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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nosferatu.:
Well I just flashed AC!D Audio Engine v5.0 onto my Nexus 7. It is downright epic for audio upgrades. Has anyone given it a whirl on our S2 and more specifically with Shostock3? I think I'll be giving it a go tomorrow.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Haloruler64:
I find the Tegra 3 DAC to be lackluster at best, garbage at worst. I have a Nexus 7, and it is worth $200, but I could NEVER buy a non-budget Tegra 3 device purely because of how terrible the audio is. It's why I hate the OX+. I might give AC!D a go on my N7, but nothing can fix a purely bad hardware DAC. Software can't fix a hardware deficiency, and as our S IIs have nice DACs but not "amazing." I doubt anything like "Beats" or "AC!D" could do much.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] miten_sheth:
v1.6.1 is the updated version of the kernel or the rom??

and do i need a full wipe? and how do i flash it? odin and put the zip in pda right? please help..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] xpakage:
It is the current ROM version at the time. Current kernel is in post number 3.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] miten_sheth:
do i need a full wipe? and how do i flash it? odin and put the zip in pda right?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] prasanthkb:
Forget it..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] blutruck:
You flash with CWM. You need to do a full wipe if you are coming from another ROM. Have you read the OP? If not, please do so before you start.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] djjager0321:
The OP contains all the information you need on the proper way to flash this ROM. It also informs you if you require a full wipe as it depends on what version you are currently running.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jjack0310:
I wish I didn't have the battery/heating up issue.

I LOVED this ROM but battery is draining ridiculously fast. (100% at 2 am... Phone dead in the morning when I woke up...I didn't even touch it - it was just on idle and phone was locked)

Will have to go back to ShoStock 2 :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mattgyver:
It's your phone, not the rom. search XDA for BetterBatteryStats and install it. Then look and see what its showing as draining the battery..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dsmboost:
The OP should have something that states to check mediascanner if you're having over-heating/battery draining issues. Not that anyone would actually look at it though..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jjack0310:
I just moved from Shostock 2 to 3 a couple of days ago. I was not having any such problems in the previous roms. I haven't even installed half the applications that I had on the previous ROM.

I think that means something the new Rom is doing is causing the issues.

I will check out betterbatterystats

PS: I did a full wipe. Thrice actually.

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There is no reason to be a douche.

I did check the battery section of the settings. Media scanner does not show up there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nosferatu.:
Yeah agreed on most points but you'd be surprised. There's still some noise and crosstalk but it's definitely improved. Most would still find our Yamaha audio is subpar as well. I may give it a try later. If you haven't look at voodoo louder for our S2.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dsmboost:
My post was not directed towards you..or anyone else in particular for that matter. I meant it as a general statement. And anyway, it might not show up in the battery stats. Check your running apps in application manager. If mediascanner is running, it will be there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Tweak4fun:
Found an interesting write up about the mediascanner issue here.

I also found a patch that Google committed here.

Apparently the issue is exacerbated by the use of any SQL wildcards in file names ( _, % ).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jjack0310:
No media scanner in the running applications. Whenever it comes up, I stop it.

Settings

Factory Mode

MapServiceSamsung

Google Services

com.sec.phone

Samsung Keyboard

These are the main ones that come up and the RAM it uses are 520 MB which I feel is a lot.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dsmboost:
Is anyone else experiencing this bug with multi-window:

If you have an active app, and then use multi-window to add a 2nd app on the top half of the screen, it glitches and the first app disappears. But if you add the 2nd app to the bottom half of the screen, it's fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] erad1:
Running the latest kernel with linaro tool chain.... buttery!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] miten_sheth:
I installed v1.6.1 and dude the battery drains like sh*t.. like insanely.. 7% in 20 mins.. no its not my phone.. before flashing the updated rom my battery drain was not so much.. yes it was draining quick.. but this is too much.. and no media scanner is not running.. and also the multiple window glitch mentioned but otherwise.. this thing is running smooth like butter..

And is there I can get the actual s3 weather widget I really love it..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
You have to post a BBS log or we can't help you. Look for the S3 widget on google maybe they have it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] txnolesfan93:
Yeah I would like to know this too. Been trying different ones I find and all say widget can not load but show in app/widget
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] miten_sheth:
What is a bbs log?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] blutruck:
Search XDA for Better Battery Stats.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] txnolesfan93:
Yeah ever since it was introduced I have had that problem or maybe its just built that way. So I figured main is 1 and 2 would be on bottom half and 3 top half so I have been using it that way. Whenever I start another app I place on bottom first then 3rd goes up top.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] miten_sheth:
Here it is...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] COfatboy:
I'm having battery issues too. After checking things out wirh BBS I've come to the conclusion it's google location services. My biggest wake lock is gps-lock and partial wake lock is NetworkLocationLocator. Turning off all my options in location settings makes things much better. If I need them then I turn on. Seems like gps is having difficulties locking in consistently.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] clay101eve:
At least your gps works... I can't get a lock period lol.

