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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] AaronCompNetSys:
Something is borked with the last snapshot of CM11 and the nightly CM12.1, neither will work on a nuked from orbit device (system, cache, and data/media partitions wiped). I dirty flashed my wife's CM11 to CM12.1 which booted but gapps crapped out somewhere, not too surprised. Somehow in the process of safemode boots and data finagling, I soft bricked it and had to start from scratch. Nothing newly flashed would boot past the boot animation, even after a pass back to stock NE ROM. I tried Phils and TWRP recovery. And of course my system nandroid backup of her old CM11 ended up corrupt so no retries... I would have restored, gracefully removed google stuff, dirty flash, then add gapps back in once on 12.1.

Copying a nandroid of system/boot from my own already running device onto her device was the only way I could to get it to boot. Then any dirty flashes after that of nightly or gapps updates worked perfect.

Unfortunately, she took the device from me as soon as it booted so I didn't get a chance to confirm that maybe it was the boot partition or something else.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] altimuh:
Has the video player bug been worked out yet? I'm still on 4/28, and I've been checking the change log each day but didn't see anything about nuplayer.

When watching a video - no problem. But if I wish to advance/fast forward a video and then push play - only audio, no video shows. Multiple video players, same thing. Changing from nuplayer to awesomeplayer or vice versa does not fix it. This happens both with local (downloaded videos) or streaming through a browser. Does anyone else have this problem?

FYI - this also happened back on cm12 for me too - last time this worked correctly was back in cm11.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] altimuh:
It's sad to see this forum (note ii) slow down so much of late, but our device is 2-1/2 yrs old already! Lol

Still having video playing issues (pausing video and trying to advance = no video on either local video or embedded), and I just noticed that most incoming phone calls when answered immediately disconnect. No issues placing calls though.

Anyone else with the above mentioned video issues, or incoming phone call disconnects?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] tvwebguy:
I've been getting some of the video playback issues. Haven't really messed with it too much. As for the calls, I received a call today with out any problems and have received several over that last few days that have worked well. Not sure about that one.

I've noticed that my screen is starting to separate from the digitizer or something in the upper left corner. Not sure how much longer she'll last, but, this phone has been a beast for the last 2 1/2 year!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] altimuh:
Only physical problem with mine was about a year ago when I cracked my screen. Fortunately I had the original geek squad protection which included the screen replacement for free. My wife just took advantage of best buys lease deal on the S6.... With our loyalty discount, it costs us a $1 a month!! I'm trying not to be too interested in hers and holding out until the note 5 comes out.

Back on topic, I wish the video thing could be ironed out - for me that's the only major thing wrong with cm12.1. Battery life is awesome and the phone is pretty snappy for being so old!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 1midniterider:
Yep, I'm having the video issue...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 1midniterider:
No Sim card with 5/15 nightly.

Edit: After enabling then disabling Airplane mode, I'm able to make calls and SIM status that there is a SIM card. So I'm a bit confused.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Devotech:
I was having the no sim prompt also on first boot and no service. I decided to let it sit and see if it resolved. After 15 mins I had service and everything in the mobile service page switched to the correct configuration and it is now working fine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] altimuh:
Any way we can get the video issues looked at? I'm loving the progress on cm12.1, but I would love to see a solution to this.

Video plays normally, but once you attempt to advance or rewind a section, all you get is audio, video stays paused.... ​

Thanks in advance!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mcentral:
FYI, if anyone is on RingPlus and not getting LTE or 3G, just reboot and right after it boots up go to Mobile networks>Access Point Names>

if its blank just go back and go back into Access Point Names again, you might have to do this several times but eventually you'll see.

APN0 EHRPD ota

APN0 LTE ota

APN2 EHRPD internet

APN2 LTE internet will show up.

at this point you can modify the apn setting, just set the APN2 first

remember for RingPlus sprint users is

APN

n.r5.ispsn

APN protocol is IPv4 and not IPV4/IPV6

It works for me, now I have 3G & LTE on latest CM12.1 nightly

On this old Note 2 Android 5.1.1 feels way better than on KitKat. Love it! :fingers-crossed:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] tvwebguy:
A lot of updates, but, no new nightly. Interesting...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] altimuh:
I noticed that too - I thought we were getting dropped!

