yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Ace II General] mkel91:
That bloatware are in csc partition..

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[Galaxy Ace II General] rol525:
This version is very slow vs gb.

Antutu gb:6200

Antutu jb:4600

I come back to gb

Sorry for my bad english :p
[Galaxy Ace II General] :
These versions of JB are very new and there are multiple bugs.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
The MC8 update is bug free.

Phone will be slow to start because of the update being so dramatic on the system. But after a day or two it becomes faster and more responsive. Give it time to settle.
[Galaxy Ace II General] asdfzz:
So true..
[Galaxy Ace II General] b0g:
info please

for instalation of XXMC8, what files i need?

pit files? what version of odin ?

thanks
[Galaxy Ace II General] judas1977:
On preload in common apps folder... or sth like this. You can replace it with own apps, and these apps will automatically install after factory reset. Nice:)

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[Galaxy Ace II General] owl74:
sorry, where can I find csc partition please...

when I go to /system/csc -- there's nothing there except the text files...

TIA
[Galaxy Ace II General] astankov:
I want also to know how to change my CSC because is still like in the leaks - KOR
[Galaxy Ace II General] cocoe68:
I think upgrades from GB to JB may need repartition an PIT file, could you confirm if needed? Where could i find correct PIT file?

cocoe
[Galaxy Ace II General] Villeness:
From non rooted L2 (GB) to MB2 , MB4 and at last MC8 .. easy
[Galaxy Ace II General] sab742:
Skip MB4.
[Galaxy Ace II General] odjiex:
sometimes music so lagy.. but I like it
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
Forget the pit file.

Just insert (tar) file in (pda) on Odin.

And flash away.

That is the Samsung official file.

...Oh and ignore the dll file.

Happy flashing.
[Galaxy Ace II General] rol525:
Antutu now score:5784

Battery:2d 12h 58m 40s i have now 14%
[Galaxy Ace II General] b0g:
posible

hy,

i think to make unbranded the last firmware,

extract from CSC_OXA_I8160OXAMB2_932015_REV00_user_low_noship, from first firmware I8160_OXAMB2, a valid cache.img.md5

then flash with odin the last firmware I8160XXMC8 and at csc put the cache.img.md5 from I8160_OXAMB2

how try to extract a vaild csc from CSC_OXA_I8160OXAMB2_932015_REV00_user_low_noship ?

:D
[Galaxy Ace II General] PokMahPok:
how to flash this rom? im on mc2 with v6b
[Galaxy Ace II General] emogibran:
This ROM is quite laggy and drained much battery than the leak version, is it because I didn't wipe the data or didn't flash it?
[Galaxy Ace II General] payer:
yes
[Galaxy Ace II General] aumast:
Hey guys I have just coming back from jb to gb :( because the rom is very slow and the free ram space is always 80 mb and there is a lot of lags please what the solution? Think

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[Galaxy Ace II General] Der-Knuffi:
How did you get from GB to JB? What version did you flash and how?
[Galaxy Ace II General] aumast:
I flash first jb mb4

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[Galaxy Ace II General] owl74:
I flashed straight from odin
[Galaxy Ace II General] Toown:
Is there a way to get the crt-off screen animation from kyrillos v7b rom to this one?
[Galaxy Ace II General] cksamurai:
I8160zcubmc4

SamKiesUpdates

‏

China GT-I8160 Galaxy Ace 2 update I8160ZCUBMC4/I8160CHNBMC4
[Galaxy Ace II General] WahyuGo:
Post something that was already posted..
[Galaxy Ace II General] javanesse:
How about RAM size probs after upgrading from GB to JB??? anyone hv a solution?
[Galaxy Ace II General] ken_alpha24:
problems from JB to GB

hi i tried flashing the JB official MC8 and i reverted back to GB DXMA1, but it took a very long time to boot... any solutions?
[Galaxy Ace II General] NZ John:
Was that first boot or every boot? First will usually always be the longest.
[Galaxy Ace II General] TheWolf59:
i test jelly bean, it's super =) but i got baseband unknown so i have reflashed with 2.3.6 firmware. I wait for the official update lol
[Galaxy Ace II General] loof13:
If the Chinese software was released now , the next should be either Hong Kong or Indo!
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
[/COLOR]

GB to JB is a big jump.

People are impatient and think is paw and the process is done.

My phone took two days to get up to speed after the update.

Apps slowly converted from 2+ to 4+.

It accelerates the process if we reboot the phone a few times.

