yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] fallen00sniper:
I don't think so, I've done it the same way and haven't had a problem yet.

Make sure you do your back up to the external like i do and you should be fine.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] guitarist5122:
Thanks a lot for your work! Your commitment to this device is very accreciated.

Along with saying thank you, I want to share a crazy experience I've never seen in my 5 years of rom'ing. Hopefully it might help someone else.

I was on a 4.4 rom (yes, MJ9 as required) and wanted to give this one a whirl since I has getting boared. I did the typical wipe of everything several time and even formatted my internal memory for good measure. After install of the Rom, my phone hung at the Samsung logo. Having been here before, I wiped and flashed again. Same thing. A few battery pulls later, the Alliance boot animation popped up.....and just stayed there. I've see bootloops, but this wants a bootloop. After giving about 20 min to fix itself, it never did. Several retries got me no where. I'm on TeamWinRecovery that is not up to date, but not terribly old either. Figured, ok, lets grab the latest TWR. Nothing. Ok, never tried Philz, but we'll give it a shot. Nothing. Everything I could think of got me nowhere. Mind you, at this point I've tried other ROMS and did an md5 check some of this one. Being that I could still use recovery just fine, I knew there was a solution. I thought, well before I return this thing to complete stock, lets give the official stock rooted/unaltered MJ9 rom a flash. That did it! Don't know why no other rom would flash until that, but I am now happily on this Allliance rom.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] hugeyeti:
SCH-1605 need some guidance

Step 1-

Ensure you running at least MJ9 (I do have: 1605VRUEMJ9)

Step 2-

Make Sure You Have a Custom Recovery - Philz is preferred (Why Philz? I have TWRP v2.4.4.0)

Step 3-

Before rebooting, on Alliance already? Delete Alliance folder in sdcard!! (you mean factory reset? or Dalvik Cache?) My alliance folder in sdcard

Step 4-

Put zip on sdcard. Select Install zip. Install (ok I will do that)

Step 5-

Reboot! (ok will do)

Step 6-

Let apps from playstore update. Open Alliance Manager and choose Theme!! (ok.. that should be a breeze)

I've been out of the ROM scene for a bit. That said, I have the following:

SCH-1605

Android Version: 4.3

Baseband version: 1605VRUEMJ9

Kernel: 3.0.31

Alliance Version: Build 25

Base Version: AllianceROM_1605VRUEMJ9

Hardware version: 1605.06

Step 2: Ok to use TWRP?

Step 3: Factory reset? dalvik? find the darn folder and wipe it all? My alliance folder in sdcard only has ONE file: backupdb.conf and I do not know how to delete it once I am on TWRP menu. Delete it with RootExplorer prior to entering recovery??

Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] tanium:
Sorry team I understand this is not question and answers.

The rom is wicked all except for the trap you set for me.

Phone was ringing while I was in the shower and my wife picked it up.

What's on the screen.

A picture of a very nice looking young lady.

The wife was not very happy.

I went on for 10 min trying to tell her the development team did it.

she is not buying it.

How do I change the unknown caller background picture.

I can't seem to find the setting on this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] fallen00sniper:
Go back a few pages or 30,is been answered over and over and over...

You can download a modified incallui or copy it from build 29 and it will remove the girl, but be the old ui look, I've found i prefer the old dialer for button placement, i however miss the pretty girl. Lol

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Because philz works better with this rom and didn't have the looping issue, if twrp is working properly, I'd like to know so i can have it again lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] hugeyeti:
Thanks!

"Because philz works better with this rom and didn't have the looping issue, if twrp is working properly, I'd like to know so i can have it again lol "

Ok.. sounds like this site is the way to go: http://www.theandroidsoul.com/verizon-galaxy-note-2-sch-i605-philz-touch-advanced-cwm-recovery/ <-- Hope it goes smooth. Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] stueycaster:
The buttons being in a different place than the Version 29 incall.ui made the speakerphone setting not work for me. The only one I could use is version 29.

