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[ROM][5.0.2/LRX22G][AOSP][LINARO/OPTIMIZED] FML: Fork My Life (2015/01/08)

[#Intro]
Oh, and now there's these Lollipops I'm handing out. They are free as always, and they are very very delicious.
[#Why]
[#Info]
I need people testing and finding bugs if anything is going to be fixed. I might not have the Bluetooth devices you have, I might not use the camera as much as you, I might not use 4G LTE (or mobile data in general really) as much as you; you get the idea.
[#HowTo]
Latest Build​KitKat/Stable: N/A
KitKat/Beta: omni-4.4.4-20141015-toroplus-FML.zip (162.13 MB)
Lollipop/Beta: FML-AOSP-5.0-20150108-toroplus.zip (195.53 MB)
LOLLIPOP INFO:
USE THESE GAPPS: FML-GApps-5.0.x-20150101-tuna.zip (167.81 MB)
They are based on PA's GApps, huge thank you to them!
Known Issues
- Camera can be a little touchy, but it generally works.
Lollipop Changelogs can be found in the post below!
(KitKat) BETA INFO:
Beta builds are using updated GPU drivers (and an updated kernel to go with them) courtesy of @Ziyan, as well as being up to date with the latest stuff from OmniROM. NOTE: YOU CANNOT FLASH A DIFFERENT KERNEL WITH THESE BUILDS.
Currently broken with the new GPU drivers:
- Hardware Video Decoding FIXED 2014/10/06
- Hardware Video Encoding(?) FIXED 2014/10/08
- Camera (PARTIALLY) FIXED 2014/10/08
- The stock camera app (as well as Google Camera) has this weird quirk of crashing when pressing the shutter button to take a picture, however many different camera apps on the Play Store (in particular Camera ZOOM FX) work flawlessly. Video recording is generally OK, however I've been getting some reports of the audio and video being a little out of sync, so your mileage may vary...
See the Changelog post below for..... well..... changelogs.
[#GApps]
Known Issues​- The screenrecord command does not work directly, however it does work via the Power menu.
- There can be a slight (noticeable, but not huge) delay when pressing the Recents or Home button.
[#Thanks]
[#Donations]
XDA:DevDB Information
FML: Fork My Life, ROM for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Contributors
MWisBest
Source Code: https://github.com/MWisBest/
ROM OS Version: 5.0.x Lollipop
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.0.x
Based On: AOSP
Version Information
Status: Beta
Beta Release Date: 2015-01-08
Created 2014-10-13
Last Updated 2015-01-08