(System optimisation)

Turning back to GB from JB is asking for trouble.

And you only going to find the same problem again...

(System optimisation)

But this time backwards...

Not clever.

And I learned that if you want to enjoy JB flawless than you should wipe all the data and perform a factory reset before you update.

Solution for your problem is...

(((((BE PATIENT!!!)))))))
[Galaxy Ace II General] sparcopt:
Sorry guys I'm kinda new to this and I would like to ask what is PIT and MC8?

I just upgraded to Jelly Bean and my RAM is 482MB, how to solve this?
[Galaxy Ace II General] tds4u:
The PIT file contains all the relevant information for each required partition such as Partition Name, Flash File Name, Block Size, Block Count etc. and also contains some unknown properties that maybe identifiers or flags of some sort.

MC8 is the first official JB version offered in Portugal.

You can't increase RAM but you SHOULD wipe your data partition and reset it to defaults (Volume down + Home + Power). If you don't know how to do it please read the posts for beginners. It's explained there.
[Galaxy Ace II General] sparcopt:
Thanks, can you please give me the link to that beginners thread? I can't seem to find it.
[Galaxy Ace II General] tds4u:
Flash JB with Odin, enter download mode:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2139448

PIT:

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/pit-magic-lets-you-create-analyze-and-edit-samsung-pit-files/

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1916936

Detailed update and/or wipe with factory reset:

http://www.techethon.com/how-to-update-android-4-1-2-jelly-bean-in-galaxy-ace-2-ii/
[Galaxy Ace II General] sparcopt:
Thanks once again but how can I resolve the RAM problem? I heard some users can make it to ~600MB (I have the official JB from Portugal)
[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
I have flash : xxlk2-

xxmb2-xxmc8 and I have 624mb ram and no bugs.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
Is 482 available or used ?

That sucks either way...

Follow the instructions provided by "tds4u"

and you can't go wrong.

It is very important to reset the phone completely as explained.

(That I learned from self experience)

Just back it up on your pc.

And perform a factory reset before you update.

Otherwise you end up having conflicting old files trying to bug your phone.

In my experience I ended up downloading the official (MB2/MB4) and used the pit file from the MB2 leak. Only after that I installed the MC8.

And my phone is free from any dramas (bugs) now.

624 ram.

your phone will be slow for the first days (system optimisation)

But will improve.

I use (ram booster pro ) and helps a lot.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Grmblprmf:
Offline Speech Recognition

Installed portugese tmn ROM.

Just reseted my device, unzipped the rom and installed it with Odin.

Missing Google's offline speech recognition. It's just not there in the options menu. Somebody else?
[Galaxy Ace II General] Der-Knuffi:
I did not test it, but have a look here:

http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/26116/jelly-bean-offline-voice-recognition
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
Google launched a new Google search.

Talkback update from Google store.

And the new Google search update.

After you install the updates and is still not working ?! Than maybe is because your language is not available.

English US works great!!!
[Galaxy Ace II General] Grmblprmf:
Indeed, there was an uninstalled update to Talkback. But installing it, doesn't let the "Download offline speech recognition" appear. Neither did setting the language to English US.

Are "Google search" and "Google Talkback" all the apps that are required?

When the ROM for my country (Germany) is out, I'll defenitly will flash it again. Maybe that solves it.
[Galaxy Ace II General] wiseman-fr:
Hello guys..

I have a huge problem... I don't have the 3 button combo anymore !

What I did with my phone :

GB > JB

JB > Russian GB > Uk GB > JB ( i needed to do that to go back to GB and unlock my phone)

Now... I cant go into download or recovery anymore ! But my phone is working properly... I need to access to the recovery asap thats the problem.

Thank you
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
Download CWM from app store.

And try that way
[Galaxy Ace II General] ken_alpha24:
First boot... stuck o the ace 2 screen

---------- Post added at 12:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:14 PM ----------

It is not the slow thing im talking about! Check my post again and read it properly... it didnt reboot and was stuck in Ace II screen
[Galaxy Ace II General] sparcopt:
Can someone provide me the link for the MB2/MB4 leak? From what I see, in order to get the +600MB RAM first I need to install that version and then MC8 (portuguese version). One question: before I install the MC8 do I need to wipe all data or just use Odin over it?

Note: I went from GB to MC8, can I use this process and go from MC8 to MB4? Will it still work and fix the RAM problem?
[Galaxy Ace II General] ken_alpha24:
Yes... pls thank me if that helped
[Galaxy Ace II General] judas1977:
Isn't asking for thanks forbidden here?

