yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Restl3ss:
ART/baseband

So i did some testing, and I've no idea what's going on behind it but I've narrowed down a cause / effect thing for a lot of the glitches reported.

I installed this on my Telus i747m, using dalvik, and it ran pretty smooth more or less. A random reboot maybe once every day or two but other than that it ran like butter. Now, I reinstalled with a clean slate on the same S3 and enabled ART before putting any data back on, and it was glitch city, to the point of almost being unusable. Reboots every hour or less, notifications not clearing, apps crashing, etc. Now switching back to dalvik fixed some of this but the gallery would still cause a reboot on every launch, leaving me to conclude if you want to switch back to dalvik you need to do a clean wipe / reinstall.

Conclusion: ART is not ready for dd, and won't be for a while. Bite the bullet and use dalvik.

Lamens terms conclusion: ART = BAD.

Another cause effect thing I've noticed is actually carrier for some reason. Stability with this seems to depend a lot on your choice of carrier. I used the clean install / dalvik method exactly the same on my Telus S3, and did the same on a Rogers and Bell S3. (yes, I'm canadian) my Telus S3 ran fine. The Rogers S3 suffered from occasional baseband crashes requiring a reboot to get signal back. The Bell S3 would reboot 6+ times a day and reboot whenever the gallery was launched.

Conclusion : I have no idea why but this seems to work best with Telus, at least in Canada.

The third difference I've noticed is whether or not you've flashed the leaked official 4.3 loaders / baseband. Contrary to prior belief this seems to make it significantly less stable then if you just use the released 4.1 loaders. I tested this on an AT&T S3 (well, no I didn't, a friend of mine in the states did and reported back to me) and the newer loaders definitely do contribute to random Reboots, though once again I don't know why.

Conclusion : if you've flashed the new loaders revert before flashing this.

I don't know how much help this will be to people but hopefully it will help. There's not really much that can be done about the carrier thing but leave your runtime on dalvik and use the 4.1 loaders
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ariesdroid:
....

Another thing related to battery drain that a friend just pointed out is that the setting under "location" is set to high accuracy by default. I just switched to battery saving mode. I never thought to check that...sorry if its been mentioned already...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jermaine151:
Good find! I'll have to try that, even though my battery life has been great and GPS working flawlessly.

Folks with external sd problems, with certain apps, look at this post: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=47664238#post47664238

I will bake that change into the next build, if others confirm that it works as it should.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tj_ona:
Got it to flash finally. Followed the OP, but i had to do it about 3-4 times to get it to work. Now I am getting a FC for google search. Trying to find the culprit.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tobesedated:
I'm on Rogers and running ART. No reboots, no force closes, great battery life, works with all my apps except the known titanium and I can only crop wallpaper in stock and nova launchers. Google now works, voice works in navigation if set to English US. No signal loss, no wifi loss, LTE when I'm in an LTE area. I don't wipe data 2, 3 or 4 just one time. I don't flash the ROM twice. Not sure what to tell you but our experiences are definitely different.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ariesdroid:
I did all of this as well and everything seemed fine for a hour and now maybe once every 2 hours that Google search has stopped still comes back..haha..Its not causing any problems regardless but its annoying...lol.

Other than that ART is running perfect here. Loving this build. I noticed i also have the location icon for printer...lol...but iw ould hit the "dontcare" button if there was one...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jermaine151:
I wonder if you could try the T-mobile build and remove the asserts from the install script. That would let me know if maybe the AT&T build just flopped for some reason. Even though some here are having no problems. I haven't had one random reboot. Not even with the first Alpha release. I don't get it.:confused:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ariesdroid:
Me too man...lol, but it can always be better!! I have hit 7+ hours of screen time twice now on your builds and i couldn't do that on any 4.2 or 4.3.1 ROM except 1 time (on slimbean with lean kernel).

I have my zerolemon as well but i have had my stock battery back in for a couple days just to see what this ROM is capable of and i have been blown away at how good it is already....if it gets better than this, i will be mind boggled as I'm so used to how my phone runs...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Liptus:
Can anyone mirror the kanged gapps with the dialer? His website is still down..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jermaine151:
If no one beats me to it, I'll upload them to androidfilehost, when I get home from work (about 45 minutes).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kangi26:
Yeah, I'm game. When I get home later, I'll wipe and format, flash the AT&T again see if I get the same results. If I do I'll flash the T-Mo
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Liptus:
It would be much appreciated, I found a bunch of threads with people asking for it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Keland44:
that's pretty crazy what are your main apps that you use? are you using mostly wifi or are you using 3g/2g/lte?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rickriego:
i can't get this to flash with the mj2 bl..i thought there was a way to edit the install script..im on twrp 2.6.30..?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] smallyetzon:
Can anyone try to save a photo edited by google gallery and tell me if it works? my shows this "Unable to save"
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Larz_Plummer:
I believe that the crashing has to do with ongoing notifications.

