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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] lschuman:
It is I who should thank you for working on PAC.... So thank you! Really enjoying the extra animations by the way...

I certainly hope a solution to the GPS can be found... but I'm keeping PAC regardless, it's just too great. Seriously!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] delawaredrew:
Not having GPS lock issues but the compass arrow on the indicator in the map spins continuously... not really a problem, just an observation.

More oddly the Note just developed an issue where the screen wouldn't turn off by power button, but would using Screen Off and Lock. The power button worked to get to power menu so the physical button was functional...

That in itself was annoying, but when I got it to turn off it would usually turn right back on, by sliding up from the bottom for some reason...

2 reboots and reflashing (dirty) and it seems to have corrected it.

I think I did dirty flash 9/21 so if it becomes an issue I will clean install as I should have.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] gimmeitorilltell:
This is a very sweet rom but I can't seem to run anything as a DD but 4.0.4 stock roms. I'm not sure if it's my phone or the os. I'll get maybe 3 or 4 text messages and then nothing. A reboot is needed to get the phone working again after losing data, texting, and the ability to call. I've always done a clean install and compiled a few PAC builds myself to try but its still a no go for this phone. I've contacted straight talk to make sure the phone was fully registered and activated on their network and I'm back to my stock nandroid. It seems to run OK with maybe having to reboot my phone only once a day instead of 10 times a day with 4.3. It may be that time to get a new phone :( Has anyone else had such bad luck with 4.3? I'm in no way kicking dirt in anyone's face, as I really enjoy this ROM, I'm just trying to figure out if my phone is a paper weight.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] AD5GB:
Hey there

Seems that all JB ROMs on this device have had their issues and unfortunately this one is no exception. It's a moving target too as so much code is changing so rapidly too and now CMs stuff thrown into the mix. The former is a good indicator that things are being fixed..... and they are. We'll all see how the latter changes things... if it does at all.

We've changed our repo to continue to track Focal and other things outside of CM now and will continue to support that stuff as long as we can.

Now more specific to your issues: I can't say I've had the same amount of troubles as you. My SMS and phone have actually been rock-solid. There are plenty of other things tho and these vary from nighty to nightly and even if I put a custom build together for testing a fix before committing. Its the nature of open source when you're out on the edge where things change so fast and where there are limited resources to respond to huge wholesale changes in API levels, such as what happened in AOSP going from ICS to JB. Samsung is no longer doing active development on these older devices so.... :)

Paperweight? I don't know. I don't think so but that depends on ones personal expectations. I keep a debloated TouchWiz band around for the few times when I need the utmost in stability and reliability. I find however that the recent PAC Roms give acceptable results for me and now that I maintain it, don't switch around much. If you decide your Note's a paperweight however, PM me! I'll buy it from you...

:D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] lschuman:
GPS works for me now! Running the brand new nightly.... No tweaks, no UBER. As great as UBER is, I believe I'll leave PAC untouched. Simply amazing. Thank you!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] eugenekim618:
I run this ROM without UBER as well. Uber is great, but am finding it significantly affects battery life. Shortens it dramatically.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] gimmeitorilltell:
I do appreciate you're efforts in explaining the situation with 4.3 and our older devices. My phone has been pretty solid without having to reboot for a day or so running the stock ROM. I'm certain that it is not a paper weight and I'll certainly hang onto it a while longer. I will have to pass your offer to buy my phone but I'll definitely keep you in mind if I decide to sell it any time soon. I've just recently crossed over from CDMA to a gsm device and wasn't sure what to expect from the phone, but I do expect the gsm phones to work as well as cdma. So far my favorite is the 4g with prepaid service :cool: I'll keep checking and let ya know when my phone is stable with this rom, I do miss my pac-rom :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] delawaredrew:
I've really enjoyed this ROM. Thanks for keeping this aged device current.

I noticed an odd screen brightness change when I pull down the notification bar. It dims to about 50% every time. Same behavior on my gf's note.