But a new nightly just came out! :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] AaronCompNetSys:
Maybe this will save you chaps some searching: if Google Search hotword detection is on, you will have all sorts of trouble with music playing apps. This bug is currently affecting this ROM in nightly. Gotta keep on keepin dem wives happy, thought I saw KitKat in my future for a second.......nooooo.

http://forum.cyanogenmod.org/topic/88199-audio-stops-playing-cm11/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] VikingoRMCF:
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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] doubleu:
Interesting, the biggest problem I've has with CM12.1 is my bluetooth audio is sped-up like, by 110%. Maybe I'll try the latest nightly here and disable this and see if that fixes that. Thanks for the heads-up!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] rsbuffalo:
Finally got the new Shift kernel 5.5 LP working. For me none of the 5.1.x kernels worked with CM 12.1 nighties.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] tvwebguy:
I've had that happen to me a couple of times. A reboot fixed it for me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Dudebowski:
Rather than fighting with the small window timing of the boot up connectivity process, I found I could just set the network mode to lte-only and the APN profiles list world propagate.

Anyone on Sprint mvno carriers / providers, check out this profile, it hopefully will work to just change the APN gateway to your carrier's proper name.ispsn

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=61070073
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] AaronCompNetSys:
Good link. I had given up with CM12.x and just switched back to stock ROM on one of my Note2's, I'll try this on my other one. This ROM has too many delays for my use with GPS and LTE, stock KitKat is less than a second to connect from airplane mode with any of the radios.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Dudebowski:
Surprisingly for me, it's only about a 5 second window between airplane mode and LTE connectivity. I say surprising because I've got 99 problems but radio connectivity is not one of them. My main issue right now is that my screen goes blank during calls, both inbound and outbound... and I can't answer inbound or hang up outbound myself. Sometimes I can get the screen to turn on with the power button, but it seems like pure luck. This is running 5/31 nightly. I attribute my issues to running alpha-xposed though, unless anyone else can confirm they're also seeing this.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] trouinky:
Running fine on my note 2, cm12.1 is smooth as butter.

Could someone chime in on flashing updates from the about menu? They download, but won't flash directly. I can go into recovery and flash, but on reboot, the phone hangs on the bootscreen. If I wipe, the flash is fine and boots up and I have to restore apps, accounts, etc.

What am I doing wrong? I'm not running a custom kernel or anything.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 1midniterider:
Your process appears to be OK. I download from the updates screen and always install via Recovery, without wiping anything. Do you checksum the downloaded file to ensure it is valid? Some have reported issues with the sdcard in that needs to formatted... Backup your files first.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] tvwebguy:
I've noticed the same thing. I assume it has something to do with the specific recovery being used. I'm using Philz.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] BTslo:
Freshly installed latest nighly and can't receive calls or hang up. Dialling and mobile data works fine.

Any solution?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
Let me guess. You have a l900 on a different network?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] BTslo:
Yep, I'm on GSM. CM12 worked fine though but I was getting FC errors so I started fresh. Maybe I should try an older nightly.

Also tried an older modem but didn't help. Funny that I get the dial tone on the other phone when calling just nothing shows up on the Note.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
With 5.1 things changed for our device. If you are on gsm network then you will now need to use a n7105 rom. First you will need to download n7105 version then edit the install script removing the first few lines that are assert checks. Then you will need to swap out the boot.img from the l900 version and put it in the n7105 zip. After that everything will work 100%.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] BTslo:
Thanks for the info, I probably wouldn't find out myself. Seems a bit intimidating since I have no rom editing experience. Maybe I should flash back CM12 haha. :)

Do you have a N7105 or a L900?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jlmancuso:
Well officially I have l900. Like you I use it on a gsm network. I will dig up one of my cyanideL roms (5.1.1) and hook you up.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Dudebowski:
Are you using twrp cuz I think the CM auto flash script is probably looking for clockwork. Also, it's generally advisable to wipe cache/dalvik every ROM update cuz ART is fragile, especially so if you're using xposed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] BTslo:
Anyone still got the last CM12 nightly? (not 12.1) CM links are dead.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 1midniterider:
I was able to dl the latest nightly, had to go back to 6/21 nightly due to 6/23 causing keyboard app to fc
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] thecensor:
I installed the Shift kernel, cleared the cache and ART, but I get a bootloop after it rebuilds the ART.

