Friday, December 11, 2015
android lollipop based resurrection remix custom rom on samsung galaxy note 2 N7100
Its hard to say if samsung has to release lollipop update for samsung galaxy note 2 but there is always a way through custom roms.You can have latest version of android lollipop on your galaxy note 2 with the help of resurrection remix custom rom.
After cyanogenmod 12. custom rom for note 2 N7100 its time to try a new lollipop based custom rom on your device.This is fast,stable,smooth and you can use it as a daily driver for sure.
Check your device model number before going further as this rom is purely meant for Gt-N7100 you are not supposed to flash it on other variants of note 2.
Features of this rom:
This is a simple tutorial guiding you to install Resurrection remix rom on samung Galaxy note2 GT-N7100..As this ROM is meant only for this variant of don't try to flash it on other variants like on carrier variants as it might cause lot of errors or even brick it.
After cyanogenmod 12. custom rom for note 2 N7100 its time to try a new lollipop based custom rom on your device.This is fast,stable,smooth and you can use it as a daily driver for sure.
Check your device model number before going further as this rom is purely meant for Gt-N7100 you are not supposed to flash it on other variants of note 2.
prerequisites:
- Backup:Backup all your data which includes apps,contacts,photos videos etc everything to computer or any cloud storage as flashing this Resurrection remix rom on samsung galaxy Note 2 Gt-N7100 will erase all your data.
- Battery: Charge your galaxy Note 2 GT-N7100 to at least 90% so that you wont encounter any battery related issues while flashing this.
- Backup Efs partitions: Backup all your efs partition of your samsung galaxy note 2 on current ROM.If you loose signal you can just restore it back.
- Lock Gps:Lock your gps position on your current rom.If you use this a lot then you have to lock it so that it could work even after flashing other roms.Its easy to lock gps .Turn on gps in settings and find your current location in google maps and now now have locked on to gps.
- Custom recovery: You need a custom recovery installed on your galaxy note 2 .Without it you can not flash roms at all.
- Downloads: Resurrection remix rom (android file host mirror) rom and google apps if needed.Transfer them to internal storage.
Resurrection remix custom rom samsung galaxy note 2 N7100:
About resurrection rom:
This Resurrection remix rom which your are about to flash on your note 2 is based on android 5.1.1 lollipop and is based on cyanogenmod,slim,omni and original remix roms.So you can all the best features of other roms are included in this rom along with performance and a decent battery life.This is highly optimised version of original resurrection rom and is compiled by a develop varund7726 on Xda. We sincerely thank him for optimizing this rom for our note 2.Features of this rom:
- Navigation bar tweaks: You can enable disable or navigation bar and also you can adjust the size of navigation bar.Navigation ring included toggles to in case of quick access just swipe from bottom of screen and you can access apps which you have set.
- Status bar tweaks: Status bar has lot of tweaks which include a brightness slider.Slide in status bar to adjust brightness of the screen.Various tweaks are available to carrier label too like color and switch.Quick and smart pull down are also present.Battery icon too has tweaks.
- Gesture anywhere: This basically lets to open any app at any time(while using other apps) with just a gesture.You have to set the gestures and use them.Though you get any floating type apps so that they can be used over other apps as multitasking its still a nice feature to have.
- Recent panel mods: Stock recent panel do not have an option to clear all the apps at once.In this rom you a button to clear apps and can even set the position of the button.
- App circle Bar:Swiping from the left or right edges of the screen an app bar pops up and you can choose what app you want to launch.This is great way of multitasking.
- Lock screen mods: This includes placing of 5 shortcuts on lock screen and also set targets for the slider.
- Theme enigne: Theme engine is from the cyanogenmod custom rom which basically changes the look user interface from lock screen to ring tones all the way up to boot animations.The speciality of the theme engine is the ability to choose individual elements of every theme you have installed.So you like the ring tones and wallpapers of one theme and icons of other theme then you can have them at a time.Just open the theme chooser and you will understand how to do it.
Flash Resurrection remix rom using Twrp recovery:
- Download Resurrection remix rom (Resurrection-Remix-LP-v5.4.7_optimized-20150619-n7100.zip) and Gapps transfer it to sdcard or internal storage of device.
- Power of the device completely.
- Press volume up,power button and home key simultaneously and once you see boot loader screen release buttons.
- Using volume down as a navigation button move to recovery and click on power button to confirm action.
- Your note 2 now boots into twrp recovery.
- Once you are in twrp click on backup and select all partitions which you want to backup. It might take about 5 minutes for backup to complete. Don't interrupt backup process.
- Once backup of your existing rom is completed click on back button.Wipe data,cache and dalvik cache and wipe system partition too.
- Now select Install and navigate to location where you have placed your note 2 Rom and gapps zip files.
- Flashing rom might take about 5 minutes or so.Once flashing is complete do a factory reset again.
- Now reboot to system.Wait at least 15 minutes for initial boot to complete and once done you can explore ROM features.
