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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bwenz:
Phone problems

I am on the 8/28 version and my phone has started rebooting itself almost every time I try to do anything on it. I had the same thing happen on the previous rom that I had (I don't remember the date of it offhand), but when I flashed the new rom the problem seemed to go away. Except now it has come back, and it has gotten much worse. Having the wifi on seems to stop the restarting... does anyone know what might be causing this?

And another related issue that I've had is that when i press the physical lock button on the side of my phone, instead of turning off the screen, it acts as if I held the button down. (displaying the reboot phone option menu). The physical button itself seems completely fine, and when I flashed the new rom, this issue was fixed as well, but it has also come back.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what is wrong with my phone?? It's getting to the point where it is becoming so frustrating that I don't even want to use my phone anymore. Any help would be much appreciated.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
Power button is DONE sounds like. Warranty?

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CM 9.1/Siyah 4.1.5SE9/PegasusQTouch/Sio
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bwenz:
That's what I was thinking as well but it worked fine for about 2 weeks when I flashed a new rom. And it's not just the power button, because my phone is sitting on the table in front of me now and the screen keeps turning on and off without me even touching it...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
That's the power button being wonked out. Been through it before with my og galaxy (captivate).

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CM 9.1/Siyah 4.1.5SE9/PegasusQTouch/Sio
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Phalanx7621:
You're forgetting one thing. His phone could be possessed. Before sending in for warranty replacement try an exorcism.:D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] billyjed:
I had an exorcism performed on my cappy and it started working again. I think the demons did some damage, though, because shortly afterward it started going wonky again.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
full wipe

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bwenz:
So I reflashed the exact same rom that I had on it and all is well for now... I'll try to do a full wipe this weekend and hopefully that will stop it from coming back again. Does anyone know if there is a standard warranty for these phones? I've had mine a little bit less than a year, so maybe Samsung has a 1 year warranty?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
You'd think Sammy would beef up the power button....

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CM 9.1/Siyah 4.1.5SE9/PegasusQTouch/Sio
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
Does anyone have a c w M zip of the stock Cm 9.1 kernel

Did that with voice texting not bad

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Phalanx7621:
Just pull the boot.img out of the zip.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
Dumb question do you know if cm9 kernel supports extweaks?

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CM 9.1/Siyah 4.1.5SE9/PegasusQTouch/Sio
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
Test it out yourself. Just reflash CM9. Fairly certain it doesn't though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] killman2659:
No. I believe Extweaks is just for Siyah
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
And dream
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Linwood.Ferguson:
I installed the 9/16 nightly and all seems fine but am seeing notes about 9.1, which seems to be 8/28. Are the (semi) nightlies all intended to be usable or are the special purpose? And include all of 9.1?

The about name on 9/16 is something like "user debug test-keys". Didn't see anything bad in change logs, and discussion died down. CM9 working well for me; experimenting with CM10 on spare captivate. Was back at 8/13 and figured get a few bug fixes and now wondering.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
The new nightlies are all bug fixes from what I remember.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] KJ7409:
Are the latest CM10 nightlies worth using as a daily driver? I flashed CM10 a couple weeks ago and it was very laggy and apps were force closing. I assumed this was because I didn't do a full wipe, but I wasn't ready to commit. I've used CM9 nightlies since pretty early on, so I can deal with some bugs. Is this worth doing a full wipe and reinstalling all my apps, or should I wait until the builds become more stable?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] killman2659:
I would wait, but that's me. The battery life is kinda bad, audio issues, hw composer not working.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nick281051:
Hwcomposer is working on the latest builds by entropy

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] killman2659:
Yeah but not the nightlies as of now
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jsmith8858:
Yes, that was because you didn't do a full wipe. Don't try to evaluate new ROMs with existing data, especially from a different Android version, always full wipe.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tylercarter:
I9100 got a new nightly on the 30th of cm9. Nothing goood for us i777 users? :p
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nick281051:
Does it need to be a nightly? Does it really matter? They're built by entropy who is our cm maintainer now.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] KJ7409:
Thanks guys, I think I'll wait a couple weeks and try it out for myself.

yeah, that was a bit of stupidity on my part. I didn't want to do a full wipe because I don't like redownloading all my apps, and setting everything back up. I was just wondering how well it was running for people, in case I want to use this as my DD and spend hours setting everything up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sir_dwtc:
Just do a nandroid backup and then restore from the backup if you're not happy with CM10.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nick281051:
That's your choce

As for setting everything up, use TiBu it will get everything set up in less than an hour

