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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tmckenn2:
the triangle and screen is there because you flashed a non approved kernel... interestingly enough this problem only happens when the kernel is verified through the download mode. if you flash with, mobile odin for instance it doesnt show up. a reset of the flash counter will remove the triangle but so will flashing an approved aka stock kernel, but with the second method the flash counter will still be non zero.

about the build prop, unfortunately a full wipe /data wipe does not format the system.img that is stored on the phone and that is loaded on each boot. what you really want to do is change the build prop all together rather then deleting it.... its there so use it to your advantage. alternatively there are roms out there that have the asserts removed and will give you the right signature, they can be used as a jumping point if you cant figure out how to fix the problem the right way. the important thing here is you learn 1 of two skills, how to fix your own problems, or how to search the crap out of the forums until something works but at least that way you gain some sort of knowledge on the subject...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] warren2781:
The easiest way I found for the error when flashing is that before you boot into recovery mode extract the build.prop from the nightly that you are about to flash and copy it to the system folder on the phone with root explorer or solid explorer. No need to flash another rom.

I used a jig to get rid of the triangle and it now says galaxy s 2 when it boots.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ou812bkewl:
I do exactly this but with es file explorer. It works every time.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] thracemerin:
AOSP suggests 20G, CM uses 50G for ICS I don't think you'd need to go to 75G. Running it with 50G roughly halves the time it takes to build on my piece of junk build box, I've never built with a higher number than that, but I do believe that at some point you can't cache anything more and it would be pointless space anyway.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] madquack:
Very well, thank you for your very quick answer, I'm going to try this later today.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] slyderz:
Anyone having a problem setting data usage limits using the bars? They don't want to move when sliding them. I'm on the 7/24 nightly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ou812bkewl:
ICS open source was just released for SGH-I777 on sammy's open source site. Don't really know if it means anything significant to us CM9 users, but at least it's there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Wing2468:
I am still running the 6/25 nightly with Fluxi XX 7/6 kernel, and everything works fine except the NFC Android Beam. NFC AB works with web pages and google books but when I try to "beam" a picture from Gallery to my Nexus 7 Gallery, it doesn't work. I heard the "sound" and then touched the screen, but nothing happened. It is a two way failure, i.e. SGS2 to N7 or N7 to SGS2. Anyone have similar problem? TIA.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] iXNyNe:
Wonder if this will help with the Hal driver issues or solve the audio volume after notification bug...

Or maybe help with a jb port?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] JmPTaz09:
I'd recommend updating to today's nightly and then see if it works... there has been a months worth of bug fixing and tweaking since the build you're running. I'm on 7/27 build and confirm it's a safe build to advance to, have not faced any issues whatsoever and it's mighty smooth. It may or may not fix your nfc issue, but I still feel it's worthwhile to update!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
Wrong. If the flash counter is tripped, the bootloader banner says I9100 because Samsung was lazy.

On I9100, I believe both the triangle version and the normal screen say GT-I9100.

On I777, on the normal one they changed the normal screen to remove any model reference. However, they didn't bother to change the triangle screen.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Slavestate:
Gotcha. I had thought you only got that screen when you flashed an i9100 based kernel, which is why you could 'fix' it by flashing an i777 kernel. IIRC before I reset my flash counter last month, my boot screen was still the normal i777 one. Only time I saw the i9100 one was when I first got the phone and rooted it using 'you know who's' badly out of date website. Flashed your own rooted kernel in the return to stock thread and it never came back again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] betterthancrimzon:
CM9 stuck in bootscreen

Hello folks,

I have been running CM9 Nightlies on my i777 for the past few months. Two days ago my phone's apps started to crash, and new ones would not start. I decided to restart my phone and it got stuck in the bootscreen (past the stage where Cid gets angry). Normally the phone will vibrate (when the lock screen comes up behind the animation) but now it doesn't reach that point. I used adb to push a newer nightly to the phone, and installed it with Clockwork Recovery, but the phone still gets stuck in the bootscreen.

Do you have any suggestions, or is there a way I can provide you with more information to help me? I'd rather not wipe the phone, if possible.

Thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
Seems like the only thing to do is do a factory reset.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bdpyo:
I just had an issue with the picsay photo app, after looking at the info from the dev is suggested for Galaxy Nexus users to untick 2-d force rendering. I did and all is well.

This could solve a small part of your problem, wish you luck with the rest.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] betterthancrimzon:
No new apps were installed in the days leading up to the crash, and unfortunately, with the phone getting stuck at the boot screen I have no way of changing any options.

