yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] atifsh:
But I said download mode first, why are you trying recovery?
[Galaxy S II General] tezoide:
Question:

Hi guys, here's what I did:

1. Flashed this leaked firmware (4.04)

2. Flashed Siyah kernel 3.3.2

Bluetooth and camera weren't working, so then I:

3. Flashed Stock LQ5-CWM (someone posted a link for it in this forum)

Bluetooth and camera are working fine now and the firmware seems to be really nice and stable... Before I read about this bricking problem I tried to go into CMW (Home+power+volume at startup) just to see if it was installed correctly, but for some reason it took me to stock recovery.

Then I read all these posts about bricking when using CMW recovery + 4.04 and the alarm bell sounded!! :eek:

4. Uninstalled CMW recovery using Titanium backup.

Now, my question is: do you think it would be safe to do a wipe/factory reset using stock recovery? Or is there still a risk of bricking the phone? If I was sure about this I would stick to this 4.04 rom, as it seems to be really stable...

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] ricnar456:
Flash 4.0.3 without wipes and when the phone restart make wipes with the 4 0.3 kernel this is safe 100%.

Ricnar

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[Galaxy S II General] zdenoh1975:
cfroot lq5 is update, all is safe. No panic.

Stay on LQ5.
[Galaxy S II General] simonwil:
Has anyone with a i9100p tried this? If so, does NFC work?
[Galaxy S II General] Honzze:
You can't uninstall CWM with titanium backup. You have only uninstalled the app part. But the system itself remains in modified state.

Search for the correct advises in this thread and the respective links.
[Galaxy S II General] zecs:
any reviews of the new 4.0.4 ROM?

PDA: I9100XWLPM

CSC: I9100OXELP8

Version: 4.0.4

Date: 2012-07-06
[Galaxy S II General] Gillion:
It is specially made for Russia.

My advice... WAIT until a ROM made for the "west" is released.
[Galaxy S II General] bluefa1con:
In Russia galaxy s2 bricks you :-P
[Galaxy S II General] atifsh:
Nice one
[Galaxy S II General] gavin15:
I've gone into download mode and done flashed the Rom but after that I can't get into recovery
[Galaxy S II General] Fox05:
Is it still safe to wipe older roms like XXLPW by going to Settings -> Back up and reset -> Factory Data Reset and not bricking my phone? :)

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] zdenoh1975:
Nothing brick your phone! Cfroot lq5 is updated! I dont understand the panic - now.. ROM is OK and the old Cfroot lq5 is a history.
[Galaxy S II General] :
It wasnt cf root that bricked all those devices, but combination of stock kernel + bad chip + cwm recovery (even the temporary). To make sure you won't brick your device is to stay away from CWM.
[Galaxy S II General] 00raq00:
How looks in eMMC that my device is not safe? Any screenshot with safe and unsafe device, please. :-)

Wysłane z mojego GT-I9100 za pomocą Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] GoNz0:
vodafone got a OTA update today, most of the 4.0.4 features are in there but its still 4.0.3
[Galaxy S II General] mick_novi:
Question?

Hi guys... I've been on lq5 for the past couple of days and had no problems..

My question is about CMW. Can I restore a CMW backup that was created on a different firmware?? For example, I made a backup on LPG and would like to restore all my apps and data on LQ5, is that possible? If not, could you recommend what app to use for stuff like that. I am tired of re-installing everything when I flash a new firmware.

Btw, I also tried using an app called "MyBackup Pro" but I could never restore apps and media with it.

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] andro6600:
Hey man! I've done just "THAT" , restore LPG, and ended up with damage SD card, lost all the information on it, and that is not even the worst scenario!!! I am thinking, you better install some LPG first, and then restore. Not shure thow this will help or not, but it's worth trying! ;)
[Galaxy S II General] mick_novi:
Uff I am sorry to hear that... :(

CMW does not even let me restore if the firmware is different... That's why I would like to know if there is a way to do it.
[Galaxy S II General] Slavestate:
Firmware version of your backup doesn't matter at all when restoring a CWM backup. What do you think we all use it for? There would be no way to go back if you installed a rom you didn't like if this didn't work and there would be no point in using it.
[Galaxy S II General] gavin15:
I've tried http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1760107.

