Best custom-made ROMs for Sprint Galaxy note 2 SPH-L900
Carriers create a huge mess often and put on some really disturbing limitations, especially on legendary smartphones like Galaxy note II, this is a huge pain. Well, may be they can put limits to the phone but not the geeky minds at XDA-Developers. lots of of these minds have successfully bypassed the boundaries and taken this device to its custom-made level.
The Samsung Galaxy note 2 shall undoubtedly be considered as one of the top trending Android smartphones of the year 2012. With the launch of this 5.5 inch phablet (phone + tablet) running Jellybean 4.1, many carriers including Sprint gathered to opt and distribute this device officially with its own carrier tag. and it was in late October when the the device was made public but then the carrier is a boundary.
Today, we shall focus on spending the knowledge of best custom-made ROMs available for the Sprint Samsung Galaxy note 2. We’ve already enlightened the guide on Rooting, Installing TWRP & Installing a custom-made ROM, for your convenience. So, if you still haven’t made your device custom-made ready, then seize this time now and follow the basic Guide.
The list here supplied is completely based on user feedback, please do not consider it as any “TOP 5 or 10”. The buy is miscellaneous.
Prerequisites
Rooted Sprint Galaxy note 2
ClockworkMod Installed
A USB data cord to transfer files between PC and device.
Proper USB Drivers. [Download here]
Backup your data, messages, apps, contacts and calender etc before proceeding.
How to install a custom-made ROM?
These instructions are to be followed if no certain guidelines have been supplied by the ROM developer.
Download the ROM flash able zip package.
Download most current Gapps zip package [Goo.im] and add-ons (if any provided).
Connect the device to PC in USB storage mode by means of data cable.
Transfer the downloaded files in step #1 & #2 to your device’s storage root (not in any folder, for your ease).
Disconnect the device.
Reboot into recovery mode following the procedure pointed out in the “Notes” above.
Tap “wipe data/factory reset” and select “Yes”.
Tap on “wipe cache partition” and select “Yes”.
Go to “mounts and storage” > “format /system” & “format /boot”.
Go to “advanced” > tap “wipe dalvik cache”.
“Install zip from sdcard“> “choose zip from sdcard”. select the ROM zip package placed on the root of your storage and select
“Yes” when prompted to initialize the flashing process.
When the ROM has flashed successfully, flash the Gapps package over the ROM followed by the add-ons (if any), in the same way as you flashed the ROM.
1. MIUI v4 Unofficial ROM [JB: 4.1.2]
Developer: lbxmobbin_1
About the ROM
MIUI (pronounced as ” Me You I”) is an Android aftermarket firmware from China, developed by Xiaomi Tech. It is based on Google’s AOSP but is itself closed source. MIUI is marked for its impressive and heavily modified (coded) User Interface, which to an extent resembles iOS by Apple and TouchWiz by Samsung. The features include Mi-Launcher, Mi-Music, Mi-Gallery, MIUI theme engine, custom-made Toggles and several other features and apps which absolutely accompanies its user in the best way it can.
lbxmobbin_1 on XDA has managed to port MIUI to the carrier limited Sprint Galaxy note 2, which is a outcome to his very hard work. This ROM itself is one of the most popular ROM among the Sprint GN2 section. The present build by the developer is MIUI 3.1.11 which was paged out to the users on 21 Jan, 2013. The non-functional features include LTE and Video-Camera which are regularly being serviced and are assured to be fixed very soon, while the developer has already supplied a workaround to work on LTE.
As in the views of DroidViews, MIUI is a package for those who prioritize UI on the top without taking performance and speed into consideration. While this ROM is stable enough to be used as a daily handler.
According to the ROM users, it is highly stable and looks completely elegant. the best part being the constant updates by the developer, which is very much appreciated by everyone.
Installation Instructions
[Please backup] (Make a Backup always to be Safe)
[Clean Wipe]
clear cache
clear dalvik
wipe factory reset
wipe system
Useful links
Original XDA thread | official MIUI Website
Download MIUI Themes
2. ParanoidAndroid 2.56 Unofficial ROM [JB: 4.1.2]
Developer: slick_rick
About the ROM
Paranoid Android or PA, in short initiated to build ROMs for Android devices with the release of Android 4.0 Ice cream Sandwich and now the ROM is compiled based on the CyanogenMod code. considering that the very beginning the team focused on serving its users with something special and so they have done and have undoubtedly got themselves provided in the most popular aftermarket firmwares available yet for Android. PA is accounted generally for the extent to which its UI could be modified, a user can easily chanullnull