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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] b k w:
How do you do this without swapping sims? I too have both but need to go to att to provision the sim cards.

Im happy with the Note 2, I had the first gen note and went iphone5 on launch date because I hated the battery life. With the note 2, thats no longer an issue.

What do I miss about the iPhone 5 and ios? Not much, but if I had to gripe, itd be the headphone selection. Not many out there that support buttons and mic. Ive got yhe klipsche s4a, only because its one of the rare compatible sets out there.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Dewaynelives:
All the money I spent on itunes ringtones.apps.and.DLC 500 $ ill never get back
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] hikaricloud:
I moved from an IP4 to the Note 2...I was apprehensive for a long time about making the switch but I don't regret it.

Things I miss though:

1) Camera+. I still haven't found a camera app that really does it for me since moving to Android...the stock is okay, 4.2 stock is okay (I have both), used Camera Zoom FX but it was annoying, I'm sticking with ProCapture right now but even that has its issues...the stock camera app has a better focusing system in auto without switching to macro mode. I normally switch between ProCapture and the stock, then do editing in Snapseed (which is a FANTASTIC little program). I have the Vignette Demo but I haven't really put it through the ropes just yet, so I don't know how I feel about it.

2) Frame Magic. Still haven't found a good frame program...most of them are corny and crappy, but I've settled on Photo Grid until I find something better, it's the closest thing I can find even though it has maybe 10% of the options.

3) Screen dimming. This is a bit nitpicky of me, but I never liked how tapping the dim screen on android actually selected something. I always liked on the iPhone that touching the dim screen just brightened it without hitting any icons or anything. Probably a mod or setting for fixing that but I haven't found anything yet, and have more important things to look for.

4) Centralized dev. Cydia is by far the coolest thing ever when it comes to tweaks and stuff in the jailbreak scene. I would love to have something similar for android, where you would just add repos to get different stuff. Imagine what an xda repo would have, man...would be interesting to have repos for different devices you can add, since dev for each device can be so different. I know people around these forums "look down" on Cydia since it's mostly useful on the iPhone due to Appstore restrictions, but it's way more than that. I've seen someone say "on Android you have to put in your own work", but Cydia doesn't negate the need for research and work, it just makes everything more centralized/organized. I wish I knew more about programming, haha.

Can't think of anything else in particular that I miss, so far I have been loving the crap out of my Note 2. I've had it for less than 2 weeks and I've already rooted, flashed two different roms, added the 4.2 camera, got an audio mod (desperately needed it), essentially replaced my gallery app, gotten the SPenBoard Switcher (between SwiftKey Flow Beta and Samsung Keyboard right now), replaced TouchWiz with Apex Launcher...a bunch of stuff. Still a lot more to go, too. And after only messing with the phone for an hour, I looked back at my iPhone and seriously wondered how I ever used a screen that small.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Astom22:
Do you enable the "Smart Stay" feature? It will keep the screen from dimming or going off when you are looking at the phone. I have really enjoyed the feature since I do a lot of reading on my device. Never really needed it on my iPhone since the screen was so small you could never get much on it to read though. :)

Sent from Galaxy Note 2 with CleanROM 4.0.5
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] BlackPhantomX:
The ringtones, you can use iTunes to convert to mp3, then you can transfer to your Note II ringtones folder.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] hikaricloud:
I have, yes. I love that feature a lot and it helps, but any time I'm not looking right at it is the issue. Not a deal breaker by any means, just something i have to get used to. I'm still kinda in shock over the stark difference and don't really care about the screen issue all that much haha.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Astom22:
I'm with you, this phone is amazing. I was an Apple fan from the release of the first iPhone, but the Note 2 is so much more. There are little things I miss, but nothing that could make me go back.

Apple innovated in the beginning, but failed to evolve. Without huge changes, I will never go back. Probably buy an android tablet next, if I ever feel the need for one again. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] mini998:
Great thread.

I will miss iOS , it was perfect for my requirements, simple and fluid. ( Not saying Android is not, but there will be learning curve for me )

Currently I have iPhone 4 but I am not impressed with iPhone 5 .Going to buy note 2 in March.

Main reasons for me to switch are

1. Bad build quality of iPhone 5 - Yes it looks lovely when you take it out of the box but gets scratched easily after couple of weeks of use. My work iPhone 5 has twice as many scratches than my personal iPhone 4. If I'm paying premium price for a phone then I expect it to have premium quality as well.

2. Got fed up with small screen size of iPhone , half inch extension on iPhone 5 wasn't enough for me.

Above reasons made me look for a new phone and I am set on note 2.

