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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dhruvmalik:
Hey Guys,

So I have posted this Here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1653583&page=4 as well, but just hoping to get some more attention to my question rather than creating a wasting new thread.

So I have been extensively reading the whole LPY / Kernel / CWM issues and my heart goes out to all those who endured the Brick issues; whether hard bricked, super bricked or soft bricked.

I have always used a GB rom and once installed Imilka's AOSP based ICS rom, but then reverted back to GB safely and do not flash often. I was on CheckROM V6 and been using it for a few months. No issues with the ROM but as soon as LPY was released, I took the opportunity to read the guides and did the following.

1) Downloaded LPY from the Samfirmware shared link.

2) Downloaded the LPY Kernel from Chainfire

3) Used Mobile Odin Pro and flashed LPY and the Chainfire LPY Rooted kernel during the same flash, not after flashing LPY first and then the Kernel afterwards - I checked Wipe Data and Cache & Wipe Dalvik Cache. I also checked in Enable EverRoot, Inject Super User and Inject Mobile ODIN.

Rom flashed successfully and booted up, I used Titanium Backup and got rid of all the Samsung crap (Hubs, SNS Services, news and weather, LWP's, Widgets) that I usually remove from any Rom.

My experience on LPY has been phenomenal and I am very pleased with it, my battery life is also fantastic.

So after writing all this, my question to you all is that whether one should go back to GB or just stay on LPY until a) a new release of ICS is out OR b) a fix is out somehow.

I would prefer to stay on LPY as it runs great but if revert back to GB is suggested, then please provide your methods.

In no way I am a newbie in this subject matter, but I prefer to learn from the experience and of others.

NOTE: I am not a flash wh*re on the Note as CheckROM performed exceptionally well for me. Those were my SGS II days when I flashed each week (only stock with Chainfire Root)

Your suggestions are greatly appreciated.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] p107r0:
I'd say that if you are satisfied with LPY, and for now the only risks identified may occur while specific flashing or factory reset is performed, it's definitely safer to stay on it, until solution or update is released.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mdalacu:
SPen - Force GPU Rendering disabled

What i found, is that SPen is laggy when you have "Force GPU Rendering" enabled in Developer options.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] khanhlnq:
Me too, run ICS for 3 days and Media process still kill my battery, it even force close sometimes.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dhruvmalik:
Thank you for your inputs. I would prefer to stay on it, but am really hoping for some more inputs of people.

I also hope that this question would perhaps clear others perception in this wake of "Bricking"

Thanks all. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] brooon:
Just for all the people moaning about battery life...this is the battery performance after 5 days of usage, full (re)loading and no tricks (no battery pull & stuff ;)).

LPY, CWM...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] cymax:
Hi all :),

I have some questions... Trying to put LPY over stock GB that is not rooted.. and my problem is that when i try to install mobile odin it requires root (i think i saw some post that someone did the upgrade with mobile odin from not rooted stock GB). Is this possible or i have to root the stock GB first, reset counter, install mobile odin and then flash LPY?

Thanks,

Best regards.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Acezsv:
No 3G

I loaded LPY en of last week and love it. Phone feels alot smoother.

I just upgraded to LPY from XXLA4, without any problems software wise atleast.

I need some help with mobile data though. I have setup the APN manually, reset APN Sim settings. I did a factory reset and reinstalled the ROM, installed GB again (3g worked) then upgraded to LPY and again 3G was gone. I have installed a new modem XXLPT. I am at a lost. :confused:

* Forgot to mention i used Odin on PC. I've re-downloaded ROM.

I think it might be the ISP in SA. I tried with a UK vodafone sim and 3G is working. With my MTN (SA SP) sim i cant add or edit the APN setting, they just disappear.

i am loving ICS so much i can almost live without 3G :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] musashiro:
use pc odin
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kj23:
Display became garbled, flashed green and yellow lines while using Galaxy Note.

