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[Windows Phone 8 Apps and Games] zkApps:
Many things happened since my last post, the most important being the Recording/Looping function, big UI change, new features including Keys in the Sampler modes, Skins and more.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] lacoursiere18:
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XDA:DevDB Information

AllianceRom 4.4.2 ND7, ROM for the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II

Contributors

lacoursiere18, Goldie, BeansTown106, Sparky b

ROM OS Version: 4.4.x KitKat

Version Information

Status: Stable

Created 2014-10-06

Last Updated 2014-12-05
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] sparx:
Nice work LaCoste...welcome a board :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bubba:
Congrats brother. I know you've worked hard on this.

Cowboy from Hell on a twisted trail.

Koffed from my Big Ass Outlaw Phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] jedijoe84:
Please be the one rom to rule them all. Gratz, I'm so excited to get my flash fix this week.

*(junkie shivers)*
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] wog81:
Christmas just came 3 months early:) Downloading!!! A HUGE THX!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bubba:
Lackluster18 haz done good

Koffed from my Big Ass Outlast Phone
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Goldie:
Good job man :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] jam2315:
So hotspot and wifi and all that still work the same I take it?? Thanks for the update and hard work u put into this :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] BeansTown106:
Congrats [MENTION=5056266]lacoursiere18[/MENTION] and thanks for Taking over the note2!! will make my thread a Q+A thread :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] lacoursiere18:
Should be good to go!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Froid:
Yeah baby yeah!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] lacoursiere18:
We kinda match Kev.. loll sig brothers
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] NunHugger:
15th...yessss. Grats man.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] AlanPototsky:
So I feel like a NOOB asking this but .... is this TW? Please say yes!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] NWNJ:
Thank you!!!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] crash613:
Any word on the dreaded gps problems that seem to plague the other 442 roms?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] glockman4519:
Love the boot animation. I can't seem to get past it though. Tried both philz and TWRP 2.8.0.0. Complete wipe of all but external the fourth flash.. Will keep trying though.

Thank you for your hard work..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] BladeDreams:
Ok...I know I'm probably going to be flamed for this...especially since you have done all of this and just dropped this rom....

are there any plans, or is it possible to bring this all up to the latest version of kitkat?

Yes.... I'm still downloading. ...

then you won't hear from me for a while lol ;)

I'll be be busy putting together everything ;)

Also - Thank you !!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Dancershrink:
I was planning on waiting for the next build or so for more features to be added, but but I am willing to immediately flash Alliance Duck Face Axle Rose. :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] crash613:
Maybe I'm just not finding it, but how do you make it so the screen doesn't turn on every time I get a text message... Had it set that way in 26 and I either don't remember how I did it or I can't find the setting

Tia
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bubba:
As a guess .. I would think the settings in the messaging app.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] crash613:
One would think.... In fact, I believe that is where it was in 26
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] S0UTHPAWK1LLA:
Wanam has that feature. Not in this build

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Crap.... I have the stuttering issue still. Thought I had it. Tried all kernel gov/schedule combos.. With/without viper. Weird. It's been an issue for this phone and 4.4.2 Roms
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] thisguyeh:
How can I remove the Alliance logo ? I remember being able to do that in build 26. Now the option isn't there.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] lacoursiere18:
Again... this is not a COMPLETE build..

I have prob over 50 settings not enabled yet... <--- key word..

I built this, what it is, in 2 weeks..these features will be in the next builds.. thank you for your patience
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] thisguyeh:
Oh no I'm sorry didn't mean it that way. I'm thankful for what you have done . I was just asking incase the option is there and I don't see it .
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] NunHugger:
[MENTION=4044446]Lethargic[/MENTION]18

It's ok man. If you had it all done...everything perfect...you would still have people wanting this or that. Tis the way of the XDA today. And remember...do this for yourself. Share with others. Many forget what this site is supposed to be about. It's a development site where peoples share their wares...their passions. Developers "allow" others to enjoy what they create. Those who try to become short order cooks get burnt out real fast.

You do you!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] S0UTHPAWK1LLA:
I hope that didn't come across wrong. I just was trying to help him out. I'm a grateful supporter of your work
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bubba:
Agreed . . [MENTION=592333]limburger[/MENTION]18 your choice .. your pace. Be the tortoise.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] NWNJ:
I can't thank you enough for this rom. It is simply amazing. The battery life is just unreal and simply the best I have ever seen. The one request that I would have is some boot animation options. I already sent my donation and I hope that the rest of you will do the same, if you haven't done so already.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] golfinglenn:
I can attest that the trick mentioned several pages back about leaving location services on and just using satelites does indeed make a marked improvement on battery life. I am still on 26 (been working crazy hours and haven't had a chance to flash 27), but I sit here at 10:00 pm, 15 hours unplugged and I am still at 50%, normally I would be down around 20. Nice catch!!!

