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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Steveromingagain:
Try redownloading ROM and use the Philz touch recovery from Vincom's Page. I've had goof luck with it and t.w.r.p .On Philz,make sure you select full wipe for new install ( backup data first ) Be patience on first boot and let settle for 10 mins before playing. Hope this helps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
New Build

This build has updates for SELinux (set to Enforcing by default), TWRP and F2FS support should be fixed (only format /data and /cache to F2FS if you decide to try it).

I'm not going to update post #3 until I have more testing feedback on this one:

ROM: Slim-skyrocket-5.1.1.beta.0.6-UNOFFICIAL-20150902-0532.zip

Suggest to use Slim Zero GApps as usual...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sealy64:
[MENTION=4435460]NoSpamDan[/MENTION] - Thank you for all you continue to do.

I clean flashed Slim 20150902 plus slim zero gapps 201508, using Philz. Some quirks I noted:

* Lockscreen always says "No Service." When I swipe away lockscreen, status bar correctly shows service. Going back to lockscreen continues to say "No Service." See attached image.

* When I open built-in browser, Slim web page loads but all buttons on it are empty. See attached image. I realize this probably is a problem with the Slim page, not the ROM or browser, but I don't know where else to report it.

* As with other recent ROMs, the MMS information in the default APN, named Internet, is incorrect. Both places the APN has Cricketwireless.net have to be changed to airwireless.net. Otherwise MMS (picture to single recipient) will not work. Although this likely is an "upstream thing," I do not know how to report things upstream.

* No phone sound after using Hangouts Dialer, requiring reboot to restore phone sound. The old faithful audio_update2.zip does NOT fix it anymore; there is no change in behavior.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sealy64:
[MENTION=4435460]NoSpamDan[/MENTION]:

One more: When I go into Storage and select USB Computer Connection from the menu, nothing happens. I have perennial problems with drivers on my Win8.1 computer, so this could be my problem - but you may want to try it to see whether it works for you.

---------- Post added at 02:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:43 PM ----------

[MENTION=4435460]NoSpamDan[/MENTION]: Still one more quirk: When adding a google account, either for initial setup or when adding another google account later, the fields for the email address and for the password do not show up on the screen. This has existed for multiple releases of this ROM; I have seen it in no other ROMs.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
PhilZ is deprecated so you're on your own with it.

Try toggling airplane mode on then back off...

No clue but I've had no luck with the "stock" web browser and think it stinks... :p

Not sure as I don't use Cricketwireless and my APN is sometimes set correctly, sometimes not. Post some screenshots of what it should be and maybe I can propose a change.

This is pretty new and once we lost our data connection stability, it fell through the cracks while we were trying to fix that. I'll look into it, thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
Not sure what's up with this yet. I am on Win7 and have had some issues too just recently. Will look...

What DPI are you using? It doesn't look like stock 240... There was a time when I noticed this back on 5.0.X but it's been good for many many flashes for me recently.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sealy64:
For a long time, the stock browser crashed endlessly on all ROMs, but it has been pretty stable (i.e. very few crashes) on all ROMs I have tried in the past few weeks. I use it only because it loads faster than Chrome, which is what I otherwise use.

Even though Philz is deprecated, it seems to make nandroids in about half the time of TWRP. I understand that its use is at my own risk, although I would not think it would cause the kinds of quirks we are talking about.

I am attaching a screen shot of the Internet APN. The screen shot has my notes about what I changed. This same issue has been present in all of the 2-3 ROMs I have tried lately. Changing Cricketwireless to aiowireless has been the only thing I have had to do to make all of them work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sealy64:
I have endless problems with drivers on my Win8.1. I am confident that it is software, not hardware, because if I uninstall and reinstall all drivers, it will work (sort of) for a few days and then work almost not at all until I install and reinstall again. Also, if I am in Philz recovery, I can communicate from laptop to phone with only a few problems, but once I boot into normal operation, it is much worse. I also note that, with the phone booted in normal operation, I sometimes get one second connect, one second disconnect, one second connect, ... and so on forever.

I did not change my DPI after clean flashing this ROM today. When I looked in settings just now, though, DPI was set to 200, not 240. Does such a setting survive through a wipe and clean install? I very well may have set it to 200 at some time in the past, but that would have been several wipes and clean installs ago.

Edited to add: After changing to 240 DPI and restarting UI, now I can see space to add google email address and password field, but still nothing (no asterisks) shows up in the password box until I press the Next button to continue; then all the asterisks show up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
I used to have a localprop file on my internal SD card that would set my DPI to 200 automatically, no matter what ROM I was on. Make sure you don't have anything similar going on.

It' s a mystery why mine wasn't showing login characters either but has been reliably showing them for the last 2 months or so...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sealy64:
I'm not familiar with localprop, but using ES File Explorer, I looked in /data and did not find a /data/local.prop file.

