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[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
Luckily I recently just backed up my files; I reformatted the SD card anyway. My issue isn't ROM related then.

I've done this already in a cycle, Mate. It's kind of temporary fix only.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
Well it wasn't for me but I think my trigger for the issue was flashing a ROM. Or maybe my experimenting with the agni kernel caused it because I experienced all sorts of media library issues with that kernel - missing photos from the gallery that es file explorer could see though.

I also think these cards (mine is a sandisk ultra sdxc 64GB) start to deteriorate over time. I've had mine 18 months but a full reformat of it fixed it.

As I use my sd card to store my photos and some I take have sentimental value I have set up dropbox to auto sync just in case my card finally goes completely kaput

I just want to find a nice little app that will autobackup my files to my NAS too. I have a workaround for now... My camera upload folder on dropbox is duplicated to my laptop but I want a third safe copy
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Frostyeo:
Anyone have issue with latest nightly where apps esp. Whatsapp keep going "whatsapp is not responding" ? Should I change from ART to Dalvik? When I flashed, ART was default
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
You sure you are in the right thread? SlimKAT doesn't have nightly build only weekly.

ART was default? Did you have art before you flashed? mine defaults to dalvik

Whatsapp doesn't like custom ROMs I used to use it but I remember getting an error message warning me that it may not work because I was on a custom ROM
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Frostyeo:
Ah yes my mistake I meant weekly. Hmm so should I change it to dalvik? It keeps force closing every 5 seconds :/ I'm going mad
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
Why not try dalvik and see of it makes a difference.

Xposed framework also isn't art compatible so of you're using any of those it may be causing problems.

There no need to reflash the room to switch.

If that doesn't fix it you could also try clearing the cache for whatsapp, in fact I'd try that first
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] prbassplayer:
What's up broke art compatibility, nothing we can do.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
That's something they will need to sort before android L comes along then :D

Not that I use it given the data is plundered by Facebook now
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] roubi:
I use latest weekly, art and WhatsApp+.

Works fine ☺
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
I ran ART with Whatsapp, no issues at all with 7.6 weekly.

Now I'm running Dalvik because of other problems with some games and MeteoEarth weather app.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] prbassplayer:
Problem with what's up and art has to do with updating it runs just fine afterwards.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] strips:
Hi, I flashed SlimKat 4.4.4 v7 5941 yesterday on my N7100. My camera is not behaving. It FCs all the time. And when it does I have to reboot to make it work again.

Is this a known issue? What's the best way to test this further. Refresh and test without any other apps? Or maybe try SlimKat 4.4.2?
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
This thread is for GT-N7105 otherwise known as t0lte, and NOT N7100.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] strips:
Sorry. I thought N7100 and N7105 were very similar.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
I just want to share that since weekly 7.4 I've been running SlimKat with Atom Launcher replacing Nova Prime. Since then, it's been a refreshingly different UI experience for me.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
Will have to give that one a try. I as using Google now but recently decided to put the effort into setting up Nova as I was getting tired of the amount of time Google search was keeping the phone awake.

Will have to have a look at atom.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
Same observations here, Google Now is a battery hog.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] atmos929:
I've been complaining for some time that I don't have same 3D performance than back on Slimbean with Zen Pinball HD (being the only 3D game I play)... after some research and testing lots of ROMs I found out that it seems this game is not really optimized and suffers greatly from background processes, it seems it runs better in lower spec tablets than on phones, although I am not sure how this explains its low performance in KK.

So anyway... I was able to get the same performance again by OCing the GPU with AGNI kernel... as the meme says "so I have that going for me, which is nice" :P... I can finally settle down for SlimKat.

I gotta say I was surprised by AGNI Control app, it includes performance profiles and they work great with this ROM.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
Yeah but you lose USB OTG and I found that I was getting a lot of stutter when streaming music over Bluetooth so I flicked back to stock SlimKAT kernel. I don't have any 3d games on my phone so not seen the issue you did
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] atmos929:
I don't use OTG either BT streaming :P... in the end it all falls down to what each of us uses :).