Clay

Team Pirate

Sent from my Galaxy SHOswagger2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] COfatboy:
Do you have gps test installed? Go to menu and update AGPS. When I cant get a lock I toggle airplane mode or do a hot reboot then it locks in pretty quick.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
Take screenshots of the Kernel wakelock and Partial Wakelocks screen at the end of the day please. PM them to me so we don't clutter this thread
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ropo1:
If you haven't done so already, I would highly recommend that you drain the battery all the way to 0%. I was having similar issues as well but once I did a full battery cycle, my battery life improved massively.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Haloruler64:
Of course, always room for improvement. Thanks for the suggestion though, for the AC!D thing.

And I find the Yamaha amp a lot better than the Krait one, that one is pretty bland.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sykoj82:
Thank u jeboo for the kernel update...my phone feels more buttery and im getting a higher cpu quadrant benchmark score! (I know the benchmark scores dont mean anything) great job!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] KeeperOfThePizza:
This is nice. I notice the touchwiz launcher sometimes freezes. Also do you think you could include a stock Android keyboard? And the lockscreen wallpaper seems to not size properly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] clay101eve:
Ya, I've tried that, tried the SiRFgps.conf files that have been posted (with rw-r-r settings) - nothing. Was working prior to SHOstock, not sure what happened. I'm not to worried about, just annoying it doesn't work lol.

Clay

Team Pirate

Sent from my Galaxy SHOswagger2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bleedingthru:
Wow this seems Like burger king now cuz everyone wants it their way lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] erad1:
That is funny. Should be sho's reply to some of these requests...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] kufusoto:
I don't have any lock screen music controls
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dsmboost:
None of us do.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Eternalty:
Just Google it (the keyboard) and download the apk.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nizbot:
I do. Google play music + aosp lock screen seems to work for me :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Haloruler64:
Indeed, AOSP lockscreen and any music player that supports it (Play Music, Poweramp) will have lockscreen music controls. The Samsung lockscreen has no music controls. For the person who asked, slide the notification bar down to access the controls in the notification bar. One extra movement but it works.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] j510:
+ hold volume controls to skip, restart, or go back a track (while screens off).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nosferatu.:
Power amp does. Google play music too (although not as good)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] pupochek:
If you are using Poweramp, you WILL have music controls on Samsung lockscreen, just tell Poweramp to show them...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] techn:
It work for me don't know what u talking about and I had to have my GPS working I was already on the road heading to a new project site and after I change it out GPS was working fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] s33d1ing:
This is the case for me also. I'll try turning off gps/location settings and see if that helps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jeboo:
Nice find! Sho is putting together a new framework.jar with this patch for testing :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jjack0310:
I did do this. But doesnt really help.

My battery is drained when I wake up in the morning even if I sleep with 100%

So I have been doing that anyways.

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hasnt helped me. I turned off the gps/location settings a while ago, but hasnt slowed the battery drain.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
So I need a few people that can reproduce the media scanner issue. I would like this to be done via IRC (freenode/#shostock) or via PM. I will provide the zip and would like it to be tested. Thank you.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Phalanx7621:
Just wanted to say,I'm getting awesome battery life. I'll have to post some screen shots of my next cycle. But I average 4 hours screen on time over like 17 hours. Thanks again Sho for this gem:)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] litesout:
Okay, New problem. I got the not charging bug. Finally got down to 0%. The phone would only work while plugged in and would just shut off as soon as it was unplugged. Not shut down per se, it would just turn off. So, I went into recovery and wiped cache and Dalvik. Also fixed permissions. That did the trick, I was charging again but now my sd card is unreadable. I rehashed the Rom as well as the newest kernel from post 3. Still no dice. I can read the card from my tablet in the phone. But now I can't seem to read the card from the phone in the tablet or the phone.

Make sense? Any thoughts? I'm not worried about the card itself, I just want to recover the contents.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nizbot:
stock battery?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] albatros79:
After I reduced the dpi to 182 and flashing multi dpi apps it looks perfect.

In settings I could not find wifi tethering toggle

Any way to add it?

I guess battery life is not so good to me.

