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[Galaxy Note II General] julian67:
I also just started using a custom ROM on my GT-N7105. I tried several over the last 6 months and they were all terrible and each time I ended up going back to Samsung original firmware (rooted with Nova launcher, xposed etc., hardly recognisable!). I kept trying because on my phone I do paypal, amazon, ebay and other financial transactions and the lack of security patches from Samsung is actually disgraceful and genuinely worrying. In the past I found CM 12.1 very unsatisfactory due to instability/unreliability, some weird regressions (they removed flac support for a while... it's back now but that was enough from me to uninstall at the time....no more music!) and truly awful battery life. But I tried it again a few days ago and I have kept it. I'm really happy that it is stable and seems reliable and the battery life is comparable with Samsung stock. Of course there is no multi-window but S-Pen support is excellent if you just install "CM S Pen Add-on" and "Google Handwriting input" from the play store. Google can read my terrible handwriting better than I can :cool: With the benefit of xposed then CM 12.1 can be really good.

Stuff that is missing or broken on GT-N7105:

WiFi Direct

Dock Audio

Multi Window

All the other important stuff seems to be absolutely fine.

I see Agni kernel recommended a lot. I checked it out. It disables SELinux support (OK it is set to "permissive" which is the same thing for the end user). This is really risky. By removing SELinux support you gain a tiny bit of convenience (there is a handful of apps and xposed modules which you have to say are poorly written or have not been maintained for a long time and don't wotk with SELinux) but you lose a truly key part of Android's security model and leave your Android device wide open to exploitation by malicious apps. If this sounds like panic then just google stagefright bugs for an ongoing example of what can go wrong when applications are not properly sandboxed.

See https://source.android.com/devices/tech/security/selinux/index.html for more info and I'd suggest that anyone who does any financial transaction or handles any private or sensitive information on their phone should simply avoid any kernel in which SELinux has been set to permissive or disable.
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
So what can Galaxy S3 I9300 users say? They are aware of SELinux at all and I was very happy with dat. I also make payments with my GS3 but eg I don't use Xposed so poor written apps problem should be gone. I would recommend using Boeffla, even if it's end of life :crying: also 5.9.5 of AGNi is ultra smooth but I miss kernel customization like it's on Boeffla. I think that's over of Note 2 and Galaxy S3 is closer than I thought it would be... It's sad but guys in 2016 probably popularity of Note2/S3 will decrease much... Even midrange smartphones will offer at least Galaxy Note 3 performance. Also Android KitKat is making boring even if it's best android release so far(excluding Android Marshmallow which I haven't had a look for now) probably as most of you I would like to see 5.1.1 on this device(TouchWiz of course, I don't count CM/AOSP at all) but I'm not so sure if this will happen. If so I will use my GS3 as daily phone for next year(my Note4 haven't got lollipop and it won't have it so it would be a very nice surprise to have it on that great phone ;))

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[Galaxy Note II General] n7100xda:
I would love to have lollipop on my n2, but atm only cm brings that to the phone and makes it more fluent and snappier but I miss the air command functions, multiwindow and other nice features that are availible in samsung roms :/
[Galaxy Note II General] julian67:
Sorry to quote myself. Narcissism is in such poor taste but occasionally expedient :D

I actually went back to Samsung 4.4 TouchWiz again this time! First of all I didn't immediately notice a very serious flaw in CM 12.1: LTE support is truly terrible. In Samsung Stock if I disconnect from wifi then I get a 4G connection immediately. In CM I have to keep toggling on/off the LTE setting and often still get nothing better than H+. I even flashed my original modem back into CM but it was no better. When I went back to Samsung stock...bang! 4G as soon as the phone boots. Every time.

Call quality: it sounded OK at my end but for everyone at the other end of the line it sounded likie sh1t. I'm sorry but a phone firmware that is not good for phone calls is just crap.

It booted more slowly than Windows Vista. This matters if you prefer swapping the battery out and using a battery charger over just charging the phone. It's boring and I missed calls.

