdcard / emmc switch. Albun covers will have been cached by the music app onto one of the sdcards and now those links will be broken
[Galaxy S II General] codeworkx:
You can revert back and stay forever there or do a factory reset and start clean.

It's a one-time thing.
[Galaxy S II General] iamsachin:
Search for spirit FM apk in this thread. In the settings use Galaxy S2/Note mode.
[Galaxy S II General] Entropy512:
Um, DUH? If you play a game, CPU load will go up, when CPU load is high, it gets warm. DUH.

*facepalm*

Um, the "0" is the AGPS age in days since last download - 0 is, as a result, best.

When it actually does something - XTRA is Qualcomm-specific. Apparently Android's framework is set up so that apps that try to load data will see a "success" even if the low-level GPS HAL does not report XTRA support.

On our device, whether stock or CM (we use the same gps.exynos4.so), the GPS HAL reports a null pointer when the XTRA extension is requested - XTRA is not supported.

Seriously - you post a "bump please answer me" after only 2 hours, when the previous 2-3 pages talk about changes related to your issue?

I am jealous of your fast upstream.

GO BACK TO SCHOOL. TAKE BASIC MATH COURSE. LEARN ABOUT PERCENTAGES.

Just because AOS percentage is higher does NOT mean its absolute drain is higher - total AOS drain can stay fixed and percentage will go up if other drain sources go down.

Does not belong in dev thread, known issue, Samsung's RIL is broken. Stock has the same issue, signal does not report correctly unless you go into Settings->About Phone->Status or something like that. If you don't, you see weird **** such as 100% time without signal in battery stats even on Touchwizz firmwares.

Um, THIS IS THE FIX. It was broken before. Now it's correct and following the Android standards, not Samsungisms.
[Galaxy S II General] PurpleFries:
The reason this happens is that you installed apex as a system app, then you upgraded it directly on the phone. This installs the update to the app in data/app, making the apk a non-system app with system permissions.
[Galaxy S II General] plazzTT:
In the Settings menu, under Storage, there is an option "Erase SD card", but its under the Internal Storage section (and not under the SD card section).

Does this option really erase SD card and it's just in the wrong section?
[Galaxy S II General] iamsachin:
Thank you.. That cleared my doubts. :)
[Galaxy S II General] lukepev:
Can anyone advise on this latest nightly 19th April.

It mentions that emmc and sdcard have been switched around.

So i understand that emmc = internal memory now

and external sd card = sdcard

what i want to know is whether i need to move my data from internal memory to the external sd for it to work?

my internal has all my app data, and my external has music videos and pics

also is there much benefit to using siyah kernal over the stock cm kernel?

thanks
[Galaxy S II General] shotta35:
There is no FM Transmitter application at all for the GS2. If you mean FM Receiver then use Spirit FM build here on XDA. It has a test mode for the GS2.
[Galaxy S II General] BrandoHD:
That was a beautiful post Entropy512, Thank you, too bad the people that need to read it, won't
[Galaxy S II General] asaf-g:
I don't think it's a ROM issue, I think some apps aren't built for this situation. My question was weather or not I can "fool" them.
[Galaxy S II General] me_max:
I don't know where you have your information from but signal report on stock is completely fine on both, GB and ICS.

Please tell me more about RIL. Afaik, it is a piece of software that could be fixed. Or is Samsung providing it in binaries?
[Galaxy S II General] daes1988:
Rom manager Then reboot into clockworkmod. No matters How many times i flash the CWM it will show in rom manager the old versión..
[Galaxy S II General] 0semaj0:
Entropy: like a sir...you so awesome.
[Galaxy S II General] BrandoHD:
The apps were built to follow the Android Standard, CM9 is now following that standard also, any app misbehaving due to the change is doing so because it was installed before the change
[Galaxy S II General] codeworkx:
binaries.

libril.so

libsec-ril.so

libsecril-client.so

no chance.
[Galaxy S II General] espenfjo:
You people with SD card issues..

You know this rom is a nightly, considered an ALPHA BUILD!

This is a one time thing.

Go format your SD cards. Both internal and external.

