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[Galaxy S II General] FordT:
Problem: solved

Mine at least. 182 dpi was not enough. I had to have 160 dpi. This bugged me enough to do something about it. I probably did it the hardest possible way, but it works, I'm satisfied, and I'd like to share it with you.

I built the whole CM9 locally for a fictional mdpi SGS2. This I flashed to my phone. Although I'm no n00b to flashing, these were exciting minutes. But it worked as expected. 160 dpi and everything was fully functional, even the phone. I didn't want to repeat this process everytime a new nightly appeared, so I extracted the Phone.apk (which contains the part that was crashing) and put it in a CWM-flashable zip. It works for me. The flashing process gets minimally more complicated.

Basically it now is:

Make backup

Flash nightly

Flash GApps

Flash mdpiPhone

Clear caches

Reboot

For me it's worth the bother. It doesn't even break the ability to phone in hdpi. Together with the creation of /data/local.prop to keep the dpi even after flashes it is the ideal solution for me.

You can find the zip at mdpiPhone.zip

Share and enjoy!
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
I really like your post. No doubt, you are a Hooligan!

LOL
[Galaxy S II General] gaz617:
Seem's like you've done some good work, thank you! This zip could really help a lot of people out
[Galaxy S II General] SimboXXX:
Yes, but not so depressed as to worry about an animation effect on my mobile phone. ;)

Hope you find a solution.
[Galaxy S II General] vicgomez:
I don't think that the GS2 is a cheap device. It's just that it isn't used at it's full potential, and that's samsung's fault, but it is just because it's target it's the average consumer, just like you can buy an exotic sports car that's restricted to run at 180 Kph even if it can reach 300 Kph. because an average driver will destroy it, as we often can read of in this thread of people not grasping the basic concepts of flashing roms.

In some ways I think GS2 its better than the GNex, the difference is that Nexus phones are developer devices designed with google's specs in mind.

I've read that the screen banding issue is pure software, it has to do with the percieved responsiveness of touchwiz, it's more fluid if the color is at 16 bit, but it looks terrible, the hardware can easily handle better color reproduction. Thankfully that tweak i stumbled upon in the advanced settings solved the banding for me. I couldn't belive that a phone with that much banding could gather rave reviews by literally all tech blogs and no one had payed attention to it.

So thanks to team hacksung for letting us taste part of the great potential of this device.
[Galaxy S II General] :
was just about to say man i could kiss you when i actually read what the zip is about and i take my kisses back.:D

can someone confirm the thing i probably already know that the new market there is no way round it when going mdpi? the only option is to find an old version and push it to system/app is that correct?
[Galaxy S II General] punshkin:
Sorry to ask this, if it has already been answered but which is the exact name of the settings point that disables tue banding for you?

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S II General] vicgomez:
Sure, i posted it a few hours ago, it's Settings - Advanced - Swipe to screen tab - Scenario - Select "camera" from the list.
[Galaxy S II General] D79_:
Just wondered when the torch will work in the notification drawer?
[Galaxy S II General] annie42:
Sorry that my post will sound very noobish

I saw that Chainfire managed to solve the usb mounting problem in his thread. Is it somehow useful to cm9?
[Galaxy S II General] wesley1966:
Be careful with the Optimizer Toolbox app - a battery hog despite the useful features.
[Galaxy S II General] :
guys feel free to have a moan at me but i need some clarification..downloading yesterday nightly and gonna start fresh again..got few questions please and do not hate me....

Does the market work fine at 182 dpi or do we have to do the long winded way and change back to stock download what i want and then revert back? cheers
[Galaxy S II General] annie42:
Everything work fine for me in 182dpi without changing stuff
[Galaxy S II General] :
:confused: how on earth? did you update market to google play? might as well flash the new nightly and see then. cheers
[Galaxy S II General] punshkin:
I flashed the new Nightly just as the instructions tell and the gapps are gone. Did I do something wrong? Should I have reflashed gapps?
[Galaxy S II General] :
well i am redownloading the gapps with the new nightly so might as well so i would say yeah mate go for it
[Galaxy S II General] D79_:
I have the new cm9 build and google play installed soon as i went on google market :-)
[Galaxy S II General] :
yeah but does it work mdpi that is what i want to know mate..thanks anyway
[Galaxy S II General] D79_:
How do i find out and then ill let u know :-)
[Galaxy S II General] :
download dpi changer from market. then change to 182 dpi and then reboot..then once you have rebooted try and download something and see if it works. that is it really
[Galaxy S II General] D79_:
Why do u want to change the dpi? (Ive not been on this post for a while so im not up to date with the latest topics)
[Galaxy S II General] :
just everything is smaller and more space on the screen...its not a big issue but sticking with stock dpi kinda makes everything look big...i like the mdpi alot now:o
[Galaxy S II General] D79_:
Oh right lol i find 240 dpi fine, but everyone likes things difa i guess :-)
[Galaxy S II General] Tchiort:
GPS problems while running CM9