But the real killer was doing an upgrade from one CM 12.1 nightly to the next. This is a big sh1tty mess. There does not seem to be a reliable upgrade procedure short of actually factory reset and start from zero. I had CM working as good as it can, with TWRP recoveries and all my user apps backed up with 3c. I upgraded in the normal way for a nightly (wipe cache and dalvik cache, flash the zip) and it broke my partition table. This is not the first time that I've experienced CM doing this. So I started over: odin with pit file, original samsung firmware: success ; reboot and odin install TWRP and back up: success ; install CM again but this time a supposedly stable snapshot, not nightly: it broke the partition table. Life is too short. I am back on Samsung+Xposed+Nova Launcher and everything works.

That is why I really wish Samsung were not such 455holes and that they had made a Lollipop fimrware for the Note 2. The AOSP based stuff is not of good quality. The CM and AOSP ROMs don't even include full S-Pen detection despite this being easily implemented i.e. by several very good free apps on Play Store.

/rant almost over

I agree!

Anyway I think the Note 2 is an incredibly good piece of hardware but that Samsung's lack of ongoing support for a seriously expensive and top tier device shows that they really are untrustworthy. Much as I love my Note 2, and continue to be impressed by its capabilities, I won't be buying another Samsung Android device (nor Tizen).
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Yeah CM is not that good but it's just in Exynos phones... I had several HTC phones and it worked much better than stock. Here it doesn't

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[Galaxy Note II General] julian67:
I mostly agree. I use CM 11 on my Galaxy Tab 2 7" (p3110) and it is genuinely a high quality replacement for the original Samsung firmware.

On the GT-N7105 I feel so unimpressed. Why decline to support S-Pen when any number of app developers show that it is no big deal? Why offer CWM recovery images and CM firmware which break the partition table and make upgrades and recoveries a total ****fest? CM device info page's list of known problems never acknowledge even one single issue. fsck the dumb users! Why offer a replacement phone OS which makes call quality so bad that people you call actually complain?

btw I have seen some of these complaints made very strongly about other devices running CM. In particular call quality is a big problem, see the OnePlus devices for an example of devices which ship CM by default but have terrible call quality. It probably isn't coincidence that OnePlus no longer ship new devices with CM.

Other stuff which made me want to strangle CM devs:

They removed flac support! No ****. They actually did that. Deliberately. Then they quietly restored it. (There are no licensing or patent or royalty issues around FLAC). Users? F*ck'em.

They removed AC3 audio support. I understand there are patent/royalty/licensing issues with AC3 but why, after several years of nobody giving a fsck, did it suddenly become a big issue? And this with CM now being a commercial entity. Just license the stuff and build the cost into the commercial versions of CM.

CM is becoming "Users? F*ck'em."

Samsung are real sh1th3ads for not supporting Note 2 but CM are nearly as bad for doing it so badly that it is a waste of time (also they dropped support for my other devices only just a little slower than Samsung).
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
But you should know that Note 2 is 3 years old... This is the only reason for not updating it... If it would be released in 2013 it would get it... But guys you can even read many articles on Web about not buying S3/N2 in 2015

http://m.androidcentral.com/should-you-buy-a-galaxy-s3-in-2015-no-dont-do-it-seriously

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[Galaxy Note II General] julian67:
When I bought my Note 2 it was not 3 years old. Also, Samsung were saying it would get Lollipop.
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Me too but it's just old device and even mid range phones are getting new Android versions nowadays(in 2012 they weren't) so you can replace N2 with Moto G or just buy N3 or S4. These phones are cheep today ;)

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[Galaxy Note II General] julian67:
"Solutions" that involve telling people to spend more of their own money are often considered invidious.

Note 4 costs about £400 here in UK. Note 3 about £350. This may be "cheep" to you but for me £400 is about ¾ of the monthly rental for my home.

However if amounts such as these strike you as merely small change then please don't hesitate to send me a few of those coins.
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
I'm not buying phones anymore. I just buy tablets. I got my first S3 for £1 then next 4G version for free and I got some months ago N4 for free ;)

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[Galaxy Note II General] DonSpee:
One week ago I was thinking about replacing my trusty Note 2.But then, I got a brilliant idea:to flash a custom ROM.I had no previous experiences regarding rooting and flashing ROMS, so I found a step by step guide on some site and flashed Resurrection Remix.

