[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] xflbret:
I really, really want CM. The whole reason I bought my Note 4 is because no one could make a reliable build of CM for the Note II I had been using. So, with that in mind I gave this one more try...

From Jasmine ROM, this is what I did this time around...

-reboot to TWRP

-wipe everything but the external SD card

-install CM and the nano gapps

-wipe dalvik and cache

-reboot

It was working fine for the first couple of hours. I thought I finally had it this time. But, I had two random shutdowns. Here's when they happened...

-I installed adaway. On the other side of the reboot after applying the hosts file, CM said "optimizing apps" and there were five to be optimized. My attention went elsewhere, I just assumed the boot process would eventually be successful. When I tried to wake up my phone, it wouldn't.

-Just now, I tried to start Google Earth. Just as I said no thanks to help on how to navigate the world and it was almost finished zooming in on my house, I had another random shutdown.

When I say "random shutdown", this is what happens...my phone just turns off. It acts as it would if the battery had just died (even though, in every instance, there's been at least 40% charge remaining). The only way to get my phone to respond at this point is to plug a charging cable in to it. Then I can hit the power button and the boot process will commence.

What I'm trying right now is I booted to TWRP, and wiped dalvik and cache again, hoping this will do something (I'm not sure what).

I really don't think this is a hardware issue. Since I got this phone earlier this month, I've been using Jasmine ROM in between my brief attempts to get this CM build working. With Jasmine, I only had this happen once, when I was attempting to take a photograph. I surmised that happened because, at that time, I had restored my Jasmine backup without flashing the partial kernel/hardware fix afterwords as the Jasmine instructions tell me to do. So, this leads me to believe that it has to be something somewhere to do with the kernel or the hardware flash, or I don't know. All I know is that it happened in Jasmine only once, but it seems to be happening in CM all the time.

Many of you have reported success with this ROM. What is it that you're doing that I am not?

EDIT: well, it just happened again. After the dalvik/cache wipe, it wasnted to optimize some apps again. After it was finished, I committed the apparently heinous crime of swiping my finger on the home screen to gain access to the menu. The phone did the random shutdown again. My battery was at well over 40%.

What in the world is going on here?

---------- Post added at 08:09 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:19 AM ----------

Even more news...I tried starting over, flashing the partial fix, rebooting to TWRP, wiping everything but the external SD card, installing CM and nano GAPPS, wiping dalvik/cache, and then rebooting. For some reason, the thing wanted to optimize my apps again before the setup wizard, 108 of them. Then, after I got through all that and through the setup wizard, I immediately did a factory reset on the phone for good measure...and it wasn't to to optimize all the apps again. Why does my phone now have this unhealthy obsession with optimizing apps?

It seems the more I try, the more problems that pop up. I guess I'm going to have to stick with Jasmin for a while. I really wanted CM, but I want a working phone even more.