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[Galaxy S II General] :
stupid samsung, despise the users and does not seem 4.1.2. for samsung we are nobody. :crying:
[Galaxy S II General] confusedmuse:
Finally my S2 is usable again. Somehow i've damaged something inside my S2 a while ago through all the custom flashing...

(though i never got any failure message) It's lagging like hell since a few months and i get frequent reboots and freezes. Even re-flashing the original fw i've bought the phone with didn't help.

With this TEST fw (i had nothing to loose anyway) the issues are reduced to almost zero for some reason. Only the battery life is a bit worse, but i can live with that.

Maybe i'll flash my S2 one last time when this fw officially gets released. But after this my flashing odyssey will come to an end.

My next smartphone definitely will be only rootet (if at all) and nothing else. I had my fun with all this, but it just consumes too much time and the outcome is too unpredictable.
[Galaxy S II General] blade 44:
italy the latest :crying:
[Galaxy S II General] ant987:
As always... :( We dindn't even receive 4.0.4 ... Thank God someone invented ODIN :p
[Galaxy S II General] Jgjd691995:
t mobile germany says a lot of things u listen to them only when u wanna swap ur phone for a new one lol, if they say jan then the update must be out like 6 months ago lol. never trust them when it comes to update deadlines lol.

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hopefully it will be Germany :p first **not the Nordics again**lol, anyone thinking Poland i mean they got the 4.1.2 s3 first so .., i mean the ui should be the same as the s3 so same processing..:p

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1.) Samsung is not at all stupid *tell me that the s3, the s2 r stupid creations then*.

2.) why r they releasing exynos source code.

3.) if they despise us why the update to ics or jb.

Samsung is awesome and i really respect them *even though they may pi** me off with some features* and i think every one should respect Samsung.

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Ever tried formatting /system ?

is there a way of fully wiping the whole phone like systemroot/ partition table and everything and flashing the original again ?? that should help u.. **and me (headphone button problem)**

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give u a thanks anyway as it is ur first post :)
[Galaxy S II General] coradux:
Samsung invented Odin.
[Galaxy S II General] Aservatenkammer:
http://www.golem.de/news/deutsche-t...-kommt-nicht-mehr-dieses-jahr-1212-96182.html

http://www.androidpit.de/jelly-bean-galaxy-s2-note-termine
[Galaxy S II General] Spacemonkie4207:
It's almost the new year so I'm sure they wanted the note and S3 versions out to push sales. The s2 is not making as much revenue as the s3 and note so they are done with that.

Now the can polish the s2 firmware and if all goes well the will release it before. On the other hand if they still have bugs to clear they will wait till just about after the holidays. I'd put my money on the first or second week of January.

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Which also means never because the world is going to end in a week or 2.
[Galaxy S II General] mfpreach:
Hello.

I have been running this rom since it came out and today I think my device is bricked.

It had been running fine, it shut itself off. I tried to reboot it a number of times, I got the boot screen. Eventually it booted into Android. I turned it off and didn't worry about it and now I can't get it to turn on at all. I have 2 different batteries and when I plug the phone into a computer I get nothing.

The only app I put on recently was the 'juice' app i cant' remember the whole name, but for battery life.

Any suggestions? I didn't wipe it from Philz CM or anything. Just won't turn on.

THanks.
[Galaxy S II General] PantsDownJedi:
Have you tried pulling the battery and reinserting it?

There's also the jig that can sometimes get a phone into download mode though I'm not sure if this is the case if it won't power on at all.

The name of the app you're talking about is Juice Defender. Its unlikely, though not impossible, that it screwed it up
[Galaxy S II General] mfpreach:
Thanks, yeah no power on. I have 2 different batteries have tried both.

The CPU area does heat up when on USB cable but still I can't get it to turn on.

Cursed myself, converted a friend from an iPhone today to a nexus, I was telling him how i've flashed it a billion times no problem.

Dies later in the day! WTF
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
Info from Odin.exe
[Galaxy S II General] hhouter:
UHmm. I had this also, the exact situation.. Phone wouldn't react on anything anymore. Started to get warm on the top when charging. take the following steps;

1. Try a JIG (Mine wouldn't wake up with that onë)

2. Last option: Try Mobiletechvideos for their JTAG Brick repair service

Option 2 doesn't give you any guarantee but these guys can do a JTAG service, mine wasn't repaired and I got my money back (excl shipping costs..).
[Galaxy S II General] mfpreach:
Thanks for the heads up I will see what I can do.

