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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] borijess:
U need tk check u r phone cause thats more like note 1 battery life.

Sent from the TermiNOTEr 2! ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] 722ish:
For sure. The improvement to the two reminds me that I needed a spare battery with the 1!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rans0m00:
Biggest thing I miss is knowing I will have updates on a regular basis.... not often but once its released to the iphone its released to all... wish android would take the same approach... either release for all devices or dont release. So comes down to the predictability on device support. Having thoughts of how motorola handled some of there older models by just dropping support and offering a credit towards a new one...

All comes down to remove carriers control.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] luciddreamin92:
Hold the power button and put your phone on vibrate or silent, its just as easy.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rsalan:
Not really.. you could do it in your pocket with the hardware button.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jbeef86:
BUT....this is because there are tons of different phones and phone manufacturers running Android with different flavors hardware specs etc. I guess its the price to pay for being able to get almost any type of phone you want going thru Android or being stuck with a 3GS, 4, 4S or 5. Its a lot easier for Apple to release an OS update when they only have a handful of devices to cover. And its not really a huge deal because if you so care to update to a fresher version of Android for your phone usually there is a custom rom to do that. And Part 2 lets not get hugely crazy here...the iOS updates are not really all that major to begin with. If you were Jailbroken you have been pretty much running iOS6 since iOS4....I know I was.

just my opinion on the iOS update
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Mac11700:
Yup...it would be really nice if the carriers didn't put their stamp on the various phones and allow the manufacturers to work together instead of against one another...but that is never going to happen. Competition is a good thing really and gives us choices.The best we can hope for is to be able to continue to easily change what we want on our phones.. When any carrier adopts bad practices similar to Apple's philosophy that tries to silence and close off all avenues of doing this to those who choose/want/or need to..then we show them our displeasure by voting with our wallets which is the only thing they really understand (sales) Further... and as long as sites like this and the media stay open and free minded...we will always have the way shown to us to upgrade our devices regardless if the manufacturers withdraw support on them or not..

Long Live XDA...

Mac
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] highlanderx:
Can we down vote?

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What I miss:

Answering Call-Waiting calls with only one TAP (not swipe + tap)

To the Top as other have mentioned

BiteSMS/iMessage and the general SMS'ing from the iPhone. Its more fluid than android

Almost all apps are smoother on the iPhone (has to be android related, not developer related)

Sending contacts through SMS was much simpler

Real Push for Calendar/Contacts and Email

The ability to sync contacts w/o having to constantly hit sync on the accounts page.

Icon Badges for notifications

LOCKINFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mail App (its just so much better than Androids. Obviously with any attach {jailbreak})

Phone App with Integrated Visual Voicemail

Smoothness!!

Overall Look and Feel

Tap Economy... Everything on Android takes way to many taps.

Some Apps like Harris SpeedWorks

Updates w/o Issues and Carrier Bull****...

Car Integration.

Apple TV Streaming

Apple TV remote Control (guess i have to buy another set box?)

VOLUME SWITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Find my iPhone

Apple Care?

What I don't miss and why I switched

5.5" of REAL ESTATE.

Jailbreaking Drama/devs and the lack of jailbreak for new phones/Apple's walled Garden.

Customizeability??? Maybe.. Overclocking and related stuff...

LTE Tethering

Big Screen.

Big Screen

Did I mention the Big Screen?

Being able to sync Google Tasks

720P Display

S-Note S-Pen

Better Google Maps

Camera Flash (Flashlight)

Widgets!

BATTERY LIFE! This battery IS a beast!

Simple MP3 Handling

SDCard

XDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think this site IS what makes android. There is SO much information here and so many people willing to help (and bash you for liking iPhone) that it simply destroys ANY iOS Community. Devs here help out... on the iOlalaland they just bash you and think they are gods.

That is about it...

I hope most of the things I complain about, can be solved through tweaks and other things... So far I am liking the Note 2 far more than the CrapRocket I bought a year or so ago.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Ghetto Geeksta:
I never had a iPhone but I have a iPod Touch 4g and my girl has the iPhone, one thing I really like is the built in Find My iPhone feature that prompts you to set it up during the initial phone setup. Does the Note 2 have a built in find my phone feature? Or do we have to download a 3rd party app from the Play Store, and if so what is the best one?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] highlanderx:
Most Manufacturers develop the updates... its the carrier crap that doesn't allow them. I don't get why samsung doesn't jump over the Carriers to provide Clean updates.

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True... but the point being is... if android where a'la apple we would be running 4.2 and not 4.1.2. Its still in the 4.x family but sometimes there are welcome updates. I believe 4.2 is one of them... as it has lock screen widgets and stuff I am really interested in.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] the1dynasty:
Tho I don't have a Note 2, I can answer a few of these... Most of your complaints were honestly pointless and not something android can solve because its clear that you like iPhone more in those areas...

