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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dutchthomas:
Knowing one language, even the correct language, is not really enough to be able to contribute to a highly complex piece of software. Learning APIs, program structure and coding style takes a long time. Debugging even a simple problem in a codebase that you are not familiar can be very time consuming. Just downloading and compiling the source for CM is also prohibitively expensive in time and space.

My biggest problem with CM11 right now is the borked audio. Fixing this will probably require some deep knowledge of the alsa stack and our particular hardware.

OTOH I have a week of spring break coming up, and I'll be trapped at home waiting on jury duty. I would like to look into the audio problems specifically, and I have a bit of kernel development experience in other driver areas... but it would be at the expense of paid work, so I'm not sure if it's feasible. It also depends on if I can fix my broken desktop, as I can't really compromise my work laptop.

The question is, how many people are still using CM11/skyrocket, and for how long? Is it worth the effort to fix? Does anyone remember the most recent CM version that had decent audio?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] AndroidGee209:
How about you guys take this conversation somewhere else ? and not adding pointless posts in the thread.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] LoSt180:
I'm still on CM10.1 patently waiting on a stable CM11. Just when they were ready to start fixing some of the bugs in CM10.2, CM11 dropped and all the development went to that.

Build it and I will flash. Don't know squat about coding, but I can provide logs if needed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] kindofabuzz:
Is the 14th booting?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sgt.CM:
Yes, and so is the 15th. No problems.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] BenG321:
Still using the Skyrocket! Great device!

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] epexegenesis:
There are LOTS of people still using it! Everyone who had one and got a new phone might have sold it someone else, or keep it as a backup. I'm on a 3 year term so I'm getting a replacement in Feb. 2015. I just ordered a new battery for it, and I expect to keep using it for years even after I get a new phone, even if just as a calculator, desk clock, mp3 player, maybe mount it in the car dashboard, or whatever to run apps. The thing seems very well built and it would be great to have a solid 4.4 ROM on it.

I don't blame you if you don't want to give away your time on it, but make no mistake, there are lots of people who will appreciate any ROM development on this phone for years to come.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
Yeah same here, I signed up November 2012 so I still have awhile before I can upgrade. I appreciate all the work everyone has done! If the original Galaxy S II still can have awesome support, why can't we? I wish I was into programming otherwise I would help. I hope other developers will step forward and continue developing this awesome device.:D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jack45:
And now that there's a move away from contracts, e.g., AT&T's Mobile Share Value Plan (signed up after contract ended), the "bring your own device" aspect makes this long-life phone even more valuable.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] crossan007:
I don't think it's been mentioned yet, but for me on the 3/25 nightly build Bluetooth will stream WAV files from Apollo, but not MP3 files. It also will not stream out of Pandora. Both applications exhibit the same behavior when attempting to play the MP3 (or other codec) media type - they advance to the next track.

I'm noticing a lot of commits related to AV and codecs in the BBQlog for our devices (http://changelog.bbqdroid.org/#/skyrocket/next), so it looks like the devs are onto something! :)

Good job guys, keep up the awesome work! :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
Yeah same here keep up the great work!:D Hopefully our logcats were enough. This is also the last major bug I noticed that could be why there hasn't been a CM 11 snapshot build for our device. Thanks again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Nortmobile:
netflix issue

I apologize if this has already been discussed at great lengths here. Should Netflix be working at this point? I'm on the latest nightly and netflix refuses to play any movies (it hasn't in a long while for me). It will start fine and I can browse around my netflix queue but after I choose a movie it appears to just sit there trying to load the movie. With the searching I've done I've come up with no solution.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
Yeah same here. Looking at a logcat, I can see several VideoDecode errors that could be explaining it.

There is a thread on xda here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2405995, that I downloaded the NetflixHackPersist.zip file on and that worked for me so follow that if you want Netflix. I did just flash it in recovery, but follow the instructions just in case.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] technoid1964:
The delayed video recording has been fixed on numerous other phones under CM11 that had the same issue as this phone. The Inc S being one of them. Any chance of try that fix on this ROM?

Quote:

- Fixed the 5 second delay, when you wanted to record a video (CAF & paulb-nl)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] luk2009:
Hi

all ringtones sound like a goat on 20140401.

Go back to 20140329 and everything working again.

Enviado desde mi SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 mediante Tapatalk
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rpr69:
I'll take a wild guess and say 'April Fools'?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
Audio Problem Fix!

