yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] phewizzo:
I will not lie, your 2 latest kernels TDJ is the best Battery/Performance kernels Ive used to date, I know when the battery almost flatlines on standby thats when its doing a great job, as much as I love Faux kernels speed the drain on standby kills me.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tdizzle404:
Yes with working screen shots seems like that is an issue for some roms
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Galactic2:
LOL You guys are a hilarious bunch.

I second the proposed the advance power menu with working screenshots, reboot/reboot into recovery option.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] raycaster3:
Just one comment.. and Idk what tdj has in mine for this, but....

1. Power+Home = screenshot

2. Quick panel toggles has an advanced power menu with reg reboot, recovery, an download mode.

Again, I'm not the editing the .jar here but if I was (and please start with the "you're not so shut up" ****) I would probably not make it much of a priority.

I'm telling you wait until you see this quick panel toggles. It's SOOOOO nice. You'll forget all about advanced power options when you press the power button because the convenience of moving the button wherever you want to in the widget order on the pulldown will make that action even more convenient. Just thought I'd throw out another perspective. And there is always quickboot lol.

.:†:.DARKSIDE.:†:.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] damngood98:
i got used to this real quick....it's not much to get used to really
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] pyraxiate:
Quick panel goggles are much much better than advanced power menu.

Sent by my SGH-T989 from the Darkside ©
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
ok so here it goes... some people reporting bum scores with benchmarks after installing the rom, they were correct. I have been testing it for the last couple hours and cant quite figure it out. But there is a easy solution and requires only minimal user interaction. After you flash my next release, you will boot up your device and let it load up, you will then reboot into reocvery and flash the same exact kernel that i included in the rom. All issues resolved. I have no idea what is creating the issue, almost seems like some values in userspace getting changed, but i am not a 100%... so to conclude next release u flash ROM, reboot device and let the OS load and then reboot into recovery and flash kernel... shouldnt be to much of a hassle until i figure out whats causing the issue...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] pyraxiate:
Awwwww does that mean you will have to give up your final release now? :-P I thought you were keeping it specific to this ROM :-(

Sent by my SGH-T989 from the Darkside ©
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
No... Was always planning on releasing it..

Sent from the .:: DARKSIDE ::.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] BRKotucs:
TDJ : the stock messaging application force closes when trying to write/send a message to more than 2 people at the same time.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] pyraxiate:
First of all, why post the same question in every thread TDJ has? How annoying......

Secondly, why not flash it and test it yourself ? You might be surprised at whatever ROM you decide to flash .....

Sent by my SGH-T989 from the Darkside ©
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AlphaKoi:
It was not only every TDJ thread (best ones there are).....it was just about every thread in the SGS2 forum.

A simple search that took less time than posting in all those threads INCLUDING THIS ONE would have discovered this. I hope this helps and serves as a lesson.

TDJ...i totally apologize for posting in your thread regarding this. Your ROM is bomb Your kernel is bomb. People....if you are in here and havent flashed this......you need help. This ROM is THE ROM period!

Having said that.....people please stay OT and search for yourselves before asking questions that would have been answered by a search
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] raycaster3:
Never fear. Vol wake is a feature that you will see in the very near future. As in, it works perfectly. :D

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] boostenmkiv:
After further testing, this isn't working. Flashed another rom to make sure it wasn't the bluetooth device, worked fine.

I'm able to do SOME things...like turn on repeat and shuffle, but no control of pause and play.

Any ideas?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Teo032:
Yeah the advance notification toggles are much more efficient than power menu. i don't have to hold that power button for 3 seconds.. And with this case, it's a pain in the ass. And it saves me from wearing down the button.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
Thanks for pointing that out... its fixed... should be releasing today/tonight sometime

Sent from the .:: DARKSIDE ::.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tdizzle404:
Great! What a great way to start the weekend! TGIF!

Any one else at work checking up on the best rom ive flashed so far? Lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
OP UPDATED!... all issues fixed.. Just flash and reboot... ENJOY! :D let me know...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] BRKotucs:
Thank you man! This friday it's just getting better and better.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] galaxys2noobs:
so do we need to flash the kernal after it boots?

---------- Post added at 10:54 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:47 AM ----------

are you uploading it now? cause the download link not working
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] curry67:
Hey jay 4g icon didnt appear after upgrading from 2.4. Why does it disappear in the first place and for thise people having battery issues its not from ROM you just have to clear useless apps and turn off the haptic feedback or whatever its called. Also setting you brightness to lowest setting saves a bunch
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] zoth:
Sent you pm, thanks in advance.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Dougshell:
Curry...no disrespect, but talking to the people on this forum like they don't have a clue just makes you seem like an ass hat
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Towle:
The sad thing is a lot of people really don't have a clue..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkness122:
do you guys keep your phones on at night to charge when your sleeping or power it off and charge?

not sure if it makes a difference for battery life or if it makes no diff at all, but I'd love to know either way! lol

Hercules was here
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkamikaze:
I personally charge every night. Great ROM btw tdj.

