yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] drbobb:
Well I give up on Lollipop on my Note for the time being. It's pretty and all, but too seriously bugged for my daily use.

In particular, tweaking the minfree values doesn't seem to do much. Launcher redraws every time, the more phat apps like Facebook and Tunein Radio don't work (much) - either predictably crashing, or (worse) taking down the systemui. Browsers lag like a *****, Chrome is downright unusable.

To be fair I've seen a lot of complaints about Lollipop performance and memory management on devices that got official upgrades, too. So I suspect there isn't much Bauner can do until some underlying issues are fixed.

I'll be watching this thread and will probably try again once 5.1 is merged. Thanks Bauner for being one of the last devs putting effort into the first-gen Note. It's a real pity that such a nice device never had any really decent ROMs, and the big source of trouble with it (the FP bug) wasn't identified and squashed until now, when most regard the device as obsolete.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] alninek:
I see... what do you suggest as alternative? i think too that lollipop actually is too bugged... i wish to try something else ...but i dont know ...what! I tried DU 8.1 but developers has sell his note so developement has been stopped!

sorry for OT
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] madsun:
How about trying windows phone for out grand old note? is that possible? Coz I think that windows mobile is exclusively for qualcom chipsets!

Let me know your views!!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] p2pow350:
So you are not suggesting to use this rom with my Note? I'm using MIUI and it's nice but I'm bored to use it and I would like to use this ROM.

And also, is the installation procedure the same as explained for Kitkat?

Cheers

Max
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] waro470:
Maybe version 5.1 will be better? I didn't update my Nexus 5 after Android 5.0's release due to the several bugs that plague it (off the top of my head, memory leaks, wifi connection), but version 5.1 is actually pretty stable.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] bauner:
The installation procedure is the same as for kitkat roms.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] khana2014:
Current ROM (9.0.1) issues

Thanks to bauner and his team for developing Lollipop for n7000.

However, there are serious issues. The important ones are:

1. The phone keeps on freezing and crashing. Particularly, when using the browser This is associated with catastrophic battery drain.:crying:

2. The phone is much slower than before.

Currently, the phone is practically unusable.

This has got worse with the newer updates.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] br54:
Nightowl is awesome

If you're having problems with this ROM beyond MINOR bugs...then that's your problem

I have OCCASIONAL soft reboots (like 2 or 3 since install)

0 FREEZES and MINOR lags

This is a great ROM that is my DAILY driver

manually update from google play to stop the major lags and freezes and overheating

Clear caches...from settings> storage

It upsets me more that people are "having issues" more than the issues itself

Bauner is working on it and doing a EXCELLENT job.

If you can't get this AWESOME ROM running smooth.....then please install a stock 4.1.2

http://youtu.be/hUtSgBVw9EQ

If you're having unstable issues....then that's YOUR problem....not the ROM :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] clod22:
Me too, Thank@bauner and team for excellent work.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] domerich:
Dead slow

For some reason this ROM does not work for me at all, everything feels really slow. I switched to ressurection rom and this is really fast.

I really like the night owl boot animation though, is there any way to obtain it?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] LAKAME_MAN:
Open NightOwl's zip file and go to /system/media. There's a file named "bootanimation.zip" there. Extract it. Copy it to your device. Then copy and paste it to /system/media. You have to overwrite the one that's already on your device. Fix permission (rw-r--r--) and reboot.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] Seroczynski:
I agree. Had some issues when installing the latest version. Someone advised me to do a clean install so I did. Now it's working better than before, no more bugs. Had one freeze and a few minor things but nothing that makes this ROM unsuitable for daily use. Keeps getting better.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] ankydu:
Can anyone tell me how is the ram usage of this rom. How much free ram is available when the phone is idle ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] ThaiDai:
Enough
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] asmanao:
sorry but you know that our device is obsolete? Thank you for this beautiful rom Bauner
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] bauner:
it should about 250-120Mb depending on how much background apps are running
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] winter01942:
I wonder why i still have apps stopped notifications even though i have already disabled the app in Settings -> Apps

"Unfortunately, Hangouts has stopped" - is something wrong with disabling stock programs in Apps Settings?

And the Google Play Store freezes really often, after viewing some apps it just freezes and crashes...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] khana2014:
Hey, mate, I am telling you as it is. I am not sure why you are taking this personally and flaming meme and blaming me for the problem, to boot! I know the troubleshooting mantras, including clearing caches, formatting cache partitions, and clearing dalvik caches. None of that has helped. When you have multiple freezes and crashes a day, the system slows down, and the battery starts draining like mad, then there is an issue, and it is not me!

I stated my problems, hoping to get rational, helpful answers, not insults, OK!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] smokeyrider:
I use this ROM with raw r9 cm12 kernel so far ROM is smooth no FC or freezes. Maybe try another kernel.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] br54:
Personal? Not even...you just failed to research to find others was having the same problems and steps were given to correct this.