Answering calls - not sure what u mean here or if the Note is different because when I get a call its a simple swipe to answer... While on the phone its the same thing... Maybe the note2 is different than aosp in that aspect?

Smoother Apps - that is most definitely developer issues... Most devs were used to develop for iOS first and Android 2nd... You can clearly see this in even some app designs/layout... That's one reason why you might have seen iOS app releases first followed by Android sometimes months later... Take Facebook for example, its hugely optimized for iOS and for android, I just use the browser because the app is so horrible... Even 3rd party Facebook apps like Friendcaster are way faster than the Facebook app... I can go on and on about apps that aren't optimized for android but it'll just be redundant...

Real Push - not sure what u mean here either... My calendar, contacts, email syncs and let's me know of events just fine...

Contact sync - I'm really lost on this one lol... I setup my phone by logging into my gmail account when I first got my phone and all of my contacts synced just fine... I'm rooted and constantly change ROMs and contacts are always there when I hit restore... Maybe u need to firm that feature on because you skipped it in the beginning?

Icon badges - custom launchers allow for this on a few apps...

Visual voicemail - Google Voice

Hope that helped get you on your way!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bfinch:
I use lookout security for this. It works great! I use the scream feature all the time when I misplace my phone at home.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Canadoc:
Actually if you set up a Samsung Account, Samsung offers this functionality as well that you can enable and then find your phone from the Samsung website.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] highlanderx:
Of course I like it in those areas, hence why I am posting it... but even still if android is so customizeable and everything, why can't I make it work like that or in a similar way that solves the issues at hand? If you don't say whats wrong, how can they fix it? Iphone copied a lot from android, why can't it be the other way around? If its for legal reasons, let the aftermarket do it, but with the OS provisions for it.

For as most customization you can do, there is no replacement of certain things. Things that were added with JB!!!

If you are on a call.. you have to swipe to choose to pick it up and then choose if you want to hang up/hold the actual call. On the iPhone one screen and one tap would solve this, where as droid its 2. When you are on a hurry... usually you either miss the call or do what you don't want.

Its good to know the good alternatives for Android... maybe we should start a thread of smoother/optimized apps for Android?

Simple... Get both your phones... Set up already...

Add a contact and or a calendar event.... as soon as you are done... the contact or calendar event is on the iPhone... the android.. either i have to wait 5-10mins or actually have to sync.

I set up my google account on my Note 2 and I had to hit sync more than 100x (LITERALLY) in order to get all my contacts synced. Otherwise it would have downloaded only 50 out of 1700 contacts... Where as the iPhone... 3 mins of total time.

Custom launchers, NOT STOCK... and they will NOT add a badge on ... Visual Voicemail ...Facebook.... Paypal... Whatsapp... AND All others... You only get email, SMS and calls... And not that good at that either... sometimes the badge will never clear... or it will never appear. So far i've been having better luck with Nova and its addons. But still its missing a lot...

By changing to Nova I lost a few of the goodies for S-pen like the S-page and other things. Same goes while changing keyboards... you loose the handwriting recognition.

I don't have nor can I get google voice... and even if I could... I have my service for it and I wish it would worked like the iPhone where the dialer has calls/contacts/voicemail in one app and not 3 separate apps.

Still learning... I bet that for android 5 most of these things will be fixed and thanks for the Tips...

For the Find my iPhone i will try samsung's option now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jbeef86:
You are not correct on the Samsung part. I owned an international Note 1 and Samsung had not pushed any version of JellyBean before I switched over to the Note 2. Once again if I wanted to I could have jumped on the custom rom train if I wanted to for JB on the Note1. Its not always the carriers fault....the Android platform provides much more freedom in doing what you want to your phone compared to Apple. And now with Apple you are even stuck with Jailbreaking because Apple tries to stop it and has made it much more difficult for the community to find a non tethered solution so many are stuck using older versions of iOS anyways.

As for lockscreen widgets and different stuff I use Widget Locker...and have since I got my original Note. Its killer for shortcuts and customization. It aint no lockinfo but it works and also adds a lot that lockinfo couldnt. I also use Elixir 2 and made widgets for my Notification bar. I placed all my most used apps there so I can get to almost everything right from my lockscreen using the notification drop down.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] mr mystery:
I need to modify my previous answer. I miss that when your have your ios device paired to a bluetooth keyboard the on screen keyboard does not appear.

I hate having my Note paired to a keyboard and still having the on screen keyboard taking up half my screen. That needs to be fixed.

