yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] leoni1980:
Unzipped and installed APK as system app via DarkyOTA. Also deleted equivalent Samsung system apps with same method. I haven't had a single crash all day and for me this solution works better than CM9 alpha by a long stretch.
[Galaxy S II General] gwak:
Software updater

I have tried to setup the software updater but it will not confirm. It now sits in my status bar not doing nothing. Can it be removed?
[Galaxy S II General] leoni1980:
I've deleted it, again with DarkyOTA
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
Appreciate the efforts of those who done this work but for now ill just remain an interested observer until such time a stable everyday build is released;)
[Galaxy S II General] zemariaabreusantos:
Thanks a lot!! ;)
[Galaxy S II General] leoni1980:
If I had time I'd have a go at doing the same build as mine with dsixda's Android Kitchen but I have to go to work shortly. I'm surprised no-one has jumped on the bandwagon and taken all the Samsung crap out and stockified this ROM already...unless I've missed that?
[Galaxy S II General] z3r0n3:
The only method I found to remove that message is to frozen (or delete, like leoni1980 said) the Update app via Titanium Backup.
[Galaxy S II General] lew247:
Any chance of a list of what can be uninstalled and what they are/do please?
[Galaxy S II General] leoni1980:
Many of them are self explanatory. DarkyOTA at least shows the icon and proper app name for most things so it's pretty safe. I installed Launcher2 and Gallery first as system apps then went through the removal process. The phone then defaulted to stock launcher. Gallery from Nexus is much nicer than the one Samsung have included with KP8. Not sure what they were thinking. It also doesn't crash when you select wallpapers etc.

I tried implementing stock contacts but it didn't show up and caused the Samsung one to disappear. I also found my entire cellular framework vanished! On that basis I wouldn't advise adding that or the stock message app unless you know how to patch it and get it working properly. I'm pretty sure there's potential for completely stockifying these Samsung releases. If this is the case then it is a much better solution than CM9 owing to the full codec support along with USB OTG and MHL
[Galaxy S II General] Cane Phoenix:
@leoni1980

Could you please make an all in one package, of your build, when you get back from work? And is it possible to flash it with Odin?
[Galaxy S II General] Phaege:
The Kp8 Version is pretty stable for me.

Gonna use this as my daylie driver, only the touch wizz is annoying me :/
[Galaxy S II General] leoni1980:
I can wipe then do a Nandroid backup for CWM restoring if that's any good. I'm no dev though, just a fan of customizing to my liking. Be better if someone could do a proper stockified CWM flashable zip or even an ODIN .tar file recompiled with all the Samsung elements removed and a few performance tweaks. DarkyROM had something similar to this available for i9000 that they called 'Resurrection Edition'. People seem more concerned with adding to and theming stock ROMs though which is cool but I'm surprised no-one with more experience than me has done something like this in a way that can be shared with the community.
[Galaxy S II General] Subbie171:
Replacing the Gallery fixed screenshot taking for me (Volume down + power (hold both for a while, it's not instant)) so thanks for that.
[Galaxy S II General] Cane Phoenix:
Thanks, but I don't have cwm.
[Galaxy S II General] jinan:
How's the battery performance for you? Is around 3% per hour or better?
[Galaxy S II General] Hidr0*:
Just removed most of samsung bloat, installed the stock apks from post above and now I lost Menu and return buttons (just doesnt work) I can live with that till a better solution comes out. But if anyone knows a workaround to fix this plz let me know.

Edit: Now the return and menu works! Just reboot and Voila!

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It dropped 3% overnite with WIFI enabled... ill let the batt stats settle to come back with a clearer opinion on Batt life
[Galaxy S II General] leoni1980:
Get it by flashing the relevent Chainfire kernel with ODIN.
[Galaxy S II General] d3kk3r:
I flashed KP8 and I'm getting constant reboots. Tried to reflash, factory reset and problem persists.

Any ideas?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] leoni1980:
I assume you're doing something wrong in ODIN. I've flashed this four times now the same way and havan't had any issues with boot loops.
[Galaxy S II General] d3kk3r:
I flashed the 1st time with pit and re-partition.

Flashed 2nd time without pit and still got bootloops.

ODIN doesn't show any errors.
[Galaxy S II General] Hidr0*:
Format your SD card, dont try to restore any back up, wipe data/cache, dalvik cache, re download the FW from SamMobile site and try again, also USE ANOTHER LAUNCHER TW aint working as it should.

Remenber this is a beta build so be patience and thanks SamMobile for the leak.