-dark
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Ascarface23:
I don't see a battery drain problem
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] BRKotucs:
Your ss are from either yesterday or this morning..

Post some new ones dude.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] manekineko:
Once again, this shows absolutely nothing about idle power draw, which this ROM may have some sort of problem with.

For a full run-down with the best numbers that people have managed to post with other ROMs (including myself with first-hand experience) you should see it taking about 4-5 days with data on.

However, at the rate people have been posting here, you could expect 1.5 days max.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Ascarface23:
From this morning after running 2,5 for 24 hours...... no different still a beast
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Laazyboy:
I leave it on cause I use it for the alarm

Sent from my SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jitendrakalsaria:
I don't think i'm having any drain issue, looks pretty sold. I flash 2.5 with mms.apk fixed on top of 2.3. see my today's uasges

Edit: I'm still at 24%, i can easily go 1hr on display. This is my moderate usage with 90+ text a day. Awesome battery compare to 2.3.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] CloudTown3:
Could I run the V6 supercharger script with this ROM or would that negate all the hard work you put into awesome ROM?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] curry67:
well I cant seem to get a answer
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] duboi97:
Don't do it. Please don't do it. I personally bootlooped using that ****. FML. I didn't even backup so I had start from scratch redownloading all my apps and stuff this morning :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] }{Alienz}{:
Try the "TV" effect for App Drawer animation. You will notice it works decent but some stutter and lagginess can be seen.

If you try the same effect on a Skyrocket/CM7-based ROM, it is so smooth it looks like your screen melts into the app drawer.

Difference is roughly 25fps vs 60fps.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 8Fishes:
This makes sense. I used Faux Clock to set my cpu and I think that's what done me in.

What has happening was that when the phone would get past the boot, it would superimpose the lockscreen over my normal wallpaper. A split second later it would crash and repeat. Not sure if other people screwed up the same way, but I'm going to dive back into 2.5.1 without faux and see how it works.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] IllBill:
Adding flags seems pretty simple..never seen that on any other ROM..opens new doors for Devs..and users..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] pyraxiate:
Ok, what recovery are you using? That could be a factor. I tried both new recoveries but had issues with nandroids on both so I reverted. I've NEVER had an issue with the good old original non-touch recovery ( 5.0.2.7 ). By the way, the touch buttons on the bottom do work too ( menu is down, home is up, back is back, search is select).

Please let us know if you are using touch recovery and if you are, flash original and give it another go. One more thing, are you running bone stock install and its bootloooping? Did you use TI to backup and restore? Have you installed any other apps what-so-ever that could be causing it? Could always give the reset script a go and see if it helps too. It puts init back to stock as well as CPU volt/freq. Just another thing to try.

PS

Anyone else with issues, please let us know what recovery you are using. I'm curious if that's what's causing all of the issues. Keep in mind things were changed with this ROM framework wise, so if recovery isnt wiping properly or is ghosting files, you will absolutely have issues.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] zoth:
Using 5.0.2.7 and always from a clean phone/wiped phone excluding emmc & sdcard. Stock or other ROMS don't do this one mine phone. One thing even just flashing a diff. kernel instantly fix the issue :confused:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Grem135:
He used flags on his Glacier/Mytouch4G roms also and I still run Darkside roms on MT4G even though dev worked has stopped on them.... It's that good.

I noticed lots of peeps followed him from there to the S2 ;) Smart move!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] dnsmo:
i just hope that stupid samsung will release the ics source soon. really can't wait for TDJ's touch of it. :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Grem135:
TDJ ics rom might make me jump early for an upgrade :eek:

I finally got this F**n sensation getting good bat life with arhd ics rom but can't wait to get rid of it. lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] autom8r:
Awesome ROM, i'm on a Telus 989D, I still notice I have the 3g icon, in the changelog this was fixed.. Just FYI, thank you again!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rolf90:
Great Rom as far as battery goes and the modified touchwiz is awesome but it lags alot for me personally back to juggs for now
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
Dude enough with ur choppiness posts and threads. Its all in your head and its getting annoying. I see that you have created threads and have multiple posts across several devices claiming the same issues.

:: DARKSIDE ::
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cali310:
My bootloops and random reboots seem to have been fixed in 2.5.1. Thanks TDJ.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Diekrupt:
You have received your answer from TDJ who I consider one of if not thee best rom producers I have seen on XDA. I have had smart phones back to old TitanII Windows Mobile 5 days. I am sure if TDJ has time he will check it out. My experience on this board is put your request in once. If it happens great, if not, fine.