Now a question, when flashing 27 I know I need to flash the agni kernel. Is that part of the rom, or do I need to search that out from the forum, download and flash?

Thanks,

Glenn
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] funkyboy1281:
Not part of the rom. It's in the original development forum. Probably within the first 5 threads. Make sure it's the stock one and not for CM. Just download it and flash after flashing 27
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] savaytse66:
If I'm not mistaken, you don't NEED to flash Agni; only if you are having trouble booting with the included stock kernel. When I flashed this on release day, I had no problems flashing normally with Philz (had issues with TWRP). I booted normally and had everything working just fine.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] coolpoete:
Correct, I flashed successfully coming from alliance 25 without agni. I did however wipe everything except my storage card
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] freddy0872:
Just something funny I noticed. This poor guy gets his username autocorrected into some interesting names. Lmao!

But finally had a free moment. I did my clean install. New install of xposed and some modules. Working perfectly! No wifi issues. Nothing that ruins this as my DD. Loving it! Just a few minor graphical issues here and there. But very well livable.

One thing I did notice and didn't see anyone mention. I know the rom is not complete but I use this feature alot and wanna just make sure it's put out there. When setting option to enable the home button to turn screen on when locked will not work.

Otherwise very solid and awesome work! Keep it up sir! Thank u and everyone from Team Alliance!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] allankhouri:
Waze refuses to load up, anyone else having the issue?

Waze refuses to load up, anyone else having the issue?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] mdblaze:
I am also having the root permissions errors that someone else mentioned earlier. I know it is common though with 4.4. I used philz to flash, so not a twrp isue. What is weird is every time I would format and reflash, it seems like a different area would lose root access.

Sent from my Note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] freddy0872:
Did you try flashing the latest superSU zip in recovery and updating the su binaries?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] xflbret:
Unfortunately for me, my desire to stay with the Note 2 appears to greatly outweigh the dev community's desire to come up with a solid Lollipop rom for it. And, my phone IS unlocked.

The Alliance ROM seems great, but it does gradually slow down and has several random FC's after a few weeks. I've been through it twice, and have just reflashed with something else today because of it.

For what it is worth, I also wouldn't mind seeing one last update to the Alliance ROM.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] RobFreundlich:
I was having the same problem with N3BULA, and set up a Tasker profile to reboot the phone every night just after midnight, if the phone was idle. It solved most of my problems. Can you do the same?

At some point, I hope to have the life bandwidth to switch over to Alliance, but for now, this trick has kept me going on N3BULA.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] xflbret:
Well, just a reboot didn't solve the issues I was having, so I doubt a daily automated reboot would do anything. So, I'm trying Saber right now. Bluetooth sucks ass, but on Alliance it was starting to, also. So, I figured I didn't have a lot to lose...except LTE stability. So far it is hanging in there, but I know it will fail eventually :(
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] fallen00sniper:
Were/are you running odex or de-odex?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] xflbret:
I don't know...there's only one build offered in the OP, and whatever that was is the Alliance build I was running.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] fallen00sniper:
Oh, guess I forgot lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Charlie R.:
Patching Alliance with AOSP

So how difficult would it be to compile the latest AOSP (patched) KitKat, then extract the portions required to close the exploits in Alliance?

I'm not that excited about Lollipop or Marshmallow - I'd be happy on KitKat long-term if I could fix the bugs on my phone.

I loaded a copy of NowSecure's scan app, VTS for Android, and it found 9 major flaws in Alliance.

I realize that we can't fix the Towelroot flaw as Verizon's bootloader insists that we run a vulnerable kernel, but new Stagefright libraries would certainly keep Alliance viable.

I am much more careful now when Xprivacy warns me that a new app wants a shell - I'm much more likely to refuse and/or uninstall unless the app has compelling features.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] fallen00sniper:
Compiling isn't very hard, extracting the portion needed to make patches, probably not very difficult, finding a willing person with the knowledge to do so maybe very difficult.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Charlie R.:
I have ported some crazy software in the past - the wierdest would be 1970s FORTRAN code from a VAX into modern Cygwin. I know my way around a C compiler, but not much Java.

There are complete build instructions for Cyanogenmod on the i605 here, that seem cookbook:

https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Build_for_i605

I don't know if that code base has all the needed patches, and whether the binaries it coughs up are compatible with the Samsung brain damage.

I would probably try to build this on Oracle Linux 7.2.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] fallen00sniper:
Most build it on Ubuntu, I would use xubuntu myself so more resources go to compiling and building.

I think the best bet would be to ask in a cyanogenmod thread or review the change log.

Java... well wc3schools maybe would help, I've dabbled with one tutorial and found it frustrating to learn coming from php, c would be easier for me to learn.

I wonder if I learn java if I could help patch and maybe port from newer roms so even people like me with safestrap get some kind of update.

