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[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] paitobp:
Hi Mega,

I've been on this forum since the Vibrant days and usually read more than I post, but here's my first post on this thread. First of all thank you for the awesome job you have done for the N4 in such a short amount of time!￼ Firekat is by far the best Rom I've run in any of my phones. Everything runs fast, smooth and so far without any hick ups. The one thing that's astonishing to me is how you have been able to optimize and tweak this Rom to make our N4s what they should have been and allow us to enjoy the full potential and capabilities of our device. Samsung made the N4 just a little better than the N3, but you made it lightyears better. The speed, smoothness and battery life is just ridiculous! No words can express my sincere gratitude, but Thanks is the only word on our dictionary that's somewhat close! I know you don't do it for the donations, but perhaps, if you have charitable institution of your choice, I will defenitely drop a donation on your behalf!

Here are my battery life screen shots.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] Thee_illuminati:
What's up guys....I was wondering if any of you use android restore or cloud account? There is an option for android to auto restore your apps if I'm not mistaken and also backup of cloud under Samsung account. Do any of you turn these features on when setting up a newly flashed rom? I'm curious for the responses
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] Josh McGrath:
It's been said many times that any kind of app backup stuff can cause issues. It's always best to reload the app via the market. I restore only a select few apps and I don't even like doing that really. So, best to avoid it, but if you can't, it could cause issues.

Edit... Unless you're talking about the google app restore when you log in. That's fine, but it doesn't restore app data, just the app itself. I use that constantly
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] gnash.s:
Do you mind sharing the font that you are using? Looks darn good. Appreciate it.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Wow man thank you very much for the amazing feedback and appreciation...im psyched the roms have turned out so well for everyone...it's really very much appreciated man what an amazing suggestion...speaking of that reminds me to look into those boxes but yea I am actually gonna start a donation box and do a raffle for a n4 with a one of custom rom and my personal setup on it someone will win...how do you like your gear s? I'm in love with mine lol so impressed by it enjoy the roms bro

Mega

Ps lol yea def mind blowing battery life lol I'm def impressed my setup isn't that efficient haha
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Yea man I appreciate it because it helps so many people save themselves from trouble...gf and i just walked in so I'm gonna do the op edit in a little bit...but def thanks for looking out and verifying the method for me.

Mega

I updated the op with canadian instructions...can you do me a favor and send me the link the the kernel thread if you think of it next time your over there and I'll add it to the instructions. Thanks man
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
No none are automatic...that would be horrible lol...but tbh I've never done this but i would just go thru the play store it'll be faster than a server restore imo

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] Thee_illuminati:
Yeah I was talking about the one at login....that restores just your apps.....but I guess I was also referring to the one that's under user and backup/Cloud

There are a few options that restore sms, wallpaper and mms. I believe it doesn't restore any other settings though
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] paitobp:
Well, I have to give credit were it was due [emoji6]...

The charity contribution came about because I've done that before, is more like a pay it forward thing. I give of what I have because you never know if some day it'll be me needing the help. As for the Gear S, I'm really liking it. I'm an avid runner and just being able to leave my phone at home and forward my calls to my gear when I'm out on a run is just enough for me to love it. It's still in its infancy, but I have high hopes that development will pickup and we will have some great apps for it. Besides, there's nothing out there right now that can do anything stand alone like the gear!
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] gregk232:
Here is a practical question. Do we even need a V5? Seriously, this is perfect :)
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] PlatinumNick:
lol i hope v5 is lollipop
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] gregk232:
But then we can't call it FireKat anymore.

FirePop?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] RaymondPJR:
Lol! That reminds me of my trip to Hilo almost two years ago. I saw, 'Mahalo'on a trash can. I was like, 'lookit me learnin' Hawaiian! I already know the word for trash can, lol!' I got corrected real fast!
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Hahahah that's hilarious dude

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
I'm just glad they didn't name it key lime pie like kk or 5.0 had been rumored...that would've opened up a whole can of worms lol...firepievx lmao idk how well that'd go over hahah

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] loaferkan:
Those of you who tested this rom:

How is the finger printer scanner on this rom.....does it work properly?

2nd, does it has the unlimited wifi tethering mode unable, or if I downloaded the mode posted would that work on it?

