yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ZephCr:
So it's not just me, I'm stuck at the splash screen too. Can't get into recovery. I'm thinking gonna have to Oden back to stock unless someone else has a better idea.

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Any suggestions of which Oden to use and what to Oden back to Sho??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] TheGeekyNimrod:
Assuming you've tried the 30 second battery pull and three finger salute to try to get back recovery?

If that doesn't work, you should be able to just Odin recovery. Not the whole firmware. If Odin flashes recovery fine, then just wipe it and start over, and ten make sure you do normal mode update and not recovery mode update when it asks.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nghiem:
Thanks for your reply. I tried not only 30 seconds but 3 hours with battery pull & "3 fingers salute" but it still doesn't go to nowhere. Could you pls kind to provide step by step to run the Odin recovery? It has been 3 years since I played with those procedures, now I become a noob. Also, the Odin procedure I read only apply to JB but not ICS. I tried some ADB reboot, but doesn't recognized the phone connected to any port. :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
You can't odin flash a recovery on the I777. I don't know what TheGeekyNimrod was thinking, maybe forgetting that the recovery is compiled into the kernel on the I777.

There are not too many kernels available in tar format for odin flashing. I would suggest that you flash the latest stock firmware I777UCMD8 to recover the phone. You can obtain that in the Download Repository, for which see the link in my signature. I'm putting how to use Odin below.

Once you have stock, use Framaroot with the Aragorn exploit to root the phone, then use Mobile Odin to install the AJK no swap kernel. Both are available on XDA Developers. You can now flash SHOstock3 v4.0, or any other firmware you want.

Ask if you need additional info.

___

How to use stand-alone Odin3 to flash firmware:

Follow and recheck each of the following steps. Do them in order listed, as some steps are dependent on previous steps. Instructions are for Odin3 v1.85. It should work with any version of Odin, but some details, like color of items, may be different.

1.) Open Odin on the Windows Desktop.

2.) Have the USB cable plugged into USB port on the computer, but *Not* plugged in to the phone.

3.) Shut the phone off.

4.) While holding down the vol+ & vol- keys, plug micro-usb plug into phone.

5.) In Odin, you should get the yellow box under where it says ID:COM with the text 0:[COMx], and in the Message area, <ID:0/00x> Added!! where x is some number, usually 1-8.

6.) In Odin, make sure Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time are checked and all other items are not checked.

7.) Click on the PDA button. Browse to the tar file you want to install (I777UCMD8) and select it so its path appears in the text edit box next to the button.

8.) Make sure the check box next to the PDA button is checked.

9.) Click the Start button.

10.) You should see the green progress bar advancing.

11.) When complete, you will get a PASS (or FAIL if unsuccessful).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] TheGeekyNimrod:
Was thinking that using Heimdall 2 days ago with the command: heimdall flash --RECOVERY "file.img" worked on my i777 just a few days ago after soft bricking it. Didn't flash the kernel, just the recovery. Yes, it's not Odin, but just saying. Worked out fine for me.

EDIT: My mistake. The flash I did a few days ago was indeed for the 959G not the I777. A recent trade I just did. Which would be why the recovery flash worked for it. My bad. Carry on.

Sent from my SAMSUNG SGH-I747
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] david72262:
I can odin just a recovery on the 959 variant
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nghiem:
I would like to thank you for your long, details, & useful guide. In my case, there is no way that I can bring the i777 back to life w/o having start from scratch? I just hope there is a hope because I have not backup some SMSs lately. If there is no hope for recovery, then I will play with PARTITION i777.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ZephCr:
Ok now that I'm stock jelly bean UCMD8, what's the best way to get rooted & recovery? All the methods I see are for icecream sandwich or older
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
Unless you can get into recovery, the only way to recover the phone, as far as I know, is to flash stock and start from the beginning.

If you can get recovery, perform a wipe data/factory reset and see if that helps, but I'm guessing from what you originally reported that the kernel and/or recovery are damaged in some way.

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^^^

Look up, 6 posts above, where I describe just exactly that. If you have questions about any of it, feel free to ask.

But please post your own thread in the Q&A section, since this thread is supposed to be about SHOstock3 v4.0 only.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nghiem:
That method is lightning fast. Refer to PARTITION i777 link I mentioned above to download Framaroot.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nghiem:
How to go back after re-partition?

Hi Creepyncrawly and everyone,

Just following the instruction in "partition i777" then decided go back to SHOstock3 v4 after step #10; however, my phone Stuck in "SHOstock3" flashing screen. If I continue to step 11, flash everything edwin270 suggests, the phone is up & run, but SuperSU is gone & the phone conversation recording function is not embedded. I really enjoy the new spacious partition, btw.

I tried to go back SHOstock3 by following your details guide few posts above, but Odin3 keeps giving "FAIL!" until I must flash back the original I777UCKH7.pit.

