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[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] swaaye:
I have no idea how you could have missed the wifi settings not saving issue at least. Also if you try some games on both Kitkat and CM12.1 you will see they run better in Kitkat for some reason. Lollipop isn't really known for being lean and mean compared to Kitkat.... Android just gets heavier and heavier with each release.

I have hopes that things will get better if Skoar figures out how to build NVidia's kernel source. But, more likely, that is probably a load of its own problems. :)
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] skoar:
I agree that lollipop is presenting some lags but there is only so much you could do about it even with a good kernel. The problem lies within the source itself. Things that I cannot edit. Now the only option I see is to stop using lollipop sources and try to get lollipop working with KitKat sources. That way we'll get all the optimisation of KitKat but we will also lose some of lollipop features as well. I've got exams coming up so I can't devote time to this (physics is killing me). By now you guys are probably thinking that I keep making excuses and delay the update. I myself am feeling the same but the thing is there is nothing I can do about it. It's really hard to do everything on your own with no other developers working on the project. I guess I came to the party a little too late. Anyways I gotta think about studies before this so if you guys feel unsatisfied with cm then do move back to stock KitKat. I'll try to get things together on my end and will push the update when it's ready.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] GodOfPsychos:
Don't stress yourself. It's alright. Life comes first ^^.

The problem lies within nvidias messy source tree. If it werent for that, many other developers would like to help i think.

Btw did you manage to contact shaky?
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] drc1:
Yes Skoar dont worry about it. Far more important things in life.

I do not seem to be suffering the problems that others have found. I logged into my wifi when I set it up and have not been asked to again.

As I have said seems a lot smoother and faster than ever before.

I suppose thats just one of the wonders of android. What suits one machine is different on another.

I have found this before.

Good luck with your exams.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] swaaye:
I've know what joys Physics exams are. Good luck. Just forget about this tablet nonsense for now and focus on the exams.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] mspadua:
Good luck and thanks for what you did till now!
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Zythrotix:
Why when I Flashing the rom i got an error says "Error executing updater binary in zip ' /emmc/Downloads/ cm-12.1-20170614-UNOFFICIAL-tegratab.zip" , but I already edit the updater script.?
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] madmatt2024:
You shouldn't need to edit anything. Just install TWRP, put the ROM zip on an SD card, wipe, flash, clear cach/delvic, and reboot.

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I ended up reverting back to Kitkat, while your port is better than factory Lollipop its still really clunky. If you think basing it off of the KitKat sources will be better then do it when you have the chance. Out of curiosity, what features would be lost doing it this way?

Also, for those wondering I did try Shaky's Lollipop kernel with it but it won't boot. It shows the Cyanogenmod boot animation but never fully boots which doesn't exactly surprise me. As others have said it would be nice if Shaky was to make a kernel specifically for the Cyanogenmod port when its finished.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Mburn08:
Tegra note revival!!!

I stumbled on this thread a couple days ago as I've been hoping and praying that someone had made(or was working on) a custom ROM for the TN7 and I'm glad there is someone.

The ROM hasn't been flash yet on my Advent TN7 but as of writing I'm about to do so.

Hope you keep at it and make a better ROM than that god awful 5.1 that I had the misfortune of updating to.

looking forward to more updates to this ROM.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] it'sup:
I'm getting a boot loop in recovery when trying to Wipe all my user data
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Mburn08:
gapps not flashing

i dont know if im trying to flash the wrong gapps or not but i keep getting an error saying it failed. when i go on the gapps website i choose ARM, 5.1 and standard. have i chosen the wrong gapps? can anyone else tell me which is the right one to download.

