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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tronmech:
Has anyone else having the issue where apps stored on the internal SD card disappear from the home screen on reboot? It's pretty consistent, and annoying. I know I'm overdue for a full wipe, because I had to wipe Trebuchet's data before my last reboot because app pages disappeared. But this behavior has been around almost since day 1.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] crazydude10:
I have a similar problem with official 10.3/11 cm where it took android anywhere between 1~5 minutes to write all data to roms even with no apps other than usual gapps were installed.

Whenever I re-boot the phone just after installing apps, I lose all recently installed apps/data from app drawer. Before I found out the root cause, I too thought it was the issue where apps stored on the SD card disappear.

Worth checking if that's your case....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tronmech:
I'm not entirely sure what you are saying. In my case they disappear from the home screen, but stay in the app drawer. This is limited ONLY to apps on the SD card.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] BitingChaos:
Ok, so 1080p video doesn't work, Netflix doesn't work, and errors when viewing "invalid" files (MP4, certain video files, etc) in Gallery cause the device to reboot.

Is it possible any of those *can* be fixed?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] crazydude10:
Does any know of a way to batch edit app ops/ privacy guard's settings... I think having checkboxes and deny all buttons would have been easier than drop-down in privacy guard..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hatememarkz:
All known issues with known work around so quit being lazy n use ur search button or flash stokc

liquidiZED GS² T989

OKJ+GREENIFY+UBER 2GHZ FINAL
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] expo1122:
Yes, I have been having this issue since i first started using the CM11 nightlys in dec.

I came from a clean wipe and used the proper cwm

These are for all apps whether internal or external , they disappear eventually from the home screen.

I just gave up on putting shortcuts back on there a long time ago :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tronmech:
Well, it looks to be an upstream issue. I have had apps disappearing on reboot when using the Google Now launcher, the original aosp launcher, and Trebuchet. I just installed apex launcher, and my apps stay put.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hatememarkz:
Y on earth would u wanna run any other launcher besides Apex period please don't tell me for the hotword detect for Google which unlike the motoX or soon released one+one which allow integration throughout the whole phone off or on be glad we at least have somewhat stable kitkat

liquidiZED GS² T989

OKJ+GREENIFY+UBER 2GHZf
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tronmech:
No, because it didn't make much sense to be testing the ROM without also testing the launcher.... But in this case ability to use the phone won. Oddly, the lock screen has had an intermittent attitude problem since I moved to apex and applied a theme park that included a font change.

I don't know if it's related to that, but what happens is that my phone tries to arrange the lock screen elements as if I were using landscape while in portrait orientation. So, the lock screen widget gets scrunched into the left side, and the unlock control is over on the right, but the actions requiring a right swipe are inaccessible.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
The End?

As if we needed confirmation, the future of KK builds for this device just got worse. CM's new dialer is not compatible with the Hercules. So you can say goodbye to Slimkat and official CM now, since I seriously doubt CM will revert just for older devices like this one. Yes automated CM builds will probably continue but they are now rendered useless with the new changes. I am surprised nobody has posted this here but then again I guess nobody is really using official CM anymore except lurkers.

Right now I feel like I hear the sound of money being flushed that I spent on this thing.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tronmech:
Seriously? As of which builds? I'm on 20140319 and I can dial out.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
As of 3/21, the phone app no longer works. Carbon put in their latest ROM and you now get the same thing.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] car vs driver:
We pushed some phone ril patches yesterday, try the latest nightly.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
OK thank you because with this phone you never know...I always assume the worst.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hatememarkz:
Greatest thing to ever happen nexus 6 headed that way soon as pre order happens love my Hercules but the requirements that I need my device are becoming more than he can handle but this will always be n my top fav phones
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
Yeah I think I made a big miscalculation assuming this device would be KitKat friendly when I bought it. It really has been anything but that. I digress...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hatememarkz:
Try AOKP with okj n uber final wow ??
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
Been there, done that. Since this is a CM thread I'll leave it there. My other posts around here pretty sum up what I feel is the best choice for a KK ROM at this point. But hey, it's only one person's opinion. We each have a different take on these things.

