yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RealPariah:
Folks, most weird smaller issues can be cleared up by restarting in to recovery wiping cache and dalvick cache and running fix perms (unless using fixed recovery flash my fix perms zip v2 or darkside cache wipe).

Restart after well take longer as dalvick byte cache is regenerated.

This has been known to fix shutdown freezes odd FCs and other odds and ends. This is always my first go to fix when any small errors I can't put a finger on start acting up.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 2hvy4grvty:
Does anyone have any benchmarks or anything? To compare TW ICS to AOSP ICS? Sunspider/Browsermark scores?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sabreful:
I've flashed numerous times, using superwipe, etc. But from what I understand that battery stats wipe every reboot. But I've noticed that settings, well, reset upon reboot as well. (Aka "stay awake" sets back to default)

Any ideas?

Also, upon initial flash I could reboot, now it just partially shuts down and hangs with the optical lights staying on (home keys)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hero13th:
This is real good rom

Sent from my SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RealPariah:
Benchmarks are very subjective and vary wildly and are never reliable and should not be heavily relied on ever for comparisons.

There are just too many things that can change even between runs on same device same session even (if benchmarks were good running them twice in a row (same device same session back to back) should not give different results for instance), but think about how hard it is to distill how a human feels about something in to equations used in computers (if you could do that correctly you make millions).

You should test drive a ROM and write a review or use reviews that tell you why the reviewer gave certain scores or higher regard to certain areas between devices you want to compare (or between OS versions in this case)

Usually bloat in non AOSP ROMs can gum things up and show device down overall but some non AOSP ROMs do try and remove the boat and tweaks things as well so never can tell until you try it or read information in threads from users on their experiences

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
You're wrong. You can attempt to set priorities for apps that have been removed, it has no ill effect at all. In the end all it does is not set the values. I am glad you think you have all the answers, but please do your research before advising others that don't know much about what this all means. There are reasons I have put the scripts in place. And say in big letters do not modify. smh

:: DARKSIDE ::

"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions..."
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RealPariah:
I said for me in all caps dude I tried hours of fixes and that's what fixed things for me FOR ME. I didn't offer a conclusion as to why just said it fixed me up

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
All ics. All devices wipe stats

The answer for your reboot hang is in the op

:: DARKSIDE ::

"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions..."
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gatorstew:
Wondering if this is what was causing my wifi issue on this ROM. I tried multiple times of reinstalling, wiping, etc and couldn't get wifi to connect to internet for the life of me.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] dnsmo:
can we set something up in the script so the wireless network connect to N first, my work place show I am connecting using G.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] dave2metz:
How do you know if you are connected to g or n? How do you find that? My wireless has been a little goofy as well... Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gatorstew:
I can also vouch for the wifi issue. Will connect for a few mins. then it throws me off. Sadly, I had to go to a different ROM b/c of it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xsteven77x:
Pretty sure you go into setting then wifi and click on your connection(assuming you are connected) and it tells you how you are connected.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] danielblakes:
This shows you "wifi link speed", so yeah..kinda.

Sent from the darkside.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ThatAzianGuy:
+1 That's exactly what happens for me! Everything else seems to work fine, however, only Facebook feed freezes up.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] liderbravin:
he already gave that tip before in the op....dial *#2263#* then chose option 3 if im not wrong,witch is for the GMS networks..then will bring up another menu ,then u chose option 5....when you whant to go back to 4G do the same process but instead of choosing GMS you choose AUTO....if im wrong somebody correct m, but thats what i do, and was in the op for a few days as a ( pro tip )...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] clone217:
Love the Rom , but over 10 min of use my phone is getting hot. Is this happening to anyone?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] n0tr1x:
No.. Must be one of the apps.. use task manager-->clear memory uner the RAM tab and let it stay for a while.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] dnsmo:
I ask my guy who work at the network department and gave him my Mac address and he told me I was connecting to G and only connected to N once
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gooface:
Any fixes for the wifi delay?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
I have no idea how make the device choose N over G 2.4ghz. but I have no issues connecting to N 5ghz. Thats what I am using at my house right now
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] liderbravin:
hey thederekjay i dont know if i have to lower my THC...lol...but as far as i can remember wi-fi was working but for some reason i dont know if it was an app or whatever it was but after the rebot i cant get wi-fi to work in none of the versions...i try other rooms just to check to see if the problem was on my phone but they all getting wifi , any idea? i dont use touch recovery and i also folow all the instructions, i know how to flash rooms but im asking because maybe somebody already talked about it before about any app conflict with the room, i tried to read bunch of pages but only saw a few people with the same problem lately ...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] G1_enthusiast:
i connect to N just fine too on the 5ghz band.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] retrotim:
So does anyone have a fix for instagram?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] dave2metz:
When I choose the 5 ghz option, I lose my wifi. I can only choose auto or the 2 ghz to work. Any ideas?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rpolito73:
All i have to say is wow. I bought a galaxy nexus but data isn't as fast and no ext sd like this phone. I think you may have just pulled me back with this. It runs as smooth as nexus. Thanks TDJ... You're the man! Now if we could just get ics blue i would be in heaven. Lol.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkness122:
ahhh i knew it wasn't just me, it isn't terrible but man sometimes it just won't get going till you turn it off and on like three times.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Devilman539:
I say this with the deepest sympathy and love like the love a father has for his red headed stepchild. Stfu.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] pieman13:
bubba army!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rpolito73:
My real name is Nedley Mandingo...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] flipper2006:
I have a Netgear Dual band N600 router and i have 2.4 and 5 and it always tries the 2.4 first even though i can manually select 5 (SSID Netgear-5 / SSID Netgear) but this isnt something that is an issue with this ROM, all had this, and all devices try to connect to the 2.4 first for whatever reason i noticed.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] S.V.I:
Just for that, I vote for an all green theme :P

