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[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] crypta:
[MENTION=2178960]pulser_g2[/MENTION]

Sorry for the OT, but your statement towards privacy guard was an eye opener.

The device information alone are..even without serials numbers of whatever is in my device.. able to keep a good tracking.

The same fingerprint method is used within web development..time zone,colour depth etc..can be used to track visitors even without cookies or other 3rd party stuff.

So my question is: Is there anything which can be done about it, to get 'a little privacy' and I mean, the real stuff?

Sent from mobile.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Sure, I run my phone in 240 DPI, which makes it feel a lot better.

RE center clock etc, I believe it's possible to make these "options", same for the quick settings. I will have a look at these when I can, but if anyone sees them on some project's gerrit, or finds a way, give me a shout :)

But today it is sunny, so I am outside :)

But yes it is possible.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] crypta:
related to gapps: I did some "usecases" myself.

There are some interesting conclusions, I am eager to tell:

If you use xposed mod with per app settings and permissions, you'll notice, that you can't manage e.g. google maps - it is a kinda distriibuted app (don't remember the exact term).

If you use droidwall and limit some specific user apps, you'll notice: that the gapps use mostly centralized google framework functions... so, e.g. you block the central spyw..googleappframework... but give youtube enough access and permissions for video streaming... everything works as expected until you finally want to play this video... "error"... because you blocked the central framework the Internet access - not youtube.

Also nice to know, I use threema instead of whatsapp on a plain android installation WITHOUT gapps... so it notified me, that there's no push service available and has to be setup for an pull service.

the push service is missing because it seems no part of opensource android itself, but of the gapps framework.

last but not least, remembering the first days, as google enforced the outtages of gapps, as gapps are not a part of the android opensource licence (some years ago, maybe some more years). this should have been the day for people to wake up and recognize, that google just used "the community" for cheap marketing andd development, keeping "core components" of android under a closed licence.

As google has a waste of money an top engineers, theres no confusion about it, that these things (e.g. technical crap) didn't happen by accident rather than by internal politics.

so my conclusion of this is, that google has designed their "standalone" apps in a way, you can't control them seperatly.. they need implementations deeply anchored within your system - by design!

BTW: does anybody knows why google play crashes if it recognizes, that it doesn't have background data access? ;)

this statement brings up another question for me, as my next daily driver won't have gapps installed: what has to be done, to compensate the missing features?

what will be about the dreadful in "play" implemented licence checks?

I also want to add:

Looking at the things like they are... realizing what the googleframework does and - I just guess - how much "time savings" it offers to developers (e.g. licence checks, central push service), taking design guidelines in account.. google is doing everything it can to motivate individual devs to centralize googles influence and power at android. ....the OS of the "free and the brave".

I tell this as this leads to 2 problems IMHO:

The OS itself - which can be "fixed" with enough effort.

But also the apps - which can't be fixed and would create a noticeable amount of workload, to find and or code alternatives.

Especially as most people sadly don't care for upcoming fasci...consumer market rules. So there won't be much money in it for doing the right thing.

Maybe one solutions could be "wrapper"s build into a gapps free version. But that could be problematic, policy/law wise.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
That idea would definitely be nice. But at the end of the day, until we get people to realise that Gapps is essentially a trojan, we'll get nowhere. Right now, Google Apps is sitting on your device, with system privileges (ie. full access, pretty much like root, you can actually gain root access via system user), and is able to do what it likes.

Via Google Apps, your device can be remotely disabled or enabled, or it can override the silent mode, and make noise. It can track your location, and remotely install AND uninstall apps from your phone. None of this is new information, everyone knows it, but 99% of people don't care, and go "oh but it's useful"... It's useful, but so is a trojan horse... And Gapps are a trojan horse. I wish an antivirus vendor would recognise the google services framework as "Android/Trojan.googleservices" :) I ought to submit it with some analysis and see if they will accept it :p
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] jittusm:
Am i to gather that u dont use GAPPS on ur devices? wow :) can u suggest some alternatives to GAPPS?
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] Spitwista:
+1 please tell.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] crypta:
gapps provide a service for (g)app(s) and the gapps itself... also the services gives google a great control of your device.

the answer to your question depends on what you need.

maps can be substituted by several other applications (I personally use locus pro and mapquest/OSM).

mail is also easy to replace.

contacts&events&"cloud storage" can be replaced by several os alternatives, e.g. owncloud.

(but be aware: your substitute of services as in "saas" (software as a service), is just so secure, as you make it. so I suggest your own dedicated server and hight transport encryption).

other apps I don't know as I don't care the google apps.

