yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] moshxsoft:
i don't think he can help you.

i sent him and told him about this problem with lq5, and he told me he can't repair this problem, and the solution is new motherboard :(
[Galaxy S II General] crazy_4_and1:
I used to have a SGS1 and i liked Chainfires kernels precisely because they were stock + root + cwm , nothing more . Got to check out if his new kernels are "safe" . . . I don't even have a SGS2 , I wanted to buy one for the weekend and I came here and find all this talk about bricking with leaked ROM ... so I started reading and voila ... here I am . There is a lot of useful info on this over at Epic 4G Touch forums - user Entropy512 is extensive in his elaborations .
[Galaxy S II General] domyrat:
It bricked my phone :(
[Galaxy S II General] crazy_4_and1:
Scr*w this , I'm buying a Nexus . Wanted a SGS2 , but can't find one that is not a potential brick for the money that Nexus will cost me .
[Galaxy S II General] troybot:
I was using RR2.6 and decided to do a factory reset and a complete wipe since I hadn't done it in a while and had accumulated a lot of files.

When my phone restarted it was soft bricked!! I'm not sure if it is related to this problem or not. Luckily for me I had some battery left in my phone and could get to download mode. I installed a prerooted rom that was a month old. Then flashed Chainfires kernel. Then did a format and reinstalled RR2.5 and it worked.

Ironically in my panic I ordered an SGS3 which gets here tomorrow, so now I have a backup phone. The steps in the thread about a possible fix for the brick bug worked for me, so hopefully they work for someone else.
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
You know, people get WAY too scared about this brick bug. If you don't flash LQ5 or LPM based ROMs, you're FINE... If you want a phone to buy though, I'd get the Galaxy Nexus for sure. Higher res screen + bigger screen, AOSP, etc. The only thing keeping me on the SGS2 is the SD card slot (And the fact I'm broke :D)
[Galaxy S II General] do1346:
I have tried it and nothing happened but I got back.
[Galaxy S II General] MemoryController:
Please try it again. :)
[Galaxy S II General] almahdy:
Is JPLPF safe or not?
[Galaxy S II General] hakaz:
Presuming that it's 4.0.3 stock for the Middle East (and there are bricks reported with the 4.0.4 stock kernels only - like XXLQ5 and XWLPM on our SGS2) you are on the safe side.
[Galaxy S II General] almahdy:
What a relief! Thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] crazy_4_and1:
The SGX540 in Nexus is worse than Mali-400 in SGS2 (even if they had the same resolution-and the lower one in SGS2 goes in its advantage ) . SuperAMOLED+ , and the SD card slot . . . plus the better quality camera (not the MPix count , but the actual quality - color reproduction, less noise , more detail on sam resolution ) . But Nexus is soooooo sexy . . .
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
Eh, I don't really care about those things though. ;) But I picked up the SGS2 at launch. It was a blessing and a mistake at the same time... I'm due for a contract renewal next year, I'll get the next Google phone then. For now, I have to double-check whenever I flash something to my phone because of that damn emmc bug.
[Galaxy S II General] 00raq00:
How safe wipe data and cache on XWLPM? From stock recovery also is unsafe?

Wysłane z mojego GT-I9100 za pomocą Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] crazy_4_and1:
Meeeeh....I'll stay away from flashing for some time - stock 4.0.3 for Poland is good enough ... at least until the fuss gets cleared up/Samsung comes up with a solution . The phone has one year warranty , an I persuaded the guy who is selling to do a couple of factory resets to see if the phone bricks itself or locks the data partition . He did it four times today , nothing happen :good: . Can't live without an MicroSD slot , and i like having at least a hardware menu button (if it hangs in an application it is more likely that a command from a hardware button will "go through" than that the screen will become responsive ) + i get a free Bugatti pouch (it costs 30 $ in a store) :) :highfive:

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I think it is NOT SAFE . You can start searching for the same question in this thread or read from : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1769877
[Galaxy S II General] jaydvn:
Thanks!

Thanks for warning us... but i still run stock rooted LPM with no problem anymore... EMMC checked without any bugs... thanks... maybe i'm a lucky man.
[Galaxy S II General] betoneto.tbo:
Hi!

I'm from Brazil...

Can I flash this version on my S2 ?

It will work?

It has the portuguese-br language ?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] liamwli:
Thanks for this.

I like flashing, but it reasons like that I don't flash often.