The other pull-down settings menu returns it to bright. I haven't flashed last 2 nightlies yet to see if it changed.

We were both having problems with waking the phone also; I disabled HW overlays and increased minimum CPU speed and that seems to improve it.

Neither issue really bothered me but the gf was ready to return to stock over the screen on problems.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] LuckyStrike88:
I have the same brightness issue when pulling down the shade.

Interestingly enough I had the same problem with screen wake on other ROM's but not this one except on rare occasion.

I think it was the 9/19, 9/20 releases that I had which were so bad I almost went berserk, I'm talking rebooting sometimes every minute and no longer than 15-20 minutes all day, it would just go into a bootloop many times, I'd hold the power button the samsung logo would appear and then back into boot loop it was insane. It was the worst ROM experience I've ever had times 10.

But then I flashed 9/21 and I'd say it's been the best ROM experience I've ever had, I've had a handful of minimal problems over the last few days but for a 4.3 nightly as feature rich as this I'll take it. It's so good I'm scared to update to the latest nightly because it would be hard to improve over what I currently have.

Thanks devs, it's coming along :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] delawaredrew:
DEVS: As always thanks for providing this for us, I'm sure many hours of your life are consumed by these ROMs and we all appreciate your work.

I dirty flashed 9/25 a few hours ago and the brightness issue is corrected for now. So that's nice.

The screen on thing seems to have gotten better, although I increased the min cpu speed and and disabled overlays (read that somewhere) so it's hard to say what changed it, on the other note we have (9/21 ROM) it also improved with clock and overlay changes.

I was getting Tylers when I accepted suggestions while typing SMS on 9/21, I hope that is fixed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] AD5GB:
Glad the brightness thing appears to have resolved. I never saw it myself but heard maintainers of other devices discussing it. Also hears mentioned that the problem was identified and fixed. Hope that's true! At least when bugs are widespread like that they don't last long. It's those pesky device-specific ones that can give you a headache.

I still.have random keyboard crashes on mine while texting but that's vastl improved lately.

There still exists some pesky wake, power button, lock screen and animation issues but nothing that's really a show stopper. I used to keep a debloated 4.0.4 nand backup on hand for when I couldn't afford to have any phone issues. Now this thing is almost more stable than that for me.

The bugs will come and go as it evolves but I'm becoming quite pleased the way its turning out. I appreciate everyone's trying it and reporting issues. It really helps the development process!

Best!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] thaiceman:
I haven't ran into any issues with the brightness or keyboard & the slow wake up is annoying but its nothing like the sleep of death I used to get when my epics decided it was time to die. In the end you are doing awesome work and I hope ya keep it up.

From the sounds of it I may be dirty installing the latest nightly while I'm at work..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] sp73smith:
Loving this rom. One rr while setting it up. (Ravpower battery)

Didn't post other picture, but 16 hours of up time...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] lschuman:
My goodness, the 9/28 nightly is amazing. GPS works, Skype doesn't blame Tyler for anything anymore... I haven't flashed UBER in weeks, though the new version tempted me. I love UBER but just don't want to affect a great thing. This is simply the best my phone has ever run.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Pandawg:
There are a lot of dls for the 9/28 nightly lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] delawaredrew:
I've seen a large reduction in battery life on 9/25 for the last few days... anyone else? When the screen is on it is about 1% every 3 minutes. With nav running it is about 1% per minute? Had to charge twice during the day yesterday...

The battery usage chart showed the OS as the largest battery use by far.

9/29 flashing now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] AD5GB:
You're the first! Please let me know if you find out something. Everyone else is reporting excellent battery life. Keep me posted
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] thaiceman:
Something I get from the PAC-Man that I haven't seen on any other including stock is lte on straight talk unfortunately where I live there is no lte to be had these numbers are 30 miles north of me lol...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] delawaredrew:
There is also a distinct upward trend in DLs of this ROM over the past few nightlies. It's a good ROM, glad to see others use it.

10/1 downloading slowly now.

