yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] IndigoAK:
It's probably possible for them to tell you're not using the proxy.

(EDIT) A quick Google search shows that it's not legit.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Spinergy02:
Yeah I googled the number and saw that it was possibly a scam, but they weren't asking for money or any personal information like a scammer usually would. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed and hope that it is in fact not legit. You would think that they would send out an email or something.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] d-weenie:
i have had straight talk kill one of my sim cards for over usage of data on an old nokia phone they only called once then after about a week they killed my sim i had to buy a new phone and sim
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] roughmouth:
Lol it was not there for me. Maybe something screwed up on install. I switched to slim bean and it is there
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dandrumheller:
You might want to redact your imei...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] graphicw:
Does your phone boot with your build?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] r00t4rd3d:
I havent tried it yet, was waiting to hear your experience.

I am wondering if we should also be building the Platform and flashing that with the kernel.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] graphicw:
If it fails for you as well, the good news is that it is easy to get the phone back in download mode to reflash it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] r00t4rd3d:
In Entropy's kernel here, http://d-h.st/UWm , there is a file called factoryfs.img, I believe this is just a backup of the file system from a i777? How can roxanne make one of those of our stock file system? I think that is what we need but she would need root in order to do that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] graphicw:
I checked out the Nexus 4 that Entropy mentioned. The hardware is quite impressive, but it has a few major disadvantages:

The battery cannot be changed. Once it reaches the end of it's useful life, the phone reaches the end of it's useful life as well.

The back of the phone is made out of gorilla glass which is great glass, the only problem is that the glass on the back part of the phone is very easy to crack should you accidentally drop it even only few feet.

You are stuck with 8gb or 16gb of space. You cannot add an sd card to this phone should you wish to have more space.

Many users complain about the color on the screen appearing to the washed out.

Other than those things, the hardware is awesome. 1.7ghz quad core snap dragon and 2 gb of ram.

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Actually, Roxanne as an unmodified Straight Talk SG2. Once she obtains the information from the phone that Entropy requested, she should be able to get a dump of the rom that will allow all of us to return our phones to stock as well as providing us something to work with toward modding the phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
Batteries are good for thousands of charges and even if you do a full charge and discharge you still have 600 of those charges. Highly doubt you will run the battery out before the phone is super dated

Sent from my GS4 running CM11 Kandy Kane
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1081239

One of the people who has flashed a custom kernel but NOT modified /system in any way needs to back up the system partition... need that PIT in order to determine which one to back up. (I've got a guess, but PIT first...)

Then someone who has NOT flashed a custom kernel needs to flash a prerooted system image (made by hacking the backup) and back up the stock kernel.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] r00t4rd3d:
I just tried the new Jelly Bean 4.1.2 leak linked below and it works. I didnt flash the modem stuff, just the CODE and CSC stuff.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1994313

One thing I have noticed, the Back and Search buttons on the bottom of the phone are no longer functional with this leak but the Home button acts as both Home and Back. I believe this is caused by the i9100 not having those buttons.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] IndigoAK:
Why are you flashing an i9100 ROM on this phone?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] r00t4rd3d:
Just to screw around and see if it would work. Main reason I got this phone. JB runs great on it too.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] IndigoAK:
I wish I had the money to spend $350 on a disposable experiment. :P
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] graphicw:
Now try making a call with it and see how that goes. It is not of use to us that use the device as a phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] r00t4rd3d:
With VOIP I can call anywhere on the planet for free :cowboy:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] graphicw:
Is there anybody working on getting Entropy what he needs? I would if I had not attempted to mod it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] r00t4rd3d:
Ive asked Tracfone to provide me with the stock firmware. I see no reason why they should not.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] IndigoAK:
They won't. In fact, I was threatened with having my account terminated when I mentioned in passing that I was talking with people in the aftermarket community in a support request.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] graphicw:
I don't think that any of the people that have not modified this phone yet will know how to work with Heimdall well enough to get a dump. If nobody has done it by Dec 1st I will buy another one of these phones to pull the stock rom from it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] r00t4rd3d:
Did you get the extended warranty when you bought your first one? Drop it in a bucket of water.

@IndigoAK They cant terminate what I dont have.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] IndigoAK:
That doesn't change the fact that it's highly unlikely they will give you the stock software to their phone. They are openly against the customization of their devices. This is the same company that blocks this phone from working with Kies to minimize the chances that somebody will customize it, regardless of the fact that this makes it harder for the average user to manage media on the device. If we want the stock software for this device, somebody is going to have to do it the hard way.