Thanks....
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] CheesyNutz:
Search the topic
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] CheesyNutz:
Yea .... but you can't do a simple search?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] denson9874:
Fingerprint scanner works for me at least. [emoji4] now as far as tethering is concerned it worked when I used it, so I find it safe to say that yeah it works
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] inco9nito99:
Mega, what do you think of this? I just realized FB started to take up a lot of battery, (this wasn't the case a few days ago). I have used boot manager/greenify to turn off things and it seems like I should be able to get more battery as I am on the second to last step before the dimmest screen setting.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] shook187:
I'm not Mega, but did you try basic 101? Uninstall and reinstalling? Is auto play video off, from within the app?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] CheesyNutz:
facebook is fine here i would remove it and reinstall it
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] PlatinumNick:
did you greenify facebook?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] elite-fusion:
Is anyone able to get wifi tether router to work? I get it to work, but my local xp machine at work does not see a network with the wifi name, but when i use the native hotspot app, it works and finds it... any ideas?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] gregma:
Do you now recommend that users do not freeze the apps like stated in OP2? Just leave everything be?

Thanks!

Greg
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Read the last two line of my quoted posts lol once you get past disabling those few google apps and play services you start getting onto sketchy grounds

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Well considering the Facebook update just used 32% of your battery life or almost 900 maph of the 2800 maph used...that's insane...def go back and greenify if that's the drain greenified I'd either uninstall it until next update or revert back to previous apk of fb

For reference you should get min 5 hours screen time at full brightness. ..at min brightest I would almost expect that to be double...not quite but just under...and you can see it in the 6 to 8 hour screen on times...but Facebook alone is working you over pretty bad

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] msherman123:
First time user of this rom. I just wanted to say thanks. It took care of all the lag issues and other minor things I was facing and becoming frustrated with!
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] fadi33:
battery getting better and better. i feel bad for other N4 users who dont have this ROM. they dont know what their phone can really do

Once again, thanks Mega. you really have outdone yourself.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AtrixBomb:
frozen flash ???

Mega! I am in the process of flashing V4 of your Rom on top of V3 which I installed before, but stopped putzing around with V3 as I had trouble backing up my data and decided to wait for V4.

I verified the md5 of the V4 download, factory reset, after which I couldn't find any fingerprint scans to delete, and then followed your instructions from "5. Wipe (DO NOT DIRTY FLASH MY ROMS) with Advanced"

Now I am caught still flashing in TWRP.. but paused on: "Flashing file 1 of 1 /external_sd/FireKatN$DeodexV4.zip" (the spiral bar that signals it is doing something is no longer moving)

It went through: Updating partition details... etc., Wiping Dalvik Cache Directories... etc., Formatting System using make_ext4fs function... etc., Formatting Cache using make_ext4fs function. Updating partition details. . .

and that is where it stopped. I'm plugged in, trying to finish the flash.. Please advise how to proceed? :)
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AlkaliV2:
Solution for: White Noise, hissing, musical hiss, etc.

I've discovered that the white noise is created by Adapt Sound from SoundAlive. If you turn off Adapt Sound musical white noise is drastically reduced (not gone in quieter pieces of music, like classical or single instrumental music).

Background

My first install of FireKat v4 I had forgotten I setup Adapt Sound before I installed Viper4Android and subsequently set it up to work in calls, music, tones, etc. So, when I did install Viper4Android one of my first settings was to boost playback gain (AGC) and this amplifies the sound so you don't have to raise the volume as much while bringing out the music very well. But since I had Adapt Sound enabled it was amplifying the white noise/hissing as well causing me to become very frustrated thinking it was my setup. After going back to stock, blaming Viper4Android in my last post, and re-testing music in my fresh FireKat v4 install I can say without a doubt in my mind that if you run Adapt Sound during your music you will likely hear white noise or a hiss and even installing Viper4Android over it will NOT undo what Adapt Sound has setup. You will have to disable Adapt Sound (uncheck the box) and then install Viper4Android, reboot, choose it from the Music Effects Menu, install the driver, reboot and profit. I hope this helps someone else that might experience this problem. :good:
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AtrixBomb:
shall I pull the battery to kill it, just confirming that isn't a big no no in the middle of a frozen flash... not really sure what else I can do though, then go into reboot recovery and repeat?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AlkaliV2:
If you are willing to do that, do this:

Pull the battery and then hold the power button for 3 seconds with the battery removed to clear the capacitors.

Reinsert battery and boot into recovery and follow the wipe procedures.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] echto:
battery life

No complaints here. Good job OP and thank you.

