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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blackangst:
Correct. And to answer your second question (rvmehta) no...flashing a custom ROM does not unlock the SIM. And before you ask, if search, you will find the answer on how to do it :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 850Mda:
Loving the JellyBean Update so far!

Just rooted it too. So I'm gonna debloat it. Probably gonna Stay stock rooted until i get really accustomed with it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 96shox:
How the f*** does battery level go down while charging? NEVER happened with ICS even on heavy usage.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] algorhythm:
Happens frequently if your battery usage is greater than the battery charging.

i.e. streaming bluetooth audio while having the screen on using Google Navigation while on a car charger.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 96shox:
Ya but what im saying is that under similar useage on same charger it never happened, not even close, on ics. I think the battery issue on jb is related to the radio because seen im on wifi battery life is normal
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 850Mda:
has anyone found a list of stock apps that we can remove without messing up the rom?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rvmehta:
anyone having problems with hotspotting? i have jedi mind trick jelly bean ROM. using the built in hotspot app, my computer will not successfully connect to the wifi network created by the phone.

i tried using wifi tether for root users, and i'm able to connect to the wifi network, but not data is being transmitted.

can anyone help?

both of these worked when i was on stock ICS.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] eLCruz:
Same here. I think Tmo has put the kaibash on the tethering this time around! Maybe that's what took so long with the stock update... They were working out how to force customers to pay TWICE for their data plans... :mad::thumbdown: Tmo

sent from my Jelly Bean'd T989...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rvmehta:
this worked for me: http://highonandroid.com/android-ap...android-smartphone-or-tablet-universal-guide/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] malisha1:
what I noticed, after unplugging after a full charge the battery percent drops from 100 to 97 in like 10 seconds.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 96shox:
Yupp, me too. And keeps dropping rapidly. And I found a glitch when you try to take a picture with the flash on and battery level is below 20 percent the phone just shuts off.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AMartLA:
Same here. Otherwise though my battery life is still better than ICS.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rezaaz:
Is there a way to root the T-Mobile Galaxy S2 with the jelly bean temporarily? I am Ok with the official ROM and just want to copy a couple of fonts in the system/font folder. I don't want to void my warranty.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] pjhead:
In regards to the battery drain issue, I charged my phone to 100% and then allowed the battery to drain till the phone automatically shut down. Charged it to 100% and now battery life is like before the update to Jellybean.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] malisha1:
Ill try that today. I think Google now is draining the battery faster.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] zark0000:
Flashed official release through KIES while rooted - not recommending it, just saying it works fine - and didn't have revert back to unrooted stock which was nice.

I have now flashed to a deodexed unbloted version of same official release - seems fine as well.

This one http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2226860

Seems solid - ripple lock and tether mod as separate flash which I appreciated.

Native email app will not respect the font size - system "sees" it's Tiny and works - just the email app stays at Normal.

Native email, Gmail seems to respect the system font size.

I hate the lockscreen - it works, it's fine - it's just really ugly.

If anyone feels nice... I tried this guide a few times to get AOSP lockscreen over Touchwiz - and can get everything de/recompiled and the phone boots and works - but just get "TouchWiz has stopped working" when I hit settings. So I messed up SecSettings (I asusme) somewhere.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2125330

Overall - big yay! I love new stuff!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bbuhas:
Jelly Been for S2x koodo

I found this link and now I am updating to 4.1.2 my S2 x Koodo Mobile Canada.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Adapt0r:
This is supposed to happen with any battery after removing external polarization field. The voltage will drop slightly which will be interpreted by the controller as lower State-of-Charge.

For longer life the SOC should vary between 0.3-0.95. That range vary for different battery technology.

Overcharging might accelerate decay.

Cheers!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] spector711:
Shouldn't the phone prevent overcharging?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Adapt0r:
Modern chargers are supposed to prevent overcharging by drastically reducing charging current. This mode is called "floating". In this mode charging is supposed to compensate the self-discharge.

However, external voltage is still applied, therefore polarization of ions is still in the direction that facilitates oxidation.

Ideally the charger should disconnect the battery.

So far I didn't see it in phones I used. Any time I disconnect the charger the phone shows little drop in measured state-of-charge - an indicator that charging polarization was applied until the last moment.

It should be noted that temperature can affect the SOC also. When the battery cools it might show less charge.

It should be said that operation of modern lithium batteries is still not completely understood. There is many technologies of fabricating of these batteries and each has different factors leading to degradation.

I would not pay attention to less than 5% change since there are so many factors.And the battery survives only so many cycles degrading with each one.

