Lineage OS - Not good on a Samsung Galaxy Note 2

[Java Jive]

FYI, installed Lineage OS on my old Samsung Galaxy Note 2 GT-N7100 ...
http://tilak.sergix44.ovh/n7100/
lineage-14.1-20171019-tilak-n7100.zip
... and it's a disaster. Despite apparently having far less running in
the background, the ageing battery now runs down much, much faster than
the original OS - I'm lucky if the phone lasts half a day now - and
every time I try to unlock it, it reboots!

[Theo]

My experience on an N7105 is not quite that bad, but it's not great though I
haven't done any tweaking. OTOH I ran CyanogenMod Lollipop as a daily
driver for a long time and it was pretty flawless.

It seems LineageOS doesn't officially support the N7100, only the N7105, and
so your build above is a third party port. Quality of those can vary - a
lot. There's a good reason they're fairly conservative about blessing
'official' ports.

Theo

[Andy Burns]

Java Jive wrote:

> installed Lineage OS on my old Samsung Galaxy Note 2 GT-N7100 ...

As Theo says, that's not an official LineageOS device

> ... and it's a disaster.

and that's presumably why ...

[Java Jive]

Thanks to Andy and Theo for their replies.

I've tried again - I reflashed a Samsung build, but that too gave
problems, so I reflashed LineageOS - and this time things are working
rather better. Battery life is back to normal, and the GUI seems to be
working.

I don't think much of the cLock app, it takes up too much screen real
estate which it doesn't completely fill, which is a waste of a precious
resource. Also the cLock Timer doesn't accept the 'Default' ringtone -
if I leave it on that I get the cockerel.

Also, any app that needs GPS waits for ever. I've checked that they all
have access to GPS, but nevertheless it seems they're just not getting
any data from it. So that means ...
GPS Coordinates app;
cLock weather updates for my location;
Met Office weather updates for my location;
... are all non-functioning.

[Theo]

In comp.mobile.android Java Jive <ja...@evij.com.invalid> wrote:
> Also, any app that needs GPS waits for ever. I've checked that they all
> have access to GPS, but nevertheless it seems they're just not getting
> any data from it. So that means ...
> GPS Coordinates app;
> cLock weather updates for my location;
> Met Office weather updates for my location;
> ... are all non-functioning.

You may wish to wade through the support thread from the chap who made this
ROM and see if others have the same problem:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-2/orig-development/rom-cyanogenmod-14-0-n7100-t3487568
He claims GPS works, but I'm not sure if he has updated the first post since
2016.

You can get random problems if you didn't do a full device wipe during
installation. Though in general, getting an OS running isn't that hard, but
then GPS is the sort of thing that's trickier for devs to get working.

Theo

[Java Jive]

On 09/04/2018 17:34, Theo wrote:
> In comp.mobile.android Java Jive <ja...@evij.com.invalid> wrote:
>> Also, any app that needs GPS waits for ever. I've checked that they all
>> have access to GPS, but nevertheless it seems they're just not getting
>> any data from it. So that means ...
>> GPS Coordinates app;
>> cLock weather updates for my location;
>> Met Office weather updates for my location;
>> ... are all non-functioning.
>
> You may wish to wade through the support thread from the chap who made this
> ROM and see if others have the same problem:
> https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-2/orig-development/rom-cyanogenmod-14-0-n7100-t3487568
> He claims GPS works, but I'm not sure if he has updated the first post since
> 2016.

I've posted to that thread, but since doing that, GPS has started
working. I'd tried several things, which I believed had failed, but
when I examined the phone this morning, I found all the GPS-dependent
apps working. I'm not any the wiser why, but I'm not complaining.

Now that GPS is up and running, the last thing is to get Navigation
working. For some reason or other, this didn't copy over from my
tablet, so I installed it via Play Store, but it's different. Instead
of going straight into the Google Maps-based system that I've always
used before, I get two lists of possible apps to use, on & off line ...

Offline:
Aponia
BeOnRoad
CoPilot GPS
Here
MapFactor
MAPS.ME
Navmi GS
Route 66
Scout
Sygic
Tom-tom
(tried but uninstalled, 'cos it demanded access to the phone)

Online:
7 Ways Navigator
Easy GPS Navigation
Google Maps
Google Street View
GPS Driving Routes
GPS Navigation
Maps and navigation
OSM And Maps
Scout
Waze
Wisepilot
Yandex.Navigation

I tried choosing the Google Maps app, and initially it worked, but after
I'd exited it, I couldn't get back into it again. I just got a message
saying that the app had stopped.

Does anybody have an either an on or offline recommendation, preferably
the latter, for a free nav app that only requires access to the phone's
location, and nothing else? One feature I particularly like about the
Navigation/Google Maps app and would very much like to retain is the
spoken directions which give a spoken alert when approaching the need to
make a turn. I find this invaluable.

[Frank Slootweg]

Java Jive <ja...@evij.com.invalid> wrote:
[...]

OsmAnd[+] is offline and online.

> Scout
> Waze
> Wisepilot
> Yandex.Navigation
[...]

> Does anybody have an either an on or offline recommendation, preferably
> the latter, for a free nav app that only requires access to the phone's
> location, and nothing else? One feature I particularly like about the
> Navigation/Google Maps app and would very much like to retain is the
> spoken directions which give a spoken alert when approaching the need to
> make a turn. I find this invaluable.

Not free, but cheap and free to try: OsmAnd+.

As mentioned above, OsmAnd+ is offline or online. I use it only offline.

Not free either and not really cheap, but free to try: Sygic.

I use Sygic as my backup when I'm in the middle of nowhere (Australian
outback, etc.) and OsmAnd+ (OpenStreetMaps maps) happens not to have a
certain road. I bought Sygic 'Premium + Traffic World' for 35 Euro,
quite cheap considering what a standalone GPS costs.

If it must be free:

- BeOnRoad
- Navmii/Navfree
- HERE [WeGo - City Navigation]

[Java Jive]

Apologies for not replying sooner - I'm a bit busy at the moment, and
I'm not actually likely to travel outside my known journeys in the near
future. Nevertheless, I'd like to be ready for when I do.

Frank, amongst these recommendations, do you happen to know which of
them will warn you by speech in advance of an upcoming turn, the way
Google Maps does?

Thanks and regards.

[Frank Slootweg]

No worries.

> Frank, amongst these recommendations, do you happen to know which of
> them will warn you by speech in advance of an upcoming turn, the way
> Google Maps does?

OsmAnd+, Sygic, BeOnRoad and Navmii/Navfree do. I'm quite sure that
HERE [WeGo - City Navigation] does as well - otherwise I would never
have tried it - but to be absolutely sure, check the Play Store page for
this app.

[Java Jive]

Thanks again, Frank, noted for future reference.