yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RushAOZ:
Battery life compared to the att base

This release

At&t base

Justifying my return to the at&t base before one of the tdj fanatics unjustly flame me.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] drzplaya1121:
Its built into the rom. Check settings under display
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] myowin:
built in battery %

this rom has built in battery %..

go to >> settings >> Display >> Display Battery Percentage {check box}

I hope this help. :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mikeDCMDVA:
Ouch. I'm staying on Gingerbread for now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PulldOvr:
MrX made a version that removed the part that potentially bricked our phones. Reading up a little bit will help you understand this. read the thread foe the recovery.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PulldOvr:
As with every rom, battery use varies on usage. you can tell, first off, he was heavily using the phone as the battery dropped. after about 4 or 5 full cycles, battery life should be better. there are very few people who have had this installed long enough to judge battery life yet.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] FastJoe78:
USB Mounting Issues

Infamous 2.1 had camera issues and USB mounting would cause all kinds of systemUI issues...does this ROM have any issues with these things...If the camera is broken will flashing the Fix cause any issues on this ROM...thanks in advance guys
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] qbanlinxx:
No issues to report here, camera works, and usb mounting
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RushAOZ:
Correct. But my initial battery drain with Evo 7.1 ATT base was much better than this. It does improve over a few cycles. Before flashing this my battery went for 19 hours with 4 hours and 8 minutes of screen on time. As I mentioned I'm just having a few issues with this rom. Don't fix it if it ain't broke right? lol Evo 7.1 ran flawlessly for me.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Splaktar:
Camera is working fine for me. FFC working fine. Mounting USB storage working fine. Bluetooth working fine. 4G working fine. Wifi working fine. GPS working fine. Video camera working fine. Wifi tether working fine.

Exchange sync working fine after re-adding accounts. Market working fine after restoring apps (including market itself). Exchange sync and functionality working fine over 4G (didn't work in beta03).

Loving the notification toggles! So glad that the slide to adjust brightness is back too. Was painful not having those when I was on Mr. X's ROM for a day.

Overall ROM performance is not fully optimized. I'm sure that TDJ is working on it. Not seeing terrible battery life like some have posted, but Amazon AppStore continues to use far too much of my battery.

I only tried Wifi called twice last night and it disconnected both times without actually dialing or ringing. It did connect to the service though and give the blue icon. So the reg 99 error or whatever from the Mr. X ROM is not here. I can't test Wifi calling again until tonight.

Did a number of cache wipes while restoring apps/data and afterwards as well. Hopefully I'm done with all of that now and I can see if the ROM is stable for more than 2 days (most I could get out of beta03).
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] peppersu812:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1648791 sorry been sleeping working night shift and live in GA
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Colombia81er:
Okay well i don't like the interference that it has. When texting the screen jiggles ... plus everytime i get select input method and no matter how many times i set it it pops up again.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ardcifliku:
Hey,Tdj, awesome work like always... thank you.

Is there any way to have the ring and notification tones from uncle rom on this rom ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RushAOZ:
Use ES file explorer and open up the ROM zip file. Find the tones and extract them. Then use root explorer and place them with the rest of your tones. :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blackangst:
Just extract them from that ROM, then create 2 folders on your memory card...one called Notifications and one called Ringtones and drop the appropriate tones in there. They'll show up as selectable then.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ardcifliku:
OK. Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] killerxboricua:
Dont mean to be a noob but i tried downloading the new rom bit download failed like 100times
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gatorstew:
I don't have a link but a website did real world benchmarks with and without Linaro and the results were hardly 100% better. They were barely 1% better.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ScreamingSkulls:
+1 on that. The whole Linaro myth has been busted already.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] FSUSeminole:
USB does Wifi doesn't

Anybody having trouble with WiFi Teather? USB works for me, but I can't get my laptop to connect to the GS2 over WiFi.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
How about STFU because no one cares...

:: DARKSIDE ::

"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions..."
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] KiLaTeS:
CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT TO DO????????????

My phone gets stock on the reboot screen? unistalled everything and re-did everything like a million times and still can't get it to work!?

and it's not only this ROM, its like with everyone I tried before, what I'm doing wrong?!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
Excellent job... Do not report any issues. thanks

:: DARKSIDE ::

"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions..."
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
Flash a different rom... If you follow instructions and it's not working, I have no idea...

:: DARKSIDE ::

"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions..."
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] OldeCrow:
Try fix permissions BEFORE you flash the theme, flash, then fix permissions again.

