yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] gma388124:
Ok I updated to ICS on Tuesday morning and its been nothing but problems. I kept getting an 'MAPserviceSamsung' error and reboots, Swype and internet kept freezing to, so I changed keyboard to default Samsung one and that worked fine, browser I changed to Chrome which also worked fine most of the time. But phone got very laggy and slow, network kept going down and phone kept freezing and randomly booting also sometimes it wouldn't wake up and I'd need to take battery out and put it back in to get it working.

So I did some searching and went into recovery mode cleared the cache and did a full wipe. I'm not getting no errors now and it's much more smooth. But I'm getting an unbelievable battery drain, my battery was fully charged when did the full wipe but went down to 4% in just over an hour. luckily I had the official Samsung 2000mah extended battery fully charged so just replaced it with that. Thats also down to 31% in just 40mins. Even though I've hardly used my phone as I was out.

I've done most of the battery saving tricks, wifi also been off. I just realised that I can't do screenshot either. Most of battery has gone to:

Android core apps (18%)

screen (16%)

Android OS (16%) MapserviceSamsung (14%)

Android System (9%)

Phone (8)

Voice Calls (6)

Swift Keyboard (6%)

Media (5%)

Social Hub (2%)

Samsung Galaxy S2 I9100 Sim-Free/Unbranded, Never rooted or flashed. Upgraded to ICS 4.0.3 (XEU LP7) through Kies. Keeping warranty intact :)
[Galaxy S II General] sgs_two:
thanks gma388124
[Galaxy S II General] Toxic17:
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/153501669/3ba8630/I9100BVLPB_I9100ORALPB_ORA.zip.html
[Galaxy S II General] gma388124:
what for?

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S2 I9100 Sim-Free/Unbranded, Never rooted or flashed. Upgraded to ICS 4.0.3 (XEU LP7) through Kies. Keeping warranty intact :)
[Galaxy S II General] gavin15:
Well I did edit it before but his post came quicker than my edit so it wasn't a trick or anything. I was just correcting.

Anyway, does anybody know how to change default home screen on LP8? I've tried the default prop way but it doesn't work.
[Galaxy S II General] samsungwarrior:
I was offered this on kies, whats your opinion please im on agood version of Kl4 never rooted and unbranded, i didn't want to go into bug territory for nothing,id value your feedback on your download please
[Galaxy S II General] ghawkins:
So.. what is the press i'm hearing about a north america ROM release today? what version was it?
[Galaxy S II General] lyriquidperfection:
Orange UK ICS Release

Orange UK ICS Released! :)

Product Code: GT-I9100LKAORA

Firmware: I9100BVLPB/I9100ORALPB/I9100BVLPB/I9100BVLPB

Modified: 09/04/2012 12:14:49

Available through Kies or from Check FUS Downloader.
[Galaxy S II General] meboy:
I have been using LP7 for two or three days now and here are my findings.

The Bad:

- Battery is slightly worse than GB. Probably in the 10-20 % range.

- The odd shutdown while sleeping. Hit home and realize it's off.. This was way worse on LP3.

- Touch Input Lag. It's intermittent. Doesn't seem to be linked to one app or page. Some just don't register and sometimes it's just slow.

- The Animations/Transitions are Aweful. I'm not sure if this is Touchwiz or an ICS thing but I can no longer disable them in settings/display. I'm sure this is part of the battery issue.

Edit#1: This has been moved to settings/developer options/animation scale.

- ICS I'm betting, not Touchwiz has switched from the menu items being larger button sized areas with text to vertical list items. This makes it Much harder to hit the one you want. You really have to watch and be more accurate than before. Plus it takes up more room the vertical way with wasted space to the sides of the text.

- Some widgets are giving me problems. Some that were resizable don't seem to be anymore??

- "Contacts" is now slow to open in ICS. Maybe there is more integration with the cloud/google plus trying to grab info upon opening now?

Also the Individual Contact screen now has a large wide photo area across the top. No contact image is that size/aspect so why on earth did they do that?

- The font on the lock screen sucks. Too small, stylized and not bold enough.

Edit#1 //

- Swiftkey X in landscape mode doesn't show the cursor. The blue arrow shows but no cursor. Have fun going back and editing.

- When taking a picture the thumbnail of the last picture doesn't update.

//

- I'm forgetting some, I know it.

The Good:

- Wi-fi lock on seems much faster compared to what it was on GB. But the stupid pop-up to let me know I just connected is Really annoying. Especially with Juicedefender turning it on/off regularly. It even kills touch input when it pops up..

- No major app issues noticed yet. Kind of surprised by that.