Changelog, News, Etc.​
Lollipop Beta Changelogs:
- Updated the camera HAL.
This is going to be a little... fragile, at first, but in the long run it's needed. Stock camera app saves pictures now at least.
You may also notice that there's a 5.1MP resolution now (clear your camera app's data if you don't see it), despite our camera supposedly being 5.0MP all these years. Turns out the sensor's native resolution is indeed a whopping 16 pixels taller and 16 pixels wider than we've been using.
2015/01/04
- Added back some of the classic FML optimizations and more.
Built with -fstrict-aliasing flag, C++11, and the Linaro GCC 4.9 toolchain.
- Updated to AOSP "android-5.0.2_r1" tag.
As usual, the only real change was them bumping the version number.
- Improved flashing.
The speed of flashing the ROM zip is now much faster.
- Superuser is now built-in.
There's no need to flash SuperSU. You can find Superuser in the Settings app. You may have to enable the "Development Settings" menu to see it.
Some apps are a little sketchy with this Superuser though, most notably Titanium Backup. If you have issues, try flashing SuperSU.
- Video playback should be fixed.
YouTube in particular seems OK. If you have some weird format you're playing back locally I cannot make any guarantees though.
- The camera situation has improved and also regressed.
The stock camera is kinda back to the point of where it was with the KitKat Beta builds:
---- Preview works. Saving photos does not work. Video recording kinda works.
--- However:
---- The camera calibration is a little messed up. Long story, but it'll be fixed soon. So your white balance may look kinda funky, among other things.
- Audio quality is improved, with support for 192kHz FLAC as well.
This is possible thanks to a new audio resampler, which doesn't impose the same sample rate restrictions of the stock Android ones. It also has far better quality than the stock Android resamplers.
- WiiMotes can now be paired via Bluetooth.
I used to be a bit of a Wii hacking enthusiast... I think I still need to add some more stuff to make it useable as a gamepad or something, but yeah.
- Fixed location services issues.
- (toro) Fixed switching between 4G/LTE and 3G/CDMA network settings.
- Kernel changes:
Reclaimed 38MB of RAM from the carveout stuff.
Removed HDMI's framebuffer, saving an additional ~16MB of RAM. With Lollipop, MHL/HDMI out isn't working with our old HWComposer, so might as well save some RAM in the mean time.
Added overclocking support, as well as adjusted the stock frequencies a little.
Added the GPU kernel driver back into the kernel, rather than building it as a separate module.
Switched to LZO compression for the kernel. It results in a slightly larger size to the kernel, but it boots faster.
Added the "purple tint fix".
Added compiler flag to tune code for Cortex-A9 CPU.
Built with Linaro GCC 4.9 toolchain.
Older Builds:
2014/11/16
- Fixed the RIL.
(I think, still unsure of toroplus's status.)
There were a few things that went into this, and I can't really take much credit for it other than being persistent in trying to fix it.
1. rild needed a little fix-up to somewhat return it to pre-Lollipop form. Basically Google is forcing Qualcomm's junk upon the world. @dhiru1602 pointed me in the direction of some commits from rmcc to hardware/ril that fixed this part of the problem.
2. The kernel needed a commit to support some new junk related to networking in Lollipop. @Ziyan linked me to the change in question.
- Updated to AOSP "android-5.0.0_r6" tag.
Really the only change is that the build number is bumped to LRX21T.
- Switched out a couple small proprietary binaries with a reverse-engineered open-source version.
Thanks to @stargo who has really been killin' it for the Motorola OMAP devices recently, we now have a reverse-engineered pvrsrvinit binary (the executable that fires up the GPU drivers on boot-up). This is especially important because the proprietary pvrsrvinit wasn't compiled as PIE (position-independent executable). With Lollipop, they're forcing everything to be PIE, which is good because PIE is better from a security stand-point. Previously I had been adding a workaround to enable support for non-PIE, which I now don't need.
2014/11/11
- Switched back to the old OTA package format.
With Lollipop they're now, by default, flashing something similar to a system.img. I switched back to the old format. THIS IS CAUSING VERY LENGTHY FLASH TIMES NOW HOWEVER, I HOPE TO FIX THESE SOON.
- Changed the kernel to build with GCC 4.7.
With Lollipop, Google switched to GCC 4.8. GCC 4.8 has never been kind to the Galaxy Nexus kernel, I'm surprised it was booting at all in the first place.
- Added "Ambient Display".
Apparently I need to add a "pick-up" or "significant motion" sensor for it though, so it displays something when the phone is picked up.
- Fixed chromium crashing.
This fixes Browser crashing upon open, among other things. This fix has been in chromium itself for nearly 4 months now, I don't know what the heck Google is doing to AOSP to make it so FUBAR lately...
- Fixed lag in Recents menu.
Now it's smoother than KitKat's, in my opinion.
- Added back F2FS support.
F2FS is now supported again, HOWEVER, it is NOT supported on the /system partition. It really didn't do any good for /system anyway.
- Updated various icons.
The Dialer icon in particular was bothering me. Other things that aren't visible in the launcher, e.g. SettingsProvider, have been fixed as well.
- Fixed FLAC playback, among other media decoding issues.
Just needed a sync-up in the device tree with one thing that I think Google DID do a nice job of with Lollipop actually.
- Built the ROM with "WITH_DEXPREOPT := true" defined.
This basically has all the system apps compiled before flashing, to cut down on the initial boot-up time which is ridiculously long with ART.
- Changed the "Android is upgrading..." screen to prevent burn-in.
Instead of using the white Lollipop-like look, it now should show up as the old, darker theme.
KitKat Beta Changelogs:
2014/10/15
- Cleaned up the kernel.
Ziyan went over all his work not long ago and cleaned up the commit history and whatnot. He's letting me do the task of merging in the GPU driver stuff, so I'm currently just getting the kernel to a "clean slate" of sorts for other kernel devs to fork and build off of. Basically this should hopefully be the new "stock" or "Google" kernel. As a result, there's some bells and whistles missing from this build. It does however include some new audio updates that weren't in the previous kernel, which leads me to this...
- Changed audio sampling rate to 48kHz.
Previously the sampling rate has been 44.1kHz. The Galaxy Nexus supports 48kHz though! Here's what mainly sparked this change: since KitKat, the UI audio effects (e.x. touch sounds) have been switching over to 48kHz. With the Galaxy Nexus still using 44.1kHz, UI sound playback became kinda sluggish, and this was a big contributor to it. The UI sounds use the "fast track" audio path (where it tries to do as little processing as it can to the audio in order to play it with a minimum amount of latency), however a requirement of using this is that no resampling (e.g. converting 48kHz to 44.1kHz, like it has been doing currently with KitKat) can be required on the audio being played. Therefore the UI sounds were taking the "deep buffer" audio path, which has a delay to it. In switching to 48kHz, the "fast track" path is actually even faster now than it has ever been previously, and the Galaxy Nexus was already TOP OF THE LINE when it comes to audio latency believe it or not!
Another thing about this is that there is now support for playback of 96kHz audio files.
- Some updates to the camera HAL.
This hasn't fixed the situation of stock and stock-based camera apps crashing when taking a picture, but it's a start on it though.
NOTICE: Poweramp (and probably most other media players that use their own native code for audio playback rather than straight-up using the built-in Android APIs) is being pissy about the sampling rate change. If you experience issues with music playing, especially things like popping or crackling, please try Play Music or Apollo and see if your issue is still present. I know the UIs for Play Music and Apollo are pretty awful, but I can't write my own media player because I'm dealing with this camera stuff!
KitKat Stable Changelogs:
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Finally got FML up for you toroplus guys! Sorry for the long delay.

Awesome...thank you very much MW!!!!!

Wonderful
Currently uploading this to my server and will seed until a stable version is uploaded, then I will replace it. Thank you so much for bringing life into an otherwise fading device. :crying:
Donation sent.

Downloading. Will be my second rom I try;

Beeing the beginner that I am, I have a Maguro so i couldn't install this one.
Sorry.

BennyDS said:
Beeing the beginner that I am, I have a Maguro so i couldn't install this one.
Sorry.
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Maguro Build is Here.

