yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cameraddict:
They have Simple Choice prepaid. And post Paid. But neither is a contract. And both should allow upgrades. Once you have the phone, revert to your "Simply Prepaid" plan for the following month. That's how I bought my SII last summer. It was a refurb deal for $100 if I went from Simply to Simple Choice. I chose to pay monthly on the phone. Did that for a few months, paid the phone off and went back to my Simple choice place.

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Several years back, in the Touch Pro II days, some people had luck with certain higher capacity cards working than what was stated on the box. But not everybody's phone would actually accept the card. They could always access the base amount that the phone was specified for, even on bigger cards. But only some could get all of the bigger cards "extra" space.

Not sure if anyone every figured out why.

As for speed, it is dependent on what the I/O board in the phone allows. Again, this is spec'ed at the time of manufacture. Newer, higher speed cards will not be faster in older I/O tech'ed devices.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
Actually the whole dilemma is solved for me. I have narrowed it down to either the Asus Zen Phone 2 or the One+. The One+ has come down in price and all of a sudden is more available, and the Asus phone has flat out awesome specs for the price. Only downside is the Asus has practically zero development while the One+ has development we only dream of over here. The bonus about buying either phone is not having to buy it through a carrier or on credit. Only other thing now is deciding when to buy. I just got back from vacation so I'd like to pad the funds a bit before I make my move. That and I'd be remiss not to mention this ROM has really made this phone so much easier to live with. Something I've pointed out more than once but bears repeating. If not for this ROM I would no longer be using this phone, and that's a fact.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mp3deviant721:
Sultan is dev-ing for the OPO... Seems like his ROM for thr OPO is just as stable as this one is. Just letting you know. :)

OnePlus One | Euphoria OS x Boeffla edition™
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
I took a look over there, seems like there is an entire legion of developers! I'd still go with the Asus easily given its external SD support if there was even one really good ROM available. Right now it can be rooted but that's it. Given how new that device is it might just be a matter of time before that changes though. It's so popular they can barely keep it in stock. Either way it's a relief to know that a contract or certain "plans" are not needed just to get a high end phone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cameraddict:
The Zen phone has some awesome specs! I hadn't realized. I only buy used devices, so it may be my next device in a year or so.

Ditto on your sentiments about this ROM keeping SII alive! I'm looking forward to using Sultan's L ROM when it stabilizes a bit more.

Good luck with your next device!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
Thanks man. I do carefully want to comment as far as LP vs KK is concerned, at least for this particular phone. I tried various LP ROMs in March and I tried one of them last week for the first time since then. Surprisingly the experience was even worse than in March (believe me, as many ROMs as I have tried over the years I flashed it correctly just FYI). I know our few devs left here are doing their best to bring a fast, stable LP ROM to the Hercules but it might just be too much to overcome for this old phone. Looking around at the other forums many newer devices already have stable versions of LP and have had them for awhile. Also you have to consider there are probably good reasons there are no official LP releases for legacy devices such as this one. But hey, I thought that about KK and we got this ROM, so who knows. It's smooth sailing from here on out and then LP for the next phone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] eric93se:
Personally I thought the zenfone at $200 was going to be awesome, but I don't like to be the early adopter slash guinea pig. So I waited and people are saying how bad the battery life is with the intel cpu. Over at slickdeals.net someone mentioned that there is a new version of the zenfone with a octa core snapdragon coming out and with higher res front/rear cameras, so I'm going to wait on pricing for that. here's the link ZenFone Selfie (ZD551KL) release date is for this month . That was the other thing the camera in the zenfone 2 was not considered all that good.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
Name me just one phone where people haven't complained about battery life. Every phone I have ever read reviews on has a few people complaining about battery life. On the camera IDK, it has 13 megapixel back and 5 megapixel front. Sure beats what we have now. That said the OPO is a proven player. Going to be a tough call.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Sultanxda:
I'll give a downvote on the OPO. The OEM's software (both CM and OxygenOS) are either garbage (ridden with bugs) or incomplete (ex: no 4k recording with OxygenOS). The display has a refresh rate of 62 Hz, causing lags and jerkiness in the UI (refresh rate should be 60 Hz). And to top it off, my NFC broke today, so I need to RMA.

Also, the OPO uses an aging processor with a 3.4 kernel. The new phones of 2015 use 3.10 kernel, and 3.10 doesn't work very well on the OPO.

Sent from my OnePlus One

EDIT: The firmware on the NFC controller just got corrupted, so my NFC lives again :p
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] obscuresword:
Blue Energy, Ascend Mate2, Droid Turbo, Z3 compact, and maybe the ZTE Max I guess lol.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
Appreciate those comments. You just made my decision easier.