It may end up that way, but hopefully someone will think of something. I'm using a backup phone in the meanwhile. At the very least, I've pulled my images and videos off the phone. I would like to pull the screenshots too, if possible. Does anyone know where they are stored on the i777? When I pulled /emmc and /sdcard, it didn't copy them over. Also, can I pull the text msgs off, and then put them back once I reset the phone?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] CallMeAria:
A data wipe won't wipe your sdcard or internal storage so pictures are safe. The screen shots are stored in sdcard/Pictures/screenshots. Text messages are stored in data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db, though I'm not sure if they'll be in a useable format. I dont see why you couldn't just copy that .db back to your fresh install though (don't quote me on that idea).

At the very least did you try wiping cache/dalvik? Make a nandroid and if you know you're way around adb you can try to use your nandroid to restore certain app datas. Also remove any init.d scripts you might have.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Wing2468:
Took your advice and flashed the 7/27 build during weekend. At first, I also flashed the Fluxi XX 7/17 kernel. The NFC Android Beam still wouldn't work sending/receiving pictures and it also created a zoom out problem in Google Map. So, I ran the kernel cleaning script and re-flashed the 7/27 build again. After that, it did fix the GM zoom out problem. But NFC AB is still not working with sending/receiving photo! :(

Anyway, I can always use the Bluetooth to do that and thanks for your advice. BTW, the 7/27 build is indeed very stable. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] epicstar1:
7/27 is pretty stable aside from the bluetooth audio randomly disconnecting. 7/30 seems to have media scanner forever running. What causes this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] hi2u2:
Did you make a nandroid backup before upgrading? The new CWM, when making a nandroid backup, generates a folder called "blobs" which is ~1.8GB in size. Media scanner scans the blobs folder each time it runs, slowing it down significantly. For example, I noticed that new pictures in the gallery took up to a minute before I could access them, as blobs was hogging the media scanner.

To solve this, just put a file called .nomedia at the root of the clockworkmod folder on the SD card, and media scanner will skip the contents of this folder when it runs.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] allstar21369:
My brother has recently been having an issue on his SGH-I777. Whenever he sends me a photo via text message it is seriously degraded. The resolution is brought down to something like 300 x 400. It's the same even if he sends an image he didn't take with his camera.

He's running a CM9 nightly that's probably about a month old but I had him download the latest nightly so he should be installing that today. I believe he was having the issue on a nightly before the one he currently has so I'm not sure if a new nightly will fix it. Also, I haven't seen anyone else with this problem... I had him clear message cache in Titanium Backup but no luck.

Here's an example of what a screen shot he took and sent me gets turned into...

Any advice?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] R2D2_SW:
Is the blobs folder created by the new CWM necessary, i.e. can I simply delete it, or does CWM needs it for something?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] hi2u2:
It is completely necessary; deleting it will render all your backups useless. If you notice, the size of the actual backups created by the new CWM is much smaller than those created by the old one. That's because the bulk of the backup is actually stored in the blobs folder, and the contents in the backup folder are just incremental changes to what is stored in the blobs folder.

This new system was implemented because the contents between backups don't actually change that much. So all the "static" content gets backed up to blobs, and anything that has changed gets backed up to the backup folder.

I don't like this new system very much as the blobs folder is huge, but I suppose you'll save space overall if you have lots of backups saved on your SD card.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Aqua1ung:
No space?

Folks, I'm currently on the July 30 nightly, though I did notice this behavior on previous nightlies (not sure how far back though): sometimes my Google Play music application won't stream anything because it complains about the lack of space(!). Moreover, I attempted to take a screenshot of the error message, and that wouldn't work because there's no space to save the screenshot! How is that possible? I checked the storage situation, and there seems to be plenty of space! Anyway, a reboot seems to solve this issue. Can anyone help with this? Surely, this can't be normal, can it?

P.S. In case you're wondering, the Play app is set to cache streamed music, though as far as I noticed, unchecking this option doesn't seem to make a difference.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] R2D2_SW:
Got it! So I guess that explains why the backup I made took forever. I assume the future ones will be much faster. I read that some users had issues with CWM deleting contents in their SD or internal card. Was this to make room for the blobs folder (i.e. only if you did not have sufficient space on your card for the blobs to be created), or is this a legitimate issue I should be concerned about? I am on RC2.

Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] SyXbiT:
I'm still on RC2. Aside from bluetooth randomly connecting/disconnecting from my car every 10 mins, I haven't noticed any other issues?

Any benefit to flashing the 7/31 nightly? or would I be better off waiting for RC3.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] epicstar1:
I think you're better off getting a nightly. My experience with RC2 was bad battery life but thqt changed for the better with 7/27.

Seems my media scan stopped on 7/30
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] betterthancrimzon:
In the end, I did a data wipe.

