Nice orange everyone must be looking at you

4.4 kitkat is nothing to excited about. Note 3 features surpass it anyway But I think Sammy working on it now.

Is the battery life a lot better than stock? Tempted to screw over knox counter for this

Apparently kitkat is something like an engine tune, no wow-features.

Yeah, more to under the hood but I doubt Sammy will stop working on new software for N3 anytime soon. Just the matter of time.

hi all, my note 3 facing new problem. once a while it can't lock screen after i press power/lock button for 1 sec. i even try press power/lock button for few second to power off/restart also cannot. i need take off the battery, put back battery and turn on the phone only can solve problem. anyone face this problem before?

This post has been edited by wah chai: Dec 11 2013, 11:25 PM

Yes, after 1day5hours on battery, battery was drained to 9% with SOT of 5hours. Wifi / data on 24/7 and I have many active background sync

Hi guys, my note 3 Camera records video upside down and side ways. I try google it but i can't find solution for it.

What rom? Rn I'm rooted but Knox still 0x0, all I have to do Is flash a custom recovery right? Everything else should be like normal, the same as other Android phones..

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I upgraded from iPhone 4S to Note 3. Here are my pros and cons (Purely based on my experience):

Pros:
1) BIG screen! (great for web surfing, viewing pics and vids.)
2) Feels very light even for such a big phone.
3) S Pen!
4) Flexibility of Android (almost limitless freedom to customise even without rooting)
5) NFC
6) Expandable memory

Cons:
1) KNOX.
2) Samsung Bloatware
3) Camera UI all over the place and not very quick (e.g. it takes more steps on the Note 3 to take a panorama pic. and you can't take a vertical panorama pic on the Note 3)
4) Overall UI feel does not feel so well put together. (iOS is still that bit smoother and more cohesive)
5) Bugs I encountered with my phone like random restart and occasional "green screen" (just my bad luck I guess )

Hope this helps

about number 2 cons, you really sure of that? Mine can oo

Come to think of it, con 1 and 2 are not entirely relevant to an idevice user since they can't even jailbreak the current iOS.

The point is Knox is just a warranty flag, it does not stop you from rooting your device if you wanted to.

iOS actively fights jailbreak activity and maintains tight control over its "highly curated user experience".

hlteeur . . . That's for international version which is ours if i remember correctly .

I agree that ever phone / OS has their own pros and cons but then , i hope u dont mind me giving my opinion on your cons

1 - Knox is troublesome but then again , even IOS got this new feature where a factory reset cant even activate your phone unless u remember your email + password right ? Every company seems to be trying out something new to protect end user more and more yet since it's new , its a big " leceh " but Apple , who has been having constraints on their users for years , nobody seem to mind and even adapted to it .

2 - Bloatwares to some are useful to others . Chaton for example , how many of us uses it ? I have friends who do use it and having all their notification under 1 app is easier then multiple apps they said . Personally , i feel its another bloatware 2

3 - I agree on this . Camera on SGS4 was slow to focus or some cases , cant even focus . On Note 3 , even when it's better and much improved , it still lacks behind other makers eg LG , Sony . Guess Samsung never really did a very good camera , just usable for average joes

4 - IOS feel smoother as there's no widget unlike android UI . Widgets do make a big difference to the smoothness . Instead of using TW , which has improved a lot , try out 3rd party launcher eg Nova , Apex . Who knows , u might like it more

5 - I never encounter such problems before on Note 3 unless my hand get itchy and flash in a custom kernel . On stock kernel , many of us here can confirm with u there's no random reboot issue or green screen . Do check your apps or the best is , do a factory reset , use it for a day or two without any apps to see if there's any of the problems you mentioned .

What rom are you using? Narrowed my choices down to Omega,Echoe and X-Note, but cant decide

All, Samsung whines about RDLV and says they've fixed the hole.

https://www.samsungknox.com/en/blog/about-root-de-la-vega

From the read, I surmise that Samsung missed what is known as "collision detection" in the hash, which is what RDLV used to load the root img.

Anyway, Knox is part of a very very wide industry effort to secure stuff down so that your corporate admin can own your a$$. The only way to stop it is if ALL users became very smart about device use, which I don't think is ever going to happen.

This post has been edited by joytest: Dec 12 2013, 12:59 AM

X-Note 5.1 currently . Omega wise , i rather go with Jackyaway since both are more to stock feel but still find Jackaway better for my usage . Foxhound is also a good choice in fact , i always prefer FX but then go for stock and not theme as there's some bugs and graphic glitches on his themed rom unless u can live with it

Samsung bloat ware like My Magazine. Need to root device to disable

I am more used to the iOS experience where things just work right out of the box. And if there is a problem, Apple gets bad publicity and (most of the time), have to fix it with a patch.

What bugs me is that everybody seems to know about the KNOX error/warning message but I don't see any news saying that Samsung is going to fix it. Yes I can root my phon and disable KNOX and a whole lot of other things. But there is a risk that it may void my warranty.

Also, it is not wrong to expect the (currently) top of the range Android phone to just work properly out of the box. I know I can fix some of the problems with a bit of tinkering but when you pay RM2k for a new phone and it doesn't work properly because of thr manufacturer, you shouldn't need to be the one trying to fix it.

What the .. I juz noticed that Ringtone and Notification volume is 2 different settings.. isn't that crazy ? Today i rock down the volume to minimum . then suddenly my whatsapp message come in volume full blast ... dafuq .. y samsung seperate it ?

I'm using slider widget which is kinda cool but it doesn't have adjustments for notifications =.=

1) Sry, was referring to KNOX error message.

2) i am fine if i can disable them but bloatware like MyMagazine cannot be disable just like that. Also accidental swipe up from home screen will launch it. Need to root to disable. Very annoying.

4) will try them out when I am free. Thx for your suggestion

5) I have only installed apps from play store and not even rooted my phone. Some Sifus here mentioned that might hardware issue (just my terrible luck maybe). So need to send in to check.