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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Spidinator:
Has anyone flashed a custom kernel and if so which one and how is it working?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] spizzak:
Preferably one that can be installed from TWRP
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] treefrog321:
TWRP will take care of that for you. Flash the recovery in Odin, then reboot to system - you will be asked if you want to install SuperSU. After the ROM boots, SuperSU prompts you to update via Play Store. Then you're done.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] spizzak:
That didn't seem to work for me. Here's what I did.

1. Flashed official Telus JB ROM in odin

2. Reboot

3. Flashed 2.5.0.0 TWRP from odin

4. Reboot- No SU prompts.

Am I missing something?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] meekrawb:
When you hit reboot system in TWRP nothing happens? Weird.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] spizzak:
Ahh.. reboot FROM TWRP. That was the trick.

Thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jnhsd0319:
I flashed through Odin from cm9

and I think i'm stuck in a bootloop...

any help please?

Thank you
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Spheeler:
can you get back into download mode?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jnhsd0319:
yup.

should i try to reflash from odin again?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Spheeler:
Is a custom recovery still on your phone?

Did you do a full wipe before you odin flashed the update?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jnhsd0319:
nope I just have the stock Android System recovery<3e>.

You mean from the custom revcovery? uhh I don't think so... I thought odin wiped everything before it installs the rom.

Was I supposed to do full wipe? If i was is there a way to go back?

Thank you
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] callmebrain:
What happens if I flash with Tiberius kernel....

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It is stuck at 4g kernel boot page!!!!

Edit: My fault , dont wipe cache/dalvik cache
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] IVIorph:
Sorry I mixed up roms... as you can tell by my signature... I flash a lot...

But I am not NUTS!

And I am sorry if this is off topic but I have to explain what happened lol

I accidentally flashed the 4.0.4 Koodo instead of the Koodo 4.1.2

And I just re-flashed it to prove to myself I am not insane...

Here are the screenshots to prove it

See no widgets here... don't know if this is default or a bad rom

can someone tell me if the old version had widgets or not?

And again sorry for my mixup... cheers m8s :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Spheeler:
Yea you are supposed to, you could try to odin back to stock 4.0.4 then put twrp on and do a full wipe.

you might be able to just odin twrp onto your device also, maybe you dont even need a rom.

You do need to be able to do a full wipe though.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] OppaGangnamStyle:
NFC is active
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] nashy10:
Seriously man, that's 4.0.4, and Samsung said no to having a widget drawer. Add widgets like you would on gingerbread

Sent from infamous Galaxy SII X
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] spizzak:
Hey all, quick question: Before starting anything I simply backed up my phone with Titanium Backup (Apps + System) and the first time I flashed the new JB rom it reapplied all my original themes, installed apps, and configured everything the way it was on ICS.

Since then I've had to reflash JB because I got stuck in a boot loop after trying to install SU and ever since then it wont restore my settings. Does anyone know where the phone would've restored that from? I didn't even need to manually restore my settings JB just booted up like that :S
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] treefrog321:
Did you flash 4.0.4, but with the new baseband? Looks that way from your screenshot of phone info. 4.1.2 definitely has widgets.

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I noticed that too, although I didn't appreciate it too much since it had been so long since I was on stock ICS. Did you try the infamous cache wipe scripts in recovery to get out of the boot loop? You can find them stickied at the top of the development forum.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] IVIorph:
ya the baseband is new... the 4.0.4 is old my question was if 4.0.4 had widgets...

and ya I know the 4.1.2 has widgets... :)

and I am also impressed by the bechmark scores...

fully stock... In antutu i am getting scores over 9300
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] treefrog321:
Sorry, didn't understand the issue. I don't recall the widget situation in 4.0.4.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] IVIorph:
I flash constantly... I have never had to use a cache wipe script...

here is a post where I helped someone out...

it shows the steps I take and I dont have problems with bootloops

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2248262

thanks could be the baseband I was running... donno...

but the day I got my phone it came with 4.0.4 but I started flashing right away lol

so I dont know if I originaly had widgets... :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] treefrog321:
I read your solution for the bootloop. I have also read that regular cache wiping negatively affects the preload partition that comes with the stock 4.1.2 roms. That's why Infamous created the scripts - to preserve the function of the preload. Many people had bootloops (including me) from doing the standard cache wiping in recovery. My flash of JMT JB3 booted fine after I flashed the script.

I don't know if it will solve the stated problem, but was curious to know if [MENTION=4944031]spizzak[/MENTION] knew about the scripts and had tried them.

