yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PorchSong:
Except TDJ specifically said that updating busybox will break certain things in his ROM. I have the same root bug (programs losing root privileges, periodically). The solution is to reboot the phone.

I really do not know why so many people choose to ignore the DEV's own recommendations when it comes to his ROM that he developed. He has mentioned numerous times to not flash themes unless they are specific to this build or it will break things; he has said numerous times to not use touch CWM as it will cause issues; he has said numerous times to not update busybox as he has done specific mods that will break if you update. Yet people continue to ignore the DEV's (you know, TDJ, the one who built this ROM) recommendations and go off in the wild by modding this ROM and then come on this forum and complain about things not working. . . . .

Not ragging on you specifically, just getting tired of people recommending actions contrary to the DEV's very specific instructions, thus causing a whole new group of people screwing up their phones and complaining needlessly on this thread.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jpnelson40:
Sorry, I don't understand. Oh, I see it now in the drop-down notification area. Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] markusf21:
Please point out my complaints

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PorchSong:
Updating busybox. Installing superuser. Not complaints, by any means. But by mentioning these actions, which are contradictory to DEV's instructions, others might try following and break things. And, TDJ said not to do both of those actions.

TDJ, said superuser does not play well with his ROM--therefore he included SuperSU. It might have worked out well for you, but someone else might try it and things will go to hell for them and then they will come on here wondering why things are broken and complain about the ROM not working when it was their own actions that caused the problems. We can't troubleshoot as they have a 'modified' system.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] markusf21:
I just reported what worked for me. But to keep things civil I will delete my post

Sent from the iPhone graveyard.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] vibrantliker:
This theme works: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1638343
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Xhyperion:
I think the problem for many roms is that little issues that have been solved by forum readers need to be edited into the first page so some of us don't have to read through pages of thank yous and trolls.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xsteven77x:
It says in the first paragraph of this thread not to ask for etas and updates will come when they come.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DeNitE:
I've been using this ROM for a day now and not a single problem! Works absolutely great! Nice and smooth...

Thanx so much!!!

Wasn't so much a fan of the theme though... so I modified it a bit...

Here is a Stock ICS Theme I Modified for this ROM...

It includes an AOSP Calendar and a nicer theme for the clock.

I also included the Quick Panel App.

ICS Stock Theme
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
more info will help. what apps, what launcher, any logcats? also please send me the DIGITAL.EVOLUTION_recovery.log from the external sd card

changes so far for next release.

- update wifi calling icon
- update lockscreen clock font (more ICS'ish)
- fixed 3D Gallery for scrolling wallpaper support
- fixed touchwiz laucher for scrolling wallpaper support
- removed exchange security policy
- updated boot animation
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jahrule:
Looks beautiful
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DannyB513:
TDJ,

Do you think the fix you have coming out to for the email will enable me to be able to use the AOSP email and exchange apk's? I tried to replace the stock with AOSP the same as I did on Beta 1 and all the other leak ROM's when I first installed the ROM and it caused so many FC's I had to reflash the ROM. It is the only AOSP apk that I cannot get to work with this release. Not a complaint at all, just wondering if your fix might help.

Going on 48 hours on this ROM and not a single problem that I did not cause MYSELF!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] onlychevys:
I agree, but it would be very time consuming to pick out the best postings out of over 2500. Unfortunately when a dev like TDJ starts a thread for a rom like this you get so many post's its hard to stay on top of. So far it seems that about 90 + % of people are as stable as TDJ that followed his OP to a tee. The other 10% are having problems, plus all the thank's postings. I couldn't ask for a more stable rom and I would bet it gets better! Maybe some one with a little time might start a new thread with only postings that matter. I guess that would be up to dev though.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kkholidaze:
I could send you mine. Is there a way to upload from xda app?

>>sent from my TMO GalaxyS2 far, far away!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sabreful:
CWM touch

so far this is INSANELY awesome compared to everything else. still a little bit of screen lag throughout the rom, especially with texting.

question:

i happened to flash through CWM TOUCH

i haven't really run into any issues with the rom other than the slight lag sometimes

could that be from using cwm touch?

why exactly are we supposed to flash with cwm-nontouch?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jahrule:
Cwm touch might look pretty but has bricked phones including mine. Tdj said to flash with non touch that's why we flash with non touch :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] c130pilot:
Big props on this ROM, thank you! Only minor bug I'm having is that automatic brightness is super slow to adjust. Anyone else?

Thanks TDJ.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tdizzle404:
are you using swype? it was said the lag was due to swype,but i've also noticed it throughout the rom also.I flashed mr. x's stock rom to compare and the lag wasnt in sywpe nor the rom so maybe it is a tweak that isnt playing well.

