yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juzzdoit:
Bugger! No go the phone was totally borked. Boot into CWM and it was going skitzo scrolling up and down and then it was disabling the back button.

Tried to follow the steps with a well timed button press and then my backup MD5 mismatched.

Managed to download the stock Telstra ROM and flash that via ODIN and the buttons are back, but I have lost all my data in the process.

Will have to look at repairing the MD5 and then trying again. I have read that the version of CWM can cause problems. Anyone have a link to the touch version I should be using? I will try that when I get home tonight.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juzzdoit:
Well, good news! I tried the rooting process again on the reflashed telstra rom and managed to keep my buttons. Then went into notepad and edited my nandroid.MD5 file and success! Now have my phone back with all previous apps and data and now Super user is alive.

My thanks to all who have posted on this forum for providing the info on how to fix.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] briteway:
So Juzzdoit, you're saying it's safe to try out the rooting method and restore keys with Qasha's method. Is there anyway, after rooting, to change the screen resolution in the build prop to make my icons nice and tiny?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juzzdoit:
I did not end up using Quasha's. I got back to scratch by downloading the stock rom from sammobile. Once I had stock I followed this guide.http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1340526.

The only difference is I used the file"CWM-SuperSU-v0.87.zip" to load superuser via CWM. Once I had root I edited my nandroid.MD5 to reinstall my backup (please ALWAYS do the backup!). Now I am back to how I was with the added benefit of root so I can use Titanium etc.

I have no idea about build props and changing screen res. I will leave that to more knowledgeable people to answer.

*EDIT* just loaded Root explorer and went to /system/build.prop. It opens fine so I guess you can tweak around in there if you are game. I would make a backup of your original build.prop first.

So up to you really.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geotherm:
Lastest ICS update

ICS not going to be available until 16 October.

http://crowdsupport.telstra.com.au/t5/Device-Updates/Handset-updates-9-August-2012/td-p/63946
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] briteway:
WTF???

Postponing month by month.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fliptechnologies:
mine cracked the ****es tonight, managed to get the latest back on.

yet have now lost soft touch

if anyone has a stock nand backup rooted, could they plse send me a copy to recover me

thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Utacka:
I have a nand backup rooted with working keys, thou i dont get home in 6 hours and im using international i9210 in sweden.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sc0ttf:
Hi Flip,

This was tested way back and was unsuccessful, please use Qasha's remedy below to resolve this.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25555442&postcount=128

Regards,

Scott
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fliptechnologies:
thanks for the replys

but as nutterpc is now aware, mine is ofically a BRICK.

after the touch keys died, i managed to get back in, and got software update

a few failed attempts and a reset/wipe it worked.

but on reboot well it didnt.

and now no response even to just power plugged in with no battery, no vibration bursts

so need to find somewhere in aus to get jtaged
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sc0ttf:
Hi Flip,

Can you try and redownload the telstra rom from sammobile, then reflash from odin.

Regards,

Scott
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tallustus:
Hey guys just want to let you know

We finaly managed to get a working ICS Setup for the GT-I9210T

ROM Android ICS 4.0.4

Kernel: 3.0.8

All common things working

* Soft/hard Buttons

* WiFi

* Calling/SMS

* ...

Kernel is still beta but its usable driver so far

we will post rom, kernel and instructions soon in a seperate thread
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] millers:
This is currently running on my phone :D

so far i have confirmed working:

- soft buttons!!!!!!

- sms

- call

- wifi

- audio/mic

- NFC

- auto rotation

- GPS appears to work

the only thing i havent been able to test is 4G because i dont have coverage at home. I have run this rom without the soft buttons before and it did work with what appears to be 4G speeds but the indicator has a 4G logo even when im not in a 4G area. hopefully ill be able to test out 4G to confirm later tonight but so far everything i have tested works perfectly
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] millers:
Just confirmed 4g does work. It shows 4g lte next to the signal

Also the signature in tapatalk shows the i727 instead of i9210t
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sc0ttf:
HI Guys,

Can you please post a link to download the ICS 4.0.4 which has been tested and working?

Thanks

Scott
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tallustus:
Sure we will do that give us just time to check last things before we release it to the wild
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lunchbox201:
So something in the stock boot.img file that makes the buttons work. Good to hear something is starting to work. Just need someone to compare the boot.img files between stock and custom rom's to see what the difference's are.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madshabz:
I have also noticed... even though the rom is a 4g rom, when i flashed the rom there was not option to use the 4g/LTE in the mobile networks section on the rom
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bwp85:
This is good news. I've tried a few ROM's now with the same results. Even got a couple of ICS ROM's to boot.

