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[Galaxy S II General] smirciat:
Battery Summary

I've been thinking about the conflicting reports of battery charging/battery life and how it compares with my experience so far with this ROM. With some testing over the last few days, I've come to the conclusion that it may be Google Services fault. I am usually in the habit of manually turning off my wifi when I am not actively using it. I also have no data on my phone plan, so when wifi is off, there are no uploads or downloads at all. In this configuration, the battery seems to last forever, and also charges at a reasonable pace. However, if I leave the wifi on when the phone is idle, the battery drains much quicker and charges very slowly. It also gets quite warm to the touch, so much that I can feel it through my jeans pocket. Looking at the wifi icon as this is happening, there is a nearly constant data upload. I am sure there are solid ways to determine what this upload is, but I am guessing it is the Google apps suite communicating with their servers. I would love to hear other opinions on this, but that would explain the huge discrepancy between battery experiences with this ROM.
[Galaxy S II General] Pug123:
I've just installed this ROM and although its in its early stages its looking good. Waiting for the next update eagerly!!! Just one problem on my install though I can't turn off mobile data.... Anyone else having this problem?
[Galaxy S II General] ronsim81:
My S2 just loves 13-11-18 build :good:
[Galaxy S II General] Mayne93:
This ROM works great. Getting some nice battery life and super smooth.
[Galaxy S II General] Osvvalldo:
update

anyone test the update rom?

is necesary re flash the gapps when flash the a update?
[Galaxy S II General] smirciat:
Lots of updates for this ROM floating around compiled from CM sources. So far every one I've tried lately has worked pretty well. Here is a tried and true method for moving from one CM11 ROM to a new one, or a reflash if necessary:

1. Format /system (not usually necessary, but has solved a few problems here and there)

2. Install ROM

3. Install Gapps (yes, you need to do this each time, for sure)

4. Wipe Cache and Dalvik

5. Reboot

If you are coming from CM10.2 or stock you would also throw a factory data reset in at the beginning.
[Galaxy S II General] Osvvalldo:
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thanks a lot:good:
[Galaxy S II General] keepasa:
Does formating the system folder erase any program data? ie does one have to re-install everything after that?

Basically my question is, if I'm upgrading from CM11 Nov 17th to the Nov 18th flash, will I have to re-install all my apps if I perform the optional formating the /system? Thank you for your help and patience
[Galaxy S II General] smirciat:
Very good question. No, formatting system has no ill effects on this operation. A factory wipe/data format would do that, which is why I only recommend that when changing ROMS, not applying the latest build. In fact, I understand the actual ROM flash does a /system format during it, which is why you must flash Gapps each time. The reason for the seemingly redundant system format may have something to do with the ROM flash grabbing a setting or two before system format, and that can throw things off, especially when you are changing your version of Gapps. Hope I've helped!

Edit: I am learning this as well, but I understand the system partition is where Gapps installed. That's why you can't uninstall apps that come with Gapps, but you can with apps that come from the Play Store. Those apps are installed on the data partition.
[Galaxy S II General] hectorviov:
Yes, you have to, or you will lose play store and play services
[Galaxy S II General] jpeg725:
A lot of people have been saying that they have to reflash gapps after upgrading from one version of cm11 to the next.

I checked the scripts and it looks as though all gapps should be properly backed up while the cm11 updates, and properly restored afterwards.

Something strange is afoot.
[Galaxy S II General] jpdoliveira:
It does happen to me 2. It is realy weard we have to flash them again.

BTW, in dev thread a dude posted a new build with some patch. What does the patch does, and we can flash that build without format the usual stuff, or shall i wait for a Wayland build?
[Galaxy S II General] smirciat:
Up until now, I had been taking other's word for it that I needed to flash Gapps again in this situation. I just tried it without, and all Gapps are gone. The ROM install definitely wipes Gapps. Still don't fully understand why an extra system format helps sometimes, but I just know it works.
[Galaxy S II General] jpeg725:
In theory the cm zip runs the scripts in /system/addon.d/ before and after formatting system and installing itself. They backup and restore some files, such as /etc/hosts and gapps.

