[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] i004909:
SMS Issues

Taken me a few days to catchup on all the latest CM10 nightlies threads, so this may be a little late... but I've been stuck with this issue in CM9 and now sadly in CM10 too. I think it has something to do with changing cells (geographically) when you move around with your phone... it's seriously annoying because it's only AFTER a few hours of undistracted bliss that you realise your boss SMS'd you to call him urgently about three hours ago but your SMSC setting has been 'lost' and you're not only unable to send SMS's... you're also not receiving any :(

Fix details (for the Saffers ;) here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1607422

non South Africans might wanna check this one...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1584747

Anywhooo... I lived with it in CM9 nightlies... and will continue in CM10... maybe when someone like Entropy finds time (yeah.. right ;) he could investigate, but I'd much rather have all this butter and lard and memleaks stuff be font and centre in all the dev's attention. If there's a perma-fix (for this SMS thing)... sorry I've not yet discovered it. Please point it out if you've seen one.

SIDENOTE - I noticed someone's post a few pages back @ Entropy... saying 'love you man' and I have this to say.... don't just love him... FUND him! Seriously... If Samsung emailed you tomorrow and said for 2 bucks they'd send you Jelly Bean for your Note... would you buy it? I know I would. Yes it would be great if the manufacturer actually delivered a polished, up to date ROM... but I think we all know they won't. CM needs to be crowd funded. No brainer </rant>.

All things considered... I'm a very lucky guy I've discovered... after reading this and the dev thread end to end the last few days (hey.. I work and own my own business and just got a new puppy... time is seriously in short supply these days ;)... I eventually couldn't resist popping in to see if there was a CM10 without blood on it... on the 24th!!... grabbed the latest nightly I found and flashed from a CM9 nightly I've been on for MONTHS!!! without keeping it updated... and seems I leapfrogged all the way past 5 or so previews... and a few nightlies (when someone named Gerrit eventually stopped breaking things ;)... and got on the Jellywagon after the first few bumpy miles. Awesome! Thanks to everyone for saving me lots and lots of pain, uncertainty, fear and sleepless nights. Sharing is caring!

Seriously impressed with this ROM... and I haven't even gone for the Hydra kernel (too scared of data loss)... or any LARD... (need to read another few gazillion pages in that thread first... sigh). Maybe I'm easily pleased but I can navigate, listen to music, take burst photo's... waste time checking if Google Now offers anything useful except the weather... I found flash 11.1 works (on some sites... still trying to figure in which browser but it does work... and so does pretty much everything I've tried so far. Play store was an fc'ing b*tch at first, but a re-flash of gapps sorted that out (and I saw someone say clearing the app's cache also does)... and I'm going to check I don't have any folders with too many files in to avoid media scanner giving me headaches.

At this stage I've also seen the screen hesitate to come to life.. but 3-4 quick presses of the power button kicks it awake... I had a seriously funny 'missing camera' (even missing via Google Now and Gallery(2?)) which I eventually fixed by simply reflashing the exact same nightly. Who knows what happened there... but I don't care now it's fixed :)

Battery is good. I'm using LUX Free (but am not really sure why... auto brightness works just as well it seems). Overnight with only the phone on... battery dropped 4% in 10 hours. That's not bad at all!

HUGE win for me was to discover Spirit Light - an FM BASED RADIO APP which works fine for me here in SA (even without headphones as an antenna!)... and no... It's not a streaming internet radio... it's real 'old school' OTA radio :).... I gave up FM radio with CM9... as well as S-Pen... but Memo works / fixes that. Skitch also 'kinda' works. so to have it back is brilliant!

Entropy, et al... you guys rock! Please don't burn out. Take a holiday and come back. We'll be good... promise!

Oops... long post alert. Sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!