yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Did not mean you weren't doing it right just that something was definitely not right somewhere. Do you by chance use g+ picture backup? That will cause those kind of issues

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You should get fantastic battery life with cooked or SHOstock3 but you got to give them a few days to settle in. Also, bet better battery stats from the play store or there's a free version here on Xda. Also try out gsam battery monitor and use the app sucker feature after several hours of regular use and see what is using the most battery
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] david72262:
Yea having 3 phones you can take the time to hopefully figure it out look in your /data/lost+found folder see if its empty if not you have corrupt data being rewritten from one of the SD cards.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
Well before i successfully flashed Cooks rom, i first tried ShoStock3, but it was stuck in a bootloop, then i found out about cooks rom and wiped everything and installed that instead. could that be the problem?

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I cant stand any of the google+! And dont use it at all if i can avoid it other then youtube forcing it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
I have already installed better battery stat, telling me google play is to blame for battery but not sure what in google play is.

The 10h 24m screen shot is me not using the phone at all seeing what was draining it, all the way up to were it drops, that was jus me texting.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
i checked data and their is only one folder for (color note app) which i do not have installed on this rom... i had it installed on G.B. to write notes, folder is empty though.

in the LOST folder their is about 10 blank white documents is numbers listed under each one, the files have data in the KB's.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] david72262:
You need to be in a root explorer with show all files its the data folder in system not the one your looking at should be more then 1 folder in there
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
down loaded the app, lost+found is clear
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] david72262:
I use es file explorer then you will have to go in the tools part of it and enable the root explorer and show hidden files

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From all my research your SD cards should be good then
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
thats good and not so good because the problem is still unknown, question? if i did a backup of Cooks rom before installing ShoStock3, i can do a restore back to cooks and be fine rite? or is it best to re flash?

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whats crazy is the first 2 days the battery life was OK, after a few days is when the battery started dying in 5-7 hours with min ussage. i loss about 10% a hour when not even using it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] david72262:
If the backup was running good for you I would say yes that's what I did for 2 months while I tried to figure out a problem I was having I would flash new ROMs and still get all the crap data in. so I would revert back to my backup which worked perfect
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
Ok so im going to try this on my other GS2, which is a newer phone never used for anything other then charging a battery up till 3 weeks ago. i'm going to give my battery, and COOKS rom a spin on this GS2, and i will check back inn with you guys in a couple days and let you know either i'm having same problems.. or its working great.

thanks guys.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
I don't believe this has been mentioned. If you are not using Greenify, install it and use it to keep the google stuff, and any other battery eating apps, under control. It should improve your battery usage significantly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
I will look into that and giv it a try.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Please also get better battery stats and gsam battery monitor. Those two apps will track down any battery killer
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
I installed COOKED on my newer GS2 and so far its running better with out boot errors, battery is doing great! Been on 6 hours 20 min and at 60% life, this phone is not waking up as much as it does on the other. at this time im going to assum something went wrong wit other installation and my next step is to backup that rom, then do a fresh install and see if things change for the better.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
Now that looks normal, if it keeps this up.. this rom will beat the stock by a mile.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
I just wanted to update everybody, been 3 days running cooked on my other phone, the newer gs2, and im verry happy! Battery life is unbelievable! I left my phone off the charger last night and when i woke up the battery had only drianed 10% in 10 hours! Full time on battery was 18 hours, Getting outstanding stand by time, and today i toped it off up to 90% and left out, been using it mildly through out the day, got home a little while ago and started watching netflix on my phone, turned the brightness all the way up, and watched 2- 45 min shows with only 10% drain, i gotta say im impressed, and the movies look great on the screen looks just like my old plasma did, im about to order a HDMI connector so i can hook this up to my led, also im shocked how quick this phone charges up the battery as well, camera is workin great, i found a app that turns off that loud BEEP when you record a video, so can quietly snap photos now, works for the screen shot shutter too if anybody is intrested its the (camera sound off) app.