By the way, I want to make sure you saw that post 256 does have the Cricket/AIO APN information attached. I point this out because I had two posts in a row and it would be easy to see just the second.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sealy64:
[MENTION=4435460]NoSpamDan[/MENTION] Running 20150902 Slim + 20150902 slim zero gapps. Running google maps and navigation chokes phone. This morning I did a reboot and then started navigation. I started while still in my house on wifi. All seemed okay as long as I was on wifi, but of course having navigation while in your own home doesn't mean much. Then I went outside and got into my car. About the time the wifi had to handoff to cellular, the phone got extremely sluggish and stayed that way. It took about a minute for the map screen to switch from landscape to portrait. After going to lockscreen, it took more than a minute to wake back up from black screen. The LTE signal near my home is poor, which I though might explain part of the problem. I rebooted the phone and restarted navigation once I got into an area where I know the LTE signal is strong and reliable. I had similar symptoms and ended up having to reboot again to get control of the phone back. It I wonder whether ROM is having trouble with cellular connections and/or GPS. Because of the extreme sluggishness, I did not get a logcat.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
Can you get a log recording before your Wi-Fi drops out and into the lagginess?

Data was broken for a while but is fixed, and no GPS complaints till now :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sealy64:
I started recording a logcat, then started navigation while still on home wifi, then drove. Everything was OK for the first few minutes. Then problems started. First, if I tried to swipe lockscreen, it swiped to a fully black screen. After hitting the power button and swiping several times, with the same result, I swiped to the black screen and then hit the home key. That gave me a home screen. I think the Google Maps/Navigation screen was not re-painting, which was giving the fully black screen. During this time, I was continuing to get audio turn-by-turn, except that I think it missed one turn. A few minutes later, I got "GPS signal lost." This was in a flat area (no obstructions), so I don't think there was any legitimate reason for losing GPS. After driving another two miles, GPS still had not reconnected. Maps/navigation still was on my screen but not updating. Hitting home key did not minimize Maps/navigation screen; it just stayed there. After several minutes and multiple taps of the home key and of the power button, the screen finally went black. I pushed the power button (long press) several times and finally got a Reboot/Shutdown screen. I selected Reboot. I took about 30 seconds before it responded to that, and another minute or so to shut down, but it finally did so. After reboot, I got retrieved the recorded logcat: http://pastebin.com/WhbWckY8
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
Some Slim love for the Skyrocket:

Slim-skyrocket-5.1.1.beta.0.7-UNOFFICIAL-20150923-0608.zip

Suggest to use TK Pico Gapps.

Enjoy!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
I've been away from xda for a bit. I'm interested to see if this is a SELinux thing or not. Can you try installing the SELinux mode changer app from the Play Store and setting it to Permissive instead of the default of Enforcing? Then test the GPS again. That may help narrow down the issue.

Please start with the latest build I just posted if you do this. Thanks

Update: Just did a GPS/Google Maps test drive with no such symptoms whatsoever, SELinux set to Enforcing as is stock. Not sure what your issue could be...

Were you on battery or charging when you did this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
Having issues with the latest builds. Please use the last posted build in the thread.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
Brace yourself for this New Build!

Thanks for being patient...

Slim-skyrocket-5.1.1.beta.0.8-UNOFFICIAL-20151004-1812.zip

This build has the CPU minumum set to 192MHz and the PowerHAL has been updated. I believe the PowerHAL has been responsible for most, if not all of our lags.

My tester using the Slim Skyrocket build has reported 3 1/2 hours of SOT (screen on time) with about 50% battery left. No tweaks. Yes, you read that correctly... :D

Check it out and Enjoy!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sealy64:
Clean flash, slim 10/04/2015 + tk pico 9/20/2015 (latest available). Excited about the possibility of long SOT. Couple of repeat quirks/bugs: 1) regular dialer does not work after using Hangouts Dialer; 2) lock screen says No Service, even when regular home screen shows regular service; toggling Airplane Mode on and back off causes lock screen to correct, but having to do this is kind of annoying.

Edited to add: hardware button lights stay on when using phone. (This was the case in previous Slim, too. This does not happen with other ROMs that I think are slim-based, such as Tesla and Tipsy.)

Edit again to add: tried using bluetooth in car for phone. When I tried to dial someone, all I got was random choppy noise over car speakers, and the call failed to connect. Tried twice, same result. Switched to Tipsy (also slim-based, right?) and it worked.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
You can try flashing this audio patch for the audio not working after using Hangouts Dialer issue, but can you post a log of this dialer issue? What exactly is the issue? "Does not work" is pretty vague.

The "No Service" lock screen status text issue has affected several other devices, and I do see it on mine, but mostly at work. It's low priority right now...

