hi there, sorry for late update coz the modding/testing process troubled me sooooo much
update 3 - over the weekend:
i decided to continue the port since most of the basic requirements were met. wifi, phone calls, sms were fixed during last weekend but no sdcard mounted, including internal and external, and no mobile data connection. the modding processes were not straight forward and if the wifi problem couldnt be fixed i probably opted to give it up
and since no sdcard were mounted, many apps were affected (FC) due to the fact that they rely on the sdcard so much like gallery, camera, etc.
another thing i discovered was, this 4.2.2 has more than one apps containing checkings that can render your phone to become factory mode!! what the.....
so to conclude, the followings are some of the areas that need to be fixed with high priority:
- sensors (all), including rotation of course
- mobile data connection (i can see it is connected to my carrier in LTE channel 14, but nothing else)
- mount sdcard
update 4 - 27-28/8:
i coped with the sdcard problem finally yesterday nite (this morning actually hk time). it was a great success :victory:, but the phone turned out not bootable anymore. i found that, this note8 4.2.2 (or may be others as well) will do something if the sdcard is mouted but this action crashed the zygote (main process). i took a glance at the related smail files but not sure why it happened. i suspected that this is another bug for the internal/external sdcard if it is close (>90%) to the full capacity (i found one disk full bug before!!
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without adb, i had to boot up the phone, let it pause for a few mins, reboot to the recovery mode as to read the logs repeatedly ....... :crying: and after a few hours and countless reboots (i have never reboot my phone so frequently!), i managed to boot it up again (sometimes), and i can move on to fix the next
btw, i have found some funny things regarding the efs!!
1st, i emptied the whole efs and hoped that it will be re-created with proper files and permissions but it simply wont do that and left me an empty partition
2nd, the efs partition is not mounted usually, but suddenly i found a new efs folder was created with the FactoryApp folder alone inside. i am talking about a new efs folder on the root of the system, and it is not mounted on mmcblk0p3 and has nothing to do with the real efs partition at all
strange...