Something must be going wrong with them, unless something else is writing to system at another moment. Which would be weird given that system is supposed to be mounted read-only most of the time.
[Galaxy S II General] Omega Frost:
Tried to install from the XWLSD and got stuck on the Galaxy S2 logo. My CWM was 6.0.2.9 so I flashed the latest CM10.2+GApps to get CMW 6.0.4.5, did a wipe+factory reset as usual, rebooted into recovery and installed CM11+GApps, lastly I did the reset again... Any ideas of the problem :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] smirciat:
THis has been happening to folks quite a bit. Two fixes have been working often: an additional system format before flashing the ROM, and ensuring you are using Core Gapps from OP's page 1 of the development thread. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2523604 . In other words, follow the OPs instructions exactly, with the addition of adding the CM 10.2 kernel first and then rebooting to recovery. Reading your post literally leads me to believe you might have done the factory wipe before flashing 10.2, I think it has to be after. If you have done both of those and still have a problem, I'd try reflashing over again.

If all else fails, I had to do this to my son's i9100: manually delete the entire contents of the internal storage via a USB connection with a PC. Of course to do this, you have to get a different version of CM working first, hopefully you have a backup. Good luck!

Edit: in retrospect, I don't think I had to delete all of his stuff, but it was fun anyway. I think he was running out of storage and that threw off the install somehow.
[Galaxy S II General] Caproid:
Game killer is not working ;) probably no android 4.4 support
[Galaxy S II General] AOdu29:
Game CIH work ;)

Envoyé de mon GT-I9100 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] lmali92:
Edit: oops, delete.
[Galaxy S II General] szymko1995:
Anyone tested these gapps:

http://d-h.st/yyi ?

Is it better?
[Galaxy S II General] N8tR1X:
You could test it out yourself and let us know if you like?
[Galaxy S II General] szymko1995:
If I got the time...

Currently I'm using cm10.2 and It's 100% stable daily for me.
[Galaxy S II General] ambyy:
no update from wayland since 18-11-2013

Seems he's very busy
[Galaxy S II General] cdaarif:
Oh ok. When he'll update cm I'm back again. Now I'll going to omni 4.4 131123 update.

sorry 4my bed English
[Galaxy S II General] jl10101:
Have the new Mali drivers done anything for games? Last try with the old ones is a negative
[Galaxy S II General] smirciat:
You could try http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=47764937#post47764937

Its from the same sources, just compiled more recently. Works good for me!
[Galaxy S II General] Omega Frost:
Somehow the ROM got screwed when I moved it to the phone, first time I had to compare MD5's :p

With a bit more of insistence I got it running, thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] kurtis1:
Does anyone else have trouble with wifi and Usb teather? The teather ed PC seems to connect fine, just no available Internet.
[Galaxy S II General] ambyy:
Build 23-11-2013 has too many issues for me. I'll just stick to build 18 for now
[Galaxy S II General] bhavstech:
i have the same issue
[Galaxy S II General] AOdu29:
How can i have a 5x5 grid on google experience launcher drawer?

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[Galaxy S II General] Karpfenhai:
I have issues with playstore and package installer on 23. Build, beside that, everything works fine and smooth,

Either I flashed the wrong gapps (tried modular mini from pa and core from op) or something is borked, clean cache from playstore and gms didn't help, any hints how to fix?

Tapatalked from my Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II General] Gunners_Classic:
Music Bug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD-hsbZKBa0

Does somebody have this bug and know how to fix ?

I have the bug with all music players. Maybe it's a lockscreen problem ?

Link is in the title

thx in advance
[Galaxy S II General] Markox89:
I'm not understanding very well which issues are you facing, may you help me understand? :)

