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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
There's a slight possibility that power-profile was missing cpu.awake in 4.1 - in which case, actual power consumption is no different, but reported consumption due to wakelocks may have been lower. I won't be able to look until the weekend.

As to Mali/EGL - The previous Mali r3p0 drivers were FAR worse than the new ones - instacrash on Ingress, graphical corruption in keyboard and other locations, etc. The only "stable" drivers are r2p4, but those are unusable due to leaking memory like a sieve.

The EGL driver mess is one of the primary reasons that Exynos4 devices are still on nightlies with no plans for a stable release, and one of a wide variety of reasons why the current maintainers barely touch their devices any more.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
Audioout2 is my killer. As far as no stable release for s2, I don't see anything unstable about the 4/8 nightly EXCEPT for auto time zone borked.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] eincognito:
JB on AT&T skyrocket

Would the JB release on the I727 skyrocket variant today going to help improve things for this I777 ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] billyjed:
No. They are completely different internals.

Sent from my Apple IIe
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] EzSqueezeCheese:
They want us to let go of the past. New devices for everyone!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
4-12 running flawless
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dollardollar:
Yep, same here. lol !!! :banghead:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Lekerstein:
Just a little addendum - when I got married I jumped into my wife's family plan...paid for by her dad. :) so any cost savings of unsubsidized vs subsidized is his issue. But he's a doctor, so.... Not too big of an issue.

Otherwise, I understand the point. I'm a little skeptical if AT&T would really let go of those sweet profits though. I get the feeling no matter what they are going to make sure they structure the plans in such a way that their profit margin doesn't change too drastically.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Spinergy02:
Just installed 4.14 nightly and the gallery won't refresh. Have tried everything I can think of.

Update: working now. Just took (much) longer to refresh than usual.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] GrimyHobosack:
My phone was acting a bit strangely so I downloaded the 4-14 nightly, rebooted into recovery, wiped data, wiped cache and installed the nightly (actual process was wipe data, wipe cache, install nightly, install the wrong gapps, wipe data, wipe cache install nightly, reboot and plan to download the newer gapps). When it boots now I get a repetitive pop up of "Unfortunately, Setup Wizard has stopped.". I can drag down the status bar and go to the calendar / alarm setup by clicking date or time, but that seems to be all I can do.

When I went to reboot into recovery mode I noticed that the normal reboot menu with options to reboot into recovery and 2 other options wasn't coming up, just reboot then OK/Cancel. I tried to get into recovery by holding Up+Power, but that didn't work either, I just assumed that it had been too long and I forgot the command so I went into the terminal and ran `reboot recovery` which got me into the recovery mode. When I shutdown and hold Vol Up + Power the triangle comes up it stays for a a few seconds, then goes to a black screen for a second and then seems to reboot back to the triangle. If I release the Vol Up + Power after the triangle comes up it boots into CM, if I release Up + Power when the black screen comes up and then press it again it seems to reboot the phone again.

Download mode does still work properly, so I assume I need to go into that and load a new bootloader via Odin, but I'm not sure what to load at this point and don't want to make matters worse. Should I use the GalaxyS2ATTRootZedomax.zip from this walk through (can't post links, sorry: androidegis.com/how-to/how-to-root-and-install-clockworkmod-recovery-on-att-samsung-galaxy-s2-sgh-i777/ )or is there a better option to get back to a usable ClockworkRecovery?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] RootTheMachine:
Uh... No, why would you replace the bootloader? Also, recovery mode needs both volume keys. You don't need to flash anything for it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] MaxRabbit:
Also, you can enable the recovery reboot option inside the developer options.

I wonder what happened to today's nightly? It didn't come out.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dsbrohan:
I have yet to have a problem with the 4/14 nightly. Everything running smooth and I'm getting great results and battery life.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Slusho:
Do you mean internal or external? I haven't tried reformatting either, but my external is empty except for the files Android writes onto it by default.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] GrimyHobosack:
Ah, I'm an idiot :X Up + Down and Power worked properly. I reflashed 4/14 with the proper gapps and everything is running fine now.

I thought I needed to replace the bootloader as I was under the impression that I couldn't get into recovery mode.

I couldn't seem to get anywhere other than the status bar and the clock or calendar from there. Couldn't get apps, settings, home screen, etc. just a continual popup of "Unfortunately, Setup Wizard has stopped." on a black background.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] MaxRabbit:
I second that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
Question for Entropy or anyone else with the knowledge. One of the reasons I went with 4-14 was because it listed fix memory leak system ui as part of change log. Android/frameworks/base. Now, if I flash center clock zip dated 4/5, does that negate changes made to android/frameworks/base, or is system ui apk seperate?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] stone_ship:
I would think so. If you go to the commit page, you will see that the code changes apply to packages/SystemUI. (android/frameworks/base/packages/SystemUI...)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] MacAlert:
This is strange, I backed up my phone, installed 4-14, wiped cache and then rebooted. Now the phone won't go past the triangle screen.