Persistent or ongoing notifications

Google Now crashes whenever it tries to show a Now Card Notification, and Action Launcher 's 1-Swipe feature will not even work and crash the launcher hard due to its need for an ongoing notification.

Are notification permissions changed in this build from the previous build? 20131114 did not have this problem.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tobesedated:
Edited and saved
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ariesdroid:
I only have about 76 user apps give or take a few....the regular stuff...I'm not gonna name all 76...but yea mainly social network apps, root apps, Photo apps/a few different cameras, reading apps (forums,magazines, etc) ...

I use mostly wifi unless I'm out and about then i will turn data on (4g lte) as i need it...I also greenify everything that can be greenified...and try to remember to go back in and greenify stuff again after its been used. thats about it....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jakers1991:
I'm running cm11 beta 6 on my AT&T galaxy s3. its an great ROM but the camera pictures are coming out fuzzy and I'm taking them in perfect lighting and how do I fix the battery drain my phone doesn't sleep please help?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mbze430:
Yeah my Debugging icon is ALSO the red battery icon.. .strange... and my Car Mode icon is the Google Gmail app icon... bwahhaha...very strange indeed

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on another note.. I am using the the 11/19 PA GAPP but still getting the FC for gallery when cropping for the wallpaper... anyone else?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jermaine151:
Experimental Gapps link in OP has been updated to a working link.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] metalfangs:
So I was curious and went into my framework-res apk and all the correct icons are there. However they are still displaying incorrectly? What is this sorcery.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ariesdroid:
Google search has stopped

Someone...? Anyone? Please figure out how to stop the "google search has stopped" error...its getting really annoying...lol.

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Do you know if this will fix the "google search has stopped" error??
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jermaine151:
Don't know. I haven't had that problem and those are the Gapps I used.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Larz_Plummer:
The "Google search has stopped" has to do with cards in the notification area. Once CM11 sorts outs notification handling life should be fine.

Or turn off Google Now Notifications.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ariesdroid:
So far so good...no more errors...although this dialer search feature is drunk...i tried searching for a restaurant that's right down the street from my store where i am now and it gave me a phone number for dallas texas and didn't even find the place at all...lol...oh well...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DLM2583:
I also have Google services stoping and also Google search stopping also what's app won't install it says that there was an unknown error code -24 I searched for that in the forums I didn't find anything on that error :(

Other than that battery life rocks and I also enabled art and it took forever to optimize all my apps but since then everything runs nice and smooth also thanks for adding the lock screen shortcuts
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jaxwithanx:
If flashing over to expiremental from the PA GAPPS...just clear cache, then system and flash? Have ART enabled and don't want to sit through the "upgrading" if i also clear Dalvik...if I don't have to.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] caspersfi:
You can just flash over. No wipe necessary.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drinfernoo:
Is anyone having issues while using Dalvik? I've been seeing people upset about ART, but I'm running it with no real problems. I did lose root, and I've had a couple gapps FCs, but they don't seem to affect anything.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kangi26:
So test #1 is done. I just did a Data Wipe; Format/System and Format/Cache. Reinstalled cm-11-20131119-UNOFFICIAL-d2att, and then pa_gapps-full-4.4-20131119-signed.

I still have Google Now errors, and the "low battery" icon is displayed in the notification bar

Havent changes asserts in a LONG time, might need a little guidance on that one
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mikessv:
I have the same errors, did a full wipe flashed the rom and full gapps and Google Search is giving an error.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Scottyedmonds:
I was using Dalvik but switched to ART. Having more problems than before. Lots of my apps won't load. Still have Google search FC
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] roemicha:
Having issues signing into Hangouts. Keeping getting a failure. Anyone know of a way to fix?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sbochene:
Bingo! From Google Search: Settings, Notifications, uncheck Show updates from Google Now.

No more "Google search has stopped" errors!

Thank you.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Larz_Plummer:
No problem!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jermaine151:
Okay. Open the rom zip in 7zip on Windows. Go into META-INF/com/google/android folder and open the updater-script file with wordpad or notepad++ (not regular notepad because it can mess up the file). Remove the top lines in the file, that begin with assert. The first line after you're done should start with mount. Save the file and 7zip should ask you if you want to update the zip, say yes. Close up everything and adb push it to your phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mikessv:
You can also do that on your phone with fx explorer. You can upzip delete the assets lines and rezip.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kangi26:
Installing now.......
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] buffdaddyjr:
Not 100% sure if this was a "fix" but I was usually getting @ 4-5% battery drain per hour. Not horrible but not great. I recently formatted cache (from "mounts and storage", not just the normal wipe cache/wipe davlik and now I am running at 1-2% battery drain per hour. Just thought I would let everyone know in case this helps them. Let me know if it does help so I know this is a "fix".

To gain root with ART enabled flash - http://download.chainfire.eu/368/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.75.zip

I had to go into super su and disable then re-enable...but that fixed it and superSU works great.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kangi26:
Ok, I have the assert changed cm-11-20131119-UNOFFICIAL-d2tmo Rom installed, and pa_gapps-full-4.4-20131119, and I am seeing the correct icon for Debugging AND I also have Google Now in the Notification dropdown.

So from what I can determine, there appears to be a issue with the d2att

I'll run it for the rest of the evening, but at this point, I havent gotten a Google Now error either
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] The Jack of Clubs:
has anyone figured this out? pattern lock is force closing settings on me too. i formatted system, wiped data, flashed beta 6 and the latest full modular pa gapps.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] joshuagalipeau:
something is still keeping my phone awake. I'm getting desperate here :( perfect ROM other than that though, love it!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] leezrd:
Media won't stop running
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jermaine151:
Awesome and thank you for going through all of that. I may have to just release T-Mobile builds and change the asserts for AT&T. At least I know I'm not crazy.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] joshuagalipeau:
I cannot install or update apps. I have tried to flash different Gapps but nothing works. I have 6 GB left so I'm not full
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jermaine151:
Dude. Seriously? Flash the T-Mobile build. You have nothing but problems with this rom.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] joshuagalipeau:
I only have 2 problems. the lack of deep sleeps and apps not installing. I apologize if I am bothering anyone here...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] leezrd:
So I've reflashed 4 times with directions to the T and media won't stop running, any suggestions?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mikessv:
Google Now error fixed by turning the notifications off and then back on. Also use the power save function for the gps.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jermaine151:
I'm sorry bud but you've had those 2 problems and earlier you had the emoji problem. You've posted 61 times in this thread and 90% of those were reiterating what your problems were. This is not easy work. If it were easy, everyone would do it. Give me a little bit of a break, please.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] joshuagalipeau:
oh god I'm so sorry! I feel like an ass! I don't mean to be irritating. I appreciate your work so much. I'm really really sorry :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mikessv:
Is anyone having a problem with Tumblr? I'm trying to figure out if its the app. And Jermaine you are doing great work if people can't be patient and wait for bugs to be sorted then don't waste your time. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kangi26:
Yeah, no worries. Glad I could help, if nothing else to give you the reassurance that you're not losing it :silly:

Guys, please try to remember that this is very much a work in progress, and with that there WILL be bugs. If you can't get this to run the way you would like to, help to fix it, or move to a ROM that is less buggy for you.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jermaine151:
Sorry everyone. Having a bit of a rough day. It's hard to try a new build, with many fixes, when a lot of complaints are coming in. I still have to go to my real job in the morning but I'm a bit of a perfectionist with this Android stuff. First world problems, I guess. I'll be better tomorrow. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] leezrd:
Have a nice night, and if they don't like the problems with this BETA rom i747 has many other ones
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jermaine151:
Thank you!

EDIT: Out of thanks, of course. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kangi26:
We are a horribly demanding bunch of flashaholics aren't we?

Life is ALWAYS more important than phones. Thanks again for doing what you have
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jermaine151:
Thank you Kangi! It's only hard when it's not helping the folks that are using it. I'm trying to help...

P.S How is the T-mobile build treating you?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kangi26:
If you want it, here is a link for the T-Mo install with the assert changed completed. It's what I'm running right now

Pulled link. Jermaine has Beta 7 up

I started from scratch, wiped data, formatted /cache partition, system partition, installed ROM, then gapps

Once I set up Wi-Fi, Cyanogen/Gmail accounts, I rebooted

Looking really good as of right now. ZERO issues

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When I first booted, I had no signal. But a reboot fixed that. Now, I'm in the process of setting everything up again. I'm running another test. I was not having any luck restoring my SMS/MMS with SMSBackup+. The Call Log would but not the SMS, so I'm trying that right now

Everything else I've touched so far has been flawless

Edit** No luck with the SMSBackup+ and SMS/MMS. I'll use the other tool.