UPDATE:

The Shift Kernels listed in this thread a way too old and don't work with the latest nightlies, I in stalled the latest Shift kernel from a link in another thread and that works perfect.

I did have to re root from recovery. I guess from now on when I want to install a new nightly I will have to also reinstall the kernel and do the rerooting before re starting the device.

The only things that are not working now are Netflix and preventing the home button from waking the device.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] VAnative21:
Didn't know about this till you posted it... thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] inigo1200:
Problem flashing roms

Hi guys, I have somehow broken my phone. Would really appreciate any assistance, or at least if someone could point me in the right direction.

I have a Note II, SPH-L900. I have been the running stock that came on it, rooted with TWRP. Last week, I tried to flash Cyan12 but it boot looped. Tried to restore the TWRP backup, but it gets stuck at the Samsung loading screen now. Have tried multiple roms, and all boot loop EXCEPT - Classic-Stock+NE2+4.4.2. But, it does not have any cell signal, at all, just an X next to the signal bars.

This is what I am running now, and I am able to get into the phone, and join WiFi networks. Root is also working fine.

Under settings it currently says Software version = Unknown, Hardware version is just blank, and Baseband version is unknown.

What I have done;

Tried to restore all of the 4 backups I have made prior to this. All result in the phone locking up at the Samsung screen.

Updated to newest TWRP - 2.8.7.0 - via Odin.

Tried pushing the stock ROM via Odin, but it fails. (confirmed my cache is 1.2gigs)

Have come across some post in which people with similar problems have trouble with their EFS folder, I confirmed mine exists, and contains files, but I dont know what I am looking at honestly.

Can provide any more info.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] GRMrGecko:
Booting is stuck at boot

After flashing cm-12.1-20150810-NIGHTLY-l900 with twrp-2.8.7.0-l900, all I get is the boot logo looping and it never goes to setup.

I have wipped dalvik cache, cache, system, and data before flashing, with no luck.

I am positive I have the Sprint Samsung galaxy Note 2. Anyone else having this issue? Any success?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] GRMrGecko:
After flashing http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2086769 everything worked.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Dudebowski:
There was a version of plasma kernel that worked for a while on 5.0, but alas, no maintainer. Considering the huge gap between the last branch and now, I doubt we'll see anyone pick that project up on such an ancient device. I just wish that cm would develop Franco-style tuner kernels as a sideload for folks that know what's up. I can't imagine it being too hard to add the synapse api when the kernel devs surely have it debug hooked to the gills on their dev machines, but they're so device-dependent that's a whole lot of man hours that are better used doing static analysis for vulnerabilities
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] someone0:
Ok, I no longer use L900 as I have moved on. Well, still have some other problem w/ my other phone and plan to get SM-N910F and use it on at&t. But that beside the point. After the news about stagefright broke, I figure even on the old phone that I don't use anymore(I could still use them as MP3 player), I would still keep them up to date. Then I flash it with the latest and greatest official CM, as we all know we can't count on the US carriers to do the right thing and keep all the devices they sold up to date and out of the harm way. Then I came across the same problem as everyone here, it just stuck at boot logo. After reading this response I digg a little closer and it appear the problem must be related to modem or recovery as those are the only two things that retained after replacing firmware and wipe out the data. It appear to be the latter. As replacing it stock recovery solve the problem. Flash it with the latest TWRP 2.8.7.0 again and it stuck at boot again. I went back a little farther like TWRP 2.6.3.0 and I have no problem. There must be something in the new TWRP that CM12.1 doesn't like.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] GuyInDogSuit:
Flashed this on my roommate's old Note II and it's just been stuck on the boot splash for the past 10 minutes. I know some ROMs can take a while to initially start up, but this is ridiculous.