If anyone is still experience the audio problem, I have found a fix!!! The problem seems to be with the build.prop located is /system and here is how I fixed it:

1. Install ES File Manager or a file manager that allows root edits of /system files.

2. Go into /system and select build.prop to edit

3. Search for lpa.decode=true

4. Change it to lpa.decode=false and Save

5. Reboot

I did this and voila Apollo and DSP Manager works!!!:D Since I don't have any Bluetooth devices, I can't try to see if that fixes Bluetooth audio problems, but it's worth a try. If it works for others, hopefully teamchopsticks can make the necessary changes to future builds.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] SoCalHTCFuze:
I can confirm, this fixed both audio and Bluetooth streaming on CM-11 for me... At least initially. I will give it a full run tomorrow. You may have just saved KK for our device. Nice find!!! Roll it on up and send it in!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Samkitpalecha:
Sorry I just misread the thread name !
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] TheCybertronian:
[MENTION=4771935]Samkitpalecha[/MENTION] don't plug a ROM in someone else's dev threads that's just rude. If you want to release it do so in your own thread.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] technoid1964:
This fix works perfect, bluetooth streaming audio works fantastic first time in a long time.

Thank you
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] pcidiot:
Good find even fixes some of the audio switching, but not all of it. I have been waiting for a fix for months. The developers don't seem to care even recognised the issue. Oh you can switch launcher to fix the issue, why offer a launcher that's not going to work right, and leave it as is?(Broken)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
Are you using Trebuchet? I used both Google and Trebuchet and haven't had a switch or FC issue. What exactly are you doing before it switches?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] pcidiot:
I am using Google, the issue happens when you go into internet browser. When you hit home button or back out audio switches to the phone speaker. It used to happen while swiping down on notifications, and sometimes while turning screen off also but your fix seems to have fixed those two. I have not updated to the newest nightly in along time, but will as I was waiting for a fix. I will update and let you know if that the fix, fixes it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
Yeah do that, I am on the latest 04/03 and even extracted the latest nightly to my computer, edited the build.prop and rezipped it and flashed it. I just did a clean flash to make sure everything is good and so far so good. If you do edit the file on your computer, make sure you use Notepad ++ as windows notepad and wordpad doesn't support Linux encoding. If you do this name the .zip the same name as the nightly you got it from. Proceed with caution if you do it. Always do a nandroid.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] SoCalHTCFuze:
Just making sure the OP gets notified that this fixes a major problem plaguing our device. ;) So far its been rock solid today.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] pcidiot:
Nope a clean install, plus editing prop in a build prop editor did not fix audio switching. Had no effect on Apollo and some effect on Mixzing but did not cure all. It still switches when going back out of browser. One thing noticed on clean install though. I noticed Google launcher is not combined in the ROM anymore. Have to get it from Play Store. Plus with the recommended Gapps, browser does not sink. So you don't get all your book marks etc.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
That is weird because I just tried opening up Apollo, play music, open up Browser and hit the home key and it doesn't switch. I even tried switching directly from Browser to Apollo and it still plays through my headset. I am using Apple Earpods, but it shouldn't matter which headphones you use. Both launchers also work so far too. If it happens to me, I will mention it, but my only solution would be to try different headphones.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] pcidiot:
Yeah, don't imagine its a earphone issue, but when I get home will try another pair.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] SoCalHTCFuze:
I don't seem to be able to recreate the headphones browser issue either, either plugged in or over bluetooth.

I was looking into how turning off LPA (low power audio) would fix this and found that while our audio hardware supports LPA.. our Bluetooth hardware did not officially support it. Perhaps this is why having it enabled causes issues. I also noticed some lpa.stagefright elements and tunnel elements not in our build prop which could suggest the audio chain was not fully implemented for us. I played around enabling and disabling some of it to see if it had any noticeable affect and it didnt.

For those interested, Audio Architecture has a decent overview of the complexities of the android audio stack from the player -> Services -> stagefright -> AwesomePlayer -> etc

And from that, LPA is a battery saving technique that allows tunneling directly to the signal processor. Just because our Bluetooth wasn't Officially lpa supported though doesn't mean there isn't potentially a workaround. Regardless, I'm willing to have working Bluetooth Streaming at the expense of a little battery life!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] pcidiot:
I found where the issue is. I have Google listening on home screen turning it off makes it work perfectly. The only thing is I rather have it turned on. So I'm screwed until there's a fix that's causing that issue. Or I have to just turn it off before listening to music via headphones. As turning it back on instantly causes a push of the home screen button to transfer music to phone speaker.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
At least you found out what was causing it. I wonder if it happens on other devices too because the fact that Google waits for you to say "OK Google", I can see that having problems elsewhere as usually a device can't do music and listen to your mic at the same time.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] pcidiot:
Sucks because I really like that function. As long as the home screen is on I can ask it stuff, directions, call or message someone, etc without having to push much else. I'll let you know in a week how it works on the S5 as I preorderd it. Probably going to still keep the rocket though, or sell....IDK.