I am a die hard Apple fan so this is a big move for me. Apple really missed a trick with their choices of screen sizes. I would have settled for an iPhone 5 if it had bit more screen size and decent quality outer surface.

ps- I develop iOS apps for living so it's safe to say I am not going to be popular at work after this switch LOL .
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] linkinyeah:
Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but I really miss the ability to download iTunes U podcasts right from my phone. I am on the road a lot and this got me through a lot of down time. Anyway to get them without download from a computer with an iTunes account?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bajanman:
Oled vs LCD??? Do some research on the two different types of screens.:rolleyes: Completely different in all aspects! Oled blacks are much richer, LCD are kinda washed out. Being in the TV industry for the last 15+ yrs I should know a lil about screens.

Just my 2¢ :cool:

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Xparent SkyBlue Tapatalk 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] godfirst:
I would have to say the app/game selection and built in dictionary. :cool:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Clark Joseph Kent:
Thread Temp Closed as it appears it may have served it purpose....Thank You.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jon3sh:
Facetime with my kid :) Nothing else.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Red5:
Well this post was just flat out rude and uncalled for. There is no reason to post like this here. If you dont have a helpful opinion or answer, then dont post.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rsalan:
I miss the auto-brightness on iOS. I was able to set my own brightness on auto, this way a person can set the brightness to their liking while still having auto-brightness on. The current setting on the GN2 is a little low for me, especially in a florescent lit room.

I've tried out third party apps like Lux but it was a bit quirky and I don't really like the idea of having an app control system functions.

It's no big deal though just a minor annoyance.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] skochw:
I missed Facetime too, until I saw how awesome/easy video chatting with google talk is. :) There is an iOS app called vTok that lets you do both text/video chatting to android (or desktop) on google talk - works very well!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vtok-google-talk-video-calls/id421102042?mt=8
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] andrawer:
so was this post.

I would suggest a private message as to not clutter up the forum.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Techweed:
He's a moderator.

Back on topic, so is there a way to return to the top of a long web page on the stock browser? I don't see why they limited the double tap feature to only a few types of apps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] slowfncar:
On my evo,if I touch and drag the screen down with two fingers instead of one it will scroll o the top almost instantly. Not sure if that's part of android or HTC.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] warfanax:
I was also complaining about low auto brigthness until accidentally find a feature yesterday.

Note2 has the same feature as well. When u pull down status bar and click auto brightness, u can still change the max brigthness and it will auto adjust. So basically if you set the brigthness low when auto is enabled the max brightness will be low but still auto adjust. If you make it max, the max brightness will be high when auto adjusting.

Try it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Johncrist1988:
I just got back from Best Buy and I'm the proud new owner of a Galaxy Note 2 :D Now to pimp it out. This thing really is massive. You don't really get how massive it is until you hold one in your hand.

Voice dictation has been amazing so far. Much better than Siri when it comes to composing things in messages and whatnot, at least from my observation. The iPhone didn't handle noise well. This thing is also snappy as heck out of the box.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] 722ish:
Yeah now go through and disable all the preloaded garbage and it'll get even faster, at least in my experience.

I miss a few iphone apps because the ui was improved on them and I did like imessage when it worked because it can send to a number of devices but I really don't miss any of it enough to go back to it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] funnycreature:
How happy are people with the spell checking and autocorrect on the Note II? I know it's dependent on the keyboard you're using but no matter which one I use on my TF101 (Thumb Keyboard, Android 4.2/4.1.2, etc.) it doesn't seem to be that great. I might get some heat for saying it but the iOS (5.x) spell check is pretty awesome and to 95% gets everything right, even the worst gibberish.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] apen83:
Laughing at this thread. Sorry had to. Although yes the spell check and correct could be better others have switched to different keyboards I however have not as it doesnt bother me that bad. But ive also never had nor will ever have an iphone

sent from a jedi galaxy note2 from far far away
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rsalan:
I am content now with the 4.2 keyboard. Stock Sammy was terrible.. but now I don't have that S Pen pad. :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] mfmseth:
I miss quite a bit since I had a jailbroken iphone with lots of tweaks.

