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[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
one PM and my answer.

I am happy the thread could be of some interest for you.

Please, do not PM. All your questions can be of some interest for the whole community, and unless there is something very personnal, please share.

You can play with Extweaks, it WILL not break your phone. First do a nand backup, just in case.

if you read carefully this thread, not so long, and use the search button, you will find my settings, as well as some others. On XDA, you will find more posts with user settings. It is not always a good idea to apply straightforward someone else settings.

My advice is to go step by step, and see how your device behaves. There is no need to overclock, as 1200 is far enough for usual tasks. If you are a Quadrant freak, or play heavy games, so fine.

Do not go below 200 Mhz, it will be of no interest.

Do not be obssed by battery life. You won't reduce it drastically by tweaks, especially with ICS. Remember, screen light is most battery eater.

You can play with another app, System Tuner (free on Play Market). This app is much more complete than Extweaks. The only doubt I always have is using more than one tweakin app. I am afraid of potential conflicts.

KEEP IT SIMPLE.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
BLN is working whitout BLN app. By working I mean touchkey lights are ON when screen is ON, and turn OFF with screen OFF.

As for the CWM recovery, if you feel comfortable with tweaking, everything is in the initramfs folder. You can extract it from the Kernel, and I guess you can change to default touch recovery with a litle work.

Maybe someone around has an idea how to do it.
[Galaxy S II General] NABNAP:
I need a little help guys.

I am running CM9 + Siyah right now and I have tweaked the settings a little using ExTweaks and Voltage Control.

I want to know what will happen if I change / update the kernel / ROM now. Will the settings remain or will I have to change them again?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] zekurosu:
Extweak settings remain

VC settings remain but you have to reactivate is again
[Galaxy S II General] marcosxd:
I feel like my phone is not entering deep sleep enough (more battery drain), while with CM kernel it was, with Siyah it is not... any advices? custom settings, no OC/UV... Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
Yes, your settings will remain. It is same for all apps, settings are saved in your /data directory and not deleted when updating
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
What does enough mean for you?

Install CPU Spy, and tell what is the percentage of time spent on deep sleep.

Are you using 100 Mhz as first CPU frequence? If yes, don't go below 200. Your CPU will spend too much time in 100 when it should indeed fall in deep sleep. This doesn't happen with 200
[Galaxy S II General] Draak22:
:confused: He is talking about Backlight

Notifications

. Not weither the static backlight works? Not sure what you're trying to say here. :p
[Galaxy S II General] marcosxd:
I already have CPU spy and BBS, most of the time my phone is @ 200mhz (with 2 hours of use I get barely 20 deep sleep mins), also I can notice because when it is in deep sleep, waking it up will take 1 or 2 more seconds, meanwhile when it is not, it will wake up immediately, which is happening when I install siyah (latest) and not with the custom CM kernel.

I didn't ov/uc, but I installed exTweaks... but still, with the default settings...

Any thoughts? Thanks

EDIT: and this is without being charged, I know when you are charging it, it won't enter deep sleep.

PS: pics and BBS log of most of the day usage (which was very light, had a lot of work lol)

PS2: I know my battery life is not that bad, but stick to the deep sleep problem please. Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
It seems to me two wakelocks are preventing your device to deep sleep. Then, your mobile network signal is always green, e.g. working.

I conclude there is some app/task related to call which is preventing the device to deep sleep and is eating your battery.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
Dual boot is unabled with version 3.1b1 out today.

I have not yet experimented it, but will post when done. It seems the process is straightforward.

As for CM9, the Cyanogenmod changelog website shows a great numbers of change for next build. So I will update, as until now I am still on 0403.
[Galaxy S II General] xionix:
Connection Problem

Hi,

I'm have a problem on doing phone calls.

When i start a phonecall it's working normal, for about 15 sec somtimes more sometimes less, and then the phone suddenly loses all connection. phonecall breaks down, wifi not connected,... after about 20 sec phone and wifi is connected again but when i do a phonecall it's the same.

May u can help me?

Provider is A1/Bob (Austria) and firmware is last nightly build 09.04.2012.