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Hey dude is there a way to get Contacts, Camera and Dialer from stock ICS? or those causes issues on SG2!?
[Galaxy S II General] ant987:
Thank you! I flashed the kernel XXKP8 rooted and everything was ok!

I like this ROM, even if I like more the stock AOSP 4.0.3 ! :)
[Galaxy S II General] planetf1:
So for those that used pit, are the new partition sizes any different?
[Galaxy S II General] aude52:
is anyone else having a problem with the battery drain? im losing my battery within 5 hours on just standby! any ideas?

thanks
[Galaxy S II General] mdfine:
Flashed XXKP8 without Pit file + CF-Root-Kernel. Installed Trebuchet. Works so far. Its a daily driver except for the samsung mail app which does not really work, it gets closed if I try to open a mail and does not update.
[Galaxy S II General] desgrassia:
I seem not to get it: I installed ICS Launcher2.apk "as system file" with DarkyOTA, but the OS is not showing it in the list of available launchers, does anything else need to be done?
[Galaxy S II General] nat510:
use this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1389071&page=10
[Galaxy S II General] zemariaabreusantos:
Bubs

No USB debugging only MTP.

unable to quit MTP while tranfering files

After ejecting the phone NO icons -.-'' have to reboot

A bit of lag but that is all :)

And the Faceunlock...
[Galaxy S II General] Plushackowy:
This rom (4.0.3) is great! I use it as my daily rom. Rarely there are few fcs but at all its stable.

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[Galaxy S II General] szabolcski:
Grand Treft Auto III is not working on leaked ics rom. Help please.
[Galaxy S II General] leoni1980:
Camera seemed to work well. Panorama didn't work though.

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Doesn't work on my Nexus S either.
[Galaxy S II General] Guantanamo86:
gta 3 runs with ics much better!
[Galaxy S II General] kaz16:
first timer

hi all

been looking in to the whole updating my phone to ics now i havnt even rooted my phone or messed around with it in anyway so im a complete beginner

ive seen the guides and they seem pretty much straight forward to follow my question is will my device be fully wiped as if it were a brand new device?

i.e my messages contacts pictures videos apps on my phone memory?

because i dont want to lose any of that...ive got a 4gb memory card but thats not big enough to transfer everything over like pics

thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S II General] leoni1980:
Follow the instructions for flashing with ODIN. Once that boots go back into download mode and flash the Chainfire KP8 custom kernel with Odin via the PDA section with nothing else added and repartition

unticked.

This will leave you with a clean, wiped ROM. You phone's internal storage (photos etc) will not be touched by this procedure so you needn't back them up; unless you're massively unlucky and something terrible happens :P

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I have a wiped Nandroid backup of my i9100 with all of my personal modifications and most Samsung components removed. I can upload it later to DropBox if anyone is interested?

Is there an *easy* way to convert this backup file into a standard CWM flashable .zip or .tar file for flashing with ODIN? One that doesn't require setting up some linux envrinoment and downloading a load of bits and pieces? I'm a complete noob but thought someone might be interested in this as to my surprise no-one seems to have DeSamsungified this ROM yet. I'm sure I'm not the only person who wants a stripped-down KP8 with stock ICS launcher. Gallery and Keyboard out of the box...especially given how flawlessly it seems to be running for me!
[Galaxy S II General] kaz16:
thanks for that i will give it a go now i seen the files and instructions on page 1 is there instructions you know of in more detail i come across some youtube vids which looked helpful but i didnt see anything to do with the chainfire custom kernel

(im so confused haha but will get my head around it!! lol)

oh and do i download both these files

Separate XXKP8 Kernel (NON-ROOTED Kernel/Full Stock Kernel): DOWNLOAD

Chainfire's CF-Root XXKP8 (Rooted Kernel - THREAD): DOWNLOAD

or just the chainfire my deive is not rooted

thanks
[Galaxy S II General] leoni1980:
My procedure was to flash the provided PIT file in the relevent box, along with PDA (the largest file with CODE in the title), the file with MODEM in the title under Phone and the file with CSC in the title under CSC

Then after booting I went back into Download mode and flashed the Kp8 Kernel HERE (again in ODIN, in the PDA box) which basically just roots the phone and adds ClockworkMod Recovery
[Galaxy S II General] szabolcski:
Problem Solved.