- You can now wrap around from home screen 1 to 7. I might actually put something on 6-7 now. I didn't use more than 3 before because it was a pain to get around to them. But 2 back, 2 forward would be fine.

- That's all for the good even with really struggling to find something.

It's not bad enough to go back to GB since hopefully some more ICS releases are in the works soon but seems like more bad than good to me.

Edit#1: Starting to reconsider this. Bell is said to release ICS officially for the SGS2 by the end of April. Which is what the phone is originally. So I'll give that one a shot but I don't have a lot of hope for it. If official carrier ICS is still crap then I'm back to the just fine, no issue 2.3.4.

Any comparisons above are referring to my use of GB 2.3.4, stock bell, rooted.

Tried LP3 for just a day before going to LP7. Had lots of issues with LP3.
[Galaxy S II General] samsungwarrior:
thanks for your input . i think ill stay where i am .cheers.
[Galaxy S II General] Marcb:
I wonder when Samsung will start rolling out 4.0.4 ROMs... if they ever will...
[Galaxy S II General] someonet1k:
Interesting I had nearly the exact same issues on LP7 multi CSC but now on the XEU version it's mostly solved. Apart from the laggy contacts page, slow Google Play when not on wifi and the main accuweather app (the stock widget and accuweather.com widget work fine), issues I've had with all roms so far, everything else is working fine. I even get better speed and signal from the modem.
[Galaxy S II General] santhoshar:
I have notice these two problems with ICS update. ONe more thing I noticed as: By using gmail or other email thru Social Hub, always "connection error" message is coming, even it automatically downloading the email. When I tried to open an email, it shows this.

Second thing, If I deleted an email from, still it is on the server. Before it was not like this. when I deleted the email, it is automatically deleting the email in server also.

Third, if I select the email from the notification menu, it directly goes tothe Feeds tab, not to the messages tab. In GB it was not like this, it directly goes to the email or select email tab if there are two or more accounts.
[Galaxy S II General] LenAsh:
The animations settings are in Developer Options in Settings
[Galaxy S II General] Erlanderterv:
This is set in your email account settings.
[Galaxy S II General] tfn:
Always a good practice to use the phone atleast 2 - 3 days after flashing for battery to settle down.

Battery Drain could also be a result of a rogue app you have, best to check that.

Flashing through Odin with the latest LP8 (which seems much better than LP7) might help you.. and it wont affect your warranty as you can alwasy revert back to your orignal rom.

In ICS for screenshot its ( Volume Down + Power Button)

On LP8 I got around 4 % battery drain in 8 hours when on idle so am quiet pleased with that.
[Galaxy S II General] santhoshar:
I haven't seen any option to do these settings in my email account settings with Social hub.
[Galaxy S II General] daz_2000:
Thanks. I've tried an uninstall of Facebook and then reinstalled the newly released version, but still no luck with contact picture sync. Can you confirm you got this working on lp8? I've also just had that Wi-Fi freeze when turning it on. A reboot fixed it. So that's 3 issues I have with lp8!
[Galaxy S II General] Erlanderterv:
Yes, I'm having trouble finding it now too. However in the initial setup of email accounts there ia a chance to set it so the mail is deleted from the server on download, delete when deleted from phone or leave on server.

If I find it I'll get back to you.
[Galaxy S II General] qwerty1q:
Is it the newest built? What's the date? Is there any big improvement in signal?

I am w O2 UK using LP8 and NELP2 modem.
[Galaxy S II General] mselwan:
Thanks to topic
[Galaxy S II General] turborider:
XEO 4.0.3 Big Time Failure

gone back to 2.3.4,,,,4.0.3 xeo and any other ics updates iv done this couple months been a disaster,the battery drain very fast and this OS 4.0.3 is not compatible for SG2 not with this battery size,u play a album of 13 songs and u see youself how much it drains is madness and i havent installed any other softwares or running any other ones.
[Galaxy S II General] DjeMBeY:
That's really weird.. Try to re-flash your phone, do full wipe and don't do any backup of applications, just leave it fresh and test it for day or two.

I've tested most of the official and custom rom's available here but TBPH it's waist of time....

4.0.4. CyanogeMod9 Nightly builds that's all you need!!!!! I decided to give it a GO and won't go back to ICS 4.0.3!!! I'm on CM9-20120414 and I'm truly blown away!!!! It's ROCK stable and SuperUltraFast!!! Battery live is amazing too!!! Last night after charging it went through the night with 100% remaining.... (look @ screenshot's - using stock battery and it's Not Flight mode!!!) All aps working well, using GO launcher and over 100 aps installed.... no issues at all after 6 days of testing... What more You can expect??? ;))))

Anyway, it's up to You... Keep stock rom and keep complaining or go few Miles ahead, Get CM9 and live happy ever after!!! ;))))))))
[Galaxy S II General] meboy:
Thank you!

