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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
Iv had screen of death happen to mines as well along with booting problems, also have had battery drain issue on my other gs2, but getting great battery life running cooks on this one! And im wit u, shostock3 aint as sweet.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jazmin87:
hey this is awesome! I didn't get a text but I called them as well and they said its true! tell everybody! because this is pretty big. thank you for letting me know hun :*

and guys also I went ahead ( with my boyfriend walking me through it ) and installed the AJK kernel and it seems to be working smooth now! of course it only been on for about a hour and haven't restarted it yet.. can I ask what I just did though? is this the same one that was already on their.. like whats the difference. thanks guys!! :victory:

and fingers crossed that this worked.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
Ok xda, can officialy rule out kernel. Phone been running ok all day until i just decided to test a reboot, phone powerd off, turned back on and was stuck on the samsung logo for way to long but loaded past that and made it to the lock screen and shut rite back off! Their was a message displayed for a quick second rite before it went off starting with ( unfortunately ) but turned off to quick to read anymore then that, then it went back into the bootloop, had to hold power button, when it loaded back up my battery was at 1% when i had a 60% charge before the reboot. Whats the next trouble shooting step?

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Better hold your breath that you dont start having worse problems like me and some others, try rebooting your phone and see if you can get past the animated google screen. It took 3 days for my phone to start acting up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
The battery drop you're experiencing when you reboot your phone is a hardware bug. There's nothing you can do to fix it. If your battery is below about 65% just plug your phone to a charger before you reboot and it won't happen.

As for your other problems I'm inclined to say you have hardware problems. If you flashed AJK as i suggested and still have the same problem, you need to use Odin and flash your phone back to stock. There is a stock_sgh_i777 file in the op, it has a ".tar.md5" extension. Flash it in Odin and you will be back to out of the box stock phone. Then see if your problem still persists. If it does, your phone is broke and may need a new power button. If not, we'll go from there

Edit: the file is stock-sgh-s959g.tar.md5. It's at the bottom of the "download factory firmware section"
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
A little hard to believe that both my galaxy s2 phones are defective, and somebody else was having this power issue as well, if it was a hard ware issue it would had been doin this before i flashed anything running on stock, plus shostock3 booted fine, it just looks like you guys havent a clue whats going on and are not willing to figure it out.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
You're right. I don't have a clue what's wrong with your phone. Good luck :thumbup::):beer:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] grave_digger:
Wow dude the drain issue is documented just do a search in this thread about it. You have been given advice from the best there is on this phone but refuse to listen. To come on here and bash the people that have tried to help you is rude when people have taken the time to respond to you and try. To say they are unwilling is ridiculous. Good luck to you.

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:
Not bashing anybody, iv thanked everybody that has tryed to help, im jus simply not being herd, and it all gets fustraighting after a while! For instance this is not a drain issue, battery life is great, its a booting issue. But ill figure something out, im fast learner with electronics but it looks like i gotta give up on cooks and im not one to giv up i actualy like finding issues and fixing them.

Also was thinking us solving this could help others that may experiance this same problem, if it is the rom, or not the rom, at least it would be known forsure.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] StoneComputers:
****.... I got same issue... no cellular data... after stock restore... any fix for this? I knew I should have waited....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] r00t4rd3d:
Did you do a factory restore and wipe the cache from the download mode menu after you flashed?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] StoneComputers:
is yours stuck on the ST splash too????? its a box you check on the seccond screen in heimdall,, but I dont have data..... wtf.... so the stock kernel is bad???
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] roughmouth:
no. i am going to do that now. i hope it works or i am going to get in a **** load of trouble. i run my business from this phone. i gosh i hope i am not screwed

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ok maybe i am doing something wrong how would i do a factory restore and cashe wipe from the download mode menu?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jenol:
patience give the phone time to re provision itself can take up to 10 minutes
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] roughmouth:
weird. its back now getting data. that is freaking strange. i hope it sticks

