[ROM][4.3][ CM 10.2.] Unofficial CM 10.2 for Galaxy Note II (N7100)

[pulser_g2]

It appears there is a new CM on the way... And it appeared it wasn't available for the Note 2... And that made me disappointed, so I set out to put that right.

4.3 is a small update from 4.2. Unfortunately, Google also decided to change almost everything about filesystem mounting. And Samsung exynos devices are a hotchpotch of everything...

Today, xplodwild and I carried out a war of attrition against the nasty Samsung devices. Firstly, there remains a battle-scar in the form of graphics, where we had to disable the ability of the device to screenshot itself. You'll see this in the lack of thumbnails for your long-press-home task switcher. #Blame-Samsung

Storage was a nightmare, but I have finally beaten it into submission. It should now work. Nicely. And properly. At least for now.

Because open source is wonderful, a VERY messy device tree (commits need squashed etc) - https://github.com/pulser/android_device_samsung_n7100/

I suggest a wipe before flashing, but I have tested from 4.2.2 and should be OK actually, maybe some apps will cry, but that's not my problem

Link: http://goo.im/devs/pulser/N7100/CM/cm-10.2-20130810-UNOFFICIAL-n7100.zip

Pretty much everything is working and tested - you shouldn't have any issues getting it to boot. The other version posted appears it may have issues booting, but I was not aware of its existence until just now. Actually, seems there's no link in the other thread, give this a shot, and see if it helps you. There's a lot of issues on Exynos devices when doing any kind of update... Sneeze and it might explode!

XDA:DevDB Information
Unofficial CM 10.2 for Galaxy Note II (N7100), a ROM for the Samsung Galaxy Note II

Contributors
pulser_g2, CM Team
ROM OS Version: 4.3.x Jellybean
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.0.x
Based On: CM 10.2

Version Information
Status: Alpha
Current Stable Version: N/A
Current Beta Version: 10 August
Beta Release Date: 2013-08-10

Created 2013-07-30
Last Updated 2013-08-10

 

[_delice_doluca_]

Thanks,

Trying now and will report.

BTW (off-topic but... I believe necessary when it comes to AOSP and Exynos) When I click on your githup link the Audio recording fix is on top of the list for 6 months ago, which reminds me; we have never got the chance to see CM 10.1 recording audio properly on videos or sound record apps (not saying it is mono but the sound is terrible actually).. For now it seems the only thing that prevents me (and some others I guess) from using any AOSP ROM as a daily and "fully functional" driver is this problem. Any chance that we can see 10.2 have proper audio recording? Since our voice is recorded just fine on calls we can say the mic is working as it should on both at earspeaker and the loudspeaker. So, there is a software which can use the mics properly and I -with all my heart and never-ending hope- believe this software could be also used for good sounded video recording or help us not to shout too much for Google Now

Thanks for reading. And the ROM

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It boots just fine. So is everything so far.

 

[lolmensch]

works without a hitch. no bootloop nothing. simply booted up and worked. Huge thanks for that PulserG2 and xplodwild =)

 

[Eric-Mod]

Will try this new one tomorrow... Thanks!

BTW. Is anyone using GoBackup Pro or Titanium Backup? I had an issue on my Nexus 4 running 4.3 .

They didn't restored my Apps. Since the Note 2 uses a SD Card Slot, would it be the same issue?

Gesendet von meinem GT-N7100 mit Tapatalk HD

 

[pulser_g2]

works without a hitch. no bootloop nothing. simply booted up and worked. Huge thanks for that PulserG2 and xplodwild =)

Awesome. Was pretty sure I had fixed it properly, but always good to check

 

[Mohammed779]

Downloading and trying it right now I'll be giving a feedback

Sent from my GT-N7100

 

[pulser_g2]

Will try this new one tomorrow... Thanks!

BTW. Is anyone using GoBackup Pro or Titanium Backup? I had an issue on my Nexus 4 running 4.3 .

They didn't restored my Apps. Since the Note 2 uses a SD Card Slot, would it be the same issue?

Gesendet von meinem GT-N7100 mit Tapatalk HD

No issues, my testing process includes restoring from titanium backup, with data, from external SD

 

[pulser_g2]

Thanks,

Trying now and will report.

BTW (off-topic but... I believe necessary when it comes to AOSP and Exynos) When I click on your githup link the Audio recording fix is on top of the list for 6 months ago, which reminds me; we have never got the chance to see CM 10.1 recording audio properly on videos or sound record apps (not saying it is mono but the sound is terrible actually).. For now it seems the only thing that prevents me (and some others I guess) from using any AOSP ROM as a daily and "fully functional" driver is this problem. Any chance that we can see 10.2 have proper audio recording? Since our voice is recorded just fine on calls we can say the mic is working as it should on both at earspeaker and the loudspeaker. So, there is a software which can use the mics properly and I -with all my heart and never-ending hope- believe this software could be also used for good sounded video recording or help us not to shout too much for Google Now

Thanks for reading. And the ROM

---------- Post added at 01:06 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:43 AM ----------

It boots just fine. So is everything so far.

