yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Ace II General] Cosmo123:
I also flashed MC8 over the leaked MB4. I thought more RAM, better performance, but I had a lot of problems. The phone froze a lot, especially when I was using RAM-hungry apps like Chrome with my Swiftkey keyboard. So I went back to GB and flashed MC8 again from there. Now everything is fine, snappy phone and finally no more freezes :D

You have to remember that the physical amount of RAM cannot change. It can just be assigned differently and I came to the conclusion that it is missing somewhere when you re-partition the phone like in MB4

If you have similar problems give it a try
[Galaxy Ace II General] judas1977:
@up

But if kernel doesn't know about that amount of memory, then it cannot be used, I think

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[Galaxy Ace II General] Rox:
I am back to MB4, no mobile data for me on MC8 :(
[Galaxy Ace II General] Cosmo123:
I am not sure what you mean by that. Every Android device has a certain amount of RAM that is reserved for the system. That's why you hear the same question over and over again "My phone should have xxxMB of RAM but it shows only xxxMB." So I think in MC8 the amount is balanced for better system stability, that's all I'm saying :)
[Galaxy Ace II General] Bachank:
But I am still with XXMC8, and no problem..until today

:)
[Galaxy Ace II General] judas1977:
I'm saying that system cannot use the resources if doesn't know about them. If there is information given to kernel that the max ram is 480 mb, phone won't utilize more.

System reserved memory is other subject. There is possibility that Samsung decided to enlarge that amount. But if that's not the case - we have unused ram when switching directly from gb to mc8. That's just my theory.

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[Galaxy Ace II General] Cosmo123:
Ok now I got you :) Well since several people have problems with freezes and lags and a fresh flash from GB seems to fix that I think the ram is getting utilized properly. Isn't there a way to see how much ram is reserved for the system? That would solve our guessing :)
[Galaxy Ace II General] aumast:
So if i flash my phone directly from Gb to jb mc8 i will have a smooth phone and not freeze or lag?

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[Galaxy Ace II General] judas1977:
@up

We have different statements in that subject:)

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[Galaxy Ace II General] Cosmo123:
I can only tell you about my own experience :) For me it solved all those problems.

To help you and others compare your situation to mine, here are some details how I use my phone:

-Official Portuguese MC8

-rooted

-internal and external SD cards swapped (vold.fstab)

-removed all the Portuguese apps

-changed boot and shutdown animations

-112 apps installed (lots of widgets, swiftkey, juice defender and other things that constantly running)

I had freezes every day after flashing MC8 over MB4, even after several full wipes. Now 3 days without any issue.
[Galaxy Ace II General] aumast:
Nice Wat about the free ram space?

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[Galaxy Ace II General] Cosmo123:
Of course it's less free RAM now. Right now I have 104 MB free out of 483 MB. But what use is more free RAM if your phone doesn't work :P
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
That is interesting...

Is your phone performance really that better with less ram?

Even when you use apps like YouTube?

What about multitasking?

If so, Maybe you banged the theory of so many developers.

I understand that Android uses free ram to maintain itself (free ram is waisted ram).

And when you use some memory hungry app like YouTube. Android automatically turns off unnecessary background processes to keep itself going fresh and responsive.

So I imagined that the more ram your phone has the better will perform.

I also finally understand that the reasons for the phone freezes are mostly related to badly written apps that persistently try to run when they are not needed...

I learned about it by using apps like "autostarter".

I'm now using "system tuner pro" as a last step before venturing into the "v6 supercharger" bandwagon.

But it helps a lot to learn and understand how the phone uses its resources...
[Galaxy Ace II General] Cosmo123:
To be honest I can't say if the performance is any different, but I have no freezes anymore and those were so frequent that it was no fun using the phone anymore. I mean what's the point of carrying that thing around if in the one moment you need it it refuses to do it's job.

BTW, I just tried YouTube and videos are running just fine in HD. Multitasking is fine too, yesterday I've been switching back and forth a lot between Facebook messenger, chrome, Google translate and tapatalk without any issues
[Galaxy Ace II General] Bachank:
It's work for me, thanks

Good job:)
[Galaxy Ace II General] burkitt:
there are still lots of crashes with xxmc8. and i' ve experienced black screens when i' ve needed phone urgently a couple of times. Battery consumption is another big problem.

if you don' t want black screens and other freezes, i recommend the italian job rom.Fast and smooth. Also kyrillos v7 is useful as it comes supercharged a bit and optimizes ram successfully.