Update: The Google Now Launcher does not currently work with the new Galaxy S5 so I can't do a comparison. To tell you the truth going from a custom Rom, rooted skyrocket. It was not worth the money for upgrade to the S5. The custom Rom skyrocket makes this S5 seem like a POS. Don't get me wrong the camera is amazing on it and it's pretty quick.

Update: Couldn't stand all the wasted space on the S5 screen so I side loaded the Google Now Launcher. No it does not work like that on other devices. In settings with same version of Google now it does not give the option to shut listening on home screen off. It's always listening and there is no audio switching. CM 11 still must be screwed up in this aspect.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] AGLtech:
When I use *#*#4636#*#* it stays on WCDMA, I can't get it to stick on any LTE settings. I always had LTE on stock TW
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] wvhellbilly333:
Usually after I select GSM LTE I reboot and it sticks, it doesn't show it sticks before the reboot though...

Sent from my Blackened Beanstalk Skyrocket
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] AGLtech:
If I press anything with LTE it jumps back to WCDA instantly. It doesn't let you select LTE. Only WCDMA, UNKNOWN and GSM only
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] wvhellbilly333:
Right, after you select it and it jumps back to CDMA or whatever, try rebooting and rechecking it. I thought that wasn't working either one time, so I figured I may need a reboot, after booting I went in to try and select it again and it was on GSM LTE. Give it a shot and I hope it works for you...

Sent from my Blackened Beanstalk Skyrocket

---------- Post added at 04:13 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:11 AM ----------

...and I always forget to quote whoever I'm chatting with so they'll get the notification... Ha... :confused:

Sent from my Blackened Beanstalk Skyrocket
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onealvideo:
Crickets....

Not much talk in here... has the CM development for Skyrocket died? I had to move to BeanStalk until I saw movement over here...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
Well the nightlies are still going on. The last I've heard is they are looking in on the camera and other fixes, they are just busy right now with other stuff.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] kindofabuzz:
Just because there are no posts here doesn't mean development has stopped.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onealvideo:
It was a question, not a statement.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] roger_n:
[MENTION=5152388]Andrw0830[/MENTION] Check your PM do you have time to test a build topprospect put together?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
Yes I do downloading now, will let you know how it goes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] roger_n:
Thanks you the man!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
In case you didn't see my PM here is what I said: Ok I got a random reboot so here is the last_kmsg: http://pastebin.com/27MsxL08. I made sure to grab it in recovery before it rebooted. When [MENTION=4800121]Sultanxda[/MENTION] first fixed the camera, on his CM 11 we also got RR's so it may be related. He said he used a Samsung pure kernel with just basic enhancements to stop it.

Even with this problem above, the camera and audio is working great! If a process does use up some CPU, I do get an occasional stutter from playing music with a LPA underrun message, but that doesn't happen much. Thanks so much for you and [MENTION=4359258]topprospect[/MENTION] for looking into it:D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] roger_n:
Thanks for the last_kmsg log I past it along to topprospect.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] car vs driver:
Well ... that's a nasty little kernel panic ...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] _Jax_:
If the devs are looking into sultans kernel, be aware that it does not allow the phone to go into deep sleep with Bluetooth enabled. Annoying bug to say the least.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] car vs driver:
Thanks for the heads up ... so far we aren't looking to make kernel changes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sultanxda:
The reboots that were in my first CM11 build are different from the one in the last_kmsg you posted (at least, I don't remember seeing that specific reboot before). Guess you found a new reboot :P

Moving forward will be impossible without making kernel changes, most notably with the 5-second camcorder delay. Also, seeing as how the current CM kernel is unstable from all those CAF and upstream Linux merges, I'd say a new kernel entirely is needed, which is why I started working on one...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] car vs driver:
Agreed, I suppose I should've been more clear. Topprospect is working through some non-kernel changes first. From there, we'll have to start digging deeper ...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] nadmail:
Looking to get this installed on a phone. Which build is the most stable?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] car vs driver:
Camera patch has been merged by [MENTION=4359258]topprospect[/MENTION] this morning. Note that there will still be a 5 second delay on recording. That will be corrected when we push the new kernel and switch to media-caf - maybe another couple days for that change.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
I clean flashed the new 05/06 nightly and I have corrupted 1080p videos. I noticed whenever I have corrupted 1080p videos, the panorama preview is blurry which is in this case. The main preview is non-blurry however. LTE and the audio is working perfectly! I checked the changelog sites and BBQlog doesn't show the change applied to the 05/06 nightly, but cmxlog does. Maybe it wasn't merged soon enough before the build started. Just thought you should know as I am pretty sure it is nothing, as I saw how much work you guys put into the Camera fixes.

