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guys im fixing to buy a white galaxy s2, what should i be concern about? is the root method easy, kernels, roms, is there anything hiding from samsung? like im coming from the amaze, htc havent released the wifi drivers for it and have no s-off, just wondering if you guys has had any problems with this phone, and how is the development here is, is it dead or alive?

Well look around lol. Rooting is easy as pie, everything else is based on your preference. Many solid gingerbread roms and kernels here
Were on the brink of some great releases...thanks to a recent ics leak there are all kinds of rooms being cooked up. I'd say its a great time to buy one within a few weeks we should have some great ics roms.
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gypsy214 said:
Guys, I'm fixing to buy a white Galaxy S2; what should I be concerned about? Is the root method easy, kernels, roms? Is there anything hiding from samsung? I'm coming from the Amaze, and HTC hasn't released the wifi drivers or (an engineering?) s-off; furthermore, I am wondering if you guys have had any problems with this phone? How is the development here, is it dead or alive?
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You don't need to worry about s-off like HTC phones. Just put the phone in download mode and flash clockworkmod, then install whatever ROM you want. It is much to root easier than any HTC phone I have rooted. Samsung also has released all source code up to the latest update. No one has had problems besides the same that exist with all phones. As for development with the skyrocket leak of ICS it is heating up faster than a junkies spoon (see thread below)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1577041

thank you guys i just got the phone, love it so far, i think more than the amaze..
im new to samsung though, i know its totally different on rooting and such,
ill start downloading drivers and start rooting!

As someone previously said, development is on the cusp of being current with every other major device. The ICS leak for the AT&T SkyRocket is very crucial for us because the phones are nearly identical.
With that said, the GB roms are all solid but not AOSP with the exception of a couple Kanged CM7's. Not sure if they're working entirely however. There is an AOSP ICS which is what we all crave, but it's only partially working. The TouchWiz (Samsung stock/themed) ICS leak is almost perfect. We just need a native kernel to fix auto-rotation and the little bugs.
The phone's specs are among the best in the world right now lol. YOU WILL LOVE THIS PHONE, I have no doubt about it.
Also, feel free to PM me about any other questions you may have that aren't being answered.

gypsy214 said:
thank you guys i just got the phone, love it so far, i think more than the amaze..
im new to samsung though, i know its totally different on rooting and such,
ill start downloading drivers and start rooting!
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to start..check youtube... how to root tmobile galaxy s2[sgh] T989 galaxy s2 root...enjoy your new phone..

or just look at the stickies in the general section
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Flashing Kernels
is there a guide somewhere to flashing kernels for SGS2?

gypsy214 said:
guys im fixing to buy a white galaxy s2, what should i be concern about? is the root method easy, kernels, roms, is there anything hiding from samsung? like im coming from the amaze, htc havent released the wifi drivers for it and have no s-off, just wondering if you guys has had any problems with this phone, and how is the development here is, is it dead or alive?
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Root and ROMs are great. However we don't have any good ICS kernels because we're still waiting on samsung

ok guys been playing around with some roms and stuff, like some of you said rooting this device was a peace of cake,
loved the megamix ICS rom, the only problem was roration and the calling echo witch you already know.
some of the fixes that i seen for the echo issue dont seen to help mine though,
now i have a question, why do we need a blaze modem?
this phone suppost to be one of the 42mgp of tmobile, if i recall the amaze, the galaxy s2, and now the blaze.

gypsy214 said:
ok guys been playing around with some roms and stuff, like some of you said rooting this device was a peace of cake,
loved the megamix ICS rom, the only problem was roration and the calling echo witch you already know.
some of the fixes that i seen for the echo issue dont seen to help mine though,
now i have a question, why do we need a blaze modem?
this phone suppost to be one of the 42mgp of tmobile, if i recall the amaze, the galaxy s2, and now the blaze.
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not sure if this has been said, but only flash t989 and i727 skyrocket stuff.
the blaze's modem is just another modem.... rado for HTC that may or may not strengthen your phone's signal. It all depends on your phone and location. I got spotty service here in socal with but when I do have reception.. it is faster. Just too spotty.