But currently i' m thinking that JB is too much for our mid range phone. Some games that uses more resources are not running smoothly on xxmc8. italian job increases smoothness of the apps and phone. but still not enough. And JB' s own apps, baseline ram consumption reduces free ram and resources for other apps, thus reducing performance.

I' ve switched my roms about 10 times and finally decided to stay on GB. Right now i' m using kyrillos v5. GB 2.3.6. Switched memories. Free ram is about 350 mb and phone runs a lot AND A LOT smoother. So does all the apps like real racing 3, TR, NFS MW, etc. Good battery management is another good thing. Suppose i will stay on GB, umm i guess like, FOREVER.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
[MENTION=5172168]burkitt[/MENTION].

Yeah I completely see your point.

I still believe this was a lazy job.

I imagined that all Samsung did was porting the firmware from the S3 mini to the Ace 2.

I don't think they have fine tuned (downgraded) the firmware as it was designed to run on a 1GHz chipset instead of the 800 MHz chipset that we have.

I wonder how good is the performance of the MC8 on the "Ace 2x S7560M" ? As that mobile should meet all the requirements?

:D Though I'm still laughing about Samsung Ukraine getting it all wrong once again...lol

But no I can't go back to GB anymore.
[Galaxy Ace II General] judas1977:
I cannot agree with that statement because i used to use JB 4.2(!!!) on zte BLADE, wchich is 600Mhz SINGLE core with 512 RAM and it works acceptable...
[Galaxy Ace II General] fifo171:
He said it's laggy because it isn't optimized for our phone. 4.2 was running good on your Blade because it was optimized by the developer and it had no Samsung crapware. And I don't think Samsung wants us to have smooth JB because if it was smooth there would be no reason for us to buy newer phone... :)
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
That... is also... interesting.

But honestly I can't see any reason to disagree in the context.

As you cherry picked on my comment to make a Quote that fit your own (statement) purpose.

I didn't write about the JB being incompatible.

I wrote about "Samsung porting the firmware from the S3mini in a lazy manner".

But yeah, I can only imagine that ZTE optimized the JB 4.2 in order to fit the specs of the handset.

Forgive me if I'm wrong.

But in a modest comparison of the Galaxy Ace GB 2.3.6 vs Galaxy Ace 2 GB 2.3.6, they run the same firmware but both handsets feel like world's apart.

Or the extreme: How unimpressed I was to use a Sony ICS handset vs the Galaxy Nexus ICS...
[Galaxy Ace II General] hesaps1234h:
Good point. If they want to make a stable firmware they will make it. They dont want 2 do it

---------- Post added at 07:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:34 PM ----------

Btw, ZTE blade gots 8k on antutu benchmark with that hardware
[Galaxy Ace II General] mkel91:
I hope 4.2 will never arrive on our phone.. Try it in gnex and you notice how is worste than 4.1, I think 4.2 is like Vista for android world

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[Galaxy Ace II General] Rox:
we dont need to use it when it comes. :D
[Galaxy Ace II General] somedud:
Hi,

I've just installed MC4 on my phone, with the proper PIT, PDA, and CSC files. Now I wanna put MC8 on it, just to be done with it, and was unsure about one thing: should I leave the "Re-partition" option enabled? I'm guessing no, but wanted to double-check.

I haven't found this info anywhere.
[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
Uncheck it.

And after instalation of mc8 instal Italian job v1.0.0, you phone UI will be 2x faster
[Galaxy Ace II General] mkel91:
When Samsung will give us a new base? I hope soon, I'm bored or this slow base, it could be better..

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[Galaxy Ace II General] Rox:
I also want new base to start work on roms :)

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[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
:D lol I think Sammy is too busy developing the new LTE 4G handsets line. Bet the Ace3 is one in that family.
[Galaxy Ace II General] ken_alpha24:
Anyone knows how to go back to GB? I cant go back cause it bootloops :)))
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
Here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=37816395

:p Hope all works well.
[Galaxy Ace II General] optimist7:
Hi everyone, I've read all 65 pages of this thread (f. yeah!) and I just installed this Portuguese MC8 over my MB4 KYRILLOSv7B, and then installed The Italian Job v1.0 over it. All went smoothly and after I removed all the bloatware it really looks like best responsive phone I've ever had!

I can confirm that keeping WiFi ON does not affect Deep Sleep, which was my main concern.