I restored my 4.0.4 to check for widgets. The only way was to long-press the home screen and then you'd get the widget options along the bottom.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sojay:
Will this firmware work even if i'm not on Telus or Koodo? Plus i think someone should help us upload to a better server. Downloading on Hotfile is so slow. Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Octane70:
SGH-T989D Source

Source has been released for the SGH-T989D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] spizzak:
Yep I did at some point throughout the process but I'm not even sure when it was. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to set everything up again.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] treefrog321:
Yep. It should work if you have a T989 or T989D. Could that uploader be you...once you're done with hotfile? ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sojay:
Thanks. I would if i could. Thats why i asked someone else ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Xiha:
it's zip file, why for odin?

Sorry, I downloaded the rom, but I found it is zip, is it really for odin? Can I flash it via cwm?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Octane70:
You need to extract the tar out of it, then ODIN
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] funbulton:
So is this update gonna look like the t-mobile one?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
Pretty much....what should it look like? ;)

Sent from my cell phone telephone....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] funbulton:
I mean does it look like touchwiz nature ux or the old touchwiz 4
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Spheeler:
Yea it looks the exact same, but has less bloat.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] nashy10:
Its pretty much the exact same as tmobiles 4.1.2, yes it has nature ux, the only major differences are that its completely bloat free and T989D users may find it to be smoother as it is native to that phone. Personally I stick with infamous and found this to be unbearably laggy

Sent from infamous Galaxy SII X
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Sneddle:
Vlingo missing?

When I installed Vlingo, on my screen the icons for the widget were double the height - anyone know any fix to make it just one row. (I feel like a freakin newb)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bruddah:
Guys, is there anything I can do if Kies says that my phone's version isnt supported to update firmware via kies? I dont really wana flash Jelly Bean via odin :/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] treefrog321:
Maybe if you unroot and flash the stock recovery? ...maybe. Why not use Odin? It's quick and if you do it right (not hard) it might even help avoid soft bricks that can apparently be caused by Kies malfunction (from what I've read).

I thought I'd use Kies at first, then I realized all the steps I would need to take just to prepare for it. Odin was much easier.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bruddah:
That's the whole point... IM not rooted and I flashed stock Telus I've like 3 times...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jon4248:
I had this problem before. I had to reboot into stock recovery and wipe data & cache...and then you have to reboot your computer and phone...kies then should see the correct csc info (you may have to unplug and plug in the phone a few times)...good luck.

question, if you flashed stock using odin, why not just flash the update via odin?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bruddah:
I tried that and it didnt work :( And idk, I guess its still a bit sketchy for me if I use odin. And I kind of like the kies update better or for it to atleast work. idk it just feels more legit. I know it sounds dumb but I just prefer the kies one. Does anyone have any other tips or suggestions they could give me that would help me with my problem?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] knoxyouout:
Well, updated with kies flawlessly, love the new ROM. Finally able to customise text message background and bubbles with a stock ROM.

Made a silly mistake and wiped my nandroid backup before trying to install root (an older version), got infinite boot loop, so this thread really saved my butt.

Flashed OP's Koodo ROM with Odin and it worked perfectly.

I see here a bunch of people rooted with Odin and TWRP 2.5.0.0 ("techerrata.com/file/twrp2/hercules/openrecovery-twrp-2.5.0.0-hercules.tar") , but every single time, no matter what, Odin stops responding (Both 1.85 and 1.87) the the "Please Wait" stage:

<ID:0/004> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

No Kies services or applications are running. Using official Samsung usb cable. Not really sure what I'm missing.

I've also flashed CWM recovery, wiped data/restored factory defaults, wiped cache, wiped dalvik cache.

I can flash CWM 5.0.2.7 just fine through Odin. Is there a working root through that for Jellybean?

Going to try wiping absolutely everything again via cwm, reflashing Koodo ROM, and then try flashing TWRP again. Ugh.

HAHAHAHA I'm dumb. I kept downloading the md5 instead of the tar. I have terrible attention to detail sometimes.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bruddah:
I just ended up flashing it over odin :/ I think it got rid of all the problems anyways so thats good :) Thanks for your help though! :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sunnyinon:
Thanks! Does anybody know if and how you can benefit from the free 50GB Dropbox Space after the upgrade?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] StepOneDubs:
Can anybody tell me the APN settings (or where i can find them) I would need to enter if my data is not working?

Seems if i reset my apn settings to default my data works, but as soon as the phone restarts i have to reset the settings to default.

Any help is greatly appreciated :) Thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Tornade69:
First,

What is your network provider and which modem are u using ?