Also i have my Stweaks running cpu at 1400 and still gettin this great battery life, not sure if i really see any diffrence in proformance, seems to run great at 1200 to, whats the best setting to use on this phone for proformance tho?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
Battery started off today at 90%, been using it regularly and watched 2 45 min shows on netflix. Great battery on COOKS!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
I spoke ... to soon. As much as i hate to write this, i just incountered the same problem on this phone when i did a hot reboot. The phone was stuck in a bootloop at the google animation screen, i had to hold power button, then it loaded to a frozen lock screen, took 20 seconds this time to be able to unlock the phone and when i did i was not shocked by my wallpaper gone and replaced with a black screen... had to reboot again for evrrything to load normal, the only diffrence this time was when it loaded back up my battery was the same level as before the reboot.. so now we know for a fact its not my phones! Its something in this rom, any ideas on what the problem is and how to fix?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Yes. Hotboot is not supported by the kernel on that ROM. Don't do it. You'll get a bootloop every time.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 4-2ndtwin:
^^ va540area,

Kinda did a quick glance over the past few pages or so...

I don't believe the problems u r having are caused by mr-cooks rom. Imho, the problems stem from 1 or 2 things, or both. And that is with a rogue app and/or the cpu tweaks u r applying. Some of our phones can handle cpu tweaks a lot better than others. This is just how it is.

I would suggest ya run mr-cooks rom as is, with no additional tweaks to the kernel. And then maybe install ur other apps one at a time to see if that app is the problem. Then if the apps are not the cause of ur issues, it would lead me to think it is the kernel tweaks.

Just my 2 cents. Hope this helps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
But i get stuck with a bootloop just doing a simple restart or power off and back on, that was the firdt time i used hot reboot, and the last.

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I have 2 straighttalk galaxyS2 phones, i have installed this rom on both phones and have had the same issues all starting on the Third day, everything is fine.. until the 3erd day, which is crazy. I said in older post i have not tweaked anything im running as is, the hole point of me flashing cooks on both gs2's was to see if it was the other phone or something else, if this has happend to both my S.T. phones, how has nobody else wit a sgh-s595g experianced these same issues on cooks rom, you guys are the pros, im jus a user, so tell me what can cause a Rom to run perfect for 3 days and then begain to mess up? What can cause bootloops, and a frozen lock screen on startup? Help me diagnose my phones.

Also add that i ran ShoStock3 on this phone for a week with no isues at all. Also i tested the download package wit 7zip to make sure its not from a bad download. It Cleared

Thanks guys, im not ready to give up on cooks yet, hope we can fix this
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
The user.

Then I would recommend ShoStock if it works for you.

Sent from my SGH-S959G
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
Wasent feeling the lay out on ShoStock3, the screen resoulution is set to low, i like it the way it is on cooks unless their is a way to change that.

But good news is after i had the bootloop issue i gave recovery another shot and cleared caches and ever since its been running great again, that dident work on the other phone but it seems to had worked on this one, i have my cpu set on 1400 and im still gettin excellent battery life! Check this screen shot out!

Still cant believe nobody on this forum has any idea what was goin on though, the most help i got was from Razen and its much appreciated for all his efforts.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Well I've suggested twice for you to download bbs and gsam battery monitor because the issues you're describing are caused by an app, not the ROM OR your tweaking something in stweaks that you shouldn't. Those apps will tell you much much more than the stock battery app you're posting screenshots of but i don't hear you saying anything about them so i can only assume you're not using them.

Cooked is tried and true. That's why it was suggested. The AJK kernel that was made specifically for cooked ROM is so incredibly good it is legendary among users of this phone. (God i miss AJ)

Again, as mr-cook and others have suggested, the problems you're having have got to be something you're doing on your end. If it were the ROM or the kernel everyone would be reporting the same things you are. We are more than willing to help you but there's nothing more we can do with the information you're giving us. Bring some more information and you will get better help. There's only so much we can do without physically being there. Hope this helps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
I did download thos apps, i even downloaded a cpu spy app, i jus took screen shots off the stock battery because it shows the most info in one pic. Now if i did something wrong on my end i have no idea what it could be, i followed the instructions given and everything is working at one time or another, and as you can see im getting great battery on cooks, beyond good! And i havent had anymore issues since the last one so maybe it worked itself out or clearing the caches did, but im realizing theirs only so many things you can do wrong installing a rom now that i actually know how to, i have done multiple searches on these issues and they all point to a build.prob. error, to advanced for me rite now but im happy with it on this phone, ill haft to flash something else on the other gs2 though, any suggestions for a kitkat rom thats not ported for this phone?

And Whats some diffrences/ advantages between this version of cooks and his newest release?