I'll mess with it a ton more tomorrow
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jukiewalsh:
You have to use a sms restore app that's compatible with kit kat https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.infolife.smsbackup

I tried 10 different apps until I found this one that seems to be regularly updated haha. If that doesn't work you can extract the com.android.providers.telephony, com.android.mms, and com.android.smspush (all in /data/data) from your backup with nandroid manager and overwrite the new /data/data/ and then fix permissions and reboot. Just don't overwrite the libs in your current data directory I'm not sure whether or not it will effect it but I did it without overwriting and it worked.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kangi26:
That's the other tool I have. I like the SMSBackup+, because it does both my call log and SMS/MMS. And does it from my Google account.

Sent from an autonomous device
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Doug8796:
First.. Lovely rom, a few issues.

1) Fast battery death - alleviated by battery saving tools and cpu settings, and also I know Nexus 5's die rather quickly.. :( So this may not be too big a deal

2) Easter egg doesnt work for me properly (Red kitkat logo) - Am I alone?

3) Chrome goes black when screen turns off and you have to move screen around.

4) GPS lags a bit in maps, not sure if thats a KitKat issue or what..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DLM2583:
So I just noticed I don't hang have root access does that mean I must reroot or just install a su zip thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PhillyFlyer:
More details please? Are you running ART? If so, you didn't lose root you just need to flash superuser zip (chainfire).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] buffdaddyjr:
There is definitely a difference in the TMO and ATT build. With Beta 6 att and the Kanged GAPPS I kept getting phone errors, without even using the phone, but flashed with the TMO build and removed asserts thanks to kangi26 for posting, and it seems to be working so far. I also had the strange battery icon for open WiFi in the notification panel with the ATT build. So something is different...

Great builds, keep up the great work. I appreciate it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rdoac:
If the TMobile build works on d2att could we just have a double set of asserts so they check for both d2att and d2tmo? That would save Jermaine having to maintain two builds? Or is life more complicate than that?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PhillyFlyer:
So, you used the TMO build on an ATT device and it works smooth?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ariesdroid:
I'm going to try out that zip that Kangi uploaded as well cause i flashed 3 different sets of gapps now including the ones you are using and i still get the "google search has stopped" unless i turn off google now notifications...then i just get the gapps has stopped one every hour or so...lol. That would be nice if the same build just worked for both devices...this is still a really stable fully working ROM (for me anyway)...I'm not complaining at all. Just want to help get the bottom of whats wrong.

Thanks for the upload [MENTION=360014]kangi26[/MENTION]
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tj_ona:
Kangi

What GApps are you using with the custom TMo build?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] buffdaddyjr:
Yes, thanks to Kangi for "fixing" the tmobile build for us ATT users.

You can download here - http://d-h.st/bWw
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mikessv:
I'm running the At&t build of beta 6 with zero problems. I had an error with Google Now but after turning the notifications on and off it seemed to fixed the problem.

I've noticed the power save option in the CPU governor is draining the battery though.

I also fixed permissions in Rom manger

I forgot to mention I'm also seeing speed increases in my network, but I'm not sure that's rom related. I'm on T Mobile
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] buffdaddyjr:
I am using the Kanged version with the new dialer...so far so good....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] g0d4lm1ty:
If I missed it in searching the thread I apologize in advance. I can not find any information on the new KitKat dialer where you can actually look up local businesses from the dialer as well as what's in your contact phone book. I even look in settings to see if it was a feature that you could turn on and on and I cannot find anything thanks for any help in advance
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] johnhazelwood:
FYI, I'm running the latest build and haven't had an issue with Netflix. What issue is everyone seeing? Also I noticed I can't send MMS messages, but can receive them. Default SMS app is gomessage.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PhillyFlyer:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2536567

Download the apk add-on there.

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Thanks for this! Any special instructions with install/gapps?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kangi26:
I'm testing it now, but I've had no problems with it at all

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pa_gapps-full-4.4-20131119

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Please also keep in mind that I ONLY have posted that link to give jermaine a break and has a chance to look at the d2att build. When he does I will pull that link. I dont want to hijack his thread in any way. So on the "temp" ROM, if you choose to flash it, you're on your own with it

The install method is exactly the same as Jermaine's d2att
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tj_ona:
How's your battery. Any better?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kangi26:
I don't know yet