If you are running roms and OC to 1.8, you will obviously see a reduction in lag and better video performance but worse battery. Also from my experience the launcher makes a huge difference not only on lag but also battery usage. I personally get less screen scroll and app tray lag and better battery with launcher pro than touchwiz or other launchers. TDJ has customized Warfare for the best balance of speed and battery life with an emphasis on battery life from what I can see but its a damm phone, its not going to be perfect. I ran jugs before warefare and can tell you for certain that both performance and battery life are hella better on the darkside brother. I ran multiple kernels including bullet, faux and again, not even close to TDJ. We are very blessed to have TDJ rocking roms and kernels for us. Everyone's phone does behave differently, there are different roms that vary drastically, and we have a stupid qualcomm processor not exynos so you can't compare to Skyrocket directly.

That being said, what I have noticed from this board unfortunatley is alot of self righteous over correcting highty tighty attitudes, wth people. There are way too many people trying to be forum police correcting and criticizing people who make a post that does not conform to some BS standard. Don't make this comment or criticism or it may scare away or piss off blah blah.

People can make those comments, but they should expect an equal response: STHU, LMB, KMA, Etc. XDA is an open forum, one does not have to pass a FN test to post here. If someone doesnt like your post, they are free to express their criticism, but we are all free to tell them to STHU right back.

Anyway I work in IT and support alot of SGS2's for companies I support and most end users want me to bring them over to the darkside hehe. I have had alot of people with other phones and other carriers check mine and others runtime stats especially iphone peeps and they are like damm, hook me up too. Some have said, what, I never saw a 1D (1 day) in my stats before. :)

DK
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jordanishere:
lol lag. post a vid of said lag or gtfo.

no lag with twmodd on this rom.

Sent from my SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] drzplaya1121:
Battery back on point and better than ever
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Rod3:
Skyrocket uses the same qualcomm chip so though I don't agree with Alienz problems, the Skyrocket can be used for direct comparison.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Anthonomy:
So if I want to make changes to default clock speed and voltages, am I correct in simply modifying init.darkside.boot.sh for the clocks and init.darkside.vdd_levels.sh for voltages? Thanks! 2.5.1 running great. :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rolf90:
I'm just stating a personal opinion I was texting and it would freeze a bit while typing and the app drawer would be a little slow when scrolling it might just be me but ill be testing more.... Luckily I am not going to stoop down to your F**** level a$$ hole... I don't have to prove shyt to you I'm sure we all can express an opinion I rarely post anything just read about what others experience. Either way TDJ great job!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shadow3352:
I'm getting this as well. Anyone have any idea as to what this is?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] skadude66:
My battery life is kind of crazy right now. I had similar battery life on my first flash as well (I tried out Paradox in between).

I looked at the betterbatterystats, but it didn't give any alarming stats.

Stock speeds, no CPU apps.

I've seen people get 16 hours and have 5 hours of screen on time! I'm at 2 hours and I've almost got a dead battery :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] zoth:
What steps did you take, I can't get rid of mine :mad:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Towle:
I'm getting about 5% drain/hour in standby.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djy:
inexplicable battery drain

For the first couple days on Darkside 2.5 I was getting good battery life. Usually I come home from work around 6:00 pm with 70-80%. Today it dropped to 15% by noon. No changes to apps or usage. Something killed my battery and I don't know what it was.

Before 2.5, I ran Juggernaut and Synergy with the same set of apps and this never happened. Can someone help me find out what caused the drain?

Edit: I plug in a wall charger before I sleep each night. It says 1 day 6 hours on battery. Does the counter reset after a full charge? Perhaps the phone did not charge last night and I never noticed.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] dirtybudha:
Battery life!

I'm a heavy user; the usual and my driving app.

I've fully discharged and fully recharged, over 6 hours and I'm down to 36%.

Honestly, a little bit more drain than normal. Can't be 100% sure until I get home, but I usually have about 15-20% when I get home.

Again, I'm a heavy user.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 2hvy4grvty:
A bit of the same. Not that bad but still significant at 5%.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] }{Alienz}{:
So many attacks on the lagginess post. Jeez. I was not attacking this ROM, the dev, or anyone here.

I was only expressing something which I found when I was testing ROMs and kernel combinations. I was not attacking anyone here saying fix it or you suck. Neither was I making up facts about the 2D performance. It is what it is. It's not bad right now but the fact is I have seen it be much better on the same phone with CM7 and apparently the Skyrocket ROMs.

And as for the fact I have posted about this several times: I did so because this problem used to be two-fold. There used to be a kernel-stutter issue with scrolling. Now it's fixed in just about all kernels. If I didn't whine to faux until he tested it himself, he wouldn't have fixed it.