On another subject: connectivity.

This is not a complaint, but a report.

Yesterday I lost all data, both Wi-Fi and cell. Rebooted, and it did not work still. Pulled battery and it started working again flawless .
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] BACARDILIMON:
On another subject: connectivity.

This is not a complaint, but a report.

Yesterday I lost all data, both Wi-Fi and cell. Rebooted, and it did not work still. Pulled battery and it started working again flawless .[/QUOTE]

Same here today. I had to reboot like 5 times before I was back in service.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] G1_enthusiast:
is this on your router or phone?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] manekineko:
Just got hit by the can't-start-apps bug and pulled a logcat.

I was playing Shadowgun, and then quit and tried to launch Chrome browser because I couldn't figure out how to beat the last boss and wanted to look it up.

After quitting Shadowgun, no apps would launch. As always, apps that were already running seemed to be running normally still.

Telling Apex launcher to restart itself just caused Apex launcher to be unable to restart as well, which suggests this is not launcher related.

Before I try to launch Chrome, in the logcat you can see a bunch of exceptions. Most logcat entries related to Shadowgun appear under I/Unity.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] dave2metz:
My phone... Are there settings on routers? I will check mine.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] seshsud:
Wow! this ROM now allows me to connect my Motorola keyboard over bluetooth....it didnt work in 2.3.6 (there's lot of heartburn in various forums)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ElectricBubble:
Ultra Face Palm :rolleyes:. Your Router probably doesn't support 5ghz unless its a newer one.

You can access the setting through your browser. Google the brand and find the link to the settings page and find the default password for your brand.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Rapalax:
Hrrm.. I really don't get this.. Red headed stepchild ???
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] G1_enthusiast:
sounds like it does, its just he doesnt know how to configure it.

just use 2ghz band on N man
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kevinbear:
Regarding Wi-Fi. My phone has always had more issues with staying connected to 2.4GHz 'n' than 5GHz 'n'. Quit trying to have it connect to 2.4 and haven't had issues since. And this was before ICS, when I was just running straight up stock.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] dave2metz:
I figured out why my wifi only connects to 2.4 ghz. It's because I have a crappy wireless router that is only capable of 2.4. Net gear wnr1000. It was free from comcast when I signed up for service like 3 years ago. I guess it's time to upgrade my wireless router....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ThatAzianGuy:
For those of you having trouble syncing Facebook with Flipboard on this ROM, I simply signed in to Facebook on Flipboard from my iPod Touch and now it is synced on my phone. Cant believe I didnt think of that before haha. Sooo...if you have an iOS device just lying around...or you could borrow a friends really quick.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] it2steve:
Check the themes and apps page... There is a stock ics blue that is working perfectly for me. Remember to cache wipe (tdj's version) any time you flash anything and wait the 10 minutes out.

...sent from my 'un-stock' sgsII
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jrkart99:
couple of bugs: camera lag, no vibrate notification for texts on handscent/gtalk, always shows I have a
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] chrischoi:
I've been forced to restart a couple times. Long delays and it seems like Apex crashes. MMS glitches and jumped all around. Slow sluggish animations.

