yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] bijon440:
For ART, some apps still aren't compatible. TiBu for one. I found this list of apps that work and don't. Hopefully this helps out, I'm still using dalvik as a handful of apps that I use still aren't operational with ART.

http://www.androidruntime.com/list
[Galaxy S II General] androidman23:
Drop bar lag?

Just flashed this on my brothers phone, looking great!(much faster than 4.1.2 touchwiz) I'm only seeing one problem, and that is the lag when pulling the drop bar down. I have tried overclocking, changing the animation scale to .75, and keeping the ram clear. I have also wiped the cache. Any idea how to fix this? Great rom, just hoping that gets fixed :)
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Delete the /system/etc/init.d/91fixoverlays script and reboot ;) I'll be updating the zip today to fix that.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Hey guys, I've uploaded a new zip for Carbon. No changes other than the removal of the /system/etc/init.d/91fixoverlays script. No need to re-flash if you've already flashed, just delete the 91fixoverlays script and reboot phone. It will now be very snappy ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Tigger31337:
Thanks, as usual.

Flashed the ROM but found WiFi performance oddly unstable (relative to your other ROMs). It kept dropping and reconnecting. I also got a FC in WiFi advanced settings --> wifi order preference.

I'll try your CM11 and SlimKat to see if similar results.

I'm on latest recovery (Phil) and radio firmware, etc.

Thanks,
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Can I get you to send me a logcat after the Wi-Fi settings force close on you. Instructions on how to do that are in the second post.
[Galaxy S II General] androidman23:
CM11 vs Carbon

How is the performance in your cm11 rom compared to this one? Also if I flash cm11 over carbon do I need to factory wipe?
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Performance is the same.

Whenever you switch roms, you must do a clean flash.
[Galaxy S II General] formercontra:
Switching to this rom from Slim fixed the music scanning problem, and I'm getting very good battery life as well. However there's still a lot of screen flicker with HWoverlays on. It is very smooth, but scrolling or typing makes the screen flicker and tear.
[Galaxy S II General] Arodg25:
I just want to say I am actually in disbelief of how fast my phone is now when running art instead of dalvik. Loading and exiting apps is where I notice it the most, but the entire phone is quite a bit quicker. If you want to switch I recommend doing a fresh flash then install gapps, boot, switch to art, let it do its thing, then reboot into recovery and dirty flash the rom again then install your apps. Don't know the science behind it, but when I just switched to art without the second dirty Flash I would get stuck on the boot animation. Anyway I haven't come across an app that doesn't work with art and once again the speed difference is incredible.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Hey guys, [MENTION=1691042]big_biso[/MENTION] has found a temporary fix for the camcorder. Check out his post here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=51407922
[Galaxy S II General] formercontra:
Is there a way to edit sysctl on this rom? Android System has been eating up most of my battery recently, about 50% of ever charge even with 2 hours screen time, and I've read certain sysctl edits could fix this problem
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Not directly, but you can change values by using busybox sysctl. For help on how to use it, type this into terminal after issuing the su command:

This will show you the command line options and how to enter them. If you want your values to stick, just write the commands into an init.d script to be run on every boot.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
[MENTION=5411569]formercontra[/MENTION] check out this page that sort of describes what I was talking about only it does it in a much more elegant way ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1621808
[Galaxy S II General] formercontra:
Thanks very much! I was a little confused on how the init.d's were supposed to be set up. Android OS drain is down to normal and the phone seems to be charging faster now :) thanks for the help
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
What did you use for config? I would like to try it out too ;)
[Galaxy S II General] formercontra:
Was the fix for the OS drain, from what I've read it helps with entropy levels more directly than scripts like Seeder. Different values might be better for our phone.

helps with other various wakelocks. I'm trying out lifting various stuff from Crossbreeder and seeing if it improves anything.
[Galaxy S II General] fab-4ever:
Hello! Just to say that everything is fine, no crash, no random reboot. This ROM is my favorite. I also switched to ART and I see a difference. Sadly, the space in the phone is almost all used and I can't move anything to SD, it always tells me that the sd card is full.

