Hi all, and thanks for reading this tread,
I have some issues and I'm hoping someone here could help shed some light on.
I was on ICS 4.0.3 and avoiding 4.0.4 due to brickbug issues. but I guess I couln't resist anymore and decided to give it a try. I tried to stay far away from buggy kernel so I used mobile odin to flash I9100XWLPT plus siyah 3.5.2 on one go
the result was a failure however, kernel flashed but firmware wiped (S2 logo was appearing but nothing else / softbrick ?).
Then I said oh well its not (hard)bricked or anything so I decided to use odin to flash I9100XWLPT, than siyah. It went ok but I lost mtp connectivity, tried s3 ported ui... didn't fly as well . Maybe something wrong with siyah 3.5.2 I thought, so tried an older siyah which I did not have an issue with h4.0.3. Situation did not improve however.
Then I flashed my old 4.0.3 and wiped, all ok mtp ok, upgraded to 4.0.4, all go, mtp ok.
Flashed siyah 3.5.2, mtp fails again. Tried android's own factory reset (not the on the boot menu, one on the personalization menu). Ended up with soft brick again (no boot only charging animation and odin mode). Flashed 4.0.4 again.
But this trial and eror process is going more dangerous by the minute I guess, so I decided to ask for support.
Do I do anything wrong? I want to upgrade to 4.0.4 everything as close as possible to stock, plus root and tocuhwiz from s3. its not too much to ask I guess.
Any suggestions and any explanations are very welcome also,
I'll thank any useful comments
kind regards,
I have 4.0.4 since 4th July with its stock kernel and it works perfectly well, I upgraded from 4.0.3 but I never did any wipes just updated on top of 4.0.3 and booted the phone, rooted from chainfires CF root thread, try it that way, worked for me and still is working.
ag4751 said:
I have 4.0.4 since 4th July with its stock kernel and it works perfectly well, I upgraded from 4.0.3 but I never did any wipes just updated on top of 4.0.3 and booted the phone, rooted from chainfires CF root thread, try it that way, worked for me and still is working.
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Thanks If all else fails I'll try that, but siyah is a good kernel and it seems to be more battery efficient too.
If its a problem I failed to check with siyah I can go 4.0.4 kernel way but it makes me nervous to run a buggy kernel.
emk2z said:
Thanks If all else fails I'll try that, but siyah is a good kernel and it seems to be more battery efficient too.
If its a problem I failed to check with siyah I can go 4.0.4 kernel way but it makes me nervous to run a buggy kernel.
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Totally agree Siyah is good I used it on 4.0.3 but it seems to fail on 4.0.4 at the moment I have not actually tried the latest one so it may well be good but I am looking to upgrade to SG3 next week so just want to keep my phone going for the time being no more playing around with this one until I have my new one.
I am using LQ5 which is reported as the buggiest but I can honestly say I have not had any problems at all, battery life appears good enough to me, depends how much you use it I guess.
Try speedmod k30 kernel, completely safe, fast and battery efficient
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Hayth said:
Try speedmod k30 kernel, completely safe, fast and battery efficient
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Thanks, pardon me if I'm being paranoid but I just read a tread about nand corruption so, this isn't something like that I assume. (Odin flash failed and left me with soft brick out of the blue). Did not notice anything about siyah 3.5.2 either so the problem may be with my phone memory.
P.S Prior sentence reads as "Please prove me wrong"
I switched to speedmod kernel, and figured siyah had MTP problems with either 4.0.4 ics or 3.5.2
I asked same questions to those kernels' respective topics & thus this tread fulled it's purpose. Thanks kindly for anyone who read & replied
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Is it safe from 'brick-bug'? (The CAP_ERASE, hardbrick when wipe data or restore from backup with 4.0.4)
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yes, siyah has disabled it in all his kernals.
good to know, thanks!
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Nice bro, thank you for the straight answer. Man I been searching and studying this thing forever and finally found a person who gave a direct answer. Much respect from my side. I have flashed my phone hundreds of times with siyah kernel, the only kernel I ever use but the got brick bug app says I have an insane kernel. And so my never ending mission for a simple answer began. I use the xxlpq modem and yet some places suggest the xxlpq 'FIRMWARE' has the brick bug for sure. This whole kernel modem leaked official story confused the heck out of me. But now thankfully I have an answer but am still confused as a duck in a waterfall. If I am getting it correctly, a modem is different from a firmware when using siyah kernel and a custom rom, not an officially released rom? So when I use, let say PFittech 4.04 rom and xxlpq modem with siyah kernel, then I am safe because the creator of the awesome siyah kernel has not included the cap_erase robocop destroyer thingy?
