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ICS leaks are now out for the Note! [UPDATE: Now with video]

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NZtechfreak

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First one is for the GT9220 (Chinese version), but Chainfire has re-packed it for our Notes. Bit of a hassle since Chinese bloatware + no Gapps standard (both fixable, obviously). Samfirmware say an N7000 ICS build will be out tomorrow, might be better for most to wait until then.

Naturally I will not be able to wait that long, so will update with my own experiences this evening once I'm done flashing it after work today!

Samsung Galaxy Note: Ice Cream Sandwich walkthrough - YouTube
 
dilipc said:
Thanks NZtech! Also, I'm new to Android, would be great if you could point to how to flash the phone.
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You'll need to be Rooted, there are guides here and at my blog/YouTube channel for that.

Once Rooted you need to make a Nandroid backup of your phone, backup the EFS folder, and also make Titanium Backups for any apps you want to save the data for/restore easily post-flash. Guides for all of that at my blog also.

Once Rooted and performed those tasks you need to download the CF repack ROM from here:[leak] [rom] ics 4.0 i9220zcpl1 - Page 40 - xda-developers then perform a Factory Reset in recovery, and then flash it in Mobile Odin or Desktop Odin after . Then in recovery you need to flash the gapps 7.1 zip (available in the same thread as the CF Repack). Reboot the phone twice afterwards. Once up n running again reinstall Titanium Backup, restore your apps, uninstall and/or freeze the chinese bloatware apps, be happy!

There is actually quite a lot to this if you're new to Android, so please do lots of reading around this stuff here, at my blog, and at XDA-developers and be sure you understand what you're doing - I'm not responsible for people bricking their phones because they tried swimming in deep waters too soon!
 
Sure, thanks NZtech, I'll catch up on the reading before I do any such thing. I'm an old Blackberry and iPhone hack, so not a noob, but what you said above about rooting had my head spinning a tad! Thanks for your time and attention, mate.
 
Actually, since I'm still up here are some early findings (and up to the minute stuff is always in my Twitter feed):

- In terms of looks the ROM is a bit frankenstein at the moment with a mixture of TW/GB/ICS elements throughout the UI
- Performance in general UI navigation is a big step up from GB ROMs, even custom ROMS, and that is despite this one limiting the CPU clock speed to 1.2Ghz/core (because the i9220 version runs at that)
- Graphics performance upped a lot - 44fps in Nenamark 2 which is basically the same as the Transformer Prime on ICS (in other words, wow)
- Realised how much I missed some aspects of ICS since I went back to the Note on GB as my daily driver a while back, the task switcher is brilliant, as is dismissing individual notifications, the browser is just superb (and the Chrome for Android beta is also incredible, although lacking some nice features of the ICS default browser at the moment like saving web pages for offline reading and inverted rendering in the browser)
- Everything working fine, I had a couple of FC's when accessing 'activities' in ADW Launcher but I think that's because the Settings structure is changed in ICS and so the GB shortcuts point to the wrong place (ie not a stability problem on the ROMs end). I will say it again: this is already easily good enough to be your daily driver
- Inbuilt Google Apps are of course lovely in their ICS incarnations
- Face Unlock present and working in all it's novelty-not-security glory
- Voodoo Louder doesn't work on this since the phone identifies itself to the app as an i9220 rather than N7000 (apparently an N7000 native ICS ROM is leaking tomorrow)
- Too early to be definite but wakelock delay seems drastically reduced, now just fine
- Apps with stuff specifically for ICS work with this build, for example notification player controls for PowerAMP are present (YES!)
 
Good to hear, you just gave me a reason to finally root. When I had my Nexus S I was flashing nightlies, or different roms nearly every single day. When I picked up my Note, I really didn't feel the need to root and flash just yet, since the roms available didn't seem to add all that many features, hacks, and mods.

It'll be nice going back to ICS, it made my Nexus S ten times faster. So I can only dream about how awesome it will be on the Note.

Thanks for the feedback on the ICS rom.
 
Bodestone said:
You do know that ICS is due out officially within a month or so I take it?
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Why wait? This one is stable and much better than any GB ROM available, including the custom ones. By the time you get official ICS I'll already been on a mature custom ROM with much better features. Bottom line: if you don't have ICS now then my Note is better than yours, if you wait for the official release my Note will still be better than yours. Why wait for a better phone???
 
Honestly, don't force self opinions on others. This is the first phone I honestly don't need to root and slap a custom rom or a chinese one.

And I am going to wait and see what the official one is and if not liking guess what? I can switch.

So bottom line, do what you want.
 
nztechfree I am in total agreement with you, having run ics roms on my old htc hd2. custom roms are fun for those who like to be up to the minute and like experimenting. If you update to the N7000 version can you let me know how you get on with it.
 
Haven't flashed the N7000 version and won't until another comes out - bad feedback (seems it's build date is a couple of weeks older than the Chinese leak). At the moment the Chinese one is the best, no doubt we'll get a newer N7000 one very soon though.
 
NZtechfreak said:
Actually, since I'm still up here are some early findings (and up to the minute stuff is always in my Twitter feed):

- In terms of looks the ROM is a bit frankenstein at the moment with a mixture of TW/GB/ICS elements throughout the UI
- Performance in general UI navigation is a big step up from GB ROMs, even custom ROMS, and that is despite this one limiting the CPU clock speed to 1.2Ghz/core (because the i9220 version runs at that)
- Graphics performance upped a lot - 44fps in Nenamark 2 which is basically the same as the Transformer Prime on ICS (in other words, wow)
- Realised how much I missed some aspects of ICS since I went back to the Note on GB as my daily driver a while back, the task switcher is brilliant, as is dismissing individual notifications, the browser is just superb (and the Chrome for Android beta is also incredible, although lacking some nice features of the ICS default browser at the moment like saving web pages for offline reading and inverted rendering in the browser)
- Everything working fine, I had a couple of FC's when accessing 'activities' in ADW Launcher but I think that's because the Settings structure is changed in ICS and so the GB shortcuts point to the wrong place (ie not a stability problem on the ROMs end). I will say it again: this is already easily good enough to be your daily driver
- Inbuilt Google Apps are of course lovely in their ICS incarnations
- Face Unlock present and working in all it's novelty-not-security glory
- Voodoo Louder doesn't work on this since the phone identifies itself to the app as an i9220 rather than N7000 (apparently an N7000 native ICS ROM is leaking tomorrow)
- Too early to be definite but wakelock delay seems drastically reduced, now just fine
- Apps with stuff specifically for ICS work with this build, for example notification player controls for PowerAMP are present (YES!)
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Glad to see they kept some of the neat stuff from ICS such as face unlock etc. I'm always afraid that a skinned version isn't going to have the cool stuff that makes it what it is.

I'm hoping the AT&T version will have Android Beam, which I'm really looking forward to using.
 
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