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[Q] DrewGaren's JB 747 Milestone 7 or Serenity 1.2 GNote II?

Okay, so I'm sick of waiting for AT&T's "Official" release of Jelly Bean, therefore I've decided to flash a JB ROM. Having flashed a couple of times before (on my Cappy), I know to read a LOT beforehand. Now that that's done, I have narrowed my ROM choices to DrewGaren's Milestone 7 and Serenity 1.2. My question: For those of you who has tried both of these ROMS, which is more stable, and which do you prefer and why?

aicirt17 said:
Okay, so I'm sick of waiting for AT&T's "Official" release of Jelly Bean, therefore I've decided to flash a JB ROM. Having flashed a couple of times before (on my Cappy), I know to read a LOT beforehand. Now that that's done, I have narrowed my ROM choices to DrewGaren's Milestone 7 and Serenity 1.2. My question: For those of you who has tried both of these ROMS, which is more stable, and which do you prefer and why?
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Def Serenity 1.2

I've tried them both and actually prefer JellyBean747 M7 to Serenity. It seems closer to stock for me, and a little cleaner. That said, I did make a few changes to get it working the way I wanted. In addition to installing the QuickFix, I installed KT's kernel and used the TMO RIL files to fix the international calling thing.
I do see that Drew has Serenity 1.3 builds for TMO and Sprint. I might try 1.3 on my AT&T S3 when he releases it. Of course, I'm also hoping for JB747 1.0 in the near future, too.
Both are great ROMs. Make a Nandroid and try them out. I've flashed three or four different ROMs since trying JB747, but I keep going back. :good:

i've tried both. and i will give my props to Serenity.
and the main reason is that the ROM is based off AT&T. whereas JB747 is based off Sprint. i have the family shared plan, where i can "officially" tether, and i couldn't do that in JB747, because it was thinking Sprint when i'm on AT&T.

mrhomiec said:
i've tried both. and i will give my props to Serenity.
and the main reason is that the ROM is based off AT&T. whereas JB747 is based off Sprint. i have the family shared plan, where i can "officially" tether, and i couldn't do that in JB747, because it was thinking Sprint when i'm on AT&T.
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Agreed, but here's my concern (probably should have expressed this in my initial post, lol). Although Serenity 1.2 is based off of AT&T, it is a port from a different PHONE than the SGS3. And, the JB747 is stock-based on a different CARRIER, like you said. So, what's more important as far as stabilty is concerned, a ROM based on a different phone or stock-based on a different carrier?

Anyone?

aicirt17 said:
Agreed, but here's my concern (probably should have expressed this in my initial post, lol). Although Serenity 1.2 is based off of AT&T, it is a port from a different PHONE than the SGS3. And, the JB747 is stock-based on a different CARRIER, like you said. So, what's more important as far as stabilty is concerned, a ROM based on a different phone or stock-based on a different carrier?
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I've come to the same spot you have and am interested in which of these two retain the most stock features.

in the case of TouchWiz, there's not too much of any differences between the 2, except these that i have noticed...
* the S Pen settings. can't really do anything with this.
* hover mode (or whatever it's called). where you can have a window of the stock internet browser (not Chrome or anything else) while another app is full screen. same for videos.
and that's all i really noticed. i really like the window browser feature. i don't know how to trigger it all the time. for example, i'm only able to trigger it if i'm within an (like TweetDeck for example), and i click a link. then that opens a window browser.

[Q] AOKP Question

hello all this is my second android phone after my motorola atrix,i know aosp and aokp are almost the same in terms of making them youre own but i was wondering if there are any roms that could possibly be ported as soon as my ubuntu installtion finishes i plan on messing around and compiling roms, any help or info regarding aosp offical,aokp,tmobile theme engine,or rom control would be appreciated

there is currently a test build for cm10 in the at&t section that you can flash on the tmobile note 2 i been using it all day

wont that affect the s-pen?

Spen works on that build but you wont have samsungs spen apps.
G●Note~2 {Jedi X5}

i can live with that, since its unoffical are there any bugs besides wifi calling? im really just craving some parinoid right now so i can make some dpi changes. thanks guys

truthkillszz said:
there is currently a test build for cm10 in the at&t section that you can flash on the tmobile note 2 i been using it all day
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Does the modem work?

ilmatik said:
Does the modem work?
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Yes modem works fine... Although there are a few minor issues. Camera video isn't working but camera mx from the market does, some minor performance issues. Call audio issue... But Theres a work around. I've been using it as my daily for a week just fine although these issues might bother others.