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another issue I'm having is it takes a very long time for the phone to boot after a shutdown/restart, anywhere from 1-2 minutes! any reason for this or way to make it load faster like flashing a FastBoot or something? all my issues haft to do with powering on the phone, other then that it runs great.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Please go here http://www.google.com/

And type in "phone takes forever to boot"
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
got some new information for you guys now, the phone rebooted and was stuck in a boot loop again, I held the power button and when it turned back on it displayed ( POWER REST OR UNKNOWN UPLOAD MODE ERROR ) .. so held vol+power button into recovery, cleaned caches and it powered up 'normally' but now when I connect the phone to the computer, it does no recognize the device! it use too.. ill attach a screen shot of the error messages displayed by windows, hope this is now enough info for you guys to know whats going on.

Razen, remember back when I updated CWM through CWM, I had a older version with out kernel options, think that could had done this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
Screen shot
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jazmin87:
Omg please help!

PLEASE HELP! I think im having the same problems he is ^ I installed the cooks and on my Straight Talk phone the other day and every since it's been randomly rebooting and I keep getting stuck at the Google screen on startup, also it gets kind of hot and my computer running windows 8 says my phone is a unrecognized device!? so I can't transfer my photos from my sisters wedding :'( I'm scared to install anything else and I really liked this j.b. rom ;( what do I do!!

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heyy, do you know how to fix this? I am having the same problem, I don't know if I should do the volume power thing and reset my phone, I been reading your post and its so crazy this has happened to me too, I don't know anything about this really, my boyfriend helped me with it #techgeek lol but not even he knows whats going on, he said nothing like this has happened before and that it could just be a bad rom?? he's not here anymore to help me with this and kinda hard to do ... "over the phone" lol what ever the case may be I just want my phone back!! :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
No fix.. yet, i thought i was the only one. If i was you and since you dont know anything about this really and you need your phone working im sure, hopefully your dude did a backup before installing this, if you dont mind reverting back to stock, then power off your phone then hold both vol up&down keys untill your in cwm, do a factory reset, clear cache, clear delvik, go to (backup/restore) and select what ever is their (if anything) and your phone will be the same before the flash, if he dident do a backup then your either going to haft to wait for these guys to figure this out or your giing to need to flash anither rom, i had no problems at all running ShoStock3, i would actualy recommend you to use that, only reason i want to stay on cooks rom is because i like the layout, camera, speed, and icons. if you need help with installing it i can walk you through orrr, like i said, you can wait along with me for a fix.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jazmin87:
ughh I really don't want to mess with anything, I did the power buttons like you said and see the backup & restore but when I click it their is a bunch of other options and I clicked the (restore) and nothing was their... is that bad ? :/ oh.em.ge!! I wish I never had him do this! he told me it would make my phone faster and better camera + battery life, but instead I can't even use the phone! it will restart randomly, like its good for a little while but eventually it shuts down and turns into a broken record at the google play screen... why do I have a feeling I'm going to haft to buy a new phone :'( im about to cry
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
We are in the same boat, either your boyfriend dont kno how to flash roms either.. or theirs a bug in this rom, but im not an expert im here for answers jus lik you, the only thing that seems to help for a little bit is going in cwm and clearing all your caches.. its only a temporarily fix tho, make sure to go to advanced options and clear delvik cache too.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jazmin87:
I was hoping you would reply lol I don't know why im so sad about this.. im doing what you said rite now...

ok cleared them, and rebooting system now...

at the google screen :/ moment of truth...

...... still waiting.....

....tick.. tock..

.....;/

LOCK SCREEN!!! :D

I hope this maybe fixed it? seems to be working a lot better now... ughh but you said only a temporary fix? if this phone reboots again I. will. crrry.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
Dont cry lol be hopefull that xda finds the problem, you should download the app if you havent that way when they reply you get a notifcation rite away, ofcourse that is only good if your phone stays turned on lls this can get to you though, for me its stressful.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
This screen shot from my computer should help you guys out alot, seems to be some kind of error with the drive going on, when i first flashed this the computer recognize this device but now it doesn't, can no longer open files from phone through pc. What does it mean.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
No.

First try rebooting your computer. If that does not work you need to reinstall Samsung drivers.

