yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] CallMeAria:
I'm not sure about gosms, but I use the stock sms app with SMS Popup and I get the quick reply popup on the lockscreen and am able to reply without unlocking. I'd assume gosms would work as well. I'm on 7/17 nightly btw.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.everythingandroid.smspopup
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] moneyover:
Just flash siyah kernal it will fix it or reflash rom but dont forget to format system too
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] raikol:
Works for me
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] karbon_4:
Pandora works again!

:victory:

I haven't flash every single nightly, but I just did RC2 today and (drumroll) PANDORA works again!

I used to have the problem of volume dropping if I got another alert. I saw a few others had the same issue. Just wanted to share. (apologies if this has already been fixed with other nightlies)

** EDIT ** - i lied. it totally doesn't work. I got all excited for nothing. Sorry to the dashed dreams of Pandora lovers... It seemed to work but I tried it attached to better speakers and same issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] rav4kar:
I guess you flashed i9100 ROM first time.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
You claim that you've installed the I777 release, but it's clear you didn't - as those are EXACTLY the symptoms you'd see if flashing the I9100 release.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] cliffgardner:
Yeah..no, clearly I did.

File names:

cm-9-20120719-NIGHTLY-i777.zip

cm-9.0.0-RC2-i777.zip

Tell me, which of those is for the I9100?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] scidon37:
Handcent is working over the lockscreen too.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] cliffgardner:
Thanks, moneyover. This kernel is what fixed it.

Side rant: We are very quick, perhaps sometimes too quick, to assume people are lying in their posts on XDA. I get that it isn't the good ole' days of 2006 when it was just HTC and Windows Mobile and that with the many more devices and operating systems, it probably does happen more frequently. Nonetheless, being too quick to jump to the conclusion that someone is lying, when you cannot find a missing step, isn't helpful to anyone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Ashhong:
I'm using that now but it doesn't seem to work for me. Did it just work after installing or did you have to mess with the settings?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] CallMeAria:
You have to go in and turn on notifications in the Sms Popup settings and then turn off notifications in the stock sms app. I'm not sure why its disabled by default, but it is.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mikeflash:
2 more nighties. They should take a break after a RC like for a week or two.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Biporch:
Any one getting media server wake lock even though you stop the Apollo music app? I have to reboot freeze it for it to stop. On RC2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] hi2u2:
Something is seriously wrong with the new CWM on RC2. It is taking over 25 minutes to do a nandroid backup, with the cpu pegged at 100% the whole time (just a guess, based on how hot the phone gets).

The older CWM, in comparison, finished a nandroid backup in roughly 5 minutes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] rav4kar:
No offense but apologies. But it's pretty much all we could conclude based on what you mentioned in your post as symptoms of issue, but this forum is a very very matured/no troll/a lot efforts to help others forum.

As well I would like to request everyone if you find any issues with RC1/RC2 and "NOT YET REPORTED" or "NOT LISTED UNDER KNOWN ISSUES", feel free to submit in issue tracker (URL below) along with logcat (very important), also try to stay on RC(x) until you find if everything (your needs) works so that you can report as and when you find issues as nightlies are not qualified for bug report.

http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/entry
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] R2D2_SW:
+1
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sir_dwtc:
Random reboots

I've been having some occasional random reboots lately. I'm currently on 7/19 and have been updating to the latest nightly roughly once every 2-5 days. A few days ago I tried a TouchWiz-based ROM (did a full data wipe and everything), and then restored my nandroid backup (again, after wiping /data, although I'm not sure if that step is neccessary for a restore?) to return to my CM9 nightlies.

The reboots happen roughly once every couple of days, and it's never been when I'm actually using the phone. I'll just be working at my desk and look down to see the boot animation, even though I hadn't rebooted manually or even touched the phone in the previous 10 minutes. It's definitely possible for it to be happening more often and I just don't see it because I'm not looking at my phone.