Other than that im gold
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ruinkhan:
I had Iphone 3g, 3gs & Iphone 4. Let me tell you this : "No Iphone can be compared to Galaxy Note 2".

It's like escaping from Cuba to live in USA.

World of opportunities :cool:.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Techweed:
Thank you so much! I just looked up sms popup and it looks great. I'll check the others out too before deciding on one but you've been a great help.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ViciousMo:
imessage
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] the1dynasty:
I'm Cuban and I take no offense to this post whatsoever lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rans0m00:
I'm just going to add this onto things I miss from having an iphone... Acessories that work easily with each other. When switching to android I gave up airplay, speaker docks that charge and play pretty much any streaming media. Had to pull out the ancient ipad to stream Spotify to my receiver since I dislike the way it sounds through the headphone jack. Not to mention through the headphone jack I can't use my receivers remote to change songs etc....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] the1dynasty:
I think the overall iDevice integration with other platforms for streaming, etc is going to be a plus for a while... I think the new "lightning connector" is going to make this harder for outside companies to be able to produce compatible products... Whereas nearly every Android device use the same mini USB connector and once companies realize this and start to make products for it, then Android will be just as easy, if not, better...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] highlanderx:
I had forgotten about that... right.. I can no longer connect my phone to my corvette or denon receiver.

I think i'll still leave the iPhone tethered to my note 2 on the car and the other one around the house....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rans0m00:
I agree the lightning connector will make things harder but at least the option was there for generations of devices.... With android yes it will eventually get here and rumor has it in 4.2 we will have some options. Still doesn't change the fact that I have a house full of devices I am looking to replace to android compatible devices and really can't find any that are impressive. They will be coming.... I have faith.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] the1dynasty:
I know what u mean... My Apple compatible devices are strictly for music and since those old devices still work, not a big deal... I personally don't mind using the Aux cable for some things... I didn't buy apple dependent products anyways... So not a huge deal for me...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] anxxxious8701:
Only thing I'll miss would mainly be the jailbreak tweaks for the iPhone. I loved bite sms, twitkafly, and numerous other tweaks that i had when my iPhone WAS jailbroken. That's really the only reason I get iPhones. Once i had the 5, me personally, i don't see the point in backtracking to an older iPhone. But I've fell in love with android all over again with the note 2. I don't even know where to start playing with this thing
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] badler6545:
I've had my Note 2 for a good week now, and wow it has been pretty incredible. I love the device more than any other I've ever had, but there's one thing I find myself missing. My old iPhone 4 was fantastic for listening to music, and it was my main way of doing so. The speakers are much better on the Note 2, but that was a great PMP as well. With the size of the Note 2, I find myself craving some cheap PMP to satisfy that nostalgia.

Really though I don't miss my iPhone. That's just one aspect of the whole equation, and the Note 2 has won every other element.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rans0m00:
I can aux cable them all too.... There are just times when a song comes on I don't want to hear and can't use the remote in the shower to skip the song... I would have to get out and dry off and change it on my phone then get back in... I know total first world problem but an awesome product should have things to integrate the android into other use. The follow up to that is charging it in my car while listening to music.... I don't have a bluetooth head unit so I have cords coming out both ends of my phone which makes placement an issue if I have passengers (here hold this). Pioneer has app radio which looks promising but still a little too far behind on the tech to justify the money Imo.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] the1dynasty:
Get a longer Aux cable to reach into the shower :D

As for the car thing... I can see how that's annoying... My current phone, Nexus S 4G has all the plugs on the bottom... So i don't have that issue...

U can always use an iPod or iPhone in the car...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rans0m00:
For the shower I have just been taking the rough way and when a song comes on that I don't feel like listening to I just endure... I know it's horrible. In the car I don't seem to have much of a charging issue... I have flashed a kernel and undervolted quite a bit and for a 30 minute drive streaming Spotify, navigation with waze, and leaving the screen on I use less than 10 percent of my battery. On average day I am using one charge per day... High screen time a charge lasts me long enough to get home and charge it (est 9-5). I know the battery is huge but this is much better than I was getting with my iPhone so I am content.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] tk13_sj:
Things I miss:

- iMessage (my gf still has the iphone5{only apple can do this, i can't believe the carriers haven't made a stink about this yet}, so we use GroupMe, will tryout Kik today)

- Ease of sending photos and especially videos (iphone auto compresses and has editor build-in to send videos faster{didn't work too well for me when I had it but other ppl say it's faster})

- Game Selection (i was addicted to one game in particular, but finished it before switching to android{will wonder if there will be another game that takes that much of my time again})

Things you gain from the switch:

- Bigger screen (one BIG reason for me, i can't stand it when my gf tries to show me something on her tiny dimmed iphone5 screen{have to tell her to email it to me, even tho we are sitting next to each other, lol})

- Downloading free apks from firefox and installing without connecting to anything

- Backing up to extSD card, no need for itunes bs

- Downloading songs/movies and everything u want like a computer, not a locked down iDevice
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] cue_32:
HAHAHA Nicely put... I never saw it that way, when you think about it... ITS TRUE! hahhaa Good one

I will add to this thread... after all, I go back and forth and love both ecosystem.

