CyanogenMod v7.1.0 for Galaxy S2

[caLLous]

Finally a stable build out the other day. I was putting it off thinking it would be ages for them to get it together so I would avoid being tempted but... well... it's here now and people are saying good things about it. People are also saying bad things, but the people that are saying good things are saying those good things louder.

Any other Galaxy S2 owners tempted?

CyanogenMod is an aftermarket firmware for over sixty cell phones and tablets based on the open-source Android operating system. It offers features not found in the official Android-based firmwares of vendors of these devices, including native theming support (also known as the "T-Mobile Theme Engine"), a codec for the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC), compressed cache (compcache), a large APN list, an OpenVPN client, a reboot menu, support for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and USB tethering, toggles in the notification pull-down (such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and many more), as well as other enhancements. CyanogenMod was also the first mobile OS to incorporate BFS as the task scheduler, a change that has been merged into experimental branches in the official Android source tree. CyanogenMod claims to increase performance and reliability over official firmware releases.

As of 17 July 2011, CyanogenMod has been installed on over half a million devices.

 

[Wij]

710 seems nice on my SF

 

[Will]

Have you got a guide, Wij? I'm still running Swedish Spring as I haven't been arsed to upgrade when it involves flashing to Gen2.

 

[Wij]

Have you got a guide, Wij? I'm still running Swedish Spring as I haven't been arsed to upgrade when it involves flashing to Gen2.

Think I just linked it in the OSF thread. Have a look

 

[TdC]

I'm actually doing this right now. Just waiting for a backup to complete...

 

[MYstIC G]

Pfft. Backup for the scaredy dutch!

 

[TdC]

last time I did something like this, I sadly bricked my N73. also, the backup isn't working. then I decided "fuck it" and flashed to cyanogen anyway. that then got stuck in an endless start-up loop at boot time where the android on the skateboard refused to go away.

just done it a second time. we'll see.

 

[TdC]

yay third time lucky!

 

[dysfunction]

I'm actually doing this right now. Just waiting for a backup to complete...

Can you tell me how you go about installing this?
I've never used cyanogen mods before...

 

[caLLous]

TdC, are you doing it on the galaxy s2?

edit - What happened to Stable? - CyanogenMod Forum

edit - dys, http://www.dialandroid.com/2011/10/install-android-237-cyanogenmod-71-on.html

 

[dysfunction]

TdC, are you doing it on the galaxy s2?

edit - What happened to Stable? - CyanogenMod Forum

edit - dys, Dialandroid: Install Android 2.3.7 CyanogenMod 7.1 on Galaxy S2 (SII) I9100 Guide : Custom ROM/Firmware

Ah excellent! Thanks!

 

[MYstIC G]

I took (Stable) out of the thread title to reflect what's happening.

 

[TdC]

Can you tell me how you go about installing this?
I've never used cyanogen mods before...

there are plenty of guides. let me tell you what happened outside the guides description in stead:

- before I did anything, I made a backup of my images and phone numbers that were not already in google.
- rooting failed on Windows, because the modded USB driver would only see the phone properly when it was in rescue mode, and not normal mode (maybe this was me, I don't know)
- rooting worked on Linux, but I had to install a shitload of 32bit libraries as my system is (or was, I should say) nearly pure 64bit. Anyway, the unrEVOked3 program failed the first time, and reported success the second, giving me temporary root access so I could run ROMManager.
- which was a waste of time anyway, other than installing the lastest version of clockworkmod, so I had an up to date recovery image. Anything else with ROMManager failed.

what I did in the end, was go in to clockworkmod recovery by hand, and select the zipped mod, and apply it. that looked like it worked, but cyanogen refused to boot.
then I went back in to recovery, and told it to delete data and swap. then reapplied the mod. that DID work and I had a working cyanogen that started up and everything.
then I went back in to recovery and applied the gapps zip so I would have market and gmail and whatnot. that also worked, and I could configure my phone as I pleased.


conclusion: on the whole I am pleased. the install process is a bit flawed, or I just did it wrong. Windows seems to be just too sensitive to drivers to be of much use flashing. the phone now seems slightly more responsive, and using data over 3g is certainly faster (though that may be the browser). I have yet to be called on it, so I can't tell you if that is working well, but I have been whatsapping like mad for most of the day.

TdC, are you doing it on the galaxy s2?

no, I have an HTC Desire mate.

 

[dysfunction]

I have rooted my phone no problem, in Windows.
I have CWM on the phone due to the rooting process so the rest should hopefully be fairly straight forward...

I'll wait until CM7.1 is stable first though...

 

[caLLous]

I have lost my nerve since it lost it's stable status... wouldn't mind a nice Samsung-ised Ice Cream Sandwich right about now though!

 

[MYstIC G]

or I just did it wrong

This.

I've got it running on my HP Touchpad much easier than this :kissit:

It's sexy.

 

[Wij]

there are plenty of guides. let me tell you what happened outside the guides description in stead:

what I did in the end, was go in to clockworkmod recovery by hand, and select the zipped mod, and apply it. that looked like it worked, but cyanogen refused to boot.
then I went back in to recovery, and told it to delete data and swap. then reapplied the mod. that DID work and I had a working cyanogen that started up and everything.

You always have to delete data and cache before flashing on a new android rom on any phone. The guide should have told you that.

 

[TdC]

This.

I've got it running on my HP Touchpad much easier than this :kissit:

It's sexy.

I'm sure that I may have missed something vitally important, though that said, none of the guides are nice enough to help you out when the procedure goes awry :/

You always have to delete data and cache before flashing on a new android rom on any phone. The guide should have told you that.

I just picked a random one from google. It did not cover anything going wrong like I mentioned above.

 

[caLLous]

I found a decent one a few weeks ago but I can't refind it now. I swear I found it on this computer with this Firefox but exist in my history it does not.

 

[TdC]

it's not too hard to muddle though tbh. in fact, the hardest bit for me was getting it rooted. after that, it's all wtfeasy tbh.

 

[MYstIC G]

True, there is no "by the book" method.

I installed it on my touchpad, HP then updated touchpad and I had to unbreak everything and then they released Alpha 2. Talk about pick the worst possible day to start on!