In my opinion, we should leave them out of it completely just to prove a point: that if they won't support their device, the community will do it for them.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
want to root my Straightalk Galaxy s2

I guess this message is for user Mr.Cook, or anybody that has the answers to my questions. I have been looking all over for a way to root my S.T GS2 and this is the only and most reliable answer i have found, I am new to rooting and only know a few things about it so i want to ask a few questions before i do anything with my 3 week old phone. will this root really work with this model phone "SGH S959G"? and what are the benefits that come with this particular root since i still don't think its possible to flash Custom Roms on this phone... rite? and what O.S. can i " if i " install with this root? i see something about Jelly bean?? im not really to worried about updating from the stock Gingerbread 2.3.6, im more interested in deleting all the possible bloat wear and hopefully extending the battery life by doing so, currently i get about 10 hours off the battery and i have read were rooting can double that if their is any truth to that please let me know! Also is their a recovery way back to the org stock firmware GB 2.3.6 listed here just in case anything goes wrong or later down the line i need to go threw my manufactures warranted? and after the root, will my phone be able to work threw KIES? since striaghttalk romoved the USB DEVICE needed to do so. to some it all out, is it worth the risk!? and a big THANX to who ever made this root!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] IndigoAK:
Once you flash the recovery partition on this phone, you can do anything with it that you can do to an an SGH-I777.

As for battery life, I don't know if you can double it, but maybe it's just the way I use the phone. I hate dimming the screen and that's the number one killer of a battery I think. My battery usage is about the same now with CM 10.1 (Android 4.2) as it was with the Gingerbread ROM Straight Talk has on the phone out of the box.

As for KIES, I haven't bothered to toy with it since I gave up a while back and I really have no inclination to try again. Maybe somebody else who's switched over to CM 10.1 or SuperNexus can answer that one.

The rest of your questions can be answered if you go to the first post of this thread (as in the first page). It's all detailed. How to flash the recovery partition, how to root, how to install CM 10.1 (or any other ROM). Just read through that and you should be good to go.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] r00t4rd3d:
@va540area I hope no one helps you one bit for posting like that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
sorry if i sounded rude, i just signed up with this site tonight and i see that user MR COOK is who posted the way to root and custom roms and everything.

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ok thank you for that, i read from (p1) all the way to about (p40) and see were their was problems with modem and in and out going calls on this phone after flash... is that a fixed issue or is it still in the processes of being fixed? i think its real ****ed up how straighttalk and samsung worked together to make this phone almost impossible to work around, but i knew this before i bought the phone, im O.C.D and rather have a bran new stock phone then a used one off ebay. but all i really want to do is root my phone to get rid of all this bloat, would i experience any data problems or call issues with a simple root and not flashing anything? thanx again
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
i run SPEEDTEST.NET almost 20 times threw out the day and with AT@T you will have your ( average ) speeds and you will also have bad and better speeds depending on time of day and other factors. about 5 weeks ago i thought i was being throttled too even tho i had not used 1gig of data yet. i was picking up download speeds of about 1mbps and upload of 0.08mbps, i felt how you feel rite now thinking THIS IS H+ AND IT SHOULD BE FASTER THEN THIS, well it turned out it wasent my phone or straight talk at all, 3 weeks ago my H+ service went into EGDE for the first time, i was shocked and pi**ed so i called S.T to see wtf was going on, they pinpointed my towers in my area and confirmed that AT&T were preforming a repair/upgrade on my tower and that my data service would be active again at 3:45PM the next day, when my data was functional again i preformed a speedtest and got results of 5.00mbps down and 2.00mbps up!! and my average speeds are 3mbps down 1mbps up, the highest i got was a 6mbps down!!!!! i haven't had any data problems since they did what they did to the tower and i used 4gb of data last month with no throttle, ITS YOUR TOWERS, TO MANY PEOPLE USING THEM AT ONE TIME AND or AT@T ARE BEING CHEAP TO UPGRADE IT! if you have notice, your speeds will be a lot faster in the early mornings like 1AM-3AM, and speeds also depend on how many bars you have, i get 3mbps on 3 service bars, up the street i get full bars and thats were i get 6mbps, straighttalk can refresh your service and make it fast for a day or so, but the tower upgrade is the real reason your experiencing that, call att and ask when the last time a data upgrade packet was preformed on your tower!!! and if not ask when it will be upgraded!! GOOD LUCK HOPE ALL THIS HELPS !!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] d-weenie:
no i still couldnt get Kies to work with my cm 10.1 rom
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
tsnctes21:34