But it doesn't work. I've tried flashing official Rom still doesn't work.

I can get into download mode anyone got something to flash through download mode to fix?
[Galaxy S II General] mick_novi:
Hmmm.. So, what you are saying is, if I do a CWM backup now in LQ5 and then update (or downgrade) to some other firmware I should be able to restore with CWM? Is there anything special you do before making a backup, because it gives me an error every time I try doing that...
[Galaxy S II General] fbatti73:
Try using leaked LPJ (is a full wipe Rom on 3 files) using Pit and Re-partition.

Good luck

Ciaooooo
[Galaxy S II General] Beowulf_pt:
I am a bit confused regarding the latest ROMs and all the talk about bricking with LPM.

Can someone summarize if the following is true?

So the latest official stock ROM is:

PDA: I9100XXLQ5

MODEM: I9100XXLQ5

CSC: I9100OXALQ5

Version: 4.0.4

Date: 2012-06-28

Regions: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

I have the following questions:

-Is this ROM/kernel stable and safe to flash?

-Will it work ok with Mobile Odin Pro for flash+root?

-Is it non-wipe? Nothing will be lost?

I am on 4.0.3 LP7 (TPH CSC) and the main incentive to upgrade is getting rid of the "Stuck Wifi toggle" bug.
[Galaxy S II General] manmikey:
I had the stuck wifi bug on LP7 which I had upgraded to on keis. I was reluctant to use the leaked 4.0.4 upgrade due to the brick problems. I was going to downgrade to GB but I just tried reflashing LP7 using Odin and the wifi bug and SOD have gone, didn't even have to reset or wipe, might be worth a try.
[Galaxy S II General] silverblack:
When can we expect an Official UK 4.04 release?
[Galaxy S II General] rakeshishere:
It's released in Russia, China and I'm not sure how Samsung has planned to deploy these OTA updates? There is no particular pattern here and probably it might release in next 15-20 days

Sent from my Galaxy S2 powered by CM9
[Galaxy S II General] Slavestate:
Yep that's the whole purpose of making CWM backups. There's nothing special to be done. You select backup, then you select restore. CWM doesnt care what youre running cause it just restores the entire file system that was backed up. Its completely seperate and has nothing to do with the actual rom youre running. Works for me going from my backups of 2.3.4 to CM9 to ATTs 4.0.3 and back again.
[Galaxy S II General] Alien7:
I´ve got the gamma banding issues on I9100OXALQ5. Does it have here anyone too? How to fix it? Because the ROM seems to me fine.

I came back to official Samsung ROM from CM9, before I installed it, I put the Gingerbread version and than went to I9100OXALQ5 indeed.

EDIT: And I get the error too, when I want to go back to CM9. It writes me an error on the system so there must be something different like the partition was bigger/smaller etc.
[Galaxy S II General] Hopper8:
Australian OTA

I'm in Australia, just got updated to 4.0.4. (Galaxy s2, i9100. Not rooted (yet). Carrier: Virgin Australia). For some reason the Kies update kept crashing on me, but it worked as an OTA (215 mb).

Also note: For those of you wondering if there are any significant changes from 4.0.3 - 4.0.4: it's now possible to display battery percentage in the status bar!!

Settings>Display>tick 'Display battery percentage'.
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
View attachment radio-SGS2-LQ5-signed.zip

omgomgomgomgomgmodemomgomgomgomgomgomgomg
[Galaxy S II General] ikanikolai:
here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=28287470&postcount=1431
[Galaxy S II General] ImSherlocked:
Have Samsung finally added the elastic scrolling?
[Galaxy S II General] Baldilocks:
Why would they? I don't think you'll ever see elastic scrolling from Samsung.. unfortunately.
[Galaxy S II General] wess786:
Waiting eagerly, so I can flash this and don't have to flash 4.0.3 or 2.3.6 when I want to go back to custom.
[Galaxy S II General] Baldilocks:
Has the dialer been updated? Or is it still the drab gray, green, read and orange one? :)
[Galaxy S II General] :
Dialer is still ugly.... :)
[Galaxy S II General] bugarrun:
I do not use the stock dialer and contacts. I prefer the free apps dialer from GO available from the play store
[Galaxy S II General] OriginsOfLewis:
Root Instructions:

Flash this kernel with Odin:

http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/GalaxyS2/kernels/ICS/CFRoot

After I installed latest Siyah down to preference, it seems to work okay but not as smooth. I'll probably revert back to stock for now
[Galaxy S II General] ImSherlocked:
What's stopping them? Lack of elastic scrolling is the only reason I have been using AOKP ROMs...
[Galaxy S II General] Baldilocks:
Apple is the reason they changed it in the first place. I would imagine it's STILL the reason.

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Try this.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=28287319&postcount=7074
[Galaxy S II General] DanDroidian:
Or try exDailer. Very nice. Great layout and integrates with the regular dialer for some things, like editing contacts.
[Galaxy S II General] Baldilocks:
I'm not much for using add-on or 3rd party apps. Why re-introduce bloat when I work so hard to remove it in the first place? :)
[Galaxy S II General] ImSherlocked:
That was for overscroll bounce effect I guess which is different from elastic scrolling. AFAIK ICS still have the elastic scrolling!
[Galaxy S II General] GoNz0:
i hope this fix's my bluetooth bug, waiting for the download to finish. i take it this is odin only ?
[Galaxy S II General] Beefheart:
Because it looks and works better than the stock dialer.
[Galaxy S II General] Baldilocks:
I have no problem with the way the dialer works. Was just hoping it would be more like the GS3 dialer.
[Galaxy S II General] :
The only weird thing is "csc unknown", I've reflashed FW (with and without pit), cache separately several times, wiped cache/data -same ****. Has anybody else noticed that?
[Galaxy S II General] GoNz0:
question, with the zip having 4 files do i need to flash them all or just I9100_CODE_I9100XXLQ5_CL753921_REV02_user_low_ship.tar.md5 via the pda button ?
[Galaxy S II General] :
All of them

Code - pda

modem - phone

cache - csc

I don't recommend flashing .pit if you're not sure u really need it.
[Galaxy S II General] duykhang524:
Could you please post the main changes 4.0.3 -> 4.0.4 in the OP or make a review? It would be very appreciated :)
[Galaxy S II General] Prasad:
Looks great! :) Gonna give it a shot...
[Galaxy S II General] tlf55:
I don't know if i'm posting too fast but is it rootable ? can i put siyah kernel on it ?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] GoNz0:
thanks, odin is blue under id:com, i thought it should be yellow ? :(
[Galaxy S II General] LenAsh:
It's official but leaked, so download and try it.
[Galaxy S II General] ant987:
Do I have to flash the pit file too?
[Galaxy S II General] LenAsh:
NO
[Galaxy S II General] android_isda_shit:
omg, i cant believe, this is big, this is huge, i will be downloading now, any mirrors?
[Galaxy S II General] donalgodon:
Is there a non-wipe version?
[Galaxy S II General] arturox:
Really wanna know what new that this rom has for us.

Q: I have CM9 now, can I move to this rom without any problem?
[Galaxy S II General] android_isda_shit:
still cant freakin believe, who has tested it? is it just like the sgs3 rom?
[Galaxy S II General] ionutzmitza:
Bluetooth issue

I installed this ICS 4.0.4 firmware and i noticed that bluetooth doesn't work anymore. Is anyone having the same issue? Is there a fix for this? thanks.

LE: Also camera viewfinder is not working. It can take pictures but cannot see anything on the screen when in camera app.
[Galaxy S II General] penfold99:
Ok, so they changed the screen shot back to power + home.

And added a new font...Rosemary
[Galaxy S II General] cvillalta:
Thanks for answering my question.