But, must stay away. Noted - thanks :)

(I also don't flash often as I like to keep all my data).
[Galaxy S II General] :
Yesterday night I safely reverted to LPG, just re-flashed it via odin and then wiped data/cache.
[Galaxy S II General] metzo32:
Thanks Guy's..just was planning to go back to my backup ,then read this

Lucky me..so what is the safest way to go back again now ?
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
If you flashed a custom kernel based on samsung update 4(siyah,speed mod,fluxi,neak) then you are safe to restore backups

Any kernel based on LQ5(cf or any other LQ5 based kernel including cwm recovery) will brick you phone if you have brick bug.

EDIT: also check "Got brick bug?" app from chainfire if your phone will brick or not
[Galaxy S II General] NOMIOMI:
i have only flashed the lpq5 modem .is this modem is too dangerous ????
[Galaxy S II General] metzo32:
Thanks Bro,I rooted and then went back to stock kernel ,

now I have to flash any other kernel

again and restore backup ? is CM9 can do the same too ?
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
Flash kernel like siyah and restore backup

Just don't use CF root for that
[Galaxy S II General] Wololo7:
Downgrading is possible. I did it to my native (Baltian) 4.0.3 Android and flashed Ressurection ROM.
[Galaxy S II General] metzo32:
It gives me error restoring system now..ooops !!

Now it's done ooofff...just trying to get ride of the yellow triangle !!..thanks again mate.
[Galaxy S II General] bombaybadboy:
Any idea if using data wipe on mobile odin could have the same affect
[Galaxy S II General] joshuab227:
If you have an affected kernel: Flash a known good kernel using Odin/Heimdall immediately. Do NOT use Mobile Odin, CWM, or any on-device method to flash.

Read more here

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/hard-brick-bug-on-galaxy-s-ii-and-note-leaked-ics-kernels/

Also please update the OP with this information
[Galaxy S II General] DaReDeViL:
Good morning,

Did you notice the growing number of threads about bricked phones ???
[Galaxy S II General] atifsh:
This was irrelevant until now as i9100 was not one of the effected phones. Its funny though its stated clearly yet people get crazy over it.

Dam LQ5 changed all that.
[Galaxy S II General] joshuab227:
Yea....but since the chip was prone to this problem....it was a disaster waiting to happen
[Galaxy S II General] MistahBungle:
Good advice. Now, who knows the moral of this story ? (Yes, it's a test to see who's smart/not).
[Galaxy S II General] pileot:
USB jig not working? Usually when i really screw up the phone the USB jig does the trick...
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
Here, your phone hard bricks.
[Galaxy S II General] fr3nlysmil3:
Im not sure how your phone got bricked but i have wiped my LQ5 rom and installed it again via odin.......nothing happened.....may be it happens only when you try to downgrade ta firmware version....

Cheers
[Galaxy S II General] i9100user:
i agree with you

it break my friend mobile

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i forget to say that

i make a full wipe but my phone still warking(thanks god)
[Galaxy S II General] :
what i read they wiped trough CWM and then tried to restore from backup,

i always restore backaup never wipe before/after :rolleyes:

Kudos to the OP for pointing this out, remember this is a leaked firmware and sometimes they are just not perfect
[Galaxy S II General] :
So in the interests of science, can you see what result you get from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1693704 please?

Incidentally, I do have the brick bug and have been running this firmware for the past couple of days flashed via Mobile Odin, but didn't wipe (since it's a wipe ROM anyway). Came from CM9 to test it, rooted via "temporary" CWM.
[Galaxy S II General] adamsuail:
Update:

He received my phone and i got this message "This is an update to let you know your device was received Friday and will be completed and shipped within 4 business days. "

i did mention to him before shipping my phone that i was on I9100XXLQ5 and it was the reason for this brick, but he did not stop me.
[Galaxy S II General] moshxsoft:
how you birck your phone via CWM or what? i mean when switched off and won't turn on again? last thing you did?

please keep us update with any new about fix your phone
[Galaxy S II General] NandroidRage:
I wish I had seen this a couple weeks ago! I bricked my phone doing a factory reset as well... I was a bit confused how it happened and now I know the cause. I got a new Galaxy S III SGH-I747M since then, but a bit sad to see my S2 as a paperweight.
[Galaxy S II General] adamsuail:
i was actually very pleased with Lq5 and i used it for few days preparing to make it my permanent rom before the new Miui came out :)...so, ya, i was flashing miui via CWM with Cf-root for LQ5, it froze at "formatting system" ...then it died and never woke up.
[Galaxy S II General] hakaz:
Chainfire did an update to his original CF-Root for XXLQ5:

Did you update too or did you stay with his original version?
[Galaxy S II General] adamsuail:
i don't think the update was available for me when i bricked my phone, does it fix the bricking issue?
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
It prevents the phone from bricking
[Galaxy S II General] vodanhdaisu:
I used to flash LQ5 successfully, and then moved to LPM but not satisfied with LPM battery >> Today I've flashed LQ5 again (downloaded from samfirmware) via Odin. Although Odin installed the rom successfully, but after installing, the phone boot to Android robot logo, and it's keeping flashing with the installing bar stucked at a same point. I tried to revert to another 2.3.6 rom successfully, the phone booted and worked well. Then I deciced to flashed LQ5 again, and that strange problem happens again. Any idea to get rid of this ?
[Galaxy S II General] mubeenshahid:
guys is this a ROM specific problem or hardware one.Is there be any prob on XXLPS
[Galaxy S II General] thorazine74:
He said he was flashing and it died while formatting, I think ChainFire specifically said he only patched CWM, that would prevent the brick when wiping partitions and restoring backups, but not when flashing ZIPs.

Better wait for him to come back from vacation and clarify which one of the three brick vectors are actually blocked with his kernel...

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[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
No, on updated CF-root MMC_CAP_ERASE=0

Flash zips doesn't brick phone on brick kernels unless their is the command to wipe data from the zip file

Updated CF-ROOT and siyah are completely safe
[Galaxy S II General] cpl.Bower:
Do it

Alright. I dare you to test it on your phone (with a faulty chip). Just flash any "leaked" firmware and do a wipe and factory reset and tell us.
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
OK

I will test it in 2-3 days

I never flash samsung rom but I will do it and you need to read CF-root and siyah thread
[Galaxy S II General] thorazine74:
I'm afraid thats not true, how could he be able to remove the flag if he doesn't recompile the kernel?

Also most if not all ROMs zips format at least the system partition, even a kernel like Siyah formats the cache partition in its install script, so it's not as uncommon as you think.

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[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
If you don't want to believe me , its ok but the truth will be the truth, many people are using updated CF-ROOT and siyah kernel which are completely safe.
[Galaxy S II General] thorazine74:
I think you are mistaking two things, wipes/formats being safe from CWM, and kernel being safe for having the problematic flag removed.

I believe CF's LQ5's CWM is probably safe when performing formats, but the kernel still has the dangerous flag. If this is the case, formats performed by CWM should not trigger the brick, but formats performed by other instances, like update-binary or maybe just simple factory tests from phone options may trigger it.

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[Galaxy S II General] mubeenshahid:
guys plz tell me if this prob exists on XWLPS??:D:D
[Galaxy S II General] DaReDeViL:
That being said, we should all wait for Samsung to release the 4.0.4 source code which will give the devs the ability to recompile the kernel and delete the emmc erase bug flag.

I don't think the 4.0.4 firmware is worth playing with fire and burn our devices.
[Galaxy S II General] moshxsoft:
any new news about you and samsung engineers ??

waiting...
[Galaxy S II General] markburkey:
get rid

I did flash the dreaded firmware in checkrom .when it rebooted I had lost root but I found the updated lpq5 cf root file re rooted my phone with Odin had no problems so I just downloaded omegarom with siyah+ baseband xlp9. The updated file is out there can't remember where it was but apparently it said that it had been fixed and by the way my phone is now it was fixed I've flashed about four roms now using the usual data wipe/dalvik/cache I'm a lot more carefully now thou if I'd have just had a look around the forums I would of known not to flash that firmware
[Galaxy S II General] shtefy2012:
I brick my I9100 to after I flash 4.0.4	I9100XWLPM

I falsh the I9100XWLPM 4.0.4 from .samfirmware and everything went well, the phone work very well, after that I try to flash cyanogenmod 9 with CWM, everything went well until I did restart and now the phone is dead, after the wipe data and cache. Now I will send to service center and I hope they will repair the phone under the warranty.
[Galaxy S II General] toxicdust:
Portal Rom v2.0 confirmed to not have the brick bug and is 4.0.4

Check my Signature for a link
[Galaxy S II General] cpl.Bower:
Ok, Im gonna be here, waiting for your results. First check out if you really got the faulty chip, because if you dont, then the test absolutely useless.
[Galaxy S II General] fr3quency:
of course, it has siyah... dafaq man?
[Galaxy S II General] chrislcf:
Will ZCLPL lead to hardbrick:confused:
[Galaxy S II General] shtefy2012:
Sure is good this ROM?