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Phalanx7621:
Exactly. I can reinstall all my apps and have a new ROM set up in 15 minutes. Dunno why so many people are scared to wipe their data. I'd bet I do it between 10-20 times a month.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] rav4kar:
I dunno you guys used Ti-BU free version, it's a pain to press confirm for each app to restore, he might have referred to that ;) but sure, I would say 1 hour is good call to restore 50 apps if you have strong fingers :D:D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Phalanx7621:
Well most of us who flash a lot dnt have hat kind of time hehe so yeah we don't use the free version. Of corse u could just use this if u don't wanna pay for tibu. I just love his work:Dhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jiubang.go.backup.ex

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
Use regular go backup. It has more features. To use it just download it then hit back when it asks you to get pro. Old one let's you backup more

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] patsmike:
Entropy, are you the one who triggers new builds to be made? Any chance we could get one for cm9, it looks like a few changes have been made since the last nightly
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tylercarter:
I would also like to try a new build of cm9. Last I heard git was playing nice. Here's hoping for one last cm9 build. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] djluis48:
Yep. Same here. Would love to have one last CM9 build.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] voldomart13:
IS there some hack to get hspa+ to work on cm9? I would love to have it on cm9 it has way better battery than cm10 =\
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Simba501:
You're probably referring to SystemUI recognizing the network difference. Practically, nothing has changed on that front. It just distinguishes between HSPA+ versus the others. The latest CM9 nightly has this incorporated.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] voldomart13:
I u[dated the the most recent nightly, It was included thanks though =) much appreciated.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
I had freezes and reboots on 9-16 cm9. Reverted back to stable 9.1 everything back to normal

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CM 9.1/Skyfire Dream 2.7.5/PegasusDTouch/Sio
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] patsmike:
I haven't had any problems with 9/16 and stock kernel for over a month.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] voldomart13:
I just installed it around 7 hours ago no problems so far running newest siyah kernel and 9/16 nightly. Do you guys think there gonna push atleast one last nightly or one last stable?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tylercarter:
I sure hope so. I've asked around but haven't heard much from anyone. :(:(

Fingers crossed entropy will let us know his intentions with cm9 and the i777.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] :
Did you ever hear back from anyone on whether or not there would be any more CM9 builds?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] RootTheMachine:
I was under the impression that it stopped for all devices. There's really no need to keep updating it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Phalanx7621:
It has. They've moved on to cm10. Not sure why people still want them to move backwards.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] :
I wasn't asking them to move backwards. Changes are still being added to the change log so I was curious if that meant another build was coming.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] LiL_BrOwNiE247:
I am currently running the stock w/ root found in this thread so from what I can gather it says that I shouldn't do a full wipe while that kernel is installed. Does that mean I should install a different stable kernel (Siyah 4.3.3 maybe?) before flashing CM9.1 stable? Also, is flashing a different modem absolutely necessary or is it optional, because I've read different things on different sites.

Also, why can I not backup my apps and data with Titanium Backup as stated in the final step? I haven't read that anywhere else other than here.

Sorry for the excessive questions, this is my first time flashing a custom ROM and I want to make sure I do it right the first time.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
Well I'm pretty sure that guide does not include a kernel with CWM so yes you have to flash it with mobile odin
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] LiL_BrOwNiE247:
I installed ROM Manager and selected the Flash ClockworkMod Recovery option and now I presumably have CWM 6.0.1.0? Or is it not that easy?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
lol nope that app bricks phones.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] LiL_BrOwNiE247:
Oh wow I didn't know that, thanks for letting me know before I did something stupid. How should I go about flashing a recovery then? And on the Mobile Odin thread it said something about a "flashkernel" which I'm not too sure about. Also, doesn't Odin (at least the PC version) only deal with tar and md5 filetypes and not zip files (which is the format CM9.1, GApps, and the Siyah 4.3.3 kernel are in)?

EDIT: I found the "flashkernel", just had to scroll down near the bottom of the OP and find the one specific to my phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] stone_ship:
Mobile Odin is a good thing to use b/c it prevents the Yellow Triangle which is annoying if nothing else. Looks like you're on the right track with the flash kernel. Siyah 4.3.3 will be safe to do a wipe with--no EMMC brick bug. Open the Siyah 4.3.3 .zip file and extract the zImage and put it on your SDcard. You will be able to choose that zImage in Mobile Odin.

After you successfully flash Siyah with Mobile Odin, you can safely wipe your phone, install CM9.1 and Gapps. Keep in mind a kernel is included with CM9.1 which will replace Siyah. The CM kernel is also safe from the brick bug.

People say don't restore apps + data with Titanium Backup b/c irregularities could occur, and developers could end up chasing down some "bug" that was actually the result of a improper TiBu restore.

Good luck!