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[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-I8160

Ken grow up abd be helpful instead
[Galaxy Ace II General] sparcopt:
But it is ok to go from JB MC8 to MB4?

And I just need to install the MB4 and everything goes fine or do I need to have a PIT file? (remember I want to fix the RAM limitation)
[Galaxy Ace II General] payer:
Better download MB2 with the PIT file included. Don't forget to acitvate re-partition in Odin.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
If you can't find the MB2 since it was replaced by the MB4 than just look here for

"GT-18160_EUR_XX_4G.pit"

And use it with the official MB4.

The MB4 is 2 files.

One for the pda and one for the csc.

Use the pit with that package.

Just remember to back-up your phone and do a factory reset

Than wipe cash partition.

Than just flash the firmware.

Worked fine on mine.

After you flash the MB2/MB4 with the pit file.

Check if everything is working

And if the ram is 624...

And after that you can flash the MC8 again.

Hope this helped you.

Best wishes. :cool:
[Galaxy Ace II General] sparcopt:
I can't find that PIT file, can you give me a link for it?

Inside the MB4 there is alread a file with that same name and it ends in "pit.md5" thats it?
[Galaxy Ace II General] payer:
It is GT-I8160_EUR_XX_4G.pit.md5

You can get MB2 hiere: http://www.4shared.com/rar/c9m7k9IG/Samsung_Galaxy_Ace_2_Android_4.html

Or if you downloaded MB4 already maybe one can send you the pit-file only. I can do later.
[Galaxy Ace II General] sparcopt:
When I try to flash with Odin it gives me that error
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
:thumbup: Sounds good. Is the pit file. :D

I know that there is a link here just for the pit file... but can't find it now.

Sorry.

Here one link from a developer here, that might be helpful.

He has the leak firmware MB2/MB4 and instructions.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2118119

Compare the files just in case

Better safe than sorry.

Hope all goes well

---------- Post added at 02:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:43 PM ----------

Use the pit file.
[Galaxy Ace II General] sparcopt:
Nevermind, got it working. MB4 is installed, should I wipe data/factory reser and wipe cache before installing MC8?
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
Without the pit file?

Have you checked the ram yet?

If the ram is not fixed than there is no point in moving in to MC8...

The pit file is supposed to help fixing the partitions.
[Galaxy Ace II General] sparcopt:
smoke eolLin

The pit file was included in the MB4 PDA instalation, I didn't need to search for one.

RAM is at 624MB now, it's fixed. My question is, before flashing to MC8, should I do -> wipe data/factory reset & wipe cache & devilk cache? Or if do it the RAM problem will be back in MC8?

Edit: I wiped eveything, installed MC8 and I still have 624MB RAM :)

Thank you eveyone for helping me :)
[Galaxy Ace II General] payer:
Why do you think we are talking about that PIT-file? First you need this file and you have to put it in the PIT-file-section of Odin.
[Galaxy Ace II General] sparcopt:
Yes I know but I realised that the PIT file was included inside the MB4 PDA installation and I forgot to uncheck that option in Odin. All is fine now and I have my RAM fixed.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
:) all ends well.

Your phone might be a bit slow to start because of the optimisation but after being rebooted a few times it will be working fine.

I also use "ram booster pro" on mine and it works like a dream now.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Txask:
Is the battery leak (in MC3 the power ends in about 6 hours...) fixed in this version?

Thanks.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
MC8 is clean

No bugs
[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
But italian job v1.0.0 on xxmc8 is better- a lot faster
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
I belive you.

Custom vs official.

Custom is tuned. But is also gambling sometimes ...

But on regards to the official MC8,

I can confirm from experience that is bug free.

At least if correctly installed.
[Galaxy Ace II General] pfbatista:
Sparcopt:

Don't forget to root your device and delete all the TMN and Sapo Bloatware. It will be faster after that. I've done it too. (I supose our phones are exactly the same, from Optimus operator)

Mine works well, there's some bugs, for example there's a sound/microphone issue when your try to record a video... but, after all, it's preferable to have MC8 JB than the last GB ROM.

If you wanna any help how to change the boot animations, camera sound, etc... tell me something. I also advise you to exchange the SDCard with ExtSDCard. I've got it since I first rooted it on GB.
[Galaxy Ace II General] psychoo83:
Not really bug free.

There are some issues with mutitasking. If you are playing music and trying to do something else sometimes the music gets interrupted for a little time then resumes.