They moved it from settings/display to settings/developer settings/animation scale??

Man that's hidden.
[Galaxy S II General] Toxic17:
Why no Orange UK LPB Rom up yet? Its on sammobiles.com.

Also has anyone extracted the LPB Modem from that Rom yet?
[Galaxy S II General] erriezeekanmgn:
A friend of my is comming over in about an hour and he wants to install 4.0.3 on his mobile. I've done this already since like the first leaked official rom.

I wanna install the newest rom but i can't find it. The title says 17-4-12 but the newest i can find is 6-4-12. Where can i find the newest one?

Also, If he has a branded phone. Does this matter? Because mine isn't and it works perfectly. I don't know yet if his is branded though.
[Galaxy S II General] alferret:
Thats the release date & not the build date.

Will be fine on a branded phone. Mine is Orange branded & I have installed all sorts of roms without issue.
[Galaxy S II General] erriezeekanmgn:
Alright. Thanks for the quick reply
[Galaxy S II General] daz_2000:
Do any of you connect to Bluetooth devices? As mentioned before on all the Ics Roms I have tried the phone reboots when connected to my Sony car stereo via Bluetooth. It can be connected for a while before rebooting. But normally within half hour. Very annoying.
[Galaxy S II General] Doodle:
Connect through bluetooth with Philips stereo headsets with no issue. Also connects with my Mercedes in-car systems without issues.

LP7XEN
[Galaxy S II General] Tungstwenty:
Flash both in one go - select the full ROM on the PDA path and the CSC you want on the other button, the start the flash.
[Galaxy S II General] daz_2000:
ok thanks, have you tried any other ics roms and if so experienced any issues?
[Galaxy S II General] erriezeekanmgn:
Where did all the md5 files go?:P everytime i download a rom i get a strange file. i extract the .rar and then i get another .rar. if i extract that one again i don't get a md5 file.
[Galaxy S II General] dpl73:
Sorry to be pedantic but it's my understanding the Camera Phone Predator Alert Act is only a Bill. It has not been passed into law. Maybe Samsung were just being careful.
[Galaxy S II General] kaitec2002:
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/153501669/3ba8630/I9100BVLPB_I9100ORALPB_ORA.zip.html
[Galaxy S II General] Ba7rani123:
ICS for bahrain has been released its in the Asia region, please upload bahrain version :( so I can flash, sammobile requires an account to sign in :@
[Galaxy S II General] MSAKK:
Can I flash LP8 on a non-Optus phone or I must flash a sim free firmware?

Also how to know the languages included in each firmware?
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
Use checkfus downloader to get Bahrain version. It's really easy. Search for it on Google.
[Galaxy S II General] wanam:
Don't be lazy, it's a free signup , you also can get it with Checkfus, don't forget it's the same as all other Europeans XWLP7, just with different CSC, and it doesn't have Full Arabic support.
[Galaxy S II General] Drutt:
No problems whatsever with LP7 so far. I think i'll stick CF Root on.

Do I need to get Perm Root once this is installed?
[Galaxy S II General] Toxic17:
I know where the file is. Thanks anyway
[Galaxy S II General] Ba7rani123:
Whats checkfus :/ ? oow okaay found it :D, anyway u said "its doesnt have full arabic support" am downloading for arabic support do u mean the europeans XWLP7 doesnt have or the bahraini version not full support ?
[Galaxy S II General] yavar:
thanks

thanks good work keep up :)
[Galaxy S II General] wanam:
I mean both are based on same build without full Arabic support.
[Galaxy S II General] vyis:
Is it my imagination? Seems like LP8 have one major different in Video recording compare to previous version. The exposure seems to be lock (though you can adjust it before start of recording), BUT it lock itself! Means when you point towards strong light sources or dim area, the exposure level doesn't adjust !

As i remember last week when i still in LP7 and try to record a roller coaster in action, the video come out useless as video keep adjusting exposure according to light sources.

This seems like a good adjustment, hope sammy will keep it in future updates.
[Galaxy S II General] tsam19:
Wipe or Non Wipe ROM ??

Is I9100XWLP7_I9100XEULP5_XEU.zip - a wipe or non wipe rom?

http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&t=1&o=1&m=GT-I9100&r=1

http://skywanker.net/Download/download.aspx

Are there any WIPE ROMS of I9100XWLP7_I9100XEULP5_XEU.zip ??

