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[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Bubba:
That is an opinion on YOUR part. Unless the developer actually asks for opinions or requests.

The only part of your post I agree with ... sparky b is awesome.

Wouldn't you have to agree that it is the Developers opinion that matters?

Yeah .. because if it were his job .. you guys would have to pay him for his time.

Still not in the concept of what xda is.

Maybe not your intent .. but it was really rude

It's more realistically like walking up to her parents .. while on TV ...and saying "Damn your daughter is ugly". It's their creation. But I am sure Hugh Jackman would set you in your place for it as well.

no .. he dosen't .. it's his .. not yours.

Agreed

Seriously all this is addressed in the post I linked. I doubt if anyone took the time to look so I will help:

From [MENTION=1140856]zelendel[/MENTION] addressing whiny users

Bottom line is people just cant talk to anyone any damn way they feel. This is not a site to make people popular. Hell I dont give a **** how many people use the kernel, rom, mod, or hack. Act like a fool and you deserve to be banned for good. The rules are here for a reason. Either follow them or leave, your chose.

Now I have had to hold my tounge on this for a while but no longer.

XDA is a developers site

XDA is a free forum you are ALLOWED to use. We could make it invite only

XDA is and always will be about the developers. And before you say without the users there would be no XDA, Bull****, who do you think used the stuff before normal people even knew what a smartphone was......wait for it.........other developers. People that could give good feedback with relavent info. Like Logcats and crash messages. Not just "dahhh this is broken, please fix". And even Maybe help fix what is broken.

XDA is not a place to come and make your phone cool.

XDA is not the cool place for idiots to hang out.

XDA is not your friends house

XDA is not a democracy

XDA is not a place to make Money.

XDA IS a place to come to learn and share your knowledge. If you are not here for those reasons then you are here for the wrong ones.

I have watched XDA become a place where every dumbass in the world has a smartphone and comes here thinking they have the right to anything. Well guess what? You dont have the right to ****. We share it because we want to and we dont if we dont feel like it. Are the Developers or the Mods required to make you happy? Nope not in the least. Wanna leave. Go ahead. I beg you, please do. The less people that are asking dumb question cause they dont know what they are doing (this is understood when your new, but at least look) or are too lazy to look for it the better.

Dont like what I have to say? I am sorry you must have mistaken me for someone that gives a damn.

And I have tagged him in the post so he will take a look at it .. and he will.

Now lets let this be the end of it and get back on track with ACTUAL DEVELOPMENT and not complaints, suggestions , or request. Any further banter on this I will consider trolling and gladly click report on the post I consider trolling or abusive.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
ok apologies have made/accepted whatever...

time to draw a line under this before it really turns to $hit.

New themed dialer is out for testing, if successful I'll post tonight

Let's just move on please :D
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
Look...if this is mentioned again I'll shut the thread for 24 hours till things calm down...that means no replies, no last words, nada. Not even to reply to this

Back to ROM/community stuff please
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
Thanks man, not needed but deffo appreciated ;)
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
Someone say orange?
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] B3311:
I see green and white and blue. THIS is orange:D

Must do something with that cloud. But I had saffron rice in my dinner. Pretty damn ORANGE.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Journyman16:
OK, I've reflashed back to stock then reflashed Alliance. Then I wiped data only and Restored my data from my original backup of 5.1 - with apps deleted and Nova screens configged the way I want etc. My notifies are now back in the Notification bar where I like them instead of as popups.

Personally I LIKE the fact that this isn't just a all-in-one perfected ROM - playing with things to get them just how I like is what, to me, Android is all about - otherwise I'd be an Applehead. :D I've looked at other ROM threads and often the posts are about things broken or gone - Alliance is so good we tend to ***** about what colour the door knob is rather than the fact there is no door. Just people being people I think.

If I had a job Sparky, I WOULD send funds - the amount of pleasure I get having Alliance on my phone is worth it.

cheers mate and "nils carborundum illegitimi"

Don't let the bastards grind you down :D
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] B3311:
Semper i fæcibes, sole profundum variat

Always in the s*it, only the depth varies
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] zelendel:
Enuff.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] B3311:
Sparky - feel free to tell me F. O. If you want, but I'm swallowing my pride and asking how to install fonts. Believe me, I HAVE done my research, but.. bad zips etc. Just want to add one font.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
Alliance Theme users, here is an update for you...

Fixed incall dialer thanks [MENTION=4603975]daveyannihilation[/MENTION] :D

Tidied up SecSettings and made tab backgrounds colorable via action bar backgrounds, same with contacts and other app headers

We're having ota difficulties right now so here's a temp link, flash via ROM Customizer or recovery

https://copy.com/APDDK8sMWEM6hufm
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
Is is a font file (.ttf) or an app?

