Flash aosp and you get 4.2.2.

Anyway my only advice on the way to use Office apps on android is to NOT use it at all except for viewing.

u mean my Xperia Z?, it become my access point for me n my wife.. and in most cases now become my loli play thing..

since I get quite cheap, so dun mind much

My gripes on AOSP

-i seem to be getting SYSTEM as a major battery drainer for some reason
-The OASP camera quite frankly sucks. Damn noisy
-Plus no photosphere. if it had that then maybe i could live with the a lil suckier camera at low lighting

i must say, ur dp is very attractive.. the phone i mean.

should update it with another dp with ur note 2.

This post has been edited by botakbin: May 27 2013, 03:21 PM

Well for me 2 of them are not issue and the third unimportant for me.
- System being high on battery list usually means the screen is under utilized OR wrong reporting by some kernel (at one point redpill and neak was having this issue). Never really had issue with Android OS in aosp.
- Camera sound can be disable by moving/renaming/deleting the sound file
- I dun think i will use photosphere even if it is available. Not important for me.

Sorry guys, but what does the SDS stands for?

And does this happen to Note2 only or other Samsung smartphone as well?

Sudden death syndrome. Happens to S3 and Note2.

lol when i said noisy i meant that at low lighting conditions, images taken are very grainy, much more compared than touchwiz camera

Mainly due to mainboard failure? Any way to prevent it or is just solely depends on luck?

Ah ok noted, now that's totally different. Samsung own camera is actually very noisy as well for my standard. Never really tested the cm10.1 camera in lowlight. Let me try later.

IMHO

shit happens. I have actually never experienced this (duh lol) and looks like its quite an isolated incident.

I'm sorry but I really at this.
Anyway, Note II and S3's camera really sucks.
I got so pissed off with it that I got a smaller camera -Nikon V1 to go with me rather than lugging my heavy DSLR around all the time.

EMMC partition corrupted and fail. Update to latest recovery, kernel, rom and bootloader to lower the risk as Samsung is supposed to implement a fix for it in the latest firmwares just they never announce it.

Otherwise its purely base on luck.

hmm, wechat drains a lot of battery juice...create many wakelocks in alarm...

Yeah we all know. It's stated in the first page.

TQVM...

So can we use the EMMC Brickbug Check at Playstore to check before buying the Note2, so that to minimize the risk of SDS?

Er yes you can. But as always it just reduce the risk.

Oh, how could samsung not rectifying this issue? Cannot imagine if the SDS hit those device which is after warranty period, how much will it cost to replace the mainboard...

a noob question...izzit note 2 hv weak signal receiver? coz my brother use s3 he got H+ for data but me only G..using same service provider...how to overcome this problem...thanks

The easiest way to rectify it, is suppose to change the whole mobo. So if Samsung goes this path it will have to give everyone new phones. Updating the EMMC codes have a higher chance of bricking it compared to leaving it to SDS. So far most SDS issue surfaced after 6 months.

They have done some patching work in the kernel and bootloader just no one can confirm it works as there is nothing official. Supposedly with this patch the device will not brick but will freeze or reboot if it encountered a corrupt part of the EMMC.