I grabbed the logcat, but I read the first post on this discussion thread that submitting bug reports leads to male impotence... I sure don't want that :eek:

I haven't seen anyone else posting about random reboots, so I'll assume it's just me. I probably just need to wipe data again and flash a fresh nightly instead of updating what I've already got on here. I just thought I'd see if anyone else was running into something similar.

I'd also like to thank the devs for the amazing work on this incredible software.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
The problem: We see the exact problem report you claim in these forums at least once a week. Every time, without fail, it's because someone flashed I9100 firmware on their device.

If your home and search keys don't work, you've flashed I9100 firmware (specifically an I9100 kernel), simple as that.

Since no one else is reporting this problem with the RC or the nightlies, it says that you, and only you, flashed an I9100 kernel somehow.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Virus1x:
But he didn't he proved that point so entropy assumed it was a similar problem commonly reported but it wasn't end of story now let's move on

Transmission Terminated.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] JmPTaz09:
The key is that he posted that screenshot, but there is no way of knowing if he took that after being called out and then flashing the correct version,etc. I'm not saying the guy is lying, but Entropy's point is very valid in that those are the symptoms of an i9100 kernel and I've never seen/heard of that happening with the stock i777 cm9 kernel. But yes, let's move on, just thought I'd throw that out there. :beer:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] loughary:
GPS Lock

Anyone else having problems with GPS lock? Just noticed it today after installing 6/20 nightly pretty much can't establish GPS lock.

Thanks

Dennis
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] apanihi:
Anyone else crash when they try to access APN settings? I switched from AT&T and would like to put the t-mobile servers in there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nyamoV2:
Works fine for me
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] apanihi:
Which build are you on? I'm on 7/19 and Siyah 3.4.4 with uclc5.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] chibixzero:
I did its weird even as I type the gps icon is flashing. Even tho I don't any apps open that require its use. But still can't get. Good lock
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] hi2u2:
Yes. Previously I would get locks in 5-10s. All of a sudden it's taking over a minute, or flat out failing to lock.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] switters1:
Same here. GPS used to lock very quickly. Now it won't even come close. Flashes for 15 minutes
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] cmunic8r99:
I got impatient, so I left gps enabled,enabled airplane mode, rebooted phone, opened maps, disabled airplane mode (not waiting for GPS lock), then opened Maps. Fifteen seconds later, it was locked. That was a couple of hours ago. Opened Maps again just now, and it locked quickly (5 seconds).

Don't know of the airplane mode stuff helped, but it seems to work now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mikeflash:
I can't test gps lock time right now, but this is sad news if it's true. Yesterday i had rc2 installed almost all day and i could get a gps lock in less than 4 seconds.

If this is true I might go back to RC2 until i see something about gps fix on changelog. :(

Ps: I'm on 7/20, but 7/21 has been released though there's no changelog attached to it. Maybe this nightly fixes gps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] macropterous:
changelog: http://changelog.bbqdroid.org/#i777/cm9/1342853779
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tmckenn2:
I can confirm both the random reboots and lockups when browsing the internet. Though the problem is not reproducible, will grab a log at next time it happens... but it doesn't happen often. Also GPS times are awful in 19 as stated before.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] raikol:
Are you running the stock kernel? I tried a different one (siyah/fluxxi, I dont remember) and I had the same problem
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] loughary:
Well..at least I know it wasn't just me regarding the GPS lock problem, I'm sure our great devs with fix it.

Dennis
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] wingslee:
Thanks for the great work!