The only issue I'm facing with today's build from [MENTION=4365862]lipisak[/MENTION] it's that Google Backup seems to not working properly, in fact I can no longer set the backup account and when force stopped it seems to not restart on boot.
[Galaxy S II General] ssd_20072:
On build 18/11/2013 and everything is working really great!! Waiting for your next build [MENTION=4326427]Wayland_ACE[/MENTION]....thanks a lot for your hard work!! :D
[Galaxy S II General] keepasa:
Battery life is great considering at these early stages. However initially I experienced a heavy drain which I resolved by disabling notifications for Google+ application.
[Galaxy S II General] doctor_droid:
Yup... google plus... wechat and facebook are world leaders in producing wakelocks... leads the leaderboard in wakelock detector ...
[Galaxy S II General] umair42:
I mean is it same as in sammy roms?With cm roms,battery drains quickly as compared with sammy roms
[Galaxy S II General] keepasa:
For me, battery life is equal or better than Sammy. Likely cause of less bloatware which cannot be removed in Sammy. Either ROM however is to verify with a good wake look detector to help narrow down the draining application or sub part of that app.
[Galaxy S II General] Pug123:
Regarding the op thread, why can't people respect Wayland's wishes and post dev stuff on op thread and everything else on this thread. The first 80 pages or so of the op thread were great lots of enthusiasm and ideas fixes etc but now it just seems like everyone's lost their way a bit.and just seem to be worried about what to and what not to post...... Easy, dev stuff on op everything else here ....
[Galaxy S II General] smirciat:
I don't mind splitting the thread at OP's wishes. What has bothered me is the proliferation of the thread police telling everyone else they're doing it wrong. There was already a batch of posts deleted from the development thread after the announcement. Now you have posts telling other posters to not post, even when its about development. I think we should leave it up to OP and official XDA moderators to enforce, and try to comply ourselves. All the "You can't post that here" comments have no more place there than the comments about "this thing doesn't work please fix it NOOOOWWWWW!" And if anything does belong there, its a guy volunteering his time to post current builds of CM commits so readers have a chance to try out the latest, whether it works or not. Especially when he has explicit permission to do so!
[Galaxy S II General] Karpfenhai:
Thx for answering, the problem is, I cannot install anything, since my playstore and my package installer are messed up...

Maybe someone could do me a little favor and enter the following in a terminal:

ls -la /system/app > /storage/sdcard0/sysapp.txt

And:

ls -la /system/priv-app > /storage/sdcard0/privapp.txt

Then post or pm the files for/to me, I want to compare it, because I have some entries twice and funny odex files..

Thx in advance!

Tapatalked from my Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II General] domini99:
Anybody knows how the graphics driver performance is right now, is the rom capable of running games or is the graphics driver not developed far enough?

Sent from sending thing using sending app..

I nail everything
[Galaxy S II General] cegoliba:
Hi guys. I've been wondering if anyone can suggest me this rom compared to omnirom, because omnirom had a few problems about sd card and mobile network and wifi.
[Galaxy S II General] smirciat:
I think at the end of the day both ROMs draw most of their source from the same place, so there is not a lot of difference. The ONMI folks claim ART is working, while here we've been pretty much saying stay away for now. Also the Paranoid Android full gapps package seems to work for omni but not this one. I have seen several commits go through on this one for sd card and wifi, and I am currently having no problems with either of those things. I think you need to try both and see for yourself! It only takes a few minutes...

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Don't know what games you have in mind, but I'm playing videos via VLC media player, and PVZ2 runs pretty smooth. Maybe there's stuff more graphics intensive than that, but you'll have to try it yourself.
[Galaxy S II General] AOdu29:
I have no problem with graphic driver since 20131115 update ^^ i play Injustice and Dead Trigger 2 very smooth and no graphic bug

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[Galaxy S II General] jl10101:
That's weird, and any luck with Beach Buggy Blits? It freezes and requires the battery to be pulled for me. :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] Markox89:
I'll do it for sure tomorrow morning, now it's late :)

I've tried and I actually can install apps through Play Store ;)

And...someone can please confirm, or not, the bug I reported about Google Backup?
[Galaxy S II General] nelsontky:
cool

Well did not realized that it will be available so early. Its good!
[Galaxy S II General] domini99:
The basic games like Subway Surfers, Temple Run and Clash of Clans.
[Galaxy S II General] Crazy-Silver:
Apolo for KK avaible.
[Galaxy S II General] Karpfenhai:
Thx mate, this helped a lot!

I deleted all odex files, (no clue where they came from, since my first Rom was cm10.2)... chmodded some weird sticky bits away and moved some apps too priv-app, after reboot and wiping the caches I got a fully working cm11 Rom, strike!

So, dirty flash without wipe is possible!

Regards

Tapatalked from my Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II General] animatrix999:
ART working on this rom(CM11):confused:
[Galaxy S II General] smirciat:
Not much success reported yet with ART. If you do try it and have success, please report back with details. I understand ART is very app specific at this point, so mileage will vary.
[Galaxy S II General] mekmar:
recovery problem

I have certain problem.

