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[EVO 4G General] orlzzt:
I am an OG Epic user, and the biggest (only?) complaint I had and have seen with our ICS ports is that the lack of battery life renders the phone unuseable. Is the same the case with the Evo? I see a lot of ICS roms and folks here seem to like it, but I've flashed the Evo's on my account with some roms lately that score unbelievable battery life so I'm hesitant to change.
[EVO 4G General] Rocklee99:
Well...if you don't want to worry about what's not working, try mikg 3.11
[EVO 4G General] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
It was a veiled shot at OP for his noob question about best rom, a question that has no answer by anyone but the person using the phone themselves ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cam1john:
Still using the stock 2.3.6 any recommendations? Dont know much about these but would like a change. Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] iLeopard:
Ever heard of the search function? Its actually there for a good reason.

In case you're still too lazy to search:

The "best" ROM is based on individual usage and opinions. Go through the threads and pick whichever one you think is best for you. Unfortunately that's the easiest/best way to go about this
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] iLeopard:
*Double post*
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mariosoares:
i there...

i am using an 16 gb sd card on my ace with cyanogenmod7 rom

what partitions do you advise me to make?

ext4? ext2? swap? fat 32? logical? primary?

;)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] makalolo:
15gb of fat32 and 1gb of ext4 set to primary ...using mini tool don't create swap it will slow your device....

send from my haramjadah Ace using Xda premium.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] rokrmotolovers:
mount script error creating partition ext2,ext3, or ext4 whay?..
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] AnoopKumar:
Hey how to partition my 4gb sdhc need help... :(
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] jumbobombo:
Partition via cwm

Check out superace609's guide

It's the best :D

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Sent from my Ace. Galaxy Ace
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] mauro25987:
has to bear in mind that your sd category is also

Enviado desde mi GT-S5830 usando Tapatalk
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] avus_m3:
Well, my phone is non responsive to anything I do and I am unable to get into download mode. I rooted the phone using this guide from creepyncrawley (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1311081).

For a complete device history:

I later installed a nightly of CM9. Everything worked great for the most part with the various nightly builds. I changed to the UCLD3 leak for awhile without hitch.

I needed something off of my stock rooted rom from the thread above so I did a restore...again no problems with the switch. I did have to fix permissions to open some apps.

I switched back to the UCLD3 leak to test data speeds with plans on switch to the new CM 9 nighlty. I booted into recovery and wiped data, cache, and dalvik. I went to install the CM 9 4/17 rom and it checked the rom and started the install. The progress bar never moved at all and after awhile the screen/phone turned off. Since then, the phone is completely unresponsive. I am unable to get into download mode, the cap lights do not turn on...nothing.

What happened...I have no clue. Is there any way I can fix this with the tools here?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dandrumheller:
This might be a stupid question, but... Dead battery?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] AJ Newkirk:
You may want to try a jig, if you haven't updated the bootloaders.

Were you switching between these using nandroid backups?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] avus_m3:
Phone has been plugged in the charger for awhile now...nothing.

I only used a nandroid backup for restoring back to the stock rom. For everything else, I used CWM and a zip install.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] AJ Newkirk:
I'd try pulling the battery and leaving it out for 10-15 mins.

I find it hard to believe that you would brick your phone using a known good .zip file in CWM.

The bootloaders should be intact - so it should be recoverable.

Something else is at play here. Either it is hard locked-up or you have a hardware issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
I'd also suspect battery or hardware.

Try to get into download mode with the battery out. Use the same sequence, vol+ and vol- then plug in the usb cable. The usb will supply the power. If it won't go into download mode that way then I would suspect hardware rather than battery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] c0ldburn3r:
Did you flash ld3 using the one click odin or thru a cwm file?

If a jig doesn't work than the bootloader is most likely corrupted.

10 char this
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] avus_m3:
That's what I thought. Like I said, it started the flash but then look like it hung. The progress bar did not move at all. After a bit the phone turned off. What is hard locked-up? I do remember when I first plugged the charger in after the phone died/suspended it did vibrate.

Phone is basically new. I tried leaving the battery out and holding down the vol keys and plugging into USB. Screen does nothing.

As I posted above I only used Odin from the original rooting. Everything else was CWM.

