yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] Tungstwenty:
You should be aware that the issue is with the *kernel* of the 4.0.4 versions. So, if you go back to a 4.0.3 ROM including the kernel, you'll be safe. Not so if you were to use say MobileOdin, or CWM advanced restore, and go back to a 4.0.3 ROM but still leave the a 4.0.4 kernel on. I doubt it would work with a 4.0.3 ROM anyway...
[Galaxy S II General] khrone:
I made a backup as usual before trying 4.0.4 and flashed it via mobile odin to get root, didnt like it and flashed back to old rom with recovery. Old rom had siyah on it so just put restore everything.... been reading alot about the bricks that have been going around, just too afraid that it will happen to me too :/
[Galaxy S II General] lyriquidperfection:
Insecure and Original Kernel for XWLPM 4.0.4:

XWLPM Insecure (4.0.4) - Download (Dev-Host)

XWLPM Original (4.0.4) - Download (Dev-Host)

Enjoy! :)
[Galaxy S II General] asapreta:
I read its a kernel issue, you should keep the original one. Have you?
[Galaxy S II General] Barthlon:
???

they have to start rolling out SOMEWHERE now don't they?

stop whining and grow some patience.
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
Agree ... Samsung use to start rolling out to Nordic countries.

Maybe they stopped rolling out because of all this fuss about hard bricks?
[Galaxy S II General] Krendelrus:
no offence but why do you think your country is more important lol? it's all about csc included not about the region
[Galaxy S II General] mgdelhi:
They released a trial version for Russia. Now they will fix all the reported bugs and release bug-free update for other countries. ;)
[Galaxy S II General] whiskerp:
Optimism :-)
[Galaxy S II General] do3in:
or .. If Putin will wants, Russia will become a nordic country,, :P
[Galaxy S II General] ggravier:
Actually, no. If Putin wants, nordic countries will become Russia... :laugh:
[Galaxy S II General] mihaixp:
That's more like it. :cyclops:

Anyhow, which are the major changes (if any) compared to a stock, let's say, LPG? I saw that the battery percentage can be displayed, and some minor changes in contacts if I am right. Anything else?
[Galaxy S II General] mosaiques:
I went back to the Argentinian Unbranded (I9100UHLPS 4.0.3), just because I felt a little bit insecure with all that brick staff. But I believe that the LPM 4.0.4 is more fluid, at least I had a very comfortable scroll feeling, and I don't have it now.

Talking about Benchmarks, the LPS is faster that the LPM, so I don't know what to say. I hope that "comfortable scroll feeling" was not a kind of "placebo effect". :o

Greetings!
[Galaxy S II General] Shomi87:
no offence but r you so stupid to think that nordic conutrys is only 1 conutry
[Galaxy S II General] Prostheta:
If I recall, one specific Nordic country has a longstanding tradition of telling Russia to 'kright off. What with winning a war against them 70,000 to 323,000 in our favour, etc.

Contrary to what you assume, Nordic countries are no relation in the slightest to Russian federation. The difference in term of ROMs is that Russian will require Cyrillic. ROMs for Finland just require the letters "Kossu" and "Perkele" in addition to the standard alphabet.
[Galaxy S II General] whiskerp:
Finland is such a lovely place :-) Salmiakkikossu? ;-)
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
Perkele ... like that "letter" :D

We in Denmark also have out own extra letters æ,ø and å (used in word like æsel, røv and mås) ... LOL
[Galaxy S II General] igos2:
Well guys finaly, is there any brick risk with this ROM ? I read everything and it's opposite.
[Galaxy S II General] ricnar456:
No risk at all if you don't wipe from cwn

ricnar
[Galaxy S II General] igos2:
Everytime I try a new rom I wipe all frm cwm (data/cache/system partition) ..

Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9100 avec Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] donalgodon:
If you do that with this ROM, you run the risk of a hard-brick. You have been warned.
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
I just had the same issue on my phone after flashing stock XWLPM + CF-Root v5.6 for XXLQ5.

Could take one picture with the camera app, then switched from photo to video mode and camera was black - had to close it with the TaskManager, and camera showed black screen all the time.

Then I booted into CWM recovery, wiped cache partition and Dalvik cache, fixed permissions and rebooted the phone.

Now the camera works fine - in picture and movie mode.
[Galaxy S II General] ricnar456:
wipe from recovery stock and will be perfect and no risk

ricnar
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
Thanks for sharing !

P.S.:

I had to guess the password for the insecure kernel, but my second try was successful :cool:
[Galaxy S II General] danieldmm:
So, with that you say that Stock Recovery its dangereux?

