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[Galaxy S II General] Honzze:
It's a kernel issue. So if you have the siyah kernel, the SOD won't happen.

I am on LP9 with LP8 kernel. This also seems to work flawlessly!
[Galaxy S II General] Remeniz:
Noob question here...

How do I flash the LP8 kernel with LP9 firmware?
[Galaxy S II General] jeantje:
Unpack the attached file and flash the XWLP8_KERNEL.tar.md5 file :)
[Galaxy S II General] whiskerp:
You flash this on top of a full I9100XWLP9_I9100XXLPS_I9100KPNLP1_HOME.tar.md5 package. It is a signed kernel so won't change your counter. It will just replace the kernel shipped with the LP9 KIES image with the previous version LP8 which works :) Use the "PDA" field in Odin with just "Auto Reboot" and "F. Reset Time" (the defaults) ticked.

You can also flash an alternative local CSC if you want (see Intratech's thread) and if you are keen, you can also flash a different modem (see here)

I'm currently running:

PDA: XWLP9 (the Netherlands/KPN one)

Kernel: XWLP8 - rooted with SuperOneClick (thanks to Intratech)

CSC: XEULP5 (from latest UK/Ireland unbranded release)

Modem: NELP3 (from latest UK H3G release)

and I think it has the smoothest performance and best battery life yet.

Peter
[Galaxy S II General] Remeniz:
Ok. I'm a bit of a flash o' holic and I also like to figure things out for myself...

So i'm gonna flash LP9, with UK XEULP5 CSC, and then flash the LP8 Kernal on top of all this and see how I get on...

I've been flashing the UK CSC with different firmwares for a while now although I havent tried different modems yet. Love how you can mix and match your own package.

:p
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
You can always try a custom kernel in stock rom.

jje
[Galaxy S II General] CoinCoin88:
Has anyone solved the dialer freeze bug while still managing to restore contacts from a TB backup?

If not, I'll end up rolling back to LP7 or LP8 today...
[Galaxy S II General] salmanslick:
this rom was pulled from samsung servers ?
[Galaxy S II General] Remeniz:
Menu > Settings > Applications > All > Contacts Storage > Clear data.
[Galaxy S II General] CoinCoin88:
Please read my post completely... This answer has been provided countless times for the past 2 days... But as soon as you restore the contacts via TB, the freeze problem comes back.

---------- Post added at 02:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:34 PM ----------

Another bug I reckon on LP8 (I've just downgraded from LP9, and rooted with CF-Root): if you use XT9 for text correction, when you're writing a sms, if the phone goes to sleep mode because of 15s inactivity, the XT9 isn't working anymore when you wake the phone. Same deal on LP9 I think. Don't know about LP7.

I'll test LP8 for today, to see if battery improves with the new CF-Root compared to th LP7 one. If not, I'll downgrade again tomorrow to LP7.

edit: After trying to restore sms and contacts (after my rollback from LP9 to LP8), I get various android.acore process crashes, whenever I use the UI. Gotta go now, will try a full wipe when I get back.
[Galaxy S II General] raf2k:
Yea, probably because of sleep of death problem.
[Galaxy S II General] gevans35:
The problem doesn't come back if you use Sprite Backup and just restore contacts, at least it didn't for me. Sometimes, TB is too comprehensive for it's own good :).
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
Often the problem with TB is that users restore system data and of course it then produces errors .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] CoinCoin88:
A quick update on my contacts/dial freeze/LP9/rollback investigations.

So far:

* On LP9, when restoring LP8 "Contacts storage", it causes the dial freezing problem

* If you try to restore on LP8 or LP7 a backup of Contacts Storage created on LP9... it doesn't work, and android processes keep crashing every few seconds, son phone is unusable.

=> DO NOT try to backup anything from LP9 (at least with TB) if intending to roll back and restore on LP8. I'm now stuck with no possibility of restoring my contacts since I had the (bad) idea of doing a TB backup on LP9 before downgrading ("oh, I should probably do that now, so that I won't loose the 10 SMS I got since I upgraded LP8->LP9". Very bad idea)

To sum p: LP9 is crap indeed, and everyone should stay away from it

(and now, I cross my fingers because I *think* I have a backup of my TB-LP8-backup from 2 days ago on my laptop back home)

edit (again): I had a backup of a TB backup made 2 days ago on LP8. This way I got my contacts back and I'm now on LP8 (again). Final step is to full-wipe, reflash, full-wipe, restore sms/mms/contacts, and never touch Odin again (at least, during the next 2 days hahaha)
[Galaxy S II General] blackspp:
Hey junior, 'great' investigation and very specific to your out a few phones.

