yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Please check out this post if your not flowing the 10.2 thread and provide your opinion if you have one ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=49171164
[Galaxy S II General] jreay:
It's saying that slim isn't rooted?
[Galaxy S II General] jonnyjb:
Go to developer options and change the root access
[Galaxy S II General] jreay:
Thank you for that lol :)
[Galaxy S II General] ch_chs:
Great rom

Its a great ROM really love the customization. I had the Google + issue but I uninstalled Google + but need help with removing the home screens. When I pinch I do not get the option to remove the home screens. Can anyone tell me how to do that? Thanks guys keep up the good work.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
I'm not currently on slim, but it is using the stock launcher. I think that gets managed somewhere in Settings -> Homescreen. Can you confirm that and let me know.
[Galaxy S II General] ch_chs:
I am unable to find that option, I tried all the menus in settings. If anyone on Slim can try out and confirm that would be great.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
I'll flash it in some not and peruse the menus. If I can't find it, I'll compare the code for the launcher to see how that is implemented in cm and will port the code over ;)
[Galaxy S II General] manfromgta:
I can't seem to find it either.

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[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Me neither. For now, use Nova launcher. I'll look into the settings as were missing the home screen settings.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Well, it seems this launcher is limited. I couldn't find any settings menu at all. And the one thing I forgot to look at while I was in slim was to press the menu button from the Homescreen. I remember seeing an edit button there at some point on an older rom, maybe slim 4.1.2.

If that isn't there, I would have to build in that feature. Not sure of the length of that project, but I think a better solution was the nova launcher. It was originally included with the stock launcher (maybe the stock launcher was in the gapps, I can't remember), so it must have been known that this launcher was lacking in features so a replacement was included. I made the decision to remove the third party nova launcher in favor of the stock launcher and am now thinking that was the wrong decision. I'll see how much work would go into porting this feature and weigh that against swapping launchers.

What are your thoughts about this?
[Galaxy S II General] manfromgta:
I think including nova launcher as a replacement option is a good idea. The original launcher is to limited to be useful to me. There is not any options under menu from home screen either. You should do what's easiest for you on this one though because users could simply go to play store and choose their preferred launcher if they require more features.

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[Galaxy S II General] jonnyjb:
Nova launcher has been the default for a while now, not sure why it wasn't in this build, on my s3 it's been default since 4.2 I think.

Thanks for all your work on this.
[Galaxy S II General] ch_chs:
Thanks everyone, I can live with Nova launcher or any other launcher, just wanted to confirm if this is a missing feature or a hidden one
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
For those of you on slim, the vibration fix is here. It's a new kernel and can be flashed from cwm without wiping anything. Don't forget to take a nandroid backup just in case something goes wrong.

DO NOT FLASH THIS ON ANY OF MY OTHER ROMS. YOU MIGHT END UP IN A BOOTLOOP.

boot-ONLY-VIBFIX-slimjb4.3-20140109.zip (5.8MB)
[Galaxy S II General] manfromgta:
Flashed new kernel. I then rebooted 3 consecutive times to test it , which always killed my vibration before new kernel. Happy to report that it now works as it should. Great work TF!! I will report again if any problems arise.

On a sperate note. I'm finding the back button acting strangely sometimes. I press it and it vibrates but does not go to previous screen. A second push and it does go back. If I then try to navigate forward on any link whether it be tap talk, browser or any app really it force closes. The only way to start app again is to clear recents from home screen. This was happening before kernel update.

Sent from my SGH-I757M using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II General] ashfrel1984:
This rom is great. Only Issue I've had so far, is my gallery restarts my phone. I also cant seem to find fix permissions in the version of recovery im using. think permissions would fix gallery? if so ill just change my recovery
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
With a filemanager, move your existing videos out of the gallery folder into a folder of their own and add an empty file named .nomedia (the . is important) to the new folder with the old video files. This will stop the media scanner from scanning the new folder where you placed the videos.

