yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Datron:
So do you. We appreciate your commitment to our flashing addictions.

I just finally updated to ATT Gmail R3 and flashed U7 as well. Running very smooth here.

Of course I voted for your beard on my laptop and phone.

Looking to hold another Unclefest in a few short days, too. Hope we break a record man! Love live SeanZ!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] uhno:
It looks like it is tiered like the NCAA or something. When you get to the next round be sure to let us know to vote again.

Everyone go vote for Sean!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
vote hear, pick the guy pointed in the pic
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Datron:
AWESOME
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Dathaeus:
I used the first one, I think that was the key... I did a search for the Touch download, but all I found online was the img file, and was about to try to install that with the command lines in recovery when you came through. :highfive: Previously I used the Touch that I added through ROM Manager that I just paid for, which I guess was not necessary anymore.

Onto the final step, fixing permissions, and its been stuck on "DigitalClock.apk from.... (644).... for over 15 minutes... it never hung on this process this long... gezuzhkrist, what a day. I feel like I am getting a flat tire, running out of gas, and everything but the engine's exploding on the way to the market to get some milk down the street.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bps119:
Anyone else lose their JB boot screen when they flashed the new kernel? I re-flashed the 7B update, but it is still the blue wave Android one.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Datron:
Hang in there man. I had tons of troubles today, all of them were the first time I ever ran into them. I soft bricked my s*** when updating to R3 (no clue what happened, I didn't change my procedures the second time I flashed it after returning to stock, and I didn't even re-download the base.) Then I also got hung in Fix Permissions. I just reset the phone and ran it again. No issues. Finally, Titanium Backup got hung restoring a few apps and I had to reset and re-restore.

None of these ruined my phone and I'm up and running another great ROM from SeanZ. Just play it cool and don't panic.

Edit: if it's been stuck that long, just reboot the phone or pull the battery and try again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] seanzscreams:
Lol thank you!!!!! Keep em coming my poll has the highest overall votes guys .this really is huge this site is very important in the metal world
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mimart7:
I've voted twice.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] E--Man:
Voted for you twice, your beard is much better anyhow

Dear Mr. SeanZ,

I voted for you 2x, once from my SR, and once from my desktop. I also had two of my friends do the same!

All, don't just vote from your phone, be sure to vote from your desktop as well (only if not using Wifi), as it generates a vote from a different IP address and will be counted TWICE!

Sean, honestly speaking your beard is much more bad-ass anyway - it looks much more bold and noble than the other guy's. Go Chimaira!

Also, since we are off-topic, I was wondering if anyone has a patch or can lead me in the right direction to be able to play sound effects on calls (example, sound boards). I used to be able to do that with my Nexus S and it was a pleasure. Can't seem to do it with whatever ROM I install on the SR.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] kawyboy:
I have never had issue with the 2 chargers I use. Will definetly check though.

Thanks. Updates say any base??

I think one update after another and one reboot after another might have just been to much.

Performing a fresh install and removing volume wake buttons. I think all my moving as mechanic is triggering the screen to much.

I will report back. Thanks button Hit!

Off Topic Voted for Sean Z's beard!!:D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dhalker:
Voted
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jrockttu:
Install busybox before fixing permissions. The installer is in your app drawer, but you have to install it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Dathaeus:
Hey thanks for the positive words... that would be my "usual" fix, no doubt, but I HATE doing that because I feel like I am implementing some quacky solution when there is something else wrong... When so many others have had no problems, I feel like these little things mean SOMETHING is wrong, and then its like another lingering sore that might come back and bite me painfully later.

It rebooted in like 5 seconds, that was kinda impressive, and I am running the permissions again, and this time it went through, thank god.

I am about to restore apps through TB, but I only used the free version... I wonder if I should not try my luck again and just reinstall all the apps from the market again and forget about TB. I heard some people had even their apps reinstalled auto by Google account, which sounded a bit weird to me, but anyways... if anyone has any strong opinions on this, let me know... it seems TB is really trusted so I'll probably just go with that, already spent so much time, my brain is fried.

And has there been any talk on the pros/cons of the TouchWiz or TwLauncher home screen? I am using TouchWiz mostly because it allows 5 main icons at the bottom instead of 4 and seems to take a little less real estate, but couldnt really see a technical difference otherwise. I searched through earlier posts but no one seems to be comparing them, so I'm guessing its whatever.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] SeraldoBabalu:
Damn! Right when i get comfortable with what's on my phone a fancy update is released.

I think I'm addicted to flashing roms now. Only had my phone a few weeks.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S2 LTE Skyrocket.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bps119:
as long as you don't restore any of the app data through TB, it should be fine.