Flashed the stock LPY rom on my Galaxy Note one night ago (using PC odin), everything went great so far and it was pretty smooth, encountered some bug on the helicopter view tho... when dragging the tiles/switching home screen panels, the tiles often get stuck and doesn't spring back into position as it normally would, I was really impressed other than that.

But earlier this morning I was charging my phone, while browsing on facebook, the screen suddenly flashed, images displayed got distorted and flashed green and yellow lines on a white background... it was really scary, I quickly pulled the back cover and took the battery out. Restarted my phone hoping that the screen will go back to normal.

IT DID. as if nothing happened.

Now my note is still working fine, IDK if I've done anything wrong, my device is not rooted, the only apps running in the background at that time was Ttorrent nothing else. Well, Pulse, Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare are all pretty much cached. FORCED 2D rendering is on if that counts, yeah, I was using Facebook when it happened--like I haven't mentioned that already.

Have you guys experienced something like this on your note? It's scary and IDK if it will occur again.

Also, I've encountered a problem with ANY torrent downloading software I've found on the Play Store, Ttorrent, Atorrent, you name it. Back when I was still using stock GB ROM (flashing LPY is my first time ever) these programs used to make my phone lag/freeze like crazy while downloading or not as long as it's running in the background the lag happens.

Does it have anything to do with the Torrent downloader? Please help. I don't want this to happen again :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dhruvmalik:
I think it may have something to do with Force 2D that caused the screen to flicker. But I cannot be for certain.

Are you planning to stick to LPY or revert back to GB?

I am hoping that people respond to sticking to LPY and we encounter no issues (as long as we dont do a Factory Reset (Full Wipe))
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kj23:
I want to stick to LPY I really do. I'm just afraid of the consequences that these occurrences can do to my phone. I just shelled out $600 on a phone that has the possibility of becoming a very expensive paperweight. Sigh.

Is it best if I disable the force 2D rendering option? Haven't found anything online that's close to what has happened to my phone--well, found some but, those were issues re: the transformer prime... T_T
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dhruvmalik:
I dont have Force 2D enabled and do not have any issues / compatibility issues with my apps.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Alexanderbooth:
Hi if you go into developer options in settings and turn on show screen updates, then scroll the screen around it flashes like mad, is that what it looked like when it did it? maybe the setting just randomly came on for a minute?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kj23:
It's close to that but not quite, the screen updates option was shown/flashed with a white and pinkish tinge whenever I touched the screen, gave me some sort of eye-induced electroshock therapy--very unpleasant.

But unfortunately no, it looked nowhere near that. :(

The screen had hundreds of randomly placed vertical and horizontal green and yellow lines with a white background--I could see a slight greyish hint of the homescreen icons on the white background other that it was a very frightening experience really.

---------- Post added at 07:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:21 PM ----------

Just disabled the Force 2D option, hopefully it won't happen again. Thank you so much!

PS: tried playing with the helicopter view on the homescreen with the 2D acceleration off, the panels/tiles now spring back into position. No more bug. :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] blitzkriegh:
had pixel salad too. is it kernel related?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tbong777:
You can use use Kies to do the upgrade if your device is eligible. You can also root GB, flash the Abyss Kernel and flash that way as well. I used Mobile Odin and did not use the CF ROOT option and just injected Root from the

ABYSS kernel.

I plan to use the Abyss red pill Kernel to do all wipes going forward until CF ROOT CWM is sorted out.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] raistlin74:
mmmmmm no 3g with Vodafone Italy.

Network is ok, but no data.

When I reboot the phone, I notice that the "Android is updating" appear for a moment, very strange.

Anyone can help with the 3g?

Thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bracken21:
To any one who is having lag problems.. please check if you have power saver enabled ?

For some reason, if I have it enabled my phone begins to lag even though the power saver is not suppose to kick in until around 30% battery. As soon as I disabled it again, its like using a different phone.. so smooth.

Maybe a bug, but wow big difference after its disabled.

Hope it works for anyone else having problems...

Cheers

Bracken
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ianjd:
I'm having some weird email widget behaviour - I have a couple of widgets setup up to show different email accounts, but they don't seem to be updating properly as they did under GB, and they seem to spontaneously change the account they're viewing to "Combined Inbox" rather than their assigned accounts.