Any ideal?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ZephCr:
I finally got mine back on shostock using the first part of his instruction. Here

"I would suggest that you flash the latest stock firmware I777UCMD8 to recover the phone. You can obtain that in the Download Repository, for which see the link in my signature. I'm putting how to use Odin below.

Once you have stock, use Framaroot with the Aragorn exploit to root the phone, then use Mobile Odin to install the AJK no swap kernel. Both are available on XDA Developers. You can now flash SHOstock3 v4.0, or any other firmware you want."

I didn't have luck with other kernels with cwm so did some searching & found the ajk kernel then had to d/l a zip file opener to find the boot.img to put in mobile oden. Restart in recover then load shostock. Hope that helps. Btw I used the oden from the sammoble site I got the firmware from.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
[MENTION=238766]Nghiem[/MENTION],

I find the instructions in the partition thread a little confusing. However, thanks to [MENTION=3688370]ZephCr[/MENTION] for posting what I would suggest. If you have any further issues, let me know.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nghiem:
That means I can't enjoy the 4GB DATA STORAGE anymore? Or you just use the ajk kernel instead of shift kernel @ step #7 of edwin270's instruction? If yes, should I rename boot.img (got it when extract AJK no swap kernel) to zImage.img?

Right now, I have winrar & 7zip to extract the zip, AJK no swap kernel, I777UCMD8, Mobile Odin PRO, & Odin 3.09 downloaded in the edwin270's post.

I am able to return to SHOstock3 v4.0 with creepyncrawly's guide; however, I though I should take this chance to increase the DATA STRORAGE. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ZephCr:
I just stated how I got back to shostock, after that it's up to you. I didn't have to rename the boot.img.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
Once you flash the repartition pit file successfully, the partition is permanently changed, until you flash another pit file. So, you can install SHOstock3, or any firmware of your choice, or change firmware every day, and the data partition will still be the increased size. Try it out. After you change firmware, check the size of the data partition and see.

As far as the kernel, no you don't need to change the name. The phone, and odin and mobile odin recognize both zImage and boot.img as a kernel. Also, if you can flash shift kernel, or any other kernel successfully, and you can then boot into recovery, it doesn't matter which kernel you use. They will all flash your firmware of choice for you. (I think I'm right. I personally haven't used shift kernel.)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] SteveO390:
Hello SHO, I'm hoping you're still watching this thread and won't mind a question from someone used to know and probably should do a better job of searching before asking. It's been a long time since I've run your ROM (I've been running CM11 on it for many months now) but it's really just my alarm clock now and I like that when I put it on the charging dock it shows the time. I cannot remember if SHOstock3 has that daydream function or not. Can you confirm one way or the other for me? Thank you.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
I'm not sure tbh.... It's been a long time since I fired up my s2.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] SteveO390:
I'll have to go ahead and flash it to check it out. Thanks though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ZephCr:
So I went and put on some lollipop and now I want to come back. It's good but it reboots once in a while and my gamecih app doesn't work anymore so no free donuts in the Simpson's game. I'm on cyanide L & the recovery to make it work. Can I just come back or do I need to change anything?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] pepe100:
Install the jeboo kernel reboot recovery and then install the ROM
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ZephCr:
The jeboo kernel has the right recovery built in right?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] pepe100:
Yes is correct
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sajjt:
Boot loop, Odin doesn't recognize the phone in download mode

Hello everyone,

I've been living happily with this awsome ROM, but few days back my phone started acting weird. It's power button stopped responding for a few days I thought its gone kaput and as a quick solution installed a screen wake app. One fine morning it started working without doing anything. Yesterday I switched off the phone and when I tried to switch it on, its not booting, it flashes the Samsung logo for the first time and it stays on after the first flash. Am not able to go into the recovery to reflash the ROM. Tried to force it into download mode but to no avail. I made a jig and plugged in, Wow, its in download mode. But to my surprise, Odin is not sensing my phone. Now am stuck with this boot logo as if something went wrong during the previous flash! Pls help me to get this into CWM so that I can re flash the whole ROM:(

Thanks in advance
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dimoochka:
I had similar problems with mine - it's not ROM related. The power button and charging port on this phone are a disaster. Couple of things to try:

a) You need to get your power button working again before you can troubleshoot the device further. Get a bottle of isopropyl alcohol (99%). Disassemble the phone (carefully). Check out any youtube video on how to do it. I've taken mine apart 30+ times and it is safe. Separate the motherboard from all the other components. Pour some of the alcohol over the power button (do your best to keep all the other components dry) while clicking it a few times. For good measure you could also get a (dry) poland spring water bottle cap, fill it to the brim with alcohol, and position the motherboard over it so that the power button (but nothing else) is immersed in alcohol and leave it for a few hours (I had to do this once to dissolve some rosin stuck inside the button). Once you're satisfied, let the board dry for a while (10 minutes?). Reassemble the device and try to reflash via download mode (using the power button to confirm it's working).

b) Your charging port could be busted as well (since Odin is not recognizing the phone). I've had to replace mine probably about 5 times. Very easy to replace (again, youtube); you can get a new one on ebay for $5.

