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[Galaxy S II General] marsexpress:
Yup, my internal 16gb and external 32gb card both wiped. F*** this!!!!

I can probably get most everything back but this is gonna take hours and hours and hours to sort out.

Why has this happened??!
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
Something weird happened to me a day ago, my whole sdcard/android/data folder for deleted(gameloft and other games data,etc)

Good that I had a month old backup of it
[Galaxy S II General] thracemerin:
It would appear there are some issues with the new CWM and some of the devices it supports, but this is the nature of nightly builds they are by definition experimental and things like all your data disappearing may happen, while I agree it's unfortunate and annoying, I would point out that the possibility of your device having issues is pointed out in the OP.

Keep in mind, your device could be hard bricked, loss of data isn't the most serious thing that could happen.
[Galaxy S II General] hazwheel:
You are right, It's more of an irritation than a real problem, I do have the means to recover my data (which I have) and hey, didn't use most of those apps that have gone anyway :p a chance for a clean start ;)
[Galaxy S II General] thracemerin:
I do feel your pain, I hate when I have to wipe my devices or accidentally screw them up and delete everything, but that's part of the fun of being on the cutting edge of android, if I wanted to play it safe and not worry about this happening I'd buy an iPhone :)
[Galaxy S II General] hazwheel:
Seems odd that I only ran into problems when I manually deleted my nandroid backups through usb on the PC, that made the phone unbootable, was able to get to recovery and thought hey, wipe and reflash, thats where the ext sd being wiped happened. Not sure how the other guys internal sd got wiped though. Ironically, this morning I had set TB to include a backup to my dropbox account on the next scheduled run (3am tomorrow). Man is my face red!!

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well, I'm almost back to normal, only got some apps to re-download and BAM, back in business :)
[Galaxy S II General] xfiles.:
Here the same, cwm6 is worse than cwm5

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] :
If you don't want to worry about bricks, you certanly shouldn't buy an iPhone ;) This crap is already bricked, my friend. Just a useless rock to hold papers.
[Galaxy S II General] thracemerin:
Yeah, cuz you know me, I love apple as evidenced by the device list below :p
[Galaxy S II General] :
Nexus 7, cheap and powerful tablet?
[Galaxy S II General] BLiTZTN:
I remove sim and microsd and it's boot !!
[Galaxy S II General] thracemerin:
Love it so far, much more so than my Tab 10.1.

Plus, it's a Nexus so once it gets started the Dev support should be awesome. There are already 3 Kernels and 1 AOSP based ROM going and CM10 early releases are incoming.

If you unplug the charger then hold Vol Dn+Home+Power nothing happens at all?
[Galaxy S II General] coversnail:
The thing I'm most surprised about is that they merged a new recovery version between rc1 and rc2. Not really the usual procedure to add something major so late in the release cycle.
[Galaxy S II General] thracemerin:
Oh, I didn't realize it made it into RC2, that makes a little less sense.

I'm sure that they didn't intend to cause people problems, remember that the number of people doing the internal testing on any given device is probably less than 10 which is part of the reason they have nightly builds so they can use all of us as testers, so it's possible that koush, codeworkx, xplodwild, entropy512, etc... had no issues which is why it got merged.
[Galaxy S II General] mammenj:
Usually, rc comes from the rc branch, here it looks like it came off the nightly and not really recommended.
[Galaxy S II General] rav4kar:
Okay, just to summarize the issue, Do you guys recommend NOT to use CWM 6.x to

1. Backup

2. Restore

3. Backup & Restore

4. or What ?

I made a backup to my external SD card with CWM 6.x (7/17 nightly) and had no problem, but did not try to restore using CWM 6.x
[Galaxy S II General] thracemerin:
Well, it sounds like using Backup, Restore and Wipe Data have had some unusual and unintended consequences related to internal and external SD cards, I would strongly caution using it for those functions until someone can confirm that it's working correctly.
[Galaxy S II General] marsexpress:
Yep I know and I accept the risks, I understand. Just wanted to warn others and maybe I was moaning a bit!!

Very shocked to have the sdcards wiped, never experienced anything like that in my years of flashing a tinkering!
[Galaxy S II General] thracemerin:
Hey, if new things didn't happen to your device once in a while you'd get bored :p
[Galaxy S II General] marsexpress:
All I did was attempt to backup to sdcard, then when that failed I attempted to backup to external sdcard. Not only did it wipe both my internal and external sdcard but it also left me in a bootloop and had to fully reflash from odin and wipe to recover.