I've always wondered about this rom as I saw it on the toro thread... will give it a whirl

MWisBest said:
Finally got FML up for you toroplus guys! Sorry for the long delay.
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Running good so far! I dirty-flashed over the official Omni build I've been running. No problems to report outside of the expected camera weirdness. Play Store camera apps are all over the map in their behavior - CameraZoomFX works perfectly as you reported, Google Camera crashes like the stock camera, Focal doesn't have any display at all. Video recording works but the audio is a bit out of sync, playback is a little choppy on the phone but is smoother on my computer. VideoCam Illusion (which does its own video encoding via software) does not work at all. Video hangouts seem to work fine.
Also, I used the torch quite a bit today, and at one point it quit working and I had to reboot to get it back. It's a bit early to tell, but I'm suspicious that this ROM is affected by the same 'Camera quits working' bug as Ziyan's 'stable' OMAP kernel.
Anyway, thanks again for your amazing work!

I had the same Torch issue as stated above, fixed with a reboot. Im currently running on Ting/ a Sprint MVNO and they are known for having APN issues with 4.4.x roms. When switching to LTE in the settings, the dialer app would crash loop until I switched back to 3g/2g. Flashing an APN zip on their forum fixed the crashing, but havent been able to tell if 4g actually connects as its pretty shotty coverage in my area. But I thought Id share incase someone else is on Ting.
---------- Post added at 05:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:04 PM ----------
Coming from CM 11 I guess I have been lucky as far as not having to do my own work as far as updating the Sprint Profile, and PRL as it was still within the system settings. I have been unable to figure out how to update Profile/PRL on my own as of yet. Any chance one of you may want to share this info? I'd greatly appreciate it.

New build is up.

The ROM is running smoothly with a few hiccups. I have ran into a few problems. Here's some of them that I have found so far:
1. I currently don't have root.
2. The options to "Uninstall/App info" is there but the texts aren't visible.
3. 3G to LTE switching isn't working on the 20141015 nightly build. It was on the 20141014 nightly build.
4. No Up/Down icon on the signal.

bloopblah said:
The ROM is running smoothly with a few hiccups. I have ran into a few problems. Here's some of them that I have found so far:
1. I currently don't have root.
2. The options to "Uninstall/App info" is there but the texts aren't visible.
3. 3G to LTE switching isn't working on the 20141015 nightly build. It was on the 20141014 nightly build.
4. No Up/Down icon on the signal.
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1. Root works here on FML. THe official build of OmniROM does not include superuser, you need to flash it yourself from recovery.
2. That's been a longstanding bug with Omni on toroplus for some reason.
3. There's no 20141014 build of FML for toroplus - are you using the Omni official build?
4. That's turned off by default - Settings/Bars/Activity Indicators.

Alright, another new build to try out! I will have a couple of ROMs to try on my GNex which is a good thing!
@MWisBest...hopefully you get some donations coming in as well as Musical_Chairs since you guys are putting time and effort into providing new goodies for us.
Hopefully you get some $$$ coming in. It's going to be about a week for me to donate. One thing people don't realize is that donations don't exactly flood in for devs. I released 4 Venum Ice ET4G ROMs and 2 fully inverted black and white Note 2 ROMs including icons, all inverted apps etc. I actually got over 1000 downloads on all 6 ROMs within the first 24 hours and had excellent feedback.... I received a total of 3 donations totaling $12! Lol. What you guys are doing is harder so hopefully some people who are still here show you guys some love for not making this a thread that got closed for inactivity.... Thanks again to both of you.
Sent from my Knox-Blocked P.O.S Tab 3 running same hardware as my GNex using Xparent Gray Tapatalk 2

Wanted to give this rom a shot mainly due to the updated GPU drivers. So far a very smooth experience and pleased with it except for one major bug for my use case: Any video playback either Youtube, MX Player, etc.. after some uptime seems to fail entirely. In the case of YT it'll just sit at a black buffering screen. It'll buffer the data fine going by the progress bar as I've at times had about 1/4 of a 10-15 minute video buffer going by that indication with no playback. If I reboot the phone and give it another shot, it works.

cr08 said:
Wanted to give this rom a shot mainly due to the updated GPU drivers. So far a very smooth experience and pleased with it except for one major bug for my use case: Any video playback either Youtube, MX Player, etc.. after some uptime seems to fail entirely. In the case of YT it'll just sit at a black buffering screen. It'll buffer the data fine going by the progress bar as I've at times had about 1/4 of a 10-15 minute video buffer going by that indication with no playback. If I reboot the phone and give it another shot, it works.
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That's the same issue as the torch issue mentioned above. It's a hard bug to track down because it takes so long to show up, and AFAIK nobody has found a reliable way to trigger it (other than just wait a day or two for it to show up). If somebody can figure out how to trigger it more quickly, I would like to try a git bisect on Ziyan's stable OMAP kernel (which is affected by the same bug) and see if I can pinpoint what is actually causing it. But without a reliable way to tell if a particular test kernel is good or not, a bisect is more or less useless.

Hi guys. How are you? I'm fantastic right now:
EDIT: Let me fix that a little...

CM12.1 source code for LeEco Le 1 Pro? By: s0be

I was told that these where the source code of CM12.1. I'll share it with you:
https://github.com/s0be/android_device_letv_x1na
https://github.com/s0be/android_vendor_letv_x1na
https://github.com/s0be/android_kernel_letv_msm8994
I don't know any news of kernel source code release by LeEco.
Let's see if, with subforum on XDA-Developers we have more ROMs coming up, hope so.

