[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) General] gfmoore:
I loaded the ROM yesterday and Pico. No issues there at all.

A tiny minor issue. When personalising my name and using the SPen it didn't bring up the keyboard, but my finger did. Noted this also when changing the Device hostname.

I liked the nice clean screen. Peevy Gripe: I wish I could easily select a plain wallpaper. :)

Sorry the next bit probably belongs in another forum - just ignore it if so.

Looked through what was there. Wondering why some apps are there such as SIM Tool kit etc.

Also wondered if the provided apps such as Browser, email, calendar (which I assume just come with android are necessary for the functioning of the device or can they be removed? How (Titanium)

Same with Trebuchet and Pixel - can they be removed (if I want to) - I too am a Nova fan, well I paid for it :)

Again just a wondering, does wallpaper actually need to be running once wallpaper is set up?

In fact there are a lot of things that get started at boot (Privacy guard) - has anyone experimented a lot with turning them off. Are there any that just must start at boot.

Masquerade?

Updates? I assume that looks in the Google store, but could it just be manually started

Wallpapers

Trebuchet

SimToolKit

Calendar

Blocked numbers storage

Call management

MobileNetwork config

Blocked numbers storage

Call management

MobileNetwork config

Do you start to see a theme here guys - I like a minimalist, clean approach :)

I noted that root access on by default. Not an issue for me, but perhaps some may want to know this.

Now I decided to connect my Note to my win10 laptop. It connected, there was a folder, but nothing in it and couldn't copy anything to it.

Mucked around with various developer options, but no joy.

Rebooted and got a message that LineageOS wanted root. After a bit of research decided that probably I should give it. I have noted some posts about LOS? - I assume this is it. I'm not certain of what the implications of this are or should I have given root. What's the story here? (link perhaps for me? - ta)

Didn't have a clue about the big G icon at top left (I've now discovered/been told) its to do with Pixel and doesn't work with Pico GApps. Didn't like it anyway so consigned to room 101.)

Now to the main issue which is the SD Card thingy. (I had issues with this with the RR Marshmallow ROM)

So firstly I noted that without the SD Card there is an entry for

Internal storage 5.29GB of 14.68

SanDisk SD Card not inserted – why SanDisk? - I assume tat this is from the testing and building you do?

I also had a look around with file manager to try and find the Downloads folder etc - where are they?

I then took my 64GB Samsung SD card, did a diskpart on it from my PC tried a full format, but after a few hours gave up (only about 15% done) and did a quick format with extFAT. Had a look at the card, did a copy and delete, no errors. Put a small folder of music on it.

Turned off the Note, inserted the card and restarted. (By the way is an SD Card hot pluggable?)

There was an Sd card icon at top left notification area, clicked on it and get setup – two choices – portable or internal storage.

Selected internal as i thought you can't have too much memory for apps etc.

This option required the card to be formatted. Now when I did this on the Marshmallow build I found that it used whatever space was left and (no doubt) created an ext4 partition, making the device basically unusable in my laptop. Decided to get rid of the music folder and do this for a clean full card.

Didnt take long.

But I got a message: Says my sandisk appears slow! Says go to settings storage.

This showed 3 items internal, sd card and another: sd card not inserted?

Anyway downloaded my main app (which is JWLibrary and is quite a good test as there's lots going on and lots of data needs.

I'm happy to say there was no issues, then I tried Word, which also just worked and both very speedy.

However, when I went to an option that allows the data to be saved to the SD Card the JWLib app crashed.

Decided that perhaps the SD Card was faulty.

Took a new 64MBit sd card, never used and shutdown, inserted and restart.

This time I selected Portable - yes I know not a very logical test!!

However, I had lost my few apps. So the apps were being stored on the previous SD Card.

I re-downloaded apps, but had a few issues getting them going, kept crashing. I figured out that I had to "forget" the phantom SD Card. After that things settled down. So the app is stored on internal and then the save data on SD card function on JWLib seemed to work fine - though I can't see the folder where data is stored?.

I note that there is now no option to move apps to the SD Card, so this means that my 9GB of internal store will be used for apps. Good job I don't use too many I guess. Why has this feature been removed? Design decision by Google. It's okay if you set up the sd card to be used as internal, but then you can't use sd reader from laptop to transfer say many music files. Uhmmm I'm not sure I understand exactly what is going on here.

Anyway, many apps later no problem. All seem to play well and no glitches or errors - the ROM seems very stable.

Tried again with the USB cable and after getting a few MTP Host errors and changing various settings - from notification and dev options I have gained access to the usual folders. I can also copy things to them.

(Is this what is meant by OTG? or is that something different?)

One issue I did have, and I can't remember exactly what happened as I couldn't make notes at the time, was that I needed to download a pdf from a web site (using the inbuilt Browser). This happened fine. I tried to open it, no joy. Then I downloaded Xodo - a pdf reader, this just couldn't see the Downloads folder. I tried using the file browser. Somehow after a lot of fiddling it worked. As I say couldn't quite figure out what was going on.

I also had a play with some of the Nougat features - once I had figured out out to get the running apps showing - long press on the Options key to the left of the home button - arghhh why do they keep changing things!

(Long/double press on the Home button doesn't seem to do anything anymore.)

However I noted that I am supposed to be able to do various things as this link says

(sorry not allowed to paste as link)

www

tomsguide

com

/faq/id-3165946

/overview-button-android-nougat

html

but it doesnt work or am I missing something?

The split screen works really well and is a feature that I shall use a lot as I select text in one screen and paste it into word in the other (bottom half). It's going to be really great as Mr Trump says..

So I'm just loading various apps on now and so far this is really good. Great work. Feels really solid and stable - it's funny how we develop a sort of psychological sense about this quality, you know when you have a device you treat very gently because it will probably crash, but this is rock like.

Haven't tried bluetooth, casting to my tv, video etc yet. But not things I use it a lot for anyway.

Can't believe really that I've got such an up to date device - marvellous :)

Sorry for the rambling, but hopefully this is helpful. (oh by the way is this a bottom posting forum?)