yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gokhanmoral:
well, v3.2.8 is released :)

I have just found some time to read all the posts and announce it.

for wifi signal strength: I don't think speed will be any lower although the reported signal strength is lower. and it will be reported lower for some countries only.

I can fix the country and rev to something which reports higher signals but I don't want to touch that part without making any tests.

so, if you have any other kernel which reports higher signal level please run a speed test with that one and this one. I think that you will experience the same speed in the same location. in theory, if you have the same orientation and same antenna the received signal level (the dbm reading) should be the same.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pilgrim011:
Man, you are annoying as hell.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
The question wasn't the issue. It was the tone, irrespective of the smiley at the end. I think you'll find that's what Pilgrim was getting at.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saar17:
What the sio, cfq, vr deadline nopp do?

And what is the difference between the different types of governers?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
This thread will tell you everything you could possibly want to know (and some).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phistachio:
I PM'd GM regarding the issue, and he replied that he's not sure what it requires additionally. He checked the sound part of CM9 and he doesn't seem to find anything that would make DSPManager not working in Siyah. He'll check initramfs again and hopefully there'll be a fix :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duykhang524:
The also the screen adjuster app in the play store that can change the mdnie settings further :D I use:

red +4

green +0

blue +10

brightness 100%

contrast -0
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xsycox:
Hi guys,

Finally I installed an ICS ROM (Paranoid) and the newest Siyah kernel.

Now, I am interested in two points:

1. Is there somewhere a list of settings for best battery life (without undervolting!)?

2. I know, we can use a second ROM now and I have made a CWM backup of my old ROM (CheckROM Revolution V4 with Siyah 2). Can I just use/restore this backup for the second ROM place or do I have to install it fresh?

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rlorange:
Which app?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] confusedmuse:
Screen Adjuster :o
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hdfxsts:
:confused:

LPW Stock 3.2.8
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Happy_Jack:
OK, explain how a *user* can tweak conservative to give good battery life, because that was the context of the original question. Sure you can tweak the source and recompile the kernel, but that's not the issue. People seem to be mistakenly selecting conservative in Siyah as a battery saving governor (because of the name, presumably) then resorting to under-clocking to save battery. You can do the same with performance of course - e.g. just set max frequency to 200MHz and only use one core...

From what I've found and read the only governors worth trying (of those available in Siyah) are ondemand, smartassv2 and lulzactive if you want a good balance of performance and battery life. Pegasusq is starting to look promising too, I'm trying that at the moment.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyLegend:
ANyone having any issues on 3.2.8? I flashed it earlier right after updating to Wanamlite LPG and started getting a few FC's. I reflashed the rom (without wiping) and now my phone wont boot, its stuck at the Samsung logo.

Im kinda half afraid to do a wipe to be honest.

Any recommendations?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mredfern79:
I'm had similar sounding problems with 3.7.2 on cm9

Tried flashing the kernel through odin, didn't work. You could try flashing cf root kernel through odin.

My fixed was to flash cm9 resurrection edition. Had this not worked I would have tried a stock samsung Rom through odin.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyLegend:
I have cf root installed as part of Wanamlite rom i reflashed. it just wont boot.

I havent wiped data yet as im half afraid of the mmc_erase bricking bug.

Did u wipe data when flashing cm9 resurrection?

Gokhanmoral...any thoughts on this?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xsycox:
Same here. Paranoid logo just runs and runs for ages. I do not know, whether it was an app issue or the kernel.

I restored an backup and now it is running fine again.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] It_ler:
For those who are interested in kernel benchmark and battery test results:

Here is my thread with results of SiyahKernel v3.2.7.2 => http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=26775950

Feel free to comment and post your own experiences.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phistachio:
Same here, a data wipe fixes the issue.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyLegend:
ah....someone wiped data on 3.2.8...cool.

thought it better to ask first rather than end up with a brick :D

thanks mate;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mredfern79:
Yes I did the lot. Before I flashed siyah 3.7.2 tar through odin I could not get into cwm only download mode.

Flashing the kernel through odin it still would not boot but I could get into cwm.

I wiped system data and cache and reflashed cm9. After it booted showed the boot animation then froze.

I could not try a Samsung Rom as didn't have one on my sd card.