Logcat? do you have any? did you submit any?

Instead of flaming with problems...be part of the solution,submit technical info the devs can use to make the ROM you want to use.

Rational answer............was given.....insults? none was given

All your symptoms point to either a bad install

or you didn't listen to the answers given.

G'day Mate
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] kadian1986:
yeah....i also agree.... the rom is very slow...have installed stock rom and i can feel the difference...., good work bauner.... but i think its the hardware configuration of our phone that it is not able to carry android lollipop
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] abufrejoval:
I'm not sure how much of your disappointment is due to Lollipop and how much is due to the fact that apps get bigger and web sites keep thowing more and more media and code at you, while the Note doesn't grow horsepower and memory to accomodate.

I remember upgrading from my Galaxy S to the Note 1 and 1GB of memory was such a huge relief, because of the 512MB nominal capacity of the GS only ever 50MB or so showed up as free under OS monitor and 100MB or so got grabbed by the phone portion of the device anyway.

The N1 offers 800MB effectively but again OS monitor shows that *everyone* is consuming RAM like there was a lot more than there actually is. It *really* doesn't seem to matter on my Note 3 (which *always* has an extra gigabyte of DRAM lying around after I removed all the bloatware), but on the Note 1 a couple of tabs of complex web sites can fill quite a bit of RAM, especially since these days they do a full brain scan of your device (and *you* if they manage) so they can rebuild their site dynamically just to create the "maximal impact" before they even show the first bits on screen.

And then they bomb you with multimedia and even more scripts to trace every single move you make and soon every eye movement and gesture before you even touch your screen. At the same time they try to catch who else is with you in the room as well as taking a full inventory of everything they can see or feel close to you.

All that takes serious horsepower and memory and that doesn't grow on a device just because you upgrade the software (which generally *does* grow).

If you add FaceBook on top of that and perhaps another "social" app, you got three to five web giants trying to track your every thought and desire to manipulate both more easily and that simply takes more than the Note has to offer.

I'd try using tools like OS monitor to eliminate memory hogs and I'd recommend using a different browser than Chrome on the Note 1.

Chrome has never really felt fast on Android, at least on my Tegras and the Note 1.

It's ok on the Nexus 10, the Note 3 and of course on the modern Notebooks and Desktops I use for running Android x86 64-Bit edition (with 15GB of memory free Chrome feels quite at home).

I'd recommend you try Dolphin and Opera and see if they suit you well enough.

They are certainly quite a bit quicker on the N1 than Chrome.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] -Skill:
I agree. I have had this rom since beta 3. Now I installed back stock 4.1.2 jelly bean and it's much better. In the end of having NightOwl rom I couldn't even search for something in the browser and I had to reset my phone. I think it's great to see that someone like bauner is trying to make a 3 year old phone up to date, but if you don't want constantly hard reseting your phone because it freezes when you most need the phone, than just be on the stock rom.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] action_papst:
Interesting, that some people tend to give up on this, while its rock solid for others. I'm in between. Solid as a daily driver, but freezes once or twice a day.

Anyway it would be awesome, if some of you could stop their kindergarten behaviour. Thanks :3
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] ajhier1:
its very fast. yes maybe sometimes frezee or reboot but its fast the other all rom.

it will be better on zram , update 5.1,, cm fixes and bauner work.

its still beta:mad:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] temporarium:
Guys, if you're having freezes, try the ONDEMAND governor and ROW I/O settings. That may help...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] ardicli2000:
This is a very good point you are drawing the attention.

To be more clear on the subjuct, try installing older versions of the apps.

Let's give an example. I like to use Viber. But after new features like stickers have been embedded into the app, it has got really heavy for our beloved Note. It takes a lot longer for the phone to install and open it. When you install an older version of Viber, you see how fast it can operate.

The apps and syatems are more ram dependent than ever. You have no chance to upgrade the hardware. So this is it. Try to be simplistic. For exampe use Smart Launcher as your launcher. You have root. Freeze most of the apps and systems that you don't use. Try not to use facebook, twitter, isntagram apps, instead reach them out on the web browser, etc, etc.

There are some limitations that noone can overcome.

Just be happy :)

Regards.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] abdullahchoudhary97:
Thanks Here For everyone WHo helps meh

But today i lost my might Note and its the ending of my note journey [MENTION=799465]bauner[/MENTION] thanks alot for a fantastic experience with my note :) :) :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] bauner:
That I use as default in the stock kernel
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] panamera2011:
Hi Bauner, your kernel has the GPU with three steps? 134 166 267MHz?

I have tested many kernel, I think with just two steps 134 and 400MHz works more smooth

Sorry for my stupid question :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] bauner:
No I don't go up to 400mhz on the gpu.

