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[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Yea man I actually find a 6 to 7 inch device is optimal for me...honestly I use my mega like 90% of the time at home...I'm excited for it lol

Without root and recovery there's no real development or progression that can occur...I'm surprised n3 has root and can downgrade I gotta be honest...Def curious to see if a full ota can downgrade considering the boot situation

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] butchieboy:
Im just curious about what people think of the OTA

FireKatV18N3 (FireGearV19)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
You got that spare note bro lol...guinea pig? Hahaha

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Added new FireKat Custom FireSkies On The Ocean Widget...enjoy

Mega

Orange 2k

https://drive.google.com/folder/d/0B-Ew31Ksu5eYZVRTNWdJX2dhSnc/edit
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] butchieboy:
Nooooo Flippin Way that gonna happen..lol

FireKatV18N3 (FireGearV19)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] anywho:
reverted to stock Lollipop

So I have been on this rom for a few months, and noticed considerable battery drainage. It's probably just my device, but ever since I changed to stock lollipop there is no battery drain. I have to resell the device, that's why I went back to stock, but the stock lollipop is pretty damn good, I must say. No offense mega, but this stock lollipop rom is hard to beat.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] doesntmatterx:
Really? I used stock lolly and hated it.

Mega I just installed this rom from full wipe and GPS isnt locking. Is there a fix?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] knoshann:
Is it just not locking? Can see the satellites but not lock? ?

If so, it takes a few minutes at first but then locks faster from then on. I always drop this https://app.box.com/s/os5cs47lhcvlqcp6w9mfzse9xv0kzdk0 into system etc. Locks super fast then. Rename the gps.config that's already in there first though.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Not really...it's the recent Google maps...there's been several posts if you look back a few pages...

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Lmao none taken dude.. cuz I've tried lollipop on the s5 an note 4...it sucks lmao...considering the insane battery life people are getting on fk myself included....it's def your setup dude...anyway enjoy stock man

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] LfnsR:
What's up fellas?! So, somehow my partitions got all f'd up so I did a complete Odin restore and just flashed V18N4 to check it out. letting it settle for 15-20 minutes before setting everything up. Looking forward to checking it out!! :D

Have a great day!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] captainjapan:
That Lollipop thread is a complete mess.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
I can only imagine dude...from complaints with the build itself to questions about downgrading...shew glad it's not me lol

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Cool man have fun tinkering around...im def a fan of the n4 build man its my fav lol

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] LfnsR:
This is the first I have flashed the N4 version. I am like butchieboy.....like the N3 versions. Thought I would change it up to see how it is.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Kapak13:
(FireKat V18n4 ROM) (Originally running Tweaked KitKat ROM)

Hold up, I think I found a way to flash this without doing any of that... It worked for me

I stumbled upon this when my phone would not boot past the splash screen whenever I tried the rom on the stock slot. It seemed to always be able to boot perfectly in a rom slot, but it causes the phone to overheat and eat up battery like mad in a rom slot. So here is how I managed to flash firekat into the stock rom slot without doing any unrooting, updating, or anything extreme.

What i did was-

1. download rom onto phone, booted into SafeStrap

2. create a rom-slot

3. flash firekat rom into rom-slot

4. boot device with firekat rom-slot active

5. allow phone to boot and settle in (i let the phone boot up to the first screen which is the user agreement, and I just let it sit. I wait till the screen turns itself off then I reboot device and then set up the phone till I get to the main home screen, then....

6. reboot into safestrap recovery and create a BACKUP of the firekat rom in rom-slot 1. (make a backup of your stock rom slot also, just in case)

7. activate the stock rom slot and now take that backup of the firekat rom and RESTORE it to the stock rom slot.

8. reboot device and wait. done

(optional step I took) Since we now have a working firekat rom on the stock slot, and no longer need the rom slot, I went and factory reset my device. (yes, I just about peed a little when I realized it was also deleting my backups for safestrap. BUT, it was all ok- albeit the restore was a bit longer in duration than I was comfortable with...I began to sweat thinking I gone dun f'ed up. But it was fine, booted perfectly and is running great and I now have all my internal memory space.

I stumbled upon this when I kept having my phone not boot past the splash screen whenever I tried the rom on the stock slot. It seemed to always be able to boot perfectly in a rom slot, but it causes the phone to overheat and eat up battery like mad in a rom slot. So, for whatever semi-idiotic reason, I felt like I would be a little punk and flash a restore of the running rom into the stock slot "since it got past the bootup". It took about 4 or 5 minutes to boot (a bit longer than it takes to boot the rom in a rom slot) and the phone turned right on and has been working perfectly. battery life is INSANELY good and its faster than I can think.

Thank you Mega for this ridiculously amazing rom. Your work is so good that I risked my device just for you. More than worth it.

