yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sandwrench:
Ah, sorry, I misunderstood then...but I still have issues...:silly:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Big Poppa:
Hi David,

I just wanted to follow up. I received a picture message today with out changing anything. The problem must have been on Tracfone's side. Nice to know after month of not getting picture messages I can get them now. :cool:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
I'm having power down issues. Every time I try and turn my device off it powers all the way down then auto restarts. It won't stay powered off. I've tried complete wipes and reflashes but nothing seems to fix the problem. Any ideas?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Sangsumnoob:
MMS picture messages not working

Ok just to let you all know that ST has changed their APN settings just recently so if you're not getting MMS to go through this is the problem, easiest way to remedy this is to Google Play Store and search for "straight talk data settings" Dl the app and it will fix all your settings. otherwise here are the new APN settings they are as follows.

STRAIGHT_TALK

tfdata <tick box from APN List>

Name

STRAIGHT_TALK

APN

tfdata

Proxy

<not set>

Port

<not set>

Username

<not set>

Password

<not set>

Server

<not set>

MMSC

http;//mms-tf.net

MMS proxy

mms3.tracfone.com

MMS port

80

MCC

310

MNC

410

Authentication type

none

APN type

internet + mms + supl

Hope this helps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Obviously you don't keep up with this thread.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
My first thought is failing power button.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
Great. Thanks razen.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] androidfixer7:
Galaxy S II SGH-I777 PHONECALLS PROBLEM

I NEED HELP MY DEAR FRIENDS!

i found your post about the Permanently Fix SGS2 Echo and Digital Noise Reduction, and i want to know if you can help me to detect some issues and problems that i have with this model, the Galaxy S II SGH-I777 sold by Straight Talk tracfone, they never update the cellphone.

Im from México, and i unlock the cellphone, to use it you to need to change the Stock Rom, a gingerbread 2.3.6 to an custom rom, you can find several AT&T SII SGH-I777 custom roms on the network. I was testing severals, all the cyanogen mods, in the nightly, experimental, stable version with different android versions, the touchwiz samsung custom roms, paranoid android, whatever. And i have the same problem, i can`t use the phone calls, i was thinking that i need to change the modem to find the correct files to use it in México.

But i have signal, i can call, i can receive calls and make them, but i can`t hear nothing and the people in the other side, they can`t hear me, i test Bluetooth headphones with mic, earphones, the internal speakers, but nothing change. At last, i tried to use the Digital Noise Reduction/Cancellation, and i think that i can resolve all the stuff if i use the samsung codes to enter to the ServiceMode Menu, i tried to select the audio options on the Main Menu, but surprisingly, the Audio Menu, it's inaccessible, or do not exist.

I was searching something about that, i some users said in their post that Samsung block the Audio Menu, but i don't nothing about that for real.

So, i wanna know if you fix in the past something similar to this problem. I was thinking that i need to replace the whole Earpiece Speaker Earphone Jack Flex Cable of the Samsung Galaxy S II I777. i don't know if It's is a software problem because i re-install the stock rom via odin, with the original modem, pit and kernel files. The audio files to configure the ServiceMode are installed i a different partition, or why can't re-install all the real options?

My question is, that if the Earphone Jack Flex Cable do not work properly, the Audio options in the ServiceMode it's been made affected by this issue or the stock rom comes with this limitations? How can i do my friend?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
This sounds like a hardware issue to me. The modem won't have any affect on it. If you have signal then the modem is working. Does your phone put out any sound at all? Play music or ring?

Sent from my SGH-S959G
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
Power issues
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
Yes. Completely. It just seems that if it was the button sticking or going bad that it would still have rebooted once power was supplied.

I'll admit I haven't tried to power it off yet using the menu.

---------- Post added at 07:38 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:35 AM ----------

Just tried. Re-booted. Didn't stay off.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Well, Odin back to stock. If the problem persists it's a hardware issue no doubt. These phones are notorious for power button failures. I try to use any other means to not use my power button. Touch based recovery, screen off buttons in my notifications/quick settings, slide 2 wake. Whatever i can to not have to use that power button unless it's absolutely necessary.

Is your battery charging back up?

Oh! And ROM customize has a reboot widget that allows you to one button click to reboot, reboot recovery, hot boot, reboot to download. Quite possibly one of the best apps I've ever used. Thanks [MENTION=4934593]mr-cook[/MENTION] for that jewel.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
Yes. It charges fine. Its just the powering down issue. OK. I'll see if I can get a PC today and get back with you on the results. Thanks razen.