I was just about to post a similar question. I cant wait for a pure android rom for our phone. I hate how carriers and mfgs destroy the android experience but even nexus devices destroy the experience by eliminating removable batteries and sd card slots now. G1 is still my favorite phone I have ever had.

[Q] As a constant flasher of ROMs, should I buy 3G or 4G?

About to buy this phone. From a flashaholic's perspective (currently CM10.1 nightly every 3 days on my SGS) what's the better model to buy, N7100 or N7105? 4G version seems to have some cooler ROMs (newer ver of ParanoidAndroid for example) but 3G model seems to have more ROMs in general.
Basically, if I'm going to be doing heaps of flashing, 4G or 3G? I don't have need for DC-HSDPA or 4G and the price difference is negligible, plus I don't use FM radio so no issue there.
Thanks in advance

If it's only for flashing, N7100 is the best choice because LTE has very poor dev support
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Definitely go for the most popular version. So many mods and roms are available mostly for the N7100.
I flash a lot too and the only time I require high speed connection is when I want to download something which I do easily with WiFi since data packages are.expensive where I am, for everything else 3g is more than enough.
Sent from the rabbit hole.

Support for the n7105 is getting better and many of the at&t roms and tmobile roms are/can be compatible with the international variant.
If you're looking for stock TW custom roms then yeah stick with the n7100, I think aosp will end up being better supported on the lte variant

Robobob1221 said:
I think aosp will end up being better supported on the lte variant
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This is the main thing I worry about, all the AOSP roms seems to be further ahead on the LTE variant - but I get the feeling I'm really going to enjoy multiwindow and other such things.

montymintypie said:
This is the main thing I worry about, all the AOSP roms seems to be further ahead on the LTE variant - but I get the feeling I'm really going to enjoy multiwindow and other such things.
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Yeah I enjoyed Multi-Window and some of the spen features.
I enjoy the simplicity of AOSP though, and the fact I can use themes from the play store. I miss a lot of the gesture features TW based roms have, like swiping the side of your hand across the screen for a screenshot. Saves mashing buttons!
However things like the simplistic framework, and the xposed framework add many things to TW that are usually only available to aosp.

Robobob1221 said:
Yeah I enjoyed Multi-Window and some of the spen features.
I enjoy the simplicity of AOSP though, and the fact I can use themes from the play store. I miss a lot of the gesture features TW based roms have, like swiping the side of your hand across the screen for a screenshot. Saves mashing buttons!
However things like the simplistic framework, and the xposed framework add many things to TW that are usually only available to aosp.
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Coming from CM10.1 on my S1, I luckily won't be able to miss most of the fancy gestures, smart stay etc etc. As far as I can tell all I miss is multi window (and pop up play etc), tiny bit of battery life and better S-Pen support. Still, there's a CM10.1 nightly available for the N7100, plus a sliiighty outdated version of paranoidandroid and others. But if these frameworks are as good as they seem (never heard anything like it) I think the N7100 with its plethora of stock custom roms + these frameworks might be the better option.

Get s2 or hd2
Sorry for high jacking. N7100 is better choice
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Note 2 - How's the ROM scene?

I'm coming from the S3 where the ROM scene is frankly quite pathetic, though it's steadily improving.
How's it with the note 2? Are there any major bugs with the popular ROMs? And how's the S-Pen support in custom ROMs?
Thanks a lot!

cyanide911 said:
I'm coming from the S3 where the ROM scene is frankly quite pathetic, though it's steadily improving.
How's it with the note 2? Are there any major bugs with the popular ROMs? And how's the S-Pen support in custom ROMs?
Thanks a lot!
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I'm new here at GN2 forums (ignore the post count, I've been lurking since 2011), but I just recently came over from GN1.
I'm guessing the architecture isn't vastly different, as I saw plenty of features ported to the GN1 from the GN2 back when I was there. So far what I have observed is that there are fewer ROMS here, this is owed to the phone being newer. Also, the roms being cooked here seem relatively stable with a lot less bricking.
As for recurring problems, let's hope some veterans can chime in on that, but I haven't noticed anything major (wifi works, no sudden dials etc). All in all it feels like a very fresh scene with ever-improving innovations, not even a year old so what can we expect right. Your have a GN2 or you just curious?