9/29 for me had greater unlock/wake issues (only a few times were serious enough to reboot) Otherwise it was pretty solid as PAC is known for. I still can't tell if battery life is decreased as I frequently work where there is no AT&T coverage, and being out of coverage seems to burn more power in every Android I've had.

Is the wake/unlock problem common on 4.3 ROMs? I've only run this one since the alpha.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jdbreazeale:
The wake/unlock problem is common on all 4.3 ROMs I've used. I was reading on the ParanoidAndroid Google+ page and they have a fix, but I don't think they are sharing. ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] sp73smith:
I'm on the October 1 build and I noticed that I can't view picture messages, it comes up saying no thumbnail also it won't play videos from mms. Plays the same video if it's emailed to me. Could be my dirty flash....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] AD5GB:
Not sure what that is yet. It started a couple days ago. I'm working on it.

Edit: The latest build seems to have fixed this for me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] rsalib:
For some reason when I clear cache/delvik after a clean install it will not boot up again. only after i flash the rom and gapps.

not sure what to do.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] AD5GB:
Well, I'm not sure I completely understand you but if you're doing a "clean install", does that mean you do a factory reset before you flash? If so then there's really no need to wipe anything else after the install. The factory reset should have done it. That said I often will wipe cache and dalvik if I'm flashing, say, just a kernel and have never encountered anything like what you describe. Which recovery are you using? I'm on the latest TWRP but some guys hate it and swear by CWM. You might try grabbing the latest of your favorite recovery and flashing it. I'll ask some of the other PAC devs and see if they have any other ideas. I don't at the moment..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jdbreazeale:
I think you may be using a bad version of twrp. I had to downgrade to 2.6.0.1 and then factory reset, wipe cache and dalvik. That worked for me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] rsalib:
That is exactly what it was. I had to downgrade my TWRP do a factory reset, clear cache/dalvik. Clean install of ROM and GApps.

That allowed me to be able to restart without any issues.

Thanks again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] delawaredrew:
10/4 - I noticed same issue on a few pics, but it only lasted a few minutes. Both GO Pro and stock MMS were affected. I got several other MMS ok though later. I also dirty flashed.

A less important thing - I tried OTA update today for the first time and couldn't get it to allow me to flash. It downloaded fine on LTE but the option to flash never lit up; did I miss something? Tried 3x. TWRP worked fine with the file the OTA fetched so it's not a large issue at all just something I noticed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] :
Some Bugs

Just some things to note:

- Wake/Unlock issues: Press power button once (capacitive buttons turn on), press again (capacitive buttons turn off), then press again (screen turns on)

- Gallery crash/reboot: Clear cache, and data from Gallery, and Media Storage

- Photosphere blur: Open Camera, Zoom in all the way, go to Camcorder, zoom in all the way, then click Photosphere/Panorama

- SystemUI is not responding on boot: no fix yet

Other than that, the ROM is great!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] lschuman:
I'm on the 10/6 build and loving it. The extra animations still make me feel warm and fuzzy inside; I'm enjoying the new active screen feature (a la Moto); and most everything is as stable as can be, outside of some occasional camera hiccups ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] AD5GB:
Hah. For a while we just turned off the lock screens to get around the wake lock issues. That was considered 'minor' compared to the other horrible things that were being worked on.... Gallery and camera issues..... good to know. Might point to a fix. SystemUI? When are you seeing that? I've not gotten that in a long time...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] AD5GB:
I'm not sure if this is completed yet. I'll ping the guys working on this and see what they say,

Edit: Update - just talked to one of the senior devs. This will not be active until there's a *stable* release. Ha. Learned something new!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] :
Sometimes when I start the system, it will show 'SystemUI is not responding [Wait|Stop]', but nothing happens when I click both.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] delawaredrew:
As usual thanks for this ROM, it's the only 4.3 I've run... once I find a ROM that is stable enough for daily I don't change and it's fun to install nightlies to see the small issues be resolved.