Not sure about the lights thing... The current kernel supports BLN, in case you didn't know that. Sometimes the touch lights stay on when first booted, but turning the screen on resets them.

Also, for the Bluetooth issues, I'm testing some changes for the next build, but for now you can use the Selinux Mode Changer app, and change to Permissive... Bluetooth works fine. :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Shale107:
Pls help - No mobile data (Beta 0.8, Tracfone BYOP on AT&T network)

Hi,

Love the ROM. It makes my old S2 like a new phone! Nice and easy on the battery too. One serious problem though – no mobile data, only WiFi works.

I just activated it under Tracfone’s BYOP plan. It is on the AT&T network. Mobile data worked fine with Sultan’s CM12 (cm-12-20150212-Sultan-skyrocket.zip) on this phone with exactly the same APN settings, so the problem seems to be specific to this ROM. My Baseband version is I727UCMC1.

I’ve tried Beta 0.6 and 0.8 ROMs. Same problem. There is also an “!” next to the cell network signal strength icon. I saw references to data problems fixed in beta 0.3, but I can’t get it to work.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Here are main and radio logcats from ADB. They cover boot through a failed attempt to open the browser to a URL. Browser displayed ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED when it tried to open the SlimROMs website.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B1pQKiBtLCSXUEZWZ3dmb2I3RWM&usp=sharing

Note, Chrome also fails, but with ERR_INTERNET_DISCONNECTED.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sealy64:
[MENTION=4435460]NoSpamDan[/MENTION] - I agree that the No Service thing on the lock screen is more of a low-priority nuisance than a high-priority

problem.

The hardware button lights turn off after a few seconds of not using the screen, but the proximity detector does not turn them off when I put the phone to my face. The proximity detector does turn off the main screen during a call, just not the hardware button lights. During a call, if I hold the phone away from my face for five seconds, the button lights go off (with screen still lit). Then if I put the phone to my face, the screen goes off and the buttons stay off. If I then take the phone away from my face, the screen and button lights come on, as expected, but when I put it back to my face, the button lights stay on, unless I hold the phone at arm's length long enough to let the button lights time out and go back off.

I will have to test the bluetooth thing later. To be clear, when I tried it before, the car saw the bluetooth device and paired with it successfully. It also dialed (or appeared to) but all I got over the car speakers was strange pops and other sounds. If the issue were SELinux, would that happen, or would bluetooth not work at all (i.e., not even be detectable)?

The built-in dialer works correctly unless I use hangouts dialer and then try to use the built-in again. After using Hangouts Dialer, the built-in appears to dial but there is no audio. It has done that for several releases. It is slightly different in the most recent release, however. In previous releases, a few seconds after initiating a dial with the built-in dialer, the mm:ss counter would start running, but there would be no sound. In the most recent release, the built-in dialer still seems to start the dialing sequence normally, but it never progresses and now does not get to the mm:ss counter stage. After installing the audio_update-2.zip patch, the built-in dialer works correctly.

Here is a logcat, taken before applying audio_update2.zip, which includes a normal, successful dial/hangup with the built-in dialer; followed by a Hangouts Dialer dial/hangup; followed by a failed dial/hangup with the built-in dialer: http://pastebin.com/LCgU1L9U

Thanks again for all you do.

Question: are Tesla and Tipsy Slim-based?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
Thanks for the details. Yes, it is SELinux set to Enforcing which is killing the Bluetooth. It happened to me for even just the rings you hear when placing a call. It sounds all scratchy, choppy and cuts out and in really quickly. Pretty much useless lol. But setting SELinux to Permissive and rebooting and it works fine... :)

A test build is compiling as I type this.

I will look into incorporating the audio patch to see where we're at.

As far as Tipsy and Tesla, I have no clue if they're Slim based. Quite a few ROMs pull features from Slim... ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] zappa41:
Installed latest build and I'm still getting lag. It takes a few seconds when I tap an app to open. Scrolling is a bit laggy. Internet is slow. And as I'm typing this, the keyboard freezes like crazy. Also is there a slim OTA App
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
Clean flash the ROM... wiping /data and /system.

OTA for what? We are working towards one OFFICIAL release before moving to M.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
New Build

Here's the latest build with BT phone call audio working in SELinux Enforcing mode:

Slim-skyrocket-5.1.1.beta.0.10-UNOFFICIAL-20151025-0715.zip

Enjoy!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] zappa41:
When I'm searching the internet it kicks me back to the main search results constantly. I can't even finish an article without it kicking me off. Also the search results for pics doesn't show all the pics just black squares where the pictures should be. Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
You'll need to provide more information than that, as well as a log.

