Now at the front of the BBM line. Only I don't really feel like using it anymore. Everyone I know is locked into WhatsApp anyway.

Plus that forced persistent notification is not in any way appealing at all.

Maybe I'll just install to register.

Sounds delicious. Might just try Joel later, but as always, reinstalling/restoring everything back to par will be a royal PITA. Will probably do it if I get really, REALLY bored though.

By scrolling glitches you mean those microstutters we have on Wanam? Or something more serious?

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 24 2013, 01:19 PM

Actually the rebate amount given is RM900. ONLY to the first 50 people mind you.

Not worth it when you take into consideration that they're selling at FULL SME RRP (2.3k?) when most shops have nowadays gone down to around 1.9k for a brand new N3.

Not that I'm sure there's even any more slots left to begin with.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 24 2013, 02:26 PM

Sounds like some WIFI compatibility issues. Try with other devices first to confirm if the WIFI you're connecting is not at fault. Seems like 4.3 is FAR less tolerant of sheety connections than before.

I also get this sometimes, usually restarting the router fixes the problem. That said my WIFI does that with ANY device.

But frequent 3G disconnection? That sounds weird.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 25 2013, 08:31 AM

Woah. What DID you mod?

I think it was a channel conflict in your router. Happens all the time at my house.

Use Wifi Analyzer in play store to check which channel is clear. Or at least less crowded.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 26 2013, 12:16 AM

Been there 2 years back, solo backpack trip. But now I'm in the neck of the Pahang woods on weekdays and in KL during weekends.

Dying to go back to Japan though - if I could only secure the finances.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 26 2013, 01:55 AM

Samsung releases devices like almost every month. To hope that they, a company that conquers the market through sheer volume, to back up their products the bitter end is like expecting Microsoft to support Win XP forever lol.

Besides, it's a cruel truth but they have to force you to upgrade somehow with that kind of market saturation strategy. Sure, the N3 is shiny and has cutting edge specs, but if a larger number of people say "hell, we'll just stick with the old model and wait until it gets KitKat", their margin - which relies on sheer volume - will suffer.

Hence why they're trying so hard to lock down the N3 (and now the N2 and even the S4) against "user modifications" with Knoxy. Just to make sure, they give us a screen that burns out gradually and will probably look like crap after 2 years (which is just what AMOLED is).

Well, that is what Sammy is doing. Planned Obsolescence. Not that every other manufacturers aren't doing the same exact thing.

But, this all should be common knowledge by now, rite?

Not that its all bad. Without the continuous rush of production (and consumption), me might not have seen smartphones catch up to laptop resolutions and number of CPU cores in less than 5 freaking years.

It's like Moore's Law on speed. Lots and lots of speed.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Oct 26 2013, 10:53 PM

Wanam MJ5 out, if anybody's interested. Needs a new bootloader so not for me, not yet anyway. Waiting for the next wave of customs based on the "real" 4.3 later.

I actually forgot lol. IINM it was the latest local 4.2.

Long press power button?

I'm on Wanam's MI6, and this "bug" has only happened to me a few times, AND I reboot A LOT. What I did notice was if you "fast reboot" through Wanam Exposed, it happens. If you don't, and reboot normally, it doesn't.

And I haven't even flashed the "gapps fix" at all. Straight clean flash Wanam MI6 to a brand new Note 2.

@muman7: SDS maybe?

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Nov 1 2013, 05:11 PM

Holy flying fish.

And I'm plenty paranoid already with it being in my side pocket. Though getting a flip case still seems to me an unnecessary hassle. A price we have to pay for such a huge screen eh...

Thanks for the tip. Works in Wanam MI6 as well, now HWR is much more "usable" with the thinner pen like lines vs the old felt tip brush strokes.

BTW, what recovery are you guys using and why? I'm starting to get annoyed with Philz's constant nagging about a root problem that really does not exist and nobody has compiled the latest Philz for the N7100 (latest one has an option to turn the nagging off).

Thinking of going to TWRP, but it seems to lack the pretty nifty Aroma FM in Philz, plus I got some "experiences" with TWRP back in my S3 days - it simply screwed up some of my zips.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Nov 6 2013, 02:26 PM

Flashed TWRP. Liking the compression used for backups and the internal FM seems to replace Aroma FM fine for my uses. Plus VGUI simply looks better that just plain text no matter how you skin it.

I'm missing haptic feedback though. Ummm haptics.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Nov 6 2013, 04:09 PM

IINM the "fix" is to reflash gapps. I could be wrong though.

Compressed RAM and swap will always be inferior to the real thing. But it IS useful if "the real thing" is not an option.

Yet another reason why I ran the eff away from my S3. 1GB of RAM can only go so far.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Nov 6 2013, 11:57 PM

Annnd with 16 full tabs in the browser everything go to hell. Even power amp has issues staying alive, not to mention near constant launcher redraws. Doesn't matter if you're using zRAM or good old swap (which just makes it even laggier), even with seeder or V6.

Sure, with tweaks the problem can be "lessened", but it will never go away.

Zero zRAM and none of that crap on the N2. Just goes to show you can't really replace what's physically missing. I AM using seeder though with the N2 and it helps smoothen things up a bit.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Nov 7 2013, 12:44 AM

Has it been like that ever since, or right after your flashed DN3?

On the hardware side, AMOLED screens are prone to going yellow simply because the blue diodes have a tendency of dying early. The more you use it, the yellower it gets. This holds true for any AMOLED screen, the big tradeoff for all the punchy colours and deep absolute blacks we get. Also I think you know that some of the screens actually come for the factory "pre-yellowed" lol, I know my old S3 had this issue.

But sometimes software can also influence the screen colour. The mDinie profiles that determine the screen colour balance are software coded after all. If it got yellower after DN3, it might just be this.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Nov 7 2013, 09:08 AM