For the ones who know me, I had a note 1 and note 2 for AT&T. I've done my little share or Rom development and theming apps...
So anyone who knows me..what's up guys....Looks like we need alot of work here I take it?
Hey. I remember you in the 2 forums. Yeah it's dead over here but there's a thread in general that kinda let's us flash roms. Someone just verified it working and starting to dig deeper into it to maybe get us some roms made up. Check the thread out.
And if you are running mi9 then root with dlv and disable your update cause once you are on mj5 you can't go back as it stands right now. It will auto update if you wait to long
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wish777 said:
For the ones who know me, I had a note 1 and note 2 for AT&T. I've done my little share or Rom development and theming apps...
So anyone who knows me..what's up guys....Looks like we need alot of work here I take it?
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It's funny that you mention it, just today we discovered that it is possible to flash custom ROMs. If you're on MJ5 and something goes wrong, you won't be able to un-brick your device. However if you're running an earlier firmware you can use Odin to re-flash stock. Can't wait to wipe this TouchJizz off the face of the earth, just waiting for that MJ5 Odin. :good:
Wish!
Good to see ya around here...Ya, I'm patiently waiting for this thing to take off. This is just upsetting that we have to deal with this nonsense with the locked bootloaders
Hope you make the jump wish....your a helpful guy
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Agreed this is like a veterans thread
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I remember alot of you guys...That's great..The forums are so much better with vets that are technically inclined, and have alot in common...
roughneckboren said:
And if you are running mi9 then root with dlv and disable your update cause once you are on mj5 you can't go back as it stands right now. It will auto update if you wait to long
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Bro...Soon as I read this my dam phone just updated....Dam...I just got the note 3 today....
wish777 said:
Bro...Soon as I read this my dam phone just updated....Dam...I just got the note 3 today....
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Damn it....mine did the same thing, it updated while i was driving home from best buy....lol
Once your on Mj5 as of right now the most you can do is Root and theme. im Hoping we can get a Odin Package for MJ5 soon so we dont have to worry about bricks and we can start testing more things with out worrying about not being able to recover.
true..root ,theme and debloat ....You would think.after debloating this rom. And using sd read/write values that would increase a decent amount for such a early development.
Is phone sure loves to use alot of stock ram for some reason..
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Bro...Soon as I read this my dam phone just updated....Dam...I just got the note 3 today....
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I tired everything to get it to not update and as soon as I put my battery back in it was updating. Yours seemed to update a lot faster than mine did. It was like two days. I just got mine the other day
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Hey I remember you from my old note 2.
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wish777 said:
Bro...Soon as I read this my dam phone just updated....Dam...I just got the note 3 today....
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Bring it back and exchange you're within your 14 days.
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Yeah u don't want to play with a phone that has no Odin for it
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We will have Odin soon enough. For now root, Debloat, and xposed is good enough for me. My 2 biggest gripes were the green eqs tabs, and the green battery. I themed to match the blue tw jelly bean theme, and removed the battery icon. Looks much better. Also did some other things with xposed. Very happy for now.
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I've been patiently waiting as my phone updated to mj5 also so I'm stuck with stock for now, I don't want to start modding without a way to recover. Good to see you here Wish777 hopefully we see the ball rolling soon with this beast.
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roloracer said:
I've been patiently waiting as my phone updated to mj5 also so I'm stuck with stock for now, I don't want to start modding without a way to recover. Good to see you here Wish777 hopefully we see the ball rolling soon with this beast.
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Hey racer...Yeah I'm staying stock for just a bit longer to better understand the this device..good to see ya here as well.
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Hey racer...Yeah I'm staying stock for just a bit longer to better understand the this device..good to see ya here as well.
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Yeah I hear you, I want to see custom recovery before I go all out on this, definitely need nandroid as a safety net. Luckily this phone is badass stock so I'm pretty content at the moment.
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Hello all.
Im new to the note 3... but not to xda. I dont post much at all. However I do have a rooted skyrocket and give all credit to Vincom. I still read through his threads regularly. I got the s2 when it was the flagship and now ive upped the grade to the next one. I think its wrong of the manufacturer and carrier to charge us a boatload for this device and chain it to the dock so to speak. It seems there is some experience in this thread so I will be checking in often. I also had the mj5 update sneek in before I knew what happened and it does seem that we are all leary of the dread 600$ brick. Thanks to all who dare. You are my hero (s).