Also the phone freezed on me 2 times since the JB update and i had to keep the power button pressed until it restarted. I have no ideea why that happened but it never happened on GB and i'm using the same apps like GB.
[Galaxy Ace II General] ken_alpha24:
That happened to me too
[Galaxy Ace II General] aumast:
I think this rom is not stable whin i lunch an application it's freezing and the phone reboot for example temple run lag and it's very slow :(

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[Galaxy Ace II General] psychoo83:
Sorry to tell you this but i have made a clean install.

First time i installed directly from GB to MC8. After seeing that RAM is lower than the rest of users i read the whole topic and installed correctly.

This was done about the second day after MC8 was released.

I think since then the sw had time to optimise.

I also uninstalled all bloatware.

Then i rooted and freezed samsung bloatware also.

Then changed boot animation.

My phone is smooth and lag free most of the time but as i said, it happened 2 times to me that the phone froze.

Once i was just opening firefox and can't remember what i did next, Another time i was running some apps in parallel (can't remember which).

Overall it seems like bug free but it really isn't, and that could be the reason that samsung delayed the official launch date.
[Galaxy Ace II General] pfbatista:
Smokey,

I've done a clean install, GB --> MB4 --> MC8... only repartitioned when applied MB4... it's the right way. After it I removed all the bloatware and some Samsung services that I Know are useless... for me!

My phone is fast and runs smooth... but I believe in next updates it will be better!

MC8 is better than MB4/MB2 but isn't optimized... and there are bugs... if they don't occur on your phone... you're a lucky guy!

Best regards
[Galaxy Ace II General] vacziferi:
I can't say this. It still have problems with memory management.

When I listening music (poweramp), browsing on net (dolphin, facebook), the music start cracking and the phone don't respond any power or touch. It happened with mine 2 times yesterday...
[Galaxy Ace II General] aumast:
Yes I am agry with you this rom isn't stable

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[Galaxy Ace II General] sab742:
Have seen this issue too once. However I factory reset (and wiped data) and haven't had it since.
[Galaxy Ace II General] ken_alpha24:
Did all of these... still JB freezes on mine even though no apps running on background
[Galaxy Ace II General] sparcopt:
JB MC8 is working great in here :good:
[Galaxy Ace II General] yrxe:
I beleive it will be a stupid question but i am tired of waiting official via kies. Since this is my work phone i use work email on it with specific app that is mandatory for us in company. This app has option to detect rooted device and wont start. So if i choose to go for mc8 i would also like to root and remove bloatware but then i will face problem with my app. Is it possible after all remove root completely?

I checked on another phone SU option to unroot device but this app is smarter and still dont work... :(

APP is DME
[Galaxy Ace II General] veaceslav:
I think you can root, delete bloatware and un-root after this :)
[Galaxy Ace II General] Cosmo123:
Have you tried SuperSU by Chainfire? It has a complete unroot option. You can get it from the Play Store. I think it also comes with the root.zip for JB
[Galaxy Ace II General] asdfzz:
Just delete inside system/xbin/

- busybox

- su

And inside system/app

- superuser.apk
[Galaxy Ace II General] ken_alpha24:
Ok now i did some experiment on my phone by changing launcher by launcher to see if it will hang everytime i use it... you see, i used HOLO and NOVA launcher... for 2 days no lag plus a very good response... NOVA is better though... through my experiment... i concluded that Touchwiz MAY BE the reason why some of the phones were lagging and hanging... pls post what you think about this :)

No trolling and disrepecting pls
[Galaxy Ace II General] Bogzilla:
I don't have JB, but switching from TW Launcher to something else improved the lag considerably.

So, yes, the usual suspect is TW.
[Galaxy Ace II General] :
Been using Nova Launcher ever since I updated my Ace II to JB and it works wonders, never been disappointed since. GB seemed so smooth until I updated to MB4 and felt quite some lag. After installing Nova Launcher, everything is smooth except for slight lag when opening and closing apps(normal).
[Galaxy Ace II General] shammyowens:
Going well

Hi All

I have been reading this thread for the last few days and following the recommendation of installing the leak version first to repartition and then installing the TMN version. My RAM is 624MB now.

After uninstalling the crapware the phone is very speedy so far. Thanks for everyones work on this!

Cheers

Sam

------

update

Still running really well, ADW launcher had an odd wallpaper bug where it cut a small portion off the screen. I switched to Nova launcher and everything is running well.