I flashed second build (12-11) and it worked as advertised. Actually it works as advertised till today and that's my problem, because I cannot flash anything through recovery and Odin/Heimdall seem not to work (no visible usb connection neither on Linux, nor on Windows with several strange drivers installed). lsusb command just don't show anything, ADB on device don't show it's icon, when device is plugged - however, it's charging.

So it is problem with usb, either software, or hardware.

After digging through some other threads on xda, I found the way to flash recovery on live system with unix dd command from terminal.

So, if someone with more knowledge than yours truly, could give some hints on how to perform such an operation or any other possible solution, I would be very grateful.

When it comes to "dd solution":

-what is the path to recovery (/dev/block/something if I'm not mistaken) in CM11

-how to obtain necessary recovery.img file (all builds of clockworkmod recovery are in zip format for i9100, I only found img file for T-Mobile USA version, which, AFAIK, is a very different device)

Any other ideas to solve this little gridlock? Any help would be very appreciated, thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S II General] benpeleg:
anyone else has 3g disconnecting during a phone call? is there a workaround?
[Galaxy S II General] mirceapuy:
Does full Gapps work with this version?
[Galaxy S II General] sumanthsv:
Cell Broadcast?

Is anyone having a major issue with the Cell Broadcast?? I have faced similar issues with CM10.x and the solution there was to uninstall the Cell Broadcast app by using Titanium backup or the likes..

In the case of CM11 however (18/11) i continue to receive cell broadcasts even after uninstalling.

Any solutions?:confused::confused::confused:

(Did search the thread for the discussion. Couldn't find any..hence the question):confused:
[Galaxy S II General] chrisnkazz:
Delete the app from system/app use root browser or similar
[Galaxy S II General] smirciat:
I recommend this one:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47644086&postcount=1020
[Galaxy S II General] sumanthsv:
Worked like a Charm!

:victory::D

Dhanyawaad aka Thank you!
[Galaxy S II General] manishmthr11:
Hello I m new so I can't know how to flash and installation of new rom. Please help me to root my cell and install new rom.
[Galaxy S II General] Psyloid:
Does the dorimanx kernel work on this rom, anyone tried??
[Galaxy S II General] mauriicio21:
dorimanx kernel not support any 4.4 yet
[Galaxy S II General] pinkfloyd3:
i have problems with wifi regional

wifi not work for us ( iran and some country )

and wifi manager ( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1445766 ) not work on 4.3 and 4.4

can fix this ? :(
[Galaxy S II General] mr.faridcom:
Wow ...

Titanium Backup Updated To Support Android Runtime (ART) In KitKat

GravityBox Xposed Module Updated to Support KitKat

Regards
[Galaxy S II General] AOdu29:
I have read this about the convertion between dalvik to art " Remember first BOOT can take seriously 10-20 minutes to complete as*ART converts existing Dalvik runtime (libdvm.so) to the ART compatible* (libart.so) and also** rather than the ODEX files read by the Dalvik VM, ART appears to use OAT files*you can even find*file on AOSP".

Envoyé de mon GT-I9100 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] nvk99:
CM11 ROM with Android 4.4 KitKat for Galaxy S2 GT-i9100

I have successfully flashed this rom on to my s2 i9100 and it worked perfectly fine without any glitches however i'm unable to access my external sd card as it gives an error “Invalid Path” and shows 0.00B/0.00B but there is data on it.

Could you please suggest on how to get this sorted?
[Galaxy S II General] NOWE:
Can you read the data with a card reader on a PC?

My sgs2 destroyed already 2 sd cards.

Seems to be a general problem of Samsung phones.
[Galaxy S II General] smirciat:
the path "/sdcard1" that was often used to access the SD card in Jelly Bean does not seem to work in kitkat. If you are using an app that allows you to type in the path, you can try /storage/sdcard1 or /extSdCard . In ES File Explorer, I navigated to / then clicked on the folder extSdCard and it opens. Other apps have similar solutions, good luck!
[Galaxy S II General] poio:
ART not working GT-i9100

Indeed for me it did not. It stuck on boot once enabled...:crying:

But only waited about 10 minutes....will give it another try and wait for half an hour...

