yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] EzSqueezeCheese:
SGH-S959G users should subscribe to Mr Cook's thread. A lot of helpful information there. If they plan to root and boot custom roms that's where they need to look. Personally, I wouldn't concern myself with adding stock apn settings. They need to keep tabs on Mr Cook's thread.

Also, mms proxy needs to be changed to mms2.tracfone.com. Just incase you decide to add it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
What I have is straight from straight talks website. If they changed it then I will, otherwise I will maintain what they specify
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sbi1:
Srarted having significantly more battery drain with 3.0.2, went back to 3.0, pretty much same thing. Thought the reason is the latest ES File Explorer so I reverted back to the previous version.

Anyone else? Any suggestion?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] rav4kar:
3.x drains the battery a little faster than 2.5.x IMHO too, but not to the degree I should go back to 2.5.x again though. BBS did not show anything unknown. :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ShawnReeves:
Agreed

+1
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] moorecomp:
I lose about 2% per hour on 3.0.2. I have all location services off and do run Exchange email push with activesync.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] wgoldfarb:
I just wanted to reiterate how great this ROM is. I was having flashing withdrawal symptoms so I started browsing around for ROMs to try jellybean 4.2.2. After lots of reading and a few flashes I found Slimbean and installed it. It is an excellent ROM developed and supported by a great team of devs. But even with all their outstanding features and jellybean 4.2.2, after a day or so I started missing Shostock3. So, guess who is back on my phone after less than 48 hours :D

I do have one question. I did like the people app (I guess it is the stock aosp people app?) much better than Samsung's version. I am using excontacts as a great replacement, but (at least on my phone) excontacts has some terrible lag every time I open it. So, I'd love to install the aosp people app and dialer.

From what I have read so far I just need to find the apk, push it to the system folder, and change permissions accordingly. Before I try I wanted to double check that this would work with this ROM. Also, I have found stock people apk files on xda but on forums for other devices. Would those work on our device, or am I better off pulling the apk from an aosp ROM made for our device?

Thanks (again!) For a great ROM and thanks in advance for any advice.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
There are way too many variables and I have the opposite experience.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
Have you seen the change log? Nothing I did effects the battery between those 2 versions.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nick281051:
Can't be done.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] FireRaider:
Ok, one more question, how do I get the Live app and the Waze app onto the multi-window taskbar? I can hit edit and pull off the ones I don't want but I can't figure out how to add any new ones to it. Long presses on all the usual places don't bring up any settings either.

Do I need to download that multi-window manager app to do that or am I overlooking the obvious again?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] wgoldfarb:
Got it, thanks for the prompt reply. Saved me a lot of experimentation and frustration :good:

I guess I will try to find a way to reduce the exdialer startup lag. Very minor issue and not ROM-related, so I will go take my research elsewhere and stop derailing the thread. :)

I did learn one very important thing: my "flowchart" for deciding my next phone just got extremely simple:

Step 1: figure out what Sho's next device is.

Step 2: get it and enjoy Shostock 4 :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] eibbor82:
I'm still on v2.6 and have AMAZING battery life. Probably the best it has ever been with this phone. When I was on 2.5.9 I could barely make it through a day, even with light use.

Granted, the above shot was after a weekend of very light use, but I've never made it that far on a single charge. No mods/tweaks to the OS either. Good stuff!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
It's not that easy unfortunately. Since I've never tried to make it work I'm not sure of what exactly needs to be done to the apk. I know there is a ROM in the i9100 section that is based on touch wiz but uses aosp apk's. For your own personal use I'm sure you can grab the Contacts.apk from there and try it. You would have to remove or backup the SecContacts.apk then push that one and set permissions and see if it works. That's all I can tell you right now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] wgoldfarb:
Got it -- worth trying. I will experiment and let you if I accomplish anything useful.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
Ok.... It's in the original dev section. I think it's called the chameleon ROM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dominuce00:
As I said I would report back on solutions for my phone connecting to my laptop those solutions did not help. It sucks but it's true. I did use the AirDroid app as one user suggested. I'm happy I connect that way at least.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sadastronaut:
I agree. I've run many ROMs on the Captivate (Galaxy S) and Galaxy S2, and this is by far my favorite. Many ROMs have issues which are total show-stoppers (i.e. phone reboot when it rings), but I haven't had any issues with this one, and it has plenty of great features. So thanks to the developer.

I have been running 2.5.9 for some time and have been content, but for those who have upgraded to 3.0, what are the biggest improvements as far as user experience (I know there's the changelog, but not sure what difference the base and the modem make)?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nosferatu.:
you're overlooking the obvious again :)

Click edit and then find your program and drag/drop it onto the bar on the left.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] FireRaider:
Maybe my multi-window isnt working or is set up wrong. When I click edit I get a black screen to the right to which I can pull the app off the multi-window but those are the only apps I can move or see.

