[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] IDCAA:
New Canadian Android user.

Hello all, new to these forums and I'm very much intrigued with the developement of this Jedi ROM. As I understand, ROMs are pretty much entire OS's of the android platform. Perhaps this one will help me fix a few issues I've been having with my unlocked T-Mobile Handset. If you have the patience to read, and then answer my questions, it would very much be appreciated.

Le story-

I'm a customer of Mobilicity here in Toronto, and late last year, about october, I learned that Mobilicity now had the Galaxy Note II for sale for it's network. Not only was I excited as I always wanted an Android phone, but I found it well within reason price wise, at least at face value. Anywhoo, bought the thing and took it for a test run. All was well to my knowledge—excepting one thing, there was thing screen like defect that appeared to be pixel faults..but it wasn't like the pixels were dead—they worked fine, but under a certain dimness of darker colours, you could see black bloches in the pixel paths. I can only imagine it was a manifacturing fault by Samsung. Anyways..ended up returning it because I'm anal about such things. No Mobilicity would have a phone ready for me in the time that I needed it, or I was given a run around. I needed my phone for Uni, work, and more importantly, the social scene ('cause I'm so hip).

My only available options at the time, were to wait 1 week, or get an unlocked T-mobile version from a 3rd party vender. I went with the immesely more attractive latter option. Upon getting the phone, all was well. Everything loaded in fine, SIM card read fine. The only differences I could find were a few alterations that were different from the Mobilicity version of the phone. (White background for email vs Black, Different Keyboard layout and a bunch of expected T-mobile exclusive apps).

Les Issues-

All went well for awhile, but once I started delving deeper into my phone, I noticed a few odd things...major ones to be more precise.

1) MMS messages (pictures) are blurry and lose their original sizes.

2) MMS messages (pictures from ioS users[?]) Not only were blurry and smaller than their original sent image, but also had a video slider as if it were a 10 second video playing.

3) When searching images on Google with any browser (mobile mode) The images will load clear, and then 1 second later, adjust to being blurry. If they are downloaded, they retain their blurry pixleated format.

4) Noticed constant network data connection drops. (This one I noticed ASAP as I got the phone. Got my 1st Google Play "No connection" notice).

5) Contact photos were also blurry for FaceBook and contacts. (this I can honestly say I didn't check with the 1st device, but such a thing I would have noticed).

These were the main major things I noticed with the phone and I later went into the merchant I bought the phone from to see if I had a faulty handset. I was told they would flash everything, because sometimes that can fix problems. I complied. Phone flashed to factory default (losing numbers I hadn't saved to SIM; even the cute girl's in my monday morning lecture). Hoping it would all be worth it—to my dismay, the problems still persisted. At that point I had no clue what to do and felt pretty upset about the whole losing data for nothing thing, not to mention money. Anyways, I later posted to a few Android forums to see if I could get any help, or if anyone knew what was going on. I was lucky to have one person help me out and I learned that the image problem quite possibly had something to do with the mobile mode of the browswers. Turned off mobile mode...pictures loaded fine, crystal clear as intended. My suspicions of the T-Mobile version being botched to this point had been confirmed. I understood that carriers can put limits on their data for pictures, but I know for a fact that Mobilicity has no such ridiculous limits that would cause such bad image texts or quality. I had a handset from Mobilicity after all, and I had 1st hand experience of it working fine.

Le Questions-

It would appear this Jedi x7.2(?) is built from the same batch as the one my old Mobilicity Note II had. I've read where someone was saying the e-mail UI has a black background with white text (I prefer), and I figured this might be great! I learned what rooting meant, and all that good stuff, and have followed and read the features of this custom ROM. What I would like to know before I attempt to get this done is...

1) I have an unlocked T-Mobile device, is there a way I can both apply this new ROM & get my phone unlocked to work with my network?

2) Do I stand a decent chance of it fixing some of the issues that came with the T-mobile Stock ROM?

3) Will it READ MY SIM CARD? (Mobilicity)

4) Will automatic updating still happen with this ROM? I imagine no, and it's not advised. (I still haven't got an offical update yet for the phone).

5 Does this ROM use up additional Battery. I see no extreme mention of such things, but just incase.

Sorry for the long read, but I'm sure the better of you who are here to actually help people won't mind. Thank you in advance! Good work you folks are doing here.

-New Droid user.