yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jasontx:
Ok guys, I'm gonna try to help out a bit. TDJ, I apologize in advance if my post is out of line but this is what worked for me.

This is how I flashed, no problems. If you are having problems start from scratch and try this. This is from OP, I've just added a few steps, they are in bold. The links you need are in OP, they work if you put your browser in Desktop mode or download from a PC.

Darkside cache wipe is very important because recovery does not play well with ICS. Do not wipe cache/dalvik/ or fix permissions any other way than this after you flash the ROM.

01. Download ROM (Link is Below)

02. BACKUP ALL APPS with preferred method (ie: Rom Toolbox, Titanium, My Backup, etc..)

03. Place ROM on ROOT of your SD card.

04. Boot into Recovery Mode

05. Do a NAND BACKUP!!!

06. Flash DARKSIDE.SUPER.WIPE

07. Flash UVLC8 Radio (Link is below)

08. Flash ROM.

8.5 Flash Darkside Cache Wipe

09. After flashing is complete, Reboot...

10. Let device sit for 10min without touching, then reboot.

11. Done!

Only applicable if you are restoring user apps/data. Restoring system apps is never a good idea IMO.

12. Restore user apps/data

13. Reboot to recovery and flash darkside cache wipe.

14. Reboot device and let settle 10 minutes, do not touch.

15. Reboot device.

16. Done.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xyros7:
Me too! Superuser has problems on ICS! Do a Google search and see for yourself
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xyros7:
Anyone having issues with rooted apps should open Superuser after following the directions and update the binaries! Again and again, it's been said: DO NOT RESTORE APP DATA and expect to not have problems.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] shilent:
I noticed this too. The dark Grays look better, and the green vertical lines and blobs are less noticeable.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] razormy:
Thanks for the general response for new users. I however am not a new user and would not post unless I went through a whole series of trials

The dialer is hanging in a big way. I really do not know what it is but will keep investigating. I flashed and re-installed twice to verify. I was simply asking to see if others were having the same issue so I can keep myself from wasting more time trying to diagnose.

Sometimes a simple yes or no would be a better response than a bloated comment. just fyi
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RikkKeith:
Thanks for the reply about the media scanner/service. Let me quickly run down where I'm at. I've never logged cat before, but I did download a logcat app, but this is what happened. And this is my only stupid issue and I want to figure it out. And i will send a logcat.

Quick note: I re-flashed everything this morning following the OP perfectly, so i know this is me somewhere :(

My media server and media were running, I went to take a picture; the camera came up, said media server running, then promptly closed. Did this several times. Didn't force close, just closed. I killed the services and downloaded a logcat app. I started recording and went to take a picture, and it worked. It worked after I killed the services... Strange.

The gallery app only shows the one picture I took this morning, none of my other photos on my SD card show up, It does show all my Picasa photos though. Do you think with all of the left over junk on my SD card from all the flashes could have something to do with it. Could this be part of the problem, it can't find any of my photos and is constantly scanning for them? Just a thought.

I'm going to reboot and see if my media service starts up again so I can try to logcat this and get this to you.

Like I said before, besides this stupid issue, everything else is AWESOME, so what the hell am I doing wrong. :( Thanks and bare with me and I'll try and get this logcat too you.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AJ7677:
My lock screen can be unlocked by bringing down the notification bar. Anybody else have this issue.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rancidm:
yep pull down status bar and hit lock icon and it unlocks...did it on mine

why its not supposed to do that ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] frescoraja:
I have replaced the bootanimation and samsungani executables in system/bin with the original ones from the leaked system dump, changed their permissions but I still get the stock android boot animation.. what am I missing? I am trying to get the original samsung boot animation to play.. the qmg file in system/media

Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] clninja:
Anyone else getting terrible battery life?

I'm coming from digital warfare 2.6 where battery was phenomenal. Ill give this a few days to see actual results. But so far nowheee near darkside dw 2.6 battery life
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blackangst:
This is my first ICS ROM I've flashed, and came from darkside 2.6.

Installed as directed in the op, then used the cache wipe to properly fix permissions. Also downloaded ALL apps fresh from the market and have not restored anything. All seems to be working great.

Only odd thing is I'm getting the vibration thing after closing flashlight, but perhaps that's by design. Vibration also seems a little weak but i can live with that.

All in all very nice. Great job Derek.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] autom8r:
I'm getting a sporatic data error:

"Data Roaming

You have lost data because data roaming is not enabled."

I have never lost data in this manner in this area before, this is in my house, with 3 bars sometimes. I checked APN settings for Telus, they were right as well. Packet Data was set to on, of course. Not sure what's up, any ideas?

Thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] galaxys2noobs:
Its only been a day so dont talk about battery life yet. Let it run for a few more cycles and then see. This is stock kernal so probably not going to be as good as custom ones compare to GB
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] protegemini:
seems like there's a lag when pulling up the dialer.. and there's a wall paper sizing issue.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] dnsmo:
Supersu is not working for me, any way to change it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] SLUSHIE:
This ROM is unusable.

The games I play fairly regularly are noticeably slower and laggy.

I've had to restart several times because applications wouldn't launch. I would click on them and nothing would happen. This most recent time everything in the launcher disappeared and I could no longer open the app drawer and apps on my screens also wouldn't launch. I could still get into already open apps by holding home though.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] clninja:
You missed the part where I said I'm going to wait a few days to see actual results.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] monkeypaws:
So your experience trumps the many positive experiences of the majority???? Been using it 100%fuctional since last night. User error is jot an excuse to say its not functioning.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RikkKeith:
On the media scanner issue. I did reboot and the media scanner started again, and once again my camera would open and say media scanner started and close.

I did a logcat. This is my first one, so I hope I did it right. It seems really long, but I have no idea what any of it means...Please let me know if I need to do anything different, or if you see something wrong...Thanks!

I'm not sure how to upload it, so here is a link to the file in my dropbox account:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9625297/logcat_and_device_info.zip

If that link doesn't work, how can I upload the zip file? The email I sent to my self with the logcat seems a lot easier to read than this dropbox link? I could email it too?

Thanks!

***Edit***Looks like it did upload...Thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PsychoKilla666:
I'm having the same issue, it seems to not respond, i got it to grant setcpu one time, went in and changed to always allow but setcpu settings still dont stick, also adfree is not able to get thru to supersu at all
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] autom8r:
There's a right way to approach this and then there's your way of approaching this.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blatz729:
I'm trying to get the original boot animation to play too. I can't change the darkside splash screen but I was able to change the Android screen that follows up by going to data/local and placing the bootanimation.zip in there. Can't do anything else. System/media is read-only :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DannyB513:
For everyone having widget problems there is	a setting in apex that will allow you to resize any widget even those that don't natively support resizing.

EDIT: if you are having media scanning problems using the camera go clear the app data for the camera and it should not happen again.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] aujbman:
I don't know about "unusable", unless you only use the phone to play games, but I have noticed a few games lagging pretty badly.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Chosen_on184:
Thought boot animations go in system/media folder

As far as gaining permissions .. use root explorer and change permissions to r/w
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkside79:
I gotta say this Rom is pretty awesome! might have a few bugs but over all rocks! gotta give it to the OP. Hitting the Thanks button! he is the first to bring us a REAL Tmobile ICS Rom. No Skyrocket bs!! thanks again man!!

Sent from my SGH-T989 using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] immunityx:
I dunno what you guys are doing but this rom is 100% stable if you have problems its cause of user error
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] SLUSHIE:
The fact that after a while I can no longer launch any applications makes it pretty unusable.

I have had to restart my phone 4 times since flashing this last night.

IDK why me saying unusable has made a few people angry. For me that's simply what is it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Oberness13:
Does this ROM not have wallpaper scrolling? It won't let me select an entire wallpaper..only large enough for what would normally work for selecting a lock screen
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] SLUSHIE:
The cropping thing is messed up. Try doing it with the other gallery app that one works.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
thats to bad.. i have been running for days on this base and havent had nearly any issues at all.. guess its luck
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
its not messed up. its designed for static wallpapers. Touchwiz doest support scrolling wallpaper.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] teambestyrandy:
Those with super user issue...

Sometimes not following the op can lead to random errors. I.e. using touch non touch, skiping steps..any how, Open titanium backup if su doesn't show up you installed the rom incorrectly. to fix this issue wipe and reflash the rom everything should work.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Oberness13:
Oh ok thanks for your reply..has this changed from touchwiz on gingerbread? I know on past ROMS I did have the wallpaper scrolling effect
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] frescoraja:
To change that you need to replace initlogo.rle on the initramfs and since it is read only you need to unpack the boot.img (perhaps from the installer zip or from a nand backup), replace the initlogo.rle with the initlogo.rle from a stock one, and then repack it with the kernel into a new boot.img and flash it. Do you use Linux at all? If not I can send you a zip. Not sure how to do all that on windows, might work in cygwin.

