yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
Yeah 01/20 and 01/21 are unstable for me too. I had two random reboots but tried to capture a logcat before my phone crashed and nothing saved so I can't provide one. The easiest way I found to cause a reboot was to open an app on my phone, let it do some work and immediately shut down my screen. A few seconds later, that's when a reboot happened. I know there is no support for Uber kernel but after flashing that yeaterday , I had no reboots on 01/20 but now back to stock and now reboots so I would think it is the kernel because everything else is working fine. I made sure to check the md5 and am on the "On Demand" governor with nothing else changed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] luk2009:
The 1/21 nightly soft bricks for me after first dirty flash. back on the recovery and clean cache, dalvik and format system and flash again and this time it worked

Enviado desde mi SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 mediante Tapatalk

Enviado desde mi SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 mediante Tapatalk
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
I was wondering, when you format /system install rom and Gapps, does tethering still work? I am asking because when I want to keep /data and format /system and /cache with other roms, thethering no longer works.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] technoid1964:
I'm with you on this one...

I have done everything possible that I know of to try to get this phone to boot 1/18/ 1/20 and 1/21... Last thing was to ODIN back to stock, I just ODIN's back to stock ROM, still no go after wiping and clean installing 1/21 once again... boot looping...

Whoa... wiped everything again, rebooted, no go, but then screen flashed green, and the cyanogenmod start screen popped up... and 10/21 is now running...no GAPPS... now to try GAPPS...

Nope... installed GAPPS 1/05 as recommend on blog, boot loop. soft brick... grrrr, never got it to boot again.

Wasn't there a way to fix partition or something in 10.2 when it first came out? Or was it just using the correct CWM automatically fixed the issue that caused the softbrick?

Restoring 1/13...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
ive no problems flashing cm11 using philz cwm, twrp 2.6.1.0 and the posted recommended cwm recovery.

failsafe test:

assuming youre using one of the above recoveries, if so flash it again or try another one of those but check its md5 while on sdcard.

remove sim and sdcard

backup int sdcard and then format it and dont restore it yet

wipe system, data, both caches, android secure

copy rom to sdcard and then check md5 while its on card

ive not tested gapps on latest cm11
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] blancocar:
I did all that multiple times. TWRP, Philz, CWM and the result is always the same. Boot loop with an occasional flashing screen.

Is there any chance of a minor hardware variation between older and newer phones that has an impact? Could the act of formatting itself be causing the problem(ie CM not recognizing whatever format is used, should I select something other than default in Philz when formatting the internal SD)?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xxthe:
I've had the same problem.. With every ROM I've tried to flash past the 13th.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] pcidiot:
Yeah, I've done everything possible too. That's all I can figure is that our phones are a little different in some way. My two years will be up in a month. I flashed back to embryo. It really seems to have more features anyhow. I really like being able to watch a video with out having to touch the screen many times through out it or having to turn up screen off time before every video and turn it back down after anyhow. A ROM thats supposed to be more advance and full of extra functions should at least know when your watching a video and keep the screen on till done watching right. Right now I have a different issue. Seems my GF picked up something and transfered it to both our phones on the same plan. As we both can't call out and people can't call us. I think our Sims have been hi jacked or something. At&t could not fix the issue and I've tried everything. At&t said we have to go and get new Sim cards.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
I know CM doesn't mention it but did you try the latest PA Gapps? I have been using them for some time because of it's always updated and had no problems lately except for the random reboots which just happened with 01/20.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xxthe:
Well did your gf get a call from people claiming to be att? Same thing happened here if so. My dad answered a survey and they stole all of our information etc. New Sim cards lol.

Mine just fried lastnight for no apparent reason. I was just playing defiance with my phone idle. Checked for any missed notifications. No service what so ever.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] pcidiot:
Hmmm, Both our phones started working again shortly after posting the last message. Pretty much as soon as she came home both our phones started working again.(out going and incoming calls everything else never stopped working) really weird. I don't believe she got a call from anyone claiming to be At&t however while texting, a friend she received a message in Korean or Chinese. That the friend did not send. This was about a hour after the phones stopped making and receiving calls.

(Ok, we need not to be talking about this here, lets leave this CM11) Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xxthe:
True.. Still go get that looked at jic..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] copene:
I can flash new nightlies no problem using CWM but anything after 1/13 is busted anyway. If I go back to stock is there anyway to have just the plain Android theme and not that garbage bag Touchwiz type? I would love the phone's interface to look exactly like CM or a Nexus without the bugs. What was the last official version of Android for the Skyrocket?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
if you can provide a logcat for the devs to look at
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xxthe:
PC is down. Not able currently.;|
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onealvideo:
Instead of guessing, I am holding on 1/13 nightly until a TC member clears the air on this one. I have same issue with the black screen of death.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] technoid1964:
It never boots and there are no logs... A bit hard getting a logcat...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Naddict:
Just passing through, reminder to all members to use search before posting. And a reminder that courtesy and respect are also XDA posting rules.