I quickly jotted down the guides I followed to upgrade to JB to get proper RAM allocation and Root on my blog.

teamas co uk
[Galaxy Ace II General] ken_alpha24:
Tested it on temple run... it worked like charm... no lags for me... but when in TW launcher... very laggy, now i think that TW launcher is causing the lag in our JB phones my friend
[Galaxy Ace II General] ken_alpha24:
Now i did an experiment again to test the battery life of Nova Launcher Vs. TW launcher on Jelly Bean... it seems like Nova eats more battery than Touchwiz BUT! much much more faster than Touchwiz... i will try other launchers next time :)

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE

Buy me a drink ;)

---------- Post added at 10:26 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:11 AM ----------

Holo Launcher on JB Mc8

Better battery life than NOVA and TW, a little bit bit bit slow than Nova but faster than TW... Well, its up to you what you want but for performance ill go for Nova, battery and better performance than TW, ill go for HOLO... :) no trolling pls

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE

Buy me a drink ;)
[Galaxy Ace II General] asdfzz:
oh finally you guys realize that nova is much better!

TouchWiz is a heavy brick :p
[Galaxy Ace II General] xXfreshXx:
No battery problems with nova here. It's a great launcher
[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
Look out on nova prime 2.0.1 BETA app! Its kill my notifications! (2.0.1 Final) is ok
[Galaxy Ace II General] aumast:
So If i install this rom then i delete the tw and install an other launcher my phone well be fester and smoother without lag and bug?

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[Galaxy Ace II General] xXfreshXx:
You needn't delete TW.

Install a launcher and set it as standard.
[Galaxy Ace II General] :
To set it as your default launcher, press your home button(after installing the launcher), click on the launcher and click 'Set as Default'.
[Galaxy Ace II General] aumast:
Great how can i delete the tw?

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[Galaxy Ace II General] xXfreshXx:
As I said you need not delete it.

But if you want, you have to root and delete it with titanium backup or link2sd
[Galaxy Ace II General] ken_alpha24:
Its in the ROM... the laucher is an App... maybe there were some tweaks made on the ROM thats why its killed your notifs

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE

Buy me a drink ;)
[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
I have change that free nova to prime beta. Now I have Nova Prime non beta and its ok
[Galaxy Ace II General] maxprzemo:
Please sms application itself from this rom?

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[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
I need too sms.apk from JB to put this in to Italian Job 1.0.0
[Galaxy Ace II General] gogoo88:
you can faind here all removed apps http://d-h.st/l1V
[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
not all. There is no sms/mms.apk
[Galaxy Ace II General] maxprzemo:
there is no application origi sms/mms.apk in this package

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[Galaxy Ace II General] judas1977:
Original (hopefully, taken from Italian job 0.6) mms app:

http://db.tt/SO60eTW8

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[Galaxy Ace II General] o0 1C3 0o:
Screen problems

Hi, I've installed JB and rooted my GT-I8160 all is fine apart from 1 problem. When I press either the home button or the power button to wake the screen it goes black with faint lines vertically, does anyone know why this is and how I can stop this happening because sometimes when its happened its taken a few minutes before I can wake the screen properly. Thanks.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Rox:
That is known bug in MB2 and MB4. Which rom did you flashed (MB2,MB4 or MC8) and did you change kernel. That bug dissapears only on stock MC8 kernel ( not connected to ROM ). You can get rid of it switching to MC8 kernel or if problem is stil there try reflashing firmware again . Hope i helped.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Dr01nE:
Can anyone give me the mc8 kernel. I used d-k v3 beta and I don't like it. Thanks
[Galaxy Ace II General] loof13:
I have a question. Is re-partition required when upgrading from ICS to JB?
[Galaxy Ace II General] pijen:
here you go http://d-h.st/mHE

ICS? Do we have an ICS ROM?
[Galaxy Ace II General] loof13:
No we don't! I'm just asking!
[Galaxy Ace II General] mojito0:
No you wouldn't need a repartition to go from ICS to JB, these 2 are quite similar, based on the same kernel version and stuff so yeah.
[Galaxy Ace II General] loof13:
That's what I thought. Thanks :laugh:
[Galaxy Ace II General] Rasheed96:
How to change the icon colours in the status bar ?
[Galaxy Ace II General] AdriSarria:
Nobody have ICS for Galaxy Ace 2

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[Galaxy Ace II General] aumast:
God morning I have flashed jb for 4 time and I cam back to gb because my phone is very slow in jb are you agree with me?

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