I didn't have to do a dirty Flash to go with ART. Just a clean flash and everything was fine.

Envoyé de mon SGH-I757M en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] RukusX7:
Trickster Mod has a sysctl editor built in that will set values upon boot. To set the sleepers, Pimp My ROM has a simple interface to do so. They also have an Entropy generator you can use. Something else I noticed is it can caculate your Random Read Wakeup Threshold as well as the Random Write wakeup Threshold. The average value detected on my device was 698bits, or in the units we need it to be in, which is 87 bytes. The Write value is 174 bytes. These values were found AFTER setting your values. So I dont know how close you need to be to these values, but 128 read and 256 write appear to be smart choices as we may have been introducing some lag into the system by starving those values. I dont know much about the sleepers, I have played with them in the past but I cant see the harm in disabling, as it seems it could help.

Nice find [MENTION=5411569]formercontra[/MENTION]
[Galaxy S II General] sadowling:
Google Keyboard issues.

I have an issue with Google keyboard. In the Language and Input section, I have two keyboards showing (Android Keyboard (AOSP) and Google Keyboard). When I select Google keyboard I get all kinds of FCs on both Google Keyboard and Google Play services. I reboot the phone and it says Android is optimizing 1 App, but still upon boot, continuous FCs for Google Play Services and Google keyboard. Anyone else have this issue? and why the two keyboards installed?
[Galaxy S II General] big_biso:
yes i had that. i disabled google keybord in setting and just enabled android keyboard and all works. probably it is problem in the gapps
[Galaxy S II General] formercontra:
My battery life seems to be much better across the board with these settings. I read about the thresholds here:

http://onexuan.com/blog/2014/01/android-entropy-of-opg-pro/

So the read threshold defines the amount of entropy, and more might be better? Looks like 1024-read and 2048-write are the next values I'll try.
[Galaxy S II General] grandmaster_b:
Hi TF I have been running your CM 10.2 ROM since I got my phone which is perfect ! I though I would try this ROM out and wanted to post my feedback.

Unable to obtain deep sleep I didn't use any tools to check what was keeping it awake etc

Google services crashing every boot.

I did full wipe before install.

Keep up good work I am back on cm 10.2 for now because of lack of deep sleep.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
This is most likely due to the option "scanning always available" which won't let the device sleep. Turning that off will allow it to go to sleep ;)
[Galaxy S II General] grandmaster_b:
That easy.......I will give it another shot on the weekend in that case.

You are a legend !
[Galaxy S II General] fab-4ever:
My phone is dead. Can't reboot. It always vibrate when the battery is on place (I don't even push the button power!) I removed the battery and then put it back and it immediatly starts. After the samsung logo it vibrates non-stop. I tried to go into recovery, it starts to vibrate after the logo. I tried to go into download mode and I can, but after some time it reboots and then vibrate. I won't have enought time to flash something. Is it the end??? :'(

Envoyé de mon GT-P5110 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
You definitely want to flash back to a stock firmware. While in download mode, do you have your charger plugged in? If not, plug it in and see if download mode will last longer. If it does, use Odin to flash stock gb or ics from sammobile.com.

It does sound like a hardware issue, maybe the battery is my guess. Flashing back to stock should give you a good idea if it's fried or not.
[Galaxy S II General] fab-4ever:
I tried with and without the charger. I dont think one or other was longer. I'm scared that i won't be abble to flash anything.

I have another battery at home, do you think I can hope something?

Envoyé de mon GT-P5110 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
I would try the other battery. The hope here is that you can get it back to stock and send it in for warranty repair if you still have warranty left.

If your unable to flash back to stock from Odin, your out of luck unfortunately :(

The only other thing I can think of is a usb jig which force boots the phone into download mode. I'm not sure that will help although they are inexpensive at $5 a piece and worth a try.

