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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
Why don't you post in Chainfire's thread to ask him about making an insecure KL2 kernel?

But I think you can use the insecure KL1 kernel from Chainfire's thread to use for root. Or you could flash SpeedMod or Siyah, and the rooting will happen for you. You have lots of options.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GEX THE GECKO:
were to put the rom zip file

:confused: I got the exact same phone as the OP im trying to flash a rom in a zip format but clockwork mod recovery cant find the file ive looked in install from sd card and install update.zip. ive also tried installing it through rom manager, no joy there, inside rom manager i chose to boot into recovery to flash it manually and now i got a black screen with a white triangle n a lil green android dude :confused: so i see what people are saying about the s2 and rom manager, anyways my question is were do i place the zipped rom? on the internal or external and should i rename the rom file?

Ive had 2yrs experience with a HTC HD2 so im not exactly a noob to flashing roms, but the galaxy s2 is very new to me.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
Wha?

Please use punctuation a bit better, your post is very difficult to read.

What is the exact filename of your "rom in zip format", and where did you get it?

What is your exact phone model?

There are several models of Galaxy S2, and ROMs are not necessarily compatible between them.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GEX THE GECKO:
Deleted...Rom file was named wrong had a space innit.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
Which thread? This thread?

You meant GT-I9100P?

FYI, the Hyperdroid ROM appears to be for the GT-I9100, not the GT-I9100P - which means probably no NFC support.

Were you coming from stock/not rooted? If you were, looks like the instructions say to wipe data/cache/dalvik cache. Did you do that? (most common cause of issues with flashing is not wiping these things)

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Ah, yes, this is another cause of issues. I totally didn't see that until you pointed it out. So you're sorted then? Did you see what I said about NFC?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GEX THE GECKO:
ive decided to try villain rom instead, yeeah there was a space in the name i realized as soon as you said whats the roms name, and yup i did see that thanks for your help :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
No prob.

Just be aware that the majority of ROMs in this forum are developed for the standard international GS2 (I9100), which

doesn't

have NFC support... so most ROMs probably don't have NFC support either. Unless you come across a ROM developed specifically for the I9100P.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GEX THE GECKO:
Sorry i dont no how to quote a specific sentance so this way will have to do.

FYI, the Hyperdroid ROM appears to be for the GT-I9100, not the GT-I9100P - which means probably no NFC support. does this mean i cant install that rom or does it just mean if i do install it i cant use NFC? because to be honest i got no idea what NFC is i switched it off soon as i got the phone, i dont use it
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
You can flash it, but NFC won't work. I thought maybe it was important to you because your sig seems to display pretty proudly that your GS2 is an NFC model. ;)

NFC is a wireless communication protocol that devices can use to talk to each other. Most common usage is for payment transactions. It can be utilized in your phone to use it to make payments on NFC terminals. Some credit cards have it embedded too.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GEX THE GECKO:
Thats good news then i was really starting to regret buying a NFC model there, i just wanted a white s2 and i got offered a white and silver 1 cheap which id never saw before so i thought cool must be a limited edition.

Im just reading a article on it now,its pretty cool but i can definately live without that feature, thanks for your time i appreciate it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboarder54321:
could you please tell me how you got clockworkmod on your phone as i cant work it out :L
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronaldo9_r9:
I have a same phone as you what you need to do i download this http://download.chainfire.eu/41/CF-Root/SGS2/CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXA_KI3-42-v4.2-CWM4.zip which i got from this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1103399&highlight=cf+root. It will tell you how to flash using odin. download odin from there too. Once you have done that download hc-k tool from market and backup your efs (very important). Once you done that copy that somewhere on your pc. Use CWM recovery to backup your stock orange rom. after this you can flash this rom my fav rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1347711. copy rom to sd card and reboot to recovery. you can do that when your in CWM app on your phone. Choose in CWM install .zip from sd card and choose turkbey rom or your choice one.

You will loose NFC after flashing custom rom. You will get yellow triangle when you boot up your phone but you can get rid of that with usb jig if you dont have this buy it from ebay very cheap £2 max. Usb jig does not work with orange rom installed on your phone even after you install customer rom. It will not reset you binary. do following

All packages below this point have the old bootloader so you can safely reset the binary counter with a Jig. :)

If you've already flashed a full package from elsewhere or updated using KIES and cannot reset your binary counter using the Jig just flash this package in the PDA or Bootloader section of Odin to replace the bootloaders and then you can reset the counter: http://www.multiupload.com/LQQBRQVJUD

Here are the new bootloader tarball if you want to flash them back after resetting your binary counter: http://www.multiupload.com/5LNOCL7KPV

I copied this from this ^^^^ thread xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075278 second post.

