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[Galaxy Note II General] mimmus:
Yes despite the amazing works they do, all custom roms keep rebooting and becoming slow/unstable after few days of use.

Wish all developers team together to get a single alternative base rom stable ... but this is not going to happen.
[Galaxy Note II General] Androidwizzard:
Flashing AOSP/CM roms is like downgrading your device to a Nexus or One+

Don't get me wrong - I highly respect all developers who do an amazing job building such roms - but in fact:

Cutting off SPen functionality means loosing all what a Note device is meant or stands for.
[Galaxy Note II General] razorg:
Exactly what I am thinking man! And knowing this, Samsung is never going to release the LP update. So sad...
[Galaxy Note II General] wiijordends:
I am bored waiting for something that never happen.

I also a big fan of the material design. I realy would like it to get rid of HOLO and replace it with Material design.

I was wondering a couple of things:

- Is it actually true that Android 5 on the N7100 is much battery friendlier than previous 4.3 and 4.4 roms?

- I read somewhere if you flash a custom rom WITHOUT a custom kernel (custom rom + 100% stock samsung kernel), it wouldn't trip KNOX.

Is this true?

- If so, where can I find a such rom with Android 5 + material design (Touchwiz based) without custom kernel?

-Can I root such roms without knox trip?

- In short, is there a way to enjoy Android 5 on my Note 2 without KNOX TRIP +ROOT

-And if there isn't a rom, is there some mod/... that will replace all holo stuff (settings, calc, contacts,...) with material design?
[Galaxy Note II General] resudo:
No and no. Material design is a framework "feature", not an app that you can just install.
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
First S Pen second Samsung Gear ;)

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[Galaxy Note II General] yahyoh:
tbh i rarely use Spen, i more worried about stability and losing TW apps like cam...

ive never had any reboot or big issue with TW 4.4.2 but some stock TW apps are slow and annoying with 4.4.x like gallery , dialer , contacts...and and TBH android 5.x looks way better than the old TW on our phones ( the new TW on S6 looks good tho )
[Galaxy Note II General] paulove:
Samsung Norway still say no new information about any update for the Note 2. So keep positive. [emoji1]
[Galaxy Note II General] rajmagi:
last bad commit for me is TytnII and Diamond for HTC...

Im sure HTC will be dead in the water

lack of support will loose my faith on samsung just like to HTC
[Galaxy Note II General] sankarit197:
no lollipop

No lollipop for note 2
[Galaxy Note II General] resudo:
F*ck you too Samsung.
[Galaxy Note II General] peterhugelberg:
Well is there really anyone around here who still thought we would get an official Lollipop Rom?

Also i wonder how you all use your Note and the SPen, because to me the SPen was always kind of a gimmick which i rarely used (that is for the SPen Functionality, i always use it instead of my finger) until i installed GMD SPen Control which does offer custom Gestures and not the stuff samsung does where you need to open the "drawing" thing with a gesture and then do another gesture for it to do anything (maybe that has changed since i made the switch)

Maybe im just not a "regular note user", i dont like SPlanner, see no real benefit in the Samsung Camera App in comparison with the CM one or focal (in fact i find the Samsung one annoying because there is no option to use the Power Button as the Shutter as i dont like touching the Screen to take a photo) and for notes i use squid (formerly papyrus) (before i made the switch SNote was the only SPen related app i used)
[Galaxy Note II General] driqbd:
it doesn't sound like you know much about your note....and you can use the volume buttons as camera shutter.
[Galaxy Note II General] joemar66:
BYE BYE

http://www.youmobile.org/blogs/entr...2-as-the-device-fails-the-final-Testing-stage
[Galaxy Note II General] paulove:
Samsung Norway also confirmed to me the news I did not want to hear...This will guarantee that I will continue to buy iPhone's in the future.
[Galaxy Note II General] resudo:
Farewell my friends, see you on the Note 4 subforum.
[Galaxy Note II General] yahyoh:
TBH all android OEMs sucks in terms of updates...im thinking to switching to iPhone cuz Android in the current state is fucing mess :rolleyes:
[Galaxy Note II General] paulove:
Android and updates are broken.

I have been very happy with my iPhone 6 Plus.

I have never had any issues, it is fast and reliable.