From a Chinese bbs
There has been indeed something going on since November on this front
http://bbs.ydss.cn/thread-598321-1-1.html
It seems like there is still a bug at the camera level. Hopefully something will be released soon, also with instructions in English.

i9o said:
There has been indeed something going on since November on this front
http://bbs.ydss.cn/thread-598321-1-1.html
It seems like there is still a bug at the camera level. Hopefully something will be released soon, also with instructions in English.
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yeah I know, but I think the source code on this is newer.

new version. Seems gps, wifi, heating and other issues have been fixed or at least working better.
http://bbs.ydss.cn/thread-635136-1-1.html

another one, seems more recent. Don't know if it's better tho.
http://bbs.le.com/thread-1692751-1.html

Amazing ROM the one posted right above, I suggest it to all of those who are missing the Cyanogen/Slim.
I will use it as daily driver even if the EUI6 will come out (i guess it will still be better than EUI)
PROS:
1. Cyanogen
2. Really smooth
3. Good battery
4. Good GPS (fastest seen to me)
CONS:
1. Black screen from time to time when closing an activity (nothing major)
2. Wifi is terribad imho --> i'll try WCNSS fix
3. Sometimes i need to double press the power up button to turn on the screen
4. d2tw is not working, d2ts is but only in the status bar (hw home button can be enabled as well)
5. AudioFX crash (intentional?)
6. Dolby Atmos how do you use it??!?
7. There is an app to let the flash blink when a notification is received, personally i dont like it. Green/Yellow/Red led is not working (any workaround?)
Suggestions:
Use root explorer to remove chinese apps (baidu, sugoisearch), i didnt uninstall collapseromer app though. Before doing so install google keyboard.
Default APN may be the wrong one, hence no connectivity.

hi man,
they are 3 links, which is kernel source ?
Have you got CM13 kernel source ?

Anyone here still using CM11?

Just got a bit tired of little bugs in the CM13 based roms and thinking about switching back to CM11. The only concern is the lack of security updates after the maintainers abandoned the projects for newer android versions.
Did anyone here try downgrading? Or maybe never upgraded? Is it wise to do so?
Some of my issues with CM13 based roms which have put me off:
Insane lag when reciving calls
Adopting Storage doesn't work half the time
Front Camera crashes
Mobile Data issues
Lock Screen Wallpaper Issue
Music suspend bug
Battery drain Issue

LOL brother. I am still using CM 11 build 14/11/15 with Xcelerate kernel build 4/12/15.
I still used this OS as it gives me atleast 500+mb ram which I require a lot for gaming.
At battery 100%............(with airplane mode on)...wifi on After 3hrs of continuous wifi gaming my battery drops to around 20%.
So I guess battery life is good.......though i haven't activated any sim cards(that would be a different story)
I don't have any voice(call) related problem though. Only bug is HDR. Once a picture is clicked with HDR on, you have to exit camera to click again in HDR mode
I actually need a CM 13 rom which provide such performance.(I was thinking about Slim rom 0.4 by Aniket Lamba)
So if anyone can suggest me better rom then please let me know. For me stability & usability matters more than recent builds.
I always will appreciate any information whether good or bad

I used to like KK as it was last in the line of the Holo interface and it was the only 4.x available for our phone, so I used it for fairly long and didn't switch to LP until MM came around. Along with Xcelerate it was really good: decent battery life, smooth experience and fast charging. But now that I've grown to like the Material interface as well, I've been using MM more often these few months, especially Slim6, which I feel gives the same feel I used to get on KK: stability and smoothness.
KK is still one of my more favourite ROMs, but given that KK is mostly dead by now and there are more developments and features in LP and MM, I think I'll just stick to Slim6.
amangupta53 said:
Some of my issues with CM13 based roms which have put me off:
Insane lag when reciving calls
Adopting Storage doesn't work half the time
Front Camera crashes
Mobile Data issues
Lock Screen Wallpaper Issue
Music suspend bug
Battery drain Issue
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1) I don't get this
2) I don't use Adoptive Storage, heard it screws with WiFi
3) I don't get this (it has been fixed recently)
4) Depends on ROM
5) GravityBox (for AOSP MM), or this guide (which also works on CM13)
6) Disable MPDecision. Strangely when I downgraded to CM11 I was still getting the bug.
7) Depends on ROM
The issues I had with CM11 were generally the use of Apollo and the HDR issue as stated in the post before mine. And the music bug after downgrading. Apart from those I was happy with it, and I wouldn't mind a single bit to change back to it. I just don't understand the hate regarding KK, especially in the MIUI 8 thread...

NightRaven49 said:
I used to like KK as it was last in the line of the Holo interface and it was the only 4.x available for our phone, so I used it for fairly long and didn't switch to LP until MM came around. Along with Xcelerate it was really good: decent battery life, smooth experience and fast charging. But now that I've grown to like the Material interface as well, I've been using MM more often these few months, especially Slim6, which I feel gives the same feel I used to get on KK: stability and smoothness.
KK is still one of my more favourite ROMs, but given that KK is mostly dead by now and there are more developments and features in LP and MM, I think I'll just stick to Slim6.
1) I don't get this
2) I don't use Adoptive Storage, heard it screws with WiFi
3) I don't get this (it has been fixed recently)
4) Depends on ROM
5) GravityBox (for AOSP MM), or this guide (which also works on CM13)
6) Disable MPDecision. Strangely when I downgraded to CM11 I was still getting the bug.
7) Depends on ROM
The issues I had with CM11 were generally the use of Apollo and the HDR issue as stated in the post before mine. And the music bug after downgrading. Apart from those I was happy with it, and I wouldn't mind a single bit to change back to it. I just don't understand the hate regarding KK, especially in the MIUI 8 thread...
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Hate towards KK is only because most of the apps are working great in >LP than in KK. If MIUI with LP is given then it can be easily a great choice for armani. MIUI ram issues have sorted out but only thing is standby time(wifi on) is low.