I guess I need to find out how to make a jig and try that as my only remaining option??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] w1209:
Same thing happened to me earlier today when flashing the latest MIUI V4 from UCLD3 in CWM. It flashed without any errors, but upon hitting reboot the device shut off and would not respond to anything. Tried leaving battery out for an hour, tried USB jig, and several other tricks to try to boot into download. Sent the phone off to Mobile Tech Videos for repair :mad:

avus_m3 I think your bootloader is corrupt just like mine.... but how?!?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] avus_m3:
That's not what I want to hear :(

I just don't understand how this can happen. Even if lets say worse case scenario the rom is screwed, my battery dies during the update or whatever...I should still be able to get into CWM or at least download mode right?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] w1209:
It's very odd indeed considering MIUI doesn't have a bootloader included either, and according to CWM it flashed without any problems. The only other possibility I could think of is that the ROM got corrupted while copying onto the phone. I checked MD5 checksum after downloading onto my computer but not on my phone before flashing. Still, could a corrupt ROM without bootloader hardbrick the phone? I thought the SGS2 was supposed to be very hard to brick when not flashing something like a bootloader
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dayv:
If the boot loaders and param.lfs are intact you should be able to get download mode (as long as there are no hardware problems).

Recovery on the other hand is in the kernel on our phones so if the kernel did not flash properly it could cause recovery not to work.

I have read somewhere a while back where someone had their battery die during a flash and they had to get different battery altogether to get the phones to power back on - don't know if that is the case here. It was as though their battery would not charge in their phone after it died during the flash. But if you guys know someone close to you that have the same phone I would try their battery just to see. There could be some other hardware malfunction also.

I don't know if cwm recovery touches any of the boot loaders or the param.lfs in the nandroid backup/restore process. As far as flashing a cwm zip one needs to check the zip to make sure the zip dies not contain boot loaders or param.lfs - as long as the zip being flashed does not contain those then it should be pretty safe to flash.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mzaur:
If a USB jig doesn't work, I guess call up Samsung and play dumb? Worst thing that will happen is they'll send your phone back to you. Sorry to hear about your bad luck :/

Here's an odd idea... you didn't happen to get water in it, did you?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nakedninja42:
I hard brick too! I can't get jig to work at all and can't connect to download mode. I was at ~40% battery and flashed AOKP coming from ld3. I hit reboot in recovery and the screen went black.

If I can't get it working tonight I going to AT&T in the morning :(

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Using the odin one-click I tried to flash using Mobile ODIN, it only flashed the param.lfs (this was before the helpful instructions from entropy on how to extract properly). Don't know if that has any effect on my problem.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dayv:
Not sure, but if your param.lfs got corrupted that could be your problem.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] w1209:
Same exact thing happened to me as dayv, except I was flashing to MIUI. Coincidence between the three of us that we were flashing FROM LD3 or not? Sorry to hear about your phone as well. Lesson learned is to wait for other to flash before you? :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] AJ Newkirk:
Yes....coincidence. I have flashed form UCLD3 to AOKP (and CM9) & back more than a few times without issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
@avus_m3, w1209, and nakedninja42:

With three similar hard bricks, there is a patern. We should gather as much information as possible. What package did you use to put UCLD3 on the phone immediately before the bad flash? Also, exactly what parts did the AOKP or MIUI package that resulted in the bad flash contain?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] w1209:
I used the latest version posted in the thread (I think there is only one LD3 package?): hxxp://goo.im/devs/task650/SGH-I777/Task650_I777_UCLD3_signed.zip

(not allowed to post links yet)

Same for MIUI: hxxp://goo.im/devs/ktoonsez/downloads/miuiandroid_I777-2.4.13b.zip

(not allowed to post links yet)

I know for sure that the MIUI MD5 checksum matched after downloading to my computer. Will see what the MD5 checksum is of the file on my phone after I get it back from MTV. If it is the same there is a definite pattern. If not it was just bad luck and my fault for not verifying it on phone before flashing
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dayv:
Just to be clear this did not happen to me directly - just responded as I remember reading somewhere about a battery dying during a flash and that person needing to get another battery to get their phone back to life - again the battery may not have anything to do with what happened hear.

But it does look like this happened to two people after flashing away from ld3 leak - though it just may be coincidental hardware issues. we will see if there are more people who have trouble after flashing the leak.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
I'm wondering if the initramfs repack in that LD3 leak is bad... maybe there's an error in recovery.fstab?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] avus_m3:
No water damage at all.

I was around 30-40% as well IIRC.

I used the same Task650 leak as wl1209. With regards to the 4/17 CM 9 nightly, I got that from http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=i777.

For flashing I used CWM for everything.

I still don't see how a bad or corrupt rom would make the phone completely un-responsive?

I am going to RadioShack after work today to buy some resistors. Hopefully the jig will same me some major hassle of sending my phone off and being without for awhile.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nakedninja42:
I mentioned before that I tried to flash param with Mobile Odin, this was while on ShoStock2. Then I got ahead of myself and just flashed LD3 with one-click. After Task released the CWM, I downloaded and tar just the kernel to use with ODIN. I then used triangle away and reset flash counter and removed the triangle.

After learning how to extract one-click, I deodex and built my first base and flashed using the kernel Task released. I used this for a day and half before I got flash hungry again so I installed AOKP 04182012. When the phone wouldn't boot I tried my jig that has worked before, I left the battery out of my phone for an hour and tried again, no luck.

So it could be:

1)

2) Bootloaders from the one-click

I know I was playing with fire, but after year and half with Captivate and then this phone, I felt I was invincible dealing with bootloaders! :p

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I am going to the warranty store this morning. I plan on playing dumb and saying my battery drained out so I plugged my phone in to charge and it never turned back on. Anyone have a better excuse? :o
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
Can you look, or is that hidden in binary code?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] alex4lex:
Keep a straight face and don't look suspicious?

Honestly, they do some pretty simple troubleshooting... and since it won't respond to any input or power cable, and if the water damage indicators are clear, you'll most likely walk out with a new/refurbished GSII
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jpgalaxy:
Same issue here. Flashed from the newest ICS leak to AOKP. Wiped, flashed, rebooted, brick.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nakedninja42:
Already done :D

Typing from my new replacement
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] SeanHacker:
i went from that leak, to AOKP, to that same leak, to CM9, then back to AOKP. my phone works just fine. somethings fishy here. not sure why only a couple of people would be having this issue.

EDIT- I just flashed the leak again. Now i'm back on AOKP. phone works.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] aj9507:
could it be that the files they happened to have downloaded was corrupt or got corrupted while going through the process of flashing??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jpgalaxy:
Still, you wouldn't think it would render the phone completely unresponsive. Its just odd that all of a sudden we have this issue. Never had any issue going to or from any other rom.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] avus_m3:
Such a weird odd issue but in some reassuring sick way, I am happy it's not just me.

Whats the standard warranty for these? I am not the original purchaser but I know some things have a mfg date and it is based off this if you don't have a receipt/warranty paperwork (such as hard drives).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] kuduku:
hard bricked from UCLD3 leak to AOKP

Mine also hard bricked

history

Was running shostock from last 2 days , installed Siyah booted it up . Decided to install the leak UCLD3 , installed it and booted correctly . Played around for 10 minutes , did not signin google . Decided to come back to AOKP . Did full data reset , wiped both cache and dalwik and rebooted . Nothing did not start

Battery was 39% . Nothing means nothing no button combination works , no cap buttons light even for a second

Thought battery might be dead , started charging it but area around the rear camera heats up too much.

same as this

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24951502&postcount=1429

tried everything including http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23922367&postcount=10 but to no avail . I also think now that there might be a issue in the leak or somewhere . Had given my jig to friend so will use that in few hours and will update

and @task did not flash any of AOKP builds which were not posted in your thread so thats not the issue ;)

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I have charged the battery overnight , kept it outside for more than an hour but still no result . It completely dead , hard bricked
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] avus_m3:
Sounds JUST like my situation. I tried charging it for awhile but it gets hot around the camera area. I signed in to my Google account for UCLD3 but unchecked backup and restore since I was only go to check a few things out for a bit. I did a full data reset, wiped both cache and dalvik as well through CWM before flashing CM9 back. Hmm...

Let us know how the jig works please.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] AJ Newkirk:
Before I flashed my phone I started researching stuff. Very first thing I did was order a jig off E-bay for under $2. Took 3 weeks to get here from China, but I am covered. And they even put 2 jigs in my envelope.

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You guys should try using a jig if at all possible.

If a jig is not possible, you can use one of the 1-click rooted stock files here and it will likely fix your issue.

Just download the file, extract it, run the program, hold power + vol up + vol down and quickly connect your phone to your PC and wait for it to be recognized by the program (might take a few minutes) then press the start button on the program.

This is the 1 I have used in the past with great results:

The kernel + rooted UCKH7 system package is here: http://www.multiupload.com/PNQC9KOD4D or http://dev-host.org/UWm if MultiUpload never comes back
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] kuduku:
for that it has to switch on , then only it can come in any mode . No reaction after using all combinations of buttons , no cap light , nothing . Its like a paper weight at the moment , but an expensive one
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] AJ Newkirk:
It may seem like it isn't doing anything...but unless your hardware is just shot to sh!t, then it is doing *something*.

I have recovered a friends Galaxy S2 by doing this...his phone did not appear to do anything at all.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] avus_m3:
Could NFC being enabled have anything to do with this problem? IIRC didn't UCLD3 include native NFC support built in? I am not knowledgeable enough to know if that could pose a problem.

Also, I know that the CM team was building 3 versions of the nightly at one time. Could I have snagged a bad version that was built improperly before another took its place? Sorry just grasping at straws to find out why my shiny new toy is broke.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jpgalaxy:
Odin isn't seeing the phone. Cant get into download mode.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] AJ Newkirk:
If any of you guys having problems are in the Lexington,KY area...I have a jig and would be happy to get your phone into download mode.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] kuduku:
same here , its not getting recognized as any usb device
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] AJ Newkirk:
Out of curiosity...had any of you switched to Siyah kernel?

Once again...only 2 things will make your phone a brick:

1: hardware failure

2: bootloaders got messed up.

So if you haven't used some questionable 1-Click that messed up your bootloaders then a jig WILL fix your phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] kuduku:
yup , siyah here . Shostock - siyah - UCLD3 leak - aokp
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nakedninja42:
Its not doing anything at all. I charged my phone over night and when he gave me my replacement, the battery was almost drained.

As mentioned before, my jig didn't work, I bought it when I ordered my phone. There is absolutely no response, I tried everything that is in the stickies to recover.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jthatch12:
This is odin, would you really trust him with your android? :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jthatch12:
Say you were attacked by a bear in the woods and you went to call 911, but mysteriously your phone stopped working
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nakedninja42:
Now that I am back to my desktop I can type more.

The USB port DOES NOT WORK. You can not charge. You can not jig it. any method for getting into recovery does not work and trying to do download mode does not work, the PC does not recognize the phone plugged in. If you try to charge no animation comes up.

Once again, THE USB PORT DOES NOT WORK. I took it to warranty exchange center that is local. I told them that I did a reset because my phone kept locking up and when it rebooted never came back. They tried a different battery and tried to recover but nothing worked from AT&T. They replaced my phone and right away I noticed my battery was around 15% when it should have charged over night.

I hate to say it but the phone is dead dead dead, replacements need to be done.

For the guy that asked me about warranty, I bought my phone as refurb from ebay but they said that refurb phones have a ATC sticker or something like that to indicate refurb (turns out my was not refurb, lucky me). When I got my phone and called in to activate and switch on 4G, from the sound of them the phone was new so I acted like I got it from a authorized third-party store. Here is more info about the warranty store http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB91429&cv=820#fbid=CIMrzt20h0e

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LMFAO, very plausible living in the city here!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] AJ Newkirk:
Here's a thread with a lot of folks who are willing to use their jig on your phone.

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I hear ya.

Unfortunately, we will never know what the result might have been had you not used the 1-Click and changed your bootloaders.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nakedninja42:
Bootloaders is definitely a my bad situation, I was able to use my jig on previous leak w/ flashing bootloaders (exception of LC5) so I don't know if it made much difference with LD3.

I think its pointless to keep recommending a jig considering the phone doesn't even charge. The USB port is obviously not working.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jthatch12:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=/watch?v=WmhvdtX72eQ&v=WmhvdtX72eQ&gl=US

Here's your evidence lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] AJ Newkirk:
Bear in mind that the phone must be in recovery or download mode in order to make the USB port active.

If someone has functional bootloaders (never used a questionable 1-Click, never flashed a param etc) the jig *should* work for them.

If I find a reason to believe otherwise I will stop recommending that someone try it :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nakedninja42:
What about charging? I left it plugged in over night and when I exchanged this morning my battery was at 15%... :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] AJ Newkirk:
Charging is a function of the kernel. So all that tells us is that your kernel was inoperative.

The Download Mode that is provided by the bootloaders should by all means kick in when a jig has been inserted. Of course, you may need to remove the battery and insert it while the jig is in the phone, and in some cases I have heard that you need to hold the power button to make the phone "wake up" with the jig inserted.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] avus_m3:
Plan to try this when I get off work and make a jig. We will see...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nakedninja42:
Makes sense on the charging side. I always removed the battery to start the jig, and I did hit power and the soft keys in desperation to try anything last night. But of course since I flashed bootloaders, doesn't mean much ;).

I am waiting for the phone to finish charging and flashing back to KH7 to root. It came with KK6 and I know that has issues, should I flash KH7 bootloaders (I know I am still playing with fire)?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] AJ Newkirk:
I would not flash any bootloaders unless it was absolutely necessary for some reason.

AFAIK - you can use the jig with no problem using your current bootloaders.

If you need to remove any triangle you can always use an ICS ROM and the TriangleAway.apk which seems to work nicely.

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Tell them you're sick and have to leave :rolleyes:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
The general theme seems to be UCLD3 - I won't be able to take a look at that repack's initramfs for a while, but right now my suspicion is a buggy recovery or a wrong entry in recovery.fstab.

It really seems like somehow the bootloader is getting clobbered when trying to flash...

Don't touch the bootloaders unless you really need to.