However, if I had to try flash to stock and used cf root/odin and then flashed the xxlpq firmware(leaked or not), then it is relatively certain I will get hard bricked and ruine my year? Anyways, this flashaholic feels more at ease now. Thanks for your simple reply, it is rare these days.
PsyOr said:
Is it safe from 'brick-bug'? (The CAP_ERASE, hardbrick when wipe data or restore from backup with 4.0.4)
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Siyah kernel has disabled the cap_erase command, Yes.
If you are on stock ICS 4.0.4, then flash Siyah 3.5.2 and above.
3.4.x and below are not 100% compatible with 4.0.4. If you flash it, your camera app will be displaying just black screen.
Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
All the latest Siyah Kernel has no brickbug on it. Currently using 4.0.2
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I am taking baby steps for the moment after having found that my S2-I9100 is vulnerable to the infamous Brick Bug (Yes, I have an insane chip).
Just wondering what benefits there would be in flashing the Siyah Kernel (v4.1.5) on my S2-I9100 running a stock Samsung ICS 4.0.4 ROM.
Other than slightly improved battery life, what else can I look forward to with the Siyah kernel with a stock Samsung ROM?
ssahmed532 said:
I am taking baby steps for the moment after having found that my S2-I9100 is vulnerable to the infamous Brick Bug (Yes, I have an insane chip).
Just wondering what benefits there would be in flashing the Siyah Kernel (v4.1.5) on my S2-I9100 running a stock Samsung ICS 4.0.4 ROM.
Other than slightly improved battery life, what else can I look forward to with the Siyah kernel with a stock Samsung ROM?
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the most important benifit u have is that 'Siyah kernel' is free of the 'eMMc' bug which could potentially damage ur phone
Root, cwm touch, dual boot, etc
Sun90 said:
the most important benifit u have is that 'Siyah kernel' is free of the 'eMMc' bug which could potentially damage ur phone
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Yes, that I am already aware of!
So other than being safe from the Brick Bug, what else can I look forward to with the Siyah kernel and a stock ICS ROM?
ssahmed532 said:
Yes, that I am already aware of!
So other than being safe from the Brick Bug, what else can I look forward to with the Siyah kernel and a stock ICS ROM?
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u have to install the same to see the benifts ma8
since i am using 'Siyah' with a custom JB rom,hence not aware of how it wrks with a stock samsung rom
So just to be clear (as a complete noob who has never attempted anything of this nature before) flashing Siyah v5.0i with a phone known to have the infamous brick bug chip is safe?
redchris said:
So just to be clear (as a complete noob who has never attempted anything of this nature before) flashing Siyah v5.0i with a phone known to have the infamous brick bug chip is safe?
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yes, because you are not wiping anything until after you install the kernal which is brick bug free.
Cosmic Blue said:
yes, because you are not wiping anything until after you install the kernal which is brick bug free.
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Thanks for the quick answer Cosmic Blue. So I flashed the Siyah kernal and lo - it worked (thank god!). So now a question: If the Siyah krnal is brick bug free should I expect to see the brick bug check app to give me a negative result? it is telling me that my phone still has the brick bug.
redchris said:
Thanks for the quick answer Cosmic Blue. So I flashed the Siyah kernal and lo - it worked (thank god!). So now a question: If the Siyah krnal is brick bug free should I expect to see the brick bug check app to give me a negative result? it is telling me that my phone still has the brick bug.
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Because the app is checking to see if the hardware eMMC chip your phone has is susceptible to the brick bug. If your chip still has the potential to be affected by the bug, changing the kernel won't fix that, but if you have a kernel which has MMC_CAP_ERASE disabled, then you will be safe.
So by flashing Siyah, you are safe (because it has MMC_CAP_ERASE disabled), but your phone will still report as having the bug.
Make sense?
I think its the chip thats the problem....so youve still got the same chip.
thanks for the helpful answers folks and sorry for the inane questions. My reasons for flashing to Siyah were twofold: I experience frequent lock ups and significant battery drain. I thought I'd try JB and see if that made a difference. Having the brick bug chip persuaded me to try Siyah. Now I just need to figure our how to update to JB and dual boot. I found this thread which seems helpful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1680851
So more inane questions: I need to install a JB rom, right? CM10 M1? Are there any further risks associated with takingthis step?