If I'm correct, it's the same bug from cm-10.2 where the gallery can't generate the preview from old video files, so we hide them with the .nomedia file. New videos should be fine in gallery and bit need to be added to the hidden folder. Old videos are still playable with the video player, just use your filemanager to open them directly with the video player of your choice ;)
[Galaxy S II General] ashfrel1984:
That's an easy fix. Thank you.
[Galaxy S II General] JayR_L:
Brief signal loss --

Sometimes the signal indicator will drop to -110dBm and I am thus unable to send/receive texts/calls. This happens very briefly, I do not have to do anything and the signal comes back to an acceptable level.

Is anyone having this issue as well?

Keyboard --

When using the Quick Reply feature of the messaging app, I notice that the keyboard will disappear. This also happens when using Google Chrome. The only solution then is to close the app and reopen it.

Other than that; pretty much everything works wonders.

mDNIe --

Also wish that was supported; the settings are present but do not seem to have any effect.
[Galaxy S II General] Arlos:
Does anyone know if the new "I757MUGMC5" modem will work with WIND and/or MOBILICITY?
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
I've heard from another user that wind requires the aws band and he's not been able to get it on the aws band :( Not sure about Mobilicity.
[Galaxy S II General] PirateMan:
Hey! Loving the rom a lot! Just wondering if anyone has experimented at all with the I/O scheduler and governor and which settings they prefer for this rom?

Edit: I've also been experiencing a bug where the pattern security lock disappears randomly, making it next to impossible to unlock the phone without restarting it. Anyone else getting this?
[Galaxy S II General] JayR_L:
Yes, it happens once in a while. I didn't try replacing the lock screen with another app, but I can confirm this. However, locking & unlocking the screen again usually fixes the problem, so it isn't much more than a minor annoyance for me.
[Galaxy S II General] TheCrazyDirectioner:
Yep. Wind needs AWS band (1700mhz). I've tried really hard to get mine to work on wind but so far not 100%. Best I've come so far is using the T-Mobile T879 (Note 1) radio. Data and texting works fine, but voice calls only work about 10-20% of the time. :mad:

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Worked great except after install I would CONSTANTLY get this popup

It drove me absolutely nuts. Clicking outside of the white box got rid of the popup, and clicking OK brought you to the Google+ Play Store page, but the only option was to open it. No uninstall or update.

I managed to uninstall it by going to Settings>Developer Options and enabling root to apps, then using a root-enabled file manager to go into /system/app and delete GooglePlus.apk

I don't know how reinstalling it will be but I'll try it later when and if I find a use for G+ on this phone (I only ever really use it on my tablet or computer)
[Galaxy S II General] Arlos:
Both Wind and Mobilicity use the AWS bands. I'm currently using Slim Bean 4.1.2 with the Tmo_SGH-T879-UVLG3_radio which works great. I'll hold off on upgrading to SlimJB4.3 until a AWS radio becomes available.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
New Build is Up!

Alright guys, the new build is up. This one includes the vibration fix and a fix for memory management in the SystemUI. Performance is better and the 91fixoverlays script is no longer required since we do not need to disable hw overlays anymore to stop screen flickering (big plus on performance).

The stock launcher has now been replaced completely with the NovaLauncher since the SlimBean stock launcher was hugely lacking features.

Download

Unlike the new build of CM-10.2 I just released, this new build DOES have a new Gapps package, so do not forget to download that.
[Galaxy S II General] TheCrazyDirectioner:
Wow. Right after I switch back to CM10.2. lol

Are more of the bugs ironed out now? The previous build was driving me nuts.

After connecting and disconnecting a bluetooth device, whether this be the Pioneer head unit in my car, my iSound Fire Waves bluetooth speaker, or an eBay bluetooth audio reciever, the audio volume controls will get totally confused. This happens regardless of using another bluetooth device, headphones, or with internal speaker. The volume buttons with the screen on want to control call volume, even when there is no call in progress.

The only way to change volume while listening to music with screen on is to click the icon beside volume slider and change media volume from there.

However with the screen off and music playing, volume buttons control media volume as normal. When playing through external speaker though, sound does not get outputted through loudspeaker but instead headset (calling) speaker. Volume for this is still controlled through media though. All this gets fixed after a reboot, but reoccurs after a connection to a bluetooth device.

