Battery life on a heavy day's usage was pretty impressive, and navigating between apps and screens was suitably nippy. Other than this hiccup, it's a very speedy, minimalist ROM with a lot going for it. Once I removed the card, the ROM ran smoothly - but obviously that's a pretty big shortcoming. I found that after formatting the card, the phone would crash if I tried to copy anything back onto it. Unfortunately, it had a real issue with my 64GB microSD card, which became corrupted shortly after using it. The HyperNote ROM weighs in at a svelte 243MB, or around a quarter of the weight of its bloated rival. That's not bad by smart phone standards, but a little low when compared to what my Note 2 usually delivers with heavier use.Īfter the heavyweight CrashROM, here's a featherweight. The flipside of this coin is that all of the functionality you expect from the Note 2 - S Pen detection, multiple windows open and so on - are all present and accounted for: you just get a bit extra.īattery life was a little underwhelming, unfortunately, down to less than 60 per cent in under 12 hours. Your feelings towards this ROM will depend on how much you like the Samsung original OS - tipping the scales at nearly 1GB, there's an argument to say it feels more bloated. If you want even more options, it also has a whole bunch of extras including some Sony Xperia bits and pieces, programs that will let you download YouTube videos and other stuff. Some of them you could download from Google Play yourself, others are niceties that come from rooting.īy default it includes call recording, the Sony Bravia Engine, Flash Player Support, VPN and loads of other things. The future's bright for the modding scene though, what with 5,000,000 units shipped to date, and we'll hopefully see the more established Android ROMs (Cyanogenmod and MIUI spring to mind) getting Galaxy Note 2 flavours in due course.įor now though, here's five I've been playing with on my Note 2, with a rundown of what they do and how they perform.ĬrashROM takes the approach that Samsung did a pretty good job with the stock ROM in the Note 2, but you should be able to add more features to it. This isn't entirely surprising, given its only been out for two months. Stable custom ROMs are a little thin on the ground for the Galaxy Note 2 at the moment. At the very least, a custom ROM will allow you a faster and more slimline OS, but they can offer much more than that too. Samsung's TouchWiz interface divides critics, with some liking its similarity to iOS, while others lament the sheer amount of Samsung-branded junk that clutters up the phone. Android is extraordinarily customisable - that's why comparing an HTC device to a Sony one is like looking at two different species. But we were just warming up for where the real fun begins, and that's with custom ROMs.Ī custom ROM can be the best thing you ever do with your Android phone. You might be wondering what all the fuss was about, as it's pretty much identical to how it was before - hardly worth the years taken off your life by the stress of breaking the warranty on your new £500 gadget. If you followed our instructions to the letter, you should have a rooted Samsung Galaxy Note 2.
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