EDIT: You also don't have to change modems just b/c you are flashing CM9. The I9100 (International SGS2) has some problems with RIL crashes, and some people say changing to a modem released in their region helps. The I777 has never been too picky about that. You can be on a GB modem with an ICS ROM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] LiL_BrOwNiE247:
Thanks for the detailed response. My only question remaining is if you personally have experienced irregularities with restoring apps+data with TiBu after flashing CM, if you have done so that is. And if so, were they major or minor inconveniences?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] stone_ship:
I personally haven't experienced anything strange, but I also know enough to look to TiBu before "blaming" the ROM.

I don't really back up any system stuff such as Call Logs or SMS. Dedicated apps from Ritesh Sahu do a better job. I mostly just use it for games, actually. If something happens that makes you wonder, usually clearing data or uninstalling/reinstalling that particular app will usually fix it. My own opinion is that the TiBu warnings were very appropriate maybe 1.5 years ago. It seems that the app has become more and more reliable.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] LiL_BrOwNiE247:
I wasn't planning on backing up Call Logs or SMS anyway. So I guess I'll give backing up and restoring my apps a shot then?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] FranAmestoy:
Adding these lines:

1. com.qc.hdmi_out=true

2. ro.hdmi.enable=true

To the build.prop file, allowed me to see MHL videos and audio on AOKP ROM. (But not the whole UI)

Maybe if you try it on AOKP, you get even further.

Without the cmds the TV wasn't getting signal at all, but with them, for viewing streaming and stored movies, works flawlessly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] harleydad82:
It's been a while since I've flashed my phone seems to be acting up allot lately. I want to re flash, I see there is CM10 and CM10.1 can I just flash these right over my current CM9? I don't want to lose anything in my phone, that's my biggest worry.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Simba501:
You'll have to wipe. Make a Titanium backup of everything and restore missing apps + data when you get to CM10. I've never been one to care about backing up call logs or text messages, but if you are, there are options for that (I had SMS Backup and Restore; worked pretty well). Lastly, before flashing, make a nandroid.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ivbsd1:
Call setting

Hi,

I have SGH-I777 with CM9 9.1.0-i777 (stable version).

I have one question and one issue.

Question about call setting. Galaxy S2 of my wife with stock GB version has Call Setting menu where she can disable usage of

proximity sensor during call in order to left screen on. I did not find in my SGH-I777 something similar. How can I disable screen off during call ?

Issue I have is very strange. I cannot power off my phone - it starts immediately reboot instead of power off. Any ideas ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] harleydad82:
Ok thanks... Will I lose any pics, contacts, music or other things when I do a full wipe? I'm actually not looking forward to this. That's why I usually only flash once and just update. But phone seems to be messing up. It's been so long.. Any steps in order would help me out greatly! Lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dmb219:
Anything on an external SD card is safe. The internal storage will be wiped. Your pics are probably on the internal drive so you might want to copy them first. If your contacts are with Google, they will be restored when you log in again. If they aren't, you should put them there. There's no point in having them anywhere else that I know of. The clean installation will be nice once it's done.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
Dont lie man that's not nice. The only thing that gets wiped is system data and app data like installed app data like your angry bird level progress. Those can be backed up in TiBu. Contacts will be backed up using Google. Pics and music are safe
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] harleydad82:
Ok thanks. I'll sync my Google account... Doesn't it save pics to? I'll be sure to back up everything I can. Thanks tho. I am looking forward to a clean fresh install cuz I think that's what's making it act up now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dmb219:
You're right, I was just thinking about formatting my internal storage and had that on my mind. Need sleep really bad.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ivbsd1:
Clockworkmod Touch for CM9

Hi,

Question - does it exist Clockworkmod Touch recovery for CM9 ?

Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nick281051:
No.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ivbsd1:
Nick281051, thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Bigstar1987:
ext sd card not found

could someone help me with this issue?

the phone is not recognizing the 8gb micro sd card i put in...

it seems not in the known issues?

thanks a lot:D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] stone_ship:
Under Settings > Storage it does not show up? By default I think it's mounted at /emmc. From that same Storage screen, you can hit Menu and swap the internal and external mount points.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] adxs2:
Is the wifi policy issue still present? Im using CyanogenMod 9.0.0 on galaxy s2 at&t (kernel 3.0.32-CM) and the wifi policy is not being respected. I have chosen the option to turn off wifi when sleeping, but wifi never turns off.

Its just sad because when wifi is off, my phone only spends about 0.1% of its battery while sleeping.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Phalanx7621:
Installed latest nightly. Results. After renaming the DCIM folder to DCIM.old so that the system could make a new one, 480 p video recording works.

