****The Official Samsung Galaxy S II Thread***
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im on lite'ning 5.0 and its fine. so what if it artifacts, it seems there are issues with the crt off animation using certain combinations of rom and kernal. Hardly a big deal when nothing else is affected.
Damn, i'm on stock T-Mobile ROM and my battery life is pretty poo (pretty much dead after 12 hours of "medium use" Facebook/Twitter, texting, Words with friends!)
Might have to give Lite'Ning 5 a go
Incidentally, do you leave data on all the time, and autosync?
Got my S2 yesterday and loving it so far, put Lite'ning on straight away and it flies!
Anybody else get the problem where if you do a 'factory reset' from within Lite'ning then after it restarts you get the infiniate boot loop, requiring a reflash? Phone is perfect apart from that annoying glitch!
Anybody else get the problem where if you do a 'factory reset' from within Lite'ning then after it restarts you get the infiniate boot loop, requiring a reflash? Phone is perfect apart from that annoying glitch!
As far as I know you'd just flash Lite'ing using Odin which gives you the Lite'ning ROM + modded kernel. Then you just download the stock kernel and flash it with Odin and then you have Lite'ing ROM + stock kernel
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Yeah I had that as well, I think if you reset before flashing it's fine but resetting afterwards breaks it.
I thought I'd bricked my phone when it happened, especially after I reflashed it twice and it still did it
. In the end I flashed a stock Samsung rom which worked, then reflashed Lite'ning without resetting amything since I'd already done that. Stupidest thing is Lite'ning was working fine before I reset, but I just decided to reset anyways because I wanted to test titanium backup since I'd never used it before
.Yeah I had that as well, I think if you reset before flashing it's fine but resetting afterwards breaks it.
I thought I'd bricked my phone when it happened, especially after I reflashed it twice and it still did it
Stupidest thing is Lite'ning was working fine before I reset, but I just decided to reset anyways because I wanted to test titanium backup since I'd never used it before
Hah exactly the same here..except my phone was less than an hour old when I did it, had to do a bit of googling as I am an android noob
Quick CWM related question - if you do a backup using CWM - what exactly does it backup, the entire ROM + settings, apps and data? I.e. if I upgrade to a newer version of Lite'ning in the future but wipe my phone, can I restore the earlier backup to keep my data?
Stupid question alert - can someone give me an idiots summary of ROMs and rooting? I keep hearing these terms in relation to Android phones but I don't really get it.
I'm assuming they're hacks of some sort to allow you to fiddle settings?
I'm assuming they're hacks of some sort to allow you to fiddle settings?
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Hah exactly the same here..except my phone was less than an hour old when I did it, had to do a bit of googling as I am an android noob
Quick CWM related question - if you do a backup using CWM - what exactly does it backup, the entire ROM + settings, apps and data? I.e. if I upgrade to a newer version of Lite'ning in the future but wipe my phone, can I restore the earlier backup to keep my data?
Hah, this is my first android phone too
(first phone in about 2 years infact 
).You're braver than me though, I flashed the stock KF7 onto my phone within the first hour so I could debrand it before I got all my settings sorted so I didn't have to redo them. But custom roms and stuff I just couldn't get my head round for a while (the part where you have to root it, although that part wasn't that hard to understand, and the part with CWM, as I didn't even know what CWM was and nobody ever seemed to explain it
), so it took me about a week before I flashed Lite'ning (which I would have done sooner had I noticed that it was exactly the same method as I did flashing the stock ROM to debrand originally).I only really flashed it so I could get root for adfree and titanium backup tbh, as flashing Lite'ning looked much less complicated than just getting root.
I'm on VillainRom 2.4.2 now though.
Oh and why when I'm making a post on my phone does everything that I write the first time not get put in, but then the second time I put text in it works fine? Using opera mobile if it's browser specific.
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Currently on Cognition 1.31 after always flitting between Villain and Litening roms...and I've gotta say that the battery life is AWESOME.....I'm currently at about 58% after 15hrs+ of medium-heavy use for browsing/twitter/FB during that time. Display is showing an up time total of 1.42mins on a screen brightness of 30% but I've had as much as 4hrs+ of heavy use on this great rom, which by then was below 10% battery left....
Can't see me moving to anything else now for a while...and if I do...I'll make sure I do a Nandroid back up to return to if the new rom doesn't cut the mustard!!
Can't see me moving to anything else now for a while...and if I do...I'll make sure I do a Nandroid back up to return to if the new rom doesn't cut the mustard!!