@ALL Any one tested this (Wipe data/factory reset), please give some feedback...

Cheers
[Galaxy S II General] ricnar456:
Only bricks are made making wipes from CWN, stock recovery are safe.

ricnar
[Galaxy S II General] leolysenko:
Shomi87,

Cause the sales are bigger in russia and the risks are lower.
[Galaxy S II General] WhoIsJohnGalt1979:
After flashing stock rom, I have used *2767*3855# multiple time on lpm as well as the leaked version with no problem whatsoever, stock kernel
[Galaxy S II General] leolysenko:
I can say more. I have made wipes from standart recovery on xxlq5 and everything is ok. The problem appears on cwm.
[Galaxy S II General] Oso Polar:
Unfortunately, the fact that nothing bad happened to your phone proves exactly nothing. For example, the infamous Siyah 3.1rc6 kernel with the same bug bricked many phones though AFAIR gokhan told that he himself wiped his phone multiple times with this kernel and didn't get any problems. The thing is that even if you have a problematic hardware and kernel it is just gives you a probability that you'll brick the phone during wipe and AFAIR from some other posts on the topic the chance of brick is just about 5%.

So, guys, IMHO it'll be much wiser to not do any kind of wipes with this firmware while using its stock kernel.
[Galaxy S II General] WhoIsJohnGalt1979:
I believe there is nothing unfortunate in a user not bricking his phone by following instructions viz a viz another user generalizing things and bricking his phone in that process which could be considered stupid.

Bottom line, even if you have a defective chip, as long as you are following instructions (of which there is no deficit, on how to root and use the 4.0.4 releases) there is no way you can brick your phone. Problem is users of S2 have been having too good a phone wherein careless flashing procedures never had any negative impact until now, hence the hue and cry.
[Galaxy S II General] kazi_rizwan:
Agreed !!!

My phone has a "brick bug", nevertheless

........i flashed 4.0.4 over GB

........then rooted it with cfroot

........then i decided to make a complete wipe for better perfomance.

........so i flashed GB stockrom again (to avoid risk) with cfroot,

........the wiped everything using cwm (data/system, cache... etc.)

........installed 4.0.4 again...rooted it!

........now enjoying it without any issues.

People just dont read the posts here. The main reason for this firmware giving bricks is doing a wipe in cwm. If you wipe/format in standard recovery nothing goes wrong.
[Galaxy S II General] hirak99:
Likewise, a safe way to perform nandroid restore will also be visa flashing 4.0.3 or GB first, and doing it from there.

Also latest Siyah and speedmod kennels are immune.
[Galaxy S II General] leolysenko:
What I am trying to say is that one cannot brick his phone using stock firmware and kernel. I have not seen one brick after any type of wipe on stock.

Siyah is not stock.
[Galaxy S II General] Extend:
Hi Guys,

I never tried to flash any rom before , my device is not able to get the official update using OTA nor Samsung Kies so i downloaded the released firmware from here http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=8&view=5342 It contains the following files:-

- I9100JPLPF_I9100OJPLPC_I9100XXLPX_HOME.tar.md5

- SS_DL.dll

What are the instructions to apply these updates to my device Samsung Galaxy S II :-

PDA: I9100JPKJ2

PHONE: I9100XXKI4

CSC:I9100OJPKJ1

Thanks,
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
Have a look at the OP.

Put the tar/md5 file into PDA section of Odin and flash it to your phone (attached via USB cable and in download mode).

That's it ... if you are already on ICS.
[Galaxy S II General] RM57380:
Hi guys !

If we make a full wipe after flash the LPM, we brick ?
[Galaxy S II General] yamen.meddeb:
yes i read it in some french/russian forum don't flash it for now

stay in lpf/g it's safer.
[Galaxy S II General] Extend:
Excuse me what is OP . I have 2.3.5 currently not ICS
[Galaxy S II General] yamen.meddeb:
flash rom : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075278

root : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1103399

remove yellow triangle : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1494114

good luck
[Galaxy S II General] ricnar456:
A russian user from those forum tell all bricks were wiping from cwn.

Wiping from stock are safe.

use 4.0.4 is the better, best battery life, best scroll, best animations, best in all, and forget persons who repeat tales without knowledge of first hand.

