So, I have a Galaxy Note 3 I rooted way way back when around the time the note 3 was still the newest Note on the market. At the time, I flashed what I believed was the N900PVPUCNAB(D) modified stock ROM which is Kitkat 4.4.2. I want to upgrade to the newest stable [rooted/rootable] OS, but want to maintain a few functions.
Firstly, I make used of Xposed often. Is XPosed still available/functionable on later OSes?
Secondly, I make use of native hotspot hacks, and absolutely cannot give it up. What are my options on this?
Lastly, considering the two above, what are my options and where should I start looking?
Gamemaster1379 said:
So, I have a Galaxy Note 3 I rooted way way back when around the time the note 3 was still the newest Note on the market. At the time, I flashed what I believed was the N900PVPUCNAB(D) modified stock ROM which is Kitkat 4.4.2. I want to upgrade to the newest stable [rooted/rootable] OS, but want to maintain a few functions.
Firstly, I make used of Xposed often. Is XPosed still available/functionable on later OSes?
Secondly, I make use of native hotspot hacks, and absolutely cannot give it up. What are my options on this?
Lastly, considering the two above, what are my options and where should I start looking?
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As for "stock" ROMs, native hotspot hacks seem to have been fixed, I've not been able to use the ones I know of since a couple of updates ago, and the most recent one seems to have broken my rooted hotspot.
As for recommendations, if you're willing to give up the special features of the stock camera, I think you should look into CyanogenMod 13. It's unofficial 6.0, but it worked well for me, and I liked everything but the lack of camera features. The camera is just a basic camera app like what you'd find on AOSP ROMs. The Thread is available in the development section of the non-carrier-specific forum. I originally put the wrong link, here's the one I'm meant to put.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/development/hlte-spr-vzw-temaseks-unofficial-t2953375
There is a version of 7.0 as well (cm14), but as of this writing, it's in alpha stage, and I have no experience with it, would recommend sticking with 13. Nor am I sure it'll work in the N900P...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/red...cyanogenmod-14-0-xiaomi-redmi-note-3-t3459382
I really loved the "native" hotspot. It is a hack of some sort and worked well without any modification. But I don't need a hotspot that badly compared the camera features... Maybe I should get a "real" camera LOL.
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Greetings,
So, I recently acquired a SGP 5.0 running Gingerbread. I had forgotten how klunky gingerbread is.
Anyway, I want to upgrade it to a new version of Android but I am not sure how to go about it. I have read about PAC-rom and I even ended up on the 4.3 CyanogenMod 10.2 Developers page. What Rom would you suggest and how do I go about it. I am very much green at this and the forum search seems to be down or else I'd scour the forums more before asking this question.
Thanks in advance,
TF
Another question
Should the need arise, how does one restore a device back to FacSpec? or is this a one way street? It doesn't really matter much, my player is well out of warranty so I've really got nothing to lose other then a working player.
Thanks,
TF
also
By installing a custom Rom, do you lose access to the Google Play store?
Thanks,
TF
1. It's your choice, it depends on your needs and the features you want.
2. You can still come back to stock if for some reasons you don't like custom roms
3. To have access to play store, you need to flash a special zip containing all the proprietary google apps. (gapps)
Cyanogenmod tends to be THE most popular rom because of it's been proven over the years. However people with the 5.0 tends to go with PAC because it implement basically 3 roms into one (Cyanogenmod, Aokp, Paranoidandroid).
My 2 cents
You lose the camera function on our device going from GB to ICS or JB. You can still get a camera preview snapshot using the fastburst app on JB. Having tried most of the ROMS available, my preference, by far, is SlimBean. If you plan on trying out several, I suggest you include SlimBean as an option.
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You lose the camera function on our device going from GB to ICS or JB. You can still get a camera preview snapshot using the fastburst app on JB. Having tried most of the ROMS available, my preference, by far, is SlimBean. If you plan on trying out several, I suggest you include SlimBean as an option.
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The loss of the camera is no great loss to me. The one one my Droid4 is far better, this is simple just a replacement for my iPod.