Edit: Anybody using the latest nightly, just be patient as the -next branch that will be implemented in the kernel, will fix the 1080p too. Sorry for the confusion.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know that the latest nightly 05/08 has the 5-second delay fixed and recent Camera fixes! Please test as [MENTION=4359258]topprospect[/MENTION], [MENTION=4685003]car vs driver[/MENTION] and everyone else involved have worked long hours to get the Camera to work. Also test 1080p as they are in process of moving the -next branch of the msm8660 kernel to the regular cm-11.0, so that may be fixed as well. Like always follow the instructions in the OP in case there is an issue. Thanks everyone!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] topprospect:
Long time no see

Hi all,

Yes, please test out nightly 20140408. Put the camera through its paces and respond to this thread with issues that you find.

There are two issues that I know remain:

Music playing through wired headphones switches to speaker whenever Google Now Launcher listens for "OK Google"

Vibrator seems to randomly stop working; reboot fixes it (Does anyone know how to reliably replicate??)

Are there others to add to this list?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
Do you get a random reboot on the ondemand governor? On the test build from [MENTION=2982375]roger_n[/MENTION] last week and from compiling my own with official cm-11.0 branch late last night, I been getting a RR basically once I switch to ondemand. Keeping it on interactive or conservative seems to solve the problem. I am attaching the last_kmsg that I sent to him and posted a couple pages back: http://pastebin.com/27MsxL08. The vibrating issue seemed to start for me when I rebooted the phone when connected to my pc, but another reboot fixed it, so it still looks hard to replicate. I may have time to test the latest nightly tonight to see if I still get the RR, but I am waiting for a call, so I can't test right now.

Edit: Since PR has updated SlimKat with CM repos I provided the last_kmsg to him too and he thinks it might be this commit causing it: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/andr...mmit/3e3dcfee71e8f67ec467530aaeb05497f949cc7f.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] car vs driver:
Yep ... that's likely the culprit. Not sure why yet, but the crash is related to that change based on the log.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] topprospect:
I was able to reproduce the RR but after adding some debug code, I can't get it to fail. I'll keep trying though. Damn Heisenberg..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
Thanks, I'll let you know later tonight if the specific nightly released today has fixed the RR. When I flashed the test build and the one I compiled late last night with all cm-11.0 official repo, I did clean flash so I know that wasn't the issue. Everything with the Camera though works perfectly!:D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] technoid1964:
Running 05/08 seems to have solved many issues, no more pauses or stuttering in launcher, no more long pauses and crashes, and everything is really fast... Camera is fantastic again, no more 5 sec pause and no more crashes.

Thank you DEVs!

Need to test battery life... But with it running so smooth, I don't think I care... I'll just carry a car battery around with me if I have to.

Edit:

Spoke too soon, took a long time but had a small hang and status bar restarted... Couldn't get a log this time.

Got a log now:

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?res...671&authkey=!AE2WQ0obdC6t9Bk&ithint=file,.txt
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
I just testing out today's nightly and with no vibrate, I didn't have any reboots, but I think I have something to trigger it. When I first installed the rom, no vibrate so after setting up the rom, I decided to restart the rom, still no vibrate. So after realizing I enabled LTE and selected the LTE APN, I switched back to 3G and shutdown my phone, when I boot it up, now I have vibration back, so it may be related or just a coincidence. I haven't went through to see if the vibration is causing the RR, but so far it was good without vibration, I'll let you know if I get a RR with vibrate on. Have a good night.

Edit: Yeah after trying out the nightly this morning, I still don't have a RR! I think the merge from -next fixed it as I was getting it like crazy before the merge. What is kindly of a coincidence is the no vibration issue happened as soon as the merge happened. Anyways thanks devs for everything! Enjoy the weekend.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] _Jax_:
In an attempt to help out any way I can, I offer my daily experiences in regards to Bluetooth. It really only occurred to me today once I left work. Bluetooth had been rock solid all day. I get in my car and connect via USB (to utilize stay awake. Makes changing songs easier), and an auxiliary cable. As soon as I stopped for gas and shut the car off, Bluetooth shutoff. That's when it hit me that it always disconnects once I get home from work and remove the USB.

I'll try and disabling USB debugging (on by default) and maybe that'll help? I have no idea. Maybe there's interference with my cars Bluetooth? I don't use it though.

Just throwing it out there. Maybe the USB is doing something with the Bluetooth. I don't even know if that's possible but...