yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Granted, I was still fleshing out the post, so maybe it wasn't there yet. But please check Help in the first post.

Short answer, I don't know. I'm an AT&T subscriber :) But if the ICS leak worked on Rogers, then this should too. The beauty of this release is really in the updater-script ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mossination:
I got an aborted install...Im gonna try to download again and flash.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
MD5 should be 3764ce5059fd5174e4840960b0fa43cd
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] aSquard:
Downloading now

Munching on Ice Cream with XDA Premium
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mossination:
Installed fine. Need me to take screens, just ask. Thanks so much for this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] aSquard:
The Vol Down + Power has yet to work for me (for screenshots)... Nvm, you have to hold the buttons down.

ROM is good though. May I suggest adding the dictionary fix for the next go-'round?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] M0D1441:
I'd say save that for Alien ICS, we need a good base around here. i Remember the first Alien back in November..first ROM i used.

EDIT: Donated...thanks romracer.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mossination:
In case you need them.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] garu12:
So far so good. Smoother than the others so far. Had the home button bug. Reflashed and all is good. Thanks for all the work
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Thanks, I'll put them up in the morning. One of my dogs ripped the skin off her lower jaw ("degloved the lower mandible") shortly after I posted this. Been a long night; surgery in the morning. Thanks for taking those SS.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] scott14719:
First, I hope your dog is OK, I am a dog lover as well.

Ok, this might be a bit lengthy, but I've just spent 10 + hours trying different things and I want to let you know what all happened in hopes that the info can be used to help make Alien ICS one of the greatest ICS ROMS ever. Alot of this is already known, but I'll cover it anyway. And, of course, this is the experience I had with my phone...others may differ.

Background. I ODIN'd the ICS leak already, but found it buggy, bad connectivity, and a battery hog, so I went back to ALien 6 (GB).

I saw this posted and decided to give it another go. I followed the directions and didn't have any trouble with the actual install precedures themselves. However:

The first time I flashed the ROM, I found that I had the problem with the "Home an search" keys not working as well as the "shutdown and reboot" hanging. I tried to do a factory reset in the settings, but it wouldn't work. So I did another clean install of the ROM using the superwipe script this time as well.

The 2nd install fixed the "Home and Search" buttons, but I still had the "shutdown and reboot" hang. I fixed permissions, re-downloaded busybox and installed your insecure kernel and the 14 toggle mod. Nothing fixed it. SO, I did a 3rd clean install.

The 3rd time seemed to do the trick. Home and search buttons work,shutdown and reboot works, the 14 toggle mod works, etc. and, this time around everything seems alot more responsive and snappy.

Here is what I noticed:

All three install attempts (and the ODIN leak install) acted different in some ways that were suttle and others obvious. It appears to be hit or miss on any install and any method that is based on the ICS leak. I'm not sure why this is. But I am certain that reguardless of install method, it might take the way it is supposed to the first time, it might take 3 flashes or it might take 10 or more tries. It's just the luck of the draw. The fixes that people have reported as working are only temporary. That's why they work for some and not for others. It might make a certain aspect work (ie. installing a program makes shutdown work) but your ROM will still not be installed correctly. The only way to get it to work right is to keep trying until it installs with everything working, otherwise there will still be problems.

It will take of couple of days for me to test the connectivity and battery life.

So, people, as for now, if it isn't working for you the only real fix on this ROM or any based on the ICS leak is to keep reflashing until it finally works all the way.

I can't wait for you (romracer) to start baking the mods into this and if I can help let me know. I'll post back here when I get more results from this last flash. Thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] gravyplaya:
Is it safe to apply this over Alien #6 (GB)? Just follow the instructions in the OP?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] scott14719:
That's exactly what I did. Make sure you make a nandroid of 6 before you do it...just in case you want to go back. And follow the directions completely. Make sure you flash the modem first. And understand that even if you follow the directions exactly you might still need to flash this more than one time to get everything working. Just make sure you check for any of the known glitches right after you flash and before you start personalizing it. That way if something isn't working correctly and you need to reflash a time or two or more, you will not have wasted any extra time in the process. When you finally get it the way you want it and feel it is installed correctly (glitch free) do another nandroid so you'll have a point to jump to if you want to try something else and then go back again. Good luck.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] gkrananth:
Hi Romracer

can you please enable internet call settings under Settings>Call.....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Already in Alien ICS. I hope to have that out later today. This will remain 99% stock (busybox, root, etc but no theme/framework changes).

Thanks for your kind words. She'll be fine in the long run. She's only 3 right now so she's still got a bunch of fight in her. We don't have kids, so these are our babies ;)

As far as the flash, I'm almost thinking it must be something on the SD cards. The ODIN will wipe your internal SD and I can only assume it does that for a reason. I had added a little bit to the updater-script to remove some stuff from the SD cards, but I didn't format them completely.