This sounds like something more for the guys that did the work on the audio HAL. I've not looked into the solution, but audio on these devices is a dirty hack with tinyhal

 

[lolmensch]

there are some occasional rendering glitches with the stock browser while loading a page and scrolling through. nothing majorly bad but still visible at times.
(independent of the webpages i visited)

despite that I didn't come across any other bugs. once again great job :good:

 

[qubanaso]

finally glad to see the update in our devices thank you guys

Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda premium

 

[jcrompton]

Re 4.3 in general

I have been testing 4.3 on an "old" device , my Nexus S, the last couple of days. Interestingly, the device was much smoother than 4.2 based ROMs, at least on that limited processor device.
Once this all gets ironed out is there reason to believe that 4.3 will be better for our Note 2's?

Thanks for your work !

 

[pulser_g2]

I have been testing 4.3 on an "old" device , my Nexus S, the last couple of days. Interestingly, the device was much smoother than 4.2 based ROMs, at least on that limited processor device.
Once this all gets ironed out is there reason to believe that 4.3 will be better for our Note 2's?

Thanks for your work !

It really depends on your use cases...

I can make the fastest and most cutting edge android phone lag like crazy without installing anything silly...

I just need to type at my full speed on SwiftKey for about a minute and it will be lagging pretty horrendously. That's a bad app - SwiftKey is very poor lately for performance.

Why do I mention this? Well, your definition of better or smoother will really depend on what you are doing. Android is a horrendously complex operating system. It is ridiculously inefficient in many ways such as how data is presented to the user.

As such there are many badly written apps which will slow down your device. I reckon unless Google considers using native code for drawing the screens, we will never reach the true smoothness the hardware is capable of.

At the end of the day, a particular apple phone is available with lesser processor, graphics and RAM. Yet it offers smoother in-use performance because of its use of native code where possible, rather than a virtual machine based language like java.

I don't think it seems significantly faster than 4.2, but I probably am hard to please. I simply despair as I look at the code in android... All the nasty object orientation and strange ways to to things... Each and every time it happens, the java virtual machine must run instructions.

I reckon if you reduced the number of lines of code used to achieve simple tasks like show the settings menu (which is horrendous with resources in countless files and java classes), performance would be vastly superior.

Probably not much of an answer, but if anyone else is irritated by the horrendously inefficient code in android, I've finally found someone else who sees it!

 

[jcrompton]

That actually helps a lot. I think the processor and the device makes a difference too with the Nexus S being a "Google" device and the Note 2 being Samsung.

I just notice that when browsing Tapatalk that seems to be my main gauge - the scrolling seemed pretty smooth even on the Nexus S.

I read in the Nexus thread that the 4.3 code was written to run with less sytem resources but I wasn't sure of the source of that comment.

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IF YOU LOSE ROOT WHEN INSTALLING 4.3


I lose root when I install this ROM but if you will flash the newest update from Chainfire you will re gain

http://download.chainfire.eu/344/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.50.zip

 

[alexng2208]

That's amazing!!! great help and flashing now!

update: AOSP keyboard having FC
everything else within expectations. no problem with using the ROM so far!

amazing amazing effort and feels like 95% finished product!

 

[vishnu8058]

Gapps?

Thanks for bringing 4.3 for Note 2. Are the official CM10.2 gapps compatibile with this ROM?

 

[mariuano]

Thanks for bringing 4.3 for Note 2. Are the official CM10.2 gapps compatibile with this ROM?

http://goo.im/devs/kashamalaga/gapps4.3/gapps-jb-4.3-20130726.zip

Inviato dal mio GT-N7100 con Tapatalk 2

 

[gamesz2]

I want 2 try this but i read someone lose the root of his phone... Some other people also that problem?



Sent from my Galaxy Note II using xda app-developers app

 

[Mohammed779]

I want 2 try this but i read someone lose the root of his phone... Some other people also that problem?



Sent from my Galaxy Note II using xda app-developers app

You loss the root, HOWEVER, If you read that guy's post, he Said flash that file and you'll get root..

Im other words,

1. Flash CM10.2
2. Flash Gapps
3. Flash the file from the previous post

Sent from my GT-N7100

 

[alexng2208]

You loss the root, HOWEVER, If you read that guy's post, he Said flash that file and you'll get root..

Im other words,

1. Flash CM10.2
2. Flash Gapps
3. Flash the file from the previous post

Sent from my GT-N7100

thanks! i flashed the 10.2 with the older official gapps... nothing seems to be wrong with it and everything is working

do you know what is new with the latest GApps as attached a few posts above?

 

[Eric-Mod]

Flashed it, and it's working good. For the 1st Build it's working quite fine. But the camera (app?) isn't working properly. I took one pic, the camera froze, and when I launched the camera again, it said "No connection to camera".

It's the first build so yeah.. this can happen of course