Also seeing the same rather lackluster WiFi performance, so heading back to GB...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] edronote:
note ics lpy

i flashed the rocketrom ics xxlpy but i got the reboot problem :( so i cant tell if its good :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] k!DDa:
For me lpy is the smoothest rom i ve ever had on the note, incl Spen functions.

Battery is fine if the wakelock bugs dont appear.

Had stunner, chrack, darky, and rocket and another rom called c.. i forgot^^

Btw got 2D on
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] elijahtan:
try to manually input ur APN should help.google
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] programatix:
Mms is broken, well actually it behaves like virgin android where you need to enable Data Packet for it to work. Samsung fixed this issue for Note in GB (but not other Samsung phones) where you can send/receive mms without turning on Data Packet... stupid Samsung.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] keeglj:
Im also on mtn but the only problem i have is that i cannot download from the market while on 3G,wifi works fine,,i had the same issue with cm9
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] HasC:
Just tried your suggestion as I had it enabled and can confirm that the phone is notably faster when turned off, excellent tip!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] cracklenet:
usbStorage missing after upgrade

I have flashed my Galaxy note with LPY ROM and now the internal storage is not listed in the File Explorer.

In Ginger Bread, it used to show up as "usbStorage" in the file explorer but now it is missing.

I have tried doing a factory reset with no luck.

Tried another file explorer (File Expert) which shows the "usbStorage", however cannot create or copy or do anything with it. It throws an error "Fail to Create"

Any fixes for it?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] p107r0:
you may be looking in the wrong folder,

on my device, both with GB-LB1 on ICS-LPY,

- the internal storage is connected as /mnt/sdcard, inside it there are:

- external_sd for external SD-Card

- usbStorage for USB OTG (empty until USG flash drive is connected)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gurnishdhillon:
How to get USB Storage

Ok , yea it 's missing from the notification pull down bar but the way i am doing it now is that you go to setting/more/usb utilities and then click on the button which says

"Connect Storage to PC" then a pop up will say "connect usb table ....."

now u connect the usb cable and it will show u the same old mass storage menu that it used to show on GB before

Hope this helps

---------- Post added at 11:50 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:46 AM ----------

OOPS WRONG POST ....I was posting in another thread :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] cracklenet:
Thanks. I have tried checking the Phone and card storage by connecting to the PC and I understood your point. To make myself more clear I tried connecting an OTG cable and a USB Flash drive. The USB Storage folder let me access the folders from the Flash drive and was able to write to it.

Thanks again.

---------- Post added at 11:05 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:03 AM ----------

Thanks. I have tried checking the Phone and card storage by connecting to the PC and I understood your point. To make myself more clear I tried connecting an OTG cable and a USB Flash drive. The USB Storage folder let me access the folders from the Flash drive and was able to write to it.

Thanks again.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] vladovns:
ICS two days usage.

Factory reset + battery calibration.

I have noticeably worse battery life under ICS. Had the pixel salad once.

The phone become laggy on the second day.

Reverted back to GB via Mobile Odin.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] p107r0:
Feels good now, doesn't it?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tbong777:
Ongoing

Decided to plunge into Custom Roms with Rocket Rom... Since Mobile Odin already wiped from GB I just flashed the ROM from CWM and all went well..

When I tried to use DPI changer the ROM would not boot so I re flashed Rocket and again all is well

Rom is smoother than any GB ROM. Battery life is about 10 hours with EVERYTHING on and updating at 3 hour Min, FM Radio 4 hours use. Latitude, Maps, BT Wifi all on all the time. Phone goes into deep sleep as necessary.

I definitely am not one to turn off stuff to save batterylife and use the phone. (Thankfully Samsung has not gone the way of Apple and HTC regarding batteries sealed up.

Cannot complain. Fear is gone. Time to enjoy.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] k@ke:
I had ICS running in my Note about week. After those bricked Notes started to roll out, i reverted back to GB just to be on the safe ground.

