[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkman088:
Dear Note 3 fans,

I have been fighting for almost a month with my new Note 3. I have tried an overwhelming amount of ROMs, but the ROM of artas182 is the only one, where it worked. I have posted a lot of questions and I have been sending a lot of PMs to developers. Unfortunately, nobody gave me an answer, nobody has provided help.

Hence I have no other choice, but to use this ROM. It is stable, but there are a lot of

glitches and a lot of inconvenience. At the price of many sleepless nights, I have finally managed to solve almost all of them and I have decided to publish a little guide, with the hopevthat it might be helpful to somebody:

Problem 1: SD card is not being seen from a PC, when the phone is connected to USB.

Solution 1: well, I still didn't find a real solution for this. But there is a nice workaround - use TWRP 3.0.2-1. When it's necessary to copy files to the SD card, boot into recovery - now the SD card is visible from the PC. I know it's cumbersome and it's

far from perfect, but it's way better than opening the phone, taking the SD card out or copying stuff to the internal memory and moving it then to the SD card

Problem 2: Everything looks huge. TouchWizHome is not looking nice with a grid of 4x5 on a 5.7" display !!

Solution 2: Install an app, called DPI changer and set a more appropriate value for DPI.

As far as I know, 420 is a standard, I have although set it to 400, because I desperately

needed to get things smaller. Now we've solved one issue, but caused several other glitches, which I will describe here.

Glitch A: The grid is still 4x5. There is a huge wasted space around the icons.

Solution A: I tried to put a lot of modded TouchWizHome.apk files and replace the original one, but no matter what I tried, I was always getting an error message "Unfortunately TouchWizHome has stopped". Hence the solution is to install another launcher. S Launcher is the closest to TouchWiz. But I decided to use Next Launcher, as it provides a really different looks to the phone and I like all those 3D effects (they remind me a little bit on the Linux Compiz). Now I have a 5x5 grid. Beautiful!

Glitch B: The dialer seems to be with hardcoded DPI. The buttons only cover part of the screen and they leave an unsymmetrical white space on the screen - UGLY!

Solution B: Install Zero Dialer. Set it as the default dialer (Settings / Default applications) and then go to Settings / Application manager and disable the original phone app.

Glitch C: The camera app is also with hardcoded DPI settings. It looks ridiculously small on the gorgeous 5.7" screen and leaves a lot of black space around the app. Worse, touching the buttons doesn't work. One has to kinda tap next to a button, in order to hit it. Terrible !!

Solution C: Install another camera app. I personally like Camera zoom FX. This causes glitch D.

Glitch D: It's not possible to set which camera app is being invoked from the shortcut on the lock screen.

Solution D: Download BlackRose ROM (BlackRose_Marshmallow_Note5_NewUx_v1_Light.zip). Open the zip file and go to

System\priv-app\SamsungCamera5 and extract SamsungCamera5.apk from there. On the phone, open Root Explorer and go to /system/priv-app/SamsungCamera3 and copy SamsungCamera5.apk there. Rename SamsungCamera3.apk to SamsungCamera3.apk.bak. Rename SamsungCamera5.apk to SamsungCamera3.apk.

Set the permissions to 644. Go to /data/dalvik-cache, scroll to the end of the list, and going from the bottom, look for a file, containing the name SamsungCamera3. Delete it and restart the phone. Now we've successfully replaced the stock camera with an app with better resolution. Now it only leaves a small black strap at the bottom of the screen. The buttons are working fine now!

Problem 3: When you long-press the power button, the 3 icons for setting the phone to mute, vibration and sound are missing.

Solution 3: Unfortunately, I still don't have a solution for this one! I would be very very

thankful, if somebody would advise how this can be solved. Maybe it's possible to replace the whole power menu ? I have tried Lockscreen vibrate widget, but I didn't find a way to make it show up on the lock screen :(

Problem 4: The alarm does not produce ANY SOUNDS at times. It might be related to charging.

Solution 4: Install and use Timely

[MENTION=3519950]artas182x[/MENTION] - MANY MANY THANKS for providing the only custom ROM with working encryption. I hope that you will not be angry about this post, on the contrary, you would hopefully embrace it as a contribution for establishing the leading posistion of your ROM