Please let me know if you find this method of flashing your rom to be questionable, I do not understand what I have done to make it actually work. . I have flashed roms in the past and know a little about it all, but your knowledge surpass mine and I'm curious to know what you think about this method. Thank you!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Well I'm slightly confused as the original comment was in response to a user that was on dynamic on mlg bootloader not nc2...if you were on nc2 you wouldn't need to go thru any Ota updates or anything...if you were actually on mlg the leak bootloader/kk base...youre almost guaranteed to run into issues if you don't do the odin/Ota to nc2...so while restoring a backup into the stock slot isn't normally an issue by any means...the underlying system that your running it on is key

did you ever take the proper kit kat update or odin to nc2?

there's also the underlying issue of why it won't properly flash normally...tbh that's not something you really wanna backdoor it's def something you'd wanna sort out tbh

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Kapak13:
Mk, thinking back on my previous Roms and updates... I don't recall what was originally on my phone when I got it. But I got tweaked ROM (which is KitKat 4.4.2) and had that for the longest time, until I wanted to flash firekat. I believe the tweaked ROM is nc2. (Please forgive me if my terminology is bad, I've seen these things but don't fully understand what they all mean still)

And I missed the part about the other user being on mgl. Derp

For some reason, my issue was getting this ROM to flash in the stock slot and actually boot up. The first Samsung splash screen would appear and I'd hear the music, but it would sit on that screen forever (i let it sit for over 10 mins) and the phone would get really hot. But when I flashed the ROM in a ROM slot, it booted normally and worked, but kept the phone really hot and drained the battery even with your personal set up.

So this is when I made a backup of the ROM slot firekat and restored that to the stock slot and it just seemed to work...

I'm pretty sure I was on nc2 going into this, but because it wasn't working, and I misread that comment, I thought I'd have to unroot and update and then try it, but then the lollipop update came out and I lost my chance to go back to stock kk 4.4.2 (don't have a PC to Odin, been modding and flashing completely from my phone...sketch, I know...).

Sorry if all this is confusing. I'm learning as I go and I ran into an issue getting this ROM to work from the start, tried a weird approach and was successful, that's all I got haha

(Thought I wasn't able to boot because I may have had a ROM that was a leaked kk, I just don't know or know how to really find out. I could post a link to the ROM for you to look at if you want)

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
The rom you were on doesn't really matter as much...it's your device the software aside from the rom...go into settings about phone and post that page

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Kapak13:
Baseband version says NC2...

If I'm getting it, I now see why the original boot issue is a big deal.

I tried about 3 different downloads of the same ROM to make sure it wasn't something with a download error. I'm at a complete loss here...

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] butchieboy:
V18N3

FireKatV18N3 (FireGearV19)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
the problem remains the same bro you have to odin nc2 when coming from another rom or from the lower boot loader....you've been trying to avoid doing the odin...but coming from mlg or from another nc2 rom it's been necessary...if not you're almost guaranteed to have issues if you don't...it's why in 12000 posts there's been like 2 flashing issues...and the other sorted it by odin flashing the base lol

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Kapak13:
This is what's interesting to me, you're saying that ...if you were on nc2 you wouldn't need to go thru any Ota updates or anything...

But also saying that I have to odin nc2 when coming from another rom.

I haven't used Odin for my phone, so either it came with the updated nc2 (over a year ago?) Or the tweaked ROM possibly updated it for me? (Which was flashed using safestrap on the stock ROM slot)

I just don't know if I had the updated nc2 and it failed to boot for whatever reason, or I somehow bypassed it?

I've been using this ROM now for about two days with no issues. I'm really impressed with it. I'm just kinda concerned about what all happened with the booting and what I did to get past it...

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
No rom can update the bootloader or baseband...so either you took the Ota/odin nc2 or it came with it...yes you have to have nc2 or else you'll end up corrupting the system the device...if it didn't properly flash there's a reason that's what I've been saying you need to sort the actual cause before it becomes a real problem

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] cnjax:
Hey fellas hope everyone is doing well. Here's my current setup

At&t Samsung Galaxy Note 3 rocking Firekat
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] scrappy610:
Ahh the X2 and the Mate 7. Both in my sites lol. Actually signed up for the US beta tester just to see what happens. Not counting on it at all but whatever lol. I have emailed them through Facebook and their US website asking about both devices and any knowledge of a possible ATT lte band release. Seems they are missing the band 17 which I'm on here. They actually emailed back on Facebook. I know there are a couple people that have the Mate 7 on tmobile and are seeing lte, but so far on att it's only hspa+. My thinking is is the Mate 2 was released for the US market, and includes the band's we need for lte, then the next logical step would be to include it in the Mate 7. But then again, they don't seem to take into account logic. I'd love the X2. Judging from measurements of the released device, it is very very slightly, ( 1/2 mm in some cases) smaller then my 7" Galaxy tab 3. Definitely a daily driver for me as I don't wear skinny jeans. cause I was bored I walked around with my tab in my pocket and was fine, unless I was sitting in the car lol.

