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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] PhilDX:
I think the problem with CM is the built-in ROM updater - by virtue of ease, it encourages people to constantly dirty flash updates regardless of the magnitude of changes between builds, and that leads to problems. I flash (clean and dirty) CM nightly builds on multiple devices and I rarely have any of the issues that folks complain about in the forums, and I actually think it's a very stable ROM. the concept of occasionally needing to wipe data is foreign to those guys.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] HeadKase:
CM has a solid setup. SLIM is a solid setup too. Bunch of ROM's are pretty solid. All of us have gotten so lucky to be able to dirty flash and come out unscathed haha. There have been a few times I've dirty flashed without making a backup first and paid the price. I made a post a few pages back because this exact thing happened. I had to start from scratch by formatting and then installing SLIM, GApps, AGNI and setting everything back up. I've tried CM on a multitude of devices and found that I personally enjoy other ROM's for different reasons. I love the fact that the entire SLIM ROM is set to a more device friendly dpi by default and everything I use my phone for works great. I have great respect for Cyanogen/Steve and the whole mod team. It's thanks to him and the team that everyone has arrived at this point we are at.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
Hmmm, so heads up is kinda like a floating notification bar or something? I'll be interested to try it out for sure. I tried halo before and didn't really like it, but this looks better. Thanks gchild !
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ControlD:
First off, fantastic ROM! This will most likely be my daily driver for some time.

Just a quick question for the users out there. I use a Verizon network extender at home because I have almost no cell coverage there. Any time I use a non Touchwiz ROM, I am shown as out of network (and on data roaming) when connected to the extender. This happens with any AOSP / non Touchwiz ROM. Just wondering if anyone else is in a similar situation and whether there is a solution. I have searched here and elsewhere but not found any real answers. I'm guessing Verizon inserts something in there releases to recognize the extender, but maybe there is something simple that can fix it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
I asked this question in a freenode irc channel for general android help and they asked me if it was wifi based or just repeating a weak cell signal to boost it....???

If you want to let me know I can continue to ask the channel helper folks or you can go there and ask, either way is totally fine with me.

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Addition:

they think installing a new/different modem might help. It's helped some GS3 users in the past. Not sure which modem (I've never had to flash new or different modems on any rom) so I can't be of much help here but that seems to be their general consensus. By googlizing the phrase "verizon network extender on aosp" I found a couple threads that had the same solution listed as well.

Might be worth a try?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ControlD:
Jarm3r,

Thanks so much for the information.

The wireless extender is WiFi based. The extender plugs into my home wireless router and I believe pretty much does VOIP calling from that point. The extender needs to be placed in an area where it can receive GPS lock, but that is the only signal it requires I believe.

I thought about trying a new modem, but this problem has persisted with every Android release from 4.1.2 to the current release. I am currently on MJ9 and I believe there is a newer version after that. I can give it a shot and see what happens, but my gut feeling is that it won't fix the issue.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
I'm still talking with them now ControID, I'll let you know. They're awesome on irc, you should check them out if you need help like this and can't find it on the forums.

I just looked up my baseband/modem and I'm running the vraljb. Which I think is weird. Isn't that the old jelly bean version before the mj9 version? Like isn't the vraljb the stock 4.1 version? Shouldn't I be on something newer?

Now I'm confused.

I guess I never thought about modems/basebands, I always thought the roms came with the newest versions... I supposed after I rooted my phone back when I bought it as soon as it came out I always have just flashed the newest roms and never even considered the modem.

Is this something I should be concerned about or update? I'm guessing there is a KK modem that is a lot more up to date than the jb one I'm currently running?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ControlD:
Before coming to this ROM, I used Odin to flash the MJ9 base to my phone. This was a requirement to use the newer 4.3 Touchwiz ROMs. My understanding is that the modem you have on your phone persists throughout ROM upgrades (the modem is separate from the ROM). If you have not done the 4.3 upgrade then you will still have your older JB modem. I know you can flash the modem in recovery, but I'm not sure if the 4.3 update through Odin is required or not first.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] gchild320:
Slim has removed the vendor files from their ROM for legal reasons, or at least that's what I gather from their commits. If anyone has any additional info on this, or where Slim vendor files can be found, feel free to hit me up.

I will wait and see if they host these vendor files elsewhere, but other vendor files (like CM's TheMuppets) are useless on slim.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
I'm gathering that means the proprietary Samsung stuff is not available for you to build our version of this ROM with then? is that right?

