You always expect to be surprised when dealing with alexng2208

Now he seems to be back to his old antics of quoting antt00 for third party replies....

zoidbergfry how did your rooting adventure go? do you have Ubuntu 12.04 running as well?

Powerbank ler....

Of course there's the ZeroLemon 9300mAh battery for about USD 50. THAT is something no other phone can touch now

Some guy summarised a changelog for 4.3

https://plus.google.com/u/0/118289670350117...sts/ba4JXGotgSk

- The clock in the status bar is now hidden on the lock screen when you have the clock widget on screen, like in 4.1 (4.2 broke this)
- The camera now only rotates the icons rather than the WHOLE damn UI when you turn the phone, so that it doesn't disrupt the picture taking experience, like in 4.1 (4.2 broke this as well).
- You can now take photos using volume keys in the Camera app.
- The Nexus 4 touchscreen now responds to MUCH lighter touches. This means that typing (esp. gesture typing) is now much much nicer.
- The dialer now has a T9 optional feature that can be enabled, so typing "366" will bring up all your contacts called "Dom" (like HTC Sense)
- Animations are definitely smoother. While not at Windows Phone or iOS levels just yet, the whole OS is much snappier.
- Google Keep is now a system app
- Many new Developer Options for optimising apps to 60FPS.
- Hidden Notification history in the settings.
- Bluetooth Low Energy support, and ability to stream song metadata over Bluetooth
- Possibly improved battery life: I noticed a 10% drain after 40 mins (screen on) of reddit/chrome/Google+ etc. That might have lasted 20-30mins before. I'll have to do some objective tests later.
- Possible WiFi, Bluetooth and Mobile Data fixes. I haven't experienced any of the quirky behavior that requires a reboot that was all too quirky in 4.2

EDIT M0ar:

- Dialer can now add pauses/waits
- The phone can now scan for WiFi based location info even when WiFi is off
- Notifications not immediately coming in over WiFi with the screen off has NOT been fixed. We have to wait for the new Radio for that

OT ... can anyone take this for buka puasa? Or a whole family?

Quadropus has been put under "Games" in post 12.

U can install ubuntu 12.04 on note 2 and sudo and apt-get

News from telstra confirms 4.2.2 for note 2 is cancelled and will go straight to 4.3.......

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/07/18/sa...date-cancelled/

Nobody has 5.0 yet, not even Google. But if it comes, the rumor is that it should fly coz it's optimised for devices with less than 1Gb RAM, like Google Glass. Perhaps a flavor of those pico linuxes.

Good list...adding to post 12. Thanks.

Quite a few of these are US centric and don't mean much to us.

Battery consumption?

Perhaps baronic can advise I think his blog has a writeup.

Welcome but you pose a strange question as Xirality has said. Maybe those who auto update their phones can shed some light.

solsekuin44 request yr help to advise this note2 owner thanks.

Any others may also chip in.

and janicekys

I suppose you can try disabling Software Update itself to kill the notification:

Settings>App Manager> All> Software Update> uncheck Show Notifications.

STOP

That is for the AT&T Note 2 !!!!!

Please go to the N7100 and N7105 forums !!!!!!

Adoi make sure u download from the correct place listed in post 7.

How do u flash yr code onto embedded devices then?

Some say the note 3 is like s3 to s4, nothing major. You can buy a note2 now arnd 1500 vs note3 which may be 2.3k.

It is like the pc now. A pc from 5 yrs ago still does the same things that you do today.

Of course people want the new shiny and they are free to spend their own money.

The word is *worth* not worthy. Entirely different meanings.

This post has been edited by joytest: Jul 20 2013, 05:54 PM

Hi all,

Went for the second Huawei User Group (HUG) session today. Nice location. With the current consumer device focus, we can likely expect some nice stuff from them. I'm a little compelled by the Ascend Mate. I compared the screen a bit more closely with the Note2.

The Mate does show whiter whites, and the same screen on the Note 2 has a yellowish tint....

Choices, choices and opportunity costs......

You were the one who reported some strange problem with your unit and went for a replacement right?

You may check Post 7 for the link to the XDA index thread.

K3V3 under development I suppose. The main issue they face is lack of dev awareness for now. Perhaps with the P6 as a "hero" phone they will get that awareness.

Meanwhile.......Exynos sources and documentation are still not released. It could be better to get a Qualcomm based device this time.

Huawei just released the kernel sources for the Ascend Mate ..... perhaps now K3V2 development will pick up steam. I wonder if Samsung will source a Huawei processor?