yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II Android Development] KRZTF:
thanks fubo73!

i am reading through the thread, it is just so much info and hard to find the right info... i am getting more and more confused about the proper next steps...

can you please recommend a kernel, i can now flash via odin?

can i flash isorec right away (probably not, as i only fnd ZIP files) or should i first flash new kernel, new rom, and then isorec?

thanks everyone for your patience
[Galaxy S II Android Development] fubo73:
I cannot recommend as I did never experienced the issue right now. I would use any CWM/TWRP kernel flashable through Odin, then flash again CM13+gapps+isorec recovery.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] daniu:
Yeah - agree to that. Actually I think everybody should have a set of philz recovery in tar format and an odin installation working just in case something happens. There are not really that many different recoveries in tar format so I would not expect to flash the final one in odin right away but rather get your device loading a proper recovery and do the rest from there since that is where most people do most flashing stuff ... It is however not too difficult to change a zip into a tar file - search xda to find howto if you still want to do it (I think it makes no sense)

BTW: I reread this here which in my opinion backs my theory how isrec works - flashing a new kernel does not alter the isorec recovery. Honestly I never tried so far and - in spite of the fact that early ROMs made your device unusable before odin-ing I guess I would also flash the isorec recovery each time. In TWRP it's a very short step anyways.

regards
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Facuu:
Issues: dialer and contacts not working on 160 dpi

Gesture (swype writing) not working.

Cant install viper audio ( lack of busybox) that last one i didnt try a lot so i assume i can sort it out

Enviado desde mi GT-I9100 mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Draky50110:
With default keyboard ?

Working for me (AZERTY) + french dictionary)
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Facuu:
Default keyboard, tried two nightlies, and now downloading latest one, but it never worked for me.

I dont use gapps, but i assume that has nothing to do with it

Enviado desde mi GT-I9100 mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II Android Development] ssandyji:
who have problem with TB to read write backup from ext sdcard please do this

go to backup folder location than click on storage provider than click on document provider than open window to set permission to exsdcard select sdcard01 than select at the bottom side

done than you slect any folder from extcard to read or go to take backup

sorry for bad english hope some one understand this

thanx
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Syaani:
To do dirty update or not to do. (from nightly to newer nightly) That's the question!
[Galaxy S II Android Development] gordak985:
Do it! I did it last night, no problems...
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Klitoni:
How did u proceed ?
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Syaani:
Yeah I think I'll try it. Usually I go fresh to avoid issues but now I am too lazy.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Boolian:
S**t, you're correct about Titanium!

I never noticed. Thanks:good:
[Galaxy S II Android Development] mminoss:
The only problem i have is : when i am on camera, i have the message "please insert sd before using camera", but there is one on device..

I read a lot of page in this forum but dosent find solution..

Please help me ;)
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Draky50110:
In camera parameters/settings, you can choose where it saves photos.

I choose external SD.

Didn't try with the other choices.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] mminoss:
Thnaks for your answer but i don t the choice in this option.. We doesn t selct the destination..
[Galaxy S II Android Development] eminem_b:
I decided to give encryption a try today. Here are my results:

Encryption seems to work, I'm just not sure yet if it's working for my SD card too.

It requires me to enter a password (or PIN) at first unlock (after boot).

The encryption process seems to work correctly, it encrypts for a few minutes, reboots a couple of time and in the end, done.

Here's what bothers me:

* I removed the lockscreen PIN and it doesn't ask me for it anywhere, even at first boot.

* How can I be sure it's encrypted since it doesn't ask me for anything, except the SIM PIN, which doesn't take part in all of this?

* Despite all this, in the Security settings, the device still says it's encrypted.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] aniket.lamba:
Is anybody willing to test a couple of ROMs? PM me for the links.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Lanchon:
no!! isorec is: flash once and forget

CM will never overwrite your isorec recovery, only its own recovery bundled with the kernel.

(and if using isorec, that recovery is being ignored anyway.)

if you want to go back to the bundled recovery, flashing cm WILL NOT DO IT!

to return to the bundled recovery you need to flash the isorec disabler (just once)
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Draky50110:
To test :

- put your microSD card in your computer : you can't read content.