Everything is much better now, compared to the old, stock Kitkat I had.The phone feels much faster overall, and benchmarks reflect this change too, my Note was scoring 21.000 points in Antutu prior to this modification, now it's scoring 29-30.000..

So my advice for everyone wanting to experience Lollipop as soon as posible, is to try and flash a custom 5.x ROM.It's not that hard as I thought it would be, honestly, and considering my lack of experience I think it's pretty easy overall.
[Galaxy Note II General] joemar66:
Totally agree with u.....But about me....I skip Lollipop (cos I wait a lot and now I don't want he smell my smartphone) and I wait in the next months a stable release of AOSP MURSHMELLOW for GT-N7100. For now with the roms based in 4.4.4 and Agni kernel stock I enjoy the best moment of my Note 2. De bloated ....fast....stable...And we don't miss any Spen feature....Is a Note 4 now. Rgrd

Note ll ➡ lV Android 4.4.4 powered with Mr. HAI Note 4 Rom
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Has anyone taken a look on that? ;)

http://www.dlgsm.com/index.php?dir=...Files)/Model_G/G750A_(SM-G750A)/G750AUCU3BOH4

MEGA 2(Exynos 4415)lollipop firmware :D

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[Galaxy Note II General] wiijordends:
That's indeed a lollipop update for Samsung Galaxy MEGA 2.

What's the link between Our devices Samsung Galaxy Note II and the Samsung Galaxy MEGA 2?

Mega 2 = Exynos 4415

Note 2 = Exynos 4412

Is there a good touchwiz based (custom) rom with Android lollipop or Marshmellow for N7100 yet?

(Not a 4.4.2 rom themed like Lollipop!)
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
[MENTION=4421867]androidwizard[/MENTION] told us that he would need Mega 2 lollipop kernel. So here it is. Also Galaxy S3 had a Mega 2 KitKat port ;)

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[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
[MENTION=5564860]Androidwizzard[/MENTION] what do you think of that?

Is source enough to get 5.1? Source should contain kernel too ;)

http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=sub&sub=F&searchValue=G750A

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[Galaxy Note II General] ipsuvedi:
:fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy Note II General] LoVeRice:
Necromancers!!!!!
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Samsung is helping us here. We just need to make a use of it

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[Galaxy Note II General] VelidE.:
Will you do it :)
[Galaxy Note II General] TheGhosT94:
please someone tell us already if there is hope !
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Sure there is. Look at i9300 it didn't get KitKat but users brought it to it and this is almost same as i9300 situation was

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[Galaxy Note II General] TheGhosT94:
i thought that was able to happen because n7100 got kitkat and n7100 and i9300 share the same SoC
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Mega 2 also has Exynos 441x CPU and same graphics. I'm sure we can at least get it booting. And also look for Mega 2 KitKat port on i9300. [MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] did that so we can boot lollipop :D

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[Galaxy Note II General] Androidwizzard:
arter97 abandonned Mega 2 port and turned to E210 port.

Anyway a little hope is still out there
[Galaxy Note II General] TheGhosT94:
yeah , i believe that if a developer could manage to port it just enough to get it booting , it will push the development and developers back to give this device at least a 1 good year of improvements.
[Galaxy Note II General] dkionline:
Thats an AT&T build not G750F or so.
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Yeah there is :D I remember that in Mega 2 dumb thread you asked for boot.img from lollipop firmware, is open source enough to at least to get kernel? I think that there should be kernel sources too ;)

Yeah and this is all about AT&T Mega 2. International one has Snapdragon or any other low end CPU but AT&T one uses Exynos 4415 and we use 4412. Both uses same graphics, so at least boot lollipop is possible

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[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
2 days ago Galaxy Note 3 Neo got updated to 5.1.1 and software should be on sammobile.com. Can it help us?