I had change to play with official ICS six or seven days. I got to say that i was dissapointed how little things had changed from GB. There wasn't that much new to do and play with and Samsung ICS looks just like GB. On the other hand Note felt little bit faster, i don't know. Might been placebo effect? Then there was this dangerous kernel, that made ppl brick their Notes when doing factory reset or wipes.

I'd say that atm, life is much better with Gingerbread. Good batterylife, great custom roms and reliable to use. Hope Samsung will make ICS better, than it is now.

send from my sparkling white Galaxy Note, using XDA Premium.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] SpyderTracks:
As above poster, after 4 days or so of stock German ics, I can't believe the lengths Samsung went to skin it exactly the same as GB, makes little sense with such an important overhaul. Like previous, downgraded also to avoid the superbrick issue, was lucky.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] vladovns:
Sure it does.

I forgot to mention the crapy radio with the official build of ICS the wi-fi is constantly disconnecting where GB never does.

LPY is just broken.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dentalguru:
Radio and wifi disconnection

Hi

I find in fact my radio clarity better than GB and also i havve noted that if your are on a battery save mode then automatic disconnetion happens .

so getting out of battery save mode helped me with random disconnections and possibly we can set the same in custom powersave and activate.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] akenis:
Just turned off the 2d acceleration thing. I think it runs better. For a new look and feel Apex launcher is awesome! And some folks in another thread turned me on to keyboard. Way slick. it's may farorite after trying several including samsung, Swype, Go and Thumb. Just amazing.

Not too worried about the brick bug.... don't even have CWM installed. And no factory reset.

Almost ready to check out some of the LPY custom Roms!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shatroghistro:
Not impressed with ICS

I also want to roll back to gb. How do I do that safely? I downloaded stock non root Serbia GB, I am now on non root stock Germany ics. Via PC odin same as I did with ICS?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gurnishdhillon:
Yea thats what i did
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] AnimaTed1337x:
Stock GB Indian to stock Indian ICS via kies.

N7000ODDKK1 to N7000ODDLP5.

Then rooted ICS from xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1329360 .

Then via the same cwm installed King Droids ICS note mania edition v1.6 by update from zip file on sd card.

Current info

BN7000DXLP5

3.0.15-N7000ZSLPF-CL558430
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] VTEChump:
This is a deal breaker for me. I thought the Galaxy S3 had this when I played with one in an ATT store. Is this just for the international Note? Anyway to get this feature back??
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] problemsny:
No need to log in

The drop down requires you to log in where the long press power gives you "quick" access to silent, airplane, shut down and restart but now you need to confirm all of them. I go in and out of airplane mode several times a day and this is a real hassle.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hasmin:
I am having screen lock problems and i am trying to fix it but I don't understand, what it means ,,you must be rooted the ,,su'' command?''
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kevin_kane:
hi

Hi, this didnt work for me. Rooted the tab OK and upgraded to ICS from Honeycomb. Apart from screen not locking, the device also doesn't provide the Power off and restart option. Any solution will be highly appreciated.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] diseil:
Hello, i have the same issue on Galaxy Note 1 after installing the JB, I am always using the firmware updating through kies or phone itself and never flashed the device.

any advise here to solve the issue
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Lance Uppercut:
Root your phone and follow the steps above.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tkolst:
command + force close app

dont know how to delete post
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dnlmihaila:
Hello guys. Sorry for off topic... is there any mod/tweak that allows the menu button from 4.1.2 to be moved?(like in 4.2.2/4.3). I want to move the buttoun in the middle from right. Thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ThaiDai:
Maybe you should read a little bit in the forums first.

This is an old ICS thread - nothing to do with 4.1.x or 4.2.x or 4.3.x

And there are already solutions for your questions. So try to use the search - you'll discover a lot of things there.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Nemesis_00:
1. Just click the menu button while in the mail app, and select folders to see the Exchange subfolders.