Well I'm back in business myself just about-got my 'essentials' and settings configured. Going to be hours for my 32gb sdcard though, running data recovery on it (had 98% of it backed up, just a few pictures I took over the last day or so!!) then 20+gb of music to copy back....
[Galaxy S II General] Ok_Kaleidoscope5109:
where did the option to disable shutter sound go??? ><
[Galaxy S II General] Aroldoa:
just sound of focus can be disabled in camera settings.
[Galaxy S II General] apollero:
How do I get quiet hours to also affect notifications from whatsapp, fb, etc. It seems to only work on phone calls and text messages.

Is there any way to change the phone options so that it turns on ring+vibrate instead of just ring?
[Galaxy S II General] estpoc:
Flash the latest cm9 zip, wipe cache and you will be fine, but your sdcard is gone.

Change recovery to an early version afterwards.
[Galaxy S II General] :
Hahaha, actually it's not true.
[Galaxy S II General] hazwheel:
Couldn't do that, couldn't mount USB to copy cm9 onto the internal card, and couldn't boot either
[Galaxy S II General] estpoc:
put in a card reader or other phone and copy the zip to it. Flash with Odin another krrnel and you will also have a new recovery. Boot into the new recovery, flash cm9 and you are all set, no app or data lost besides the external card.
[Galaxy S II General] hazwheel:
Did it early this afternoon, flashed another rom with Odin, copied cm9 to the phone, flashed it , triangle away, job done :)
[Galaxy S II General] coversnail:
As the new CWM problem exists on RC2 I guess it would be helpful if someone could post the issue with steps to reproduce on the official bug tracker. I don't really want to go fiddling around with the recovery though and not sure how/if you could get logs on a cwm problem.
[Galaxy S II General] hazwheel:
I don't blame the cm9 team, I blame myself for not having backups on the PC to make life easier, stupid thing is, I normally do! :o
[Galaxy S II General] estpoc:
this works too, but if you just flash a new kernel, and after just cm9, you don't have to restore data (as you might have lost your backup from the sd).
[Galaxy S II General] :
Dropbox + Camera instant upload ;) Pictures are no more a problem. Data, if you are at the end of the game and suddenly lost the progress, just do it again, it's fun ;) And many other types of data you can sync with Dropbox, backups also.
[Galaxy S II General] Ok_Kaleidoscope5109:
Does anyone have Shazam installed? It's not working for me and hasn't been for months.

Yes I've wiped cache. I've done full wipe. I've wiped Titanium Backup.
[Galaxy S II General] fragel:
Yeah, I did a few days ago, no more concerns about pictures.

By the way, hazwheel, if the problem with the SD is that you can't see it, only the vcbootanimation file, don't worry... just change the kernel (e.g. fluxi which still have cwm 5.5) and the SD will return.
[Galaxy S II General] Aroldoa:
Just made a test here and all working fine, try clear data at manager aplications.
[Galaxy S II General] DonMolina:
YouTube stopped working in RC2 for me.

It doesn't load the video, everything comes up and works in the UI.

Tried wiping and reinstalling.

Ideas?
[Galaxy S II General] rav4kar:
Are you not on stock kernel ?

***Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100 | CM 9 Nightly 07192012 | SiyahKernel 3.3.4***
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
Guys im using RC2 and have changed my DPI to 221 and now im not able to downoad apps from store . can anyone tell me how to fix this

;\??
[Galaxy S II General] vitoski:
Now you need to go back to DPI 240, stopGoogle Play Market service and clear it's data. After that restart your phone and wait a while, then open Market again.

If you want to change DPI to lower I suggest to create a file 'local.prop' within the /data folder. Here is the content of the file:

qemu.sf.lcd_density=xxx

ro.sf.lcd_density=xxx

Where xxx is your preferred DPI

Wysyłane z mojego GT-I9100 za pomocą Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II General] GFXi0N:
Woha, I insalled todays nightly (07/20) and have been working with it all the day with no problem whatsoever

Went to recovery to make a nandroid backup to the external sdcard. I got some errors on freeing the space (?) and now the external sdcard seems to have been completely wiped.... goodbye to the backups i have been making with titanium backup!!!

