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Originally Posted by arvind71181 I am assuming we would need to root the phone before installing this. Any pointers on how to do that? Mine is running on Android Kit Kat 4.4.2 |
Nah, manually rooting separately isn't required for flashing a recovery via Odin. Root access would be required if you were to flash the recovery from the phone itself. And flashing a recovery via Odin is as easy as peanuts. Just make sure you have Kies (NOT Kies 3) installed on your PC (for the phone's USB drivers), and download Odin v3 from
here, and the Philz touch recovery in .tar format from
here.
After opening Odin, click on AP (PDA in older versions) and select the .tar md5 recovery file.
Reboot the phone into download mode with USB debugging enabled (power off, and long press vol-,power,home together), and connect it to the PC in download mode itself, and it should detect the device.
If it does not, try a separate USB cable. For me, the stock Samsung cable never worked. I used my Sony Xperia USB cable for this. Or maybe try rebooting the PC or with another machine.
Once it detects the device, UNCHECK the option "Auto Reboot" in Odin (IMPORTANT!). This is because if we select auto-reboot; after flashing the recovery it will auto-reboot into the stock firmware, and reflash the stock recovery while at that. And it would seem as if the flashing process didn't work at all. (I learnt it the hard way

) If you don't select auto-reboot, the device will stay powered off, and you must then boot straight into recovery (press and hold vol+, home, power together). It will then boot into Philz Touch, through which you can install the ROM and Gapps zip files in a couple of minutes' time.
Preferably, keep the files in the SD card and not internal storage, although internal stoage also is okay. Also, Philz has a one-click wipe in the option "Clean to install new ROM" so that you won't need to wipe the system, cache and Dalvik separately.
Hope it helps.
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I look up on the net and am confused with so many options available on the net. Any help please? Thanks
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As for the options, it is only a good thing. The Note 2 is an extremely popular device with custom modders. There are basically two types of ROM's available: The modded stock firmwares (Touchwiz based, have the S-pen features intact, and run on the same Android versions as the stock firmwares do), and the actual custom ROM's (Latest *stock* Android, S-pen features won't work, usually use CyanogenMod source). The modded stock firmwares are usually debloated, deodexed and customised versions of the stock firmwares with probably new utility apps, such as dialer, calendar, gallery, etc from newer Galaxy phones. But ultimately, their base is the same old stock firmware, and hence they don't behave much differently from what the stock firmware does with time and heavy usage.
The AOSP based ROM's on the other hand are fully diferent ROM's with a separate source code and all, and hence are lighter and much snappier. They are also naturally a lot more popular, and get updated far more often.
And actually, among everything else out there, Resurrection Remix is by far the best there is. They come with an insane list of features, are well designed, quite stable, and don't advertise the maker everywhere, unlike in Bliss ROM's or AICP, for example. You ask for anything a stock Android device ever had, you have it. Active Display, Button mods, on-screen buttons, heads up customisations, all CyanogenMod and Paranoid Android features, and what not. Also, their kernels are very good. No heating and charging problems usually.
here is the official XDA thread, just in case.
PS: Quick tip- Use Google Now launcher instead of the stock Trebuchet in these ROM's, for the complete authentic Nexus experience.