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[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scote:
I read what Der Teufel wrote and he was not sure if sammy roms work, someone posted in the thread that he has a sammy rom booting in the second rom. I do know that the zip get modified and then it cannot be installed to the first rom. I also know that you have to reflash the devil kernel after installing a rom that has a kernel. So I am not sure what I have done wrong.

The thing is DN3 stopped booting in the 1st rom as well after trying to install a second rom, even when I tried to reinstall that to the 1st rom it did not work either.

To get back to where I started I flashed the latest twrp recovery and then found it did not work, so then I flashed the previous version from odin and backed up my media manually then did a complete internal wipe and reinstalled DN3 using twrp, then restored my app data from titanium and copied my media back.

I know less people have 7105 and I am wondering if there is a difference with this device that I am missing, and yes all the kernels, roms and recovery images I use are for the tolte/7105 variant.

I may well try again soon, but I dont think I want AOSP based roms, my banking app is particularly picky and to stand any chance of working the phone must be as stock as possible. It even reads the flash counter and modified status and refuses to run if it is custom and the flash count is non zero. I may not be able to fix that with a non stock kernel anyway.

Edit: I get the tip that doing a nandroid and using that to install secondary, then installing a new primary is the recommended way.

Thanks for the advice
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichMD:
Did that method work for you? Install to primary and restore to secondary?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scote:
not tried it yet.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
[MENTION=3465828]RichMD[/MENTION] it did work for me, however didn't try it with sammy fw, I just hate Sammy stock roms for the N7100. Such a crap. I really love the device, tough :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x_x1_x:
If I use this method to install rom with aroma installer as SECONDARY FS will my data (application "whatsapp, twitter, ..." and file system) wipe? How can I keep it?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
Read last third of the text you quoted

BTW, you should place ROM zip to internal, not external SD, otherwise you will get "something went wrong" error. For Gapps and kernels etc makes no difference where are they flashed from.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] levin143:
Is there anybody here using dual boot with Omni + 4.3 custom sammy? The omni rom has OTA so is it possible to update every now and then without affecting the 4.3? and does the recovery support the ota system of omni?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ba7oU:
Hi guyz

Had a lot of trouble to make working the dual boot. I hope to help someone by telling how I manage to solve my problems.

1. had an error to "Create the secondary partition image"

2. Deleted all the folder data/media because I couldn't find the .secondrom folder

3. Finally I manage to create the 2nd partition image and install Paranoid Android

If you want to install Phoenix ROM on primary partition, I recommend to:

1. install the ROM and the last patch with Philz 5.15.0 (I think you need to reboot twice).

2. install the Devil kernel and the Devil touch recovery

3. reboot in Devil recovery, create 2nd partition and install the 2nd rom (ROM without Aroma)

4. reinstall Devil kernel

If you need to patch your Phoenix ROM reinstall Philz 5.15.0 to do it and reinstall Devil kernel and recovery.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
No, you must install updates manually, as OTA with Omni works only with TWRP.... actually it theoretically should work wirh TWRP, but for many it doesn't.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
f2fs / update of the OP

[MENTION=3465828]RichMD[/MENTION]

Hey, mate :)

Maybe it is good time to update soon the OP with all the new amazing facts about f2fs kernel and recovery.

Before we start with this, maybe you can just accomplish FAQ #3 with the information that deleting of /media/secondrom can take over 20 minutes.

So, here we go now, I hope I've catched all crucial posts by DerTeufel1980 for you:

In this first package are information about how-to format to f2fs and info about how it works:

release f2fs: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49691392&postcount=7116

info: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49706519&postcount=7160

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49709418&postcount=7164

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49745855&postcount=7209

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49952738&postcount=7478

Guide by mat9v how to format the internal SD card to f2fs: post #7375

Revert back to ext4 info: post #7669

downloads:

7100 download links: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49869139&postcount=7313

t0lte download kernel: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49722693&postcount=7182

recoveries download links: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49941091&postcount=7476

As soon as you update the OP and don't need this anymore, I will remove this post.