Ok so im back on stock rom and kernal. if i want to put lite ning rom back on how would i go about it? Clear cache and wipe data first then install lite ning rom with odin as normal? Because ive been getting a.lot of boot loops when putting lite ning on.
Sorry for grammer im on phone.
Sorry for grammer im on phone.
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**** **** **** **** **** I just typed up a load of stuff on my phone, only to hit the options key on swiftkey, then when I pressed back to get off the popup options that came up it closed the test box that I was writing in 
.
Anyways, I'll try and rewrite what I remember (on my PC where I don't have a options key on the keyboard ).
I'm not sure what exactly CWM backs up, obviously it backs up the ROM should you want to go back to it for whatever reason, but apps/settings etc I don't know.
You should download "Titanium Backup * root" though. It backs up all of your settings/contacts/apps and game install files/apps and games settings and saves etc, basically everything other than the ROM. It's very easy to use and once you've done a backup you can just copy the files onto your PC (well I assume you can, they're stored on the SD card part of the phone which is what you access when you connect your phone to the PC) and delete them from your phone to get the space back until you need to put them back on to restore them (you can copy the CWM backup to your PC aswell).
There's a paid for version of it as well, but it isn't needed the free version has no adds (well, it doesn't for me using adfree anyways, not sure about without adfree) and allows you to backup everything an unlimited amount of times (but you can only have one current backup at a time, atleast that's all you can have on the phone, you might be able to copy everything to PC, then create a new backup on say a different ROM with different apps/settings etc).
So, some of the following might be slightly/completely incorrect or missing a bit of information, because as I said in my last post I'm very new to Android (had my SGS2 for not even 3 weeks), or because I typed it out last time so I just imagine that I've typed it out again this time.
Rooting is the term used to get "root" or full admin access to your phone, so that you can access all the files (ie the ones on the "root" of the device), rather than just the ones on the SD card that you see when you attatch your phone to the PC.
Having access to these extra files and settings means that you can change any setting you want or add/remove any feature you want using the right commands/apps. For example the app that I mentioned just above, Titanium Backup, when this gets granted root access it's able to access and backup all the settings/contacts etc for your phone that without root access it wouldn't be able to see (atleast I assume it can't normally see that part, I know that it needs root for other stuff, but from what I've seen just using it to backup requires root due to certain things that it can backup) the files that they're stored in nevermind copying every file to another part of your phone.
Rooting will also allow you to add (or maybe rooting adds it, I'm not sure as I rooted my phone using Lite'ning ROM, which doesn't require root, and gives root access as soon as it's flashed) ClockWorkMod Recovery (called CWM by most people) to your phone.
CWM replaces the default recovery options (accessed by Volume UP+Home+Power). It has all the options that were available in the default recovery program (all 4 of them
), and adds new ones. Some of the options it adds are backing up your current ROM (a ROM is basically the operating system of the phone, or something like that anyways, but I'm sure you knew that part ) or restore a previously backed up ROM, flashing a new kernel (I'm still unsure what the kernel actually is, I think it's the main part of what makes the ROM work or something, like what controls the phone hardware after the OS tells it what you wanted it to do) or ROM and some other stuff. CWM is what most (all the ones I've looked at other than Lite'ning ROM, which is why I initially put Lite'ning on my phone, to root and get clockworkmod recovery installed) custom ROMs/kernels need to be flashed with.
Custom ROMs can be anything from a stock ROM with a theme added to it (so that it's easier for people to install without having to install loads of different apps and stuff, since once you've rooted and have CWM installed flashing a new ROM is very easy), or a ROM that has had every unneeeded app removed from it and/or new features/bug fixes added/applied to it.
All ROMs (I think, asleast the vast majority, as it would take a lot of unnecessary work for little gain) are based on a stock ROM (ie one that Samsung has released or, as is the case with the current KGx (Android 2.3.4) based ROMs, had leaked to a site/developer), or are based on a custom ROM which has been created using the aforementioned method.
Many ROMs are either buggy (to varying degrees) or have features missing that the creator either hasn't had time to implement yet, or hasn't worked out how to implement yet, especially since the SGS2 is still fairly new so developers/cookers(chefs? people that just change stuff in a ROM, rather than writing actual code, or something like that anyways, only seen the term used a few times so still not exactly sure).
Well, I hope that helps explain bit a bit better for you, there'll be stuff missing that I don't understand (I still don't understand the vast majority of the stuff on the XDA Forums), or simply forgot about (as I think of things to type when writing something then forget about it once I've wrote what I was doing all the time ) but either me or someone else will be happy to fill in anything that's missing .
