[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] julian67:
A working kernel for GT-N7000 - Lanchon you deserve a medal!

Just posting to express my appreciation to Lanchon for a kernel which really works. I bought my used (but unmarked screen) GT-N7000 in May 2014 on ebay.co.uk for a very good price with the expectation that I would soon be happily running CM or Omnirom. Unfortunately I quickly understood that the AOSP and CM and other ROMs had several severe problems, all deriving from one horrible bug, so I reverted to rooted Samsung TouchWiz JellyBean - not perfect, not kewl, not l33t, but it does actually work. I had felt pretty burned after reading about a zillion "works like a charm" type testimonials and then find finding the referenced ROMs were fundamentally broken. Meanwhile I 've also been running CM11 on a B+N Nook HD so I appreciate CM can be a really high quality experience and a true daily driver. So I checked into xda regularly more in hope than in expectation and to my delight and surprise in this last week I find Lanchon, through persistence, determination, expertise and probably a stubborn streak a mile wide, has fixed the killer bug. Holy ess aich aye tee!

It took me a couple of days to decide to again try CM on my Note. I knew I always risked bricking it. I remembered how tedious and unreliable the install process can be and how far the docs and collective wisdom and fanboi testimonials deviate from anything that might actually be real. But a working kernel???? OK, proceed:

On my Note with TouchWiz 4.1.2 rooted but no custom recovery I booted to regular recovery and installed a signed Philz cwm. Then I was able reboot, check everything still worked, back up and then reboot and install a recovery up to date enough to allow CM11 install. The I installed raw_kernel_r4_j43. Finally I was able to install a cm11 nightly, boot it and configure. Then I installed Lanchon's FP fixed kernel. It worked! Then I decided to try Lanchon's FP fixed TRIM enabled kernel. It worked! Finally I switched from Dalvik to ART. It took a good 15 minutes to switch runtime but it works!

It's actually now a very slick experience. It isn't perfect because my Samsung Desktop Dock is now consigned to paperweight duty which is a big shame (no more Line Out to amp), and despite it being desperately uncool and unkewl to say so, there are a few things about TouchWiz which Samsung got right (for example, I don't think any non-Samsung OS gets close to Samsung's power management/battery life). Some things are a huge improvement such as boot and shutdown times, and the utterly hideous noise gate bug is almost consigned to history - anyway it is usable enough that I can listen to Chopin's Nocturnes without the damn sound cutting out while notes decay. This constitutes success and major progress (what a crappy bug, Samsung deserved a lot more bad publicity for this).

Anyway I now have a Galaxy Note GT-N7000 with UPnP client, samba browsing, beautiful sound quality, VPN client, nice performance, great multimedia support, very responsive interface and the prospect of being able to continue happily using the same device for several years.

Thanks Lanchon. Nominate a cause and I will make a donation. If the cause is you personally that is fine with me.

p.s. even the camera works really well these days (it used to be truly awful on ROMs), thanks to the Focal app (I got it on F-Droid). Success!