If it's a file drop in system/fonts with a root explorer and set permissions to rw r r

If it's an app do the same except drop it in data/app

reboot after :)

EDIT

If you still stuck upload here and I'll see what I can do...
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Ninja_Gundam:
Testing now on my Note3, on sgs5 is a bomb,hope here the same. I have my market all green instead of white, i've already tried to change TW theme,. i've tried to change background on custom settings..but remain green :| Where I can check to reinizialize it to white?

Chooo
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
You can't right now..it's work in progress
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] B3311:
ttf, drop in system/fonts, fix permissions, never shows in system/fonts.

Converted it to an apk via some app I found, same.

Zipped it with zipme app, flash, nothing.

Will post tlf file after a long bath. Thanks. I am stumped.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
System is is unlocked to enable all fonts so it should show...upload the ttf and I'll have a go
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] B3311:
Without pc, tapatalk hates me... ttf in zip. Hopefully.

View attachment p22.zip
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] mikeymopar:
dude...quite a bit messed up in that zip file. updater-script doesn't mount or extract anything and your .ttf is not a font file...it's a text file which it should NOT be.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] dikkebas:
Mike, I agree on the updater script, the ttf looks like a ttf to me tho:confused:
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] mikeymopar:
doesn't open as font for me. notepad shows as a text file - so....ionno........
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] dikkebas:
sorry, you're right it does, weird:eek:
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
Sorry dude, but have to agree with Mikey and Bas, everything about that zip/font is messed up. If the install script worked it would install the font in sdcard/download which is way wrong but then the font file itself is not a proper font file. If you open it on phone it shows as .txt file, if you open on pc windows states it's not a proper font file...

Hope you didn't pay for it..
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
The text file you had said font was nimbus roman becker so i found it online and made this...

https://copy.com/qlIlwTOPXUFFus8B

Install as system app, set permissions and reboot....will show as sparx sans in font list :D
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Journyman16:
7Zip shows a complete file structure and extracts a ttf file called P22johnstoneunderground.ttf. Got to head out but there is something wrong with the zip set up - clicking on any folder in there FC's 7-zip, but open the zip, click the Extract button and out comes the ttf
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] B3311:
Thanks to all for your help. I didn't buy it, my brother sent me it, and he now cheerfully admits that he should have but didn't buy it (he works in advertising and hence has the moral compass of a horny crocodile). I found a similar but free alternative, see attachment. I tried making a zip with ZipMe, but installation failed. Tried to convert it to an with APK with TTFtoAPK creator, nothing happened. If anyone can do anything with this I'll be very grateful.

Edit - If it's relevant, I zipped it (the ttf) on the Note 3 using Root Explorer, couldn't seem to upload a ttf via the xda app.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] billjobs:
Hi [MENTION=4207059]sparky b[/MENTION] , I am new to the ROM, loved d idea of AOSP look.

I am not finding the setting to change background color of the Dialer, messaging app. I wanted it to be Black and not grey gradient. How can I do it?

Also I am not able to set the PIN option for lockscreen. It asks me to enter twice and all but the type does not change, it remains the same as before . Is that a bug?
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] B3311:
As mentioned previously, I have the same with the dialer bg and AOSP theme. Using the stock theme I can change it to whatever, if that's of any use to you.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
Like this?

Set system background to black and dialer buttons to black too....make sure you have contacts selected to use system bg in the whitelist...
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] drfranz:
Does this mean the ROM works with the old 4.3 bootloader?
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
No, it doesn't...i need to remove that from OP
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
I'll see what i can do tonight :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] drfranz:
Thanks. Would have been a remarkable achievement...
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
Tell me about it...wasn't for lack of trying either... :D
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] drfranz:
:D

Unfortunately, this means I can't try your ROM. I have a nasty must-have app that for some reason doesn't work on Kitkat, and since there is no way back...
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] billjobs:
[MENTION=3673357]B3311[/MENTION], you're right! works on stock theme! weird! thanks.

[MENTION=4207059]sparky b[/MENTION], yup that's how I wanted it and as B3311 said the System bg thing works only if We are on "Samsung Basic" theme on TW Themes.

:confused: that there are two theme engines! Anyways I am new and will get used to it in a while.

BTW any idea as to why PIN Lock is not getting set up in Lockscreen settings?

Great ROM!!!
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] B3311:
Don't think it "only" works with the basic theme. I think I'm the only one who reported a "problem", and that's probably due to me not doing the righ thing - if you read a few posts back you'll see.