Once you flashed new rom of your choice open Odin and choose old bootloader .tar file by click on pda. it will flash old bootloader phone will reboot. After that shutdown your phone and insert usb jig and that will reset your counter then unplug usb jig and open oding and flash new bootlader .tar. thats it triangle is gone and you have new rom.

Sorry for bad english i hope it works for you because it worked for me. Enjoy new ROM
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboarder54321:
does it matter if i miss out the usb jig part ? thanks by the way very helpful :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronaldo9_r9:
Yeah usb jig is for counter reset and yellow traingle. If u are not bothered with having yellow triangle then you can skip that step. Usb jig is needed if you are returning the phone to orange for repair it will reset counter but make sure you flash original orange rom if u do send it back to them. I have link for official orange rom which you are currently running. It restores the rom to how it was when orange sent u the phone.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboarder54321:
okay i dont think i'll bother with it then, at least until i need to send it to orange :L
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronaldo9_r9:
Let me know how it went or if any problems.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboarder54321:
will do, i wont flash a rom just yet, my internets being very slow right now so i cant download a rom :L
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboarder54321:
i flashed cf-root fine thanks for telling me how :) i have one question though, can i flash any GT-I9100 rom on my GT-I9100P
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
Yes, but your NFC will probably not work if you do, as I9100's don't have NFC, so most if not all ROMs built for I9100's don't have support for it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboarder54321:
when i download hc-k tool it says my phone is incompatible :S
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
You can try nitrality. It can back up efs as well.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronaldo9_r9:
Sorry forgot to tell you that you have modify build.prop file which is in system folder in root explorer. You have to change model from i9100p to i9100 then hc-ktool will work.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboarder54321:
oh okay, nitrality works anyway i think, but could you explain to me why the efs is so important ? thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
Contains IMEI and other important info. If for whatever reason it gets corrupted or lost, you won't be able to make calls.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboarder54321:
okay thanks, im going to back it up now then :L
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronaldo9_r9:
If you want to enable nfc here is mod to enable nfc. If you are still using orange rom you dont need this once you flash custom rom you can flash nfc mod

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1407808&highlight=nfc
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboarder54321:
does it matter what my baseband version is when i flash a rom ? :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] volod96:
Thanks for advice, but I am a beginner on XDA (first post). Can you ask him to make a GT-I9100P KL2 CF-ROOT kernel?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
Did you even try using the KL1 kernel? Or bother with the second part of my post?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] volod96:
No, I haven't. I didn't do it because this would "destroy" my NFC chip, as all insecure kernels do to GT-I9100P due to NFC incompatibility.

Other reason is that the CF-Root-SGS2_XW_INU_KL1-v5.0-CWM5.zip kernel is from India, not from Europe and I read that my model doesn't support not-european kernels.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
Kernel =/= ROM. Read a bit more, learn the difference.

EDIT: BTW, I'm FAIRLY certain you CAN use an i9100 kernel to root an i9100p. It sounds like snowboarder54321 above was able to do it.

EDIT 2: according to this post someone tested using CF-root and Siyah kernels, and did NOT lose NFC capability.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] volod96:
Yes, I would happy use a CF-ROOT kernel if it were one for my firmware. That's the problem.

I read about the NFCEnabler and it sounds ok, but the problem occurs in eventuality on damaged phone. I read in the guarantee that they win't repair my phone no matter what it has until I have the latest official firmware and NFC enabled. NFCEnabler is a MOD, so a kernel, isn't it?

So I have to wait 10 posts to tell Chainfire to make a CF-ROOT for my firmware.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
I'm trying to help, really. Go to ChainFire's CF-Root thread again. Search for the text that reads "Help! Which file do I use ?" in bold red.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] volod96:
I appreciate your help very much, thank you. I read that thread and that's what I already know. If I had GT-I9100, I would surely use the KL1 or KL3 version, but for my fragile and not-so-supported GT-I9100P, all I can do is to wait.

I have PM-ed the guy that used succesfuly CF-ROOT t oask him about the used version (if it's about KI3, I can root it using ZergRush).

A very very good alternative for me would be the Siyah kernel. In the PM I asked him about the functionality of this kernel and I hope it works good.

By the way, there is a huge difference beetween a kernel and a Rom, I know that. For my model, no actual Rom supports my device, so I will be pleased with a modified working kernel.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboarder54321:
are you worried about losing nfc ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
Technically, any ROM for the I9100 will support the I9100p - but you'll lose NFC. ;) Sorry, I know, that's not really full support.

But what I was also suggesting about the CF-Root kernel... you can use the CF-Root kernel for the standard I9100 to root, then flash your stock kernel back. You just have to find your stock kernel. This

should

retain your NFC.

