Bought new s3 and not sure if I have to flash it - Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help &

Hey guys
I am on xxugna8 and I am not sure if my phone can get any better. I came from i9000 on cm10.2 and now I am super happy with my new stock s3. How is your experience with the latest cm11 or cm10.2? Is it worth to flash? What would you recommend?
Thanks very much for your opinions.
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I'm also happy with my stock Rom but my phone is rooted I waiting for 4.4 stock Rom. In my opinion samsung Rom is quite good. Only 4.4 I will load in my phone
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stay on stock...on CM they fix one thing today buy break another....so until a fully working stable version is up - stock.

spiderman07 said:
stay on stock...on CM they fix one thing today buy break another....so until a fully working stable version is up - stock.
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Well, cm 10 has a stable on the s3. But you are probably right. Don't change a winning team, I guess…
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i don't have an s3...i have an s3 4g....

Well it sounds like you're curious about cm. Why not give it a go?
I was the same, happy with my stock until I was slightly unhappy with it (about 6 months on....) then I started tweaking and now I'm on CM.

In my experience with my s3 which i've had just over a year and half, playing around with different roms . I prefer stock rom for its stability. CM or other modded custom roms may be faster, provide few extra features here and there, but there always seems to be tiny bugs here and there. Mostly problems with the camera. And for my own usage i think Stock Sammy rom is more than enough, and if you need extra features use xposed modules and most of the things you need will be there

Jerryxmas said:
In my experience with my s3 which i've had just over a year and half, playing around with different roms . I prefer stock rom for its stability. CM or other modded custom roms may be faster, provide few extra features here and there, but there always seems to be tiny bugs here and there. Mostly problems with the camera. And for my own usage i think Stock Sammy rom is more than enough, and if you need extra features use xposed modules and most of the things you need will be there
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Jerry, if that's the case, maybe look at stable or official releases...
They get updated possibly the same amount as stock roms if not more, and are stable.
That being said though, most people who don't stock want the latest version even if it's beta at times, which why some ROMs like CM have nightly, weekly, stable and official releases.
Hope that helps.

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stay on stock...on CM they fix one thing today buy break another....so until a fully working stable version is up - stock.
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I disagree whit you. I'm updating almost every day and cm works very well.
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[Q] Most stable and fast current ROM

