Hey guys, I'm looking into flashing CM 11 into my Bell Note 3. It's been a while since I've modded a phone. Got a few questions. If I flash CM 11 into my phone will I lose any features? Such as S-Pen functions (i.e. Air view, etc). What kind of issues am I looking at if I flash? What am I gaining? I've looked at other threads but I just want to make sure what I'm getting myself into when modding my phone. Also could someone please link me to a thread for flashing CM 11?
luster_12x said:
Hey guys, I'm looking into flashing CM 11 into my Bell Note 3. It's been a while since I've modded a phone. Got a few questions. If I flash CM 11 into my phone will I lose any features? Such as S-Pen functions (i.e. Air view, etc). What kind of issues am I looking at if I flash? What am I gaining? I've looked at other threads but I just want to make sure what I'm getting myself into when modding my phone. Also could someone please link me to a thread for flashing CM 11?
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Yup you will lose SPen (samsung software side anyway) - there are great alternatives GMD_Spen is good.
Issues if you flash? - varying, depends on the environment if the release is a nightly (buggy) or a Kang'd build (customised)
What are you gaining? - Pure speed, performance, battery life, and of course that clean and crisp Pure Android experience.
My advice, have a good read around, cause if you haven't flashed on the Note 3 yet you may run into issues, as it's the strangest android device out there currently in terms of random issues and weird problems.
Awesome thanks a lot!
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Hi,
I'm not asking which is best, because we all know that is subjective.
I am currently using the Google edition 4.3 ROM and I like the case lock/unlock & notifications a lot. I have used CyanogenMod on my past machines and loved it. My question, does CM10.2 support use of the case lock/unlock feature? Does it allow the answering of calls via the case preview panel?
I am missing lots of the CM10.2 features, but not enough to lose this.
Your advice and opinion would be appreciated.
I'm not entirely sure if it has it but I remember someone saying it did have that feature. Though even if it didn't, the battery life of CM 10.2 with a custom kernel is light years ahead of a Google Edition ROM so just for that reason I would go for CM 10.2
crzykiller said:
I'm not entirely sure if it has it but I remember someone saying it did have that feature. Though even if it didn't, the battery life of CM 10.2 with a custom kernel is light years ahead of a Google Edition ROM so just for that reason I would go for CM 10.2
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Battery life is not really an issue because I have a spare battery.
I did install 10.2 the first day that I got the phone, but the case lock/unlock wasn't working. Maybe I needed to activate something?
Hopefully it will get added in the future when we have a stable release? I hope so because I miss lots of features, including Focal.
Rassilon7 said:
Battery life is not really an issue because I have a spare battery.
I did install 10.2 the first day that I got the phone, but the case lock/unlock wasn't working. Maybe I needed to activate something?
Hopefully it will get added in the future when we have a stable release? I hope so because I miss lots of features, including Focal.
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Scratched that, just installed Focal.
I have been a Galaxy note user since two years and after my screen broke i decided to try the nexus and i am loving it. I am used to flashing roms frequently on my note.
I flashed custom roms on my note to improve my user experience and two years later i still havent found inner peace.
Forgive my babbling. But i want to know should i flash my nexus 4 too?
I am pretty much satisfied with the device .
I am getting 4.5 hours of screen on time. Can i improve it with any combination of rom and kernel.. Also i am noticing that my data is being used continuously by OS services (i have no apps with sync enabled.no fb,no messenger etc etc). Is that normal?
I found the audio good enough but will the audio mods available make it better?
Do any of you use pie controls?(i hate the space used by the navigation bar while reading an ebook)
Currently the rom i have my eyes on is aospa by molesarecoming..
Any interesting mods i should know about?
P.S: I am on 4.3 now so any link to a proper guide for a nexus noob like me would be helpful.
Thank you in advance for any help i might recieve.
Whiskeyjack4855 said:
I have been a Galaxy note user since two years and after my screen broke i decided to try the nexus and i am loving it. I am used to flashing roms frequently on my note.
I flashed custom roms on my note to improve my user experience and two years later i still havent found inner peace.
