[Galaxy S II Android Development] Chef_Tony:
[MENTION=3690986]salesale[/MENTION]: i finally got around to flashing your new rom, this time, the google account won't stick at all, even when i go with english UK, which i had previously set as language as well.

Let me describe the issues further:

I log into my account, then there is a progressbar "Signing in...". Afterwards I get to the "Google & location" step and even before I click anything, my Wi-fi connection gets dropped and the display brightness goes down! This means, although I was not even asked about my account backup settings, some settings were already restored from the cloud backup. After a few seconds, I get a Wi-Fi connection again (albeit to another one of my networks by default, although this has poor reception, just because the one with the good reception is now present twice and has thus become unreliable).

Now I would look that both boxes in the "Google & location" step are checked, click Continue, and then there is the "This phone belongs to..." step, which is not filled in, it just says

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This is the very part I don't understand, I log in, it restores setting without even asking me, then I get logged out again, because if I were still logged in at this point, either the name would be filled in, or it would skip this step entirely, since this has always been a setting that is backed up through the google account.

The next step is Dropbox, I decided to skip this for now, there has never been an issue in this step, then there is the Home screen mode, nothing to do there, then immediately the Samsung account update notificaton, which I cancelled, then the swipe home screen tutorial and then I am on my home screen.

There is a notification for 6 new updates, if I click it, I get the "Add a Google Account" window, I click on "Existing" and get the same "Sign in" Window as after the "Got Google?" window in the beginning of the wizard. This time, a Warning appears about Samsung keyboard possibly storing all entered text including passwords.

After the login, there is the "Back up and restore" window, finally asking me, whether or not I would want this phone backed up at all. But since this last question does not even pop up if the first login attempt sticks, this way at least it attempts to download all of my apps from the play store again, since I explicitely confirmed that I want my backup to be restored.

So, in conclusion, this entire wizard is very weird,

it asks about Wi-fi credentials, just two steps before it gets the credentials from the server anyways, the entire first logging into the google account seems pointless, as it does not remember it, it restores backlight and wi-fi settings, then immediately forgets about the account again, just before it would be important and the question for cloud backup comes as the very last step, way after several things from said backup are already restored. I would say google or samsung really screwed something up there.

But, for what it's worth, the standard 4.7 lite release (in English UK) gave me less trouble than the special Chef_Tony version, as this one treats me as if I selected English US.

If you are interested in exploring this issue any further, i will try and screencast the login progress through adb, edit out my credentials and upload it for everybody to see the problems more clearly.

EDIT: already working on the video. Posting back, when I'm done.