I'm on 10/7 and a few nagging things have made themselves known -

1) Reboot in maps - not everytime I use it but a few times it has frozen and reboot when I type addresses in. Also oddly when I get suggestions from Google it adds what I think is russian or maybe an eastern european version of "North America" to the end of the local address. Again not everytime but a few times... and only until it gets GPS lock.

2) Loss of network connection. Hard to find a pattern but maybe it isn't reconnecting after I am out of coverage.

3) OTA update no longer works at all :(. I know it wasn't active but it was nice to DL newest on LTE and install through TWRP while I was working, because for unknown reasons file transfer in USB is problematic on the ROM since late Sept. Never thought to mention it till now; is the same for both Notes we have.

I'm DLing 10/9 right now...

EDIT ---------->

I had issues dirty flashing 10/9:

I know I should full wipe and flash but this has been no problem before.

Install failed - not uncommon so I cleared caches which usually solves it. After that TWRP decided I was not rooted and wanted to install SuperSU, which I cancelled for no good reason. The phone then rebooted on its own and got stuck on a new (I guess) PAC/Samsung logo. After a lot of attempts I got back in TWRP and reflashed 10/7 successfully. All seems ok now.

Drew
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] AD5GB:
Dang Drew,

Thanks for hanging in there with PAC. This last week's been rough for the ROM. It's been better for our phones and will be again. OTA's been sporadic (mostly not working) due to build farm upgrades. PAC is growing. We're having to add machines to the build farm and move some things around and that not only messed up nightly builds for some devices but took OTA down for a bit as well. It'll be back. There are some creeping network and WiFi issues too. GPS seems good for most if they turn off 'assisted" GPS. I'm not sure exactly how those servers work but other device maintainers say they get better results right now not using assisted GPS. I'm wondering about your USB file transfers though. Can you explain in a little more detail maybe? I have zero issues on mine but I always have USB debugging turned on and push files with the ADT (Android Developer Toolkit) and run UNIX/Linux computers.

We all dirty flash when not changing ROMs and most of the time it doesn't usually cause problems. It's the usual disclaimer though when problems do start as it is possible to introduce a problem by doing so, that doesn't actually exist - typically when something has been removed from a newer ROM. When that happens outdated stuff is left laying around and can cause unintended side effects. I'm wondering tho' which version of TWRP you're using too. There have been varying reports of strangeness with some of the later ones. Some refuse to use it at all.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] delawaredrew:
Randy,

These Notes seem hard to brick so I don't worry too much if things go slightly sideways during a flash. Also your ROM is sweet and a few non-fatal issues are par for the course. I couldn't get it into recovery for some time but eventually Nandroid got me back to 9/29 and 10/7 went back over that fine .TWRP v2.6.0.1.

The USB thing is odd. When I transfer the files they often stall at 30 sec to go (according to Win 8). Many times if I leave it alone Windows Explorer will crash. When it first started on my gf's Note I had to pull the SD card and use a card reader to get ROMs to transfer. My Note was not having issues until the past few attempts. Turning debugging off seemed to help but that is likely just coincidence.

It my be that Win 8 has the actual issue as the files do transfer and file sizes match even when it seems to fail. I've actually flashed the ROMs that stalled without issue. My guess is the file system on the Note isn't reporting completion to Win or Win isn't understanding it.

I'll clean flash at soon point soon. Travelling over the weekend so if 10/7 stays stable I'll play when I get back.

Drew
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] pockets916:
ROM runs great Ad5gb only have small issues can't wait for the next build. [MENTION=3316501]delawaredrew[/MENTION] I'm pretty sure sure the file transfer freeze has been an ongoing jellybean problem for this device small files transfer fine though I transfer all files via recovery or use air droid.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] delawaredrew:
I've used Airdroid a few times a few weeks ago. For some reason I find the UI to be unappealing so I forgot about it... transferred newest PAC using it without a hitch. It is convenient and since we've already had a connector failure on 1 of the 2 Notes I should minimize unnecessary plug ins.

10/9 installed fine a few hours ago.