Thanks in advance

*update* was able to get GAPPS working on my tegra, just need to find a way to allow netflix on my device
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] t0rmenti0n:
NVIDIA Tegra NOTE 7 LTE (P1988 or TN7C)

Please add support for NVIDIA Tegra NOTE 7 LTE (P1988 or TN7C) Thank you so much :)
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] fu24:
Try the ARM, 5.1 Micro-Package
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] cloudpt:
safetynet check is gonna be a problem for netflix... Which is basically 90% of the use most 4+years old tablets get
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] mahesh2040:
Maybe but we should try latest magisk 13.3 cause when I tried i guess that time safety net was updated by Google and everyone's was failing... But right now I don't have tablet and also I think dev is busy in his own life.. so let's see if we get little bit good build in overall aspect... I think main issue is off kernel too that's why dev is facing issue...
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] XxGabrielBR:
Games downloaded from internet!

ROM is great, but obviously it would have bugs, and I've been able to find some, and I'll list them here waiting for a correction.

Bugs: Do not install absolutely any game downloaded on the internet, none being free or not! And also when I put in check it updates the failure n verification.

These are the bugs I've found so far, thanks for the effort to make this Rom hope for updates with fixes !!!:)
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] oppodi:
Please give the TWRP link needed to flash this room
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] oppodi:
Successfully flashed this ROM and it is better than stock ROM

Thank u dev
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] jbmc83:
finally got around to flash this rom on my gf's tegra note 7 and im blown away, SO much smoother than stock lollipop! amazing work there, keep it up! :)
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] myselfkarthikcp:
Issue in touch screen

Thanks for this custom ROM, But after I installed this custom ROM, finger touch in not responding but when using the stylus it is okay!! Touch issue was already a headache from KitKat. Any suggestions?
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] jbmc83:
hm, this is weird: no matter what, after a while trebuchet force closes and keeps doing it so that the tablet becomes unuseable.

at first i thought that it was due to me removing unwanted system apps via titanium backup, so i did a fresh install with nano gapps and didnt touch any system apps. i then restored apps and data via titanium backup, still all good. but once i finished updating the last app from play store BAM there it is again: trebuchet force closes.

anyone experienced something like this? im now gonna try and install the apps from the play store one by one instead of restoring them from titanium backup, lets see how that goes...
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] drc1:
jbmc83 I have had a similar problem. I use an app called xplore which is a file browser. If I use an old version everything is fine but if I update to the newest version I get the same problem as yourself. I have tried a different launcher (apex) but still get the same problem if I update the xplore app. As you say the only way back is a fresh install as the tablet becomes unusable.

Very strange.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] jbmc83:
yep, i also tried using nova launcher and deleting trebuchet. that helped matters a little bit in that the crashes came much later, but they still appeared.

i dont get how updating apps through google play could crash the launcher...? if this keeps up ill see myself going back to kitkat, no other option left unfortunately... :(

but first things first, lets see if i can pinpoint the issue to the exact app update causing this...
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] drc1:
Yes I think that's all you can do. In my case its the update for the xplore file manager that does it. If I don't update it everything seems ok.

Like you I don't understand why an update can do this but have tried it several times and its the same every time and only with that app.

Its a shame because otherwise this rom is working for me much better than the original one and I don't really want to go back.

Perhaps your investigations will show up the problem.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] jbmc83:
found it, greenify is the culprit! when i restore it from titanium backup or twrp it just works, but once i update it via play store BAM! launcher force closes and system keeps rebooting and becomes unuseable.

first things first though, wanna check and see if there are any other troublemaker apps causing this behavior....in any case, the problem now finally becomes manageable :)
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] jbmc83:
apparently im not the only one having problems with greenify and cm 12.1 / lollipop 5.1.1 roms! check out this thread:

https://xdaforums.com/apps/greenify/-restart-apps-crash-installing-t3654586

issues across several devices!
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] drc1:
jbmc83. Glad you found your problem app. I dont use greenify so cannot comment on it.

Lets hope there are no more.

Funny that the same as me its only when you update from the play store.

I have turned off auto update and will now do it manually so I will know If and what is the problem.

Hopefully when our dev gets time we will get an update.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] jbmc83:
i checked every single app from the titanium backup, it was only greenify that caused trouble. old version 3.4.3 runs just fine, but the current 3.6.2 makes the system go haywire. now checking which is the newest version i can safely use, then just gonna stick to that...
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] skoar:
An update is going to hit on Sunday. Stay tuned ;)
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] GodOfPsychos:
Looking forward to it ^^
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Donz7733:
Whoohoooooooo
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] jbmc83:
ha, what a timing! guess ill set up my gf's tablet all over again, but thats ok :D
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] oppodi:
Same here greenify crashes the rom
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] jbmc83:
in case anyone's interested, 3.5.2 is the most current version of greenify that does not crash the system. 3.5.3 and onwards makes the tablet go haywire with this rom installed!

also, i went for a modded apk of greenify so that my gf wont have to deal with nagging play store updates ;)
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] skoar:
I need testers. Those who are willing pm me
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] sureshfrndfll:
I'm ready to do..
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] jbmc83:
whats new? :)

but too late for my gf i think, even though we got a new usb charging port through a repair shop, it failed again... i think thats it for her beloved tegra note 7! RIP :(
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] skoar:
Performance improvements, security changes, somethings ported from stock ROM among other under hood changes
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] jaca22:
Hi friend, good work with the rom for tegra note.

if you can send the download link to help in the work of finding bug.

excuse my bad english
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] mahesh2040:
I hope testing is going on.. i wish I could be part of testing but sadly i left tablet at home. Hopefully we will have a stable rom in 3-4 months with devs great efforts!

Edit: one thing I notice is that source code is not yet released which may cause issue if by chance any mods comes here and check they may lock this thread. I really don't want to see the thread to be locked ??

Maybe some one may get inspired and make other rom with that source code
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] skoar:
Yeah about the source code you're right. The thing is the device tree is still a little messy. Let me get this update done and then I'll upload it. As for other devs I don't think this device has any other left
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] cloudpt:
Talking about source code: can we get it before a mod comes and enforces then rules by closing the topic because no linknis provided? We don't care about the tree being messy. It would also help solve bugs by people that understand aosp code or even get pull requests...
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] skoar:
Fine I'll upload today
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] skoar:
OP has been updated with links of device and vendor trees. But currently it's not booting it seems one of my changes has broken the booting process and since I'm not in a habit of making commits, I'm having one hell of a time identifying the faulty change. Feel free to fork and make pull requests.

Regards,

Skoar
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] skoar:
Guys I've cleaned up the sources and updated the links in op. If anyone wants to pitch in it's all there. I've got it to boot but it doesn't go any further than optimizing apps. Let's see what we can do.....
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] markedge2k:
All my Explorer managers are crashing on trying to open it. Please let me know if there is anything I can help you with. Even Lawnchair app is crashing google.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] skoar:
I've got some good news for you guys

1. Finally got cm to boot and implemented all features, built and uploaded (will post soon)

2. Finally solved kernel building. No more prebuilt from now on we'll use inline kernel building. This paves the way for a future custom kernel and cm 13

3. This cm build is going to be the last one for lollipop. Time to start working on marshmallow.....

I'm very tired today so can't make the long update post will post tomorrow. This time it's final no more delays
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] jbmc83:
wow, incredible work there, congratz! :)
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] drc1:
Splendid. Waiting in anticipation.?
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] mahesh2040:
Yeah.... Finally you solved the kernel issue.. i am visiting my home likely mid October... I am eager to flash the rom... And if everything is great then I am gonna keep tab with me so that I can help in testing... Let's see... Your hard work should be appreciated by everyone owing the tablet.. people have lost the hope of custom ROM and most of there tablet are getting dust in some corner. Hopefully everyone should see this so that they are revive there tablet.

Thanks dev
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] GodOfPsychos:
Thats very great news. Especially the kernel part since that was probably the biggest problem for any dev to deal with due to nvidias messy source tree.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] skoar:
UPDATE

Okay guys the update is here. Almost 4 months after the initial release I've perfected most of the device tree including the kernel which I've finally been able to build. I learned many new things along the way which I've implemented in the ROM. Now I would like to talk about a couple of things.

