Brick bug worries... advice please...

[delorean_dude]

Hey people,
Loving the forum, but first time Ive had reason to post.

Ok I have a Galazy S2 GT i9100 on 4.0.4 XWLPT. My phone has the insane chip so is suseptible to the brick bug.

I want to get to Biftor 8.2 safely. So from all my research I think I have to install the

Siyah v5 kernel or such like to make my phone brick safe. then install the ROM i want. Is this correct?

Also if I do the kernel install is it then safe to wipe the cache etc in recovery without issue?

Any help would be well recieved.

Thanks

 

[ironass]

Just a couple of things...

1. The brick bug only applies to the stock, un-rooted, kernels.

2. To flash custom ROM's such as Biftor, you must first root your phone which entails installing a new anti brick bug kernel as per posts #1, #2 and #3 of the Rooting Galaxy S2 - Dummies Guide.

All the custom kernels for the SGSII, that I can think of, contain the anti brick bug feature. These include... Siyah, Dorimanx, CF-Root, Jeboo and PhilZ.

Once you are rooted and have made the necessary backups, you can set about installing your custom ROM by carefully following the developers installation instructions.

 

[delorean_dude]

thanks for the help. Im now rooted... all good.

Just wondering anyone can recommend a rom which incorporates the following

DSP sound inprovement
Nature UX
Pie control

Or which gets closest to what im after.

Thanks again