yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] topprospect:
CM11.0 Alpha1 is out

If you are interested, we released CM11.0 Alpha1 for Hercules tonight. mikeyman77 is busy with school at the moment, so I'll drop the link in this thread. He will create a new thread for CM11.0 support tomorrow.

You can find release notes and install instructions here: http://www.teamchopsticks.org/p/cm110-release-notes.html

And, for reference, the support thread for Skyrocket is here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=47270089

Enjoy!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] roger_n:
[ROM][OFFICIAL][CyanogenMod 11.0 Alpha1 for Hercules][TeamChopsticks]

Heys guys topprospect was nice enough to start a new CM11 thread since mikeyman77 is pre-occupied with school.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2518955
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] KorGuy123:
Has anyone had issues sending picture messages since the m1 snapshot release?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] wmblalock:
I still have 3 major issues with CM 10.2

1. Bluetooth just shuts off in mid use, requiring reboot.

2. WIFI sometimes just shuts off, requiring reboot.

3. Camera flash often reboots phone, even with as much as 50% battery left.. worse than before.

I have done everything I can think of, even using the CWM recovery that CM recommends, even though I prefer TWRP.

Is there any release of 10.2 that anyone has used that didn't have these issues so prevalent?

I am thinking of going back to some 10.1 builds, as WIFI, Camera, and Bluetooth are the 3 main things I use on my phone.

I REALLY appreciate the hard work put into CM.

I kind of feel like ever since mid-end of 10.1 that the builds have just been less and less polished and more buggy.

Any hope were going to get some rock solid, fully functional builds here in 10.2 or 11?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] foltz61:
I'm still having the issue where calling out with google voice logs the proxy number instead of the intended one. This is with a clean install. I tried CM11 and didn't have this issue.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mknewman:
Are webdone with 10.2 Nightlies till 11.0 comes out? There are a lot of updates in the queue for 10.2.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jwilensky:
I was wondering the same thing and hope that everyone on the team is doing okay.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jwilensky:
Lockscreen does not activate

There are times when my lockscreen does not activate. I had this happen a while back and it was brought to my attention that Handcent can cause the issue. I do not have Handcent installed and use the stock messaging app and have had the same issue. If I open the task manager and swipe away the messaging app, my lock screen appears immediately. Anyone else have this issue?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] car vs driver:
Nope. Build is broken. We are just really busy with life and stuff - i'm looking into it tonight and tomorrow. Pretty sure there are pending patches to fix it, I just need to test and badger the right people to merge them in (they are in repos i don't have push access to).

Sorry guys, have patience with us.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mknewman:
Thanks for the update.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] car vs driver:
FYI - All the patches to fix 10.2 builds were just merged. Sorry for the delay on helping to get them pushed through. Nightlies will resume in the next build cycle.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Bloodyskullz:
Has anyone had issues with the latest nightlies? I am still on 9/25 because I read of issues which consistently arose with bluetooth and RR etc..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] naijaboykev28:
CM10.2 installs perfectly but the Gapps do not. I don't even get an error when flashing through recovery...no play store or no google account set up. What happened?

EDIT: Started working again. Bad download i guess
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] arusiasotto:
Radio

Unfortunately, on the page with the download links, the radios are missing, which has stopped me from trying this rom as I am unfond of paperweights...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] stormannorman:
What is wrong with your current radio? You can find the latest radios on the second page of this hercules forum.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] arusiasotto:
The instructions state I need to flash a radio.

http://goo.im/devs/Void_Dweller/SGH-T989_UVMC6_radio.zip

The link to this file which is the radio and OS version I am running, appears to be dead. I don't actually know what is wrong with my radio, but I assume this Nightly overwrites it with something.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] stormannorman:
If u already have the uvmc6 radio installed, which is tmo's latest radio, you can just flash the ROM. They are just saying that u need this radio. The ROM does not overwrite the radio.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] arusiasotto:
Ah, thank you kindly.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bluerap04:
UVMC6 mirror - http://d-h.st/OWy

(Just flash and reboot from recovery)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] wrusry:
Battery Life

Hello,

Sorry in advance for the long post. I will give a little background that hopefully will be pertinent. My family has 4 cell phones: 3 Samsung Galaxy Exhibit phones and 1 Galaxy S2 (Hercules). I have the 3 Exhibit phones on 4.2.2 ROMs. 2 of these Exhibit phones plus the S2 do not have data plans. In order to receive MMS messages, data often has to be enabled even though technically MMS doesn' t use data, but the cellular network. But in order to receive MMS data has to be enabled even though these phones are not allowed to receive data because Tmobile has it disabled for these SIMs. Because of that, I have these 2 Galaxy exhibit phones set up with data enabled on the ROM, but using 2G networks only option to save on battery. When away from the house (and therefore wifi), these phones use about 2 percentage points of battery per hour approximately.