I'll tell you I feel relieved I can settle down at least for a month... had been flashing ROMs almost daily for almost couple of months now...
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] atmos929:
How often do you get stutter?... I paired my note 2 to my laptop at work and it works fine on audio streaming and handsfree calls... no problems with audio.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
With Agni it was all the time with the standard SlimKAT kernel it's perfect all the time
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
I've skipped the last couple of weekly releases as 7.6 has been so stable and economic with the battery life - 3 days without needing to charge it

It's been superb
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
I've been trying and failing with Phone encryption. It says u must not interrupt it at least for an hour, but even overnight still no progress. I'm now unable to access office emails and calendar. Any ideas?
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
Searched everywhere, and it seems not a resolution to get to work this Phone Encryption. Also, the same is true with Music playback that stops whenever the phone goes to sleep.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] prbassplayer:
The playback thing is with stock kernel?

Sent from my Slim powered Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
Yep, whatever came with SlimKat 7.9. I never used custom kernel since.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
What music player do you use? I am pretty sure I have read that the music stopping when the phone screen goes off is a KitKat thing in general, not just with SlimKat. I use Poweramp which has not displayed the symptoms you talk about, but does have the option to keep hold of a wakelock so that it doesnt happen.

Does your music player contain this option?
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
Now I run Google Play Music, previously also the same issue with Music Player (Remix) and Apollo.

And yes, that's why I see it's a KitKat thingy because searching for a solution I read that it is pretty common. The same is true with Phone Encryption.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
If you're only listening to music stored on your phone (I do) try Poweramp - it may well allow you to stream from other sources but I have never been interested in doing that - dont want to be reliant on a decent signal to listen to music
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] tombassi:
hello,

please is offline charging work on this rom? I have 4.4.2 bootloader
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
Yes, but if your phone is off while charging I have found you have to disconnect hte charger before it will power on.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] bitcasual:
After installing the latest SlimKat 7.9, Wifi keeps forgetting the password on reboots, however the WiFi-settings still shows that the connection have a password but it won't connect. I temporarily went back to Touchwiz 4.4 and had no issue with the WiFi, and then tried CM11 with no WiFi issue.

So I don't think it's a hardware problem. I read somewhere that Google Backups could cause similar issues, so I deactivated the backup and restore setting, but the problem still persisted.

Any ideas on why this keeps happening?

And I've tried with both the included kernel and Agni, with the same issue.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
Try deleting your Google account on your phone then recreating it.

I've read about the sane thing happening with a few custom ROMs and on more than one phone
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] prbassplayer:
Stable is out guys :)

http://www.slimroms.net/index.php/changelog/507-pending-stable-8-0
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
Another nice smooth experience. Can't really comment on battery life yet - am running it with Shift 2.7 kernel on a dual boot at the moment (which has interestingly given me back a battery charging animation when switched off).
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] TheRottenDrill:
Will I be able to use the spen in applications (to write/draw for example?)
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
Yes the spen still works but only as a stylus you don't have the original spen functionality
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] TheRottenDrill:
What is the original spen functionality?
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
Lots of things that I can't remember as not been on stock for a while. One that I can remember is if you hovered the tip of the stylus over a thumbnail in gallery it would do a pop out view
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] TheRottenDrill:
I just tried it, kinda cool.

Since I am new to this I can't say I will miss these functionalities, do you think it's an acceptable compromise?
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] prbassplayer:
No one could answer that but yourself lol

Sent from my Slim powered Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
I for one dont miss them - I used stock for about 8 months then rooted and went through a couple of ROMs until I found my favourite - this one.

After playing with the various features in the first few days of getting the Note 2, I came to the conclusion that I didnt really use them and loved the clean lines of SlimKat instead
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] TheRottenDrill:
You didn't even use apps like GMD S pen ? or Note buddy (that should work on custom roms?)

They look extremely useful.

The only useful feature I saw on this rom is the ability to select permission per app, the rest doesn't seem to be better than stock rom.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
Well maybe slimkat isnt for you then, some people like stock. Personally I like slim far more, for a start it's slimmer (doesnt take as much storage) faster and for me the battery life is far better - I never gotmore than a day maybe a day and a half out of stock - but I get 3+ days out of SlimKat.

If you like stock, stick with it.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] prbassplayer:
I've used Touchwiz and Sense everything takes more taps lol. Not to mention customization on slim far out does both Sense and Touchwiz. Touchwiz from a tab pro 8 and Sense from M8

Sent from my Slim powered Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
I already knew I wouldn't enjoy much of the TW, so I rooted this GT-N7105 2 days after using the phone. I've been with HTC Sense and frankly I feel it is much better UI for me as compared to TW. In any case SlimRom beats them all. Primarily TRDS really tops it for me. ZERO bloat is also a deal breaker.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] TheRottenDrill:
Not when you lose unique functionality (like spen).