I followed these instructions:

Open Odin (but don't connect phone to pc)

Put your device in Recovery MODE (Home + Volume up + Power)

Wipe Data/Factory reset

Wipe Cache

wipe Dalvik cache

Take Out Your battery & put it back in

Put your device into Download MODE (Home + Volume Down + Power)

Click PDA and select *.tar.md5

Then finally click START!

Flashed the ICS 4.0.3 ROM and after it had completed there were a lot of old folders left in the directory from apps I'd had with:

GB 2.3.5 I9100BVKJ4_I9100ORAKJ4_ORA.zip

That's why I asked about the wipe or non wipe roms.

I know from previous experience when I've used WIPE ROMS the phone seems faster to use.

Using this non wipe version - (April UK carphone warehouse I9100XWLP7_I9100XEULP5_XEU.zip) has made the phone a bit sluggish and I'm wondering if I've missed something out on the pre flash prepare procedure?

How do you completely wipe the phone clean so the phone is fast when flashed with a non wipe rom?

:D:D:D
[Galaxy S II General] vyis:
If you want a very Clean installation without any left over,

just "Format USB Storage" in the setting,

and the boot into recovery by pressing "Vol Up + Home + Power", Clean data and clean cache.

Take out your battery, put it in again and press "Vol Dn + Home + Power" into download mode, then happy flashing with Odin:p

personally i didn't find Format USB Storage helpful, but clean data and cache do make lots of different.
[Galaxy S II General] basirbilal:
Need ICS for KI4
[Galaxy S II General] SaneinOne:
Huh? Flash LP8.
[Galaxy S II General] Ba7rani123:
Okaay thanks for the info :), I will wait for the full arabic support then :). Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] robertandrews:
Ok, I installed.

Now, what would happen if I restored a Titanium backup? (I backed up all user apps and system data before updating).

I would like to reinstate my SMS, call logs, home screen layouts, app folders etc etc.

At the same time, I don't want to mess up ICS.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] ducy1:
Hello

Anyone have a problem with »in build« SD card?

Some applications, for example new Sprite Backup cannot access external_SD folder.

Also with cannot see the folder with stock “my Files” application. If you use e.g. “root explorer” you can see the folder External_SD.

Any suggestion / solution?

Thnx

D.
[Galaxy S II General] hotur:
Finally got ICS for Orange from kies!
[Galaxy S II General] pda_crazy:
Hi

I upgraded my unbranded phone last week. I have various problems after the upgrade.

A. Go weather stopped updating weather and city.

B. Facebook is not synced to contacts. Facebook profile pic is not being refreshed IM contacts
[Galaxy S II General] daz_2000:
I've used friendcaster to sync contact pics for Facebook as official application wasn't doing it.
[Galaxy S II General] vyis:
Use facebook Contact Sync to sync the photo.
[Galaxy S II General] marsexpress:
And yes, my phone was wiped then reinstalled and setup from scratch, I do know how to setup and fettle android and I had almost none of these issues with gb, barring a very occasional sod or the odd day where the battery would drain faster than usual. But that was very infrequent.
[Galaxy S II General] pda_crazy:
Tried many times but didn't work
[Galaxy S II General] vyis:
This work out for me though, Are you using this Facebook Contact Sync?
[Galaxy S II General] LenAsh:
Edited as now passe
[Galaxy S II General] LenAsh:
Edited as above
[Galaxy S II General] meboy:
What really matters is that ICS is awful.

There are no improvements UI wise or other that are noticable. There are just bugs, problems and worse UI elements.

It's a shame.

---------- Post added at 08:50 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:47 AM ----------

Nobody can tell you with that little information.

The logs, sms etc should still be there. What did you do?
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
Its worth repeating with a TB restore do not restore System Data .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] Dredd90:
Is there a ICS with Bulgarian languange?
[Galaxy S II General] adypem:
I have now tried nearly every ICS rom that has been released and on every one my phone is fine for the first few hours and then starts locking up with random multi-coloured lines on the screen, I remove the battery and then normally it starts the boot sequence but then 1 line of multi coloured pixel appear across the screen and the boot lop starts again.

I am on Orange UK and All roms have been installed after full wipes, I have even gone back to orange 2.3.6 (works fine with no lock-ups) an then updated through Kies with the official Orange ICS and still the same thing happens, last night I loaded CM9 and it was fine till this morning when it displayed the lines and turned off again.

It only seems to happen when the battery has got to about 75%??