Yes, I know that this subject has been beaten to death, but ONE more time:
Can anyone recommend a STABLE and FAST ROM for Galaxy Note?
I am totally disappointed with the JB stock ROMs in terms of speed. I've also been trying CM9 and CM10 at various stages, byt IMO CM is nowadays buggy as hell... gone are the good old days when Cyanogen was still in charge(?)
I tried PA some time ago, but it was a bit buggy too. I'm a bit curious about it however... maybe it's more stable now? I'd also prefer decent support for the stylus.
Alliance ROM maybe..but in terms of this questions!!people's mind are not identical . this is like asking which girl is the Best one for a permanent
girlfriend!!!be a man .go out there and explore the ROMs and from there u might be able to see for urself ^
HecaThePeca said:
Yes, I know that this subject has been beaten to death, but ONE more time:
Can anyone recommend a STABLE and FAST ROM for Galaxy Note?
I am totally disappointed with the JB stock ROMs in terms of speed. I've also been trying CM9 and CM10 at various stages, byt IMO CM is nowadays buggy as hell... gone are the good old days when Cyanogen was still in charge(?)
I tried PA some time ago, but it was a bit buggy too. I'm a bit curious about it however... maybe it's more stable now? I'd also prefer decent support for the stylus.
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Totally interested too!
I'm now on latest MIUI however my wife's Iphone 4S is still faster, smoother and stable...
And those who tell 'go and try' - i've already tried 4 custom roms and 3 custom kernels and i'm sick and tired of restoring data every time after those tries.
So if you can really suggest a good, fast and stable custom rom for daily use - please do.
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Totally interested too!
I'm now on latest MIUI however my wife's Iphone 4S is still faster, smoother and stable...
And those who tell 'go and try' - i've already tried 4 custom roms and 3 custom kernels and i'm sick and tired of restoring data every time after those tries.
So if you can really suggest a good, fast and stable custom rom for daily use - please do.
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Tried Alliance ROM?
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salilpune1 said:
Tried Alliance ROM?
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Thanks, downloading - will try tonight.
DreadNOTE said:
Thanks, downloading - will try tonight.
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Sure... hit thanks if helped
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salilpune1 said:
Sure... hit thanks if helped
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Sorry, dude, was even unable to install this ROM - tried twice but no luck.
Setup started normally 2 times and then quit suddenly - kicked out of CWM.
It's so weird that they have the only option of ROM install via ROM Customizer (no CWM zip support).
Ended up with clean install of the Ultimate JB v5.2 ROM - will try and see how it goes.
DreadNOTE said:
Sorry, dude, was even unable to install this ROM - tried twice but no luck.
Setup started normally 2 times and then quit suddenly - kicked out of CWM.
It's so weird that they have the only option of ROM install via ROM Customizer (no CWM zip support).
Ended up with clean install of the Ultimate JB v5.2 ROM - will try and see how it goes.
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am using ultimate, no complaints so far
HecaThePeca said:
Yes, I know that this subject has been beaten to death, but ONE more time:
Can anyone recommend a STABLE and FAST ROM for Galaxy Note?
I am totally disappointed with the JB stock ROMs in terms of speed. I've also been trying CM9 and CM10 at various stages, byt IMO CM is nowadays buggy as hell... gone are the good old days when Cyanogen was still in charge(?)
I tried PA some time ago, but it was a bit buggy too. I'm a bit curious about it however... maybe it's more stable now? I'd also prefer decent support for the stylus.
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have you tried here? - http://galaxynote.roms-db.com/
excellent selection of quality ROMs for you to try, depending on your preference / needs. there are no bad or "buggy" ROMs imho, it's just a matter of personal preference. CM10.1 with Dynamic screen mode, forced GPU and all animations switched off is perfect for me. But that's only my opinion

Need a trully stable rom. Any idea?

Hi. Im trying many roms on our n7000 but ewery time i find any bugs and FC. Thats why I wana ask u guys about trully stable rom. Now im using miui veganence. Before that i have dirty unicorns and carbon rom or sweet rom. Even cm 11. All of this is slow for me and have small free ram like 160 - 80 mb.
I hope u can help me try some faster roms. Maybe something older?
PS sorry for my eng
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You can try CM 10.1.3 or CM 9 if you want a Custom Rom.
For a Stock Rom I can suggest AryaROM v8 with some nice new Raw v1 Custom cernel from GeeckoDev
drogapozarowa said:
Hi. Im trying many roms on our n7000 but ewery time i find any bugs and FC. Thats why I wana ask u guys about trully stable rom. Now im using miui veganence. Before that i have dirty unicorns and carbon rom or sweet rom. Even cm 11. All of this is slow for me and have small free ram like 160 - 80 mb.
I hope u can help me try some faster roms. Maybe something older?
PS sorry for my eng
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what do you think about CarbonRom? i just flashed it but got some errors, but i want to figure it out cause i think this ROM is pretty light and smooth.. (from the review i read)
It's a hit and miss actually IMO. I found CarbonROM to be pretty stable for me. You just have to try i guess, because finding a "truly, perfectly stable" ROM is impossible. Every ROM has its ups and downs, so does with the bugs and stability. Choose which ROM suits you best, and try them for some time. If it crashes/you suddenly hate it etc. then find another ROM or maybe another version of the former ROM. Trust me, It's a bit of pain in the arse at first but it's worth it in the end.
ICS is old and it's not smooth like newer versions like jb and kitkat.
CM10.1 is smooth but drains battery fast.
CM11 is the best but it's buggy (fc, random reboots...etc)
so my advice is to stick to jb 4.1.2 (stock or custom) until we get a stable lollipop (hope this will happen soon)
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so my advice is to stick to jb 4.1.2 (stock or custom) until we get a stable lollipop (hope this will happen soon)
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What makes you believe there will ever be a stable lollipop for the Note?
So much time has passed since the release of KK and AFAIK there is still no stable KK ROM for this device.
drbobb said:
What makes you believe there will ever be a stable lollipop for the Note?
So much time has passed since the release of KK and AFAIK there is still no stable KK ROM for this device.
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because bauner's CM12 even it is still in alpha stage, there is no overheating, graphic glitch, force-close (well, there is few but due to some apps that didn't get updated to fully support android L) and random reboots, and because Lollipop is a "true" update from Google since 2011, so don't expect that Google was playing all these years and only changed the UI and added some fonts there is about 5000 change/update in the SDK so android lollipop for sure will support even low end phones with 512MB of ram and new apps will have a ton of features.
I know that the Exynos motherboard for the SII and N7000 is a real Crap from Samsung but at least those issues related to it, if not fixed they will at least be reduced like the overheat issue still persist but not as bad as in KK.
Or maybe it's Google+Samsung fault which made it impossible to have stable kk for our device
User_99 said:
You can try CM 10.1.3 or CM 9 if you want a Custom Rom.
For a Stock Rom I can suggest AryaROM v8 with some nice new Raw v1 Custom cernel from GeeckoDev
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Cool story bro.

About Lolipop ROMs...

Hello,
I´ve been thinking about that: Which one is better: Ressurection or NightOwn? And why?
I did a try and both seems like same! (same bugs, same layout - material design, etc...)
Maybe LL Roms could make custom roms a little bit hard to do core/visual changes, or it is just a my mistake?
You should try it first , then you can compare which is better ! Btw i prefer using nightowl for battery life [emoji106]
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mtmello said:
Hello,
I´ve been thinking about that: Which one is better: Ressurection or NightOwn? And why?
I did a try and both seems like same! (same bugs, same layout - material design, etc...)
Maybe LL Roms could make custom roms a little bit hard to do core/visual changes, or it is just a my mistake?
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I have the same confusion! What bugs did you face?
They have similar issues. In latest versions there are proximity sensor issues during call, also users complain about 1080p recording not working, overheating, battery drain, etc. All bugs and solutions are in the original threads. You guys should try both of them and compare. It all depends of what you expect. Both are beta versions so bugs are expected. I have used both and I like Bauner's version a bit more, for no specific reason. I had to return to more stable rom, because I'm currently using N7000 as main phone and I need it to be stable as much is possible.
i tried both and smilar. but nightowl better battery life and smoothness. but you must try and see which one.
super_operater said:
I had to return to more stable rom, because I'm currently using N7000 as main phone and I need it to be stable as much is possible.
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/OT What rom did you return to? Tx
backstreetboy said:
/OT What rom did you return to? Tx
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Currently I'm on SlimKat (4.4.4), after using NightOwl beta 9.0.1. Still facing some bugs on Lollipop roms and I find this one quite stable for now.
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I sugest you go and get lanchon's kernel with the trimfix and the FP bug fix, it's the only truly stable kernel avaliable for the n7000.
Aldo, it supots trim, that helps a lot with the phone's responsiveness
blackomegatm said:
I sugest you go and get lanchon's kernel with the trimfix and the FP bug fix, it's the only truly stable kernel avaliable for the n7000.
Aldo, it supots trim, that helps a lot with the phone's responsiveness
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I used B9.0.1 from the beginning no one reboot yet.. very stable, good battery drain.
I was try NightOwl 12.1 beta2, a little lag, now i flash Ressurection with Nightowl 12.1 kernel and gapps in nightowl 12.1 now my note running smooth, i will test battery life!
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Stable Kitkat rom