Other thing to try is to let the phone sit powered off even if you have to remove the battery to make that happen for maybe 5 to 10 minutes, then put it back in and see if that helps.
[Galaxy S II General] fab-4ever:
I'll try the battery when I'll get home. Sadly, my warranty ended one year ago. I still have one year with Bell (damn!). Looking around, the s5 seems so nice but soooo expensive! And the s4, I don't know if I should just go with it... Just thinking about breaking my contract and the fees are killing me...

I hope I'll be able to flash my phone back to stock... but then, seems like I'll soon meet a wall... tsss... didn't love that phone, but still need it :'(

Envoyé de mon GT-P5110 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Did you manage to get your phone working?
[Galaxy S II General] B.Moreira:
I had the exact same thing happen about 3 days ago. My phone would get to the Samsung logo then turn off, and if I even touched the phone (not any buttons) it would vibrate, show the logo again and turn off. It was kinda of scaring me to be honest :D . Luckily pulling the battery out solved this and it hasn't happened since.
[Galaxy S II General] RukusX7:
Bluetooth is being weird. I use Bluetooth to tether to my laptop. It works for five minutes and the phones Bluetooth stops working with no explanation. Shut it off. Won't turn back on.
[Galaxy S II General] fab-4ever:
No! :'(

My bf tried and I don't know how, the phone booted 1 time for maybe 5 minutes and crashed anothed time. No luck since then.

Envoyé de mon GT-P5110 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
I think I saw a fix for Bluetooth on cm's gerrit. I think it had something to do with lpa.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
I'm sorry to hear that, and am unfortunately out of suggestions :(

Last resort, do you have a CPR (Cell Phone Repair) shop where you live? They might be able to help you although I'm not sure of the cost.
[Galaxy S II General] fab-4ever:
... I did it! The phone started after a new try and when I found that out I immediatly rebooted my phone in download mode, odin already opened. I flashed 4.0.4 and I can tell you that I was looking at the progression bar with scare. I hoped it woulnd't shut down in the middle of the procedure... and it didn't! Now I think I won't flash anything for a while...

Do you have any idea of what happened?

Envoyé de mon GT-P5110 en utilisant Tapatalk

EDIT : NOOOOOOO! Even on 4.0.4 it does the same thing!!! :'(
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
If it still does the same thing after flashing stock, I'm sorry to say that I'm now 99% certain that it's a hardware issue :( The only thing you can do at this point is to take it into a Cell Phone Repair shop. They may be able to fix it, but it might cost a bit to get it fixed. It might just be worth it to look into getting a new phone.

If you use your phone lots for media like listening to music and browsing the internet over long periods of time causing the phone to heat up past 40C, then it may have caused physical damage to hardware.

It's also possible that it's just a bad memory chip in which case, it should be fairly in-expensive to fix. A Cell Phone Repair shop should be able to give you pricing on that.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
I have a build that will probably be one of a kind. I've implemented the slim recents app. I've spent the last 3 days implementing it. It was pretty difficult and am not sure that I want to keep it in my source tree. So of anyone is interested in trying it I will upload it ;)

I personally love the slim recents app and so far it seems to be working well.

What do you guys think about this?
[Galaxy S II General] Arodg25:
I agree with you. That would be a nice feature to have. How heavy is it on memory ?
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
I haven't been running it long enough to tell, but will let you know when I have some results on that ;)
[Galaxy S II General] manfromgta:
Wow! You never cease to amaze me! I checked out a video with this feature in action and it looks really neat. Things just keep getting better for the ol' S2. Cheers my friend!

Sent from my SGH-I757M using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II General] big_biso:
I am planning to flash this carbon ROM when you update it. so I can try it for you too.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
So I just saw on carbon's gerrit the commits for slim recents. So I guess it will definitely be included. In going to rebuild with these new commits instead of my ported version and will upload that instead ;) Stay tuned!
[Galaxy S II General] slushee:
Running Titanic's cm10.2 and was thinking of installing his cm11. Now I'm unsure if I should try carbon instead. Could someone list the main feature differences between the two?

