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[Galaxy S II General] GrAt_On:
Thanks!

Thanks a lot man, my phone's battery has improved greatly! Greenify, where have you been all of my life! Yea, I guess I'll keep an eye on batteries/cases in the coming boxing day sale, thanks. Btw, I noticed a bug that continues to persist even through all the patches, many of the times when I switch on my phone, I am unable to put my phone on vibration, rebooting several times fixes the issue though. Thanks a bunch! :)
[Galaxy S II General] sadowling:
It was full clean flash. Used the new wipe option in Philz for installing new ROM, plus cleared Dalvik. Steps I followed were:

1) Wipe (for install ROM)

2) Clear Dalvik

3) Install CM zip and boot into CM. Go through initial setup, then reboot into CWM again.

4) Flash latest JB Modem.

5) Install GAPPS. Reboot into CM.

Google apps I have now are Gmail, Google+, Settings, People, Play, Photos, etc..., but not Earth, Maps, Navigation, Goggles, etc...

Also, is there a point in the flash process that I am supposed to "Fix Permissions"?
[Galaxy S II General] formercontra:
DADOES was a very google-centric ROM. All the Google apps that were in the gapps are available on the Play Store, you just have to search for them.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
You've done everything correctly :) I'll look into the panorama picture FC. As mentioned by formercontra, my gapps package is straight up gapps, only slightly modified to make sure all apps are up to date and some apps are moved to data to resolve the cache partition size (these apps when updated install to /data anyways, so I just moved the original package into /data as well).

For photosphere, it must have been removed by cm, I'll look to see if I can port that code back into the camera for the next release (if I get it working in the interim I'll post a link to download a fix)
[Galaxy S II General] sadowling:
Sounds good, and thanks a million...once again this phone feels brand new again. Your hard work is very much appreciated.

Any recommendations on CPU governor for this ROM from your testing so far? I've been using SmartAssV2 and its been great from a performance point of view, not enough time with it to comment on battery life though.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
This vibration thing is driving me nuts too. I know what the problem is, when it tries to initialize the char device, somehow it's already created and then throws a cannot create duplicate filename error. I don't think that is actually the problem though, I think it's the result of another bug. This and the bln will be next on the list if the status bar issues have subsided on this release.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
The new governors are currently broken :( they end up sticking at max which is why performance is awesome and better will suffer. Also in the next release will be tweaks and fixes for these new governors. I'm going to tweak the settings and add the right sysfs entries to our init.target.rc (I think this is the right rc file) which should allow the governor's to actually work instead of sticking at max.

Sorry, the short version is, I recommend ondemand as its what smartass is built on and gives the best balance between performance and battery ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Arodg25:
I bought this Andida extended battery on eBay for $17. It's supposed to be 2200mAh, but without really measuring anything, just day to day use I don't notice it last longer. It's really nice to always have a battery ready to go.
[Galaxy S II General] neptune_:
Is there a way, through either CWM recovery or another method, to format the built-in internal storage? And then being able to flash the ROM?
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
You could put the ROM on your external sdcard, then format your internal sdcard and install the ROM from your external sdcard ;)
[Galaxy S II General] neptune_:
Yes thats what I wish to do. However, how to format internal card and still be able to boot into recovery?
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
You can format the sdcard using cwm in the mounts and storage section. Your internal card is sdcard0 ;)
[Galaxy S II General] neptune_:
Fantastic!

After performing format, can I just flash the ROM or need to initialize the card or do something else first??
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
You can just flash the ROM after your done formatting ;)
[Galaxy S II General] neptune_:
Wonderful. Thanks very much TF!
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Philz touch recovery thread is now up. Please report all bugs to in that thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2552634
[Galaxy S II General] manfromgta:
Hey TF I was just popping in to post Phil's new thread. You beat me by 53 minutes. Lol. I'm about to flash and play with it now. I thanked Phil on his thread. Thanks to you for your effort as well. Cheers!!

Sent from my SGH-I757M using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II General] sadowling:
I experienced this same thing today. Was waking the phone every 3-5 mins to use Jefit app while having MortPlayer running continuously in the background. This combo has never caused issue since I've had the phone. Over the course of about 1.5 hours, I really began to notice the Lock screen lag. I rebooted the phone and now its snappy again. Memory leak? Wi-Fi turning on and searching when I hit the Power button to wake?
[Galaxy S II General] Tronith:
Otter box. That's what I use. Lifetime warranty. If a part breaks they send you a replacement.
[Galaxy S II General] GrAt_On:
Man...

That's exactly the case I want to buy, except... I can't find it anywhere. It's driving me nuts, where did you purchase yours? I recently ordered one from the Bell website, hopefully it's not out of stock :)
[Galaxy S II General] Tronith:
I bought mine in a ciosk in a mall, but you can order strait from their website
[Galaxy S II General] m54:
Running excellent since the last update, did a clean install, ran for almost 2 days with literally 0 issues, not even any lockscreen lag or screen-on delays! Not sure what you did here but it seemed to have worked very nice, i was hoping to let it run longer but unfortunately I was able to get the notification pull-down glitch to happen.

Seems to be when i receive a text message and pull the bar down right from the lockscreen that this problem occurs. I was exchanging msgs for around 30min and this was the only time it happened. I went right into the message from the lock screen.

-Screen Off with Swipe (unsecure lockscreen) configured

-Receive Text message

-Turn on Screen

-Attempted to open the text using the pulldown directly from the lock screen

-Bar froze onscreen top 1/4 of screen

Couldn't get it to go away until rebooting.
[Galaxy S II General] RukusX7:
I can confirm this issue.
[Galaxy S II General] RukusX7:
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[Galaxy S II General] Tronith:
Same thing for me as well.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Those with the status bar lockup, is it always when using the stock sms? I can't seem to replicate it fully. Yesterday I had it partially freeze, but was able to get it back by swiping it down again. This one is a redraw issue, but the one you guys describe sounds like the existing issue, it's this correct?
[Galaxy S II General] manfromgta:
I'm using chomp SMS and I've only had one status bar lockup. It froze a third of the way down the screen. The lock screen was on at the time I pulled down status bar. The phone still functioned normally except for the frozen bar. Forced to reboot to fix it.

Sent from my SGH-I757M using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II General] sadowling:
For what its worth, I think the Lock screen lag issue I'm getting is related to the stock SMS as well (or whatever drives the SMS process). I had the issue 2-3 times early in the day when I was getting a lot of messages. Then later in the day I repeated the same 1.5 hour Jefit/Mortplayer combination (which caused it for me the first time) without issue, difference this time was that I didn't receive any texts during that time. Hardly a scientific method, but thought I'd pass it along.
[Galaxy S II General] Tronith:
I had that issue with the stock, mainly. Once I switched to my handcent messaging it seems to be okay. But it has happened that when reading nth text from the status bar, it would freeze the status bar and a reboots was necessary.

I have another issue happen here and there.. If I get a notification my bln start to flash like crazy, which is good. But then once I unlock the screen they are still flashing and the bottoms unresponsive. Dosnt happier all the time. But every few hours
[Galaxy S II General] RukusX7:
I am currently testing an app from the playstore called 8SMS. Its a replacement stock messaging app for those who dont want to use Hangouts 2 in KitKat for their SMS.

Taken from the apps description:

Stock messaging app with useful updates and enhancements.

The latest and best from Android and CyanogenMod.

No bloat. No fuss.

Just a better stock app.

8sms is a port of the Android stock messaging (sms and mms) app with a few extra useful features then added on. The current version is ported from Android 4.4 and a very early version of CyanogenMod 10.2

Get it here

8sms on Playstore

I like it a lot so far.