NightRaven49 said:
I used to like KK as it was last in the line of the Holo interface and it was the only 4.x available for our phone, so I used it for fairly long and didn't switch to LP until MM came around. Along with Xcelerate it was really good: decent battery life, smooth experience and fast charging. But now that I've grown to like the Material interface as well, I've been using MM more often these few months, especially Slim6, which I feel gives the same feel I used to get on KK: stability and smoothness.
KK is still one of my more favourite ROMs, but given that KK is mostly dead by now and there are more developments and features in LP and MM, I think I'll just stick to Slim6.
1) I don't get this
2) I don't use Adoptive Storage, heard it screws with WiFi
3) I don't get this (it has been fixed recently)
4) Depends on ROM
5) GravityBox (for AOSP MM), or this guide (which also works on CM13)
6) Disable MPDecision. Strangely when I downgraded to CM11 I was still getting the bug.
7) Depends on ROM
The issues I had with CM11 were generally the use of Apollo and the HDR issue as stated in the post before mine. And the music bug after downgrading. Apart from those I was happy with it, and I wouldn't mind a single bit to change back to it. I just don't understand the hate regarding KK, especially in the MIUI 8 thread...
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The music bug persisting after the downgrade is what's keeping me back. I, too, don't use Adoptive storage for all the bugs it brings - even on AOSP. But this means I'm running out of space by the end of the month because of necessary evils like WhatsCrap.
The gravitybox mod is good to know, although I don't use xposed, but really is simply a hassle to effectively change your wallpaper - especially when I'm changing them every other week.
I've recently tried disabling MPDecision - the music seems to be playing fine but I can't help but notice sightly degraded performance all around.

slst said:
Hate towards KK is only because most of the apps are working great in >LP than in KK.
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Funny when there was a time when apps couldn't run properly on ART...
amangupta53 said:
I, too, don't use Adoptive storage for all the bugs it brings - even on AOSP. But this means I'm running out of space by the end of the month because of necessary evils like WhatsCrap.
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Adoptive Storage is a hassle to set up: you need to format your SD card (which meant I had to shift everything out before converting it), and TWRP has no way to read such encrypted storage, so I didn't use it after the first time I tried it. Also you could do with regular housekeeping of your phone's storage; usually I keep WhatsApp images for a year before deleting them (after keeping the important ones and archiving the rest).
amangupta53 said:
The gravitybox mod is good to know, although I don't use xposed, but really is simply a hassle to effectively change your wallpaper - especially when I'm changing them every other week.
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Xposed is very helpful, but if you don't want to use it then I won't force you.
Generally in those CM12/13 ROMs if I wanted to switch between lockscreen wallpapers I would leave a couple of those wallpapers in the /data/system/users/0 folder, just renamed to let me know which file is which wallpaper. Whenever I wanted to change them I just renamed them to the proper filename.
amangupta53 said:
I've recently tried disabling MPDecision - the music seems to be playing fine but I can't help but notice sightly degraded performance all around.
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You don't have to leave MPDecision off the whole time: just disable it when listening to music, and re-enable it afterward.

Thank you everyone for your valuable comments:good:. It seems I can finally move on to CM 13:fingers-crossed:.(mostly slim6 version)
Note: I don't have music stop bug in CM11 though( may be related to firmware version or kernel. don't know why different people have different bugs:silly

Dr. Joy Das said:
Thank you everyone for your valuable comments:good:. It seems I can finally move on to CM 13:fingers-crossed:.(mostly slim6 version)
Note: I don't have music stop bug in CM11 though( may be related to firmware version or kernel. don't know why different people have different bugs:silly
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What I think is that the KK firmware/modem we all flashed for CM13 builds has something to do with the music suspend bug. This is probably the reason why downgrading back to CM11/12.1 doesn't seem to fix this issue.
Anyway, seems like I'll just stick with CM13 for now.

NightRaven49 said:
Funny when there was a time when apps couldn't run properly on ART...
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Sorry my friend i think its past now.

amangupta53 said:
What I think is that the KK firmware/modem we all flashed for CM13 builds has something to do with the music suspend bug.
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Well not really, as the same v7.0.5.0 is used for CM11, 12 and early 13 builds. It's most likely a kernel issue, given that disabling MPDecision fixes it somewhat.
slst said:
Sorry my friend i think its past now.
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I totally didn't know that, like totally dude
/sarcasm

