yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DrunkUncas:
I've been running the snapshot for several hours and just realized I don't have GPS.

Pretty sure I've got location enabled, unless I'm missing something.

Stock kernel. I've got some Xposed modules running.

Anyone else?

ETA: Fixed by flashing to a TW, getting GPS lock, and restoring back. Oldie, but a goodie.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] fallen00sniper:
Thanks I hope it works.

Also anything cool specifically for cm I should try out?

I'm going to look into theme creation on that site when I get home, does cm support vrtheme or will I have to install xposed framework?

I want to theme as much as I can and would rather use a old message.apk if it is still supported instead of hangouts.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] fallen00sniper:
So far so good xda is working at the moment and I like the changes I've seen so far, a lot better than the previous version and I'm thinking and hoping the gapps are working properly.

OK after about 20 minutes its right back to the same old thing gmail, xda and Google now crash...

Maybe I should just Odin back to stock and try again... So frustrating.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] dbrickg:
With all the 4.4.3-based cm11 nightlies I've tried so far, up to and including last night's (cm-11-20140613-NIGHTLY-i605.zip), the My Verizon Mobile app never connects. After a minute or so, it says "Sorry. A communication error has occurred. Please ensure internet connection and try again" I get that same error if I'm on wifi or just on cellular network. I tried clearing the cache and data in Settings / Apps / My Verizon Mobile, but to no avail. If I restore to a 4.4.2 nightly, it works just fine. Any ideas?

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philz_touch_ 6.4.6-i605.zip

from http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/i605

It's basically a cwm-based recovery with some refinements. I don't think philz's refinements make any difference to the basic set up. It sounds to me like you've got some very weird bug....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamFX:
Today's build for me broke headphones with music apps anytime you turn screen off, pull down notification bar, etc. All audio stops. Only when using headphones. Rewiped and flashed several of times.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] andrewc513:
Turn off "OK Google" hotword detection in your launcher settings, that's the cause of the bug. Well, at least it was for me weeks ago.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamFX:
Previous builds didn't require me to do that. Hmm.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DrunkUncas:
What kernel and profile are you using, if you don't mind me asking?

I'm stock, and battery use has been fairly horrific.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] mising:
Mine works fine, but I did a completely clean install, completely wiping internal storage before installing the M7 build, since I was coming from a 4.3 build. Have you tried completely uninstalling the app, then reinstalling from the store? That is usually my first step if I am having issues with an app, especially if I restored with Titanium.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] quepaso:
This has been happening to me on/off on several builds of cm11. Together with the crashing camera, im pretty much done with cm11 on this device. Going back to touchwiz now that the official kitkat update is out, just waiting for the new modem and bootloader update thats safe to come out and then enjoy a device that isnt going to frustrate me to no end.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamFX:
New modem is out In his thread of the kitkat rom. I'm running now it's nice.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] PhilDX:
did somebody say the new modem is out? who's "he"? need a hint so I can find the thread :)

you really notice a difference? I'm actually still on vramc3...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] AlphaNoble:
I am also on MC3, and looking to update to ND7. I'm just a little confused about how to do so, and if there are any extra steps I should take since I am coming from an older baseband version, and also coming from AOSP, not a TW rom. I appreciate any guidance on how to update to ND7! Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] fallen00sniper:
Could that be a issue for me?

I've got the MJ9 baseband, everything works perfect except for gapps and xda... well everything as far as I could test before I was like well this sucks, I want to enjoy this rom too! And gave up.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamFX:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2765021

[UPDATED**][ROM][I605VRUFND7][4.4.2]OFFICIAL STOCK ROOTED ODEX/DEODEX[6/13/2014 just flash in recovery the modem nd7 zip. Do I notice a difference? Not really. But no bad side effects either yet.

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I always used Mj9 so that's not your issue. You can try upgrading to nd7 but I never heard of a modem fixing force closes.