Can anyone please upload stock vold.fstab file from MC8 for Ace 2? I don't like the idea of swapping sd-cards in ItalianJob and would like to replace it. Thanks.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
All 65 pages???

:p Lol

Here:

This is the original file from the MC8.

You welcome.
[Galaxy Ace II General] ken_alpha24:
Anyone can help me installing V6 supercharger? I cant understand its instructions much... If can pls make a tutorial here so every body can see it and pls include the download links also tnx :)
[Galaxy Ace II General] Rox:
I made tutorial. I think it is really easy. Did you check it ?

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[Galaxy Ace II General] Fzee:
Check the general thread.There's a tutorial there.

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[Galaxy Ace II General] ken_alpha24:
Ummmm ok
[Galaxy Ace II General] triger20:
jb

heloo im just new hir i have a question does jelybean tmn will support on phillipines?

tanks for those who answer
[Galaxy Ace II General] Fzee:
Should work.I live in SG and it works perfectly.

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[Galaxy Ace II General] mkel91:
It works in all i8160

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[Galaxy Ace II General] triger20:
jb

shoud i flash the leak?? which one??

is it stable on your device??

SG singapore??

i am very confuse tanks
[Galaxy Ace II General] Fzee:
I'm on MC8.its quite smooth overall in terms of performance and gaming.

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[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
Italian Job v1.0.0 is smoother than stock xxmc8
[Galaxy Ace II General] Fzee:
Mc8+Italian ROM+Supercharger

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[Galaxy Ace II General] triger20:
jb

is xxmb4 is a stable??just askin coz i realy dont know hehe tanks
[Galaxy Ace II General] Fzee:
In my experience, all jb fw,mb2, mb4 and mc8 are pretty stable

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[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
Dont instal mb2/4...mc8+italian job v1.0.0 is BEST way
[Galaxy Ace II General] Rox:
almost same results with MB4+Kyrillos+MC8 kernel+Supercharger ;)
[Galaxy Ace II General] Adriangbba6:
But mb4 has more bugs than mc8
[Galaxy Ace II General] Rox:
that is kernel related bugs, when you flash MC8 kernel on MB4 it is bug-free like MC8
[Galaxy Ace II General] optimist7:
Yep, all 65 that time :) I like to have the complete info.

One more thing to report here:

As with MB2/4, I had issues with AudioOut_2 kernel partial wakelock causing phone not to go to Deep Sleep. Some forums say it's Viber's fault, but I was able to get rid of it by freezing "Talkback" app (I have all voice recognition and voice input apps from Samsung and Google frozen as well).

And one more request, please:

I would like to play with custom kernels a bit, so can someone please send me the original MC8 kernel?
[Galaxy Ace II General] Rox:
i psoted Original MC8 in Q&A thread search there
[Galaxy Ace II General] izap:
Where did you get that info?

They all derive from S3 that was first with new UI.

S Advance and S3 mini were about same time. I don't think 200MHz difference would help that a lot.

I would wait for final release to judge performance.
[Galaxy Ace II General] samer menla:
http://d-h.st/hrZ
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
Please if you are Quoting the comment. than quote the entire comment.

I mentioned in the comment:

"I think"

You are also cherry picking to quote

To suit your statement.

But if you bother yourself to read the entire comment? Than there might not be any misunderstanding.

As my comment is in regard to optimisation of the firmware only.

Of course 200MHz make a difference. It makes a hell of a difference If the firmware is not optimized. That might be the reasons of all the problems we are having at the moment.

And I don't need to be a rocket scientist to know that.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Rox:
what kind of problems we have?
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
This is all going out of context.

In the original comment, I was referring about Memory management related issues with stock JB MC8. But for some mental reason the comment is being cherry picked for some ego statements...lol
[Galaxy Ace II General] Dr01nE:
#build.prop

codename is montblanc

#should be codina

and if it was built from SIII then how come it didn't have multi window leftover code (like S2)?

also I could enable smart stay and rotation after trying to diff SIII Mini smali.

Though this might all be myths im pretty sure it not built on the same sources as S Advance's JB. They don't have Face Unlock and SecSettings smalis are WAY to different from our Ace 2's

"You know you're rooted when Samsung's sales reps are in awe when they saw your phone running Jelly Bean and has Note II's Lockscreen"​
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
[MENTION=4875510]Dr01nE[/MENTION]

Thanks for the valuable information you sharing. I never thought to look closely into it before.