Try re-downloading the theme if you haven't done that yet... maybe your zip is just damaged...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] KiLaTeS:
I'm going to try it one more time :(

the only thing I don't understand is, what is this step.

5. Do a NAND BACKUP!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hazard99:
Its standard recommendation to do a nandroid backup just incase things go wrong.

Youll find the nandroid backup options in recovery

Backup/recovery.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cwalker0906:
It seems to me and no disrespect but you don't know anything you are doing . You don't know how to back up and you can't get any from to work so I would suggest you read the stickies on the phone and fully comprehend what you are doing before you have a useless device. Again not trying to be disrespectful but read and read and you will have most of your answerstdj thanks for the from everything works on my end so thank you and my case was the cause of my issue so I don't know what to tell anyone else except figure it out
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] KiLaTeS:
Oh, right, I done that, so I been doing all my steps correctly, I just never payed atention it says that on the left top corner, I'm going to restore everything and re-do everything all over again, see if I get any luck

thanks bud

you are right, I don't know much about what I'm doing and don't you think the only way to learn it's trying it?

If I knew what I were doing 100% I wouldn't be asking! :rolleyes:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] code_monkey74:
yea, we are unbelievable. god forbid anyone try flashing a theme made for a ucld2 rom which, correct me if i'm wrong, this rom is based off of. The dev can't test every tiny little thing so that leaves some stuff up to us. especially a BETA release. trial and error. And never once in the years that I've been here came back to complain about a "bug" that would or could be possibly caused by me not reading and following instructions. I don't post much because i actually do take the time to read and follow instructions and usually never have a problem unlike a lot of the people posting issues here that obviously can't or do not follow instructions. If i would have had an issue after flashing the theme, then it would have been my fault for not completely following the steps provided on the first page and instead of coming here whining about it. I would know what caused the issue and would go back and do it properly. It's common sense, which I know seems kind of rare around xda these days but some of us still have it. Since others were flashing this theme with no issues, why not give it a shot? And in the end, it's perfect.....for me anyway. :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tdizzle404:
TDJ

Dude I swear you get some of the craziest people in your threads.

I just wanted to let you know that I don't have the echo,and really don't have any issues to report.

I hope these idiots don't push you away,cause when it comes to stability and battery life your one of the best.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cwalker0906:
Absolutely try but sometimes an attempt can break phone so u have to be carefull
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xxKamikazexx:
Yeah same here. They don't represent the mass users. You only hear from the very few that have problems and never from the ones that don't have issues, because let's face it... they don't have anything to report or complain about.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] chrischoi:
+1!

Same here. I enjoy your work and appreciate everything you do.

I guess there will always be the idiots lingering in the air. :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
Ok I will say this one more time... The files in the ucld2 base are not the same as the ones in my rom. I know every knows more than I do but have modified a lot of files/framework in my rom package. If you can't understand that I decompile the apks make changes and build them again, well I am sorry for u. This ROM isn't the same as the ucld2 base, it's based off that, but I have modified te files. Why do I even bother since everyone else knows more than I do about what I have included in my rom package...

:: DARKSIDE ::

"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions..."
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] OldeCrow:
We all have to start somewhere,

I would recheck the basics if you can't get any rom to flash.

I would recheck your root/reflash recovery, (the touchless version that TDJ recomends) and reflash superuser and binary either from the cw flashable zip or update from the market.

I used the root method found here in the developement section not the one from general:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1311194

In recovery fix permissions before you flash, make sure signature checking is disabled in recovery (I can't find it in my touch recovery so this option may only be in the factory recovery) fix permissions after you flash too.

Signature checking and fix permissions were the two things that stopped me the first time I flashed my SGS2 after coming from the Vibrant...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] KiLaTeS:
I know man, but I honestly can not get a noob answer, every thread has 999 pages and still can get a right answer to what I'm looking for... oh well... :/

---------- Post added at 01:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:24 PM ----------

thanks, I will save this so when I get back I can try this.

I apreciate
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] OldeCrow:
I reported both his posts.... Troll
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] theghazi:
Screw the hater. I am happy to see the best ics rom. I thank the dev. Darkside rom is the best.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] `SBR`:
Agree on this.. he had done coding changes in the systemUI.apk (don't know what it is).. flashing the theme will take away the tweaks he has..

TDJ, You're rom is running very smooth and no Fc's so far..

I have to uninstall the Rom manager and re-install to make the Fix permission working..