Please port a kitkat rom for our device.. or pls make a stable with stable kernel.. pls i rqst devs :crying:
sidhg said:
Please port a kitkat rom for our device.. or pls make a stable with stable kernel.. pls i rqst devs :crying:
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there isnt Ivan aosp?
yes there is one... But it doesn't have any customisatons option.. And my mobile gets easily even in moderate use..
How about Miui V7. Did you try?
I want stock like nexus.. miui lags
There were a lot of stable cm and aosp+ builds of KitKat. Download 1 of them and flash a modern kernel for lp or one of them that has KitKat support and it should work just fine. I flashed carbon rom then flashed xcelerate build 65 kernel without any issues booting or functioning. I never used it long enough to confirm random reboot was gone but as that was related to kernel issue the odds are it wasn't going to ever happen
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sidhg said:
I want stock like nexus.. miui lags
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Me too. I don't really like MIUI. Why don't you try Lollipop ROM like Blisspop. It's quite stable, no bugs, no SOD, customizable, you can use as daily ROM. I used Extended Partition, TWRP and TK Gapps.
It is better than MIUI, I think.
lollipop don't have good battery backup
this is not entirely true ... the difference is about 10 or up to 20% in favor of miui (stable) ... the latest china developer MIUI rom also suffers from poor battery life... sacrifice 1h (sot) use of the phone is quite profitable ... in my eyes.
Sot may not see a huge difference but with standby time KitKat blew lp out of the water unless you didn't flash gapps in lp. That's my opinion and experience anyway. Gapps in lollipop is always a huge battery drain I've never been able to fully control even by turning everything off in app ops and etc.
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u can use xposed(gravity box) in Ivan's aosp for customizations
i snort flour said:
There were a lot of stable cm and aosp+ builds of KitKat. Download 1 of them and flash a modern kernel for lp or one of them that has KitKat support and it should work just fine. I flashed carbon rom then flashed xcelerate build 65 kernel without any issues booting or functioning. I never used it long enough to confirm random reboot was gone but as that was related to kernel issue the odds are it wasn't going to ever happen
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There are any issues with your configuration ?
Only real problem I seen was a slower charge and the back camera didn't work and the front camera quality was crap. If it had a working camera I would honestly still be using carbon KitKat or even pa aosp+ KitKat which didn't have the slow charging issue but didn't look as nice though either.
Sorry my quotes no longer work Tapatalk has to keep screwing up a good thing and turning it into crap
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out of all the custom roms i tried, Ivan's aosp kitkat was the most stable and I had no problems with it except the capacitive button light issue which wasn't a major concern for me, for customizations xposed was my way to go. I highly recommend you to try it if stability is your concern ✌
hope this helped you
i snort flour said:
There were a lot of stable cm and aosp+ builds of KitKat. Download 1 of them and flash a modern kernel for lp or one of them that has KitKat support and it should work just fine. I flashed carbon rom then flashed xcelerate build 65 kernel without any issues booting or functioning. I never used it long enough to confirm random reboot was gone but as that was related to kernel issue the odds are it wasn't going to ever happen
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Wi-Fi worked with Xcelerate kernel on KitKat?
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Wi-Fi worked with Xcelerate kernel on KitKat?
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I wouldn't recommend it because the only good KitKat rom for this phone was Ivan's. Pa wasn't bad but you won't have a camera anymore. I never tested it on Ivan's but I did test it on carbon and WiFi worked fine on it if I remember correctly. The slow charging (which is fixable flashing a boot.img from a rom with faster charging) and not having a working camera kept me from keeping it. I still wouldn't recommending going to KitKat unless you can persuade a Dev to make a fully functional KitKat rom. I seen a couple devs say they would but never followed through and with all the real devs working on marshmallow your not going to see any help there.
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i snort flour said:
I wouldn't recommend it because the only good KitKat rom for this phone was Ivan's. Pa wasn't bad but you won't have a camera anymore. I never tested it on Ivan's but I did test it on carbon and WiFi worked fine on it if I remember correctly. The slow charging (which is fixable flashing a boot.img from a rom with faster charging) and not having a working camera kept me from keeping it. I still wouldn't recommending going to KitKat unless you can persuade a Dev to make a fully functional KitKat rom. I seen a couple devs say they would but never followed through and with all the real devs working on marshmallow your not going to see any help there.
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On PA with Xcelerate, Wi-Fi didn't work and also there was frequent android.media force closes. Not with other kernels though. Camera of course doesn't work.
I didn't stayed long on the ROM. But I did got a random reboot type once (in PA the phone simply dies and u have to hard reboot). Camera doesn't work of course.
Ivan's ROM is laggy af. The scrolling is laggy everywhere and etc. I don't like the custom kernels as the phone heats (little bit less with Xcelerate). And not quite sure whether the upcoming Xcelerate build will be compatible with MIUI.
Only MIUI is the usable Kitsap ROM quite actually. Would have been cool if Xiaomi upgraded the Android version, which is not gonna happen at all IMO