ROMs Comparison - Differences & Reviews

Hey there, I haven't updated my Note II (N7100) in a while so I was wondering what's on the custom ROMs scene these days.
Long story short, I came across a popular few listed below but it doesn't do much to help differentiate one ROM from another. While it's easy to say "give each a try & find out for yourself", I was hoping we can be a bit more objective to describe the functionality of each ROM & what they feature to make them stand out from the rest.
Ideally, I can keep the list updated following your feedback. Please feel free to give me your suggestions to improve it further. Thanks!
NAME
AICP
NucleaROM
LineageOS
XenonHD
Cosmic-OS
Resurrection Remix
AOSP-PN
UPDATED
Nightly
12 Jun 17
3 Jun 17
20 May 17
14 May 17
19 Apr 17
3 Mar 17
BASE OS
7.1.2_r8 - LOS
7.1.2_r17 - LOS
7.1.2 - LOS
7.1.2_r8 - LOS
7.1.1_r25 - AOSP
7.1.1_r9 - LOS
7.1.1_r22 - AOSP
DEVELOPER
@makorn645
@moludo
@tilaksidduram
@makorn645, @dadi11
@sagarshah1729
@hibin.m
@ParanoidNote
SUPPORT
Google+
Telegram
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Telegram
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NAME
AICP
NucleaROM
LineageOS
XenonHD
Cosmic-OS
Resurrection Remix
AOSP-PN
FEATURE
Bluetooth transfer
CM S-PEN.
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Bluetooth transfer
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Bluetooth transfer | OpenCamera
FLAW
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Bluetooth transfer | Temperature static at 30°C | OpenCamera
Wi-Fi (fix: Void kernel V1.8.6) | Signal strength static at 40% | OpenCamera
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* Sorted in order of last update; click the date to access download link. Special thanks to @jer194 for his contribution.
Below is the code to format the above tabulated list.
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[URL="http://cleanimport.xda/index.php?THREADs"]NucleaROM[/URL]
[URL="http://cleanimport.xda/index.php?THREADs"]LineageOS[/URL]
[URL="http://cleanimport.xda/index.php?THREADs"]XenonHD[/URL]
[URL="http://cleanimport.xda/index.php?THREADs"]Cosmic-OS[/URL]
[URL="http://cleanimport.xda/index.php?THREADs"]Resurrection Remix[/URL]
[URL="http://cleanimport.xda/index.php?THREADs"]AOSP-PN[/URL]
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[B]UPDATED[/B]
[URL=http://dwnld.aicp-rom.com/?device=n7100]Nightly[/URL]
[URL=https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=189751]12 Jun 17[/URL]
[URL=http://tilak.sergix44.ovh/n7100]3 Jun 17[/URL]
[URL=https://mirrors.c0urier.net/android/teamhorizon/N/Official/n7100]20 May 17[/URL]
[URL=https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=147449]14 May 17[/URL]
[URL=https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=132763]19 Apr 17[/URL]
[URL=https://github.com/ParanoidNote/misc/releases]3 Mar 17 [/URL]
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[B]BASE OS[/B]
7.1.2_r8 [I]- LOS[/I]
7.1.2_r17 [I]- LOS[/I]
7.1.2 [I]- LOS[/I]
7.1.2_r8 [I]- LOS[/I]
7.1.1_r25 [I]- AOSP[/I]
7.1.1_r9 [I]- LOS[/I]
7.1.1_r22 [I]- AOSP[/I]
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[B]DEVELOPER[/B]
[user=7889472]@makorn645[/user]
[user=4443483]@moludo[/user]
[user=539770]@tilaksidduram[/user]
[user=7889472]@makorn645[/user], [user=3792100]@dadi11[/user]
[user=5863325]@sagarshah1729[/user]
[user=7049132]@hibin.m[/user]
[user=5441149]@ParanoidNote[/user]
[/LIST][/FLOATLEFT][FLOATLEFT][LIST]
[B]SUPPORT[/B]
[URL=https://plus.google.com/communities/101008638920580274588]Google+[/URL]
[URL=https://t.me/NucleaRomSupport]Telegram[/URL]
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[URL=https://t.me/sagarshah1729]Telegram[/URL]
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[B]NAME[/B]
[URL="http://cleanimport.xda/index.php?THREADs"]AICP[/URL]
[URL="http://cleanimport.xda/index.php?THREADs"]NucleaROM[/URL]
[URL="http://cleanimport.xda/index.php?THREADs"]LineageOS[/URL]
[URL="http://cleanimport.xda/index.php?THREADs"]XenonHD[/URL]
[URL="http://cleanimport.xda/index.php?THREADs"]Cosmic-OS[/URL]
[URL="http://cleanimport.xda/index.php?THREADs"]Resurrection Remix[/URL]
[URL="http://cleanimport.xda/index.php?THREADs"]AOSP-PN[/URL]
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[B]FEATURE[/B]
Bluetooth transfer
CM S-PEN.
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Bluetooth transfer
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Bluetooth transfer | OpenCamera
[/LIST][/FLOATLEFT][FLOATLEFT][LIST]
[B]FLAW[/B]
-
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Bluetooth transfer | Temperature static at 30°C | OpenCamera
Wi-Fi (fix: Void kernel V1.8.6) | Signal strength static at 40% | OpenCamera
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Are we able to do that ? I never knew that it was possible to exist a thread like that. Its going to be very helpful, if its going to be continued. I will definitely follow and get informed .
Thank you for creating this.
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---------- Post added at 03:32 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:19 AM ----------
BUT IF WE WANT TO BE FAIR , we must inform that Aicp and Lineage roms have been updated recently
AICP has a daily base update so the last nightly is 11/6/2017
http://dwnld.aicp-rom.com/?device=n7100
Lineage's ROM also have been updatedd 3/6/2017
http://tilak.sergix44.ovh/n7100/
RR is not easy to keep track, as they release a rom and after a while it disappears from their server and an unofficial pops up and so on. I was never able to understand what is happening in that thread and this is very unfortunate since RR is (or was for NOTE 2) one of the most popular roms. It was the first not stock based,custom rom i flashed in my note 2
NucleaROM also has a newer version:
NucleaRom-V1.0.7-OFFICIAL[7.1.2]-n7100-20170525
http://nuclearom.com/download/nuclearom-v1-0-7-official7-1-2-n7100-20170525-1513-zip/?lang=en
and HenonHD , I think is going to surprise us pleasantly , with something even newer from them all
Tomorrow , if its OK, I will write my personal opinion for every one I have tried.