Thanks again in advance for any help.
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any one knows where to download the stock rom of s2. i have stock rom ICS 4.0.3 with siyah v5 kernel.
Tranzphormed said:
any one knows where to download the stock rom of s2. i have stock rom ICS 4.0.3 with siyah v5 kernel.
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http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/ and flash via odin.
redchris said:
thanks for the helpful answers folks and sorry for the inane questions. My reasons for flashing to Siyah were twofold: I experience frequent lock ups and significant battery drain. I thought I'd try JB and see if that made a difference. Having the brick bug chip persuaded me to try Siyah. Now I just need to figure our how to update to JB and dual boot. I found this thread which seems helpful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1680851
So more inane questions: I need to install a JB rom, right? CM10 M1? Are there any further risks associated with takingthis step?
Thanks again in advance for any help.
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You don't 'need' to, but as long as you make a nandroid backup (backup your apps with TB pro, sms with sms backup and restore etc) and follow the installation instructions, to the letter, for each rom u wanna try, you'll be fine. And if u ever fancy going back to stock, just restore your nandroid. Happy flashing
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Thanks a lot for the answer; I would also require stock kernel of it.
Unfortunately I cannot ask questions in specific thread, so I would like to do it now.
I have a problem after flashing LS8, specifically Wanamlite v.14. For some time phone works perfectly, until it suddenly switches off. I am able to power it up, but it freezes on the first screen with logo and model number. I am however able to access recovery.
And so I did - accessed recovery, flashed rom again, unfortunately, the only thing that worked was to do a full factory reset.
It worked... for a while. Then the story repeated itself. This time I did exactly the same, but started digging: some reported, that it might be a problem with kernel, which is Philz newest 4.00 b22. So I changed kernel: Dorimanx 7.44 - got serious overheating problems and the same probem. Jeboo 1.2 - the same. I then discovered, that eg. Jeboo has something from Philz kernel, so I flashed earlier version of Jeboo 1.1f. I am currently at this stage. Oh, btw. my chip is insane, if it changes anything.
Can anyone please tell me if you had similar problems, maybe not only users of Wanamlite, but other roms (which would confirm problems with kernel)? Can anyone tell me if there is any solution? Or at least does anyone knows what is happening? It is getting really weird, as I have been reading post of people reporting identical problem as I have, but devs seem to avoid the topic... Or maybe you guys are working hard to find out what is the problem - in that case a simple one line statement "we are aware. working on it" will suffice. Please, I am starting to be desperate here...
Regards.
Try Siyah kernel v6 beta4. I am also using WannamLite and have no issues at all.
Odp: [Q] Black Logo Screen problem
Thank you for the tip. I found the kernel elsewhere, however is there a thread about siyah v6 somewhere here, on xda-developers?
I will test it against problems I encountered and report for future readers.
The question still stays: what happened to me and all these other people?
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clawz71 said:
Thank you for the tip. I found the kernel elsewhere, however is there a thread about siyah v6 somewhere here, on xda-developers?
I will test it against problems I encountered and report for future readers.
The question still stays: what happened to me and all these other people?
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Yes it is, try to always download from xda.
You've experienced conflict between ROM & Kernel. Always check the custom ROM thread and read it upside down so you can spot potential issues regarding this kinda conflict.
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Yes it is, try to [U/]always[/U] download from xda.
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Could you point me in its direction? I have been using search extensively without any results.
gastonw said:
You've experienced conflict between ROM & Kernel. Always check the custom ROM thread and read it upside down so you can spot potential issues regarding this kinda conflict.
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I did it, however, which is weird, only some of people reported it and dev, who in this case is Wanam, did not reply.
And I know, that it seems to be a conflict between rom and kernel, but how is it possible that not everyone had this issue while flashing Wanamlite with factory reset and kernel included in the rom? Nevertheless, I am sticking with Siyah for the while and see what happens.
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I have the same issue, it seems with LS8 whenever I reboot, there's a 50-50 chance my phone will "die" and I'll need a complete wipe and rom install
If I do a hot boot within Titanium Backup, guaranteed my phone will brake.
This happens with Siyah, PhilZ and Jeboo, it's not really a kernel issue, now a Wanamlite's issue since people on NEATROM also said they suffered the same issue, there's some problem with the firmware, seems that whenever the phone doesn't shut down properly, it won't start again.