I haven't had time to set up the AOSP theme again, but I think a black bg will be doable with sparky's instructions.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
Yup it does..I'm on Alliance theme
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
Not sure about pin lock as i never use it..but will take a look :)

EDIT

Works perfectly for me...can anyone else try please?
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Evolution101:
Changing system background to black seems to also change my lockscreen to black, even when its not on the whitelist
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
Try this...

https://copy.com/wip1DoMUxiPwy1uY

Will show as London Tube :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
I have a picture set on mine, it never effects it...
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
What app? can you upload please?
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] drfranz:
The app is called Sparknotes, I put it into my Dropbox:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wi0s4g4b9...sparknotes.sparknotes-1002000-v1.2.0.apk?dl=0
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] B3311:
Thanks so much sparky. Almost makes me miss the Northern Line. Almost:D

Whenever you have time, could you tell me how you convert a font to an apk?
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
It's missing a lib, can you look in system/lib and data/app-lib for a file possibly with adobe or air in the name?
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
Will do :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] billjobs:
[MENTION=4207059]sparky b[/MENTION], funnily when I set the PIN lock I get the notification "SD card safe to remove" and it gets set to Swipe lock..
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sarcokiller:
This mean that you have the modem version and the bootloader version too old compared to the rom version! Try to update them by odin and later you will have all working!
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
I have a OnePlus invite if anyone is interested...approx 12 hours left to claim it, if you ask for it please make sure you have the cash to use it ;)
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Journyman16:
PIN lock works fine for me - just tried it out. I normally use pattern.

Each time I try different install methods to see how things go - (from Recovery) flash over previous version, wiping only dalvik and cache, flash using Recovery wipe, and this time, I also tried the Rom Customizer method. The RC way seems to have best results - bit of :headbang here for not trying it before.

It can be confusing trying to work out how to change things as some optional settings require a couple of different areas in the Alliance Custom Settings and some don't seem to happen unless you either restart or restart the UI, but once you get it right you can save it out in the Alliance Manager so the work is worth it.

I have 205 system entries and 115 user apps - could probably strip still more from both but the user ones are not just what I use a lot but also ones I can see might get used once in a while. For the system ones I am still trying to find the time (and info) to work out what each does and so which can be nuked with no ill effects. (e.g. at one time I'd remove the TW apps, but then found I had issues. I note that on this version, TW Easy is not in the list - I presume Sparky found he only needed the full TW there?)

My next project(?) is to find out what the 33 startup apps are and see if I actually need that many. Seems excessive... Any advice on best apps for controlling startup is appreciated but I'll browse Play to see what's available.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] billjobs:
Pardon my ignorance but,

*I kept upgrading roms from stock>Odin>Alliance. isn't that enough?

*also how do i check if I have latest bootloader ? can you tell me where I can find the latest / a guide too? please I am searching and not getting it..

*and could you please let me know what else is rom independent? would be great...

gone are those days of simple SGS i9000 flashing. :crying:
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] B3311:
SD Maid. Probably my most essential app.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
If you grab the stock image of this firmware from sammobile that will contain all you need...
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] drfranz:
Thanks a lot for checking it out! All the app needed to work in KitKat was a newer Adobe Air lib. Am now moving to 4.4 :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Kangal:
I'm quoting this, because its much easier to find than Google-ing for it.

But you shouldn't delete YouTube, it is probably the most important thing on the Note 3!!! xD
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Journyman16:
LOL... really? I just don't use it that much and Dolphin displays it quite well the few times I do want to show somebody a video on there. The rest of the time it was always in my 'Using resources' lists so I nuked it. Facebook was another such... particularly after they decided to change the Download option without telling anyone.

So I'm normally pretty careful about backups... I have been playing around with things, confident I had a nandroid to fall back on. Till I needed it... Then I found that they were GONE!. I think one of the optimising apps I tried went and deleted all the large files from my extSDcard. Bastards!!!

So given I found out when I NEEDED my Alliance BU, I am now rebuilding it from scratch. Ah the joys of tech fun. :D
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Journyman16:
This is probably elsewhere but... in Samsung Keybd I had Deutsch and English. I couldn't find how to get rid of the Deutsch so in the end I used TBup to uninstall the keybd. Then I extracted the Alliance ROM on my PC and copied samsung keyboard over to the phone and now I have only English.

Steps:

Find SamsungIME.apk in \AllianceROM_KK_N9005_FNG2_v5.1\system\app (extracted location)

Copy it

In phone, go to [Settings][Voice and Input Settings][Language and Input] and make Google Keybd your default

Remove Samsung keyboard from Apps - (from Manage Apps, or TBup or other - ROM Customizer also lets you do it)

Plug Note 3 into USB and paste the apk into a folder on your Card. (I use Downloads)

Use a root explorer (I use ES File Explorer with root explorer tool active) and go to the card. /storage/extSDcard//Downloads and copy the SamsungIME.apk

Go to the Device (SDCard0) and paste the file into /system/app

Go to Properties and make the permissions rw-r--r--

Restart the phone and go in and choose Samsung Keyboard as the default.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] B3311:
Always been a SwiftKey fan, but wanted to give Sammy a go after a long break, and couldn't get rid of German.

