Lost Functionality with Custom Roms? - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3

So Im going to pick up a note 3 next week, sick of verizons 120 dollar phone bills, so gonna move to T-mobile. mainly for the Wi-Fi calling since i work in a metal dungeon with no cell coverage.
I will probably go ahead and get SU, but wait until cyanogenmod kit kat comes out to do a custom rom.. Does anyone have any idea how many (if any at all) of the note 3 software packages we will lose? i mean will the s pen and wi-fi calling and all the other options still work like it does out of the box?

Nope, with cm you will lose everything. Wifi calling, s pen features, all the motion features, camera, etc... That's why I stick to touchwiz.
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flipq88 said:
Nope, with cm you will lose everything. Wifi calling, s pen features, all the motion features, camera, etc... That's why I stick to touchwiz.
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Oh? So someone has already made a CM rom for the note3? Please direct me to it, otherwise all you're spouting out is hearsay.

Rickdaddy said:
Oh? So someone has already made a CM rom for the note3? Please direct me to it, otherwise all you're spouting out is hearsay.
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No it's a fact. I don't need there to be a cm rom to know those features will be lost. You know why? Cuz its AOSP, and all the features are part of TOUCHWIZ. So don't try to be a smartass.
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flipq88 said:
Nope, with cm you will lose everything. Wifi calling, s pen features, all the motion features, camera, etc... That's why I stick to touchwiz.
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You're not wrong, but you're not really right either. You won't lose EVERYTHING, you'll lose the TouchWiz-specific stuff and gain the AOSP-specific stuff.
WiFi calling will be gone, that's a T-Mobile specific thing really but it's baked into the stock ROM and not open source, thus GONE.
S-Pen hardware itself likely will work, as its driver is baked into the kernel which is open source. It will show up as a pointing device like a mouse, but third party S-Pen supporting apps will still be able to read pressure sensitivity and S-Pen button states. The TouchWiz-specific S-Pen functionality will be gone such as pen popup menu, pen windows, pen screenshot, and other pen actions built into the TouchWiz software. You'll still be able to take notes and draw with third party apps (of which many exist).
Motion features will be gone, those are TouchWiz specific software things. The motion sensors themselves will still be usable by apps that use motion features themselves, but the TouchWiz software motion features are GONE.
Camera will still exist, but instead of the TouchWiz camera app it will be the AOSP (or modified version thereof) camera app. You'll still have all the camera hardware features (flash, touch focus, video, etc) but the software image enhancements TW provides will be gone (replaced by whatever software image enhancements the ROM's app has though). CM's version of the AOSP camera app is quite good though, on my Note 1 it had plenty of features and took great pics. There's also Focal. The front camera is also still usable both by the camera app and by video chat programs. Camera features like 4K and slow motion video may not be supported right out of the box, but CM's been pretty good at updating the AOSP camera app as new hardware comes out. Remember that both of those camera features aren't Samsung's doing but rather features of the Snapdragon 800 SoC and many non-Samsung phones (including AOSP's flagship Nexus 5) are using that processor. You can be pretty much guaranteed those will be supported.
So, tl;dr: quit spreading the FUD that AOSP removes critical functionality. It does remove a lot of software functionality, but the hardware will still be supported and what you lose in TouchWiz features you make up for in custom ROM features. If you like the TW features stick with TW, but if you like the custom ROM features you're probably better off with a custom AOSP-based ROM. There are already attempts to bring things like multi-window and such to AOSP in projects like Halo for Paranoid Android and OmniROM which has splitscreen working. More options are a good thing, not a bad one.

As soon as Google Voice is integrated with Hangouts (of which it already is on iOS, grrr), WiFi calling will be available on AOSP. You will just have to set up a free Google Voice number, then have incoming calls be forwarded to Google Talk (Hangouts) and your regular number. So if you have a cell connection, answer it with the stock dialer; if you don't have a cell connection, answer it with Hangouts. You will have to give out your Google Voice number (or port your number to Google Voice), but after that, just direct all cellular calls to go through Google Voice, then you will only have one number.
A great thing about giving out your Google Voice number instead of your regular number, is that if you get a call from an advertiser (spam), you can set Google Voice to play a "this number has been disconnected" recording to that number if they call again (call blocking/filtering). That way, you will never get a call from them again, even if they keep calling. Again, all this is free except to port your number.
Of course, we have yet to see Google Voice integration with Hangouts on Android, and it is looking like May 14th, 2014 will likely be when we may see it.

thanks for the replies. i think ill stick with touchwiz for a while, i liked it in my 14 minutes playing with it, so im sure ill like it more once i actually own the phone.
I was hoping we could pry the software from t mobiles rom and apply it to a custom rom, but i guess the simplest thing for me will be to just root and get rid of the bloat + autostarts.