All future rom will be similar to this, safe if you don't use cwn

If you don't use 4.0.4 you will be stuck in 4.0.3 forever, is not a samsung kernel problem is a cwn problem and not will be changed.

ricnar
[Galaxy S II General] yamen.meddeb:
we better use odin or what to swap to 4.0.4 ?
[Galaxy S II General] leolysenko:
Exactly. No bricks on stock! I am that russian :D
[Galaxy S II General] Extend:
Is this how you reply to a newbie?
[Galaxy S II General] tigerphil:
each of those links will tell you how to do each part. Do them in that order and you should be fine, gets easier every time you do it
[Galaxy S II General] cpl.Bower:
That or you could:

1. Flash LPM 4.0.4 (over GB)

2. wipe cache/factory reset with : *#87976633#

3. enjoy

And always remember if you install CWM NEVER wipe with it (because in the future you would like to install JB or whatever)
[Galaxy S II General] Extend:
Dear what if i only flash the rom, i do not want to root? will i have the yellow triangle after flashing this rom?
[Galaxy S II General] tigerphil:
you shouldnt get the yellow triangle of a stock samsung rom, its only when you make changes using the kernal or custom roms. I've not flashed this 1 as use AOKP but as far as i can tell there shouldnt be any yellow triangle
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
OP = Original post (or original poster) => first post of the thread.

If you are on GingerBread (GB) ROM now and want to flash ICS ROM, then you have to use official firmware update (OTA or Kies), if your phone is recognized, or you will have to flash the new ROM with Odin.

Easiest way is to download the ROM tar file and Odin, then install Odin on your PC and start it.

Put the ROM tar file into PDA section and leave all settings on defaults.

Shut down the phone and reboot into download mode (press Volume Down + Home + Power buttons till the download mode screen appears, then confirm with Volume UP).

Then connect the phone with USB cable to your PC. Windows and Odin should recognize it after few seconds. In Odin you should see a yellow "com" field.

Then click "Start" in Odin to flash the ROM to your phone.

It will reboot automatically after flashing.

There might be some error messages on first boot and not every app will run.

To fix most issues, reboot the phone into recovery mode (press Volume UP + Home + Power buttons till the recovery menu appears), select wipe cache and reboot.

If that does not help, you may have to do a factory reset - reboot into recovery mode and select factory reset/wipe data.

I recommend to move all apps to internal sd card before flashing ICS, as some ICS ROM version have issues to find apps on external sd card.

And I recommend to backup everything you do not want to lose before flashing.

I prefer flashing a kernel containing CWM recovery (such as CF-Root) and create a nandroid backup (complete system backup) before flashing a new firmware version. So I am able to "go back" by restoring this system backup, if I don't like the new ROM.

Good luck !
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
@Extend

If you are rooted just use "Odin Mobile Pro" from market Odin Mobile Pro

Read this thread Mobile ODIN v3.00 . In this way you can keep flashing any new official firmware and always keep rooted. All done from you mobile.

If you don't have root yet there is a extreamly easy way to root before using Odin Mobile Pro... read here Xperia X10 Easy Rooting Toolkit.

This is working fine on SGSII (i9100) ...
[Galaxy S II General] Dungeonscaper:
Just flashed, seems stuck on the default S boot animation.

I have:

Was running Remix ICS with siyah kernel

Tried to flash cm9 with rom manager premium, told it to wipe all cache

Rom manager stops working and I force close

Reboot, nothing loads

Boot into download mode

Install this rom

Am I bricked? Should I keep waiting on the boot animation or just pull the battery and reboot?
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
Try to reflash the whole ROM.

If that does not help, try to boot into recovery mode (press Volume UP + Home + Power buttons as long as recovery menu appears) and wipe cache partition.

If that does not help either, you may have to do a factory reset/wipe data in recovery mode.

Good luck !

---------- Post added at 05:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:55 PM ----------

Just as additons:

1. Mobile Odin app does not flash bootloader.

When coming from GB, you will keep you GB bootloader and won't get the new ICS bootloader.

This is not very bad, but some things like the serial number will not work/be shown propperly.

2. Doomlord's rooting method needs the zergRush exploit, which was patched by Samsung in most of the newer/recent firmware versions.

It will only work on "very old" GB ROMs.
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
1. Not a problem, and easy to flash 4.0.3 ICS bootloader using Odin PC at a later point ... Read here ....

BTW I think problem with serial number not showing is related to 4.0.4 and not 4.0.3 bootloader.

2. True. It will only work with GB 2.3.5 and older (2.3.6 is patched).
[Galaxy S II General] Dungeonscaper:
Thanks! worked fine after I did the factory reset/wipe.
[Galaxy S II General] Extend:
Thank you guys, I'm not rooted and i do not want to root my device now, i have the middle east stock rom 2.3.5 but not able to get the ICS through kies it's reporting that my device does not support initialization and when trying OTA it says connection failed.