Are you a real gypsy?
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tdizzle404 said:
Are you a real gypsy?
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yes i am

Cool welcome
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(info) no t-mo ICS

Just saw this today when reading pulse. Hopefully its not true.
Samsung devices confirmed for Android 4.0 don't include one Galaxy S II
I would post the link but the system wont let me as I'm to new.
Is this for sure as I'm not a big fan of the skyrocket roms for the t989.

bookburner said:
Just saw this today when reading pulse. Hopefully its not true.
Samsung devices confirmed for Android 4.0 don't include one Galaxy S II
I would post the link but the system wont let me as I'm to new.
Is this for sure as I'm not a big fan of the skyrocket roms for the t989.
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TMobile responded on Facebook about this.They said TMobile never gives dates on updates,but are working to get the update out as soon as possible.And do you think people on xda don't know things.Your information was days ago.And not a big deal.
FROM A GALAXY BETTER THAN YOURS.

You know, this drives me nuts. I'm running a skyrocket with TMO rom. Do you notice in the wifi area the "Wifi calling" option? (Which works and I use)
I would bet cash the TMO extension has nothing to do with them dragging their feet, and everything to do with the wifi calling integration. No where does it say no ICS for TMO, it only LACKS the information.
I'd be a millionaire with how many times I've seen "NO FROYO" "NO GINGERBREAD" "NO ICS" for TMO. Its. Flat. Not. True. No info <> No Update

Oh my gosh.....
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Not to troll here but theres an official thread for these kinds if things
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Um per article at TG Daily [read the other day cant find it to link sorry], They even said Samsung themselves said we cant give any info cause we don't have it for Tmo Galaxy S2 ICS upgrade, BUT we are working very closely with them and it SHOULD [they will never say will with the upgrade issues Android has had in the past because users flame real fast if they give a firm date and miss it for whatever reason] be releasing only about several months behind the other Galaxy S2 updates at the current rate.
Then as stated above Tmo essentially validated it via FB stating we never divulge upgrade info or dates [see above brackets], but we are working on getting the update ready and will pass along more information as we can.
Just search Google For ICS update issues and see for yourselves why Tmo would want to be sure it is good to go [also, if you are a tech geek this means good to go for mainstream user use and that is totally different as they would not like to see a huge wave of warranty returns from bad update causing issues [see my Battery calibrate thread in this section as it has installation steps you should use when moving from Gingerbread to ICS to again give you an idea of the steps involved [NOT hard granted just have to do things a certain way.
Keep in mind the ICS ROMs for Tmo S2 that XDA has are all based on skyrocket ROMs [ported] and are running rather well [I have had no issues except the known Bluetooth bug in UCLD2 that is getting worked on]. So with that even Tmo folks could take a skyrocket port it fix issues as Devs here have [even could gank code even] and then get WiFi Calling running and bam done so I HIGHLY doubt as their FLAGSHIP phone that it will miss out on ICS. If you like to have ICS now see Dev threads and Raver as well as Yaldak both have daily driver quality ROMs [IMO (see my signature )]
The audio echo and shutdown freezes seem mostly related to not clearing your Dalvick Cache after ROM install. Mine freezes on first boot then I restart [pull battery] in to recovery and wipe dalvick cache and restart and it usually works [rarely have to re-flash and do it again].
Link to My Battery Calibrate, Install and information thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1616598
Device: Samsung Tmobile S2 [SGH-T989]
ROM: Yaldak's Vanilla ICS RC2
Radio: Blaze 4g ICS Radio
Tweak Script: Newest Supercharger V6 ICS with modified services.jar
Superchargers 3g turbo boost

Its Official the SGS2 Threads have taken a $#!7 ....

Another ics thread?!?! You little snotty nose kids are retarded.
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Thread closed
All ICS speculation goes in this thread.

[Q] Vancouver and Lower Mainland LTE-Telus

Wondering what you're experiences are with LTE. I've gotten blindingly fast speeds when I get an LTE connection--50mbps but for the week that I've had the S3 that's only happened about 2 or 3 times.
Telus tech support said nothing as far as whether this is normal or not, wondering what others are experiencing. Normal or not?