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[Q] cyanogenmod with features

Hi first thread sorry if its bad, im not sure if possible but im looking for a way to get cyanogenmod but i dont want to lose the features like smart stay, pop up play, sbeam, nfc, or the motions features. I use nova launcher and dont really care for touchwiz. I used cyanogenmod on my evo for years and got the galaxy s3, i want cyanogenmod back but i dont want to lose those features. Is there another rom that is basically the same but has the features? or is there a way to add the features to cyanogen through a kernel or add on? I could live without some of the features but that was partly why i got the gs3 instead of the evo lte. I would appreciate any help,app replacments, or even just a rom recommendation thats runs like cyanogen(battery life, speed, smoothness, possibly ctr animation, customization, google now) but has the gs3 features.
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Hi first thread sorry if its bad, im not sure if possible but im looking for a way to get cyanogenmod but i dont want to lose the features like smart stay, pop up play, sbeam, nfc, or the motions features. I use nova launcher and dont really care for touchwiz. I used cyanogenmod on my evo for years and got the galaxy s3, i want cyanogenmod back but i dont want to lose those features. Is there another rom that is basically the same but has the features? or is there a way to add the features to cyanogen through a kernel or add on? I could live without some of the features but that was partly why i got the gs3 instead of the evo lte. I would appreciate any help,app replacments, or even just a rom recommendation thats runs like cyanogen(battery life, speed, smoothness, possibly ctr animation, customization, google now) but has the gs3 features.
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Hate to say it but its one or the other. There are smart stay apps in the store as well as pop up players, nfc is in CM and you'll lose all the motion features.
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There's an app called Super Video that is actually more powerful than the popup player with stock.
Some of the motion tasks may be possible with an app like Tasker.
okay so i found the smart stay app and the video app and tasker, is there a way to get android beam i believe its called to run instead of sbeam?
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okay so i found the smart stay app and the video app and tasker, is there a way to get android beam i believe its called to run instead of sbeam?
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That is in CM already
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Just remember that Android Beam (at least the version for this phone) is less powerful than S-Beam. You can't send things like MP3s or photos, only links, contact cards, etc.
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Hate to say it but its one or the other. There are smart stay apps in the store as well as pop up players, nfc is in CM and you'll lose all the motion features.
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On a similar note, by losing the motion settings on the CM 10.1 nightly 28th June 2013 on Galaxy S3 International,
I am unable to calibrate the gyroscope etc and hence my Navigation (google) is suffering. Can that be fixed?
Also I am having issues in sending contacts via sms. My family members have old phones which only accept sms no VCF etc. No net. Its painful copying each and every contact detail into a text jumping back and forth.
If not, can you please guide me to a suggestions/complaints section for CM devs so that they may help me out?
You're in the wrong device forum, this is for Sprint only.
The Thanks button is just to avoid "THANKS" posts in threads. Nothing more. Don't defeat the purpose of why it was introduced.