Also had lots of issues with camera not being able to start, video recording FC'ing gallery, and going into gallery to look at pictures causing a soft reboot (this happened a lot and drove me nuts, which is why I'm back to CM10.2)

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For me, it was worth the time getting this ROM just to go into settings and turn on the Dark Slim theme. It looks absolutely gorgeous on our AMOLED screen.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
I'll have to run more thorough tests, but with my initial testing, I was able to use the camera/camcorder/gallery without issue. I didn't text Bluetooth, but still test it tomorrow ;)
[Galaxy S II General] TheCrazyDirectioner:
Thanks :)

The camcorder/gallery seem to have a mind of their own for me. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. But as in "don't" its always camcorder FC'ing (Gallery has stopped) or gallery rendering causes phone to soft reboot. Camera usually works, just the occasional not being able to connect.
[Galaxy S II General] JayR_L:
Should this be fine with a dirty flash? I'll just take a nandroid and dirty flash and see how she goes...
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Should be ok ;)
[Galaxy S II General] JayR_L:
Thank you tf for all the love you give our device lol ill report back after the update:)
[Galaxy S II General] GrAt_On:
Only issue so far...

Hey... Google Drive doesn't appear to work, force closes constantly regardless of how many times i re-install it or wipe dalvik's cache. A fix would greatly be appreciated, especially seeing I work on the cloud a lot! Thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Perfect timing, I'm just about to flash slim for some testing so I'll test Google drive at the same time ;)
[Galaxy S II General] GrAt_On:
I'm sorry

I'm sorry, for some reason I'm having trouble making the logcat... I'll figure this out xD

Update: I came across another issue... when opening the gallery and browsing through it for about 10-20 seconds, it reboots my phone. About the log cat, it doent seem to be creatng a file on my phone. I noticed in your instructions it was to type: $ su and then $ ... However, after I do $ su, $ dissapears and becomes # instead.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
There's instructions in post 2 of this thread if you need a reminder ;)
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Fixes for Google Drive and Gallery

Ok, so first, Google Drive. I found another thread for SlimBean on another device where the users were experiencing the same issue. It was recommended by that dev to uninstall the current version and install an older version. I have tested this and it works flawlessly. Here is a link to a working Google Drive in my repo:

com.google.android.apps.docs.apk (8.4MB)

Make sure you have automatic updates turned off in the Play Store settings or it will get overwritten with the new version and you'll be back at square 1. Also, you must enable Unknown Sources:

Settings -> Security

With regards to the gallery, I notice that I forgot to post the gallery quirk in the OP. I have updated that with this specific quirk and the solution on how to fix it ;)

What Doesn't Work

With regards to the logcat, # shows that you have become superuser and is virtually the same as $ it's just a visual cue so that you know whether your running as root or not ;)

Don't worry about the log for this one since I saw the error as it occured. The problem is a missing class which should be part of the Google Drive app. It must be a bug with the app or possibly it may be a missing system content provider, I'm not sure which is the case right now but at least you have access to your Google Drive for now ;)

Thanks for your reports and support ;)
[Galaxy S II General] GrAt_On:
Awesome!

Great fix!, works like a charm! Thanks :)
[Galaxy S II General] iDynamics:
I flashed this but It isn't rooted on my device. What am I doing wrong?
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
You have to turn it on in developer options ;)
[Galaxy S II General] silva92:
I757M SlimKat

is there gonna be a 4.4 version for the I757M? plz say yes lol
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Yes, as soon as CM-11.0 is sorted out I will be working on updating all ROMs to kit kat. I'm holding back since all of these ROMs derive from CM and as I see it, the bugs present in my current CM-11.0 will still be present in other variations of it as well, so I'm waiting for the bugs to be fixed, and more so, it's the kernel that needs to be updated and CyanogenMod himself will be doing that, but not sure when it will be done.