I miss imessage and group iphone mms messages , since everyone I know has iphone and it alot slower to use sms or load up fb messager then just to message them on iphone. I miss Whatsapp and Fb Messagers popouts/ quick replays. I miss my unlimited Pandora skips and a adblocker that works. I miss not worrying about turning on or off the Wifi it was never a issue with my iPhone. I miss using a ipod dock and not worrying about finding 2 plus to change my phone while I play music same kinda goes with my car I never need a car changer due to the fact my stereo had support for my iphone. I miss not worrying about the amps on the changer, 2 amps changer are really hard to find.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Techweed:
I find swift key to be a great alternative to the stock keyboard. I actually like it better than my iphone's keyboard/auto correct.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] justquan2:
It was the games til I found tiny towers, pocket planes lol.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] mr mystery:
I miss nothing of iOS, nothing. The whole OS is the Android app drawer.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Johncrist1988:
Yeah, the autocorrect on the stock keyboard blows (I don't remember the S3 having this problem...) so I'll be looking at different keyboards. I imagine if I ever use the pen to write out messages it will be on rare occasions and will be alright with switching keyboards just for that. The pen actually is pretty useful. I wasn't sure what I was going to use it for exactly in my lifestyle but someone called and was giving me and address and it felt natural to pull the pen out and write it down (I enabled the automatic memo thing when you pull the pen out).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] mp2ning:
You can activate the message popout on Whatsapp in the app notification settings!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Mac11700:
Try out Swiftkey from the app store...it is a free 30 day try out...I've been using it now for a week...and will spring the few buck for it when it is due to expire...It has done the best for me in spell checking and predictive texting.I can't say for the 4.2 Nexus keyboard since I am still un-rooted...but...in a week or so that will change.

Mac
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Red5:
Hi, you may not have noticed that Im the Moderator of this forum... so when you tell me that my post was rude when Im trying to encourage that non-helpful posts should not be posted, well that sort of just adds fuel to the fire as your posts didnt help the conversation either. The difference however, is that I am doing my job as to moderate this thread (in my section) back toward the conversation. I also wasnt cluttering up the conversation as many people needed to read my post to help encourage non-helpful posts.

Hope this clears up your missconfusion. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rsalan:
Doesn't work.. do you have the ATT GN2? I'm also on cleanrom and have never used stock before..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ishmael2:
I miss the Alien Blue app.

I switched when the 4s came out and moved from an iPhone 4 to SGS2 then Galaxy Nexus, then the Note 2.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] RMXO:
When you were using stock KB, did you change the auto correct settings to aggressive?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Johncrist1988:
Swiftkey is simply amazing. I absolutely love it and it is really aggressive about autocorrections so I can hammer away at the screen like I'm use to without stopping, backspacing, editing, and continuing every other word. I definitely love the improvement there. I unfortunately do loose pen use with it, but when I need to use the pen I can just switch keyboards. I'm completely okay with that.

Right now I just got done loading up all my photos and music. I find it rather irritating that it takes in all my autouploads from picasa, as most of those are one photo per day, with tons of days of photos. I'm going to have to log into that and delete those autouploads and clean up my gallery. I also need to change the ID3 tags on my mp3's to make more sense. I'd have figured that's what iTunes did with the iPhone but it seems like it keeps all that separate metadata somewhere else and not using the tag for organization.

Small hurdles.

I'm going to spend tonight youtubing tutorials and videos involving the S-Pen so I can make more use of it. I've used it twice to play around in that Paper-something photo editing app and that was fun. As far as more legitimate uses, I'm definitely going to need to educate myself.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] warfanax:
I am running this rom and it works for sure.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1984546
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rsalan:
Hmm.. I think that ROM is based off the international version. That could be why I don't have it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] none84:
In my experience I went from an iphone 3g to sgs2 and then quickly to the 4s (didn't feel that sgs2 on 2.3 was nearly refined enough yet) then I finally got tired of ios and got the note 2 (on 4.1+ I feel Android had come off age) and I love it. The only things I miss are small and I'm slowly out growing/finding ways around. The tap to go to the top was nice (Thank you I'll be exploring other options now) also the double tap to zoom worked perfectly on ios whereas on the note it always zooms too much and I have to pinch to zoom out. The pandora unlimited skips was nice as is installous and of course there's my favorite ios app bite sms, yes I know there's chomp sms but it's nowhere near as good as bite sms. Other than that it's just small adjustments and a little learning curve but the note 2 is far superior in most every way. And as far as the size, after a few days you just realize how tiny and adorable the iphone was (and most other phones for that matter)

Ps: I never got a torrent client to work for me on ios, utorrent is AWESOME on Android
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] sling:
Go to browser setting / Accessibility & adjust zoom amount on double tap
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Johncrist1988:
I'll be honest, one of the things I'm really looking forward to is rooting this sucker and setting up a Gentoo environment running on the phone that I can SSH or VNC into. I can slack off at work updating ebuilds and whatnot instead of slacking off playing Minecraft :) That's going to be a fun project. I know others have done it before but I'm hoping to be a little adventurous and do it on my own.