Thanks!
zaclimon said:
1. It's your choice, it depends on your needs and the features you want.
2. You can still come back to stock if for some reasons you don't like custom roms
3. To have access to play store, you need to flash a special zip containing all the proprietary google apps. (gapps)
Cyanogenmod tends to be THE most popular rom because of it's been proven over the years. However people with the 5.0 tends to go with PAC because it implement basically 3 roms into one (Cyanogenmod, Aokp, Paranoidandroid).
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Thanks!
Greetings,
So I used the superoneclick root hack on my device yesterday and all seemed to be well. Until today, I noticed that the device is now bleeding power. Anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks,
TF
Hi guys, kindly take my post serious, and give me honest opinions, let me explain my situation.
Like many of you, I have LG G2, International 802, i am confused whether to flash 4.4 Custom ROM (CM11 seems to be only relaible choice) or stay at stock 4.2.2 because phone is just a phone and all Apps work anyway.
Unlike most of you, i am from Pakistan, i purchased G2 brand new in Black, because its not launched officially here, which means i am under no warranty or unroot problems to get repairs etc. from company, so losing warranty is not an issue for me.
I am confused, whether to root, flash CM 11 or stay on stock and wait for official 4.4. I know even official 4.4 will look same as 4.2.2. Stock android look like Nexus is my preference, i like it, but reading so many people having troubles with custom ROMSs, and the difficulty, makes me confused, either to stay as it is, or make a move and flash CM11.
My past experience of flashing ROMs, was when i had back up Xperia 10 mini, i use to flash CM9 on it easily and use to go back on stock as well, which android 2.1 for it.
Guys kindly with your experience, should i go for flashing, install CWM recovery, official semi touch one and flash CM11 in normal way, or should i stay satisfied as i am today? will flashing CM11 and its bugs going to ruin my daily use?
Also tell me, i read intensively how to come back to stock, but many people having trouble in that as well?
Should i make a move or should i sit idle? I know many users like me, must confused like me, your help can be fruitful for us?
I'd say go for cleanrom or rayglobe and find some mods for stock lots of things you can do with xposed
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I miss only one thing on LG rom, stock aosp notification center
Incep said:
I'd say go for cleanrom or rayglobe and find some mods for stock lots of things you can do with xposed
Sent from my LG-D802 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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Thanks for your kind reply, being less familiar with ROMs, i assume that CM11 is the best and relatively more professional then most other ROM developers, i feel there product have more chance of being less buggy, thats what i assume, since going closer to stock android is my goal, not the tweaks as yet, in hate i hate processor option in CM11, why a user need to mess with clocking. I can be wrong here, frequent ROM user must know better which ROMS are more stable.
Xposed, i think i can use that with stock LG ROM as well, well i don't want to change menu bar and notification bar because i read in xposed forums, lots of people are having not to smooth time with it, it must be ok but i am ok without it, smaller bar or normal bar. Only thing i dont like about LG stock menu bar is, no multitasking key.
So you suggest me, to dive into a custom rom and you prefer a clean ROM for me.
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I miss only one thing on LG rom, stock aosp notification center
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I miss look and feel of stock android, stock is LG is sort of rip off, of Touch Wiz, i don't need air gestures, i need smoothness, fluidness, i like dark colours of stock pull down bar, and other things of my friends Galaxy Nexus.
The first thing I did after verifying the G2 I received was a keeper (first one was a dud) was install a different rom. I went though several 4.3 roms and even tried some of the 4.4 roms that came out but in the end as of right now I running a lite version of the stock rom (Malladus). I didn't think I would ever run stock but I found a lot of the features I enjoyed with custom roms I was able to get by using Xposed and stock seemed to be more stable and I really wanted a fully functional camera. Even though there are still a few things about the stock rom I don't like, they are very minor and i can live with them.
heymoe said:
The first thing I did after verifying the G2 I received was a keeper (first one was a dud) was install a different rom. I went though several 4.3 roms and even tried some of the 4.4 roms that came out but in the end as of right now I running a lite version of the stock rom (Malladus). I didn't think I would ever run stock but I found a lot of the features I enjoyed with custom roms I was able to get by using Xposed and stock seemed to be more stable and I really wanted a fully functional camera. Even though there are still a few things about the stock rom I don't like, they are very minor and i can live with them.