Until about a week ago, the S2 was on the stock OS. However, group messaging isn't fully functional until 4.2.x android version. My daughter wanted that capability, so I upgraded her phone to CM using the newly released CM upgrader that was briefly available on the Play Store. It installed 10.2-20131102-SNAPSHOT-InstallerBeta3-hercules on her phone. She was happy about the group messaging capability.

Today is her first day back at school and I remotely (using Cerberus) tested to see how the battery drain was going. I had the phone set up in the same way (data enabled, but with 2g only network enabled to save battery). Her battery drain was about 9 percentage points per hour. This is from a phone which has a better battery capacity and on stock OS drained less per hour than the Exhibit phones did.

At home when the phone was on wifi, the battery drain seemed acceptable. I didn't test it explicitly, though.

I have a couple of apps running on her phone which have helped with battery on the Exhibit ROMs: "autosync free" which turns off sync when away from wifi, and "smart wifi toggler" which turns off her wifi when away from the house.

Today after seeing the high drain, I remotely turned off her data and the drain rate was reduced to 3 percentage points per hour. Nice reduction, but still a bit high.

With that background my questions:

1) CM10 on the Exhibit phone did not require data to be enabled to get MMS messages. (the 4.2.2 AOIP ROMs do require it however). Is there any chance that this can be changed on this ROM so that data is not required to get an MMS message?

2) I have briefly searched the forum and battery drain on this ROM doesn't seem to be an issue. Is that correct? Is the version I installed any better or worse than other versions?

3) Any other thoughts for me?

Caveats: I don't yet know what the phone lists as eating the battery. I will see when she gets home. I remotely disabled the data so that she would have some battery left after school. I will post the results later.

Thank you in advance!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] car vs driver:
Check the Skyrocket general forum, there's a whole thread that discusses battery saving tips that are applicable to the Hercules as well.

I don't have a link handy, but a quick search should pull up the thread for you.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] wrusry:
Thank you. I will give the ideas in that forum a try: (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1759541 [HOW TO] Fix Your Skyrocket's Battery Life)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] car vs driver:
Yup, that's the one. The key thing is to check for wake locks - that's the real killer. Beyond that, the SR doesn't get the best battery life anyway so you can always upgrade to a larger capacity battery too.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bngrybt:
You could try downloading Textra from the play store and using that as your MMS app. It has a setting that allows for data to be enabled only when sending MMS. It's a pretty lightweight app, free, no ads. I'm not sure of any other MMS apps that allow for this.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] car vs driver:
Use the new Google hangouts app for SMS/MMS.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] wrusry:
Way cool! I didn't know about Textra or any messaging app that would turn data on when sending or receiving a MMS. I can use that on my other phones to extend battery life. Clearly I'm having more battery drain issues on the S2 than the data being on, and I expect to figure that out with the help above. Textra will be an extra battery life bonus. Thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] syan8182:
Does the 10.2 stable have Gallary force close issue if i transfer from 10.1.3?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] crazydude10:
I didn't face the issue with 30 Nov Nightly, so i guess it must not happen with 10.2 stable :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mknewman:
On the 10.2.0 release that showed up today, I flashed it, rebooted and half hour later the spinner was still running. Rebooted and same thing happened. Went back to 11-30 and it booted up fine.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] crazydude10:
Did you happen to do a dirty flash or a clean install ? The nighlies changelog don't show any significant change between 11-30 and 01-12 , so just curious as so what could be the issue...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mknewman:
I did a dirty flash. I have done so for each nightly. When I went back to 11-30 nothing was amiss. Now that 11.0 Alpha3 is up I'll likely be moving on to it, prior 2 Alphas we ok but not really ready for daily use yet.

I sure wish someone would fix TWRP (I know, wrong thread, yes, I did try there, got no answer) so that it would support full device encryption (/data in particular) as I can only backup using Titanium right now. That would make testing new releases a ton easier.

Marc
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] syan8182:
I just did a full wipe/format install, it's working flawlessly.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] syan8182:
Sorry, i take this back, starting to have rr, not sure what's the reason, new nightlie for cm11 is out, flashing that to give a try
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] astonmartin214:
just installed it & about to see if there are any bugs & if superuser is running okay that's the biggest thing for me
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] decalman:
For those of you that want a transparent statusbar on this rom this is how I achieved it.

Xposed 2.4.1 and Xposed status bar mods google play edition
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gulbir101:
Does the gallery rr still exist?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] syan8182:
Rr does not happen anymore with gallery
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gulbir101:
Even when playing mp4's?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] syan8182:
Only MTP bro. USB mass is not an option.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thadustman:
Boot into twrp recovery and u can mount as mass storage device its what I always have to do. I hate mtp... I dunno if cwm has it or not haven't used it in couple years I no it used to on my old device but It had mass storage instead of mtp anyways
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] car vs driver:
Correct, it was removed intentionally a while back and will never return. This has been discussed numerous times, if you do a search you should pull up some threads that'll explain the reasoning behind it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DaveT5M:
On nightly 12-05, everything seems rock solid since flash yesterday!

