I personally prefer my dashclock setup, but that looks nice too.



Which reminds me, the stock Sammy lockscreen clock doesn't turn off the statusbar clock off automatically. I always found that a bit... weird.

But 4.3 TouchWiz feels so much user friendlier than 4.1.2

this super wipe will delete everything inside internal sd card right?
so zip file must be place at external sd card?

As per conversation, warranty by Vector Digital. But there'll be some lead time because involving 3rd party (ipmart).

Stop lurking LYN! I see your presence in Mobile Phones and Mobile computing forums

What is wakelock?

Seems like the battery drain issue is still there.

But there are no visible signs of my Note 2 being awake. 1% an hour drain. WiFi and cellular was disabled.

Even a percent an hour drain makes me go crazy. I don't know how those mostly and mainly or maybe only Chinese literate users install all those apps filled with AdWare, WeChat, Viber and those bogus Chinese made battery saving app that eats up 20% of the battery every night in airplane mode with 100% wakelock.

I've greenified all those push notification apps:

Facebook, Twitter, Weibo, so airplane mode would be the best battery saving option for me (2% drop per day)

I don't use email sync. In fact any notifications I have disabled them all. This is why I have an iPhone for notifications, they give me faster push notifications and does not use up a significant amount of battery.

I think i'm starting to get sick of dealing with AudioOut_2, AudioIn_2, mdm_hsic0, battery-monitor, alarm_rtc, AlarmManager and more wakelocks.

Ever since I installed Xposed along with Unicon and a S$2.49 theme together with the EZ Clock, my wakelock has been very, very terrible. If I were to explain it in my terms it will be "horrendous". Battery life in 4.3 has been really bad on my Note 2. Airplane mode + WiFi + lowest brightness settings + underclocked to 600MHz with reasonable amount of undervolting, the max I could get was 8 hours of screen time. Cellular mode was worse, 5 hours as compared to the past with Android 4.1.2; I could easily obtain 12 hours of WiFi browsing and 7 hours of Cellular. Devil kernel uses 4 cores at once unlike perseus where the PegasusQ governor in both kernels differs so much.

Now i'm just can't be bothered to restore to Wanam v1.3 with all those restores and stuff. Doing such stuff takes me a day to backup, double check, fiddle in CWM, flash, restore and install missing apps from play store. N7105 lacks ROMs too.

Verdict: Androids are not for people who goes OCD over imperfections (at least WP and iOS tried hiding the statistics)

It is always silent, I don't use my phones with ringtone.

Then Xposed Framework is the main culprit?

Still provides better battery life as compared to CM based roms

is the tweak really good? 

Prior to SDS. There is a few signs.

1) I just notice my phone more laggy den usual, i tot its laggy cause more apps and data installed (3 weeks).
2) One day i notice my phone is bit hot. (Heat when you play high graphic game like RR3), I wasnt running any app in background.. end process but still same so i restart den it was fine (1 day).
3) A day before SDS, the phone shut down itself. I plug into power plug and switch on again. Work like charm.
4) SDS day, after work.. while doing gym, i check whatsapp a little in between session and next thing i knew. Its DEAD!
5) Took to Samsung service centre which is a stone throw away. Confirm SDS. Need motherboard replacement.
6) Yes if not mistaken it was on custom rom 4.1.1.
7) Phone is well taken care. No power bank charging and no charging while using. Sometimes i even off phone or switch to airplane mode for charging. No water damage. Dropped 2-3 times with rubber case but low impact (last was 6 months ago)

Bad luck:( Any one else can share their experience?

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.

Is already 24 hours since I updated to 4.3 direct from phone download. Go keyboard stop responding few times until I reboot. So far so good, battery life is better too.

No factory reset at all

I just did one reboot and everything is working fine. Preferred not to factory reset to maintain all my whatsapp group chat

I just check my Note 2.. seems like it has Insane chips... what to do???

Thank you for fast reply.. Shall i update it to official rom 4.3 or any custom rom? Or leave it on 4.1.2

I see.. Anyway, this mean that SDS wont happen if i upgrade my Android os?

I also start to notice my note 2 keeps hanging while surfing through browser..

I miss my Samsung U2 USB cable that came with my Galaxy W. I lost it or rather left it at my relatives home that I visited over the CNY.

Thats the only cable that can charge my S3 and Note 2s fast. The black cable that came with my S3 only could transfer 100mA from my Note 2 charger abd 300mA from my Note 3 charger. While the white one of the similar build and looks could charge 300mA and 500mA respectively. Without the U2 cable that could output 1.7A, I had to live with my old Nokia CA-101 that came with my Nokia 5800XM, at least it transfers at least 1.2A and 1.5A from Note 2 and Note 3 chargers respectively.

Not to mention all S3 and Note 2 cables are unable to do data transfer flawlessly.

For the time being I wanna find a quality cable that could charge my phone properly.

Hi guys, mine is SHV e250k. This model is so hard to flash custom ROM and already update to stock 4.3. I heard once u update to 4.3 , u cannot root due to KNOX. Is this true?