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Download the zip from the thread. And flash in twrp or cwr. I'd backup efs if you haven't done so already. Easy as pie. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2765021

[UPDATED**][ROM][I605VRUFND7][4.4.2]OFFICIAL STOCK ROOTED ODEX/DEODEX[6/13/2014
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] dbrickg:
M7 worked for me, too. But I think it's a 4.4.2 build.

And, yes, installing and uninstalling is a good idea, but it doesn't even show up in the store....

OK, that worked. Still doesn't show up in the store, but a google search for My Verizon Mobile app found a link to download it. Once I uninstalled it completely and reinstalled, it's working again on 4.4.3

Oh, and while I was at it, I upgraded to the new ND7 modem mentioned in one of the posts shortly before this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] mising:
Cool, I had just pm'd you a link to my Ti backup of it just in case.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] fallen00sniper:
Guess I'll try the Odin to stock and start over idea when I get home.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] 66racer:
So how is the ND7 radio working over MJ9 in aosp?

Any opinions on perhaps with a 4.4.2 TW that somehow the camera in aosp might become more stable? Probably the only thing that doesnt work 100% that I use.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] quepaso:
Had the headphones stop working at the gym when i opened up my google keep, had to start the music, then plug in earphones again for them to work. Also camera crashed a few more times, requiring reboots.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] fallen00sniper:
I think I figured out what's going on, I think could be my Google sync.

Everything is fine until Google has a chance to sync, I have apps checked and I am wondering if it is downloading an incompatible file?

The apps work fine for like 20 minutes to 30, then by the time I get to trying to sync contacts (pita btw) the apps crash and if I open Google now I get a cascade of Google now crashes.

So far so good, one reboot done and no issues yet.

Still working fine unless I apply a font theme.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] z71kris:
The headphones issue keeps me from using CM. I even tried the snapshot build with the same issues.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamFX:
Yup me too.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Rudy_Ruettiger:
I agree it is annoying. The only solutions I have found is to turn off OK Google word detection or use the official cm apps package that uses the trebuchet launcher. Nova launcher now has on Google word detection but I haven't tried it yet.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nathan_barstow14:
What headphone issue are you experiencing? I rarely use headphones with my phone, so I am unaware of any issues there.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Rudy_Ruettiger:
If you navigate away from the music app (Sirius xm in my case) the music stops. The only way to get it back playing is to unplug the headphones press play then while the music is playing through the speaker on the phone plug the headphones in again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] WisdomWolf:
I've actually experienced a bug that works the opposite, sort of. When it bugs out I don't get any music out of the headphones unless I'm on a screen that would be listening for Google Now. So if I enter the music app (Spotify in my case) the music stops, but hitting the home button brings it back. Only way to solve it when that happens is to reboot. Don't know exactly what triggers it, but it can be quite frustrating.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Dugall12:
Dam I would love so much to have this on my phone and I appreciate everything the developers have done to try and make this stable but from all these comments it seems like its just not there yet.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] mising:
I'd say give it a try. I'm not experiencing any of the headphone issues, and I have been using the Google camera without any problems. Battery life is also finally on par with TW. I have yet to find anything that I use that doesn't work. Kudos to the devs on this!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Rudy_Ruettiger:
What launcher are you using?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] andrewc513:
People with the headphone jack issue & audio pausing: Turn off "OK Google" hotword detection in your launcher's settings.

I posted a few pages back, but the question keeps popping up. Thought I'd bump the fix. :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] mising:
Nova. I try all of them as they come out, but always end up going back to Nova.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamFX:
I try them all as well. And Nova is far superior in every category. And it's smooth as butter!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamFX:
newest build is based of 4.4.4!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] tgyberg:
That was fast!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] dbrickg:
Hah! Yeah, just noticed that myself. Other than the number change, I haven't noticed anything else different.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] goofwear:
Hey guys I have a question. I'm on the latest nightly cm11, Friday June 20th. with the "AGNi][CM] 18-06-2014 AGNi pureCM v2.8.1" Kernel. I'm on Baseband I605VRAMC3, I am on NET10 as my cell provider with a verizon unlocked phone using the Net10 T-mobile sim card. Would there be any problems flashing the "NEW ND7 4.4.2 RADIO" from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2765021 and would f;ashing this baseband re-lock the phone by any change. I don't think it would but don't want to go flashing it jut yet.

