[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hannibal226:
♦ Known issues ♦​

In general, RootBox has AOKP issues as it is based on AOKP and some CM issues as it uses some features from CM and CM kernel as well. This list is not complete list of AOKP / CM / RootBox issues. It is a list of known issues that are discussed by RootBox users within development threads or support thread.

GPS locking problems [workaround: try this] -

reported on 20130422 and confirmed on current builds / not all users are hit by this issue (maybe it is location specific are other way random occurring issue)

SMS gestures not working properly - always only 1st gesture works, multiple gestures not working [no workaround] -

confirmed on latest Nightlies

Sound disturbances, mostly dropouts using BT headset or BT car kit [no workaround] -

confirmed on 3.9.1 & 4.x & latest Nightlies / not all users are hit by this issue

Some users report freezes and other issues when playing games [no confirmed workaround known / setup with Dorimanx is working for some users] -

not confirmed / not easy to reproduce / no relevant logs so far

Bluetooth DSP Manager settings not working (Speaker and Headset are OK) [workaround: use Speaker settings, it also influence Bluetooth audio output]-

confirmed on 3.8 and further

When ending call via Bluetooth, phone freezes for several (about 3 - 5) seconds [workaround: be patient, it is really only 3 - 5 sec.] -

confirmed on 3.9 and further

Custom ringtone setting can randomly disappear [workaround: put ringtone into /system/media/audio/ringtones (thanks to Computoncio for the tip)] -

confirmed on 3.9.1 / issue status unknown for latest Nightlies

Developer Options > Simulate secondary display will cause boot loop [workaround: reflash the ROM or reset the option in database (thanks to Mr.H-DK for the tip)] -

confirmed on 3.8

♦ Changelog ♦ ​

Stable releases

4.2

- When flashing from Stable<=4.1 or Nightly<=0628, full wipe flash is recommended. In case of dirty flash, clearing of Contacts, Contacts storage, ROM Control is required.

RootBox OTA

RootBox App

CM Privacy Guard

New framework animations

RC: Ribbons fix custom selection for long press/swipe

Added power button to Pie

Recents improved

Hybrid Toggle: show DPI, layout, colors settings & app name

Quiet hours logic changed

Date format from Slim ROM

Gesture based lockscreen security

Added tile colors

Added 2G/3G option to profile connections

HALO: Completely hide Halo))) icons while tasking

HALO: Size adjustable

HALO: Long-press toggle action

HALO: Button on PIE

HALO: Can save last position now

HALO: Toggle

HALO: Lot of other improvements and features

Added support for Samsung extended AGPS

GPS updated (Samsung magic field added)

MALI driver for Exynos updated

RIL changed for Exynos 4 devices

...Full Changelog

Older Stable releases

4.1

Music Toggle added

Hybrid toggle on Ribbon

Option to choose New or Stock Recents window

Recents improved - Kill-all button options added

New hardware key remapping possibilities in RB settings

RootBox Settings in floating window when opened from RootBox Tile

PA Hybrid Toggle

Camera: Settings transparent

CM Sound panel in RootBox Settings

More PIE buttons

Rush battery

A bunch of new battery icons

Updated Battery, Circle Battery & Signal for Per-app color

Improved speedometer battery style

HALO: Color options + Circle color & effect color

HALO: Add master switch to disable Halo

HALO: New setting to pause active app

HALO by PA team added to RootBox

Ability to hide Profiles toggle in Power Menu

RootBox statistics added (About Phone)

Any unofficial builds are clearly distinguished when building

Menu overflow (3-dot) fixed

NFS support for i9100g

Improved auto-brightness handling

New stock kernel for i9100 & n7000 - CM smdk4412

Build with GCC 4.7 toolchain

...Full Changelog

4.0

New Boot animation by Wiggierip

Hybrid Settings (PA Prefs) are back to RootBox (LCD Density & Xposed Per-App framework removed)

Backuptool merged to RootBox. You will no longer require to flash gapps after flashing a RootBox update

A lot of changes needed for compatibility with GCC 4.7 including linaro (Galaxy S2/S3 still compiled and built by 4.6)

Dark RootBox option in RootBox Settings and new Tile for it (credits to Kroz and SlimRoms Team)

