[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] internetpilot:
Well, I spent most of the day dinking around with my phone (rainy day), so I restored a nandroid from 8 days ago of my stock rooted TW NE2 ROM. Several apps updated from the Play store, including (much to my dread) SuperSU, and then SuperSU wanted to update the binaries (more dread), but to my shock and surprise everything is still running great, including root access. I actually tried to break it by using the in-app SuperSU option of uninstalling SuperSU (to switch to a different app), then reinstalled SuperSU, updated the binaries, and still no problems with losing root.

The TW ROM I'm currently running (and have been running) was, I believe, Rwilco12's stock MK4 and then I upgraded it with the MK4 to NE2 update and been running that ever since. So it has ALL the bloat in it, which I believe is why CM11 seems so much faster to me in comparison. I don't know if that explains why I've yet to be affected by this loss of root glitch that's happening to all our TW ROMs now or not, but I do know it's completely stock other than rooted and de-knoxed. I don't know if using a deodexed ROM ends up causing this or it's some other mod, but I don't seem to be encountering it on plain vanilla odex rooted NE2. I may just stick with this NE2, using Titanium Backup to clean up the bloat, and trying to tweak a few more custom features into it.

My latest CM11 experience has been great! Using NoteBuddy and the CM S-Pen add-on I was able to get back all of the S-pen functions that I typically use. I'm using Papyrus for an S-Note replacement and it honestly seems a little nicer, allowing for better organization of notes, as well as exporting the notes to PDF, jpeg, etc. I've also set NoteBuddy to automatically switch "keyboards" when I detach the S-Pen so it switches to handwriting recognition just like in TW. I have it switch to the MyScript Stylus Beta "keyboard" and the handwriting recognition actually seems more accurate than TW. I've always had a big problem with not having a dedicated number row across the top of any keyboard as well as arrow buttons (the TW Note 2 keyboard spoiled me, too!), but the Swiftkey keyboard offers that option now, and also includes a Swype-ish method of typing, so that works well for me, too. This time around with CM11 has been my best experience with CM to date, and I've been trying it since the days of CM7 on my HTC EVO4G but could never quite get it to the point that I could use it as my daily driver. I probably used the multi-window feature on my Note 2 about 1/2 dozen times, and most of those were to show other people the feature rather than actually using it. But you can even get that back in CM11 if you use Xposed and the various multi-windows/floating window add-ons. I use the heck out of multi-window on my Note 10.1 2014 tablet, but I've never used it much on the Note 2. Honestly, I don't even use the stylus much on the Note 2 compared to my tablet, but it's nice that the stylus works so well in CM11 now.

CM11 would be my daily driver ROM without reservation except the bluetooth isn't quite up to snuff. For whatever reason, Google has decided to mess with the bluetooth standards and it has all the automobile manufacturers royally ticked off because none of the newer Android phones (running Kitkat or newer) can fully connect to the bluetooth head units anymore. In my case, I get media and phone audio, but no text or email notifications, which I used to get with Kitkat TW ROM. Again, not incredible deal-killer for me, but it admittedly was kinda nice when driving down the road to have any incoming text message read to me, and I could even send canned replies back using voice commands, too. Oh, well. I may just have to get over mediocre bluetooth. We'll have to see how my trimming down with my NE2 TW goes.