Wakelocks aside (since such arcane things are conveniently curated away from the user by fruitco), I don't see any real benefit of an idevice over an Android today.

At worst you're getting the same SOT from 5s vs. uour wakelocked Android.

There is no best custom rom, only what's more popular, or best for yourself.

XDA has implemented a rating system. You can check the number of stars for a tracked rom.

Ho ho ho !!!!

Yeah Season's Greetings, Blessed Christmas and Happy New Year everyone

Some apps could be incompatible with 4.3 and could cause wakelocks, just my guess.

I don't know if flashing the pre-rooted fw with knox removed will help matters.

Hi go check out dr.ketan's thread on xda for Note 2 N7100. Post 7 has those links. I'll do a bit of cleanup over the weekend. 4.3 took a long time coming.....

This roots and turns your phone into a cyanogen device. If you like it go ahead.

Download from sammobile and flash via pc odin.

Hehe thanks.

Some reported drain. I'm on DN3 3.1.1 and I'm fine so.far although it's not my primary device.

Coz you are moving from 4.1 to 4.3 and there are changes in the system file structure. You could be fortunate.

Getting a note2 or note3 will be good for portability. I've got both. ...and both go in my office slacks pockets nicely, even with casings on.

I have no tight pants

It means your device may just suddenly die.

If you flash with Mobile Odin Pro, there is an option called "Everroot" that injects root into your newly flashed ROM.

As for Knox, if your device is already out of warranty, then ignore it.

However, you may want to take note whether it shows Knox Warranty 0x0 or 0x1 in Download mode, just so you know the flag status.

Department of Paranoia

How do I use my android phone effectively without google
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1...tively_without/

My current setup:

Thrown out: Gmail. Google Contacts. Google Calendar. Dropbox too, because f*** the NSA snooping my data.
Email at fastmail.fm. It's not free, but once in, you will wonder how you ever managed to survive the bloated monster gmail has become. You quickly realize gmail is slow and horrible.
Email migration was done via imapcopy.pl following this guide.
owncloud hosted on my own NAS. Provides me with Dropbox/Drive-like functionality and terrabytes of space, not to mention calendering and contact-management based on open standards. Only a webserver with PHP is required. MySQL-storage is recommended over SQLite if you plan to add clients all over the place.
CardDAV Sync Beta to get my owncloud contacts on my phone.
CalDAV Sync Beta to get my owncloud calendar on my phone.
Tasks to get access to tasks from my calendar as well.
ownCloud client because that just fits into the overall picture.
MailDroid. Because it's the prettiest email-client out there. I prefer the Pro-version, because I don't like ads. K9 may be completely free, but it's dog ugly, especially on a modern HDPI device running a holo-themed OS.

Voila. I'm still on Android and enjoy the freedom that it offers, but I get to keep my data mine, and don't have to worry about Google creep. I get to decide what apps to use to access my data, because all components involved are based on open standards.

Now, if something better which is not Android comes along, I will be able to seamlessly try that out without waiting and hoping that Google will eventually "support" it. That's the power of taking ownership of your own data. It feels good!

TLDR: No need to jump from one closed ecosystem to another. It wont bring you any good.

Edit: This can also be integrated into desktop email-clients like Thunderbird through SOGO connector, both for contacts and calendering. It's not at all limited to Android.

Edit 2: Another benefit is that from your phone's point of view (not to mention other clients), things like calendar, contacts and email are now 100% completely separate sub-systems, which puts you at must greater liberty to mix and compose best-of-breed services as you see fit.

No.

Happy 2014 everyone, situation notwithstanding.





Don't lose your Note 2 or other devices at the party though.

Happens once in a while. Could be due to device age as well and emmc weirdness.

Gawd....first time I'm hearing this

Blame Google rather than Samsung in this case,I guess.

Try a custom dialer?

Actually you are right, I felt the new icon a bit unsettling when I got my Note3, but got used to it after awhile.

If you have no critical app data, then use Google to backup your contacts, Super Backup for your SMS, or SMS Backup+ for SMS and Whatsapp.

Otherwise use Helium Backup.

Kies is not a good program.


So does that mean the ipod doesn't give you the same convenient functions? And I'm sure you can't share anything from your ipod directly.