****The Official Samsung Galaxy S II Thread***

Ah, I didn't notice the sync bug - Deep sleep indicates that the phone was powering down how it should but stuff like power manager and so on were keeping it awake when not in deep sleep.

I imagine these are bugs that will be tweaked before release as it seems to be improving each build!
 
I tried a few ICS roms over the last couple of days and LOVE the new default apps, they're really nice - I had to go back to a GB rom though as there was always something not quite right in each of the roms I tried, but its certainly not far off now.
I think I'll give it a few weeks and have another play with them!
Trying CheckromHD 4 for now.
 
mrk said:
Ah, I didn't notice the sync bug - Deep sleep indicates that the phone was powering down how it should but stuff like power manager and so on were keeping it awake when not in deep sleep.

I imagine these are bugs that will be tweaked before release as it seems to be improving each build!
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Oh indeed mate, I've been trying them out since the very first simplistic ROM hit. LPB is by far the best build to date with most things working. Few things to fix & a few tweaks & it'll be ready to go, I definitely think we'll have a proper build by the end of the month seeing as Sammy want it out in March.
 
mrk said:
My phone is not the problem because this is only there in ICS so it can only be an ICS issue, a non release version of ICS is bound to have problems like this :p
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How can you be sure it's ICS causing it?. you are running a modification of a beta rom - you dont know what problems are caused by ICS and what problems are caused by these guy trying to bundle AOSP apps with a non-standard ICS base. There's a reason why I've stuck with the stock samsung releases and so far i've seen none of the problems other people have reported with modified ics roms. I've no doubt these issues will be sorted out but i'd be more inclined to point the finger at the authors of the modified roms than ics itself.
 
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If it was an AOSP app causing the drain or keeping the phone awake then BetterBatteryStats would display that info, it displays the PowerManagerService among other internal ICS components as the cause instead of a specific app. That's how I'm quite sure it's LPB itself instead of the mods employed on it.

It's very easy to see what's causing what on Android, many apps out there to read the logs :)
 
Quick question for you guys - say i'm browsing a site on my desktop is there any easy way to send myself the link to my phone? More importantly though can i send a link to my phone to download something (a theme or new ROM etc) rather than navigating to it on the phone?

Ta.
 
mrk said:
Navigation worked fine for me without the fix!

So far am enjoying this ROM I gotta say, the updated ICS apps are really good and smoothness is nice too.

I think the battery is draining faster than it should though but other than that everything appears to be working and I have managed to install most of my apps using Titanium again except for a few games which I should really nor keep any more.

Everything else seems to work just fine. Will check MHL output later this morning.

My phone seems to get unusually hot though just even writing this post so maybe there are some bugs still and this is causing the battery drain.

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Gingerbread would max out at around 20-25Mb connection speed on my 50Mb line, that's WiFi connected at 65Mbps. ICS seems to go a shade over 30Mb, nice!

http://robbiekhan.co.uk/root/temp/Screenshot_2012-02-04-11-36-45.png[img]

Battery after 1hr 41mins is 87%, that's with 24mins of s creen on time, 7mins of ICS Browser+, Android OS has kept the phone awake for 34mins, MediaScannerService has a partial wakelock time of 24mins, PowermanagerService has 11mins for kernel wakelock.

CPUSpy reports 1hr 1min has been in deep sleep with 7mins at 1200MHz so CPU is not running at high MHz unnecessarily which means the battery drain is ICS itself. This isn't a final ICS build so I understand there will be bugs :p

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I'm restoring my CWM backup to CheckROM for now, SpeedMod kernel has epic battery life so I will stick with that until ICS is final and SpeedMod updated with ICS support.[/QUOTE]

Ignore PowerManagerService in Kernel Wakelocks, that's just the total of all userland (stuff in partial wakelocks) wakelocks :), dont ask why it doesn't actually match the total of partial wakelocks, mine doesn't either :p, but according to the BBS dev that's what it means :).

Android OS @ that after only an hour means they still havent fixed the Android OS bug by the looks of it, did you notice suspend or events/0 in the processes section of BetterBatteryStats? (Or it might be related to MediaScannerService, I've never had a problem with it running a stupid amount, so have no idea what it's classed as in the battery stats section :p.)

MediaScannerService staying on for that long is weird, looks like it bugged out searching for stuff, would explain why the phone was hot.
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I would imagine it would be mostly due to the mediascanner service I agree. I've reverted back to CheckROM now though, on SpeedMod K21 and so far so good. Remember, you;ll need to flash the old modem back too because restoring a CWM backup won't reflash the modem back.

There are some unique bits in ICS that really stand out but I still prefer the Samsung Calendar over AOSP. I like seeing the MOnth view AND having the pane at the bottom showing the agenda for the selected day instead of only one or the other like on AOSP.

Also, the T9 search function in the AOSP dialler was not working for me but I use exDialler anyway with ICS theme so that wasn't an issue.
 
Yeah, Im still on CheckROM too, I'm just not bothered about ICS anymore, dont know why, just going to wait till a non LP version gets leaked I think :).

Yeah, Samsungs calendar (their apps in general imo, this doesn't include hubs though :p) are good, I prefer them over the versions that are in CM7 anyway :). Although, obviously, my opinion on most/all may change when I try the new ones. I just like the little things that Samsung have added to their software, like sliding on the notification bar to change brightness (I know this is one that Google have used, they have probably used more, which is good, I just haven't looked into it :).), sliding left/right on contacts to call/message etc.
 
Does anyone know of the best way to transfer files to/from phone to desktop wirelessly with MIUI as i'm pretty sure Kies Air doesn't work.

Thanks
 
Has anyone had to get their screen repaired? Put a bag down on mine and it's now got a crack just below the home button :(. It still works fine, but it's bugging me. Where would you recommend for repairs? Approximately how much will the replacement cost?
 
Using the latest Hyperdroid with latest K21 speedmod great combination along with KI4 modem, good balance of battery life and performance and HSPDA speeds/signal.
 
loltim said:
am i missing something obvious here? how do i list apps alphabetically? using ics 4,03 and touchwiz...
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I don't think you can, at least in 2.3. There's a work around though - if you wipe data/cache of TWLauncher, it should restart with the apps sorted :p

edit: You'll lose your homescreen setup though. Pain in the ass having to do it every time you install a new app. You could just use the list view in the app drawer?
 
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