Will see after drain&full charge.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Flashvetrin:
Gotta admit im kinda glad im still runnin back on the day ver1.5

Sho is dedicated but I am glad I saved my og cppy of 1.5 on the pc.

No problems good daily driver.. :thumbup:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] VanillaCracker:
Shoman, one suggestion that might be highly valued......flash support.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] clay101eve:
Porn addiction huh?

Clay

Team Pirate

Sent from my Galaxy SHOswagger2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Eternalty:
Pron always makes an appearance with flash
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] j510:
Flash is working. He has an ad blocker on. You can download an ad blocker app from play store and disable it if you want.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Haloruler64:
This ROM fully supports Flash. Get it from an official place, and it'll install just fine. Then use it in stock browser. Chrome does not support Flash (not under Shomans control). Flash is no longer in the Play Store for everyone, so get it somewhere safe.

Also, what Clay said :P
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] j510:
Download directly from Adobe.support website.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Haloruler64:
I, both fortunately and unfortunately, have received a Galaxy Note II. AT&T model of course. I will not be leaving this forum, but I'll be sad to see this ROM fade from daily use. Shoman, thank you for everything. For keeping this phone alive and kicking for so long. I love you
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Dash305:
Would you mind sharing a copy of 1.5?.. I'm still on 1.3.5...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] SuperEd:
Im going where Sho is going. Love his Roms too much!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
Why would you say stuff like that? Do you even understand what the changes are from 1.5? Most of them are fixes that do not effect anything with battery our speed. Even the kernel changes are very subtle that they shouldn't effect battery..... maybe the tool chains in the latest release could have a factor but it's way too early to tell. Imo the only thing is maybe the modem but I haven't had a chance to really test it.

Just making statements like that malice it should like the rom it's going backwards and it definitely is not.

Thanks and have a great day.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] moorecomp:
I am on 1.6.1v and have zero issues with battery life, gps, charging, heat or anything like others have reported. If you are having any of these issues, redownload and check md5. Full wipe and NO restoring ANY apps with TBU. Install apps 1 at a time and wait and see. I guarantee this ROM is not the cause of any of these issues.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sstarre:
+1 here !

I've frozen a few thing with TiBu (things like daemons for stocks, weather,etc.) and CpuSpy has been showing 90 to 98% deep sleep overnight (wifi set to only when plugged in) and drain will often be less than 1%/hr.

If your getting bad battery performance, do a little research & tweaking, because if some of us can get this kind of life, then it's certainly not a ROM issue, more likely an app problem... and the media scan thing DID happen to me once, but not since I got rid of some files/folders left from previous ROM experiments....

Great job, Sho and thanks...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nosferatu.:
I just remembered something I was meaning to ask you. On the pull down notification is there any way to make the top right just be settings only and not show recent apps. Kinda redundant when I can just long press the home key. I tend to accidentally hit it instead of settings a lot. If not no big deal. Just wondering if it was something you'd consider. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] miten_sheth:
so is it m battery? should i replace it?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] xpakage:
A way to tell if it is your battery is to do a fresh install and add none of your favorite apps. Fully charge it and use it without adding apps (especially from TiBu). If the battery drain improves, add one app at a time (download) and try to see when the drain starts.

Or order a battery online and check how it drains with all your apps :fingers-crossed:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] miten_sheth:
i am connected to the wifi or the phone net all the time.. is that the reason? and i have apps installed but i dont use them most of the time.. and when i was on 1.4.2.. the battery drain was lower.. it is after the installation of this rom that i have started experiencing the drain.. i m pretty sure abt it..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
hmmm so only one person has this problem?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Phalanx7621:
Yes I use the stock battery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] matt_b:
Sho & jeboo, I've been running 1.6 and have had zero issues. Battery life is great, charges just fine, no apps misbehaving, smooth as all get out. Just downloaded the 1.6.1 update and gonna get it flashed. Thanks for all the hard work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sstarre:
Just a little info regarding the battery disscussion...

Here's what I've frozen and it seemed to make a significant improvement..

I haven't seen any ill effects as yet, but it all depends on the apps & widgets you might have...

Note that the sleep time was overnight without any use..obviously it doesn't sleep like that during the day because I'm usually fiddling with it !

But it's an indicator I use for wakelocks, etc...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] clay101eve:
I only had issues with the battery life one day and I had gps on most of it. Seeing as I can't get a lock on gps, much less find more than 4 sats and bounce between 0 and 4,that was most likely my issue, other than that I've not had battery problems related to media scanner. Going to re-dl rom (again) , full wipe (again) and see how that goes for gps.

That's my only complaint as of now lol. Everything else is amazing, thank you for your great work sir! (you too jeboo)

Time to get started...

