yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mad1111:
So I was having issues installing this ROM as a couple of you have been having. The installation would just hang at "Preparing Device"

So I followed 'amot's' findings and "unblocked" the downloaded file on my PC (right click file>properties>unblock)

However, this still did not allow the ROM to install

So, I went through and wiped the following:

System Data (this wipes your ROM)

Factory Data

Dalvik Cache

Cache

Went to install ROM right after and it went through with no issues!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Devi0124:
Flashed fine for me. ..quick question though. It seems like the camera is missing some functions. Is this part of the debloat or did I just get a bad flash?

Nm I just tried stock and it is the same. I guess it is just lk8 that had the extra functions.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mackentosh:
Make sure you go into settings and make sure gmail sync is on. I had to figure that out a while ago
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 1midniterider:
After several failed attempts to download the rom, switched to a mirror site and was able to get clean download. Is gapps required to be installed with this rom?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] neopolotin75:
No this is based on stock. ..gapps are needed on asop stuff
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jworkcoo:
Getting random reboots....it hurts because I finally found a Rom that I really like. Anybody know what could be causing them?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] btbamzao:
I haven't had any personally. Try wiping dalvik cache and cache in recovery and reboot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Marv916:
i was getting reboots until I wiped dalvik cache and cache immediately after ROM installation through TWRP.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Macguyver:
I always do that after, nice with TWRP because it provides the option, seems to help.

Been running this for about 16 hours, no issues.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] btbamzao:
+1 love twrp.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] partyman1971:
This ROM with Next Launcher is awesome. I attached some screen shots.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Patch7:
Next Launcher is $15.99.. Ouch!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cpthomas1:
Hot damn.... now all I need is some of that infamous evo-est green and black theming and I'm good... thanks from the bottom of my SG2 team Synergy!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] digiblur:
Wowzers! No thanks. Unless it just reads my mind with no touch involved.

-- "Sensorly or it didn't happen!"
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] m4xwellmurd3r:
Synergy?! Oh snap talk about a flashback. I used to run this on my og evo! Definitely have to check this one out.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Uamore6:
There is a free next apk if you Google it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Callie_evo:
So if I'm on lk8 I do not need to go back to ljc. If your are lk8 and go to this do you have hfa problem or chameleon problems? I want to synergize my phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Leoisright:
So lets talk kernel. There have been no other setcpu apps or modifications, just the ziggy kernel right? Define rapid battery discharge if you could. Im getting about a 35% discharge for about 12 hours of use with not a ton of use.

Also. We are gonna need some logcats. Can you try to get a log of the screen timeout and how the cpu cores spike to 4? Lets try to get to the bottom of it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] neopolotin75:
Are you on the newest revision? I thought that had been fixed?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] OneoftheRabble:
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Seems to be a problem isolated to connecting to airwave. People have experienced missing critical incoming calls because of it. This was the last I heard about it.

Sent from my SPH-L900[/QUOTE]

I see that after getting through the other threads on the subject. Some of us also forget that there are SO many variables in our phones from batch to batch that not every phone is created equal. Even if it is the same model. I had an "in" at HTC when I had my Evo and know that there were approximately 650 variants of the Evo 4G. Just because of the variability in components used to build the phone. Those kinds of things can make a big difference in how anything electronic reacts. I did a lot of research into the batteries and charging circuit of the EVO 4G and found loads of variability.

I thing that I personally do is to make sure and POWER OFF my device before I apply any new ROM, Kernel, update, etc. Give the components a chance to clear by getting all the current bled off the circuit. I don't have any lab data to support it other than many NAND chips won't completely clear until you take the current away. There are some great white papers on the memory chips used in our phones.

One other thing that I see that causes quite a few people some strife is the general abuse they give their phones. The OCing, OVing, trying to overcharge Lio-Ion/polymer batteries and other assorted electron abuse. Then they get upset because things don't work the way they were designed. Go figure! :silly:

Thanks for the input!