My problem is that I can't have my Home and Search button work properly, when I long press Menu, the Google Search displays, and while long pressing Home, the flash lights, I don't know what's wrong....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dannyfritz:
fifteen minutes of this with no lock is weird.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tysj:
This was after ~15-20seconds:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Ashhong:
I noticed that the battery is 100x better when WIFI is completely off. However the battery even drains heavily when I am not connected to any WIFI at all (I don't have data, so no edge or 3G either). Shouldn't it be similar to WIFI being off if I am not connected to any spots? I turned off the "automatically alert me of a wifi spot" option just now to see if that will help.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] elherr:
Location services use Wifi to augment location via GPS. Uses MAC addresses of nearby AP's.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] thracemerin:
For those with GPS issues:

This means that Solar storms are affecting satellite systems.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] rav4kar:
I used GPS (Nike+ running) this morning for about 2 hours on RC2, no issues I got it locked in less than a minute.:highfive:

Edit#1

Caution: But only thing you should not try doing on RC2 is backup or restore or wipe data using CWM 6.0.0.x as there is a high chance of "losing" data or backup from internal/external SD cards as reported by many in I900 forum.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] thracemerin:
Well, solar storms aren't going to affect the whole earth in the same way or even all the time, but lots of people both here and in the I9100 thread have been discussing GPS issues and since there don't seem to be any changes to the actual GPS code in CM, this could possibly be the culprit.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] rav4kar:
Yup, I read many posts in I9000 forum reporting GPS issues for last TWO days,BTW howlong this solar thing is happening, CM Devs should do something to stop this solar thing too ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jnguyen12:
Verdict on RC2? I'm on 07/02/12 right now and everything seems fine. Kinda wanting to flash RC2 though. Do you guys recommend it?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] hi2u2:
thracemerin, thanks for bringing light to this issue.

I think you're right about the solar flare being the cause for our gps problems, as the galaxy nexus forum has many users complaining about gps outages as well. AFAIK, the affected posters are running stock or another non-cm9 ROM, so this issue is likely not related to a change that got merged into cm9.

according to your report, the storm started on 0717, which is roughly the date when the gps problems started.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] thracemerin:
Well, according to NOAA this particular event has been happening since July 17, but 2012 was supposed to be a big year for solar storms overall.

I was talking to a guy from Europe in the I9100 thread and he said he had been having issues all day but when the sun went completely down his issues got significantly better, so this leads me to believe that the solar storm theory is likely correct.

Edit: I also seems to be messing with my Garmin unit and that thing generally locks really fast.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Ashhong:
I just turned off all of the location services now as well. So theoretically, now when I am not connected to wifi, should it be similar power usage as when wifi is just off?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] scidon37:
No. It will also actively search for wifi access points. You'll actually use less battery when you're connected to wifi than when you're not. Best bet is to turn it of completely if you're worried about the battery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] thracemerin:
If you turn wifi off, location services can't use it to scan wifi MAC addresses to get location. Location services will still try to get a location based on tower triangulation from your cell provider if you have it on but wifi off however.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Linwood.Ferguson:
I had trouble on 6/24 (+/-) nightly getting a good lock, so went to RC2, still trouble (lots of satellites no lock). It does not seem solar as I have a captivate-- a really bad phone for GPS generally - and running CM9 7/20 held side by side with my I777 it locks in seconds both last night and today. I777 shows more sats and more signal but no lock on gpstest from chartcross.

I don't use GPS a lot so not sure if 6/24 ever worked, but RC2 isn't at all. Going to try a nightly but something is wrong. In times past my I777 locked very fast.

Anything else to try? Have wifi and wireless on (no wireless on captivate as no sim and still locks fast).

Update Edit: I hunted around a bit and found a very old thread (below; emphasis "old" and may not be a good idea on current CM9, I do not know). Out of curiosity I installed it over RC2, and got a cold lock in about 40 seconds, and subsequent warm locks in about 15-20. That's not as good as it used to be, but it did make a big change from "many minutes with no lock" to under a minute cold. I may still go to the same nightly as my Captivate (I use it generally to experiment and try to keep something stable on the I777 as I use it for real), but I really do think something else is going on, not solar weather. Again -- don't just install the below, I have no idea if it is suitable with current nightlies; I did, it didn't melt down in my hand, that's all I promise.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23270765&postcount=463
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] wavemaster00:
I am on the 07/12 nightly and have been doing nightlies as far back as early April.

