Dust MIGHT accumulate near the lift area but that's about it, even than it wil take a long while before it becomes a problem so it really ddoesn't matter.

Agreed about the MK1 modem being better. Battery life and reception are slightly improved and the connection is a bit more stable, getting much less sudden drops into 3G from H+ (and the accompanying freeze in data download) that I used to get with the previous 4.3 modems.

After all, using a modem that's official for your locale is always best.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Dec 22 2013, 01:43 AM

Well, for one thing you get more games. There's STILL no sign of KOTOR or that Mechwarrior strategy game for Android even after all these months. For another, you get to stop having to worry about rogue background processes... somewhat. I know WhatsApp (among other apps) still sucks the life away on iOS anyway, so that's that.

And as for the wakelock, why bother with a different app (and it's rogue calls to the location service) to tell you about the weather when the ever useful GNow widget does that anyway. You'll have to live with the occasional traffic card blocking your weather but no real biggie.

But yeah, horses for courses - what works for me might not fly as well with others rite? Which is after all the main pro of Android to begin with: you have a choice.

I still remember my old S2. Even with the thicker ori battery and most of the background processes all frozen, it could barely go through half a day at most before needing a battery change lol. Those were the days.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Dec 23 2013, 08:57 PM

No Note 3 features in official 4.3. You need custom stuff for that.

Check out the floating Samsung keyboard if you haven't already (long tap the key beside Sym on the Sammy keyboard and choose the overlapping keyboard option). For me that alone made the upgrade worth it already.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Dec 23 2013, 09:01 PM

When you suddenly wake up at night... and can't seem to get a good night's sleep afterwards. Which results in you being tired and not having enough energy the day after.

That's a wakelock.

Contrast this to SOT which is when you're not asleep at all and you have your eyes wide open.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Dec 24 2013, 01:08 PM

Yo Ho Ho to all.. Merry 25th!

EDIT: My bad, I had GMD Gesture Controls set to 'consume' multi touch events for more than 5 points. Turned that off and everything is fine again

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Dec 25 2013, 10:29 PM

Edit your default_gain.conf file in /system/etc

Details: http://bit.ly/1ikX1gh

Been running a modded file myself forever (personal settings). Don't set it too high or risk blowing up your speaker though - mine is up by just a bit also satisfied edi.

BTW this works with the reception speaker too (the one you use to take calls).

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Dec 28 2013, 01:10 AM

I seriously wouldn't say that the SDS 'fix' is even a confirmed fix. It's more like a stopgap band aid - what it does is try to stop or at least lessen the corruption from happening. Even than it only does so at the kernel level, NOT during CWM which is bootloader level (unless your CWM comes with a fix too).

In short, it slows the corruption down. It doesn't really stop it outright especially if you flash a lot of ROMs or stuff in a version of CWM that is not 'fixed' - which still comes with the risk of corrupting things.

Case in point, my old S3 was 'fixed' the moment the fixes came out, but in the end it died of SDS anyway, requiring a totally replaced mobo.

Hence why I was so desperate to find a unit that came with a 'sane' eMMC out of the box when I was buying my N2, and thankfully I found one on my first attempt.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Dec 28 2013, 01:41 PM

Personally got hit after about 8 months with my S3. Even WITH the fixes.

Hence I went and installed brickbug check THE MOMENT I opened the N2 box at the shop lol. Thankfully it passed with flying colours.

You can actually install the pop up browser in 4.3 and it should work no problem. Search for the APK in XDA.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Dec 29 2013, 05:30 PM

No charges. But I personally prefer Ceberus over SamsungDive myself, even if it's a paid app. It just tracks better.

Sammy Dive is very sporadic at tracking as far as I've tested it.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Dec 29 2013, 11:19 PM

PICNIC/PEBKAC?

Lol.

That said, the convenience of Play Store/App Store is spoiling people. I remember the days when buying programs online usually involved hunting for websites and then paying money (through direct credit card transactions summore) to get a bloody string of text to activate your "trial version" of whatever.

Though, to be honest, most independently developed PC apps are still bought that way lol, though nowadays with the added ease of PayPal.

Nowdays, click and enjoice, at least until your credit card statements come around lol.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jan 2 2014, 04:30 PM

Lag is prolly something in the BG hogging up cpu than just a RAM problem IMHO. Free RAM is wasted RAM after all, especially when we already have 2GB to begin with.

I run with 700 free most of the time and don't really have any lag TBH. After clearing through the default task switcher I get 900-800 tops, with 1GB max after a clean restart.

Biggest RAM offenders are Facebook, WhatsApp and Sammy Keyboard: all needed apps so not much I can do about it.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jan 2 2014, 11:26 PM

If you're rooted try googling for "smaller system fonts".

Oh God.

I hope your warranty's over.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jan 6 2014, 03:30 PM

Personally I got rid of non-essential Sammy stuff the moment I rooted my N2. Sure, I did keep a few things but most of them were really just bloatware to me.

YMMV though, but I chucked Sammy Apps out with the rest of the other stuff including the "learning" hub crap and Dive too. Would have dumped everything if not for the fact that some of it was essential to to the TW framework, and would cause mass panic FCs if removed.

Anyway, I just got my first tempered glass scratch, a tiny thing about 1/4 inches long. I wonder how it happened but at least it wasn't my screen lol.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jan 9 2014, 02:50 PM

You have project Butter to thank for that. Though it's still not running 100% GPU accelerated unless you force it through the Dev options.

Depends on how cheap the N3 is right now. If the difference is above RM500, then it MIGHT be worth it. Below that, better get the N3 without even thinking about it.

IMHO anyway.

It's just SDS IINM, and while it effects most Samsungs, I do know for a fact it doesn't happen to ALL of them. You have to be pretty lucky to get a long lasting unit however lol.

Even though producing phones with defective eMMC is suspect all in it's own, you must understand that all manufacturers are guilty of this "issue" to one degree or another. It's called planned obsolescence, and it's how manufacturers ensure that they get steady yearly profits.

Though Sammy IS very good at it, I have to say. Does anybody even notice the fact that our prized AMOLEDs have a very short life span and degrade far faster compared to normal LCDs? Hmm?

To be fair, the only phones manufactured to last years were the old Nokias and BlackBerries and look at where THAT got them as companies - one of them is completely dead and the other slowly bleeding dry. Looks like good engineering does not always equal good business.

Which brings us to the sad truth: That 90% of people out there are more interested in getting shiny new features every year than getting a phone to last years in the first place.

With that in mind, it really doesn't matter much now, does it?

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jan 21 2014, 09:35 AM