Let's start with testing and I gotta say I got a very bad response from you guys although many of you pm'ed me but upon giving you the build you didn't reply back. This time I'm letting it go but from next time i.e, while doing the marshmallow bring-up if I don't get testers I'll stop working on it. The last couple of days I shaved off sleeping time in order to get things done and if you can't even do the cortesy of testing the builds then I'm not worknig on it.

Second I wanna know how many people still own the 'Tegra Note 7' so I'm creating a poll please vote on it. I'm surprised that this thread has got 9k views but still there is no real activity in the thread. I really wanna know the numbers. Even if you're a stock user do vote.

Third and my favourite lets talk about changelog. It's so huge that I don't remember most of it but here are the ones that I do remember :-

1. Bring kernel inline

2. add Nvcamera from stock (it's the best for our pathetic excuse of a camera)

3. add controller mapper (controller support)

4. add a boat load of missing blobs, update the existing ones and remove unneeded ones

5. tweaked and added some files (should offer good performance and battery backup)

6. get proximity sensor working

7. Initial pass at fixing selinux (more about it later)

8. clean up the device tree and get it ready to support other roms

9. updated overlays

10. kernel has been tweaked (should improve performance)

11. fix recovery build

12. add custom bluetooth device name (can be changed from setting)

13. fix otg

14. fixed battery percentage suddenly dropping upon unlocking the tab

15. tweaked powerhal a bit (more about it later)

and much much more

fix touch (users who've used the EVGA APX images to unbrick their tab must be experiencing touch problems which they might thinK is their tablet freezing up which by the way it is not. I've been experiencing this too. this build should address this issue.

Fourth

Although I said this would be last lollipop build but it won't be. The changelog for the next and last lollipop build will be

1. fix sepolicy to get it to work on enforcing mode

2. fix up the powerhal and stop building it as a stub

3. a few more kernel changes

4. bid lollipop goodbye

Fifth and the last.

I've spent a huge amount of time in getting everything ready and I'm opensourcing it so If you're using it then please do give proper credits. At least respect the work that I've done.

Download link is in OP.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] jaca22:
Thanks for all your work [MENTION=8025757]skoar[/MENTION]

tonight I will install the rom and see how it works in "retroarch" that this tablet is very good to emulate old consoles

if later you can add some overclock to the cpu and be able to control with the application tegra overclock app that is the best for our tablet

Thank you again for all your great work !!! greetings a hug
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] drc1:
Hi Skoar,

Have been using rom for a couple of hours now and so far no problems.

In fact the tablet has never run as good in my opinion. Smooth and fast with no lag at all.

Thanks for all your hard work. Its much appreciated and if you do need testers please ask. I am sure some of us will oblige.

Will use it more later and let you know any problems.

Thanks again and please keep up the good work.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] GodOfPsychos:
Yeah many ppl are unthankful and dont appreciate anything. Especially since we are not that big of a group of tegra note 7 owners anymore as we once were. Because of that you wont see as many testers of a rom as on some other devices forum section. Its pretty sad tbh. And even for other devices forums, the testers of something are only a very small portion of a group of ppl compared to how many actually just download a rom and leave without saying anything. Most dont even hit the thanks button.

As for me, since the rom gets more and more stable, i am willing to test it now (im more like a guy who likes to try roms in a beta stage rather than alpha as i still use it very often) Will maybe install it tomorrow. On weekend i should have much more time for testing it and give you any info of any bugs, freezes/crashes or any other issues i come along. Will also give the performance a try by trying out some games like real racing 3 with highest graphics enabled (in case anyone wonders, i have done this by changing some xml files in the games folder, just google how you can do it, there is also an app that can switch graphic settings files of th3 game).

Anyway, if you would like me to test specific stuff, let me know which exactly so i can help you with that as well. Once i installed the rom i will reply here in this thread.