Secondly,

Already had problem like yours... Reset to default didn't stick... i had to delete APN and create manually new one... That solve the problem...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] StepOneDubs:
resurrection robtaki

Thank you for the help. I came across the information I needed. If anyone else runs into the same problem, you can try following the link and creating a new apn with the information provided to fix the problem.

koodomobile.com/en/ab/non-koodo-phone-data-setup.shtml
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Jon4248:
Updated OP with BENEFITS AND ENHANCEMENTS from the Telus website...interesting note they put up;

"NOTE: Google is releasing this update in stages. Your smartphone will receive a notification when this update becomes available to you."

....4.2.2 maybe??? :confused:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] taxidriver9:
This was there since monday itself. It relates to this 4.1.2 update. So, not really anything to do with 4.2.2. :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xaueious:
someone know if wind/mobilicity are still operational after updating?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] poseoff:
Wind still operational, better reception and faster links to phone masts as far as I can tell.

If you performed the software unlock yourself using the special menu, even after update of the radio it will remain.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] xaueious:
Yep that's me. Sounds like I'll perform the update over Odin soon...

Hopefully it goes well.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gamzerz:
Do i have to go into download mode to use odin? i dont want to have the yellow triangle or use triangle away either
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JesusWazBlack:
question

why does Koodo and the Telus one has the same radio?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] treefrog321:
Because Koodo is a subsidiary of Telus (like Fido is to Rogers). They operate on the same network.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
They figured out having 2 radios that work best in the same areas is silly. ;)

Sent from my cell phone telephone....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] apicia:
I am still running CM10.0.0 with UVMC6 radio. It has been my most solid ROM. I have tried others and keep restoring this backup.

Is there a Telus CWM flashable version of this ROM? I have the T989 and not the T989D. Can I still flash this ROM? Does it need the preload partition? Thanks guys. Want to flash some of these new 4.1.2 and 4.2.2 ROMs.

Leave the forum for a month and things move and develop quickly!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] treefrog321:
Yep. Check the development forum - you'll find some threads with Telus stock and rooted 4.1.2. Some have modifications.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gamzerz:
How do we make it have a silent mode where there is no vibration and no sound? And can we add widgets to the lockscreen?

Thanks in advance!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] LotsaNewStuff:
Thanks!

Thanks (: D |__|= (android smiley face)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] nychtos:
Anyone notice that the 'Android System' seems to be eating up the battery?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] stellar_d:
I'm having horrible battery life with this release. Even wiped clean and started over with minimal apps. Still brutal over 10% an hour.

At least we got an updated radio out of it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
Do you have gsam or better battery stats to see what is eating the battery?? Must be an app/apps causing such a battery drain. Or GPS on always, or Bluetooth.

Once the rom is streamlined of rogue apps, and GPS and bt used when needed...I'd say 2 percent per hour is more average.

Sent from my cell phone telephone....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] stellar_d:
Bbs. Rilj whatever that is, is the most. Otherwise not much else, and it sleeps a fair amount too. No Bluetooth, no GPS and no Wi-Fi left on.

Was thinking my battery might be effed as every time I unplug it, it reads 98% immediately.

Cm or any other custom Rom I get 3 to 5% an hour. Not sure wtf.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
K, bbs I'm not sure what that app is? Better battery stats itself?? I use gsam. Maybe uninstall bbs and try gsam out.

Rilj is phone related. One dumb fix i found is after using the phone, go into airplane mode a couple minutes and it should be OK after.

I couldn't live with that fix myself. LOL

Are you rooted? If not...might be hard to fix. If so, I'd suggest a custom 4.1.2 rom. Personally I've used Jedi 4.1.2 (T-Mobile based) and Jellybeast 4.1.2 Telus rom. I'm on Jellybeast Telus now, cause I'm Telus, and no issues like that with either.

For more info, Google "android bbs drain" and "android rilj drain"....lots of stuff on both issues. ;)

Sent from my cell phone telephone....

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Oh, the battery jumping to 96 to 98 after a charge is on all 4.1.2 roms. A glitch we have to live with for now.

Sent from my cell phone telephone....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gc84245:
If you have bad battery drain, open maps app, click menu, settings, location settings, and uncheck "report from this device". Report back with your results. For me this greatly increased battery life.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
For me anyway, maps doesn't run unless I run it. Thanks to autostarts app....so wouldn't apply. Or for anyone else that has stopped maps from running.

But yes.....if you have maps running all the time, that will make a difference for sure!

Sent from my cell phone telephone....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] stellar_d:
This has been done too.

Yes bbs is better battery stats. I've looked up tons of stuff like this before. It's very weird that it's specific to this release which makes me start to wonder if something happened to my battery.

But yeah I've tried everything. Been doing this for a bit now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] night_sky:
Battery problem

Every time my phone battery drains to zero the phone would crash and turn off (as opposed to the phone displaying "shutting off..." message). When I turn it back on with a new charged battery, my phone gets stuck at the initial Samsung screen, with the slider almost at the end. Nothing brings it back except restoring the data partition. Does anyone else have a problem like this?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gc84245:
Hmm, good idea. I might try that. I found that maps was waking my device over a thousand times per day. When I unchecked report from this device it was closer to a hundred. But preventing it from auto start should bring it to zero (I hope).

Sent from XDA app

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I think it's specific to this release because this is the first (official) release with jelly bean and Google Now. Disabling Google Now should also increase battery life.

Sent from XDA app
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PersonZ:
I have been trying to update to jellybean via kies for a few hours now on my sisters phone. The moment I start downloading the firmware update I get an error messes in the bottom right of kies that says "connection to t989d lost" and then kies stops responding.

Anyone know what might be causing this? I have half a mind to just flash it on the phone via odin but I don't want to loose her call logs and such.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Nooblube:
Hey which one do I download>? I have a gs2 tmobile/usa.. Thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] treefrog321:
The Telus and Koodo roms are the same (maybe different stock wallpaper?). If you want the stock T-Mobile rom (with bloat and wifi calling), then you should probably download that one. There are custom roms with the T-Mobile and Telus base available in the development forum that can be flashed in recovery.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Nooblube:
I just flashed this the koodo one for a friend and now i cant get data to work??
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] treefrog321:
Might have to manually enter APN settings.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Nooblube:
Can I flash this if im in the us?? I thought this was for out of the us? Dam im lucky I didnt brick my friends phone! smh.. This is for Canada rite not the US rite? Treefrog can u fill me in? did I **ck up and flash this when I wasnt supossed to.. This is for canada correct????
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] treefrog321:
It will work on any T989 (T-Mobile) or T989D (Telus/Koodo) - it will not brick the phone. If you flash the Telus/Koodo version, you will be missing the wifi calling that many T-Mo users appreciate, but you won't have as much bloatware. Think I said this already.

I understand that many users in the U.S. are enjoying the Telus/Koodo radio now as well.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Nooblube:
ODIN failed rite at the last one.. so i unplugged took battery out and it booted up fine but i have no data or signal? wtf! Im gonna go back to the old tar file i have cause that the only one that works for me so far.. im having nothing but problems with this phone! i just got my first samsung phone 2 months ago the galaxy s3 sprint. I have to say samsung phones are alot easier to root then HTC phones.. :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] treefrog321:
That's why I said to enter your APN settings. Go to system settings, then under "Wireless and Networks" go to "More settings", then go to "Mobile networks", then "Access Point Names", then tap the options button and select "New APN". Enter the specifics for each parameter according to your network.

Try this for starters: http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-1979 or do your own Google search.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gc84245:
I don't believe you can use Odin to put the Koodo/Telus ROM on a T989 (at least I couldn't get it to work). You should be able to flash a zip file using CWM or TWRP though. Check the development thread for the flashable zip.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] treefrog321:
The tar file is available for Telus and Koodo at sammobile.com. He seems to have a problem getting a custom recovery on the phone, so he won't be able to flash a zip, unfortunately.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gc84245:
I tried that but didn't work. I figured it wouldn't let me since the Koodo rom is not technically meant for the T989. I had no problem getting T-Mobile stock using Odin. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but if others are having the same problem then maybe not.

Sent from XDA app
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jakem90:
Been wanting to go back to stock for a while now, phone running nice and smooth :) benchmark ain't bad either
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] andruoidxda:
This is really odd, I recent updated to JB 4.1.2 for my S2X. I run a program called Fing that does a site survey of whatever wifi network you are connected to. It keeps detailed logs of previous devices that have connected as well. So, my S2X use to show the Murata Manufacturing as the hardware vendor and its associated MAC addy. Now it is showing the hardware vendor as Camille Bauer and has a different MAC addy. This can't not happen as the MAC is burned into the hardware, sure, you can spoof a MAC but this is different.

I just reverted to 4.0.3 today and the MAC addy went back to the original and Murata Manufacturing is now showing as well. Why they needed to change that is interesting, at least to me.

Not really impressed with JB, stability and battery drains faster so I might stay with ICS.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gc84245:
I find JB much more stable than ICS, but then I had a lot of hard freezes on iCS. Battery drain is definitely worse, but if you stop maps from waking your device it's not so bad. Open maps, menu, settings, location settings, uncheck "report from this device" or better yet if rooted stop maps from auto starting.

Sent from XDA app
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] andruoidxda:
I must say I agree with you, ICS has issues. I really haven't been happy with post GB versions. For now I've flashed back to 2.3.5 as there was never any problems, the speed difference is noticeable it's like a new phone.