Can't seem to get into recovery either using the three button method. Any ideas?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] stone_ship:
Could be that the kernel does not have recovery or something is messed up with recovery. You will have to heimdall flash a working kernel. Caveat: I'm not on 4-14, just speculating.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] MacAlert:
Back in business. Thanks for your suggestion!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] csmall:
4/17 seems flawless to me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
4/17 is nice
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dashrendar:
Flawless? Or flawless considering?

Bio: I was born and I haven't died yet.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] austinsnyc:
Anyone else have GPS issues like not working at all?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nosferatu.:
nope works like a champ!

In the past I had to use the gps.conf file for all my ICS roms to get a good signal but on JB it just lights up 11/11 sats in no time.

Try GPS Status to see what it's really seeing (or not).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] auTONYmous:
Working great here, on day two. I know we're missing some features, but would it be safe to assume that the JB Browser (chrome-based) will be missing until we're 100% butter? I've always sorta hated the CM9 browser, which is still here.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dandrumheller:
GPS working awesome for me...Used it today for driving nav to the site of a run my wife and i did, then used it in runkeeper during the run. Battery wasn't even too bad...35 min on runkeeper with music playing went from 89 to 74...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Eckyx:
Any word on a fix for the media scanner?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mongstradamus:
Thank you for posting this, i was able to get it flash. I was looking thru the forums , i didn't notice anything about external sd card not working ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] JonDeutsch:
Flashing for the first time

Pardon my n00bishness, but I have a bit of a chicken and the egg situation:

When looking at how to flash a ROM for the first time (by reading through CreepyCrawly's guide) it says to flash a kernel that has CWM recoery built-in with Mobile Odin. However, for CM10, I'm told that the kernel is built-into the ROM package. So, I can't install the kernel w/CWM first like the guide says to, right? And, since I don't have CWM installed (but I am rooted, and just installed Mobile Odin lite), I feel like I'm stuck because don't I need CWM recovery installed before I do my CM10 ROM flash?

Or, am I good just pointing Mobile Odin Lite to the CM10 zip?

Thanks for any insights.

Jon

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Also, I'm reading that Project Butter is not fully implemented in CM10 yet. Is this something that, as it develops and improves, can be flashed to the CM10 ROM without having to do a wipe and re-installing apps & data each time? It's never been clear to me which flashes force you to lose your current state vs. just an in-place update. Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Slavestate:
Chrome doesn't come with JB. Its only included with the new Nexus devices so far.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] rk249:
I'm assuming you're on GB, if so then you'll have to flash a GB kernel first, which will have CWM. The creepyncrawly post has 2 suggestions, use either. I suggest you flash CM9 or another ICS rom from the I777 section after flashing that kernel and use that and wait till a more stable build of CM10 is out. You're a noob and with the issues with CM10 you might have problems with fixing them. I believe thats also what Entropy suggested you do. But if you wanna flash this then just read the OP and follow the instructions. There is no CM10 kernel and if you read creepyncrawlys post fully you'll see that you can only use GB kernels with GB roms and ICS kernels with ICS roms. Best of luck with your flashing. Hopefully this info helped you out.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jaysix79:
Its been a while since I flashes from stock

From what I remember once you flash the mobile Odin kernel with a kernel that has cmw. You can flash the cm10 or any rom of your choice after that.

Flashing a kernel with cmw enable you to flash ROM with different filename beside update.zip only which factory has. It also disable the signature authentication that factory kernel check for which end into error while flashing a rom.

As far as a know all ROM here on xda comes with their own kernel that has cmw. You only flash a different kernel if your unhappy with the kernel your ROM comes with

I could be wrong but this is what I've learn here from xda

-- Thanks John
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] admrusty:
I saw earlier in POST #246 that NFC was not working, but I have nothing to try it with myself; I just ordered some NFC tags so I'm hoping it will work. Does Android Beam function differently than scanning an NFC tag?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
When you flash roms that are different you have to do a factory reset. If it's just an update you don't have to.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] RockRatt:
Just used GPS with Google Maps navigation for about a 100 mile trip. It must of lost signal 1 time when it thought I was on a side road next to the freeway, but that was only for a matter of 5 seconds out of the whole trip.