Kernel SiyahKernel v3.0.1

Hope anyone has an idea :-)

br
[Galaxy S II General] twistedvegan:
yellow tinge issue

I'm running this combo purely so I can use bln, not sure if this is kernal or ROM related but would like to know if anyone else has had this issue before I start trying different roms. I don't want to move away from cyanogen as there's far too many other Roms to choose from and I don't want to waste half my life trying to find one that's bug free.

when my screen brightness is on a low setting it has a slight yellow tinge to it, I'm pretty sure it was doing it with the cm9 kernal but not 100% certain so figured I better come and get flamed for posting here rather than by the 1000 or so kids on the cm9 thread with nothing better to do than rip into people for asking for help. I did try using the search tools but couldn't find anything conclusive.
[Galaxy S II General] Rumble6059:
Maybe try changing the mDNIe mode and scene in settings may fix it :-)

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[Galaxy S II General] twistedvegan:
tried that but it doesn't seem to do anything, found a screen tuner app on the market that's a good temp fix
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
Try another modem. There is a list in the first page of CM9 discussion thread
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
I can't reproduce your issue.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
kernel 3.1b3 is working like a charm with CM9 0411 Nightly.

Not yet tried dual boooting, and to be honest, I do not want to use any other ROM than CM one. Since day1 I have been on it, and never changed. So not sure I will use dual booting capability!
[Galaxy S II General] Nalty:
Just curious, does anyone have CIFS working with the 3.1 Siyah betas?

I'm trying to get it work but it's not working.
[Galaxy S II General] Galaxy_Cat:
Everyone and their mother knows about this. Just use CWM app and be happy. IF you post to developers about this, they will mercilessly flame you.

In my opinion, it's a small price to pay for the brilliance of the Siyah kernel. Consider yourself enlightened that you don't settle for CM Kernels! (Even though CM rocks the house)

__________

CM9 nightlies (4/11)

Siyah 3.0.1

UCKJ4 modem

ExTweaks
[Galaxy S II General] Sepharite:
Just curious, what's the purpose of having two ROMS if one ROM is superior to the other? I'm running CM9 and it's quite perfect, unless there's a better ROM please do tell :)

Curious about the dual boot though, do the ROMs share data/apps?
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
Well, never had such issue. Maybe it has something to do with the dual boot new option?
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
Booting CM9 0413 Nightly with SyiahKernel 3.1.rc2 with no problems.

CM9 allows now to choose between USB Mass Storage and MTP under Settings > storage > Menu > USB computer connection.

Both connections work with SyiahKernel.

100 and 1600 Mhz steps have been removed. According to me, they are worth nothing. Below 200, device is not entering deep sleep very well, and over clocking to 1600 is tricky and not very useful (unless you want to play caid in the school yard).
[Galaxy S II General] Kichikuro:
Just tried this dual usage but I'm disappointed.

Only 3500 at Quadrant and 5800 at Antutu benchmarks.

And the battery pourcentage drops too fast.

Did I miss something?
[Galaxy S II General] NouveauBox:
I have been playing with dual booting, only because I can. But unless one is trying to find bugs or just want to see what another ROM looks like, I do not see the benefit of it, yet.

In the end, one still gets pretty much the same experience on the same device (I know I know, I am not trying to start a war on 'which ROM is best' here).

I was on ICS Resurrection 1.1 with stock kernel, then Siyah 3.x to try out dual booting. Been trying CM9, Hydrogen, Foxhound, updated kernels, ICS Resurrection 1.3, etc.

I am now back to ICS Resurrection 1.1 with latest Siyah 3.1rc2 as it gives me the best performance so far (no, not measured, just going by my own feel). Maybe I can get more battery life out of a newer ROM but from what I am getting today versus stock ROM, I am getting a heck of lot more time out of my device already so I am happy.

Dual Booting gave me an option in the past of Linux and Windows only because there was one particular application on Windows that I used and was not available in any other form on Linux at the time.

Today, applications are available on iOS, Android and I assume Windows for mobile devices (whatever that is called) - that are the same or equivalent so a dual boot might not necessarily be very beneficial for the majority of users.

Now if there were such a thing as a specific ROM that is optimised for one use only, such as camera only, GPS/Navigation only, Music player only etc. and it really improves the performance/battery life because of it, then it could be a great tool. I am not sure if this would even be possible.

Just my 2 cents
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
Hi,

I am now on Cyanogenmod 9 nightly 0413 with SiyahKernel 3.1rc2 on my SGS2.

I would like to know if I can still install back the Samsung stock apps to it? Will it crash, etc?