If all else fails, I have a spare i777 motherboard (without an accompanying charging port) I got off of ebay because I was troubleshooting my original motherboard. The IMEI is clean (ie. it's not a stolen component) and the board worked well as my daily driver for a few weeks. I'd be happy to sell it to you ($45+whatever shipping costs), but I think you should be able to get your phone working without it. Good luck!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sajjt:
Thanks for the reply. I guess you are a hard core DIY fan:good: I would always stay away from isopropyl alcohol when am dealing with plastic as I had many instances I spoiled the whole thing. It spoiled one of my cell phones display's backside coating and turned out to be useless. Cleaning momentary contact switches are not a permanent solution so I would rather replace it if possible.

I sorted out the things in a different way:)

I was sure that the charging port is working fine else it won't go into download mode when using a jig.

Odin was not sensing my phone when on download mode. So it could be either driver issue or the phone related where the latter I can't fix myself so chose to nullify the first case. Uninstalled the Samy driver and installed once again. Wow.. Odin detected my phone:D What a relief!

Now I've to start from the scratch by flashing the stock ROM and then my favorite ROM Shostock3 as it doesn't come as tar file to flash during these circumstances. I don't have the skills to make a tar file out of zip file either. Downloaded the 4.1.2 stock ROM from sammobile.com and flashed it. It came to life like a new device with snappy response:good: Right now I am on the pure stock and I will change to my favorite ROM once I get some free time.

One thing we all must admit that this a very solid machine with a reliable hardware that Samsung had ever launched. I've been living with this piece of cake for more than 3 years and every time I face some issues I was so lucky to have you guys with a helping mind. Appreciate the efforts you guys are putting in for making our most loved thread always alive. I hope Shoman would be kind enough to give us a taste of Lollypop sometime near:laugh:

BTW, after flashing the stock ROM from Sammobile, I didn't lost my root but when I flash the GB stock ROM I had to root the phone. Is it coming rooted? I hope Shoman or creepncrawly could give a better reasoning in this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dimoochka:
Well, the alternative is to (carefully) desolder the old power button and solder a new one onto the motherboard. I did this twice - it is a pain in the ass - but my board amazingly survived unscathed. My phone was basically hard-bricked - any small motion caused the power button to register a press/hold and reboot the phone (even in recovery mode). Once I replaced the power button it was fine.

I could of sent it to a repair service but I really just wanted an excuse to buy a soldering iron and learn how to use it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Stackman1:
Advice on Sound Issue

I was forced to buy a new phone in a hurry and it had to be relatively cheap because I use Straight Talk and had no subsidy (I bought the Moto G LTE about this time last year). But I eventually went back and fixed the hardware problem on my S2 - I replaced the charging port. But I put it to the side because I was using the Moto G with Straight Talk as my daily calling phone. But the other day I realized I should use S2 for music in my car but all of a sudden there is no sound from the speaker nor the headphone jack. Odd. I still have the Shoman Rom as you can see from my Signature. It has been a while since I messed with any software. Picture quality still great - love my old S2 with Shoman. What would you guys/gals suggest I do first to resurrect the sound???.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jack man:
I know there's not much activity here but I'm looking to see if someone could possibly provide me with the a download of the most recent version of this ROM (flashable zip file). I believe it was XWLSZ.

Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bigp951:
Is the download for this rom still available? I have an s2 that I'd like to flash.

The rom download link is not working.​
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sykoj82:
Thanks man, I just bought it..having a google play issue, gonna sideload it...believe me I buy apps all the time :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] DIXZ06:
Man does this seem like a new phone!

My wife with her SGS3 is so jealous!

Thanks so much Sho, and have a great holiday!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] joshh20:
I can't get Titanium Backup to restore my apps, it just goes to restore and then the progress bar doesn't move, anyone else having that problem?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Phalanx7621:
Nope
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sykoj82:
A few apps wont install for me as well but I got most of them. Good luck
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dpaik:
why would she be jealous with the newer phone?!?! :confused:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] moopile:
Same problem with some apps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mattern1974:
She would be jealous because this rom is as smooth or better than her S3!

Sent from my smooth as butter SGH-I777.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bdpyo:
Jesus christ this is awesome!! I cannot wait till sho has time to perfect this!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mattern1974:
I copied some of my purchased apps such as Tibu and Root Explorer from my previous rom and added them to the install zip to install in /data/app and EVERYTHING restored from my backups. Even the Play Store is installing updates properly.