Let's get back on topic, shall we?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] galyenrc:
I'm seeing what appears to me to be some MASSIVE battery drain for no apparent reason.

Running the 22/01 nightly, clean flash (wiped everything), no GAPPs yet. I've dropped from 100% --> 87% in just over an hour (about 67 mins) since i removed it from the charger when I left the house.

I've changed the governor to OnDemand already. What else am I missing or doing wrong?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] boobah204:
I stuck my t-mo sim in the skyrocket today to see if I actually accomplished unlocking it last year (which I did, TYVM lart2150 & cschmitt) and was surprised that I actually had an LTE signal. When I looked at preferred networks, I changed the option to 3G. The only other option in the menu is 2G. The setting survived APN changes, rebooting, and also a wiping app data for settings. I eventually got LTE back with the *#*#4636#*#* dialer menu.

I still have UCMC1 installed.

sent from my part of the problem
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
Make sure Wifi and NFC is turned off or at least with WiFi, on battery optimize mode. Also if you have location turned on, that could drain it too.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] galyenrc:
I'm on unlimited corporate data (work phone) so I don't use Wifi very often. I will verify the NFC is turned off. I'll also turn off the location stuff just to see if there is a noticeable difference.

Thanks for the suggestions.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] quikt:
give the phone a few days to settle with the new rom. a lot of folks in here use gsam battery monitor to identify wake locks. i keep nfc, wifi and location on all day and not seeing any drains from them.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deeruck:
Same problems for me. 1-20, 1-22, 1-23 all go into a boot loop without getting to the Cyanogenmod loading screen. 1-13 is rock-solid though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
ive been having no problems flashing cm11 based roms.

using philz cwm 6103, was testing previously w/twrp 2610, just tested cm-11-20140123-NIGHTLY-skyrocket.zip , dirty(from slcm10.2), clean, no gapps, w/gapps-kk-20140105-signed.zip, it boots, it runs, i signed in to google, but not tested for long term stability.

so for users who are having no boot issues my guess is user error, what error idk. thats why i suggest todo a proper wipe of everything including sdcards(even remove ext. sdcard) to rule out any possible issues with something on your phone.

maybe my phone is a "special" phone as it likes any rom lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] technoid1964:
Are you kidding? User error? If you read my previous posts, I've have done everything possible to get this to boot. User error.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hellfreezover:
Well,

I have the boot loop issue as well, took out ext sd card, and sim, formatted internal sd, wiped system,data,cache,dalvik x5 times

Roms after the 13 simply don't come up, I tried waiting 10m, no change.

There was a flash on screen after the logo, but then black screen :(

I can't provide logs to it but it looks like something with the Rom doesn't fit all HW versions,maybe radio? I use ucmc1
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
sorry didnt mean to diss you, then i cant explain why i can and you cant, i guess my previous statement must be true...my phone is special.

btw im on uxumay7 radio, philz 6103, when wiping i just used philz installing a new rom wiping option
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jd1639:
I have a special phone too as I haven't had any problems.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] alanjames01:
No botting for me too and I just tried the 24th.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
Yeah same here. Not sure if it was just one app I was using, but I haven't had a reboot in a couple of days. I never had a boot loop problem.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onealvideo:
Could it be variance in hardware? I got mine the first month it was out... Not sure if they had any other hardware partners or component differences... I am staying put on 1/13 for now. I don't think this is a user error type thing. I am confident in my flashing capabilities and can only figure the above for the cause of some of us experiencing these boot issues.

That many people can't have made the same error... :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] holeindalip:
No problems on my end
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] copene:
I wouldn't sweat your phones being in a bootloop after the latest nightlies. Because mine does boot and it's a whopping mess. Screen of death, RR's every couple minutes, etc. 1/13 is the only one anyone should be using as this point IMO.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] drizzle67:
glad others are having trouble...i have been trying to install cm11 for like 2 hours.... i just keep getting boot loops, i was going crazy. looks like i'll go find the 13th nightly.. :/
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] alanjames01:
Anyone have link to 011314 nightly. I see no cm11 prior to 0118
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
Random Reboot

Hello guys. I emailed car vs driver about this issue and will also provide my logcat that I gave him here in case it proves more helpful.

http://pastebin.com/MdccdH8u.

