[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] fukenbiker:
only the sound of crickets

hello

echo...

I am switching back to using a SGH-I727 because my new S4 is broken.

Did you ever get your sound turned on there idlestranger?

I appreciate the effort vincom the OP put forth and it looks like I'm going to try his latest and greatest for this device.

I'll report back with the results.

At this point I've installed TWRP 2.6.3.0 skyrocket_vincom.tar using Odin and using the new custom recovery I have made a backup of my stock ATT phone, checked all boxes. I noted the new TWRP folder in the internal SD is 865 MB in size. Also TWRP gave me root.

I think I'm ready to flash. I'm gonna download this newest into the internal SD of my S2

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Ok I am here to report back and I'm just clicking edit because this particular room seems to be a ghost town. I tried the ROM.

TWRP made sure I had a jb radio and FAILED.

One item I am now wondering is if being "unlocked" has anything to do with it. I saw a certificate with the sales slip from the Ebay seller confirming it is an unlocked phone.

Now I've got my external SD chip plugged into the desktop here wondering what to do next. Put a whole bunch of different ROMS on the chip, stick it back in the phone and try them all?

I tried simply doing a restore of the backup I made using TWRP and it failed as well. So now being as I swiped the factory reset it'll get to the AT&T logo and that's it.

hmmm what to do...

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edit

reading about radios and I got an unlocked radio trying to decide now what rom is compatible or if I just odin back to stock... ya know, I'm gonna read read read and read some more

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stock phones just don't do it for a flashaholic like me

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edit

ok flashed the JB radio

wiped

flashed CyanogenMod and Gapps from the OP

got to the Shaded out welcome screen after just a little while of admiring the beautiful spinning wheel CM bootup animation and have an error that reads:

Unfortunely, Nfc Service has stopped.

clicking ok doesn't make it go away....

Time for more reading? Nah... I'm going to pull battery and try again to boot.... no.... ok I long pressed the power button until it buzzed. Guess what I saw the SAMSUNG logo just as it powered off. And just like that it rebooted, the CyanogenMod spinny wheel only ran for a little bit now it's doing an Upgrading thing....

New error:

Unfortunaley, the process com.android.phone has stopped.

I can see the welcome screen shaded out in the background and clicking OK doesn't make the error go away.

long pressing power button again, let's see what happens next....

same thing so far:

Android is upgrading...

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Optimizing app 85 of 100.... 100 of 100

one error flashed by it said contact services has stopped and quickly replaced by Nfc Service has stopped...

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Ok I noticed it had a count of 76 on the upgrading app before the error

it's rebooting now after another long press on the power button...

This time it did the Nfc error, and the next time it did them all, everything I saw previously whipped by com.android.phone all of them...

And just to keep at it did it one more time and it's now the same pattern of error events and now I'm going to flash again!

WOOHOO!

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edit

Okay now the reason I didn't follow directions explicitly the first time was my entire trouble there, I did all I could to avoid "advanced wipe" because of the stories I read about doing that on the S4. So I got brave and did the advanced wipe and this thing booted up and is working perfectly.

It's just what I was looking for. Pure CyanogenMod. I am in the process of setting up the few apps I like.

I'm going to "thank" vincom looks like.

great job!