Thanks again in advance.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamFX:
Should not be any problems and it will not lock the phone as long as you just flash the ND7 radio. If there were problems you could just flash back to an older radio.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] rippedwarrior69:
Is there a mod to get the call pop up when you in a app like on galaxy s5?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] johnwaynegacy:
I'm still on aokp 4.3.1 m1. Looks like aokp is dead for this device. How is this ROM as far as bugs, anything a deal breaker? Graphical bugs, GPS, camera, app fcs etc?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamFX:
Officially dead maybe. Unofficially is far from dead. APOPHIS9283 is still compiling them for me and others behind the scenes he may reactivate his thread for now here is his latest. http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23501681358547092
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] johnwaynegacy:
I'm downloading it now. Thanks! Anything I should know before installing it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamFX:
Everything is working good . It has boefella audio that you can bump up and tweak with this. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.near.boefflasound

Everything works. He makes builds weekly typically.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] chachi:
Latest nightlies have been thrashing my battery life with screen really sucking up %s
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Deejaydark:
What happened to sdswap?

Samsung Galaxy Note 2

Philz Recovery

Cyanogenmod KitKat
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamFX:
CM never had sdswap out of the box.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] rippedwarrior69:
This rom is not dead it been updated to 4.4.4 kit Kat. The TouchWiz is what's dead.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Deejaydark:
So how can I install sdswap

Samsung Galaxy Note 2

Philz Recovery

Cyanogenmod KitKat
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ztotherad:
checkout AGNi kernel. I think that's what you may be looking for, brotha!

also, download AGNI kernel 2.8.1+
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DaRkL3AD3R:
Whelp, still getting Android OS battery drain bug. Kills a 100% charged battery in as little as 12 hours with less than 1 hour of screen on time. It just keeps the phone awake for hours on end and nukes that battery life.

I googled around and some forum posts say it's an issue with Android 4.2+ and Location discovery, so I have just finished fully charging my phone and I turned off the entire Location service completely. Hopefully that solves it but it's still annoying that it's happening and I have to constantly toggle the setting every time I go to use maps etc.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] WisdomWolf:
Do you have better battery stats? I've found that gsiff_daemon is typically the culprit of crazy battery drain, especially after a soft/hot reboot. If you don't have better battery stats you can fire up a terminal or adb shell and run top to see what process(es) are eating your battery.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DaRkL3AD3R:
Negative I don't have better battery stats but I am returning with some good news.

Last night I set up my phone to completely disable location and see if it fixes the issue with Android OS. I sent to sleep with 90% battery. Woke up about 7 hours later to 88%. That's with 2 email accounts on push, 1 twitter account pushing every hour, 2 separate weather widgets auto updating every 2 hours and all this while sitting on 4G LTE. I'm mega impressed right now.

I should really get BBS and try to figure out what's going on with Location services and why its keeping my phone awake because if that can be resolved then clearly this ROM is capable of some unprecedented battery life levels.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nixplace1:
GPS

Have seen little discussion regarding GPS issues with this rom. After flashing I am able to get a GPS lock, but it drops every few minutes requiring relock. Have reflashing with stock rom and getting a lock, etc. Still having the same issue with google maps and waze. Clearly shows good satellite visibility and lock with aGPS. Has anybody else experienced this? Will appreciate any insight you can offer.