EDIT: until that moment, I will keep updating this post for you :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichMD:
Thanks [MENTION=5051515]tetakpatak[/MENTION]! I have been extremely swamped at work for several weeks for a deadline due this Monday coming :eek: but I will definitely have time after that (if not this weekend) to catch up and update the OP. I'm so far behind on his thread that I didn't even know what f2fs was :silly: until I searched the thread and found MANY posts about it and eventually found his original that described what it is - sounds great. I haven't dual-booted for a while since I was having problems with the version (a month ago?) and using a TouchWiz 4.3 based ROM - SkyNote Air. I've got a LOT of reading to catch up - thanks for all the posts you included which will help me update this thread again. :good:
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichMD:
I am far behind on updates (hopefully will catch up this weekend) but you should be able to do a nandroid of your current primary ROM, Install to the PRIMARY partition (if using AROMA) and then backup/restore to secondary. Your apps will be part of the nandroid restored to secondary. When you are done you can restore the primary backup you started with and you will have all the apps just like before. Does that help? Maybe I misunderstood the question.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichMD:
Since I have been too busy lately I have turned this thread over to [MENTION=5051515]tetakpatak[/MENTION] who has graciously agreed to maintain it despite the fact that he is also very busy outside XDA... :D

Please let him know what would be good suggestions to include since so much has changed with [MENTION=4196889]DerTeufel1980[/MENTION]'s kernel and his recovery.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
Thanks, [MENTION=3465828]RichMD[/MENTION] mate, now is weekend and I may make it to make a major update of the OP before Monday. Already begun, stepwise.....
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mike0505:
Install second rom

Currently I have installed Xperia Z-ized v3.2 Rom. Recovery: Philz 5.15, Bootloader Mj5, Kernel :with Xperia Z-ized (stock)

Can Someone explain me in simple steps how install second rom without erasing current Rom witch I wont for primary :)

Is that posible ?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
All you need is already in the opening post, mate. I will update it probably tommorow with F2FS facts, but what you need is there already:

flash devil dual boot recovery

create secondary FS partition

install secondary FS rom zip from internal sdcard

flash devil2-dual boot kernel to secondary FS

optionally flash Gapps for your ROM (or SuperSU)

enjoy

Optionally, if you want to use your ROM the way it is on the secondary FS partition: flash devil dual boot recovery and devil2-kernel and create nandroid backup of your ROM and restore it to the second partition. Then you will have the same ROM on both partitions and can flash another ROM as primary FS.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mike0505:
All weent good only I lost root on both system primary and secondary :) :confused:
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
Cool. :)

For root, I recommend to use SuperSU. Download and flash UPDATE-SuperSU-v.1.65.zip (from CF's thread) in the recovery mode, then download in the Play Store SuperSU app, open app and update binary (option through CWM/TWRP as "normal" usually don't work with Note 2).

After reboot, your Note2 should be rooted like never before....
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mike0505:
YeEEsss ? All working good! Big BIG THANK YOU

tetakpatak ?

After installing UPDATE-SuperSU-v.1.65.zip went to 1st rom Xperia z ized SuperSU was OK. But didn't update SuperSU. Then I go to reboot to recovery to boot second rom (sensonic 4.4.2). But in sec. Rom still have no root. Then restart to boot to first rom. Phone give me message : firmware upgrade encountered an issue please select recovery mode in kies & try again. After presing power button phone restarted in devil 2boot recovery and booted to 1st rom. There I installed SuperSU from Google play and update binary . Then restart to boot recovery and boot to 2nd rom. There I installed SuperSU from Google play and again restart to 2nd. And update binary in SuperSU. For now all working good. I can now restart from 1st and 2nd rom to devil dual boot rec and boot primary or secondary rom. (sorry for bad english)

:)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
[MENTION=5699073]Mike0505[/MENTION] cool, mate :)

Yes, correct- of course one should have installed SuperSU zip in both ROMs.