It's been a blast these past few hours. I'm trying to read up on rooting it now. I'm still Googling around but I'll definitely be posting here if I have any problems. I was talking to a buddy at work and kept saying "jailbreak". He about slapped me :P

I couldn't really find any really good, long, comprehensive videos about S-Pen real-world usage, so if anyone has any advice or links they could share that worked for them, I'd definitely appreciate it. I get the basics, and maybe there aren't any videos about it because that's all there is to it (screen shots, cutting and manipulating things on screen, making notes, etc). If there is more, though, I'd love to learn. Maybe I need to rtfm..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] borijess:
This thread needs to be closed. Serves no purpose.

Sent from the TermiNOTEr 2! ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Pacorocko:
Android has this as well. Just gotta look for it. Been using it on my Galaxy S for over 2 years now. No ads, unlimited skips. All awesome.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] doctorandrew:
Scramble with Friends on the Note II is slower than the Scramble with Friends on my friends iPhone 3GS for comparison. That's the biggest sore I could think of right now, knowing the same apps over in the iOS field could be more optimized and smoother than on my new phone. I'm coming from an iPhone 5. Will post more when I could think of others.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] andrawer:
ok. my bad.:o
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Techweed:
The iphone 5 is a nice fast device no doubt. I just couldn't deal with the screen size. Even at 4 inches it feels like a baby mouse in the palm of my hand.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jaymaac:
I don't miss a thing!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] funnycreature:
Nope, I didn't even check the settings since I used Thumb Keyboard most of the time. I'll check it out!

---------- Post added at 09:21 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:20 AM ----------

I think this thread is good since many iPhone users are intrigued by the Note II but might have some concerns. This thread will hopefully help them join the Android side!

---------- Post added at 09:22 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:21 AM ----------

I actually bought Swiftkey and Swiftkey Tablet. Have not tried them yet!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Woogie360:
You are still able to do that on the Note 2. By enabling gestures you double tap the top of the phone and it scrolls all the way to the top.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrwoofus:
I miss the little "Whoosh" sound when email sends. Other than that, I'm LOVIN' it! :)

{Android Virgin}
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] skochw:
I disagree. There are lots of new Android users coming from iOS helping each other replace or find workarounds for functionality they miss.

About the double-tap to scroll to the top thing: so far I've only been able to get it to work for Samsung apps like the email client. Better than nothing, though, I suppose... :\
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] -Sn1PeR-:
I miss an easy way to stream to AppleTV and Airport Express, as well as the remote app to control iTunes playback. I also miss asynchronous multilayer games like Ascension and Hero Academy.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] skochw:
Not sure how useful this is to you, but I use XBMC for my media center software, and you can stream stuff to it from the Note 2. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] darktriad:
I miss being able to actually move around icons to any order I like in the folder itself. Granted you'd be able to do that in the main app drawer but unfortunately not in folders. Also, just one minor gripe but I miss being able to tap and hold icons to either move and/or delete right then and there without bringing up the menu button. Just saying.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ainen:
Not sure if you're using the TouchWiz launcher, but with other launchers such as Nova you can do both of these things.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] skochw:
You can edit the order of both the app drawer and apps within folders in the app drawer by hitting the menu button, changing the view type to customizable grid, hitting menu again and tapping edit. Then you can open the folder and drag stuff around (or apps outside folders).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] UCLAKoolman:
I'm using Reddit News and it is going pretty well. Not as good as Alien Blue though. If you find a good replacement, let me know!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] AppReviewBros:
I agree.

That's the only reason I use Android devices instead of iPhone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Dr. Evo:
This thread does not need to be closed. I've seen many-a-trolling Apple fanatic thread, before, and this is not one of them. There's no issues with it existing.

Moving on, from what I've heard, double-tap to top only works with Samsung apps, unfortunately. Not sure if there will be an update or something else made in the future to make the feature not as restricted, but so far only Samsung apps can make use of this function. Sucks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Techweed:
I can't get it to work for the stock browser which is really upsetting. The amount of apps that can actually use this feature seems pretty limited. Which makes no sense.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] F123D:
Only thing I miss is the tap status bar to scroll back to the top.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] sabre31:
I miss a lot of the games and apps that are sorely lacking for Android. I hope this changes with time and sooner rather than then later. For example ascendancy, star base Orion, alien Breed, Do, Reeder, Clear and many others but I am sticking with note 2 because of screen size.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] kevinallen4325:
I regret absolutely nothing. And no, the 2 phones do not break even. Ive had my hands in both. Galaxy note 2 wins every time