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Well, thanks for the reply, i know stock has features, most i don't use, incredibly i don't knock on either, as i got use to of buttons, yeah, call and sms blocker, i hope CM11 may have them, i want to change for the look and feel of Stock android, and hopefully fluidness, as far as features are concerned, LG stock must have them all covered?
So you have reverted back to LG stock rom, lite version, then why not the official stock rom? HMM.
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Well, thanks for the reply, i know stock has features, most i don't use, incredibly i don't knock on either, as i got use to of buttons, yeah, call and sms blocker, i hope CM11 may have them, i want to change for the look and feel of Stock android, and hopefully fluidness, as far as features are concerned, LG stock must have them all covered?
So you have reverted back to LG stock rom, lite version, then why not the official stock rom? HMM.
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I mainly went with a lite stock rom for the debloat. I did run official stock and just disable things that I didn't want running but even after that there were a few things I couldn't disable plus I don't care for a lot of the LG apps. Malladus has a base that is debloated with most of the LG apps but also provides a LG App package that you can flash afterwards for those that want the LG Apps.. seemed like the best of both worlds. I will admit I did manually install a few of the left out LG apps like the Remote and Quick Memo.
OP this is solely on you, only you can figure out what will be your daily driver/ROM. With so many variables involved with Members, apps/usage so on....you have to just flash and test. Just because one has the same device does not mean you will have the same outcome or results.
Thread closed due to these kind of Threads, bring trolling and unneeded posting.
Merry Christmas.
usmanxhmed said:
Hi guys, kindly take my post serious, and give me honest opinions, let me explain my situation.
Like many of you, I have LG G2, International 802, i am confused whether to flash 4.4 Custom ROM (CM11 seems to be only relaible choice) or stay at stock 4.2.2 because phone is just a phone and all Apps work anyway.
Unlike most of you, i am from Pakistan, i purchased G2 brand new in Black, because its not launched officially here, which means i am under no warranty or unroot problems to get repairs etc. from company, so losing warranty is not an issue for me.
I am confused, whether to root, flash CM 11 or stay on stock and wait for official 4.4. I know even official 4.4 will look same as 4.2.2. Stock android look like Nexus is my preference, i like it, but reading so many people having troubles with custom ROMSs, and the difficulty, makes me confused, either to stay as it is, or make a move and flash CM11.
My past experience of flashing ROMs, was when i had back up Xperia 10 mini, i use to flash CM9 on it easily and use to go back on stock as well, which android 2.1 for it.
Guys kindly with your experience, should i go for flashing, install CWM recovery, official semi touch one and flash CM11 in normal way, or should i stay satisfied as i am today? will flashing CM11 and its bugs going to ruin my daily use?
Also tell me, i read intensively how to come back to stock, but many people having trouble in that as well?
Should i make a move or should i sit idle? I know many users like me, must confused like me, your help can be fruitful for us?
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HI everyone,
I received a new LG G3 today. It was a great price with all the new phones out and I now have stock QI. SWEET! I'm coming from a VZN note 2 w horrible touchwiz/ some ROMS tried. Ultimately I dont want to flash roms unless LG sucks, I'd prefer to unlock and root to allow for special applications, I'll get to why at the bottom. I'm seeking your opinion and thoughts in regards to:
1.) Should I unlock/root in 4.2.2 prior to the OTA update and stay with 4.4.2? I was not too happy with Kit Kat and it seems that as you get closer to lollipop I had less customization and was annoyed more often with the loss of features within apps and bland styles.; do you agree? I have only seen lollipop from google researching and it looks similar to Kit Kat, just so, so.... Currently in 4.2.2 I can use Google wallet, my chromecast with any movie and music, etc; I don't think I would be gaining any feature except full screen casting, but I have a computer and Chromecast dedicated to my TV. The new notification styles don't impress me either. I had other notification options with CM11 (lock screen/etc) and was not that thrilled with it to upgrade. Normal pictures are fine with me and I'm not trying to win any film contests. No reason to beam stuff, and I like the full month view with digicalendar widget on one home screen (hated google's new calendar views).... Do you regret upgrading? I'm hoping and praying LG has a solid ROM that doesn't drive me crazing crashing with glitches.
lastly any suggestions - Do I need to root now or do anything else to prevent being locked out after the upgrade if I do do it, as is the case of Samsung? I was so glad I locked out OTA updates that screwed a bunch of people out of unlocking their bootloaders for long periods of time.
