[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] erniesan82:
Ok guys here I go:

First things first, there's no way to show enough appreciation and gratefulness to the devs [MENTION=744557]oluwaponmile[/MENTION] , [MENTION=3002844]filchi756[/MENTION] , [MENTION=3026895]DaOldMan[/MENTION] and of course Mr. [MENTION=3901205]Logel[/MENTION] ([emoji6] notice the "Mr." hehe) for such amazing and wonderful work on the past and current projects, all this in their spare time, THANK YOU ALL for your time.

Next... Sorry for this is going to be a long post, but I hope someone finds it inspiring or helpful.

Then about my device, it's a NOTE 3 SM-N900P Sprint variant running right now on kernel LSS 3.7 UX, BTU csc, PH1 modem/bootloader and Phronesis N7 Port v4, unlocked working on Movistar Mexico's GSM network, no LTE because first in my area they don't have LTE and second the device's bands don't work on the same as the carriers in Mexico. But hspa+ is pretty decent and enough for me since the most I do when surfing is Chrome searches and social networking.

Now a little background, ever since [MENTION=5672995]jcadduono[/MENTION] created idle kernel (thank you so much buddy) was my best option for every phronesis rom I've tried. Everything started from phronesis lollipop v3 when I discovered this team and their wonderful work. All I was looking for was a custom kernel able to run along stock ROM with the selinux on permissive, just to run Viper4android and installing xposed framework... ended up switching to phronesis.

The customization level of this work of art amazed me from the beginning, to my needs there was no need to install xposed anymore. It climbed all the way to v6.1 which, to me, along with idle kernel was more than enough I could've asked for in a ROM, so I sticked with it. For months it was my daily driver all I needed worked just fine, from the camera to every user app, never had a serious issue with it only minor bits of issues like the one with the sview cover screen getting stuck sometimes, but nothing that I couldn't live with. Every flash, or should I say dirty flash would run just fine for me.

All this until last week, after following up the MM thread and seeing that it got to a decent stable point, I decided to move on to the next thing...

Here's my experience:

This goes to everyone new and not new to the thread or phronesis roms:

READ, READ AND READ!!!!

Seriously guys, there's nothing better you can do to solve issues that have been worked out or talked about in, specially, 780 pages thread. I've always encouraged everyone to do so, and think of it as a way to show respect to the devs who worked on their spare time without asking for any donation or payment, take some time to read and go if not through the whole thread, at least the last half of it, you will be surprised to see how every issue has been taken care of and still people keep asking for it over and over without even taking a bit of time to read back or use the SEARCH option.

Having said that, is the reason why I'm posting until now.

So I decided to move on and downloaded v2.5 of the MM N5 port since it was a new version of the rom I went ahead and made my nandroid backup as well for a titanium BU , then since I don't like that much of restoring apps I said what the hell I'll try a dirty flash on top of my 6.1 lollipop version, guess what it did worked, everything worked and without having to get stuck on the Samsung boot animation for more than 10 min. The only thing I noticed at first flash is that MY DEVICE WENT INTO A REBOOT ONCE BEFORE GOING INTO THE SAMSUNG ANIMATION, it scared the hell out of me, thought I got into a bootloop like many others claim, but no, after that small "bootloop" it went into Samsung animation to finally start the UI RIGHT AFTER A FEW MINUTES, no more than 10. So I played with it for a couple of days, everything seemed to work just fine until while keeping up with that thread I found that many users were claiming GPS issues, didn't think of it. So I went and kept reading what the issue was to start and test mine, surprise mine wasn't working either so I tried as I read somewhere to update the AGPS and boom, no need to ask, it worked. No issues with the camera, or with other apps that I can remember...but the most surprising thing on it was the boot time, OMG 6 seconds??!!! That was ridiculous, couldn't believe it and booted and booted my device several times during the days I had that ROM version installed and it was always like that. Tried three different kernels all worked fine, but the battery drain was noticeable ended up sticking to lss kernel due to ability of overclocking the CPU all this with the modded kernel adiutor.

So I was there almost up to date on the MM N5 thread and saw few comments talking about this N7 Port, read a few pages to see if there was any problems with it and decided to give it a try since someone said if I liked the MM N5 I would like this port as well.

There I go again, READ and READ, Instructions, issues, found there was an update for my sprint device which was optional to get, since the devs recommended to get the latest modem and bootloader to not have issues with the GPS. There was a few issues with ver 3.1 that got solved in v4, so I said let's do it...

First the upgrading modem and bootloader, went to look for the single modem and bootloader but no luck, the site was taken down due to moving on to a new project and needed space in the server, so I had to go into sammobile and look for the stock firmware just to find that there's not only one but two firmwares for my device the SPR and the XAS. Wasn't sure and downloaded the XAS. Nandroid backup again, flashed the stock PH1 XAS firmware with Odin, rooted with my old cf-autoroot, flashed TWRP 2.8.7 (since from previous flashing I now is the only one that works), wipe system, data, and cache only once and there goes N7 rom into TWRP, god so many options now, I went with advanced UI, Mexico GPS location, took out a few apps which I don't use, my always V4A + DOLBY ATMOS, infinite scrolling, stock kernel, apps icon, BTU csc (since there's no mexican movistar option for csc one always used the BTU)... And I guess that was it, install... Successful!!! Untick boot now, back into TWRP flash LSS kernel 3.7 UX then boot system.

Now again the bootloop, stuck in note 3 logo for about 3 minutes then autoreboot, this time goes into the Samsung boot animation, wait for a few minutes and boom the Google setup, finish setup and into system UI, sweet!!!

First thing to check, the GPS, not working, back to reading...So I was about 150 pages behind the last post so kept on reading, tried the PRC zip fixes with no luck, then I installed GPS test since it's not included like the MM Port, tried to update AGPS, still no work... Gave up... Moved on to customize my status bar, downloaded a theme since the theme I used to have in Lollipop isn't available anymore, setup well, Potatoe clock setup right, restored a few apps from my TIBU, PRC few ticks here and there... Everything running good.

This was Saturday, then this morning I finished going through the last 150 pages in this thread, no GPS fix, so went into faster GPS again and looked into the options, I thought we'll if I'm using the BTU csc what if I try the Uk server so thats Europe continent and United Kingdom region, voila!!! That did the trick, no need to mess with system files like the NV REBUILD. For Data there was nothing to do, I got from the beginning, no need to setup APNs, BTW in some part of the thread I read someone getting poor data download speed so I tested mine and guess what it actually is a bit higher all this in HSPA+

In the battery side I must say it drains a bit faster but not as fast as the N5 port did on me, so some tweaking in KA modded plus the power saving mode will give me enough for my regular day, I love the fact that my device goes into deepsleep and that saves even more battery, tried the AOD but it was too dimm, anyway no useful to me. So here's my screens from last few days, if there's any way I can help. Sorry for the long post but all this was done just from reading, guys seriously read and take your time, be patient, believe me once you set this fantastic ROM you'll be surprised. Cheers!!!

I've must missed a couple of things but let me remember them and share my findings later, just remembered one, wooww super fast and the booting time 8 to 10 seconds??? Wow