I also agree with other people posting earlier that these forums are full of vultures. I'm simply sharing findings.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] lvlonkey:
Secbatteryadc issue here too. While my battery life is still decent it is not as good as when I was on 2.4
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ardcifliku:
I had the same issues .try a full wipe and flash v.2.5.1 again.wait 10 minutes and reboot .

Everything goes smooth as hell.

awesome work TDJ.

[ROM] DARKSIDE.DIGITAL.WARFARE v2.5.1

[THEMES]BLACK HOLE WARFARE
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
:: DARKSIDE ::
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
Also battery life better than ever... so far today as follows

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] linye:
Notice that most if not all of those that have that kind of battery life do so while in wifi most of the time.

Sent from my SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Crewchief521:
I must use my phone too much, i could never go that long and still have 50% left, i have to charge mine by noon.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] raycaster3:
Hmmmmm that looks intriguing... Can't wait to give that a try. Puttin in work as usual!

»»DARKSIDE««
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkamikaze:
tdj would you ever consider implementing smartassv2 as a governor? Or perhaps have the device sleep sooner after pressing the power button?

Nevermind. changed your script to say "sleep 2" instead of sleep 10 :D good enough for me!sleep in sh are pauses. Still though, would smartassv2 be better?

Also I asked Faux this awhile back but it got buried in the thread.

When setting minimum clock at 384Mhz instead of 192Mhz.. would that drain my battery more when I'm reading with an app like aldiko? because when I'm not doing anything and reading a page it is constantly in 384 vs 192 and with speed comes heat and heat drains power? Is my logic flawed X_x?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PorchSong:
TDJ,

Which or whose battery mod are you using showing the circle with percentage?

Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] skadude66:
TDJ's usage seems to barely be on wifi. But I'm not sure what E is, but it didn't seem like the 4G I use. That's why I'm so flabbergasted at my usage!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 2hvy4grvty:
E is edge/2g. It doesn't really use that much more battery than Wifi.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] yoft1:
They're very easy to cook in uot kitchen; alternatively, I have several pre made ones in the thread in my signature.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] skadude66:
Yeah that's what I thought. That means that the battery drain is much less compared to 4G, which I use all day.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
Dude a 'sleep 10' is telling the script to pause for 10 seconds.. nothing to do with CPU or governors. Be careful with what you change and play around with if you don't understand 100%. Smartass gov isn't fully compatible with asmp devices. So useless to add it when it doesn't function correctly.

:: DARKSIDE ::
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
One I made in uot with gingerbread

Color codes. I just reverted back to rom stock. Like it better

:: DARKSIDE ::
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
Only wifi for a couple minutes before i left this morning.. I keep my phone in edge unless I need 4g..

:: DARKSIDE ::
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] skadude66:
Telus doesn't have edge so I'm stuck on 4G. From the pictures I posted, is there anything you can see that might be causing that big a battery drain?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Dougshell:
Ok. I an absolutely floored.

For some reason I can't upload images on xda app but from a full charge I got 5h30m of sleep time and was only down to 99%. When I turned the phone on I rushed to xda to upload and the battery dropped from 100 to 99 so I needed a screenshot.

I will upload later this evening

Btw this is with the nexus extended battery (which fits in the standard gs2 case and back)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] zizoty:
Hey TDJ,

Are you jumping over to GALAXY NOTE now since it can gets 3g/4g? The development forum for the NOTE needs your ROM badly.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkamikaze:
loll ya figured that out after playing with it around more :x. No worries.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] IGKID:
The new update + SetCPU has allowed me to have 1DAY+ of battery life. Definitely best Rom for the Samsung Galaxy S II , also very fast - lag free!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] lvlonkey:
Noooo stop trying to steal him! Lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Dougshell:
Has anyone tried different radios with this ROM. Tried Telus and don't get wifi calling...maybe its a problem with the radio itself
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Towle:
The day I'll sell my Galaxy S II is the day TDJ stops developing for it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] autom8r:
Awesome ROM, just noticed one thing, 3g icon (should be 4g) is still around for Telus users. Just FYI, thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shinigenEddy:
Quoted for truth
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 2hvy4grvty:
North of 6 hours of screen on time, 1day+ total time. Autobrightness.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
yeah that was a fail for me.. thought i had it.. but not so much... still looking into it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] relldroid:
I have two problems, first is that media scan runs everytime I disconnect from my charger, second is my Hdmi doesn't work

I flashed with the -wipe flag

Plz help if you can

Edit: nobody helps in these threads I see, miss the hd2 community :-\
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bigox:
Trying to load ss but tells me the file extension for the JPEG file is incorrect. How do I correct it? Thanks in advance.

Sent from my IPhone killer.