Power widget within Notification drawer - settings in RootBox Settings

RootBox’s own Trebuchet launcher with PA commits for a better compatibility

Switching to SlimRom Camera with Smart Capture and Handsfree Capture modes

Permission management added

Performance Control removed

Phone: Blacklist

Phone: Allow voicemail notification to be cleared

Phone: Rejected calls as missed

Phone: Direct Call

MMS: App completely rebased

MMS: Option to strip all unicode characters from SMS

MMS: DarkRB - Respect Theme Chooser Bubbles

MMS: Add Text Area Size preference

Custom toggles added to Notification toggles

New sound files

Disable camera sounds option added

cLock: Added option to highlight the upcoming calendar events

Wifi: Get the list of supported channels

CM Lockscreen Targets reverted

Lot of kernel fixes and updates including MD5 sum fix

CWM: New version of recovery - 6.0.3.1 (allows cancellation of adb sideload)

Updated MALI driver to r3p1-01rel1

...Full Changelog

3.9.1

(3.9 was removed)

RootBox Battery Speedometer

RootBox Battery SquareMod

RootBox Battery CircleMod

SMS notification breathing by Kroz

New charging animation by OlliG

Fixed i9100 low headphones sound issue

Increased statusbar notifications alpha to 90%

Switch to open source SuperUser

Pie toggle

Navring reworked

Pie: One finger swipe-up for notifications

Updated RB Settings & Update Center Icons

cLock: Add support for a small widget layout with weather

Menu target fixed in Pie

BT and other toggles fixes

Swap volume buttons when the screen is rotated by 90 or 180 degrees

DeskClock: Add option to toggle unlock on dismissal of alarm

Notification shortcuts

Toggles rewritten - Tiles / Traditional style

Option to show Wi-Fi network name in Notification drawer

Pie improvements

Reverted holo dark/light theme chooser for toggles

...Full Changelog

3.8

Latest mali r3p1-01rel1 included in ROM and stock (CM) kernel - better graphics and memory support for i9100

New Sleep Tile - Turn off screen

New Icons for Quiet Hours - Credits: +Oliver Geith

Pie: Option to maintain PIE position, disregarding orientation changes.

Option to see through Lockscreen

Expanded Desktop - No more StatusBar in Lockscreen

Clock: Increasing Alarm Volume

Clock: Flip/Shake Actions: Snooze – Dismiss Alarm

Option to choose low battery warning: Popup dialog and sound – Popup dialog only – Sound only – Off

New WiFi and Signal icons: Credits to ParanoidAndroid

StatusBar Toggles Holo Light: All toggles are now Holo when option is enabled

New Toggle: RootBox Toggle – Access RootBox Settings (Thanks to +mark rodriguez for the icons)

Option to disable fullscreen keyboard in landscape mode

One touch profile selection (When you choose profile from Power Menu, you don’t need to confirm by pressing OK)

Long press Profile Toggle: Profiles Settings (Profile Toggle is still a work in progress)

Long Press Quiet Hours Toggle: Quiet Hours Settings (Toggle works but does not refresh status and icon, I will work on this)

AOKP Record Toggle: Record Voice through toggle (Record, Stop, Play)

Pie Updates

Lockscreen targets: Custom app icons are smaller and rounded corners of gallery icons

Quiet Hours: Fixed notification sounds playing when Quiet Hours enabled

Profiles: Lockscreen options (Insecure, Disabled, Default) fixed

Lockscreen NavBar: Little circle overlapping NavBar Buttons when PowerMenu or StatusBar dropped down on lockscreen

Camera: HDR rendering for every devices (Nexus 4 already has it)

FIX: Screen Delay timeout stuck @5 Seconds fixed

FIX: Pattern Lock FC fixed

FIX: Lockscreen Memory Leak fixed (this caused random reboots in previous release)