Will try this!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lunchbox201:
Man this is great news for all Telstra S2 4G users.

Has anyone tried SGH-I727 roms yet? Might try one shortly and see how i go.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madshabz:
Yes it is.... but hopefully we get a DEV soon, cause i have tried 3 roms but cannot get 4G to work on any of them
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lunchbox201:
Just checked slickMOD and 4G is definatley working. Although it says LTE still pullin down 4G speeds.

Just installed DJ-ICS-Plus-2.0 from the skyrocket forums and confirmed working. Also showing 4G speeds here. Will need to do the boot.img restore to get the buttons working just like the others.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bruangie:
Galaxy S2 4G OZ

Hey guys,

Can anyone please point me to the standard firmware download page in case i have reflash standard firmware, plus hate all the Telstra stuff preloaded on the phone.

Any success anyone with working roms? Apparently Sweden use the same handset as us (gt-I9210T). Perhaps those roms may work? Any thoughts?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roosta:
Hey mate.

If you mean stock standard (out of box) firmware, i think its best to go straight to a reliable source, www.samfirmware.com You may need to signup, but its well worth it, there's LOTs of different model roms from around the globe and instructions.

More on this phone is being linked back to my general help thread as well:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=24763778#post24763778

I'm still not 150% convinced that with my specific I9210T phone that if i followed instructions and attempted root and the touch buttons failed to respond that i could get them restored and working perfectly simply be reinstalling the boot.img file; until this is in absolute solid concrete, i won't attempt it; only because i have already had the phone replaced once after a bung root attempt despite complete wipes, and reinstalls of stock firmware where the buttons wouldnt work. The worst part getting it replaced was the fact I had to travel to a TLIFE store in the city :(

I'm also a fan of keeping a stock rom as playing around with other ROMs as we've seen above may affect the option to selecvt LTE/4g functionality and may even fiddle with the way the modem is configured in Telstra's stock rom. The best thing about stock rooting is to just get rid of all of telstra's annoying ****, by that i mean about 25 apps...

RoOSTA

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madshabz, do you have this phone as well I9210T?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bwp85:
Touch CWM ICS

Had Sky ICS running very well following the instructions word for word. Flashed with Touch Clockwork Recovery.

The Radio provided did not work, however I tried replacing mdm.img within the archive with the Telstra backup. 4G worked fine with that modified radio (no switching network modes). If you want to try this, PM me and i'll try and help.

The other issue unfortunately, was as always, the softkeys. I was able to update firmware using *#*#2663#*#* which only resulted in erratic behaviour. I tried recovering the boot.img from my backup but there must be some incompatibilities between the GB boot paths and ICS boot paths. All it did was freeze while booting.

If anyone can find a way around this, or knows how to modify boot.img files, this would be another big step toward roms for this phone.

My next step is to modify the build.prop file so that it will list the phone as a GT-I9210T so that the right softkey firmware will download.

Keep playing people.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bruangie:
Hi again,,

thanks for your feedback, i have tried to root my phone and lost functions on my touch buttons, the home button still works though.

can you help please?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bwp85:
Have you shutdown and pulled battery out then boot?

EDIT: If that doesn't work, boot into CWM Recovery (if you made a recovery of a working ROM) > backup and restore > advanced restore > (pick restore point) > Restore boot. Reboot and you should be good to go.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roosta:
See what i said:

I feel 'dumb' when i follow guides word for word, step for step and it works for SOME but not the majority...as if you read about 4-5 posts above mine, you'll see a few people have restored/flashed the boot.img file; i dont know how to do this, as im not the experimenter to help you.

Like i said, until a 150% fullproof method is released; ie: when i know for sure if i lose button functionality that i can definately get it back no probd; only then will i try root. Good to see its at least working for some.

RoOSTA
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bruangie:
Hate to say it you are right. it DOES NOT work. i have been on it for 3 hours and i have read so so so many posts, despite the fact that i appreciate all the help my soft touch buttons are GONE! They will not work, i have tried all firmwares available on Samfirmware including sweden, i have tried all the *# sequence options to reset my settings and to hard wipe every single thing on my phone. I have tried ABSOLUTELY everything and nothing will fix the touch buttons. Battery in, battery out, CWM, root, restore from when i first installed CWM. You name it and i have done it. I have also tried to firmware update via dial pad my drivers for the soft keys and it fails and crashes my phone.