If your interested I could maybe try and help on the weekends, I've got to study for a+ certification soon though.

I think I might have some pdf books somewhere on android a dev by the name of [MENTION=3419683]Snuzzo[/MENTION] and [MENTION=426372]they[/MENTION]callneneo gave me that could help.

Over 400mb... I'll upload them if I find them tomorrow night.

[MENTION=3180923]Lacour[/MENTION]siere, if you still read these posts, interested in helping out?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Charlie R.:
I think that replacing the mediaserver and stagefright libraries would fix most of the problems. These are native binaries, written in C (or C++) so I shouldn't need java at all.

The build process seems to pull both from Google's aosp and Cyanogenmod's git servers. It should be possible to build for CM11 to pull KitKat code from aosp, which I would think would be patched.

There is a source file called media/libstagefright/MPEG4Extractor.cpp mentioned in the Zimperium source patch, which likely compiles into the /system/lib/libstagefright.so shared object.

One problem is that the Cyanogenmod build process needs a stock phone to pull vendor binaries (drivers). I need to obtain one, since I'm not willing to wipe my note 2 back to stock nd7. I'm checking ebay.

Assuming this can be done with Alliance, it would become the safest rom for the Note 2 overnight (aside from Towelroot, which we can't fix).

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There is a KitKat version of libstagefright.so compiled for the Galaxy S3 with patches up to August 15th:

http://xdaforums.com/android/software-hacking/fix-stagefright-patched-t3173500/page3

Jiayu-S3-KitKat-stagefright_fix_1508.zip

I might try putting this on my Note 2 in the next few days.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] RobFreundlich:
I've just installed this ROM, and I'm playing around with themes and colors. I'd like to set up a theme that uses mostly light backgrounds (for dialogs, for example) and dark text. I can mostly do it, except for one thing - text input controls. I have tweaked every one of the text color settings, and none of them changes the color of the text in a text input control from white to anything else.

I believe this is the "white on white" problem that is referred to elsewhere in this thread. Unfortunately, unless I'm missing something, the solution cited by l18 (i.e. to use the S5 or 412 theme) is more of a workaround - those two themes use dark backgrounds, so the white text in an input control shows up just fine in them. That won't work for me if I want a white background.

I saw another suggestion upthread to change specific text color settings ("starting at the bottom, check numbers 2 through 4"), but that didn't work for me either - the text in a text input control remained white.

So ... *am* I missing something? Or is there just no way to change the color for text inputs?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] RobFreundlich:
Long pause at startup - trouble loading SuperSU?

I'm seeing a very long time from boot to full usability of my phone. I get to the lock screen fairly quickly, but I see the following odd behaviors:

Some widgets that display information, such as Evernote (with its list of recently-viewed notes), NoteWidget (post-it notes), and RTM (showing a task list), don't show their information for a long time

*Sometimes it clears up on its own

* Sometimes it seems to take action on my part, such as running something like ES File Explorer or SuperSU

* The apps themselves work properly during this time. Only their widgets appear to be hung
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Catlog shows a spinning cursor until everything else clears up - I discovered this while trying to use it to see what was going on

Sometimes if I open SuperSU during this period, I get an error message about the SuperSU binary being missing. If I open SuperSU again after everything clears up, I don't get that error message

* I re-flashed SuperSU from recovery. After a rebooted, the long time period didn't happen, but I got continuous popups about systemui crashing. I rebooted again, and the long time period came back but systemui didn't crash.​

Various things that usually happen at startup don't happen until this pause/long time period clears up

* Wifi connection

*Tasker startup (sometimes. Sometimes it's fine)

*Tasker AutoVoice hooking into Google Now (also sometimes/sometimes not)

*Bluetooth turning on

*Media scanner doing its scan. At first, I thought the problem was happening because of a long media scan, so I installed XPosed Media Scanner Optimizer so I could see when the scan happens and how long it takes. Now I can see that it happens after the problem and only takes about 30 seconds.
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This didn't happen when I first installed the ROM last weekend. Then it started up a couple of days ago. I had recently frozen some apps (Samsung's Email, S Planner, and S Planner Widget), so I thought that might be the cause. However, I've unfrozen them, and it didn't fix the problem.

I just now rebooted, with "adb logcat" running. I've attached a gzip of the results. In the file, there are a couple of comment-ish lines starting with "####" to indicate where interesting things happened - when I unlocked the screen, when I ran Evernote (which is one of the apps with a troublesome widget), and when the boot appears to have completed. Interestingly, running Evernote seems to have triggered whatever was holding things up - when I ran it, there was a flurry of activity in the log and in the status bar, and when I went back to the home screen, the widgets had fixed themselves.

