[ROM][AOSP][Nightly/Release]CarbonRom KitKat[N5110]

[ryukiri]

About Carbon

CarbonRom is an aftermarket firmware based on the Android Open Source Project. We are dedicated to fast, stable, and feature-filled roms, honesty and communication with our users, and openness with our code. We like frequent builds, with the very latest and greatest hardware support and fixes. We strive to not only provide you with the best rom we can build, but also to give back to the Android community and our fellow developers. For us, this is about creating something we can be proud of and hope you will enjoy.

Please feel free to look at, build, and use our code on CarbonDev GitHub. and on our Gerrit CarbonDev Gerrit.

We would like to thank CyanogenMod for their device trees, framework/settings mods and their code that was incorporated into this project. We also extend our gratitude to the devs whose code that we have incorporated. Proper authorship has been maintained and can be viewed on our repository.

Special thanks also go to Slim Rom for some of their features, PA, AOKP, and anyone else we may have borrowed commits from that hasn't been mentioned here. If you feel you have been unfairly left out, please - let us know.

While we make every effort to test these builds as much as possible, we are not responsible for anything that may happen to your device, family, pets, or perception of reality. We ask that you do your part to know your device and know how to recover from problems before you flash! If you have questions, ask your fellow users or ask us in #teamcarbon on freenode IRC.


Features

All of our features can be found on our site here:

Carbon Features

Here are some screenshots:

Carbon Screenshots


Carbon Updates

Join us on these Social Media Channels to keep yourself up-to-date on all the latest Carbon news, updates, contests, and more! Join our completely open Google+ community for insider conversation with devs and other users.




Download Carbon

All Carbon downloads and further information such as features, changelog, and FAQ can be found on our website.

Carbon Downloads

Changelog

For a detailed changelog, check out the changes made each night here:

Carbon Changelog

Support

We spend an astonishing amount of time developing this software. We can't spend much time on XDA as a result, so if you need support, please try the following:

1) Search. Search, search, search. Yes, you. I don't care how unique or important your question is, it's very likely someone has adressed it already. Especially if you're even close to new at this.

2) Read our FAQ, which can be found on our website. Carbon FAQ

3) Ask a question in your device forum. Someone will no doubt try to help you. Warning: this help may come in the form of telling you it's a dumb question that has been asked before. See step 1 - such are the perils of asking questions when you haven't done the research yourself. Android is about helping yourself.

4) Ask a question on our IRC channel. Connect to #teamcarbon on irc.freenode.net or click here. You'll find several other Carbon fans and usually one or more devs as well. Please be polite.


Who is Team Carbon?

Find out here:

Carbon Team


Remember, every penny you send to us goes right back into the rom. It's used for hardware, server costs, etc - all the things that help us make Carbon better with every release. Your support means the world to us! If you've enjoyed Carbon, please consider a donation toward this goal. Thank you, and we hope you continue to enjoy Carbon!



****************** All links below this are UNOFFICIAL builds ******************

GAPPS
CWM 6.0.4.4 w/ swipe - Heimdall
TWRP 2.6.3.0 touch recovery w/ working AROMA touch (N5110)

ROM Downloads:
Initial Release
Changes:
-Initial Release

Jan 26th
Changes:
-Fix interface crashing
-Fix back camera freezing

Feb 2nd
Changes:
-Fixed electron beam screen off animation
-Upstream Sync

Feb 7th
Changes:
-Upstream Sync
-Fully working camera
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Sources:

Rom Sources
My GitHub
Kernel Sources
Device Tree

XDA:DevDB Information
[ROM][AOSP][Nightly/Release] CarbonRom KitKat [N5110], a ROM for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0

Contributors
ryukiri
ROM OS Version: 4.4.x KitKat
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.0.x

Version Information
Status: Beta

Created 2014-01-24
Last Updated 2014-02-23

 

[ryukiri]

Reserved

How to Build this ROM

1) Setup Your Computer
Stop at

$ mkdir ~/android
$ cd ~/android

2) Download Source and Compile!