Considering titanic loves carbon the most is making me lean that way.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Here's Carbon's feature list ;) it's not all completely added yet, but all those features will be implemented eventually. And just today I saw the commits for the slim recents app which really excites me.

https://carbon-rom.com/features/

My favorite 2 features are battery indicator around the lockscreen handle and notifications on the lockscreen ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Arodg25:
Does anyone else's phone get ridiculously hot when using the data network? In 5 to 10 min mine get blazing hot up near the camera lens. On Wi-Fi though it barley gets warm, even after an hour of continuous use. Any ideas?
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
I get the same on both WiFi and data only when using the browser or when I use team viewer to connect to my computer.

I just limit the amount of time that I use those apps. I also use go power master to monitor my phones temp and stop using the browser when it hits 40 degrees. It usually sits around 30 degrees (32 right now since I'm using tapatalk) and has been as low as 26 degrees. Oh, and using the phone while it's plugged in to charge will cause this too.

Strange that it only happens on data for you.
[Galaxy S II General] fab-4ever:
Hello titanic_fanatic,

I got an another phone, an LG G2. I just wanted to thank you for all you did. You gave life to this phone that was awfully slow and old. I have been running on your ROMS for more than a year, it was really pleasant to test all these things.

Good luck!

Envoyé de mon LG-D803 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Demo Build Up

Hey guys, I tried building with the commits for slim recents, and it actually failed miserably. The capacitative buttons are not working in that build. My port actually works quite well aside from the UI has slowed down slightly which will be worked out as carbon commits the changes to their github. Until then, you can use this version which has slim recents included, but be warned that the UI is slightly slower than the main build so I'm calling it a Beta and will not post it in the OP.

To use it, long press your home key. You can swipe apps to the left or right to close/remove them from recents and can also pinch to clear them all.

I'm really enjoying the new recents and am actually using it now where I wasn't previously.

Let me know what you guys think, and Enjoy!!!
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
No problem, and thanks for your support ;)

Enjoy your new device!
[Galaxy S II General] big_biso:
I clean flashed this latest Carbon Kitkat ROM and following are my comments:

- ART is also not working. after switch to ART. the system came up and could not start anything. Since I did not have a backup in Carbon, I had to restore my CM11.0 backup. I may try again later. I did some tests before I break the ROM with ART.

- Slim recents is nice feature but I was not able to see the button or to find a way to close all apps in one shot, even though it says bottom right in the setting.

- Even though I used the same latest gapps from CM11.0 but after install i was missing Calendar, Terminal, Apollo and maybe other. I thought these are part of the gapps and not the ROM.

- I enabled the lock screen widget however the weather lock widget never showed up. even though I checked it in setting.

- I was not able to add pages to the Left of the home screen, but adding pages to the right worked fine.

-lock screen notification worked fine and is amazing feature

- app shortcuts do not show up on lock screen when you use security like pattern, but they show up with the slider. my guess is that the are there but the pattern just go on top of them and hide them.

as I said I will try to flash again, so if you are doing something and releasing another beta I will try with that.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Thanks for the feedback :)

For art, there is currently an issue with the runtime and an not sure which commit introduced the issue. This is why system apps fc in addition to the gapps. This issue is know and I hope it gets fixed soon. If not, I'll start searching for my own solution.

The good news is you can actually recover from this without restoring a nandroid. Turning on the art runtime writes libart.so to /data/property/persist.sys.dalvik.vm.lib

You can write libdvm.so to this file from recovery using adb or using the console that is accessible from the main menu of aroma filemanager and then reboot phone. Don't forget to mount the data partition before running the command

From Terminal:

With adb:

To clear all recents, you pinch the white pop out menu as if you were pinching to zoom out. The view will start to fade and will go red when you can release to clear the recents. It sounds confusing, but I think you'll like how it actually works to clear all recents.

Gapps for each rom are different. I download my gapps if possible from the rom maker's website just in case they have modified apps to support rom features. For this reason each package is different.