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I'm on Mj5 and I rooted with Kingo...
I cant post links to it per xda rules but if you google it you'll find it...I haven't had any issues .
You can use "wanan" app and "exposed framework" app to theme and some decent mods.
Related
This is the place for all things that are related to my stock rom.
Woah!
And it starts.
Is this the updated firmware package that they say is rolling out or the original? Either way...awesome...thank you!!!
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Is this the updated firmware package that they say is rolling out or the original? Either way...awesome...thank you!!!
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Original. MDC is what came on our devices. I agree, either way. This is great!
Tahde said:
Original. MDC is what came on our devices. I agree, either way. This is great!
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Awesome...thanks for the info!
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All versions are posted now.
Thanks and wow Roms are huge on this phone!
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mjs2011 said:
Thanks and wow Roms are huge on this phone!
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Yeah they are. Almost makes me wish I had waited for 32GB. Almost
crawrj said:
Yeah they are. Almost makes me wish I had waited for 32GB. Almost
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Yeah. If anything, I'll make it a habit of downloading to my PC and then copying it over.
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Very nice work here C!:good:
Already busting them out....trying to get me to work already
Awesome job as always :thumbup::thumbup:
Just imagine how big the rom will be in a couple of years from now...lol
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Shadow_God said:
Already busting them out....trying to get me to work already
Awesome job as always :thumbup::thumbup:
Just imagine how big the rom will be in a couple of years from now...lol
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LOL. I was just thinking to myself. Self, you need to get your ass in gear so you can put Shadow to work. Self listened for once :silly:
I was thinking the same thing about the rom sizes. Going to get crazy.
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LOL. I was just thinking to myself. Self, you need to get your ass in gear so you can put Shadow to work. Self listened for once :silly:
I was thinking the same thing about the rom sizes. Going to get crazy.
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I knew once I saw you here my break was over we are missing the mod king...lol....
Yea the phone smallest size will have to be 64gb...lol
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Can someone refresh me on the odexed vs. deodexed differences?
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Can someone refresh me on the odexed vs. deodexed differences?
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Odexed is pure stock. More difficult to mod unless the dev puts out both versions. It is supposedly faster also. Never could tell a difference in speed. But I like to stay close to stock so I always run odexed and odex all of my work. Deodexed is good for modding and theming since you only have to do things once. It is also a little smaller in size. Again supposedly a little slower, like starting apps. Also more difficult to get things working right at times. Like Google Wallet working on my Odexed Rom but not on Deodexed.
I am sure if you Google them you will find much better answers than what I have provided.
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Here is a battery saving app just for snapdragon
Its still in beta but its pretty good so far
Snapdragon battery guru (beta)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
It learns as you go
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Shadow_God said:
Here is a battery saving app just for snapdragon
Its still in beta but its pretty good so far
Snapdragon battery guru (beta)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
It learns as you go
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Interesting. I never liked DS much because it always messed with my data connection after waking up the screen but this looks really interactive and intelligent!
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mjs2011 said:
Interesting. I never liked DS much because it always messed with my data connection after waking up the screen but this looks really interactive and intelligent!
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It takes 3 days for it to learn your behavior. ..then after the 3 days learning mode it will work on battery saving
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Shadow_God said:
Here is a battery saving app just for snapdragon
Its still in beta but its pretty good so far
Snapdragon battery guru (beta)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
It learns as you go
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This bloody thing didn't save anything really, just annoyed me by turning off things i set to autosync and etc. Used to use it on my S3 when it first leaked months ago and broomed it fast when i noticed i wasn't receiving emails and such anymore. Apparently it turns off what it "thinks" is not necessary, like email accounts i set to check every hour. After a few days of no email, which i found weird, i went into my email settings and this silly app had turned off sync and set it to manual amongst other annoyances. I never really noticed any battery savings anyway.