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Flashed the 18/11 ROM and it works just fine, there are two things I noticed:

1) SIM Pin widget at start does not display correctly the numbers as if they don't fit into the area defined (some numbers cut in half)

2) It downgrades CWM recovery to 6.0.4.4 from 6.0.4.5 (coming from latest CM 10.2 nightly).

3) Overall very fast, everything works so far (with no ART)
[Galaxy S II General] smirciat:
Google Now is the source of battery trouble

I have suspected it for a bit, but I have some confirmation that Google Now has been the culprit that has caused mine, and likely others, battery life to be severely shortened in this and other kitkat ROMs. I have several different posts here mentioning near constant uploads on wifi when it is left on, and Deep Sleep just not happening. Of course the end result is if I want to get the great battery life these ROMs are capable of, I have to manually turn off Wifi when not in use. BetterBatteryStats, which now works with Kitkat, showed me that EntriesRefresh_wakelock was the culprit not allowing Deep Slepp when wifi was on. Googling that, it is part of Google Now. So I switched that off under Google Settings-Search. Low and behold I can leave Wifi on, and my battery doesn't die in a few hours.
[Galaxy S II General] -Grift-:
For the your first issue

http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/54758/

Should fix the problem but change is still in review, will compile a new version once it is patched.

If you want you can flash a more recent build here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2523604&page=120

Its got CWM 6.0.4.5 if thats important to you :p
[Galaxy S II General] cdaarif:
Can someone give me cm file manager apk from resent [MENTION=3468291]-Grift-[/MENTION] build. Which is deleted by mistake.

sorry 4my bed English
[Galaxy S II General] -Grift-:
Attached :good:
[Galaxy S II General] androidarren:
Is this build multi-lingual?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] Karpfenhai:
Depends on the language :D but yes it is.

Tapatalked from my Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II General] saumil007:
I Don't find any 6.0.4.4 Recovery ! Please Help me :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] Titan9119:
Is this suitable for a daily use rom?:confused:
[Galaxy S II General] SimboXXX:
That depends entirely on your daily use.

Seriously, why ask such a question? Reading a few pages will give you a good impression of current status and problems.
[Galaxy S II General] nani35:
Everything is nice but would be much better, begun updates

tapatalk widgets on the screen, but other widgets are not a problem you can not resist
[Galaxy S II General] SimboXXX:
What's the latest build people are running now? I've tried a 20131128 build but the video is borked.

GravityBox works great.

Anyone running a build with working video camera?
[Galaxy S II General] -Grift-:
Now that you mentioned it :eek: Don't use the video camera so it does not affect me but I will look out for a fix
[Galaxy S II General] mikemost:
I have been using Kit Kat 4.4 for dome time now and is running smoothly. One thing I noticed though is that I can't see icon for clearing recent apps when I press and hold home button.
[Galaxy S II General] liyuankunbix:
Has the ART problem solved？Days before i installed CM11，however，the ART mode won‘t work
[Galaxy S II General] Firoz24:
also add task manager. i have installed task manager manually but when we hold home button to see recent apps, there is no task manager icon to open shortcutly.

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not fixed and no update yet :(
[Galaxy S II General] liyuankunbix:
i should have knew it.

they said the latest omnirom can enable ART mode,and it does. But somehow I can use only 0.98GB of my 16GB cellphone…I got no idea why?

Sorry about my poor English :p
[Galaxy S II General] mikemost:
I have been using Kit Kat 4.4 for some time now and is running smoothly. One thing I noticed though is that I can't see icon for clearing recent apps when I press and hold home button.
[Galaxy S II General] Firoz24:
yes art works there and u can use all our 16 gb, i dont think so.
[Galaxy S II General] SimboXXX:
Double post in half hour ??

The close recents button is not added yet. You can get most of the missing settings by installing GravityBox, it's working fine.
[Galaxy S II General] mikemost:
I have just been trying [ROM][4.4][CM11][UNNOFFICIAL][AROMA][Linaro] Pound Rom and in this ROM the recents button is incorporated. Its also quite fast in terms of response. So far so good.
[Galaxy S II General] pvdeejay:
Hello,

I haven't managed to try this out. What I am dreaming about is ability to update my phone to run never OS than CM-10 and still be able to do call recording. Does anyone follow the development enough to be able to say which audio drivers are now used? I am using call recorder by skvalex.

Greetings

Peter