THANKS FOR YOUR ADVICE AND TIME EVERYONE! I really do appreciate it and I'm excited to start learning about the G3 and having a lot of fun.
My thoughts/background on staying stock w root and unlocked at this point vs Flashing ROMS if you were wondering:
Pardon the poor grammar/ ranting- Basically I need a solid daily driver and after being a little disappointed with CM11 and KitKat in general due to it's bland looks, camera, messaging, etc (e.g. You have to have a face for every contact including yourself to differentiate well between the text messages back and forth, or have handscent with a more "bubble like experience", but is a [email protected] to attach certain things. All in all I tried out gummy rom, CM11 and liquid smooth and was not too thrilled with the glitches or missing stuff that they had for the stable releases I ended up trying for a daily driver. It was fun flashing and testing stuff out though. I switched to a custom ROM mainly bc my note 2 would not allow for easy access to contacts while messaging in landscape (If you typed out a contact's entire name it would only show numbers in the auto select region just above the keyboard and so you would have to scroll down to select a contact in a thin box, this is not okay when your wife is trying to text on your appradio 3 while you are driving. Touch wiz sucked for stability (atleast CM11 never crashed on me!) and touchwiz had so many other glitches and issues that annoyed me; I had to root and add another app just to get a notification bar wifi toggle, WTF! VZN. In ROMS there were mIssing shortcuts in apps to attach things like contacts and do certain daily driver stuff that annoyed me about each ROM, but CM11 was the best for me out of the 4 total I experienced. Custom ROMS did a bad job at working with ARU unchained for my appradio3, but I didn't sped a lot of time on each ROM getting it to work (CM11 was the easiest).
I too came from a Note II and didn't take any OTA's and instead updated with Bean's stock images.
Root your G3 now and update to the latest via: http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/general/reference-stock-img-files-t2966958
If you did take the latest OTA, you can roll back and update to the latest so not too bad being on LG.
stewbuntu said:
HI everyone,
I received a new LG G3 today. It was a great price with all the new phones out and I now have stock QI. SWEET! I'm coming from a VZN note 2 w horrible touchwiz/ some ROMS tried. Ultimately I dont want to flash roms unless LG sucks, I'd prefer to unlock and root to allow for special applications, I'll get to why at the bottom. I'm seeking your opinion and thoughts in regards to:
1.) Should I unlock/root in 4.2.2 prior to the OTA update and stay with 4.2.2? I was not too happy with Kit Kat and it seems that as you get closer to lollipop I had less customization and was annoyed more often with the loss of features within apps and bland styles.; do you agree? I have only seen lollipop from google researching and it looks similar to Kit Kat, just so, so.... Currently in 4.2.2 I can use Google wallet, my chromecast with any movie and music, etc; I don't think I would be gaining any feature except full screen casting, but I have a computer and Chromecast dedicated to my TV. The new notification styles don't impress me either. I had other notification options with CM11 (lock screen/etc) and was not that thrilled with it to upgrade. Normal pictures are fine with me and I'm not trying to win any film contests. No reason to beam stuff, and I like the full month view with digicalendar widget on one home screen (hated google's new calendar views).... Do you regret upgrading? I'm hoping and praying LG has a solid ROM that doesn't drive me crazing crashing with glitches.
lastly any suggestions - Do I need to root now or do anything else to prevent being locked out after the upgrade if I do do it, as is the case of Samsung? I was so glad I locked out OTA updates that screwed a bunch of people out of unlocking their bootloaders for long periods of time.
THANKS FOR YOUR ADVICE AND TIME EVERYONE! I really do appreciate it and I'm excited to start learning about the G3 and having a lot of fun.
