[Galaxy S II Android Development] MaTSuNg:
Another F-ing S-load of non sense again, filling the thread with YOUR opinion and how YOU think things should be done we've heard enough of your opinion and if this forum was "managed" correctly it wouldn't be about cluttering or not the information it would be about removing EVERY SINGLE POST associated with arrogance, hatred or condescending messages. That would also mean removing every post you filled this thread with TIME AND AGAIN.

I consider myself a fast learner and asked about 3-4 questions in this thread. When I came here to ask a question I had already realized

1) That my OTA update was a bad move (Funny that CM updater still allows 12.1 tu screw up their phone instead of sending a message "DON'T DO IT" when it offers you the CM13 update.

2) That Cyanogen recovery wasn't working, that the cards weren't mounting with the recovery AND that Gapps would not work correctly due to a partition issue on the S2's system at origin.

I started my journey READING and came accross some parts of the readup that can be confusing since it keeps sending you AROUND AND AROUND to different threads that have been edited, and different versions of different tools also changed during the whole time it was posted.

In the end putting all the pieces together I ended up doing it right. And having had the frustration of people being THAT ARROGANT when my questions were clear and showed interest in learning whilst doing the operation itself, who the hell moderates this?

Anyone with problems doing the update should post a CLEAR STEP BY STEP of what they did AND WHERE IT HAS HALTED during the process. That way you can easily detect if the person has read or not if his steps are not coherent nor do they respect what the OP says to do. Secondly you can also quickly bring assistance where the mistake was made IF the correct steps seemed to have been followed in "whole"!

Clean up has to be done, some users here are toxic, and completely useless to this community at this point in their way of approach to certain users.

For those coming up here writing OMG MY GAPPS AREN'T WORKING are the ones that need a good ass kicking. For the rest who need help actually following the steps and have done homework, I would be willing to help.

Mat

---------- Post added at 01:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:16 PM ----------

A note on the guide :

Its alright I guess, but what if it could be simplified, a lot of simple minded people come here to do like Lanchon says "Get their own" and aren't willing to contribute well, here's what they should know in a series of SINGLE steps without 4 thread of full page reading :

1) Are you REPARTITIONED for Gapps ? (If yes MOVE ON to #2 if not, go learn about that, and make sure you do THAT right and come back HERE after)

2) Make sure you have an ISOREC compatible Kernel AND recovery (seems CWM or TWRP are functional) TWRP worked for me and it was my first experiencewith it rather easy to use!

(Sidenote) I had initially "screwed my phone up" using the OTA and trying a kernel that didn't seem 100% compatible, so I got the 2.8.4 version of TWRP (non ISOREC) (flashed through ODIN) just to have a working recovery and a base to start fixing up my phone. There seems to be a correct TIMING to press HOME POWER and VOL UP to get into recovery without reseting phone and without it just doing nothing, so sometimes multiple tries can be needed!

3) Make sure you have CM13 latest nightly on an SD card and an Android 6 Gapps, (go to OPENGAPPS and find the one that most interests you) I rather get the MINIMAL google intervention on my phone (PICO) and I'm happy with that since 3-4 years easy.

(Sidenote 2) Once inside 2.8.4 I flashed 2.8.7 USING TWRP no more ODIN at this point, funny thing is I rebooted and expected 2.8.7 but it was still written 2.8.4 I REFLASHED 2.8.7 then I flashed CM13, Then Gapps and everything was functional and it was now officially 2.8.7 *Go figure.*

4) All flashes should happen in "one instance" (TWRP, CM13, Gapps)

And in 80-90% of the cases everything should be FINE. I'm not the type of guy to backup all my "DATA" I don't use my phone abusively like some do with 70000 pictures and 3000000 mp3s and a bunch of other **** on it so TO ME doing a backup and trying to save anything on there is a waste of time I just flash a CLEAN slate, formatted storage completely and reinstall what I need sometimes you find out there's a bunch of apps you don't even need before a long time.