Cuz I need back the Clock apk that has all the nifty tools I needed such as Stop Timers, World Clocks, etc from the SGS2 stock XXLPQ firmware.

Please help.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
yes you can install any app.apk
[Galaxy S II General] Rumble6059:
Maybe not totally true, if he is referring to stock Samsung apps then it's most likely that they won't be able to be installed cuz cm9 doesn't have the Samsung framework.

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[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
I got the feeling very soon we will see SiyahKernel 3.1rc4 out in couple of hours...hehe

One of the feature is the kernel it is using is 3.0.28.

Anyone can tell me what's in the kernel 3.0.28? Any changelog?
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
V3.1.rc4 is out and works fine. Awsome Kernel as usual. Maybe I need to double check my old Extweaks configuration.

Do not forget to write or save somewhere your Extweaks settings, as they shall be reseted when in recovry.

**NOTICE **

: I had some problems with my Galaxy sdcard , CM9 and SyiahKernel since rc2. My sdcard was NOT MOUNTED. I could'nt have acces with rootexplorer. I found that going in CM9 settings > storage. Here press Menu key. > Storage configuration > DO NOT CHECK use internal storage. When it was checked, my sdcard was not mounted. NEED TO REBOOT
[Galaxy S II General] snappy123:
How are you guys scrolling. Mine feels so weird like its nice when scrolling quick, however when scrolling slow it does not feel controlled. Quite the opposite with cm9 kernal.

Siyah is good for quick flick top to bottom page scrolls

Cm9 more controlled in the shorter scrolls

14/4 cm9 and siyah 3.0.1 rc4
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
I just flashed mine with latest SiyahKernel v3.1rc4 but still with CM 9 build 0413. I have no plans to use 0414 yet as I see the changelog nothing worth upgrading until the next nightly build is out.

I have yet to test out the fix on the BLN feature for BLNWW. Not sure what that was but worth monitoring it for these few days.

Good work to Gokhan!!!! SiyahKernel rocks!
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
Okay, I have just updated CM 9 to the latest build 0414 and re-flash the latest SiyahKernel v3.1rc4 that was re-uploaded today.

So far so good, no crashing whatsoever...fingers crossed.

Battery seems last longer after I resetted kernel profiles to default.

But I will continue to monitor the battery life tonight.

Not sure about the GPS signal, hope this nightly build improves abit.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
Here are my new settings with V3.1.rc4. Not sur yet they are the best, so it may change. When no setting is mentioned, default is applied

Governor: Lulzactive

I/O Scheduler : noop

Second core is enabled above 70% load

Second core is disabled below 40% load

Min freq for second core to be turned on : 600 000 KHZ

CPU Smooth Scaling : 1,3,2

GPU Freq step : 100, 200, 267 MHz

GPU Volatage levels : 900,950,950 mV

GPU Thresholds : 80, 40,85,50 %

GPU StayCount : 1,1,1 sec

TouchMove sensitivity : 2 sec

MIN_BL 90, MIN_GAMMA 4, MAX_GAMMA 10

BLNWW UNCHECKED

Android logger and auto-root are disabled

On CM9 setings > advanced > screen > touch sensitivity = 20
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
gabx,

How's the battery life with your settings there?

Can get ~18hours or so?
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
With normal usage, YES. If you play game, watch video a lot, not so sure !!

I am not a heavy user, and my battery last near 1 day 1/2
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
I can say that SiyahKernel v3.1rc4 is very stable now, I have yet to encounter any problems tweaking in ExTweaks.

So far my battery lasted ~14 hours with wi-fi turned on, BLN proximity sensor, watch couple of YouTube videos and checkign e-mails.

Oh yeah, one last thing, the phone charging is really amazing! I get like 1% for every minutes. So it charges the phone real quick!
[Galaxy S II General] saikilee:
it's really help for me ~
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
What helps you?
[Galaxy S II General] beni008:
SiyahKernel v3.1rc4

my sgs2 is working very smoothly with SiyahKernel v3.1rc4
[Galaxy S II General] Net.silb:
I accidentally changed my GAMMA SHIFT setting and I dont want to make everything default again...