I use 5 different languages daily on SwiftKey and didn't want one I don't use.

My jury is still out, but unless I learn Swype fluently I'll probably stay with SK.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] bibiner:
How is the battery performing on this rom?
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] B3311:
I'm on stock, for the first time in months, and I'm getting excellent battery life. I'll probably change soon, I need Faux Sound, but stock has been a pleasant surprise. Definitely outlived Lean kernel for me.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
German? can you screen or explain more please?
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] B3311:
Just deleted the Sammy keyboard, but from memory in settings>language and input>keyboards and inputs,Samsung had Deutsch and English as default languages.

I downloaded the other languages I need, but found out that those extra languages were deletable, English and German weren't. I didn't get round to trying journyman's method.

The default language for a first time setup is German on my device. Relevant?
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Journyman16:
^^what he said... :D

On first flash, the ROM starts in German so I change it to English (Australian) and set up. But then there is German in the Input list and there seems no way to remove it except my method above. I was even thinking of flashing an XSA version ROM across the top of Alliance - or maybe working out how to swap files in the Alliance zip to be the XSA ones.

I'm not positive but my impression is my data & wifi seem a bit faster with an XSA install.I've been looking for a flashable XSA modem zip - trying the modem and hlos files via Mobile Odin just doesn't work - I keep getting an error advising maybe Triangle Away would help but that does nothing. (does TriangleAway even work on TWRP?)
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
Not sure about triangle away mate....but never had success with mobile odin and modems, I always use pc odin...
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] B3311:
I hadn't even thought it was CSC related. In fact, I haven't thought about CSC since my SGS1 days - it was a PITA to change it back then, and I lost all my data - assume the same still applies?

Btw, I deleted 144 apps on my last install. Beat that:)
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] bibiner:
Contain latest adreno driver?
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Journyman16:
:D Think it was 165 on the last one a day or so back - managed to nuke my IMEI playing around with modems... I have 177 system apps present and 12 of them are frozen while I see if they have any effect. 114 User apps installed. :D

Also down to only 12 apps run at startup with no apparent ill effects - phone has ~1990MB free.after start up when everything settles.

Getting there... :D
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] B3311:
Damn you;)

I'm running 17 apps at startup - phone, settings, task manager, clock, system ui, android settings and google framework services are the only system apps. About the same RAM. Anything there I don't need? Had a few FCs yesterday but was also trying a new kernel, Shinto, and all kinds of tweaks in Faux Clock, so hard to know what's what at the mo.

See what you've done sparky -the ROM's too good, now have to fart around with kernels instead...
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] bibiner:
By installing using rom customizer. Everything looks over stretched.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] shiverz07:
Any alternative download link for 5.1? OP link doesn't work well with DAP...
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Journyman16:
Hey Sparky - what are the dependencies for ROM Cudtomizer? Just went to make some changes and it FC's so hoping NOT to have to restore all I have frozen/uninstalled to find out why... ?

I did try (while on train to Melb) doing a flash over my setup then removing extras again but no joy...

---------- Post added at 12:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:41 PM ----------

Pretty sure it's something I removed - just did nandroid restore & it works. Any ideas what might be needed from system apps/data? I left all Alliance stuff alone & it seems only RC was FC'ing.
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
I'm not aware of any mate, try uninstalling and reinstalling from Play store...
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
Gonna need a bit more info on that one...
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
No mate, just mediafire as it keeps count of downloads for me...
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] bibiner:
Let's say dpi feels so big
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
ROM Customizer has no DPI changing abilities, were you on non-stock DPI before flashing?
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] shiverz07:
I eventually got it to download later on. Been using this rom for about 12 hours non stop. Flashed before work and have been customising/tweaking ever since. I didn't do any work at work btw.[emoji16]

The Rom is pretty awesome. I love how I have full control of the notification panel. I'm coming from Omega. Full wipe in TWRP running AEL Kernel. There's a few settings options that result in a reboot but they are minor things that I can live without.

The one thing I need to get clarity on is the quick settings. I can edit the backgrounds etc and even choose what the tiles look like but some of them don't indicate when they are on or not. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong.

'Switches' tile icons does this but they are not too easy on the eye. So just wanted to check. I've been reading/catching up since page 80 and didn't see anyone else query this.

Sent from my Omega Note 3
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] sparx:
Just set a different color for toggles off :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] bibiner:
Was On Audax Rom Before. Stock dpi
[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] dikkebas:
The man is brilliant:victory: