[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] protonic:
Just installed this _r24 and got NO SIM.

Even though on N9005XXUGBOJ2 already (from the last official SAM ROM), flashed the OP indicated modem (surprise - is the very same).

Still NO SIM. So no, the modem is not the culprit here.

FYI (because there seems to be very few people using BT full time - so I do not expect any improvment here):

Tested BT, maybe-maybe is this ROM any better: no, there is the same crappy audio BT, lots of gaps, event stopping the playback alltogether (youtube, mx player, any audio player). An audio player will work ok longer on BT than any video activity, YT/mx player, etc.

So: NO useable BT here too.

1. At times, mostly on maximal power save and with the phone on the table(or fixed position), face down is better, sound playback gets ok. If handheld, most likely sound breakings occur.

Range is 1m, clear line of sight, tested on multiple BT receivers, mostly the same type.

2. Also, at times, without playing any sound, but in the same position as a second before when playing music/YT, the BT receiver beeps as if it lost connection with phone - usually does this when I exit house, the beep is clear and loud enough just to be heard from the street :). It reconnects by itself, though.

3. On stock ROM (5.0.0) I only lost BT connectivity if I held the phone under my arm, so I intentionally shield it with my body or getting out of my (pretty tiny) house. Otherways, the BT sound was perfect.

4. For some reason, the car BT (which powers up every time I start the car) seems not to have this kind of behavior(sound gaps, cracklings, stopping), but just starts up way too loud. I did not try to play movies in my car, but youtube works ok on mobile data ( I assume the bandwidth would be way smaller on mobile data?). I'll switch the BT in the car with one in the house. Only 1 BT works in the house, at any given time - but is stays powered on.

5. On none of the BT I cannot really disable beeps on volume change (all the other beeps on volume are disabled in settings and they work accordingly, this setting does not exist)

6. Also, for the BT devices that I do not restart periodically (like those in my home), volume decreases over time, no matter how loud I set the volume at the time.

To correct this I have to play some music/video, set the volume to low/very low - the lowest the better, disconnect from BT, restart BT, reconnect to BT and I have full range again, loud is loud as it should be.

If I do not change the volume, after BT restart I have the same low maximal volume - so I assume this is phone related, not BT receiver related.

It seems that is does not always remember volume settings related to a certain device.

At times it even forgets the name I have given to various devices - so I can identify them - it shows the original device name in BT settings. Usually here I restart the phone.

This is not the only custom ROM with this problem - all seem to have various kind of issues.

The newer the Android, the most severe the issue.

On android 6 usually the problem is the equalizer - which appears activated on certain preset, even thou in settings is shows OK or disabled, but usually BT music is OK, same as stock 5.0.x.

Andoid 7 seems to have these severe playback issues, to the point that I cannot use it for music/audio.

Flashed lineage-14.1-20170719-nightly-hlte-signed.zip - NO SIM either.

Flashed lineage-14.1-20170526-UNOFFICIAL... (because is what I have left on my SD, but I cannot see the whole name because of the File explorer!!!) - there is my SIM!

So: all newer ROMs will see o SIM?