I am also going to try a new battery first. I have 2 batteries but I have been using an aftermarket charger, maybe it has screwed up the batteries for some reason. Too bad the phone doesn't power on without a battery!
[Galaxy S II General] Amaj7:
I already posted here that in XXLSJ BT stereo audio quality has significantly increased, probably because of aptX support enabled. It must be true.

Here is log from my SGS2 paired with HS3000 headset with aptX support.

12-07 12:22:40.338 D/A2DP (10900): bluetooth_configure

12-07 12:22:40.338 D/A2DP (10900): bluetooth_parse_capabilities:: detect SBC

12-07 12:22:40.338 D/A2DP (10900): bluetooth_parse_capabilities:: detect APTX

12-07 12:22:40.338 E/A2DP (10900): bluetooth_parse_capabilities() invalid codec capabilities length

12-07 12:22:40.338 D/A2DP (10900): We are in bluetooth_a2dp_aptx_hw_params()

12-07 12:22:40.338 D/A2DP (10900): bluetooth_a2dp_aptx_hw_params sending configuration:

12-07 12:22:40.338 D/A2DP (10900): bluetooth_a2dp_aptx_hw_params called audioservice_send() from

12-07 12:22:40.338 D/A2DP (10900): bluetooth_a2dp_aptx_hw_params called audioservice_expect()

12-07 12:22:40.338 D/A2DP (10900): bluetooth_a2dp_aptx_hw_params called bluetooth_a2dp_aptx_setup(data)

12-07 12:22:40.338 D/A2DP (10900): end of bluetooth_a2dp_aptx_hw_btaptx_params()

12-07 12:22:40.338 D/A2DP (10900): bluetooth_start
[Galaxy S II General] x-g:
Try an original charger. I had similar issue on a ace with non standard charger and us cable. New charged batteries did not work until phone got 'unlocked' with charger. Same cables were ok on S2 though but who knows... Have you cleaned usb connector?
[Galaxy S II General] zidz:
I tought about a thing today.

My I9100 with LPY 4.0.4 gets a small freeze direct after unlock, but even if the wifi is off.

If playing music with Spotify also the music gets a hickup.

Maybe the unlock lag is a old bug that Samsung are about to solve, because it only happens with wifi on with first leak of JB.
[Galaxy S II General] satish0101:
Let me ask you, is your warranty period over? because the symptoms suggest that your phone is hard bricked.

If not then go to Samsung care and tell them some story about how it was stuck.

Same happened with me and since it was in warranty, they changed the entire motherboard of my phone.

Since they can't go into the download mode, they won't be able to identify what you did with your phone.
[Galaxy S II General] webjunky:
you probably get 4.0.4 in a week or so.

i recieved 4.0.4 last friday ( belgium )
[Galaxy S II General] rakeshishere:
LG Optimus 2x which was introduced along with GALAXY s2 just got ICS today :D

Here we are *****ing about how Samsung sucks and their delay with updates for JB f/w :rolleyes:

Sent from the Matrix
[Galaxy S II General] confusedmuse:
Thanks, but you can't imagine what i've tried the past few months.

I've flashed any android fw available, various pit files, odin, kies, formating, wiping, and, and, and... I've spent hundreds of hours with reading and trying to fix it. Nothing helped. It's some kind of semi-hardware-damage. It's hard to say when exactly it happened, cause at first i thought it's related to the roms i've flashed. But eventually i've noticed it wasn't the roms, it was my phone.

However, with this jb fw the instability is still there, but it's greatly reduced for some reason. So i can at least use it till i get my next phone.
[Galaxy S II General] Jgjd691995:
i have an idea run quadrant benchmark and screenshot the result and send it as a pm or here. it may be ur io thats damaged **i read somewhere that it was a drag and drop repair**
[Galaxy S II General] drraptor:
LG hasn't sold 30 millions + nexus 4 yet.

When it will it will face same criticism as Samsung
[Galaxy S II General] mfpreach:
Yes it's out by 2 months.

It's probably hard bricked. It's weird because I didn't actually do anything at that moment to do it. Just failed on me randomly.

