yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] glockman4519:
OK, the rom flashed without indecent and came up with no issues. I found that pretty much everything worked. I tried the camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and pretty much everything else and it is as smooth as silk. I really like the look of Slim but the reason I don't stick with it is that I like theming. For me to run a rom, other than stock, It has to have the CM theme engine built into the rom. This is the only thing that this rom is lacking and that is only my opinion. I'm sure there are more people out there who don't like that (theming and modifying) in their rom than there are who do, like me.

Anyways, really nice rom.

Chance favors the prepared.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] flyboy1100:
Slim is great because it doesnt have that crap. Even slim isn't as slim as i would like, but it has been my go to rom for my last 2 devices
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigmarv31:
Slim LP

Take your time when ever you get it ready we will all be grateful for the rom I will keep checking for it Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ControlD:
I went back to a TW ROM for about a month because I was having some problems. Turned out to be not a ROM issue so yesterday I flashed back to Slim. Wow, it is good to be back on this one. I am thankful we still have good support for this phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jaws4God:
i'm downloading now.. gonna try SLIM and see how it is!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] PhilDX:
do any of you guys get hit by the mdm_hsic_pm0 wakelock? the phone does not enter deep sleep while this wakelock is active. it shows up as "android system" and "android OS" in battery settings.

I've been fighting this on multiple CM11 builds for the past 8 weeks or so and I can't find any specific cause. I've done lots of reading and have tried a bunch of tricks but nothing is effective, and I'm wondering if SlimKat has this problem?

thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nwh5024:
I've gotten it some. I only really get it after the phone has gone a long time without a restart so I just try to make a habit of restarting every other day or so. No real fix that I know of.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] djd338:
Try always making sure the screen is "On" before unplugging the charge cord. You might also do a fresh reboot before trying this just to clear everything. Crazy... but gchild mentioned this a while back as a possible fix for that drain. Seems to work for me
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
I think everyone gets it. I use an app that has a widget that shows percentage of time for wake locks and if I see it start to climb I just do a reboot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] PhilDX:
ok, so I guess no one is immune. I have never actually run a TW ROM on this thing, but I've read numerous reports that it occasionally happens there too.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
Actually just to clarify, its the opposite of this.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=54310233

Gchild says do not pull the cord while the screen is on. In my personal experience this hasn't really mattered. I just keep an eye on the widget. If it gets over 10% I reboot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] PhilDX:
I'm with you. I've read all sorts of theories on this bug in various forums. I think the random nature of it leads to the different theories - someone tries something and the bug doesn't recur for a while so that must be the solution. but if you read the threads to completion, eventually someone chimes in and says the bug happened to them even though they did everything suggested.

I think this is fundamentally hardware/firmware problem that has never been addressed by Samsung/Verizon, and I think it may be sensitive to tower configuration. that's my theory.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DrunkUncas:
Which widget are you using?

I actually came to ask if anyone has had the issue on this version. I've been running 7 for a few days, and the battery life has been phenomenal.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] PhilDX:
you can try either better battery stats or wakelock detector, both in the play store.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
I use wake lock detector, and the circular widget that displays colors and percentages so its super easy to just glance at the widget and if the percentage climbs.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nwh5024:
Build 7.2.1 is up http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23610159112654494

Sorry for the delay in building. Slim had some issues with their github that took them a bit of time to figure out.

Flash away!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
Is there a changelog
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ControlD:
Just hop over to the Slimroms website for the latest changes!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ControlD:
New build dirty flashed and seems to working great. Since I found this ROM I have stopped looking forward to the Note 4. I plan on rolling with this phone until it dies. Thanks nwh5024 for taking this over.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DrunkUncas:
7.0 is working so well I'm not sure I want to upgrade. Ever.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
So far the new build is working great thank you
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] toskabab:
Wow, This ROM is slick. I don't know why it took me this long to try it. I was so stuck on touchwiz. But not anymore. I don't think I'll ever go back to anything else again!

Just one question. The OTA doesn't seem to be working correctly. It says it can't read my system. Is this just me or are others seeing this too?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
Since this is an unofficial build I don't think the official built in ota updater works, that's why we have the awesome nwh building for us.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Hemorrdroid:
I'm coming from an old beans rom that is 4.1.2. Anything special i need to do before flashing? Was unsuccessful just trying to flash, and md5 is good.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
Probably need to update your baseband. What're you running now? Should at least get it up to mj9, or nd7. To get it to mj9 you have to use Odin, which is a pain, but as far as I know its the only way. Other than that I think you just flash away!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nwh5024:
Also make sure that your recovery is up to date.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Hemorrdroid:
Here is a screenshot of what i have now. Thanks for the help!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nwh5024:
That is an older baseband and I would recommend upgrading via odin to at least MJ9, but that shouldn't cause the flash to fail (someone correct me if I am wrong). What recovery/version are you using?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
You're correct, that shouldn't cause it to fail. I've flashed other stuff in the past with older basebands and its worked, at least the flash did.