For the lockscreen, the weather is something in aware oh but have not looked into yet. I assume it has to do with the notification overlays although i may be wrong. In terms of shortcuts not showing up when security lock is being used, this is entirely by design. If you have a pin or pass lock on and you can access the shortcuts, that enables you to unlock the phone without pass su this is a security feature ;)

Almost missed the launcher settings part. Each of the rom variants is managing their own version of the launcher app, and for some strange reason, carbon has not implemented the launcher settings. No problem, I can port it over from cm ;)

Thanks again for the feedback ;)
[Galaxy S II General] big_biso:
thanks TF. I will keep these instruction for next time. but since my phone was not working I had to restore and try again.

for the weather widget on the lockscreen I fixed it by holding the widget and remove it then I re-added it again and it wadded correctly.

for the shortcut I also managed to make them show up by adding the slid before the security. so now the slide ring with shortcut show up on the lockscreen then I slid the ring to get the security pattern or pin to enter the system.

for the SLIM recents I tried your instruction and found out how to remove all. thanks again.

as for the gapps. I looked at CM11.00 and the carbon gapps and sow the same date stamp and same size so I thought it is one package. I will download gapps from this OP and reflash it.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Thanks for the note about the weather widget, that gives me a place to start to fix it. +1
[Galaxy S II General] big_biso:
I have some more feedback.

- Disabled HW overly is checked by default. this fine since it fixes the hangout crash

- programing the buttons does not work. for example if I program the menu button or any other button long press to start torch or to start the camera nothing happens. (works fine in CM11.0)

- Active display. I understand that the active display is responsible of the lockscreen notification and other features. by default it is off but I still get lockscreen notification and the phone still wakes up if I take out of my pocket. it seems if I turn it off or on it does not do anything. it is always on.

- The Feature from to rotate home screen and lock screen does not work properly. It work only on lock screen but not on home screen (which is not necessarily a big deal for me, but I just noticed it)

- one of my apps (magicJack) starts ok but then just loop on initializing and do nothing so it is unusable. it was working fine in CM11.0. logcat shows problem getting a lock. I am including a logcat for that probably the same issue happen with the games that reported before
[Galaxy S II General] Pyvesb:
Hi there !

I downloaded and tried out the Rom a few weeks ago, after running with official Roms for more than two years ! Works great ! Very smooth and doesn't drain battery in an extensive way. I just had problems with the Carbon Settings tile not working but I think that problem was corrected in newer versions. Thanks for the work, I'll download the latest nightly build in the afternoon !
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Camera Fix!!!

I have a flashable zip to fix the camera... Full 1080p video recording and google camera settings are also fixed ;)

Just flash from CWM... It only replaces /system/etc/media_profiles.xml with a patched version.

SGH-I757M-CM11.0-Camera-Fix.zip (370.7kb)

EDIT:

Should mention that there is still a pause when you start recording video but at least now 1080p works ;) More to come!!!
[Galaxy S II General] big_biso:
Thanks TF. IS this for all ROMS or only CM11.0?

Any new Carbon builds you are working on
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
This will work on any of my KitKat based roms ;)
[Galaxy S II General] big_biso:
when installed from zip it failed on Carbon (your Beta latest Build with SLIM recents). The error is Please update to latest binary. error in SGH-CM11.0-Camera-fix.zip (status 6). Installation aborted.
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Sorry about that. I forgot to update the update-binary :( Here is an updated zip ;)

SGH-I757M-CM11.0-Camera-Fix.zip (370.7kb)
[Galaxy S II General] big_biso:
flashed and tested. Recording works fine in 1080p
[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Unfortunately, carbon has implemented some of the commits for the new theme chooser which has broken the build. Builds right now are unstable. I'm hoping they fix it soon and integrate the new slim recents and hw key rebinding.
[Galaxy S II General] danrobi:
Thanks Titanic , these roms are close to perfection.
[Galaxy S II General] Blazing Hornet:
Thanks for the fix TF! I can confirm the settings in the new Google Camera work and are accessible as well as the 1080p. Only issue I have now is after recording a 1080p video and playing it back it will cause the video to freeze and the phone will reboot if you rotate the camera during playback.