I'm wondering if it is worth Jtagging and then selling because I'm anticipating just having to pick up a new phone. (I'm in Canada too so shipping is steep to mobiletechvideos)
[Galaxy S II General] Jgjd691995:
anyone know how jtag does and what it does ??
[Galaxy S II General] bombaybadboy:
As I understand it, it modifies boot up sequence, but I may be wrong
[Galaxy S II General] rakeshishere:
N4 is a Google device manufactured by LG. It will be updated with updates by Google and not LG. No. of sales really doesn't matter here

All what I was trying to say was Among all Android OEMS, Samsung appears to be the best in terms of providing updates to their devices.

Also how come this thread has got hijacked by some guy flashing his device with JB leaked update and then later device going dead by itself. Take it elsewhere pls and No offense but I would say it's a coincidence and has got nothing to do with the leak or this thread

Sent from the Matrix
[Galaxy S II General] eweu:
No JB in december :(

Samsung is going to release it somewhen in January
[Galaxy S II General] cnjax:
Source?
[Galaxy S II General] mfpreach:
Yes, well a) It didn't occur during a flash at all, and b) was trying to determine if has something to do with the brickbug and this Rom. If it is just a coincidence that is fine. Thank you to those who have suggested solutions.
[Galaxy S II General] bombaybadboy:
Here is a question, I have never been a fan of kies so never used it. if we want the update then we will have to use it unless sammobile get the update first. So what are the plans for getting kies to update our devices. I have a few untested plans like I have found my carriers last 4.0.4 firmware to flash. Also have my original fw backup and will just replace its rooted kernel. I will try spooffw app if needed with GB. I have used mobile Odin from day one so no binary counter increase. Any other idea best way to get kies to update?
[Galaxy S II General] jashy67:
Sounds like a troll without links or sources ;)
[Galaxy S II General] TheSniperFan:
JTAG is a standard that allows testing and debugging hardware.

When repairing your smartphone, you use connectors that are on the mainboard to directly write the bootloader onto the devices hardware, thus bypassing a lot of potential problem sources like USB. The only thing Heimdall/Odin need is an intact bootloader (excluding hardware faults). JTAG is fully independent from software. Look at this simplified software hierarchy:

1. Android

2. Android Kernel (recovery)

3. Bootloader

If 1 is broken, you need at least 2. If 2 is broken, you need at least 3. If 3 is broken, you're ****ed.

JTAG is hardware-side and thus has no dependency. It restores 3 directly, which enables you to restore everything else from the ground up.
[Galaxy S II General] hazwheel:
If you are coming from the lsj leak, I expect kies won't allow you to update
[Galaxy S II General] bombaybadboy:
GB firmware plus spooffw app from play store use to work for many people. I will get it running just wondered the best way :)
[Galaxy S II General] hazwheel:
hmmm... interesting, I wasn't aware of that
[Galaxy S II General] bombaybadboy:
Just spooffw is an app that tricks kies to update. I downloaded the firmware my carrier has as its latest update with no root and was going to try that first. Can't believe I may have to trust kies to spend 30mins to update
[Galaxy S II General] eweu:
http://www.androidpit.de/jelly-bean-galaxy-s2-note-termine
[Galaxy S II General] Don MC:
My german is a bit rusty, but to me it sounds like the article is about branded FW. We can expect unbranded FW to be released before that.
[Galaxy S II General] TheSniperFan:
Richtig. :D

It's about T-Mobile and they are damn slow when it comes to updates. So expect it before February 2013 (from the article).
[Galaxy S II General] Mittaa:
I check for JB update every day, but it might be better just to stay away from SamMobile Firmware page until end of December LOL

Google translate

http://www.androidpit.de/jelly-bean-galaxy-s2-note-termine

[Update] Jelly Bean for Galaxy S2 and conditions Telekom moves dates

For the Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 now the update to Android 4.1 is planned for the second week of the 2013th The availability of the update should therefore sometime between the 6th and 13 January will be displayed on the screens.

At the same time, owners can look forward to a telecom-branded Galaxy Note 1 and a Galaxy S Advance on Jelly Bean. Originally, the score get the new firmware a week after the S2 update. For the S Advance the second week of 2013 was from the outset of the planned date.

Too bad that the update is delayed, but I think it's commendable that the telecom playing with open cards. It is interesting in this context, of course, when ungebrandete devices to be updated Jelly Bean. Assuming the update for the Samsung Galaxy S3 from the end of October, contract-free smartphone should receive the update only two or three days earlier. But like us, Telekom announced at that time, often up to two weeks to pass a manufacturer updates after release distributed by the provider. So she may very lucky for ungebrandete devices still work this year.