"play" is more problematic. as stated by pulser, you can use a device to retrieve and pay your apps, make a backup and move the apps to your destination device.

I did this with ONE device (CWM backup) - works ok.

In general conclusion, avoiding gapps is possible, but will have a toll in comfort. the reward still is independency of google.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
You gather correctly.

My email comes in via IMAP IDLE (ie. push IMAP) from my own server running postfix and dovecot. My contacts and calendar sync over Activesync using PHP-Push-2 (open source server side Exchange interface), and email will soon.

F-Droid gives open source software for your phone. Owncloud is good for storage and contacts/calendar storage.

Whatever you do, ensure your data is ENCRYPTED on the server, using PROPER encryption, and use SSL with forward secrecy (ECDHE key negotiation), and pin the SSL certificates so you cannot have a man in the middle attack against you.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Center clock done, I will add that to future releases. CM won't accept it, I will :)
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] crypta:
I may add, if you are also seeking for real security, you should use TLS and keep an eye on security news. If you deliver static pages via tls/ssl you should never deliver them without,as there's an vulnerability latest.

Sent from mobile.

Added: there is never real security, just the best currently available.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] albsat:
[MENTION=2178960]pulser_g2[/MENTION]

1. Here is a hint on how to change the tiles per row.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=40278487&postcount=4

I wish this would be an option on cm, where you can choose how many tiles you want per row.

2. I got about 4 hours and 40 minutes mostly on wifi and very few calls. It is better than any other asop roms for me at least.

Thanks for your work!
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] AlienSr1:
[MENTION=2178960]pulser_g2[/MENTION] How is CM not going to accept a option like that?

Also do you know anything from nebkat which is the official maintainer for the n7100? And are you going to continue to build this rom even if official versions are comming out?

Thanks for your great work, I will try to build my first rom from source soon :).
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] bahtsiz_bedevi:
nevermind
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] burimii:
I think you got it wrong Gapps it's a short name of Google Apps they are talking about Gapps ( Google Apps ) in general, how many privileges do those apps have ....
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
They rejected it for CM 10.0. They reject most good things.

Sure I know nebkat well. I'll figure out what I'm doing, as it seems there is demand for this.

Good luck with getting your rom going :)
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] AlienSr1:
Hmm.. I liked CM so far :p

Thanks, but so far I have ran into a error when trying to sync from your repo: It says: default manifest.xml not found, syncing from official cm repo works though, what I am doing wrong?
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] ssamth2003:
few days for daily usage, report no problem. just the email exchange and Email always stopped. but it still work after re starts again. any advise?
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] avercros:
How about the battery usage?
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] lolmensch:
as always depends on your usage behavior but I'd say same as cm 10.1
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] ssamth2003:
I think, not much difference for a full day use with wifi on, always reading email (screen on), 2-3 hrs/day on Note and stay online for Line. almost stand for 10-14 hrs. (full charge during night then use till back home on late evening). just one thing as i say is email and mail exchange server always stopped and close.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] Darkje:
[MENTION=2178960]pulser_g2[/MENTION] can you increase the grid options in trebucket? when i lower the DPI the screen options are mangled. Thanks in advance
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] alexng2208:
How do you change the DPI in this ROM? is it launcher dependent? I'm using the free nova
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] mexxxico:
In build.prop change

ro.sf.lcd_density=320 to

ro.sf.lcd_density=240 or what you want :)
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] crypta:
Search thread for dpi and you find your question answered before even typing it.

Why don't you use a launcher, which does this already?

Saves load of works.

As I use nova,I can tell that this launcher supports your needs.

Besides [MENTION=2178960]pulser_g2[/MENTION]

Why not change the standard to 240dpi, as it seems that most people will change it anyway.

Sent from mobile.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] albsat:
Is there any way to revert the t9dialer on the old way?
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] Darkje:
Because trebucket works fine. If it is not needed i wont add a second launcher.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] crypta:
I see this like with most apps: is an app not sufficient and there is one, that is... I'll take this one. (e.g. I never used default mail app, even if it has MOST of what I feel the need for)

And as it seems, that trebuchet doesn't fits your needs, it doesn't seem this fine for you to me for ;).

just my 2 cent.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] lolmensch:
most likely working but do a nand backup before:

delete /system/app/phone.apk

copy a cm 10.1 version of phone.apk to /system/app/ and set the correct rights. rw/r/r with either the cm explorer or root explorer or similiar apps.

you get the old phone.apk by extracting cm 10.1 on your computer and then take it from /system/app folder
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
I have considered this - it is easy enough for me to change, but I would prefer to have an option. Though if everyone is keen on 240, I can do that :)

Vote in the poll at the top so I can get a rough idea what people think.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] Darkje:
This would be nice (keep it changable for users that dont like it tho) and maby patch the trebucket then for more grid lines so we can actually use the whole screen.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] lolmensch:
you can set a bigger grid it only doesn't scale properly. don't understand why people don't use another launcher. there are some with minimal permissions for sure if that's the concern..
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] ultracd:
okay

Thank you for your attention and time ...