Wish I could provide a log, but since phone totally dies, I don't know how to retrieve it.
@op: you got a siyah q&a thread sticked in the Q&A section.
Why don't you guys flash stock while you sort this out?
Custom ROMs will be updated soon now that ls8 is out. Therefore kernels will be updated as well.
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I'm having the same problem too. I have been using the Stock LS8 and Philz Kernel (4.00 b22-b30). I stopped using Siyah b4 in the previous JB Stock Leak because I had isues with the camera freezing.
Any suggestion?
clawz71 said:
Unfortunately I cannot ask questions in specific thread, so I would like to do it now.
I have a problem after flashing LS8, specifically Wanamlite v.14. For some time phone works perfectly, until it suddenly switches off. I am able to power it up, but it freezes on the first screen with logo and model number. I am however able to access recovery.
And so I did - accessed recovery, flashed rom again, unfortunately, the only thing that worked was to do a full factory reset.
It worked... for a while. Then the story repeated itself. This time I did exactly the same, but started digging: some reported, that it might be a problem with kernel, which is Philz newest 4.00 b22. So I changed kernel: Dorimanx 7.44 - got serious overheating problems and the same probem. Jeboo 1.2 - the same. I then discovered, that eg. Jeboo has something from Philz kernel, so I flashed earlier version of Jeboo 1.1f. I am currently at this stage. Oh, btw. my chip is insane, if it changes anything.
Can anyone please tell me if you had similar problems, maybe not only users of Wanamlite, but other roms (which would confirm problems with kernel)? Can anyone tell me if there is any solution? Or at least does anyone knows what is happening? It is getting really weird, as I have been reading post of people reporting identical problem as I have, but devs seem to avoid the topic... Or maybe you guys are working hard to find out what is the problem - in that case a simple one line statement "we are aware. working on it" will suffice. Please, I am starting to be desperate here...
Regards.
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reading threads + trial & error.
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gastonw said:
reading threads + trial & error.
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We do it. We read threads and do trial and error. I even started a separate thread to report our trials to the community. This one
Thank you for your input.
pedroren said:
I'm having the same problem too. I have been using the Stock LS8 and Philz Kernel (4.00 b22-b30). I stopped using Siyah b4 in the previous JB Stock Leak because I had isues with the camera freezing.
Any suggestion?
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Well I am still on siyah v6.b4. So far so good. But I am not too happy with battery life... You might try jeboo 1-1f, as some reported it doesn't cause any problems. I had jeboo 1-2 for a while but out generated the same bootloop...
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gastonw said:
Custom ROMs will be updated soon now that ls8 is out. Therefore kernels will be updated as well
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What do you mean by that? We are discussing here ls8 kernels, aren't we? Newest Phillz is a stock one based on ls8, afaik.
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[Sorry for double post, I thought it merges automatically]
I truly don't know what was being discussed here, If I posted that is because I must think that all ls8 kernels are in beta.
Man, I really gotta get some sleep
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So I have rooted my classmate his Galaxy S2 with CF-Root, which I now realized was a big mistake. It seems that he when he opens his camera app, a black screen comes but he can still take pictures. He can't also access the YouTube app. Another thing is that he lost ALL his files on his intern memory (like pictures, music etc. Which was kind of weird, because I have never had such a problem.) He doesn't really care about losing his files, contacts etc. He just wants to take pictures and access YouTube again. I read on a different topic that flashing Siyah kernel would fix this? Also, IF I have to flash Siyah for him, I have to put the Siyah kernel file in Odin in PDA and hit start, right?
Sorry if this isn't a huge question. It's just that I have never flashed to a different kernel (I have always flashed Custom ROMs with the kernel provided in there). Also is there a chance of any errors, mistakes, something going wrong? I know I can always flash back to the latest stock ICS rom, but nothing big should happen when switching kernels? Or am I wrong?
AndroidFan2 said:
So I have rooted my classmate his Galaxy S2 with CF-Root, which I now realized was a big mistake. It seems that he when he opens his camera app, a black screen comes but he can still take pictures. He can't also access the YouTube app. Another thing is that he lost ALL his files on his intern memory (like pictures, music etc. Which was kind of weird, because I have never had such a problem.) He doesn't really care about losing his files, contacts etc. He just wants to take pictures and access YouTube again. I read on a different topic that flashing Siyah kernel would fix this? Also, IF I have to flash Siyah for him, I have to put the Siyah kernel file in Odin in PDA and hit start, right?