Here is my Mod based of TDJ's systemui.apk

changes:

1% Battery Mod

50% Transparent Statusbar

Center Clock

my density is 206, so it may be bit different for you flash it in 220 dpi

if any one interested, flash over the Rom

Download

If anybody knows how to make the statusbar background transparent let me know.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Z-Man™:
Never seen this before which should i do restore previous or keep new?

Sent from the darkside of the ICS galaxy
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] aranurea:
It ia better to flash this with TWRP from what I have tried. The power off hangs with CWM but not with TWRP.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gatorstew:
Ask me later?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gkaradag11:
Everything is working fine here except battery life. I was having up to 24 hours with same usage on AT&T base.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] peppersu812:
Restore it your phone will reboot no big deal happened to me before
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] peppersu812:
Used CWM not hanging with me reboots fine
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gatorstew:
This ROM has been out for a total of a little over 17 hours and most of those hours were overnight. Are you saying in 17 hours you've downloaded the ROM, fully charged the battery and have already killed the battery with the same usage?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gatorstew:
Man, it's cool. I've seen a few of the posts a few pages back and I think people are basically saying give it a little time. But posting a screenshot with battery life left at 5% on one ROM and 33% on the other ROM is hardly unbiased 'justification'.

I realize you can extrapolate and get a decent average but unless you charge both to 100% and run them both down to 5% with very similar use and then show screenshots, you're probably going to get a hard time, especially with your standoffish attitude. Hell, run the badass battery app during that time and provide useful feedback here and SHOW us the difference. That'd be a start.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ScreamingSkulls:
Not suggested by OP and flashed CWM and no reboot hang here.

You have cycled your battery and recharged and ran your battery down to get a full outlook on what % you actually get?

I believe the reaction you have received is because you have no actually base to make statements on. Can you honestly sit there and tell me you have cycled your battery 2 times? Why 2 times, because you flashed, installed apps and played after the flash. Kill the phone and then recharge fully then use it normal to get your usage %. That is all anyone is trying to say to you but enjoy what ever ROM you choose to flash. :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] abjexstallion:
Is this TW the same from UCLE2's ROM? If not, can we use that?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] safeplayer22:
hmmm, look at the battery % remaining PLUS look at the "screen on" bar. You had the screen on at a totally different rate. Please show screen on time to have a fair comparison.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Indian9990:
Hi guys,

Quick question for ya. I noticed that we had to flash the radio for this ROM but If i'm coming from stock ICS wouldn't it already have the correct TMO based radio? Is there a reason I need to flash this radio?

I was on Darkside AT&T based so I was running the blaze radio, then I flashed back to stock 2.3.6 then to stock ICS. I just have stock ICS with SU so i'm assuming it's the correct radio at this point?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ScreamingSkulls:
From my previous reply 1 page back.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] LBN1:
I also came from Darkside UCLE2 (AT&T base), and was running the KID ICS radio; flashed just the rom and it worked fine.

I then flashed the latest TMo UVLE1 radio from Mr. X's thread as a comparison, it also works fine so I am keeping it for now; Basically, you can try the different radios to see which one gets you the best signal in your area.

I hope future minor releases, include a -NoWipe flag, though I can certainly understand the need for a wipe between major releases. Anyways, nice work Derek.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] chrisa887:
I had a quick question, I just updated to the new ics and rooted it but want to flash this ROM, do I still need to flash the radio since it is already installed on my phone from the update?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gatorstew:
Exactly. On one ROM he used the screen at a 33% clip compared to battery life used. On the other ROM he used it at a 17% clip. Almost twice as less, although he claims same usage. :rolleyes:

For him to get the 'same' usage over the long haul he'd only have to run his screen 96 minutes for the next 816 minutes which will give him better battery (same?) life in the longrun.

So, Umm yeah, when you use the screen twice as much you're going to half half as much battery life. Simple math.

But he is right about one thing... he's getting a serious beating around here. :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] markusf21:
No you are good to go

Sent from the iPhone graveyard.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bobpantsspongesquare:
Is lock screen weather not working across the board or is the issue random? It worked on some of the other ROMs. Just a tiny prob though, loving this one.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sinfulgray:
Well i just downloaded and all i can say is would like to see that -naked flag ;):D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] drzplaya1121:
its working for me just fine
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rancidm:
compatible theme linkage ??
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] chrisa887:
thamks:) would like get ride of the green toggles lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Indian9990:
Is there a mirror for the download? Soruceforge is taking for ever and it usually fails..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sinfulgray:
i believe the only one compatible as of now this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1648791 but i havnt tried. i knoe pheonix6's theme does not work
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mjg688:
I was having a hell of a time downloading to kept telling me it was going to take 5 HOURS to download!!!!! Cleared all my temp files/cookies and restarted the computer and started the download again and is going MUCH faster hopefully it will be succesful
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DaveinSoCal:
TDJ