I'm using latest philz and it works great.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Hemorrdroid:
It was an outdated recovery. Got it flashed now. Having root issues and 4g signal is really weak : /
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] SonOfUncleSam:
Hey guys, I'll flash this new version with the VRALJB baseband (which I'm still on) and report back later on... However, since we're on the topic of the baseband, aside from this thread (here) is there anyway to upgrade to the MJ9 baseband without locking my bootloader? From this thread, it looks like if I do it via ODIN, it will lock the bootloader and I won't be able to flash this ROM anymore, and will be limited to only TW ROMs. (Unless the rooting and unlocking methods have been updated since the thread itself was updated...)

I know previously, there were threads which had flashable zip files that upgraded the baseband version, but after doing a search, it didn't come up with anything. Sorry for deviating off the topic of the ROM itself, but any input on this matter would be appreciated!

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I know I ALWAYS have had issues with root with this ROM... It just happens when you first boot the phone. Any subsequent boots should fix any issues with root that you have. I also change my root settings to 'Apps and ADB', which can be found under Settings>Developer Options>Root Access. (I'm not sure if THAT is necessary, but it has always given me peace of mind and I haven't deviated from that since.)

Also, with AOSP ROMs, the cell signal is shown as weaker than TW ROMs, this is normal and it should function just fine.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Hemorrdroid:
Thanks, the apps and adb did the trick, I saw that earlier but didn't think that was the issue.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
I updated from my old baseband to mj9 via odin and I don't have a locked anything. I'm completely fine with root, flashing roms, etc... I think you'll be totally fine. In fact in a lot of the other threads, they all say to do that first before flashing.

Just a few weeks ago I did the whole restore to stock, reroot (with older baseband), odin mj9, and I was immediately able to flash this rom with no issues.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] SonOfUncleSam:
Thanks for the quick response! But just to confirm (and I don't mean to be a hassle, I just want to make sure this is how you did it) should I use the method that is found in this thread here to upgrade to the MJ9 baseband? Or did you use another method?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
No hassle at all, glad to help! I'll tell you exactly how I did it and what happened.

I can see the confusion. Do not use that method if you don't already have a locked phone. If you go here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2024207 that says that if you use ODIN to FLASH the entire 4.3 stock rom, OR take the 4.3 OTA stock, you'll be screwed with a locked bootloader. At least that's how I read it. Then that thread you linked to is what to do to get roms back once you have a locked phone.

In your case, you should be totally fine. Just don't flash one of the newer stock roms, just flash a older stock rom, if you even need to reflash to stock, and you should be fine. Also, odin'ing JUST the baseband to mj9 shouldn't lock your phone, you should be fine there as well. In your case you should just try to odin to mj9 like is in the general instructions, not the safestrap stuff, and if it doesn't work you can always fix it with reflashing to stock and rerooting.

Here's the steps and what happened to me when I tried to odin to mj9 a while back:

- While on a 4.4 aosp rom, tried to odin to mj9. didn't work. left me with a baseband of "unknown" and couldn't fix it by odining mj9 again, or by flashing or anything.

- odin to stock using that thread i linked to above, chose package vramc3

- reroot, flash philz latest recovery

- flash alliance 4.3

- odin mj9 baseband

- clean flash slimkat latest

And BAM everything works great now! That whole process took forever, but it worked in the end. I hope this helps you out as it took me forever to get all the info on what steps to take once I had the dreaded baseband "unknown". Glad to help if you have any other questions at all.

edit: let me try and find the proper links to "regular" odining the mj9 baseband only.

edit2: Here are the instructions on how to regular odin mj9: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=50047714&postcount=23492
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nwh5024:
This is definitely the correct way to go about it.

...That being said, I have been lazy and used this method before also. MJ9 in a flashable zip - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2577809
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
Hmmm, I wonder what the differences between the modem you posted in that link and the one in beans' link are? The one in yours is here:

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23269279319197636 at 18.9 megs

and the one in beans' is here:

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23269279319198557 at 15.3 megs. I wonder if I'd had used that one you posted in the first place maybe it would have worked and I wouldn't have had to do all the go-back-to-stock stuff. Oh well, interesting at least, thanks very much for that link.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] SonOfUncleSam:
Awesome! Thank you all for your input, and it looks like I will be busy for a couple hours while doing this!

