Monday 16 December 2013

Improved KitKat Experience on Galaxy Note 2 N7105 (Android 4.4.2)


Hello world readers. Today I gladly present to you the new way to experience Android on your smart phone. If you are lucky as me owning a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 International N7105 LTE built, then you are in for a big surprise. As a daily reader on the XDA forums I came across a lovely post explaining how to get the new KitKat version on your phone.

I'm glad to present Probam KK (Android 4.4.2). The best custom rom that has a awesome graphics and sound engine. I have experienced this rom on my phone for the past 2 days and really I can't complain. The user interface is so smooth, so clear, and the icons is perfect view for you to appreciate. Looking at what this rom has to offer for you lets see into closer detail about the changelog that was made not so long ago.



"What the features included?

ProBAM Features:

2 second to up ! and 1 second to restart or shutdown ! it is ProBam

The ProBAM KitKat update from Google contains a lot of other minor changes, apart from the huge jump in camera performance.

Below is a quick list of all the changes that Google has included in Android 4.4.x KitKat features for all the devices -:
There are a lot of small bug-fixes and minor UI tweaks that should please Nexus users.
The Camera app has sped up considerably post the update.
There are some bug-fixes related to ART as well. This allows Whatsapp to work with the ART runtime.
The default email client not syncing with an exchange server bug has also been fixed.
Immersive mode breaking while adjusting the volume level bug has been fixed.
The new ‘Photos’ app is now the default Gallery app.
There is a slight improvement in benchmark performance .
The navigation bar is now transparent on the lock screen.
The Settings icon in Quick tiles has also been changed.

CyanogenMod 11 The highest degree of stability and performance , battery life
Virtual surround sound
Privacy Guard more informations
Change Device colors Like Dynamic , Standard , Cinama like Sammy rom
Vibration Customization
S Pen detecte/Pointer/Gesture
S-PEN Notfications
S-PEN QuickBar app
LED Colors , you can change led color while charging for example
LED Fading/Blinking
LED Disable
Hardware keys remapping
Lockscreen ring and notification shortcuts
Power widget
USB Mass Storage
Clock settings
Quiet Hours
Power Sounds
Profiles

Changelogs 13 DEC

Merge tag 'android-4.4.2_r1' into HEAD
Kernel: CM Stock
Quote:
Framework: allow disabling non intrusive incall ui
Framework: Fit HALO in CyanogenMod custom battery implementation
Framework: HALO
PS1: Initial port
Fix conficts with notification LED
Fix derp
Major derp
HALO Mods
Rebase
Fix blackist
PS2: Fix build
PS3: Fix bubble sometimes doesn't respond on new notification
PS4: Align halo icon
Settings: Builtin Xposed Framework
Settings: Per App Settings (Change DPI Setting)
InCall: Add a non-intrusive dialog for incoming calls
Dialer: Add a non-intrusive dialoger for incoming calls
Telephony: allow disabling non intrusive incall ui
Update PA Gapps:
Chrome Browser (replaces AOSP Browser)
 Cloud Print
 Gmail
 Google+
Google Calendar (replaces AOSP Calendar)
Google Drive
Google Earth
Google Keep
Google Keyboard (replaces AOSP Keyboard)
Google Play Books
Google Play Games
Google Play Newsstand
Google Play Music
Google Play Movies
Google Play services
Google Text-to-Speech
Google Search
Google Wallet
Hangouts (replaces AOSP SMS App)
Maps
Quickoffice
Sound Search for Google Play
Street View on Google Maps
TalkBack
YouTube
Custom Hardware Button Mapping Support
Note2 Fix Sensors
Camera Improvements
Support More APN values
Fix Blobs - xLarge Commit
New Blobs from S4 Google Edition by our team member jumoog
Improve Sensors
OMNI: Center frequency for Bass Boost
OMNI: Stereo widening
Update ProBAM New Updater/Stats"

If you like to read more about probam please visit the XDA link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2560275

Amazingly everything works except for one thing. I experience a bug in the rotation of activities, that it did not rotate at all. Though I thought to myself what could be the problem causing this. Then it hit me, it could highly be a kernel issue. So as I know from a previous stock rom I had installed, I was introduced to DevilsV2 Kernel. It made sense to me to try this out to fix the bug. On the XDA page of the kernel it stated it is for both stock and ASOP roms running Android 4.1.2 and higher. So I gave it a shot flash the kernel via recovery and poof it worked like magic hehehe.

If you like to experience this rom and see for yourself, I've posted here what you should do...

Get the rom frimware here  --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2560275
Get the kernel here ---> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239453

*Note that tolte stands for the international N7105 LTE model.

Put the rom and the kernel onto your SD card.
Make sure you have a custom recovery (follow XDA posts explaining how to do this)
Reboot into custom recovery
Make sure you made a full wipe (data+cache, delvic cache, format system)
located the zip file of the rom on your SC card and flash it.
located the zip file of the kernell on your SD card and flash it.
Reboot system to boot to Probam.

And there you have it Android 4.4.2 for your Samsung Galaxy Note 2 N7105 LTE.
Other models are supported just go read up on the forums about it.

*Note I'm not responsible if you did not follow the steps that the developers tell you to do with the roms and kernels. It is your own responsibility if you want to have these things.

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