What I did was open up an app (theScore) and let it update scores in the background while my screen was off, which caused a RR. Like they mentioned in the past, provide more logcats (even if you can't get boot) and they should provide support. Thanks devs again for the support!:)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] technoid1964:
PM'd you a link to Google drive file for 1/13,

Technoid
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] drizzle67:
could i get that too? i had to go back to 10.2.:crying:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] technoid1964:
If anyone needs it, PM me and I'll send the link, I don't think I'm allowed to post the link here,

TK

---------- Post added at 07:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:42 PM ----------

I tried like crazy to get logcats, but can't find any logs when I get the fail to boot, soft brick. (Phones been wiped so the old logs are gone) Can you suggest anywhere to look as I can get ADB to work when I'm in recovery to download the file if it exists, I looked everywhere I could think of to no avail. Is there a boot log created somewhere? Anything?

Your the first person to say something constructive other than you didn't wipe right, flash back to stock, etc, all of which I tried in the more than 30 hours I've spent trying to figure out why it's not booting.

My phone is a very old, first run model from years ago... maybe it is hardware revision related as some of the others have said.

Technoid

Thank you
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] puuck:
Add me to the list of soft brick starting with 1/18 nightly. 1/13 running good :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] TheCybertronian:
Not a hardware revision, there were a couple of very small revisions in the runs but I have two rockets and those revisions would not have affected anything. I know the board for the speaker and USB underwent at least two.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
I know that TWRP has a file manager built in, but if you do use adb, you should be able to just select the text that is produced in the window and paste it into a file editor. I personally haven't used adb in a pre-boot environment, so I could be wrong. My only other suggestion if that doesn't work is to search XDA and google as there must be another way to get logcats if you can't get boot.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] alanjames01:
I can confirm that 011314 loaded and boots fine business. Hopefully TC can get problem figured out soon
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] TheCybertronian:
So I'm able to flash nightlies with no issues as well
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
no issues here either for 1st boot but not tested for rr.

for users that have had 1st boot issues and "did format" the sdcards did you do it from pc or recovery and/or rom. ive always used the pc but havent done so in ages.

afaik it seems to be a mount issue w/cards or system. lets start posting:

which recovery and version you are using.

exactly what did you wipe/format in recovery:both caches, data, system, android secure sdcard0, android secure scdard1, sdcard int(pc or recovery), sdcard ext(pc or recovery).

philz wiping option includes a new rom wiping option which does everything above except sdcards
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hellfreezover:
Here's what I've tried:

Clean rom wipe with Philz revovery (both versions) - any rom after the 13th will not work (I tried 4 different ones).

Then I tried manually cleaning each directory (system, cache, data, dalvik) - same here (with the latest Philz)

Then I removed my external SD card, formatted the internal SD card from Recovery, same result...

I haven't tried formatting from PC, although - when I mounted the phone after format - no files were on it (viewing in Windows explorer, including hidden files.)

I didn't try to flash another radio - but I doubt this is the issue.

Now I'm back to Beanstalk 215 (Jan 13)

Hope it helps...

H
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
try using pc to format sdcard to rule anything out
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sgt.CM:
I did all the same also tried Diablo 1/20 and Back to official cm 1/13. It has to be a something with the qcom or camera change that happened on the 18th.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
camera is closely tied to int sdcard, any problems with sdcard will cause a problem, thats why i suggested to format card from pc
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hellfreezover:
So,

I'm going to format the Internal SD card from PC,

Should I do that after I'm in recovery?

Or still in Phone mode then go into recovery?

I will take my Ext. SD out.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
recovery mode, sdcard might be in use if in phone mode, back it up b4 u proceed
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hellfreezover:
Sure,

I have a backup from yesterday...

Not much added since...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
and dont restore it yet ,just copy rom to card and flash the rom
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hellfreezover:
And which format method?

exFat, Fat32? ntfs?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
iirc fat32
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hellfreezover:
OK,

I'm running a full format not a quick one...

Will probably take a few min...

well, it takes much more than a few min...

only 35% after an hour, wow...

I might try the quick format after all...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] roger_n:
CM11

[MENTION=5152388]Andrw0830[/MENTION] thanks for providing the logcat for the random reboot you and others are experiencing. Unfortunately the logcat did not provide much in the way of what went wrong. As you know I also passed it on to topprospect and he didn't see anything obvious he said he will try to reproduce it using the info you gave me. If you or others capture any more logs please post them here hopefully someone will be able to get a "last_kmsg" from a RR.

Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sgt.CM:
The biggest problem we are all facing is that it won't boot up at a level that will allow a pc to recognize the phone to capture what is going on.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hellfreezover:
Quick update...