Hi everyone,

As this is my first post on this thread, I would like to start by thanking the devs who are working on CM9, the ROM is really amazing (I'm using it since day one on my I9100 and couldn't go back to stock), it is even better than stock ICS on the Gnex.

Although I don't want to complain regarding CM9, GPS never worked on my I9100 while running it. I must add that I wiped (factory reset/data/dalvik cache) several times between updates (and always did a cache and dalvik wipe between updates), I searched on this thread (I'm actually following it since day one) and I tried every solution that was given here: GPS fix, GPS patch, every modem and kernel (and mixing them) available for CM9, different apps, ... But the only amelioration that I got was seeing 2 sats on GPS statuts (instead of 1 or 0) without being able to lock them. My device never locks a sat.

And yes I let my GPS searching for sats for more than 30 minutes, inside and outside, running different builds, and nothing worked.

(I am talking of actual GPS here, not network localization, which works)

I also must add that this is not a hardware problem since I had to get back to stock a few weeks ago (for technical reasons) and GPS worked perfectly, and this is not a localization problem since I tried it in different cities in France (Lille, Paris, ...). I travel a lot and not having GPS is a big problem for me.

I read a thousand times that GPS was working perfectly on you guys' devices so I am curious to hear what you would recommend me to do.
[Galaxy S II General] cytherean:
Wait for the SGS III
[Galaxy S II General] elitewarrior:
Hey guys. My first post here. So first off thanks to codeworkx and teamhacksung. Amazing work from you guys.

Anyway I upgraded from the March 04 build to the March 14th build and I noticed that my wireless doesn't automatically connect anymore. Is this an intended thing to save battery or am I just being stupid and an option was added somewhere to enable/disable auto connect? I am on the KP6 modem.

For people who want to know whats different:

-Battery life seems to be slightly worse for me but I had 2 wakelock process's in my top 3 according to betterbattery stats. All 3 are related to the music player (stock). The first one mediaserver (1013), second a wakelock (com.android.music.Music) and the third another wakelock (1013). Im no power user so I dont really know whats going on and I didnt bother looking it up because I can still get a full days use out of it.

-More responsive

-GPS IS ON ROIDS. I swear 30m accuracy instantly when I am indoors and 5m instantly when im outdoors. I am not sure why since the modem between the 2 firmwares is the same.
[Galaxy S II General] blair287:
Any CPU over locking apps which work with this kernel?
[Galaxy S II General] SimboXXX:
Most posts claiming GPS not working don't realize that the 2 satellites max showing is just a reporting bug. I assume you know that and, to clarify, you can't get a lock in any nav app, right?
[Galaxy S II General] AmdPhenomII:
I can confirm that I have a working SD card on phone and pc ;)

on the pc it appears as GT i9100 when you click on that it appears as Phone and SD card, checked contents and all is present.
[Galaxy S II General] Skyline92:
You r right in terms of the SIM Card. But I have to tell you, that the batterylife is still much better than with 2.3.6 which lasted for just 5 full days without touching it. This one has a Screen-On-Time of ~ 45 minutes.
[Galaxy S II General] lrbpereira:
First off all all your suposed bug are already all known! So if you had read this tread you should now that!

1. USB mass storage mode as cant dump much into it.

Still doesn´t work, there is a lot of solutions to use instead - search!

2. File manager is not there.(though its avail from market)

Install anyone you like! What is the diference bringing one or instaling one from the market?! It will bring in the future though.

3. Music crashes now and then.

There are solution for this to! Search!