Figured it out I think. Had the phone rooted and seemed to have lost the ability to toggle connections. Flashed back to stock last night and have had LTE back consistently.
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I was able to get mid to upper 40 Mbps in New West late at night once. It lasted all the way till the Ikea beside Hwy 1. The download speed was so fast that I thought my Speedtest.net app wasn't showing the whole download animation. :laugh:
Other than that I don't go into LTE areas much. This will probably change in the Fall as the roll out continues. I live on the border of the roll out and where I work is not covered yet but should be soon (Surrey).
When you went back to stock are you still rooted? Some ROMs do not support the LTE switch because they are based on AT&T ROMs.
I've been using Task's AOKP ROM since it has the LTE switch enabled (read the OP) even though he doesn't officially support it. It works great.
KyanROM's LTE switch also works since it is based on Rogers S3 ROM.

Haha, I know what you mean with the Speedtest animation!
I'm currently stock and unrooted now. I still haven't tried a custom rom yet since I'm still a little paranoid about losing my iemi number unfortunately. However the rooting method I used was the nontripping root method which as far as I can tell uses the stock carrier rom then injects an exploit. Soooo who knows, maybe I'll look into it again as may have overlooked something.
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finneginsfast said:
Haha, I know what you mean with the Speedtest animation!
I'm currently stock and unrooted now. I still haven't tried a custom rom yet since I'm still a little paranoid about losing my iemi number unfortunately. However the rooting method I used was the nontripping root method which as far as I can tell uses the stock carrier rom then injects an exploit. Soooo who knows, maybe I'll look into it again as may have overlooked something.
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Ah yes, the IMEI fear. I totally get you on this. I waited about 3 weeks before rooting and then another couple weeks until flashing a ROM. And this is coming from flashing the crap out of my HTC Hero for the last 2.5 years. I HIGHLY recommend going to these 2 threads and backing up your IMEI number in case anything goes wrong in the future. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804117
If you decide to root, install the TWRP recovery. It was observed that people who used TWP over CWM hardly had any IMEI issues, if any at all. Jury's still out on this though. Take it with a grain of salt. I've flashed numerous times and have not had any issues. TWRP can be installed by way of https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.s0up.goomanager&hl=en - you need root to run this.

So I reflashed the rooted rom last night and haven't experienced the LTE problem again, I'm happy with that for now.
What the consensus with Task's AOKP, I took a look at the "known issues" list and it just looks a little to long for me at the moment. After flashing my S1 typically several times a week, I think I'm really just longing for some stability. That and my family misses me.

finneginsfast said:
Haha, I know what you mean with the Speedtest animation!
I'm currently stock and unrooted now. I still haven't tried a custom rom yet since I'm still a little paranoid about losing my iemi number unfortunately. However the rooting method I used was the nontripping root method which as far as I can tell uses the stock carrier rom then injects an exploit. Soooo who knows, maybe I'll look into it again as may have overlooked something.
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Well, i was on the same boat where I was afraid of losing the IMEI. But it's not a problem any more. Those devs here have it all figured out pretty much. You can back up your IMEI before you messing with your S3
As soon as I use stock based roms - whether it's based on Rogers or AT&T roms, the LTE connection is pretty solid within the coverage. However, the AOSP based roms are not very friendly with canadian LTE.... I constantly go back and forth from H+ to 4G on CM10.. The battery life is kinda sucked... The one of two reasons I have to come back with stock roms....
Oh, btw, I believe 40 - 45ish mbps speed is pretty normal on LTE as long as you hold a good connection.

noahattic said:
Well, i was on the same boat where I was afraid of losing the IMEI. But it's not a problem any more. Those devs here have it all figured out pretty much. You can back up your IMEI before you messing with your S3
As soon as I use stock based roms - whether it's based on Rogers or AT&T roms, the LTE connection is pretty solid within the coverage. However, the AOSP based roms are not very friendly with canadian LTE.... I constantly go back and forth from H+ to 4G on CM10.. The battery life is kinda sucked... The one of two reasons I have to come back with stock roms....
Oh, btw, I believe 40 - 45ish mbps speed is pretty normal on LTE as long as you hold a good connection.
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I think I'm just gonna wait till the devs have things nicely smoothed out for now.
I remember back in the olden days (couple weeks ago) when a guy lost his IMEI he'd just replace his efs folder with a backup, reboot and voila! So easy, so simple...

