[DISCONTINUED][ROM][5.1.1] Candy 5 - Skyrocket

[Sealy64]

Ok, I'm not sure what happened, but I think I may have killed one of my S2s last night. I did a full backup of the existing install, then dirty flashed over it. On reboot, all I got was an unprecedented spinning broken circle and a bootloop. It would flicker, then spin the circle some more until I power cycled the phone.

I went back into recovery, did partial wipe, and this time I actually saw the usual spinning dots, but the device never booted. I let it sit spinning colored dots for about 10 minutes. Weirdly, when I attempted to power the phone down, it started flashing the LED (camera flash) several times before rebooting (instead of shutting down) So, back into recovery, where I restored the backup. I rebooted, but now I'm back to the spinning broken circle.

I then did a full wipe of everything but the SD card and a restore, but I'm stuck with the spinning broken circle. All I can boot at the moment is a recovery.

Any ideas? Also, given all the wiping, is there any chance of a log available in TWRP? Lastly, I'm using TWRP 2.8.6.0 if it matters.

UPDATE:
Ok, I got it back. I nuked everything on the phone except /sdcard and reinstalled. I then did a full factory reset prior to first boot. It took a while, but I'm now in account setup.

Glad you finally got it working. Kind of scary, though, because it means your nandroid either failed to create correctly or failed to restore correctly.

 

[jshamlet]

Yeah, that was pretty freaky. I was about to write the phone off as bricked, but tried one last time to get it back. These Galaxy S2s really have 9 lives.

Unfortunately, I'm now on problem #2. Trebuchet keeps force closing when I attempt to drag an app to the home screen. Actually, it force closes if I press and hold an icon at all. I haven't done much to this image beyond disabling the Google App to disable the search bar. I'm going to unfreeze it and see if the problem goes away.

I will say that lag has definitely improved, though. The user interface feels much more snappy.

UPDATE: Yes, unfreezing the Google app fixes Trebuchet. I wouldn't have thought the launcher would have been that affected by it. Which is unfortunate, because now it only shows half the search bar and the functionality appears to be broken...

 

[rogersa2k]

How To Remove ES File Explorer

First, thanks for working on this rom. It makes keeping my old SGS2 Skyrocket around as a secondary phone still a pleasurable experience.

The one thing I cannot seem to do is remove ES File Explorer. In reality I would prefer to use TiBu to convert it to a user app but that fails. I tried remounting the root fs as rw but that doesn't seem to work either (via Terminal Emulator or adb root). Any ideas what I am missing?

Thanks,
Aaron Rogers

 

[raptorddd]

First, thanks for working on this rom. It makes keeping my old SGS2 Skyrocket around as a secondary phone still a pleasurable experience.

The one thing I cannot seem to do is remove ES File Explorer. In reality I would prefer to use TiBu to convert it to a user app but that fails. I tried remounting the root fs as rw but that doesn't seem to work either (via Terminal Emulator or adb root). Any ideas what I am missing?

Thanks,
Aaron Rogers

Can you use titanium to uninstall?? or use link2sd uninstall option.. i remove most of the system apps i dont need either way, not on this rom but i guess its the same in most roms

 

[rogersa2k]

Can you use titanium to uninstall?? or use link2sd uninstall option.. i remove most of the system apps i dont need either way, not on this rom but i guess its the same in most roms

Nope. I get the following error:

Cannot remove system app
Failed to locate the apk file


I *can* remove every other system app that I wanted to. It's so odd.

Edit: Weird. I used Root Explorer and it was able to remount and delete the /system/app/ES folder. Sorry to waste anyone's time. I've just never had to do that before and I've been doing stuff like this for 5+ years.

- Aaron

 

[NoSpamDan]

New Build Available

Fresh Candy 4.1 update with updated vendor blobs which should fix the stock browser crashing due to Adreno/OpenGL scrolling issues.

candy5-release.v4.1-20151030-UNOFFICIAL-skyrocket.zip

 

[NoSpamDan]

Looking for feedback

OK, so our devices were not supported by CyanogenMod starting with Lollipop, which made development a lot more difficult. Now we are looking at M, and while I have already started on it, I would really appreciate some feedback on the following questions:

1. How many people are still using their Skyrockets as a primary phone?
2. How many will be interested in Candy6?
3. How many folks will be able to test for me?

 

[syrkles]

I use skyrocket and will test for u also

 

[Sealy64]

OK, so our devices were not supported by CyanogenMod starting with Lollipop, which made development a lot more difficult. Now we are looking at M, and while I have already started on it, I would really appreciate some feedback on the following questions:

1. How many people are still using their Skyrockets as a primary phone?
2. How many will be interested in Candy6?
3. How many folks will be able to test for me?

Skyrocket is my first and only (to date) smart phone. I still use it daily. I am interested in M, if the old girl really has the resources to run it. What will it take for you to know whether she actually does? I can test some, but because this is my daily drive, I have limited ability to test the earliest, buggy-est versions. On early, buggy versions, I would have to make a nandroid, install the new version, test a little, and then restore my nandroid as my daily driver.

(Same answer to your question in the Slim thread.)

 

[yar_nl]

I also use my Skyrocket as secondary device and welcome any development on it.

Sent from my SHV-E330S using Tapatalk

 

[jshamlet]

I keep mine in good working order, just in case I mess up my primary phone. I would love to see Marshmallow on it, as it would very likely beat my M8 to the punch.

 

[NoSpamDan]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I am still plugging away at M...