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I have similar bln issues, where my buttons just flash, and keep flashing after I retreieve my notification. I can lock the phone, turn it all dark, go back and they will still flash in place of remaining solid.
[Galaxy S II General] Tronith:
Yes that's what happens with me. But my button stay unresponsive
[Galaxy S II General] danrobi:
I'm using Textra and i never had this issue. Only problem with it is that BLN dosen't always work.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
When bln sticks, issue the following commands in terminal to stop it:

You could save these commands to a text file for copying and pasting later. I have it saved in my evernote account you could also just open the file above with a filemanager and change the value to 0, whichever is easier for you ;)

If not fixed in the next release, I will add a menu item to quickly apply this fix to minimize the impact on battery because bln is a high consumer of battery.
[Galaxy S II General] GrAt_On:
Yes, I got it!

Hey, I finally got the case :) Anyways, after a lot of usage of all the popular android launchers, I highly recommend the following: 1.Apex Launcher

2. Nova Launcherr 3. ADW Launcher

Btw, when do you suppose Kitkat will be out for this phone? I am ecstatic, thanks so much Titanic. If it weren't for you, I would have seriously returned the phone within the first 3 days! :)
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Kitkat already exists for this phone but is a little unstable. The browser causes statusbar freezes, and it's not only once in a while. It's every time you use the browser (any of them since they all share the same rendering engine). If you still want to try it out, add me on g+ and I'll add you to the list of beta testers.
[Galaxy S II General] Pracsus:
Browser issue

The browser issue has been freezing since forever. My fiance has the same phone as we all do and I recently updated her to the previous release with all required patched. It had the issue. I've yet to update to the newest build however. Just figured I'd let you know. Opening the browser is a sure way of having the lock screen take a huge nose dive. By the way TF I've been trying to get on skype over the last 2 weeks to talk to you about the coding thing but haven't seen you on. I've tried keeping my repos synced to yours as often as possible but my ~/cm-10.2 folder seems to be empty now. Have you made changes to the paths? Last we spoke before I was going to try a first build attempt there were a lot of items in this folder, not anymore however. Can you send me a message on G+ letting me know when you've got time to talk on skype?
[Galaxy S II General] Tronith:
I use pattern for my lock. Once in a while after turning the screen off. The lock won't turn on. So my phone stays unlocked. I can turn off the screen as many times as I want but the screen stays unlocked. Rebooting fixes the error. But it has happened more than twice now. I'm using bln control for now to regulate how long y bln stays on so it won't freeze. So far no issues
[Galaxy S II General] jreay:
how do i disable the bln?

Even if i go into setting and disable it, it still flashes.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Is it all notifications, or just certain ones? Some third party apps control bln independently and would require you also disable bln in the apps settings. I just tested this with my go sms ;)

So check your third party apps settings to ensure bln is not enabled there as well ;)
[Galaxy S II General] jreay:
I'm trying to turn it off for SMS, i just use the regular sms.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
I'll switch to the stock sms for a while do I can test that out ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Lulucz:
HI

has this rom got multi language? ( French )

Thank you for answer :laugh:
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Yes, it has all languages included ;)
[Galaxy S II General] D00lie:
Have an odd issue. Flashed this rom on my moms phone and everything is great but candy crush keeps crashing and she's busting my ballssss
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
I'll download and see what the logs show ;)
[Galaxy S II General] iDynamics:
Been using the newest build since it's release and It is simply fantastic. I've been getting slightly higher battery usage but I do not mind it since the rom is much smoother than the previous build.

Got one freeze and reboot in that time. It's most likely the app's fault because it didn't happen with any others.

Thanks T_F for keeping this phone alive. :)
[Galaxy S II General] RukusX7:
Same results.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
So I have an updated GalaxyS2Settings.apk. this one adds an option where bln is controlled to turn it off if it sticks. Just flash the zip from recovery and reboot... more to come, I'll be testing some more bln stuff tomorrow ;)
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Baaaaa... it looks like the upload corrupted... I'll upload it again in a bit, sorry :(
[Galaxy S II General] Majortom420:
Oh man this update is a hell of alot better than the previous one, things are fast and snappy, also a lot less buggy. Great job fanatic
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Here is the un-corrupted zip file ;)