Seems pretty stable for me, but it is a little choppy compared to RocketROM R23.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Goodm7sn:
no other easy and permanent usb mass storage (no root), cos doing all the above everytime u plug the usb cable to transfere something is just painfull....

the other thing i noticed is samsung removed the link of ringer and notifications volume (which already exists in galaxy nexus ) , and no app on the market ive tried so far made them get linked again ??? any suggestions ???

other than that , so far so good , im happy now , at least i can use apex launcher and chrome :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] p107r0:
for USB mode I've found this, not tested yet, but looks promising
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] vetchems:
Installed it, realised how much ive grown to hate TW and all the samsung crap, reflashed to CM9... congrats samsung on releasing a useless update!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] M3TALLICA:
I'm happy but it does not have pure ICS experience. (Don't tell me to buy Nexus!)

Can't believe the difference between firmware file size - nearly four times bigger than Nexus and Cyanogen.

God knows how much of poop did sammy put in it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sutekidane:
The signal indicators (both wifi and cellular) doesn't turn green/blue even if it is connected to google services?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Blackhydra:
Everything here is fine, came form CM9 via Mobile Odin ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] vetchems:
so you downgraded? LOL...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bkeaver:
Everything seems ok except the screen sensitivity seems not as good. I keep having to touch something 2 or 3 times sometimes. battery seems ok but won't really know for a day or two
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Blackhydra:
Yes they are!

Cheers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] knightnz:
H+ (HSDPA) is a superset of 3G.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] purple zebra:
I'm having similar problems.

Crashing camera app (sevral times)

Few force closes of other apps.

Lag in the launcher (more than I had on 2.3.6)

In general, it just doesn't seem as stable as GB.

It seems to be taking an absolute AGE to charge up, maybe its because it's the first time since the update, I don't know. I'll get back to you on that.

I am also using a german Note, always running stock, updated via kies without a wipe.

I'm going to give it a couople of days, and if it doesn't improve, back up and factory reset.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] friedje:
I confirm the screen sensivity being less smooth sometimes
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Blackhydra:
ajajajaj yeah it seems like it :p

sometimes i miss S pen stuff
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mmp7:
same here. I didn't even do a wipe.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] FreemanAMG:
Everything went smoooth here. Didn't swipe anything, everything (except my desktop layout) is running just as well as before.

I''m missing a couple of features from stock GB. Now I'm cannot adjust screen brightness sliding from statusbar. Contacts widget is now different, now shows ALL details (gruped), so you have to make two or three click to make a call. Also, i'm noticing that meassurements from Battery Widget Plus are different, everything seems a little higer.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tNEGA:
Wifi

Apart from the wifi dropping out randomly I have no probs to date to report.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] beestee:
+1

Everything working far better than GB, and GB was pretty great IMO. Have not checked charging yet.

I did use mobile odin pro to update and keep root, but I am stock with the exception of root and CWM (through CF-Root kernel).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Piksou:
Did you guys upgrade from stock GB CFRoot to stock ICS CFroot ?

I don't understand Mobile Odin seems to be the favored method, can't we just use CWM ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shirazs:
Thanks Nemesis, I did, only the default folders show up (Outbox, Draft, Sent etc.) None of the subfolders I have created show up (wasn't an issue with GB)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mmp7:
Have u tried the one in the drop down menu?

Sent from my Galaxy Note
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] FlamingGoat:
Stock camera just crashes for me but everything else seems fine so far. Loving the new SNote app but looking forward to seeing what opendesign comes up with and jkay toggles.

Other than that it doesn't seem very much improved over the Rocket Rom v23 I'd gone back to at the weekend but it's early days yet :-)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] maidenone:
stuck

I get stuck at the flashing samsung logo, clear cache / factory reset does not work...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] altae:
I tried it vià cwm, got myself a not booting note. I had to revert to GB and do the update again. During this process I lost my data and apps (had a backup though). Flashing with Mobile Odin seems to be the best way. Especially if you want to keep root and CWM.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] WOLF26915:
Installed it on my wifes Gnote everything went great no issues at all, she loves it :)