Keeping up with Android

I guess this is the right place to post this question as the other one would be more focused on the development side.
What is in our opinion and experience the best rom / mod running on N7000?
I'm stuck with the stock updated only to KitKat and missing on security updates, but I'm also concerned that if I run any rom for later Android version my Note would get extremely slow.
Gezedka said:
I guess this is the right place to post this question as the other one would be more focused on the development side.
What is in our opinion and experience the best rom / mod running on N7000?
I'm stuck with the stock updated only to KitKat and missing on security updates, but I'm also concerned that if I run any rom for later Android version my Note would get extremely slow.
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For security, go with CM12.1 at the absolute maximum. CM13 (and potentially CM14) feels like it's gonna kill the Note.
AutumQueen92 said:
For security, go with CM12.1 at the absolute maximum. CM13 (and potentially CM14) feels like it's gonna kill the Note.
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Thanks, AutummQueen. You seem to be have been using CM13 Nightowl though. Is it making it slow or is it crashing?
Gezedka said:
Thanks, AutummQueen. You seem to be have been using CM13 Nightowl though. Is it making it slow or is it crashing?
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It was slow for me, but I haven't been using the recent builds. My phone is on loan to someone right now so I haven't updated.
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It's true what @AutumQueen92 says but if you are coming from a completely stock phone with KK it's almost certainly slow and laggy by now so you should see a big improvement than your current speed provided you also flash a kernel that has emmc trim support and also a bigger partition too, even though CM12 may be marginally slower than stock in original mint condition!
I flashed NightOwl 12.1 which includes a kernal with trim support as per Savin Vasudevan instructions to increases partition size for apps and the phone feels much faster. The main reason is the memory is trimmed or can be trimmed with fstrim app manually. See the "How to Repartition your device and install this Rom:" link on the NightOwl CM12.1.1 thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note/development/rom-t2938649 , best of all this ROM gets the monthly security updates you are after!
(Also very stable, mines never had an FC, though I do have an issue recently with the videocam freezing but that is my phone I think not the ROM)
Many thanks, guys! Very useful input form you! I'll start with CM12 as soon as I get the new battery from Amazon. Looking forward to see Note 1 in its (near) old glory and with security updates.
Im not even testing NightOwl cm 13. Right now Im on NightOwl cm 12.1 and I must say rom is little laggy from time to time. But without frezzes or force closes. Only issue with camera in whatsapp randomly.
I will try again NightOwl cm 11 cause I use them some time ago and I think that kitkat version was running little faster. Even if I loved Lollipop looks, recent apps and night option I will test again kitkat from Bauners hands.
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For me the more stable and fast room is stock , i ever try random room but i get back
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