On a different subject.

Q: Did anyone made a ripple effect patch for the "stock" TMN MC8 yet ?
[Galaxy Ace II General] hesaps1234h:
Here it is a CWM flashable version of ripple effect on mc8.

http://db.tt/2kVuUx9n

I got it from a xda member but i dont remember his username. Forgive me :(
[Galaxy Ace II General] izap:
Codename for S3 mini is not montblanc either :)

S Advance JB officially seeding now in Europe, you might compare with that.

Code is changed/cleaned a little from model to model, different teams make different models.

Anyway, the point was - wait for official to see optimization. Go bashing heads if it fails then :)
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
Ok I was curious and I found a nice test app.

Here the results:

CPU IDS: 40 - 40 [Mali-400 MP] 480 800 160 Normal 240

Bogomips+loadtime:4.80.97 72.1

Device identified: Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 GT-i8160

E:8188- Inches:5.83-3.8

1)samsung

2)GT-I8160

3)GT-I8160

4)GT-I8160

Build machine:SEP-129

Creator:se.infra

Board:SAMSUNG CODINA_

Speed:200000 - 800000 States:3

detection2: NovaThor U8500 x2

detection1: NovaThor U8500 x2 800.0Mhz

(IA:Novathor-based Samsung smartphone)

Version 7.5.3.100.sd-sd-.2.2.BB Mem624

Adaptation: <montblanc> 4 false 1228Mb 26.0C

4.1.2 Jelly Bean, 200 400 800

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Here the screen shot:
[Galaxy Ace II General] AdriSarria:
What is the curious?

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[Galaxy Ace II General] tricampeao23:
Hi!

Can someone upload the file and odex (LiveWallpapersPicker.apk)

My girl wants the wallpapers animated back! :)

Thanks!
[Galaxy Ace II General] pfbatista:
Hi tricampeao,

Here goes: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/46031239/sdcard0.zip

Just extract to /System/app.

(só te arranjo porque deves ser portista)
[Galaxy Ace II General] tricampeao23:
Thanks pfbatista!

(Sim, claro que sou portista!) :D
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
Does anyone know the link for the YouTube HD apk ?
[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
yes. www.google.com and write ; you tube HD.apk xda

and select first from top.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
Yeah thanks.

Finally found it after deleting by accident.

This one is the version I was looking for... Works perfect on this device.

And there is no need to delete the original.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=39744847

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[Galaxy Ace II General] ichiyamato:
What happening for the latest

FIRMWARE??will it be release thiz Month or Just another waiting Again??i hope CYANOGENMOD not waiting the unbranded Firmware.. i hope it will build and upload here..
[Galaxy Ace II General] judas1977:
Somebody believes in official CM for ACEII?

duh...
[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
2015...
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
:D ... you just being optimistic. lol
[Galaxy Ace II General] nafeel1990:
My phone frequently restarting On JB

Hi:)

I upgraded to jelly bean. but my phone restarting.

and i downgraded to GB. (Russian)and there is no problem while using GB. Again upgrading to jellybean. but still it is restarting as before.

If we play music from usb storage it restart at the middle of playing and after restart Speaker wont work till we restart manually. what is the cause..

I think the problem is in file system, because it wont restart during charging and when the display is on.

And i tried Installing custom ROM by wiping System, delviCach, format, cache partition. The annoying reboot stops but i cant get network,and base band shows: unknown, and USB port and terminal emulator also not work. because of file system formatted. i think system files error

Is there any way to detect file system error?? and correct it.. :confused:

Thank you.....:good:
[Galaxy Ace II General] mkel91:
You must install custom ROM without wipe system, or you get unknow baseband

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[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
I do full wipe before odin, after odin, before rom and after rom- all is good.
[Galaxy Ace II General] fifo171:
Yes, but that dude doesn't only full wipe, he formats /system partition, too. This is causing problems. :)
[Galaxy Ace II General] nafeel1990:
Yes I too installed custom rom without wiping system

But that restarting problem not solved. That problem is with file system. How to correct that? :confused:
[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
yes, true
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
What Custom Rom is that?

More specifically, does that custom Rom has a name?

Is that custom rom made for this phone (GT-I8160)?

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[Galaxy Ace II General] nafeel1990:
Of course it is Italian job :)
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
:rolleyes: Bravo.

So you know the name of the custom Rom...