For example I tried the spen in drawing applications, and it's a lot better than using the finger.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
Sure. But there are many alternatives such as Papyrus. :good:
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] TheRottenDrill:
But papyrus still works best with a stylus if you want to do hand writing.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
The stylus still works. it's some of the fancy things specific to touchwiz that dont
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] TheRottenDrill:
I see, thank you.

I will look into back ups and stuff, and if I don't like it I can always revert to my original ROM.

I will research how this works during the weekend.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
Try to install all these 3 apps and test for yourself. Btw they are very small-sized applications. Papyrus is the note taking app while the other 2 automate things once u pull out the S-Pen.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] RobbyRobbb:
This is a great rom. I love the fast start-up. But the battery charging is so slow that the battery charge actually decreases if using the phone while charging. That's ridiculously slow. With the Agni kernel you can safely go all the way up to 1700 mW if i remember correctly, and then 2000 mW if you wanna risk it. SlimKat actually feels like it recharges a lot slower than the stock Samsung rom. I don't want to switch to Agni kernel (or stock Linux kernel...) just for this one tweak when it apparently creates problems with this rom. So isn't there some way that this can be changed?
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
try a different charger or cable. I dont have that issue at all.

Having said that all these phones seem to behave slightly differently with the same ROM.

if you arent too worried about USB-OTG then try installing the Agni kernel that seems to have a lot of charging control.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Dimmay:
How is the battery life? Does it drain as fast as stock cm11 or slower?
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
I regularly get 2.5 - 3 days of battery life with a screen on time of 4 plus hours. Something approaching twice what I used to get with CM11. I never switch bluetooth or wifi off either and every day the phone streams music via bluetooth while i am driving for about 2 hours.

If you look through previous posts of mine i have posted screen shots of this.

I use Greenify to hibernate everything I possibly can including most system apps.

One downside i have found (also used to happen with CM) is that if I spend any amount of time with no signal the battery drains quite quickly even when i have signal again and the only fix is to reboot. Like I said though it happened to me on CM and happens on my Carbon ROM running work phone.

Volume is better on this than CM, plus the kernel has Boeffla support to boost even further.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Dimmay:
Thanks for the advice ! I'll test it out! :)
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] zaxharu:
thank you so much.

can i ask a favor? can you please provide the link for cwm recovery?

Thanks
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] contramundi:
http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
The latest SlimKat 1.4 still fails me - I don't have network connection. I'm on CWM 6.0.4.1 recovery. Any users here who are successful on the same recovery version? If yes, how did u do it?

sent from my GT-N7105 on SlimRom Build 2.2 Official
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] bearusa:
I've come back and tried this ROM again.. I'm on same recovery and done full wipe inc dalvik and cache and manual format system. Flashed ROM flashed gapps flashed super Su 1.75 I'm on 3 network.

Everything works great. Just 1 problem some apps don't detect SD card.

GT N7105 with XDA Premium......that is all......
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
Where is super su from? It isn't from slimroms, is it?

sent from my GT-N7105 on SlimRom Build 2.2 Official
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] bearusa:
I use chain fires super Su. Its the cwm flashable zip here on xda. I then install the pro version from the store..

Edit: CWM Su 1.80 download here

http://download.chainfire.eu/370/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.80.zip

GT N7105 with XDA Premium......that is all......
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] R0B3RTF1SH3R:
do you think i could twrp a backup of 4.3 TW and test 4.4 Slim... and go back ?
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] contramundi:
i think it should be possible, got something similar planned later today for my device,

it was possible for the 4.1.2 tw rom to backup and restore on a later time.

i would advise though to create a backup on your external sd, copy the contents of the internal over (or just copy it to your computer) and after backing up your tw rom, not only do a factory reset, but also wipe the contents of the internal storage. (under the advanced wipe button on the factory reset screen)

after you decide to switch back to tw 4.3 you can simply copy back the contents you backed up earlier.

haven't tried it myself on 4.3 tw roms, but i did do this with 4.1.2 tw rom when i was trying out the 4.3 aosp/aokp roms (they had a different way of dealing with internal storage by simply emulating it under /data/media with a bunch of new folders instead of using /data/media like samsung did)

wiping internal storage shouldn't really be necesary but is advised to avoid possible issues, if you encounter any issues with 4.4 you can also try to flash with cwm instead, latest version of twrp (2.6.3.7) should've fixed a lot of issues people where facing after flashing 4.4 roms with it, but it still doesn't work for everyone so switch to cwm if you have any issues and they might get resolved (unfortunately flashing 4.4 with either of the 2 still gives some people some issues so there's no safe bet the rom will completely fully work as should (not counting any known bugs) its just a matter of trying and playing around ^^ )
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] bearusa:
Yes.. I have with no problems but I was using cwm rather than twrp.