If so........ CURSES ON YOU SAMSUNG!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] gchild320:
Exactly. I have the one needed for our device specifically but not the t0lte base or smdk4412-common
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ztotherad:
then I wonder how the hell they're still building for the t0lte family without the device specific code...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] gchild320:
Private repos or there hasn't been a build since.

Hopefully they are just moving it to an external repo.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] NWNJ:
I have the same situation you do with the network extender. Did you get an answer to this yet? I would like to try this rom but I am currently on 4.1.2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ControlD:
Lots of speculation but no real solution.

The thing is, the network extender might actually be working it just shows me being on roaming. When I make a call while at home (where I use the extender) I still get the dual tone beep that tells me I am calling through the extender. If I dial #48 I get the message that I am connected to the extender. I had always assumed that the extender simply wasn't working at all with anything but a Touchwiz ROM but I very well might have been mistaken.

If I were you and wanting to upgrade to a more current ROM I would maybe install one of the newer Touchwiz ROMs first (which will get you to the 4.3 base). Make a Nandroid and then give SlimKat a shot. You can always restore back to a TW ROM if you have problems. I can tell you I like SlimKat enough that I have no plans to go back!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
Can I flash this with twrp 2.7.0.0
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ganggreen777:
Contacts are fc'ing

I can't look up anything annoying
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] danaff37:
Did you switch to art?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ganggreen777:
Yes

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Switched back to dalvik contacts work now

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] gchild320:
Ok we are all good. I asked in the right place and a birdie flew in and told me where to find what I'm looking for :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
Do I have to be on the newest twrp ....I read people are having trouble with it
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
Wohoo!!! You rock gchild, looking forward to trying the new build!!

ganggreen - I switched to art as well and my contacts worked totally fine. strange.

timmy - I have heard so many people have issues with twrp I switched to philz a while back and even though the interface isn't as good as twrp I have had zero issues with recovery. You might try that out. It only takes a second to switch recoveries.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
OK I'll look into it thank you I've only used two since I got the note 2 but used to use clockwork with my of Motorola droid
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ztotherad:
yeah, I stick with Philz rendition of CWM, i like CWM a lot better, don't know why I do, but I definitely do, lol. I was using ART on other roms for a little while, but had some huge battery drain and I think that's what was causing it for the most part; so I switched back to dalvik and still have the battery drain, but surprisingly not a lot versus ART.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
Do I have to flash the toochain stuff in the op or can I just flash the ROM zip then gapps
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
Just flash the latest rom from here http://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=15081 (that link is in the op) and then gapps, and you should be set. But that said, I would wait a little while, gchild now has the stuff he needs to build the big new update Slim released a little bit ago so we should be getting that soon.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
OK .....I'm coming from alliance 26 so I can wait for the new one thank you

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If I flash this build can I dirty flash the new one that is coming out
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
Sure thing. And yes you can dirty flash, and I don't know how gchild will respond, but me personally if an update comes with some big new features (like this one will) I always like to clean flash to make sure everythings running as well as it can.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
I'm not asking for a ota but is this big update supposed to be soon or a little bit away cause if so I'm going to flash this one to see how I like it...I've only flashed cm11 in the past and it was good but crap battery life and signal so I went back to touchwiz
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamFX:
Remember signal for aosp is measured different. So you going to see the same signal as cm11. It's always going to visually show less signal than tw. Battery life should be a little better than CM 11 though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
I did not know that

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I flashed this with philz and lost root what can I do to fix that
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamFX:
Check faq in op.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
Oo OK thank u i did read that but didn't realize that's what it meant
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
So I'm trying to get a GPS lock ...when I restore my alliance back up and get a lock and then restore the slimkat backup should I do a system reset before I restore that backup or will it mess up the lock?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
Do a full wipe, that's what I did and it worked perfectly to get my gps back.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DrunkUncas:
NO RESET!

Get your lock on TW.

Immediately restore Slim.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
oh really? Here's what I did and it worked perfectly:

- backup slim

- wipe and install fresh alliance TW (or restore alliance, I just never had it before)

- get gps lock

- while having a lock, reboot to recovery

- wipe and restore slim
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DrunkUncas:
I would think the wipe would kill the GPS lock. I haven't had to use this particular sorcery on my N2, but doing an intermediate wipe on my older devices eliminated my GPS.