Can someone tell me what the default setting is under -> ExTweaks - > Screen -> Other Settings -> GAMMA SHIFT???
[Galaxy S II General] mrxd:
0 pixel
[Galaxy S II General] CapitanoNemo79:
Returned on 3.1 rc4 why have 3.0.28 kernel,

in rc5 the kernel is back old version 3.0.15 i not like this changelog.

Inviato dal mio GT-I9100 con Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
V3.1.rc6 is out and shall be more battery friendly

CM9 Nightly builds can't be out for now as some servers settings on CM side have to be done.
[Galaxy S II General] shr33kant:
Using codeworkx new test build(http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25027440&postcount=25700), siyah kernel breaks wifi. :(, it just wont switch on.

Edit: This build also includes a lot of the new changes on the changelog page http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=galaxys2, although I am unsure how much of it.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
Thank you for your info.

I am checking now and will come back to confirm

WARNING Last CM9 Codeworkx build has changed mountpoints of sdcard et mmc. This feature will be the default CM from now.This will break wifi when using SyiahKernel, as the wifi app can't find anymore its settings. Until this mountpoint standard is solved, best is to stick to CM9 0414
[Galaxy S II General] shr33kant:
after reading the Siyah thread, I hadn't realised since I installed RC6 at 13:00 yesterday, Gokhan changed the kernel later on in the day... I really wished he would make some sort of indication that he's done these little changes, although the change was from 3.0.15 to 3.0.28 kernel x-D...I have no idea how big of a change that is. But I guess it keeps us on our toes eh? :D

I'm currently moving everything from emmc to sd card right now so I'll check that in a while...damn this is a slow transfer :(
[Galaxy S II General] BrandoHD:
He did, should have kept reading :D
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
You know that some people have a life after XDA Forum?

There is no point starting a flame here, but best is to always update the |OP|, so it is easy for every user to know at a glance the situation.

I am very graceful for the work Gokhan does for our community, but there is something difficult with him: its updates !! These are sometimes NOT notified, or even keep the same number !! When a code line has been mistakenly writen, he changes the upload but if you don't read all posts, you never know!

Honestly, it is not possible to take into acount the time of the update to judge which version it is !!

Btw, old or new, post or past midday rc6 Kernel, it still doesn't work with new CM build.
[Galaxy S II General] BrandoHD:
Yes, but you need to relax, your post to me, is more of a flame starter than mine to him, firstly, I was not even replying to you, are you his XDA appointed mouthpiece?

If the user feel offended in some way by my post, then let him state so, what is your point of mentioning that people have a life outside XDA, did I state contrary in my post, is that what you gathered from my post?

Doesn't GK have a life outside XDA also, he is not allowed to make mistakes and correct them while keeping the same version number, you would have him do a whole new Blog entry for a minor change

I just let the user know that GK did update his post, how can that be a flame starter??? Explain yourself!
[Galaxy S II General] ermacwins:
Current setup No External SDcard

MIUI as Primary Rom

Aokp Hydrogen secondary

I can’t open gallery as it says no external storage available or use the camera, it says insert sdcard.

Is there a work around without using a sdcard?
[Galaxy S II General] BrandoHD:
Does this issue exist on both primary and secondary roms?
[Galaxy S II General] ermacwins:
Just seconday
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
OK, don't want to fight and explain.

Forget. Too many agressivness on CM discussion thread since too many months makes me being paranoid maybe !!

This still doesn't negate my point about Gokhan being more precised about each new modification. When isues are solved, version number has to change.

But nevermind, it is like that

EDIT : I was taliking about Me flaming, not you !!
[Galaxy S II General] shr33kant:
Don't argue people! If that's how GM rolls, then that's just part of his genius :P. From the look of the new changelog on his blog...I think we can hold out till he's ready to release :).

@gabx, thanks for the report on both versions not working on cm9 codeworkx latest nightly. I'm about to flash the new build from the buildbot in a mo, but as I said it's best we wait for the 3.1 of siyah as rc6 is not compatible with codeworkx build, then it probably will still break the new buildbot rom.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
buildbot version will be the SAME as codeworkx one. Codeworkx just built it on his own machine before CM did it, as they had server issues.
[Galaxy S II General] Fustigador:
u guys can redownload siyah rc6 cus GM already fixed wifi issue to workwith latest CM build
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
But does this break the /emmc. /sdcard rearrangement?
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
Anyone experience after flashing the latest CM9 and SiyahKernel v3.1rc6, any apk you installed, the next reboot of your phone will render those recent apks not able to launch?
[Galaxy S II General] DadeFazer:
Yes it does.
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
Anyone here running latest Siyah v3.1.1 with CM 9 nightly build 0423?
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
Also, anyone tried flashing just the Baseband XXLPS to their SGS2 running CM9 nightly build 0422 + SiyahKernel v3.1.1?