N7100 ROMs Table (Nougat) (updates stopped)
Moved to its own thread (here).

take a look in NucleaROM by @moludo. New built today 13/6/2017 is fantastic, with CM S-PEN support inbuilt.
I think its the top for now.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=72656015&postcount=42

logosA said:
Are we able to do that ? I never knew that it was possible to exist a thread like that.
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I don't see why not
You'll notice I've avoided subjective opinions when comparing the ROMs to avoid any kind of bias beyond what each of them offer. A similar [THREAD="3220724"][INDEX] thread[/THREAD] exists for our Note II & most other device forums but it hasn't been updated since the tail-end of last year so I'm aiming to just focus on a detailed "specs sheet" of ROMs.
logosA said:
BUT IF WE WANT TO BE FAIR , we must inform that Aicp and Lineage roms have been updated recently AICP has a daily base update so the last nightly is 11/6/2017
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I'm just keeping track of stable release dates. I'm sure you understand that it gets a bit trickier to keep track of nightly release dates of various ROMs. However, I'll make a note to label ROMs with a nightly release schedule as such.
logosA said:
Lineage's ROM also have been updatedd 3/6/2017
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Last update & download link edited, thanks!
logosA said:
NucleaROM also has a newer version: NucleaRom-V1.0.7-OFFICIAL[7.1.2]-n7100-20170525
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ROM info updated to yesterday's release, thanks!
logosA said:
Tomorrow , if its OK, I will write my personal opinion for every one I have tried.
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Looking forward to it! :good:

ROMs table
NB: Unfortunately, sensors are not working on my Note 2 (water damage on 170708), so I can't check sensor related stuff anymore.
AICP 170702 (LineageOS):
Temperature is changing (good).
OpenCamera works now (!) (fixed beginning of July 2017)
XenonHD 170707 / 170714 / 170720 (LineageOS) (my current 'daily driver'):
Bluetooth transfer (to another Samsung device) not working (it is working in AICP / MM, also in CosmicOS/AOSP / N)
Temperature is always 30° (bad). Lockscreen shows static values '5.0V 30°C' (fixed in 170703; back in 170720)
Lockscreen: charging current always 0 'mAh' (minor)
OpenCamera cannot be started (fixed in 170703)
NucleaRom 170622 / 170627 / 170713 (LineageOS):
Bluetooth transfer: not working
Temperature is always 30° (bad). Lockscreen shows static values '5.0V 30°C'
OpenCamera not working (working in AICP/XenonHD)
RR 5.8.3 170419 (LineageOS) (thanks to CLaudioman2009):
NO HDMI out (neither in MM RR version)
NO screen mirroring to dongle (at least worked in the MM RR version)
Google camera takes photos but not video
NO xposed but can use some few magisk modules
RR 5.8.3 170714:
OpenCamera cannot be started (170714)
CosmicOS 170326 (AOSP):
Random reboots (!) (bad)
Bluetooth transfer works
Temperature is changing (good).
OpenCamera cannot be started (working in AOSP 7.1)
Signal strength indicator shows always 40%
Wifi does not work; flash void kernel v1.8.6 to fix it
crDroid 170730 / 170801 (LOS):
GPS not working
OpenCamera ok
Wifi ok

Thanks for your feedback, @jer194! Just added a "Flaw" column to the table to keep track of significant issues (+ their fixes) that users might want to aware of before committing to install a ROM.
Once again, I'd like to re-iterate to everyone that this is (at least for the time-being) an actively updated thread so your contribution is hugely appreciated for each & every ROM up there. Cheers!

Sorry Guys was all busy with my Sem exams, Hope you all are doing good,
Have so much of notifications to be checked on....
anyway, will see for a week for some new changes in RR, else will release a new stability fix update.
Special thanks to Christoph Schafer for his donation, its not the amount brother, its the appreciation which you shown matters...

Rickav said:
Thanks for your feedback, @jer194! Just added a "Flaw" column to the table to keep track of significant issues (+ their fixes) that users might want to aware of before committing to install a ROM.
Once again, I'd like to re-iterate to everyone that this is (at least for the time-being) an actively updated thread so your contribution is hugely appreciated for each & every ROM up there. Cheers!
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:good: Thanks, Rickav!
The list of flaws for sure is incomplete, the ones in my post are just the ones I'm struggling with
Meanwhile, NucleaROM (170622) and XenonHD (170624) have received updates (see my earlier post).

I think that now that magisk is removed as a default root method and AICP has left us decide what to be used as root, AICP is coming back very strong among the three best for now , together with NucleaRom and HenonHD, which are still at the top three.
Hibin.m , now that he is back, has to give a boost if he intents to keep up, as RR is not what they used to be and what in other phones are still considered as a strong group.
Lineage is always the strong, solid but Spartan rom, which anyone can count on, to test if his phone is working as it should.
Its always the base of them all.
THESE ARE MY PERSONAL FEELING THIS WEEK and no one has to agree with me.

I think its like open season out there, all the kids , now that schools and colleges have finished lessons have come over, looking for things and futures they have left before new years holidays. Amazing how young people dont want to try new things but trying to keep things the way it was a long time ago. A lot of them are even asking how to go back to lolipop or KIT KAT.
TECHNOLOGY is not furniture where old is classic. Here old is outdated and not working anymore, as it cannt keep up new challenges.
Any way, sorry for that, I am mostly talking to my self

logosA said:
I think its like open season out there, all the kids , now that schools and colleges have finished lessons have come over, looking for things and futures they have left before new years holidays. Amazing how young people dont want to try new things but trying to keep things the way it was a long time ago. A lot of them are even asking how to go back to lolipop or KIT KAT.
TECHNOLOGY is not furniture where old is classic. Here old is outdated and not working anymore, as it cannt keep up new challenges.
Any way, sorry for that, I am mostly talking to my self
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Thanks for bumping the thread!
There is no obligation to fix flaws --- everybody is free to do so, if he/she feels like ...
(and there might be more interesting things to do out there).
Anyway, I've updated my two tables I had posted earlier (on N7100 ROMs, and on flaws).