:eek:
[Galaxy S II General] TheFaixy:
delete
[Galaxy S II General] IakobosJ:
LQ5 Flashable Modem :)

http://sdrv.ms/Ly1rNI
[Galaxy S II General] penfold99:
No, just like the sgs2 ROM
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
Oh. That's not a good step but a much sensible one. It was really a nuisance to remove it from 4.0.3.

Of course you can!

And don't expect 'new' things from a ROM, the bug fixes that all matters.
[Galaxy S II General] eskostar:
Power+Home has always worked, and the new font has also been present on last 1 or 2 leaked 4.0.1 builds.
[Galaxy S II General] android_isda_shit:
so this rom isnt a game changer, i called samsung tech support and they said that when 4.0.4 is going to be released it would be just like sgs3, what the hecj happend!!
[Galaxy S II General] Ku4t0:
Great news.
[Galaxy S II General] acidxtreme:
Thanks :)

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[Galaxy S II General] penfold99:
That right? Never seen it myself, but take your word for it. Maybe I should have said they removed power + Vol.down for screenshot then....
[Galaxy S II General] LenAsh:
Not great on 3UK...

dropped 2 to 4db, same position.

Back to LP3
[Galaxy S II General] Phone_Guru:
They've added a contacts tab into the dialler app and a phone tab into the contacts app. It looks better than the tab in UHLPS (see screenshots). Both transitions are smooth. They've chnged the default picture layout in contacts details view. Screenshots are made using power and home button, not including volume. They've also made some blues more vibrant like the highlighting of a notification when you swipe away. They added a divider before the wi-fi and bluetooth switches in settings. Phone and contacts apps finally open quicker. Notifications seem to swipe away better. I used to have a problem with the top one being a bit sticky. They've finally switched the buttons to the right way as seen in the screenshot of the app installer. The open button is back on the left and done button is on the right. The bottom bar is now black instead of grey. That's all for now. I've attached some screenshots.
[Galaxy S II General] a67q:
''404 That's an error'' written on the page.

I suppose I must register to download?

http://www.sammobile.com/2012/07/04/android-4-0-4-leaked-for-galaxy-sii/www.SamFirmware.com
[Galaxy S II General] nio_insane:
Most changes are already in last 4.0.3 i think. Also Bat %.

Contact tab its only a shortcut to contact. You dont need exit dialer to go contacts.

That changes are already in last 4.0.3 changelist.

GT-I9100	CTP	I9100UHLPS	Android	ver.4.0.3 /Release Date.25.06.2012 /Build Date.12.06.2012	/Changelist.709483
[Galaxy S II General] :
so this is a multi language, i see what is new??

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oh thanks, i will update to this

:good:
[Galaxy S II General] turborider:
nothing changed still same as 4.0.3 lol
[Galaxy S II General] madquack:
You must be blind.

Post 13:
[Galaxy S II General] GoNz0:
in about phone >status i no longer have a serial number, any way to fix that ?
[Galaxy S II General] manjbc:
Anyone reported internal memory decreased to 4 gb? 8gb lost!!:eek:
[Galaxy S II General] brgroover:
mirrors :(
[Galaxy S II General] :
Exactly! I flashed with pit, formatted sd card and lost 8gb! I'll try to re-partition with gb firmware.
[Galaxy S II General] GoNz0:
no mines got it all, did u flash the pit file as well ?
[Galaxy S II General] manjbc:
yes I flashed all 4 archives.
[Galaxy S II General] akira.pwr:
Take a look what is write on the pit file, it says: emmc 8gb ext4.pit, can be hte cause???

Well, my device tells me my memory have to be formatted because it's damaged, I though it was an fw issue...
[Galaxy S II General] :
[/SIZE]

F....k now it looks logical. ;)

Do not flash .pit . IT will resize your internal SD!!!!

EDIT: I flashed GB (I9100XXKL1, re-partitioned with u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4.pit ) and 12 GB Internal SD is back :)(just don't forget to format SD afterwards, otherwise you won't see any change. )
[Galaxy S II General] arturox:
You can look in here as well http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1544487
[Galaxy S II General] donalgodon:
I think the PIT file will format your emmc, so if you have the emmc bug, you could be asking for trouble.