Solves the "problem".
[Galaxy S II General] shotta35:
This option should be changed to say "Erase Internal Storage" since that's what it actually erases. It doesn't touch the Micro SD Card at all. But if you switch settings that your MicroSD becomes internal then it would wipe it. That's why i suggest the change to Erase Internal Storage being that whatever it's mounted to is what will get erased.
[Galaxy S II General] 0semaj0:
as you realise its not an official release...its nightly...not even RC...so I dont see too much of a benefit to go with 3rd party kernels that may compromise the speed and stability that the CM team have developed through CM9......
[Galaxy S II General] xavihernandez:
I guess it's also in /system/app. It must also be in /data/app for updates.
[Galaxy S II General] xavihernandez:
Don't reboot via ROM Manager. Use power off button select reboot and then recovery. ROM Manager/i9100 miscompatibility is known since the beginning ;)
[Galaxy S II General] RM57380:
Don't reboot from Rom Manager, the CWM is different, uses the button to shutdown the device and uses CWM from Codework's kernel.
[Galaxy S II General] lukepev:
Do you know whether CM will have its own FM radio app eventually? Just like the stock samsung rom has an FM radio app?
[Galaxy S II General] GFXi0N:
Correct me if I'm wrong:

1: backup using TB

2: extract every backup from the internal and or external cards to a pc

3: format both internal and external

4: flash and wipe data

5: restore Apps only backups

6: amidoingitright?
[Galaxy S II General] rnksarda:
THE ANSWER IS NO.

for the 100th time .
[Galaxy S II General] espenfjo:
Oh, I'd actually say "Perhaps... Wait and see".
[Galaxy S II General] me_max:
Ugly. And we can't write it ourselves as the radio chip (i expect broadcom or qualcomm) is proprietary? Any chance of RE or getting a NDA?
[Galaxy S II General] confusedmuse:
Sill no luck with the 0419 nightly...

I've downloaded it 5 times already...

Just did a factory reset. Wiped anything.

The installation is unusually fast, but it seems everything went fine.

But when rebooting: 15 seconds Samsung logo -> Screen goes black for 3 seconds -> again Samsung logo for 5 seconds -> recovery. Reboot = the same.

Flashed again Codeworkx 0419 build - works ... or rather workx! :)

...any suggestions? :confused:

Edit: solved. For some reason i couldn't properly copy the zip to my internal sd. I've noticed the progress bar while copying the zip also filled unusually fast.

But i didn't get any error while flashing. :confused:

Now i've copied the zip to the external micro sd. The copy process took longer this time, and also the flashing process.

Works now.

Now i need to check out if any file i copy to the internal sd gets corrupted...
[Galaxy S II General] golcheck:
I was trying to build cm9 today.

I synced the repo to get new stuff. Then I did ./build.sh galaxys2 and after some time I got this:

SYSMAP .tmp_System.map

OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/Image

Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready

AS arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.o

LZMA arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.lzma

/bin/sh: lzma: not found

make[4]: *** [arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.lzma] Error 1

make[3]: *** [arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2

make[2]: *** [zImage] Error 2

make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/android/system/kernel/samsung/smdk4210'

make: *** [TARGET_KERNEL_BINARIES] Error 2

make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Elapsed: 24 min(s) 57 sec(s)

any idea what could it be?
[Galaxy S II General] D79_:
But ive re-tagged them via my phone taggin app and then my pc but they still dont show the album covers in the music app. :/
[Galaxy S II General] GFXi0N:
You are missing a dependency called lrzip

Search for it in aptitude/pacman ;)

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Please, anyone can confirm if this is correct so i can start from a clean install?

Im feeling I'm getting duplicated stuff on both internal and external cards and some apps just don't recognize two different storage units.... I.E.: Titanium Backup only detects the external card.... :/
[Galaxy S II General] codeworkx:
RIL is a holy cow. No chance to get anything.

But you can help this guy:

https://gitorious.org/replicant/hardware_ril_samsung-ril/trees/master
[Galaxy S II General] me_max:
Thanks for valuable answers! Will have a look.
[Galaxy S II General] D79_:
Not sure if its been said before but i cant find it if it has. But basically i wanted to know why titanium back up is showing internal eMMC to have 12.36gb and the same goes to sd card when i thought sd card is now for external and i dont have an external card so why would it look like its duplicatin the internal eMMC? When it should say something like, sd card n/a
[Galaxy S II General] GFXi0N:
I dont know if my posts are invisible, but i have been saying this since this morning and everyone seems to ignore it.........
[Galaxy S II General] r7s:
I've just installed the latest nightly and checked "Use internal storage" in Storage configuration. Now Swiftkey 3 says that it can't run because it needs to have a SD card. How do I fix this?
[Galaxy S II General] Tricky103:
and today with flight mode off (at home (dire signal))

Screen on time 3hr 35min 11% remaining.

Sent from my Galaxy S II using CM9
[Galaxy S II General] Drethis:
100% at 4 hours, with no/minimal usage. That's great and all, but I think people here actually plan to use their phone. My battery was draining faster than normal just by using Instant Messaging (WhatsApp, FaceBook, Twitter) and Text Messaging. NO CALLS OR GAMES. It's currently a great daily driver, but if you don't have to ability to charge your phone for long periods of time and you use your phone frequently, I would avoid this until it's more fleshed out.