Downloaded several GPS programs, tried clearing agps data , did everything I could think of. GPS is still not locking. Although I can get it to work with speedtest.net app for some reason.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] runtohell121:
Running CM9 build 3/30

2h 20m 58s on battery..

94% Android OS

2% Wi-Fi

2% Cell standby

Seems like wifi wake is causing battery drain? I think.. since clicking on history detail, wifi is always on.

In BBS Partial Wakelocks:

*backup*

Android System

1 m 58 s (118 s) Count: 120 1.4%
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tmckenn2:
thats pretty cool... i dont have an easy solution. ask over on the other thread. its more likely there are people in the same situation as you. the other thing to do is start flashing the modems and spend a day with them. thats what i did when they started to roll out. other than that there is no way to tell which ones work. you saw the guy in Cairo right? when you figure it out you can give back by placing your own pin

how are you using and att gs in Israel?

to the guy above me. what is your wifi policy go to wifi settings then press the menu button >advanced > "keep wifi on during sleep" i think by default it is on always. you can change that to your liking

GPS problem exists with my modem as well and is not solved by an agps clear and update. (i got a quick lock because of wifi :P) im getting enough sat. to make a lock but its not locking... i also checked the pool server i was using and set it to north america.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] remydlc:
and wntobay

speedtest uses the IP to guestimate your location to the closest server they use to measure your data speed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Galaxy_Cat:
I just took the advice of previous poster, flashed CWM for my specific phone, then found the nightlies neatly displayed! Convenient, I agree. However, I had an issue some time back trying to find the download location for the program. I like to be able to install things manually after download. It's a control thing.

If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't pay for the premium service, given the ease of finding nightlies on the web (being a geek means I'm searching these threads thrice daily anyway!).

Update: noob quest: Rom Manager creates a file called update.zip? Insights welcome.

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AT&T i777

CM7.2 RC1

Siyah-v2.6.14

ExTweaks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] khenault:
Couldn't get Touchdown for Exchange License Key to download from Play. It said device incompatible. I was able to restore it from Titanium Backup. Works Flawlessly.

The device incompatible issue seems to be an ongoing problem for this app/license.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nbell13:
My 480p worked without having to rename my folder.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] rav4kar:
modem is independent of firmware or kernel, you can flash your carrier modems and stick to the best one.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] AndAllThingsWillEnd:
I was wondering what that update.zip does as well...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tmckenn2:
post one ill take a look at it. but i believe it is what holds the settings when you reboot. aka lets say you choose "wipe data/factory reset before flashing" that is not always built into the rom's update.zip so rom manager says ok install this update.zip upon booting into recovery! and that update.zip says do all the wipes then flash this other .zip. its like a shell. i could be wrong but that is what i believe

edit: a better example of what i think it is doing is not only the wipes, but if you say "backup before flashing" too

i used to use rom manager and it always says flashing update.zip not flashing [ROM NAME].zip right.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Simba501:
As the guy above said, trying them out is really the only thing you can do.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] gaijinboricua:
For anyone else having problems with GPS in CM9

For anyone else experiencing problems with GPS locking in CM9. I follow the advice given by Entropy512 and it resolved my issue. I am on the UCLC2 modem.

1. Go to system settings > location services > GPS source > select "Use Internal GPS".

2. Go to manage apps > All > Maps > clear data and clear cache.

3. I downloaded GPS status and toolbox from the Play store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2&hl=en

4. Open GPS status and toolbox while outside, go to settings and clear any AGPS data.

5. while on GPS status and toolbox, download new AGPS data.

Done.

So far so good.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] f100cleveland:
@atinm, are the kernel and camera.apk files/fixes gonna be merged into our build for fixing 720p and 1080p recording? Or are there other proprietary files that are needed for our specific i777 phone?

Thanks for the awesome work so far!!!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] drakester09:
Just a FYI for everyone that might be interested, HD video recording has been fixed and hopefully we'll have that in a coming nightly. :)

Kudos to all involved.

Edit: Ninja'd by f100cleveland
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nooomoto:
I'm at 51% after 5 hours and change. Considering how smooth 3/30 is running on my phone I can't complain.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sirooga:
ROM manager works perfectly for the nightlies. Follow the instructions from a few posts ago.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tmckenn2:
i know ive posted a lot today but the gps clearing method posted doesnt help. :(

also im at 5 hours on charge and im at 80% 20% of that time with screen on (so an hour) and the graph shows that it is not holding any significantly long wakelocks (actually thats better than cm7)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Simba501:
Just curious; did your GPS work well before ICS?

Sent from my Galaxy S II (i777)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Toda Party:
The battery life isn't that bad at all, im at 43% after 8+ hrs... just bring your usb cable with you everywhere heh.