$ mkdir Carbon4.4
$ cd Carbon4.4
$ repo init -u https://github.com/CarbonDev/android.git -b kk
$ repo sync
$ . build/envsetup.sh
$ lunch (then select device from the list)
$ make carbon

3) Wait till it finishes and grab the zip from the out directory.

*Note: Syncing the repo will take a long time (downloads about 15 gbs of source), depending on your internet speed.

 

[ryukiri]

Reserved

 

[NekroWolfen]

Yes! Will flash and report right away!

Update: Took my time to test it, restore my apps, test them and mess a little with the options.

Update 2: After spending even more time with the newest release, this is practically a 0 issues ROM. I'll update my review along with new releases.

• My micro SD 32gb works perfectly, if you have a 64gb card I would recommend to be formatted as "exFAT".
• Smooth ROM and good RAM usage.
• Packed with awesome features and I know there's more to come, CarbonRoms has A LOT of features. From changing status bar colors(and it's icons) to edit the menu and back buttons lights duration and remap the buttons(love it), see screenshots in the OP to have an idea.
• No issues at all restoring my apps with Titanium Backup.
• Stylus is working perfectly and this ROM has the Buttons settings for our device.
• Camera is now working perfectly and more features are being added!

*Remember to do a full wipe clean install.*

Two things I want to mention, they're not annoying and they do not break the ROM at all.

*Interface option under Carbon Fibers crash, however given the fact that you guys are still merging those nice features I think it's kinda obvious. That's why I don't consider this annoying, nor ROM breaking, is just a work in progress. I thought I could mention this so no one get scare about it.

*This one is not even an issue is just a question, I use this device in landscape mode all the time, and every time I turn off the screen it rapidly rotates the screen before shutting down. There's no option for the effect to select or to turn it off, my question is: Is that one of the features to be added later within carbon fibers interface? I apologize, I used Carbon a lot with my N7 flo but I can't remember where that option was located.
*Both fixed on newest release*

 

[ryukiri]

Yes! Will flash and report right away!

Update: Took my time to test it, restore my apps, test them and mess a little with the options:

1.My micro SD 32gb works perfectly.
2.Smooth ROM and good RAM usage.
3.Packed with awesome features and I know there's more to come, CarbonRoms has A LOT of features.
4.No issues at all restoring my apps with Titanium Backup.
5.Stylus is working perfectly and this ROM has the Buttons settings for our device.

Two things I want to mention, they're not annoying and they do not break the ROM at all.

*Interface option under Carbon Fibers crash, however given the fact that you guys are still merging those nice features I think it's kinda obvious. That's why I don't consider this annoying, nor ROM breaking, is just a work in progress. I thought I could mention this so no one get scare about it.

*This one is not even an issue is just a question, I use this device in landscape mode all the time, and every time I turn off the screen it rapidly rotates the screen before shutting down. There's no option for the effect to select or to turn it off, my question is: Is that one of the features to be added later within carbon fibers interface? I apologize, I used Carbon a lot with my N7 flo but I can't remember where that option was located.

I found out about that crash during my 2 minutes with this rom..I'm assuming its because of them not finished merging stuff yet. I also see multiwindow and halo both on their gerrit so I'm guessing they'll merge those when its stable

I'm not sure since I've never used Carbon before, but I think what you are talking about is describing the bug thats in all of our roms. Its just the animation right? if you turn the screen back on, it stays in landscape mode? Can't test it because I'm not using this rom right now

And also, not sure if you noticed yet, but the back camera doesn't take photos..I'm almost 100% sure CM broke something in the common device tree because the back camera works in omni, so right now I'm figuring that out and transferring all the files to our own common device tree instead of using the one shared by all the smdk devices.

Edit: Confirmed interface crash is due to a recent commit. Should be fixed soon.