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I'll take your word for it but you just haven't read enough reviews I bet! Anyway beauty is always in the eye of the beholder as they say.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Agent_667:
Been using this ROM for months now, went back to stock for a few weeks due to one issue that annoys to no end and i havent found a solution for it after searching for weeks. Just did a complete fresh install and have the issue again where the mic record volume is quite low. Calls seem to be fine, people can hear me but for recording video with the camera or using snapchat to record video or walkie talkie apps like voxer, anything that records audio from the microphone its unbearably low. Playing the audio back to myself with the volume max i can barely hear whats being said in the video 5 feet away with the speaker directly against my ear. Any help is greatly appreciated as this is the only ROM ive stuck with for so long because of its stability, every other rom seems to fall apart after a month or so of use. Any info needed just ask, unsure of what to provide but i see this issue has popped up a couple other times in this thread and others.

Hercules running latest ROM and kernel from the OP links.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
This might be more app related than ROM related. I rarely use voice recording, but the few times I have the volume output has been loud & clear. Same with video recording too. This phone's speaker is also very low without help from Viper or the equivalent.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Agent_667:
I was actually just looking into viper, but its not the speaker thats the issue sadly. People im talking with via snapchat or voxer etc report my sound being quite low.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] eric93se:
Anyone know of a mod or hack to get the phone louder in call? Any ambient noise and It's a real pita to hear the caller.

Speaker phone is plenty loud, I'm talking about when its not appropriate.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cpnfantstk:
I'm glad you pointed this out. I thought it were my ears. Hopefully there is something we can do.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Ufoex:
I can not detect the internal memory. I can not take pictures or download. but if I can install apps.

anyone know why?

google translate I helped me
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] eric93se:
Are you coming from Sultans CM12 ??
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cameraddict:
Update Service wakelock

Hi All.

I am currently using the 10/11 version of the ROM. It has been so stable for me over the months that I haven't bothered upgrading. However, in the last month or two I have been hit with the Play Services System-update Wakelock. I use disable service app to manage this. That works fine, but I have to do this every time I restart the phone. That's a pita.

Does the most recent version of the ROM handle this wakelock gracefully?

Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
Unfortunately no, in fact I just disabled a few sync functions like Google Fit which I had no idea was even running. The bulk of what's eating battery at this point is Play services. I even turned off update notifications but it didn't help much.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cameraddict:
Yep, I found all those sync items a few months ago and disabled most. I left my essentials like gmail and calendar etc. But this is the system_update_service where, from what I've read, Android looks for an updated version of the ROM, not finding it obviously since this is custom, it keeps running. Matter of fact, it won't allow a phone to enter deep sleep at all! So, this is the service I'm wondering about. Does your phone deep sleep currently?

Thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] eric93se:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.org/topic/101955-cm11-insert-sd-card-cannot-write-to-storage/

In terminal

su
chown media_rw:media_rw /mnt/media_rw/sdcard0
chmod 777 /mnt/media_rw/sdcard0

After that format all your partitions individually. And then install your ROM.

Data - EXT4

System - EXT4

Cache - EXT4

Internal SDCard - FAT

Preload EXT4
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
Great question, and man I guess I have gotten so comfortable I have been falling down on the job so to speak. I almost never check for that anymore, and after reading your post I just did. Turns out, it hasn't been deep sleeping at all until I just now disabled every sync but app data, Inbox and Browser. Before just the past hour it has been awake all the time. Now all of a sudden I'm seeing a spot or two of deep sleep. I should know more later after several hours if this is really working or not.

I should have known something was up with all the extra battery drain the last few months but I just chalked that up to the kernel updates & such. Last week when I checked battery usage I could see Google Play services almost always near the top unless I had a whole lot of screen time. That should have clued me in to investigate further, just don't fo as much with this phone like I used to so I basically yawned and moved on. Thanks for bringing up the deep sleep question.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cameraddict:
Damn! That sucks. Oh well.... I guess I keep killing the service after every reboot for now. Thanks for confirming that for me.