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This bloody thing didn't save anything really, just annoyed me by turning off things i set to autosync and etc. Used to use it on my S3 when it first leaked months ago and broomed it fast when i noticed i wasn't receiving emails and such anymore. Apparently it turns off what it "thinks" is not necessary, like email accounts i set to check every hour. After a few days of no email, which i found weird, i went into my email settings and this silly app had turned off sync and set it to manual amongst other annoyances. I never really noticed any battery savings anyway.
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I havent had that problem yet....just have to see.....it will react differently to every phone...some will have success with it and some won't....just have to find what will work best with your phone and your set up.....
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I just got the new update an hour ago and wanted to share my thoughts because I know there's still a lot of people wondering what it fixes. So far I've noticed:
- Phone in general feels much much quicker.
- gallery no longer lags.
- switching from wifi to 4g o longer lags the phone
- camera is improved. Still slight shutter delay but I'm thinking it must jus be how it works since it's taking such high quality pics.
-updating apps in the play store no longer makes the phone lag.
-one of my favorite things is the home button response speed is really fast now(yes svoice home button is disabled) I noticed the home button used to lag sometimes. Much faster now.
- I noticed some buttons in the camera and gallery are different and have some extras. Haven't had much of a look yet.
-it appears all my apps are on the SD card now.
I can't comment on battery life or anything else yet but I'll keep an eye on it tonight.
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I'm slightly confused. You're posting in the Sprint S4 forums but you're tagline says sent from Verizon S4.
While reading your posts earlier I was hoping you weren't applying Sprint updates to a Verizon phone.
But to stay on topic thanks for the feedback. I'm still in process of updating.
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I'm slightly confused. You're posting in the Sprint S4 forums but you're tagline says sent from Verizon S4.
While reading your posts earlier I was hoping you weren't applying Sprint updates to a Verizon phone.
But to stay on topic thanks for the feedback. I'm still in process of updating.
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You will love it. I'm on stock unrooted now and the phone feels brand new. It is definitely faster and smoother.
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daniel4653 said:
You will love it. I'm on stock unrooted now and the phone feels brand new. It is definitely faster and smoother.
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Did you just go settings>more>sys update> Update samsung software/ firmware ?
Mine says none available...
I've been waiting for the update that fixes smearing for a while... if what I'm saying sounds dumb just disregard it, I'm tired...
Truitt.Jack said:
Did you just go settings>more>sys update> Update samsung software/ firmware ?
Mine says none available...
I've been waiting for the update that fixes smearing for a while... if what I'm saying sounds dumb just disregard it, I'm tired...
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Nope. Took me like 2 hours to.download the MDL tar to go to stock unrooted then flashed update zip.
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For me, I still see and feel the occasional lag. But then, my reference point was the rooted MDL with the ktoonsez kernel and the Crossbreeder mod. . I dont even remember what the stock MDC & MDL setups felt like.
I don't like that it locked up something so that triangle away doesn't work anymore and flashing chainfire's root through PC Odin causes the system counter to read custom. Hopefully those issues will get fixed. I want to say battery life is better but I haven't had enough time with it to get a definitive answer. Then again, after rooting, I froze a $hit ton of bloat with titanium backup as usual.
Esoteric68 said:
I'm slightly confused. You're posting in the Sprint S4 forums but you're tagline says sent from Verizon S4.
While reading your posts earlier I was hoping you weren't applying Sprint updates to a Verizon phone.
But to stay on topic thanks for the feedback. I'm still in process of updating.
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Verizon has their own update. He's just over here giving general thoughts. Ain't nothing wrong with that though. :silly:
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Verizon has their own update. He's just over here giving general thoughts. Ain't nothing wrong with that though. :silly:
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No, never said there was anything wrong with it, I was just curious and concerned that someone with a Verizon phone might be trying to install Sprint software. Simple as that.
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Nope. Took me like 2 hours to.download the MDL tar to go to stock unrooted then flashed update zip.
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I'm currently debating flashing it, I've already downloaded it but I really just don't want a brick.
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I'm currently debating flashing it, I've already downloaded it but I really just don't want a brick.
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Did you try clearing data in settings>application manager>go all the way to right to all>clear data in Google services framework then force close it>go back to system update it pushed the mf9 to mine that way
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Did you try clearing data in settings>application manager>go all the way to right to all>clear data in Google services framework then force close it>go back to system update it pushed the mf9 to mine that way
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Yeah I did clear and force stop the framework, I didn't get anything.