But I have only flashed 8 nightlies or so since, which amount to one every two weeks.

Each ROM has been pretty much perfect for me, and in general I don't see an improvement, nor do I have pressing issues that I hope a new ROM will fix.

The only exception being the video recording that did not work correctly early on.

From my perspective I see no improvements, while I see many changes are made.

Is there still a purpose to nightlies?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tylercarter:
There are many fixes and bugs that are important to other people. Although you might not see the need for nightlys CyanogenMod does and there's good reason for that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dannyfritz:
I don't really know what to think about GPS anymore. It fixes now in about fifteen seconds for me, but never gets a strong signal. Solar flares I guess? I'm on 7/21 nightly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] apanihi:
I have an odd problem where I have to cycle through the brightness modes with the power widget to get my LED's to stay on. Even then if they turn off and the phone activates again they stay off. Anyone else get this? :confused:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mikeflash:
Is this true? I definitely don't want that. I'm not on RC2 anymore, but will definitely be more cautious from now on. Losing all my data from internal/external SD would make very sad.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] rav4kar:
I tried Temple Run today and it still freezes our device with rumbling noise and long press power button was only solution to reboot. Also got some issue while loading as seen on pic.This is on RC2.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] desitexan:
Anyone else having issues using the google voice app? It kinda screws up one's launcher and I end up reapplying the theme everytime?

I thought this was purely TW UX issue but happened to me using other launchers as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ajh5408:
Just flashed the latest nightly (disregard the sig for now ;)) and noticed a couple of odd things:

1) "Touch sounds" doesn't seem to work. FWIW, "Dial pad touch tones" does.

2) Vibrate notifications work normally while the phone is active, but seem to "shudder" (for lack of a better word) when locked. From what I can tell, calls work, but text messages do not... This seems to hold true for all vibration patterns.

Flashed from stock, so this is the first CM build on the device so far...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tysj:
1) You need to increase the System sound volume for touch sounds (and lock/unlock sounds as well if you're into that). You can't do that in normal volume settings but if you download "Audio Manager" from the Play Store you can.

2) My vibrations are working fine for whatever apps I set it on (Talk, Messaging). Just tested with a text myself, as well. Make sure vibrate is set in the sms/mms app.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mikeflash:
Text messages works for me. As for touch sounds, i don't know, i have them off because those supposedly cause lots of partial wake locks that keep your phone from sleeping thus draining battery faster. And don't know about vibrate either, don't use them much for notifications.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] KonnerTomlinson:
i tried to use ROM Manager to create a backup. The phone proceeded to shut down . Then absolutely nothing . The phone will turn on but only show "Samsung Galaxy S II" then go to black screen. I tried using I777UCKH7 OCD Root No BL which brought me back to stock. now i cannot get stock recovery to flash anything and ROM Manager will not install CWM and i cannot flash CWM because of Stock 3e recovery. Does anyone have a fix for this? Sorry i'm a bit of a noob and i'm freaking.

Edit: Was running 7/22 Nightly with stock kernel
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] chibixzero:
I had the same issue basically I soft brick in just went back to stock using the guide to flash to stock on Android sticky then flash a kernel that had cwm using terminal you need root of course
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] KonnerTomlinson:
how do i flash a kernel with CWM when all the signature verification are failing in stock recovery?

Edit: Tried flashing Siyah with ODIN and got this

"<ID:0/004> Added!!

<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..

<ID:0/004> File analysis..

<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/004> Can't open the serial(COM) port.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1) "
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] elherr:
I was having GPS lock problems after flashing 0721. I flashed 0715 and it did not seem to make a difference. I then flashed 0722 and reflashed baseband (modem) from UCLE5. GPS is now working.