Regarding the launcher, I can't really say, i use Apex exclusively because I like to be able to scroll through different "pages" of my dock and add as many apps as i like. I currently run it with 3 pages of 5 apps each.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Dathaeus:
Yep that was done, I try to follow instructions to the tee, even in my sleep deprived state. I THINK I'm ok now, but I still feel uneasy about those freezes and reboot "fixes"... I feel like experimenting with the other modems, but I used the one daviebeach used, UCLF5 since he is in the same area as me, and I am getting about 6+ mbps/1+mbps on the h/4g network, so I guess I should just let it be and not risk any more Murphy on me with this... freakin LTE is only about 15 miles away, hope it comes here soon.

One comment, it seems the battery meter had hardly gone down in the last few hours while doing all this... true test will come after I get all my apps back in but my first impressions seem much improved on that aspect as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] seanzscreams:
Debating an f6 build stock

No themes

But its so easy to port just takes time allllll those mods again!!!!!!

Ill see how i feel

And now jb source i should spend time on That too
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] resqman:
edit:nvm found it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Dathaeus:
Seems Apex is the winner throughout this thread, I'll go with it and try to forget about it, thanks.

In my TB, I can restore apps only, no data, but then I lose all my previous games/stats/records etc...? Not like my life is over but it'd be nice to keep some.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] andres7790:
I had to switch to desktop view
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hitekredneck:
I have restored data for a certain few apps and games and have suffered no ill effects. Just do them one at a time and test them a bit to see how it goes for you.

I would not recommend firing up tibu and doing them all at one time because if one out of the many causes problems you will not know which one it was.

And yes, Apex is excellent. Especially now that it has theme support.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nrhpd527:
That is why TB Pro is totally worth the money if you want to flash ROMs.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] traumaj:
I voted for that ugly mf'er on the right! j/k...! Good luck!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] latinohot:
I hope am not too late, but is done.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Dathaeus:
I just restored all the apps that I knew I didnt need any saved "data" without data and they seem to be fine so far. I will now go one at a time with the ones I will need the data for and see if that will work, treading carefully. Thanks.

I did all this with still the free version.... am I missing out on something because of it? As of now everything seems A-ok... I am sure this part has been covered somewhere so if i have a problem I'll look it up later, I dont wanna be one of those people since all u guys been awesome helping so far and I am almost there in having my full phone back. :good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] OFWGKTADGAF:
if i could get a samsung rom to run nicely at 200 dpi id be all over this
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Steviemac12:
Hey Sean, is f6 new from jb? Oh and voted twice.... Phone and pc!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Mike:
F6 is the official att 4.0.4 ota which came out today via Kies

Sent from my Skyrocket i727 running Sky ICS
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] seanzscreams:
F6. Is. Ics. Jb. Is well. Jb
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] andres7790:
So I don't really mess with kernel mods, but I must say this modded F6 is lightning.... And I tested the F6 radio and no problems to report

Thank you Sean.....

But I do have a question, will back light notification be implemented in Sean z kernels? JB or ICS?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
hey sean, i vote for JB, btw hows that coming along.

i know, its not thread related, but its is sean related.

also w/new att ics and soon to be JB, this rom could be near the end of its life cycle
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] -Graff-:
As an AT&T customer I would still rather use this official rogers based rom by Sean than the official AT&T ICS. I won't even flash it for a test run. :good:

Also, Sean, I voted. Nice beard.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nighthawkmckenzie:
I voted 9 times. Diamond Vypr baby.

Over 1000!

...sent from my Rogers GII LTE
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dxwilliams40:
Yeah, gotta vote for seanz for the work he puts in. And the beard.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jaythaovadose:
Hey Sean what do you think about a Google now port in the next update?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Krakozawr:
Hi, Sean!

Now we have a very wide kernels choice ;-)

what's kernel version is Your personal suggestion for a better battery life with Your's ROM?

Thank You!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
I simply MUST vote (twice) for the guy from North Atlanta (I'm in Roswell)....even if my own beard doesn't quite compete. :)

Thanks again for all the hard work on ROMs, Radios, Kernels, etc.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Kevinl86:
Yeah I never actually got the new bootanimation when I flashed the 7B update for whatever reason. I've tried EVERYTHING to get it to work, including copy over from the 7B .zip to the system/media dir and reboot etc.. still no dice. Stuck with the blue android left to right anim. Which isnt bad, I'd just rather have the JB. My girls Skyrocket updated fine and had 0 issues. I was on Cymb kernal before I flashed the 7B update so I went to the new modded F6 and reflshed 7B, still nothing?!