I would avoid using the PIT file and just flash the other three.
[Galaxy S II General] GoNz0:
ffs, still got the bluetooth not updating track info bug :(
[Galaxy S II General] tlf55:
If i flash it .. then i flash the Siyah Kernel it will root my phone or i have to wait some chainfire LQ5(Or root it via push CWM then ...) then flash Siyah ?
[Galaxy S II General] Tuqano:
Do not use the .pit file inside the package, it will reduces your memory!!!

Instead you all can use this .pit file, which does not reduce memory......

View attachment 1177268​

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[Galaxy S II General] Phone_Guru:
Another Change

They rethemed the quick contacts info and added images to the menu.
[Galaxy S II General] pendroz:
Siyah kernel 3.2.2 = 4.0.4 Rooted
[Galaxy S II General] :
I think it would be reasonable to mention it in OP.
[Galaxy S II General] dadyal:
some of mp3 file no longer play it's says player don't support these kind of audio files

browser is much improved now and some ui tweaks it's over all good
[Galaxy S II General] :
Is it possible that it's not the final release?
[Galaxy S II General] akira.pwr:
can I reflash the fw with recommended .pit for have full memory back?
[Galaxy S II General] Tuqano:
yes u can!!! try it...don't worry:good:
[Galaxy S II General] OriginsOfLewis:
Added to OP
[Galaxy S II General] majkicimo:
nice work
[Galaxy S II General] zecs:
cant wait for it to download ... :)
[Galaxy S II General] Tuqano:
TNX mate!!!! ;);)
[Galaxy S II General] TreKronor:
I used the original PIT and I have no problems with my internal SD?!
[Galaxy S II General] OriginsOfLewis:
Same, I did have 4GB of .trashes that I deleted though
[Galaxy S II General] jonnyhall1bmx1:
to install this do i flash the 4 files via odin ? also shal i swap the .pit from the package to the recommended .pit tuqano posted?

sorry guys for been pritty think :)
[Galaxy S II General] manjbc:
Thanks. I'll flash again using the 3 original archives and the .pit posted by tuqano.
[Galaxy S II General] :
Excuse me, did you guys applied the original u1_02_20120326_emmc_EXT4_8GB.pit ?

If yes, then I guess 8 gb of your internal SD is already gone. You cannot see it unless you format your SD. (Try to make a backup before, you'll notice that some of your folders/files cannot be read/copied)
[Galaxy S II General] dadyal:
screen capture is back on power and home key
[Galaxy S II General] Baldilocks:
Power and Home key have always worked for me on any firmware.
[Galaxy S II General] OriginsOfLewis:
On second thoughts I have 7GB of misc, is that the problem you had?
[Galaxy S II General] mohwaili:
Did they add arabic language ?
[Galaxy S II General] zecs:
instaled the rom with the pit provided by the starter of the thread and i have 11.4 GB on my internal sd card... it's ok right? about the rom, what can i say... looks like 4.0.3 with some minor tweaks (green restart icon, % battery option and others that i didnt discovered yet). it's a good rom though... i thought that 4.0.4 for the s2 is like the 4.0.4 from the s3.
[Galaxy S II General] akira.pwr:
After reflash the fw with recommended .pit I have back all memory. No need to flash GB.
[Galaxy S II General] Tuqano:
guys .... I'm wrong or the menu button and back have sound now!? woww i like it!
[Galaxy S II General] Waza.:
wil try this when i get home:good:
[Galaxy S II General] OriginsOfLewis:
i just realised and it's awesome!
[Galaxy S II General] zecs:
yes it has... is cool :P
[Galaxy S II General] Tuqano:
yeaahhhh!!! it's very nice!!!
[Galaxy S II General] Baldilocks:
?? They've always had sound.
[Galaxy S II General] :
I didn't notice that to be honest. But I couldn't restore my nand backup that was originally stored on internal memory (CWM error to restore data), so I tried to copy a new backup from my mac - error 36, cannot read/write to specified location. I thought something wrong was with my internal sd and thus I decided to format it. As it turned out internal sd capacity shrunk to 4,11 GB...and that's how the panic started. Thanks God it wasn't irreversible ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Tuqano:
Great smoothness!! I like this 4.04!!:good:
[Galaxy S II General] :
Bookmarks widget has been changed.
[Galaxy S II General] OriginsOfLewis:
Lock screen message icon has also been changed
[Galaxy S II General] Byakuya88:
for those who want the changelog.....https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1SQOarUeVBiqEpJwst8l1eboZTXIxXgvHvfLajMz_P5E
[Galaxy S II General] OriginsOfLewis:
Changing dpi to 180 automatically adds power saving toggle in notification area
[Galaxy S II General] tlf55:
how do i change dpi to 180 ?
[Galaxy S II General] :
I don't know but for me smoothness and responsiveness is definitely not worse than on GB now.
[Galaxy S II General] jonnyhall1bmx1:
smooth as ****. that is all
[Galaxy S II General] vic12340:
it's only me or if you remove the vlingo.apk