I did manage to accidently move the bar to the top of the screen now. LOL. I would not suggest ever doing that.

Edit: So using my google-fu I found raisan- kains post where he suggested to turn off the feature, reboot, then start the feature. That fixed my black screen. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] EzSqueezeCheese:
In the video from the OP, I noticed a toggle for airplane mode on the notification panel. Do you guys still have that option?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] M8tor:
Since version 3.0 and the 4X5 screens. The music player widget cuts off half of the last line (I think it's the artist). Anyone else seeing this? Effects of 4X5 screen maybe?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] EzSqueezeCheese:
Mine seems fine m
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sbi1:
Actually, I had very good battery life with 3.0, pretty much the same as 2.X (can't even remember the last one I had before 3.0). It started with 3.0.2 and it continues now when I am back on 3.0.

Not sure why this is, just stating the facts :( ...wish I knew where to start troubleshooting this. Worse case scenario I will format and start from scratch.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] M8tor:
Thanks Cheese. I keep mine sized to 4X2. Mine looks like yours in 4X4 mode.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] joeybear23:
I had the same issue.. moved to ADW Launcher and changed to 4 columns and 4 rows per page.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
Well if it's causing problems for the widgets I may just leave it at 4x4 on the home screen
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dsbrohan:
I enjoyed it previously when it was at 4x4. Seemed to fit the screen in a more aesthetic way for the i777.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
Blah....I use the Google music player not the Samsung player.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 4-2ndtwin:
Negative. Long press power button for that toggle. :thumbup:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] M8tor:
I like the 4X5 format and the Samsung player works fine. I usually open the app when I use it anyway. Don't notice much difference on my other widgets. The alarm widget is tight at the bottom. Overall, I would vote to stay with the 4X5 format.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
Well I normally don't like keeping broken things but if it's just the Samsung widget, I can live with that...lol typically I don't even use music widgets since it shows up on the lock screen (aosp) and the drop down anyways. Plus there is the volume skip toggle. All kinds of options. :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Haha! I was just about to tell you to do just that :)

SGH_S959G

SHOstock3 v3.0

AJK 1.25ss
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] EzSqueezeCheese:
My multi window is acting up. Notice the animations sticking after I close apps and turn off multi window.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] EzSqueezeCheese:
And again
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] smiodan:
I like the 4x5 screen, vote to keep as is. Or maybe a toggle option (not sure if it is possible) to select home screen layout.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] BROKKANIC:
Another vote for the 4x5 screen :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] samprocat:
This phone come with sim card that is specifically different than just buying just a sim card kit from website and this setting are different ......Otherwise I do agree that people need to learn using XDA forum to full advantage what this site can give them to learn. ....just saying today in this world most people want to be lazy and have software do for them. .so much pain for development people. ....and as always I will comply with developer ....:eek:

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
Like I have said multiple times... we are lucky to have multi window and it does have some bugs from time to time. We deal with them or I'll just remove multi window. Please no complaining about it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] EzSqueezeCheese:
I understand that it is buggy. That was the first time I experienced anything like that. Was just checking if it was a common bug. I don't think I could live without multi window.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] miten_sheth:
+1

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ROM - ShoStock v3.0.2

Kernel - AJK v1.48-S
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
I haven't seen it but I don't use it that often. Certainly not every day.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] wgoldfarb:
I use multi window often, and I do see that bug on occasion. Sometimes even the middle bar that separate the two windows remains on screen after the windows are gone. All in all, no big deal, so I never mentioned it -- I'm happy to have multi window at all!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sbi1:
Is there a way to see when apps were updated (dates/list)?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] swsl:
Someone mentioned that this could be due to the known problem with this phone, which is USB failure.

I started having multiple charging and usb connection problems last week and, long story short, I managed a workaround by bending the usb jack a bit as others have done to temporarily fix the charging on the S2.

But even though the charging is working again, it still won't connect to my computer via USB. I ordered a new port/cable combination and will swap it out when I get time. I think it's the ribbon inside that's failing.

Point is, one can have physical problems internally with the USB assembly that only showsup as a connection problem while charging still works. Keep that in mind. You might order a new jack/ribbon assembly on ebay ($9) and have it onhand if things get worse or just try swapping it if you really need USB connection back now.