Sincerely
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] lolmensch:
i do understand their approach though as there are some apps like games which are always on (notification based games when your health pot is now ready to be used or similiar ones) and they drain battery like hell. I don't think it is due to ram shortages/reminders but more of a easy way to see what runs in background and drains battery.

People always cry when their battery life is too short but they have more than 100 apps installed and at least 10% are extremely poorly coded resulting in wake locks and whatever. Now even standard users can see that something is still active which actually shouldn't be active.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] Silenus21:
Want to test this, but is there a link to the 2013-08-04 build.

The link on the first post has the 08-02 build but later it says Last Updated 2013-08-04.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] blorro:
0802 is the latest build.

Grab it from the OP. =)
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] D3_:
It also says "Current Beta Version: 2 August"

There IS NO 2013-08-04 BUILD. I don't know why people keep asking for it.

"Last Updated" doesn't mean "latest build"

For all we know that could mean the last time the OP was updated.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
That "Last updated" is the last update date on the OP post. I changed the wording of something that I thought could be better :)

I will make a 5/August build though, provided sources remain reliable and good :)
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] dzontra11:
Still rotations problem?
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] crypta:
In my tests I had some fcs. Could it be because of xposed mod?

Also I was unable to find the developer settings -where are these?

Sent from mobile.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] numerouknow:
for developer options - system settings -> about phone -> tap build number 7 times
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] jusuchin85:
Tested this on my Note 2 and would like to add some findings:

Camera FCs: renamed Galaxy4.apk to Galaxy4.apk.bak and restarted. No more FCs, reckon it's a clash of camera apps?

Rotation is a problem, but I can manage it.

Data bars doesn't show upload/download activity.

exFat may not be supported, Poweramp doesn't recognize exFat formatted SD card.

Recent apps doesn't show previews.

3G disables when making a phone call. Re-enabled after ending call.

Screenshot doesn't work.

Root works if your phone was rooted earlier.

Points 2, 5 and 7 was due to what pulser_g2 mentioned about the graphics driver for Note 2. Definitely blame Sammy for that.

Point 4 may be because of Poweramp itself, since videos in MxPlayer works out of the box.

Anyways, that's my finding so far. Love the build, near stable for daily use. Keep it up!
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] Silenus21:
Thanks.

I'll wait for that instead.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] albsat:
I want to add my feedback .

For those having problems with back key, change keyboard and remove check spelling if you still get fc from asop keyboard .

It still a very usable rom, although there are minor glitches, Samsung to blame.

We have a great developer who brought a 4.3 rom for our pleasure.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] MojoManagement:
Is BLE working with this?
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Won't be a release today - CM managed to break bluetooth support for HID (keyboards), so I am trying to fix that, as I need it for my tablets (got a new bluetooth keyboard!)

But it needs fixed some time, so trying it now :)
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] sebtorres82:
phone apk has stopped

I have used the ROM one week and then I decided to install back my dual-boot kernel. When it rebooted it was an error with the phone apk and a pop up message appeared right when I boot the phone. The pop up re-apeared every second and it wont let me do anything. I finally solve it by flashing again the ROM.

Other than that the ROM is smooth and great :good:
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] jusuchin85:
Um, I don't know whether this is true (correct me if I'm wrong), but:

isn't BLE kernel specific? I recall BLE existed for the i9100 S2 because of the lack of a notification LED, and gokohan created the Siyah kernel for this. But I can't recall for the N7100 Note 2.

also, why would you need BLE when you have notification LEDs? If I remembered correctly, BLE drains lots more battery in the i9100.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] FUSIONdev:
Do you think that the battery recharging with phone off bug will be ever fixed?

I mean the phone charging animation stuck at initialization if recharged while off.

This bug come up on 10.1 some time ago, and is also present in 10.2

Flashing an alternative kernel like neak (aosp edition) doesn't fix it... so the problem is elsewhere...

I don't understand some design choices of the latest cyanogenmod stuff...

Let's start with FOCAL: lots of settings and missing just JPEG quality setting -.-

File Manager? a bit unuseful.. it can't do basic operations like move folders and files from SD/extSD....