Sure is good this ROM? Because I'm afraid to install any custom ROM ever, this course if my warranty repair my phone. :(
[Galaxy S II General] zecs:
New 4.0.4 Rom:

PDA: I9100XWLPO

CSC: I9100NEELP4

Version: 4.0.4

Date: 2012-07-18

Anyone flashed it?
[Galaxy S II General] Brotuck:
Flashed it over LPM, works fine.
[Galaxy S II General] DaReDeViL:
Be careful guys, XWLPO also has the mmc_erase_cap enabled !!!! DO NOT WIPE OR RESTORE VIA STOCK RECOVERY / STOCK KERNEL !!!!!!

read this : http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=29259424&postcount=7828

EDIT : I'll put the firmwares codenames in the title of the thread ==> Done ;)

EDIT2 : I still think that samsung do enable the mmc_erase_cap intentionally because they are aware of its damage since the first leaks and now they keep it even on official !!! That's how they promote the S3 :(
[Galaxy S II General] Brotuck:
Here we go again.... :(

Your phone will only have a possible brick of 5% when using an ALTERNATE recovery like CWM. Or from custom-kernels that have CWM integrated and have the flag set.

Wiping from stock recovery should not brick.

But hey, when in doubt do not flash at all.
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
I like the fact you say "Should not brick", if you would have said "Will not brick", you could have been responsible if someone did brick their phones. ;) Imagine receiving a 400$ bill for something you wrote on a forum somewhere. :D

There is a POSSIBILITY of bricking with stock. Keep that min mind. Some users have reported it.

**EDIT** Oh yeah, and I love your 5% statistic. Great work.
[Galaxy S II General] DaReDeViL:
Actually it's 4.69% not 5% but raising the risk by 0.31% won't do any harm ... :p
[Galaxy S II General] ct85msi:
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[Galaxy S II General] esegarry:
My Serial number its in unknown after flash 4.0.4 LPO NEE,.... how repair this??? I flashed the LPG and the prblem persist .. Help please

Thanks

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Flash the bootloader again?
[Galaxy S II General] Gillion:
Part of the problem lies with us.

We are impatient.

We want 4.0.4 NOW !

So we install ROM's not meant for our region because we know it will work... even though the ROM was designed to work in China or Russia.

In order to do this we have to bypass kies or trick kies into thinking that our device is for a specific region and carrier.

So we end up in trouble.

Ordinary users don't get caught... it is us the tweakers that get caught... and we are an impatient lot.

Also I think the phones that this update is for do not have the faulty chip.

It is we with the phones from different regions that have the faulty chip... but I am always willing to be informed.

Do the any of the people who update through official channels and kies normally without any tricks or mods or root... get bricked ?

they can do a factory reset just fine ?

It is we who obtain the update via unofficial channels that get brcik ?
[Galaxy S II General] Brotuck:
I am not trying to be the smart-ass here.... :confused:

But as you are making fun of my post, i will explain some parts a little bit more.

With 5% i mean that there always is a chance that you brick the phone, no matter what you flash. In this case it is only a number not based on any fact.

This also explains why i say "should not brick". Flashing any firmware always has a risk in bricking or damaging the phone.

What i am saying is that there suddenly is a major hype that new 4.0.4 ROM will brick your phone. The fact that this also could happen with stock recovery is being assumed by lots of people here. I am not that convinced (but unwilling to test it ;) )

The biggest problem on XDA is that to many people do not know what they are talking about. It is not a developers-only site anymore. So if there is one post from a person that states that he only used stock recovery and he got bricked, i am not sure i beleave him right away.

But then again this is my opinion and you can continue to make fun of me i really do not care.
[Galaxy S II General] esegarry:
I fix de problem with the SN 00000 flashing only the ICS BOOTLOADER. Only put this file in BOOTLOADER on ODIN and flash. Repair de SN without delete data.

;) Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] thorazine74:
Wiping from stock recovery in Notes caused bricks.

Wiping from a patched CWM revovery should not cause a brick.

The only custom kernel compiled from source known to cause bricks is a very old Siyah version.

I'm not going to even say anything about the 5% figure...

Bottom line, you're over simplifying a complicate issue...

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[Galaxy S II General] rterras:
thanks for the heads up!
[Galaxy S II General] bombaybadboy:
Got to ask do you work for samsung customer service?
[Galaxy S II General] drazenf:
hey they did it agian,

I just flash nordic ROM last night so I will brick my phone again.

last time after flashing leaked lq5 (my bad) I lost 3 GB - i didnt use any restore or recovery just flash stock 4.0.3 with odin and phone was stuck ..

I am starting to hate samsung every day more and more

aholes

edit

restored on 4.0.3 no more funy things uffff
[Galaxy S II General] el_charlie:
Sorry for being such a noob but after reading almost ALL the pages I still can't find the answer.