See ya'

OotR
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Crsdr37:
Sorry to ask but you guys are on r63 where are the updates located. The link on the first page only goes to r52...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] the_plattypus:
R63 is where we are at right now witg rebasing on MC2. A public release will be made after leoisright and I are happy with our configurations and feel its ready for public release.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] btbamzao:
I see that after getting through the other threads on the subject. Some of us also forget that there are SO many variables in our phones from batch to batch that not every phone is created equal. Even if it is the same model. I had an "in" at HTC when I had my Evo and know that there were approximately 650 variants of the Evo 4G. Just because of the variability in components used to build the phone. Those kinds of things can make a big difference in how anything electronic reacts. I did a lot of research into the batteries and charging circuit of the EVO 4G and found loads of variability.

I thing that I personally do is to make sure and POWER OFF my device before I apply any new ROM, Kernel, update, etc. Give the components a chance to clear by getting all the current bled off the circuit. I don't have any lab data to support it other than many NAND chips won't completely clear until you take the current away. There are some great white papers on the memory chips used in our phones.

One other thing that I see that causes quite a few people some strife is the general abuse they give their phones. The OCing, OVing, trying to overcharge Lio-Ion/polymer batteries and other assorted electron abuse. Then they get upset because things don't work the way they were designed. Go figure! :silly:

Thanks for the input!

See ya'

OotR[/QUOTE]

Always such eloquent responses from this guy. One man that truly speaks from experience. Rom is running great Plat. Glad I came back to it again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Leoisright:
There is no need to OC, UV, OV this device. The quadcore exynos and mali gpu are amazing chips.

Heres the thing. If you want your device to feel faster without messing with the battery or chips. Try to mess with animation timings and transitions. Adjust the operating system speeds to have a faster response. By doing so you will allow the hardware to work the way it was meant to. Its one thing to unlock features in the kernel or roms but a whole seperate issue when you start messing with how the cpu and gpu operate.

Those who buy in to quad scores shouldnt. Its user experience that matters.

When we are ready, we will manipulating the apps and framework by using zero compression, zip alignment, transition and animation tweaks, cache tweaks and stuff similar to really unlock the OPERATING SYSTEMS potential. Please if you start messing with hardware and you have issues, that is where I stop troubleshooting your issues. I prefer hardware settings to remain unchanged and unlock the system.

If you dont believe in that approach, this is not the rom for you. But if you do, hang tight cause this will be one hell of a ride.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] OneoftheRabble:
Right on Leo! Glad to hear a dev with this attitude.

I would guess that one of YOUR major difficulties is the person that knows ZERO about coding that can take an "app" that will tweak, change, twist and munch hardware settings and variables into unthinkable configurations. Then ask YOU why YOUR ROM won't work right!! :confused:

Another one that I ran into a LOT working with the EVO 4G was people applying three or more "tweaks" that were all trying to change the same parameter. Causing the hardware to fight with itself while tweak one did one thing.... tweak two did the opposite and tweak three tried to change both of them. Then they can't figure out why their battery life is 10 minutes. :silly:

My favorite on that platform was CPU tweaks done in ROM Toolbox ( a fine, fine app IMO ) then setting different ones in Settings and then running something like SetCPU. Then lets' set them ALL to apply at boot! "Boy, I tell you.... You ROM Devs just can't get it right can you?? Your ROM never runs right on my phone and my battery sucks. And it is ALL YOUR FAULT!"

As an old wise man once said: "If ignorance is bliss..... why aren't there more happy people?"

You guys keep up the good work. I am loving Synergy on my Note II. And.... It is running JUST the way that it should!