Sorry, I didn't mention that for I tought it is logical way, but maybe I will add that info to the OP.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mike0505:
This working on combination Xperia Z-ized on primary, Sensonic HD on secondary !

Thanks :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
(I will answer here as we were off topic in SlimKat thread, but perfectly fine here)

Yes, you were right, the guy who wants to install nightly on his freshly formatted SDcard to F2FS will need good nervs soon.

The main problem is, that any ROM build we install will automatically reformat all the parts of internal memory it needs to ext4 while some other parts (storage) would remain in F2FS. That isn't any good, as even after flashing a devil2 kernel (one with F2FS support) while still in recovery we can't use anymore benefits of faster ROM functionality before re-formatting all partitions back to F2FS. Running only parts of internal memory as ext4 and other parts as F2FS ceirtanly isn't best thing to try.

IMO, only people who want to stick long time with their ROMs should migrate to F2FS, as the reformatting and moving all data costs lots of time. I still didn't do it as I was flashing frequently SlimKat weeklies, but maybe next update will bring me my final ROM and I can go to f2fs then.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcrompton:
Hopefully someone can come up with a script or something that makes a ROM install on f2fs without trying to Mount and format the partitions as ext4. I've tried modifying the updater file with very little success this far. The problem is that few of us remain on a single ROM for very long and even those that do have regular ROM updates
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
[MENTION=230362]jcrompton[/MENTION] altough it may sound disappointing: I fear there is no chance for that. We are off standard here with F2FS. Unless really all ROM developers decide to change to F2FS as future standard, it won't be possible. Formatting while ROM install is not matter of the scripts (that we add later), but it is the stock kernel that does it. It would require that ALL developers re-create their kernels to be capable of F2FS and add an aroma installer which would let us decide weather we want to use F2FS or ext4.

That is simply not going to happen.

IMO it is no tragedy, as even on ext4, Note 2 belongs to the fastest devices around and it gets boost with devil kernel already anyway.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichMD:
Hi [MENTION=5051515]tetakpatak[/MENTION], I noticed you have some comments about older bootloaders in section 5. I am currently running the MJ4 t0lte version and have debated downgrading to MA4 via [MENTION=2783804]seanzscreams[/MENTION]' thread since I would prefer to get rid of KNOX. I am currently running 4.3 SkyNoteAir but want to try some 4.4 versions again as secondary via dual-boot. Do you know of any specific problems that you can run into with a 4.1.2 MA4 bootloader? I am "out of date" on my flashing knowledge but I did search a bit on this but didn't find anything.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
Hi, mate! :) I'm bit swamped with that question, for one because it regards t0lte (which I don't own and IDK if there are some hardware specific differences) and for second as I didn't check that area about downgrading knox bootloader. I've read something about it shouldn't be downgraded, but not sure. I've had myself non-knox MI6 before (4.1.2). I know that people who downgraded with N7100 ran before into IMEI losing (EFS erase) problems. I don't like to answer about something I didn't try myself....

AMAIK it should be no problem to run your KNOX bootloader further, if knox functions are disabled (you did that already for sure, right?) Besides, MJ4 is ceirtanly up to date for running KK roms. Does it make any probelms on your Note?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichMD:
Thanks, I know that I can safely downgrade to a 4.1.2 MA4 bootloader - I've done it before. I mainly asked because of the text you included below. MA4 and MI6 are early JB bootloaders. I know you don't have t0lte but I doubt that makes much difference as far as KK ROMs,etc. being compatible with those older JB bootloaders. do you know of any "problems or malfunctions" it has caused - at least MI6?

now also earliest JB bootloaders might cause problems and malfunctions. If so, some users will have to consider to update the bootloader.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
Hi again, mate :)

My MI6 (4.1.2) bootloader worked just fine with 4.3 and 4.4 roms, I didn't notice any malfunctions. So I hope your MA4 will work fine as well.