I'm taking a guess and saying it's even worse here regarding "movement". There's not much left to do, anyway. It would be lovely to have proper phablet interface support in stock-based ROMs, but... Well, it's pretty much "stable" here. Maybe It'll change for a couple of weeks after we get our hands in the official 4.2 ROMs due to next month.
No major bugs. In a few, there's one obscure Wifi-to-gadget or another that no one uses that doesn't work, but it depends on the baserom it is using - you see, Samsung's original comes with those bugs. In AOSP, you should expect a little worse battery life, since we don't have Exynos's sources. But they are still pretty nice.
S-pen is supposed to work with all Stock-based ROMs. There's a nice little app called S-pen Helper if you are not using the stock Launcher, but I don't remember right now if it works with an AOSP-based ROM.
It's a somewhat boring scene here, but we have all of the must-have stuff, like less-bloaty Stock, a few ROMs (many of them based on S3's work, by the way), CM, a few KANGs, and ParanoidAndroid. I had more fun testing stuff with my long dead Motorola Defy.

ok both GN2 and GSIII have the same hardware, so the most important thing in development in my opinion is the kernel development, and here you can have whatever you have with gs3 kerenel, and and about roms, i think you also can have the same experience, keep in mind that what above posters said that there are no more things to do now incase of stock roms, and aosp, only we are waiting a strong build of tablet/phaplet rom without lags (there are good ones out there but needs minor improvements), so i think you will be fine here, the only one thing that may be slow here is porting other OS, it will be faster incase of SG3,

How can you say the scene i pathetic??? Build your own Rom and then say something. You all need to learnd to appreciate other peoples work.
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I would say it's more than decent. Sheer volume might not be mind blowing - but we have stable AOSP ROMs, plenty of excellent touchwiz ROMs, etc. - so yeah. Major touchwiz ROMs are near bug free - and AOSP ROMs have some minor bugs like with Camera etc. IIRC - other than that it's all fine.

It's worse than the S3 yet it hardly matters. This phone is a beast out of the box. Many users are happy to run a rooted stock rom with the xposed and/or simplistic frameworks installed. I am one of those people.
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This is even worse than " what's the best rom" threads.. guys s3 forums are probably the best forums on xda due to developers interest. . note 2 forums are great too we have some of the best devs out there so please learn to show some respect
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Hahaha.
A stock, unrooted Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is better than a custom ROM based Samsung Galaxy S3 actually.
Just an opinion.

Simone said:
Hahaha.
A stock, unrooted Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is better than a custom ROM based Samsung Galaxy S3 actually.
Just an opinion.
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Couldn't agree more tbh. Obviously it's tenfold better if you're rooted with custom kernel - but stock was absolutely fine for most parts on Note II.

I'm pure stock and it's a beast. Waiting for 4.2.2 and thats it. This is the first phone that I didn't touch i any way.
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gvpula said:
I'm pure stock and it's a beast. Waiting for 4.2.2 and thats it. This is the first phone that I didn't touch i any way.
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Yeah same 4 me. Just root
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Thread closed for 2 reasons:
1. Its a best ROM thread.
2. Would it kill you to look in the Android Development forum if you wanted to know what development was like? I think my IQ dropped by 20 points just by reading the first page of this thread.

Would there be an interest in an AOSP/stock Google based rom?

I've been thinking about building an S7 ROM, and I've done some work on it, but right now, my interest is more focused in development for the 6P. However, if there's enough interest for a stock based ROM for the active, I'll go ahead and start working on it.
My basic idea was to try to totally port an AOSP/Stock Google ROM (most likely from the 6p) over to the active. There's no trace of anything Samsung in the ROM, and later on I could add some more useful features. I also plan on adding about as many performance/battery tweaks as I can find. Unfortunately, the kernel can't be modified, I've already tested some stuff with that, and nothing worked. But I would intend on making a non-root version with the stock kernel, and a root version with the eng kernel.
The goal of this rom is to try to provide a totally stock experience on the front end (because the kernel can't be modified), for those who hate Samsung and/or Samsung's UI. The stock experience should result in much better performance and battery life, and I will incorporate as many tweaks as I can to improve it even more.
So vote on the poll/leave a reply if you would like to see this for the active, and if you have any features you would want to see in a rom, reply saying what you would like.

Yeah, that would be awesome if possible. I've been holding off on rooting but something like this would have me rooting my phone immediately.

I would love for a ROM like that to be made for my Active. I actually hate using TouchWiz. I find myself using my old S5 when I am at home.
Phone would be so awesome if it ran on AOSP OS (aside from the green and pink vertical line I now have on my phone from no where, thanks Samsung).

you can kinda get this already with my Ufirm mod .. select Playstore debloat, and it strips everything out ..
so you need to select the pixel launcher, or nova launcher, along with the google apps like messenger, calendar/clock etc other wise you wont have nowt to use !
but thats just stripping down the original Rom to suit ..
so you thinking of a Rom made from a aosp base ? ..
also, as im posting here, and you been digging around in the kernel ..
are you able to tell if the kernel is blocking Gear VR ??? been trying to find out whats blocking detection of it ... as there seems to be NO logcat action atall .. so im thinking kernel ?