It would make sense to release the X2 because the x1 was the tmobile springboard. Although that one lacked bad, I'm hoping they got this one right.

This is what I want in a nut shell. I want a bigger screen. I want a 6 inch at the minimum. I want the resolution to at least match my note 3. I don't use my tab 7 much because honestly, the resolution sucks and it's slow. I also want the performance to match my note 3. If that takes tweaking fine, planning on that anyway, but it has to be able to keep up and at least get me through a year. I change phones 6 months to a year anyway, so as long as it's a contender for a year awesome. I'm not sure about the specs on the Mate 7. I don't think it'll be outdated at least for another 2 months lol, but I'd take one if I could get note 3 performance out of it. Anyway sorry for the long winded post. Oh the email said they are planning some big amazing releases for the US market this year specifically in their smartphone department but haven't been given exact regional devices as of yet blah blah blah
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
My buddy is leaning more towards a mate 7...and considering from atGSM where ive ordered several devices ita like 459 or so for a stunning 6 inch flagship if the x2 is a little big the mate 7 is easily the next go to imo..the hw us very similar to n4...i still have a white 32gb qued up in a cart waiting for anything official on the x2 lol

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] scrappy610:
Yeah I'm actually leaning towards the Mate 7 myself. my one max was great, but fell into the "niche" market so took awhile for root and roms to be ported. I'm thinking the 7 would be more widespread and desire able from a Dev standpoint for root. I haven't started looking yet but do you know anything about the root/bootloader situation with the Mate 2 or 7? I heard a few complaints about the 2 not being upgraded past 4.3. I'm not too concerned with them updating anything cause, well, I'll just send you my rooted rom zip [emoji12] I mean there's always cm hahhahaha

And at 459 if it's on part with my n3 or even better the n4 in the categories I care about I'm game!!! I get what I want for a change. Bigger screen same quality device.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
No I haven't really looked too much into them yet tbh...i figured I'll work with what I get and figure something out lol

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Fellas just uploaded 15 new insane 2k and 4k wallpapers...enjoy

Mega

https://drive.google.com/folder/d/0B-Ew31Ksu5eYQUR6aXc5Mk44WGs/edit

These 2 are mind blowing...
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] butchieboy:
The Mate 7 already has root. I searched XDA there is a thread

FireKatV18N3 (FireGearV19)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] JMat76:
I know it's not a great standard of anything, but incase anyone is interested. "Stock Lollipop"

Would love Mega's touches on this.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] x61tab:
Anybody else noticed low volume during calls when used headphones? When listening to music and my phone rings, it is hard to hear the person on the other side.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Nice...that makes things a ton easier lol

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] butchieboy:
Still love my Gear...Thanks Mega.

FireKatV18N3 (FireGearV19)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
It's stock Volume so idk. ..anything that uses a mic was unmodified...only audio playback but no in call boosts

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
That looks killer dude [emoji106] ....you leaning more towards the mate 7? That would be a fantastic setup...if the x2 comes out too expensive or big for me that's what I'll order

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] butchieboy:
Yep yep..just watched more video on Mate 7. If and only if I get that itch for something different. My N3's have me very happy rite now.

FireKatV18N3 (FireGearV19)

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For about 5seconds I thought about actually taking the update on my Note with Jellybean to Lollipop..but the wife chimed in..."why would you do that and be stuck there forever"..lol

FireKatV18N3 (FireGearV19)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Dude that'd be a huge decrease in real world speed...thats the problem...the animations are even slower on 5.x than they were coming to 4.4.4 and 4.4.2 respectively...theme aside the real world speed was what tipped me off I was even using lollipop on the s5 the first time...i went to look at it for my buddy who didn't know why his s5 started lagging and his notifications no longer made a sound having him miss a bunch of messages lmao...the animations would be like setting jelly bean to 1.5x possibly 2x which makes it feel so slow especially since they brag on the fact everywhere you touch is an animation...and it's true...even the s6 I played with today didn't feel near as fast it should with the hw imo...the theme and animations are just so heavy handed...there's no snappiness left...it's not even samsung fault...I'm Def waiting...over time it will get sorted and may make more sense but not now especially not until more info and data is available as the feedback from n4 and s5...is not good

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
I finally cracked it fellas lol...have been learning the gradient scaling to really finalize and tailor the custom FireKat Widgets...the first trial run came last night....here's the first finished g3/g flex 2 widget and a near gradient search bar...enjoy

Mega

I'll be adding a bunch of different new gradient styled widgets I'm sure lol...enjoy

https://drive.google.com/folder/d/0B-Ew31Ksu5eYWE9RSVhFQzBYeWs/edit

You can mod the main and gradient colors now that everything is setup...simply pick the colors you want and opacity and they'll blend together seamlessly
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] scrappy610:
Thanks butchieboy I went and looked too just to see what's what. My interesting find is you can use the fingerprint lock for individual apps instead of just screen device. That's pretty impressive. Especially considering it's being regarded as one of the best fingerprint scanners.