I was relieved to see that my pictures/screenshots were safe (even though I had managed to pull them off earlier). I did end up losing my texts, but thanks for telling me where they are located incase something like this happens again. I did wipe cache/dalvik as the instructions on the first page of this thread say to do it after every fresh nightly.

Anyway, thx for those who tried to help. My phone is back up and running now. I took advantage of the situation, and only installed apps I was using regularly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] hi2u2:
I'm not sure if that's the exact reason users were losing files, but sounds logical to me. In any case, I would recommend updating to the latest nightly. I remember reading (although I don't have a link) that the problem with nandroid backups deleting user files has been fixed.

On a side note, Koush recently mentioned on G+ that he is planning to give users the option to choose between the old and new Nandroid styles, which I'm pretty happy about.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] SyXbiT:
just installed 7/31, and after 3 hours of light usage, my batter is at 37%!. Flashing to 8/01 now.... If that doesn't fix it, I'll flash back to RC2 (or wait for RC3)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] elherr:
Interesting. I flashed 0731 last night and battery is normal. Are you on a busy wifi network? It looks like BCMDHD changes got merged for 0731. Packet filter issues perhaps?

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/andr...mmit/e9cef6cd2f23e40b30a088151dadb5d0d7329f63
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
You have to wait for the rom to settle for battery life to be accurate.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Aqua1ung:
This is a followup to my earlier message (see above). Here are the exact error messages: "Music temporarily unavailable. No space available" and "Couldn't capture screenshot. Couldn't save screenshot. Storage may be in use." Anyone care to venture an opinion as to what "storage" this refers to?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] voldomart13:
Any chnace there push the new busybox update? aka (1.22 somethin I think? Its needed for myackup pro to succesfully backup and restore apps now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] SyXbiT:
not as part of cm9. That's not getting any major changes. Maybe for cm10
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
Alright guys look. I havent run cm since early in the cm7 days...and left because my phone would not enter deep sleep. IRONICALLY, im looking to return because now my phone wont enter deep sleep. Does ANYONE on this rom experience the rilj wakelock bug? ive heard its fixed here, i just want to verify. ALSO, this is the ONLY rom ive seen a reference to bootloaders in the op, my phone came with kk6 and i rooted with a no bl package so that means my bootloaders are compatible correct? Thanks in advance guys
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] R2D2_SW:
RILJ wakelock is fixed in CM9 http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#/c/16190/.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] chibixzero:
crackin sound when playing music

I search for my issues like always but could not find an answer. My music when played in apollo or any music specially in music amp Theres a crackling sound which sounds excruciating when i have my stereo system in my car full blast. sounds basicly when your phone is about to freeze and your playing music Idk if you know what I mean.

Anyone have this problem Also i didnt search for this answer but does MLH or MHL or that micro usb to HDMI work in CM9?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
822012 build is flawless for me running with skyfire kernel. Now I see what all this cm talk is about. Fast fluid and feature packed. Thanks to the cm9 squad for putting this together.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] pratici:
last for me is a little unstable.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
Unstable? How so?

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CM9/Skyfire
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] aj9507:
Running 8/3 and its solid so far and happy to report that it fixed my battery issues so far 20 hours and at 52%
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] avp2306:
I'm running CM9 RC2, and having an issue where the phone turns itself off the only way to get it started is to hold the power button for 5+ sec.

I also noticed that when it does this the batter gets drained as well, I"m assuming it freezes in some sort of a loop. This happens 2-3 times a day.. pretty annoying.

Anyone faced similar issue? Any advice on how to resolve?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] switters1:
Exactly what I've been dealing with. Sometimes it's as if the phone just turned itself off, and reboots with a near dead battery. Other times it won't reboot because battery is dead and it lost like 50% overnight.

Clearing cache and dalvik fixes this for 2-3 days, but then it happens again. New builds don't fix this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
Kernel?

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CM9 8-3-2012/Skyfire
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] avp2306:
I'm running the default kernel that comes w/ CM9 RC2, haven't experimented with any others yet..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
Team skyfire dream kernel. Do it now you won't regret it

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CM9 8-3-2012/Skyfire
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mikeflash:
What's so good about it?

I've been using stock cm9 kernel and I'm not experiencing any issues, though I flash nightlies every other day. Right now I'm on 4/8 and it's been good. Before that, I was on 1/8 and was good for the time used.