I will go with flashing this rom I9100JPLPF_I9100OJPLPC_I9100XXLPX_HOME.tar.md5 on my device it's for my current country Egypt.

Hopefully it will not break my device.
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
Serial number = Unkown is bootloader related, will be shown in Android 4.0.3 with GB bootloader.

Serial number = 00000000 is Android 4.0.4 related, will be shown in the first Android 4.0.4 ROM versions (XXLQ5 and XWLPM) ... at least when flashed without bootloader.

As I said, it is not very important ... at least not for me.

---------- Post added at 06:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:34 PM ----------

Should not brick your phone.

Staying on stock firmware is "safe".

But as you may do a factory reset after flashing the ICS ROM, be sure to have a copy/backup of everything on your external sd card or your PC.

Good luck !
[Galaxy S II General] drelite08:
I read reports of bricks after wiping stock recovery. Plus I had it from its release till today. Battery life was terrible. Went back to LPS (Argo)
[Galaxy S II General] mihaixp:
Hello, I have a question. I am now on a custom ROM (RR 2.5.3) and I'd like to revert to LPG via Odin (but also I want to do a full wipe-clean as possible). What are the steps to do this in order to avoid bricking my device? It's worth mentioning that it has the brick bug.

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] lyriquidperfection:
Just flash a full single file odin LPG firmware and wipe from the stock recovery after the phone has rebooted.
[Galaxy S II General] Extend:
I'm getting a sky blue color in Odin please check the attachment and advise, Thx
[Galaxy S II General] mihaixp:
Thanks. What do you mean by "wipe from the stock recovery"? I am asking because I know stock ROM doesn't have CWM.
[Galaxy S II General] WhoIsJohnGalt1979:
After flashing lpg through odin, once the phone has booted up, open dialer, punch in *2767*3855#, sit back and relax till the phone has booted back....:good:
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
He meant: Boot into stock recovery mode, then select to do a factory reset/wipe data.

That option is available in stock recovery as well.

---------- Post added at 08:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:07 PM ----------

Ok, that's the "hard" reset.

---------- Post added at 08:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:08 PM ----------

As I am using Odin3 v1.85, I wrote about a yellow "com" box.

In your version Odin3 v3.04, it seems to be blue.

Everything is OK, you can flash the ROM now.
[Galaxy S II General] khrone:
By what do you mean with "hard" reset? Worth doing for stock roms after countless flashes with customs?
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
Dialing the code *2767*3855# into your dial-pad will wipe everything including the content of your internal SDCard.

That's why I call it "hard" reset.

The factory reset in recovery will only wipe data partition.
[Galaxy S II General] mihaixp:
I flashed it, it said ok, the phone restarted, but now all I see is that S logo animation with Samsung Galaxy S II below. The animation goes on and on. What should I do? Please help me.
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
This is called bootloop.

Here is the corresponding thread from pulser_g2 => http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1108499
[Galaxy S II General] lyriquidperfection:
Yes thats fine. :)
[Galaxy S II General] Extend:
---------- Post added at 08:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:08 PM ----------

[/COLOR]

As I am using Odin3 v1.85, I wrote about a yellow "com" box.

In your version Odin3 v3.04, it seems to be blue.

Everything is OK, you can flash the ROM now.[/QUOTE]

Everything seems to be fine i had to do a factory reset & wipe cache , everything seems to be fine except!! Security --> Screen lock , i have tried Face Unlock first but the phone is not getting locked when i press the power button , even the other options 'Slide, Pattern ..etc" always getting back to the screen and not locking it :( what can i do to solve this problem

Also when i hold the power button for 2-3 seconds it shutdown the phone

Thx,
[Galaxy S II General] cpl.Bower:
Thats why you should dial this code instead : *#87976633#

Only wipe cache and factory reset
[Galaxy S II General] EARNEST_EU:
Can I install Siyah kernel on this stock rom?
[Galaxy S II General] cyberundertaker:
indeed :D. thank you. :)
[Galaxy S II General] salocosta:
My keyboard is QUERTZ instead QWERTY.... Is this happening to everyone?

When I installed the FW, I selected Brazilian Portuguese as primary language.

SC
[Galaxy S II General] New_World_Order:
Okay so I flashed this through ODIN and ended up in a bootloop.

Without thinking to search and panicking, I tried to reflash back to XXLPH, my laptop died.

My phone now tells me to connect to Kies when I turn it on, and it's not doing ANYTHING other than that.