Edit: Worked without any issues! Thanks again for the informative post Jarm3r. I've been meaning to upgrade to the latest baseband version, but have been apprehensive about it until now.

Also, with the new version of this ROM, even with TRDS enabled, the recents app drawer is white? Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me? (The apps themselves, however, are blacked out)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] PhilDX:
fyi - links to CWM flashable ND7 and MJ9 radios are here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=54641671
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
The only problem I'm having is Google now force closes when I try to use voice sometimes. Anyone else have this happen
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nwh5024:
This sounds like an issue with gapps and not the rom. Might have been a bad update, etc.

Anyone having issues with stored wifi connections? I have noticed that recently I have been losing my stored wifi connections randomly/on reboot. I think its just me, though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ControlD:
I have been having the stored WiFi issue with all of the 7.x builds as well.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] danaff37:
On reboot I lose my sound settings (they're set to sounds on my sdcard)

With the Google search having voice issues, there's the ever present bug of it force closing if doing through bluetooth present in all aosp based roms for this phone. If not through Bluetooth, then I had that happen once, and had to clear data for search, and it was fine after that
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TBacker:
My wifi seems to be shutting down completely, or at least go dormant for long periods, when the phone sleeps. I'll wake it and there's no network for a couple seconds, then I get hammered with bottled up email and facebook notifications.

I do have it set to never turn of wifi during sleep, but I just toggled that setting back and forth to make sure.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nwh5024:
I think something might have been screwy with the last build. I setup a new build environment and built 7.2.1 again. All seems to be better. If you can/don't mind try it out and let me know (also anyone else that was having wifi issues). Thanks!

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23622183712457040
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ControlD:
Downloading now. I'll flash tonight and keep you updated.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DrunkUncas:
Mine used to crash across the full range of 4.4 ROMs. It works perfectly on 7.0.

Has anyone experienced the dreaded battery meltdown since 7.x? My draw has never been worse than 3-4% an hour.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] vampiricsoul:
Ever since I started using slimkat my battery dies fast. I would say it loses 10% and hour just sitting in my pocket. And also it seems as if my WiFi is resetting constantly while trying to use my phone. ( I have no cell service in my house)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] akroeger1984:
Was having the same issue till I got rid of Google plus.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] danaff37:
My battery life drastically improved switching from interactive to on demand. Interactive seemed to be pegging all four cores to max while the screen was on for some reason
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DrunkUncas:
Huh. I've got G+ exclusively for the Photo synch and after being off charger for 2.5 hours it doesn't even show up in my battery stats. I don't remember ever seeing it in the top three.

I've got a snappy ROM with working GPS and OK Google. As long as my battery doesn't start frequently vaporizing itself, I think I might be done flashing for a while.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with all that extra time...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ControlD:
The new build seems to be working great. I have not lost any stored WiFi connections to this point, and it usually happened every time I got back home from work.

In regards to battery life, I am getting better than any of the TW based 4.3 ROMs I was running before. I have found that battery life with the AGNi kernel is even better, so that's something to try if you are having battery issues.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nwh5024:
Awesome to hear, my issues are cleared up also.

And I second AGNi. Slim'a kernel has good battery life for aosp but agni takes it up a notch.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] vampiricsoul:
My WiFi problems are from my phone trying to switch back and forth between cell service and WiFi. It can't find a good enough signal to stay on cell.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nwh5024:
In WiFi settings there is an option to avoid poor connections. That may help your issue.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] akroeger1984:
G+ will show up as android os, or so I'm told. Getting rid of it has me to where I'm getting about a 20% battery drain a day. I am using a zerolemon battery tho.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] vampiricsoul:
I have a excellent WiFi connection, its the my phone keeps searching from cell service and it finds a super small piece every few seconds and its making my WiFi trip. I try shutting data off but it still searchs for service. Only thing they makes it stop is taking out my sim card while at home
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
Can't you go into Airplane Mode, which will disable all radios, then enable WiFi, which will ONLY turn on wifi but maintain airplane mode?

I do that all the time, and it saves me when cell coverage is awful. That should completely disable your phone from searching for cell anything with the radio.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DrunkUncas:
I would enable all the signal related quick settings toggles and start playing with those.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] neo_rambo:
I'm having trouble with the GPS. I have tried all of the tricks the OP posted but didn't resolve my GPS lock issue.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
give us a little background and we can try to help... you coming from another aosp based rom that the gps DID work on? Or from a TW that gps did work, or....???
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DrunkUncas:
I've been screwing around with mine all day. I did the TW restore, I did the system edits, then I did the TW restore again.