After formatting my SD card from PC - which took hours...

I installed BS225, saw 2 flashes, then phone reboot itself - it looks like the same signs...

While I'm writing - Another reboot and screen flash...

I guess it is a no go as well for formatting through PC...

Again, no logcats...

H
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onealvideo:
Just hard to believe an SD card issue for all these users. I have seen weirder things but just think this is something else. Logcats are hard to capture when you can't even get to a CID boot animation... Just black screens with a Samsung logo in between boots...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] morehush:
Has anyone tried while leaving their external sd card out? I don't have any problems with the latest nightlies, but I took my sdcard out a few weeks ago. Tempted to put it back in to see if I get bootloops.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] technoid1964:
Yup, no SDCard, no SIM, ODIN'd back to stock JB, formatted every which way, tried TWRP, tried CWM, ODIN back to GB (Rogers 2.3.5) right now... just booting. Stock boots, yeah, installing Phil's Recovery... done, installing CWM 6.0.3.7, done... installing 1/25... and... waiting... boot loop...

About 60 hours in work trying to figure out why. Never gets to Cyanogen Mode boot screen, just flashes when it should appear and reboots. Had it boot once, but then wouldn't boot again. Had a couple of weird boots where the Cyanogen boot screen dances to the right every loop of the arrow.

Anyone else with the boot loop hard brick their phone and have it JTAG'd back to life? I did...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
fyi i can successfully install and boot any cm11 based roms either by using philz, twrp2.6.1.0(not 2.6.3.0) and cwm 6037 either dirty(from slcm 10.2) or clean, but not tested long enough for rr's.

note: i got rr when opening the gallery or camera, deleting the mp4s fixed that

? about your jtag, you had a bootloop so you jtaged it or it was hardbricked and you got it jtaged.

reading all the posts on users w/no 1st boot and users who get 1st boot and dont see any reasoning as to why that is.

w/out logcats, i know that failed boot users cant get them, theres no way for cm devs to see what the problem is, only recourse is to keep trying the nightlys until some commits get to fix the problem by pure chance/fluke
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sgt.CM:
I do appreciate all your attention to this issue. Please don't give up trouble shooting with us. It is obvious that a change on 1/18 is the cause, we just need to narrow down which one.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] technoid1964:
I'm glad you are one of the lucky ones, wish I was, but it doesn't sound like I'm missing much.

Just to clarify, about 7 months ago I decided to try ROM Manager, 1st attempt using it, I bricked my phone. Had to send it off to get JTAG'd back to life, it came back booting as an at&t even though it's a Rogers phone. 35 years flashing 1000's of devices without a problem just to be taken down by something that's supposed to make life easier.

I have tried and tried to get logs, there's just nothing there, empty files. Good news is I've learned more about Android in the last week trying to fix this boot problem than I did in the past 2 years just flashing blindly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Andrw0830:
I experienced another random reboot, but this time I had to upload the last_kmsg to my Google Drive as pastebin and xda can't upload files above 500kb. I was just using the browser to surf the net and it rebooted once I closed the app from recent apps and turned off the screen.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6slLrvumrDqV2pqZy1scWxXZ2c/edit?pli=1

I grabbed the file from terminal emulator immediately after the reboot so hopefully this provides enough information
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hooha23:
ugh. should have read here first. installed 1-25 on both of mine - both crapped out. I can still get into recovery. anyone have a link for the 1-13 build? thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] alanjames01:
Hooha23. Sent you pm with link
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onealvideo:
No boots...

So I guess we can all agree this boot issue is not just some random thing.

Yes, we have wiped everything with SD cards in and out and SIM cards in and out, etc...

I have tried the recommended recovery, Philz, etc...

We can't even capture logs due to it not even booting to the point where a computer can recognize it.

I think at this point we are at the point where we have to say it is not our ability to flash ROM's but some sort of anomaly between device runs...

I am curious if the people having issues are limited to either AT&T or Rogers versions?

From reading, I see that Rogers version does have a different Qualcomm processor. I am starting to think that maybe a Qualcomm commit may have caused this... I could totally be wrong and looking at CMXLOG I see some Qualcomm commits in the next nightly so it will be interesting to see if that has any effect on the boot issues...

Just throwing my 2cents out there... I could be 100% wrong... just putting stuff on the table...

Thanks to the devs as always...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hooha23:
thanks man. just installed. appears to be booting again.

paying it forward. ill upload to my own google drive. if anyone needs a link to the good 1-13-2014 build, pm me. I assume it is against the rules to post this up somewhere?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jack45:
Deleted.