4. Task manager would be an added advantage.

There is one! Press the home button long and it will apear! Swype to the side the app´s that are open to close them! There is a way to kill all app when you get out of them, saving memory - search!

5. Some applications dont work... ( I know its not something which is a ROM issue but still a question in my mind)

It´s true some aplication doesn´t work, it´s a problem of that app, that won´t work with the new 4.0 Ui. When you instaled in you PC Win7 ou Vista, some of the app that you had in XP didn´t work too... normal... Wait till there is a new version release...
[Galaxy S II General] melorib:
Maybe you are using you phone more, testing the new toy, the days I flashed and flashed, it did use more battery, with normal use, it is the same as CM7, and once in a while I go and admire the new speed and smoothness... :rolleyes:

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Me too, it plays 14 gb of music I have there, didnt have to do anything special, was still there after I flashed CM9... :cool:
[Galaxy S II General] lrbpereira:
It can me mine, but I wound that it consumes like the double of the battery! One big improvement is the deep sleep consumption, it´s really little, like in 6/7 hours 2% ou 3%, but in normal use, it´s really a lot!

Since yesterday night i´m using Set CPU with 200mhz/1000mhz in on demand mode. Let´s see if this will help me, but as I said, the consumpion is bigger. And I use Juice Defender and Advanced Task Cleaner...
[Galaxy S II General] svceon:
I Agree, stock roms with a good combination can give extraordinary battery results, but has an experimental rom this has an awesome battery life... it is usual, but yesterday for instance, after 15h22m still had 42% left... and i use my phone a lot (sms's, calls, 3G, Wifi [almost all day], etc...)
[Galaxy S II General] Gustopher:
Fast Dormancy

On the basis that Search returns no matches in this thread, I'll ask the question...

I'm getting 'spotty' battery life on this ROM - no great surprise and a prime example of caveat emptor. That said, I rather like ICS thus far and would hesitate to revert, so I'm trying to do something about it.

In the worst case, Android OS seems to run riot, but I'm not sure I entirely buy the 'bug' theory, so I want to explore other options first. Widgets are an obvious candidate, but there are aspects of this challenge that remind me of what I was seeing in the very early days after getting the device - much of which was caused by having fast dormancy enabled. For example, the drain often seems worse when I am closest to my router (it was fine on GB previously, so I'm fairly sure the router isn't the issue).

However, the normal code to open the settings page for some of the phone stuff - *#9900# doesn't seem to work on ICS, so I can't even check. Anyone know the correct code on ICS?

Having just lost 40% battery in two hours, any other suggestions up to and including hysterical speculation are very welcome!
[Galaxy S II General] melorib:
I keep saying, those tools are the problem, everybody that complains uses them, I dont, and battery drain is not a problem... :rolleyes:

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Android OS shows on stats, but it doesnt actually drain much, it is more of a reporting issue...
[Galaxy S II General] nussie:
The user you quoted, was obviously talking about leaked ICS Samsung Roms - comparing them to CM9. He was not comparing GB roms to CM9. ;) On that basis, I really agree with him that CM9 is way smoother and more stable than any leaked Samsung ICS Roms.
[Galaxy S II General] lrbpereira:
So 4 how long does your battery last using it normally?
[Galaxy S II General] Gustopher:
Yes, I pretty much say exactly that above, which is why I'm looking at fast dormancy - any ideas?
[Galaxy S II General] prinzhernan:
Is there a way to lock the signal to 3g only. I tried editing the build.prop but it doesn't work.
[Galaxy S II General] melorib:
At least 2 days, and I have been a lot on the phone...

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I was on CM7 with and without Siyah, and CM9 alpha is noticeably faster and smoother...
[Galaxy S II General] navodwickra:
read first and read again if you don't understand what I said. Finished reading ?:p kool I didn't compare this with GB ROMS in fact I said I don't wanna go back to GB after tasting ICS. I was simply comparing this with Leaked sammy ICS ROMS. :D
[Galaxy S II General] lrbpereira:
2 day OMG!
[Galaxy S II General] Okur90:
Hey! Did anyone manage to sync their browser to their google account? I keep getting an error message and a red sync circle :(
[Galaxy S II General] maxharl:
@prinzherman

*#*#4636#*#*

Disable radio

Select wcdma only

Re-enable radio
[Galaxy S II General] barrist:
I've got a similar issue. It seemed to work fine on the Music player that came with CM9, it played my music on my external sd card fine. After installing the newest Google Music, it couldn't play any song ("Couldn't play the song you requested") I installed Player Pro and for some reason it has 2 of every song duplicated where one of the duplicates would play but the other wouldn't. Tried clearing data for music, player pro, but it would always be the same. Tried uninstalling the new Google Music, and it still wouldn't work. Weird
[Galaxy S II General] eseregin:
So first day in office now, can compare to normal usage.