I'm going to post this and then get to the things I'm supposed to be doing today. If I have some time later on, I'll poke through the log and see if anything jumps out at me. I'm a developer, but not on Android, so I

might

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] NB2A:
Phone recorder

Does anyone know how to access this feature please? I cannot seem to get the icon to make a recording in a call. Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] fallen00sniper:
Uninstall apps that you recently installed and install one at a time until you have the problem again, if it is still happening after they are removed try a clean flash, the white on white text is a check box that fixes it in colors, if you look through the thread I have answered it before and since I'm stuck running stock I can't look to help with the exact location and name, there should be a screen shot in my post.

Worth a shot, I would think you could simply copy a dependant file from cyanogenmod directly.

Might be wrong about that though.

Should be in the rom settings, I had found it before, but I preferred using xposed framework and Wanam to enable it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] NB2A:
I cannot seem to find the settings for the phone recorder anywhere in this rom
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] RobFreundlich:
Is that the post that said something like "from the bottom, uncheck 2 through 4"? If so, I've tried that already (before asking for help).

In fact, I've unlinked

all

of my text colors and changed them to non-white, hoping to figure out which one would fix the white-on-white problem. I got a very colorful UI that was very hard to use because of all of the color overload :), but certain text input widgets still show up as white on white (for example, the hex input display for the color picker in the text color settings).

Can you think of anything else I might try?

Thanks.

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I know I can back up my settings in Alliance Manager so that restoring my setup after I do a clean flash is easier/faster than the first time around; is there a way to back up my home screen layout as well?

Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] fallen00sniper:
Using the Alliance theme manager can back up your colors and such, a reboot may fix some of your problems, but some apps don't play well, i would use a different color than white that works with light and dark colors.

That was the post lol

Its been months since I have looked at all this stuff, hope what I can think of helps some.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] NB2A:
Call recording

Can anyone finally confirm to me where these settings are? I cannot get call recording to work at this point. I hate to have to reload the rom but without its settings I will have no choice. Thanks and happy new year.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] RobFreundlich:
It's great for that, but other than the data for my various apps (which I can backup and restore using TiBu), it's my home screen that's the most tedious to set up each time I do an install. So far, I haven't found anything to back that up :(

I don't think this is an app thing. There literally doesn't seem to be any way to change the color of the text in a text entry field, which is the color I'm talking about (see my comment in my original message about changing all of the Text colors).

If I were to rewrite the boldfaced part of the above quote to be accurate, it'd read as follows:

I would use a different

Popup background color than white

that works with

light and dark Text colors

, because you can control some Popup Text, but other Popup Text, such as that in text entry fields, will always be white.
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Sadly, I like my Popups to have white backgrounds (I prefer a lighter-colored UI in general), which is how I've gotten into this mess in the first place. I've had to compromise by picking a background color that is a light grey, but not so light that the white text entry fields disappear. /sigh

I'm glad to see I did my research correctly :)

Sadly, so far, a reboot hasn't helped. When I have some time, I'm going to poke through my original log, and will also take your original advice of uninstalling apps one-by-one to see if it helps, falling back to a clean install.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] RobFreundlich:
OK, weirdness ... I switched to the KitKat theme, tweaked some of the colors, and my startup time problem went away.

I still have the problem that text entry fields in some places use white text no matter what I do with my Text Color settings, but I can sort of live with that for now, by using a mid-to-light grey popup background.

But whatever magic the KitKat theme worked, I'll take it! I can now reboot and have a fully started phone in under 2 minutes!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] jellyhead:
So I installed this and lost root.....any ideas? I updated SuperSU but rootchecker still says root access is not properly installed. I flashed UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip from TWRP but still no root.

EDIT: I tried everything I could think of, still no root. It seemed that it was hanging when requesting SU. I've never had that problem with any other ROM, if nothing else works, it always works installing with TWRP. I wiped it and reinstalled my backup.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] fallen00sniper:
It's happened to me, read the op very carefully and if that fails I believe I used SuperSU from the ota release of this rom to fix it.

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can you post a screenshot?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] RobFreundlich:
Sure thing. Please see the attached file.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nja4k:
Nevermind..

after a few good hrs of sleep

and a few not so good hrs almost bricking it.

everything is back up and running.

not good to flash new recoveries jetlagged

Dan
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nja4k:
Callerid
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] DaveKnowsAll:
I just dropped my NOTE 4 and picked this up for the first time in over a year. Updated Alliance ROM from a previous install of Alliance (build 26 I believe, with a full wipe in between). Lost root as well. Did you figure it out?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] glockman4519:
Which superSu versions are you using? I use 2.52 beta and it works just fine. You could try that.

"Chance Favors the Prepared"
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jaws4God:
i'm downloading this ROM.. is anyone running it on an older unlocked version of the Note II ? i'm currently on MC3

I do NOT want to flash the MJ9 firmware and lock my bootloader..

Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jaws4God:
i was trying to find this answer.. anyone know?

Thanks!