[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] rudbwoy:
Preflash, my phone is(was)ANJ7 stock with FKv3

From OP1:

FireKat V6: ank4 base instructions

1. Odin Flash Stock ANK4

Did this. Followed the sticky on the general page: "EASY STEPS >>> STOCK ODIN N910TUVU1ANK4 -> CF-ROOT -> TWRP RECOVERY -> FIX -> Done!"

It rebooted and whoa, I was on ANK4 and it looked like how my phone was before. Homescreen the same, apps were there...

Booted into recovery and factory default/back to stock phone.

Rebooted. Now it is a stock ANK4 Note 4 phablet.

2. Odin Flash Chainfire Auto Root

Did this with no issues.

3. Odin Flash Twrp

Flashed version 2.8.1.1

4. Boot Into Twrp

Booted into TWRP with no issues

5. Advanced Wipe In Twrp: check only

*Dalvik

*Cache

*System

*Data

***DO NOT Wipe Internal storage

Checked the above stated items.

6. Swipe to complete Advanced Wipe

Completed with no issues.

7. Flash FireKatN4ANK4V6.zip

Copied over FKv10 onto phone before the TWRP wipe.

Flashed good, no issues.

8. Reboot

9. Let the rom rest 15 mins or so

Gave it about 30 mins.

10. Setup and enjoy the new fk goodness

Updated all apps that needed updates in Google Play Store

Took in the suggestions at the top of OP2:

1. Uncheck Force Gpu Rendering in developer options...about phone, click FireKat VXxX(whatever build your on) 10 times to unlock dev options

Done.

2. Use Wanam and Xposed to deactivate Dvsf under Advanced in Wanam...dramatic boost in responsiveness, lower running temp, no screen dimming or cpu throttling

Done.

3. Change Animation and Transition settings in developer options...set all 3 from 1.0x to 0.5x. ..another huge boost to responsiveness and speed of any launcher

Done. I do notice a difference.

4. Greenify all downloaded user apps...Dont touch system app/don't activate greenify xposed mod

Done.

5. Disable the follow apps

Samsung Push Service

Google Chrome

Google Books

Google Magazines

Google Music

Google Hangouts

Google Plus

*obviously unless you use any of the above

After the updates were done, I froze them.

6. Disable google location history and location reporting...doesn't affect maps or g now at all only stops a ton of data mining and wake locks... doesn't negatively impact google maps or now, all functions and cards work. ..just no excess data or location pings

Done.

**7. Never use power saving mode...it defeats the optimizations and tweaks I've done to make the battery life so awesome

Done as Mega suggested. I've never really used it.

Post Flash experience:

"Unfortunately Hangouts has stopped." I uninstalled updates from Play store rebooted and then froze app.

Issue didn't come back.

Restored 13K of text messages with "SMS Backup & Restore" when going into a thread and then backing out, it took 7+ seconds at times.

I noticed that it only happened once per user/thread. As if it were "reloading." doesn't happen anymore.

A constant issue with "ROM Toolbox Pro has stopped." I'm in App Manager, scrolling down the list and it locks up and crashes on me.

It happens a couple of times and then it acts "normal" after.

With JRummy's ROM Toolbox Pro

Froze:

Galaxy Apps

Milk

Music

S Health

Samsung Billing

Samsung Calendar SyncAdapter

Samsung Cloud Data Relay

Samsung Cloud Quota

Samsung Contact SyncAdapter

Samsung GALAXY Apps Widget

Samsung Memo SyncAdapter

Samsung Push Service

Samsung SBrowser SyncAdapter

Samsung Syncadapters

Scrapbook

Video

Voice Recorder

Installed Wanam Xposed and Xposed Installer

Modules in Xposed Installer:

AppOpsXposed

Battery History XXL

Greenify("unchecked")

Holo Themer

Wanam Xposed

YouTube AdAway

I had to get this up and running as fast as I could. It's my "work" phone and wanted to be mobile again.

FKv3 was good. I enjoyed it. Bought the phone on Halloween last year and not even 5 hours later, I rooted and flashed FKv3. As Mega stated, I'm going to give FKv10 a couple of days to settle.

So far, so good. Thank you Mega!