Guys please, is there an known answer to this? Im in need of help as i believe I'm outside my ELF period as i believe its only 14 days?

Hellllllpppppppppp......

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So what is the process to restore boot.img?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lunchbox201:
Boot into CWM, scrolldown to backup and restore, scroll down to advanced restore, choose date, restore boot, reboot phone.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bwp85:
For those those that are still having trouble or would like to try this for me.

I have cooked a custom ROM with permission based on SlickMOD 3.5. Thank you trypt4mine and russianDroid.

Changes:

prod.build

boot.img

other small changes, GT-I9210T now shows as Model.

I installed this last night and after first boot from install all buttons worked and 4G coverage worked as well.

The only issue I found is that when WCDMA is selected in network mode the 4G logo is shown when data is being used. (small issue)

Note: Before you try, BACKUP even if your factory ROM is broken.

Drop Box torrent link. If there is trouble with this link PM me. I'm new to file sharing.

To Install, follow the steps on the SlickMod 3.5 page. Be sure to thank them if this gets you out of trouble. As I said, I flashed this and had no issue.

**Flash at your own risk. The community and myself are not responsible for bricked phones.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bruangie:
your download link is broken, do you have a link for that rom that works?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bwp85:
Please follow this link for download ---->> http://d-h.st/uOP 234.50 MB
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madshabz:
Hi guys just thought I let you all know that I am currently using A Galaxy Skyrocket rom and it work flawlessly.

I am using the Alien rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1376482

Give it ago and if the buttons do not work then just restore the boot image from the nandroid backup
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bwp85:
Can you turn off 4G without issue?

SlickMOD gives you the option but it's not truly off.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zlayax:
Great post:cool:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jackemw:
hey guys,

Would love help test some mods for this phone, but I a newb when it comes to modding the android os. I have hacked the wii for usb loading and ps3s so i kinda get the lingo :P

Just trying to install CWM recovery using this method as suggested http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1340526 but It doesn't install. I'm running latest telstra updates, does this effect the rooting process?

As soon as I can figure this out I will be glad to help :)

Edit: I have 4g connectivity, so i can test for that
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
I am also interested in getting my hands on this ICS ROM to help test :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tallustus:
Finaly we got it that u can download nearly any skyrocket ics rom (stock only 4.0.3/4.0.4) an run it with our kernel we will release the kernel and instructions how to install it soon

Also we will release custom touch recovery cwm 6 or 5 soon

We will make a cyanogenmod kernel as well so u can finaly run cm9 and bit later also cm10 should not take long to get that working
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tatonka:
Will this work with the international i9210? Cant find anything about the difference between the i9210 and i9210T
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sc0ttf:
Hi Tallustus,

Thanks for your reply, very exciting times ahead.

I look forward to your reply.

Regards,

Scott
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] briteway:
That's good news guys. ICS quicker than stock Telstra release.

What happened to Nutterpc? He was also pretty much into it and all of a sudden everything stopped. Maybe you guys could do these things together with combined knowledge.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] millers:
Set up ICS on another i9210t today. I have tested with SKYICS and Embryo roms for the i727 and both work fine.

After the initial flash to ICS it takes 5 or 6 reboots to make it through the boot process (appears to be boot looping, just let it sit for a while. Both phones have done this)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
Did you have to flash kernel or something first?

What was the pre-requisites (apart from root access and back-up of course)?

Thanks

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Thanks for your reply, I really look forward to trying it out when you release it.

Great work!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] millers:
The process was to install CWM recovery then flash the rom like normal. The SkyICS rom I first tried booted up fine with the stock kernel just without the buttons. The Embryo rom did not boot unless DreamKernel was flashed.

DreamKernel is flashed on via recovery.

Out of the 2 roms I recommend Embryo as it has the switch for LTE where SKYICS doesn't. Also seems to have a few more tweaks available to play with.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] millers:
It's time!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a BETA kernel. I have had no issues with it but I take no responsibility if it bricks your device

USE THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK here we go! With some brilliant work from Talustus we have a kernel that allows us to run stock based from from the AT&T I727!

Assuming everyone already has CWM installed (there should be links for instructions a few pages back with instructions if you dont already)...