If it's the stock browser, then you may soon be in luck...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] zappa41:
Yes I'm using the stock browser
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
Try this build. The stock browser closing issues should be fixed... :good:

Slim-skyrocket-5.1.1.beta.0.10-UNOFFICIAL-20151027-0853.zip

Full wipe to install this. You may have deep sleep issues if you don't.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] zappa41:
Awesome. Thank you. Gonna flash this after work
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
Looking for feedback

As I'm working on M, I find myself wondering:

How many people are still using their Skyrockets as a primary phone?

How many will be interested in Slim6?

How many folks will be able to test for me?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] zappa41:
I use my skyrocket as my primary phone. Yes I have other phones bit I love my rocket. I am very interested in slim6 and I will also test for you
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Sealy64:
Skyrocket is my first and only (to date) smart phone. I still use it daily. I am interested in M, if the old girl really has the resources to run it. What will it take for you to know whether she actually does? I can test some, but because this is my daily drive, I have limited ability to test the earliest, buggy-est versions. On early, buggy versions, I would have to make a nandroid, install the new version, test a little, and then restore my nandroid as my daily driver.

(Same answer to your question in the Candy thread. I kind of like Slim better than Candy, though.)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] djjstew:
1. Secondary phone/no SIM

2. I am insterested in keeping my Skyrocket up to date just in case!

3. Excluding the fact that I have no SIM I can and am willing to be a tester. I sign in to XDA everyday!

Thank you!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] DroidFanJL:
It is not my daily driver. No sim, but I can put one in for testing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] gnac:
I'm interested, but my skyrocket is my only phone, so I need some stability, at least in messaging, email and phone before I can start installing test builds..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
Thanks for the feedback all... Still plugging away in my free time, which isn't a whole lot most recently. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Shale107:
Solution - No mobile data with Tracfone BYOP on AT&T network

I found a simple workaround. Over time, I have tried various 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0 based ROMs on two different phones, and a pattern emerged. In all cases, I’m starting with the APN settings that Tracfone provided:

APN: RESELLER

MMSC: http://mmsc.mobile.att.net

MMS PROXY: proxy.mobile.att.net

MMS PORT: 80

MMS_APN RESELLER (no entry for this-just skip it)

APN type: default,mms,supl (no spaces)

I found that the key is the NVMO Type and NVMO Value: (Tracfone's instructions are silent on these two.)

5.0: MVNO Type defaults to None, and MVNO Value defaults to Not Set. Data and MMS work.

6.0: MVNO Type defaults to GID, and MVNO Value defaults to deff. Data and MMS work.

5.1: (Including this ROM) MVNO Type defaults to None, and MVNO Value defaults to Not Set. Data and MMS do *NOT* work.

But, changing MVNO Type to GID, and MVNO Value to deff fixes the problem.

One possibility may be that something changed in Android in 5.1, but the default APN settings didn't catch up until 6.0. I have no idea if or how this affects other carriers.

Hope this helps someone!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Michel177:
I727 and i727R user

Hi and thanks for your great work .I have been using your roms for quite a while and really appreciate them .I use them mostly on WIFI but I sometimes also buy a prepaid card either on Bell ,Telus ,Rogers or Virgin to test .I will continue to do so .
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] chanoman66:
SlimLP Great Stock-ish Skyrocket ROM

Using this ROM since November 2015, and very happy with it. It's on my main phone, suits my simple needs extremely well, and there's very little it can't do for me after properly setting it up. I don't care about layers or a glitzy UI. I want bang for buck functionality, and that's what I get!

The only bugs are very minor annoyances that are easy to work around: Apps moved to SD card disappear from home screens after reboot and must be replaced, but after some time, certain apps do stay after boot, while others still disappear. Also after reboot, usually you have to toggle airplane mode on/off to get rid of the "No Service" display. Some have reported GPS issues, but I haven't noticed excessive dropouts or dead areas. Occasionally it takes a few moments to coordinate, but It's fine for me. YMMV. I recommend using greenify for battery life, it really helps. Keep up the great work, This Skyrocket user really appreciates it. If I hadn't found this ROM, I would have upgraded to a newer phone as TW JB was no longer cutting it. It would be great to see an equally stable Marshmallow SlimLP ROM whenever possible.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] eosman:
I thought these devices and older only had 4gb partitioned from the 16gb for apps. I had this issue with 4.1.2 on my Skyrocket.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
I think of the 16 GB total, 12 GB is available to the user, and 4 GB is reserved for the system, data, cache and dalvik.

I have added app2sd in this, so you should be able to move apps which allow moving into that 12 GB of space:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] eosman:
Yeah it certainly helps for sure. Thought there are some apps that won't can utilize that niffy feature. Its not that big of a deal for me as I use the phone as a secondary device now and don't have any real large apps, i.e. games on it. I do love this ROM though. Its incredible how much better the phone is with Lollipop.