Fresco De raja
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
being able to pull down notification bar on the lockscreen is a feature of ics
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] peppersu812:
Having trouble with settings it keeps foreclosing I ran the wipe script to fix permissions and rebooted still doing it

I can't get into settings at all
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
it will not.. i disabled the qmg and enabled bootanimation.zip. you will need to modify the kernel ramdisk to reverse. I will be including the samsung galaxy s II bootanimation in the next release.

here it is in bootanimation.zip form. push to /system/media (file attached below)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
did you restore any kind of system data?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RikkKeith:
I changed the logcat to debugging, then recorded the issue again with the camera and media scanner and uploading this one. Please let me know if I'm doing these logcats okay, and if they're of any use or you see any issues that I can correct.

Thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] frescoraja:
They do, on stock Samsung roms though they are .qmg files and in order to enable bootanimation.zips to work you have to change something on the initramfs which I am trying to find out..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
it has nothing to do with the rom. It has to do witht he launcher. I will be fixing the gallery and touchwiz to allow scrolling wallpapers. for now use apex or something
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DannyB513:
USE APEX TO SET THE WALLPAPER. SELECT THE GALLERY WITH THE PINK ICON. CHOOSE TO CROP USING THAT SAME GALLERY. YOU NOW HAVE SCROLLING WALLPAPER.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] frescoraja:
Can you please tell me what changes to ramdisk I need to make? I already reverted the splash screen to the T-Mobile one so I know how to make edits to the kernel ramdisk.

Just trying to learn more thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PsychoKilla666:
Reboot seemed to have fixed SuperSU's finicky behavior, everything else was flawless anyway, thanks OP

I have one minor problem left, Steam app crashes, unable to load or login, anyone been able to use it on this ROM?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] peppersu812:
Actually I did it hung up I just rebooted lol damn ok dumb ass move of the day how should I fix it redo everything lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
No lag when playing shadow gun and asphalt hd. The rom has been performed perfectly fine for me. I even downloaded dead space the games runs perfectly fine no fps drops freezing or nothing. I did a full wipe and only restored apps. The only thing I did differently is let my phone settle over night after I flashed. Rebooted. No problems at all.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kiingJ:
Anyone experiencing apps not launching. I had to reboot to get it to work
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Docmjldds:
Well, simply saying yes or know gives absolutely nothing for anyone else that is reading along. Possibly my comments may have helped a few others that are ONLY reading and then start to see the bigger picture. I gave a caveat about sorry about being blunt, but I guess that wasn't good enough to have the comeback I was expecting from maybe a newbie, but not one that has been around. I quite frankly have not seen anyone else posting lagging dialer issues. So, I basically see no reason for a simple yes or no. Pretty hard to just look at number of posts and determine their level of expertise. Sorry you felt my reply was bloated.

EDIT: I just saw one other poster stating his dialer has lagging issues. So maybe you two can hook up and see if their is a common link you both are doing/using. That's probably all I can think of offering anymore, but at least two makes a collaboration instead of a party of one. (Just trying to add a little light hearted comment)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
without looking, search the init.rc for bootanimation and comment the lines. and then above or below u will see lines in reference to .qmg and remove the comments...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DannyB513:
Most of the time the person asking for help is the biggest obstacle to helping them!!!! I can now fully understand why TDJ took a hiatus from this place a while back.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkside79:
Yeap using Go launcher ex. What about you?

Sent from my SGH-T989 using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Docmjldds:
Use Root explorer and you can change any folder/file etc from RO to RW

EDIT: OK...saw TDJ's post about intentionally blocking this so more to this than just permissions.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kiingJ:
Apex pro....might be a rom issue? Wonder if its the same with tw?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DannyB513:
Someone might could help you if you stated what the problem is in detail. You may have already but this post really gives no info whatsoever.

EDIT: NVM see what guy were talking about.

That is very odd. I have used apex, go, and tw without any app opening problems except for messaging and that is just an apex thing. Just delete the shortcut from the dock ABC replace again from app drawer
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] peppersu812:
I did try and restore gmail I learned my lesson lol how can I fix it now to get into settings? reflash ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] BRKotucs:
Reflash dude but make sure this time you wouldn't restore anything. You'll be blown on how great this rom is....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] peppersu812:
Oh I was enjoying it till I screwed up lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Docmjldds:
Watch out. The flame wars are beginning. Tried to tell specific user this issue with an explanation and I got jumped on. But now I am getting roughly an equal amount of privates saying keep up the comments but also getting a fair number of "I know what I am doing" bla bla and if you can't say anymore than it must be a user error, then don't bother saying anything.

Guess you just can't win sometimes....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gejenn:
I'm having problems syncing facebook to contacts.any helping hands?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jiovaxrs:
asome and complete rom... nice battery and smoot... hit thank right now :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] BRKotucs:
so did I last night... delete its app cache / data.

log back in and it should work . it did for me after doing that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rfail1988:
Another bug found:

No root brightness apps work. I used adjbrightness and rootdim and they crash and FC immediately upon opening.

Thanks again for the great rom!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Docmjldds:
Yeah. I can relate. I took a long break also back in my old Nexus One days, for the same reasons. But life still goes on and I would think the majority here understand....I hope.... :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RikkKeith:
Hi, TheDerekJay, I know things can go by pretty fast in this thread. Just in case it flew by, I posted a couple logcats a page or 2 back. So only if you have time to look at them (that's even if I did them right)? The last logcat I used the debugging prompt. I know it's got to be something I'm doing..Ii just can't figure it out.

I have loaded very few apps, and directly from the play store. So I'm not sure if the logcats will help, or what information they can even give you. But they're there if you have a chance to take a look......And thank you, and if there's more you need, just let me know.

And if it's a no go, I'll try it all again because everything else with this ROM is awesome!!!

And anybody who knows how to decipher logcats are welcome to take a look....thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bikrame:
I am getting force close on xda premium app whole trying to create shortcut and each time i open app i have to login.

I didnt restore any app . I install from play market.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tdizzle404:
I think people need to start going into storage and mounting and formatting the data.system,and cache. thats what I did after a master reset . Then I ran m&s kernel cleaner, dark side superwipe and then then rom.

sounds like alot but my apps are working and I don't have many bugs to report either.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gorillaz1:
Thanks added it in looks great.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Docmjldds:
I can't reproduce any errors here on the NON premium app.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gorillaz1:
So can I push any bootanimation.zip to that folder and it will work?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] galaxys2noobs:
For u guys with that problem I had that problem too u just have to go in to supersu and then reset it and then restart phone then open rooted apps again for it to work. Address don't work use the other one adaway it works don't even go into supersu anymore after that it will work good
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] superuser696:
I was just get ready to post about that. my only issue was reboot not functioning properly. formatted cache under advanced settings. Then ran darkside cache wipe. It auto fixes permissions. Now reboots perfect. FINALLY

Before I flash my wipe procedure is similar to tdizzle's
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Micronads:
I have not been able to play word with friends in any ics ROM or CM9. The only thing in common was apex launcher. I was having some issues with this ROM as well. I followed the OP to the letter. I prefer touch recovery, but TDJ said not to use so I didn't. As much as I hate touchwiz, I switched to that launcher and it fixed most of my issues involving apps. Give it a try, I like apex but I think it is causing Some problems.

Edit... After further testing touchwiz sucks as well. For Some reason words with friends will be almost UN playable on ics for me.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Devilman539:
I don't know what people are doing to their phones but I flashed this following all the instructions in the op and I have no issues. Its amusing how people cant follow simple instructions. Great job on the rom Tdj, this sh1t is smooth as f@ck.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bipoler:
Various apps working/not working shouldn't classify as a "bug". ROM is fine. Live with it or uninstall....

@JeCire
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
Fixed both tw launcher and Gallery for scrolling wallpaper support...

:: DARKSIDE ::

"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions..."
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jester6:
10 char
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kiladubz:
dude i followed everything step by step and i gotta say this is the best work you have put out thus far. no issues to report; i even restored apps with data (from previous TDJ ICS) amazing. great job dude. will be donating soon.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sinfulgray:
+1 Correct me if I'm wrong but its my understanding that some of our old apps aren't compatible with ICS?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Phantisy:
One thing I dislike and if anyone knows how to fix it is EVERYTIME I get a sms/mms my phone wakes up. Using stock sms/mms app. Searched for an option to disable this but no luck.

I don't have any problems running Words With Friends or anything else on Apex.... Yet. :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
Just fixed email widget and removed exchange security policy

:: DARKSIDE ::

"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions..."
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rfail1988:
Roger that... I figured it was rom specific but since this is my first ics rom I'll agree with you... any root dimming apps available right now that work with ics? (Hope I'm not derailing too much...)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Babyj303:
Just installed per open running flawless even call logs showing for now will report anything I come across

Sent from MY Galaxy!!!:eek:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
They show but the menu doesnt. And it's all borked

:: DARKSIDE ::

"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions..."
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blatz729:
I'm sorry but no I don't have much experience with Linux. I do the best I can with YouTube videos and google lol. A flashable zip? I would greatly appreciate it