Is the firmware XXLPQ (android 4.0.3, very old) safe to do a data wipe??

I wan't to try CM10 but now I don't want to wipe the device if it can get bricked. The brickbug app said that the emmc was dangerous.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers!
[Galaxy S II General] almaalma74:
always there are panic maker people, congrat
[Galaxy S II General] :
Dude ONLY last firmwares based on android 4.0.4 are unsafe. So yes I'm 99% sure your XXLPQ is safe.
[Galaxy S II General] lfabresm:
thanks dude

I already bricked a SGS2 with the world famous siyah kernel... I don't like brick phones :eek:
[Galaxy S II General] Dunnanga:
Root for Galaxy S2 XXLQ6

I am I right if I say that nobody has yet confirmed any safeway of rooting this ROM?
[Galaxy S II General] el_charlie:
Thanks man!

I'll wipe and keep you posted.
[Galaxy S II General] Zod5000:
Isn't MUGLD3 the 4.0.3 rom for Bell/Virgin Mobile in Canada? I don't think it has this bug?
[Galaxy S II General] kashifryo:
Downgrade it to 2.3.5 ( XXKKI3 ) Stock.!!!

Hi GUYS.! i Had updated my Galaxy s2 To 4.0.4 ( XXLQ5 ) and my cell fone was SOFT BRICKED.! anythin i download was crashin.. last nite me and my Big Bro ( thealtaf ) were tryin to fix this problem and finally a Big Thanks to my Big Bro he just fixed it by Flashin ( i9100XXKKI3) stock firmware.. We've Flashed PIT,PDA,CSC And Phone.. Everythin was gud n nw i am runnin 2.3.5 Gingerbread.. i am gonna update it to 4.0.4 later after confirmin it.. whatever you gonna Flash please Dont Flash ( XXLQ5 ).. .!! i Made a Mistake and luckily i pull out myself from it.!!

Here is The Pics.!!
[Galaxy S II General] radx:
I guess it's a dumb questions but I'll ask anyway.. If you got a S2 that has never been flashed by anything but Stock firmware.. No root nothing just pure the way as Samsung wants it and the phone has an insame chip.

You now update it to 4.0.4 and you later on need to wipe due to some weird bug or whatever reason.. Can you actually end up with a hard brick? I mean nothing has ever been tempered with, you are using what Samsung wants. It doesn't make sense. Why would Samsung screw us this bad? lol.. It's retared.. do they want more phones in their repair shop or what?
[Galaxy S II General] zamha2157:
Guys..i've already flashed an LQ5,4.0.4 rom from leomar's revo hd v7..now it seems that i've lost cwm recovery..how do i flash to other rom?use odin?sorry for the noob question..
[Galaxy S II General] Qdezi:
Thanks for ur support. But I cannot restore my S/N by this way. It's still zero and zero... :( Anyone find out the solution??
[Galaxy S II General] jaydvn:
I'm using lpm, siyah kernel 3.4.1(included bluetooth fix) and camera fix by tungstwenty... my phone is very stable and smooth now... now bugs anymore... I recommend everyone use that...
[Galaxy S II General] MasselMillerM:
Can you post a link to this fix? :)
[Galaxy S II General] ssauger:
Here you go :)
[Galaxy S II General] hakaz:
or you can wait a little bit, because finally we have a 4.0.4 ROM Source at Sammy's OSRC (GT-I9100_ICS_Opensource_Update7.zip), which of custom 4.0.4 kernels can be made free of MMC_CAP_ERASE ;) .
[Galaxy S II General] sergini:
Im about to flash I9100XXLQ7, is it safe? Will I have any brick problems if I need to wipe?
[Galaxy S II General] Vilzu:
Well ****, I guess it would have helped to find this thread yesterday.

I'm currently on -LPO with the rooted CF-Kernel meant for LQ5 (CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXA_LQ5-v5.6-CWM5.zip) So how do I make sure that I don't brick my phone? I tested the emmc brickbug test and it unfortunately said that I'm at risk :(

Is there anyway I can flash back to LPW? or the new Jellybean preview (CM10)?

How do I make sure I don't brick my phone? If it helps at all I live in Finland so the LPO is meant for my region
[Galaxy S II General] sergini:
I ran emmc brickbug test and after 341 is said: Congratulations, test passed.

This means I don't have to fear any 4.0.4 hard brick related problems? :D:D:D

Btw, I don't know if this has anything to do, but I rooted through this process " http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1501719 "

To have more accurate result do i have to have an insecure kernel like siyah? Or with the result I had it means exactly the same if I had siyah?