- put your SD card in another android phone : you can't read it (maybe it asks to format, don't know).
[Galaxy S II Android Development] x3dnd3x:
Wondering how stable this ROM is. Don't have any spare phones already. :sad:
[Galaxy S II Android Development] fireburner-de:
Just tested USB-OTG for a short time, but it let me open a pdf without any problems. Dpn't know if it is stable or unstable.

Well it would work to set up everything manually. Thats not the problem.

The problem imho is, that by restoring my backup, AntennPod thinks external storage is at /storage/sdcard1/. But infact it is now /storage/4910-A866/ in CM13.

Therefore it gives me an error when opening, saying ot can't find external sd-card, which ius true, because /storage/sdcard1/ no longer exists on CM13.

So it would need to change the path in the appropriate config file, which i have no clue, where I would find it.

Also the problem aren't really my downloaded podcast files, as I would just copy them in right folder. I would loose/redo all the subsriptions and also the state which episodes have been played, when I would set it up manually, again.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] daniu:
Hi,

then I'd say that is a topic for the programmer of AntennaPod, not CM13 ... I just realize: you are right - nothing can be done in antennapod in CM13 since it does not even start ...

regards
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Lanchon:
he is right

no, it is not.

/preload always was and now continues to be unused. but most custom roms mount it in /preload anyway, and CM12.1 would not boot at all if unable to mount (bug!). so the thing had to be there.

somebody tried to do something remotely similar to isorec using /preload before isorec. but it was the wrong way of doing it IMO and didnt work, and the wrong partition too. so i chose a different one you never heard of: it's called RECOVERY and it's never been used and is never mounted anywhere (so no path). it was probably just part of an abandoned plan at samsung to Do The Right Thing®; what would they care anyway...
[Galaxy S II Android Development] fubo73:
Then why flashing a nightly over a previous cm13+isorec recovery will not run isorec recovery but its own recovery as reported by some user?
[Galaxy S II Android Development] fireburner-de:
Well it does start, when no backup is restored.

And as I wrote, it might be fixed in 1.5 build.

I think, that user might have done something wrong. maybe he flashed a non IsoRec compatible kernel after flashing CM13.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Lanchon:
for f sake you should stop doing crap and read and understand things before messing with your phone!!!!!

and dont ask **ME**!!! me and others have written hundreds of OPs for you, which you obviously didn't read

---------- Post added at 12:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:16 PM ----------

because said user can't tell an android 6.0 phone from a baked marshmallow. he thinks he flashed isorec recovery because he might have flashed an isorec compatible kernel at some point in the past, he wants to flash isorec recovery with odin (jesus!!!), he certainly has no idea what isorec is, and he is completely lazy and didn't ever even google isorec. he has zero interest in learning and only wants HIS phone fixed; imagine how far would xda have gone if we were all like him. and he is selfish as hell because he wastes the time of all of us -but he doesn't care. and a little stupid too, because by not reading he wastes a lot of his time too trying stupid things. xda is not a phone repair shop; if you don't want to learn, you've no place here.

sorry if this offends anyone, but this kind of thing is exactly what makes me want to stop putting up stuff in xda. i'm only interested in speaking with people that make an effort to learn and contribute, at least from a user perspective. another example: yesterday i published a repartitioning tool that does not wipe your data. it has 350 downloads now, 28 thanks, and like posts from 3 guys, mostly because they have uncommon needs. would it kill the rest to say "hey thanks, it worked" so i know things are ok? 99% of people don't even want to contribute THAT! good thing at least they're not posting post crap and leave us alone.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] fubo73:
I must say sorry to anybody here. I tested myself by flash latest CM13(+xposed) again, and when booting in recovery I get the IsoRec TWRP. Sorry Lanchon for my doubts!

I totally agree that most users do not read anything at all because claim to be scared of the number of posts. But the few things I learnt in XDA came from searching, some from testing myself.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] daniu:
what drives me nuts is that these users must be the first to try something new and of course they set their CMupdater to update to nightlys ...

I am reading here and try to understand things before doing something and I think I kind of do but I would never act like this and I would not be bold enough to flash things like a major new version before I hear that a good amount of people has successfully tried the thing ... that's why my first CM13 ROM was from 8/2 ...