If you had flashed the ODIN tar and then gone back to Alien 6, then that tells me things like your bootloader were updated to ICS. Those are not touched during a CWM flash so yours would have been at ICS levels already when you flashed this ROM (ruling them out as a cause).

I've updated the OP to include taking a Nandroid first (never hurts, right?) and a note about possible multiple flashes. Hey, at least data connectivity works and there's no lag :P I used this ROM on my phone last night during the "festivities" and had no issues.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] scott14719:
Glad to hear your dog is OK, Mine is like a kid to me as well. So far, everything is working great. I'll test it out more in the next few days. Once it installs correctly, it seems to work very well. It is just a matter of making sure people take enough time to get a good install. Eventually the reason will surface.

EDIT

Actually, When I went back to GB from ICS the first time after using the ICS leak, I ODIN'd back to the stock firmware from SamMobile before I nandroided back to Alien 6. I didn't nandroid sraight back to ALien 6. So maybe it still could be an issue?

...and as soon as Alien ICS drops, I'll be on it! :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Silverexp:
Hope your dog is doing better.

Can you check in your rom in the \system\etc\vpl and \data\app? Looks like you double up the .apk files… this leak release isn’t playing nice with my Exchange setup. Might pull the Galaxy Nexus ICS email/exchange files over or even try the old ones??? No issues with your GB rom, restoring back to that one.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
I wasn't entirely sure if the CWM zip would trigger the process to copy them from vendor preload to /data/app on its own, so they are in both. It doesn't hurt anything and just adds about 5 megs to the over all download. In a stock install, they stay in vendor preload anyway (they aren't deleted), so in the end its taking up just as much space on your phone either way.

I don't have Exchange, but there's nothing different between this ROM and a straight up ODIN flash. So if there is a problem, it should exist with an ODIN flash too. Otherwise, read the help in the OP regarding multiple flashes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] M0D1441:
What you can so, is replace the .apk's in etc/vpl with your .apk's you included in data/app so next time you factory restore with your ROM you will be able to keep all your applications that were included in the ROM from the start.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Good idea for Alien ICS :) But this ROM is just a CWM replication of stock. The stuff in /data/app is the same as VPL for now. But I guess its a good thing I didn't delete them from vendor preload, or they wouldn't get installed after a factory reset.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sublim3_Tilt:
Still planning on making Alien ICS Vanilla and including and install for those who want the bloatware?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sulpher:
Well first the rom runs great. Haven't had any problems with it.. but did try and make a UOT battery mod for it and I always get back an error for some reason. Tried installing my battery mod that I made from the odin of stock UCALC4 and it just kills the systemUI file.

Gained deodexed (and toggle mod) only to lose my battery mod! Argh.. :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Silverexp:
Got the Exchange issue figured out, a quirk on learning how to reinstall your Exchange Contact data on ICS. Had to open the Contact app first and then Sync Exchange.. weird. ROM is working great. I noticed I can’t use the voicedial.apk from the Nexus One I've been using for the last few months. Trying one from a Nexus Galaxy and it seems ok for now.

@sulpher, UOT is only for GB systemUI. I ran into the same issue you did.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sulpher:
Hmm well it worked when I applied the bat mod to stock ucalc4.. :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] scott14719:
I've been on this ROM for a few days now and it is very stable. As I expected, the ICS modem (UCALC4) still sucks. I guess if you're standing right under the tower it works ok. SO I flashed the modem from LeeC's thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1567213&page=3

Lee said it showed I727UCALC4 for the baseband after he flashed it but was the UCLA3 modem files. For me, it shows "Unknown" under the baseband but does indeed work like the UCLA3 modem. I don't really care what the baseband reads as long as it works, and it does. Much, much better connectivity and LTE works great. I think the UCALC4 ICS modem gets slightly higher speeds, but the UCLA3 ICS modem still gets high speeds and the connectivity is much improved (for me). Flash it at your own risk, but its what I will be using for a baseband unless something better comes along. If you flash it, make sure to thank LeeC for his work. The battery life is a lot better with the UCLA3 modem but still not as good as I was getting with Alien 6. That's not unexpected. I am using romracer's unsecured kernel, but until Samsung releases the kernel source or until it leaks out, he won't be able to apply all of his tweaks to it. And, this ROM is close to the leaked version so there hasn't been any bloat removed or tweaks applied to it either. I have read that the DEVed ROMS have already shown good battery usage improvements. I am waiting for Alien ICS to be released and I'll give it a try.