also i nolonger have root but im ok with that right now. lol i can wait till some of the bugs get worked out. i about had a freaking coronary event.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] StoneComputers:
Same thing... I actually freaked out and ran down to Walmart to return it (I got two days left on my phone to return it) and I got there too late as I was walking out I got an email.... it just started working again... strangest thing I swear... anyway so I got two days till I cant return it anymore so I can try anything you guys throw at me I might even have 3 days cuz of Christmas... Yea Im not scared anymore since I can just return it and since I did a total back up I can afford to loose data.... So why would the ATT root work for this phone but not the stock one? Is it the hidden Straight talk software? (Avast anti virus picked up software running hidden having its paws in the messaging program.... might even be in email and search... this would explain alot.... anybody know what this straight talk software does??? I know one thing for a fact that it gets my texts BEFORE I do.... that's all I can say for certain
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] roughmouth:
i powered down my phone and it went away again. WTF
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] StoneComputers:
Im beginning to think its something messing with us.... What I would like to do is get a nice ICS ROM and use the BYOP SIM card so that straight talk has nothing to do with the software... But I see this phone uses H+ or something like that for the DATA (different MMS AND DATA SETTINGS IN THE APN MENU) so can this phone run regular 3G? Id rather run the H+ network since I pull 12+MBPS when Im not throttled... I know this phone is going to get cracked wide open real soon...

ANYWAY do the old power down battery and SIM pull I guess another thing is Straight talk could be updating their systems tonight I got a notification of a system update earlier but when I clicked it it said system up to date... and I know its not the first one you see when you start the phone cuz I already clicked that one off...

very strange stuff.... are we the only ones on here?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] roughmouth:
i think we are the only ones on here. i did the old power down and pull batery and sim and that did the trick. . . for now. lol. i am a nervous wreck.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] StoneComputers:
mine stopped working too after going into airplane mode but I just waited and it came on... maybe this restore has some errors in the APN settings or glitch? I dunno.... I will prolly return my phone just in case it did mess up... at one point I got my phone into recovery/update mode but I dont know how I did it (it was when the phone was not booting all the way) I thought it was volume down and power but thats not it... I see though there is an update setting kind of like CWR....

on another note I am getting dissmile speeds on Data how about you?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] roughmouth:
yup. i wish i had the option to take it back and get a new one.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] StoneComputers:
Well.... maybe you can.... Walmart has an awesome return pollacy and ITS CHRISTMAS!!!! so as long as you have the box and junk they should do it for you.... just say you got it for Christmas and say it doesn't work and they should get you a new one.... They might even let you go if you dont have the box.... Christmas time is return time and you might be able to pull a fast one.... I know one thing for sure.... I will not be the first or second one to try the root/ROM if I dont have that option.... just saying.... how is your data speed? mine is all over the place...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] roughmouth:
when i tested at 1 mb it was right where it should be. idk i have not had the best luck with att around my area.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] StoneComputers:
1MB is so low for me anyway..... so you gonna try to return it??? Im not gonna take these speeds or the on or off connection.... I wont be flashing again until they have a new recovery....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] roughmouth:
i bought mine back in september so i doubt that they will return it but i agree i will not be flashing again untill there is a new recovery out. hopefully soon.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] StoneComputers:
Yea we might just be nuts, and looking for errors that ae not there.... but taking a few min just for the Data symbol to appear at the top of the screen is not what it was like before...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] r00t4rd3d:
You guys who are dependent on your phone carrier services should not be flashing and experimenting with stuff from this thread. None of us who are actively working on these hacks are developers and only have limited developer help. Entropy doesnt even own our model phone so its a guessing game for him somewhat too.

Those of you with problems this is what I want you to try. Reset your phone to factory defaults and clear the cache from the download mode menu ( power phone off, hold down volume down button, insert usb cable) then flash the stock only firmware. Immediately upon flashing the stock firmware, reset factory defaults and clear the cache again. Then double check your APN settings if you are having celluar/data issues.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] StoneComputers:
I don't know about my friend here but this is exactly what I did... (hard to find recovery) I've have no problems since last nice and it was a late time and we both had these errors at the same time so I'm thinking it might have been ST updating things or something... I don't know if ill even return my phone now since it works exactly like it did before flashing..... the root was awesome save for no Gmail app and no search...

I tent to freak out very easy so don't mind me...

I will try anything you guys want.... let's get this working :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] roughmouth:
im with you. i freak fast. but after i did the batery and sim pull everything seems to be working fine again. stock. thanks everyone for all there hard work here!

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dose reseting factory defaults automaticly clear the cashe? if not i cant figure out where to do that. also i can not find out how to check the APN settings.