Yes I would love that

OMG ! I can't wait for a stock ROM for S7 Active.
I don't care for root but for battery and stock ROM on top of original Kernel would be like best of both worlds.
I would also like to see multiple CSC's integrated from which user can choose his country specific network and volte settings.
I am from India, and couldn't get volte on any networks here.
I am rooting for your efforts and if you need any early tester I would love to help.

patel21 said:
OMG ! I can't wait for a stock ROM for S7 Active.
I don't care for root but for battery and stock ROM on top of original Kernel would be like best of both worlds.
I would also like to see multiple CSC's integrated from which user can choose his country specific network and volte settings.
I am from India, and couldn't get volte on any networks here.
I am rooting for your efforts and if you need any early tester I would love to help.
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No matter what you do VOLTE is will not work on this device in India. Also most AOSP based roms dont support VOLTE at least not for India.

zelendel said:
No matter what you do VOLTE is will not work on this device in India. Also most AOSP based roms dont support VOLTE at least not for India.
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Not even if they insert Indian CSC in there ? Just like @MiniMus integrated tmo spr and vzw in Ufirm_multi.... firmware.

patel21 said:
Not even if they insert Indian CSC in there ? Just like @MiniMus integrated tmo spr and vzw in Ufirm_multi.... firmware.
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No because the volte in India uses a completely different code setup. Each carrier has their own code for it. This is why aosp doesn't support volte for the most part. Even when they get it working it doesn't work on all carriers.

zelendel said:
No because the volte in India uses a completely different code setup. Each carrier has their own code for it. This is why aosp doesn't support volte for the most part. Even when they get it working it doesn't work on all carriers.
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Hmm, quite a conundrum. no issue, even without volte, an AOSP still has it's benefits.

patel21 said:
Hmm, quite a conundrum. no issue, even without volte, an AOSP still has it's benefits.
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For many devices i would agree. Not for Samsung devices and deffently not this device. Not when you consider you lose the use of all the extra sensors and camera quility

I appreciate the offer but I don't think I'd use it. I've never had a good experience with a non-stock ROM (where stock to me means the ROM that came with the phone). Many worked okay, but they tend to be buggy so any benefits are outweighed by the instability or lost features. I'm also used to the Samsung UI by now so don't feel like I'm missing anything (even though I probably am).

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I appreciate the offer but I don't think I'd use it. I've never had a good experience with a non-stock ROM (where stock to me means the ROM that came with the phone). Many worked okay, but they tend to be buggy so any benefits are outweighed by the instability or lost features. I'm also used to the Samsung UI by now so don't feel like I'm missing anything (even though I probably am).
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Yes I am also now pretty used to stock rom. Can flashing stock rom through odin with csc changed to Indian S7 variants' csc image work for Indian volte support ?

I would love to see a new ROM. Hopefully the battery life can be better than stock Samsung TouchWiz. Any ETAs?

ThunderingLight said:
I would love to see a new ROM. Hopefully the battery life can be better than stock Samsung TouchWiz. Any ETAs?
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ETA is as soon as you get it done. But to be honest you can give it up. No bootloader unlock and no root so you will have to deal with stock.
Also never and I mean never ask for an ETA it is rude and on XDA will get you flamed and ignored.

Would it be possible to have stable custom ROMs once Oreo is launched ?

Is this from still a possibility of being made? Just wondering thanks in advance
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Locked bootloader, no custom recoveries or roms. The cell phone companies pay big bux to have them locked and thats it, so dig a hole in a random park and bury the idea and move on.. On LG phones that i had before, AOSP roms really brought the phone to its toes, battery was horrible, overheating, lots and lots of crashes, just a total nightmare. Custom roms are great for tablets where you dont have to worry about cell service unless its a data tab then good luck. Best bet, if the phone can be rooted, freeze, dont delete all the bloatware and its gonna work great.
Cell phones these days are just like cars, they come with useless apps just like some cars come with ugly steering wheels with bunch of buttons that you will never use..

Althou there has been break throughs, and you can now get twrp working with locked bootloaders...
It's not the big win win, and even then, aosp would be much worse than a debloated stock....
I'm am now starting to see light at end of my tunnel, to work more on starting this stuff ported to our phones!