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That link leads to an older version. Is that the plan? That is for version 6.15.4. The latest is 6.48.4 as it states here.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] hugeyeti:
"That link leads to an older version. Is that the plan? That is for version 6.15.4. The latest is 6.48.4 as it states here.[/QUOTE]

Thanks. Took me a while to find the original link (per the forums). This is obviously upto date. Coolbeans. :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] xflbret:
Several posted methods didn't work for me for whatever reason. This one did. Post #1277. I just wanted to post and inform everyone that this method does indeed work. It was a little cumbersome for me, but that was more because of the user unfriendliness of my root explorer than anything else.

For the record, I like Asian women, and I like big breasts. I like those two things mixed together. And, seeing as how my wife is Asian, I don't think she would get insecure by my attraction to Asian women. My primary complaint with the photo is that it didn't mix well with the call interface. A darker photo works much better with the call interface. My secondary complaint is that, for whatever reason, the Asian woman UI seemed to trump users Google and Facebook photos, which I don't want it to. The one in the fix attached does not do that.

This fix REALLY should be in the OP, or maybe the second or third posts. Don't get angry with people because they don't want to wade through 200 pages. I personally wouldn't mind seeing version 31 with the Asian woman gone, and better battery life. I really love this rom, but I hate how much I have to recharge my phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] JeramyEggs:
Battery life is good if you use amplify, and greenify. 5 hours screen on with 14 hours usage. Not shabby....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] droidx2.3.3:
I have a little problem.

I was running build 30 since it came out and up until a few days ago.

I went to an asop ROM to give it a try again and it flashed fine. But I found they are still too buggy for my liking so I wanted to flash this ROM again.

I went to flash (using philz) and it flashed fine. But when I try to boot, it just will hang at the alliance screen forever.

Its not a boot loop as it will look like it's going fine, but it will never pass that scree and won't restart unless I pull the battery.

I have tried another touch whiz ROM and it booted fine, but it wasn't this one haha.

I made a back up but something happened to it since it says failed right away.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] tanium:
Same here worked for me to.

But root explorer would not move the file.

Just kept telling me failed to move.

JRroottools file browser worked fine.

I don't think we should be calling this a fix.

More of we wanted to alter the devs work.

I liked the picture myself. Love looking at all of them :)

I didn't mean to start all that back up. Thought it was a setting in the custom stuff I couldn't find.

I'll bet the development could add that type of stuff in.

But I think this rom and phone going to fade away now maybe.

I have a LG G2 sitting in a desk. Picked up the note 2 for 100 bucks new.

I love this rom and the keyboard is so nice and big.

The rom is fantastic one of the best I've used.

Thank you guys for the rom and users helping point the direction to the one change I wanted to do so my wife would not put the device in the toilet :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] fallen00sniper:
If she is going to toss it lol i could use a replacement lol

My screen has been cracked for almost a year, maybe i should get it replaced lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] xflbret:
I have another problem with this rom I can't figure out...

When I mount is as a media device, none of my windows computers will let me transfer files to it. When I boot to Philz recovery I am able to mount it as a USB in there and do my file transferring just fine. So I know it isn't a computer/cable/SD card problem.

How can I fix this?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] fallen00sniper:
Anyone else having issues with voice commands not working for music and alarm, haven't tried the others yet.

Scratch alarm, music app only.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] ProfEngr:
Need some speculation or good suggestions...

It's not consistent, but more often than not if a text comes in while I have a streaming app running or an active phone call the phone goes stupid. 3 times today the notification sound got hung and didn't stop for over 30sec while I was on a call. Sometimes it just makes the UI run slower than a snail. Most of the time it will crash or prevent the proper restart of my radio streaming apps.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] nja4k:
Hey guys. Is it possible to reset all the color options back to stock ?

Even running different themes I'm getting a few odd color combos which are illegible.