I'm not sure how this can be as I've completely replace the bootanimation.zip with the new one? the eff
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] seanzscreams:
sounds like you filled up your system partition

go to titanium

and see how much free space you have in system
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Kevinl86:
I thought it may be that too so I just doubled checked, 31.3MB free on the system rom.

Weird.. I may just go to R3 and start fresh in a couple days, couldn't hurt.

I'm on R2 7B as we speak and have been doing the incremental updates as they came out but like I said I've been playing with Kernals and such which may have caused the problem.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] HomeR365:
So this was my first rom flash, I followed the instructions on the OP and everything worked great. I didn't install a kernel though, it's just using the whatever was in the initial flash(?). I have been trying to follow the thread plus read the whole thing but I can't seem to answer my own few questions.

When just flashing the non wipe update, what caches should I clear with CWM? Also, for flashing a radio/kernel/addon, do I just put the zip in there and flash it, or do I need to clean anything as well? I noticed wiping the Dalvik cache is common.

Sorry if I should be finding elsewhere, but I've been following the support of this rom from here the whole time and you guys are really good. And I'm a huge supporter of gnarly beards.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
Same thing here. Running modded F6 kernel with R2-7B (updated from 6A). I've got ~100MB free in system and verified that bootanimation.zip is there, but still get the side-to-side pulse boot animation.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] daviebeach:
I'm on 4.2F-7 with UCLF 6 kernel & modem getting the speeds in the screenshot. And fairly close to a LTE tower. Between US1 & A1A.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nbnion:
i can't find the wallpapers from seanz, i updated to 7b played around with the nexus wallpaper and now i can't find it. the only info i got about wallpaper is "drawable-hdpi" and the stock one's. can anyone tell me what's the path/folder?

thank you
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bnjleouf:
Good morning all!

I've been following the story of this rom since the beggining, and I need to thank seanz for his work, this rom is just great.

I'm using my skyrocket as a professionnal daily driver, I have an exchange account that I sync on push mode, and that drains my battery.

With maybe 2 hrs phone call, and 30-40 emails, the battery is dead in 5 hours.

I tried yesterday to upgrade to the last samsung upgrade, but I need to say that it's even worst.

Right now, I'm a little bit confused, I looked in this thread, and in others, but could find a good explanation on my concern :

For exemple, I pick up the Sky ICS 4.2 F R3 base, then put the update 4.2F 7A on it.

If I decide to run with UCLF6 radio, do I need to flash Radio then kernel ? Or is it Kernel then radio ? Or do we flash the kernel before installing the rom...

I'm very sorry for my stupid questions, but I'm kind of lost right now with all this versions !!

Thanks for your help, and again : Thanks for this great rom, and your fabulous work.

:good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ItsDon:
Nandroid first!

Then I would follow the install instructions to the T from Seans OP to get a stable 42.F7 rom

Nandroid again

Clear cache & dalvik

Flash kernel of choice & radio of choice (can be done at the same time and order doesn't matter)

Reboot & enjoy.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bnjleouf:
Thanks Don !

I'm downloading all the fresh stuff as we speak, and will try it directly.

I'll let yall now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jrockttu:
Check the thread in my signature to see if your charger is causing a wakelock, preventing your phone from sleeping. It's the number 1 culprit for bad Skyrocket battery life.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] uhno:
The boot animation is actually in /system/media and /data/local
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Kevinl86:
THANKS A TON! I didn't know it was in two locations.. I copied it over to data/local - reboot and all is good!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
I knew about /system/media. Didn't know about /data/local. Once I removed the one from /data/local...Shazam! it works.

Thanks!

Deez
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ItsDon:
I'm currently running 7B with the kernel it came with and the newest radio that was posted yesterday. Phone is running phenomenally :) I am, however, a flash monster and am wondering if there is any benefit to running the latest kernel. What can I expect?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
was the dpi fixed when in "contacts" where u have to scroll the top of the screen to view the phone menu
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] andres7790:
I was running the F3 modded kernel by Sean and I upgraded to the newest modded kernel and I can say it is very very responsive.... I'm sure that there are apps in which you can quantitatively measure this responsiveness difference but I can only report qualitative differences and they are noticeable, very pleased.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] stoopendis:
Yes it does looked fixed! At least on mine (Rogers base and 7b).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] veebomb:
Speaker Phone dial tones

First a big tanks to Sean for everything he has provided the SkyRocket Community!