Having a knox-free 4.3 is likely to work better for longer time so we can enjoy future development for our phone. Now as Samsung has announced that our device will get an official KitKat update, we have to see if also new bootloader will be included. I'm sure someone will hack it soon :D

http://www.sammobile.com/2014/02/20...multiple-devices-confirmed-by-samsung-poland/
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Code124Y:
Hi, thanks for the nice work.. but im still hard to understand over all work round

can you give some tips / point me how for following step

im currectly on temasek CM11, with googy2 kernel

can you please kindly point me what to do to have both archidroid(4.3) and temasek CM11 ?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
If both Temasek and Archidroid work fine with Devil2 (dual boot) kernel, do as described in the OP:

Flash Devil2 kernel, check if all works fine, flash devil recovery, create secondary partition, backup Tomasek, restore it to secondary partition, flash Archidroid (or restore it) to the first partition, flash devil2 kernel right after and that's it.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mike0505:
solved
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] E_Goldstein:
Hey folks i have everything up and running I have SlimKat 4.4 on primary and Beanstalk 4.3 on secondary but i have no imei or baseband on secondary rom, primary works fine any ideas?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
Strange, I've never heard of that ??? Is your SIM card working with the second ROM?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] E_Goldstein:
Primary works fine im on it now, should condary no imei no baseband no phone number no signal. Did the same when i tried with a tw and aosp rom really confused.

Juat done a nandroid of my primary and restored it to my secondary and exactly the same no imei or baseband on my secondary this is crazy
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
I agree that it is very strange!

Did you maybe update your devil recovery after moment when the secondrom partition was created? 6.0.4.4 and 6.0.4.5 recoveries differ in several things so mean bugs can occur by combining anything.

I would erase the folder and create it again. The erasing process will take 15-20 minutes.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] E_Goldstein:
Tried several times with multiple ROMs now come to the conclusion my secondary ROM can't access my efs partition now so I'm stumped
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
This is really something I never heard of! Are you using the recovery for t0lte? Which version please?

This is indeed very strange issue. Maybe [MENTION=4196889]DerTeufel1980[/MENTION] might know the answer....
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichMD:
I would backup /EFS, copy everything off the internal and flash complete stock via ODIN and then root, flash to get your primary running again, then flash the latest dual-boot kernel, dual-boot recovery and try again.

I rarely ever suggest going back to complete stock but you are stumped and it is an odd issue...
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
Good idea, [MENTION=3465828]RichMD[/MENTION]

He can use TWRP recovery (I think also devil recovery) to backup only the EFS partition.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eddy119:
Did everything and installed CM Secondary but Gapps doesn't install

Hi,

I did everything in the instructions and now I have Touchwiz/Samsung/Sammy/Whatever the devs call it N7105ZHUENA1 as my primary ROM and CyanogenMod 11 Nightly 20140331 as my secondary ROM on my Note 2/N7105/t0lte/Whatever the devs call it again. Everything works but when I try to install Google Apps on my Secondary CyanogenMod via Devil Recovery Zip, it simply doesn't install. I also tried Paranoid Android's GApps but it gives me a Status 7 error, saying that it is not compatible. (Of course I've used the secondary partition/red mode) I've literally tried everything but I cannot get Google Apps on CM. Can any of you please help me? I'm a noob and this is my first post... sorry if this post bothers you for some reason and please don't harass me... I didn't ask for iOS to be my Android or any nooby thing :p

THANK YOU!!! :D

UPDATE: I'm following RichMD's instructions on his post... Hope it works... If it works, I'll post what I did here (although it's pretty much the same as RichMD's)

UPDATE AGAIN: RichMD's method works like a charm (although a pain to backup)! I'm actually writing this on CM right now!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichMD:
Glad it worked. Can you install any zips directly to CM on secondary or is just gapps a problem?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
Hi, I've answered here, not to spam SlimKat development thread anymore with help questions.

BTW, which bootloader do you have? Did you already run successfully a KK rom? Which was your last stock ROM?

Yes, best flash PhilZ or even Devil dual boot recovery from the OP here and wipe then.