And the camera is just awesome.
[Galaxy Note II General] razorg:
I've been to a Three shop yesterday, and got me an Xperia Z5 Compact on contract. Suck it Samsung, hope you'll go bankrupt soon!
[Galaxy Note II General] lhex:
Three years later, you will write the same message about Sony...
[Galaxy Note II General] razorg:
At least I'll get software support quality close to Google's Nexus support itself. Not to mention that, the original Xperia Z, almost as old as Nexus 4, got Android 5.1.1 just like Nexus 4. What about Note 2? Not a DAMN update since last year. So, yeah, I'll be happier for sure :) And not to mention that Apple gives updates for 3 years (maybe 4 years in case of iPhone 4S). After 3 years, this device will be old too, but will have been nicely supported and updated by Sony!
[Galaxy Note II General] vonestrada:
how is it my friend? any news? ;)
[Galaxy Note II General] ndasarathy:
about a week ago when i was travelling home there was heavy rain and my note 2 got totally wet stopped working. i went to many shops for repair and they said that it would cost around Rs.12000 ($187). so i thought of buying a note 5. my sister is in US and she said that she will buy me one. i'm in india. which model number should i buy there to work here. i know that every model works well if unlocked. can anyone tell me which model number of note 5 is best to buy there to work here
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
wtf my xperia m2 got 5.1 today... Shame on you *****es in Samsung! That **** has Qualcomm Snapdragon 400! Low-end phone Low-end CPU!!! Never ever Samsung. Getting LG G4 ASAP....

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[Galaxy Note II General] the_naturat_com:
But you know, it does not matter. What matters is the production date and time support. For me it is normal that the Note 2 will not get the update.
[Galaxy Note II General] ndasarathy:
yes you are absolutely correct and someone mentioned about xperia z lollipop update. xperia z was launched in february 2013 and it must get lollipop update.
[Galaxy Note II General] philip.majewski:
Pfffff...

Iphone 3gs (from 2009!) was receiving updates until 2014
[Galaxy Note II General] yahyoh:
LMAO like if sony any better than Samsung...lets not talk about their buggy software and their awesome camera software :rolleyes:

anyway congrats..enjoy your Z5c

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Huh...its new phone dude it was released on May2014
[Galaxy Note II General] razorg:
Who updated the whole flagship lineup to Android 5.1.1? Sony! Will Galaxy S4 get 5.1.1? No! Was Galaxy S4 released after 1 or 2 months after the original Xperia Z? Yes! Being a "slightly" newer phone, didn't Galaxy S4 deserve at least the 5.1.1 as the final update (which I believe it should have got 6.0 as well)? Yes, it deserved it very much! Will it get it? No! Doesn't this show how crap of a company Samsung is in terms of software support? Yes! I never said Samsung made crap phones. Their phones are marvelous, hardware-wise. But without proper software support, you might as well go build a house and use Galaxy phones instead of bricks, they'll be much useful that way. :(
[Galaxy Note II General] kimshawk:
Tomorrow just installed the rom. It is smooth rom.
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
But remember we got updates up to 4.4.4 while for example HTC one x is stucked on 4.2. And also S4 probably will get update and it got it by unofficial way. Don't worry about S4. It will have updates until S5 stop receiving them

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[Galaxy Note II General] poplaw:
By the way

Well, today I've read a rumor, that... S2 is going to get an update to 4.2.2. You must admit it's really hard to belive, that it's going to happen once ;)
[Galaxy Note II General] RayTrue04:
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2014/12/30/galaxy-s5-galaxy-s4-note-4-lollipop/

Another conformation just popped up
[Galaxy Note II General] vonuzu:
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/578426/20150108/samsung-android-5-0-lollipop-update-1.htm
[Galaxy Note II General] gemtin92:
I heave idea, lets everyone in their country write to smsung support and ask about update to 5.0 and post replays here.

We will see what they say;)
[Galaxy Note II General] vonuzu:
Galaxy s4 just received Android 5.0.1 update in Russia.