This is 100 percent the best rom I have ever run!

Now for a few charge cycles to even out the battery drain AND hopefully a sourced kernel...this may be the new "Pinnacle" (yes...I had a Captivate back in the day) of I777 roms.

Sent from my smooth as butter SGH-I777.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] RajunCajuns:
Have same problem with TiBu, Progress bar doesn't move at all, waited for 2 hours.Tried restoring a single app also, with no success.Not an issue as I was able to install most of my apps from playstore.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Virus1x:
Sooo smooth but I can't handle pressing the home for back and I'm getting 4-5 hrs on aokp

I'll wait till most stuff is solved
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] moorecomp:
Installed and working well. Playstore allowed me to install everything but XDA. Go figure.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Arcen1k:
I am so excited to try this one out!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] prctst:
Anybody experiencing audio call issues...other person whom I am calling is hearing very low voice?

looks like some issue with Mic. Any thoughts pls.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ALLDAT:
Read a couple of post back
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dandrumheller:
Answer is less than 80 posts back.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] phermey:
i am still at the 2gb intro space. how did you get it to upgrade? i heard by taking a pic and letting it sync. Buti did that tuesday night and still nothing.

@shoman fantastic job. the lack of home and sideloading paid apps is a pain but i will happily deal with it. love the boot anim also.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Virus1x:
Dafuq? I didn't understand this
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nikhilguitar:
:confused:

after flashing rom i get

SIM network unlock PIN

with two buttons for UNLOCK and DISMISS

i read same problem in ported section

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2000257&page=8

but the solution given didnt give any result

my phone cant connect to network

any suggestions??

I already tried flashing other JB rom like AOKP but same result
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Note2Frat:
Do you have it setup to auto-refresh under the lockscreen settings?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] selw0nk:
Yes. Every 1 hour. It's working right now though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Note2Frat:
Glad to hear that its working now :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] raduque:
sho any chance you can post a disable file for the volume mod? I cant change volume at all with the screen off, even my headphone skip tracks with the lightest touch.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
I think I can increase the time delay for skipping. Otherwise I have no plan to post mods to enable or disable yet.

Edit: I've been using this feature and I can change the volume no problem.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] raduque:
its not working correctly for me at all. lightly press a volume key and I get a track change. Im at work now or id get you a video.

why arent you interested in providing a disable mod, if you dont mind me asking?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
because I spend enough time on this with all the recent changes that I don't want to maintain enable disable mods. Its a pain and if I have to change something in that file I have to do it for both etc. It can be very cumbersome. I spend enough time on this already that it annoys my wife at times.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] KCH2005:
Sho it looks like you might have to change the color, bold, underline, circle & put arrows pointing at the note about disabling noise suppression in the OP. :banghead:

Sent from my SGH-I777
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sk8ordie0:
That was the first thing I went to after I flashed! Lol . I bet if you got a prize for figuring that out before posting you wouldn't see such non sense. :rolleyes:

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I'm so use to cm and aokp..... just have to say love the audio volume!!! No complaints here. Fast,snappy,and downloads are faster to me... I have a question about the lockscreen. When it shows you have a message are you normally able to click that and shortcut straight to the message?

EDIT: rebooted and all good!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] raduque:
Fair enough, Sho. could you at least tell me the name of the file that controls the mod so I can replace it from the older release?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] KCH2005:
:screwy: Everything has been working fine for me so I don't know what else I would need to figure out. Was just making a small (slightly sarcastic) suggestion for the OP so maybe, just MAYBE, more noobs will see it & won't have to re-ask a question that's been asked & answered on every other page.

Ps. I'll still take a prize tho :D

Sent from my SGH-I777
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ghettocowboy:
working flawlessly. A special request if it can be done for the next updates: straight talk complete apn setting

tia
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] j510:
I'm on 1.0 and also have the washed out dark pictures. I noticed the cropping doesn't fit the whole selection as well. About that gun barrel effect you thought up, sounds sick.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ARPwizard:
Would you consider extending the volume to skip time a little more in the next update?

Also does anyone have any problems with xda disappearing from the home screen?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
The proxy and port aren't needed from what I've seen.

I did update the mmsproxy to the IP address you posted. It will be included with v1.2 later.

Set your homepage... :confused::confused:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Arcen1k:
After a little while off the charger and in my pocket, my phone is running extremely hot. I have no idea why... I will say that my battery life has improved after a few cycles, however I'm at about 80% after 2.5 hrs. Which is better than my 75% after 1 hr when I first started. Any ideas?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
Yes I changed to a 1 second hold.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] pepe100:
No this ROM is not available now. I recommend you OFFICIAL] CyanogenMod 12.1 Nightly Builds by Lysergic Acid. With Android 5.1.1 is working great , fast and long battery life. I loved shostock but there is not support in this moment