As far as the kernel goes, would it be released some time this week or are we looking at next week? Only reason I ask is because I do not know how long it takes to create a kernel, and I would much rather use something that you created then something T-Mobile gives us.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PulldOvr:
I giveup ... Tried downloading but it fails each time. :-/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ftarules:
Sourceforge allows you to choose the mirror site. Just try a different mirror and see if the download impoves. That is what I did.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Ascarface23:
Works fine for me
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ScreamingSkulls:
Just tested, working here.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gatorstew:
He said a few pages back that it would be 'later this week'.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xdviper:
Should take about a few days to a week. There are some huge changes from GB to ICS so yeah. At least, that's how long it took the devs on the HTC Sensation when the ICS source dropped.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] foreverloco:
I updated the aosp theme last night links are in the thread. Phoenix is just a little busy and hasn't had the chance to update the op.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ScreamingSkulls:
As ftarules said when you go to click the download file you will see up top:

Click the "try another mirror". Some mirrors will be extremely fast and others slow. Make sure you check the MD5, this morning after I wiped (my phone..lol) I went to flash a second time and the file was corrupt. Happened in the transfer from my PC to sdcard.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bobpantsspongesquare:
BAH! Accidentally uninstalled Accuweather when I was setting things up late last night. Got the lock screen weather working now that I REinstalled the app it needs. Massive brain fart.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gatorstew:
What browser are you using? Are you trying to download from your phone? If so try requesting desktop site.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ScreamingSkulls:
Just for those who may get lost in forums:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27354045&postcount=1220

Original thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1568128
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DaveinSoCal:
I missed that post, been reading this thread since page 441.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Splaktar:
Just tried it out and it is working great for me. Connected, browsed the internet from laptop, etc no problems.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] joking:
What is the different between the radio in the OP and Mr. X tmobile radio?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Splaktar:
Good to know that the weather lockscreen depends on Accuweather. I always uninstall it too ever since I heard that it sends your location and id over the internet unencrypted. Not sure if that has been fixed yet or not. Good thing I don't use that lock screen.

If you go into Display settings and click on the weather update settings without Accuweather installed, Settings will FC. It doesn't appear that you can set it up to use another weather provider like WeatherBug or The Weather Channel. So i guess Accuweather is required on this ROM atm.

Also after I got that Settings FC, I couldn't open settings again. Then my system became unstable and I couldn't open up any other apps and had to reboot. Only made it 5 hours that time. Here's hoping this reboot is the last for a couple days ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mjg688:
Booting now then flashing the Touchocolor theme ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jdom58:
Hey just wanted to follow up and report that after installing,removing unwanted apps, setting up and testing all my apps everything just works very well on this version :D

Compass orientation is spot on, GPS locks very fast, no hanging on reboot issue, no lag anywhere, camera works perfectly, well you get the picture awesom rom. The only thing not tested is wifi calling which I'll see how it goes when I get home.

Thanks again TDJ
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gmoney11:
I'll retry. Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bobpantsspongesquare:
Wifi calling still had delay on stock for me. Have not tried it on this from though.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] joking:
Which radio did you flash, from the OP or from Mr. X?

TIA
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tester420:
Hello,

Is it because it's 4.0.3 the dialer and contacts are so poorly integrated / not readily accessible?

I just switched to this from beta 06 and noticed it. Beta 06 had it almost perfect apart some minor yet, important stuff i.e. compass...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PC Jona:
so i cant use any themes for this?

i want the aosp theme i hate touch wiz -_-
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] LoopDoGG79:
Anybody have issues with Wifi calling? I initially unchecked, now every time I check, it says poor wifi signal. It did initially work

Edit: Reboot fixed it.

Im using juice defender, when wifi gets disabled, then renabled, wifi calling cannot be used, if checked, it says "poor signel". No real biggie for me, i have great signal at home.

Sent from the Darkside, ICS style
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Spitfire:
Here's links from the discussion a page or two back.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jdom58:
I tried both and the combo rom/radio in the OP worked best in my location (S Florida) getting consistent 12 Mbps down and 1.8 Mbps up at my office desk compared with 8-9 Mbps down and .5-1.2 Mbps up with the Mr.X. Neither is too shabby but the radio in the OP worked best for me.