[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] gwm121:
if he saw 9GB, it's probably because the system apps also use space in the data partition (data is usually the biggest partition on any Android device). So when it shows him 9GB, it is calculating the space used in both system and data. If you want that space back, then you have to delete whatever is hogging it. But that comes with its' own potential issues.

I will once again say that an app like DiskInfo will give a much more accurate estimate. And AGAIN, the system partition is only 3.5GB at most (it is exactly 3,774,873,600 bytes, which converts to 3.5GB).

If you don't want to use official Play Store, then install MicroG's FakeStore instead. It is an empty package that pretends to be PS, and it uses the same package name as PS (com.android.vending). It basically does nothing except say "hey, yeah, I'm PS" when apps look for it. It may be useful in cases where you dont want PS, but some apps will look for it. This may help mitigate your Signal battery drain. You can get it from MicroG's official download page.

Yeah, I ditched MicroG months ago. It would just glitch out and reset its' settings. Or crash every now and again. Location provider functionality was iffy. And it seems that some of my apps didn't play nice with it. I used MicroG as my go to for several years, then these issues started happening. I really didn't want to let it go, and spent over 6 months scratching my head and searching for solutions. It eventually got to the point where I had spent more time troubleshooting it than it was worth. So I went back to GApps, which is more bloated but also more reliable.

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Jan 15, 2021 at 12:43 PM

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i can confirm even when showing 9bg when making a backup with twrp its under 3gb

strange thing new install on 1 phone 2.4gb and other phone 2.7gb

anyway its small

why i like it small not because of space but because of time when backup and restore

now only if i could sort my banking app its called bankia btw

thank you

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please help on one phone 6.0.1 works fine

on my other phone if i flash this firmware or even my 6.0.1 backup it dont boot and it keeps rebooting but if i flash android 10 phone boots fine

how i can fix this?

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Jan 15, 2021 at 9:48 PM

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@speedspeed1: TWRP compresses the backups with tar compression, that's why they are smaller.

Your banking app not working is probably because SafetyNet is failing. I mentioned that on this page. Nothing I can do to fix SN issues, they're not my fault. I only know that this ROM *WAS* passing SN when I released it months ago, but not as of recently. I think you'll probably get more help with this in Magisk XDA subforum.

NEVER restore a backup from another phone onto a different phone, even if they have the same model/firrmware/ROM versions. If your other device is a Note 4 N910F, try clean flashing this ROM from TWRP. Make sure to wipe data/cache for a clean start. If it still doesn't boot, then you may need to flash the UK BTU firmware with Odin on a PC, then flash this ROM afterwards. You're fine to make a backup on that phone and restore it, but don't try to use it on other Note 4s.

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ok flashed with odin after flashed this and working again

what you mean i cannot use backup from other n910f on other n910f phone?

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@speedspeed1: I mean exactly what I said. If you make a backup on an N910F, don't try to use it on another N910F. Or any other Note 4 variant/other phone. You must make the backup/restore *ONLY* on the *SAME* phone that you intend to use it on.

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could you explain me why? interested to know

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@speedspeed1: Because it usually won't work, for one reason, as you've already found out. And there is likely to be a discrepancy with incompatible data, or incompatible firmware. Different phones also have different serial #s, IMEIs, etc. I've tried doing this several times before on a handful of Android devices, it rarely worked.

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Is there a link now to a completely working rom for note 4 snapdragon with g apps, please can someone point me to this thx. Is this a debloated marsmallow rom, or more recent one. Is a "stock rom" marshmallow but debloated.

Ive learnt to instal twrp, flash a rom, when you talk about kernals ets soz thats above my knowledge.

Prefer the note 4 to any other fone, miss the huge bright alert led on my new redmi note8 (£120) but the note 4 is unusable with freezes and camera shutdowns with all the pie roms i loaded, .. Id go back to marshmallow samsung if an easy reflash through twrp

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dont think so but just flash rom and flash gapps and thats you sorted

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I never noticed any ROMs that were based on the latest DRI2 firmware. What I've released is the only one. This is more of a debloated stock ROM than a true custom ROM with custom features.

If you want any of the 68 pure original DRI2 firmwares, you can find them on my AndroidFileHost profile. They're Odin flashable only, you can't flash them from TWRP. You could also try using FlashFire, but that doesn't work with latest Magisk, and you also need a permissive kernel. If you want to go that route then I suggest temporarily using SuperSU and Ram Kernel/FlashPoint kernel. They were all collected from SamMobile. I also created a short topic about it on XDA.

As for why I removed GApps:

1. The GApps included by Samsung are way out of date

2. People that want GApps can flash the latest OpenGApps nano zip, which gives them a ROM that has the Google components fully updated. People that want MicroG can use my MicroG installer, or install it manually. People that don't want GApps or MicroG don't have to do anything, I've already removed nearly all GApps components except the critical stuff. By doing it this way, I've set up a baseline ROM that is a good starting point for all 3 groups.

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thankyou for maing note 4 still usable,

please could you repost the link to the fully working stock debloated marshmallow and confirm flash g apps nano version marshmallow ? at same time without a clean or switch off between the 2 flashes thankyou

a big problem now with note 4 is quite a few apps say unable to run on this old android version, example the sonos app, would these run on this?

The other problem is the stupid changes to menus like the double down from top swype to get settings, the swype up to swich on instead of marshmallow swype right..or is it the other way round.. i can never remember when using both fones....

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@gwm121: Read the first post of this thread, all the ROM info is there. And complete instructions. I don't support dirty flashes, clean flashes only. If you dirty flash my ROM, don't report issues.

And the answer to your second question: Any app that is incompatible with Marshmallow won't run on this ROM. It's beyond my control. Apps are usually compiled with a maximum SDK level, anything above that generally won't run. Marshmallow 6.0.1's SDK level is 23.

You can try using the Xposed modules InstallerOpt or XInstaller to force the installation of apps that are incompatible. But they usually still won't work.

Another suggestion is to try using an older version of the app.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH IM LOOKING, SURELY THREAD MEANS THE 6 or so people messaging here as copied and pasted above, the firtst one has no link instruction. Im on my own here no one to ssk, I can get most knowledge from google, have I misinterpreted "thread" is there a way to expand this info to get the link . Really appreciate how to get to the link to download a fully working marshmallow that you have made.

1. Switched on the note 4 again after using the redmi note 8 WOW an alert lied I can see, what a shame fones go out of date.

2. im on AICP rom.... on this the camera freezes the system sometimes and soooo long to start up. (note 4 910f) genuine samsung snapdragon