Can show me steps to do it from Odin?
[Galaxy S II General] nberry1988:
solved

try flashing cm9 kernel and the flash cm9 rom
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
2012/04/24

flashed CM9 0423

flashed V3.1.2

NO ISSUES
[Galaxy S II General] anstaendig:
I've read the last pages over and over again but can't find a way to fix my bug.

I just installed the newest CM9 nightly and the newest siyah kernel after that. Now I'm not able to open the Gallery app as it tells me "No external storage available" and Camera can't save any taken pictures with "Use internal storage" ticked. Without this option I can use the Gallery app as usual but when I open the Camera app it tells me "Insert SD card before using the camera"....

What am I doing wrong?
[Galaxy S II General] davidspwy:
i solved it by wipeing cache and reboot
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
Good to know. All this story about the new mount points is a litle bit annyoing for everyone!
[Galaxy S II General] anstaendig:
Still having problems with the new mount points... With "Use internal storage" on I can't use the gallery app (tells me there's no sd card) and camera app does not save pictures. With "use internal storage" off the gallery app works but the camera app tells me to insert an SD card so I cant take any photos... tried both ways with rebooting and wiping cache multiple times but it's still not working....

latest nightly + latest siyah kernel
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
NOTE about the new mount points

Now, the standard default is your internal sdcard is named emmc, mount under /mount/emmc. Your exterior (removabe) sdcard (if you have one) will be properly named sdcard and mounted under /mount/sdcard.

If you want to store apps, media, data to your sdcard, be sure to go settings>storage>menu key>storage configuration. Then be sure Use internal sdacrd IS NOT CHECKED. If you check it, everything will stored to your internal, non removeable card, now called emmc.

For those of you who want to return to old fashion, there is some tweaks on CM9 discussion thread. I strobgly advice to stikc with new default method, sd it is now the standard.

This doesn't change anything with new SyiahKernel.
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
I reverted back to CM9 0422 build, as I am not satisfied with new ones for mayn reasons.

I am fed up with all these new builds which in fact don't improve the things and with settings changing so often.
[Galaxy S II General] :
I understand your feeling...but that's what nightlys and experimental roms are about, as you know ;)

Sent from my SGS2 - SlimICS Rom & Syiah Kernel
[Galaxy S II General] gabx:
You right, it still experimental, and I don't complain.

For me 0422 is the last one which feets my need with no issues.
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
i am on CM9 nightly build 0425 with SiyahKernel v3.1.2 and I don't face any problem at all.

But I do notice that it breaks some of the things, such as 3G/2G switching on the Notification bar is broken, the battery life is slightly worst than the previous build 0423. Also DSPManager don't seem to do anything even when I change the settings. Is it still in progress for this?

But overall, it didn't kernel panic, all my applications works and I am happy!

Can't wait for the next night build which has the feature for the Phone Advanced settings port over from CM 7.
[Galaxy S II General] :
We were lucky that up until then every new feature introduced was working and mistily not breaking anything else ;)

now things start to get harder maybe...

Sent from my SGS2 - SlimICS Rom & Syiah Kernel
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
I believe CM9 will continue to improves on the ROM!

It's by far the best ROM ever for SGS2!
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
Hi,

Anyone just flashed to the latest CM9 nightly build 0429 with latest SiyahKernel v3.2b2?

I am currently on CM9 nightly build 0427 with latest SiyahKernel v3.2b2.

I notice SiyahKernel now uses kernel 3.0.30. So far it didn't complain.

Will continue to monitor the stability of the SiyahKernel.

The previous SiyahKernel v3.2b1 did not do so well on the battery as it lasted me around 13hours with only 2G, no wi-fi etc.

I hope SiyahKernel's changelog can elaborate more on each fixes, preferrably similar to the nightly CM9 build which contains the links to the source code review (http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=galaxys2).
[Galaxy S II General] fjkum:
One thing I notice with this latest SiyahKernel, my LED keeps lights up when the screen is ON.