Dan
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] lacoursiere18:
Apply S5 theme..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] fandi1:
Hi all

I would like to ask something here. I just looked at my dropbox account. Its ready to expire in July... I have 50G with "Samsung and dropbox" promotion.

Questions are ;

what will happen when account expires? Will it auto reset? Will data be lost? Do I need to start a backup? I have like 35G of data I would not want to be lost. What needs to be done?

please let me know.... thanks

:confused:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] dikkebas:
:silly: Like perhaps ask on Dropbox forum, not in a Note2 rom development thread?

btw nothing will happen to your data, just won't be able to upload anything to DB anymore:cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] thechaoz:
Ever figure this out? This would be a huge problem for me
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] xflbret:
I downloaded something called "folder mount". Once it got root access, right away it said something to the effect of "Hey, I found a problem, you want me to fix it for you?"...one reboot later the problem was gone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] plainbum:
I can't change my wallpaper to anything but another 'live' wallpaper. Either through long press or settings/ display. Btw. I just applied the S5 theme.

Thank you for any input
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] JeramyEggs:
I think you need folder mount too, but could be wrong. Been so long since I experienced this........
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] stueycaster:
The fix for this problem is baked into the rom. In the app drawer there's an app called "Int-SDCard Write Fix". Just call it up and fix it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] snobb:
Background during phone call

Hey guys, great ROM here! I recently acquired this phone through a friend and was very happy to find out I could root and safestrap to customization paradise. I'm having a problem, though. I was messing with the themes through settings button -> set theme on the home screen. One of the themes(meiniu) set my in call phone screen background to a background image that I very much do not want. Switching to another theme doesn't get rid of it, nor does using the Alliance Manager custom settings theme loader. I've searched around a bit and can't find an answer. There's mention of looking for the PNG file in /system/apps/Phone.apk, but I can't find the file. I did try to push the InCallUI.apk from the original alliance zip, but that didn't do anything either. Any solutions or even leads in the right direction would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for all the hard work you do!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] stoph8n24:
Did u try pushing this file?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=57628829
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] alarmo:
Thanks.

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Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] anaya1213:
Yes. Shouldn't I? It's worse now, now it connects 5 seconds later disconnects.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] MADDAN18:
Yes. Did you flash via Oden or a .zip? It's sounding like a radio issue.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] lacoursiere18:
This is not my expertise but I am pretty sure radios..like what you are referring too have notHong to do with wifi..

Your radio relates to signal and data/4g speeds..

I would do a full wipe and reflash..

Those people having booting issues.. we're you running Agni prior to this? If so.. you need to completely wipe your /system..full wipe on all aspects of the phone..

Agni leaves traces a lot of places and can cause issues..

Thanks [MENTION=4207059]sparky b[/MENTION]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] viper31573:
just had my 1st issue. picked up phone, and pressed home button, wouldnt turn on. pressed power button, wouldnt turn on. had to pull battery
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] coolpoete:
coming from Alliance 25, flashed with TWRP, wiped everything except for external storage and flashed with no problems, everything working so far except quick unlock on entering pin does not seem to work. No biggie..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Crotty.Josh:
Don't want to rain on the parade

I'm more then happy that this project has been picked back up. I'm crazy happy that its been updated to 4.4.2. Something though is bothering me. Why did a new developer come in and pick up on the naming scheme and throw us off. I initially thought well if its 27 it should dirty flash just like any other Alliance distro that has been release. Then before long and a couple boot loops later I figure out the other switch-a-rew that was pulled. Shady shady shady. Calling it AllianceRom is great if your taking the Rom into the same direction. Taking the distro release number and picking up where the last left off. GREAT! On the other hand if you take the number and run with it and don't give full warning that its a new take on an old project. You have honestly cost me some serious time. Release "27" is not a succession to 26 and therefor does not allow dirty flashing. More over there is a lot broken that was not broken in 26. So unless this is a nightly....which should be labeled as such.... Then this is just misdirection and a shady move. Call it what it is AllianceRom 4.4.2 v1. Nothing more nothing less. That way everyone who comes along does not expect rock solid like 26 was. :(

Sense installing the "27" I am not able to recover my backup of 26. More over I have been without a phone for a day now. Which was never the case with 24...25.....26.............