Forgive my babbling. But i want to know should i flash my nexus 4 too?
I am pretty much satisfied with the device .
I am getting 4.5 hours of screen on time. Can i improve it with any combination of rom and kernel.. Also i am noticing that my data is being used continuously by OS services (i have no apps with sync enabled.no fb,no messenger etc etc). Is that normal?
I found the audio good enough but will the audio mods available make it better?
Do any of you use pie controls?(i hate the space used by the navigation bar while reading an ebook)
Currently the rom i have my eyes on is aospa by molesarecoming..
Any interesting mods i should know about?
P.S: I am on 4.3 now so any link to a proper guide for a nexus noob like me would be helpful.
Thank you in advance for any help i might recieve.
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Hey I came from the S3 recently and ended up rooting my nexus within 2 days because I missed the customization. I was running Illusion before on my S3. It was awesome! My data toggles between 3G and H+ depending on what i'm doing. I think 3G is like an idle state You don't have to flash a custom ROM if you don't want but I heard kernels are a big help. The one I've been hearing a lot is this one.
I flashed bean stalk but I might try another ROM soon. The one I flashed has a few issues so maybe I just got a bad flash. Who knows lol.
Here is the guide I followed to root my Nexus. It worked great. I just flashed CWM as well.
Hope that helps!
Thanks,
Indian!
So has your battery life improved?
I don't care much about customizations. I just don't want a scenario where i have to flash every other week for some reason.
There is some Much dev activity here i am confused.
Whiskeyjack4855 said:
So has your battery life improved?
I don't care much about customizations. I just don't want a scenario where i have to flash every other week for some reason.
There is some Much dev activity here i am confused.
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With the custom ROM it has seemed to improved. It's hard to tell until I get back into the work week. I'll get back to you in a few days lol.
Reagrdless, I think at least gaining root access wouldn't be a bad idea. That way you'll always have the option.
Thanks dude.. Do inform me. Meanwhile i am going through all the threads and posts trying to figure out which rom to flash.
Jai Hind.
I recently got an S5, and I'm a big fan of vanilla-ish Android (I've been using Cyanogenmod for a long time). However, the stock Samsung camera is extremely nice. There's other things I like about it, but it's mainly that (and maybe the wifi calling).
I'm looking for a ROM that retains the stock Samsung camera, but is as close to AOSP as possible. I was looking at XtreStoLite. Are there any other ROMS you guys can suggest? Possibly something that retains the AOSP look and feel, but still has some of the better Samsung improvements (specifically that camera!).
Thank you!
Sergio71785 said:
I recently got an S5, and I'm a big fan of vanilla-ish Android (I've been using Cyanogenmod for a long time). However, the stock Samsung camera is extremely nice. There's other things I like about it, but it's mainly that (and maybe the wifi calling).
I'm looking for a ROM that retains the stock Samsung camera, but is as close to AOSP as possible. I was looking at XtreStoLite. Are there any other ROMS you guys can suggest? Possibly something that retains the AOSP look and feel, but still has some of the better Samsung improvements (specifically that camera!).
Thank you!
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Hi,
You can use X-Note Rom for S5,its at the Moment 4.4.2
But high customable
Read the op's and then try them all until you find one you like.
I was hoping someone could help me out here, I'm a HTC guy and I recently decided to give the Note 3 a try because it seems more useful for my job. The thing is i never use phone with the stock OS (Sense or Touchwiz) since I am a die hard CM lover.
1. What i want answered is whether the s pen is still useful and as functional on CM 11/12 as it is on the touchwiz rom and if not, what functionality is retained since its the reason I got the Note.
2. What is the best rom CM/Touchwiz/AOSP available for this phone
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I was hoping someone could help me out here, I'm a HTC guy and I recently decided to give the Note 3 a try because it seems more useful for my job. The thing is i never use phone with the stock OS (Sense or Touchwiz) since I am a die hard CM lover.
1. What i want answered is whether the s pen is still useful and as functional on CM 11/12 as it is on the touchwiz rom and if not, what functionality is retained since its the reason I got the Note.