I find new version of apk file.
[Galaxy S II General] carloslopescj:
Cant open Gallery and Camera. "Media scanner running" . I'm using KP8, any suggestion?
[Galaxy S II General] desgrassia:
I am trying to:

1. use the plain Launcher2, I prefer that one

2. understand what I am doing wrong while I am trying to accomplish what leoni1980 is saying, I don't think I am stupid, I tried searching in here and over Google in the past hours, but maybe I lack some basics that you all are giving for granted ;)

I also tried adb push remounting the /system RW, but all I get is "no space left on device". Thought I'd need to use ADB over recovery mode but the phone is not being recognised by the PC in that mode

Please avoid telling me to go back to GB, I know that would be the smartest advice, and I am planning to do so if I will not be able to accomplish something. But, hey, I am also not planning to give up so easily ;)
[Galaxy S II General] kaz16:
if i wanted to is the process of going backto my stock gingerbread easy? can it be done through kies?
[Galaxy S II General] markmcg:
Updated to XXKP8 and it works great. anyone noticed that Predictive text not working even if the XT9 box is ticked?
[Galaxy S II General] carloslopescj:
Yea, i want to go back to gb too. I'm getting many FC and Bootloops... Better wait for a more stable release. Nice work btw.

Can someone help us?
[Galaxy S II General] :
That would be AWESOME :D

It is very easy with dsixda's Android kitchen (two steps: extract the backup and build the ROM) - but I can do that for you if you upload the Nandroid backup. Maybe, if I find enough time, I can also skin the framework to make the ROM look stock ICS (I hate the childish TW skin).
[Galaxy S II General] Jo...:
I flashed KP8, but because I didn't like it, I wanted to go back to 2.3.6. So I tried flashing the KK2 firmware through Odin. The problem now is that I get a lot of errors after my SGSII boots, and I can't do anything. How can I fix this?
[Galaxy S II General] thor2001:
Well, I flashed the KP8 and rooted it with the CF-Root, but the root isn't 100% working. Because while I was trying to remove some things with autostarts (cos I use an dualsim-adapter) the mobile vibrates one time, than after some delay two times with an note popping up that I have no root. But thats not true, because i granted it superuser-rights by the startup of the app.

The faceunlock.apk isn't really working. You can get to the point where it positively recognises your face and you can set an alternate unlock possibility but after that it can set the paramters.

If you download something in the market, the filesize is shown in "kB" (which is correct), but the next bigger thing is "mbar" (which is kinda strange cos its a pressure measurement unit).

I'm waiting for the final thing.

Regards
[Galaxy S II General] Hidr0*:
Just flash again using KL1 or kk5 which contains pit and sepaate modem,CSC and Code files to wipe everything. Dont downgrade ever using a single file rom it wont work!
[Galaxy S II General] vladtdr:
how can i fix the faceunlock? i saw that is was a fix thread this morning but that was deleted i tried searching as well...pls help
[Galaxy S II General] Plushackowy:
Haha my market shows it in hPa (hectopascals).

Thaths really strange thing.

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[Galaxy S II General] terranhms:
Hi guys, Merry Christmas - Happy and Bugless New Year!

I ve got Samsung Galaxy s2, and i have some question about it,

1. Why it boots itself when long time wifi is ON?

2. I updated 2.3.3 to 2.3.4 trough KIES, (i live in Ukraine), and now i check, there is no update for me in KIES, but all world running on 2.3.5 and 2.3.6 official updates trough Kies, but why i can not get it?,

3. Is there any influence of GSM operator on update for android version? i mean if i change my simcard to other operator, will it update?, or it doesn`t change anything?

4. Why my phone running maximum 9 Hours, ok i am medium user, playin, facebook etc. but, in any case, 8-9 hours not so little for this phone?, sometimes even 4 hours and battery is DEATH :D

5. Go Ex Launcher is heavier then Touchviz ?? i mean which of them more soft and make more less busy cpu and ram?

6. hmm this is interesting question, is there any trick which can make my location different to kies, to i get official updates of another country :D:D, i know this is utopia, but whatever i would like to learn, why not?

Thank you guys, sorry for my laggy, damaged, and un understandable ENGLISH :D:D, but i hope you will decode what i say :D:D

Wait you SIMPLE ENGLISH EXPLANATION, Hell yeah, finally wrote in english :D:D,
[Galaxy S II General] IakobosJ:
Very weird :S My market shows KB and MB just like it should.
[Galaxy S II General] djkalabadal:
Face unlock not working on kp8.. Dunno and it freeezes a lot..but its fast and looks good though can someone fix the faceunlock plz
[Galaxy S II General] killall:
This is a thread for 4.0.3 firmware (ICS)

You should SEARCH for threads about 2.3.5 and 2.3.6 and post your questions there:)
[Galaxy S II General] carloslopescj:
Battery draining is faster than power charging :confused::confused::confused:
[Galaxy S II General] reidefors82:
is it possible to install CWM without ODIN

I do not have the correct drivers on this computer, and it´s not allowing me to install kies either
[Galaxy S II General] Hidr0*:
go back and read second post link still there #faceunlock
[Galaxy S II General] carloslopescj:
Guys help plz.