Let me set the record strait. THANK YOU for picking up the project. Just be honest when you come along. This "27" ropadope puts me on the fence.:confused:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] funkyboy1281:
Not trying to be an ass but to be fair it was announced in the original thread that he would be taking over. Also since it's was going from 4.3 to 4.4.2 it's best start fresh and not dirty flash which was mentioned earlier. As for the rom itself it works really well.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Znomon:
The problem isnt the new developer. It is the fact you dirty flashed 4.4.2 over 4.3. That is what caused most of your issues. The 'new developer' is still a member of the alliance team the same team that beanstown is part of. And becaause the build has been updated from 4.3 to 4.4.2 there are a lot of hiccups along the way because it is a new version of android. as with all new updates to roms with new versions of android there will be a window of time where there will be a lot of bugfixes. Just keep patient and it will all be ironed out :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Crotty.Josh:
Theres always going to be someone...

I knew someone would take what I said and look for something to be mad about. My main goal was to get across that say "27" was a tricky little thing to do. Mainly for those of us who see it and thing..... This must be a logical progression from the previous 26. Lets just say that this is far from a logical progression. Also would like to lay to rest that knowing when and not when to dirty flash is not obvious to everyone. Although the previous releases of AllianceRom would tell you right off the bat most of the time when you should fresh. This one did not specify. Although I did try both ways. That being said the dirty flash has not been the only issue to come out of this. Not that I do not expect issues for "newish" project, but "27" again does not indicate "newish". To which I'm sure you'll say 4.4.2. To which I will say you made my point. Should have said 4.4.2 v1

That all out of the way. The issues I have had so far. With a ND7 Firm in place. I can fresh install. Although with the fresh install my Wifi does not work. I have attempted to install AGNI kernal in every which manner I can think of. Once I attempt to install the AGNI, I simply get boot loop. To be clear. Yes I am wiping everything before each type of attempt. Now.... I am not able to restore my v26 backup. I'm still try lots of things to bring that back. Because as far as I'm concerned at the moment, that's my daily driver. I suspect I am going to have to fresh install v26, but lord help me if I have to start new after all of this heartache. Returning me to my previous statement. This should never have been labeled 27.

Also.....I realise this is not a "brand new fresh from the plastic" developer. I simply meant new head of project..... and even with that I did not mean much by it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] NWNJ:
I was using AGNI prior but I did wipe all, including internal storage. The only thing I did not wipe is my external storage. It would not boot in TWRP initially, so I installed Philz, then AGNI, then it booted up. I have since gone back to TWRP and it works but I again had to wipe internal storage prior to restoring my backup once. Must be some problem with TWRP. It did restore in TWRP, but only did so properly after wiping internal storage.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] TheMyth:
You must not keep up with the ROM. Otherwise you would have seen the change of the developer (not a no name person either).

Anyone takes a chance dirty flashing any ROM at any time. It's no one's fault except for yours not taking all precautions.

Not to sound like I'm ranting on your parade, but this is further development of Alliance Rom. I haven't flashed the new update from Build 26 because of seeing the bugs that ppl are having. But will be soon! Take your own precautions. ;)

The Old One
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bubba:
Just a little advice on flashing. If your flashing a Rom it is ALWAYS best to start fresh. It may work fine to dirty flash some things. But for the best experience you should start fresh.

Your comment on it not being obvious is invalid. You state that you New you were going from 4.3 to 4.4 ... if that wasn't a big enough clue, maybe you should either do more research and learn or stop risking your phone by blindly flashing when you don't know what you're doing.

As for the name ... when you build your Rom feel free to name it however you want. He's free to name it how he wants...even Alliance Duck Face Axle Rose if he'd like.