Clay

Team Pirate

Sent from my Galaxy SHOswagger2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] wildiin:
I agree fully with this post.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sakisus:
Hi everybody,

To those who have battery draining/difficulty charging issues. Do you have widgets that display GPS dependent info? If yes, does your phone locks on Satellites fast?

The reason I ask is because I updated a few hours ago to the latest release (1.6.1) and after the update I had the draining/no charging issue.

The battery went from 92% to 77% in a few minutes. and the phone was plugged in!

To make long story short, I noticed that my weather widgets (4 of them, dont ask) where stuck either "loading" or with outdated temperature info.

I ran outside to see if GPS works and of course it wouldnt lock. Even after restart.

Back to the computer and reflashed 1.6.1 replacing the sirfgps file from the 1.4 ROM (which for some reason works great on my phone).

Phone started charging widgets work, GPS locks in 7-12 seconds, I love my phone, and thank you SHO for everything you ve done for all of us!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jjack0310:
I dont have a single weather wdiget installed on my phone
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] clay101eve:
Did Al that, changed SiRFgps.conf to 1.4 (again) and I'm back in action. 6 sat locks as well instead of 4 that it could see but not lock. Worked like a charm!

Clay

Team Pirate

Sent from my Galaxy SHOswagger2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] SteveO390:
So I'm putting you to the test here SHOman. ;) My wife's iPhone is out for warranty work (stuck home button, it seems to be a recurring problem) and because she's considering getting an S3 I told her she could use my S2 which is running the most up to date version of this ROM. I told her it would be as close to an S3 as she could get without actually having an S3.

While she's using that I'm back to my old Atrix running CM7.2. I'm hoping her time spent with my S2 running this ROM will cause her to switch to Android. Fingers crossed, we'll see.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tedkunich:
Sure fire way to kill/shorten the life of a Li-Ion battery. They do not like deep discharges.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ropo1:
There are many different and conflicting things that people say about Li-ion batteries. I mean no disrespect, but I've seen no evidence to support your claim. The fact is that smart Li-ion batteries are not completely discharged when they say that they are. the always keep an unusable reserve of power to protect from deep discharge damage.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sstarre:
He may be right if this is true.

Similar to a mechanical device that wears out faster with heavy use, so also does the depth of discharge (DoD) determine the cycle count. The shorter the discharge (low DoD), the longer the battery will last. If at all possible, avoid full discharges and charge the battery more often between uses. Partial discharge on Li-ion is fine; there is no memory and the battery does not need periodic full discharge cycles to prolong life, other than to calibrate the fuel gauge on a smart battery once in a while

Source --> http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ropo1:
Read my post. For dumb Li-ion batteries, this may be the case. Smart Li-ion batteries have a countermeasure in place that keeps a reserve of power to prevent the damage. I agree that deep discharging does not improve the performance of a Li-ion battery, but the fuel gauge on our phones is horrible, so it is necessary at times.

Edit: One of the advantages of Li-ion batteries is that they can be recharged on a partial discharge, without a memory effect. Full discharging may not be optimal for Li-ion batteries, but it certainly won't "kill" your battery. The countermeasure I mentioned above largely mitigates the issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
These batteries last 500+ full discharges and THOUSANDS of partial discharges. If you want the longest lasting battery always charge around 70%
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Haloruler64:
Yes, but from what I have read, Android only discharges batteries to 30% or so. iPhone's to 40%. When they ported Android to some Windows Mobile devices, they didn't have that protection, so peoples batteries were discharged and refused to charge again without a high current. That's bad. But it'll never happen to ours. The discharge method does nothing to the battery, but it may have a positive effect on the battery stats.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ropo1:
Exactly! When your phone says the battery is at 1%, the actual charge in the cells is closer to 30% or 40%.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sstarre:
I didn't get to see your post as I was writing mine at the same time :D

Bottom line for me is that I charge it when it needs it and use it until I charge it. Then I replace the battery when I think it's used up. ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] ropo1:
It's all good, man :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] clay101eve:
From what I've read, "calibrating" your battery by doing a "full" discharge/charge cycle does nothing for our phones.

As far as what's best for battery life,lots of conflicting information. Personally I try to keep it above 60% when possible. If it gets to 10% oh well. It's all good. I'll have a new phone before I wear out the charge cycles of my battery.

Clay

Team Pirate

Sent from my Galaxy SHOswagger2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] XGhozt:
I just switched back to ShoStock2, I just kept running out of memory with his one and it was getting really laggy. I'll try again in a month or so. :(