Next step for me was to try the resurrection edition of cm9. It worked!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phistachio:
MMC_CAP_ERASE is now 0, so the superbrick is, in a way, gone, also because he went from the Korean kernel sources to the I9100 update4 sources.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baza14:
Haha i was waiting for that post too. :D

Odesláno z mého GT-I9100 pomocí Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mahdi786:
The hard brick issue is looooooong gone but people are still talking about it!!!!!! May I ask if your so afraid of a hard brick why did you even flash 3.2.8?????? It just doesn't make sense.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phistachio:
Maybe because it's still present in current eMMC revisions? The trigger is "asleep", but the bug is still there. (From what I understand)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gokhanmoral:
FYI, I flash a kernel about 20 times (at least) before I make a release (after every single change) and I nandroid backup my primary rom, wipe data/cache, format system/data/cache and restore nandroid before I make a release.

and I don't release it if I brick my phone :P

try resetting extweaks before wiping data. because this time your extweaks settings won't be removed and high gpu undervolting may be causing issues.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyLegend:
I've news for u buddy....its still around. Check Chainfires tweets on twitter.

I'm well aware of the whole MMC_CAP_ERASE bricking issue but basically I was making sure someone had wiped data on 3.2.8 as there has been a few updates in this.

And lastly, I'm not afraid of bricking my phone, but if I can prevent it by asking a question rather than jumping in head first then I'd rather ask the question. ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mahdi786:
After all that bricking issue, I really don't think gokhan would release a brickable kernel anymore.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phistachio:
Yeah, I wanted to reset ExTweaks settings, but I was in a panic attack and didn't quite rationalize :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diemadedrei:
Got a few of these kernel panic upload things, then tried to reinstall kernel and rom but it didnt help. When trying to wipe dalvik cache I got an instant kernel panic. then i did a wipe data/factory reset and now everything working fine so far...im on cm9 btw

Oh and the first kernel panic happened when i was listening to music which is on the sdcard and i was on lockscreen...wifi off...just if its important
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Akhara:
same here, i was just hasty to try the new kernel

well end up wipe data..

by the way how do you reset config in extweaks?? can't option

thank
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diemadedrei:
you can do that in recovery
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OGroteKoning:
Primary rom - XWLPD

Secondary rom - CM9

Flashed 3.2.8 to primary rom. No wiping done and no problems whatsoever. Then booted into CM9 - runs like a Rolex! No wiping and problems either.

Thanks GM - awesome work!

Sent from my Galaxy S2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Christian99:
Bricked help needed

Bonjour,

I am on ICS remix ressurection and yesterday I flashed the new siyah kernel. When I used Rom Manager to flash another modem, my phone bricked. Here is the state of it:

1) When I open it, I see the samsaung (with yellow triangle in my case) and then, the phone stop.

2) When I try to go into recovery mode vol up, power and menu, It gets me to samsung but nothing else. I have tryed 20 times.

3) I can get it to the download mode (volume down). But when connected to my pc, my pc dont even know something is connected to it????

Ant help and links would be EXTREMELty appreciated.

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phistachio:
Use the ICS recovery package in my guide in my sig :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyLegend:
Isn't it Better to be safe than sorry by simply asking if anyone had wiped data yet??? I think so.

This is very reassuring to know Gokhan. Thanks. Wiping data sorted the issue for me. Didn't think to reset extweaks first.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pilgrim011:
3.2.8. What is l2_hsic? Phone was untouched since charged, screen off...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitrooo84:
I have the same issue (stuck on S logo), but I have no previous Nandroid or Titanium backup of my data.

Resetting extweaks settings didn't help.

What can I do? I don't want to lose my data with a wipe! :confused:

Sorry for the noobish question.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyLegend:
Its either that or flash a stock rom mate...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnbeetee:
this is what I (re)googled up:

"One look at your bbs stats, you can definitely see that it's the l2_hsic wakelock that is causing your note not to go into deepsleep. And one google search you'll also find out that it is a known ICS problem. Switch to airplane mode. turn off your phone. Take out your battery for 1-2 min, boot it up, it should be gone."

:)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitrooo84:
I've managed to fix my issue by doing a Nandroid backup, a data wipe and then restoring just the /data folder.

Whew.... ;)

Hope it helps.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyLegend:
Thought u didn't have one?

Edit...Oh wait...maybe that was another post....apologies mate. Didn't think u had a nAndroid done.

I did the same. Then I updated my rom again and wiped data.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CamoGeko:
What I am really interested in is whats causing this to happen only for some users.

Flashed 5 hours ago and still running perfectly here. Not a single FC.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitrooo84:
I didn't have one, actually! I did a Nandroid backup after my issue showed up. After which I wiped data, I rebooted and I saw the phone was booting correctly, so I re-entered CWM and I chose to advance restore just the /data folder of my backup. And it worked! My phone booted just like nothing happened. :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KennyLegend:
Good stuff.... I didn't think of that myself....lol :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlevy73:
I think if you have more than 5,000 posts you get an automatic exemption :eek:

No problems here either.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rakeshishere:
I'm one of those who had issues due to 3.2.8 where I ended up doing up a full wipe.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phistachio:
Back to CM9 stock kernel until 3.3 releases. My phone got soft bricked out of the blue 5 times today :mad: :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tifabih:
I have same failure with 3.2.8 "Stuck on S Logo" :mad:

CWM Recover on 3.2.7.2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pilgrim011:
I googled in the meantime, too, and found out that almost all posts regarding this issue are from Note (n7000) users. So I think it may be related to some n7000 patches by GM. I'm sure he'll sort that out, in the meantime I'm back to good old 3.2.6.3. :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nitrooo84:
I don't know if it could help, but that's what happened to me.