EDIT: I also did post several posts back:

I can't speak to snowboarder54321's experience. Maybe he can chime in, and whether or not he was able to retain NFC after he rooted, and what method he used.

But aside from that, did you see the second edit? Someone said they DID use CF-Root on their I9100P, and they still had NFC.

EDIT 2: are you just trying to root? Some have reported that using the "Memory Crash" method of using the ZergRush exploit have worked for them. See here. This will not flash a kernel or a ROM, and will just give you root. You will probably have to install the Superuser app and Busybox installer (to install Busybox) from the market after you do this. I know it references I9100G in the link, but it works for many phones in general, not just I9100 models and their variants. In fact, I think it began for SE X10, and it was found to work for other android phones.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] volod96:
I think I do

yes, I worry a bit because I may need it's use in my work:).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboarder54321:
ahh okay, well as others have said you will lose it if you flash a custom rom but im not sure if you lose it when flashing a kernel :P
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] volod96:
Thanks again for help. Yes, I don't want to flash a custom rom yet. i tried a few times and "Memory Crash" is not workng:(. I am still waiting for an answer form RedWave about what CF-ROOT did he use.

Personally, I would prefer a kernel with ClockWorkMod included, as this will help me for back up and for the moment I want to flash a custom rom.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
In that case, just try the CF-Root mentioned above. (KL1)

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Just make sure you have your stock KL2 kernel handy to flash back if it doesn't retain NFC.

EDIT: if you can't find your stock KL2 kernel anywhere, check out this thread on how others have been able to dump their current kernel out to a backup.

EDIT 2: Reading to the end of that thread, I see you posted in that thread as well. I know you said you read stuff, but really, you need to read more, and read some more, until you really understand. Because it seems you don't. No offense.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboarder54321:
I originally rooted with the ZergRush exploit and when I rooted with that I kept my nfc functionality. I only rerooted with cf-root because ZergRush doesn't give you cwm
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
@volod96, apparently you can flash whatever I9100 ROM you want, and there is a mod out there that will re-enable NFC specifically for your I9100P. Found it with a search.

I've now burned much more time on this than I should have, considering I don't even OWN an I9100P.

Good luck.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowboarder54321:
Yes I you can flash any rom for the gt-i9100 on the gt-i9100p as I have already flashed checkrom and miui on my phone.i think this might be the nfc enabler ctomgee was talking about. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1407808 I am not sure if it works though as I haven't tried it. So don't blame me if you brick your phone :L
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jammw:
Check this thread out....

All,

I have started a thread here for the GT-I9100P (NFC edition by Orange) - so far I am describing all things I have made possible using this phone. Maybe it will help the ones that also have the same version phone...

As an quick overview - yes I was able to install any 9100 ROM on the 9100P. Note: you will lose NFC completely and so far I have not been able to flash any kernel to give me back NFC even this one that was meant to bring NGC back (KERNEL_I9100PBVVKI2).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
I see something wrong with your bolded statements...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] volod96:
Thanks for support. I have already read your thread. The problem is that I need NFC (just for a while I think) and so I can't flash a custom rom. So, you think that even if I flash Siyah or CF-ROOT kernel and then return to the original kernel the NFC will be lost?

If so, I have to wait a bit for some methods to safely flash a kernel.

Have you tried Cyanogenmod? I read that this is not working to our model due to poor support.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] volod96:
What happened? What have I done?:(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
Not read.

I've said I don't think kernel affects NFC. Full ROM affects NFC, yes. Kernel, no.

The NFC re-enabler was linked above by snowboarder54321. You should be able to use to re-enable NFC on your i9100p this if you flash a standard i9100 ROM.

I linked a post where someone said they flashed both CF-Root and Siyah on their i9100p, and NFC still worked.

So why are we still having this discussion?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] volod96:
Thanks a lot for help.

Yes, now I understand. Thanks for help.

Now I have another question: it's about the counter I've read on the internet. If I flash an insecure kernel with Odin it will increase the count and the only way to return it to 0 is by using the USB Jig, that's what I read. Without 0, your phone is out of warrity.

So the question is: someone knows other way to reset the counter to 0?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
Jig is the only way to reset counter, and it only works with older bootloaders. Post 1 (could be post 2, can't remember) in Intratech's official firmware thread has details and instructions on bootloaders.

But the only reason to reset the counter is if you are actually sending the phone in for warranty. Doesn't affect your phone any other way.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] volod96:
You are right, but I am talking in a breaking eventuality, to have something near me which can make the phone again in warrity.

So, if ti's the only way, I think i'll buy one, just for this eventuality:). Canb you find me a tutorial with how to change the bootloader?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
This thread can be found in the roll up sticky in the general section.