I hope we are next.
[Galaxy Note II General] romdroid.:
According to samsung scandinavia, yes. But no ETA
[Galaxy Note II General] vonuzu:
New hope:

http://www.sammobile.com/2015/02/12/samsung-poland-confirms-the-galaxy-note-ii-will-get-lollipop/
[Galaxy Note II General] :
Wasn't it 4.1 out-of-the-box,or I'm totally wrong? I think 4.3 and 4.4.2 are only major updates pushed by Samsung for our Note 2. And accordind to Samsung,it's 2 major updates or 18 months of support/lifecycle,however you like to call it.
[Galaxy Note II General] yahyoh:
anyone know if that could be lollipop ? ( too optimistic ) :D

https://twitter.com/SamKiesUpdates/status/566117451956760576
[Galaxy Note II General] guma55:
its 442

http://live.samsung-updates.com/index.php?device=GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II General] victorharsh:
https://twitter.com/SamsungPolska

https://twitter.com/SamsungPolska

Confirmed......but when ?????????:fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::good::good:
[Galaxy Note II General] :
Probably not before Alpha and some other 2013 devices. Note 2 should be last on that list.
[Galaxy Note II General] kaimyns:
I think at least one version for ODIN flash will be available in the following months. If they are talking about it, I think they're working on it and soon we will update our devices.
[Galaxy Note II General] vonuzu:
Here's something interesting :

http://www.sammobile.com/2015/02/17...g-galaxy-note-ii-will-be-updated-to-lollipop/
[Galaxy Note II General] :
http://www.christiantoday.com/artic...pdate.note.2.confirmed.next.in.line/48190.htm

sounds like Note 2 is next according to this.
[Galaxy Note II General] wrsg:
amazing but hard to believe. I'll believe it when I see it.
[Galaxy Note II General] FUSIONdev:
edit

nevermind ;)
[Galaxy Note II General] ryancell:
At this point I find it hard to believe sprint would release an update for lollipop on the note 2. Would be awesome if they did, as long as they don't release 1 version that has bugs then never updates it again. But if the core of the Roms similar to the note 3 and 4 perhaps its an easy update for the 2, thus why it may happen?
[Galaxy Note II General] ANDRE0001:
Comfirmed ANDROID Lollipop :) FOR NOTE 2

So is it one more time comfirmed that we are getting Lollipop update on our NOTE 2 (N7100)

in second quarter of this year

:) :)

Here is the answer from Samsung customer support SLOVAKIA / CZECH what i´ve get:

Dobrý den, pane XXXXX,

děkujeme Vám, že jste se obrátil na zákaznickou linku společnosti Samsung.

Ano, pro Note 2 je je plánováno vydání aktualizace na Android 5.0 během druhého čtvrtletí tohoto roku.

Máte–li jakýkoliv další dotaz, neváhejte se na nás opět obrátit, případně využít služby naší bezplatné zákaznické infolinky 800 726 786.

S pozdravem,

Martin XXXXX

Zákaznická infolinka Samsung
[Galaxy Note II General] vislavskid:
How we got update to 4.4.4 when we only get 4.4.2 official update
[Galaxy Note II General] mdlf:
:thumbdown::banghead:

Never and never iPhone !! But this is the time to buy a Note 4 ( for me actually the best ).

Bye bye dear Note 2....now my sister will be happy.
[Galaxy Note II General] Androidwizzard:
Ported over ;) with rather good N4 roms
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Yeah at least S3 LTE was useful ;) BTW can you use S Pen on 4.4.4 ported ROMs? It's S3 based and S3 doesn't support S Pen like all S series phones

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[Galaxy Note II General] Androidwizzard:
Are you kidding? ;)

Nearly all Note 4 functionality ported over, including AirCommand and lately even write on turned off screen like on Note 5 is ported.

Yeah, you all might curse on Samsung but developers make the impossible happen what Samsung doesn't release for older devices but anyway - it is good stuff.
[Galaxy Note II General] 00sand00:
Which ROM is that?
[Galaxy Note II General] Androidwizzard:
DN4, Eclipse, Nemesis N4, Usol find all in development section here
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Yeah that was pretty silly question ;) but our Note 4 ported ROMs from Note 2 doesn't have anything from S Pen ;) so just developers are removing those features ;) about screen off memo. Yes I also installed it on my Orange Note 4 and I have to say that its much better than note from something on lock screen ;)

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[Galaxy Note II General] yahyoh:
i pulled the trigger and installed Cm12.1 and damn...this thing running like a dream even tho im really fan of AOSP but its smooooth as butter and super fast :D

i love the themeing system...lol it made me remember the old GS1 days :D

edit : battery usage on wifi with mostly brightness at 30- 40%
[Galaxy Note II General] kenbhaji:
Indeed CM 12 is nice. But I have been seeing weird bug. I dont get any data service. APN's are fine but no 3G. Have been looking for a fix but nothing so far.