Another Edit / Update

Still running fine after 1 week. I flashed the Note radio (UCALC5?) and its about the same as the UCLA3 radio for me (which is good).

Has anyone heard from romracer? I hope he is doing OK.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 2girls1cup:
+1 definitely awaiting the alien release. I'm using the stock alien now but look forward to the next release with tweaks and what not.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] zefie:
Flashed this, wiped data, everything is good, EXCEPT that camera issue, still. I never noticed this issue in the brief (~1day) I was on the stock leak, so I am not sure if this is a deodex issue or a leak issue, but this is the second deodex ROM that does this.

It is hard to pinpoint for me or devs because it seems random.

Flash this ROM, and open your Camera and its great. Movie recording works, ect. 10 minutes later, still works. Let it sit 12 hours and now all of a sudden "Recording failed", camera apk closes itself, and there are a few small vibrations that follow.

Normal pictures seem to still work, even while movie recording does not.

Here you find a picture I took typing this, and then attempted to record a movie.

Pic: http://i.imgur.com/xStl3.jpg

Movie failed: http://i.imgur.com/SL3ue.png

Edit 2: grepped the camera process id from the logcat dump: http://pastebin.com/zZMRL0PS
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] BigWopHH:
Romracer - Any updates on the next build or non-stock version you were working on?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mrpickem:
I ran this for over 2 weeks then tried some of the newer ICS roms...all 3 I tried were too buggy for me, so I'm back on this stock leak for now. It actually pretty stable if not as flashy.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dxwilliams40:
Nothing flashy about romracer's work. You get quality, speed, and stability. What else do you need.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mrpickem:
No doubt it is top quality work.

I meant it is basically stock...no addons and/or theming. I wouldn't mind if some of the bloat was removed and a hotspot hack, but it still serves as my daily driver without a hiccup!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Use Alien for that. I should have it out later today or tomorrow hopefully. Depends on how many changes there are between this leak and the last ICS leak.

For the others, UCLD2 leak is coming soon. I just need to go over the file system real quick to make sure I've got it all.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] scott14719:
Anything you do is definately worth the wait. Again, thanks for your hard work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
I'm glad so many enjoy my work :) I started doing it all just for myself, but then thought, "Hell, why not share?"

Anyway, Alien Stock is updated to UCLD2 now. Have fun!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Silverexp:
Thanks for sharing… hope the dog is doing better. I’ll flash as soon as the house full of kids & pup goes to sleep…
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Thanks for thinking of her :) There's no doubt that's where my time has been these last couple of weeks. But considering where we were two weeks ago to where she is now, its a world of difference. Its still one day at a time, though we're more and more confident of her success each day.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] M0D1441:
Wow......you work fast sir. Thank you.

Donated once again
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] norbarb:
Hey romracer did you fix problem with downloading all the time if you on WiFi? I know this is issue with radios on ICS base rom. this what i have.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] RiPpeR_dUdE:
Not sure what the deal is, but I don't have any problems with the 1click versions; as soon as I install a "tweaked" version all my problems begin.

Previously running the stock UCLD2 with absolutely no issues, after installing your ROM, I have the following problems. (I attempted multiple downloads/installs with the same problems)

- Shutdown/Reboot freeze

- Lag... all over the place

- FC's... haven't installed anything, this is with just your install

- Random reboots, also had this on the previous leak

I went back and re-installed the stock 1click version, no issue's. So, I hate to say it, but obviously what ever you guys (Dev's) are doing to "tweak" these ROM's is possibly part of the many issue's everyone is having.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mindmajick:
.... or not. I've had no issues with this rom. Have used superoneclick of 1st leak... jumped to super lite up to version 5.1... switched to this update for the contacts fix.

This is much smoother faster than original leak. No FCs... no reboot no hang no problem.

Please thank the dev.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] RiPpeR_dUdE:
Just because YOU don't have any problems doesn't mean others aren't experiencing issue's. I would say the majority of people are running some type of modified ROM and while I do appreciate the work many of the Dev's are putting into these, it is clear there are problems they should be aware of; whether it be due to the mod's/tweaking or the installation process, it's clear problems exist when installing these ROM's as compared to the un-modified stock release... not to say the stock leaks don't have issue's, I just encounter less using these versions.

I have 3 phones and I normally run through the process on my test phone prior to installing on the other 2, when I encounter similar problems on all 3 phones, there is obviously an issue. I've now installed the 1click version and do not have any issue's on any phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mrpickem:
Romracer makes some of the most stable 727 roms I've tried. I've ran this one since yesterday with zero problems and I have installed(not restored) over a dozen apps. Runs great, I love this phone! Best I ever had!