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Where do I get the ROM customize app?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
ROM customizer. It's on play store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ficeto.alliancemanager
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] SteveMurphy:
That is a great app, but newer users (not you, just to be clear) should to be careful when using it on AOSP-based roms. It was built for AliianceROM, which is Samsung-based, and most (if not all other) features won't work on AOSP roms - especially the themes and mods.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
I'm currently running CM 10.2 night lies. Can you supply a link to alliance? Haven't tried that one yet.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] SteveMurphy:
Here's the i777 version [MENTION=3065070]Goldie[/MENTION] created for us, some time ago. There was a slightly newer i9100 version, but it was never officially ported/built for us, so unless you know what you're doing I would suggest you stick with the one I linked to. If you run into any trouble create a new thread in the Q&A and I'll help you over there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
OK. Thankyou.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
That's a great ROM. I spent hours and hours customizing my phone. It was a lot of fun. I was toying with the idea of porting the JB neat ROM from i9100. It looks fun.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] SteveMurphy:
JB Neat is bananas good, you'd really like it because there are tons of user-created mods for it. I know you were disappointed with the AOSP version, but the Sammy one is great.

Also check out my friend [MENTION=5022494]Vivek_Neel[/MENTION] 's AICP rom, if you get the chance: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2696825

Sorry for OT, mr-cook!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
I have a Blackberry Playbook. How likely is it that ST will catch me tethering it to my phone just to listen to internet radio as the speakers are better on the Playbook than it is on the phone?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] grave_digger:
Its not the tether they will catch its the data you will use. After 2.5 gigs they throttle you down to a crawl so just keep an eye on it.

a grave digger will be the last person in the world to let you down in a tight spot.

Sent from my SGH-S959G
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Did you ever figure out your power button problem?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
Sorry about that razen. Unfortunately no. I think I'm going to need a new phone soon.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] rogersb11:
Just so you know I had this exact same problem starting over a year ago and the phone is still running like a champ. It just won't stay off once it hits like 5 percent charge. It's there a reason you NEED it to stay off?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
No, not really. If it stays the way it is then it's fine. I was just worried that it would get worse some how.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Klown80:
Does anyone have the PIT file for the SGH-S959G? I have tried using Odin and Heimdall to reflash the stock firmware after my buddy got his phone stuck on the warning screen you see when you try to boot into download mode, but each time I try rebooting phone I am booted back to the warning screen again. I had to use a jig to get into download mode, other wise it would boot to warning screen then I couldnt use vol buttons to select reboot to download mode. I am able to flash recovery via Odin and I am able to get the phone to boot into Philz or CWM but it does no good to try and flash a rom through there either, it just keeps booting to the same old warning screen!!

Any ideas guys? I am about to tell my buddy it looks like it is time for him to get a new phone! lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
I'm not sure what you mean by warning screen and are you able to get Odin to see your phone?

If Odin sees your phone you *should*be able to flash the "stock sgh-s959g factory firmware.tar.md5" from the op. This will return the phone to exactly the way it was when it came out of the box. I have used it before myself
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Klown80:
Sorry for the confusion! I mean when you try to manually enter download mode by holding Vol Down + Power you go to a warning screen that if you press Vol Up on this warning screen you go into download mode, or if you press Vol Down, it reboots phone.

I tried using the Stock firmware files listed in the OP, I tried using both the Odin Method and the Heimdall method and neither worked, it still boots to that warning screen.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
So you flash the firmware, it's successful, then you reboot and it boots back into download mode? Even if you hit volume down to select reboot?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Klown80:
I flash firmware, it says successful. then when phone reboots it boots back to the warning screen you see before manually booting into download mode. (Like if you power off the phone then hold Vol Down while connecting to PC will also get this warning screen to pop up)

Once on that warning screen i cant use either Vol Up or Vol Down, neither button works
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
That is a new one for me. I'm tempted to say your volume buttons are sticking/failing. Like the down button is sticking during boot. If you select reboot system from recovery, it does the same thing then also?

If you hold the volume up button while phone is rebooting, will it boot into recovery or still go to download mode?

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I believe your friend has a hardware problem... Check this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2665195
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
Here's the pit file- sgh-s959g.pit - 4.00 KB

-Disclaimer-

I can in no way recommend using this. Flashing a pit file can destroy your phone, and should only be done as a last resort. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!