Best!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tronmech:
Has anyone else noticed occasional issues with the stock KB update refusing to switch from wifi to cellular data? I've had to either reboot or place a voice call to her it back...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 96shox:
All I know is that battery life is completely unacceptable. It literally lasts maybe 7hrs with minimal use. With regular medium usage 4 to 5 hours max.

Under battery usage I've noticed that the phone is awake 80 percent of the time
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rfail1988:
Use betterbatterystats and wakelock detector to find out the culprit. Its often a rogue app that doesn't play well with jb. For me it was eBay and maps... so i had to uninstall eBay and tweak location settings on maps and that did the trick.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] evankayeotis:
Toggles

Anyone know if there is a flashable zip out there that can allow me to change toggles on the status bar? I enjoy stock and would only like to modify these toggles! Thanks for any responses!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
OK guys. Best way to speed up my wife's phone which is stock UN rooted and running latest jellybean from T-Mobile.

Problem is her phone is laggy. She hasn't had a full wipe/factory reset in never lol

Honestly I'm trying to avoid that.

I've booted into her stock Sammy recovery and wiped caches but her phone only got a little bit better.

I'm posting here because I don't want to make a new thread.

Any help at all is appreciated. Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Scoobyracing03:
My wife's phone was bricked doing the JB update and I got a new phone sent to me from T-Mobile which had ICS on it and from a clean ICS I flashed JB and it was laggy. I did a factory reset and then loaded all her stuff on it and it's been great for her and battery life has been about what it was if not betting on ICS. It sucks having to reload everything but it seems like with every Android phone I've owned if you want to to run right it's best to wipe it and start fresh.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Elloco305:
The thing is that she has so many Damn things on her phone that without it being rooted I have no clue how to properly back it up.

Hence why a factory reset is absolutely my last option.

Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] OldeCrow:
The phone will do a complete restore from your google account including market apps on the first run if everything goes according to plan...

I have found that skipping the wifi setup part of the first run setup works better for me as the phone restores wifi settings (and connects on it's own) early in the google account restore and then continues on to do a full market restore of all my apps without issue. I have had problems getting the phone to do a full restore if I enter my wifi settings first in the first run setup. You can try either way if one doesn't work factory reset from the phone settings and try again.

I use titanium backup and backup all my extras (game data, app data, call logs messaging) call logs and messaging data can be backed up separately from the actual app+data and you will recognize these separate backups because they have a titanium backup icon instead of an app icon. Call logs and messaging are the only two system apps I backup and restore this way that I can personally say won't cause problems and I know the wifi data restore has caused me problems before so If you want to restore more than that I suggest you do one at a time and reboot and test the phone so you know which one causes problems if one does...

Also debloat the samsung contacts sync stuff your battery life will thank you!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] nashy10:
If you want speed look into some scripts such as supercharger v6 or crossbreeder

Sent from infamous Galaxy SII X
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] scifan:
I feel you're pain. Thought I was going to be banished to the couch when I screwed with my wife's phone and screwed up her contacts... (mixed between Google and Facebook)...

Have you checked to see if you can do an adb backup (which doesn't require root, and which can be used by titanium backup for a restore?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] markusf21:
Try this

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup

Sent from the greatest Galaxy
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] stinamn:
Rooting SGH-T989 tmobile S2 and battery drainage explinations.

My phone is Tmobile SGH-T989 with the 4 buttons at bottom of phone and has different processor than other T9100 S2 android phones.

I'm new to android phones and op system all together. I have been tweaking PC's hacking stuff (not theft type ****) for quite a few years. Started tinkering around with linux/ubuntu for a while also. I just got 2 Galaxy S2's for my son and I from Tmobile at BB for 59.99 apiece, or I would of went with S3, (S4 was not out just yet, it had a week or so and the 59.99 deal was up that day) We both got ICS update over the air. I did some studying in the manual about battery life and drainage problems. Right away I turned of Google sync,GPS,Bluetooth, how often the Accu Weather could check for update. I turned off notifications about apps I didn't want and learned how to keep them from trying to update and searching for updates.My battery life was lasting for almost 2 days, now my son wouldn't let me do any of this to his phone and he was at 40% by the time he came home from school.

I installed AuTu Benchmark,speedtest,flashlight and few other things. I almost didn't update to JB due to folks complaining about battery issues. Kies wouldn't work for me on my self built gaming PC, Win Ultimate x64. It would download update then hang and crash Kies. i gave it a try on my Dell laptop Win 7 Pro, it did samething couple times then it worked?

I have stock JB thru Kies.Right after update everything was turned back on,screen brightness to almost 100% etc... I put it on like what ICS was on plus on auto and had to tweak everything again and battery life is pretty good.

JB uses more ram than ICS did, almost 100MB more,stays around 498 to 560 out of the 788MB of ram?

Now I want to root it, put the SUperUser, then install the titanium backup, to tweak a bit more bloatware apps. In the "application manager", from settings, I was able to get rid of Asphalt 6 game by clicking on "running",then clicking on "force stop", then clicking on "clear data", this brought up, "this will remove it from your system" Then I cleared out the "cache", unchecked "show notifications".

So far it is gone from the list of applications in the applications pages. I'm wondering if this uninstalled it. It could not be uninstalled from ICS for some reason. I like the JB update of course I only used ICS for about 1 week.

I want to root it and need some piece by piece instructions. I did not do a factory reset after my Kies update to Jellybean, it reads T989UVMC6. I seen the page S2root.com and their youtube channel, but it says root ICs on SGH-T989, also says will work for jellybean.I can't find it in search here but I do want to just keep my stock tmobile rom but with Superuser. Thanks and this is a great place! :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AMartLA:
I'm on stock JB and couldn't be happier. When I first upgraded, I made sure to fully charge the phone, and the let it drain completely before charging fully again. I did that a few times and now I have great battery life. I averaged about 6-8 hours on ICS, now on JB I get about 10-14 hours depending on use. I don't disable wifi, bluetooth or GPS, I use Google Now and I play games for a good hour a day. My standby time is great as well. If I don't touch the phone, it will easily last about 24-26 hours on a charge.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blackangst:
Have you read the stickies?

[HOWTO] ROOT, Install ClockworkMod Touch Recovery & get into Download Mode for newbie
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rvmehta:
Google Talk?

Hi -

I installed Jedi Mind Trick Jelly Beam ROM and I can't seem to find "Google Talk" and it doesn't appear available for download on Play. Any tips?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] krazierokz:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1846447 there you go :good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jthumanist:
I did not ODIN CWM this time, just TWRP.

Find the SuperSU BusyBox 0.93 version zip. Make sure and put it on the external SD root. I use TWRP 2.5 as a .tar through ODIN (I'm on SGH-T989 T-Mob). Boot in to TWRP, select Install, select the SU file, swipe the button and it should do its thing. If you get the "Success" message do a dalvick/cache wipe then fix permissions and reboot. Now youre rooted. Just search the thread for the SU download. You cannot put the SU zip in a folder on the SD card, it has to be on the root of the SD card.

Hit thanks if this helped.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] nashy10:
Galaxy s3 just got 4.2.2, hopefully this is useful for our phones development somehow
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rfail1988:
The s3 is a very different phone. Unfortunately the ATT skyrocket is basically the only other phone that may help with development.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Ibztone:
Thanks, that worked great. At first I couldn't find an SU zip that would work with 4.1.2.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] krazierokz:
AOCP BY TEAM COLLECTIVE IS HERE FOR t989 finally go get it guys looks awesome !!! 4.2.2 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2302738
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rymanh:
There may be a glimmer of hope for us.. nothing is confirmed yet for any Galaxy S2 devices. But there is a chance..

http://www.latinospost.com/articles...-update-android-4-2-slated-older-flagship.htm
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] t989BeLikeItDo:
I think they're waiting to release 4.2.2 so that they sell more S4's using 4.2.2 as a selling point. After they sell enough units, I can only hope they decide to keep their word and update to 4.2.2 so that we don't have to have modders hacking together buggy releases and instead concentrate on stream-lining performance.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rymanh:
No doubt that there is a monetary angle behind when they release updates..if the international S2 gets the update it is likely that ssung will send an update for other variants to the carriers and it could take them months to release it.if we do get it..it won't be for a while but hopefully before the end of the year..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RickCan1:
Stock 4.2.2 ROM

Hi all, I am just starting my trek trough this wonderful world of development and have been reading everything I can. I've got the Kitchen installed and think I'm ready to start playing with it but I was hoping to start with a fresh stock 4.2.2 ROM and am having a bear of a time finding one. I am downloading a stock 4.1.2 but was hoping for the former. If anyone can point me to a copy it would be greatly appreciated. :good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] meekrawb:
There is no stock 4.2.2 for this phone. 4.1.2 is the newest.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RickCan1:
Somehow CM is using it in the 10.1 releases. I just installed Avatar 2.1.4b yesterday and they are using CM's 10.1 base which shows JB 4.2.2

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2130852

I would post the question in that forum but I am still a Noob so I thought it more appropriate to post in here.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] meekrawb:
Those are custom ROMs, not stock ROMs.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RickCan1:
Yeah I'm aware that CM and Avatar are custom ROM's but the Avatar ROM I am currently running states;

Android version 4.2.2

Baseband version T989UVMC6 (which I had to flash separately by leaning the hard way)

Kernel version 3.0.72-cyanogenmod etc....

Avatar ROM version 2.14b-1048 etc...

Build number cm_hurcules.userdebug 4.2.2 etc...

in the linked thread I posted above it states;

Details:

Android JB - 4.2.2

CM10.1

..and in the CyanogenMod thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2138101

"CyanogenMod is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean), which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device."

So I was lead to believe that they have a stock version JB 4.2.x that they have stripped down and are using it as a Base Stock ROM.

As I stated earlier I am just barely starting to learn this stuff and have only rudimentary knowledge of Android development so if I have mis-taken what I'm reading please extrapolate so I may better understand what they are claiming. Also I really mean no offense by questioning anyones responses I truly just want to learn. :confused:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] markusf21:
Cyanogenmod, AOKP, and all other 4.22 roms are based on AOSP from Google. The latest stock rom from Samsung is 4.1. AOSP is pure android as Google intended, Samsung is their own take on android that is similar but not the same

Sent from the greatest Galaxy
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RickCan1:
Aha! :good: O.k. that makes sense. Thanks to both of you! I'm playing with the Kitchen right now using the stock 4.1 so I know what to look for next. :D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Onemoa:
I'm pretty sure the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 will not even be getting 4.2.2 by the end of this year.

Samsung needs to stop releasing new phone ever month and work on keeping the phones they have up to date.

4.2.2 is ready to go it's just up to Samsung to release it in a timely manner. It's bad enough we have to wait for the carriers to then add there bloatware then wait for them to release it as well. But the least Samsung can do is put more resources into updating there phones.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] eagleflyfree92:
Lock Screen Controls?

Does anyone have lock screen music controls??
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rymanh:
Yeah ..that's Samsungs busines model..over saturate the market with their phone so that everywhere you look you see a Samsung product and make you want to have one too.. its smart on their behalf but the more phones there are, the less likely it is that timely updates will be released for all of them
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] OreBoySwaggin:
I'm 100% Sure

I can almost guarantee that the Note 2 will have JB 4.2.2 it's too new not to have it. if the S3 is receiving it then the Note 2 will definitely have some.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rymanh:
The note 2 will definitely get it..it'll probably get the next update after that too.

I read that there is a leak for the international S2.. If that goes well then we are more likely to get the update too.. But prepared to wait for it.. Most people will be gone from this phone before that happens.. I'm still happy with my device and as long as its working then I won't upgrade
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] FarReach:
I also read somewhere that the international version of this phone was going to get it as well. Regarding the Note II I would assume it still had a few more updates in her. I mean look at our phone, this started off with GB 2.3.+ then ICS 4.0.+ now JB 4.1.2. I got this phone pretty much on release and I don't recall updating to honeycomb ever, I think that got skipped but I could be way wrong on that one (my memory isn't up to par anymore). Whether it was skipped or not this phone has had sooo many updates it's crazy to think Samsung would stop the Note II at 4.2.2 when it came with 4.1.... That would be pretty ridiculous. I think I might pick one up because I can see it getting KLP one of these days and our S2 even getting official 4.2.2 :fingers-crossed:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] akeem127:
Honeycomb was for tablets only. And yes, as posted by SamMobile on twitter the GS2 will/should be recieving the update as well but unfortunately we will have to wait much much longer for tmobile to deliver it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] droptopMP:
How's battery life on Jb? Worth the update overall? Still haven't done it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] FarReach:
It all depends what you use your phone for bro. During the work week I'm not on my phone that much and I could probably pull 24 on AOKP. Weekends are a different story, usually my eyes are glued to my phone when I'm not doing home repairs so it dies a lot quicker. I just posted in another thread that (with my phone) stock based roms kill my battery quicker. It's pretty much on a phone to phone basis though so play around and see what works best with you. ICS roms have stellar battery life btw but JB has awesome ones as well. I'de do it if I were you (obviously I already did and I am not disappointed). Try it out and if you don't like it then just flash back to ICS:good::good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Double0EK:
To start off..

Sorry I havent been following this thread or even the S2 threads in a long time because I dont use one...but my wife does...heres my issue....

So my wife was having lots of issues with her T989 while on GB. So I searched the threads and noticed Kies had the JB 4.1.2 update. I told her about it and she agreed to let me do the update. It took some convincing because she thinks that im rooting it and blah blah blah...anyways so I backed up all her stuff using kies and proceeded with the update.

Well, she never told me that her contacts were backed up only through Tmobile Mobile Life (wtf!) and now all her "important" contacts are gone. Needless to say its all my fault and I shouldn't have done it...so I even tried to do a restore contacts through the backup I made using kies...and guess what? It restored only about 47 contacts.

Heres my lesson for today..dont fix anything for your wife..lol

But seriously, I need to train her how to use google to back up her contacts. Fml