I cant open the Gallery or the Camera. I'm getting the "running scanner media", and nothing happens. Also i'm getting random reboots :S
[Galaxy S II General] Fabriciohss:
That seems to be related to the TouchWiz launcher. Happened to me too (and to a lot of other users around here, take a look at the first pages).

The solution is to use another launcher. I'm currently using Go Launcher EX and both Camera and Gallery work like a charm. Some people are using Trebuchet launcher, which is more ICS look alike.
[Galaxy S II General] carloslopescj:
I'm using Nova Launcher and the problem presists.
[Galaxy S II General] vladtdr:
sorry but it seems i am retarded:D. can you post it pls?
[Galaxy S II General] Hawkeye1103:
running kp8 ... running decent:) will update tomorow on bugs... restarts and fc's:D

Take care wtg.... really like it
[Galaxy S II General] m.nassy.uk:
think this is my 1st post :)

downloaded and flashed today and then rooted all successfully :D

was a little buggy to begin with, restarted bout 4 times in the 1st hour but has been fine ever since.

everything seems to be working although i haven't tried faceunlocking (wouldn't use it anyway...).

il report back in a couple of days unless i have issues then i will post :)

shame GTA 3 isnt working though :(
[Galaxy S II General] rommy667:
m.nassy.uk from what i can tell if you update gta .apk to the latest 1.02 i think it is it will run.
[Galaxy S II General] leoni1980:
I'll try and upload it to DropBox later.
[Galaxy S II General] planetf1:
Generally the rom is working ok -- going to run with it tomorrow, in conjunction with the cf-root KP8 kernel, and the nova launcher.

However I did notice some of my UK specific apps (bbc iplayer, itv player) aren't visible in the market.

I assume this has to do with the CSC -- any thoughts on whether it would be possible to correct the market/region code under ICS
[Galaxy S II General] leoni1980:
I don't have it to hand but I'm pretty sure neither are available on my Nexus S either so I assume it's more to do with ICS. The iPlayer app is crap anyway. The picture is just as good and video more stable if you go to the mobile site. Hoping they update it to be as good as the iOS app soon and strip out the ****ty Flash requirement for H264. Here's hoping 4OD does the same too. I've got a lot of hoping to do before I can finally stop being jealous of my iPhone cousins ;)
[Galaxy S II General] xalaras:
i've used the xxkp8 for one day and returned back to my favourite gb rom.

a lot of vibrations, black screens, some reboots.

i didn't try to change the launcher as many people suggested.

i'll wait for more stable release.

p.s. i restored my sms and call logs. maybe that were causing my problems..?
[Galaxy S II General] jinan:
I have also restored my sms and call logs, but never had this kind of problems.
[Galaxy S II General] xalaras:
also i didn't flash the .pit
[Galaxy S II General] Hawkeye1103:
Well i did mine this way. Flashed kp8 with repartition and worked just fine. just experienced the first hour or so ... reboots and crashes. updated google+ was fcing. ohh and that happened when i installed apps and so on... but after that all fine.... works like a charm... will update on the status.

PS: România is written like this not like in the rom:)) â and ă are different they do not mean the same:D

PS2: there are still some problems with the Wi-Fi dosn't always detect all networks

PS3: when i set the network to 2g and restart the phone it automaticaly goes to the auto network select 2g or 3g. So it doesn't store the network mode.
[Galaxy S II General] jinan:
I did flash PIT, but no annoying problems yet. Just one reboot while trying to restore SMS Backup.
[Galaxy S II General] seghier:
nice and beautiful but many fc with it

i backup my galaxy to 2.3.5
[Galaxy S II General] user032:
This rom is smooth but awfully buggy. ICS doesn't really bring a lot to the table with all this TouchWiz coating. When the proper Sammy ICS rom in out I'll just have to contemplate the choice between it and CM9.
[Galaxy S II General] valentinrascu:
Opinions about this firmware?(se poate usa toate zilele?)

Inviato dal mio GT-I9100 usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] gwak:
Install faceunlock from cm 9 thread.
[Galaxy S II General] nathsgames:
I have a lot of FC on 4.03 but all in all, it's much faster and smoother than my custom GB roms before it, so I will stick with it.