...Full Changelog

3.7.1

Phone Settings FC fixed

...Full Changelog

3.7

Wi-Fi tethering fixed

APN settings fixed

LCD Density Changer

Ability to force dual panel at any dpi

Status Bar Hide toggle

Navigation Bar Autohide toggle

Quiet hours toggle

CRT screen on/off animations user defined

Increasing ring volume

Add support for FM Radio in Android

PIE: last app toggle

PIE: finecontrol for menu and search button

PIE: gap & trigger size

PIE: button color, battery juice color

PIE: many other improvements

Updated SuperSU and SU binary

Trebuchet replaced by AOSP

AOKP Torch replaced by CM Torch

Several Camera updates

Updated Icons - Credits: Kroz

Kill App on Long-Press Back Key

RootBox Settings layout cleanup

...Full Changelog

3.6

Per-App DPI (and other) settings

PA Pie

CM Lockscreen Targets

Phone / Tablet / Phablet mode selectable

Volume adjust sound preference

Don't wake up device when charger is plugged/unplugged

Profile tile in toggles options

Power menu tile in toggles options (touch to Power menu, hold to Power off)

Wi-Fi: Automatically connect option added for every network

Camera: additional ISO modes

Camera: port additional settings from jellybean 4.1

Camera: storage selection

QuickSettings: add holo dark/light theme chooser

Lockscreen: provide haptic feedback on longpress unlock

Lockscreen: enable longpress on expand challenge handle

Lockscreen: option to use carousel animation when switching widgets

Lockscreen: add back lockscreen wallpaper

New toggle: sound state (ring/vib/silent)

MMS: port "Strip Unicode" feature from ICS branch into JB-MR1

Waking device with Home Button Fix

Show date on 2 lines in Status Bar (Useful for HDPI devices such as i9100)

Hide Statusbar Clock in Clock settings

FM Radio: Add support for FM Radio in Android

A2DP Fully working

Phone: Call statistics to Contacts

...Full Changelog

3.5

Lockscreen Targets (PA)

NavBarColor

LockScreen: add option to minimize challenge when showing the lockscreen

Launch music player on headset connect option

Option to hide initial page hints

...Full Changelog

3.4

CM Profiles

HSPA+

Expanded desktop

Statusbar and navbar transparency

CM Screen Security settings

Hardware key custom rebinding

Camera: support for various scene modes

Phone: noise suppression for phone calls

Phone: CM Advanced Phone Settings

...Full Changelog

3.3.1

The major release based on Android 4.2.1. As a major change, this release requires FULL WIPE installation and new GAPPS compatible with Android 4.2.1. As this is the first release based on the new versions, there are some features still missing.

PAPrefs were removed.

...Full Changelog

3.2

The last stable release based on Android 4.1.2 with all AOKP features and many CM cherry picks and features by Bajee like multitarget slider on lockscreen or PAPrefs. If you like those features, stay on this stable release, as some of them were removed or replaced by other feauters like brand new 4.2.1 lockscreen or Per-App DPI framework by Rovo89.

RootBox 3.2 Full Changelog

Nightly releases

No nightlies after latest stable release (4.3 merge in progress)

Older Nightly releases

2013/07/19

Completely hide Halo))) icons while tasking

Hybrid Toggle: show DPI, layout, colors settings & app name

...Full Changelog

2013/07/18

System UI FC on HALO fixed

HALO size

Quiet hours logic changed

Date format from Slim ROM

...Full Changelog

2013/07/16

MALI driver for Exynos updated

GPS updated (Samsung magic field added)