So it has root and bootloader unlocked. All it takes now is getting it and tweaking it.

good job on the gradient mega. I've been playing around with it and its a hard nut to cracked getting it to look spot on. Once you do though it's pretty easy from then on.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] butchieboy:
Yeah I too like the fact that the scanner can be used for other things and the fact that they tried to kill the battery but said they couldnt. The only neg reports I saw were keyboard lag..and picture quality....

Good job Mega..your constantly bringing something new to keep our Note running and looking like a new device[emoji106] [emoji481]

FireKatV18N3 (FireGearV19)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] scrappy610:
Yeah I was impressed 24-48 hours on battery with normal usage and 14-18 hours heavy usage with 45-60 % screen on time, and that's stock. Would LOVE to see what happens after mega gets ahold of it. I went from about 4-5 hours of battery with my usage to I unplug at 0530 and still have about 14% left at 2000. He's got the battery life nailed
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] butchieboy:
Yeah he pretty much has it spot on. Like I have said many times..I really dnt worry about battery anymore..I post screen shots at times to show newcomers to the thread that Mega aint no joke..lol

FireNote V22XX...KABOOM!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] k9time:
No chargers scattered around the house. None in my car. One by my bed. Plug it in when I go to bed and unplug when I get up.. Doesn't get any better than that..

Got to Oct on this contract. . I'm good with v18n3 with zero problems. I think I'll just rock this phone till it drops dead or MEGA says quit..
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Thanks alot fellas...I'm glad you guys have dug the roms so much for sure....and regardless what I get I do a ton of builds now on request it's not like I couldn't do a mate 7 build for you guys that want it even if I go the x2 route no worries...espeically with lollipop I totally understand that sense of not wanting to get stuck on stock or at least without a go to replacement build...i got you guys covered no worries

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] scrappy610:
Mega pm
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
This is just 1 widget...the amount of options gradients opens up is awesome...Def gonna be adding more widgets over the next few days
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] butchieboy:
May Odin my Note with Jellybean just to start fresh again

FireKatV18N3 (FireGearV19)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] LfnsR:
After a fresh Odin and flash of FKN4 my first full charge I am sitting at 9 hours 19 minutes with 2 hours 25 minutes screen on time with 51% battery left! Mega is a Master ROM Builder in my book. :good::D Thanks Mega and this killer community on this thread!!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
I say you go big or go home...[emoji517] all the way hahaha

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] LfnsR:
Do it man! I just posted my battery on the first full charge cycle after a fresh Odin and flash of FKN4. Killer results so far!!:cool:
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Slightly refined this gradient g3 style widget for a new set up I'm working around it...remapped all icons...added a new gnow icon from Neon Moon icon pack and made a custom hot key that surrounds the g now icon...enjoy

Mega

FireKatCustomG3xRef

https://drive.google.com/folder/d/0B-Ew31Ksu5eYWE9RSVhFQzBYeWs/edit
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Just added another 16 hd backgrounds to the 2880x2550 box...enjoy

Mega

https://drive.google.com/folder/d/0B-Ew31Ksu5eYQUR6aXc5Mk44WGs/edit
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
you still have the N12? Or you get rid of it?

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] Zugshad:
Hp I might suggest you try and start over. Do a full wipe and clean flash again. Let settle and see how is working. If it is at speed you like then start installing the stuff you want one by one till you see what starts causing the lag

Sent from my Fired-up NoteIII
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] carl1961:
maybe post your About Device screen to see if your phone is a mix breed ;)

example: this is stock NC2 left and MLG mix breed right
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Did you notice anything different between on demand and performance...I think it was just me last night as a reboot and test again with fresh eyes today seemed almost identical

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] butchieboy:
No I really didnt notice a difference

FireKat V4..BooYaa
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Obama just signed the bill...it's no legal to unlock your phone in the us...carriers have to allow the unlock as of 2 weeks from today...check it out...it's about damn time...sucks for you att I'll be there with bells on just to screw att lmao

Mega
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] mutantblack:
Yea I saw that news. About time really. Banning the unlock is the stupidest thing to begin with.

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Since V9 I stopped using setcpu lol. I can't see much difference other than killing battery life IMO