Fantastic rom, have really enjoyed it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] willg_smith:
Does anyone else have choppy video recording? Great ROM though. Really enjoying it! Beside some minor headphone bugs its all good
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] WisdomWolf:
Sounds more and more like gsiff_daemon is the culprit. I'm not sure of it's precise role, but it interacts with location/gps and the gyroscope from other's reports. Someone threw together a simple init.d script to check the cpu utilization of gsiff_daemon every minute, if it's over 10% (which it would only be if it's misbehaving) the script kills it and restarts it. I'd post the script, but I want to make sure I credit the correct source before I do so.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] sbrissen:
Can someone upload the build.prop from stock 4.4 please? I need to update build id and fingerprints for this.

Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Deejaydark:
Funny thing... After I reset the battery stats from Agni... I no longer get massive screen time and my battery doesn't drain as quickly as it did before

Samsung Galaxy Note 2

Philz Recovery

Cyanogenmod KitKat
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Deejaydark:
Yes sir I did :) and before I rebooted I cleared cache and dalvik. I would put up a pic but don't know how

Samsung Galaxy Note 2

Philz Recovery

Cyanogenmod KitKat
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Deejaydark:
OK I got it up

Samsung Galaxy Note 2

Philz Recovery

Cyanogenmod KitKat
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ztotherad:
'nother random question, did you fully charge the phone as well? I'm jealous now, lol. of course i need to charge my phone, it's at 52% after at least 3-4 hours off the charger...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Deejaydark:
Well first I let it die on its own.. Then attached charger while powering on to recovery.. Waited till it charged to 3% ( look up top left of phone).. Wiped cache & dalvik.. Reboot.. Reset battery stats in Agni.. Reboot.. Profit so far so good.. Tell me what you come up with? Hopefully this solves the issue :)

Samsung Galaxy Note 2

Philz Recovery

Cyanogenmod KitKat
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ztotherad:
i definitely will once i get to a charger, lol. clearing the batt stats via AGNi and clearing the dalvik/cache seems to work a bit better with slowing down the battery drain.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Deejaydark:
I'll show an update when phone is fully charged off charger then reset battery stat

Samsung Galaxy Note 2

Philz Recovery

Cyanogenmod KitKat
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DaRkL3AD3R:
So it turns out the location wasn't the issue with Android OS. I'm still getting it after a day and Location is still disabled so scratch that.

Also I'm not sure if this is reported or not but when I use the magnet sensor once per boot, any further attempts to use it end up with the sensor being broken. I have to reboot to get it working.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] WisdomWolf:
Open a terminal session and run top. What are the top five processes?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DaRkL3AD3R:
Is it supposed to be ridiculously impossible to read that list or what? Every time I scroll up the million running processes in the list and get to the top, it just drops back down instantly.

Where's that guy with the script that checks if the services goes rogue and kills it every 3 minutes or something. This Android OS crap is getting ridiculous.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] andrewc513:
Folks that have had battery absolutely tank in the past few days... I think it's kernel/governor related. I went to the CPU settings, and no matter what governor I pick and no matter how long I wait, it's blasting full throttle at 1600Mhz without ramping back down.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DaRkL3AD3R:
FWIW the atrocious battery life I've been seeing in the past few days is exactly the same thing I've seen since 4.2 nightlies became a thing. Android OS hijacking my phone's battery and running wild with it for 8+ hours straight, draining the battery like a madman.

I still need that script. I forget who mentioned it here and can't be arsed to look, but I'd really appreciate a link.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] andrewc513:
Odd. Battery life has been outstanding on 95% of the CM11 nightlies I've flashed up until the past couple days. Then again, I keep GPS and Google Now turned off, I'm sure much of my battery life was at the expense of my phone not grabbing location data all the time.

But there's most definitely a bug somewhere right now. Pulled my phone off the charger at 7am this morning, and it was down to 34% by lunch time with practically no usage.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DaRkL3AD3R:
Yeah unfortunately CM on my Note 2 has been like this since practically day one. Android OS nuking battery life, inaccurate battery graph and chart showing improper awake times, etc.