How should i proceed, since the system itself does not start up.... reflash,perhaps?
[Galaxy S II General] christan:
Yes today's nightly seems to be messed :( re flash but your sd space will be gone...
[Galaxy S II General] hazwheel:
No, SD was wiped
[Galaxy S II General] bobhwasatch:
A week or so I posted about the "stay awake" developer option being enabled every time I reboot my device. If this is enabled the screen will stay on while charging. Had some time today to track it down and the conclusion is that it was caused by a widget called "Extended Controls".

If I remove Extended Controls the stay awake setting is preserved when rebooting. Note that I don't even need to actually be using the widget, just having it installed causes the problem.

Hope this helps someone else.
[Galaxy S II General] fragel:
Oh, what did you do? just flash? I lost my SD flashing for 19-07 but I changed the kernel and returned... :S
[Galaxy S II General] CRXed:
Is my assumption correct in that it only affects people using external SD card?

Because I made a backup to my internal SD card with RC2 and everything went just fine.....
[Galaxy S II General] juniperus.dx:
CWM6 recovery backup

Hi,

I'm only a newbie and has not much of experience, but since you say so i can confirm that i had installed CM9-RC2 use it for about one day (it runs safe and sound), until incidentally I found that I missed some calls because by unknown reason the phone says the ringtone and notification sounds are no more as i had assigned, and keep silent all the time. Although i can survive with this error by reassigning the sounds, but just for fun in the weekend, i did reboot recovery, backup that CM9-RC2, reinstall another kernel (fluxi), and after that do all necessary wipe as usual and in two times install two more different ROMs, and all runs successfully so far. So my initial observations are:

1.- there is likely some bug in this RC2 (or only in my phone?) to misplace the assigned ringtones / notifications unintentionally.

2.- reboot recovery, make backup by CM6, install another kernel and some other ROMs OK for me (ofcourse the latters via different CWMs)

3.- nothing happened to my internal memory and/or emmc so far

4.- however, obviously there was no restoring was made from original CM9-RC2 CWM6 to confirm whether there is something wrong. Tomorrow i will backup everything to PC and try !!

Thanks for your attention.
[Galaxy S II General] GFXi0N:
The memory card was wiped as in i had to reformat it because was completely erased.... now I'm getting back and I think i will stick with RC2 until all this gets sorted out... what a mess!!

I think both storage devices, internal and external got wiped..... my god....
[Galaxy S II General] thracemerin:
Its an issue with the new CWM, which is also in RC2.
[Galaxy S II General] CRXed:
So who of you will add it to the official bug tracker?

http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/list

It will get more attention.
[Galaxy S II General] thracemerin:
I don't currently have this installed on my SII, so I haven't experienced it, someone who actually has is probably a better person to do it, but I can do it if nobody has by the end of today.
[Galaxy S II General] rewesh:
I think something is wrong with the RIL since RC1, Im currently on RC2 and my network keeps on getting dropped every now and then when having a call.

Now on RC2 not only the network keeps on dropping, but now even the data keeps on dropping and I can not use internet on my phone except if Im connected to a wireless network.

I have tried different radios, but all of them cause the same issue.

Im currently on RC2 and using LPX radio.
[Galaxy S II General] hazwheel:
I flashed a rom with Odin, started again.

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I had the problem with the latest nightly, not on the RC, I think thats where most have had the problem
[Galaxy S II General] undocontrol:
Hi guys,

I had the same problem but didn't loose anything. Just reflash the recovery from ROM manager or the Touch Recovery and everything went ok.

Then flash last nigthly rom without problems.

Regards,

Fernando
[Galaxy S II General] hazwheel:
Different problem then my friend ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Imperiale:
Have either of you used DroidWall, or a similar firewall app? I used it once, and found that upgrading from one nightly to the next would mess up the rules and add random apps to the block list (ie. It happened with YouTube for me).

If you guys have DroidWall installed, either delete the rules and uninstall or tweak them back to how they should be.
[Galaxy S II General] jmillsak:
Fawk

Yeah that partition is will not mount, im guessing due to the fact that it is encrypted..so if i flash with odin, will it erase it? the only data i will loose is my pictures but I can get over that. I think when i flashed cm9 rc2 it created a new partition, and left the old, which is aprox 14gigs, so no i only have like 2 gigs on my Internal Memory/SD Card. not to be confused with my "emmc"
[Galaxy S II General] hhouter:
Look out and be carefull... I had the same, internal SD wouldn't mount. Reinstalling a new ROM Hardbricked my Galaxy S2. Because I selected a .PIT File with repartition..
[Galaxy S II General] GuestK00150:
did anyone try just using rom manager to flash anything. it has it's own recovery which is working perfectly!? so easy solution for everyone who wants to be on latest nightly without cmw6 :cool:
[Galaxy S II General] CRXed:
Did you try yourself?

