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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gary93:
Yes I did. It boot up showing me is loading my apps but back to boot loop when it was half way through.

Sent a text message, and 2 mins later after screen off it start boot looping.

I connected my phone to ac, rebooted like 10+ times and it finally boot up. However, it went bl again this morning... connect to ac seemed could fix it.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JesusWazBlack:
Happend to me too yesterday phone randomly started bootlooping for no reason then booted up fine and then started boot looping but it booted up every time, all I did was clear cache and dalvik and it seems to fixed it.

dunno maybe it was a fluke
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
I've been in the clear so far. No real issues to speak of.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] soupysoup:
Strange, I've been on this ROM since its creation and never had this happen lol, if u can reproduce it try and send me a logcat so i can see what's making it do this since it sounds like both of u had it happen at diff times doing diff things, I'll look into bu i can honestly say i havent had this happen...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] soupysoup:
No not at all lol, I'm not so much as worried that 4.4 will use the same kernel, its getting that kernel onto our device, the issue is the age of our harware, and getting it to run a 3.4.0 kernel i going to be the hard part, I have every faith in the herc's ability to run the software and run it well, my worries are placed in actually getting the kernel on the phone
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
I may have misunderstood the video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QTy87oxauw&feature=youtube_gdata_player) but I thought he said it looks like the nexus 5 is using the same kernel as jellybean, and I thought that may address some of your concerns with the kernel in getting 4.4 onto the herc. Honestly though, I have no idea what is all involved with kernel building/porting so it may not mean anything at all.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
I may have spoken too soon on the boot loop issue. Didn't experience a loop, but had my phone in my pocket and didn't notice it RR'd and hung in the beanstalk splash screen and ran my battery down to 25% before I noticed. Battery pull seems to have temp fixed it. Couldn't get any logcat of it. still may try clearing caches if it happens again.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gary93:
Was trying to get a logcat but the app doesn't seem to read anything.. any suggestion? Btw I found my phone doesn't want to deep sleep at all in 8 hours, just kept running at 192..

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] soupysoup:
Who's ready for a 4.4 version????, I'm compiling a build tonight for a few fixes on the current version, maybe get 1-2 more builds out before i update to kitkat, thats right were going to see a 4.4 beanstalk guys, its being worked on right now...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sam.balia1012:
Man.....you are wicked awesome!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JesusWazBlack:
I'm stoked
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
Awesome news to wake up to. Can't wait.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JNMM:
Pumped for this!:D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] egalpr:
You are the man !!!

That are great news wohoo!!!:good::fingers-crossed:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] soupysoup:
Awww man I'm feeling the love lol, u guys are the motivation for all ths man, keep inspiering me, I'm uploading a build right now, no not 4.4 yet, (but thats coming very soon, I'm working very hard to make it happen) this build includes some fixes in MW, some ROM tweaks, and improvemets, hoping to have the SD card issue fixed, i havent seen it once sinc yest morn when i flashed this build, also made some improvements to systemui to fix the RR issue, and do u guys wanna see the new google launcher in the rom? let me know...

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
[MENTION=5307816]soupysoup[/MENTION] Quick Q - any chance of a fast charge quicktile in a future build sometime? Right now access through trickstermod, but sometimes I just feel lazy ;)

edit: your meme made me laugh. I'm up for seeing the new launcher. I usually use Action launcher, but I'm always interested in seeing new things. Does that have the 'OK Google' voice listening?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] soupysoup:
yes it does lol, itll be in the 4.4 build by default but figured i give it up little early lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
If possible I think all the new things like wallpapers and hangouts would be nice to see preinstalled. We can all change launchers if it's not liked.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
Sounds good to me. Hey, any indication if the 'OK Google' will work with alternate launchers in 4.4 or is a specific feature of the stock launcher?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] soupysoup:
Will do, might have a 4.4 build out sooner than expected, so keep ur eyes open

The Ok Google should work with any launcher, as it's tied to Google Now, but itll have to be made a system app to do so, so if ur installing it on the rom now, u will need to install it in system/apps
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
Ohh, sounds good since my Nexus 5 purchase just got delayed.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sam.balia1012:
I wanna be the first to flash kitkat on the herc.

Sorry guys I called it first!!!!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ghajj:
Audio quality

Soupy, This is a great ROM. I have been on it for a while and it has worked out well for me. I see you working on some other ones and wanted to make sure you do not abandon this one.

However, The speaker audio on this rom is not up to par with other roms I have used in the past. It could be some setting some where so I wanted your feedback on this issue.