I know, I know . . . im a total newb. but i want to learn and i hope that counts for something :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jazmin87:
oh no guys PLEASE don't give up! i have been waiting the past couple days for a fix! after installing the ajk kernel it was running fine, but when i woke up this morning my phone was like off and really hott! i had to take the battery out to let it cool down, and when i put it back in there was a message displayed saying something like "UNKNOWN" can't remember now, but it had a little android next to it in the top left side and the words in red. I'm stuck with this rom because my boyfriend didn't make a backup of my original one :( so please guys i beg you to fix this or figure it out! ignore the other guy but he probably is feeling the same way i am.

my phone randomly crashes now and reboots on its on stuck at the google play screen :'(

I'm willing to do what ever to fix it.

edit: that message that was displayed was in yellow and said( POWER RESET OR UNKNOWN UPLOAD MODE ) and red numbers at the top saying [RST_STAT = 0X20000000 ] it just happen to me again :eek:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jazmin87:
nobody's going to help me? :'( I don't even know what to do now! and my boyfriend won't be back from the military until August! gosh I wish I never did this... has me crying
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
I'm very sorry for your problems. I'm not trying to be stingy with my knowledge. I honestly have no clue why your phone is giving you that error message "power reset or unknown upload source" at least you gave the exact message.

I did however (which you should have done by now yourself) Google that issue and can't find anything for our device. It seems to be a big problem with s3's however.

My suggestion for you would be to post in the q&a section for our phone (at&t sgh-i777 q&a) and maybe someone else has dealt with this problem or knows what it is. Personally, I've never seen or heard of it happening on our phone.

Again, I'm sorry but i can't help you. If i were in your shoes though i would use the instructions from the first page of this thread to Odin your phone back to stock. If you were here, I'd do it for you but you're not so you're going to have to read and learn for yourself. You can do it and if you have questions, we can help. But the journey is yours to make. If i can do it, you can.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] grave_digger:
Razen is correct. Odin back to stock is best choice for now. If you follow instructions in first post step by step you can do it. I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer but the instructions are very clear and precise. I dont know half of what razen does and I was able to do it so I have faith you can to. You found your way to this forum and that's over half the battle. If something goes wrong post and you will be helped, you won't be ignored. Good luck and let us know how it goes.

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] 4-2ndtwin:
We can only help you troubleshoot so far. We don't have ur phones in front of us, so we have to simply trust that u have followed the suggestions given, completely. And we understand ur frustrations because we have all been there, if not with this phone, then with others. But the bottom line for now is if ur phone works without any issues while on Stock firmware or SHOstock, then the simpliest thing is to just keep running one of those.

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I agree with what has been suggested by the very helpful xda family members before me, to go back to Stock firmware. And just stay with running that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
I highly suggest you to install the latest ShoSTOCK3! i had similar problems as you running on cooks and i went ahead and installed shostock3 'again' just to see if wht problems i was having really was my phone "s" (even though i already new it wasent) i had nothing to lose. But did have something to gain. my phone is running flawless! No bootloops, no freezing, no crashes, everything is smooth, transitions are fast! Camera opens in .2 seconds, on cooks it took 2 seconds. Shostock is very similar to cooks expect multi window works and again runs flawless, and the ink lock screen is super smooth, no lag at all. Only things wrong are the dpi settings they used suck, makes everything look smaller, they did that to give you an extra row for applications but it sucks because it cuts some wigets off at the end of them, but im getting use to it! Also not feeling the battery widget used, looks cheap but getting use to that as well, And they are very small sacrifices to make to have a fast error free phone. Trust me! If you want jelly bean, and i know you do! Dont go back to stock! Cooks gave you a bad first experiance, but it dont haft to be bad, smile cuz its not your phone giving you these problems, it was the rom, and theirs a easy fix. Install shostock!

Btw Shostock isent even overclocked and it runs smoother and faster, i played the same game "warcraft 2" on both roms. On cooksi777 is would freeze and make my phone very hot! 20 minutes later the phone would crash. Playing same game on same phone just diffrent rom, no problems at all, can play till the battery dies. If you need help installing shostock3 shot me a message.