Anyone else experienced this? Or is my phone destined to never have ICS? :mad:
[Galaxy S II General] xZeDgEx:
What would cause Android OS to be the highest for battery use?

LP8
[Galaxy S II General] emilcioran99:
XWLP7 have bulgarian language. :)
[Galaxy S II General] Dredd90:
No matter of the region?
[Galaxy S II General] emilcioran99:
Intratech's XEU XWLP7 (post 3). :)

LE:

Have bulgarian, russian, serbian and ukrainian languages.
[Galaxy S II General] diwani4u:
I did install one of the ROMs from this thread and it just works fine... now that update has been launched in my country, I want to install that but how can I do that. any help would be very appreciated.
[Galaxy S II General] CoinCoin88:
Didn't check the AOS percentage, but (on my device, too) battery drain is much higher than on my old XXKI4 build... :/

A bit disappointed I must say. it was hardly lasting 1.5-2days on KI4, and now it's 1day at most...
[Galaxy S II General] :
Since i updated my xeu sg2 to ics, there is a problem when i purchase apps. Im on o2. When i go to play store and try to purchase something, it says error no connection. Any solution?
[Galaxy S II General] CoinCoin88:
try clearing cache and data for Market/Play Store apps. Unsuccessulf? full wipe & reflash
[Galaxy S II General] funem:
Finally found what was cauing my random reboots and random over heating problems. I have a bunch of Gameloft games installed of which I move the programs to the SD from the phone using ZDBox. The apps run fine but it must be when they try and trigger a notification or something, the phone just reboots. Moving them back to the phone stops the reboots and the ovrheating.

Only mention it incase anyone else has the same issue. This worked fine for me under GB.
[Galaxy S II General] ehknaton:
Hi, I need some help,

I have CM7.1 but I don't really like it. I want to get ICS.

I've done factory reset, wipe cache, and dalvik.

1. My factory kernel(when I bought the phone) was BUKG2 (Romania), which one can I install from here ?

2. Does it matter if I install from a different region ?

3. Will this firmware delete CWM?

4. Are these stable ?
[Galaxy S II General] GregX80:
Guys can anybody please tell me where can I download bulp6 modem. I need only modem. Thx
[Galaxy S II General] sarmasen:
I am now officially lost

First of all, hello and please read through my whole problem, at first it would seem not to have anything to do with this thread, but trust me it does :)

I live in Serbia, and was trying to get cyanogenmod 7 to work on my SGS2. I have managed to get it working, but then the problems started and first of many was that my Windows 7 would not recognize my SGS2 anymore. A few tries of re-flashing didnt do the trick, and eventualy i got myself into a position where i couldnt even connect to ODIN... Anyways, long story short... I have managed to connect it to ODIN at one point and decided to go for ICS since that was the first thing that crossed my mind. i was searching only a few minutes and found i9100XXLPH. It had full instruction and following files in it:

GT-I9100-MULTI-CSC-OXALPH.tar

I9100_APBOOT_I9100XXLPH_CL118559_REV02_user_low_ship.tar

I9100_CODE_I9100XXLPH_CL118559_REV02_user_low_ship.tar

MODEM_I9100XXLPH_REV_02_CL1104396.tar

i followed the instructions for ODIN and managed to install ICS on my device. The phone booted, and everything seemed perfect. Too good to be true rly. It set up with my google account without any problems, got data over network set up, and i used my wi-fi to download various stuff from Google Play (Market). Then i went out for a walk, and wanted to get something off from Google Play, but i started receiving errors : "aplication "X" could not be downloaded due to an error 406" my phone would connect to internet, browse, play clips on you tube, but it would not download anything from market. Then i figured, it must be that i was foolish to rush into installing ICS and i picked up wrong one, and the one of the files that i have installed (like Modem file through ODIN) is making things difficult for me. Then i tried to install the

I9100XXLPQ_I9100OXALPQ_I9100XXLPQ_HOME.tar

found in this thread, but the problem persisted. I tried booting into recovery, and wiping everything, but that didnt help either. I am still getting that error 406. Any ideas ? Please help. it is becoming frustrating for me, since im locked to my comp and phone, trying to figure it out for more than 6-7 hours.

So the real question is, how do i fix this thing. Other than that, phone works gr8. but that error popping out is freaking me out. Do i need to download some other package ? do i need to re-flash modem files, or anything else ?

Thanks. And i appreciate any help you can give me.

P.S. (i think it was unbranded version of SGS2 when i bought it, even tho i got it in Serbia's mobile carrier named VIP ) And yes, i was that dumb, so i didnt write or remember builds that were on it prior to even trying cyanogenmod.