Any stock based ROM should work but I have confirmed these 2 ROMs are working:

Embryo - im using 5.0 but there should be no reason the 5.1 update doesnt work

SKyICS - again, I used an older version but the latest should work fine

Everything appears to work in both roms but in SkyICS I couldnt find a switch to turn LTE/4G on or off. Embryo just feels like a better rom and has amazing battery life (still on 25% and i have been off battery 1 day 20 minutes with normal use. I normally struggle to get 10 hours from the stock rom)

Instructions!

Install the rom as normal from the rom thread. Follow all the instructions.

After the rom is installed you will need to flash DreamKernel (From CWM go install zip file from sd -> choose zip) then reboot.

After the reboot the phone should get to the boot animation screen then appear to lock up and reboot. This is normal. Both phones I have done this to did the same thing. Just let it sit for while and it will make it in eventually.

You should now have a fully working ICS rom!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjm374:
Which sections of the Embryo ROM are you running? Base, Data, Bloat???
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fedelrick:
It's nice to see some more development. Now all we are looking for is a working CWM file, am I right? well as soon as we have one I will be sure to help with development (I can't risk soft-bricking my phone ATM)... I'm also thinking it's about time we talked to some of the moderators or administrators about getting our own little section. Or am I the only one that has been working on a project? :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjm374:
I can confirm I now fully functioning ICS
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] millers:
Excellent :D I used the base and data packs. I assume the bloat is mostly AT&T stuff

Another vote for our own section too
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjm374:
I am having trouble resetting the phone though. When I ask it to reset it shuts down but the soft buttons stay off and it doesn't reboot.

I'm also having trouble downloading from the Google Play Store - get error DF-BPA-09 if anyone knows what that means...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] millers:
I also have the shutdown/reboot thing. Using adb to do it works perfectly, just using the inbuilt buttons make it hang. Holding the power button will turn it off too.

That was the same without DreamKernel too so it will likely be something to fix when a full rom is released.

For the Play store go into settings, applications then stop and clear data for the Play store and Google Services Framework. Might need to reboot after

I haven't had that issue with this rom but the stock one did it back in the day
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
I managed to get a copy of CWM Touch but it's in .img format..... Any ideas how to make it into .tar format so odin can read it?

Is it as simple as just copying it into a tar archive with 7zip or similar program?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nutterpc:
I was working on a debloated GB ROM before the battery died on me....return #3

Soon as I get my phone back, going to work on a slimmed ICS rom
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjm374:
Thanks, I found the same solution via google and got it sorted already,

Will have to look into adb.

Holding the power button doesn't turn it off for me. It reboots it (once it's locked up)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
For anyone looking for CWM Touch, I used this one http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1566613.

It boots up but I am yet to install a ROM using it.

Given that it appears CWM 5.0.2.6 is to blame for the soft key issue, hopefully flashing this new ROM (once you have working keys) should prevent the key issue happening again......hopefully.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ecips:
I have tried about 10 different recoveries today, and the only one that works properly and doesnt cause me issues is one I have here:

http://www.spice.net.au/sgs2/

It *is* 5.0.2.6, but I have been running it for months without any problems at all.

All the other versions I have tried fail in various ways - failing to backup/restore, failing to install zip packages, random reboots etc however this one is rock solid and reliable for me.

Cheers!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] millers:
This is the one I'm currently using. Never had a button issue unless I was using a broken ics rom
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
I have used CWM Touch 5.8.13 successfully to install the ICS Embryo ROM with no problems tonight.

Everything I have tried with it has worked (Wipe Data/Factory Reset, Wipe cache, format /system, format /cache, format /data, install custom ICS ROM, flash Dreamkernel).

Although I did run into some issues making a backup (I just got "Error while making backup image of /data!)

The reason I presumed CWM 5.0.2.6 causes issues is because I lost my soft keys after using it for a while....I never actually flashed a custom ROM using it as I had to spend a while working on getting the soft keys back. Also, the other thing that makes me think it was to blame is the "Back button disabled" message I got when pressing the home button in recovery mode accidentally.

Although, I am not a developer and I could be wrong, that's just my theory.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sicHiRsch:
Did you guys install any of the radios from that embryo threat?

On another note, anyone been able to Sim unlock our beauty? ;)

Cheers
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjm374:
I just kept the stock radio. I think I've made some mistakes when I restored my apps etc because I seem to have broken contacts in the phone but if I open contacts from app list it works fine.

Edit: I've managed to fix the issue with contacts and stopped it hanging on reset. Now it's like a real ROM