Check changelogs. The issues some people are experiencing may be fixed on one of the recent nightlies. There was a processing fix not long ago.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
Speed battery extended extweaks menu dual boot capable mic swap better benchmark scores. Not to knock other kernels but I've tried all this is the best easily IMO. Don't take my word for it though try it

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CM9 8-3-2012/Skyfire
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
I feel like Siyah does all of that (Minus Micswap for CM10 but this is the cm9 thread) Also next time please add commas that was hard to read
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
:what: This isn't English class buddy. Dream has a few more options in extweaks as opposed to Siyah

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CM9 8-3-2012/Skyfire
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
I realize it isn't english class. Just all the details were hard to read. Nvm lol. And what are those tweaks do you happen to know?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
Gpu steps were different and there was an audio tab that wasn't there on siyah but may have been added to later siyahs..haven't used siyah since 3.3 or something like that...dreams been better on battery for me...2% drain overnight (8hours) without any funny business (turning data off, brightnes, rotate etc) only thing I don't like about dream is that horrid kernel splash screen. And I prefer 3.2.4 over 3.2.9 because of occasional instabilities due to jb support which affects siyah also. Fluxxi doesn't seem as smooth UI wise and I don't understand why the fluxxi tweaker app contains rom manager which is known to completely BOTCH our devices. Never tried neak but it seems too lacking in features

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] CallMeAria:
No, They're identical in regards to extweaks settings. A lot has changed since 3.3 in Siyah. Dream is built on siyahs code.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
I know its built off of siyah but it made a better impression on me for whatever reason. Have you tried dream also?

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] MaxRabbit:
I'll give Dream a try, thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
And this is the CM9 thread, not the "ohaithereihaxxedit" thread.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
Entropy your the man! but WHAT? :what:

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nick281051:
He's saying custom kernels shouldn't be in this thread because they won't give you support unless you have the stock kernel installed. This is the way it is with cm, keep it stock if you want support
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
I recommended dream kernel to ^ this guy. Again, just trying to help a brother out :D

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CM9 8-3-2012/Skyfire
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] slayaman22232:
I'm having a weird problem. Every time I connect to my wifi after like 8 mins, I don't loose connection but I don't get any download from my wifi. Only a reboot will fix it. I'm on stock kernel and latest nightly. Any ideas?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mikeflash:
Which nightly? I'm on 8/5 and wifi is fine. When was your last data wipe?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] loughary:
Anyone else having problems sending and receiving multimedia text messages. I'm running the latest nightly with stock kernel. When I try to send, it just shows "sending" and never sends. Same thing happens when I try to receive a multimedia text it just shows "downloading" but never finishes. I can send and receive normal text messages with out a problem just when I try to send pictures is the problem.

Thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] billyjed:
Try going to settings-apps-all-mesaging and clearing the data for messaging. That has fixed it for me in the past.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] :
Is there a way to get options to control a call in progress through the notification menu, like with the Samsung version of android? I'm not sure if there is an app for this, or if it's a feature with Cyanogenmod.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] loki993:
Does anyone have the original exchange and email with security? I cant connect to my work email and I think its because out exchange servers cant verify the phone.

Also when I was on stock I had and exchange active sync option for email, now all I get is exchange? Is that a different version or is that because of the no security version?

If I cant get this working Ill just have to go back to stock, because email on the phone is a dealbreaker and running exchange on stock rooted was murdering my battery to the tune of 100% to dead in about 3 hours.

Im not going to use any 3rd party email apps either, at least no pay ones.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ThierryXN:
Looks like we might see a stable release soon, as 9.0.0 stable was just released for Maguro: http://get.cm/?type=stable
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
Is there some trick to getting dsp manager to work? It won't change the sound...any other eq app does. Any idears?

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CM9 8-7-2012/Skyfire
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] wavemaster00:
I am connecting to 3 different exchange servers, all work fine.

Exchange = Exchange Activesync
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
That is correct. Stable builds to server TONIGHT!!!

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CM9 8-7-2012/Skyfire
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Simba501:
Yeeeaaaaa

Random note: if there's anyone not using the BBQLog app, it's excellent.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] loki993:
Yeah 2 different ROMs now and the same result "cannot open connection to the server". Ive also tried a different exchange and email that I found still cant connect. If I put an incorrect password in though it kicks it back and says bad password. Its goota be the no security.

Would there be any ill effects of running the exchange with security?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] elherr:
Are you being prompted to allow security policies? If so, and you say 'no', then the Exchange server will not allow access.

If you allow security, then the Exchange server will set various sercurity mechanisms on your phone. Pin unlock or password, encrypted USB storage, remote wipe,etc...

You can patch Email and Exchange APK's to bypass this but you may find yourself in a kerfuffle with your IT people and management if they discover you have defeated security policies.

On another note... coffee and flashing CM9 stable. Who needs breakfast anyway? :)