[Update] As reported Golem.de correct me Telekom has announced the dates for completing. The updates itself so could actually ship until two weeks later.
[Galaxy S II General] TheSniperFan:
Gotta love the Google translator.

I live in Germany and already posted the relevant information.

Update finished in the first or second week of January and will ship about two weeks later. Basically in late January/early February.
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
Crapsung failed again pfff.......
[Galaxy S II General] hazwheel:
Yes, I've NEVER updated with keis, in fact my s2 had a custom ROM on it within an hour of me getting it :p I can upgrade in January anyway, just don't know what to get
[Galaxy S II General] bombaybadboy:
Think my next phone I will go back to Sony, they have been aosp friendly. Bought Samsung s2 because all the top devs had one and thought the hardware was amazing. I have this device for another 10 months so have to stick with it. Still think s2 is the best looking phone out there tho :)
[Galaxy S II General] olyloh6696:
Ah, been patiently waiting for the OTA to start rolling out. Had enough now, flashing the leak now.

Been waiting since October checking everyday for news, and anyway if it starts rolling out in January it takes time to reach our countries etc.

Argh.
[Galaxy S II General] webjunky:
i would go for the galaxy note 2
[Galaxy S II General] hazwheel:
See, I considered that, but I'm getting a 32GB nexus 7 for Xmas so will I really want such a big screen?
[Galaxy S II General] bombaybadboy:
The leak isn't to bad, I have been using as a daily since it came out and I'm a real flashaholic. You have the lock screen problem yes but battery drain comes mainly from g-now which when turned off still leaves g-now with 80% of its functions. I also used kalgecin system tweak app so I can turn on and off maps which seemed another drainer + Samsung push services.
[Galaxy S II General] rakeshishere:
It still is best phone in terms of support (GB-ICS-JB) and performance as well. The Exynos dual core CPU and Mali GPU on S2 was a revolutionary phone and gave tough competition to other phones in terms of benchmarks and real world tests as well

Only negative I can think of is that it's not AOSP friendly but that might change in future and by that time many of them would have switched to something else. I'll stick to SGS2 for some time till I find next not an upgrade but my next revolutionary phone.

+1

Same here :p Can't remember the last time I used KIES

What took you so long? I'm fine with delay in final updates as long as we have leaks to play with. ;)

That's worthy suggestion and I'm sure Note 2 is device which is in a league of its own and once you get used to the size you'll never back to smaller phone (read- 4.3,4.7,4.8 inch phones which are still big for many)

Sent from the Matrix
[Galaxy S II General] praktical:
haven't switched to the SGSIII

I know in my heart I will NEVER switch to the Samsung Galaxy III. I've always been a believer of Sturdy Tech and sadly to say the build of the Samsung Galaxy 3 is extremely a poor build. It's so far behind the i9100 it's just not even funny. Until they seriously commit some time and effort into producing a stronger built phone in relation to the tech behind it then I must say I dont see myself leaving my Samsung i9100 for any other builds.
[Galaxy S II General] LosserKlosser:
Never been a big-time poster but I have been a long time lurker and I just wanted to comment on some of the best changes from 4.0.4 to this 4.1.2 leak - these are things that I myself long have found annoying in stock ROM:

1: 3 icons for fast opening apps of your choice on lock-screen. Camera was always opening to late when going through the locksceen to the homescreen

2: Ability to toggle mobile data, sync, block listing and power conserving profile from power widget.

3: Also ability to enter settings from power widget - this makes far more sense. All in all, you get a better flow like in CM - it's more intuitive.

4: You can now detick preview contents of received text messages. The fact that I was forced to have a pre-view of my incoming texts made me switch from stock texting to Handcent. I don't want anybody reading my texts over my shoulder.

5: Permanent disabling of noise reduction in dialer. I expect this to give far less complaints about poor quality of calls from my mother and girlfriend.

6: Dialer still have some flaws. In Denmark phone numbers are 8 digits and easy to read in pairs of two like this: 12 34 56 78. Dialer breaks numbers op in sections of three like this: 123-456-78 - annoying. I hope this is different in the official nordic release, but I don't expect it.

7: Another issue with the dialer is the T9 quick search that does not support danish special charecters - æøå. The word 'læge' means 'doctor', and when I press - 'la' - the dialer will suggest 'lars' and not 'læge'. I have installed Dialer One that will handle the danish chars. Pity. I like the stock dialer otherwise.

8: You still cannot disable the logging of texts or calls. In general, this device will log everything. I don't like that I don't have the ability to toggle logging as I want to - my old Nokia could do this.