UPDATE: I swapped out the USB card, which was very easy. It now connects fine to my PC again. So that was the problem in my case. Try it if nothing else works.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] samprocat:
Going to Google market click on bottom left button choose my apps click on particular app you wanna check and if that is not what you need there on bottom of app is link that will get you straight to development site and other stuff you wanna know. ....take some time and do exploring. .....:eek:

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sbi1:
Thanks, but this is not what I need. I am trying to get an idea of when I updated each app, similar to Windows Update that shows when the update was done. Trying to get to the bottom of the app that drains my battery like the Fed. government drains our money. It's insane...not sure what I updated, but since then I can't even make 10 hours on full night charge. This morning I lost 15% in a bit shy of 2 hours.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Do you have better battery stats app? Also get gsam battery monitor. It will tell you what app is eating your battery up

SGH_S959G

SHOstock3 v3.0

AJK 1.25ss
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
Also, if you go to /data/app using a root explorer, like solid explorer, you can see the last modified date of the apk. That should be when you installed it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sbi1:
Thanks!

What am I suppose to see (roughly, average) on gsam for Kernel consumption (does my question makes sense?! :() ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Gsam battery monitor is going to need some time to tell you anything. Maybe charge your phone up and then let run down about half way then see what is at the top of the list

Bbs will let you know if some background services are keeping your phone awake. Check out the bbs thread and they can help u if you've got issues. The op will tell you what you need to do

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=15869868

SGH_S959G

SHOstock3 v3.0

AJK 1.25ss
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sbi1:
Edit: NM, had a brain fart. ignore my reply ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
Lol thank God...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jeboo:
Finally back home..What have I missed? And what's all this S4 chatter :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] samprocat:
Getting some magic from you to transform this device to MEGA ZEUS

......so far I'm beating with this device and different kernel easily my S4....:D

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] samprocat:
I found some better fix for screen shot ......still experimental. ...delay of three seconds isn't wrong. ..

What happens processor get down to 200 mhz ....

So I did modified some things in app to keep processor up till you make screen shot. ....so far made no problem. .....

Something for shoman... to look for another alternative ....

I'm experimenting with 1 second delay and works every time:D

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nick281051:
They locked the bootloader on it :eek::mad: so that's making me want an htc one, that's my story anyway

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] EzSqueezeCheese:
Full metal case though...Not so appealing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nick281051:
That's not the consensus with basically everyone lol

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] EzSqueezeCheese:
Everyone has bad taste. Lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nick281051:
Right cuz that's how it works ;)

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] EzSqueezeCheese:
For my life any how ha.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jasmineloveflower:
hi guys im having a little problem with the rom connecting thru usb connection to computer it takes forever to connect. Im not sure what to do
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] EzSqueezeCheese:
Try unchecking usb debugging under dev options?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] samprocat:
Just use search button in the thread there was someone already not long ago with this problem and have problem solved:cool:

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ItsJono:
I'm having this issue but the weird thing is I actually have access to my internal SDCard.

Basically what happened as yesterday I flashed the newest copy of SHOstock3 for my i777, flashed Cerberus on top of it, booted up, and I went into settings so I could encrypt my phone for the first time. For some weird reason it failed and it wouldn't get past the "!" yellow triangle when booting up the phone. So I flashed back using ODIN to a Stock ROM but rooted and the phone works fine. Yet every time I try to flash SHOstock3, it fails and goes back to that screen.

I used the ADB command,

"adb shell "dmesg | grep mmc0"

and was returned with:

grep: not found
write: Broken pipe

-

So I have access to my internal SDCard as it is not entirely corrupted. In CWM recovery, while searching for .zip's to instal, it says that the path is /emmc/ so and i'm browsing it without any issue, it seems to be accurate. So i'm confused as to why this is continuing to happen.

A weird bug I noticed is that when I went back to Stock Gingerbread 2.3.6, with the phone plugged in via USB, it said "USB Mass Storage" and "MTP-Connected"... That doesn't seem right... What's even stranger is that this issue is for ICS users, but I was on Jellybean when this happened. So my problem is different yet the same?

Edit: Flashed the latest AOKP - Successfully working? Took a picture, saved successfully - Able to write to Internal SD

Edit 2: Flashing to ShoStock3-XWLSN-v3.0.2 from AOKP in hopes that having flashed AOKP successfully, may have removed invalid entries it's still referring to? -- ENCRYPTION FAILED message again. So whatever it is, ShoStock is still trying access it?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
You should probably ask in a thread about "Cerberus", this wasn't caused by SHOstock3.

Also double posting is frowned upon- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40834534

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ItsJono:
Though I apologise for the double-post, I sincerely doubt it has to do with Cerberus, because if it did I don't think a)I would've been able to boot into the latest ver of ShoStock 3 to tick that 'Encrypt Device' box.