Well, I've read about the links to backing up the IMEI files and QPST tool to backup, and have now figured out how to use ABD finally to push cwm to my phone. So, I'm wondering if you guys have any new roms you're liking in particular or can recommend.
I know Task's AOKP is a popular one and I've been kicking around CM10 and have been eyeing Slimbean since I spent alot of time with that one on my S1.
Any recent flashes you guys are big on at the moment that you care to tell me about?

finneginsfast said:
Any recent flashes you guys are big on at the moment that you care to tell me about?
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I've been rocking WanamLite 1.3 the last few days and it is very good. It is based on the latest release for the I747M for Canadian carriers which is VLALH1 I think. This is an ICS Sammy based ROM. I have ktoonsez's latest kernel installed and it is very nice overall. (Note, I do have the latest modem installed - the one that came with VLALH1, not that it has anything to do with ROM performance.) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1782732
The ROM before that was Slimbean. Since you've used it before you're probably more familiar with it than I. I found it to be nice too. Close to what Task's AOKP ROM is. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1865262
If you want to try something new there seems to be an ICS 4.1.1 Bell release that is floating around here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1869300
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Some more info for LTE:
I was in Burnaby today at 8 rinks and did some speed tests. HSPA+ was approx 11.5Mbps up and 3Mbps down. LTE was 23Mbps up and 7ish Mbps down.

[Q] Should I upgrade to official ICS?

Hi there,
I'm using an unrooted Samsung Captivate Glide which is still on 2.3.
Before I go about upgrading it to the official ICS ROM, I wanted to ask if it's worth doing? Does the official ICS for the Glide have any problems which do not exist in Gingerbread?

kha1rul said:
Hi there,
I'm using an unrooted Samsung Captivate Glide which is still on 2.3.
Before I go about upgrading it to the official ICS ROM, I wanted to ask if it's worth doing? Does the official ICS for the Glide have any problems which do not exist in Gingerbread?
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It locked my Rogers phone, to AT&T I'm assuming. Too much hassle to root and then unlock via app so about to buy a code off ebay, If you're on AT&T you should be fine, as long you update to the latest UCLJ3 rom.

lyricalwax said:
It locked my Rogers phone, to AT&T I'm assuming. Too much hassle to root and then unlock via app so about to buy a code off ebay, If you're on AT&T you should be fine, as long you update to the latest UCLJ3 rom.
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Oh dear ... I'm in the UK using my unlocked AT&T handset on the Three network!
Oh well, I guess I'll just have to go via the eBay route if it does lock. Is there anything else to be aware of? I heard that the GPS is messed up.

Personally, I found the stock browser in ICS to be a little lacking. I don't know if it was particular to my phone or not, but I found it would lock up occasionally. What I mean by this is the browser would just sit there attempting to load a page forever, unless I killed the browser in program monitor and re-launched it. Even closing the active tab and trying to open new ones resulted in the same issue. Never had that problem in 2.3 or in 4.1+ just in the official ICS. Apart from that, I found it a reasonably reliable version. Never had issues with the GPS, either. Personally, I would say going with one of the developed ROMs is the best route (currently on Vanilla RootBox 4.1.2 and it is the best ROM I have run to date, after a bit of set up and customizing - kudos to thegreatergood if you're watching!) but your mileage may vary.

I'm still using the ICS leak, I haven't gotten around to upgrading to the latest official, but in general I'd say the stock ICS is worth using. My gps has very rare problems - I use it daily and it's great most of the time. Once in a while, the gps icon will just disappear and it'll not lock onto anything, toggling gps didn't work for me but a quick reboot has me up and running again quick enough. I'd say it happens once every couple of weeks but I don't pay that much attention to it anymore.