9: Graphics *seems* nicer. And by seems, I mean, I have nothing to prove it with, buttons are just more shiny looking, lockscreen looks good, everything seems smooth.

10: TouchWiz UI is DEFINETLY smoother, everything seems not as squared. It is more elegant, I think. However, I use launcher pro so I won't be seeing much to the new TouchWiz features but my friend who use it will absolutely feel that this a real upgrade.

11: So far no bugs. All the features that I use works, the rest I wouldn't know about. Tonight BetterBatteryStats will have a look at the wakelocks.

I'm looking forward to getting the official danish/nordic version.

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I think I will switch sometime next year when the Danish LTE band is supported by my carrier. Then it will either be the S3 or the HTC One X+ I think. Even though they have really extreme screens.

But for now I simply can't find the *need* to upgrade for galaxy s2. It's fast, it has a lot of memory - I don't really miss anything, except maybe for a notification LED. That was really a nice thing to have on my old HTC marvel/wildfire s.
[Galaxy S II General] nghockcheng:
Was still waiting and hoping for the JB 4.1.2 till I saw the announcement of the international version of HTC Butterfly. Now it doesn't matter anymore as I think I will get it once it is available here and sell the S2. Before S2, I was using the HD2 and I think the HTC Butterfly will provide the same experience of flashing of customized ROM which we can choose according to our preference. Good ROM in S2 is really limited.
[Galaxy S II General] sosodemi:
Aleluia !!! :D
[Galaxy S II General] j510:
Good luck with HTC haha. You thought Samsung was bad with updates. Only time will show you.
[Galaxy S II General] rakeshishere:
Wildfire S has a Notification LED :what: That's only minor thing I miss as well apart from battery life on S2

In terms of flashing custom roms or dev support, HD2 just doesn't die. That device freaking runs everything. It also doesn't mean all HTC devices are the same and I agree it's not same with Exynos devices and custom rom support is limited

Also OneX got 4.1.1 update months after SGS3 got it and GALAXY S3 has already got 4.1.2 which is a bug fix for Android but for the S3 it includes a lot of Note 2 features. The Galaxy S2 is a earlier flagship and delay is obvious

Sent from the Matrix
[Galaxy S II General] dsingh300:
Hello fellow lurker :)

I THINK you might be able to solve this problem by changing your locale by using an app such as this. (i think)

best of luck :D
[Galaxy S II General] lessio.a1:
I flashed the stock rom with the modem xxlsj LQ6 hope not to have more battery drain ... Waiting for the arrival rom final .... Greetings to all the community :)

Send to Pb G100W Thor v20 Jelly Bean and Galaxy S2 Nfc
[Galaxy S II General] jebuchanan:
Could you please provide that app. I'd be interested in testing it.

Sent from my Samsung GT-i9100M

ROM Dilidroid UHLPS

Kernel Siyah 4.15
[Galaxy S II General] bombaybadboy:
Its on play store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ce=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_term=spooffw

This might help you to

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=y8g-fLX1fnM&desktop_uri=/watch?v=y8g-fLX1fnM

But that's my backup plan I first will try fw for my region and carrier unrooted with 0 binary counter
[Galaxy S II General] dikidera:
I've waited the whole November, now it's Dec 8(local time for me)...and still no OFFICIAL release? What's the hold up?
[Galaxy S II General] infatality:
Jelly bean source code for sgs2 is finally out!!!

http://www.sammobile.com/2012/12/08...the-gt-i9100_hk-galaxy-sii-jelly-bean-update/
[Galaxy S II General] LosserKlosser:
Thanks - but I've actually already flashed my nandroid backup of 4.0.4.

There was way to many kernel wakelocks happening on 4.1.2 so I had massive battery-drain. Still, I'm happy now I know what to expect and some of the things that dissapointed me the most when I got the S2 now gets fixed. Now my flashing itch doesn't hurt any longer, and I can wait for the official release :D

I have tried your link, though. I'm running XWLPY and it *should* be for nordic countries, but still the dialer breaks up the numbers all wrong. Unfortunately your link couldn't fix it. I had high hopes because the dialer in 4.0.3 actually did break up the numbers right and I really liked it - it was easy to make out the numbers.

If the stock dialer could break up numbers the way I wanted it to, and the T9 search included danish special chars, I would be truly happy with running stock ROM.

CM doesn't do it for me - the camera quality is to low - it's a real shame. Nice ROM though.