GT N7105 with XDA Premium......that is all......
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] redrider54:
Correction, latest properly working is TWRP 2.6.3.1 THE .7 was an accidental upload and doent work correctly. please use the lastest upload date version of 2.6.3.1
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] prbassplayer:
New build is up on slimroms.net. Fixed sensors, some things to help with extsdcard issues and some more features and upstream. Cheers
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] MrLarner:
I'm currently on a old rom, WINAMLITE i think its called, and want to use this, so once i download the latest CWM, and download everything else i need, i plan to do a full clean on my phone but will i lose all my pics and contacts? or will they stay there?

I basically want to lose all my apps ect, and get the phone fully cleared, but want to keep my pics and contacts.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] snabben:
Works like a charm . didnt expect somethine else :)
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] prbassplayer:
Factory reset and format system.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] MrLarner:
do i do that after or before i have installed the new rom?

and will i lose my contacts and pictures?
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] bearusa:
Back up your pics vids to your SD card or a PC. Your contacts should be synced to Google. If not you can backup contacts to your SD card aswell . use app called my backup root. And you can backup to your SD card.

GT N7105 with XDA Premium......that is all......
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] MrLarner:
Does this come with a Kernal or can someone advise the best kernal for this rom?
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] mrjayviper:
all ROMs come with a kernel (all OS like linux, OSX and windows and etc comes with a kernel) otherwise it wouldn't boot. Android is based on linux.

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Does this ROM support exfat/NTFS? thanks
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] casley79:
How can I change quick setting tile?
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] prbassplayer:
Not as far as I know :p
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
My take is for u to try it out for yourself, Mate. My experiences vary. With a freshly installed ROM, 12 hours and it gets better after ~2 charge cycles. With access to work email and appointments, voice recording of meetings, up to 20 hours most. By night time I must charge otherwise I'll be empty the next morning. This side of the world, the 4G network is very reliable so I don't have issues with that. I use BetterBatteryStats lately and I can say that average I use 5.5%/hr.

The point is, it is your usage, really. But I look to more than that. The idea of this ROM is plenty of shortcuts to enable, SlimPie and TRDS at system wide level. Try this with the latest Addons Beta Gapps. Dark is beautiful!
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
Just to show that dark is beautiful.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] atmos929:
Phone started forgetting my default launcher and requesting me to set it everytime I let it sleep for some minutes while charging. Cleaning Dalvik didn't solve it. I tried uninstalling a launcher and now I am getting FCs of android.process.acore (or something similar, didnt write down the name).

bug report attached.

EDIT: the above was in stable 8 release. Apparently one more normal reboot fixed it O_o.

Also, I just noticed there is a new weekly, gonna try that one.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
I had that on a much earlier release but having read about someone else experiencing it on a TW based ROM, I followed their advice and dirty flashed over the fresh install and all was fixed.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Dirk2007:
You might want to try one of Ankers smart IQ chargers. Works like a charm, so now there are three of them around here... http://www.ianker.com/product/71AN7105-B5A
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
Nice sharing. From this side of the world we r pretty much dominated by this http://www.mi.com/sg/mipowerbank/.
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
Here's my latest battery stats...

The sudden drop at the end was down to either spending an hour in a poor signal area or the fact that my phone was trying to connect to an open WiFi point at the same time too
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
New build is out! May give it a couple of days before flashing it though as I I've just managed to get dual boot up and running using devil kernel and Der Teufel's recovery.

Shame there isn't a twrp dual boot recovery as I find cwm based recoveries difficult because of the text size
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
Up and running, Mate. The latest Beta Gapps Add-on is simply beautiful, especially with TRDS!
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] fatboyinlycra:
Did you dirty flash with just a wipe of cache and dalvik or did you do a full clean install?

Cos this is the thing, I have it running sooooo sweetly (as a standalone never mind dual boot) that I don't want to risk having to set everything up again!
[Galaxy Note II N7105 Android Development] Gandicela:
I strictly do full clean install, Mate. I understand the "pain" of setting up all over again, but I'm doing very much of quicker reinstall with apps using Mybackup Pro.