[Q] Looking for data on stability of major ROMS

Is there any good data on which of the major ROMs are most trouble free?
I am a pretty simple guy. All I really want is to be able to use my phone as a hotspot, take pictures without the camera app crashing and easy access to turn the torch on and off. Seems like a lot of the reviews spend a lot of time focusing on how many colors you can change and relatively little on the actually reliability of the ROM. This sort of leaves us asking eachother and it seems like everyone and their brother has an opinion on how stable any given ROM is and all swear by different ones.
At any rate, this just leaves me wondering if there is actually any good reviews or sources that summarize what the weeknesses of each ROM are. I know it is a tricky thing to ask, because they are always changing with each nightly build, but I have been pulling my hair out for the last couple years trying to find a properly stable ROM for my T999.
They cant really review stability and functionality on some roms, such as CM for example. Its going to be different for every model device, and even between 2 identical model devices you will still find one has issues while another does not. Thats why they usually stick to reviewing features and options. But also, what works best will vary from person to person even more so than from one device to the next. As is stated in all the "what's the best rom" threads, only you can determine what suits your needs best.
But for what its worth, imo, if its stability you're after, stick to whatever the manufacturer included on any given device.
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They cant really review stability and functionality on some roms, such as CM for example. Its going to be different for every model device, and even between 2 identical model devices you will still find one has issues while another does not. Thats why they usually stick to reviewing features and options. But also, what works best will vary from person to person even more so than from one device to the next. As is stated in all the "what's the best rom" threads, only you can determine what suits your needs best.
But for what its worth, imo, if its stability you're after, stick to whatever the manufacturer included on any given device.
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I would stick with the stock rom, but I just really don't like it. I have also gotten very used to using a more stock version of Android and don't want to have to adjust back to using the stock rom, even if there are ways to get tethering to work.
aviphysics said:
I would stick with the stock rom, but I just really don't like it. I have also gotten very used to using a more stock version of Android and don't want to have to adjust back to using the stock rom, even if there are ways to get tethering to work.
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What don't you like about the stock ROM? You say you want simple and don't care about changing anything, but you're not happy with stock either. What do you really want? lol. Also note, than any other ROM is not going to have the Samsung camera app, they are all going to be a lot more basic camera's, no wifi calling if you use that t-mo feature.
Torch on and off can be accessed with a shortcut on stock ROM, any third party app that lets you add a widget, or if you install xposed framework, you can add torch to the volume up button, so you can turn the torch on without even waking the phone. I'm with Doc, I'm a Touchwiz kind of guy too. I don't get the hate for it.
I just don't like some of the extra junk Samsung adds on. I like a more stripped down vanilla Android. I originally switched yo get rid of sVoice in particular and just got used to it. Not needing extra apps for WiFi tethering is a nice bonus.
At any rate. Just totally wiped the phone back to stock with Odin and installed the latest AOKP. No problems yet.
You can strip the Samsung apps out, and there is mods to enable native tethering.. But aosp or the kind is a nice option as well, just depends on what you want and need
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I just don't like some of the extra junk Samsung adds on. I like a more stripped down vanilla Android. I originally switched yo get rid of sVoice in particular and just got used to it. Not needing extra apps for WiFi tethering is a nice bonus.
At any rate. Just totally wiped the phone back to stock with Odin and installed the latest AOKP. No problems yet.
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Thinly veiled best ROM thread. SlimKat with Banks' minimal gapps.
I don't use my S3 anymore, but I have that ROM on it and my other two devices. It is filed under d2lte on their site, it's a unified build.
If you have kernel problems, use ktoonsez'. That one was always really solid.
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Thinly veiled best ROM thread.
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LOL. Totally not meant to be a best ROM thread. Just wanted to know if anyone was tracking reliability or issues common to the different ROMs in a way that was easy to sift through and not totally anecdotal.
SlimKat with Banks' minimal gapps.
I don't use my S3 anymore, but I have that ROM on it and my other two devices. It is filed under d2lte on their site, it's a unified build.
If you have kernel problems, use ktoonsez'. That one was always really solid.
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I never figured out what was causing problems with my last ROM. TBH, I don't even recall what the kernel and ROM combination was. It was just something some random XDA forum member suggested. The biggest issue is that every time I opened the camera app, went away from it and came back, it would crash. Also happened when switching between camera and video. Sometimes it would require a system reset to get the camera back. I think it was something to do with the app itself, cause other apps that took pictures never had any problems. Super annoying. There were some other issues to. I stuck it out for a long time because the app fixed a BT audio issue I was having and I was too lazy to do more searching or reflashing my phone from scratch.
Right now I am just trying to make my phone last until the Sony Z3 launches. I am pretty sure that will be my next phone. Hopefully it won't cost a crazy amount to import it if t-mobile doesn't get it right away.
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LOL. Totally not meant to be a best ROM thread. Just wanted to know if anyone was tracking reliability or issues common to the different ROMs in a way that was easy to sift through and not totally anecdotal.
I never figured out what was causing problems with my last ROM. TBH, I don't even recall what the kernel and ROM combination was. It was just something some random XDA forum member suggested. The biggest issue is that every time I opened the camera app, went away from it and came back, it would crash. Also happened when switching between camera and video. Sometimes it would require a system reset to get the camera back. I think it was something to do with the app itself, cause other apps that took pictures never had any problems. Super annoying. There were some other issues to. I stuck it out for a long time because the app fixed a BT audio issue I was having and I was too lazy to do more searching or reflashing my phone from scratch.
Right now I am just trying to make my phone last until the Sony Z3 launches. I am pretty sure that will be my next phone. Hopefully it won't cost a crazy amount to import it if t-mobile doesn't get it right away.
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AOSP camera was always crap in general but especially so on the S3.
You can get an updated on in the play store now, so you can freeze the AOSP one.
Aerowinder said:
AOSP camera was always crap in general but especially so on the S3.
You can get an updated on in the play store now, so you can freeze the AOSP one.
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The camera in the latest AOKP was working fine, but I downloaded the Google Camera app just to check it out. Works fine taking normal pictures, but the blur mode causes it to crash when you try to take a picture and the panorama/photosphere modes won't take pictures. I found some other people with identical problems, but didn't see a clear solution.
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The camera in the latest AOKP was working fine, but I downloaded the Google Camera app just to check it out. Works fine taking normal pictures, but the blur mode causes it to crash when you try to take a picture and the panorama/photosphere modes won't take pictures. I found some other people with identical problems, but didn't see a clear solution.
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It was originally for the Nexus 5, then they put it on the play store for everyone. Clearly issues with non Google devices.
I'd suggest a third party camera app, like Camera ZOOM or something.