Because it does not work for me, I get a "signature verification failed" when I reboot into recovery from ROM Manager.
[Galaxy S II General] GFXi0N:
Ok, so we can confirm that as long as the backup is made to the internal sdcard you will have no trouble, can't we?

About helping to fix the issue, how can we report it? Looks like a pretty serious issue to me....
[Galaxy S II General] thracemerin:
If it happens on the RC you can submit it to the issue tracker, if it doesn't then you have to hope that one of the devs is reading this post and it's already been noted.

Edit: there's a reasonably good chance that codeworkx or Entropy512 has read the thread today and that they are aware of the problem even if they haven't officially acknowledged it.
[Galaxy S II General] GFXi0N:
Anyone can confirm this happens on the rc?

I confirm it does in today's build - 20/07
[Galaxy S II General] coversnail:
Not sure yet, will have a play around tomorrow when I've backed up etc. I'd be inclined to think it's a problem only for the nightly not the rc. There were additional recovery commits in the 20th nightly changelog.bbqdroid.org/#galaxys2/cm9/1342767295

There is also an additional commit coming in the next nightly that is for recovery so it *may* be a fix
[Galaxy S II General] CRXed:
There were only 2 little changes in todays nighlty since RC2, so I am sure

this is happening on the RC2 too...
[Galaxy S II General] coversnail:
There are more changes if you look on the bbqdroid site, not all the changelogs show all the changes
[Galaxy S II General] CRXed:
Yeah I just noticed that..... why is that? :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] coversnail:
Dont think anyone's found the perfect method to show all the changes, cm9log pulls changes from gerrit, whereas bbqdroid pulls them from github.

Both miss some changes that the other one shows, so I just check both ;)
[Galaxy S II General] thracemerin:
Depends on how they're getting the changes and what projects they are following, bbqlog follows most if not all the CM projects, others only follow the main framework projects.
[Galaxy S II General] CRXed:
Thanks for the info.

For the record: I made a backup to my internal SD card with CWM6 on RC2 without any problems. I do not use a external SD card.
[Galaxy S II General] shayne77:
Mount USB in recovery. Copy ROM to whatever partition you can access from PC. Unmount USB. Flash zip?
[Galaxy S II General] kasdepwel:
How is your battery life with the latest rc2, i am having severe wakelock, and battery drains fast, apps killed the most time and runing cm9 kernel.
[Galaxy S II General] :
I'm getting 15h of screen on, and you? ;)

ok, just kidding. It's depends on you, if you use bad-coded apps, certainly you will have wakelocks, super battery drainers, etc. Try a full wipe and be careful on what you install
[Galaxy S II General] kasdepwel:
with the same apps installed with LPM i get around 35 hours+ with light to medium use

with cm9 i barely get to 20 hours right now
[Galaxy S II General] :
Do you spend 20 hours waked up using the phone? Just plug on the charger when you go sleep/get home
[Galaxy S II General] NZed:
Damn, the cm9 kernel on rc2 is giving me hell of a lot of problems. Changed to siyah. Too bad i cant complain other problems on this thread anymore :D
[Galaxy S II General] :
Siyah was giving me more and more problems. Games freezing, SODs, freezes after disconecting USB cable.
[Galaxy S II General] LogeshMenon:
Running cm9 rc2 with original kernel, can say i get better on screen battery drain. With other rons i get drained fast on screen. Loving it.
[Galaxy S II General] :
CM9 kernel has the best deepsleep I"ve ever seen. 5h and not even 1% drained. 5h because I needed to use the phone, to it may be even longer to drain 1%

But with screen on it's almost a fail. Anytime it can drain 1%, 2 minutes, 3 minutes. I used to get 10% drained with only 25min of screen on.
[Galaxy S II General] luizffgarcia:
@mudferret

Man, can you confirm that the data loss issue is gone with this new kernel?

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LOL, you people are way too hopeful!