Sent from My SGH-I777 Running UCLE5 SANGRE AZUL 2 Rom
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nosferatu.:
Just disable it by root and then use this it'll read all your data fine. It's what I'm doing.

Whether media scanner is disabled or not QuickPic in the marketplace picks up all my pics/videos whereas the stock gallery does not. I can keep it disabled to save battery yet still access all my stuff. Hope that helps.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder&hl=en
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
Just use Rescan Media Root. Works like a charm

Sent from my SGH-I777
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jrod091:
Flash a kernel that has CWM, if you have GB firmware, you need a GB kernel, ICS firmware needs an ICS kernel. Siyah kernel is a good choice, just make sure you flash the right one.

Once you have a kernel with CWM, download the necessary files for CM10, found in the OP, and follow the directions exactly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dancer101:
How do you disable it? By using Rescan Media Root or is there another method?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] drakester09:
Rescan media root works fine. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dancer101:
Thanks! I'll give it a try!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Flashaholic4Life:
Jellybean is blowing my mind! And this is just a preview????
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] csmall:
I personally haven't experienced anything wrong with it. Daily driver for me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Slusho:
Am I missing something? Even the most stable recent builds are often unbearably slow and run out of juice after a few hours for me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Spinergy02:
The last few nightly releases have been incredibly stable for me. Getting more than 15 hours of battery life on one charge with moderate use, also.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dsbrohan:
I can definitely agree with that. I've been getting amazing battery life and have yet to have any problems at all.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] MaxRabbit:
I couldn't agree more. I love that cm support is continuing but it sure lags and burns though battery at times.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Slusho:
Okay, so it seems that some of us are experiencing good speed and battery life, while others are experiencing the opposite. What could be the difference between the two groups? Do we need to wipe? (I hope not.)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] MaxRabbit:
I always wipe fresh.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Slusho:
Well then that's not it. Another thing is that my phone is usually really hot, but I guess that goes hand-in-hand with fast battery use?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sbrown23:
Has anyone installed the 4/19 build? I was running task650's AOKP ROM and attempted to flash today's CM 10.1 build (wipe cache, Dalvik, factory wipe/reset, and format system), which failed to flash successfully on my device.

assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "i777" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "i777" || getprop("ro.product.device") == "SGH-I777" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "SGH-I777" || getprop("ro.product.device") == "SGH-S959G" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "SGH-S959G"
E:Error in /sdcard/cm-10.1-20130419-NIGHTLY-i777.zip
(Status 7)

I found the script with the line above in /META-INF/com/google/android. I did some searching and it looks like this should be related to build.prop. I used adb to pull build.prop and found the ro.product.device and ro.build.product were SGH-i777 (lower case 'i' instead of upper as in the script). I changed those two properties, saved and pushed the build.prop back to the SD, then mounted system as rw and copied over. I thought this would at least get past the initial script error since build.prop should now have a valid matching entry, but no. Also tried downloading the 4/18 build and got the same thing.

I saw one thread that, rather than explaining what to do, said to flash AOKP then flash to whatever else. But I was coming from AOKP. I also tried reflashing task's ROM and then flashing 4/18 and 4/19, which did not work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] MacAlert:
Are you using the AT&T version of the Galaxy SII?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sbrown23:
Yes I am

*edit*

Flashed task's 4/14 ROM again, then installed Root Explorer and edited build.prop directly on the device to change every instance of SGH-i777 to SGH-I777. Tried to reflash 4/19 CM and it failed again with same Status 7 error.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] msgfromside3:
Hmm.. this used to be old issue with task's AOKP (not saying his fault) during ICS age and there was a workaround to it to come to CM10. Let me see if I can find what had to be done back then. Your description seems reasonably what I remember, though.

Edit: This thread actually has enough information about this issue. If build.prop change doesn't help, you can remove the check from zip file - that was what I did when I moved from AOKP to CM for JB.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sbrown23:
Thanks for the info. I might have to try that. I was trying to figure out what the problem is with the script not liking or being able to get what look like valid entries to me. I was thinking that maybe the script didn't see build.prop or couldn't access it due to permissions or something. I attached a screenshot of the build.prop properties from Root Explorer. Wondering if yours is similar (owner, group, permissions).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] skblr:
Install AKJ kernel and then flash the ROM, I had the same issue while switching b/n AOKP and cm
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
If you ask me its all kernel choice try jhatch's STI kernel 2.3.4 runs like butter
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sbrown23:
This worked. Interesting. I didn't see a difference in permissions on build.prop after flashing the kernel. I notice there's a different recovery environment with AJK. Wonder if there is a difference there in why the script runs after flashing that kernel vs. the stock kernel in AOKP.