This is coming from Android 4.3. I checked before flashing this, there were no new updates. Thought it went up to 4.4.2?

Flashed 2.6.3.0, but that didn't seem to make a difference. Still doesn't boot. I don't know what it means to "Use KitKat recovery."

I had the same problem as you, stuck on the boot splash. I don't know what it did, but when it boots the screen freaks out, then goes blank, and the LED flashes red. I was lucky that I could boot into download mode and reflash TWRP. So I'm back where I started. This is bull****.

EDIT: So I never figured out why it wouldn't boot, so I gave up and went back to stock and this time it updated to 4.4.2, but there's just annoyances galore now. I'm hoping to see some solutions to this when I wake up later.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ColeTrain!:
Use phillz recovery. Twrp had problems starting at 4.3

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http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php...uctions - Sprint Galaxy Note 2 L900 all ROM's
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] GuyInDogSuit:
I tried TWRP 2.3.3.2, no dice. Tried CWM, no go. I'll just leave it at stock.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] internetpilot:
I couldn't flash the ROM or even the GApps until I switched to the previous version of Philz (the latest version wouldn't work). I'm now happily running CM12.1 , whereas I was previously stuck on CM11. If you feel like giving it another go, you can download it from here:

http://www.rwilco12.com/Files/Devic...00)/Custom Recovery/Philz Touch Recovery/TAR/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lainemac:
Having the same problem. CM12.1 will just not boot on this phone.

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None of those would flash in odin. Says MD5 is invalid. Which one did you use?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] internetpilot:
Wow, I just realized how old the two versions of Philz are! V6.12.8 wouldn't work, so I went back to v6.07.9 which did work. However both of those that I have are recovery flashable zips. I can PM you a link to those of you want to try to flash v6.07.9 via your existing recovery.

I'll have to give the latest version a try, but I don't know when that'll be since I'll have to mess up my current install to try it. I'm not running the nightlies -- only the snapshot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lainemac:
Tried that version and it didn't work either. I've tried a bunch of differnt Philz and TWRP versions and can't get any AOSP Lollipop rom to boot. Just stuck on boot animation forever.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] doubleu:
I broke my Nexus 6 screen on Thursday and went back to my Note 2. I had been running RWilco's NE2 1.3 on it, but wanted to go back to CM12.1 since I was used to that on my N6. It was running fine with the 0901 Snapshot, but then I got to messing with the TWRP Manager app and got my recovery all messed up. After that, I too, was getting the endless boot logo in CM. I tried some of the stuff I read here, and in the l900 'help' forum but nothing was helping. Once I got RWilco'2 NE2 1.3 reinstalled, I noticed I had no modem installed (red x over the signal bars). Once I installed the NE2 modem, then reinstalled CM12.1, everything was fine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ColeTrain!:
I posted this BC it has a link to the correct philz
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Xtraordinair:
Flashing is working with Philz. Can confirm.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] AlgebraicMirror:
Missing modem appears to be the problem...

+1 to this.

I have had TWRP/CF Autoroot installed for the last year, but only to get me full backup options and root access. I was still running stock Samsung otherwise. A couple days ago I decided to finally go to CM 12.1 from stock. So I made a full backup with TWRP. Then, because of some other issues, I used ODIN to reflash a later version of TWRP and attempted to install (and there were a bunch of other things I tried but can't list them all here). Anyway, I got stuck in a bootloop just like everyone else.

So, I went back into TWRP to restore to stock, and noticed I had the option to just restore the modem partition. So I did, and then just rebooted the phone. Boom, CM 12.1 booted up fine, no loop.

It's unclear to me how I lost my modem in the first place, but my guess was overly aggressive wiping with TWRP before going forward, including wiping the internal partition etc. I wanted to make sure I cleaned everything up first to get a clean, error free start, but I may have overdone it.