Also I have reboot hang time after flashing the blue theme.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jdyowa:
Too quick to point a finger a ROM

I think sometimes we all get quick to point the finger at the rom when it might be something else.

Today for instance I was at Church. I work with the a/v stuff so I have some time beforehand to do stuff or whatever. I tried to make a call and I could not get it to connect. It looked like it was making the call but I couldn't hear anything. I was thinking the Rom was working good for a while, and maybe something went nuts.

So, I rebooted into recovery, wiped, wiped and flashed. Let it stand, rebooted into recovery, fixed permissions, rebooted, reset all my apps, into recovery to fix permissions again and rebooted. As soon as I got done I realized I was hooked up to the churches wifi, which the signal was bad and therefore the wifi-calling was acting dumb.

All that because I didn't think it through.

Needless to say, my Rom runs really good now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] manekineko:
When this bug occurs, it affects all apps, using any launcher. Apps simply cannot be launched after this occurs until you reboot.

Next time it happens, I'll see if ADB still works and capture a logcat if no one else has already. It seems to be a fairly rare event.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] noellenchris:
I've successfully used CWM Touch with past roms and like my post earlier, I had some weird bugs, they were minor, but I retried with downgrading the cwm (Porchsong has excellent directions for this) and low and behold, it works flawless. Spare yourself a headache and downgrade and fresh install.

Also if you are using Titanium backup and restoring any apps, BE SURE TO NOT INSTALL CERTAIN APPS like gmail and system apps. It's really easy to do this and it will bork everything and you'll have to start over. I carefully tried this 3x and had to go through 209 apps each time...:P Ok, well I hope you decide to downgrade CWM and see what I'm talking about...Good luck

noellenchris
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] dnsmo:
I haven been having the SIM card problem, don't know what is causing it, but from time to time the phone will pop up and said no SIM card is install and I have to restart and I have to actually need to flash the cache wipe zip in order for it to work. sometime I have to reboot twice. kinda annoying. any suggestion? I have been running it for two days now.

edit1: Am I the only one who has this problem?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] noellenchris:
What's happening is an App is frozen and ICS is trying to kill it, when this occurs it freeze's for a min. It's usually accompanied by a few short vibrations right before it unfreeze's, those vibrations usually mean ICS has kill the app. This can be caused by several different things. The chef is aware of this, but it's difficult to fix the issues that T-Mobile and Samsung are also probably working on. After all it was a leaked rom and probably is bloated with test flags in the code to help identify these type issues.

Good news is that once the test flags are removed and it's stable these things will vanish.

noellenchris
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] }{Alienz}{:
Bug: Unable to setup a Haxsync account to sync facebook pictures. Adding the account makes the phone buzz and close everything. Tried a lot of stuff to no avail.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] markusf21:
Contact-sync works for this

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
Look above ^^

Not all apps are ready for ICS...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Bhambones:
mlb at bat premium

mlb at bat 12 premium won't let me download from app store. It says that my device is not compatible even though i've already purchased the app. Before i rooted my phone this app worked fine. Any help would be much appreciated.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] G1_enthusiast:
all apps, including launcher, its like the phone doesnt know how to manage ram and kill programs.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kkholidaze:
Were you on a gb rom before? Probably not optimized for ics yet

>>sent from my TMO GalaxyS2 far, far away!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] noellenchris:
Did u flash the clear cache /fix permissions and try again? I have the app and it works fine, but I restored from Titanium backup.

noellenchris
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] noellenchris:
I'd restart over, otherwise you may be unhappy for awhile and waste a lot of time.

noellenchris
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Bhambones:
I was on ginger bread before. do you think the app will start working again once the official tmobile ics is released?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
Since I am getting a bunch of PM's regarding this issue.. I am going to pass the info on and clarify things a bit.

The DARKSIDE.CACHE.WIPE script is the only way you should wipe cache's and fix permissions in recovery. It will prevent the shutdown/reboot hangs.

If you have the shutdown/reboot hangs because you wiped using the recovery option, flash the DARKSIDE.CACHE.WIPE script it will restore the given functions. there is NO need to re-flash the entire rom

get it? got it? GOOD! :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] foreverloco:
Sooo I tried my little adventure of flashing back to the gb radio I was using to see if it helped any with the low wifi signal and guess what?

Yep I lost all signal, data, and wifi calling... Tried to flash back to the ics radio and still nothing, had to reflash the rom, redo my apps, reflash my theme, and get my head bit off by my girl cause I wasn't about to go shopping unless I had my phone 100%.... So if anyone else gets the same crazy idea that my dumbass had just save yourself the headaches and just don't.... :banghead:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] noellenchris:
It's working fine on mine running ICS, but like I said i restored it from Titanium backup,

if u did a nand backup, you may be able to extract it with "app extractor" from the market also. Did u try my suggestion if my last reply?

noellenchris
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hinghing1113:
I think u need to bold "don't wipe cache in recovery as it would break shutdown/reboot" in ur OP.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Bhambones:
wiping cache/fixing permisions still didn't fix the compatibility issue. I did a backup so i'll try the app extractor and see if i can get it working.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] manekineko:
Hmm, are you sure about this?

I've seen apps lockup my whole phone, and then ICS seems to like to sit around for a while before doing anything about it, and then it vibrates and all that and kills it.

This isn't that scenario, in this scenario my launcher seems to be perfectly responsive, but there is no way to launch any app.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Octane70:
This happened because the RIL's in the system folder of the GB radio.zip are not compatible with ICS, you need to remove them before you flash the radio.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] adrianr514:
wifi doesnt work for me period
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RealPariah:
Did you not read where I said don't flash GB radios to ICS that haven't been modified to contain ICS rils?

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] noellenchris:
That's my theory, I'm not 100% sure about anything, the other possibility is that it may be a SU issue. Either way, I had the same type issues last night, I fixed them by downgrading my Touch CWM and reflashing, restoring via Titanium Backup all my apps being careful not to restore anything that would affect the system. Titanium doesn't care and will restore non compatible apps with ICS and also bork system apps and data. So there are so many possibilities out there and variables to be sure in every case. But I'd save yourself the trouble and start over. I'm trying to help here and really can't say it enough that if you have strange problems, restart and follow the Chef's directions 2-3 times, and if you still have problems then it's might be a bug. If everyone had that issue, there would be 1000s of post with the same issue. I'm sure this rom has been downloaded at least 10,000 times already... Well, let us know what u find or if you fix it. Sorry I can't pinpoint a fix. Also try pulling a logcat and sifting through it or posting it.

noellenchris
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RealPariah:
I have EVERYTHING (aside from gyroscope calibration in OS (seems to be read via toolbox and phone so dunno) works even cell data and wifi before I flashed other linked radio, just had better performance for me, you prolly had flash error I bet.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] noellenchris:
It's working for about 10k others, can u tell us how u installed and what u have tried already? My guess is superwipe and reinstall, did u use titanium backup to restore anything?

noellenchris
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] teambestyrandy:
Tdj I know you said not to use touch recovery but I used it after i had issue with reboot. I used fix permission in touch recovery and the shutdown, reboot, and recovery works after.

Also is there a way to increase vibration intensity in alarm? Thanks for this awesome ROM:)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] quincyfbaby420:
I still have the call echoes .didn't work on my phone ...flashed rom 3 times with darkside wipe on all 3 with no success...callers still complaining of echoes..other than that this roms nice..maybe others will have better luck
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xxKamikazexx:
Worked for me right off the bat. I make sure I manually format data,system and cache. Then I flash superwip then finally rom. Then I wipe both cache and fix permissions.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ericsmart:
Yo I believe you, lol. I flashed the first time this morning with following your instruction and I have no problems. Your right, they seems know better than you do. At least its take me big balls to admit that I don't know a ****, but I am learning. I flashed blaze and ever since, its working like charm and I didn't flashed anything else like mods and themes according to your instructions. Itll be nice if you figure out to get kernel source and that can work with bln. I'm using apex, it don't comes with calander widget and I had to download from play store. Other than that its extremely sharp!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AndroidNoober:
My phone works perfect I called 3 friends and no echo, no problem at all, I just follow what tdj wrote n OP, and give a extra wipe just n case...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tuffballa:
here are some pics as requested with the ics stock theme. so far nothing seems broken. everything is running smooth as ever! no echos either!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] virajss:
If you have the phone case on...try removing it and check for call echo. It worked for me. No case no echo
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -greenboy-:
Well its working for you because it worked for you on all ucld2 leaks.

In my case (and few others) none if the ucld2 leaks have a constent bt connection..

Thanks for the feedback.

Sent from my SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Ascarface23:
Sent from the Darkside of Evolution
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bobbyphoenix:
The OP says to not flash any mods unless done by him, or made for ICS, and you have blue icons in the notification bar. Is that a separate theme (since you used that word in your post) you used, or is that how it comes? If it's a theme which one is it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bzlik88:
Tdj, I have the echo issue. The other caller hears themselves echo. After 3 attempts of calling back and forth, she says its seemed to get better. I'm going to try to test further.

Noise reduction untouched

Non touch recovery

No mods or themes

Stock apex launcher

Does the in call toggle of noise reduction work for anyone? Going to try it out asap
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mayhem204:
Lol awesome morning present!! :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] omer1112:
Just to keep the dev updated with the numerous clean flashes I've done with this rom and what I've learned:

The initial boot after following all the steps, the phone can freeze on the android logo if the phone is plugged into a power source (did not test with usb plugged in PC yet)

The call receiver did not here any echo but I get echo of my own self talking in my speaker.

Tried it with no radio, coming from your gingerbread rom. tried KID and VK1 radio. Flashing LB7 radio next to see maybe if that fixes it.

I will be going back to your gingerbread rom until the echo is fixed for me. I know majority of people including OP doesnt have it but I'm one of the few unfortunate ones that is having the problem.

Also I did not install mods or restore backups. These are clean wipes. I've done about 6 of them since last night to figure out a way to make this work.

Edit: Non-touch recovery as well.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mayhem204:
Agree with you 100% best ICS rom by far.. if this thing is a beast now can't wait for when the official release from T-Mobile so TDJ can build off.. awesome work!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] theghazi:
My face unlock doesn't work. Its me or others as well
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bzlik88:
Works fine here. "It doesn't work" is too vague. Can u give a more detailed description of your problem?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] theghazi:
It set it up. I select the lock from swipe to face unlock. It took the screen shot. I select the pin as well. When I press the side button to lock the phone. The phone doesn't lock at all. When I change the lock setting to swipe. It locks no problem
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AndroidNoober:
Mine work... Try to have the phone far from your face is the way how works for me
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gorillaz1:
Guess this week is my play with experimental ICS roms week. I tried black and now this. Both seem solid. I'm not getting great battery life but stability wise no problems.

I did want to ask, if I flash aosp stuff like the lock screen is that a no no?

I like the quick camera access and music controls.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] lvlonkey:
i noticed something weird. i use go launcher. when i would hold the home button to bring up a recent app then exit from that app for some reason it would go back to the home screen but on the apex launcher. this is even after i freeze the apex launcher. pressing home again will bring it back to go launcher. its not a big deal, however i just wanted to let it be known this can happen. also, if you restore gb app data you're going to have a bad time.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] BACARDILIMON:
Is anyone else having a charge issue. 5hrs and not even 50%
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RealPariah:
Oh if it helps I batch restored with titanium (not system settings or apps) and have only had to remove and install voice via market after due to FCs from restore.

You should clear cache and dalvick cache and fix perms after a massive restore for best result.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] manekineko:
Well, this is an intermittent bug, so it's quite possible it is affecting all 10,000 users, just not everyone has seen it yet.

There were already enough reports about this that a while ago someone posted up and said yes we all know about this already, no need for more reports.

At any rate, if the bug happens to hit me again, I'll try and see if ADB still works and I can pull a logcat. There's a good chance that'll solve this question right then and there.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] foreverloco:
Yea but I thought I'd just give it a shot lol.. Don't get me wrong my post wasn't about nagging that something was wrong with the rom, that was all me..... It was just to hopefully help some other hard headed person out there in case they had the same idiotic idea... :p
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] noellenchris:
Could also be the result of test code flags in the leaked rom, somehow flagging FC's so they can be reviewed by developers. These flags will eventually be removed, I've seen those flags in ton's of leaked roms. But time will tell, otherwise it does run really nice for leaked....:P

noellenchris
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RealPariah:
Most ADB issues due to not running ADB in a host terminal with proper perms (ADB auto assumes SU and if host machine terminal not root or admin it appears to be bad connection until you ADB kill-server open terminal as admin on host and re open ADB server (ADB start-server or run command from admin terminal with ADB killed so server starts via higher permed terminal) seems to do the trick (same with xubuntu, win7 64 pro, and XP SP3 so far for me)

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] BRKotucs:
Dude!!! this is just a suggestion.. maybe you should do something like what you did over here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1283682

when clicking on the download link it directs you to a single post page that contains instructions on what to do to flash the rom and stuff like that for those who just scroll down to the download link and forget about reading the proper instructions to flash. Sorry if this is just a bit complicated but I'm just banging my head over here reading the same questions over and over so i wanted to look for a solution here.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RealPariah:
See my battery calibration thread in Dev I have step by step ICS instructions there written our. Even how to md5 check the ROM zip via phone after download.

Here it is:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25251156

fixed

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