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Yeah I did clear and force stop the framework, I didn't get anything.
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Try qbking77 it work 4 me
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Truitt.Jack said:
I'm currently debating flashing it, I've already downloaded it but I really just don't want a brick.
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You won't brick.
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Anyone experiencing phone getting hot?
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I cleared and force stopped framework as well, didn't get anything either.
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Anyone experiencing phone getting hot?
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Nope actually my phone hasn't gotten hot one time being on mf9 for a day and a half. My phone did get hot on MDL.
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Ttrain721 said:
I cleared and force stopped framework as well, didn't get anything either.
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That's crazy it was literally the only way I could get the ota to push to my device.
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daniel4653 said:
You won't brick.
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I've heard of lots of issues though.
The camera could break
Boot loops
Force closes
a "modified system" pop-up
Those are just things that I read about.
On mdL my phone would be slightly warm while charging. Upgraded to mf9 and the phone gets real hot while charging.
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On mdL my phone would be slightly warm while charging. Upgraded to mf9 and the phone gets real hot while charging.
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Warmth is normal during charging, but if it is almost too hot to hold there is a problem. I'm on MDL and other than slight warmth during charging my phone NEVER heats up. My S3 would get hot/warm even with light usage but my S4 never does.
Is there a Clockwork Mod Recovery out for the N900a yet?
Dude, dont we wish!!!!! Ive been checking on here daily myself.... Cant wait!! I get my note 3 wednesday and I'm hoping for a bootloader miracle!!!!
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i honestly just dont see a need to flash roms anymore. android has just has gotten that good. i can see some people needing root which we have. but flashing roms is long gone for atleast me. just tired of it i guess.
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1 word: Nandroid
I went through 3 different Note 3s because of various quality control issues and the ability to make a nandroid would have been amazing since I had to setup everything 4 times after rooting 2 different phones. Other than that, I don't really care too much about custom roms, unless they offer some benefit in addition to the Xposed framework modules and debloating I did.
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What type of issues?
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Yea what issues and what do you need to nandroid that an app or kies couldn't save?
TouchWiz is crap, Id flash a Hello Kitty ROM if someone would dev one....
Cyanogen is always ahead of Sammy (and everyone else) when it comes to new tech, for freeeeee!
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wttisme said:
The first N3 kept an Edge data signal most of the time and would never lock onto and LTE signal for more than 10 seconds. The second one, and about 6 others I looked at in the store, had issues with the home button getting stuck under the glass. It was just during regular use, not trying to force it. If I tapped on the button off-center, it would get stuck under the glass, and constantly make the task manager pop up. The manager tried to call my bluff until she repeated the same when using the phone normally, instead of holding it horizontally and letting the weight of the phone release the button each time. I felt like it was back in the Hot Wheels days of searching for Treasure Hunts. I got one that doesn't seem to have any issues so far, aside from my E-mail FC, but I'll figure that out.
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Good to know. I'm not too fond of the home button swimming around. I'm having mic issues. I have to hold it to my mouth for the phone to register.
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Bottom line is there is no custom recovery and from what I understand there won't be unless the boot loader gets unlocked.
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Tenacious--M said:
Is there a Clockwork Mod Recovery out for the N900a yet?
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You can get n900a-cwm-recovery.tar from: http://d-h.st/mVG
However, bootloader of N900A is locked. You cannot flash it with Odin.
What we expect is Unlock bootloader.
So I remember when 4.3 hit there were all manner of little random quirks with various apps not being compatible and little things not working right. It took about a month for most major apps like MX Player, Lightflow, some others to get ironed out after it released. Also took a couple days to make rooting easy and stable. With us having to wait on *Official* Kit Kat by the time it comes out most the apps will be ready. Several of my apps have been updated recently and I've noticed 4.4 compatibility in the change log. So I guess I don't mind waiting a couple weeks. Although it still doesn't help me really understand why....