See ya'

OotR
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] the_plattypus:
To further elaborate on this, during install if you want to install the ziggy kernel to unlock some of these extra co trol options such as wifi power control, there will be a ziggy setup option during the aroma install where you can set how you would like your processor to act i.e. stock clock speeds vs OC. These settings are saved to your sdcard and the kernel will load them everytime on boot. This will eliminate the need to use third party apps which interfere with the setup of the ziggy kernel anyhow.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Leoisright:
Appreciate the kind words. One thing I want to mention. When ziggy makes a kernel and it is used. Leave the kernel alone. He is one of the best on xda with that stuff. Dont twist his kernels further. Just let us twist the operating system.

Thanks again

Leo
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] LMMT:
Sorry it took so long to get back to you. That was quite a few revisions ago, but yeah, that was just the bare rom, with no tweaks. Honestly, I haven't used Ziggy since then. Earlier I tried to flash r53, but for the first time got stuck on "preparing device". I restored one of my backups, but when it booted, I didn't have any mobile data (NOTHING TO DO WITH SYNERGY, just a coincidence). After trying everything I knew, I called Sprint. Eventually, about 3 or 4 hours later, we got it working. Now I'll try to use Sprint's lousy LTE to download the 'no preparing' version.

Update: one hour later, and my download is at 90%. Hope it doesn't fail.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sinman2224:
Little confused on full rom vs incremental. Some reason I thought I needed to do 51 before 53. Im on 51 now do I have to fully wipe or just caches to move up to 53?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] the_plattypus:
Just caches
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] coiledwire:
:D Best quote I've read in days!

So true about over-tweaking settings and wondering why something is amiss. Must be the rom. :P

Also true is the variability between phones of the same model. Manufacturing these devices quickly and reliably requires having multiple sources for each component used. Multiple sources = multiple companies = multiple methods of manufacturing = varying QC = variability of devices. Samsung fares better than most companies due to their buying power and sourcing their own components, but variation is there.

This is where kernels come in. Default stock kernels are detuned to accept a wide range of devices. When using custom kernels to overclock cpu/gpu, the range of devices that function correctly is reduced. The faults from pushing cpu/gpu too far is obvious to most (lockup/glitching/random reboots/etc). Faults from other components are much harder to diagnose, and faults won't be seen until a specific activity triggers it (like the E4GT eMMC brick bug). I enjoy making incremental tweaks with custom kernels as much as the next person; just have to be intelligent about it.

Sorry for OT ramblings; OotR and Leo got my mind going. The philosophy of making the system better 1st is what brought me to Myn/Aamikam back in the Evo4G days. Thank you Plat, Leoisright, et al for staying true to this.

Sent from my SPH-L900
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Leoisright:
Myn has been a mentor of mine for years. Im lucky to call him a friend now. Some of the best roms around dont touch cpu or gpu sett8ngs and worry about systematic changes to the ecosystem bringing a uniquely customized rom for an enjoyabke every day driver. Id rather implement changes to expand our usage then tweak our hardware.

Watching myn, virus, tommytommatoe, mikmik, to name a few customize the system taught me to add functions instead of increasing hardware usage.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] coiledwire:
Yeah, Myn pointed me in the right direction when I was 1st learning things. Very rare for a dev like him to find time to help new people start out. Got caught up with the odexing mik was doing back then. TommyT, chogardjr, virus, js... wow, the memories. Wish I still had the time to dive back into this.

Glad to see like-minded people around. :cool:

Sent from my SPH-L900
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Leoisright:
Yup. Virus was the first to reach out and help me. Then myn and tommy. Id have to say those are real good people. Tommy helped me set up open source and I still have my website on his server...lol

But once we get chubbz a device we can do some porting to this device...I tell you. The devs out here are truly good people. They balance work, family, personal lives to bring us great roms. Even pay for devices to help forums. I was gonna hold out for the note 3 but platty convinced me to jump now and we would pool our money to do new upgrades this fall. My wife will divorce me if I spend $600 on another device in october.. lol

Really glad to be here. The people in here seem really good and wanting to help. Soon enough we will have a test group before releases. More to come on that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sinman2224:
The op says we can enable holidays in the calendar. How would I go about that? Dont see an option in calendar settings. Im on 53.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] thesefardi12:
You yourself are very kind and loving in doing what you do. Thank you

SHALOM TO YOU!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Leoisright:
Found the izsue with the 5x6 app drawer on the landscape mod. Should have it fixed now. Testing.