When I broke mine (same as you, bootlooping) I reflashed the stock KF7 ROM, after that (flashing the stock ROM should do a factory reset/cache clear, so I didn't do a seperate one) I just turned the phone on, to make sure it wasn't bootlooping, didn't even press the Android to start the initial setup of the phone then restarted the phone in download mode and flashed Lite'ning again.
The phone (with Lite'ning ROM reflashed) booted up fine after that, with all settings etc. wiped.
I think aslong as you factory reset (clearing cache and dalvik(sp?, the one in advanced options in CWM) cache are fine I think) BEFORE installing Lite'ning it should be fine I think (it should be since my phone was essentially factory reset before hand, only difference being it had been booted once, it didn't have any settings saved or anything), as long as you're not doing the factory reset during a bootloop then reflashing Lite'ning.
Eurgh, longer post than I thought, hope everything is understandable, because my mind often goes off on a tangent when I'm explaining things, and also because I've wrote too much, so cba going back to check whether what I wrote makes sense/is correct .
Edit: Decided I could be arsed checking it, added/deleted some so it should be readable (it is to me, but I wrote it, so obviously I know what I meant)
.Anyways, I'll try and rewrite what I remember
(on my PC where I don't have a options key on the keyboard ).I'm not sure what exactly CWM backs up, obviously it backs up the ROM should you want to go back to it for whatever reason, but apps/settings etc I don't know.
You should download "Titanium Backup * root" though. It backs up all of your settings/contacts/apps and game install files/apps and games settings and saves etc, basically everything other than the ROM. It's very easy to use and once you've done a backup you can just copy the files onto your PC (well I assume you can, they're stored on the SD card part of the phone which is what you access when you connect your phone to the PC) and delete them from your phone to get the space back until you need to put them back on to restore them (you can copy the CWM backup to your PC aswell).
There's a paid for version of it as well, but it isn't needed the free version has no adds (well, it doesn't for me using adfree anyways, not sure about without adfree) and allows you to backup everything an unlimited amount of times (but you can only have one current backup at a time, atleast that's all you can have on the phone, you might be able to copy everything to PC, then create a new backup on say a different ROM with different apps/settings etc).
So, some of the following might be slightly/completely incorrect or missing a bit of information, because as I said in my last post I'm very new to Android (had my SGS2 for not even 3 weeks), or because I typed it out last time so I just imagine that I've typed it out again this time
.Rooting is the term used to get "root" or full admin access to your phone, so that you can access all the files (ie the ones on the "root" of the device), rather than just the ones on the SD card that you see when you attatch your phone to the PC.
Having access to these extra files and settings means that you can change any setting you want or add/remove any feature you want using the right commands/apps. For example the app that I mentioned just above, Titanium Backup, when this gets granted root access it's able to access and backup all the settings/contacts etc for your phone that without root access it wouldn't be able to see (atleast I assume it can't normally see that part, I know that it needs root for other stuff, but from what I've seen just using it to backup requires root due to certain things that it can backup) the files that they're stored in nevermind copying every file to another part of your phone.
Rooting will also allow you to add (or maybe rooting adds it, I'm not sure as I rooted my phone using Lite'ning ROM, which doesn't require root, and gives root access as soon as it's flashed) ClockWorkMod Recovery (called CWM by most people) to your phone.
CWM replaces the default recovery options (accessed by Volume UP+Home+Power). It has all the options that were available in the default recovery program (all 4 of them
), and adds new ones. Some of the options it adds are backing up your current ROM (a ROM is basically the operating system of the phone, or something like that anyways, but I'm sure you knew that part ) or restore a previously backed up ROM, flashing a new kernel (I'm still unsure what the kernel actually is, I think it's the main part of what makes the ROM work or something, like what controls the phone hardware after the OS tells it what you wanted it to do) or ROM and some other stuff. CWM is what most (all the ones I've looked at other than Lite'ning ROM, which is why I initially put Lite'ning on my phone, to root and get clockworkmod recovery installed) custom ROMs/kernels need to be flashed with.Custom ROMs can be anything from a stock ROM with a theme added to it (so that it's easier for people to install without having to install loads of different apps and stuff, since once you've rooted and have CWM installed flashing a new ROM is very easy), or a ROM that has had every unneeeded app removed from it and/or new features/bug fixes added/applied to it.
All ROMs (I think, asleast the vast majority, as it would take a lot of unnecessary work for little gain) are based on a stock ROM (ie one that Samsung has released or, as is the case with the current KGx (Android 2.3.4) based ROMs, had leaked to a site/developer), or are based on a custom ROM which has been created using the aforementioned method.