Koffed from my Big Ass Outlaw Phone
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] KuNiT:
I have never had AGNI installed. I came from Stock B26 with TWRP. Flashed everything completely including internal memory in TWRP. Flashed Philz, wiped again 3 times, installed B27 and could not boot. Had to flash AGNI in order to boot. Not a huge deal, I am partial to stock Kernel but damn my battery life is pretty nasty on this ROM/AGNI. I'm at 70% on my 2nd day with very moderate use. Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] S0UTHPAWK1LLA:
Its under the notification settings in the Message settings.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] plainbum:
Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] JeramyEggs:
Hey Brian, just wanted to say this looks awesome. Hanging back on the s5 port until a few of the bugs are squashed. Just wanted to say it is good to see you active again, and hope the pregnancy is going well. Thanks for all that you do.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] xan3x:
Is there a way to root on 442(latest ota) phone was replaced by insurance and no root , would love to put this rom on since its my fav.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] firewater88:
Pretty sure if he named it Alliance Duck Face Axle Rose , I would still install it. I really like L18's builds. They are super solid, even for a "pre" release, if you want to call it that. There are still things to work out and for him to add in, but he was gracious enough to post this build because he thought it was stable enough for a DD, which it is for me and many others. He is busy with life and whatnot and still has time to push new roms for an aging device (only by calendar, I guess... the Note II still is great hardware)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bubba:
Agreed .. plus if he took months to build it and had every single mod working and zero issues ... what the heck would he do with his time? lol. He has done an awesome job in a short amount of time. He has been a great asset to the team. We are glad to have him ... there is a ton of behind the scenes work that goes into this rom due to the heavy modifications that give us all these goodies. I am quite impressed with how quickly he built it with all that is included so far. But I still like the Alliance Duck Face Axle Rose title ... just screams Flash me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] glockman4519:
Also here is that file that is in a flashable zip that can be flashed from recovery if you don't know how to push a file to your system and change permissions. Just download to internal storage, reboot to recovery and flash the zip, then reboot to system.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByTpk6hgHRa5MGtJNy13eVFxQ2s/edit?usp=docslist_api

"Chance Favors the Prepared"
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] snobb:
That did the trick, thank you! I feel rather dumb for not realizing it was default from the ROM and pushing the same file back over it, but hey....

And thank you glockman for the flashable zip... appreciate it even though it wasn't needed. :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] dsteinschneider:
Fixed this by going back to stock, then back to AllianceROM VZW 26 - then Build 30
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] AustinTylerDean:
How do I change my settings to get this dialogue box to show?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] roblikeschocolatecake:
So I was looking through this thread a bit...

From what I understand, I am able to flash this rom using Safestrap?

I'm on 4.4.2 and rooted via ghettoroot.

Back in the day this phone was rooted with beans rom on it, not sure what exactly happened but it got bricked, finally got it unbricked the other day using odin and stock nd7 file. Got it rooted just yesterday with ghettoroot after some complications, now really hoping I can get alliance rom on here...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kwick85:
VPN, I am attempting to use the baked in vpn client which starts but then stops minutes later. Anyone experience this as well and have a fix?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] roblikeschocolatecake:
Well, I installed safestrap.... went to a new rom slot, gave it a bunch of data and then proceeded to flash the alliance build 30 zip. it looked okay but it never opened up aroma installer or anything, and then i booted into it and it just shuts off after booting. like it wont get past the safestrap boot screen at all. the stock rom slot works fine, but i dont know what im doing wrong?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] glockman4519:
You can only flash to the stock rom slot. They never got the other rom slots working. Thats one of the reasons you have to flash a rom with the same kernel.

When I decided I was going to keep this phone for a while i sent it to Mobile Tech Video to have the "downgrade" service done on it. That way I could unlock my bootloader again and flash what I wanted.

But thank god for Safestrap or a lot of us would still be stuck on stock rom.

"Chance Favors the Prepared"