BTW you need to be careful with that most recent UBER, if the phone crashes & reboots you will lose some system data. That's another thing that sucks about Chet's departure from XDA, there is virtually no support for any of his work now. Yeah's there's G+ but there's what, about four people who ever participate half the time? When you have just two or three testers that's not much feedback to go on.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Almite:
That's the huge danger of using Dynamic Fsync, not sure if it can be disabled.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
Well Trickster Mod has the switch to turn it off, but I don't think it does. Off or on you lose data after a crash, so that pretty much tells me it can't be turned off. The kernel tends to crash quite a bit too, although there might be some settings that will prevent that from happening using different governors and such, IDK. I dialed OC back to just stock 1.5 max to no avail too.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] adrscu:
I didn't keep track of the conversation on the CM11 Nightlies, and was wondering if anyone else is experiencing my issue.

Whenever I receive a call, the screen takes 10 seconds+ to turn on, effectively turning the call into a missed call. The whole time the ringtone is playing, but the phone just does not turn on the display for awhile. Pressing volume keys or the power button does what it's supposed to.

Swiping the screen in hopes of blindly answering the call does not work.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Almite:
I noticed it too, this commit review mentions about lag on some devices, which ours is one of them, unfortunately that revert was abandoned - I've reverted it in my builds and the lag is gone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] adrscu:
How does one "revert it" in a build in order to get rid of the issue. Are you able to do so for every CM update?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Almite:
You have to build the rom from source with that change, it's not something you can just add to cm's official *.zip - you could try to report it here although they state not to submit issues from nightlies and our device don't have a M1+(milestone) release. :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] adrscu:
I've never built a ROM before, let alone modify things before doing so. I guess we're stuck with the bug until CM11 hits M1 in order to be able to report it..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] me_is_rushin:
I wouldn't hold my breath. CM is busy supporting newer devices. You're probably better off using an unofficial CM build or a rom based off of it with a developer who focuses on a good experience specifically for the Hercules.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
^This^
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tronmech:
Silly question: which of the dozens of other roms would have this revert?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Almite:
This one does.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tronmech:
I'll try your rom out and be sure to kvetch at you in that thread... Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] adrscu:
Are there any issues with Screen cast? It used to work perfectly in 10.3 (albeit a bit laggy)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] nguyenduytan:
I still using 10.2 @@ hope newest version better(^o^)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Bloodyskullz:
Looks like we don't get CM11 M5 =(

Might just have to switch phones now due to limited support.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bobspace:
Anyone having problems with WiFi not turning on??
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] crazydude10:
been having the issue intermittently. Sometimes its resolved only after deleting the wifi profile and re-adding the network.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bfldworker:
Just letting Team Chopsticks know that the last 3 nightlies have caused the Launcherto crash quite often. It happens regardless of what app I am using, I could be on Facebook, Chrome, Play store or even in settings. The screen freezes and then after a good 10 could the launcher reloads. And even then it doesn't matter which launcher I used. I have experienced it Trebuchet and Google now launcher.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] adrscu:
Same thing happens here. Guess the 'new theme engine' is buggy.

Would love to see some info about the bug and possible fixes..

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tronmech:
Me, I'd love to hear more about the phones support lifespan.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] crazydude10:
Did the launcher issue get resolved ? To me it looked more like a memory unavailability issue, since most of the times apps were randomly getting killed.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rockzx:
I have the same issue about random killed apps, it'd be a memory leek bug because sometimes task manager show me a bit of free ram D:

Enviado desde mi SAMSUNG-SGH-T989 mediante Tapatalk
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] crazydude10:
I think it could be android aggressively killing apps when memory is low, and when apps do get killed, I have 400+ mb free which is quite high
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Who.is:
Hi, i have problem with video recording, it looks like the video is still zoomed on max. By recording it looks like zoomed and its unsharp. End when i press on display to focus it doesnt focus. By taking pictures is all ok. Photo focus and the pictures ar good.. But with video i have big problems..

Sory for my bad english and thanks for any answer
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] monkeybuttons:
When you play the video you recorded, does it still look fuzzy (unfocused)? When I record video it's fuzzy, but when played back it looks great.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Who.is:
No,when i play the recorded video,its looks good too. But its sometime lagz by playing. and it lagz,when i have by recording taped display to focus....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] gary93:
May be off topic here. But I wonder will there be the new m6 build for the Hercules?

message from the main
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] car vs driver:
Camera fixes are inbound ... lots of work done in the past couple days.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rakhan01:
Hello guys,

After updating to latest nightly (i think it was of last week of april) as I can't remember the exact date, I got new option in settings. Upon clicking the Mobile Networks option, I got two options: Susbscription Setting and one other, I hurriedly selected Subscription setting by default and now I can't clear default for it as I don't see any such app in Apps manager. Can somebody please help me clear this setting as I do not want to factory reset my phone.

Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 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.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rockzx:
Kernel Bug?

my phone still closing apps randomly in last build 20140506

when i use it a lot, sometimes touch screen not respond, systemui reboot itself and apps begin to close like if there weren't free ram. later could happen 2 things, the first systemui and launcher begin to work again after few minutes, the second dalvik reboot itself trying to do a "fast reboot" but it can't load basic apps to work so kernel do a full reboot. maybe it is a kernel bug, because it appears that an unknown process use all ram. i'm using stock cm11 kernel and ondemand governor. i've only tweaked the rom using its own tools, i use a lot the privacy feature and about 45 apps of market, i removed some apps from rom because i don't use them. everything was ok before april's roms. i attached my last kmsg and logcat. (the files are bigger than pastebin let me use).

apps removed:

-Apollo.apk

-VoicePlus.apk

-WhisperPush.apk

-CMS.apk

-CMUpdater.apk

-Mms.apk

-Voice Dialer.apk
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] car vs driver:
So, to clarify ... you may still experience some camera issues on the nightlies. That will resolve when we push the kernel changes.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] technoid1964:
I've been having this same problem, tried to get logs but I hard reboot usually with power button as I'm too impatient to wait for things to settle... Will try again if it will help.

Edit:

OK crashed after exiting XDA App:

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?res...670&authkey=!ALMsjQkYt27w7Oc&ithint=file,.txt
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Emmanuel U:
I can confirm that things are running good with the latest setup (kernel and media-caf). Nice job guys.

Camcorder records much smoother (no more 5 second lag which now allows many other some other apps to use the camcorder like snapchat or instagram)

I noticed the hercules device tree doesn't have a specific media_profiles.xml like the other devices....was this a mistake or does 1080p function fine with the new setup?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 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?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Emmanuel U:
I've noticed that vibrator bug immediately after flashing a kernel...like you mentioned a reboot fixes it (in most cases).

Also how's 1080p on this nightly?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sfleury:
As far as I can tell the camera is working well, including 1080p video.

The biggest problems I've been having are the launcher crashing, which seems to happen, most often, if I unlock the phone and immediately try to pull down the status bar. For the last week or so battery life seems worse than it has been for a while.

I also found that I can't imstall the Google Camera, it gives an error that says "Package file was not signed correctly. Uninstall the previous copy of the app and try again", but I don't have a previous copy installed.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jrk190:
My friend has her CM11 S2 in turkey, but can't get data working. Only texts, maybe calls. Is there an APN difference, or...?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] monkeybuttons:
This rom is setup for T-Mobile USA. You will need to find apn settings specific to her phone provider in India.

Also it wouldn't hurt to look up specs on the phone and make sure it's compatible with the gsm bands get provide uses.

Good luck.

EDIT: Also, there are several versions of the S2. Roms from one will brick another.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jrk190:
No, its a T989, I've flashed multiple Roms on it before. She's on T-Mobile, in Europe on vacation, and her friend has the same T-Mobile plan, with an S5, but she can't get data on the S2, while the S5 works fine. If the APN's are an issue, where could I find a list of APN info?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AsianXL:
Hey guys, not sure if it's my phone or the problem comes from the CM 11.0 Nightly, but here goes.

I've used at least 3 of the latest CM 11.0 Nightly Hercules roms in the last few days (and performed the following functions in recovery: wipe data/factory reset, clear cache, clear dalvik cache, clear /system). I also use stock kernel.

After flashing with the latest rom(s), and gapps, the phone still freezes multiple times per day causing me to reboot. The freeze happens randomly. I use Titanium Backup to restore the apps (but not data), and I've also tried multiple launchers too (default launcher, nova, google now launcher), and the problem still persists.

I've ran out of ideas. I do plan to replace the T989 in the next few months (waiting for the OnePlus One), but at it's current state, I'm not sure if I can wait that long. If anyone can give me some advice as to what the problem may be. I would really appreciate it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] NonexistentParan0ia:
Most likely the same memory leak bugs from the earlier nightlies. The last stable build for me was 04/09
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AsianXL:
Would you happen to know where I can download the Apil 9th build? It's not available from the Cyanogenmod site.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rakhan01:
Hello all,

So far it's working good for me. It's just that my launcher crashes sometimes while pulling down the notification bar. Is anyone facing this?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] monkeybuttons:
This is a system ui crash. It is a known issue that everyone is facing. I'm certain team chopsticks is looking into it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Charwinger21:
Secondary confirmation of this bug. It's been around for a little while now.