I searched but couldn't find anything similar to my issue so it may be isolated on my end but... Has anyone else noticed a very annoying tone when using the speaker phone function and pressing the dialer buttons? I noticed this the other day when calling in to my voicemail messages while using the speaker phone function. The key presses sound awful, not like the usual dial tone sounds. When I take my phone off speaker phone and use the dialer key pad the sounds are normal again like usual dial tones. I have since upgraded to 4.2F-7 and the problem still persists on my phone. Anyone else notice this, or if not could you try it out on your phone???
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] iceman012284:
If you have used other programs and have changed it in the past try putting it in /data/local, I have noticed that sometimes flashing loads it from there for some reason. Mine is working though and after I flashed this update it moved back to /system/media
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nilchameleons:
Hey guys. I tried to install this new version (from 4.2E) on my phone by first flashing the base (Google exchange), then modem, yada yada yada same as I've done plenty of upgrades before. Nothing seemed to go wrong, but after I installed BusyBox and rebooted again my phone will no longer boot into Android (I am given an error that Android UI and system.phone have crashed) or recovery mode (just continually boots into Android.) Is there a way to format my phone and start over via computer? I believe the only things I've seen mentioned that can do this are Windows-only, which is fine as I do have a Windows partition but if there are format/install utilities available for Mac I'd prefer that. Thanks in advance.

For future reference: When I see a new modem appear in the OP of a SKY ICS update, should I install it? That was the only difference between my previous upgrades and this one.

Edit: I should clarify that I understand/followed the instructions for flashing this firmware; my question is more about an alternative way to get into recovery mode. (Or just start over completely.)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] stoopendis:
. My new boot animation is an animated X. Is this the jb boot anim?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] uhno:
Yes that is it. From ne X us
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] FLHXRider:
Seanz, this new update (4.2F-7B) is great! Feels even smoother than the last. Regarding your decision to put the Music Player back in... it doesn't work as well as other choices available out there (at least not for me) such as GoneMAD. Bollocks'ed up the album art, 6 (!) listings for every track (of which the last one is the only one actually pointing to the track itself):confused:, and there's the issue of no gapless playback. So I looked to remove it with ROM Toolbox Pro. Trouble is it doesn't seem to be removeable; in fact, it doesn't even display in the list of all apps. Is this something you can remedy? I wouldn't miss it if it were gone. But thanks for all that you do; like I've said before, you've made this phone what it should have been all along!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nighthawkmckenzie:
That and switching the governor from Performance to Ondemand...

...sent from my Rogers GII LTE
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] manu44:
sorri for the noob question

how to install a boot animation and from where can i get custom boot animations
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] FLHXRider:
The quick and dirty way (and the way I use) is through ROM Toolbox Pro. It lets you do a lot of other cool stuff which more than justify its very reasonable cost.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
damn, this is on a clean install and on 7b, weird thing i always had this prob on previous releases, and i never mucked around w/dpi settings.

to reiterate, the "phone" menu works fine, its when im in the "contacts" menu the dpi is messed up and the menu(|phone|groups|contact|favs|) becomes scrolable from side to side.

can any1 else confirm this please, its not a biggy just want to know if its a bug or just my phone
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] number16:
Thanks Sean for another great update!

I wonder if anyone else has the same problem as me.

If I go with Radio UXCLF3, everything works.

If I go with any other Radio here, I either cannot get HSPA / 3G wireless data connection (says roaming is not allowed thus no wireless data), or wireless data will keep flip-flopping between EDGE and HSPA/3G every 2 seconds ...

Anyone else?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xda_naveen:
Thank you for the Rom. How can I get transparent task bar for this rom. Thanks in advance
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] stoopendis:
This is what you mean right?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hitekredneck:
Let me ask you this, you can't pull the battery to shut the device down, then hold the power + vol up + vol down to boot into recovery?

And in your clarification you do not mention searching or reading through the thread concerning radio/modem flashing procedures. Radio/modem flashing has been covered many, many times in this thread.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
yes and no, mine looks like that when opening the "phone" icon, but when hitting the "contacts" icon it becomes scrollable.

even when opening the "phone" icon if i hit the contacts icon on the top of the screen it changes back to scrollable
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] stoopendis:
Just checked.... Yup same as you. Although the scroll is only half inch or so.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ItsDon:
Hmm.. I'm running 7B and just checked mine. When I open the PHONE I get Keypad/Logs/Favorites/Contacts if I click CONTACTS it seems to make the header slightly smaller and I get Phone/Groups/Contacts/Favorites, no scrolling. Why is mine different than yours? Not complaining at all, I like it, just wondering.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
i dont know, im still trying to fiqure mine out

what do u mean by smaller header, can u post a pick
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Datron:
Nice catch. It seems this is intentional.

When I hit contacts a pseudo sub menu opens and I can scroll left and right to see other options, such as phone, favorites, and groups. You do see its a sub menu right? I like it.

Using SeanZ's SkyICS 4.2F r2 v6B ROM / XDA Premium