I had tried to go edit the script to remove the check on my windows box, but 7-zip was failing to update the .zip file. Might need to setup a Linux VM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Slusho:
I flashed 2.3.4 because I didn't read your comment carefully enough. Is that bad? It's running pretty smoothly so far.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
2.3.4 is the best one imo
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] love4k21:
Hi i installed the Build from today (20/4) and Google play store is gone (deleted)

Anybody have same issue?

Edit: after flashing gapps new play store is again there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dashrendar:
Could someone give a quick recap on what major issues remain in this software? Camera, Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi, Mobile Data, battery, storage, etc.

What is the thing that's keeping it from getting M1, RC or Stable tag/label?

Bio: I was born and I haven't died yet.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] msgfromside3:
Recap: Read this thread or i9100 before entropy yells at you because he mentioned what you are looking for not too long ago. Or maybe he doesn't care any more.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Slusho:
Oops, I meant I flashed 2.3.7. Can I just flash 2.3.4 or will that screw something up?

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Better recap: There aren't really any issues as far as broken features, but it acts slow and uses battery quickly for some people. The theory is currently that using the right kernel makes this ROM nearly flawless. Edit: I should add that there are still issues with the proximity sensor.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dsbrohan:
I've been using the stock CM kernel and have been getting better battery life than with any others so far. So, its not just kernel related, its also device dependent. Test the ones you trust and go from there. You can't always get the same experiences someone else has with the same kernel.

Sent from my SGH-I777
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] skblr:
I tried that trick.. But didn't help removed those checks.. Edited properties nothing helped.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Slusho:
Having used the STi 2.3.7 kernel for a couple days, I can say that, while not flawless, the experience is vastly improved.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] eincognito:
car dock audio

Does usb passive audio still not work with the latest build? I don't get audio through usb when i check the box in advanced settings...Not sure if the cable works or whether it's the ROM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
Use 234! Flawless for me
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
No one has gotten around to implementing it yet.

Exynos4 devices in CM are on effectively minimal life support at this point.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ferrocene:
My phone hasn't felt this fast in a long time! Glad I tried out this kernel
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Wing2468:
Any ideas when will the plug be pulled officially? Really love CM on my i777 but I think we have to move on at some point!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
We never explicitly state such things - especially since new maintainers could, in theory, come along. If we ever get Mali drivers that don't suck donkey balls there might be some new life breathed into these devices, but that's looking less and less likely.

That said, unless new maintainers come along, no one I have talked to on the exynos4 maintainer team has indicated any desire or plans to do any further bringup work beyond 4.2

Definitely not me, not plodey, espenfjo is mostly retired from maintainership in general across the board, cody is unlikely too.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Spinergy02:
Honestly I'd be more than happy with a stable 4.2 release. The past 2 months worth of nightlies (with a few exceptions) have worked great for me and they just keep getting better.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] topiratiko:
Samsung IS full of **** tho. I remember wen SII first came out they made a big deal about sending phones to cm team for development, then turn around and stop it in its tracks. Why don't they release the source?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] stone_ship:
For me the reason has always been obvious: it's embarrassing. Embarrassing how hacked up their code is just to make Touchwiz run. As Entropy and others who have worked on the device have discovered, it's layers of crap on top of old Gingerbread code.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] msgfromside3:
One thing that I learned from this is that my next phone will be either Nexus (or any Google phone) or even iPhone. Hack, what is good to have a good hardware if there can't be a good software support? I would rather compromise on less awesome hardware or very controlled closed ecosystem that I can have a certain expectation that it will have a few numbers of updates. For that reason, I am still hesitant about Sony. My next phone will have the first party support, no third party bull crap.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] elherr:
Oh -- wow. iPhone? That sounds desperate. Every time I muck with my wife's iPhone 5 it irritates me to no end.

Enjoy the sun! I am. 'Tis awesome in Seattle today.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] csmall:
04/23 is silky smooth...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] msgfromside3:
I was just saying how much I hate the third party now. :) I don't think my wife will approve me buying iphone anyway - interestingly she is truly apple hater (and sony).

Yeah it is nice today. We should enjoy it while we can.

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At least for me the couple of nightlies before 4/22 were not as performing as the nightly used to. 4/22 has recovered the sluggishness.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
funny, as not a thing has changed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] msgfromside3:
I was thinking the same while going through the change log.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] RootTheMachine:
I never really notice day-to-day performance differences unless there are major driver updates or something.