If i get a good ICS release from Samsung before July i will be happy :p
[Galaxy S II General] TheSaw:
Quick question:

Are there (partially) working alternatives for video recording / playback? I.e.: does LG Camera, or MoboPlayer (for example) work, even if not optimally, just in case of an "emergency"?
[Galaxy S II General] zdenoh1975:
luizffgarcia : I had always data issue with any newest builds than 0106 and with 0124 is all OK..
[Galaxy S II General] ottuh:
I have no problems getting a GPS fix with iGO on the 01242012 (with latest modem and kernel)
[Galaxy S II General] Quintinio:
Nope im afraid not.

This is broken in the kernel..

There is a workaround available that Codeworkx posted in this thread somewhere, but this is not what you mean. Ill post it anyways, might be usefull to you:

Delete the libsomexcore.so in system\lib with root explorer.

This fixes the webbased version of Youtube (for me the YT app doesn't work after this Workaround). Colours will be strange because of the missing codecs or something like that. But hey, you can still watch vids.
[Galaxy S II General] STEVEN_MCK:
Not receiving messages

Running cm9 and yesterday the phone went weird like the screen went fuzzy then rebooted and now my sII wont receive texts and had to put it back to stock Rom think my RIL crashed and reflashing cm9 didnt work.
[Galaxy S II General] w1nk:
Why does still in CM9 video codecs are not supported? I heard something that the CM9 team waiting for a stable build from samsung, but in these all leaked builds video codeds are very good... Im just waiting for these things to be fixed in CM9, then it will be my daily ROM!

Good luck guys and hope someone will answer on my question :)
[Galaxy S II General] Quintinio:
Whatsupp with the tags of this thread:

prohibited relationship with horse .. serious?? :mad:

Mods please delete this crap.

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Buddy, no kernel sources available yet. This means they can't implement the video codes that Samsung is using atm.

Correct me if im wrong.
[Galaxy S II General] navodwickra:
works in the recovery mode
[Galaxy S II General] markdavey:
What version of iGO and where did you get it from (can't find it on the Market)
[Galaxy S II General] EDV11:
http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=863524&d=1326999177
[Galaxy S II General] ottuh:
I'm using version 8.4.3.178871, downloaded it somewhere from the internet;)
[Galaxy S II General] DSC05:
Try MX Videoplayer with software decoding for playback and Videocam Illusion for recording.
[Galaxy S II General] Hollow.Droid:
I'm not sure if this has been addressed previously but my searching didn't bring much up. Basically is there any other compatible kernels for use with the CM9 experimental builds? I realise a lot of the changes the CM team made was on a kernel level but I'm also interested in getting the CWM app working.
[Galaxy S II General] megazz:
Does anyone feels like these new releases are not smooth like the first ones? The touch have more delay than before.
[Galaxy S II General] luizffgarcia:
The developers are not changing anything in the Kernels as far as i understand, without the source codes there is not much they can do...

You can flash other Kernels like KP8 and KP9 on recent releases freely thou.

EDIT: Keep in mind you can only use ICS kernels! Dont try to use Siyah or other GB Kernels, it won't work...
[Galaxy S II General] ottuh:
I only tried the KP8 CF-Root kernel which was working, but you should use a CM9 kernel!

Besides these kernels, no other kernels (Siyah f.e.) are compatible with CM9
[Galaxy S II General] t0ph0id:
I'm running the latest 24th Jan build with the new kernel and CWM app is working just fine.
[Galaxy S II General] hzr34:
Anybody does the browser was trying to watch video? Youtube or something else.
[Galaxy S II General] freemini:
Stop posting about video already! It's not fixed in changelog, so it doesn't work!
[Galaxy S II General] thracemerin:
Part of the good idle battery life can be attributed to the fact that the netfilter now blocks all multicast wifi packets which prevents noisy windows machines from constantly waking your device up for no particular reason, this makes a huge difference in overall battery life.
[Galaxy S II General] :
I see that. But not only this. Wakelocks are a very less frequents, it can go deepsleep for hours without anything waking it up [almost. of course there are some details that the active bar don't show]
[Galaxy S II General] thracemerin:
Screen on drain has a lot to do with governor, undervolting, brightness, screen tweaks, etc... CM kernel doesn't allow you to do some of the stuff that is possible on some of the other kernels which is probably why you get more drain with the screen on with it.
[Galaxy S II General] :
Yeah. Wish build a configurator under the Advanced settings, and open more possibilities. Does it have kmemhelper interface? So I could set touchscreen thresholds.