Thank You ROMRACER

Donation coming tonight!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] armyveterangunner29:
I can confirm the 14 toggle mod via rom racer works well. I wish I could find a ics blue theme for this bad boy.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Silverexp:
no issues, mild day of usage, and +100 apps installed. Great rom...

Will you be release a tweaked kernel?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
I noticed that with both the first ICS leak and this one. I don't know what it is and haven't had time to packet dump my phone. I thought it might be multicast packets from having my wireless routers plugged into my U-verse STBs for their "internet" connection. It doesn't appear to affect anything though. My battery life is great regardless (far better with UCLD2 than the first).

Sorry to hear it. That happened to me once and my /cache partition was corrupt and read only. If your apps are FC'ing like crazy, sounds like /data is the same way. I have an idea how to fix it, but there's no reason the CWM version is responsible. As others have mentioned, we are all using this fine (this ROM is what I'm running right now until I get around to finishing Alien ICS).

If you feel brave, you can format the partitions by mounting /system and copying /system/bin/make_ext4fs to /tmp while in recovery. Then unmount them and use /tmp/make_ext4fs to format all three (/data, /system and /cache). You can find the partition numbers in /etc/recovery.fstab. Sorry, I won't go into more detail because its not for the faint of heart. Otherwise, sit tight and wait until I get an updated version out.

Thank you :)

I can't do my full tweaks until source is out. But check the last page of my kernel thread for a UCLD2 kernel with the modified ramdisk (adb root, boot animation, init.d support).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Thank you, and the dog is doing well but she's still got some recovery left to do ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mindmajick:
I do believe, sir. That is the key. Installed and not restored.... I did the same.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] norbarb:
Thanks .. Battery life is great and you are correct, seems like nothing is affected. Just bother me this litte light and it is downloading some 1-1.5 kb per second. So looks like must be stored somewhere in RAM witch can slow preformance of device.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] silence12782:
Thanks for this romracer, needed a good base for ICS!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mrpickem:
I noticed after flashing your rom, it still has the C4 modem. I flashed D2 from another thread and it works fine, not sure if it's any better, though. Did you leave it off this rom intentionally?

Also I got the common wallpaper sizing issue...although no biggie for me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
The directions in the first post contain a separate step for flashing the modem.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
I've posted a new version which will perform proper formats. This may fix your shutdown/reboot freeze (occurs if /cache or /data is read only). May also affect your constant FCs (/data read only usually). Don't know about lag or random reboots - haven't seen those.

In general, I would suggest most people use the updated ROM. It fixes a few other major issues (ahem, busybox).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] RiPpeR_dUdE:
Appreciate it.... I think I'll stick with the 1click install for now, I've got it cleaned up and it's running very well on all 3 of my Skyrocket's with battery life extending into the 20+ hr mark with fairly heavy usage.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] n19htmare:
About the random reboots. This could be what I had.

It was weird. Sometimes I would set the phone down on the desk, and it would reboot. It was WEIRD.

It turned out sometimes when i hit the back of the phone it would reboot.... or if I took the phone and slammed it against my hand, it would reboot. As if the back cover was not holding the battery or something was moving.

I got it exchanged and a couple of times my new one did the same thing!

Then I looked and noticed my sd card was not pushed in all the way, and on the back of the battery cover, there is a small raised line which is supposed to keep the SD card held in, well if the SD card is sticking out, you can't close the back cover tightly.

Weird and odd issue but making sure the sd card is in completely solved it for me.

You issue may not be same.... (if it's rebooting just sitting there, then obviously this issue does not apply to you).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] promiseofcake:
Although I am sad that I am not making an effort to do it myself this release, I am happy that you have provided this for us. Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] RiPpeR_dUdE:
Don't think its the same issue as I went back to the 1click version (restored from backup) and don't have any problems...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Silverexp:
Thanks... didn't even notice the release in that thread. First release is running great. No issues at all. Tired the second, but it's something I'm doing causing an issues not to load. Thanks for the great release.

Voicedial.apk I was using in GB not working at all in these ICS release. Yeah, I pulled vlingo... Oh visual voicemail stop working for me after I just got it working in GB... :o
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] taylrjones:
try this voicedial

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1573994
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] promiseofcake:
Looking forward to the new Alien Stock based on the new leak. Thanks romracer.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] whiffer2:
+1
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] romracer:
Its up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dxwilliams40:
Have been waiting patiently for this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] M0D1441:
I compared this to my stock debloated E2 base, this boots 3 seconds faster. I don't know how you do it romracer, keep it up :)

(NexusMod 2 says thank you)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benyben123:
as title says - anyone else getting this?

am i missing something?

thanks