Recent content by esuhl

Never mind. I left my phone on for ten hours or so and eventually contact names appear instead of numbers. I've no idea why it should take so long, or what caused the problem, but it's now fixed itself.

I'm very new to modifying Android, but have successfully installed CM13.0 on my Samsung Galaxy SII (i9100). It works really well except for one thing: I see phone numbers instead of contact names, both during phone calls and in text messages. Once CM had installed with my new (untouched) SIM...

No, I did that with Helmdall. But not to worry -- I finally got Odin to work!!! I must've been using incompatible ROMs (although they sounded like the right ones). Anyway, if anyone else stumbles across this thread, this is the one that worked for me. It's the one for (originally) Vodafone...

It's been an arduous and incomprehensible journey trying to find the right files/command/programs to use. The first recovery image I downloaded was just a "zImage" (kernel?) file that I flashed with Heimdall. It successfully installed CWM. But I found all sorts of files for TWRP: .zip, .img...

Oh, wow! I'd never have thought of that -- that's so cool. The power of the "cloud", eh?! :-D I've reinstalled various ROMs over and over again and the Trebuchet problem hasn't come up again.

OMG! I finally managed to install TWRP! I came across this forum thread, where someone said this: And there was a link to this post, which linked to a ZIP where someone had merged the stock kernel with TWRP: [ROM][I9100][5.1.1][OFFICIAL] CyanogenMod 12.1 Nightly Builds - Post #2286 Well...

Sorry -- I'm really new to all this. What's a "launcher"? Is that what Trebuchet does? And by "desktop Play", do you mean the Google Play app store? Since it crashes repeatedly, I can't use the phone at all to get to Google Play... I've been trying to get TWRP installed for days, but the...

Well, after trying to flash the stock ROM and getting the "encrypted device" message, I booted into recovery. Strangely the Cyanogenmod recovery started. A factory reset got rid of the "encrypted device" message, but now the phone boots into Cyanogenmod. To make things worse, Trebuchet...

I tried reflashing the stock ROM. I had downloaded two ROM images that seemed suitable: GT-I9100_VOD_1_20131209181510_ayd7npl7nz.zip VOD-I9100XWMS2-20140128180739.zip I unzipped/untarred the files and ran the following command using Heimdall: heimdall flash --SBL1 Sbl.bin --PARAM param.lfs...

EDIT: Sorry -- ignore me! I got into download mode at last. I'll try to flash the stock ROM as suggested. Thanks :-)

Thanks. :) I have a Samsung Galaxy SII, model GT-i9100.

I'm new to Android, but I know a bit about PCs and Linux. I have a Galaxy S2 that had never been modified or rooted, and all I wanted to do was to try out Cyanogenmod. I saw on a forum that someone had followed the instructions on a YouTube video and they worked perfectly. The video explains...