My thoughts/background on staying stock w root and unlocked at this point vs Flashing ROMS if you were wondering:
Pardon the poor grammar/ ranting- Basically I need a solid daily driver and after being a little disappointed with CM11 and KitKat in general due to it's bland looks, camera, messaging, etc (e.g. You have to have a face for every contact including yourself to differentiate well between the text messages back and forth, or have handscent with a more "bubble like experience", but is a [email protected] to attach certain things. All in all I tried out gummy rom, CM11 and liquid smooth and was not too thrilled with the glitches or missing stuff that they had for the stable releases I ended up trying for a daily driver. It was fun flashing and testing stuff out though. I switched to a custom ROM mainly bc my note 2 would not allow for easy access to contacts while messaging in landscape (If you typed out a contact's entire name it would only show numbers in the auto select region just above the keyboard and so you would have to scroll down to select a contact in a thin box, this is not okay when your wife is trying to text on your appradio 3 while you are driving. Touch wiz sucked for stability (atleast CM11 never crashed on me!) and touchwiz had so many other glitches and issues that annoyed me; I had to root and add another app just to get a notification bar wifi toggle, WTF! VZN. In ROMS there were mIssing shortcuts in apps to attach things like contacts and do certain daily driver stuff that annoyed me about each ROM, but CM11 was the best for me out of the 4 total I experienced. Custom ROMS did a bad job at working with ARU unchained for my appradio3, but I didn't sped a lot of time on each ROM getting it to work (CM11 was the easiest).
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First off, I'm assuming when you say 4.2.2, you mean 4.4.2 As far as LG's stock rom, I'd say that as far as OEM's go, LG's on the better end certainly, however that's not to say the stock rom didn't leave bits to be desired, but imho it was a whole heck of a lot better than barfwiz Me personally, I greatly prefer AOSP as opposed to carrier skinned Android, however you do pay a slightly higher premium in a few more glitches/oddities, but you gain a lot of fluidity/speed and a much better looking system imho, but that's personal preference. As far as rooting/upgrading/downgrading, I'm one to always recommend root solely because then YOU can choose when and how to update YOUR device. 10B is currently the only rootable FW, but if you just got it today then you're likely on firmware version 11C or 12B. Both of these can currently be downgraded using the kdz (and possibly tot) methods, as LG and/or VZW haven't yet implemented anything quite as ridiculous as that yet, but I would never put it past VZW to do this at some point. This is all what I personally would recommend doing, and then consider flashing a stock-based rom (such as skydragon or jasmine) Just my 2c
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First off, I'm assuming when you say 4.2.2, you mean 4.4.2 As far as LG's stock rom, I'd say that as far as OEM's go, LG's on the better end certainly, however that's not to say the stock rom didn't leave bits to be desired, but imho it was a whole heck of a lot better than barfwiz Me personally, I greatly prefer AOSP as opposed to carrier skinned Android, however you do pay a slightly higher premium in a few more glitches/oddities, but you gain a lot of fluidity/speed and a much better looking system imho, but that's personal preference. As far as rooting/upgrading/downgrading, I'm one to always recommend root solely because then YOU can choose when and how to update YOUR device. 10B is currently the only rootable FW, but if you just got it today then you're likely on firmware version 11C or 12B. Both of these can currently be downgraded using the kdz (and possibly tot) methods, as LG and/or VZW haven't yet implemented anything quite as ridiculous as that yet, but I would never put it past VZW to do this at some point. This is all what I personally would recommend doing, and then consider flashing a stock-based rom (such as skydragon or jasmine) Just my 2c
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My bad 4.4.2 and I do see 10B build # KVT49L.VS98510B model # has 10b too
Thanks guys, good info and stuff to research
Colchiro said:
I too came from a Note II and didn't take any OTA's and instead updated with Bean's stock images.
Root your G3 now and update to the latest via: http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/general/reference-stock-img-files-t2966958
If you did take the latest OTA, you can roll back and update to the latest so not too bad being on LG.
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I knew I didn't want Samsung/[email protected] so I spent a while looking at other options and the G3 seemed great with Micro SD and replaceable battery. I can't understand what companies are thinking with no SD slot and not being able to swap batteries when they go bad, or on the fly (although I do 12 hr shifts). Ever since my Motorolla Atrix 3G I have missed glitch free daily drivers My fingers are crossed
So do you guys like Lollipop based ASOPs?
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So do you guys like Lollipop based ASOPs?
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Locked bootloaders is why I switched to LG. I'm not alone.
I haven't tried any custom roms. I don't like to lose some of the features I like, like knock and stock camera, so haven't messed with custom roms for a couple years. Debloated stock G3 works fine for me....