Sorta makes you wonder how thorough that wipe is, huh?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamFX:
Whether you wipe or not restoring your backup wipes automatically prior to restoring. So it doesn't matter.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
well there ya go!

And in regards to the sorcery itself, here's my total wild guess at why this works:

Samsung has some proprietary bull**** built into the gps unit itself, maybe to either help it get started, or lock faster, or whatever... that they bake into TW. If you flash off of TW sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. For those who it doesn't (including me and many others) using TW to get a lock essentially activates or gets the GPS running, and then if you flash immediately and go back into another rom, that gps unit is still hot and can get locks going forward. My guess is that this is based directly on the GPS sensor itself, and therefore has nothing to do with wiping data or system or anything.

Again, just my total guess.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bgstyle:
Is anyone having sporadic SMS issues? I can send several text messages and then all of sudden I will get the message not sent press to resend. The only way I can get it to send is to cut on Airplane mode, turn it off and then hit resend and the message will then go through. This is on a clean install, other than that I have no issues.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DrunkUncas:
As good a guess as any.

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Good point.

That's witchcraft for you!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
Well I got a lock on alliance then restored slimkat and it would not lock any other suggestions
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DrunkUncas:
Clean wipe?

I'm not sure I'd put too much effort into getting this to work. A new version is on the way, and I'd hate to think of you jumping through unnecessary hoops, when the new one may stick for you without any issues.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
That's true.... I thought someone said when you restore a backup it wipes by itself anyway but yeah I'll wait for the new one to worry about it

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1. Use a root file manager to edit /etc/gps.conf (mount as R/W)

2. Scroll to the bottom of the file and change

LPP_PROFILE = 0. This worked

to

LPP_PROFILE = 1

3. Reboot[/QUOTE]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ganggreen777:
Will this rom have the android L stuff in it? If it did I'm blind
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] gchild320:
New version posted but don't hurry to flash it. Unless you want to test it and make sure it works...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
I don't see the link for the new version
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] gchild320:
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23501681358561074
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] gchild320:
Once again, untested.

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23501681358561122
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DrunkUncas:
Good so far

ETA: GPS is a little clunky, but it works eventually.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ganggreen777:
What's different from new then the last download?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] gchild320:
Please look at slim website for version changelogs.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
What do you think of the new HeadsUp feature?

And by clunky, you mean it just takes a little while longer to lock, or doesn't lock at all in some places where it used to?

Thanks as always to gchild for the awesome build!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DrunkUncas:
I haven't played with heads up. Hell, I don't even know what it is yet. I've got the page bookmarked for later. Maybe now, actually.

Last night, GPS was taking roughly 45 seconds to get a lock. The compass was pretty far off as well.

I just fired it up now and couldn't get a lock at all, but the compass is spot on now.

ETA:

Ran the fix Timmy posted above. It works now, but it ain't fast, and the compass is screwy.

1. Use a root file manager to edit /etc/gps.conf (mount as R/W)

2. Scroll to the bottom of the file and change

LPP_PROFILE = 0. This worked

to

LPP_PROFILE = 1

3. Reboot

ETA2:

Heads up works great on incoming calls, which is pretty much the only thing I'd want it for.

Neat feature.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
What is heads up
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ganggreen777:
Perhaps it's my n2 but texting doesn't send...I tried 3 different versions and it wants to send and eventually it won't
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ControlD:
I dirty flashed the latest build a few hours ago. I haven't had any issues to speak of to this point (GPS works like normal for me so far).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] gchild320:
Can you make phone calls? Sounds to me like it may be your recovery version.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ganggreen777:
Phone calls yes

Recovery latest philz/cwm
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] danaff37:
Texting is working great here on the latest for me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ControlD:
What baseband version are you running?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ganggreen777:
VRUFND7
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
That is what I was running a little while ago and had some issues too. I updated to mj9 and alls well. BUT... it was a major pain. Had to Odin back to stock, reroot, flash alliance, Odin mj9, flash slim. Took almost an entire day!