Get phone from charging in the morning, 9 hours ago.

Listening to music about 1 hour, about 45 minutes watching movie MX Player software decoding brightness 75%. 37 minutes calls (2G). A little (about 20 minutes) WiFi browsing. Still 70%. May be 10% only less then on stock gb. May be 15% less. So good enough even now 8-)

Yeah... hard return back to GB... almost impossible 8-)

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1. Stop Google music

2. Clear Data

3. Stop Multimedia Storage

4. Clear Data

5. Reboot

6. Wait about 2 minutes for rescan media, and should be all fine 8/-)
[Galaxy S II General] navodwickra:
You have ICS fever and the only remedy for it is CM9 :D
[Galaxy S II General] Vaedryn:
Without source , no overlock.

SGS II Cyanogen Mod 9 Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] marcosxd:
I have been having SODs, one yesterday and one today, both times when I left my phone without use for like 2 hours or so... are you guys facing this issue as well? Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] Tchiort:
Thanks for your response. Yes, I am not complaining about the fact that "only 2 sats" show up, as it is a known bug (and it is actually not disturbing), my problem is that my device never locks those sats, and it never did since GPS was reported to be working on CM9. This is really disturbing and I am always hoping the next build will fix this problem but helas it is not the case.

I wouldn't report this problem if GPS wasn't working at all if all of us were not able to make GPS work, I just don't understand why it never worked on my device while running CM9.
[Galaxy S II General] Barkermania:
Sorry if this has been posted i looked back and couldn't see, I have been using all the nightly builds and updated to the newest one yesterday.

Everything seems to be working all the same except messaging. When i get a sms or mms i get no notification and when i unlock the phone messaging stops working so i click ok and go into the messaging app and i have a new message highlighted orange. Is this a common problem with the current build?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] SimboXXX:
Tried this patch already?

It seems strange that some people just can't get gps working and others have no problem - I'm wondering if there isn't some hardware difference which cm9 conflicts with. Sorry can't be of more help.
[Galaxy S II General] brendonwardmusic:
Just changed DPI to 182 wtf I'm in love!!!!
[Galaxy S II General] blair287:
How can I check if fast dormancy is enabled or disabled tried *#9900# but did nothing

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] Mtdjassen:
where can I try this?

edit- nevermind
[Galaxy S II General] Mechanisms:
Install an app from the market like DPI changer utility and change the DPI. Reboot and enjoy.
[Galaxy S II General] Molitro:
Try this way.
[Galaxy S II General] stealthj:
That's alright..I accept your apology. I guess you missed it :D

Known. Will be fixed in next nightly.
[Galaxy S II General] djsimonr:
Thats the way i am setting dpi and can confirm i have had no problems with installing apps from play store, also even better is when you flash an cm9 update your local.prop file is still present so you dont have to mess around changing dpi again with the app :)

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] vicgomez:
enEnt

That happened to me to. Messaging stopped working, no notifications and orange highlight. Went to messaging configuration and unchecked notifications, then checked them back and that made them work again. No problems so far
[Galaxy S II General] :
lol now you are a 182mdpi ***** now:p man it is amazing why you think i been trying to find a way round the market..anyway what i did flashed new nightly and gapps did a clean install and voila market works perfect no work arounds nothing

cheers mate got it working though anyway
[Galaxy S II General] loco85mu:
I've the same problem and i had install gpsfix zip. Only i see 2 gps in my app
[Galaxy S II General] UnwiredDroid:
Its too long to backtrack with this kind of thread, question though...

Is the CM9 that is based on Android 4.0.3 stable enough to be used for a daily phone?

Or

CM9 will drastically improve because the final version of Android 4.0.3 for S II has been released?