2. What is the best rom CM/Touchwiz/AOSP available for this phone
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The best rom is Best Rom. As you said some like this while others like that. No answer to that. People here ways you to try roms yourself and decide. Or better to look at roms thread and see what people say about bugs and functions etc. And what you need. If not sure you can try the most popular ones. I personally never try unpopular roms to avoid unexpected things.
Now I am sticking with cm12 too and it is very stable. I use Temasek unofficial version 9. You cab find it in development forums. Like you I don't like laggy touchwize even if it is useful due to some apps that only work with touchwize. But hey, if you never like touchwize you will not miss that crap. The speed with nova launcher on cm12 is better than my new Note 4 with lollipop, and even almost and scores on antutu. Real life performance is better on my Note 3
I bought note series because of the school and note making with spen. That's why apps like snote are useful.
Spen works as it should but apps are gone as they relay on touchwize framework which is not present in cm12 which is the whole point of cm. There is an spen app in PS that do some things and another one in beta testing here in xda. But i use Microsoft note and if works just like snote but with some less features. Search forums for root and updates if you decide to do it. Or ask here.
Have a nice day
Good day everybody,
More than a year has passed since my dad's phone (note 3) warranty has expired. I would like to improve my dad's Galaxy Note 3 by flashing a custom rom. I believe it is a snapdragon model so it shouldn't be hard? The thing is he uses the camera, s-pen, gps, bluetooth,4g pretty often and a degradation in any of these features would be a big nope for him which would result in reflash back to stock 5.0, now the good thing (maybe) is that he does not need the the big variety of customisation features. After some research I found two possible options, lineageos 14.1 or Resurrection Remix N 5.8.4, these might be the most recent(best) choices?
Which one would be better for his use? I, in no way intend to bash on any of these roms, just trying to find the one.
Version: N9005XXUGBOJ1
Also, what would be the best option to save photos/contacts and transfer them to the custom rom?
Thank you
BlackIliusion. said:
Good day everybody,
More than a year has passed since my dad's phone (note 3) warranty has expired. I would like to improve my dad's Galaxy Note 3 by flashing a custom rom. I believe it is a snapdragon model so it shouldn't be hard? The thing is he uses the camera, s-pen, gps, bluetooth,4g pretty often and a degradation in any of these features would be a big nope for him which would result in reflash back to stock 5.0, now the good thing (maybe) is that he does not need the the big variety of customisation features. After some research I found two possible options, lineageos 14.1 or Resurrection Remix N 5.8.4, these might be the most recent(best) choices?
Which one would be better for his use? I, in no way intend to bash on any of these roms, just trying to find the one.
Version: N9005XXUGBOJ1
Also, what would be the best option to save photos/contacts and transfer them to the custom rom?
Thank you
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Resurrectin Remix nor Lineage OS have the s-pen features as they are close to pure stock (S-Pen is more of a Touchwiz thing), so I recommend a Note 7 port (but I would test GPS right away since there might be a problem with a custom ROM and the GPS signal)
As for photos, I recommend Google Drive. For contacts, sync them up with the Google account.
ShaDisNX255 said:
Resurrectin Remix nor Lineage OS have the s-pen features as they are close to pure stock (S-Pen is more of a Touchwiz thing), so I recommend a Note 7 port (but I would test GPS right away since there might be a problem with a custom ROM and the GPS signal)
As for photos, I recommend Google Drive. For contacts, sync them up with the Google account.
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I forgot to mention that he doesn't use the features, the pen is only needed for typing and browsing the phone, he prefers that way. I, lets say, choose lineageos, will the phone recognize the pen for this simple usage?
AFAIK, pen functionality requires a stock ROM or a custom ROM based on a stock ROM.
Stick with stock rom .You are going to get less comeback.
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BlackIliusion. said:
I forgot to mention that he doesn't use the features, the pen is only needed for typing and browsing the phone, he prefers that way. I, lets say, choose lineageos, will the phone recognize the pen for this simple usage?
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Yep the spen is recognized
I've installed the rom and so far it runs without flaws, battery could be better.