Thanks for support and all efforts!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Bloodyskullz:
I have been wondering if it is just me but I have had this problem for sometime now. I can't hear my notifications for some strange reason. Volume all the way up, notifications set in settings and the application but when i get a message or email all i get is a vibrate. I look at the settins of the app and it says "silent" under notification or sound not the name of the notification that i want even though I have selected it.

No I am no in silent or vibrate mode either. Ringtone works perfectly fine. Everything else doesn't. I am running 10.2 stable release

Idea's?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JB910:
Does gallery video playback work with this rom, also does video recording work?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DaveT5M:
I thought I was insane but notification besides for Gmail, Outlook and sms, tend to not be noticeable, same when battery is low
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] crazydude10:
Is anyone else finding CM 10.2 to be struggling with multitasking ?

In my case, I am able to run only a single app at a time. Even opening a different app kills the older one in the background.

I do have more than the average number of background apps, but they still running together simultaneously in previous CM version for our device.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Bloodyskullz:
I haven't had that issue at all with CM10 stable. I just have the notification issue which has satisfied me when I saw that I am not the only one with such an issue.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 11nn93n9:
Installed 20131215 nightly. Gallery causes reboot.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] BitingChaos:
Where did you get a 20131215 nightly? I don't see a CM10.2 or CM11 build with that date.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 11nn93n9:
Sorry I messed up the location. It was cm-10.2-20131215-LINARO-hercules.zip.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] car vs driver:
That's not a stock CM build.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JesusWazBlack:
thats thddudes custom builds, post it in his thread
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] crazydude10:
Can you tell me how much free ram you have on an average ? On cm 10.0 I have anywhere between 150 to 220 mb free but in cm 10.2 I have only about 100 mb free...that kinda explains why the background apps get killed so soon for me.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Bloodyskullz:
Are we talking cached processes or actual apps minimized?

I found out my problem with sound - somehow my profiles were on and it was on night mode which prohibited the use of notifications only my ringtone.

However earlier yesterday I did lose all connectivity to the cell carrier and reboot/power off did nothing. CM11 dirty flash did the trick but then i did a clean install of CM10.2 stable and all seems good now.

Hopefully the same issues don't arise again.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DaveT5M:
Happen to me in day time, especially facebook notification ( app and messenger), Tapatalk once and then same for hangout.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hatememarkz:
This is a stable release yet so many issues why this is why I don't use official anything cm

snt frm a carbonized GS²
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DaveT5M:
Same.. Beside BT toggle known issue, I have the notification sound issue.. nothing since last reboot!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] monkeybuttons:
Please don't scare off any devs from our device. I have seen it happen many times in this forum (Hercules) in the 2 years I've been here. Please be nice. If you can't be nice I will start reporting you, as I hope others will too. Especially for CM since without them no AOSP ROM will work on our phone.

Also, a little grammar would help legibility of your comments. I often don't even read them because they make my head hurt.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hatememarkz:
Lmao OK [MENTION=3654329]monkeybuttons[/MENTION] I'll chill

snt frm a carbonized GS²
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Bloodyskullz:
Interesting. I find it weird that this isn't fixed yet. Hopefully CM guys get around to it and release a new stable release of this. I am glad my notifications are back cuz I was really struggling without them.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DaveT5M:
It's kinda hard to catlog it, it's so random!

Hope as well!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bakgwailo:
So, on 10.2.0 stable, and while things are mostly good, I have found some issues with it (note this is on a clean install):

1) First time reboot takes forever. I ended up clean reflashing a few times before I realized the first reboot just took 10-20 minutes.

2) Slow lock screen wake up. I remember the issues of the lock screen being slow in the 10.1 nightlies, and it has come back, for me at least, in 10.2.0. Basically there is a good 3-5+ second lag in the lock screen showing vs. pressing the on button. Note that I can still swipe and unlock with it lags.

3) Random crashes in the stock browser. These seem to come and go - sometimes it goes for days, and the sometimes it crashes on random sites maybe 5-10 times in a row.

4) Google maps randomly crashes when in Navigation mode.

5) GPS lock is terrible - sometimes it is fast, sometimes it takes forever, almost every time it locks it flakes out after a few minutes and has to relock/etc. Note that this happened on previous version, too - basically GPS has always sucked for me on CM roms.

