[Galaxy S II General] ph3n0mII:
I'm still on April 1st build, battery life is still awesome for me. I just had a look at running apps.. I noticed that after booting there is 1 copy of Maps running in the background initially, but after 30 mins or so, theres a second Maps listed as running aswell(screenshot attached)..2nd 1 might be for location services?

Either way, it would be good to have the Maps service only ever run when google maps app is actually opened and closed once maps is closed too, especially since I only use Google Maps like once a month or so, but I dont see any real harm in it still running in my case.

I woke up this morning with a triangle with an exclamation mark in the status bar and no service (screenshot attached) but no ril crashes - my log folder has still not reappeared for a few days now after deleting it. Signal restored properly after a reboot.

Now..about call recording..

I decided to test several other call recording apps..after extensively testing about 19 of them, I found a few crappy ones that work, and 1 good 1 that works on my i9100 with cm10.1 100% of the time so far under all conditions. I still have 5 more to test though to see if any have a wider range of features, but I think i'll be sticking with this 1 for now:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appstar.callrecorder&feature=search_result

The great thing about this 1 is that I can set it up to only record conversations from people not in my phonebook :)

FYI: The legislation about call recording in my country/state says its all good as long as all parties agree, but regardless, I only use it to occasionally write a vertabim transcript of a conversation for future reference. Often when dealing with the government or corporations, it can speed things up considerably if you remember the exact words used in a prior conversation, insted of enquiring about 'that new water scheme thingy' or whatever

It would still be good to be able to record calls 'properly' instead of using the mic..My intuition tells me that that whatever 'bug' ('google feature') prevents this function for all call recording apps in android 4.2, is somehow related to the stock cm10.1 voice recording app not working either, and by the sounds of it, possibly related to some games crashing, since muting some of them makes them work?. Just a hunch :cowboy:

In regards to missing space..dont forget to check the LOST.DIR in root of storage aswell. Also for some reason, the first time I went from samsung stock 4.0.3 to cm10, there was a leftover 'Preload' folder i think somewhere containing over 400MB of useless navigon files that survived 2 factory resets and an internal storage format somehow..didnt happen when coming from 4.0.4 though for me.

In regards to corrupted USB MTP/UMS file transfers, If you have windows 7 or 8, I would recommend unplugging your phone then uninstalling all samsung drivers, then disabling automatic device driver installation from Windows Update, then reboot windows, plug the phone back in and let windows install the built in MTP drivers that come stock with windows.

I found the stock windows MTP drivers to be the most reliable with MTP, after a ****load of messing around and testing so many combinations and trying many different instructions/tutorials from here and other android forums. Also, for some reason, very rarely i get the message in windows explorer about corruption or device disconnected or whatever it specifically says when copying files from/to the phone, but sometimes it still sucessfully copies anyway dispite saying it didnt.

Also every time i copy a bunch of mp3's over, some of them fail for some reason, always the same few, even if re-encode them from scratch from the cd or downoad from an alternate source..I found the only way to get some files on my phone is to zip them up then copy the zip file over then unzip them.

Aditionally, if your device doesnt show in windows explorer after installing stock MTP drivers, try replugging the device. There have been a few nightlies where i often had to replug my phone over 10 times for it to show up, but for some reason its worked perfectly for the last few hundred times now..Not sure if it was a bug in the nightly or just one of those forever unexplained anomalies...

Also try use a different usb transfer cable or a different USB port, even a different PC.

Also does anybody know of a way to hide the 'frequently called' section from contacts list?