After flashing 3.2.8 everything was fine. After a few hours I had FC messages from all the app I had running. So I decided to reboot and my phone got stuck on the S logo and I had to fix it with a data wipe.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] #illidan:
& I'm pretty sure this bug will remain till

samsung fix it as the retards still ship devices & push firmware updates with the bug present. Typical attitude of a MNC, does'nt give a damn as long as they make a profit:mad:

I'm sorry but this post is absolutely useless without a last_kmsg which would help GM to debug the issue. Post it the next time you get a kernel panic.

I also am one of those people who very conveniently forgets to do a nandroid & the only time I go "D'oh, didn't create a nandroid" is when the phone bootloops or as in the case of Nitroooo84 I get fc on all my apps which has happened quite a few times & I honestly don't know why but I always use the same method as he has just used & everything is back to normal.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrandoHD:
To all the people with the weird FC issues, have you guys checked to see if "Force GPU Rendering" is enabled in Developer Options???

Samsung Galaxy S II Tapatalk2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] #illidan:
That is what I'm doing after pikachu01 advised so right now I'm still testing to see it the issue happens again but since the bug is quite random it will take some time in order to test.

Edit: typo
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cristiano Matos:
I had same FC problem with GPU rendering disable.

Need to do factory wipe two times:mad:

I'm now on Fluxi...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duykhang524:
Was using browser with the inverted mode turned on in 3.2.8 had a random browser fc rebooted phone and every single app gives an fc had to restore nandroid backup
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NandroidRage:
I had to restore from nandroid backup as well. I had opened a link in Gmail and had applications crash after browser opened. Factory reset didn't work. I didn't have "Force GPU Rendering" enabled either.

I see some people saying they are reverting to 3.2.6.X... Is there something wrong with 3.2.7.2? I didn't use it for too long, but never noticed any problems with it.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ankit Tulsian:
I never faced any fc whatsoever. Been using it from last 14 hours and everything runs perfectly.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vizdak:
I don't have any issues after flashing 3.2.8. I'm on cm9 0531. I'm using default profile. No uv/oc.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sahibunlimited:
Sorry if this has been already asked but i undervolted -25 from exTweaks and now cm9 bootloops

Did reinstall but don't want to do a wipe as some apps and newer data is not in backup
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ankit Tulsian:
Got to recovery and reset extweaks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vizdak:
Reset extweaks settings in cwm. And also this might help you. Before you flashed a new siyah kernel version please change back the settings of undervolting option to "No Undervolting".
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pikachu01:
Are those people having FCs and hang at boots caused by undervolting?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sahibunlimited:
Did that 4-5 times already but no luck(i read that in exTweaks itself but thanks for the help anyway)

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Everything started FCing and then when i rebooted, its bootlooping
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ankit Tulsian:
Then it's the common problem which every one is facing. Better shift to earlier version
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bundi22:
happened to me when i opened browser, everything fc then i got bootloop. had to restore from backup :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] #illidan:
Create a nandroid as of right now, full data wipe, & then restore apps & data with advance restore.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sahibunlimited:
AFAIK data wiping is required

I will restore backup

What i did

*-25 mV undervolt from exTweaks

*Launcher started FC'ing

*Reboot

*Bootloop

I tried

*Reseting exTweaks

*Removing init.d

*Flashing older version of siyah

*Reflashing CM9 without data wipe

Now restoring old backup
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] #illidan:
A data wipe is required. What I said was to help get your apps & its data back after the full wipe.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sahibunlimited:
I know, but their will be no meaning of wiping data if i restore the same data from cwm recovery afterwards...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pikachu01:
For those people who are boot looping, can you extract your last_kmsg from adb. For those that are fine, did you try restarting?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vizdak:
I've tried restarting. But before restarting I removed root in extweaks then reboot just to be sure.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadowSkills:
I'm fine here, have tried restarting, shutdown and still no FC (phew).

I'm on MIUI and no UV/UC, default Samsung values for gpu.