Regards,

UnwiredDroid
[Galaxy S II General] shayne77:
If you can live without Video recording, it's a daily driver.. I've been using it as a daily since about December last year and I've NEVER had a random reboot or anything the like... the team is just "playing it safe" by calling it an Alpha version... At worst, its Beta but when they get the kernel sources, I reckon it will quickly become an official release soon after..

EDIT: If you follow the very simple instructions by codeworkx, you shouldn't have any problems... as soon as you deviate from these instructions, you're on your own...
[Galaxy S II General] jamorenom:
I use it as a daily ROM since January, so, you can use it but don't expect to have video recording (still on the works) remember this is a nightly version with a lot of bugs (but you can live with that)

I have the last nightly with lpq modem
[Galaxy S II General] gorillaCF:
i'm using it as a daily ROM as well. not much of a problem.

btw, anyone experienced Trebuchet FC-ing when you unlock the phone too fast? lol maybe its just me.

and another thing, i have very high Android OS drain, checked BBS and noticed that GApps are most of the wakelock counts, although under the Batt graph, it shows that the phone isnt awake at all. anyone have any idea what is this or how can i improve on this?
[Galaxy S II General] parnar:
+1 but i had to change launcher to nova
[Galaxy S II General] ShimaMiku:
Key Light Timeout?

Before getting flamed, I did try searching for this, but none of the keywords I tried came up with any results.

For the capacitive buttons on the bottom, the only two options right now are on all the time, or off all the time. So when watching a video or something the buttons stay on. Is there a timeout option/fix for them somewhere, or is that a problem due to kernel source code not being released yet?
[Galaxy S II General] Manitax:
You should try Apex launcher. Looks like Trebuchet or Nova. But a lot more configurable!

Thank you guys for this great Rom! I really love it!

Just some more weeks or perhaps moths and it will be perfect with a great Kernel.
[Galaxy S II General] InvaderPastulio:
Unrelated question:

I'm sitting on my couch and "The Wicked Game" just stopped playing. I wanna play a new song but not bothered getting up and walking to the phone, which is what is playing this fantastic song. I want to use my laptop to choose an new song, what do I do? Is there an app for that? There has to be... I'm using Google Play Music (what a retarded name) and my lappy is a crapple.
[Galaxy S II General] ShimaMiku:
Also, has anyone been able to get the Crackle app to work? Youtube and all works fine, but Crackle shows the little busy circle, and then nothing. This happen with anyone else?
[Galaxy S II General] bencairns:
One ring phone call

Anyone noticed when recieving a call, the phone rings once then goes silent. It keeps showing the call and allows you to answer it but only get the one ring. Im on the latest build but i think its been happening for the last few builds for me as I have missed quite a few calls lately.

Got me stumped. If anyone has come across this problem and knows a solution it would be appreciated. If not, im thinking its about time I try another full wipe including the sd cards and start fresh.
[Galaxy S II General] FordT:
The Market / Play Store works for some apps also at 182 dpi. For several it shows "is not compatible". You could get Density Modder Pro which replaces the Play Store with a modified version that says it's 240dpi, or change to 160dpi which is a standard resolution with which all apps work.
[Galaxy S II General] JacquesR:
Heh - I suspect that you're using the "Digital ring" tone, right? Had me stumped also, but it's that ringtone, not a system problem. Switch to a different ringtone, and the problem disappears.
[Galaxy S II General] MPKO:
Lcd density pro has modded new market.

Edit: sorry this was mentioned already.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] bencairns:
That would be it. The one thing I didnt try. Figured the short ringtones like that would loop until answered, obviously not for that one.

Thanks for your help.
[Galaxy S II General] iekansh:
Press the thanks button rather than typing it.
[Galaxy S II General] eseregin:
Guys, anybody tried last Tom with LPQ Kernel?

Have anybody cwm flashable kernel LPQ?

To be honest IMHO better on first page put links to cwm kernels as well.

Previously they were there but till night builds codeworks removed it for God know why.
[Galaxy S II General] BAWS:
1+

If there was any LPQ kernel.
[Galaxy S II General] ShimaMiku:
Any thoughts on this or why the Crackle app doesn't work? Youtube and flash work fine, but Crackle shows the little busy circle, and then nothing. Anyone else having this happen?

On the 3/14/2012 build of CM9 with LPQ modem and most recent proper version of CF-Root.