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Hello All,
I was wondering if any of you have recommendations on a Sense Based ROM for the EVO LTE? I'm holding out for the upcoming M10 and I'm currently user a ROM based off the last 4.3 update leaked from HTC, however I've noticed that many of the apps I regularly use are requiring more recent Android OS. I have tried Cyanogenmod based ROMS in the past but I prefer Sense and I haven't seen too many fully working roms based off it. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Hybrid0NE said:
Hello All,
I was wondering if any of you have recommendations on a Sense Based ROM for the EVO LTE? I'm holding out for the upcoming M10 and I'm currently user a ROM based off the last 4.3 update leaked from HTC, however I've noticed that many of the apps I regularly use are requiring more recent Android OS. I have tried Cyanogenmod based ROMS in the past but I prefer Sense and I haven't seen too many fully working roms based off it. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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I always liked Viper, but you aren't going to find anything beyond 4.3 outside of AOSP though. Since there was never any official KitKat for this phone there's nothing to build off of. There may have been some attempt at a port that i've forgotten about but i doubt it. i was also a fan of sense to some extent, but i jumped to CM a long time ago to stay current and i think i'd have a hard time going back at this point.
actually come to think of it, for a little while there when there were some bugs to CM that i couldn't get past, i'd actually loaded up a stock/rooted 4.3 and slapped xposed overtop of it to get (almost) all the features i'd come to live by in CM.
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I take that back, i completely forgot about this fella. I think i'd tried it out early in development and maybe couldn't get it to flash/boot on my device, but it sounds like this release is working.
see the last post for a working download link graciously shared by CTB.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/evo...ent/rom-insertcoin-3-0-6-5-11-401-10-t2873191
dangle79 said:
I always liked Viper, but you aren't going to find anything beyond 4.3 outside of AOSP though. Since there was never any official KitKat for this phone there's nothing to build off of. There may have been some attempt at a port that i've forgotten about but i doubt it. i was also a fan of sense to some extent, but i jumped to CM a long time ago to stay current and i think i'd have a hard time going back at this point.
actually come to think of it, for a little while there when there were some bugs to CM that i couldn't get past, i'd actually loaded up a stock/rooted 4.3 and slapped xposed overtop of it to get (almost) all the features i'd come to live by in CM.
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I take that back, i completely forgot about this fella. I think i'd tried it out early in development and maybe couldn't get it to flash/boot on my device, but it sounds like this release is working.
see the last post for a working download link graciously shared by CTB.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/evo...ent/rom-insertcoin-3-0-6-5-11-401-10-t2873191
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Thanks for the lead! I'm going to try this out today after I backup my data.
So My wife decided she wanted my Sprint Note 4 and gave me her Note 3.... Now I am not using this as an actual phone, mostly as a gaming accessory (arx control)/games/wifi/bluetooth/gps/audio
It is running n900pvpueok2 Android 5.0
Anyways
What are my options for custom roms on this guy, I want to keep the system on the light end and definitely want root and ad blocking.
I see Cyanogenmod "went away" so I guess that's not an option
I am sort of confused on which roms are going to work on this version of the OS and the built in sprint **** is driving me nuts because it keeps popping up.
Oh, I carry my note 7 currently as a phone but once my Google Pixel XL shows up... that will finally go back
Any rom in the sprint section will definitely work. This one seems to be the popular one at the moment: https://forum.xda-developers.com/no...sprint-users-rejoice-darklord-modded-t3498912
Honestly, the 5.0 stock rom will give you better battery life than any custom rom mainly due to custom roms using user-made kernels. If you want the latest 5.0 stock rom N900PVPSEPL1 with all security updates and whatnot, flash it through odin. I don't remember which version of Xposed is safe for 5.0, so you might need to do some research for that. Xposed is needed for youtube adblocking and general adblocking. There is the"mother of ad blocking" on xda for general ad blocking through hosts file.
If you want to use bleeding edge custom roms like nougat or note7 ports, head down to the main note 3 section https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3
Those roms are difficult to get cell service on sprint devices without great efforts like editing build.prop and installing apps like 4g switcher to MAYBE get it, but you said you don't use it as a phone so it shouldn't matter much. Some might still give you popup crashes of the phone app, so either way going through that route will be a ton of trial and error.