So please: if you guys are not able to fix problems yourself and get back to some working ROM just be patient and don't just flash anything on the spot ... nightlys are for people who know how to get back - no matter what happens.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] mminoss:
I wanted to thank you . I managed to find himself the problem of access to the photo gallery. We had to reflash and format the partition to ext4 . Cheers and thank you again for your help
[Galaxy S II Android Development] franticfreddy:
Anyone tried install SuperSU with success on latest 10 Feb,2016 nightly?

Did it succeeded?

My experience is, when set se linux to permissive mode, the SuperSU

apk can be installed and it also works great, but when reboot system

then its stuck booting in cm logo.

But when perfoming soft fast reboot, SuperSU is still working.

Strange thing..

Must have something to do with ramdisk..

We strongly need a fix for ramdisk format and default

kernel se linux mode setting..

Best regards.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] the.gangster:
Even if I never was in doubt and even managed to ignore some wrong posts without trying to explain it correctly (like yours and the assumption of use of preload of daniu), but if I read your comment now I doubt you did what they reported. As they wrote that the isorec recoveries where no longer used after OTA-updating. I assume, you didn't do it that way, as you also flashed xposed.

But anyways:

Just maybe (and that's a really huge 'maybe' but the only likely one) the OTA does kind of erase /dev/block/mmcblk0p6 when the developer option to update CM-recovery is selected. That setting was always useless on i9100 as we never made use of the recovery partition. But maybe now that setting gets a starring role in here after [MENTION=4141005]Lanchon[/MENTION] breathed life into it, meaning after isorec uses it...
[Galaxy S II Android Development] fubo73:
Right. I disabled OTA immediately, I always update through recovery.

Sent by my SM-G900F, aka Galaxy S5
[Galaxy S II Android Development] daniu:
You did not get what he was saying - he us talking about the setting "update cyanogen recovery" under developer options...

Sent from my x-phone using brain 2.0
[Galaxy S II Android Development] fubo73:
You did not get my answer. I was confirming what he stated on first part of his post.

About second part I do not comment as I do not use OTA and I am not a developer! :)

Sent by my SM-G900F, aka Galaxy S5
[Galaxy S II Android Development] oscarlamyf:
How is the performance after encryption? Can I revert the encryption by backup and restore in recovery?
[Galaxy S II Android Development] DARIF:
I'm having this problem as well. Can you explain in detail what you did to fix this? How do I format partition to ext4?
[Galaxy S II Android Development] prateekjain2003:
Is Doze working? My battery is draining
[Galaxy S II Android Development] daniu:
Hi

SuperSu by chainfire does not support our cm13 yet but check the thread - there is a post with a link to a post by chainfire writing that he is working on supporting more ramdisks

Regards

Sent from my x-phone using brain 2.0
[Galaxy S II Android Development] the.gangster:
He got me right, you did not.

Maybe you shouldn't comment everything on first read. (No offence)
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Syaani:
Works for me (tm)
[Galaxy S II Android Development] nhsh99:
hello,

I have tried to download cm 13 in my s2 i9100,and I make flash to benzo gapps pack.

It's downloaded successfully, but when I boot my device and I open google play store app, it opens and it pull down or close immediately.:crying::crying::confused:

what I can make?:confused:
[Galaxy S II Android Development] chrisXL:
Hello guys, it's my opinion that the thread is out of control. Too many support requests, too many wrong information, too many attempts to explain. I would have only two questions.

1. where are the moderators?

2. it's possible to move the last few hundred posts in a new CM13 help thread (like on cm12.1)? Sorry for a further OT and no offense to anyone
[Galaxy S II Android Development] eminem_b:
I have no idea if you can revert with backups. The performance is ... maaaaaybe a little bit worse, but then again, might be just imagining things.

However, performance should be worse, which is an expected effect. The CPU is doing additional work to decrypt every single file access.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] johaend:
[MENTION=6474041]Syaani[/MENTION] Try to check all partitions for errors, and also take out the battery a couple og minutes after full charge. Worked for me to stop battery from draining...
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Syaani:
You answered for a wrong person :)
[Galaxy S II Android Development] johaend:
Yeah, was ment for [MENTION=7262300]prateekjain2003[/MENTION] :)
[Galaxy S II Android Development] IonutGherman:
I still have problems with mobile data. It's connecting only when it wants...I am really nervous with this but I don't want to go back to 5.1.1 to lose all data
[Galaxy S II Android Development] 4D4N:
Hi

I had the same issue

Try flashing any KK compatible kernel in .tar with odin then sideload the newer nightly (dont forget to wipe cach as you can't do it with CM13 recovery...)

This is what i did

Consider flashing (Sideload) an isorec to stay away of such problems for future nightlys until the OTA gets fixed
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Lanchon:
interesting hypothesis. CM flashing the wrong partition would be a bug in CM that needs fixing. can you or somebody test this?

you can do this in recovery:

sudo adb kill-server

sudo adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0p6

to pull the partition to the PC, before and after the OTA
[Galaxy S II Android Development] fireburner-de:
I just asked myself why this thread allows users with 0 posts to post in here?

I remeber back some weeks, I couldn't post in CM12.1 thread until I had 10 posts.

This would keep out alot of noobs.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] petitburton:
I have a big problem i'm not rooted and i can't flash zip in my recovery, please what i making?
[Galaxy S II Android Development] fubo73:
The father of all dumb questions!!!

Why are you here? Learn how to root, how to flash a kernel with Odin, how to flash custom images and so on. It will take time as it took for all other users. READ READ READ READ READ!
[Galaxy S II Android Development] nothingman1976:
For the ones that want to save bandwidth.. I'm regularly updating cm13 nightlies using cyandelta. Everything works. You need to flash isorec and then you can upgrade using cyandelta.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] rfrs80:
i cannot install via recovery de Gapps on my samsung s2 cm13 rom , the option apply update is barred? help please!!!

Any kernel compatible with the cm13 to try again??
[Galaxy S II Android Development] petitburton:
But i have read many long time . maybe is possible rooted my phone with odin or with a sideload excuse me is not easy for me
[Galaxy S II Android Development] n8b:
I'm one of those who don't want to disturb developers and I only hit thanks.

But I see your point. So here I my CM experience:

I have been using CM since 10.2. Repitted a year ago (1GB/4GB) so nothing stopped me from applying the very first CM13 nightly. As soon as it was discovered that GApps wouldn't install I went to Odin on several pc's until I got it working. Looks like if Odin fails you have to power off and re-enter download mode. I have been running the phone without SIM for a long time but wanted to try CM13 with a SIM only to discover that it was not accepted. Baseband and IMEI missing :crying:. Luckily I had an EFS backup from before I repitted and I got it restored. All is good and my S2 works without problems.

T H A N K S to all developers and other contributors.

A Q/A thread would be nice.

Remember to backup :)
[Galaxy S II Android Development] jaswinprakash:
Excited....

NeatROM v6.4 ~ Bomber's Pack v3

Apolo 4.15b Regular kernel
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Lysergic Acid:
It will be solved sometime, but I don't promise for the next build as CM still is pushing more essential and important commits in their core framework. I need to focus on getting all the hardware working first.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] good8life:
Yes Mr

Sorry master for my question:

What time we can see new build .

Regard
[Galaxy S II Android Development] BlindEyes:
OK sir I'm just gonna bring back my original pit so I can test your build Waiting for nxt builds
[Galaxy S II Android Development] bhavstech:
what all is not working? Can this rom be used as a daily driver?
[Galaxy S II Android Development] philipped346:
no , ril data sound don't work :(
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Lysergic Acid:
I don't give ETAs just like any other developer, but I've uploaded a build with some updated CM13 sources I had built yesterday, nothing device specific changed yet. Anyway, here it is: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347850147
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Troubadour666:
hope more chance to boot this time ;)

thanks for your work [MENTION=6159291]Lysergic Acid[/MENTION]
[Galaxy S II Android Development] philipped346:
no chance with the upload , zip broken :(
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Troubadour666:
yes, you too ? :)

ohhhhh, i went to backup my RR 5.5.8 and try............>cwm said : (bad)

release alpha 1,2,3 were > 220Mo , this one is ~200Mo
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Lysergic Acid:
Any idea why it's not booting for you? No one seems to be able to get a log in phones not booting. I might upload a eng build if necessary.