 

[NekroWolfen]

I found out about that crash during my 2 minutes with this rom..I'm assuming its because of them not finished merging stuff yet. I also see multiwindow and halo both on their gerrit so I'm guessing they'll merge those when its stable

I'm not sure since I've never used Carbon before, but I think what you are talking about is describing the bug thats in all of our roms. Its just the animation right? if you turn the screen back on, it stays in landscape mode? Can't test it because I'm not using this rom right now

And also, not sure if you noticed yet, but the back camera doesn't take photos..I'm almost 100% sure CM broke something in the common device tree because the back camera works in omni, so right now I'm figuring that out and transferring all the files to our own common device tree instead of using the one shared by all the smdk devices.

Yeah is the animation, I was just curious about it, it doesn't bother. The camera thing actually it doesn't bother me either because I can take pictures with any camera app from the app store.

It may be a work in progress, but for a initial release of this beta is pretty darn good. I'm still using it and I think I'm gonna keep it, I've been a huge fan of Carbon for awhile.

 

[ryukiri]

Yeah is the animation, I was just curious about it, it doesn't bother. The camera thing actually it doesn't bother me either because I can take pictures with any camera app from the app store.

It may be a work in progress, but for a initial release of this beta is pretty darn good. I'm still using it and I think I'm gonna keep it, I've been a huge fan of Carbon for awhile.

Oh okay btw, can you provide some (maybe 4 or so) good screenshots that I can put in the OP that show some of the carbon options / settings and stuff?

EDIT: Screenshots added.

Sent from my GT-N5110 using Tapatalk

 

[redukt]

A N5100 version would be very nice

 

[ryukiri]

A N5100 version would be very nice

I believe @tejkkarani will be taking care of that...if any unexpected things occur then he'll contact me and i will release it.

 

[rorda]

I believe @tejkkarani will be taking care of that...if any unexpected things occur then he'll contact me and i will release it.

Great! Great! Grat! :laugh:

 

[ryukiri]

New build is up with some relatively big fixes.

 

[NekroWolfen]

ROM is running great and yes it fixed the Carbon fibers, the camera still freezing thou(the ones on the playstore works btw).

 

[ryukiri]

ROM is running great and yes it fixed the Carbon fibers, the camera still freezing thou(the ones on the playstore works btw).

Really? For me the back camera doesn't freeze anymore..only the front.

Sent from my GT-N5110 using Tapatalk

 

[Nackler]

Really? For me the back camera doesn't freeze anymore..only the front.

Rear camera & interface settings are working fine for me on the second release.

 

[NekroWolfen]

Rear camera & interface settings are working fine for me on the second release.

Really? For me the back camera doesn't freeze anymore..only the front.

Sent from my GT-N5110 using Tapatalk

Sorry for the late reply, yes I too can confirm the camera works, I dirty flashed(just cache and dalvik)the update. Later on I did a full wipe clean install to make sure and voila. So now we can surely say there's no issues on this ROM.

 

[hermeticist]

Sorry for the late reply, yes I too can confirm the camera works, I dirty flashed(just cache and dalvik)the update. Later on I did a full wipe clean install to make sure and voila. So now we can surely say there's no issues on this ROM.

Both rear and front cameras working?

 

[ryukiri]

Both rear and front cameras working?

For me, only both cameras work in snapchat, hangouts video, oovoo, and skype...so far (same as the apps that worked in omni)

 

[NekroWolfen]

Both rear and front cameras working?

Yes sir, all working good, I really recommend this ROM, is the one I'm using.

 

[ryukiri]

Yes sir, all working good, I really recommend this ROM, is the one I'm using.

I can also confirm that we'll get official support since one of the devs have a note 8. I think he'll make a new thread when its ready..

 

[NekroWolfen]

I can also confirm that we'll get official support since one of the devs have a note 8. I think he'll make a new thread when its ready..

Nice! I'm noticing a lot of movement in the gerrit, those are good news. Carbon was my one of my favorite with the Nexus 7 flo, and I'm still surprised by how well and smooth it is on the Note 8, to be honest I wasn't expecting this ROM here, hence why I'm so excited.