Sorry if this isn't a huge question. It's just that I have never flashed to a different kernel (I have always flashed Custom ROMs with the kernel provided in there). Also is there a chance of any errors, mistakes, something going wrong? I know I can always flash back to the latest stock ICS rom, but nothing big should happen when switching kernels? Or am I wrong?
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If the phone is running on ICS you can flash siyah kernel 5.01 with odin. Its perfectly safe. Just install samsung kies for the drivers. And if your phone is running on GB do not flash siyah
Thing can always go south when flashing. Wanna try a safe-friendly method for flashing custom kernels and Stock ROMs? Try Mobile Odin.
And read about all these you're asking here.
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pasanjay said:
If the phone is running on ICS you can flash siyah kernel 5.01 with odin. Its perfectly safe. Just install samsung kies for the drivers. And if your phone is running on GB do not flash siyah
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The phone is currently running on a stock ICS from Samsung with root installed. The drivers for the S2 are installed too! I hope it'll do the trick. Hitted the thanks box.
gastonw said:
Thing can always go south when flashing. Wanna try a safe-friendly method for flashing custom kernels and Stock ROMs? Try Mobile Odin.
And read about all these you're asking here.
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I've never really used Mobile Odin. But when I search it in Play Store all I get is the pro version. And since not many people in the Netherlands (including me) don't own a credit card or a paypal account, I can't purchase it. Thanks for the suggestion though.
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The phone is currently running on a stock ICS from Samsung with root installed. The drivers for the S2 are installed too! I hope it'll do the trick. Hitted the thanks box.
I've never really used Mobile Odin. But when I search it in Play Store all I get is the pro version. And since not many people in the Netherlands (including me) don't own a credit card or a paypal account, I can't purchase it. Thanks for the suggestion though.
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It's free, pro version gets everroot, automatic kernel DL and SU & MO injects.
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AndroidFan2 said:
The phone is currently running on a stock ICS from Samsung with root installed. The drivers for the S2 are installed too! I hope it'll do the trick. Hitted the thanks box.
I've never really used Mobile Odin. But when I search it in Play Store all I get is the pro version. And since not many people in the Netherlands (including me) don't own a credit card or a paypal account, I can't purchase it. Thanks for the suggestion though.
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If you have proper drivers installed its perfectly safe to flash siyah using odin. Do not wipe or restore nandroid backups on your current cf root recovery. You can do anything after flashing siyah or dorimanx kernel
It seems highly unlikely to me that CF-root started all this. Did you flash the correct CF-Root for the correct rom version? You didnt mention which version of CF-root you flashed or what version of the stock rom he has.
If you got no experience in other kernels, why not do a full wipe and start from scratch?
Lennyz1988 said:
It seems highly unlikely to me that CF-root started all this. Did you flash the correct CF-Root for the correct rom version? You didnt mention which version of CF-root you flashed or what version of the stock rom he has.
If you got no experience in other kernels, why not do a full wipe and start from scratch?
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If it's of further help, he was on XWLPD and I've flashed CF-Root with the latest version. The rooting went flawless on Odin, he has CWM installed and has SuperSU on there and has root acces. The tutorial I followed was on XDA Developers, altough I can't find the link anymore.
I was actually thinking of starting from scratch like you said. It seemed easier for me haha.
I also read that CF-Root has a lot of bugs..
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If it's of further help, he was on XWLPD and I've flashed CF-Root with the latest version. The rooting went flawless on Odin, he has CWM installed and has SuperSU on there and has root acces. The tutorial I followed was on XDA Developers, altough I can't find the link anymore.
I was actually thinking of starting from scratch like you said. It seemed easier for me haha.
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CF Root became obsolete after 4.0.4
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Hi, yesterday I bought a Galaxy S2 from AT&T and I'm a newbie at this. I want to know which is the best kernel for this phone without any brick possibilities.
Because I know the Siyah kernel, but I don't like it just because the Ying-yang symbol at booting process (That's really stupid) and I heard that the Jeboo Kernel leaves your phone with the triangle and without the possibility of booting the phone. Stuck at "Samsung Galaxy S2" and the triangle, so first of all... Is this true? (I mean the bug of the Jeboo Kernel)
And second, if it's true... Which kernel can I use?