BUT. In the end I had the newer baseband, which works better AND I fixed my GPS. So I'm happy :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ControlD:
Actually I believe ND7 is newer than MJ9, but from other threads it seems people are having some issues with the newer baseband.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] NWNJ:
I just found a way to fix the problem with it not recognizing the network extender by installing SuperSU. After installing SuperSU and rebooting it has fixed the icon and it now displays the number of bars. It does not recognize it as being a network extender though, it says "out of neighborhood" on the bottom of the drop down menu, but it now at least displays the bars.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] gchild320:
Excellent info
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] NWNJ:
I am having a problem with Titanium Backup not finding my backup after installing this rom. Does anyone have a fix for this? I am in the mean time going to try copying the Titanium files from my external card to my internal card to see if I can get a quick fix like this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] PhilDX:
yup, ND7 > MJ9 > MC3

out of curiosity, where are you seeing people posting complaints about ND7? I haven't seen anything, good or bad.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
Did u go to preferences and backup location and click detect?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] NWNJ:
I don't see those options in Titanium Backup.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
Hit your menu on your phone while in titanium backup then go to preferences then to backup folder location
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] NWNJ:
That did it! Thanks a million. I don't know why I could not find it. I swear I tried that 3 times already and didn't see it. It found it. Thank you VERY much!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ControlD:
There was some talk about ND7 problems in the SR Remix KitKat thread. There was another thread where people were having random disconnects as well but I can't remember where that was. Nothing major, but enough to keep me on MJ9 for now.

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Good catch. That must explain why I never saw the missing bars issue. I already had SuperSU installed by the time I started using this ROM.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] NWNJ:
Now, what is bizarre is that after I got Titanium fixed and did my Titanium backup restore, it killed the bars again on the Verizon icon. So, I uninstalled SuperSU and back came the bars, fixed. I honestly don't even know what to say at this point.

Edit: Now I had to reinstall SuperSU to get them to reappar again. I don't know what to say, but this has to do with something that SuperSU is doing.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
What do u mean the bars go away?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
Is there anyway I can kill all my recent tasks at once
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
timmy, it's right up there at the top in the faq on slim's site.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DrunkUncas:
That's a pretty cool way of doing it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] gchild320:
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23501681358562490

whenever someone gets a successful flash please report back! build 6.4
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DrunkUncas:
Thundercats are go!

GPS and compass are good. Apps restoring.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
Awesome! Thanks gchild, I'll flash this tomorrow and let ya know. Was planning on waiting for a second build with new features anyway.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] michigan66:
Which option should be checked under apn's? I'm getting a roaming notification after a reboot and cannot send SMS. I'm still on version 6.3. Gonna update tomorrow to 6.4.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] danaff37:
New build running great!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ControlD:
Running smooth as always with the new build.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ztotherad:
just wanna say I love the signature! lol.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
6.4 running awesome here as well! gps is great, and I have to say, I never really liked the Halo feature from PA, but this new HeadsUp feature I already love. For incoming calls and texts I guess it's only on by default for? Not sure, but I really like it.

[MENTION=4499123]gchild320[/MENTION] - general question for you: when you are posting these, I know they're "unofficial" because the slim team itself isn't managing these builds natively on their site, and I know they're "betaware untested" because you aren't running a note2 yourself anymore (you have a one m8 maybe?), but my question is, IF you did still have a note2, and were testing these, is there anything specific you would look for after a flashing a new build? Or is it just run with it for a day or so and see if anything weird happens?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] gchild320:
Official slim builds are built weekly on their own build servers one after another. Anything else is considered unofficial, such as unsupported devices.

Any time I test a new build I make sure camera, sms, mms, calls, data, and WiFi work. Since device trees and kernels are mostly stable now, any issues like those are really unlikely at this point until android bumps to 5.0 or "L."
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
interesting, okay, well thanks muchly for the explanation. Makes sense that we're mostly stable now until a major bump.

As a side note: for anyone wanting more info on the Heads Up feature, I had to dig around in several posts to find the detailed info, so here it is: https://gerrit.slimroms.net/#/c/9937/ - some good details in there, like for instance I didn't know I could turn it on/off from the settings -> apps -> apps info screen.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] JTProuhet:
I just flashed this Rom. Came from alliance 26. I like nova launcher better than Google but holy cow the icons are TINY! I thought i read somewhere in here how to change that but i can't find it and it makes it uber hard to see my phone now
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
JT, if you visit slimroms.net and view the FAQ there are notes there on how to change the DPI if you'd like.

I personally love the slim default DPI, think its perfect for a big screen device like ours.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] jblack55:
You can download a build brop editor from play store and change DPI yourself. It's towards the bottom of the list.

Great ROM. Runs fast and smooth. If I could just fix the proximity sensor for ending my calls I would be on cloud 9.

Thanks for all the hard good work.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] JTProuhet:
Thank you guys. I like it being smaller, but i just can't see! Lol I'll give it a shot. Thank you