Any aosp/cm11 sprint roms

Are we going to be be getting any non touchwiz roms soon? I sure miss cm 11 and omni roms.
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Soon .probably. Hopefully. But you should ask these kinda question in the q and a thread or the general section before u get flamed. ☺
Sorry. I only asked here because this is where they get posted.
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Sorry. I only asked here because this is where they get posted.
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Questions go under questions. Theres yet to be a specific ROM thread up where that would apply.
they have cm booting on the tmobile one, the majority of that code would work fine for the sprint one. chances are they will be unified builds. if this was teh s5 or anything id work towards fleshing out the device tree and bringing it up, but i am truly happy with my note 4 stock with xposed. i dont use all the fancy samsung features but i do use enough of them to not even really want to bother flashing aosp and losing out on it. granted this is my first note device but i cant see or imagine why anyone would want to use something other than stock, battery is amazing, features are top notch and its very fast and fluid.
I came from a nexus 5 but i sold that and for a week i used a kyocera echo until my note 4 preorder was ready to pick up, it truly is amazing in how much progress has been made in such a short time.
I agree with Shabbypenguin.
I'd rather have a stock ROM with all the cool Samsung functionality of floating windows, one handed moded, functional heart rate sensor, S-Pen apps, and camera app all work great.
Instead we need a rom with stock as base, and AOSP apps like I describe in my thread:
My "Dream ROM" for the Note 4 would be:
*Rooted
*Knox removed
*CyanogenMod style theming
*Samsung and Sprint bloatware removed (accept for Facebook sync)
*TouchWiz apps (calendar, messaging, phone, clock, calculator, lockscreen, notification quick settings) replaced with CyanogenMod versions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2920117
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I agree with Shabbypenguin.
I'd rather have a stock ROM with all the cool Samsung functionality of floating windows, one handed moded, functional heart rate sensor, S-Pen apps, and camera app all work great.
Instead we need a rom with stock as base, and AOSP apps like I describe in my thread:
My "Dream ROM" for the Note 4 would be:
*Rooted
*Knox removed
*CyanogenMod style theming
*Samsung and Sprint bloatware removed (accept for Facebook sync)
*TouchWiz apps (calendar, messaging, phone, clock, calculator, lockscreen, notification quick settings) replaced with CyanogenMod versions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2920117
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i swore i replied to you in there but i guess i didnt :/. the cm theme manager isnt possible on stock, its embedded in so many core files to be able to alter everything on the fly its not possible without recompiling with the code added in, and we cant recompile touchwiz.
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they have cm booting on the tmobile one, the majority of that code would work fine for the sprint one. chances are they will be unified builds. if this was teh s5 or anything id work towards fleshing out the device tree and bringing it up, but i am truly happy with my note 4 stock with xposed. i dont use all the fancy samsung features but i do use enough of them to not even really want to bother flashing aosp and losing out on it. granted this is my first note device but i cant see or imagine why anyone would want to use something other than stock, battery is amazing, features are top notch and its very fast and fluid.
I came from a nexus 5 but i sold that and for a week i used a kyocera echo until my note 4 preorder was ready to pick up, it truly is amazing in how much progress has been made in such a short time.
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My main gripe is the typing lag,
in some apps. I notice the typing lag mainly on TouchWiz roms and in Google hangouts and a few other apps. I've tried different keyboards and they all lag on TouchWiz. If I use Aosp, no lag at all anywhere.
Yes the features of the Note 4 are great but I don't use and can live without most of them. I really wanted this device for its spen. I'd take the overall smoothness of cm11 and it's lean build over the features in touch wiz. Hopefully we get a cm build going.
Cm12? Mmmmm
I was just reading about CM12.
I'm strongly thinking of moving over.
I can mimic floating windows with xhalo xposed. It has resizable windows that work similar to TouchWiz floating windows.
I'm not sure how I'd mimic one handed mode
Or the stock camera app which has dual facing camera modes.
Any ideas?
Read on land of droid the cm12 roadmap
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Hopefully someone picks up the Sprint Note 4 as the cm12 maintainer.
Looking forward to cm on the note 4. It's pretty much the only thing keeping me from buying one.
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they have cm booting on the tmobile one, the majority of that code would work fine for the sprint one. chances are they will be unified builds. if this was teh s5 or anything id work towards fleshing out the device tree and bringing it up, but i am truly happy with my note 4 stock with xposed. i dont use all the fancy samsung features but i do use enough of them to not even really want to bother flashing aosp and losing out on it. granted this is my first note device but i cant see or imagine why anyone would want to use something other than stock, battery is amazing, features are top notch and its very fast and fluid.
I came from a nexus 5 but i sold that and for a week i used a kyocera echo until my note 4 preorder was ready to pick up, it truly is amazing in how much progress has been made in such a short time.
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Who has it booting on tmobile?
More then likely welll be skipped cause of poor sales
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More then likely welll be skipped cause of poor sales
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Yea probably not man. Anyone with enough skill can build the device tree. Its just nice when we get official maintainers. Give it time, it will happen. Samsung devices ALWYS get cm.
Slayher has cm12 apparently booting on the note 4
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Slayher has cm12 apparently booting on the note 4
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Sprint or t-mobile?
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Sprint or t-mobile?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=56811531
International looks like, but sd variants very similar so just having a tree available is huge
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Have we reached a point where all of the stuff you mentioned is no longer going to be able to be incorporated into AOSP? I came to the note 4 from the note 2, and I agree touchwiz is pretty nicely refined, but I would like to see AOSP. From some post's I've read hear and there, it appears that touchwiz just gets more complex. What about the Nexus 6 OS?
hermeticist said:
I agree with Shabbypenguin.
I'd rather have a stock ROM with all the cool Samsung functionality of floating windows, one handed moded, functional heart rate sensor, S-Pen apps, and camera app all work great.
Instead we need a rom with stock as base, and AOSP apps like I describe in my thread:
My "Dream ROM" for the Note 4 would be:
*Rooted
*Knox removed
*CyanogenMod style theming
*Samsung and Sprint bloatware removed (accept for Facebook sync)
*TouchWiz apps (calendar, messaging, phone, clock, calculator, lockscreen, notification quick settings) replaced with CyanogenMod versions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2920117
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Touchwiz vs AOSP on 5.1.1