But has anyone noticed no HSDPA? I am only ever registering 3G, never H? Any ideas? APN is correct?
[Galaxy S II General] gwak:
Not living in HSDPA area. 3G seems ok. Fc seemed to have dropped off after a full wipe and factory reset
[Galaxy S II General] Hawkeye1103:
noticed... didn't knew if it was just me:D
[Galaxy S II General] IakobosJ:
There is HSDPA/HSPA there is just no icon for it, but it does work :)
[Galaxy S II General] dissa:
For me all work well...sometimes i have got some force close..but it is not a problem for the moment..

I am using kp8 rom..

Thanks guy!!!
[Galaxy S II General] eltorio:
rSAP (remote sim access profile) does not work

:( rSAP (remote sim access profile) does not work

Hi all,

I've installed the XXKP8 yesterday evening. And as for XXKP1 and XXKP2 rSAP is not working.

I tested against a Nokia 610 car phone, (previously on gingerbread it was working perfectly).

I'm investigating!

Eltorio
[Galaxy S II General] mbernstein:
Exactly what happened to me...

On a VERY positive side, I had lost the IMEI of my phone (had to buy another one) and when flashing KP8 it recovered it and the phone now works again.
[Galaxy S II General] rathian:
Just some interesting info for people who wanna test this, root it...

I did a crazy thing n flashed the OLD BOOTLOADER

OVER XXKP8... and IT WORKS!!! meaning you can still reset you counter with a JIG and still load the OS... only quirk: shutdown cannot complete somehow...

if anyone would be nice enough to upload the ICS bootloaded, it would sweeten the whole damn deal....

Edit: shutdown works well.... my bad... first time was cos i was removing sammy bloat...
[Galaxy S II General] Hawkeye1103:
PS4: No hsdpa icon

PS5: sms in landscape is not showing right:D.
[Galaxy S II General] planetf1:
As well as no hspa indication my signal strength always shows full.some work to go there, still, it works
[Galaxy S II General] sean is here.:
Can I flash this via CWM? Or must it be Odin?
[Galaxy S II General] hanhav:
Swype languages? THX

And ofcourse how to root? No one knows yet I think?
[Galaxy S II General] stuclark:
Tried superoneclick - couldn't get root. Going to try a different kernel and see if that helps me out...
[Galaxy S II General] Faryaab:
Use ODIN to flash!
[Galaxy S II General] Schrotty35:
I have a many FC with KP8 :-( .
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
Can I use Mobile Odin?
[Galaxy S II General] dk_iceman:
Can't wait to try this rom.

Would There be problems with games and programs? Because of android 4.0.3

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[Galaxy S II General] Faryaab:
No as you need ICS bootloaders which MobileOdin doesn't flash.
[Galaxy S II General] coolbuddyin:
+1 on that,me too has same doubt

Edit : sorry got the answer, my net is slow due to rain
[Galaxy S II General] Faryaab:
Uploaded XXKP8 Stock Kernel as a separate package too. :D
[Galaxy S II General] coolbuddyin:
If we want to revert back to my existing rom ie KL1

i have to flash KL1 by ODIN and root then do a nandoid restore

btw its a full wipe rom isnt it?
[Galaxy S II General] Faryaab:
Yup!

Yes!
[Galaxy S II General] rafalfalfa:
Button ODIN "modem"

in which the button odin similar to "MODEM"?

Sorry google translate

Similarly, press the button in ODIN Modem and select the file with 'Modem' name in ITS (MODEM_I9100KK).
[Galaxy S II General] coolbuddyin:
Is selecting .PIT file is must?? or can we skip that part ?

this rom is daily usable rom?
[Galaxy S II General] roco446:
Have anyone root it using Super One Click or something like that?
[Galaxy S II General] leoni1980:
can someone try installing ICS keyboard. Does it use the nice autocrrect ramework as with the Nexus S/Galaxy Nexus or have they stripped it out of the ROM? Also can anyone confirm that there is definitely no way to change the general font size.
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
I'd like to have an installation guide as well, last I flashed with eRajesh's guide and sadly it was wrong.

I am sure it won't be a DAILY use ROM, bugs will be flying here and there, that's expected anyway.
[Galaxy S II General] Faryaab:
Updated OP with Change List Numbers!
[Galaxy S II General] Faryaab:
Phone

10char
[Galaxy S II General] Faryaab:
You can skip it but using that part is recommended. ;)
[Galaxy S II General] planetf1:
Currently getting around 12% battery loss per hour. Data active on wifi, but worth screen off much of time.

BBS not showing anything untoward nor is system monitor.

Eek. If I don't locate the cause may have to go back for now