Other than that, it seems good. I do get a little be of an overall 'lag' when running multiple apps/switching apps that I swear was not in 10.1, but w/e.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DaveT5M:
Same here for #2
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DJ Scooby Doo:
Does this ever happen to anyone? Whenever you're on Apollo and you decide to go to a different app, it decides to force close (no pop-up saying so), and you're forced to go back to the app and start back up the music again? It doesn't happen ALL the time, but most of the time maybe 4 times a day when I listen to music.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] crazydude10:
In my case , Most of the background apps get closed due to low free memory available when running this Rom (no issues any other cm 10.x or 11 Roms) ...could be same issue in your case, at least explains why there is no fc popup...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] defvayne:
What happened to system tab under system settings?

Image two is old cm10.1 and image one is 10.2
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] car vs driver:
Gone, the system settings options have moved to other places.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] defvayne:
Where? I've looked and can't seem to find how to change the cclock settings.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] car vs driver:
Which clock ... cLock, status bar?

cLock settings are under the Lock Screen, status bar settings are under Interface. Just browse around, much more than that has changed and you'll need to know where things are.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -DarkKnight-:
What about the advanced settings?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Koragg618:
The only part I understood was the recovery getting corrupted. Now this happened to me. Flashing a ZIP gets frozen, going back to main menu made the menu disappear, making it unusable and some times it did not even boot into recovery. All started when I flashed the Infamous SuperWipe, which was a terrible mistake while in this recovery lol, But odin fixed the problem.

All I can say with this recovery is, DO NOT FLASH THE INFAMOUS SUPERWIPE WITH THIS RECOVERY.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] defvayne:
Those settings will not let me change the weather on cLock from metric to standard.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] car vs driver:
Works fine for me. Change it to standard, then refresh the display by tapping on it. It doesn't automatically change until it updates the weather, which by default is every 30 minutes.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] defvayne:
Found it. Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -DarkKnight-:
Any idea when the advanced settings are coming back, or any way I can access them myself?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JesusWazBlack:
Old news lol superwipe breaks any cwm based recovery over 5
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] is350v6:
So what keeps the phone from going to deep sleep? Is it the NFC?

I have it off. Should I delete it completely?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Koragg618:
I meant the Infamous Super Wipe
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] monkeybuttons:
Fix permissions has been permanently removed from CWM anyway, starting with version 6.0.3.5 (I believe).

Steve Kondik said recently that fix permissions has been a placebo effect for quite a while. It was originally designed to fix a problem with apps on sd cards before Android supported it.

Here is a link to where I read it:

http://android.stackexchange.com/qu...sion-option-removed-from-cwm-recovery-6-0-3-6

Moral of the story: "fix permissions" fixes nothing now-a-days.

End off topic.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mknewman:
Did a full CWM backup and a Ti refresh and took the plunge. Radio was ok already so just loaded the new CWM, rebooted into it, did a factory wipe and loaded the 10.2-Alpha ROM. Rebooted, took about 3-4 minutes on the spinner, then got my WiFi re-registered and let it download my 120+ apps. Once done, used Ti to restore my ID (for some registered programs), then Ti rebooted the system. When it came up, I was running just fine. Had to restore my email settings, restore data onto some of my apps using Ti, but basicly everything is working fine except the ones noted in the FAQ.

Thanks guys, great work. I'm going to drive this for a while or until it bites me.

Marc :cool:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AsianXL:
I find that by running Fix Permissions on a weekly basis helps speed-up the overall responsiveness of the phone. Anyone else experience that?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] monkeybuttons:
It's not me saying this. It's Steve Kondik (a.k.a. Cyanogen, the main driver behind CyanogenMod). When he speaks, people listen. And for good reason.

If he says it's a placebo effect, then it's a placebo effect.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] vencc:
So I got the EMMC Brick bug after clean flashing CM10.1.2 a while ago. Basically I can't flash any custom ROMs or Odin back to stock, phone is "soft bricked" I guess. Has anyone ever had this problem with their S2? The phone is still functional but has many FC's, RR, I've been dealing with it for over 2 months now while looking for solutions. I have almost given up, if anyone has had or knows someone who got hit with the EMMC Brick bug, please help a fellow user out!

Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -DarkKnight-:
I don't think this is the Emmc brick bug
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] vencc:
What do you suppose it is? I ran the EMMC bug check app and my phone has the bad chip (insane chip). id say my phone is soft bricked version of EMMC brick. Flashing ROMS through CWM does nothing, wiping data, cache etc does not affect. Thought it was recovery problem so tried another versions via odin but Odin also does nothing to my phone. (Going back to stock 4.01, flashing ROMs, recoveries). Thing is it passes but takes no effect

Can anyone relate to this problem?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] car vs driver:
Hey guys, no offense but can you maybe start a new thread with that subject? Don't want to give people the wrong impression that 10.2 has some type of brick bug.