As for the ROM.... I didn't want to do this but download this a and put it on your SD card

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ls2vy3hgsd24bq/AJK_v4.9_NoSwap.zip

Do this exactly:

1. wipe cache and dalvik

2. Flash the file you downloaded

3. Go to advanced >reboot recovery

4. After recovery reboots, go to kernel specific options and reset ex stweaks profiles

5. Go to advanced and select fix permissions.

6. When it's done, reboot system and just leave stweaks alone for a few days. INCLUDING, leave max normal frequency alone. Just leave everything on default settings so we can at least rule out any kernel tweaks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jazmin87:
ok I'm following these steps, what will this do btw? I'm a little scared of my phone rite now, woke up and it was stuck on the google play screen and was really hot, had to take the battery out :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
Will do. And for jazmin87 its installing a fresh kernel
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jazmin87:
Umm is it ok if I just leave it alone and wait to see what happens with yours va540area? I have a older phone I can use for now, just got to move the sim card to it. I really don't want to break it anymore then it already is and my boyfriend said to leave it alone ;(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
Thts koo, im about to try gettin the computer to recognize the device and then I'll try flashing the new kernel. You or your boyfriend dident mess with Stweaks did you?

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Did the system restart, dident fix the driver issue, also installed them manually and that didn't fix the issue either, still saying this device has malfunctioned. Im switching phones back to my old one to do the kernel bit first will see if the computer recognize it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] grave_digger:
Just some info for you. I can no longer access my phone over computer because of a fault in the charging port. You might try a different USB cable and see if that works. The last time I had to Odin back to stock it was a nightmare. I tried 4 or 5 different cables to get it to work and now the one that worked then no longer works. Everything I do has to be flashable from cwm. Its a shame your having such issues but these phones are finacky at best. Things that work on 1 or 100 of them won't work on 10 or a 1000 others. The ROMs you are trying out are solid tried and true....for most. My guess is you are in the small percentage of folks cooked won't work. The effort you are putting into getting it up and stable is commendable, but after a few days of following your efforts I would recommend going with what works and trying to use exposed modules to get the experience your looking for. I used captivating ROM for a long time and really liked it. Now I'm on omni and even with battery issues I wouldn't go back to jb. I do wish you luck and hope you can work it out.

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:
Thank you for that, it is very stressful and leaves you asking "why" and im running out of hope, pretty soon if we cant get this working ill be shopping for a new rom, sucks tho cuz i was feeling this one, and i dont like that camera that comes with cm10 and a lot of these other roms, record dosent have the pause button or many other options, so i gotta check and read about each rom to see what features it has, galaxys2root on youtube has been a big help.

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Followed your intructions to a T and now i guess we just got to wait and see.

Also i tryed connecting phone to my laptop instead of pc and it connected fine... so now i gotta figure out why my desktop no longer reconizes it. At least i know its not the phones now.

And i tryed installing and running kies with this phone, thought it migjt work since its a i777 now but it dosent connect.. no error message either though, it just keeps trying to connct until i remove the phone. Is this to be expected?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jazmin87:
my poor little phone :'( I only have 1 usb cable and its the one that came with it, the rest are AC adapters... ugh my phone has seen better days:crying:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
Did anybody else on straighttalks unlimited plan recieve a tex message saying ( your plan now supports 3gb of high speed data a month)? I guess this is to fix the throttling and also so we can watch videos or what ever we want with out worrying about being throttled.. might be a good thing! Im calling s.t. rite now to find out the details.

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Try a diffrent computer if you can. Worked for me. Its not the phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jazmin87:
92288534

I think I saw the stweak app in the settings or app drawer? I never opened it though, and I asked my boy friend and he said he dident either, he said it should work fine with out messing with that stuff ~ sooooo (dot. dot.) what ever that means? he's not very good at explaining things lol maybe he should be the one up here talking to you guys.

btw: im having fun with these icons lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] va540area:
Great news for StraightTalk users on the unlimited plan!

Just got off the phone with s.t. and is confirmed that we now have 3GB high speed data that we can stream videos, music, or teather data with! So no more worrying your using to much data! You can do what ever with your 3gb and once you hit that your phones data will drop down to 3G service. Sounds good! Use your data wisly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
The one that came with it is the best one you can have. It will do everything if it's not damaged
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
I'm running Cooked. Have had it installed for a couple days. I've had the black screen of death twice but now seems to be settling in ok. The only issue I'm having is fast battery drain but that could be a battery issue. I've read earlier in the thread that is a known problem with these phones so not complaining about that.

I also ran ShoStock but I vote Cooked. Great job and thankyou for your hard work and help when needed.