EDIT:

So the last upload was done by phone, this one was done with desktop and both show 404 not found :-\

Here is a link to the file uploaded to androidfilehost.com:

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23252070760974155
[Galaxy S II General] GrAt_On:
Found a nasty bug

Hey, I found quite a nasty bug with the camera. Sometimes when I take 10-20 pictures, the phone somehow sets itself to 0% charge and shuts down, I cant even turn it back on because of that; but if I plug it into the charger for even 1 second, it goes back to its initial percent allowing me to switch it back on. Oh... and at the time of shooting pictures, my phone was at 40% Thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Testing for the bln is going well. I have fixed the issue where notification still happens even if it's disabled. Blink interval has also been fixed and I'm working on adding options to the advanced device settings to control both blink interval and blink timeout ;) I'm not sure this will fix the stuck bln as I haven't actually discovered the root of that issue, but this seems to be working well so far ;)

I will post links to the fix later on after I get the settings screens updated and they will be included in the next build ;)
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
I sent the developer of this app the anr report and offered to help resolve the bug in any way that I can, this one in hands for now ;)

I have randomly experienced this and thought it was just my hard usage my battery. I'll try to replicate it so I can track down the cause.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
I'm addressing this in the fix i will release later on today ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Blazing Hornet:
Let me start by saying thank you titanic_fanatic! I just flashed my fathers I757M to your ROM and with the BLN setting. It certainly works better than his 4.1.2 that he had. His old ROM bogged down all the time.

With this new ROM it certainly is smoother, however Google Hangouts does lag when entering the app as well as changing the contact to message.

Is there any way to tone down the haptic feedback? I know in other CM versions there is a setting but I cannot find it for this phone. The feedback is pretty extreme when messaging/inputting text.

I don't seem to catch LTE networks anymore even with flashing the radio.
[Galaxy S II General] Tronith:
And a major bug. Well for me anyway. I heavily rely on maps. If i look for directions, maps starts to blink every so often (I understand that the screen is just crappily re drawing it's self, and that is okay.) eventually the blinks get shorter together and the app crashes and fc. If i activate navigation the app crashes and fc immediately.
[Galaxy S II General] RukusX7:
Wait, how did he have 4.2.2?
[Galaxy S II General] Blazing Hornet:
kalila excupos

Sorry, I meant 4.1.2. I'll go back and fix that. it would have been something if it had received a 4.2.2 update at least. Then again, some devices are just getting that now.
[Galaxy S II General] EvilDan:
Awsome rom, it's by far the best one i've tried on this phone. Hope the battery drain gets fixed soon, it's the only issue stopping me to use this as my everyday rom. Great work !
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
The battery issue seems to be in relation to location services and Google play. The trick for me was to turn off play notification and automatic updates (I check everyday for updates manually), then I turned off Scanning Always Available under Settings -> Wi-Fi and turned Wi-Fi to always off during sleep. Then I use greenify to stop apps that I don't use often from running in the background.

If you use Facebook, I recommend you greenify it as it's ridiculous in terms of battery usage (they haven't followed the rules of network usage on a mobile and causes battery drain and heavy network usage).

Last but not least, one of my main causes of battery drain comes from a wakelock called "vbus_present". This wakelock is responsible for charging your phone, and in some circumstances it does not go away after unplugging your phone from the charger. Just make a point of rebooting the phone after you unplug it to clear this wakelock do it doesn't munch up your battery ;)

With all that, I'm averaging 8-10 hours depending on usage (all browsers consume allot of battery, so try not to use them if possible, or use them quickly and close them right away when your done).
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Here's we some screenshots of the new settings for bln control. It works, but there is something else changing the values and I need to determine what is changing these values before I release this or you'll just get frustrated that the settings are not sticking ;)

With this will come a new lights.msm8660.so file. This new lib has so far fixed my bln from sticking and will not enable the notification if you have it turned off ;)
[Galaxy S II General] formercontra:
CrossBreeder has done wonders for my battery life. I'm getting about 13 hours with 2-2.5 hrs of screen time. Just flash the one zip and that's it, no settings or icons (tho because this is a 4.3 rom you need to add two files if you want the Adblock part to work). It claims to improve performance and battery, I can't really attest to whether or not it made my phone faster or 'smoother', but battery life is much much better.
[Galaxy S II General] iDynamics:
Which version did you flash?
[Galaxy S II General] formercontra:
7.2.13. I tried to flash Goodbye_P (not sure which release # that is) and the install aborted.
[Galaxy S II General] grandmaster_b:
Hi TF I got my phone and I am running your rom.