Today i have in my mind this classification about the available roms for our note 2
1. XenonHD 14/7/2017
Everything seems to work just fine in that latest version of the rom
Counting: GPS, video everywhere, video calls in WhatsApp and Viber, built-in from now on. Highly battery friendly. Nova launcher in-built, dark theme option
2. NucleaRom
radioactive kernel of the rom is one of the most effective and customize-able, available now for our phone
also a flawless rom, smooth, fast, battery friendly, with all major functions working perfect.
3. AICP 17/7/2017
very similar with the XenonHD, as they both share sources and DEV
looks slightly slower than the first 2 roms, but its a rom you can also very easy use a a daily driver.
These are my personal and only marks about the roms available right now.
The other roms are still to be update, or be tested since they where absent for a while

Dont you think you have to update threads with the new appeared rom(s),
or you are just waiting for them to mature a little more?

logosA said:
Dont you think you have to update threads with the new appeared rom(s),
or you are just waiting for them to mature a little more?
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I'm trying to keep my ROM tables updated (see signature); crDroid has been added already.
My device lost some of its sensors, so I'm not able to test thoroughly anymore ...

jer194 said:
I'm trying to keep my ROM tables updated (see signature); crDroid has been added already.
My device lost some of its sensors, so I'm not able to test thoroughly anymore ...
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I know you are doing great job documentary everything. Users haven't yet understand how great and useful is what you are doing. They will appreciate it eventually

so, new entries this week end. You have a lot work to do.
Waiting to see your very useful information
THANKS again for the great job you are doing
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So, 2 new entries this week
Lineage's rom (Tilak's) and RR(hibin.m)
Both are updated with new sources and a lot of fixes in both of them.
Lineage's rom comes prerooted, RR provided 2 versions (prerooted and un rooted) for the user to choose.
I installed lineageSU in unrooted RR rom to have a ,as much as possible , equal base to compere the 2 roms.
What i have found out:
Lineage rom, with iSU on it, passes safety net check.
RR rom, can't pass. CTS profile false.
in Lineage rom GPS fixes in device only scan
In RR GPS is not fixing unless in high accuracy (BT WIFI)
In both roms when trying to do a normal voice call using BT mobile network is restarting , so its impossible to make or receive a call.
Only inbuilt camera is working on both roms
Open camera and Snap camera HDR are crashing
Lineage's rom feels more solid but RR is faster in antutu tests, giving you though a sence of a little instability.
Thats what I manage to understand from last night's testing

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In RR GPS is not fixing unless in high accuracy (BT WIFI)
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Thanks for sharing your findings!
I've updated my N7100 ROMs table accordingly.
Just for the RR GPS: it is working in my installation.
The best indicator is in SatStat, 'Satellites':
- if it shows '-/-', GPS is not working
- if it shows '0/0', GPS is working, and is just a matter of patience (and free sky) to get the satellite signals.

jer194 said:
Thanks for sharing your findings!
I've updated my N7100 ROMs table accordingly.
Just for the RR GPS: it is working in my installation.
The best indicator is in SatStat, 'Satellites':
- if it shows '-/-', GPS is not working
- if it shows '0/0', GPS is working, and is just a matter of patience (and free sky) to get the satellite signals.
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yes, you are right.
It took me some more time and a lot of open space, but finally got it FIXED.
Looks like first time takes a little more time when in device only mode

How are newer versions of the stock rom these days?

I'm currently on the summer 2021 release of the Verizon stock rom based on Android 11 and ONE UI 3.1, but have been hearing about newer versions based on Android 12. I'm fairly happy with the performance of the existing combination, (the speed and battery life are nothing short of epic) but have never found a solution for the longstanding bug where audio playback inside of Shazam is choppy.
My question to the community is if newer builds of the stock rom fix the choppy Shazam audio playback, and also, whether or not they break the Wichita version of the Google Camera app, which I rely on extensively (unless there's a less-broken distribution that I haven't heard about yet, in which case, lay it on me!).

Well, I finally bit the bullet and chomped down all the dirty/in-place updates for both the stock rom based on Android 11 and Android 12. After I inserted a T-Mobile-branded sim card, it set off a whirlwind of changes, including switching the stock rom from the Verizon rom to the T-Moible one all by itself somehow. Lots of nasty packages to disable, but it calms down well enough after doing so. Among other things, the T-Mobile stock rom is extremely aggressive about software updates. I let it push me around this time, but after getting through the batch, I did disable the obnoxious & pushy updater.
I can confirm that choppy Shazam audio was fixed by one of those (can't remember which one) and that the Google Camera app still works in the new rom, so that's a win. The sidecar widgets are degraded, and the little animation that appears when power is connected looks kind of weird, but everything else is alright, except for the horrible widget shaping on the newer stock Samsung launcher. Also, the friendlier band switching menu is stripped out, requiring use of the dialer code to prompt the more primitive one.
If anyone was on the fence about it, as long as you're okay with those minor caveats, I'd recommend going along for the upgrade.