Sent from my SGH-S959G
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Spinergy02:
Definitely sounds like a sticky volume button or failure. I'd check out cleaning/replacing that before flashing any more.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Klown80:
Exactly right!! Turned out to be the Vol down button was sticking/not working. I figured this out when I reflashed the stock firmware, as soon as firmware flash was complete I pulled battery and booted directly to stock recovery to perform a factory reset and noticed the vol down button wasnt working. I took phone apart to look for any visible damage and found none, however when I reassembled the phone it now boots up properly again!

Thanks very much for your help [MENTION=5093014]razen_kain[/MENTION] [MENTION=4934593]mr-cook[/MENTION] [MENTION=3374936]spinergy[/MENTION] !
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mg170:
Battery loop

I apologize if this question has already been answered.

I flashed Stock S959G rom with odin and tried cwm too, on to my straightalk/tracfone Samsung Galaxy S2 SGH-S959G. Every time I plug in the usb charger, my phone turns off and I get a battery loop (battery icon flashes in middle of screen and turns right off over and over again). I can get into recovery and download mode. I flashed different roms and problem gets fixed with other roms, just stock roms does not seem to work.

What could be the problem? Thank you already for the info.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
I've never heard of a ROM effecting the charging port. Have you tried cleaning the port? Questionable after market battery? Try a different cable?

That's the only thing i can think of of the top of my head. Well, a failing USB port too. But the ROM *shouldn't* effect that
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] DroidJP:
I had a problem that the moment I plug the phone to charge. The charging animation looks corrupted. But, when I flashed with odin using the pre-rooted rom. If fixed the charging animation, even after I flashed cwm again. Just weird is all I can say. Also, when I look at the battery stats using battery doctor app. The voltage reads 4.30v. Isn't that bit high? I thought Li-ion are suppose to stop at 4.2v when fully charged.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Spinergy02:
I don't know about the other issues, but 4.2v is listed as a minimum. Basically they have to make sure the battery is at least 4.2v even though it actually may be a bit higher.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] grave_digger:
When I try to charge with charger it says charging and circle is animated but it doesn't charge. Is the port bad? Where do I get one? GPS has always sucked on this phone, is there anything that can be replaced while I have it open to make it better?

a grave digger will be the last person in the world to let you down in a tight spot.

Sent from my SGH-S959G
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Have you ruled out a bad charger cord?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] david72262:
Some times my phone uses so much power won't charge in till I kill some back ground apps
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Cap'n Jazz:
So my phone randomly started boot looping and the only way I could fix it was to odin back to stock GB. The phone is running again but it won't register my sim on the network anymore and I can't access CWM recovery. It gives me a CWM recovery splash screen for half a second then reboots without entering recovery so I can't do anything. Any ideas?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] david72262:
Wrong recovery for gb
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Cap'n Jazz:
What recovery do I use?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
What were u running before?

Sent from my SGH-I777 using Xparent Red Tapatalk 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] david72262:
You need to odin the aj recovery from op
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Cap'n Jazz:
When I got the boot loop I was on some version of Cooked Rom.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
You need to odin in cwm 6.0.2.7 then flash cooked latest version
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Cap'n Jazz:
I didn't see an aj recovery in the op. I'm not sure what I need.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] david72262:
Its ajk -AJK CWM Odin- AJK-CWM.tar.md5 - 8.01 MB
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Cap'n Jazz:
Thanks guys. I can get into recovery now!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] grave_digger:
It is time to format my SD card and do a wipe and clean install. I also want to format my internal storage. Here is my question. I am no longer able to access my phone through a PC until I change charge port. I backed up all files important to me with drop box since I couldn't put them on computer. Once I format storages I plan to redownload omni renders kernal, Mr cooks wipes and stuff from Dropbox. Is there anything stored on the internal storage vital to my phones functions? I will not be able to Odin back or add any files to phone once I start. I know there is always chance of problem but if all goes proper and I put all the required files to flash back through recovery will this work? Thanks in advance. As always I appreciate the help.

a grave digger will be the last person in the world to let you down in a tight spot.

Sent from my SGH-S959G
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] david72262:
Good question I was hoping mr cook would jump in here I think the problems with my phone started after formatting internal sd I would check in the recovery threads to in theory I believe they put back the necessary files but do they really I was actually going to start researching this topic myself today but got busy with family issue. I have a back of a rom that works perfect before I ever formatted my internal sd yesterday I reflashed from scratch the same rom and it has problems but the backup works perfect.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
You can always just copy everything onto the computer and if you have problems just copy them back to SD card.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] david72262:
make sure you get all the hidden files too if there are any.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
As far as I know there isn't anything system wise stored on the SD card. Apps store data there some of which is hidden or named so you don't know what it is. So I would back up everything just to be safe.

Sent from my SGH-S959G
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] david72262:
dont format internal sd with the cwm 6.0.4.5 it will mess things up finally got to the root of my problem. Will know for sure in about 24 to 36 hours usually takes that long for things to go haywire. Just wanted to caution users from using that file to format internal sd. Will keep you updated. Use twrp it seems to have fixed the formatting issues I was having. cwm was leaving files that were hidden and undetectable but as soon as you would flash gapps any gapps I tried em all thinking it was there fault, storage would be almost full today it got completely full all 1.97 gigs with no user apps installed and micro gapps. Traced it down to the lost+found folder had 1.47gigs of files these were being rewritten from lost data on the internal sd that should of been formatted by cwm but wasnt as soon as I formatted with twrp problem seems to be fixed and data/lost+found is completely empty now. I could not even odin back to stock earlier today because of this issue returned to stock GB after fixing this just to see. If you go back to stock beware there is no way of changing the apn and it has the old apn that doesn't work any more. Hope this helps any questions ?

After doing complete formats and wipes I mean complete I would wipe everything trying to fix my reboots and data crashes. my storage space would fill up fast because lost files were being rewritten and they were coming from erases storages.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
That is really really strange. I wonder why it was doing that....?

Fwiw i ONLY use twerp 2.7.0.0 for kitkat ROMs. It has proven very reliable and by far more functional.

Man i really hope this fixes your reboots and freeze problems! Keep us posted.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] david72262:
Because the internal sd card wasn't getting completely formatted it sa what was left on it as lost files and writing them to the Lost and Found folder took me reading about 100 pages of Google searches to find clues and figure it out
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] grave_digger:
Wow. I'm sorry you had so much trouble. For a change mine went off without a flaw and my problems seems to have gotten better, but i use twrp also. Battery isn't as screwy which was my main issue. GPS is horrible I can't get a lock even after all the tweaks. I guess to clarify because there may be a difference I used the storage manager and erased internal and ext storage. I can't connect through PC anymore so I didn't format I just erased.

The grave digger will be the last person in the world to "let you down in a tight spot."

Sent from my SGH-S959G
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
where do i find the jellybean kernel for this sghs959g?

Does the CM-10.1.3 come with the new kernel or do i need to flash that as well? because i don't see anything on this thread with the download links to a kernel, and if so, what happens if i flash CM-10.1.3 but don't flash a new kernel? also is it mandatory that i flash the Modems or do i only flash if my GPS and stuff is not working once rebooted?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
fill me inn on a few things!

btw i successfully rooted my SGH-S959G! 2 years ago when i first bought this phone i did months of research trying to figure out how to do all this stuff and finally just gave up, i have old comments probably in the 200 pages on here asking a lot of questions lol everything was a different language to me then, but now im back and everything is coming together, and honestly for people who are taking the same road im on, once you get going it gets easier, i'm ready to install a custom ROM now, already have the zips copy to root of sd card, bout to power off and enter cwm and do the d** thing! just wanna know the answers to the questions i asked above, also i was debating on the nightly s or stable, and i think im going with a stable for now just to see what its like, probably will end up flashing a nightly later on though.

want to thank everybody that has put effort into this phone! i know its not one of your top brands being from walmart but you guys put in work and got this available for our small family of the s959g. ill still be using this phone for another year or more expecialy after i get jellybean up and running on it, all thanks to XDA!:good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
Installation aborted!?

I was installing CM10.1.3-i777 from sd card and it started, then got the message INSTALLATION ABORTED, it says assert failed: get prob ("ro.product.device") =="i777 get prop ("ro.build.product") i777 get prob("ro.product.device") "sgh-i777 E: error in /storage/sdcard1/cm-10.1.3-i777.zip

(status 7)

installation aborted.

what could cause this!? am i missing something, i thought i did everything in order, i wiped the data, catch, and delvik first. any help would be appreciated greatly!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
how and were do you edit this into? im getting this error message everytime i try to flash CM-10
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
First off the link that you quoted here I have no idea where it came from so I wouldn't use it.

Yes ROMs come included with their own kernel, and there is no need to flash it separately.

The error you are getting is a get prop error. It means the model number in your build.prop doesn't match what the updater script is looking for. You would need to remove that assert check from the updater script for it to install.

I would recommend for your first ROM install to just use a ROM which doesn't have that assert check. You could grab my ROM from here- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=42522825

Sent from my SGH-S959G
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] david72262:
Deleted didn't see Mr cooks post above