Here's an example for today.
[Galaxy S II General] aceofclubs:
I think you missed my point of that post.

Minimal battery drain overnight contrary to peoples posts about massive drain issues and rogue processes.

As you can see ive followed this up with lots of usage and wifi on in another post.

Maybe its just me but im getting better battery results than gb with virtually the same setup.
[Galaxy S II General] fabiocastilhos:
Why people post their night time use? I think that what really matters is your use during day time, when u push your phone as a real smartphone, not as a dumb phone like my coworkers do, letting their defy and SII on the drawer, wifi off, eventually doing calls. It's obvious that if you use your phone that way, you gonna get an amazing battery life. But I'd rather to buy a dumbphone if I'm going to use my galaxy like this. It's way cheaper.
[Galaxy S II General] estpoc:
Ok, here some day usage. 1/3 of the battery went with 1:30 of display on. Keeping this usage it would run for about 13 hours with 4:30 hours of display on. very good.
[Galaxy S II General] :
Looks like a Rastafari belt.
[Galaxy S II General] tasty_boy:
im receiving 4 sms's when ppl send just one..

can i solve this issue with some tip??

thats annoying!
[Galaxy S II General] jhernand1102:
I don't have that issue, did you restore and sms data?
[Galaxy S II General] rendymulandy:
guy's anyone has tried to use polaris office?? i get force close when i tried to open my docs files and when create documents too...
[Galaxy S II General] :
Do you have the libpolarisoffice.so file in system/lib?
[Galaxy S II General] H-KaN:
polaris office:confused: cm9:confused: are u sure ur in the right thread:confused:
[Galaxy S II General] :
Haven't tested it on CM9 yet, but it works on CM7. TW not needed.
[Galaxy S II General] H-KaN:
didnt know that. thanks for advice.
[Galaxy S II General] aceofclubs:
Im with you mate.

but I read around the threads people putting cm9 down because of battery drain and that their phone drained overnight and rubbish like that.

The screenshots show otherwise.
[Galaxy S II General] :
Polaris works, able to open, create, save, etc... just get the watermark below. I think it's build.prop related as Hellcats ktool is unable to tie the manufacturer and model name together (?). Feel free to correct me. PO and ktool didn't complain on cm7. KTool tells me it supports the Samsung Galaxy SII when I open it but not the Galaxy SII.
[Galaxy S II General] netcitizen:
using bluetooth to transfer files fom PC now. hope the file transfer issues are sorted out soon.

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Does anyone have the issue where the haptic feedback goes low after sometime and then turns back on.?
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
hey can anybody give me someother links rather than multiupload as it is blocked .. mediafire will be appreciated . even if u have someother links plz do provide
[Galaxy S II General] evoprime23:
well i took the plunge into CM9 ICS and i have to say it is a lot smoother than the KP8 ive played with which is wanams... no FCs whatsoever at the moment ... have made a few phone calls and been on FB and whatsapp and sms and all is working as expected...MMS is also working as i have sent a test one to my wife and she can see if cleary

will post back with how it pulls up with heavy usage as its just been fully charged. :)
[Galaxy S II General] jeet:
I do not see any files in my external_sd card folder.

Though when i connect via MTP I can see the files are there. Is there any fix for this.
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
Common no one here to help me ?
[Galaxy S II General] Gustopher:
Do you have a battery mod installed? If so, check the thread you got it from for an update.
[Galaxy S II General] kaimerabellerophon:
Well here is the situation- I was too frustrated with the battery drain issue but i am getting 10 hours plus now when i used main rom build 12th January + Radio of XXKP8.. Yes when you change the radios you will see drastic change in the battery life. At least Yes it is in my case and i can't comment on others. I have been using several ROMs in the past and mostly played with MIUI-NDT, Galnet MIUI, CM7, Illusion ROM and CM9 by Codeworkx.. my overall experience says that the modem market XXKH3 had the best battery life so far on miui ROM it was almost 18 hours plus with decent usage.

So what i suggest that if you are after battery then change the radio and see if that helps you. Dont use the default or latest radios provided as they are almost sucking your battery and making the Phone very HOT all the time.

NOte: I have removed CM9 yesterday as i realized that it has been deleting my several folders and files on my external SDcard (16GB Sandisk) without my knowledge. I am on Illusion 1.60 on my SGS2. As i have 3 SGS2 phones at home as backup so i might keep testing CM9 on them but not on my main SGS2 as its unacceptable to loose my SDcard data like this.

But one line verdict for ICS for SGS2 is that no one can give you the best experience of real ICS on sgs2 other than CM9 by Codeworkx. He is just too good.. and I respect his talent and continue to support him and this community.