Things I miss about my iPhone when on Android:

FaceTime

PhotoStream

the phone hardware itself

Steve Jobs' brilliance

Things I miss about Android when using an iPhone:

WIDGETS!

Customizations

My fix for my Flash-addiction

XDA app (Why is there no XDA app available in the App Store?) I still come here while on my iPhone

and Steve Jobs' brilliance.... (Come on, without Steve Jobs we'd be using Blackberry-style devices still)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] KEVK:
No regrets.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] the1dynasty:
Facetime - G+ hangouts

Photostream - multiple apps that automatically upload photos with an easy link to share them all... I use dropbox.

Hardware - personal preference, so no comment.

Steve Jobs - Apple is now Tim Cook... Not sure i want "that" brilliance...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Krystm:
I miss tiny wings.... that's about it. (The "Clone" is no where near as good to me)

Other then that NOTHING. I find I am using my Note II way more then I used my iPhone. Plus I still have it if I really want to use it.... as well as another for work. However, I really don't miss much as there are replacements for pretty much everything I used on iOS.

I will say off topic I was an idiot and upgraded my iPad2 before saving blobs so eagerly awaiting the jailbreak for that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jooosty:
I had the 5 for 2 months, I really enjoyed the phone. It was a nice size in hand and the quality was great. But the note kept calling my name. So far I'm really impressed . I do miss the battery life on the 5.

My note is rooted and debloated

Waiting for my otter box
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] highlanderx:
People talk about customization, but I think the iPhone with jailbreak is more customizable than Android.

Check this out

http://youtu.be/J4Q_97exnJk

Not necessarily this is what I am looking for, but you can see the level of smoothness and the possibilities with iOS vs Android. There is no way to have this level of customization right into the OS.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] nellycruzz:
No cannot compete even with our customizable home screens, our customizable widgets with manual resize options, full theming with different options according to roms, over clocking options amd much much more. Oh and multi view! Ha. Apple is trying to catch up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Mad383Max:
I see Apple hiring/ buying this guy and then a lawsuit in a year or so after they patent toggles.:rolleyes:

Edit: forgot to add quote of video.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] powerwagon:
If you miss the battery life on the iPhone 5 then there is a 100% chance you have a defective Note 2. There is literally no comparison between the two when it comes to battery life.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jooosty:
I might have exaggerated a bit, but the 5 didn't drop a single % over night with data and WiFi turned off.

I haven't tried this yet with the note. The battery life isn't terrible by no means , considering our CPU and screen size compared to the iPhone 5.

I cant complain though. It would be kind of like asking a Ferrari to save gas lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] BlackPhantomX:
...Let me get this straight... Based on the video link you gave... You want to talk about how you miss the ability to jailbreak your iPhone to copy stock features Android phones have had for a while, AND claim that these "customizations" that require a jailbreak and (as I have already stated) copy stock features Android phones already have are better than any Android customization...? lolwut? I'm sorry, but that video just points out how much the jailbreak app devs of iOS like certain STOCK features Android phones have that they're "porting" versions of the stock features over, with the narrator hoping that Apple implement these jailbreak app features into iOS 7.

At first, I was understanding as someone who have had iPhones since the original, but now I'm thinking you're posting to just troll. If you don't like the Note II so much, then go back to the iPhone. Work requires you to use the Note II? Then just deal with it by using it just for that, or you can complain to your boss about it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rans0m00:
Since the customization thing was brought up... I miss cydia... One place to get almost everything. I understand Google play has a lot of these options.... But if we had a one stop place for roms, themes, etc... And the ability to install them right on the spot without the extra steps I would be happier.

Next phone is going to be a nexus version and see about getting more of the dev support that is available for a lot of phones.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Warrior1975:
How does anyone here actually justify this ridiculous statement by responding to it? Anybody that is on this website completely understands that one of the biggest advantages of Android is the customization. This is, by far one of the worst examples of baiting I've ever seen.

This is coming from someone who appreciates Apple, I have a Macbook Pro and love it. Had an Iphone many years ago, and it was great, however it is a "has been".

Please do not respond to this ridiculous statement.

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