Alright so we pretty much all know the battery is hosed right now, that's fine. But can we talk about the sensors being totally busted?

Open an app that uses the magnet like a Compass app or a native Photosphere on your phone. Once you close that app or lock your device even with the app running, when you go back to it the sensor data is gone. It will never reconnect to the sensors until you reboot.

I thought this was fixed ages ago? What's going on?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] dbrickg:
Not sure what your problem is, but I don't think it's the OS. My battery is fine. Goes down to about 50% after a day's use. And I haven't noticed any problem with the compass for a long time. Every once in awhile (every 3 or 4 months) something gets stuck and the battery charge drops rapidly, but usually a reboot will fix that. And the compass used to be totally inaccurate, always reporting the same heading no matter which way I turned the phone, but that hasn't been a problem for months.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DaRkL3AD3R:
I was using the magnet as an example. Other "sensors" I guess you could call them, that I'm having serious issues with are:

- Camera (breaks all the time, requiring a reboot to fix)

- Accelerometer (stops working after locking the device while in use, also needs a reboot)

- Voice input (randomly decides not to work)

These are all issues, all along with the battery drain Android OS bug, that I've had since day one with this phone and AOSP. I'm not sure how I could possibly be doing anything wrong that would make it my fault. I check MD5's, I NEVER restore any data (hell I haven't even used Titanium Backup in over 2 years) and I always perform a full wipe of all directories except external_sdcard.

I don't even load my phone up with crazy amounts of apps. When I wipe my cache after fully setting up CM11, I have 106 apps for it to cache on that first boot. That's NOTHING compared to most people's phones. Can you imagine how frustrating that is for me? Doing everything by the book and keeping an extremely lightweight ROM install, and run into issue after issue when meanwhile, people float around in happy land with restoring data and apps etc, sometimes dirty flashing etc, not checking MD5's, it's just ridiculous. **** makes no sense at all.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamFX:
All sensors work for me. I have a test app I use from play store. I agree about the camera is a piece of junk on note 2 aosp roms. I'm glad I don't experience what you do or I'd jump aosp ship. But touch whiz has the worse ui out of any stock phone ui. So it takes a lot for me to go back.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] dbrickg:
I totally agree! It's crazy. Maybe it's some unique combination of apps, or there's a tiny crack in something physical deep inside, or...!?! I'm just amazed that these damn devices work at all! I wish you the best of luck!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DaRkL3AD3R:
Well I have pretty much given up on worrying about the sensors but is there any hope for the camera getting fixed at any time soon? Because without that the phone isn't daily driver material for me. Which is a shame, because like you I can't stand the look of TouchWiz either.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] sbrissen:
camera is up next for me look at, stay tuned
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DaRkL3AD3R:
Thanks sbrissen. Look forward to seeing what magic you can work.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] rippedwarrior69:
Thats awesome to hear. Will this get lockscreen notifcations? When I try to use the theme editor it will only change the style. Every thing else is grayed out. Any ideas. The new android l full system theme, keyboard, and bootanamation is awesome. Can we have this instead of holo please.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamFX:
In the interim until everything is fixed I use this. It's a band aid but it works. Follow instructions on the apps description to setup.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.billgbennett.camerafix&hl=en

It restarts the camera drivers every time you launch the app and then launches the camera app itself.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DaRkL3AD3R:
Thanks I'll give this a looksie.

Also this is odd. The other day, during the beginning of the really messed up battery nightly builds, I was getting full color working MMS messages. Now today I have the 6/26 nightly and battery life seems better, and my MMS messages are back to receiving grayscale. Was this not ever fixed, and the one time it did work was just a fluke?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DreamFX:
I haven't seen gray scale texts in a long time. Mine are colored.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] mising:
As far as the camera goes, someone may want to look at the AOKP sources. I have been running AOKP 4.4.4 for about a week now and have had no issues with the camera at all.