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Is there any word when? I remember hearing something about a week or two, a week ago.
jcnbama said:
So I remember when 4.3 hit there were all manner of little random quirks with various apps not being compatible and little things not working right. It took about a month for most major apps like MX Player, Lightflow, some others to get ironed out after it released. Also took a couple days to make rooting easy and stable. With us having to wait on *Official* Kit Kat by the time it comes out most the apps will be ready. Several of my apps have been updated recently and I've noticed 4.4 compatibility in the change log. So I guess I don't mind waiting a couple weeks. Although it still doesn't help me really understand why....
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Yes, I think you are totally true, but this could perfectly be a comment in a previously opened thread. Please use opened threads
Android 4.4 Kit Kat Discussion Thread
Romman0 said:
Is there any word when? I remember hearing something about a week or two, a week ago.
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You're right.. It's late and I'm overly excited.. Lol. Mod can delete if you want. I won't cry...
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I wouldn't get too excited about this. It's not like android 5. It's gonna be incremental, esp on nexus 4,etal. You want the launcher you are going to have to pay for the nexus 5
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jcnbama said:
You're right.. It's late and I'm overly excited.. Lol. Mod can delete if you want. I won't cry...
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Yeah well I need to at least be able to say I lived through one ACTUAL OTA update.. Lol. I would like to see it before too long. Once Nexus 5's get out there more mainstream and Google sees everything going well I would say 2-3 weeks. I think they'll start rolling it out. Probably have it by Christmas..
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howard bamber said:
I wouldn't get too excited about this. It's not like android 5. It's gonna be incremental, esp on nexus 4,etal. You want the launcher you are going to have to pay for the nexus 5
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The look of the new launcher will also be possible with 3rd party launchers once they've been updated, since now Android supports transparent menu and status bars out of the box. Also, I think with those launchers we won't have this hideous gradient.
Just as I was starting to get use to the size of the Note 3 and all the crazy bloatware on this device, I gave up ... and have started using the Nexus 5 as of Friday. Anyone else move to the Nexus 5 from the Note 3? Are you keeping it in hopes of CM 10.3 someday soon or selling it? Trying to decide if I'll hold on to mine in hopes of a good root and CM ROM soon, or will the Nexus 5 be my phone for the next few months.
I seen a review on youtube, and I will definitely not be getting that phone.
Bad camera
Bad speakers
Washed out screen
Bad battery
I will stick with my note 3
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ksujace said:
Just as I was starting to get use to the size of the Note 3 and all the crazy bloatware on this device, I gave up ... and have started using the Nexus 5 as of Friday. Anyone else move to the Nexus 5 from the Note 3? Are you keeping it in hopes of CM 10.3 someday soon or selling it? Trying to decide if I'll hold on to mine in hopes of a good root and CM ROM soon, or will the Nexus 5 be my phone for the next few months.
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I've been on the fence to do it since Nexus came out. But one of my colleagues has it and display is not good at all. it is 1080p but a mediocre one. It has pinkish hue in whites. I like its size and feel but Note is something else as far as battery and display. The only thing that sucks as for now is not knowing when 4.4 is coming.
I got my note a few days before the nexus came out. But I'm glad I got my note, I think it's superior to the nexus in all ways, except for the vanilla and getting updates immediatly aspect. I just wish att would give an option to unlock our bootloader. If they do then I definitely will not regret buying this phone at all.
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ksujace said:
Just as I was starting to get use to the size of the Note 3 and all the crazy bloatware on this device, I gave up ... and have started using the Nexus 5 as of Friday. Anyone else move to the Nexus 5 from the Note 3? Are you keeping it in hopes of CM 10.3 someday soon or selling it? Trying to decide if I'll hold on to mine in hopes of a good root and CM ROM soon, or will the Nexus 5 be my phone for the next few months.
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I tried the Nexus 5. For 3 hours. Sold it on eBay. Way to boring.
mehdi_s82 said:
I've been on the fence to do it since Nexus came out. But one of my colleagues has it and display is not good at all. it is 1080p but a mediocre one. It has pinkish hue in whites. I like its size and feel but Note is something else as far as battery and display. The only thing that sucks as for now is not knowing when 4.4 is coming.
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You are right, the display does look a bit washed out.
I do love the Note 3 display, I just had the TouchWiz ... and how I can't default things to Google Apps like Calendar , and get rid of the nasty top menu bar with that ridiculous N always up there. I'd love to see a Google Edition Note 3
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I got my note a few days before the nexus came out. But I'm glad I got my note, I think it's superior to the nexus in all ways, except for the vanilla and getting updates immediatly aspect. I just wish att would give an option to unlock our bootloader. If they do then I definitely will not regret buying this phone at all.
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I agree, can't wait to get some custom debloated ROMs on this baby. Also, I miss my Infuse 4g!
No way lol. Stock Android is boring and a complete joke to me. And the look of it with the big icons is just stupid.
Add to all of that terrible battery life, a mediocre camera, worse speaker than on this phone and it's a big nope for me.
And did I mention how much I hate stock Android and how boring it is? I love the features of the Note and will deal with some bloat to have all of those features.
The Nexus are popular because of lower price and immediate updates. Otherwise they suck imo.
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WizeGuyDezignz said:
No way lol. Stock Android is boring and a complete joke to me. And the look of it with the big icons is just stupid.
Add to all of that terrible battery life, a mediocre camera, worse speaker than on this phone and it's a big nope for me.
And did I mention how much I hate stock Android and how boring it is? I love the features of the Note and will deal with some bloat to have all of those features.
The Nexus are popular because of lower price and immediate updates. Otherwise they suck imo.
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Did you root your N900A and remove the Bloatware?
I'm big fan of pure Google, the Samsung Apps like Calendar are just ****ty.
Keeping this beast, to much bells and whistles to give up... Also I need my SD card slot...
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ksujace said:
Did you root your N900A and remove the Bloatware?
I'm big fan of pure Google, the Samsung Apps like Calendar are just ****ty.
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Yep, I'm rooted with bloat removed, xposed framework with Wanam. I can't be happier. :thumbup:
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My wife just got LG G2. It's considered to have an excellent display. But I was reminded how much I love Oleds. And not for the saturated colors (I put it in movie mode) but for deep blacks. People should make a bigger deal regarding the contrast of these screens. It's truly a major feature and affects the whole experience.
So while I would consider a Nexus 5 a great phone the oled will bring me back to Samsung devices. I just wish Samsung got their act together software wise.
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ksujace said:
Did you root your N900A and remove the Bloatware?
I'm big fan of pure Google, the Samsung Apps like Calendar are just ****ty.
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They do have a good email app you have to give them that.
WizeGuyDezignz said:
Yep, I'm rooted with bloat removed, xposed framework with Wanam. I can't be happier. :thumbup:
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Hey bro same here. What did you use to debloat since we don't have access to a recovery or roms without tripping knox. Otherwise I would have used the Rom Cleaner for debloating since it's an update.zip. Did you just uninstall with Titanium? Let me know, I appreciate it!
seano666 said:
I agree, can't wait to get some custom debloated ROMs on this baby. Also, I miss my Infuse 4g!
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I still have my good old infuse, if the sim card slot wasn't broken I wouldn't have this note 3 haha. Such an upgrade though. To me the nexus 5 seems like a step down also.
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opasha said:
Hey bro same here. What did you use to debloat since we don't have access to a recovery or roms without tripping knox. Otherwise I would have used the Rom Cleaner for debloating since it's an update.zip. Did you just uninstall with Titanium? Let me know, I appreciate it!
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Yeah I just used Titanium to uninstall things that I knew were safe to uninstall and then froze whatever I was iffy about.
Then I installed the xposed framework and Wanam to customize my status bar and other things. The phone is running great and is exactly how I how I want it right now.
Good luck!
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WizeGuyDezignz said:
Yeah I just used Titanium to uninstall things that I knew were safe to uninstall and then froze whatever I was iffy about.
Then I installed the xposed framework and Wanam to customize my status bar and other things. The phone is running great and is exactly how I how I want it right now.
Good luck!
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Awesome, thanks. Debloating it now with titanium and this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2470862
While I would love to have vanilla google over cartoony touchwiz, it's a step down to go to the N5. Pretty much every phone atm is a step down imo.
I'd consider giving it a try if I could find a used one somewhere, but I've had every version of the note, and it's the only android line that keeps me coming back to android.