But yes, there will be kit kat for everyone ;)
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
CM-11.0 for the SGH-I757M

Alright, for those of you who are ready to make a jump to CM-11.0 Kit Kat. It's here, and you will need to have Philz Touch Recovery flashed to your device or you will not be able to flash Kit Kat. This rule will apply to all Kit Kat based ROMs whether it's CM, Slim, or PA. The Recovery is backwards compatible and will let you flash older ROMs that have their update-binary replaced with one from Kit Kat. All of my ROMs have their update binaries updated and will be compatible.

Even if you read it once before, it never hurts to read the instructions from top to bottom since I modify each slightly as required for the ROM. Don't forget to take your nandroid backups ;)

[ROM][CM11.0][KERNEL][DEV][SGH-I757M]UNOFFICIAL CM11.0 For Bell SGH-I757M

If you prefer Slim or PA, those will be coming out over the next couple of weeks and I'll post in each thread as soon as they're done.

ENJOY!!!
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Good news for slim users. I've got slimkat built and it's running well. Calendar works, but camcorder does not and the camera does.

It gets a little better, I'm running art right now without issues. No FC's. It took 3 minutes on the boot animation, then another 8 minutes of android is upgrading.

There are some things missing such as advanced reboot options and performance settings which I will port over before I release it.

Runs very well so far, I'm impressed ;)
[Galaxy S II General] silva92:
date!

When do u think you will be able to upload slim kat for all to use? :) and sorry I'm just very excited lmao
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Probably not for a couple days yet since I will port the performance settings from cm and that will take at least a day and then need to figure out how to get the advanced reboot menu back again and I don't know how that's implemented.
[Galaxy S II General] iDynamics:
So excited for this. Absolutely love your work.
[Galaxy S II General] silva92:
slimkat

Hey TF how's slimkat treating u? Pain in the but trying to port the last 2 things eh.... Well hopefully u get it :) just letting u kno we r anxious for the ROM :D!!
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
So the new SlimKat is up, and art is working. Performance settings are also included. The camcorder is screwed up and will cause your camera to not function if you select the camcorder so do not select the camcorder, even accidentally.

DO NOT SELECT THE CAMCORDER OR YOUR WHOLE CAMERA WILL STOP WORKING INCLUDING YOUR FLASH

I'm working on a fix for the the camcorder problem, at least to stop it from screwing everything up if you accidentally select the camcorder.

ENJOY!!!

[ROM][DEV][SlimKat][KK4.4][KERNEL][SGH-I757M]UNOFFICIAL SlimKat 4.4 For Bell SGH-I757M
[Galaxy S II General] kvnsalazar:
Hello m

is this ROM ROOTED? can i use titanium backup after installation? because I'm afraid of losing some app data like my brave frontier data.. nandroid backup doesnt work on brave frontier app. thank you sir. i will wait for your answer
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
It is, and you can use titanium backup, but we also have a slimkat if your interested. That's an android 4.4 rom with the new slim recents ;)

Do you already have philz touch cwm installed? That is required to flash slimKat ;)
[Galaxy S II General] kvnsalazar:
good dayyy..

hello again sir(s), i thought this is a stock rom :( , my bad. is there a chance that theres a stock rom android 4.3 for my SAMSUNG GALAXY S2 HD LTE SGH-I757M. THANK YOU AGAIN SIR.

..im thinking of using kitkat but when it has an stock rom, i cant really explain it. but i want a rom that is like an official rom. not the CM10 like one. i wish there would be a android 4.3 or 4.4 for my SGH-I757M bell from canada. THANKS !!
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
No, this is a custom ROM just like CyanogenMod. We have a bunch for our device. SlimKat, AOKP4.4, CM-11.0, Carbon-KK.

For stock ROMs, you have the choice of Gingerbread (Android 2.3), Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0 or Jellybean (Android 4.1). Samsung stopped making ROMs for this device after their first release of JB so you will never see a Stock KitKat for this phone. For a KitKat ROM, you'll have to go with a custom ROM and use the Touchwiz theme if you only just want your phone to look like stock and get to use KitKat.
[Galaxy S II General] kvnsalazar:
thank you sir

thanks sir.. i just not fond of using custom roms. not that its not good. its just that i want the default apps like in the stock roms. but i have tried the

slimJB rom and its good. it just that im used with the default apps in the stock roms .THANKS SIR. :)))))
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Well I will warm you that Samsung screwed up the jb rom that they released. It's slow and doesn't work well. I suggest ICS if your going to stay with stock ;)
[Galaxy S II General] :
This ^^^

All the other S2's seem just fine on stock 4.1.2....very fine! But for some reason, lack of proper testing it must be, this phone is unbelievably laggy and buggy on stock 4.1.2....no matter what you try to fix it.