I forgot to say...
The S2 has 4.1.2 Stock Unrooted.
Thanks in advance.
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If I'm bad at English is because I'm from Argentina and I'm learning.
MlucianoEze said:
I forgot to say...
The S2 has 4.1.2 Stock Unrooted..
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Stock unrooted. First you'll need to follow one of many threads detailing how to root the phone, and get cwm onto the i777. Then you'll need to read each kernel forum with recent support for the i777 to determine which is best suited for your needs (stability, rom choice, vanity, whatever). A few big names around here are AJK, jeboo (which works fantastically for it's designed application), and STI.
Happy flashing.
Ok. I'll do that.
Thanks.
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cyril279 said:
Stock unrooted. First you'll need to follow one of many threads detailing how to root the phone, and get cwm onto the i777. Then you'll need to read each kernel forum with recent support for the i777 to determine which is best suited for your needs (stability, rom choice, vanity, whatever). A few big names around here are AJK, jeboo (which works fantastically for it's designed application), and STI.
Happy flashing.
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One thing more. If I leave the phone with stock unrooted kernel and I do a Factory Reset, will the phone brick?
Because of the eMMC bug with stock unrooted kernel.
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MlucianoEze said:
One thing more. If I leave the phone with stock unrooted kernel and I do a Factory Reset, will the phone brick?
Because of the eMMC bug with stock unrooted kernel.
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I'm pretty sure that stock 4.1.2 left the eMMC bug behind, the details are in creepyncrawly's repository. Creepyncrawly's signature is the best starting point for modding the I777.
MlucianoEze said:
Hi, yesterday I bought a Galaxy S2 from AT&T and I'm a newbie at this. I want to know which is the best kernel for this phone without any brick possibilities.
Because I know the Siyah kernel, but I don't like it just because the Ying-yang symbol at booting process (That's really stupid) and I heard that the Jeboo Kernel leaves your phone with the triangle and without the possibility of booting the phone. Stuck at "Samsung Galaxy S2" and the triangle, so first of all... Is this true? (I mean the bug of the Jeboo Kernel)
And second, if it's true... Which kernel can I use?
I forgot to say...
The S2 has 4.1.2 Stock Unrooted.
Thanks in advance.
Sent from my Nexus 7 2012.
If I'm bad at English is because I'm from Argentina and I'm learning.
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MlucianoEze said:
One thing more. If I leave the phone with stock unrooted kernel and I do a Factory Reset, will the phone brick?
Because of the eMMC bug with stock unrooted kernel.
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To your initial question, there is nothing wrong with the Jebo kernel. It was, however, built specifically to go with the SHOstock3 rom. There are a variety of things that can cause the problem you stated. Flashing the wrong kernel for instance, as in flashing an ICS or Gingerbread kernel to a Jelly Bean system, will prevent the phone from booting. As far as the warning triangle at boot, that is caused by flashing a custom kernel using Odin or Heimdall. The screen can also be removed by flashing a stock kernel using Odin or Heimdall.
As far as the cap erase eMMC brick bug is concerned, that showed up in the ICS versions, and was possibly present in the 2.3.4 stock kernel. It may have been present also in the 2.3.6 stock kernel but there was never any direct evidence that it was. The 4.1.2 stock kernel is almost certainly safe. If it were my phone, I would not hesitate to perform a wipe data/factory reset with the 4.1.2 stock kernel.
creepyncrawly said:
To your initial question, there is nothing wrong with the Jebo kernel. It was, however, built specifically to go with the SHOstock3 rom. There are a variety of things that can cause the problem you stated. Flashing the wrong kernel for instance, as in flashing an ICS or Gingerbread kernel to a Jelly Bean system, will prevent the phone from booting. As far as the warning triangle at boot, that is caused by flashing a custom kernel using Odin or Heimdall. The screen can also be removed by flashing a stock kernel using Odin or Heimdall.
As far as the cap erase eMMC brick bug is concerned, that showed up in the ICS versions, and was possibly present in the 2.3.4 stock kernel. It may have been present also in the 2.3.6 stock kernel but there was never any direct evidence that it was. The 4.1.2 stock kernel is almost certainly safe. If it were my phone, I would not hesitate to perform a wipe data/factory reset with the 4.1.2 stock kernel.
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Tour explained me very well, I understood everything! So thanks.
I will choose the kernel later.
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