Many ROMs are either buggy (to varying degrees) or have features missing that the creator either hasn't had time to implement yet, or hasn't worked out how to implement yet, especially since the SGS2 is still fairly new so developers/cookers(chefs? people that just change stuff in a ROM, rather than writing actual code, or something like that anyways, only seen the term used a few times so still not exactly sure).
Well, I hope that helps explain bit a bit better for you, there'll be stuff missing that I don't understand (I still don't understand the vast majority of the stuff on the XDA Forums
), or simply forgot about (as I think of things to type when writing something then forget about it once I've wrote what I was doing all the time ) but either me or someone else will be happy to fill in anything that's missing .When I broke mine (same as you, bootlooping) I reflashed the stock KF7 ROM, after that (flashing the stock ROM should do a factory reset/cache clear, so I didn't do a seperate one) I just turned the phone on, to make sure it wasn't bootlooping, didn't even press the Android to start the initial setup of the phone then restarted the phone in download mode and flashed Lite'ning again.
The phone (with Lite'ning ROM reflashed) booted up fine after that, with all settings etc. wiped.
I think aslong as you factory reset (clearing cache and dalvik(sp?, the one in advanced options in CWM) cache are fine I think) BEFORE installing Lite'ning it should be fine I think (it should be since my phone was essentially factory reset before hand, only difference being it had been booted once, it didn't have any settings saved or anything), as long as you're not doing the factory reset during a bootloop then reflashing Lite'ning.
Eurgh, longer post than I thought, hope everything is understandable, because my mind often goes off on a tangent when I'm explaining things
, and also because I've wrote too much, so cba going back to check whether what I wrote makes sense/is correct .Edit: Decided I could be arsed checking it, added/deleted some so it should be readable (it is to me, but I wrote it, so obviously I know what I meant
)
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Cheers mate I did what you said and it didn't bootloop, however when I finished installing lite'ning in Odin, for some reason the phone didn't auto restart and it just stayed on the battery icon screen.
I manually restarted it and all seemed fine though.
I manually restarted it and all seemed fine though.
Hi Guys,
Just picked this phone up , and i must say its da nuts!! However , when i have set up my favourite contacts and linked them to face book , the picture quality of the picture is really poor , whereas before on my HTC touch pro , the contact picture was crystal clear from FB , any ideas?
Dog
Just picked this phone up , and i must say its da nuts!! However , when i have set up my favourite contacts and linked them to face book , the picture quality of the picture is really poor , whereas before on my HTC touch pro , the contact picture was crystal clear from FB , any ideas?
Dog
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any way to stop stupid go sms pro from jumping to the bottom of the text? i slide up to read and it just jumps back down after a second or 2 of taking finger off screen. gets annoying only way if to keep finger moving constantly to read long texts
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Cheers mate I did what you said and it didn't bootloop, however when I finished installing lite'ning in Odin, for some reason the phone didn't auto restart and it just stayed on the battery icon screen.
I manually restarted it and all seemed fine though.
Weird, atleast it's all working now though.
I don't know if you're new to Android or not (my memory is terrible at remembering who's who, never mind what each posters experience with Android is
), if you're not or if you already know about the following feel free to ignore as I don't mean to sound patronising . Obviously make a backup in CWM of your ROM (I think I remember you saying you were going to do this) so that should anything happen in the future when flashing you have a working backup to go back to.
Download "Titanium Backup * root" and once you've installed all your apps and setup all the settings how you want do a backup of everything, so that if you need to factory reset for whatever reason you can restore everything, you can choose individual stuff to restore/backup so if you get a new ROM and don't want the old theme or whatever put on you can just not restore that (I normally just restore contacts/accounts and sync/all my games and apps along with the data for them to restore all my settings and game saves).
Apologies if you're not a noob to Android like me and that the whole post was obvious **** that you already knew
.Hmm, my phone is being even more annoying now, bugging out when I try to go to any part of the message other than where I've currently typed to, deleting/adding stuff at the end of the post evem though the curser isn't there
. Hmm the above bug is gone now that I've gone out and back into the post box, might have something to do with the text you type not actually staying there when you press done the first time opening the box up. Still, atleast copy/paste works since I always forget to open and close it straight away
.That's great, cheersWell, I hope that helps explain bit a bit better for you, there'll be stuff missing that I don't understand (I still don't understand the vast majority of the stuff on the XDA Forums
. Thanks for taking the time to sum it up! I think I was on the right lines already, just wasn't sure of the details.