And good luck with your wakelocks. FYI, that App I mentioned, besides having to use it after every reboot, does the trick. Using Now with location services, I can manage 2-4% an hour on average (with 1-2 hours of screen use). I also use LLama to automate the hell outta my phone... and using some intricate rules, I can lower bat usage to about 1-1.5% over night.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
I can confirm my phone is getting deep sleep now that I turned nearly all those Google syncs off. Fortunately I won't need any apps to stop the wakelock from Play services. This should result in the battery consumption I was getting way back when it was about 2% an hour rather than the 5-6% it's been lately.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cameraddict:
Awesome! 2% an hour is pretty darn good. But turning off most of the Androidy stuff is disappointing. I use location services with Now. I sync Inbox and calendar and Keep. I don't think I would enjoy my phone without those apps/services. Before using Now, I was getting 1.5-3% an hour. With Now, I average between 3.5 -5% during the day and about 1.5 overnight, with sync turned off.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cameraddict:
Dirty Flash

Can anyone confirm that dirty flashing versions (from older to newer) with this ROM and Kernel is okay?

I am on the 10/14 version and am considering moving to the newest. But I really don't want to start from scratch right now.

Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
Well today it was the same old same old. So now I have turned off all syncing to see if that helps this issue. I don't need to get email notifications anyway as I check it enough on my own. So if this doesn't work I might have to try that app after all.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cameraddict:
In BBS the culprit shows under partial wakelocks as SystemUpdateService as part of Google Play Services.

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I've been toying with stopping email sync as well. I've already turned off sound notifications. But, Now pulls data for me from my email. I suspect it would lag if it didn't sync. I think I will try it out this week...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
I downloaded an app called Disable Services and that did the trick. Battery life is back to normal thankfully. I haven't checked to see if the settings stick on boot but even if they don't it's no trouble to go in and disable the Play services update. I re-enabled the syncing of what I use also. Good to go. BTW reading reviews for that app apparently this issue is very widespread.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kelbaez:
I solved this problem with Tasker which I already had installed and running some tasks, here are the instructions if anyone want to try..

* Tasker and Root required

** tested and survives reboot

1. Create a profile based on "Event > System > Device Boot"

2. Add a "Run Shell" action with the command

"pm enable com.google.android.gms/.update.SystemUpdateService"

and tick the "Use Root" option

3. Add a "Run Shell" action with the command

"pm disable com.google.android.gms/.update.SystemUpdateService"

and tick the "Use Root" option

Original Source: https://plus.google.com/112425488314892935797/posts/VqubRkcTpEE
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ulibube:
I've seen this issue with the built-in AOSP sound recorder app and it's present through the latest 5.1 Kernel. I think I posted about it previously. Still hoping it'll receive a remedy sometime. There were one or two others who brought it up.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cameraddict:
Yep, that's the app I use. Let me know if it survives reboot for you
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
The settings are surviving reboots but oddly enough I found several more things in my Google account listed for syncing when I checked today after I noticed Play Services was still keeping my phone from deep sleeping. So I deactivated some more Google stuff running, about 10 things Play services had running out of 17. That reduced battery way back down (at 65% after 13 hours). However the device went from deep sleeping earlier today to not sleeping again. I checked the battery list and services was near the bottom of the list so as long as the battery use stays normal I'm going to leave well enough alone. I added Greenify back to my phone to add a little (and I do mean little) help.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] eric93se:
So Sultan, is there anyway you can boost the microphone sensitivity and ear piece volume in the kernel?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cameraddict:
Nice to see the settings survive a reboot. I'm thinking it's maybe the difference between the ROM versions we are using. I haven't had the chance to upgrade yet. I too saw a lot of crap I want to disable. But I'm waiting until the settings survive. I tried using the apps backup and restore feature, but it doesn't restore anything.

I wonder what stopped your deep sleep again...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] LimeliME:
I don't think you can boost it much higher, either you can boost it but with bad sound quality or can't be boosted at all. It all comes down to what the best of SGH-T989's hardware can do(unless you had saw a Rom that has better sound volume or mic :confused:).

I did find a possible solution for you from the internet, not tested by me: LINK
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
I think maybe it was after I got an emergency alert yesterday the deep sleep stopped. At any rate today after 4 hours I have 95% battery and the phone has been in deep sleep nearly all of that. That is more what I expect. I think after I deactivated those additional Google services last night that was the last piece of the puzzle. I'm relieved because I was also starting to wonder if the battery was going bad.

Google apparently isn't worried about battery drain on legacy devices, shocker right? I guess if our battery was a 3000 this wouldn't be a big deal.

On a side note, saw this article today on XDA about the ZenFone 2, looks like ROMs will be coming sooner than later: http://www.xda-developers.com/asus-zenfone-2-bootloader-unlocked-without-asus/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cameraddict:
No, they aren't too concerned with our battery issues! :) Mind if I ask you a few questions:

What freq is your processor set to?

What other Google services did you disable?

5% for four hours is great!