I recently updated to the latest bootloader and 5.1.1 Touchwiz. I'm having a rough time without xposed and am considering changing to AOSP and scrapping Touchwiz so I can get my Xposed customizations back.
For anyone who has made this move, is there anything significant you lose by scrapping Touchwiz or any reason I should continue waiting?
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I recently updated to the latest bootloader and 5.1.1 Touchwiz. I'm having a rough time without xposed and am considering changing to AOSP and scrapping Touchwiz so I can get my Xposed customizations back.
For anyone who has made this move, is there anything significant you lose by scrapping Touchwiz or any reason I should continue waiting?
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No fingerprint scanner, S-Pen features, basically all Galaxy line features lost and that's about it. I've had annoying times where SMS/MMS wouldn't go through and I had to keep doing stuff to make it go back. So if you like a Note 4 for its gimmicky features, I wouldn't go to AOSP. It doesn't hurt to try for a day though.
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No fingerprint scanner, S-Pen features, basically all Galaxy line features lost and that's about it. I've had annoying times where SMS/MMS wouldn't go through and I had to keep doing stuff to make it go back. So if you like a Note 4 for its gimmicky features, I wouldn't go to AOSP. It doesn't hurt to try for a day though.
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I took your suggestion and tried AOSP via CM12. I like the changes in the overall UI since the last time I ran CM on a previous device, but I would miss the fingerprint scanner for the screen lock. The google camera that came when I flashed the Gapps (tk_gapps-stock-5.1.1-20150816b-signed.zip) doesn't play nicely with CM12. "Could not connect to camera" and several seconds for the app to open when it does decide to open, and then if you decide to take a second photo it's crash city. I guess I'll go back to touchwiz, but I'm really gonna miss my xposed
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I took your suggestion and tried AOSP via CM12. I like the changes in the overall UI since the last time I ran CM on a previous device, but I would miss the fingerprint scanner for the screen lock. The google camera that came when I flashed the Gapps (tk_gapps-stock-5.1.1-20150816b-signed.zip) doesn't play nicely with CM12. "Could not connect to camera" and several seconds for the app to open when it does decide to open, and then if you decide to take a second photo it's crash city. I guess I'll go back to touchwiz, but I'm really gonna miss my xposed
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People have fixed the problem with the camera by uninstalling the google camera and install it via Google Play Store. Android 6/Marshmallow is supposed to have native fingerprint support.
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Cool, also everytime any app attempted to access GPS the app would crash, the UI would crash and only the wallpaper was visible. Buttons went unresponsive and required a reboot. This happened with Maps and with the chrome browser when it tried to access GPS.
Back to touchwiz we go...

Samsung S Pen Features on Note 2 Custom ROM

I installed Xenon HD based Custom ROM for Nougat 7.1.2 on my Note 2 without thinking about what happens to S-Pen and the apps that it use like S-Note. But I am liking the phone after I installed this.
Hence thought I will check if there is a way I can use S-Pen and the associated apps on this Custom ROM.
Any help or, information would be highly appreciated.
I really liked the S-Note app and would like to use it or, something like it.
for note taking i currently use "Squid - Take Notes & Markup PDFs" it has some inapp purchases but the basic stuff is available for free.
But pretty much any note taking app should have support for the spen, at least the bigger ones (EverNote and such, but i never used them)
Then there are options like SPenCommand and NoteBuddy (not sure if it works on Nougat)
My preferred App for Stylus gestures is GMD SPen Control but sadly it seems that app is no longer maintained and does not work on Nougat
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for note taking i currently use "Squid - Take Notes & Markup PDFs" it has some inapp purchases but the basic stuff is available for free.
But pretty much any note taking app should have support for the spen, at least the bigger ones (EverNote and such, but i never used them)
Then there are options like SPenCommand and NoteBuddy (not sure if it works on Nougat)
My preferred App for Stylus gestures is GMD SPen Control but sadly it seems that app is no longer maintained and does not work on Nougat
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The problem with most of the notes app is that there is no handwriting recognition and hence S-Pen pretty much becomes useless. That is one of the reasons for my displeasure.
I would like to use the features of S-Pen. And there were a lot of my notes in S-Note which is something I haven't been able to recover or, use now.
SPencommand and Notebuddy doesn't seem to be working on Nougat.
SPencommand definitely does, i tried it for a short period but ended up getting a refund because it does not support custom gestures.
Oh i thought you meant just scribbling down some notes, i never used the recognition feature to turn it into actual text.
As far as i know there is no way to run the Samsung apps on AOSP or import data from them.
But i personally never used them, maybe someone else has some ideas.
peterhugelberg said:
SPencommand definitely does, i tried it for a short period but ended up getting a refund because it does not support custom gestures.
Oh i thought you meant just scribbling down some notes, i never used the recognition feature to turn it into actual text.
As far as i know there is no way to run the Samsung apps on AOSP or import data from them.
But i personally never used them, maybe someone else has some ideas.
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Yeah, you are right. I tried a few others including SPenCommand. But nothing worked until now. Looks like I have to finally convince myself of letting it go..

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