I find it strange that TWRP would struggle to wipe, actually TWRP is in general quite reliable recovery for the wipe job.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eddy119:
I'm not sure... maybe GApps is a type of modification of the ROM or something (since modifications work with your method)... Yeah, I did try installing GApps to the secondary ROM directly but it didn't work; however, I didn't try any other zips yet... anyway gave up on this devil thing since I'm not really using it, the CPU warms up in CM, and occasional "Unfortunately, some app stopped working" maybe due to a cache conflict or something... idk I'm a noob lol
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ColeTrain!:
Feedback requested.

I am Sprint Galaxy Note 2 - L900 -

I am tring to run the dual boot in post 4 of this thread from [MENTION=4196889]DerTeufel1980[/MENTION] modified by [MENTION=4011301]jlmancuso[/MENTION].

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2299342

I would like to get a stable ROM in the one spot, and flash new ROMS in the other spot. I had this dualboot running well with beanstalk and cyanagmenmod Nightly and the devil kernel. Problem is I wanted to use an ap called imapmyrun and the GPS didnt work on either.

So i wanted to use a 4.3 Twiz rom as my stable. I was using "classic"

Problem is the devil kernel and twiz roms cause lockup two times a day for me, so its not stable any more...

So i can get the twiz with the stock kernel in the 1 spot, but then I cant flash a new rom in spot 2. bc that is for nandriods.

If i put the stock kernel twiz in 2 it doesnt allow anything in 1.. as the OP says..

so I'm stuck. the only solution I see are to find a non-twiz rom that allows my imapmyrun GPS to work and put it in the #2 spot with the devil kernel, and call that my stable and flash new to the #1 spot.. or... i dont know. I tried a whole bunch of things a whole bunch of ways, but obviously i could have wiped too much, or too little and maybe there are some options I am overlooking. Or possible one of you brilliant people could revamp something for me.

Thanks in advance, and i had a ton of fun playing with it, no matter the outcome. :good::good::good:
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
[MENTION=4337718]ColeTrain![/MENTION] I can share with you my own experience, but please mind that I own Note 2 international N7100 and that there could be slight differences how the kernel works with your device.

I am using also a TW based ROM as my "stable". It is dr.ketan's V6.1 and I run it as my secondary FS. There are no any issues and compatibility problems between devil2 kernel and this ROM. Secondary FS can boot only if devil2 kernel is flashed over it.

On my primary FS there were couple of ROMs: Omni, SlimKat, unofficial CM11, Blue Lightning, CM10.2 and right now SlimBean is there. I use now the last recovery version and kernel (2.4.6 for my N7100) and there the primary FS can be booted without devil2 kernel.

I will check the OP and try to update. The problem is only, that both the kernel and recovery have had 2-3 major changes and depending on the version one wants to use, other rules will be valid.

tetakpatalked from my P5110
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pinoypower:
Dual boot menu

6) Create the secondary partition image: Boot into the DB recovery and select Dual Boot Menu > enable mounting secondary and then select create secondary system image (also under Dual Boot Menu". This will take a couple of minutes. This only has to be done once.

Hi, wondering if somebody could help me. I've been trying to dual boot my Note 2 with Phoenix V17 and Resurrection remix. I've been using the Devil Dual Boot Kernel for along time now. I've installed the Devil recovery but when I go to the Dual Boot Menu there is no option to enable mounting secondary. There is only "Create Second Systme image" and "Go Back" when I click the Dual Boot Menu. Thanks!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tetakpatak:
If you have never yet used DB yet, that is exactly the way to go. I think both ROMs are quite big, so be sure to use the latest devil DB recovery v6.0.4.5 for it has bigger 2nd FS partition size.

So create 2nd FS partition, then you can either restore a nandroid backup there, or install on secondary partition a ROM... preferably without Aroma installer. Installing from ADB sideload or zip from internal memory works well.

By restoring a nandroid backup, custom restore of only /system and /data is totally enough. Don't forget at the end to flash devil2 DB kernel, otherwise Secondary FS won't boot.

tetakpatalked from Nexus 7