Nice to hear about the Zen Phone development! Sweet. Though, I only buy used devices, so I would be waiting until next year anyhow.

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By the by. I use Now with battery saving Location services enabled. I have WiFi on, at home set to never turn off. With 21 minutes of screen on time, I have used 8% of my battery in 1 hour and 55 minutes. So about 4.2% an hour.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
I can do one better than just typing the list. I uploaded the settings to Dropbox. You can just download the file to your internal SD card, then go into Disable Services settings and select "restore". Bang you'll have my exact setup: https://db.tt/ApSOllnm

On CPU I no longer over clock, then Ondemand for governor.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ahmad_ebrahimian:
hi dear

how to change internal memory (2gig) with external memory (micro sd) ???:mad:

tanx so much
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cameraddict:
Thanks for that. Unfortunately, the app won't restore my own backups :eek: ... well, on my older ROM version, that is. I need to bite the bullet and install the latest already!

I have my CPU set to 1200 or so. What is your bat usage with screen on for long periods? Mine is about 18-20.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
I can get about 2 to 2.5 hours SOT right now, but that includes media server (Viper), Neutron, browser and other apps running during the same time. So for an 1850 battery I consider that normal.

It sounds like there are some quirks with your latest setup so you might want to update to 1/19. This ROM is not getting any more updates for KK so you might as well.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cameraddict:
Ha ha! I think I miscommunicated mine! :) I have 18-20%/hour of battery usage with constant SOT. But in reality, with normal use and stand by time included, I usually get about 20-30 hours total with about 1.5-2.5 hours of SOT. Regardless, I'll be updating in the next few days. Honestly, one of the biggest fixes I'm looking forward to is the audio fix after a Hangouts audio call!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ahmad_ebrahimian:
how to change internal memory (2gig) with external memory (micro sd) ???
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] javelinanddart:
[MENTION=4800121]Sultanxda[/MENTION] I'm having WiFi and Bluetooth Issues

I try turning them on and they say turning on, but then it goes to off

It's not on for even a second, even though it says turning on for a moment

I got a kmsg while this was happening and a logcat

kmsg: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B08INI3PrTjqOEFXU2l6emM1cVE/view?usp=sharing

logcat: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B08INI3PrTjqUWJRZFh3SlBYQzQ/view?usp=sharing

Do you have any idea what's going on?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
This happens to me with WiFi every so often, usually it comes back after a few minutes. I'm glad you presented those logs but I don't think Sultan has any plans to update this anymore so we'll have to live with it. Given the issues with LP if that's the worst we have to deal with I am fine personally.

BTW [MENTION=395284]cameraddict[/MENTION] I have nailed down exactly what in Play Services is causing the battery drain and deep sleep issues, it's fused location service and fused provider service . I re-enabled it so I could use Transit App and battery consumption went right back up. I'll just have to manually assign location from here on out I guess to use location dependent apps. Dear Google, you don't need my location every second of the day!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] javelinanddart:
This doesn't come back at all

This is on KitKat, not Lollipop
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
I know, I was just saying if that's the only bug, better that than deal with the bugs LP has. On the WiFi, what I do when it happens is I turn off/on WiFi a few times and then it finally connects again. Before I would reboot but it isn't necessary. Try that and see what happens.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] javelinanddart:
Already did, again and again

if that worked, I would've had it by now
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cameraddict:
I've often wondered about fused location. I agree about them not needing our location every minute, unless we have apps set that way (ie, location based reminders in Keep and Inbox, etc) But I don't use location based reminders. I think I may have mentioned using Llama for automation. I am about to experiment with the Tasker plugin called System Services to automate location services. I use location services at various times throughout the day, but I don't need them constantly. And I like to automate, so I'm looking forward to seeing how well this works.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
I'd say the battery problem is under control:

Granted I didn't use the phone much yesterday (16 minutes SOT, no calls and a few texts) but with the same usage before I would only have about 20% left or less.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cpnfantstk:
Well, T-Mobile is shutting down the HSPA network in many cities. However I read that our phone can pick up the 1900Hz band and use the PCS HSPA network so it won't affect our phone. Is this correct? Customers who do not have an LTE phone can get a free upgrade to a small selection of LTE devices . People will be receiving a text from T mobile about the free upgrade if they qualify and when their city/area is affected.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
You can bet the "free selection" is going to be all low end phones and the rest high end with huge price tags. This will be the point I'll have to go ahead and get the ZenFone unless we can use that 1900Hz band you mentioned. I have no intention of paying those inflated prices or ending up with a phone that you'd see a Cricket user have.