I'm trying to flash XXLPQ or whatever the latest version is again, and it's been stuck on the same bit for the past 45 minutes.

SCREWING?!
[Galaxy S II General] teppe498:
Absolutely great! Anyone has a solution for gameloft games?
[Galaxy S II General] edward80:
Sorry if this has already been asked.

Has anyone tried updating this with a phone in Canada?

Mainly a Bell SGS2 GT-i9100M model? That's the one I have.

I haven't rooted/modded my phone ever, so I'm kinda worried of bricking my phone.
[Galaxy S II General] Bandit1988:
Battery seems pretty slight advantage over GB from what I can see I started at 50% after installs and have been on YouTube my gmail games camera and music and just fiddling with the phone constantly 5hrs later now at 31%	on standard battery. Just sickened the only app not working since the update is sky go. :mad: Ah well
[Galaxy S II General] Mr.RS4:
I checked someone, and some was not, and some did not say anything. Perhaps littlebit early :-)
[Galaxy S II General] darioaquino:
Hi, i had the same problem, im from Paraguay, and that notification shows up all the time, for me, the solution was just picking up an european country to sign in, i select Spain, and the notification gone! hope to help you
[Galaxy S II General] Traace:
Nice hope they will push out the Kernel Source soon :)
[Galaxy S II General] wojtek1990:
Nope. Polish language here - QWERTY keyboard.
[Galaxy S II General] welshman010:
Can I change modem on ICS. Always preferred K14, unsure if i can use modems from 2.3.6 etc
[Galaxy S II General] julien.me:
Gapps

If I want the latest phone/people ICS apps on this Samsung ROM, can I flash the gapps with CMW ?
[Galaxy S II General] st41ns:
Hey guys...

Awesome a non-wipe ICS.

Is everything working though?

I got a rooted SG2 via SuperOneClick...

Will my root stay after flashing with Odin?...
[Galaxy S II General] cyberjew:
New to Odin

When the Odin app shows SetupConnection does that mean that the firmware is actively being pushed to the device? Or should I see some sort of visual status indicator that show activity of some sort?
[Galaxy S II General] xZeDgEx:
Flashed to my Bell GS2 working fine. Whether I like it or not is another story. Very dissapointed with ICS so far. I gave Samsung the benefit of the doubt with the Beta leaks, but for a so called 'final' version its ****.
[Galaxy S II General] strenkp:
worked like charm, no troubles whatsoever. thank you :)
[Galaxy S II General] caifaz:
Static IP solution!

ok I manage to save an static IP, just make sure to fill every field including the network prefix length (in my case 24 and I just repeated what was appearing there)

and now it is saved and working, finally!
[Galaxy S II General] julien.me:
scrab that that was stupid ... I got the phone and contact APK files from CM9 but it won't take them if I replace them on /system/app, any idea ?
[Galaxy S II General] rdhalla:
Doubt your root will stay after flashing official firmware. No way that I know of. But ..just root after flash?
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
Hmm ... something's wrong.

Just a suggestion:

Boot into recovery mode, wipe cache partition again and reboot.

If that does not help, try to flash the ROM again.

Good luck !
[Galaxy S II General] Extend:
The fix is here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1545084 but my device is not rooted!! do you think it's a ROM issue? if i changed to another rom the problem will be fixed?
[Galaxy S II General] It_ler:
If it is the same issue, then the content of the EFS partition was affected/corrupted.

Easiest way to "repair" is restore an EFS backup, or just do as Odia has described here => http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=22645081&postcount=180

1. Root your phone. (e.g. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1501719) - there is also a description how to unroot the phone.

2. Install Terminal Emulator app. (free app from Play store)

3. Start Terminal app and type:

su

echo -n ON > /efs/imei/keystr

reboot

Unroot the phone afterwards, if you do not want to have a rooted phone.
[Galaxy S II General] Tungstwenty:
You can.

Currently all non-stock kernels, Siyah included, have issues with Camera+Video and with Bluetooth.

I posted here a fix for the Camera/Video part, so if you're not bothered by Bluetooth you can use Siyah. Else you'll need to stick to the stock kernel for now.
[Galaxy S II General] BlackRainX:
Would like to know what samsung changed in 4.0.4 ( i am sure they did something with camera! :D)
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
Hi guys! Where can I find the new modem for CWM flash?
[Galaxy S II General] neerajganga:
www.veyka.co.uk/radios
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
Thanks. Is it safe to flash on top of CyanogenMod 9?
[Galaxy S II General] neerajganga:
yes any rom
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
Thank you very much for the fast replies. I'll save this url for future use. :)