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[Galaxy Note II General] Androidwizzard:
Note 3 Neo N750

I have been wrong thinking this device could be helpful but it has Hexacore CPU, so no real chance - anyway, there is still hope one nearby device might get 5.1.1
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Mega 2 is big hope for us but no one wants published system dump... If someone would do that we will have a chance

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[Galaxy Note II General] alanloax:
It is easy to dump system

Just download the official rom mega 2 and extract the entire system

with this you can

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2138885
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Download? There is no download for lollipop. It's AT&T software and they never publish their firmwares

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[Galaxy Note II General] Androidwizzard:
download the official rom mega 2

that's the point -> nothing to download available :p
[Galaxy Note II General] alanloax:
oh, sorry

I thought that was released by Samsung

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http://www.dlgsm.com/index.php?dir=/FLASH-FILES/Samsung-Flashfiles/Samsung_Official_firmwares_(4_Files)/Model_G/G750A_(SM-G750A)/G750AUCU3BOH4

is the at t mega 2 lollipop or no?
[Galaxy Note II General] Androidwizzard:
Yes it is and I know this source - anyway I can't get access, so if some1 else can :good:
[Galaxy Note II General] alanloax:
How odd one with AT & T mega 2 does not share system dump

would have to find someone in particular and ask please, after credit you deserve!
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Yeah I tried too but to get it you have to pay for it... Maybe we should do some donations for you to get the firmware?

They are scared that AT&T will figure out who did that and it's most likely that sharing this modified firmware is illegal(why? I have no idea)

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[Galaxy Note II General] pepelino123:
Any news about the firmware?

Have a nice day.
[Galaxy Note II General] DogAlyx:
5.1.1? I don't think so.

Hello! I think, we don't get 5.1.1 port, time to buy new device...:rolleyes:

Even poor S3 Neo (I9301I) get 5.1.1 port, but S3 Exynos and Note II Exynos versions are out in the cold...:crying:
[Galaxy Note II General] pepelino123:
Ok, thanks for your attention.

Have a nice day.
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
We can get this but we need to pay 25$ for lollipop firmware, then we can port it to our Exynos as KitKat Mega 2 firmware was successfully ported to Galaxy S3 classic sometime ago ;)

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[Galaxy Note II General] bamse84:
Ok.. Where to donate?
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
I think we should donate to [MENTION=5564860]Androidwizzard[/MENTION] if he can work on lollipop ;) wait for his answer ;)

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[Galaxy Note II General] pepelino123:
Ohhh, it sounds really amazing. ;):D

Have a nice day.
[Galaxy Note II General] pepelino123:
Any news about the answer of [MENTION=5564860]Androidwizzard[/MENTION] ?. Thanks for your response. :highfive::fingers-crossed::laugh:

Have a nice day.
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Be patient [MENTION=5564860]Androidwizzard[/MENTION] is very busy ;) but he will answer here don't worry ;)

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[Galaxy Note II General] pepelino123:
Oh, sorry, i will be patient, thanks :p;)
[Galaxy Note II General] NEDSTER1972:
It's been nearly 1 & a half years since lollipop was released yet samsung still have not or are prepared to release it to Note 2 or Note 2 Lte. The hardware will be fine with the update but Samsung would much rather we went out & bought their new handset in stead. Shocking profiteering yet again. Just upgrade it.

I was looking to upgrade to maybe the Note edge but when i saw the minimum price per month for the data i need was £60 i though Fk that. Much rather keep my perfectly working Note 2 lte & pay £18 per month sim only for unlimited data.
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
I'm upgrading to LG G4 in next few months but I would at least boot 5.1.1 with TouchWiz. This is my last dream about my S3 ;) after that I can switch to G4 and be sure that Note2/S3 will be fine ;)

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[Galaxy Note II General] pepelino123:
Hi for everyone, any news of the answer of [MENTION=5564860]Androidwizzard[/MENTION] of porting this to N2/S3? ;):D

Thanks for your your response.

Have a nice day.
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
He hasn't answered yet. Be patient

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[Galaxy Note II General] pepelino123:
Ok, thanks I will be patient. :D:p

Have a nice day.
[Galaxy Note II General] mathewpn:
[MENTION=1662773]mods[/MENTION], I feel there's no point in keeping this thread alive as there's little to no hope in getting 5.0 or above for Note2. Instead of keeping this thread, go over the CM threads if at all anybody want to discuss/use them.
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Don't you know that CM sucks? It works so terribly slow and camera... Omg let's just not talk about the camera and there is hope so if you're not interested in this topic just get (tf) out from here

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Nowadays people just get more stupid and stupid...