Makes sense. I grabbed a logcat and came here to report it, but I'm not sure if it is needed now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] adrscu:
I am not getting any notifications for SMS. Doesn't matter if I use Messaging or Hangouts, the phone just does not ring/vibrate on an incoming SMS.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] topprospect:
Are you using the ondemand governor? One thing that we discovered is that the ondemand governor is unstable and causes random reboots. (You can get it to reboot pretty reliably by sculling around in the G+ app). Could you select the interactive governor instead?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AsianXL:
It's been in interactive mode the entire time.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Edvon:
not flashing

Im trying to flash CM 11 current nightly with rooted 4.1.2 version with twrp on S2 t989 with no joy- also tried to flash 10.2 with no joy- wiped everything- must be nubee me- any help appreciated
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] NonexistentParan0ia:
What version of TWRP are you using? If it's older than 2.7.0.0 or 2.6.1.0, you need to update your recovery.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Edvon:
Flash current CW on s2 t989

Using 2.4.40 TWRP as that is all I could find for T989? I'll try Tapatalk if you lead me though the dark!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] monkeybuttons:
Logs are always welcome, even for well known issues.

Your log might be the one that helps them solve the issue.

---------- Post added at 10:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:07 PM ----------

Go to the TWRP website and search for hercules. TWRP 2.7.0.0 is available from there, but it's an odin package or .img that needs to be transfered using dd commands from a console emulator.

Otherwise, I'm sure there's a downloadable .zip file in the TWRP forum. I would share mine but I can't right now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Relsig:
That I'm aware of CM does not support TWRP (unless this has changed recently). If you want to receive support from the devs please be sure to flash using CWM.

I PM'd you a link to the official TWRP Hercules thread that has the zip. You'll almost always be able to find a zip in a reply to that thread shortly after any new twrp release.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] irishpadres:
+1 on systemui crashes when pulling down the notification bar.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] wvuravens-fan:
Yep system ui crash for me also. 516 nightly.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mettleh3d:
Anyway to drop back to the last stable release?

Sent from my HTC One
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] YrrchSebor:
Hi, my friend has a Tmo S2, and we flashed TWRP 2.7.0.0 thru Odin no problem, flashed an SU zip no problem, but we have tried cm-10.2 stable, and also the latest cm-11 nightly, and they both fail to flash. No status 7 error or anything, it just says failed to flash the zip. Is there anything we should know or that we are doing wrong, should we try CWM? TIA for any help

Edit: I believe the phone is currently on stock ICS.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tronmech:
If you are on stock ics, you want to Odin stock jellybean. It's the simplest way to be SURE you have all the prerequisites. Then flash twrp or the official cwm recovery and work forward from there.

The only other thing is: check the md5's.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] YrrchSebor:
OK thanks a lot, and will do. Gonna meet with my friend again today and will check what firmware version he is on.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Edvon:
Not connecting from usb to computer

On cm11 and have turned on usb(I think) on s2 989 hercules in developer options but it does not get recognized by my xp computer--- same happens on S4 of friends running stock kit kat-- what am I doing wrong please?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] monkeybuttons:
AOSP doesn't support usb mass storage anymore, so your phone won't be assigned a drive letter. It will show up as a media device.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Emmanuel U:
Well UMS can still work on AOSP it just depends on the way you configure the storage mounts...it's just that Google officially switched to MTP for reasons I'm not sure of. (From personal experience, MTP is less stable then UMS and I usually get error messages trying to move folders, delete files etc.)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tronmech:
It's mostly because unplugging the device without ejecting it does bad things. My daughter forgot once, JUST once...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] danishdish:
I updated mine months ago right from my device. No need for ODIN or Luke from the Darkside. ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] danishdish:
Some battery stats for today on the latest nightly.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jrk190:
I'm on the latest nightly, getting com.android.media has stopped. Any advice on how to fix it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Edvon:
AOSP and usb

For some reason I had a bad cable! Thanks for the help!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] crazydude10:
Is the launcher crash issue resolved ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sfleury:
I haven't experienced it in the builds from May 18th, or 20th.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] danishdish:
Pardon me, but why don't you try Nova Pro or Apex Pro? I have both and rely soley on Nova. Trebuchet and any others, in my opinion, are very basic. Why don't you give them a try. They have free versions. GO launcher is another one that I don't like because you have to keep adding to it, and it has a gimmickie feel. I'll get off my soap box now.