I would please direct you to rule one of the forum rules... I've been very patient with you, but please utilize the search function.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] volod96:
OK, I won't ask you another question.

Thanks for help and keep this job for others.

I understood what i needed.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jammw:
Sorry about the confusion - I should be more clear in what I say from now on.

First things first:

Yes you are indeed correct that NFC is in the ROM itself not the Kernel. What I should have said is that I installed a non NFC ROM (in this case a vanilla 9100 ROM from sammobile) - obviously I lost NFC. So in an attempt to get it back I tried to install the NFCEnabler.zip file found here on xda on another thread) in order to do this though I had to use an insecure kernel so I can get to CWM (since the default recovery 3e installed on the phone will not let you install unsigned packages) However, despite the latter 2 efforts, I had the NFC option back under the wireless settings menu but could not turn it on. I was getting an 'error occurred' message and that's when I decided that the only way to keep NFC at least on my phone was to keep the Orange stock ROM.

Needless to say I am now running on the Orange stock ROM, rooted using DoomLords' exploit and pretty happy.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RyanE1401:
CF insecure Kernel GT-i9100P (on O2)

Hi,

I am a noob to rooting and having spent the last few days bricking it (and softbricking my phone a few times) I have got my phone back to normal, except for CWM which still appears in my applications.

I read in alot of the posts in multiple threads that you could use the kernels for 9100 on the P variant but everytime I did my phone never made it past the S logo and just displayed a black screen.

Does anyone know of a working Kernel for the P variant?

I know everyone will say "read the forums" but I have spent 2 days looking and each one does not match my phone?

Model Number: GT-I9100P

Android Version: 4.0.3

Kernel Version : 3.0.15-I9100PXXLPH-CL378510 dpi@DELL128 #3

Build Number: IML74K.XXLPH

I have found many for the XXLPH firmware, but none that are for the P model. (I cant post the link as i have to have 10 posts)

Thank you to anyone who chooses to try and help as I really am stuck. (also wish i had bought the non NFC version of this phone)

Thank you

Ryan.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boki9999:
I think i9100P is the same as i9100. The P version has nfc chip. So, you should be able to flash any i9100 rom/kernel without bricking.

But I see thats not the case here...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RyanE1401:
See that was my understanding from what i read on the forums, but seems all the kernels i found were 9100 only and i decided to try them, using ones matchin my kernel version but just got black screen after S logo.

Looking for someone who has rooted there 9100p in uk on O2 & ICS and a guide on how to do it as i seem to be making a hash of it.

Thanks for your reply though :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laraz:
RyanE1401

The easiest way to do it flash siyah here is the link http://d-h.st/users/siyah/s2 if you have no cwm use the tar file and flash with odin,then use chainfire triangle away to eliminate the yellow triangel and flash counter http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1494114 you will be rooted on the same software different Kernel Version siyahs with cwm so you then can flash any i9100 custom rom you like.you will lose your NFC but for me it is no big deal. hope that helps :laugh:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RyanE1401:
So i just download the tar file, put phone in download mode, open the tar file in PDA and start and thats it. Is that it rooted?

I take it from there then i can make a copy of the stock ROM after that as far as i read using clockworkrecovery? (i hope that makes sense cause im trying to make sense of all i have read)

All i want to be able to do is have a rooted phone and back it all up so that if i ever want to go back to how it was when i bought it, i can lol.

And can I just say thank you so much for taking the time to give me some advice, id no idea what that siyah was or if it was something i could even use on my phone, so I had been sticking with chainfire?

Thank You, gonna give it a try now. Will let you know how i get on.

Ryan.

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Okay, just an update for anyone who has read this post, the above worked perfectly for me. Big thats to Laraz for his help as i would have been lost trying to figure that one out.

Thank you!!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capcanuck:
Just wondering if this has happened to anyone else, or if anyone has any ideas about what I should do.

I recently discovered that somehow a coworker of mine company credit card, in which I have no access to, was attached to my google wallet account.. Several of my android market purchases were being charged to the card without my knowing. I talked to someone at the android Market help center, and was told that if he made a purchase with that card from an online company that uses Google checkout to process their orders, and I had logged into my account on that computer recently than the card and the account could get linked. How about could this be! Doesn't seem very secure to me. Obviously this is causing problems for me at work, and I'm having a hard time getting answers from Google. Any ideas? Thanks for reading. Feel free to pm me.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
yes, it can happen on the company proxies, as in your IT is keeping an eye on everyone in the company using the internet
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capcanuck:
Thanks for the reply. I don't quite understand though. Would you mind elaborating a little? Sorry..

Edit: I'm trippin balls about this!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capcanuck:
Anyone?