I didn't see an animation option.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bobbymokie:
Well speaking as one I can say... We're a fairly distasteful bunch
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DriftorX:
Strange everything has been working for the past few days since I first flashed this rom with yildak theme. Now for some reason rebooting the device just sticks and never reboots unless I battery pull or hold in power. Is or were there issues of that happening to were out of nowhere reboot from toggles or power button will not reboot the device?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] defvayne:
Use the darkside cache wipe.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] peppersu812:
You either must be red headed or blonde headed but either way where tired of hearing about instadump ! :screwy:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] swaser18t:
No one is seeing hella lag when you press the phone icon? Takes about 5 seconds to open
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mikaeldalc:
OK so I've been using this from for a few days and here's some bugs.

- Phone seems to vibrate randomly.

- Phone locks up and screen goes black for a little bit before giving me FC notification. (30 seconds or so)

- A bit laggy here and there.

All issues I've noticed seem to be minor and expect the dev to be able to fix easily.

Overall, Good Rom. Looking forward to an update.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ardcifliku:
+1

Any solution?this Is the only issue that i have in this rom.

Mr. Derek, please try to fix that. You the man. Respect.

darkside evolution.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tester420:
a quick question about signal bars...

mine stay grey even with full signal, sync, background data etc. receiving emails, market, everything works but signal bars do not change color or shape. Shows 4G and even when on WiFi, still same grey bars.

Looked at the SystemUI and noticed that "fully" connected icons are different. But they never show.

Not a deal breaker but curious. ICS rom(s) on previous Nexus S change to blue after google establishes connectivity.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

I am actually quite impressed how stable this ROM is. Followed every step and this thing is just amazing! Works perfect for me (apart from that call log glitch).

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Mine open in less than a second. Not sure if you did but, try flashing it CLEAN (following everything in lock step) also, might even be worthwhile to format SD - I did this for few lags/glitches:

Don't sign in or install apps. Just Next> all the way in. Let it stabilize, get a coffee, whatever, let it sit. 15+mins later, shut down, remove batt, boot again, shutdown, CWM > flash it again. Let it sit for 5+ more mins. Reboot, let it sit for couple mins. Shutdown, batt remove. Boot > go to recovery straight from PWR menu. CWM > Flash DiamondVoice echo fix. Reboot. Let it sit for couple mins. Shutdown. Boot and install everything else. Then test it.

Sound like lot of reboots but 99% of all sorts of bugs disappeared for me and it should work for you. Like I said, formatting SD also "could" help here along with clean install.

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Look at modifying "SystemUI.apk" in /system/app.

Do some search on XDA. there is ton of help.

You'd need to know:

ADB usage

7zip

any ".png" editing (i.e. photoshop)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mcdwll_mrcs:
So will this ROM not work if I flash it with the CMR touch version? Please some one give me a answer before I try to flash it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] NUGZZ420:
If you read to op Its say to use NON touch
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] peppersu812:
You kidding this is xda they would rather ask instead of searching or going straight to the op and follow directions :confused:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xcrazydx:
Y U no read OP?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
I can't help you after you flash themes and mods.

:: DARKSIDE ::

"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions..."
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kkholidaze:
Same here today. I had to reboot like 5 times before I was back in service.[/QUOTE]

Man, I thought it was just me. Same here. even reinstalled radio thinking that wad the issue

>>sent from my TMO GalaxyS2 far, far away!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thederekjay:
Man, I thought it was just me. Same here. even reinstalled radio thinking that wad the issue

>>sent from my TMO GalaxyS2 far, far away![/QUOTE]

Not for nothing, sometimes after a reboot it takes a few minutes, sometimes up to 5 minutes to connect to network. Have you guys been patient to see if it connects? On rare occasions I have had to reboot again to get it to connect.

:: DARKSIDE ::

"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions..."
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] flipq88:
The only i have had bugs with is the browser. Most of the time when i press back it just refreshes the page im at, I have to press back a bunch of times for it too work. Seems to just be the stock browser cuz dolphin is working good

Sent from Flip's SGS2
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sovereignty68:
Quite laggy in my experience. Data occasionally stopped working after no signal and comes back on. Phone start lagging to unresponsive until a reboot.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] noellenchris:
The silent compliment to the chef is when your rom is downloaded 10,000 times and only 100 complaints. Do the math, if the rom was flawed, there would be 10,000 or more complaints.

Not to mention that 99% of the compaints are about apps not related to the rom, or people not knowing that it's how ICS works.