GPS would work initially, then would choke when I tried it again.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fastergps&hl=en seems to have fixed it. For now. ETA: Maybe not.

I found this when I was poking around for solutions. Good luck.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
I'm still on mj9 myself here, but I have a question on flashing back to mj9 once you're off of it... is it as easy as recovery flashing a file, or do you have to odin it again like you have to in the beginning? So like say I go up to nd7, how do I get back to mj9 if I want to for any reason?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nwh5024:
I was able to flash the zips in the link I posted earlier. Much quicker than the Odin mess and all went smooth.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
okay phew! I'm just so paranoid of basebands now with this phone because of the disaster that it led to before, with me having to restore to stock and reroot and all that.

Thanks, I think I'll go up to nd7 this week when the new weekly comes out, did you wipe cache/dalvik when you flashed the radios from the zips?

I'll also try out agni this week.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nwh5024:
By default I always wipe cache and delvik whenever I flash anything, not sure why.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] neo_rambo:
I came from 4.1.2 stock root. I did a clean wipe, have the latest version of TWRP. Everything else works the rom is great I'm running on 7.2.1 version of your rom. Except for the darn GPS. I backed up this and then installed the latest Alliance rom like the OP suggested. The GPS locked on. I used GPS status app to make sure. Then I booted it into recovery backed up Alliance and recovered my slimkat backup and gps status can't lock on for some reason. Before this I tried the gps.conf file edits like suggested and that didn't work either. I'm all out of ideas.

The GPS only locks if I'm connected to my wifi, it doesn't lock and when I try to navigate to somewhere the icon jumps everywhere. I also noticed that I can only go 9hrs on a full charge which sucks. I used to be able to do 15-17hrs full use
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] thecensor:
Is it really weaker or just appears to be that way?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nwh5024:
It just shows weaker, signal strength is the same.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
That last part is super weird.. You mean it does work but only on WiFi?!

The battery issue may be the kernel lock we all experience, I would check into that. Also might try flashing agni.

What baseband are you on? Should be on mj9 or nd7 for this ROM.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jeff_in_LA:
When I was on Version 7, I had to turn the GPS radio off and on again to get a lock for Nav. Have you tried that?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] quepaso:
wrong thread
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] neo_rambo:
I'm on Mj9.

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I started using Alliance for now. I have a backup of Version 7, let me revert back to it and try that to see if that fixes it. I have tried the App Faster GPS to see if that helped and it didn't. Do you have the GPS button in your notification toggles?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jeff_in_LA:
I put the GPS button on the toggles.

I think just some Note 2's GPS radios don't work well with non TW roms. Mine is one. I had to switch because the GPS was so iffy. Sometime turning off and on the radio works, sometimes it didn't . I rely heavily on mine.. it's a shame.

Oh well. I'm up for a new device in a month or so anyway..

Good luck
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nwh5024:
Build 7.4 is up. http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23622183712459379
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
Is there a different gapps I should try to not get the Google now fc
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ControlD:
I'm running slim gapps 4.4.4 build 6-112 with fully functional Google Now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TBacker:
Is it just me, or is the home button not always responding on the first click (previous version too)?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jarm3r:
I'm running 7.4 right now from a dirty flash and at first glance it seems awesome! Thank you nwh. I will run it for a day or so and check back in.

I also upgraded to agni kernel and nd7 radio. Its like a whole new phone now lol !

Tbacker, I have had that happen, but its so rare, like once in a thousand times or something that I never really cared. Also I might have been mispressing it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] vampiricsoul:
I found nd7 radio but it says its for 4.4.2 will that make a difference? And same thing for agni kernal it says it for 4.3?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] PhilDX:
I'm using it on 4.4.4 without any problems
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
Which agni download should I use I tried 2 one I had on my phone and downloaded another and both gave me a bootloop
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyd463229:
Thank u that worked
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] mike-9254:
4 way reboot

Is there a 4 way reboot option for this ROM?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ControlD:
You have to enable advanced reboot under the security area in settings.

Just a heads up for people. I learned a lot about this ROM and what options are available by reading the FAQ at the main slim roms site. It is worth a quick read for sure.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] adamw1101:
Do you have to run the nd7 modem on this ROM? I'd like to go back to mj9 if possible
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nwh5024:
Either one. I'm on mj9
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] freddy0872:
Are you sure your not locking on to GPS using Wi-Fi enabled location? Some devices now a days will give you a location based on Wi-Fi locations. Almost every Android devices has this built in and i believe it uses Google to allocate that data.

Just a thought. Not running the ROM as i cant get away from Alliance but i popped in to check it out.