Thanks for the hard work.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] funbulton:
How do I get multiwindow to work?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
Long press on a recent app and select 'Add to split view'. Enjoy.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
[MENTION=5307816]soupysoup[/MENTION] super slick so far on the new build. At present my SD card is corrupt so I'm not going to be too much help in telling if this sorts out the SD issue, but so far no SystemUI issues. Good work, and 4.4 anticipation goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gary93:
Flashed the Nov 4 build, still have sd card unexpected removed, rr, bootloop... Did a clean flash.. did I do something wrong:confused:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JesusWazBlack:
Blame cm
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
Thought I was going to have to report a RR/boot loop issue (RR immediately after boot), but I flashed a slim rom and had the same issue there. Think I can safely attribute my issue to the fact that I accidentally ran one of my spare batteries through a full laundry cycle (wash & dry) and it hasn't escaped quite as unscathed as I had hoped. Changed the battery and no issues.

Flawless so far for me, so as long as nobody else is as much of a knob as I when doing laundry, hopefully you'll have the same experience.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] soupysoup:
Is anyone else still having issues with the Nov 4th build? I haven't seen the SD card issue, and no FC's or RR's at all in the 2 days I've been on it so let me know...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sam.balia1012:
works great... zero issues here.

on a different note: Give me a break & break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar :silly:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
Nope, but a notable performance boost, IMO. Again, not running with an SD card at present, but absolutely no FC's or RR's (outside of my laundered battery fiasco :silly:)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cmont:
I have had the SD card issue. Other than that its been running smooth.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Newbee85:
I have been having the SD card issue. I other than that its been a solid ROM. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to 4.4. :thumbup::D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] soupysoup:
Yeah had the same thing happen to me today, fix one thing.... u know, anyway 4.4 should be out in the next day or so, but It's going to take me a couple days, maybe a week or so to add in all the extras, so ull be getting a pretty bare ROM to start, its taken ALOT of work to make this happn, by both me and scotthartbti, so dont be mad when its not all jazzed up like 4.3 was, i know u guys will appriciate anythig but u know lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JNMM:
Soupy, your work is much appreciated bringing us 4.4. Not having all of the "bells and whistles' isn't a problem because you guys work SO hard to bring us the real bells and whistles... Stable advanced versions of android are the real bells and whistles lol:D;):D
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] troby86:
I believe the SD Card issue is kernel related. I noticed that switch to STABLE kernel solved my SD Card issues.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] soupysoup:
See this comment right here, this is what makes me keep doing what I'm doing bringing u guys updates and newreleases, should be tonight or tom a release...been hard to get it to work but think its coming out good
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] apples723:
I cant flash with both twrp 2.5.0 and 2.6.1.0 it always says failed please help
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sam.balia1012:
it has to be 2.6.1.0

was your last rom a 4.3 ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gary93:
Have you tried to redownload the zip?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mikesincredible:
Maybe 4.4 base will dismiss the sd card issues seen in all 4.3+ roms.

::crosses fingers::

sent from a galaxy far away
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JNMM:
Awesome audio doesn't have the SD card issue
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gregcapps:
When was it last updated? The SD card issue seems to be related to recent code changes with cm.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] apples723:
Didnt make a difference ive now tried two diffrent versions of twrp and the link to the cwm in the op I have alao tried redownlownloding made no differince twrp just says failed and cwm says bad
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JNMM:
Download ROM manager off the market and install through that
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sojay:
Hey guys, i've been using this rom for a bit now, stable one it is. Just need to know what kernel i could use to speed it up. I just think it gets a lil laggy from time to time. Pls help.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
I've noticed it gets a little laggy when the battery runs down, and I think soupysoup mentioned this as well a while back. As far as trying a different kernel for it, I don't know if it would resolve any lag issue, but perhaps try cl3kener's stable. Honestly don't know if this would sort your issue out at all or not, but it seems like the most logical to try.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JNMM:
Try the post oct. 22nd uber...assuming your using the newest build for this rom. That may help with reducing lag.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
Guys, I got it.

(Sorry, couldn't resist)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gary93:
Best case ever! Lmao

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sam.balia1012:
Humor + Ontario = :rolleyes:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
Guilty.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sam.balia1012:
j/k
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] apples723:
Didn't make a difference
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] soupysoup:
Try downloading TRWP 2.6.3.1 from techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/hercules and use Odin v1.85 to install, this is the recovery i am presently using and have zero issues, also make sure u are following OP in flash instrustions, if it is stil not working PM me and ill help as much as i can
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] soupysoup:
Well, the beest kernel for this ROM is the one compiled with it, now if ur expiriencing a little lag here and there, try clearig cache, i UC to 1080MHz and 192MHz on HYPER gov and bfq for a sheduler, i currently benchmark cose to 14000 with antutu and shes a snappy little bit*h, as stated in the OP if u use a different kernel plz dont comment about issues or bugs as i wont respond
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JNMM:
You should make sure your following all flashing instructions
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
What's your battery life like with those settings?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] apples723:
there is no twrp 2.6.3.1 there!

after re-downloading five times my it flashes correctly!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] subnoize soulja:
[MENTION=5307816]soupysoup[/MENTION] will the new 4.4 dialer app be in the 4.4 release? I currently have the new launcher and and everything running on my phone but I am really interested in the dialer app but I know its incorporated in the system itself.. Keep up the great work man your awesome!!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] meekrawb:
I think he meant 2.6.1.0. That's what it says in the OP, anyways.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JesusWazBlack:
I think its part of gapps now
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
Makes sense. Google has steadily been replacing various parts of AOSP with closed source apps linking into play services (ie: search became Google Now, SMS replaced by Hangout etc) The new dialer follows this trend with the display portion showing non-contact info, and I think G+ contact photos as well. Read an interesting article about Google locking down the Android ecosystem through this process, but I don't have the link offhand.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] apples723:
Any progress on 4.4? I'm hungry for a kit kat bar
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JNMM:
Patience patience haha... they are working hard to make this happen really soon
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] apples723:
I'm constantly getting SD card unexpectedly removed and I'm woried that its going to cause a problem with my memory card or internal memory anyone else get this problem?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] soupysoup:
yes, the new dialer, as its a 4.4 dialer will be in the 4.4 release, (which will be any day now) its not included in gapps as some ppl hought, as some android devices ie: Some chinese clones, and such dont include gapps, but still need a dialer app, it is part of the new Phonecommon though, which is locked into frmeworks and such, but it will most def be in the new version

they were thinking of doing that, but as i said ^ it wasnt feasable for some android devices that dont use gapps

yeah its coming along, as of now we have no external sound, and few minor bugs, but there getting smoothed out, i promise within the next week ill have a release for u guys...

Yes its a bug in the way 4.3.1 handles media scanner, but dont worry, no damage is caused to sd card, as its not really being "mounted" and "unmounted", but with the new telephony-msim, or "multi-sim" telephony, it sometimes looks for another sim card, even though we dont have a multisim device, but as i said not to worry, it wont hurt anything

And las but not least, 4.4, guys u have been amazingly patient, and for that im going to gie u an amazing ROM, i promise, couple more days and itll be released, keep faith, it took alot of hair pulling, swearing, and sleepless nights to make it happen, but were almost there....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] I opus l:
This is probably the article. Kind of spooky thinking of Google making the Apple transition.

Oh yeah much love on the effort with KitKat, Soup. Appreciate it dude.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] apples723:
Trying to capture a screenshot and I get "Couldn't Capture Screenshot Storage May Be In Use" error. Anyone else get this error or have a solution?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sam.balia1012:
go to this folder /sdcard/pictures and see if u have a folder "screenshots" if not make one

hit thanks if i helped
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] soupysoup:
u keep telling ppl to use the stable kernel, do u know the differenes between diablo and stable? Also, i would like to take this time to let everyone know that if ur flashng a different kernel than the one i provide, i will not answer any questions about issues, bugs, or problems with the way ur phone runs, there are reasons why this kernel has been compiled into the rom for the last 6mths, so be my guest flash a diff kernel all u want, but the only diff between stable and diablo is speed....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] KennyG123:
Exactly what Soupysoup said!

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Treat them with the appreciation and respect that comes with that in mind

If you flash something other than what is provided here, seek support in the thread you got that from

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] soupysoup:
KitKat is here!!!!!!!

OK guys I promised, I promised, I came through..., Kit Kat is finally here!!! No more crazy SD card issues, shes very stable, and as of right now she asnt given me one single issue, (and were the 2nd to release a 4.4 build lol) so without further ado i give u this very pretty gem of a ROM, she's in vanilla stges right now, it took a very lot of work to make her happen at all, so please bare with me in terms of feature, but they will start trickling back in over the next few days to weeks.... give me a few min to update the op and u guys can start downloading the ROM as soon as its done....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sam.balia1012:
Great job, well done dude....

i hope no one will be asking for stuff now...vanilla means exactly that
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
Great news to cheer me up! I'm sick and heading to bed, but I'll sleep better knowing that when I wake up I'll have Kitkat to play with regardless of how I feel, lol.