I will also post any bugs etc here in this thread so other ppl can compare if they run into the same issues or not.

Now as for the touch fix you mentioned,

That specific issue wasnt only happening to ppl that restored their tablet via apx images. It also happened to me when i installed lollipop (the crappy stock one by nvidia) via twrp and pc. So it seems that this was a general issue with lollipop that nvidia sadly never fixed.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] skoar:
Poll added. Please do vote
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] markedge2k:
Awesome work buddy

Hi Skoar,

I appreciate your efforts to revive this old beast. I am here to help you test your roms and mods. Please let me know if you need any help with your. I would be delighted to work with you.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] idcamper:
This great rom I put kernel beta version in it because I could not force the 4 cores

Kernel previous version of forcing cores with tegra overclock app

It looks great for games

I am having a problem youtube app some videos close application

Thank you very much
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] skoar:
Give me a logcat just after the application force closes and I'll see what I can do. Although I didn't face such an issue during testing
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] idcamper:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnjwpqwVK1E

This is one of the videos that closes application

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Does this video close anybody else?

Many videos I see normal without closing
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] jaca22:
[MENTION=8025757]skoar[/MENTION]

the application tegra overclock does not work to manually control the activation of the cores of the cpu and the frequencies are broken in the stock rom works without problems ... this application power the tablet for a maximum performance very important for me if you like me I can donate the money so that you can buy it in the google store

if you want to warn me and I support you with the money so you can do the tests

and if in future compilations you can add overclock to the cpu and disable the limitation of 4 cores cap to 1600mhz

thanks and regards
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] eddynoob:
A big heartfelt thanks to the dev for working so hard on the ROM and reviving back our tegra note 7.Had tried out the build for sometime,everything seemed to work good so far.the only thing I found buggy was brightness slider.Screen went completely dark once I reduced brightness all the way and it was like that for sometime till it got back yo normal again.

Anyway again can't thank the dev skoar enough for bringing out cm 12.1 for our almost dead device amd hope to see the newer version of Android on it in the coming days or months maybe with the Nvidia direct stylus working natively .wish you all the best
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] skoar:
Like I said before my knowledge about Kernels is not so much although I've learnt quite a lot since june and I can implement features but I still don't know how to overclock. I assure you I'll implement it within this year but not quite now. I've got 5 days of holiday left and I would like to get the final build of lollipop out. As for 4 cores cap that is to save power. Since there is demand of oc therefore I'll get Shaky's overlocked kernel to work with this rom. This will temporary fulfill your wishes. Although it you take my advice stay away from OC
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] skoar:
Giving me the link of the video won't help. Give me a logcat just after the application force closes
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] skoar:
Brightness issue will be fixed in next build I'll put a brightness cap to 3. As for direct stylus I'm working on it. But it somehow always force closes. I might get it to work but the chances of success look bleak.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] FixerZ:
Error executing updater binary in zip, What to do?
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Freeje:
This is great! Would someone tell me how install TWRP?
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] drc1:
I did it through using the Root Junky supertool.

Google it to find his site.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] skoar:
Last update of lollipop coming today. You guys are gonna love this one.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] GodOfPsychos:
Thats nice to hear. And sry but i didnt have time over the weekend to test the current build. Private life came in between so i couldnt do it. But i will try to do it as soon as possible
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] Ayush Kumar Tarun:
Thanks for your awesome work to revive our old lovely tab. I used the last build, it's awesome and most of all it fixed my touch problem although i had not recovered using apx images.

The last build is fast no lag, no issues faced , but when I tried to run real racing 3, it was not an experience it used to be before in the stock ROM, random stuttering and frame drops.

Overall the ROM is outstanding, just gaming performance can be improved a bit.
[Nvidia Tegra Note 7] oppodi:
I ve been using your ROM for a week and it is fast and lag free , it even fixed my touch screen issue

I mainly use it to watch movies and shows in terrarium TV and music