figured, what ever Samsung and Straightalk did to this phone they were defiantly aimed at making it as Root Prof as possible! so was anybody able to figure out how to get the data, wifi, and google mail to work with this root?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] d-weenie:
to be honest i havent had any issue with data mail or wifi with the cm 10.1 rom the only thing i have found that don't work is the voice dialer and i sitll get good phone service living in wv
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
thats wasup then! and im in Virginia btw rite next door, but yea is your s.t. gs2 running on J.B?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] d-weenie:
yes it is and its unlocked and rooted from time to time ill use a att go phone sim in my st s2 with cm 10.1 my phone runs smoother and i can go a full day with heavy use before having to charge it and two days between charges with light use
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
dayum! how much battery time did you get before you did the root?? man the battery on mines is horrible, it drops a percent every min or so if im using it, i was hoping the root would save some battery juice, thats 1 or the 2 main reasons i want to root, battery and bloat. but the straighttalk sim works good on it to rite? and after root i don't need to get a new sim or anything do i because somewhere earlier in the forum somebody said that was needed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] d-weenie:
before the rom flash i had to charge once a day for very light use and no you don't need to get a new sim after you flash and yes i still use my st sim that i have had for over a year now and i always refill my phone a day before the time expires
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
cool s**t man, yea i always add money before it expires as well, but with the root if it was to expire is their a way S.T. can tell its rooted or something? just making sure their was not a reason behind paying before it expires. so bro is their anything i should know before i root my phone? anything that you found that doesn't work rite? do you still get H+ signal and is it still as fast as it was before the root? and i know this will change the model number to the i777 correct. also was their a recovery rom made in case anything goes wrong i can go back to the stock GB 2.3.6, thanx for all the info man you can def tell im new to all this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] d-weenie:
Yes there is a recovery and yes I still get H+ data and no st won't know ur rooted cause they are not going to update the rom this is the only way to get jb
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
nice! i found a video on youtube of a guy running his straighttalk phone on JB after doing this root, looks really nice, im still a little shaky with preforming the root just because i can only picture how everything works, so is the 1st page of this thread were i need to download from and do i download everything thats shown their in the order its shown? factory firm ware, download factory firm ware, odin factory firm ware, CWM odin flashable, root zip flash, cyanogenmod 10.1 nightly Jelly Bean 4.2.1, cwn v6.2.7 odin flash, cyanogenmod i777 nightly, jelly beam GAPPS, MODEMS install with CWM Stock- S959GUDLG1, -AOSP-ATT-i777UCLK3,

and also? or you can also..

ROOT Use CWM methods above or:

Download and install Samsung Drivers

Download Odin 1.85

Download DD_01232012.tar (it's the top one) From here Courtesy Entropy512 ...... ex ex ex

im guessing i can choose between the two methods to get my phone rooted with jelly bean? if so what method did you use
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] d-weenie:
i used root4rd3d's method you don't need to root cause the cm 10.1 is prerooted for you just install odin and follow root4rd3d's method and you shall be good
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] angelj73:
if you want to stay on the stock GB rom and have root access the easiest way is to use cynnars cwm method. 2 easy steps. just flash the 1st file through odin (i assume you know how to flash using odin). then boot up into recovery mode and flash the second file. your phone will be the same. nothing will change except that now you`ll have root access. and stock + root will not double your battery life. the only benefit is that now you can install apps that require root access.

if you want to install new roms then just upgrade the cwm to r00t4rd3d`s v6.0.2.7 using odin again. perform a backup and restore of the stock rom so you can always revert back if you screw up. read up on the roms you want to install as some differ in installation. good luck:good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
o ok, the first part of that " FACTORY FIRM WARE IN CASE OF BRICK" is only is something goes wrong or if i want to go back to my original GB rite? do i still need to download that before i install jellybean or i download that only if i need to revert back to it? and i went ahead and downloaded the Odin and also tryed downloading the other files but when i click on them after they finish downloading my computer says " WINDOWS CANNOT OPEN THIS FILE" and for it to find i file to open it online or to brows files.. what am i doing wrong here?

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well if only rooting it will allow me to install apps that require root and not allow me to remove bloat ware or increase battery life then i rather go with the jelly bean way... im learning as i go with this, i did research but i wont know for sure until i do it. now the only problem im having is figuring out what files i need to download and in what order. is is possible you can list everything i need to get my phone rooted with SGH-S959G - CyanogenMod 10.1 Nightly - Jelly Bean 4.2.1 ? and whats the diffrence between NIGHTLY AND STABLE?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] d-weenie:
cyanogenmod 10.1 is jelly bean and stable is the version that is stable nightly is the version that is updated everynight but has some minor bugs and you need to put the cyanogenmod and gapps file on your phones sd card and then flash cwm on your phone via odin
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] angelj73:
this is all you need to install CM. taken from page 1.