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I completly understand, and you can trust i installed the rom correctly, it must be a bug in it or something to make it bootloop when powering up. I can promise you its not a hardware issue either for simple facts it dident do that before the installation, nor did it with other roms. My only concern now is that it goes unknowledge. And im very shocked that only a few of the selected phones are showing these issues, if its not the developers phone showing the issues it very hard to fix... i would imagine. But it is at least now a known issue that a percentage of people could incounter, just unfortunately theirs not a fix.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jazmin87:
that sounds really good! I'm not as good as you installing these things though is the only thing, you make it sound so easy! like "just do it!" lol. I am willing to do something though, i can't have my phone restarting on me out of the blue and giving me false error messages until August. and your rite, i don't want to go back to stock ugh, I was willing to take the risk just to get away from Gingerbread! Shostock3 sounds good! and i think i can trust your word since we both had the booting problems :) so i can still have a fully functional fast phone running on JellyBean!!! my biggest dream can still come true!!? I'm all inn! i already did a search and found ShoStock3 and reading the instructions looks pretty simple :o i think i might give it a try, i just got off cam with my huby and he explained a lot of it to me and also assured me that the problems were caused by the rom and my phone is and will be fine! but guys you should really try to look into it because i already feel sorry for anybody else that installs cooks and has them same issues :( it can be scary. thanx for being here for me XDA!

i can say i have learned something new since these problems accured :) "smiles with hope."

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I think I will do that, can you bump me in the rite direction to the i777 forum :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s2-att/help
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
We're all here to help!

By the way, the problem both of you have been having with cooked is not due to the rom. I've not run cooked, but I can tell you from reading the forums for 2-1/2 years, and from observing the symptoms that your phones have had, that the problems are caused in the kernel layer, not the rom layer. That doesn't mean that the kernel is buggy either. AJK (Siyah based) is very configurable with stweaks, and it is very likely that you could get the phone running smoothly with cooked and AJK by adjusting the settings. But it's a pain, and if you don't understand what you are doing, you would need help.

As stated above, I do recommend SHOstock3. It is stable. As they say, it just works "out of the box." I would, however, strongly recommend that you stay with the included Jebo kernel, and not install AJK.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
That sounds like a good explanation for the symtoms only thing is their arent any tweaks in stweaks to adjust booting options other then removing the boot animation and i tryed to do that and it dident work, still played it. And when i first installed shostock i was tempted to install ajk with it but as i play around with it relized it dont even need it, runs super smooth as is. Very stable. Is their a way to change DPI settings with out using a app? Tryed it and things went crazy, thats the only thing that bothers me. Ocd
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jazmin87:
so technically speaking... couldn't we just install a different kernel and that would eliminate the issues if it indeed is not the Rom? I'm feeling super smart now lol. Of course i have no idea what kernel to use with Cooks or how to choose one. :/

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thanx so much :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 4-2ndtwin:
^

U can use the i777ucmd8 Stock JellyBean kernel with COOKED Rom.

Jeboo's kernel is for i9100 based roms.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
Do you think that will solve the booting issues? Worth a shot i guess
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jazmin87:
thanks hun, is this it? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2322046 or were can i download it at? and ain't that the one that already comes with cooks?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 4-2ndtwin:
^

Cooked Rom uses the AJK version 4.9 No-Swap kernel.

Here is the stock i777ucmd8 kernel... View attachment 2754835. The MD5 Hash # is 57A1CB4AAE27E78E13DDDD862BC448A4, if ya wanna make sure ur download is good and not corrupted.

You can use the Mobile Odin app by Chainfire (he is a well known Senior Recognized Developer here on XDA) to flash the stock kernel. Get the app from the Play Store or here on XDA and use it to install the Stock JB kernel (zImage) that is in the zip file i uploaded.

I repeat, use the Mobile Odin app to flash it. This is not a cwm flashable zip.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jazmin87:
thank you sooo much! i hope this solves all the problems.. can i ask what will be different between this one and the ajk one? thanks again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 4-2ndtwin:
Basically the Stock kernel is well... stock. But the AJK Kernel (No Mic Swap version for the i777 based roms) is more than stock lol. U will have to just take a look at AJ's thread to see all that he put into making his kernels. Here is the thread... [KERNEL] AJK v4.9 [** The ONE **] [JB]

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Agreed...worth a try.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jazmin87:
i didn't know you had to buy the moble oden app... is there another way? not feeling all that keen on spending money on something not guaranteed to work.:eek:

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hmmm I actually have a very simple, but silly question... i was just reading the i777ucmd8 cooks forum when i noticed this Big ol word "MODEMS"!!! something sparked in my brain and i went on a new mission into my downloads folder just to see if i777 modems were downloaded by my boyfriend... and no they weren't.:rolleyes: meaning my modems were not updated... no this may be again.. silly, but could that be the reason for my phone to be rebooting and getting stuck with bootloops?

even though my data is super fast, mobile and wifi, i still can't help but wounder... :silly: