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Buying a barely used Note.

Hello everyone,
One of my friends is looking to sell his barely used Note which he bought last month for a very good price. I may get for as low as $270. I checked the phone and I loved the screen but not the plastic-y feeling.
My question is: do you guys think it's still worth buying a Note(am not willing to pay for a note 2)? My other question is that I am a Gnex user running jelly bean and I wanted to know if there are any good jb roms available for the note ?
I also heard that Samsung said it would update the note to the official 4.1.1!
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For that price, get it
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How's the battery life on the note? Is there any official extended battery or any extended that doesn't make the phone bulky?
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ya you should get it as note 1 will be getting JB update's soon

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Okay thanks mod. How's the battery life? Screen time on the note? Is there multiple builds of the gsm note?
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check if codes intacts
see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1851513
Just so you know imei and stuff. should dif then 0000etc or *49etc,
You can always bargain lower price, and update via pc odin should codes be gone. But with missing emei dont do it.
Also check download mode binary counter
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Its a bargain and great phone!
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If I had some different build, could I change it and flash the new 4.0.4 since the phone has 4.0.3?
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crazyalaa said:
If I had some different build, could I change it and flash the new 4.0.4 since the phone has 4.0.3?
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you can outrightly flash stock 4.0.4 to the Gnote. You can either go flashing it via PC KIES or PC Odin. If you want custom Rom's then there's plenty around this forum as well... Just do a search on the 'Android Development' thread and check out some custom Roms that might suit to your liking.

Off topic but why do people consider the Note cheap plastic feeling? I've always had HTC before this and this phone doesn't feel cheap at all to me

probably because of the compactness. When you take battery cover off you might think cheap. I don't, It's practical so thin. So far it works great, wasn't expecting that lol
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Thinking of buying a galaxy note but have a few questions

I'm getting a really good deal on a note. I wanted to know wether the features from note2 have been ported to the orignal note, specially multiscreen. Does the note have enough processing power to run it smoothly?
My friend is on stock ICS and his phone is quite laggy even without too many apps. I did hear the ICS upgrade sucked but I didn't expect this. I wanted to know wether the installing custom ROMs would make the s pen useless?
M considering either note or galaxy nexus... plz help me make this choice!
Thanks
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samajid said:
I'm getting a really good deal on a note. I wanted to know wether the features from note2 have been ported to the orignal note, specially multiscreen. Does the note have enough processing power to run it smoothly?
My friend is on stock ICS and his phone is quite laggy even without too many apps. I did hear the ICS upgrade sucked but I didn't expect this. I wanted to know wether the installing custom ROMs would make the s pen useless?
M considering either note or galaxy nexus... plz help me make this choice!
Thanks
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1) Multiscreen is not yet ported from Note 2 to the original Note..
2) I have 100+ apps installed on my Note & I wouldn't say its laggy..
3) ICS upgrade wasn't a flop..it came with lot of features, improved performance, battery life etc etc etc..anyways, within a month or 2, our Notes wl taste official JB..there are already couple of ROMs which were cooked from leaked samsung official kernel & seems to work as expected..
4) Installing custom roms need not to make the S-pen useless..but there r very few custom roms which does not support s pen..

Check out this thread it got some promising stuff about new note 1 JB rom 98% of things work properly
Cheers
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1953847
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Thanks for the replies ... so I should totally prefer it over the galaxy nexus?
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If you are thinking on buying the note , go for the second one .
We had no option back when we bought note , but now you can just go for note 2

248 Google play installed apps and a few more from XDA.
Still smooth on stock ICS ROM with hydracore kernel.
But like the other posters, better to just get the new note since you have yet to invest.
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teroare said:
If you are thinking on buying the note , go for the second one .
We had no option back when we bought note , but now you can just go for note 2
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I wish! Don't hav the cash right now... I'm buying this one from a friend, so m getting it cheap
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Galaxy note prooved to be a success. Initially it was expected to fail hut if u see it as a device released in 2011. It was designed futuristic. It got 3 updates on gingerbread , 2 updates for ics and now will get jelly beans soon and some are saying it will receive key lime pie. Even if the key lime pie update is not official the note gave a good outcome to those of us who owned it from the initial days. I am still ao much in love with my device and i love the s pen. It took out the artist from within me.
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qazibasit said:
Galaxy note prooved to be a success. Initially it was expected to fail hut if u see it as a device released in 2011. It was designed futuristic. It got 3 updates on gingerbread , 2 updates for ics and now will get jelly beans soon and some are saying it will receive key lime pie. Even if the key lime pie update is not official the note gave a good outcome to those of us who owned it from the initial days. I am still ao much in love with my device and i love the s pen. It took out the artist from within me.
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I know it was a good choice when it was launched but is buying it now when note2 is already out... is that a good choice... its not like a play too many games...all that matters to me is battery life and UI smoothness...
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samajid said:
I wish! Don't hav the cash right now... I'm buying this one from a friend, so m getting it cheap
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If its a good deal , I have no bad things to say about note 1 , so buy it

I've been watching reviews (again) n the note is definitely awesome! Thanks a lot for ur suggestions
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Galaxy note is more like a mini tab, note 2 more like a maxi phone as they have different aspect ratio. 16/10 vs 16/9. For multiscreen ot will be ported on Note1 also, I guess, by xda developers. Don't know if it will arrive officially by Sammy

francanna said:
Galaxy note is more like a mini tab, note 2 more like a maxi phone as they have different aspect ratio. 16/10 vs 16/9. For multiscreen ot will be ported on Note1 also, I guess, by xda developers. Don't know if it will arrive officially by Sammy
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yeah ... but do u think the dual core processor can handle it ?
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its not important if you just use it for playing games.

For the features and specs, note is really neat if you use a custom rom.. custom roms could boost the speed..
And yes, i have a note.. but its quite laggy when i bought it
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kokzhanjia said:
For the features and specs, note is really neat if you use a custom rom.. custom roms could boost the speed..
And yes, i have a note.. but its quite laggy when i bought it
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Thnks for the honesty bro! Nice to see u here as well
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Wind of change.

So.... Being a Samsung Galaxy S user for long time, I came to the point where don't feel "fresh" with my phone. I came to conclusion that need change. Tried some launchers, but doesn't feel cool. So now I decided to change my "baby". The two phones I narrowed are HTC one or Sony Z. Do you think guys I am doing right or stick with my S3 (and wait for 4.3)? Any input appreciated...
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Try NOVA launcher
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Oh man... Tried most of them. Anyway, today picked up M7 ,so play time. Not much excitement as had it before, but hoping for some outcome, to help me decide which to keep...
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as Nyrus say use other launcher ..i prefer also Nova launcher pro or Apex launcher pro.. and you can done so much with it include if you use other app like uccw etc... if you take some time to managed your homeacreen on phone and need some idea or help here is the link of site http://mycolorscreen.com/ there are also finish work need little tweak and you can use they way you want ... changed the phone give you nothing special as near by all Android os are the same .

h-e-a-v-e-n said:
as Nyrus say use other launcher ..i prefer also Nova launcher pro or Apex launcher pro.. and you can done so much with it include if you use other app like uccw etc... if you take some time to managed your homeacreen on phone and need some idea or help here is the link of site http://mycolorscreen.com/ there are also finish work need little tweak and you can use they way you want ... changed the phone give you nothing special as near by all Android os are the same .
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Agree with you. As mentioned before I picked up HTC One today. Basically is the same ( meaning OS), but somehow feel better...Right now preparing to flash GE ROM,as I'm not a fan of Blinkfeed and "limited" customisation. Tbh,my S3 LTE never gave me any issue (touchwood!), so probably will keep both phones... My point is that with M7 GE will get faster updates, and hopefully smooth experience. Also I'm not fancy all the "extras" supplied with both devices (Touchwizz/Sense). Thankfully, few apps/widgets are available from play store,so will see how it goes...
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Other "hidden" thing is,that Samsung will not provide same treatment as for the 9300. The 9305 isn't so widely available thus support could be "neglected"...
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OK, first negative thing: battery much worse than S3. Have almost identical settings,but HTC down to 21% while S3 still on 58%...
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Did you hear about Xposed? Try this...
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Nyrus said:
Did you hear about Xposed? Try this...
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Yeah,I know about Xposed. I let go the Sony Z and now focusing on two devices only, the One and S3 LTE. Will do play with the One and then decide which to keep. Might keep both...
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Ok, so after a week with the HTC I came back to Samsung S3 LTE. Don't know why, but Sammy just feel right for me.
Guys thanks for all your comments and suggestions.
I am not a Samsung fan boy, but from my point of view Samsung is the best (at least for my needs).
So sticking with S3, skipping S4, but looking forward to S5, which will have non plastic body (hopefully)....

Galaxy gear + s4. Need apps!! Please help

I am super stoked about getting ebay on the gear. Unfortunately I have a s4 and 4.2.2 can someone maybe upload it? Or is that even possible?
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No worry ... here are all the apps from Note3 which are mostly compatible with S4 : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2476319
But if you get S4 (i9505), so better upgrade to 4.3, then ... no more worry! :victory:

Thank you for feeding my lazy search habits. Lol
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Anyone try KitKat with their S4

Im going to be picking up a Galaxy Gear tomorrow and want to know what roms work well. My favorite is AOKP 4.3.1 but im trying out kitkat and not sure what to have running to enjoy it.
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Phoneguy589 said:
Im going to be picking up a Galaxy Gear tomorrow and want to know what roms work well. My favorite is AOKP 4.3.1 but im trying out kitkat and not sure what to have running to enjoy it.
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If you want everything to work, you need Touchwiz. There's lots of threads here like this

Wasnt sure 100%. Im on Vision 4.3 right now as ive read 4.2.2 roms dont completely work fully. Thanks 4 the reply man!
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