...Full Changelog

2013/07/14

- not released for i9100, i9100g and n7000 due to build server 2 outage

Gesture based lockscreen security

Lot of improvements and WIP on HALO

...Full Changelog

2013/07/11

RootBox App

RIL changed for Exynos 4 devices

...Full Changelog

2013/07/08

Battery issue fixed

HALO long-press toggle action

HALO button on PIE

...Full Changelog

2013/07/07

T9 search fixed

...Full Changelog

2013/07/03

Update mali r3p1-01rel1

HALO can save last position now

HALO Toggle

...Full Changelog

2013/06/28

Added tile colors

CM Privacy Guard

Added 2G/3G option to profile connections

...Full Changelog

2013/06/24

Option to choose New or Stock Recents window

...Full Changelog

2013/06/23

HALO issue with System UI FCs fixed

HALO HDPI icons

Rush battery

New hardware key remapping possibilities in RB settings

Pink background for HALO

RootBox Settings in floating window when opened from RootBox Tile

...Full Changelog

2013/06/21

PA Hybrid Toggle

Colour options for HALO

Option to completely disable HALO is back

HALO icons bigger than usual on i9100/i9100g will be fixed in next build

...Full Changelog

2013/06/20

Graphics distortion / glitches fixed

Camera: Settings transparent

RC: A bunch of new battery icons

CM Sound panel in RootBox Settings

More PIE buttons

Master switch to disable Halo reverted

...Full Changelog

2013/06/18

HALO: Add master switch to disable Halo

Updated Battery, Circle Battery & Signal for Per-app color

Improved speedometer battery style

Recents improved - Kill-all button options added

...Full Changelog

2013/06/17

Recents updated

...Full Changelog

2013/06/16

Fixed games FCs

Fixed NavRing FCs

...Full Changelog

2013/06/15

Minor issues from previous Nightly fixed

...Full Changelog

2013/06/14

HALO: NEW setting to pause active app

...Full Changelog

2013/06/12

HALO: New drawables for HDPI & MDPI devices

HALO: Installation of .apk works now

...Full Changelog

2013/06/11

HALO

Back to GCC 4.7

...Full Changelog

2013/06/10

RIL issue fixed

...Full Changelog

2013/06/09

- Not released for i9100 & n7000 - RIL issue fix in progress

Ability to hide Profiles toggle in Power Menu

Settings random FCs fixed

...Full Changelog

2013/06/07

- Not released for i9100 & n7000 - RIL issue fix in progress

RootBox statistics added (About Phone)

Any unofficial builds are clearly distinguished when building

Back to GCC 4.6 again

...Full Changelog

2013/06/04

- Not released for i9100 & n7000 - RIL issue fix in progress

...Full Changelog

2013/06/02

- Not released for i9100 & n7000 - RIL issue fix in progress

Menu overflow (3-dot) fixed

NFS support for i9100g

...Full Changelog

2013/05/31

- Not released for i9100 & n7000 - RIL issue fix in progress

Improved auto-brightness handling

...Full Changelog

2013/05/28

- Not released for i9100 & n7000 - RIL issue fix in progress

New stock kernel for i9100 & n7000 - CM smdk4412

Build with GCC 4.7 toolchain

...Full Changelog

2013/05/14

Older PA Prefs for HDPI devices (including S2), i.e. screen layout of PA Prefs fixed

New sound files

MMS: Unicode stripping fixed

Ribbon toggles

Hidden Statusbar options

...Full Changelog

♦ Kernel corner ♦​

Stock kernel

RootBox uses CM kernel from CyanogenMod as a stock kernel. This kernel is very stable and battery friendly and stock kernel is always recommended mainly for users that do not have special demands. Please, remember that RootBox is multi-device ROM and it needs multi-device kernel. Creator of this ROM even do not own S2 and he cannot support alternative kernels for this device in any way. Therefore stock kernel is only kernel with the official support from Bajee11.

Download

Thanks to hawkerpaul’s knowledge is Hannibal226 providing stock kernels for selected builds here and here.

Non-Stock kernels

There are many RootBox users with S2 devices using non-stock kernels. Most popular and compatible are Dorimanx, KangBang and Siyah kernels.

Dorimanx

Dorimanx kernel is developed by Dorimanx (note that he is also RootBox user)

For current RootBox builds use 9.X branch

Changelogs, download links and other important info on development thread OP

Support, Q&A, discussion on non-development thread (Please, consider to ask there for support, if you have really kernel specific questions or issues, like STweaks, OC/UV, BLN, cron, etc.)

KangBang

KangBang is the kernet for AOSP based 4.2 ROMs.

It is based on CyanogenMod smdk4412 kernel, i.e. it is based on current stock kernel for i9100 & n7000.

It is modded to provide more schedulers, governors, BLN and other features.

It is available with CWM or TWRP recovery.

Siyah

Genuine Siyah kernel is developed by Elite developer gokhanmoral. There is also non-development thread for Siyah. This original version of Siyah is currently not compatible with current RootBox releases, as gokhanmoral is working on other things according to his priorities.

Siyah v4/5 patched with vsync + mali available here: [Kernel][JellyBean] ♦ Siyah vsync v4/5 ♦ [Mali patched][gokhanmoral,mcm811,Rush85]

Siyah v6 with MALI v2 r3p1 available here: [KERNEL][CM10.1][08/04] Siyah v6.0b5 with Maliv2/r3p1 video drivers