I'm not sure if that actually was the fix, but GPS is still working nicely this morning.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
Yeah. There have been NO changes anywhere near the GPS code for a LONG time on I9100/I777/N7000.

I'll test on my I777 tonight.

As to solar flare issues... Can't fix... Sun wields -99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 on gerrit. :P
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] thracemerin:
Apparently in the I9100 thread I've been proved wrong and ridiculed so, I guess it's totally CM and my ideas are wrong.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Slavestate:
It locks in seconds on the stock ATT ICS, no solar trouble here..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] elherr:
Solar flares and CME's would be VERY entropic events in my opinion. You are to blame. Please fix the sun. Now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] KevinChaos:
This just happened to me and I'm not on RC2 :( I was on 0720. I tried to perform a backup and it gave me an error. it completely wiped my SD card and my phone won't boot now.... I hope I didn't completely lose everything. Pictures are what I'm most worried about.

Edit: everything on my sd card was lost. Pictures are really all that matter. The rest is fine.

I reinstalled the nightly and I also had to install gapps again for some reason. I didn't have to start over though. All of my apps were there and all themes and settings were in place. Gapps were mysteriously gone so I had no contacts and play store wouldn't open but that was an easy fix lol. Oh well, lesson learned I guess.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] cmunic8r99:
I saw "freeing space" show up during a nandroid backup with CWM 6 and remembered reports of this happening. I immediately popped the battery, powered back on, and rebooted out of CWM (it went direectly there).

After verifying my sd card was OK, I flashed CWM 5.8.1.8 with ROM Manager and was able to nandroid backup successfully before flashing the next nightly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] scidon37:
I've seen the freeing space message but it has not wiped my sdcard. \knocks on wood

As for losing pictures, get the dropbox app and enable camera upload on mobile data. This will upload very soon after taking a picture and you won't lose them because of (almost) any catastrophe. This won't do anything about what you've already lost, but protect future photo.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] vladm7:
I'm looking at the changelog for i9100, should not this commit be propagated to i777 as well?

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_samsung_galaxys2/commit/e65eb6ea391ec633704aad30b0612f9a383f6c00
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] khenault:
Corporate email crash

I treied configuring Accounts and sync to connect to my corporate Exchange email account, but the configuration app crashes. It comes up with a box that says "Unfortunately, Email has stopped." I can configure my account fine using Touchdown for Exchange.

I tried upgrading from RC2 to the 7/23 build, same error. Has anyone else seen this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] thracemerin:
I777 uses the android_device_samsung_galaxys2 (since the hardware other than the buttons is the same) for it's build so it should hit both, yes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] forzaazzurri:
Made a big mistake and looking for some guidance. I've been having some bugs and decided to do a RC2 build but some of the minor bugs still persisted so in my Saturday morning pre-coffee stupidity laden haze I rebooted to recovery and hit format on everything.

Now I have a phone that boots to the Samsung Galaxy SII logo and just sits there. What steps do I need to recover my phone and be back to happy CM9 land. Appreciate the help.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] thracemerin:
Can you get into download mode? If so, grab an odin flashable stock ROM, re-root it to get CWM back then reflash CM from CWM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] vladm7:
are you sure that i777 tree uses galaxys2's for building?

Cause look, here are two separate commits about the same thing into i777 and galaxys2 trees:

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_samsung_galaxys2/commit/a12797fd5f25c9b6674da50e49048622f4ed5219

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_samsung_i777/commit/f16eaf43ebd1a7549d341ac2d2bea8eba41ce842
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] thracemerin:
Yes, build.prop would have to be different between models otherwise the I777 would identify itself as the I9100. There are going to be some different files (like the drivers for the buttons since the i777 has 4 touch buttons and the I9100 has 1 hardware and 2 touch), but the common stuff is built from the SII tree.

This right here would inherit all the common files between the 2 devices:

$(call inherit-product, device/samsung/galaxys2/galaxys2_base.mk)