It's mostly useless because on 400mhz it will run into thermal throttling withing seconds
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] alninek:
have you maybe a direct link pls?

flash in CWM? before and after wipe cache and dalvik?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] smokeyrider:
Here is the link for raw r9 cm12 kernel http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2397000 Yes flash in recovery then dalvic/art wipe.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] action_papst:
This way you might carry around a box of unfixed bugs. There are a lot of these security relevant fixes in newer app versions along with the bigger memory fingerprint.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] amr.fayz:
I support your words I think bauner Will solve the current problems

for zram The following link gives some details on enabli zram

Swap to zRAM

zRAM swap can increase the amount of memory available in the system by compressing memory pages and putting them in a dynamically allocated swap area of memory.

Again, since this is trading off CPU time for a small increase in memory, you should be careful about measuring the performance impact zRAM swap has on your system.

Android handles swap to zRAM at several levels:

First, the following kernel options must be enabled to use zRAM swap effectively:

CONFIG_SWAP

CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR

CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP

CONFIG_ZRAM

Then, you should add a line that looks like this to your fstab:

/dev/block/zram0 none swap defaults zramsize=<size in bytes>,swapprio=<swap partition priority>

zramsize is mandatory and indicates how much uncompressed memory you want the zram area to hold. Compression ratios in the 30-50% range are usually observed.

swapprio is optional and not needed if you don't have more than one swap area.

By default, the Linux kernel swaps in 8 pages of memory at a time. When using ZRAM, the incremental cost of reading 1 page at a time is negligible and may help in case the device is under extreme memory pressure. To read only 1 page at a time, add the following to your init.rc:

`write /proc/sys/vm/page-cluster 0`

In your init.rc, after the `mount_all /fstab.X` line, add:

`swapon_all /fstab.X`

The memory cgroups are automatically configured at boot time if the feature is enabled in kernel.

If memory cgroups are available, the ActivityManager will mark lower priority threads as being more swappable than other threads. If memory is needed, the Android kernel will start migrating memory pages to zRAM swap, giving a higher priority to those memory pages that have been marked by ActivityManager.

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/low-ram.html
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] KalZakath:
OT: does CM Team merged 5.1 sources already?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] bauner:
The android 5.1 sources are availible since 5 days ago.

The cyanogenmod devs have already started to merge it into staging/cm-12.1

If the normal cm-12.1 repos are availible I will start working with it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] amr.fayz:
http://www.androidpit.com/android-5-1-lollipop-update
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] stogie5150:
Thanks Bauner for all the hard work! I use my Note as a media player and it is VERY nice to have some lollipop love for my old device! :cool::cool::cool::cool:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] Italia77:
the 5.1 new things:

http://www.androidpit.com/android-5-1-lollipop-features
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] madsun:
Unable to install full modular PA GAPPS via recovery

Hi Team,

I would like to flash the full PA modular GAPPS which is about 375MB but I am unable to. The installation aborts with an error which says that there is insufficient space in /system.

I have repartitioned my Galaxy Note GT-N7000 with a 4GB PIT file.

I was running a custom kitkat ROM and I upgraded to nightowl 9.0.1 as suggested in the OP by restoring to stock ROM and completing the steps.

Can someone please tell me if I can install the full modular GAPPS if I repartition with a 6GB PIT file or should I go higher?

Thanks and Regards

Madsun
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] miku1024:
can't it only extend data partition you need to extend system partition to install full gapps

you can try here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2642299&page=33

Op said it's not tested yet just do with caution:)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] bauner:
I have made an testbuild for myself with zram and some dalvik.vm.heapxxx changes.

This decreased some benchmark scores a little bit, because the higher cpu usage for zram, but the rom feels much smoother than ever before in my first tests today...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] KalZakath:
If you can try it also with 128 mbytes of swap.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] bauner:
I have tested different (normal)swap files/partitions and settings some days ago with very bad results.

But 200-300mb zram seems to work very good
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] KalZakath:
That may be useless but someone o i9100 forums said, that 600 mb of zram is giving better results than 300. Idk if that can be truth, but we can give a try;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] bauner:
I will try different values in the next days
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] GeeckoDev:
Is dalvik still used in Lollipop? Also, I read somewhere it's better to create one zram device for each CPU core.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] bauner:
No only ART is used, but ART can be configured with the old dalvik.vm settings.

You are right, it should be useful to use one device for each core
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] Long_Nguyen:
i have flash rom Nightowl. and i feel that it is very slow especilly when i use chrome to access internet. therefore i want to go back to android 4.4.4, however i can't complete it because that when i flash android 4.4.4 ,my phone screen suspended at Samsung logo. did anyone meet that situation?? plz to help me!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] morris487:
I use Auto Killer Memory and its profile Optimum is better for heavy RAM apps I think i.e. for me.

Its values are 2337,3116,6232,15580,19475,23370

I apply them successfully in the app but after reboot it reverts to ROM values.