[IMG="note 4 battery life"]http://i.imgur.com/gb4Q7o5.jpg[/IMG]
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AtrixBomb:
Pulled battery, held power for 3+ secs, rebooted to recovery, wiped as stated, powered off for a minute, then on to recovery mode (yea, at least it went back into recovery), flashed the FireKatV4.zip, and it showed:

Updating partition details. . .

Full SELinux support is present.

MTP Enabled

and then very quickly went back to the TWRP menu, but now it is back to the flashing file 1 of 1 screen (with the text above showing), but doesn't seem to be doing anything (no movement in the progress bar)... seemingly I need to pull the battery again to get it out of this condition.

FYI: When powering off via TWRP, it warned that I have no OS installed, and that I'm not rooted, and do I want to install superuser (I declined).... in case that is telling.

EDIT: I copied the ROM to a new SD card and installed with no trouble... seems my other SD card is going bad, or is bad... luckily this was an easy fix. Thank you AlkaliV2 for making the suggestion!
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] PlatinumNick:
what was your screen on time for this 2 minutes lol?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Sorry I would never have figured you set that up then enabled viper man...tbh i would never have considered adaptive sound as the cause but makes sense because you essentially added a 3rd arbitrary compressor and gain booster...least we managed to trace it down and now you know what trap to avoid [emoji106] nice

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Just to make sure. ...tmo n4 or Canadian?

Twrp version?

And if you flashed any non fk roms did you odin stock ANJ7 before flashing my roms?

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Gawd I love this phone more everyday lol...

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AlkaliV2:
Lol I didn't even remember enabling it and there was no way you could have known. I don't even know how to get to Sound Alive any way other than through the Equalizer setting in my Play Music app. But I learned my lesson and I was glad that you had me try all the logical things to rule out bad hardware before I rolled back into T-Mobile looking for an exchange.

I didn't want to clutter the thread with haphazard advice, so I sent him a PM and he is trying one more piece of advice that I offered him. However, it did not even occur to me to ask him what model phone he was flashing. What a rookie move on my part.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
No not at all...just as the oddity with sound alive. ..mixing several note models flashing with the issues of 4.4.4 on top of a zillion unique setups...and then piecing together a fix or source of an issue thru very little information is almost impossible...now you see why I always lay out a sort of box for a problem to rule out things deductively because to pinpoint it given the circumstances unless specifically experienced by someone else is almost impossible

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AtrixBomb:
Mega, not to clog the thread, but I have a resolution (edited into my last post)... seems I had a bad sd card. Other sd card installed fine.. woo hoo... thank you!
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] SiNJiN76:
IS there a way to make the auto brightness while outside more like it was with the Note 3 ? Without the overblown colors.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AlkaliV2:
Color

Go to Settings > Display > Screen Mode and choose which of those colors look best to you in normal lighting

You can also try unchecking "Auto Adjust Screen Tone" for stock auto-brightness and see if that does the trick

If you want further control over how bright your screen is overall you can grab

Xposed Framework and Install Wanam Xposed

Once you've activated the Wanam module and rebooted open Wanam and go to Theme > Use Auto-brightness detail and make sure than box is checked.

This allows you to adjust overall auto-brightness level from -5 to +5 depending on whether you think it is too bright or too dark.

Outside of those options you'd need a dev to offer some sort of color adjustment likely through a custom kernel like KToonsez offered on the S5 where you could adjust the overall screen tone color.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] n3gkiwi:
Does this rom have a "close all" shortcut? For example, could I link it to one of my hard button? Not sure if something like this can be done with Xposed.... Yeah, I realize it is quite lazy to not want to press recent apps and then close all...

EDIT: I have been messing around with zooper (as I learned that is how mega makes those nice weather widgets). I have a shortcut there to auto hibernate apps with greenify. Would be nice to have a close all apps / clear ram shortcut as well .
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] force70:
Ive used both tmo and canadian twrp versions on my canadian device just to see what would happen and they are 100% interchangeable. I can flash and backup with one version and restore that backup with the other:thumbup:

Could be useful to know if the question ever comes up lol
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] goldeman:
ive been using viper for years and have pretty much tweak my settings to perfection. but for some reason i cant get rid of the muddy sound on this phone when playing music at high volume either through headphones or an aux cable? i completely uninstalled soundalive.

nevermind i reread OP and it says he raised the volume by 10 decibels. anyway i can change it back to default?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Your just over driving the sound...the volume increase and sound quality enhancements helps the sound quality alot... just leave the volume at normal levels instead of red lining it like we had to on stock

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Speaking of zooper here's the newest on I've been working on..i ripped the background from the s5 widget lol....and no lol never seen that mod

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] n3gkiwi:
How did you get that last updated content?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
I figured out the zooper coding by tinkering around a little...just copy and paste this into edit text line

#WLRM/d h:mm#

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Just an FYI guys...i finally broke down and started the donation box...so it should be live now and all set up with my PayPal...depending on how things go with it ect...but i def plan on doing a kitted out n4 raffle or something cool if it gets up to that kind of point...will def keep everyone posted as we go.