Thanks to TF, there's a bunch of awesome alternatives!! ;)
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Removed because i posted in the wrong thread ;)
[Galaxy S II General] ksSGHI757M:
New to the flashing game

Hey. I'm new the whole flashing roms thing but wanted to move up to a jellybean style system to try and see improved performance from my phone after the disappointment of moving up to the laggy version put out by Samsung. As someone new to this, 1- should I be trying something different out first, 2- Will I be able to do this with just the instructions on the page or should I be getting more information from somewhere else?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
I'm assuming since you tried the jb that Samsung released you have cwm flashed. Is that the case? If not, you will need to flash the new cwm first.

Then, you can actually flash slimkat from here if you want to try the latest. Performance on this phone isn't great, but the custom Rom does offer better performance than Samsung's stock Rom:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2646198

You can find the links for all required downloads on this page including radio, Rom, GAPPS (Google Apps) and a link to our thread for Philz touch recovery which is simply the best recovery available.

Flashing cwm is simple. If you have the stock 3e recovery, then you just download the latest tar.md5 from Philz thread and flash it from the bootloader field with Odin. I can pay the link to toss instructions if you need them. dsixda was the one to have posted those instructions and I've continued development with new ROMs and recovery.

Slim is one option, you can also go with cm, carbon or aokp. Each Rom has it's own set of features which can be found on their respective sites and performance is the same across all ROMs since that is based on the kernel and all my ROMs use the same kernel ;)

Welcome to our community ;)
[Galaxy S II General] ksSGHI757M:
Thanks for the incredibly fast response and the welcome!

I'm currently using rooted stock ICS. I had tried the kies update to Jellybean when it came out but as you know, it was really bad and I had to have my phone bumped back.

I plan on flashing at some point this weeked to try this out. I was avoiding the slimkat rom due to the camcorder problems noted, as I do use the video from time to time. My only concern before flashing is that I'm using PhilZ Touch 6.48.4 (Clockwork 6.0.5.0). Everything I've read so far says to be using a 6.0.4.x version of this but I'm guessing this version should be fine as it is newer. Any chance you can confirm?

Thanks again!
[Galaxy S II General] manfromgta:
You have guessed correctly. The recovery you have will work just fine. Welcome to the forum and happy flashing! :)

Sent from my SGH-I757M using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Camcorder issues have been fixed in 4.4 for a few months now. Only thing left is the occasional reboot when using the flash.

Also just as manfromgta said, your version of cwm will work as expected to flash any kitkat Rom for this device.

The instructions from this point on for you are just as outlined in my slimkat thread. Just follow each step and you will succeed ;) You will feel liberated ;)
[Galaxy S II General] ksSGHI757M:
Well the instructions seem pretty clear, so it may be something that I'm expected to know already, but I ran into a problem when trying to flash the radio. I

I get an error saying that there is a storage issue for the radio zip (sorry, don't have exact message but will post it tomorro). I tried formatting my external sd card and redownloading but got the same message. I noticed further up in the messages it said something about updating to the latest version of binary, but have no idea if that's relevant.

Thanks to both of you for your help!
[Galaxy S II General] ksSGHI757M:
Well, after quite a bit of reading to try and figure out what was happening I decided to try one last thing before giving up - moving the zip files over to my phone instead of using the external SD card. Worked perfectly and I no longer had the errors from before. I now have slim installed and am going through the set-up procedure.

Thanks for your help, and for all the work you've done to get this up and running! Maybe I'll try out slimKat at a later date!~
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Not sure why it wouldn't flash from your external card, but glad you got it working with the internal card ;)