SGH-S959G - CyanogenMod 10.1 Nightly - Jelly Bean 4.2.1

-Easily get your stock S959G running CyanogenMod 10.1 Nightly with the latest ClockworkMod Recovery thanks to Entropy and r00t4rd3d - http://xdaforums.com/show...php?p=36178521

-CWM v6.0.2.7 (Odin flash) Thanks to r00t4rd3d- http://d-h.st/Id6

-CyanogenMod i777 nightly- http://www.get.cm/?device=i777

-JellyBean GAPPS- http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20121212-signed.zip

the only thing rooted is the rom if you revert back to stock you will not have root. nightly = beta, stable = finished. some of the steps in post #1 were put there as this thread was ongoing. to fully understand them you`d have to read it completely. suffice it to say that you dont need all the files listed to root the phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
o ok, thanx man, what one do you recommend or what is the one most people download, when i get on their to pick one i see about 15 different jelly beans all for galaxy s2 so that's pretty confusing, also how come when i try to open these files i downloaded ( even Odin ) a window pops up with the WINDOWS CANT OPEN THIS FILE message? i guess i'm missing something here.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] angelj73:
maybe you shouldnt be messing with your phone if you dont know the basics of opening a zip file. doubt anyone here is going to handwalk you thru the process anymore than we already have.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
yea thats what im thinking to, i will say you guys have been really good with responding and helping me the best you could. im sure everything i asked will help somebody learning about this like me. hopefully one of my friends will know how to do this and can show me, if not i guess ill either take a chance with what i now know, or stay stock...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] graphicw:
I suggest you stay stock as judging from your posts you are likely to end up with a hosed phone and will be back on this thread asking how to un**** yourself.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Titan380:
Google and read and then google and read some more . Watch youtube videos. Everyone has to start somewhere. Till then do your research and learn. There are risks to doing these things and $350 is alot to throw in the trash. Maybe you have some other device sitting around that you don't care about. Start with that. That will get you hands on experience and if you trash it nothing lost. I can tell you one thing. If you run into a problem or have a question someone else has had it or asked it. Google has the answer.....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
yea man thats what i have been doing, looking up videos on Google, though i know its a little different with this model then your average android, im actually hoping my friend will be able to show me how to do it, i learn quick and usually im good at figuring things out on my own but theirs just so many different files up their i dont know what gos were and when, but im not trying to stay on this gingerbread i cant do it, its using way to much of my battery!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] r00t4rd3d:
I sold my SG to my best friends kid for a hondo. He is 14 and amazed that he has a phone with CyanogenMod.

Thanks to all who have been apart of this thread from the start!

First and foremost, Entropy512.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] d-weenie:
might have to get urself a nexus 7 and mod it lmfao i have one bone stock just to lazy to use it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
Thank you for all your contributions and hard work to help get this phone were it is. Hopefully you will still be around the forums.

Sent from my SGH-I777
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Dj16921:
the CM10 made it so my phone couldn't talk to my provider, so I went to flash back to stock and now its just infinite looping tracfone wireless, inc. blue screen when trying to load up. Any suggestions?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
To get out of boot loop- boot into recovery, factory reset, wipe cache, reboot. That should fix it. What do you mean couldnt talk to your provider?

Sent from my SGH-I777
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] d-weenie:
yes cause that has me worried
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Dj16921:
Is there a way to boot into recovery before the straight talk tracphone blue bootscreen? I can get into download mode. I attempted odin / that other hemidel or w/e with multiple SGH-S595G stock roms no luck :(

If there is a way to boot into recovery before even getting to the main screen I'd greatly appreciate knowing how, otherwise I have a 450$ paperweight lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
Boot into recovery-

- Phone off

- Hold volume up, volume down and power button. (You can release just the power button at the samsung screen but dont have to).

Sent from my SGH-I777
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Dj16921:
You are a godsend! Thank you for that information! I'm at work right now so I can't do much phone wise but I thought it was over for this phone! Much thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
Just make sure you let us know how it turns out. Also if you were having problems with your phone I'm assuming you tried rooting it some other way that whats in the first post in this thread.

Sent from my SGH-I777
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Dj16921:
I did root it via the last way (non CM update) I think Straight talk kicked me off their network, but I used a app (paid app) that let me unlock my phone but I couldn't get it to work with T-mobile (this was after installing CM10) where no sim cards had signal bars, now I at least have signal bars but left my T-mobile sim at home I'll swap that out with my straight talk one and see if it works if not I'll root again + attempt an unlock.

While I was on CM10 it said "cannot connect to this network at this time" when attempting AT&T / T-mobile, I attempted to set APN settings myself with recommended settings. I also tried an app that would change it for me, no luck. Now that I'm back on stock I'll try my t-mobile sim with root / unlock hopefully that works if not I'll have to call straight talk and see whats up.