KP9 is running perfectly fine with the latest Speedmod kernel k3-16. Smooth, no bsod, perfect battery life, nothing to complain.
[Galaxy S II General] francys-t:
i don't see firmware ICS ITA why??
[Galaxy S II General] Nairu86:
Me too. I hope to see it soon.
[Galaxy S II General] LenAsh:
All here... take your pick

http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&t=1&o=1&m=GT-I9100&r=1#regiona
[Galaxy S II General] CoinCoin88:
My sarcasm-meter just went through the roof. I was pointing to probable differences in the way some files are handled in LP9 vs LP7/LP8. But surely you are aware of every single byte of LP9.

edit: not to mention the fact that modded kernel aren't what *I'm* looking for (and it's probably the same for most people here).
[Galaxy S II General] puppyko:
Contact Storage is considered system app under TB. It has been warned before by developers not to restore system app or data via TB.

Have you try other option of sms/mms/contact restore? Perhaps can try MyBackup Pro or some alternative apps? May be this could solve your problem on this latest release firmware?
[Galaxy S II General] ricnar456:
Export your contacts to google and always be automatically restored each time you upgrade.

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[Galaxy S II General] ricnar456:
You can use airdroid for backup contacts messages all.

Ricnar

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[Galaxy S II General] Erlanderterv:
I've been trying to work out how to do just that without success. Can you help me?
[Galaxy S II General] CoinCoin88:
Yep for the system app part... Yet, after browsing the backup content, it's only pure tables, so it shouldn't really mess everything up (and it doesn't explain why this kind of operation worked perfectly for each upgrade I did in the past, including various GB->GB, GB->ICS (LP7), ICS->ICS(LP8), but causes errativ system behaviour when coming from LP8 to LP9). There's definitely "something" with LP9. Kernel-level, that's for sure. System-level, probably, too.

Anyway I've sorted everything out now, but as said a couple pages before when I was referring to full-wipe/csc wipe & consequences on /sdcard, better safe than sorry, keep a backup (and a backup of an older backup) somewhere safe.

(btw, I know syncing contacts to Gmail will have them restored to my phone when the G-restore query is made, but I don't like having all sorts of personnal stuffs on G servers... especially when it's data regarding relatives, and not actually "me")
[Galaxy S II General] whiskerp:
They have changed the contacts database schema in LP9. It did an upgrade on startup after flashing. So if TB simply restores the data it will fail I guess.
[Galaxy S II General] kaitec2002:
Re contacts backup

Just wanted to mention , I always have problems with Google wanting to install G+/ Facebook / Skype and any other thing I have contact with in the phones contacts app ... Hate it with a passion even though I always set my apps not to sync with my contacts list .

My solution is to keep my own backup on the external micro SD card,, once I have the contacts list the way I want it then open the contacts app then Menu / Import/Export / Export to SD card

Once you have reset the phone and let everything install again ie all apps etc then go to the contacts app and delete all the contacts that have been generated and then Menu / Import/Export then chose Import from SD card

The last time I reinstalled my contacts backup Google complained that I had deleted my contacts too many times ( 36+ times ) and asked what I wanted to do , told it to delete my contacts list with Google

Personally I think keeping your own copy is a good idea ...... seems everything and everyone wants your info these days :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] azinom:
thanks i share your opinion, just going to flsh but fist i'll use your advise.
[Galaxy S II General] gevans35:
I was just thinking about how to do this then I read your post, I really don't like the way everything seems to get written to Google's servers.

If I backup contacts, call logs and text messages to external sd, then delete them all from the phone and synch with Google, then turn off Google synch and restore from sd card, will that do the job?
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
Why ? When you have made a sync Google have all your contacts, and even if you delete from Google server they keep them anyway (you can make a restore) :rolleyes:

I like Google to hand of my contacts but make a simple backup to CSV once a while :p
[Galaxy S II General] itchetrigr:
It seems XWLP9 has been removed from Samsung servers, Im getting this from checkfus
[Galaxy S II General] Slipdrone:
It still on servers
[Galaxy S II General] gevans35:
I just don't want Google to have my personal information, it's an old fashioned privacy thing. I don't put full details of my life on social networks either. As for backups, I do them regularly and store them on my laptop and a USB disk.
[Galaxy S II General] blackspp:
No, of course I am not aware of every single byte an LP9. Altough I am aware of the many bytes in this ROM. There are many you know, I mean a lot! But I didn't count them myself. Maybe I should though, as a variation to counting sheep.

The point is more that your problems may not be specific to this release. True, there seems to be a few stock kernel bugs that can give problems but with another kernel, which many people ARE using, there are no problems, or at least none that I came across. So instead of telling EVERYBODY not to use this kernel you could just point out what YOUR problems are.
[Galaxy S II General] CoinCoin88:
My point exactly. But a few geniuses here don't see how such information could be of any interest, it seems.
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
Totally agree ... do the same ... care about my privacy.

I run my own mail server and only use Google mail account in relation to Google Play. I don't use Google places, Google Drive or any other services.

On my mobile I run LBE and simply deny application any unnecessary access to position, contacts list and other private information.

But when it comes to my huge list of contacts I do a exception. Contacts are fully synchronized between my Thunderbird mail, my phone and Google :rolleyes:

Whenever flashing a new firmware my contacts is always there.
[Galaxy S II General] rizdroid:
Nope! It's still there... try to use the known ICS HIDSWVER. On the other hand, if you use an older HIDSWVER, you won't be able to update to ICS. Sammy, Sammy... :(
[Galaxy S II General] friccc81:
Thank you Faryaab
[Galaxy S II General] Barely Running:
Looks like Samsung has or will soon issued ICS updates for the Galaxy SII in Canada. Would be nice to get a Frankenstein version so we don't have to deal with the Bell Mobility, Rogers, or TELUS bloatware.
[Galaxy S II General] astro_man26:
Speaking of Frankenstein version... can't seem to find a version of XWLP9 on Intratech's page. Not there yet or just not looking correctly?

Edit: found this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1602579

They talk about the sleep of death... not safe to install then?
[Galaxy S II General] bipolar bear:
intratech has already said he will not produce an LP9 frankenstein because it is bugged. it has already been pulled from samsungs site.
[Galaxy S II General] asapreta:
LP9 seems to suffer from the SOD bug.
[Galaxy S II General] uzbeque:
Is it suitable ROM for me, if I live in Central Asia?

Can I recover my current Slim Rom, if I do full Nandroid backup? Will I be able to recover my Rom exactly as it is? without losing any program?

Edit: LP9 is not stable? is it with bugs?

thanks
[Galaxy S II General] Agent_Adodas:
uzbeque,

LP9 kernel has an issue with SOD, if you install a different kernel like speedmod for example you wont have this issue.

if you'll do a nandroid backup you will be able to restore it later with all your data and apps.
[Galaxy S II General] uzbeque:
I don't have anything to hide in my life, so I'm using almost all services of Google:)
[Galaxy S II General] evilnolo:
Do I need to install a new ROM?

Hi!

So I installed I9100XXLPQ a while ago, and I am not having any strange problems (besides Netflix not outputting video correctly to my tv). But I do feel that my battery performance is pretty bad.

Am I really missing out by not installing any of the newer Roms? Which one should I update to (which one is the best ROM right now I supose)?

Thanks a lot!
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
I too have nothing to hide ... but my bank account information and identity!

One of the things that I fear is identity fraud.

BTW ... just heard that LBE might not be sucure (non open source) :eek:

So Google services might be better after all despite there use your private information in order to deliver adds, but I think data is kept in a secure way :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] Erlanderterv:
With the exception of LP9 the roms after LPQ were generally better. I suggest you give a LP8 or LP7 a try depending on where you are languages you need etc.
[Galaxy S II General] ricnar456:
Google have millons and millons of users in all the world, and there are not known one only case of privacy information used in other than ads.

The google competitors if privacy information of one only person is used, will be publicize for destroy google, but there ar not cases at all, is only ads, and google continue.

ricnar
[Galaxy S II General] gevans35:
Ah, that old chestnut. One day the "I've nothing to hide" brigade will realise that our hard won safeguards and civil liberties are being eroded by the database culture.

---------- Post added at 12:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:35 PM ----------

Three words come to mind... Thin end wedge.

Governments could pass laws to make it a criminal offence for Google not to make their database available to them on request. Police states here we come.
[Galaxy S II General] ricnar456:
not pass till today in EEUU when the government is like the big brother, next to november 11 and google continue and don't give info of database.

Is only my opinion, the people are very paranoid, if you have fear don't use, i have no fear at all and it use is very comfy.

ricnar
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
There are no details on my phone that i would be bothered about Google having as no banking and no money ever on phone .

Suggest for many that you give far more details on your Facebook page than any other possible security flaw .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] fred_up:
Reminds me of this:

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist;

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist;

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist;

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew;

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.
[Galaxy S II General] ricnar456:
Your phrase is very pretty, but proof me there was one only person in the world with problems for upload private info to google and will be valid if not is only a pretty phrase i don't know one only person with problems and we are millons is only paranoid.

Ricbar

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[Galaxy S II General] gevans35:
I can prove that because I am one, and another two people on this small thread thread in a tiny corner of the Internet have agreed. If you can not see the danger of your data being harvested by organisations like Google and Facebook so be it. But, information is power, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. If you do not believe this look up the Wikipedia entry for Reinhard Heydrich.......

"By October he had created a network of spies and informers for intelligence-gathering purposes and to obtain information to be used as blackmail to further political aims. Information on thousands of people was recorded on index cards and stored at the Brown House".
[Galaxy S II General] nokai:
nice rom. thanks for sharing
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
One day I went to MineCraft homepage to get a license for my child.

I got the option to pay using VISA and began to do so.

First I was asked for all the usual stuff like card #, date of expiration and the card security number.

Closely after I was asked for my full name and address ... still OK.

But thirdly they needed my date of birth, phone number AND the last 4 numbers in my social security number ... !

Well if I had accepted this ... they (MineCraft, VISA or some unknown middleman ???) would have had out all important information handed out in one single session.

Well I do trust VISA ... but how can I be sure that those information wasn't given to some middleman?

I cancelled payment and payed through PayPal :)
[Galaxy S II General] efkooo:
Thank you for sharing but in my opinion custom ROMs are much better and faster :) These ROMs are not pure ICS ROMs, they have many many apps that are just copied from Gingerbread. In fact, they have just a couple of pure ICS apps integrated :)
[Galaxy S II General] victorator:
For anyone interested in a replacement kernel for XWLP9 - Click here
[Galaxy S II General] hawken84:
Apparently Samsung Canada rolled out ICS this morning. Any one know when that ROM will be available and if this is the right thread for me to follow?
[Galaxy S II General] jerryhou85:
You may follow here or SamMobile.
[Galaxy S II General] vr90:
Is anybody planning to test Vodafone AU's LP9 ROM? The changelist is greater than the Netherlands one. You would only hope it didn't have the sleep bug.
[Galaxy S II General] tez1:
Whats the changelist on it?

Just found it 422302.
[Galaxy S II General] whiskerp:
I'm trying it out now on my Frankenstein stock!

Kernel: DULP9 (CL422302) (AUS/Voda)

PDA: XWLP9 (NL/KPN)

Modem: BVLPB (UK/T-Mob)

CSC: XEULP5 (UK)

Edit: After a few hours this DULP9 kernel *seems* to be fine and stable. Battery seems to be dropping only 1.5% per hour also! :)

Edit: Had a few sluggish keyboard issues - also high RILJ partial wakelocks so have gone back up XWLP8. I also feel that the NELP3 modem is better than BVLPB.

Peter
[Galaxy S II General] arthurd123:
Hi there not sure what happened on my G S2 but now I have a shocking battery life. Charged the phone over night and only have about 15% left now.

My phone details:

PDA: I9100XWLP7

Phone: I9100XXLPS

CSC: I9100XEULP5

Build Info: Tue April 3 19:44:49 KST 2012

Recently installed apps just games to be honest with you:

Defender II and Temple Run and also Gravity Project.

Any ideas anyone?
[Galaxy S II General] ricnar456:
Do yo try the bug of the death, let the phone untouched one hour and enter in deep sleep and try to use.

The i9000T is similar to i9000? the roms are full compatible?

ricnar
[Galaxy S II General] HcMAX:
Help before updating...

Hello,

I have a Galaxy S2, in Portugal, locked to Vodafone Portugal carrier, running gingerbread 2.3.6

I want to upgrade to ICS, do I just follow the instructions from the OP or I need to be rooted?

any help is appeciated...

thanks
[Galaxy S II General] carloslopescj:
Segue o que está no 1º post.

Follow the OP post.

:)
[Galaxy S II General] whiskerp:
The I9100 & I9100T apparently just have different modems. (See here). However I've been having some sluggish keyboard issues so have gone back up XWLP8 kernel.

No BSODs at all though on DULP9 in 6 hours.
[Galaxy S II General] simonprr:
Does the phone only enter deep sleep after 1 hour? Or can it be any random time after switching off the screen?