Cheers.
[Galaxy S II General] melorib:
CM9 doesnt delete any files from any SDcard, you do... :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] deflagmator:
I think it is not APN settings. I you try ping from the console or use 3rd part applications you should have Internet contection. But many google services or applicaions (gmail, browser, etc) doesnt work.
[Galaxy S II General] ianarg:
With XXLP1 I am currently getting about 35 hours of average use, 3-4 10min calls, hour or so of internet, hour of XDA, some tinkering, a bit of market app updates etc. I haven't seen a difference in battery performance between modem versions but I haven't looked that hard!
[Galaxy S II General] ole12:
when i was on LP1 modem, battery drained 10% hour idle, and even more when it was used. Cpu spy showed 1200mhz was used most and 200mhz least and no deep sleep. After i changed to KI3, it drain 1% idle. 87% deep sleep, and only used 200mhz.
[Galaxy S II General] kackburt:
A few problems I discovered lately...

Suddenly the battery drain is quite heavy, while "Google Services" takes around 50% of the battery, dunno why!

Furthermore my internet connection sometimes doesn't work, even when connected with full bars on hsdpa or 3G.

(I think it was mentioned before... WiFi fixes the problem for a while)

Freezes/heavy lags in the dialer when searching contacts by typing numbers (2-ABC, 3-DEF, etc.)

youtube fix seems to work for me.
[Galaxy S II General] gumbald:
Latest build and modem dramatically improved battery life. Except still the problem when I leave Facebook in the background and it makes my screen hot and eats battery!
[Galaxy S II General] cTrox:
Had that too, was because of the strange 3G connection. The Google Services kept trying to sync and that's what kept it awake.
[Galaxy S II General] Vash:
Had the same problem today, I think it's connected to the Alarms - clock froze after a few of them activated. Probably some funky bug there :)
[Galaxy S II General] m.denb:
Hi guys!

Trying the latest build right now, have a big problem though.

I get a message that the phone is not responding when I connect it to a pc after about 10 seconds.

It is recognised, so that's good, but then I cannot copy files because it says the phone became unresponsive!

Please help, this means I cannot copy files to my internal SD card anymore, that sucks.

Oh and can someone repost the youtube fix? I've been searching but since there are so many posts, I got lost:D

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] deflagmator:
Yes, if you open terminal console and do a ping to www.google.com (for expample) you have good 3g conection....and also non google applications.
[Galaxy S II General] Sergio_O:
Such a problem (USB connection) occurs frequently on "leak" roms that are not perfect yet. Man, try to flash ICS Remix 7.1 - the latest build from westcrip. I followed his updates from the beginning of development, now he's got a big advance. USB works great. Market, gallery, face unlock, camera, wi-fi, live wallpaper - everything is fine. Even annoying mediascan error (it took of about a 30min to finish) - now solved. Perfect rom as to me at this time. Recommend.
[Galaxy S II General] Gustopher:
You are somewhat deficient in the reading department - this is a known, well publicised and much discussed issue with CM9.

Try reading around the thread a bit before posting; with several thousand posts on this thread alone, the chances of your issue being unique is fairly slim!
[Galaxy S II General] m.denb:
Allright, I'll give it a try. Thanks! Can I restore my back-uped apps from Titanium Backup that I made on CM9?
[Galaxy S II General] luizffgarcia:
Have anyone tried this?

The connection problems on 0112 is the only thing keeping me from using it as my daily...
[Galaxy S II General] netcitizen:
The backups must be done to the internal sd card. It will work fine.
[Galaxy S II General] cTrox:
Huh, I have to test that. Browser didn't work either though.
[Galaxy S II General] cocchiararo:
i had no issues restoring user apps.

I have a friend who has the restore button unavailable for most apps tho
[Galaxy S II General] fayezkhan555:
Hi

whats the diff between CM9 and ICS Remix 7.1???
[Galaxy S II General] D79_:
Can u send me to link please as i might of missed it coz ive not been on here constant so its hard to keep up with so many posts bein put
[Galaxy S II General] GFXi0N:
I don't say it for you... i say it because i have been asking and reporting things with no reply at all..... while the people has been replying just to post facepalm images and useless bull**** like that....

People love to feed the trolls, instead of helping out....
[Galaxy S II General] iamsachin:
People with emmc/sdcard problems do a fresh install. That's what codeworkx suggested a few pages back. It's a one time thing.
[Galaxy S II General] confusedmuse:
FX File Explorer shows my internal storage twice... :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] r7s:
But how do I do a fresh install without loosing my apps configuration files? Instructions say that I can't use Titanium Backup to restore apps.
[Galaxy S II General] iamsachin:
Complete fresh. Vanilla. Install all the apps again manually. Like a new phone :p:p:p
[Galaxy S II General] r7s:
I hope you are kidding :P I really don't have time to configure all my apps again. Can I downgrade CM9 without any problems?