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[Galaxy Note II General] mathewpn:
Come on !!! Do you see it coming from Samsung ? And the whole idea behind this thread was to gather as much as information on whether we are getting it or not. And not about porting someother ROM to Note 2 . For that we have different sections. That being said, even I am as interested as you all are in getting 5.x or more on my Note 2 . But be real !! and be careful in what you spit. AND the note was for Mods !!!

EDIT: By the way I know how much CM sucks and I myself use Eclipse V6.
[Galaxy Note II General] joemar66:
Dear Mathew. ...We know so good about we don't get any LP from Sammy....But we know also good the power of XDA devs. If u are with Eclipse you know is a ported rom from Arter from S3 Korean version...It was a hard job.Well we still have a 1% of hope (from Mega 2...different Exynos..Very very hard job) and till is the 1% in my point of view no need to close the thread. Few devs still have the hope to get something and try...I say TRY. Regards
[Galaxy Note II General] mathewpn:
Thats exactly what I said, This thread is for rumours and related links. We could very well have a thread in the other section "Possible porting and discussion of Mega LP ROM for our beloved Note2". That would be much easier to search and find related information without much of a fuss.
[Galaxy Note II General] etnoc94:
A noob question...why do not use the software of S5 Mini? The hardware is very similar or there is a problem of different CPU?
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
What? What similar hardware? It uses Exynos 3xxx and we use 4412 so don't think it's possible

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[Galaxy Note II General] etnoc94:
I apologise, I have seen a wrong specs...now I see right specs that S5 mini have exynos 3470 cortex A7 and note 2 have exynos 4412 cortex A9...excuse me
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Yeah and this causes incompatibilities. S3 Neo got port from that ;)

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[Galaxy Note II General] pepelino123:
Any news from [MENTION=5564860]Androidwizzard[/MENTION] I would like 5.1.1 Lollipop TW in our Exynos 4412.

Thanks !

Have a nice day.;):p
[Galaxy Note II General] vagsvag:
Read forum rules and respect the others.

http://xdaforums.com/announcement.php?a=81

It is clear enough that for you boy or you need more explanation?
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Next one great. Why most of here doesn't understand that none of us wants crappy CM! I haven't installed anything worse on my devices than this crap

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[Galaxy Note II General] mathewpn:
Hey, probably your translator is not giving you sufficient information. Almost everyone knows how CM is. Here its about the forum rules and announcements on a member's behaviour. And being a senior member yourself, atleast you should be abiding them or be a model to other junior members. Being loud, never clarifies you or win you over an argument , period.
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Please don't talk about translator... Lol its worse than CM??? tbh I know English better than my native language ;)

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[Galaxy Note II General] mathewpn:
But still you dont get this. Do you?
[Galaxy Note II General] pepelino123:
[MENTION=5564860]Androidwizzard[/MENTION] Please answer if you want to port 5.1.1 to i9300 N7100, Thankss. ;);)

Have a nice day.
[Galaxy Note II General] joemar66:
Dear pepelino....if there are results about a port for get LP on our Note 2....sure you can see the effect in all the threads here.....like nuclear explosion .....Big Bang....etc...:):)Regards
[Galaxy Note II General] :
just wait a bit. The firmware and the system dump from the Galaxy Mega 2 just got posted. We'll see how useful those files are to get TW Lollipop running on i9300/5/N7100/05
[Galaxy Note II General] pepelino123:
Ok, thankss for your response. ;)
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Can you post a link to it please? ;)

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[Galaxy Note II General] :
http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-2/general/galaxy-mega-2-android-5-1-1-dump-t3320030

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-2/themes-apps/topic-year-official-lollipop-5-1-1-t3321237
[Galaxy Note II General] dkionline:
Thats not free ^^ but its a first step.
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Look at second post. He paid for that and shared with us. Nice work. If some1 will work on it we will get it

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