there is no longer home button lag at all?
[Galaxy S II General] Tuqano:
just use some app like....this......https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5iaXJkYXBpLmFuZHJvaWQuZHBpIl0

but you need ROOT!!:good:;);)
[Galaxy S II General] OriginsOfLewis:
Open build.prop in /system and change

ro.sf.lcd_density=240 to ro.sf.lcd_density=180
[Galaxy S II General] OriginsOfLewis:
Is this in System/App? I can't find it
[Galaxy S II General] mozzer2k4:
BEST ROM SO FAR SMOOOTH!! just noticed that the screen brightness cannot be changed once the battery is very low
[Galaxy S II General] mohwaili:
Does it have arabic language .???

It looks like this (العربية)
[Galaxy S II General] stuclark:
Viewfinder doesn't work in stock camera application for me - 3rd party apps are working correctly. Is anyone else having this issue?

(I'm using Siyah 3.2.2 kernel)
[Galaxy S II General] Leonhard:
Mirror 1: https://rapidshare.com/files/2406886565/I9100XXLQ5_I9100OXALQ5_OXA.zip

Let me know if you want another host
[Galaxy S II General] Tuqano:
Nope...i search arabic but i didn't find it....I would not be wrong:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] :
you can now organize in camera :victory: +1 samsung

is it only me or does anyone got a square on desktop which gives you some detials?
[Galaxy S II General] OriginsOfLewis:
Camera app not working for me at all, Siyah kernel @ 180 dpi. Is it working at stock dpi?
[Galaxy S II General] vic12340:
Yes

its a Samsung voice application

I remove it through titanium
[Galaxy S II General] Tuqano:
do you mean the "tap to focus"?
[Galaxy S II General] TheOneBD:
another mirrors of firmware :

http://depositfiles.com/files/ummljmc4q
[Galaxy S II General] Tuqano:
yeah.....provides suggestions for organizing shortcuts .... you say that?
[Galaxy S II General] :
yeah ,

but do you got some info on your home screen about HW

PDA

Phone

CSC

RF

etc??
[Galaxy S II General] johnfranz29:
Can i root this using siyah kernel via odin?
[Galaxy S II General] :
u can just use cf-root :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] Tuqano:
Nope...do you have it??
[Galaxy S II General] Phone_Guru:
They also changed some files so themes will need to be adjusted. I flashed my theme and the toggles in the notifications bar did not change colour so now I have a mix of grey, black, red and green.
[Galaxy S II General] Tuqano:
Sure....it works fine with siyah!!;)
[Galaxy S II General] :
yupp thats why im asking
[Galaxy S II General] OriginsOfLewis:
you're right, works perfect!
[Galaxy S II General] drelite08:
I tried reflashing with the recommended pit file and still had memory missing :(
[Galaxy S II General] Tuqano:
you could make a screenshoot....
[Galaxy S II General] :
well it doesn't bugs me :P
[Galaxy S II General] Tuqano:
Try to flash without any pit....it works....

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well!!! XD lololol