I hope community dont loose interest in this phone soon. I think I can get squeeze a year more out of this thing.:D
[Galaxy Note II General] yahyoh:
i have no problems with apns :D
[Galaxy Note II General] evilpacer:
Samsung is very bad for support device.

The Best manucaturer is Sony all device recive Android 6.0
[Galaxy Note II General] vladeco:
What I don't understand is:

The Galaxy Mega 2 uses the same chipset, has 1.5GB of ram and got Android 5.1.1 in the beginning of september. HOW and WHY Note 2 "fails whatever test", and Mega 2 doesn't? Such BS.

At least we now have Lollipop sources for the Exynos4 platform:

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

Hopefully a talented person could help bridge the gap towards a fully functioning 5.1.1 rom?
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
5.1.1 on Mega 2? It also uses Exynos 4 (4415) so on 90% we can port it but I'm not sure if it can be bugless and went out from alpha stage...

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[Galaxy Note II General] George_Orever:
Good news. The question is, can some one give our Note 2 a new chance.
[Galaxy Note II General] the_naturat_com:
You did not take into account the release date of the phone.

Samsung Galaxy Note II - Released 2012, September

Samsung Galaxy Mega II - Released 2014, September
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Yeah this is only reason

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[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Hmm [MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] found way to run Mega 2 firmware on Exynos 4412 and also gives defconfig... It was on I9300 so the Galaxy S3 3G 1GB RAM version so may there's hope that we can use lollipop from Mega 2?

Link to thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2854139

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But wait a sec. Mega2 has sources but where's the firmware???

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[Galaxy Note II General] Androidwizzard:
OTA
[Galaxy Note II General] yahyoh:
Im almost 99% sure this isn't Exynos device...its At&t device so probably its snapdragon device :rolleyes:
[Galaxy Note II General] Androidwizzard:
100 bugs on that missing 1% :p
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Yup ;) but everything is worth to try to keep Note 2 alive ;) yup?

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So it's this 1% [emoji14]

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[Galaxy Note II General] yahyoh:
Lol dang
[Galaxy Note II General] Androidwizzard:
100 bugs should mean I bet 100 dollars on Exynos cpu ;)

Be assured that there are already some brave guys who are attempting the incredible but by far too early to give any hope to the public.
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
I wish them best ;) I think that it's challenge from Samsung ;) I bet that someone will bring us lollipop, even not working at 100% just to boot it and test lollipop :D

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[Galaxy Note II General] TheGhosT94:
so is it too soon to forcast a note 5 port beta to us in the next 6 months timeframe ? :P
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Hope I'll see lollipop before I'll leave this phone ;)

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[Galaxy Note II General] rajmagi:
no lolipop http://samsung.youmobile.org/

bye2 samsung

my bros sony which less spec than note 2 even got loli, for samsung? meh....
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Don't you understand that Note2 is too old to get LP? Mega 2 got lollipop because its new, it's same as Note 2 hardware and Sony doesn't offer good smartphones, I like only Z5 but I'd choose my next phone it would definitely be the 6P ;)

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[Galaxy Note II General] RayTrue04:
Note 2 uses 4412, Mega uses 4415. Not the same...
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Both quad core, both 32bit, both 1.4-1.6GHz and also on S3 we were running Mega KitKat firmware so you still want to tell me that they aren't that similar? :)

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[Galaxy Note II General] yahyoh:
All the Exynos 4 series are mostly the same with different clocks, different cores numbers, process size , and Ram...modem...etc :p
[Galaxy Note II General] RayTrue04:
Yet Samsung will still use them being different processors as their excuse to not bring lollipop. Been a Samsung devotee for years now, it's just how they work.
[Galaxy Note II General] Renmazuo:
The Mega KitKat firmware port on the s3 was just a proof of concept. The actual, working KitKat ports came from both Note 2 and the Korean S3. There is nothing we can do with the Mega firmware, currently at least.
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Yup you're right, now most ROMs for Exynos 4 is Korean/International S3 4G but at least we can boot lollipop, what would be great ;)

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[Galaxy Note II General] DogAlyx:
Note 3 Neo got 5.1.1.