I hope you dont plan on selling your phone any time soon .....the rom is great ....very smooth and battery life is great.

The only issues I have had are the ones you have pointed out and are on the fix list:-

* Vibrate not working and having to reboot several times to get working(not sure if there is better fix?)

* Black screen with leds lighting fix is relock screen a few times which doesnt seem to work for me each time its happend.

* mhl output to tv doesnt work because its been disabled in rom(let me know if u need me to test a fix)

The ondemand works great as governor.

I disabled all the google synch and play autodownloads removed facebook app because it eats battery and I get a full days usage could push to 2 days if I only surf net on wifi and use airplane mode for when i sleep.
[Galaxy S II General] RukusX7:
New simplified light sensor levels based off my values. Given my very specific lux values, the new CyanogenMod auto brightness should fill in the gaps for screen brightness and make a smooth transition between levels. The phone reports ambient light steps at 10, 75, 1000, 10000, 16000. Anything inbetween those values will either be decided by CM Auto Brightness, or set by you if you want any specific screen brightness values.
[Galaxy S II General] jreay:
Awesome, thank you very much. Prevents my screen from going into deep sleep.

Also, i can say i have experienced the camera bug. Where the phone says that battery is dead and shuts off.

I'm also getting "WiFi running" even though it's disabled. Preventing my phone from going into deep sleep.

A partial wakelock called "MMS Connectivity" Not sure what that is either..

Thanks for all your work TF
[Galaxy S II General] Blazing Hornet:
So far using this ROM the results are favourable. It has frozen completely once, and been stuck on the lock screen 3 other times. When it was on the lock screen the pattern that is set phone the unlock would not come up, even if you pressed the power button to lock and then try again. You could however hold the power to get the power menu to come up and then turn it off. Reboot fixed it. The other time the lock screen froze, the pattern did not display again, however this time the power button would not bring up the power menu and a hard restart was needed. Finally the last time it was once again the lock screen except the lock pattern was displayed but the screen had no response to any touch or motion on the screen, even happened after pressing the power to lock and unlock.

When I first put the ROM on I installed all the previous apps that were on the phone beforehand with success, The only thing that acted funny was... Google Keyboard. Since the new Play Store Google Keyboard app updates I put it on right away. This caused some concern. Now to get rid of any confusion beforehand. There is the preinstalled keyboard called the Android Keyboard in Language & Input, we will call this the AOSPK, the other on that I installed, the Google Keyboard from Google Play, we will call this GK. AOSPK is always enabled in Language & Input and does not allow you to disable it. I left it how it was since it could not be modified and enabled the GK. With GK the keyboard appears to work fine except that the haptic feedback is ridiculous. It was so strong that I went into Settings>Sound>Vibrate On Touch>OFF. This setting only shut off pressing on the capacitive buttons on the bottom of the phone but nothing else. So I enabled it again.

So here is what I have found:

AOSP: ON w Haptic

GK: OFF

Default: AOSP

The desired amount of feedback

AOSP ON w Haptic

GK: ON w Haptic

Default: GK

Ridiculous Feedback

It left me thinking that if you could not disable the AOSPK then maybe you were feeling both the feedback from it as well as the feedback from GK. I ran through all other enable/disable variations and it acted as it should depending on which input method was selected in the messaging app.

I am now running without the GK hoping that maybe this is what is playing with the lockscreen problem by the default keyboard being changed or simply having a second keyboard installed.