Thanks for your work on this, I'm sure you've wanted this out more than anyone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gregcapps:
And this is why I love XDA and its awesome development community. Here you can take a device that was originally built for gingerbread and take it all the way to KitKat. So take that Samsung, we don't need your 4.2 update anyway, cause we got XDA :good::good::highfive:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Sargeue:
Amen!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gregcapps:
I've gotten a few soft boots and Google now has given a force close, other than that solid. Can't wait for a more feature rich build.

Awesome work [MENTION=5307816]soupysoup[/MENTION]!!

Also..what happened to the recent apps menu in 4.4??? long press of home no longer pulls it up no matter what launcher. Can't seem to find it anywhere.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sam.balia1012:
no audio output from google now
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] soupysoup:
Well as its still very new, were still learning a lot about 4.4, Google has completely rewritten the way multitasking will be handled so were still figuring it out, but yes the recents apps list is gone, and do u remember what u were doing or when u got the RR's, just so I can get an idea, personally I haven't had any issues yet, and I've already begun working on a feature list....

Yeah, audio was a dirty who*e to get working, but we finally got it, still has some work to be done, but I can say this, its looking very promising, we've been updated to opengl version 2.0 now, amongst other crazy updates,
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gregcapps:
I cant remember a specific task that caused the RR..sorry.They have not happened since, tho.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] apples723:
Gosh the developers here are gifted from god! I just got my s2 about 5 days ago and I already feel at home with all the support I get from this family! Thanks! Great to see kit kat is coming along I've been hungry for one for a while now thanks again! grant
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JesusWazBlack:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47287585&postcount=23

for recent app switcher see link its a workaround by koragg618
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] subnoize soulja:
So I just flashed the new 4.4 build and its amazing!!!! The only problems I see are my browser doesn't sync my bookmarks from before and also when trying to download .apk from browser I always get a parse error not sure how to fix this?? But other than bravo soupy you are absolutely amazing keep up the great work!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
Anyone having an issue with internal SD being recognized by apps? Camera, gallery and a few others tell me to insert an SD card before using them. Root browsing lets me see internal and external SD, and for that matter, settings - Storage does as well. Has the file structure for KitKat changed again, and would an internal format be necessary?

Other than that, seems lovely. Had browser repeat FC when not using it, but I usually freeze it anyway. I'll try to get a log for you on it later if I can, soup.

Edit: cache/dvalik wipe sorted it out.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mikesincredible:
Running very smooth and solid. ..havent experienced any issues since u release..and OK Google that features is golden.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
OK google voice trigger doesn't seem to be working for me on the new launcher, but that may be because I reassigned my search button to recent apps using the workaround Jesuswazblack posted last page.

I hardly use voice search anyways though, so no biggie at this point for me.

Also, [MENTION=5307816]soupysoup[/MENTION], that Home Sample included.. is there something more full featured to follow with that or is it something that Google included as a teaser?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremykersh:
boot time is SUPER fast this is an amazing release [MENTION=5307816]soupysoup[/MENTION] You rock bro

had one rr going through gallery pics.

video is not working

Ive had to reboot a few times as phone seems to go to sleep really well and not want to wake back up when apps are dl'ding from play store (everthing wakes fine but even going to the play store will not help resume apps to continue the dl *connected on wifi seems fine)

[MENTION=2072539]jeremyo83[/MENTION] What launcher are you using that "OK Google" voice trigger is not working?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremyo83:
I'll second this. Video capture loads up, but the record button doesn't actually start the process. [MENTION=5307816]soupysoup[/MENTION] log of trying to start capture. https://db.tt/QeVa0wfs

I usually use Action Launcher, but even with the new default google launcher 'OK Google' isn't triggering voice search. Like I said though, I reassigned my search hardware key to recent apps. Have to play with it a little to see if I can get it working.

I don't use voice search that much though, so if it's working for other people, that's good enough for me at the moment.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jeremykersh:
*not an issue w/ this rom but definitely kit kat related issue just so people dont keep asking

apk's dont install they show "parse error, there was a problem parsing the package when trying to install". (maybe googles way of trying to lock down unauthorized distribution?)

I read someone having a workaround to move the apks to sd card and install from there-- but that didn't work for me.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sam.balia1012:
it was me

it's still working after flashing 3 diff 4.4 rom

just verified it too...install app get parsing error, moved it to sdcard and it istalled ok
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cgibbons51:
For 4.4 can we just dirty flash updates?