If I can still switch it back on after a hour of no use does that mean I don't have the SOD issue?
[Galaxy S II General] Honzze:
It depends on how your apps behave. If you've got apps that cause a lot of wakelocks, it might even never happen. The phone has to go into a deep sleep mode for the SOD bug to happen.

For me it didn't happen the first half day I've flashed the FW. It happend the day after, after switching of the phone over night.

BTW: a "full wipe" did NOT help in this case...
[Galaxy S II General] cyberundertaker:
***NEW***

#SGS2_Upd_Checker

15:21 GMT *NEW FW* Singapore/Unbranded (I9100/LKAXSP) I9100DXLP9/I9100OLBLP9/I9100DXLP9/I9100DXLP9

#SGS2_Upd_Checker

15:13 GMT *NEW FW* Ireland/eMobile (I9100/LKAEIR) I9100XWLP7/I9100EIRLP4/I9100XXLPS/I9100XWLP7
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
What's the changelog for the Unbranded one?
[Galaxy S II General] Marcb:
#SGS2_Upd_Checker

15:21 GMT *NEW FW* Singapore/Unbranded (I9100/LKAXSP) I9100DXLP9/I9100OLBLP9/I9100DXLP9/I9100DXLP9

This one should be interesting!

LP9, unbranded, new modem...
[Galaxy S II General] cyberundertaker:
how to check it??
[Galaxy S II General] Przekret:
I9100DXLP9

Base Firmware: I9100DXLP9(4.0.3)

Modem: I9100DXLP9

CSC: I9100OLBLP9

Build Date: 20-04-2012

Changlist: 431438

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25583038#post25583038
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
Nice, big changelist and new modem. Can I flash it here or do I have to wait for Frankenstein version?
[Galaxy S II General] cyberundertaker:
if you flash it via odin you can download this one and flash it.
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
Without wiping?
[Galaxy S II General] cyberundertaker:
this rom is a no wipe.

---------- Post added at 07:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:31 PM ----------

i'm cooking the CWM flashable version of this Singapore ROM. It should be ready soon
[Galaxy S II General] shawnaye:
WOO SINGAPORE ROM!! uhmm, could i just get the modem please?

edit: nvm found it elsewhere! thanks anyway!
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
Singapore ... any list over languages included?

Thanks :)
[Galaxy S II General] ricnar456:
no spanish.

English included.

ricnar
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
Only English ? :cool:
[Galaxy S II General] pitum:
Everything working! like other LP9... only dialpad stop respondig 2nd digit :S

Exchange working well...no connection error.. :D

Wifi stop fast drain my battery!!!! :D

still testing ;-)

No wipe need...
[Galaxy S II General] cxdz810:
Does it suffer from sleep of death?
[Galaxy S II General] ricnar456:
only english, bahama and chinese languajes.

ricnar

---------- Post added at 07:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:45 PM ----------

not BOD yet, tomorrow well see.

ricnar
[Galaxy S II General] cyberundertaker:
I9100DXLP9

Base Firmware: I9100DXLP9 (4.0.3)

Region Singapore

Carrier: Unbranded

Build Date: 20th April 2012

Modem: DXLP9

CSC: OLBLP9

Change List: 431438

Zipaligned

Rooted (CF SuperSU)

BusyBox

ClockworkMod Recovery 5

CF-Root LP8 Kernel

Make a Nandroid BACKUP before flashing!!!

Flash via Recovery

This is Stock DXLP9 Rom, Deodexed, Zipaligned and Rooted.

http://minus.com/mwtzR7QT3/

Thanks :

@ ChainFire

@ Dsixda

@ Sammobile
[Galaxy S II General] vandric:
Flashed new LP9 with my operator (VIP Serbia) CSC and seems very fine for now. No FCs, no SOD, just ContactStorage clearage since I din't wipe.
[Galaxy S II General] edomine69cmb:
Any news about USA UNBRANDED ?
[Galaxy S II General] aknoda:
For Brazil 3G not connect...
[Galaxy S II General] Phone_Guru:
Does it have the contacts freezing bug?
[Galaxy S II General] xZeDgEx:
mobilesyrup.com/2012/05/02/bell-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-upgrade-to-android-os-4-0-now-available/

When will we see it on sammobile?
[Galaxy S II General] ndy4eva:
Tomorrow? The Bell's document says starting "May 3".
[Galaxy S II General] maxiordoqui:
DXLP9 is very smooth! More than LP8 and LP7
[Galaxy S II General] pitum:
Excelent! Very good! Sync (exchange)... battery! smooth... fast...

Only one bug... dialpad on 2nd digit stop responding... :S Any help? Idea... I think it's something little fix...