[Galaxy S II Original Android Development] AvRS:
Slim Bean 2.1 Guide

Hi all, here's the latest guide to features in Slim Bean for the S2. I've decided to start at the basics so this isn't a "what's new" like previous guides but more "what's included" as we're only at the start of Slim Bean's life. Some options aren't covered because I wanted to cut it down and I've already spent the last few hours doing this so it'll do ;)

It should help people decide whether they want to flash this more than the people already using it but knowing the basics is always useful.

System Settings:

When you open System Settings you will notice the options under quick links, these give you access to further customise/control your experience. The options are as follows:

ASS - Advanced Slim Settings: Built in customisation control

OTA - Update Me

Themes - Theme engine

Device Options - Galaxy S II Settings

ASS options: This section will give an overview of the options available within ASS

Performance isn't shown above but is the last option in the list.

General UI: Miscellaneous options

- Statusbar notification count: When ticked and you have 2 or more notifications you will get a blue circle with the count at the corner of the notification icon.

- Choose notification background: Allows you to set a custom background

- Notification background alpha: Allows you to set the transparency of the picture you've chosen from above option

Lockscreen Options:

- Choose lockscreen wallpaper: Self explanatory ;)

- Weather: Display weather info on the lockscreen as per CM

- Lockscreen battery percentage: Choose whether to always show on your lockscreen, normal behaviour is only during charging

- Wait to lockscreen: Select whether to use Android's time-out delay when you manually lock the screen. As default there is a set delay to lock only when the screen turns off itself

- Volume wake: Allows you to use the volume rocker to wake the phone from sleep

- Quick pin unlock: Unlock secure lockscreen without pressing enter after pin/password

Navigation Bar: Select and customise on-screen nav bar as per GNex

- Includes a multitude of options: Have a play as there's too many to list :p

Statusbar - Battery: Selection of battery customisation options

- Much unchanged from Slim ICS except with the addition to show the battery icon while status bar dropdown is active

Statusbar - Clock: This allows you to customise your status bar clock with a selection of options as below:

- Clock Style: This allows you to choose the position of your status bar clock, between right or centre aligned or remove it altogether.

- AM/PM Style: Select between 2 different sizes of AM/PM or don't show.

- Day of the week: Select between 2 different sizes of abbreviated day e.g. Thu.

Statusbar - Toggles: Customise toggles in status bar dropdown

- Enabled toggles: Select from a list of available toggles

- Toggle order: Customise the order your toggles are displayed

- Toggle layout: Choose between common row or grid layout

- Toggle style: Choose between icon or text style

- Enabled/Disabled indicator colour: Select the colour of each state of the toggle indicators

- Toggle indicator alpha: Select the transparency of the indicator's

- Brightness location: Choose whether to display the brightness bar above or below the toggles

- Reset toggles: Resets to default

LED Options: Unused on the S2

Sound: Selection of sound settings

- Enable volume panel: Enables extended volume options when you use the volume rocker to change volume. Press the settings icon to the right as per below:

- Less frequent notification sounds: Change how often each apps notification sounds play per the set value (see screenshot at bottom of section)

- Headphone plugged in action: Choose what sound mode you wish to set when you plug your headphones in (see screenshot at bottom of section)

- Bluetooth A2DP connection action: Same as headphone plugged in action

- Phone call silence: Enable or disable flip to silence

- Face down audio mode: Choose between no action, vibrate and silent mode while phone is face down. When enabled further options become available (how it works is displayed once you make a selection):

Face down seconds - Time required for your phone to be face down (select from list of pre-set times)

Screen timeout - Time screen is off before flip sensor is disabled

Performance: CPU and voltage options

- CPU Settings: Allows you to change min/max CPU frequency, set governor and IO scheduler

- Voltage Settings: Customise the voltages per CPU frequency

- Other Settings: Free memory, set at boot and fast charge options

Other Options: Other useful options/information

Quiet Hours:

This is accessed via Settings -> Sound -> Quiet hours

This setting allows you to set a time period that your phone will mute selected sounds. The options available currently are "Mute notification sounds", "Mute phone ringtones" and "Disable vibrations" as can be seen in the screen shots below:

Kernel:

Slim Bean is now using Siyah Siyah v4.1 beta6 as kernel of choice. In order to tweak the kernel settings such as BLN you'll need to download Extweaks from the Play Store as it's no longer possible to use Device Settings to manage backlight settings like in Slim ICS.

All other Slim Bean information can be found at the new site below. Please make sure you read known issues before submitting bug reports ;)

http://slimroms.net