I did have one occasion where wifi won't connect (signal is low even though I'm in front of the AP)

Cheers.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duykhang524:
+1 same thing happened to me
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diemadedrei:
When I had my first kernel panic there was no last-kmsg file. After the second one I had panic and didn't think of that...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
I've backed up & rebooted several times. Not a problem to be seen. CM9 30/05 nightly (and 3.2.8, obviously).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slekkas:
Since installing 3.2.8 I get a kernel wakelock l2_hsic. During a 6 hour sleep I had a 5 hour wakelock. Any ideas what's causing this? I found a bunch of posts regarding this process in the galaxy note thread but somehow I don't think its related to my problem. I only experienced this after the latest siyah update.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crescendo Xenomorph:
After a major FC and rebooted, suddenly the phone blootlooped.

When I tried to nandroid my current ROM, it says that: Error while backing up boot image!

from CWMR I adb to my device, all /data partition is intact.

Lucky I installed live logcat and live dmesg, my device shows something about this so many: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx and freeing RAM so many times... Like it repeated.

I tried to flash the boot image but unsuccessful. Don't wanna do full wipe.

Logcat also says this several times: ERROR: Main occured. in red color and several others but can't read, it scroll too fast.

---------------------------

Another update: I managed to nandroid my currently bootlooped ROM. Will try to restore it and see if this will get me out of the bootloop.

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Nandroid is successfully backed up /data partition. So the problem isn't the /data partition, no need to wipe /data.

/system is intact also, no need to reflash.

I guess that the latest Siyah touch something that corrupt the boot image.

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Error while backing up /sdcard/.android_secure! Mounting internalSD in ubuntu said something about superblock error, never like this before. Win7 got no complaint though.

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Now removing any .android_secure folder in both sdcard but still unable to boot.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnbeetee:
No problems here also....will test some more, see if anything turns up...

(on Hydrogen mostly, no CPU undervolting, just GPU -50, UC)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gokhanmoral:
I have uploaded 3.2.8.1

it should fix l2_hsic wakelock.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bundi22:
advance restored boot image from nandroid backup, flashed previous siyah. phone boots but then starts FCing again
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crescendo Xenomorph:
Is restoring the boot image from nandroid get you out from bootloop?

How about the latest v3.2.8.1?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kalpik:
I just reverted back to 3.2.7.1 the new one with the MMC stuff seems scary :s

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Aaaaand I'm having FC now on everything..

And now bootloop :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crescendo Xenomorph:
GUYS BIG NEWS!!!!!!

GET OUT FROM BOOTLOOP

Flash the boot, sbl, older pre-v3.2.8 Siyah Kernel using ODIN.

Go to recovery and mount USB storage, plug it to PC and delete any .android_secure from both SD.

Do a nandroid backup.

Format /data.

Advanced restore Boot Image & Data.

Reboot and voila!!!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidluck:
I skipped v3.2.6.4 and it says on changelog

* disabled force-install of superuser but I highly recommend you to “remove root” in extweaks and restart after flashing this kernel to prevent lockups and force-closes.

Do I still need to do this after installing 3.2.8?? Tried doing this now I got

two SU apps one is with first what I have the blue icon SU and the other is Superuser.apk which caused me troubles sometime ago when I had this.

Can I safely remove the superuser.apk from system/app without problems?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nerenye:
Does anyone else have problems with wifi?

most times wifi won´t establish had to switch it off and on many times...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samhain77:
I got the same problem too... but I solved restoring only the data partition from nandroid backup and flashing 3.2.7.2 version of siyah... but if you don't have a nandroid backup it seems the only solution it's your one...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shawnaye:
Realize kernel size has decreased by quite abit. At first I thought it was a bad download.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crescendo Xenomorph:
Another interesting log:

<6>[ 0.070000] ram_console: got buffer at 5e900000, size 100000

<6>[ 0.070000] ram_console: uncorrectable error in header

<6>[ 0.070000] ram_console: no valid data in buffer (sig = 0x9b789193)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kalpik:
My way to solve it:

1. Flash 3.2.7.2 via Odin (Maybe flashing via recovery works too)

2. Make a nandroid backup

3. Wipe data/factory reset

4. Advanced restore data only

Phone booted right up after that, with my apps intact.

I'd suggest others to please stay away from 3.2.8.x for now.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] #illidan:
GM has change comperssion form gzip to xz

+1 to the resolution.

Fc on all apps & bootloop on reboot.

Trying v 3.2.8.1 now, did a reboot after flashing kernel & everything seems fine but its to early to tell. Fc's didn't start happening on the previous version until some time had passed.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gokhanmoral:
I have reverted fs and scsi merges with n7000 sources.

I am not sure which one is the reason but those are the only ones which may cause bootloops for some of you.

if you had bootloop can you write your settings such as i/o scheduler, uv or any other scripts..?