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And apparently this isn't the whole story. Something other than aggressive erasing is overwriting the modem. I just used Odin 3.10.7 to flash TWRP 2.8.6.0, after which I did a simple factory reset wipe and then had it install CM 12.1 and open gapps stock for Android 5.1. I was immediately in a bootloop again, and I don't see the modem partition in my recovery options in TWRP anymore either. So either ODIN or TWRP seems to be wiping out the modem when flashing, and I'm going to guess it's TWRP. Very frustrating because I'm going to have to find rwilco's modem now and try to reflash it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] AlgebraicMirror:
Ok, found a few more issues after following the procedure above. I'm wondering if anyone know the solution to any of them.

1. After getting everything working with CM 12.1, which the above steps do, I found out my TWRP had been wiped out and replaced with the stock android recovery. Not sure if that was something that flashing gapps did, or maybe if it is something with re-flashing my modem. It seems like when I flash TWRP 2.8.x, my modem is gone, and maybe when I use TWRP to flash my modem, it kills TWRP? I noticed I don't have this problem with TWRP 2.6.x, which is 7.4 MB, and TWRP 2.8.x is 8+ MB, so I'm wondering if 8 MB is the max recovery size on this phone and maybe if it's larger you go over a threshold and break the modem?

2. My phone seems unusually quiet when I take a call. I've always wish it could be louder, even with stock, but now even on max it feels like it is half the volume it was before. Does anyone know of anything that would cause that?

3. I have no 4G anymore after the upgrade. It will only do 3G.

Does anyone have any solutions for any of these things?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] zlazaar:
+1

Although TWRP remains my favorite recovery, it caused a lot of problems on my Note II.

Since I use philz's, i have encountered no oddity.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cfli1688c1:
I did the cm12, gapps, shift kernel. when it boot up, i had problem with root. trying to get to stweaks, it said no root, rom tool box also said no root. did not have the pop up to ask me to grant root.

here is what i did to fix it:

- go back to recovery, wipe and flash cm12 and gapps, boot up the phone, make sure root is there

- then back to recovery to flash shift kernel, then boot up the phone, able to run stweak and have root.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] josepheb2:
I searched a bit in this thread but didn't see anything. I'll admit i probably missed it. Has anyone gotten the CM recoveries working? I keep getting boot loop. I Know about the other recoveries but i'd really like to use CM recovery and get the auto updating working.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] internetpilot:
The auto updating was working for me using Philz.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] malvarez92:
Installed the latest snapshot version and everything is running smooth except for 4g lte. Had to use philz recovery posted a few posts back due to twrp erasing the modem so be warned. If it doesn't boot it might be because of that. Anyone else having an issue with lte or know how to fix?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cfli1688c1:
anyone having problem with gallery erroring out?

Seems like my problem is with the shift kernel.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] josepheb2:
I just tried Philz 6/cwm v6.0.4.7 and the auto update failed on me. I'm using...whatever kernel CM 12 comes with maybe that's it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] internetpilot:
I'm using the stock kernel, too. Can't remember what version of Philz. I recently moved on to a Nexus 6 phone, but I'll check the version later today.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] zlazaar:
Never had troubles with this version.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] doubleu:
Is this something we'll be able to experience with our L900s?

http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/a-marshmallowy-cm
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cfli1688c1:
anyone having low call volume?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] zlazaar:
Known issue on CM since its v11, there are many workarounds but none can give a really satisfying result (IMO).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] pillzbury:
Easiest workaround is to toggle volume down and back up again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] josepheb2:
Sorry for the delayed response. This version is a no go for me either. I don't get why its not working but I give up on auto updating. I'm trying to install xsposed buts its giving me a non compatible error. Is there a certain kernal I should be using?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] zlazaar:
No custom kernel needed for xposed to work.

However, you must install the correct version for LP 5.1 (SDK22)

Head to the official thread and used the attached ''xposed-v78-sdk22-arm.zip''.