Drew

EDIT---> I'm gonna have to wipe and reflash properly or Nandroid back a few days, Had to reboot a few times already when the Note wouldn't wake at all, not even the cap buttons lit up. It may have even been powered down, couldn't tell; but it did always reboot.

After 1 yr of ROM battles with my Dell Streak I am happy that this ROM has yet to cause me more than a few minutes of problems.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] rsalib:
Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this but every time is launch quickpic it causes a reboot. I have cleared data/cache for the app, media storage, uninstalled and reinstalled. No luck.

The developer does not have the ability to test. Anyone else?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] prycem:
Quickpic reboot

I can confirm this. I am on 10/11.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] pTeronaut:
nvm
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] adv1sory:
I am trying to install the latest nightly with gapps 8/13 and every time I get to the setup screen, I try to skip simcard/wifi options. It fcs on me and wont let me continue on setup. I don't have a simcard in my phone because I still have to flash another modem to get the phone working on wind.

Here's my process...

1) Odin phone to Stock 4.1.2 Rogers.

2) Root/TWRP

3) Factory reset

4) Flash rom/gapps

5) Reboot

Then I get blame tyler on second screen of setup, right after choosing language.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] psycoartwork:
sd card issues

OK, here's my problem, hoping someone can help me out with this. I have done a clean flash, (darkside super wipe) wiped it all, install PAC, install GAPPS, wipe cache/dalvick, reboot...let settle and sign in,etc. I can see the pics on my SD card in gallery, and I can get to my music/ ringtones on my SD card. BUT if I try to access anything else on it, the message says that there is no external SD mounted. (such as app backup & restore, My pdf's etc) I'm not sure what to make of it. Haven't done anything to the kernal yet, just a clean flash (also went in and fixed permissions, have tried unmounting and remounting SD...nothing.)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] :
Try not flashing GApps. Play Store is already included in the ROM, if you install GApps, apps might misbehave.

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MTP is not stable at all. It doesn't sync correctly, crashes, sometimes shows SD card as being formatted, etc. Try using TWRP's USB Mass Storage feature.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Fredplex:
Adv1sory,

Did you figure this one out. I get the very same issue on 10/18 nightly but I have the Bell version of the Note i717m, maybe this is an issue related to our canadian hardware?

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thanks, FredT
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] :
Just try not to flash GApps, I had this problem on my Xperia Arc S, and I simply ignored the GApps flash, and it worked like a charm :o
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Truetek:
I don't get it, I didn't flash Gapps, so I never got to the setup wizard, which also means I never got the blame tyler issue...

But I also didn't have any playstore...

I stumbled onto a workaround by flashing PAC Rom only, booting into it, then rebooting into TWRP, installing Gapps, and rebooting again. Now the wizard completes without issue.

The only thing I miss is using the Uber kernel, but every time I flash that, from TWRP 2.5.x.x to 2.6.3.0, I can't get past the boot animation... so I'm living without it for now (I'd like to actually use my phone for a few days :P)

Maybe I'll try another recovery like CWM eventually and keep testing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] patch_Adams:
Try an older version of uber. I think the one I like is from October 2nd.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] adv1sory:
Managed to finally boot up into PAC!! Didn't flash gapps until booting into rom first. I did try to install Uber Oct2 release and it didnt go past the boot screen. Stock is good enough for me anyways. Thanks for the help all!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] :
Build failed?

Hello

Recently, quincyatt builds for PACman have failed. Why is that so? I need an update real soon!

:)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] thaiceman:
Dirty flashed the 10-21 nightly last night over the 10-9 and the difference is like night and day I don't know what voodoo got put into the ROM but there is a witch Dr somewhere that needs a pat on the back.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] dvdivx:
Did the gallery issue finally get fixed?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] pockets916:
I've never had gallery issues with PAC ROM thumbing through the thread and I don't see any one else but you with that problem. Its more then likely an issue on your end, try uploading or moving your pictures and format your internal and external memory I've always had great success after doing so.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] :
The SystemUI is not responding problem is really unnerving. It happens on every single boot.