Testing worked great. Now able to get 6x5 and testing 6x6 in landscape
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ceabbott2:
Leo, Plat, Coiled you guys talking about these incredible developers from older phones, please remember you guys are leading the charge for our phone. I was and still am a Huge fan of Myn, TommyT and Virus! To watch those guys from the cheap seats was really cool coming from one of the ignorant masses. With that said Platt and Leo are two of the hardest working and in my humble opinion are in the same class...OUTSTANDING WORK GENTLEMEN! Thank you both.

Through kissing ass.

Looking forward to the next iteration.Rocking R53.

Charles
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Leoisright:
Ok. Got 6x6 port apps menu and 8x8 land menu looking pretty much perfect. More work to do on widget sizes for landscape but this is a good one.

Also. Tweaked the launcher so it feels like its on nitros when flipping thru pages. Added the ability to have 9 home screens as well. Anyone wanna test?

flash this View attachment 1907084

Here are some screen shots

View attachment 1907105View attachment 1907106

Edit. For those who havent flashed this yet. Scroll thru the homescreens. Mentally test the speed and fluidity of it. Then after you flash test it again. You will notice much faster speeds. This was the point I was referring to earlier. Instead of messing with hardware mods we can have similar effects on the software mods. This is just one app tweaked by transitions. Imagine couple hundred apps tweaked and the framework tweaked, then zero comoressed to help the phone from working hard when accessing them. Combined with a few other mods you can have better effects without comprimising the stability of the hardware and yet keep the battery life solid.

Just saying

Leo
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 1eddie5:
Multi Tasking?

What happened to the multi tasking with the holding of the home button?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] coiledwire:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40594914

Sent from my SPH-L900
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] the_plattypus:
Nice to see you no longer offer the explanation...but hey you almost made it 3 pages ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] LMMT:
Very nice work! Thanks for sharing it with us. Any interest in adding 5x6 home screens? Just a personal preference, not a nag, or demand.

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Hey platt, any updates on MC2? I'm not asking about your rom status, I'm asking for your experience with the new firmware. Any anomalies? Did you also flash the modem? I'm still on MA7, but prefer the LJC modem.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] the_plattypus:
The rom is good. A few new stuff in stock rom. No, I didnt fladh the modems. I was on LJC for the longest time, but switched to MA7 to test some issur with my wifes stock unrooted note 2.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Leoisright:
I can but it really messes with landscape widgets. And when I change homescreen cells to differ between land and port it just get laggy when you rotate.

Once I get the widgets resized right it will be much easier to mess with that stuff.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sinman2224:
Holy camoly. I thought it was pretty fast before. Homescreens fly now.

Does anyone know about the holidays in the calendar thing? Cant find anything about it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Leoisright:
Im not sure about the holidays settings. Ive looked a little bit and cant find it either.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] OneoftheRabble:
MC2 v. MA7 modem

Greetings all,

I was messing with my phone a little last night..... hooked it up to a spectrum analyzer and oscilloscope to see if there was any difference in the signal strength between MA7 and MC2. There is actually. MC2 was running about 0.5dB stronger than MA7. The signal stability was slightly increased along with that small signal jump. It looks like ( at least on my NII) that the signal bars are 3dB each or 12.5 uV. So a change of 0.5dB is really small. But the repeatability indicates that it is real. I can't get my 'scope to break the time domain small enough to confirm but it looks like they increased the sampling rate which increased the stability of the signal. So there may be a very, very small decrease in battery life. But that would be so tiny it wouldn't be noticed.

To be sure I wasn't seeing any atmospheric changes I flashed and checked each modem five times with pretty much the same results.