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AlkaliV2:
So, I know that it isn't functional yet, but I am crazy excited that KToonsez is bringing his kernel to our device. I've used it on every Galaxy device I've ever owned and it is powerful. I wouldn't include it in the install options for this ROM, but for those who know about undervolting and underclocking this could have incredible gains for battery life and speed.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Yea that's cool man...but we can already under clock now with multicore controller or another cpu controller app if you would need to for some reason to get even more battery life lol...i actually keep increasing my min clock from 1400 to 1700 just because my battery life is so much more than I could use in a day lol

Mega

I can't use my note enough to drain the battery as is lol
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AlkaliV2:
I was unaware that we could already underclock...This is interesting and something I should have noticed in Android Tuner.

My thoughts on battery are that if I can squeeze 4 days out of it by having idle battery loss so low that the phone actually starts to believe it is turned off, I'm going to do it. I learned a long time ago that I wanted a phone that has a lot of capabilities, but with enormous battery life for emergencies. Cause that is what I really have my phone for. That and proving people wrong by having Google fact check for me in real time. Totally a time saver in real life :D
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] napajs13:
Loving the rom so far! I have just 1 issue and was not sure if it could be rom related or hardware related. Sometimes when I go to my camera, it basically operates extremely slow, like it's freezing. A restart is the only fix I found so far. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly apreciated. I rooted and installed a rom as soon as I got my phone, so I don't know if it happened on stock. Thanks in advance!
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
No it should be super fast tbh esp on the rom...have you flashed any camera mods...or using any camera mods? Other mods in general?

What kind of sd card do you have?

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Totally fair as everyone enjoys their setup different...but tbh you don't even need to underclock the rom to get several days of battery life...my battery life is constantly having cpu set to 1700ghz even when sleeping...tbh if you get rid of the tuners since they typical drain worse than they help...and you follow op2 your Setup will be extremely efficient...im not even trying to extend my battery that's literally just normal use on a setup scoring 26k on quadrant...

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] tkbredx:
This problem happened to me just yesterday. First time it's happened on any of these ROMs for me. Figured its a fluke. Rebooted and my camera was fine. Hasn't happened since.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Ans to be fair...honestly this is also a very good possibility...esp if your just flashing the rom/setting up...as there's very few things that would cause something like this tbh

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] napajs13:
It normally is really fast and takes great pictures. I have some generic card from eBay, yeah I know I should get a better one. I did have it in my Note 3 for a year and it was fine. Maybe it's crapping out perhaps? When working properly, my phone is taking amazing pictures.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Ahh ok...if that is the case and your getting the photo enhancement and shutter speed boosts of the rom but they're storing directly to sd...I'd say it's starting to give out...Class 10 by chance?

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] napajs13:
Yeah, class 10. Maybe I'll switch to phone storage and see if it happens.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Ok...unfortunately this is like the 1000th card I've personally had a user have die...it always starts identically...its def suggest backing up everything on it to your pc...formatting it in n4...and dumping back essentials...this may buy you a little extra time...but that's pretty much all unfortunately

Mega

Def should to double check everything else..try storing to phone ect....but I've seen this so many times it's always seems to start either in camera or gallery will hang and hang then crash...
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] napajs13:
Thanks for the info. I actually remembered I actually had the card for 2 years, 1 year in my Amaze and 1 In the Note 3, so I guess it lasted a decent time for a generic. Any suggestions on brand and speed for a card. Thanks again for all the help.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
No problem man...i always recommend and personally use in all my devices...samsung brand class 6 32GB micro sd cards...nothing fancy...super cheap but unbelievably stable...and in my personal testing vs a class 10 uhf I could never see a difference...so until google update source to support anything beyond class 6 I'll always stick with those. I have a bunch...but my original one from my Note 1 that's been flashed at least 75 times itself...plus probably 100 backups/restores...9 gb of music ect is still as fast and stable as ever...for about 20 bucks they're untouchable imo

Mega