[Q] Will the 'S Pen' (and pen-pressure) work with other ROMs?

It should work, S Pen is connected to touchwiz, and as i know, most custom roms to samsung based on touchwiz so it should work. If you ask if it works with other launchers, then i don't know..

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white-k said:

I'm used to working with pens on my laptop so I plan on using the phone's pen a lot.
But I also really like to run modded ROMs.

So my question is:

Will the phone's 'S Pen' (and pen-pressure) work with other ROMs?

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I believe it will only work with apps like sketchbook and so on, you will not be able to write on calendar , cut print screen etc... which is added inside the rom of the note2 not part of jellybean.

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tamirda said:

It should work, S Pen is connected to touchwiz, and as i know, most custom roms to samsung based on touchwiz so it should work. If you ask if it works with other launchers, then i don't know..

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yeah forgot about samsung based custom roms never used touchwiz only purchased google's own vanilla device.

IMO, the S pen features should work on all ROMs that are based on the Touchwiz framework. But unless the guys behind CyanogenMod and other devs (I'm looking at you @Codeworkx) manage to create something magical, the S pen features won't work on anything other than Stock based custom ROMs. Hope that helped!

I think the S Pen will not be very useful with AOSP ROMS like CM10 or AOKP once they are available since there is no S Note.

The S-Pen will function normally on touchwiz based roms. Gestures and S-note/memo wont be available in AOSP based ROMs though. Although there are some great replacement apps like memo from the play store. Its what I currently use on my N1

white-k said:

Thanks for the replies fellows.
I'm crossing my fingers (but not holding my breath) that they indeed do create "something magical".

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Not likely to happen. If CM comes to the Note 2, it will only be if a new maintainer steps up.

Most of the current Exynos maintainer team (myself, espenfjo, codeworkx) and others have all decided that our current devices will be our last non-Nexus Exynos devices. I'm not sure about xplodwild, but I have a feeling he's highly unlikely to take up another Haxxinos with the rest of us gone and given his prior experiences with it.

If Samsung changes their attitude towards developers, this might change, but their attitude lately (zero documentation, zero platform source code, a trend towards bootloader locking - Only the Verizon S3 has a locked bootloader now, but Samsung has had the infrastructure in place since the S2 and they are constantly adding more checks) has led to the current Exynos maintainer team deciding that enough is enough. I don't think any of us are going to do anything to make Samsung's Exynos devices more attractive to any particular market segment until they provide assistance (in the form of technical documentation and source code) in return. I don't know about the others, but if they offer me a free device I'll say no - I refuse to participate in a PR stunt like the I9100 donations were.

Pretty much the only way I'll go back is if I see reference platform source that is up to the same standards as CAF and omapzoom, or they actually start providing real documentation and source code for the devices I'm currently working with.

Try Papyrus Beta for a note app replacement!