This happened after the device failed to Encrypt the storage, if you had actually read the message as opposed to posting something non-helpful.. Now I don't have an intimate knowledge of android and its filestructures and stuff like that but my assumption is that ShoStock 3 is still referencing the failed encryption on android's dedicated system storage -- of which ShoStock 3 relies on for boot

Otherwise the flashed AOKP ROM I put on the phone earlier wouldn't have had booted without issue. So I believe this makes it ShoStock relevant because i'm basically asking, "Hey, what dependancies in the ShoStock3 ROM get encrypted when encryption is enabled, and how do we remove it". Because it certainly doesn't get removed by

a)CWM options such as wipe data/wipe dalvik/wipe partition cache

b)Flashing ShoStock 3 again

c)Flashing another ROM such as AOKP, and then flashing back to ShoStock3, meaning there are remnants of this failed encryption which ShoStock points to.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
This is something you caused by using an app that is not included in this ROM. No one else is having this issue from flashing SHOstock3, so Cerberus is the cause.

If you took offense to this then I apologize, but telling you to post this question in a proper place where someone may have an answer is the best advice.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
If I had to guess I would look in the user media part of the SDcard to see if there was something placed there by the encryption that the ROM is referencing. That area isn't touched when wiping from CWM.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
Did you try the encryption before installing that app? Which kernel are you using (included or latest)?

Honestly I've never tried the encryption but I do know Samsung is adding stuff into the firmware that pertains to there new "Samsung lock" app or whatever it's called. Nit sure I'd that has anything to do with it either.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ZephCr:
Any chance you're gonna have an update soon sho? I've been getting random reboots and don't want to perform a clean reflash if you have something up your sleeve. Or did you already get your S4, if that's the case I'll be out the door for mine too lol.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Red_81:
I'm holding off on the S4 for he 32gb model and for them to cracked the bootloader.

I'll be a happy SS3 user for a little while longer.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dross333:
HI,

Im using ShoStock 3 (not sure which version). I have been on this for serveral months with no issues. Starting today, it rebooted and then locked up at the Samsung Galaxy SII screen. I pulled the battery a few times and now I can get it to boot to the ShoStock screen with the moving jelly bean. I cannot get it past there. Any suggestions.

Thanks

David
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] samprocat:
Try clean dalvik and cache. ...that will boot fresh .....if still give you problem download new zip check MD5 Sum so you know you install not corrupted file. ...

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] EzSqueezeCheese:
So after fully wiping and testing out a cm 10.1 nightly, I couldn't get the screen auto rotate to work, so I bailed, wiped, flashed my currently used version of ss3, wiped caches for good measure, then restored my back up of ss3. And now, screen auto rotate isn't working for me. Odd? If I can't get out working any other way, I'll wipe and start fresh. Just letting you guys know that this is the first time I've ever experienced such a thing. We'll see how this goes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] samprocat:
I really don't think that you need to much help. ...just try to see what are you doing wrong. ....

Wipe everything ....then reinstall your old backup. ....don't forget to go mount storage and wipe preload....AOKP and CM leave a lot of junk in partition side. ....

Do twice each step rom .....dalvik....cache. ......partition:rolleyes:

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] EzSqueezeCheese:
I have wiped data, cache, dalvik, system, and preload multiple times. Flashing and reflashing ss3 and also trying to just fix permissions, but nothing changes. I have even flashed back to stock, disabled screen rotation, calibrated gyro, rebooted and enabled rotation. Nothing helps. From what I've read of others suffering from similar symptoms, it might be bootloader related. Although, their issue with screen rotation seemed to only occur when down grading from jelly bean to ics. I'll have to look into it some more in the next day or so.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Eternalty:
Bootloader? Why on earth would u think that?

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] EzSqueezeCheese:
Not my original thought. Read my post a little closer. It seems relevant to the boot loader according to others with similar symptoms. I don't see why it would be so, but this issue is new to me and those who have struggled with it are convinced so. Beats me, man.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] samprocat:
And what type of cwm are you

on

Try McCook full wipe script. ....and I have run on some other developers script

Your last weapon is using ODIN. ...I USED MOBILE ODIN for long time.....

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] EzSqueezeCheese:
I'm using philz cwm. I use Mr Cook's Rom wipe script whenever I do wipe. I sometimes do it manually.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
Not much going on right now. I'm just enjoying it a little bit. I don't see anything I really have to mess with. I should have my s4 tomorrow night.... Well see....Damn boot loader.

Reflash...otherwise you'll likely have to wipe by the sounds of it.