Apollo? impossible to just browse folders instead of "albums" and other silly tags

Customization? looks like after cm7 if one needs customizations, he must go with aokp and similar roms...

I don't understand why they reject commits like the one for NFC Polling...

I don't think that hacking via NFC tags is more dangerous than overclock settings xD xD xD
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] Silenus21:
Speaking of Bluetooth, is AD2P working correctly.

That's essential to my days.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] AlienSr1:
I agree, but Focal is not finished yet so lets give them some time to improve the app.

I definitely like the way they are going with Focal, just because PhotoSphere and many other features are device specific. And the 4.3 camera UI is.. let's say bad.. (in my opinion).

Might not be the best file explorer but it's not bad either, it's good enough for me.

First app I disable after I flash cm :banghead:, I really don't like it, using PowerAmp instead.

What do you mean by that?

Who decides which features get merged into the cm sources anyways? It's not only one person right? It's all the devs listed on cm gerrit, am I correct?

And could someone give me a hint why I'm not able to sync from [MENTION=2178960]pulser_g2[/MENTION] sources ("default manifest.xml not found" error)

but syncing with official cm sources works? I have read in the cm wiki and some tutorials but I don't get what I'm doing wrong here?

Do I have to sync cm sources first and pulsers afterwards?
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] Formhault:
You don't know how to use it...

Sent from hyperspace
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] Petteri:
i love these sort of answers! Normally there is no point why you does not explain in this moment how to use this feature, on XDA there are a lot of newbies who reads and have some of these problems too, sometimes it would helps, if everybody would explain something instead of answering in snotty answers (it`s not direct to your side, but it seems there will be more and more here in forum last years)! BR
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] albsat:
[MENTION=3709436]FUSIONdev[/MENTION]

In file manager when you select a folder there is a submenu bottom right with 3 dots. Click on it and you have the option to copy or move. Remember that when you select something, you are coping it. Hope it helps.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] Formhault:
It does not mean the app is useless and lacks functionality if the user is unable to use it properly... ;)

I love how people blame the apps for their own lack of knowledge...
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] MojoManagement:
Bluetooth 4.0 does still not work with 4.0 smart devices?
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
My sources are not designed for you to "repo sync" from - use local manifest on top of CM source repo for now.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
I don't think CM has fully upgraded to support LE yet. But I don't have any devices to check.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
No idea, not tested it. But people can add bug reports via dev DB at the top, so it seems there are no bugs :p
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] MojoManagement:
So you want to be spammed with every bug? :D

I found a lot, all minor and mostly CM ones?

Haha, nice and usable ROM by the way. Thank you.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] Darkje:
[MENTION=2178960]pulser_g2[/MENTION] are there any upcoming solutions for graphics and cam/screenshot issues?
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] FUSIONdev:
I know, but I remember that the last time I used it (now I avoid losing time with it) it gave me lots of permission errors on such simple operations. That's all.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] lolmensch:
only had them when I tried to copy stuff from the original internal sd storage (so folder being used from sammy rom in /mnt/shell/...) to the emulated/0/ storage location. Besides that it works fine. Even though I prefer total commander.

---------- Post added at 01:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:40 PM ----------

So pulser_g2, you wanted bug reports here you have them. Hope you are happy with them :P
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Will take a look at them. Focal is upstream though, so bugs should go there.

RE the stylus "off" control, can you try getting a root shell, and running

echo 1 > /sys/class/sec/sec_epen/epen_saving_mode

Then try it again?
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Not that I know of.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] lolmensch:
great. your solution works =)
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] yash1331:
any screenshots ?
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] lolmensch:
looks like cm10.1? so don't think we need some :confused:
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] albsat:
[MENTION=2178960]pulser_g2[/MENTION]

Crazy question. Is it possible technically to port a Samsung note 8 firmware to our note 2?i read that these devices share same hardware almost and note 8 has an android 4.2. Version...
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] FUSIONdev:
4.3 identical to 4.2 ... the work is under the hood...

You're off topic! This is a cyanogenmod topic!
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] $ideWinder:
First of all I would like to say this is an amazingly smooth and fluid rom. Really good work.

I'm facing a problem with some of my games though (the ones which require the obb files). for example for Dead trigger I can see that the obb files are in my internal memory in Android/Obb, but it still keeps asking me to download the files all over again, same applies for some of the other games. Anyway to fix this?
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Probably is, but not something I've given thought to.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
About to test a build that should resolve the screenshot/graphics glitches, thanks to arcee.
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] pulser_g2:
Sounds like storage or permissions issues?
[Galaxy Note II Original Android Development] Darkje:
Wow.. Great progress allready