I am running the MC2 firmware with Synergy r53 and everything is stable. I haven't had any call drops or no connection since I flashed it. Anyhow.... for those of you that are thinking about making the step to MC2 I think you will find it working well.

See ya'

OotR
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sinman2224:
Dang. I was hoping I was just missing something. Maybe it got removed. Nice little feature of it comes back.

Compliments to you guys on a great rom.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bricky23:
Love the nd new launcher leo. Super fast and makes good use of the large screen.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Leoisright:
Just the beginning my friend
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jerdoggmckoy:
Hey, I just noticed that any time I hit the drop down menu torch, regardless of from the locked or unlocked screen, I get an error message saying UI stopped working. Tried wiping everything, cache, delvik, factory reset, system and even internal storage just to be safe. I did each of those 3 times, did a fresh flash, and still getting the error. Anyone have any suggestions of what else I can do to try to fix this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] coiledwire:
Not sure if the error message generated is the same, but the issue with the torch toggle has been noted and will be addressed in a future release.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40395757

Sent from my SPH-L900
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] LMMT:
Coiled, you are the Dewey Decimal System of this forum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHiUQb5xg7A&feature=youtube_gdata_player

---------- Post added at 02:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:35 PM ----------

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking, but, you can enable and disable holidays on your calendar by going to the calendar widget, tapping on a day that already has an event, or reminder, then menu/settings/calendars.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] coiledwire:
Oh snap, you found a clip of me in college! :eek::cool:

Sent from my SPH-L900
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Leoisright:
Please read. This was just answered on the last page.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sinman2224:
I don't see an option under calender for holidays. I just have my calendar, Google, facebook, show birthdays and exchange. I've gone to settings and I tried setting the widget and tapping on a day with an event then going to settings like u said but I dont see it. Idk.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jerdoggmckoy:
I am totally sorry for not digging further. I misread. I thought the situation was either we keep the existing lock screen torch function, or had the option to flash an ASOP or whatever it is feature instead. Sorry for taking your time on a question that has probably been asked 138.5 times already :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] LMMT:
Well, I don't know then. Here is a screen shot of mine. This is r53, I just changed the SystemUI.apk.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Leoisright:
Its all good. Just pointing you in the right direction for the answer
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sinman2224:
View attachment 1909596

Ya weird. Mines not there. I wonder if its something I have to set up in google?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sinman2224:
I got it. Had to subscribe in Google calendar. Even had sports teams. Thanks for the help. Screen shot got me in the right direction.

View attachment 1909627

For anyone else I had to resync calendar in settings to get em to show up.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] LMMT:
Cool
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Leoisright:
Well. 6x6 home just isnt working. It woukd take much modding on the app widgets individually. Not sure that much time is worth it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] coiledwire:
No worries. Like Leo said, just pointing you in the right direction.

Sent from my SPH-L900

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Nice. I've seen this question asked a few times. Now we an answer and screen shot to help others. :thumbup:

Sent from my SPH-L900
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] OneoftheRabble:
WOW! OK.... the new launcher is amazing. Excellent work. I can see where the 6x6 would make things look crushed. I don't know how you could improve on this. Now I just have to move all my GoLauncher stuff over here. :)

See ya'

OotR
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Negrito:
Did this fix the gallery lag? I flashed the AIO MA7--->MC2 over my r53 setup and just wiped the caches, but still have wicked lag in my gallery app. Did you do a full wipe, or just caches?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] DonavanC4:
Can I flash r53 over top of an older version like r51. I thought I seen somewhere in this thread that you can, but being that it is in the full ROM first time flash folder, and not the INC folder I wasn't sure...

This is the post.

Quote:

Originally Posted by cdsbj6508

Can I flash r53 over r52 or is a clean install preferred?

Answer by neopolotin75

Yes the incrementals you just flash over

I don't understand because r53 is not an incremental...