Stock ICS is worth it. Mine per say is rooted so I didn't bother if it would lock or not. GB's feel is too old you know.

kha1rul said:
Oh dear ... I'm in the UK using my unlocked AT&T handset on the Three network!
Oh well, I guess I'll just have to go via the eBay route if it does lock. Is there anything else to be aware of? I heard that the GPS is messed up.
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Correction, I'm guessing it's relocked it to the Rogers network, it wouldn't make sense to lock to a different network. I'm also in the UK on O2 and in the process of getting an unlock code (first one didn't work as I said at&t). Anyway, I'd say it is definitely worth upgrading to the latest stock ICS, it's a lot smoother and so many little things makes the phone seem more of a recent smartphone than a 2011 one. Agree that GB feels too old now. No lag or problems on mine and GPS is completely fine. Haven't rooted yet, but if I can't get a code online I guess I can always do that.

[Q] Am I overlooking things...?

Hey guys, I have a Sprint, SM-T807P (10.5" LTE/Snapdragon) version of the Tab S and I must say that I have been nothing short of impressed since the day I purchased it back in December. However, the one (major) downfall is that it seems 1 in 1000 Tab S owners actually have the 807P, which appears to be resulting in a virtual non-existent world of ROM's/custom kernels etc.
I was HOPING I am either over looking something, looking in the wrong location, or not aware of which other models may be compatible with mine.
I just Odin'd from DUH's KK ROM, to stock OE3 Lollipop, and was hoping to get re-rooted/CWR or TWRP installed and find myself a slick little ROM to install.
Is there any hope? lol Thanks in advance, ladies and gents!

Adding on to this. I bought the SM-T807P used (because it was a great deal) and I am only interested in running it through wifi. I dont need the LTE capability.
Somewhere I heard that some other Snapdragon roms will work, I'll just loose LTE functionality ... which is fine by me.
Does anyone have a list or can point me in the right direction for other roms that would work in wifi mode?
Or tell me which snapdragon roms will work?
It's already rooted and TWRP is installed. I'm just lacking in roms.
Thanks!

chargerfn909 said:
Hey guys, I have a Sprint, SM-T807P (10.5" LTE/Snapdragon) version of the Tab S and I must say that I have been nothing short of impressed since the day I purchased it back in December. However, the one (major) downfall is that it seems 1 in 1000 Tab S owners actually have the 807P, which appears to be resulting in a virtual non-existent world of ROM's/custom kernels etc.
I was HOPING I am either over looking something, looking in the wrong location, or not aware of which other models may be compatible with mine.
I just Odin'd from DUH's KK ROM, to stock OE3 Lollipop, and was hoping to get re-rooted/CWR or TWRP installed and find myself a slick little ROM to install.
Is there any hope? lol Thanks in advance, ladies and gents!
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I'm sure @duh will gladly build an updated Rom for you guys if enough of you request it.
Maybe if you have enough knowledge you can build one for yourself and the other Sprint owners?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2597220

blue6800user said:
Adding on to this. I bought the SM-T807P used (because it was a great deal) and I am only interested in running it through wifi. I dont need the LTE capability.
Somewhere I heard that some other Snapdragon roms will work, I'll just loose LTE functionality ... which is fine by me.
Does anyone have a list or can point me in the right direction for other roms that would work in wifi mode?
Or tell me which snapdragon roms will work?
It's already rooted and TWRP is installed. I'm just lacking in roms.
Thanks!
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Did you ever receive any answers on this? I am in the same boat, I only have a gig or two of data on my Tab S, but have unlimited data on my Note 4, that's rooted+ROM'd, including the hotspot mod. So I could do without the LTE as well...

What exactly is it you are all expecting from a custom rom?
Practically all custom roms are simply debloated stock roms with maybe the odd extra thrown in.
There is nothing magic in a stock custom rom that you can't do yourself.

ashyx said:
What exactly is it you are all expecting from a custom rom?
Practically all custom roms are simply debloated stock roms with maybe the odd extra thrown in.
There is nothing magic in a stock custom rom that you can't do yourself.
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What I really want for my sweet little device is for someone to port over Cyanogenmod. Which is what I have been using for year.

cm is bad on tab s just prefer pac rom over it