Indeed, I thought the upload process was too slow. Just ignore that zip then, I'll upload another build when it's worth it.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] KeTuRr74:
Alpha 3 booted fine and work good for the moment.

If you need i can take you some logs if needed.

Ive only flashed the rom without gapps
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Lysergic Acid:
No, I need to know what happens to the phones not booting CM13, yours is probably ok like mine.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] KeTuRr74:
The first time its booted but after i choose i started to reboot and goes into a bootloop flashed with Philz.

With the installation of the rom TWRP has been installed and i tried back to flash the rom with TWRP, waited 10/15 min and its booted fine.

Probably a recovery issue ?

Philz 6.48
[Galaxy S II Android Development] nageswarswain:
I have modified the partition to 1gb sys n 4 GB data...so I think this is the cause for not booting...tried many times with gapps without gapps...
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Lord David III.:
the problem with stucking on Android starting screen I had also with cm 13 on the n5110, removing the sd card solve this problem also.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] BlindEyes:
Pit Question

Can I restore my previous back up when I'm done modifying 1gb sys and 4gb data ?

consider the fact that I'm from an another pit size
[Galaxy S II Android Development] nageswarswain:
Never tried this but it should work...try it your self
[Galaxy S II Android Development] asia559571:
amazing! and so are you:highfive:
[Galaxy S II Android Development] BlindEyes:
I will try this when I got some time I'm still busy for now
[Galaxy S II Android Development] Lysergic Acid:
What's this about?
[Galaxy S II Android Development] gordak985:
Edit: delete this post, I seem to be unable to.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] fireburner-de:
You know, that one should prepare properly before flashing custom ROMs?

Have you ever read the OP (opening post)?

Have you read the previous 10 pages in this thread?

Did you try to use the thread search?

If any of the above questions is YES, you haven't done it properly.

Now please read, read and read and don't spam this thread with already answered questions!
[Galaxy S II Android Development] JudoLudo:
hi guys. i'm on S2 GT-i9100. forgive me for a stupid question. there are 179 pages in this thread. I've only a small/big problem: the CM Recovery on CM13 (Nightly of 10/02/2015). I have to flash GApps, but CM Recovery does not make me do it. So I have to change recovery: I really would like to flash a TWRP Recovery, BUT I can't do it from CM Recovery. So.. which are the solutions?

1. Flash TWRP from Odin (and if yes, why don't I find a .tar/.md5 TWRP for GT-i1900?????);

2. Install Google Play Store from an APK downloaded from the web;

3. other...?

please forgive me if this question has been already made in previous pages, but I could not read everything. redirect me through some guides, tutorials, everything, please. I'm going MAD. :crying::crying::crying:

Thanks in advance.

-JL-
[Galaxy S II Android Development] MagMerlin:
Search only isorec in thread, and u get all u need connected
[Galaxy S II Android Development] JudoLudo:
thanks. but.. I already downloaded a file named " recovery-Lanchon-IsoRec-TWRP-2.8.7.0-20160113-i9100-(by-arnab).zip ", but I just cannot install it. because it's a .zip file. and I just cannot install .zip files from my CM Recovery... and it can not be flashed via Odin... what should I do with this file (and with a CM Recovery)? thanks.

edit: flashing isorec via ADB sideload does not work.....
[Galaxy S II Android Development] the.gangster:
Acknowledged.

Full of nice and really polite people.

And even all of them were crying.

And even most of them got answers.

It's not you, going mad.

It is us.
[Galaxy S II Android Development] wdevil12:
Create Development Thread in Original Development Section

I thought the same thing. They are allowed not just with 0 post but with 0 knowledge about modifications.

[MENTION=6159291]Lysergic Acid[/MENTION] I got a idea! Why not to give a Q&A flag to this thread and create new one in Original Development Section??? Every dev/user/noob would be satisfied.

I get how new users are struggling with the flashing process, kind ones wont just ask here not to be hatred by experienced users, Even if there problem isnt something written in op/pages.