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo has been updated to Android Lollipop 5.1.1!:D

So, can we get port from this smartphone?:fingers-crossed:

Proof - http://4pda.ru/2015/10/27/253841 . Sorry for Russian source...
[Galaxy Note II General] gabripranzo:
The hardware is different, I don't think the porting is easy.
[Galaxy Note II General] Androidwizzard:
Snapdragon and different GPU - forget it, sorry to say
[Galaxy Note II General] yahyoh:
IMO Galaxy note 2 is still future proof device ...it will live at least 2 years without problems butttt samsung dont want to waste money on developing for 3 years old device...cuz they dont care about customers...all they care about profit so they just blame it on the old hardware...meanwhile iPhone 4s got update to ios 9.1 which barely has 1/4 the specs of Note 2 :rolleyes:
[Galaxy Note II General] anhaussner:
Let's skip Lollipop and directly go for Marshmallow ;)

http://www.60marshmallow.site/rom/marshmallow/samsung-galaxy-note-ii-n7100-4854.html

Anybody has an idea how trustful this source is? Any affiliation with some renowned XDA member?

If I find the time this weekend I will give it a shot... keep you updated in this case...
[Galaxy Note II General] lhex:
Looks like it's an aosp rom, not official Samsung rom.

Anyway, I don't know if this is real or not.
[Galaxy Note II General] DogAlyx:
Mistake.

Ooops, my mistake. Thanks!;)
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Isn't it Exynos octa??

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[Galaxy Note II General] Androidwizzard:
Just wondering how many users doubt my posts :D LINK :victory:
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
But this is LTE+ version. I thought we are talking about normal variant of N3 Lite lol. I was able to choose that phone instead of S3 4G but I think I've chosen correctly

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[Galaxy Note II General] Androidwizzard:
"Lite" is still stuck on KitKat LINK
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
So we can wait until Mega 2 G750H/A Exynos 4415 gets lollipop... Our last chance probably...

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[Galaxy Note II General] Androidwizzard:
5.1.1 for G750A is already rolled out OTA and I have tried to get hands on it by asking for an adb dump - waiting :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Damn hope you'll get it! I just want to run lollipop at once honestly. Just to see how it looks like :D my Note 4 is locked down by my carrier and I can do nothing about it :(

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[Galaxy Note II General] gyankamp1:
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[Galaxy Note II General] 00sand00:
For the first time flashed custom ROM on my n7100 (eclipse) and for now excellent.

Even feel sorry I bought another phone for replacement (not Samsung ofcourse)

[emoji2]
[Galaxy Note II General] swejuggalo:
Well... They don't spit out anywhere near the same amount of phones as Samsung does. That is also the reason they can update older phones longer. THAT would be the only good thing about Apple. I rather have a Samsung and use Cyanogenmod to extend the life of the phones software. Running it on both my N2 and N3 now.
[Galaxy Note II General] Minto107:
Note 3 is such great phone that it doesn't need Samsung to get updates. Even if N3 is not getting Marshmallow so XDA developers will bring it as it runs almost the same(may even better) Firmware than S5. The problem of S3/N2 is Exynos under the hood... I wish it would be Snapdragon 600 :(

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[Galaxy Note II General] manubhagat:
I used DN4 rom on my Note 2 for quite long. Looking for alternatives now, which lollipop rom would be best to try other than CM?
[Galaxy Note II General] anhaussner:
Paranoid Android by Tilak Sidduram... There's a Google+ group... It's an awesome ROM... But: Agni Kernel is mandatory

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[Galaxy Note II General] manubhagat:
I have AGNI Kernel, thanks I will try it :)
[Galaxy Note II General] anhaussner:
There you go: http://downloads.codefi.re/houstonn/tilak/n7100

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[Galaxy Note II General] d2ve:
cant get away from 4.4.2 since i need native FM radio. tried some newer rom and used spirit, but always experience weird app behavior.