That leaves the noted issues in the first post near the bottom of the page.

My point is, stop asking if anyone is having problems with xxx, before you search the thread. It's like telling someone the sky is blue.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] dnsmo:
i use N at home too because I make it N-Only and the usage is fine but I was surprise that the network guy told me I was connecting to G.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] incredible315:
I can't delete my text messages. The thread moves to the bottom of the list saying "no subject" and is dated back to 1969. Can someone please help.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Laazyboy:
I guess your phone just experienced the DARKSIDE of the moon ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kangelov:
Following the example from above: This is a report, not a complaint.

I've been running all sorts of ICS ROMs over the past 2 weeks: I ran the Darkside Evolution, Evolution 2 betas 1 and 2. I ran the Chicago ROM, even the TMO base directly some of these ROMs use. The TMO leak is leaps and bounds more stable than the Skyrocket one, but still buggy, not quite there for a daily driver.

What I find is that all TMO leak ICS ROMs would start off working wonderfully, but around 24 hours later (I guess it depends on use, sometimes it's sooner), things start getting a bit laggy and things start to FC for no apparent reason. Sometimes it reaches a point where it cannot start anything anymore: I hit an app to start it, and it just stays highlighted, unable to start. Launcher doesn't matter, only reboot fixes it. All this appears to be universal across all the ICS ROMs, and this includes even the TMO base itself (the one Mr X prepared last week). This has been absolutely consistent no matter how many times I flash, what I flash with, how many times I superwipe before that, and how and if I restore my applications with Titanium Backup - I quickly learned not to try to restore system data. I do wipe correctly: there is a new disease named after me: Compulsive Wipe Disorder.

I guess that's why it's not released yet, and is merely a leak. What this serves to do is compliment TDJ on the wonderful ROM. Unfortunately, one cannot yet say this is a daily driver, it doesn't have the bullet-proof stability for it that comes with a production base and wide availability of source code for it: I need my phone for work and it's my lifeline there. Suppose I wait for an e-mail and the e-mail app FCs on me without me noticing. Or God forbid my alarm clock dies. You get the idea.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gatorstew:
Thanks. Either taking my Prime off the network temporarily or resetting the router did it (I know, I know #1 rule in troubleshooting is to not do more than one thing at a time :D ) My Prime was always connected to the network so I turned wifi off of it, turned wifi off of the SGII, rebooted router, turned wifi on SGII and everything is good now.

I'm loving this ROM, super smooth and fast. No lag after a few days any more. Only issue I'm having is Gmail (v4.0.5). Sometimes I'll get email pushed the same minute it hits the server, other times it's delayed by as much as 10min. I've cleared Gmail cache/data and stopped and restarted Sync. Will report back after a few hours. Thanks, TDJ for an excellent ROM.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Only Loki:
I'm not going to quote those long post, takes too much space.

To they guy above me (2 posts back or so). I only get FC's when (here's a shocker) instagram is in my recent apps list. Even then I don't get a pop up just a vibration to say it closed it. Does it with the browser and twitter too. Almost Never while I'm using them just a few seconds after I close them. The browser has done it but that because I had over 8 tabs open.

I loose all signal some times too but only when the phone was media scanning when I woke it up. Normally a reboot or too and a full proper media scan and boom back to normal.

Other than.... this is fine for a daily driver.

You people are spoiled! Back in the days of the g1 your daily driver was the rom that booted up, could make phone calls, and held 4 hours worth of battery on standby.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ScottBroker:
Home Button

Not sure what I did. I have the latest Go launcher installed and have since the first release. When I press the home button on the phone, it does not go to my home screen any more. it does nothing. Same thing happens with Apex...... Is there some setting in the phone to change or could have been currupted?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RealPariah:
Deleting threads in stock messaging app had problems at one point, I thought it was fixed awhile ago. I never use stock messaging so I am not sure.

I have never has an issue using Handcent SMS and I believe Go SMS also works with no issue (I swear by Handcent SMS personally).

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RushAOZ:
For anyone having issues with apps becoming unresponsive, do NOT use the task manager to shut down apps. Don't know if its a bug but certain apps like ics browser plus stop working along with the task manager.

Any who just wanted to report on battery life. Just got to 80% after 2 hours and 51 minutes with only 36 minutes of screen on time. Doing the math I should be able to hit 10-12 hours. Some of you may find that good, it kinda sucks for me. Especially when I can hit 18-26 hours on ginger bread. Can't wait for source to get some hardcore tweaks going.