How to make LMK parameters constant after reboot?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] rohitchen:
Sound to me like a boot loop, what rom?, and ask the question in the XDA forum related to that rom. You might want to try flashing the rom, rebooting, and then flashing the google apps.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] I_android:
lets not have hopes very high with Lollipop 5.1

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/shortlink.aspx?article=670960

This is very disappointing Google :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] gSunShine:
Installed successfully. However didnt like the 5.0.2 UI. Also device gets super heated for 4.4+ ROMS and battery drains super quick.

Reverting Back to Jelly Bean.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] qdh1502:
Memory leak

I have also a Nexus 5 running on 5.1. I stil have the reload of Laucher (home screen), app FC, as on Beta 9.0.1 N7000.

The memory leak problem is from AOSP source ... NightOwl rom is stil great :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] amr.fayz:
you can make Scripts for managing zram As zram doesn't natively support multiple processors, so by default a zram device is set up for every core and then swap is initialized on those devices.

#!/bin/sh
# This script does the following:
# zram start:
# * zram doesn't natively support multiple CPU cores, so one zram device
# is created for every CPU core minus one)
# * Space is assigned to each zram device, then swap is initialized on
# there

# Some defaults:
ALLOCATION=100 # ZRAM Swap you want assigned, in MiB
PRIORITY=100 # Swap priority, see swapon(2) for more details

# Get amount of available CPU cores, set to 1 if not detected correctly
if [ ! -f /proc/cpuinfo ]; then
echo "WARNING: Can't find /proc/cpuinfo, is proc mounted?"
echo " Using a single core for zramswap..."
cores=1
else
cores=$(grep -c processor /proc/cpuinfo)
fi

# Override above from config file, if it exists
if [ -f /etc/default/zramswap ]; then
. /etc/default/zramswap
fi

ALLOCATION=$((ALLOCATION * 1024 * 1024)) # convert amount from MiB to bytes

if [ -n "$PERCENTAGE" ]; then
totalmemory=$(awk '/MemTotal/{print $2}' /proc/meminfo) # in KiB
ALLOCATION=$((totalmemory * 1024 * $PERCENTAGE / 100))
fi

# Initialize zram devices, one device per CPU core
modprobe zram num_devices=$cores

# Assign memory to zram devices, initialize swap and activate
# Decrementing $core, because cores start counting at 0
for core in $(seq 0 $(($cores - 1))); do
echo $(($ALLOCATION / $cores)) > /sys/block/zram$core/disksize
mkswap /dev/zram$core
swapon -p $PRIORITY /dev/zram$core
done

if the idea useful See detail from here

https://github.com/highvoltage/zram-tools
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] aidjek:
Google Chrome crashes.

Hello [MENTION=799465]bauner[/MENTION]

Few logs from my end about Chrome crashes. May be it will help you.

System is going in soft reboot during scroll down the page in the chrome. Page is simple, only text without any widgets or another plugins.

[IMG="Chrome crashes during scroll down the page."]https://aidjek.ru/images/2015-03-16%2010.00.29.png[/IMG]

View attachment 2015-03-16-11-58-36.txt

View attachment 2015-03-16-14-23-37.txt

I have cleared installed beta 9.0.1 with NanoGapps and minimum required applications.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] STEF SPICA FR:
Hello ,

sorry for the others , i will speak French :D

Salut ,

j'utilise la ROM et je pense avoir trouvé un bug ...

Quand je modifie les raccourcis de l'écran de verrouillage , j'ai de suite le message d'erreur suivant :

" Interface du système " s'est arrêté

Peux tu faire la manip , pour voir si cela est vraiment un bug ?

Merci à toi ; D

Sinon , si ça t’intéresse , on peut échanger sur la Rom ?

Stef ...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] bauner:
In future please write in english.

This is a known problem.

You can reset your locksreen shortcuts after an reboot in the settings. (just click the sustemui errors away)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] STEF SPICA FR:
Hi Bauner ,

sorry :(

thanks for your hard work , your Rom is great :D:D:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] himanshuvarshney4:
CM 12 android 5.0.2 beta on samsung note n7000

Hello Friends,

I recently migrate my phone on cm 12 5.0.2 android version. but am facing the issue with my SDcard. due to this camera and other functions like gallery are show "NO external sdcard available". Is there any application which can fix this issue.

Please help me to resolve this.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] bauner:
Have you repartitioned your internal storage with an modified pit?

Are your sdcard(s) accessible in the file manager?

Are your sdcard(s) accessible in the recovery?

Which filesystem do you use on your sdcard(s)?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Android Development] radier:
Today I have lost all my saved Wi-Fi networks.

In the morning it was ok with my home network but after I came to work my list was empty and I needed to put PW again.

No freeze or reboot during my trip from home to work. It' just wipded all my saved networks.