Now you can take your questions to the Italian Job thread.

The developer might be able to help you. You know?

Or at least you can always try and "Read the instructions" from the developer. On how to install the (Italian Job).

Sent from my GT-I8160
[Galaxy Ace II General] ddikodroid:
Sammobile said (in twitter) they will release JB both for GT-I8160 and GT-I8160L in May/June. So stay tune :)

XXMD4 for GT-I8160 and *i forgot* for GT-8160L (same as the screenshot in here)
[Galaxy Ace II General] redondogabriel:
what about P version?
[Galaxy Ace II General] vaibhavdcool:
Most probably Next build would be I8160XXMD3

https://twitter.com/SamMobiles/status/332855129382469633/photo/1
[Galaxy Ace II General] Fleander:
I hope that Samsung (or Izap :laugh:) will publish the new version releases.

I wonder whether to get new features :confused:
[Galaxy Ace II General] WahyuGo:
Izap wouldn't release anything since it has been roll out officialy by Samsung...

---------- Post added at 12:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:56 PM ----------

Hey buddy XXMD4 is the latest build for GT-I8160 not P or L..
[Galaxy Ace II General] nafeel1990:
Help I want to debug file system

Any one know how to check file system errors.???

and to debug it:confused:
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
If you are having problems trying to install the the "Italian Job Rom" here the link for the thread.

As it looks like you didn't find it yet:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35472809

Sent from my GT-I8160
[Galaxy Ace II General] vaibhavdcool:
oh yes XXMD4..sorry :p

and there is an update for L variant as well ;)
[Galaxy Ace II General] WahyuGo:
Read carefully, I talk about GT-I8160..XXMD4 is now available for GT-I8160.
[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
Not on sammobile. Can you give link?
[Galaxy Ace II General] WahyuGo:
Unfortunetly, the firmware is available on Samsung Service Center in South East Asia Region (Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia.etc).
[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
Yeah right and nobody share it/or SS...Is no info in google about it...only speculation on forum.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
What is the point of writing that if the download is not available ?

The unbranded MC8 is for sale in the shops. But we can't care less because is not available to download.

I would like to read your post if you telling me that the MD4 is available to download. But is not.:thumbdown:

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[Galaxy Ace II General] fabrixx:
GT-I8160P finally released!!

http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-I8160P
[Galaxy Ace II General] zalmicie:
that's what this whole thread is about?
[Galaxy Ace II General] judas1977:
Seriously?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2279301

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[Galaxy Ace II General] buaser:
Memory management in MC8 is fatal. After 1 hour 78MB is free only, only standard system aps. Switching only between launcher and settings is so slow.
[Galaxy Ace II General] samer menla:
lol s advance i9070P has more jb updates than our international ace 2 i8160
[Galaxy Ace II General] DickSocrates:
I don't know if it's because of Italian Job, but I've not had this problem with MC8 and I've been using it for 4 weeks.
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
Yep the Italian Job fixes the problem.

I am on stock MC8 and had that problem. But managed to fix it by using some tweaks here and there.
[Galaxy Ace II General] buaser:
Do you remember which tweak fixes it?
[Galaxy Ace II General] KingDani1997:
Best solution is to flash Italien Job. It is very fast and ram menagement is muchbetter than in the stock version.
[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
But not good, only acceptable
[Galaxy Ace II General] buaser:
I wonder, if it will be ever fixed... Galaxy Ace 3 is about to be released and our phone will be placed in the dark hole with all those sucking bugs.
[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
It can by... if yes, is time for Nexus 4
[Galaxy Ace II General] ken_alpha24:
Italian Job + V6 supercharger = fixes memory management/ no launcher withdraws... Trust me... i have tried it :)
[Galaxy Ace II General] michal89chz:
Not for me.
[Galaxy Ace II General] breinzter:
WTF?!

you are NexusAce27????
[Galaxy Ace II General] samer menla:
i tried to trol ya

but good you are reading these post

hahahahahahaha:laugh::highfive::o:angel:
[Galaxy Ace II General] mojito0:
How did you manage to stay at 8 thanks with 350 posts? o_o"
[Galaxy Ace II General] samer menla:
logic:victory:
[Galaxy Ace II General] breinzter:
Trolol

Check your pm
[Galaxy Ace II General] Smokey Mc Pot:
:D OFFICIAL UNBRANDED JELLY BEAN MC8 ARRIVED TODAY IN THE UK.