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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zpithika:
Things I've noticed with the update are definite battery drain.

The jellybean animation when switching to another app from within an app was removed.

Lock screen wakes faster which is good, but is overall a bit more laggy with ripple effect off.

Massaging app for me is extremely slow. Especially with a custom background. (Can anyone else confirm this with their device??)

Overall performance doesn't seem as consistent to me. Sometimes it's faster than before, while other times, not so much.

I like the added features like being able to customize the notification shade toggles but not so much a fan of some of the hiccups I've noticed. I'm sure some will get ironed out though. And I'm still in love with this phone. Only been playing with the update a day so I'll see how tomorrow goes.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] SComp23:
Biggest negative for me is definitely the battery drain. This is the first phone I've had in a few years that could make it the entire day without being charged intermittently.

Biggest positive for me is working Google Wallet- I'll deal with charging my phone throughout the day for that feature alone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
No not yet. I'm away from home for the week so I'm going to wait till I get back and download the toolkit to do so. It looks pretty easy to do from the directions. I can live without root for now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
Just found a lil added bonus on MA7. You now have the option to set the volume keys as camera button or zoom in function from camera settings. That'll come in handy to me :cool:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] yankees45us:
I had the same thing happen to me. I used exynos also. It took couple steps but I was able to go back and install update. If you have already uninstalled exynos apk and no longer have root your only option is to root the phone using any method that you prefer. I used cwm from galaxynote2root.com. Did it on my Mac. Once you install a custom recovery and superuser app and are rooted you'll have to then install the exynos apk again and unselect the patch and unselect patch on boot. Then uninstall the exynos apk. Then you'll have to install triangle away app. And this is where it gets tricky. You'll have to run it as many times as you need to to get binary count down to 1. Once you do that several times you'll then need to revert back to stock recovery. I followed the directions on galaxynote2root.com. The.zip file containing the sprint stock recovery is on the site. They guide you through it. Once stock recovery is installed you can either install the update using a zip file or run it from the phone updater. I hope it's not too confusing. It took me a while to figure it out. Good luck

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zpithika:
I just noticed this too! Pretty neat feature! I like it a lot. Comes in handy quite a bit.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2

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Another thing I've noticed since the update which is really nice is my ram has increased. I used to have 0.9 or 0.8 gb available. Now I have 1.1 gb available while using the same amount of apps. I'm glad they were able to improve this.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] thedome:
Another very unhappy customer with the battery life in MA7. Also, even with Smart Stay disabled, the icon remains in my notification bar. I knew I should have checked the forums before I updated. :\

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] SComp23:
This is very anecdotal, as I have nothing concrete to back it up, but I ran my battery down until the phone shut off last night, charged it overnight while it was off- and today the battery life is much better.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
I am doing that for the second time and battery has gotten way better Thank god Lol . I can't get

enough of this Beautiful peace of a Phone
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] thedome:
I'll definitely give that a shot tonight. Thanks for the info!

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
Now if only it didn't take forever to drain the battery ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] adclem:
My battery drained pretty fast yesterday after updating. Drained it down and recharged and it is much better today.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
You must disable smart stay and smart rotation if you want the icon to go away. Having either one on will give you the eye icon in the notification bar.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ycats:
Let us know if that smart-eye icon starts to wink at you.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zpithika:
I just drained my battery completely last night and fully charged it. I'll report back later about how the battery lasts today. Crossing my fingers!

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] deziking:
Hi just got the phone! Activated and sprint zone tells me there is samsung update and I will be notified. Did a check now and doesn't do anything. How do I receive this update? :confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] yankees45us:
Try these instructions. Let us know if it works.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?p=2595408

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
Yeah minebis doing great at 94% with 50 min screen time and 2 hrs off charge.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] deziking:
Thanks! it's checking for firmware update please wait..... Taking a while.

Edit: the firmware update could not be complete. Please try again. Should I be on wifi since i'm getting 1mb only.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] yankees45us:
You'll have to follow the steps from the beginning again I think.

But yea, mine never finished on 3g. I had to go to wifi or lte if you have it. About 4 years ago this would have downloaded on 3g signal. Sprint used to be as fast if not faster than Verizon. Aaah, the good days.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] deziking:
EDIT: got it to update!!! I did clear data in frame work and used sprint zone and went to my device and when it looked for the network update it said there is a update for my phone I clicked on it and said last update 1969 and it's updating rite now 280mb!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] thedome:
Hmm. I've had both enabled since I got it in October and the icon only periodically flashed up there.

Next nuisance, they've totally disabled the ability to adjust the screen brightness once the battery hits 5%. Yeah, I bought this phone to run it at 10% brightness. :mad:

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] RayTrue04:
On MA7 they changed it to stay on all the time. Now it flashes a brighter white when the screen is ready to timeout. The 5% thingy has always been there on all their galaxy phones.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] thedome:
But before MA7, I could pull down the notification bar and turn it back up to a normal brightness. Now, not only does the brightness slider disappear at 5%, I can't even go into the display settings and adjust it. :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown:

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zpithika:
Here's my battery today after upgrading yesterday.

I've noticed that using the phone drains faster than before.

Standby is about the same.

Media server drains a ton more than before the update.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Wiley_11:
You have to turn off Smart Rotation also to get rid of the eye thingy. :fingers-crossed:

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I noticed when scrolling a web page with my finger on the edge of the screen it no longer zooms in and out. :highfive: Google Wallet. :cool:

My battery life seems a little better, if anything. One day is not a good test though. I restarted after downloading 4.1.2, whether it helped I don't know.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Zpithika:
Yea for me so far it seems about the same. I restated as well and things are working quite well. But you are right. One day doesn't tell the whole story. So we'll see in a couple how things are working.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jreuschl:
Is there any way to stop the phone from reminding me of the update? Since there may be issues (and the fact I'm rooted) can I disable the prompts?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] biggness:
+1
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] PsycloneTW:
I was going to ask this but eventually it just stopped nagging me. I think after a couple of days of saying Install later it will leave you alone. I seem to recall this same behavior on my GS3 as well. However I also seem to recall that at some point it starts reminding you again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Wanderr:
Rooted and Updated

I thought I'd provide some info for anyone with a rooted Note 2 worrying about the software update. This was my sequence of events:

*Stock TouchWiz ROM throughout*

1. I was rooted forever using the toolkit.

2. I downloaded Chainfire's ExynosAbuse app and used it to fix the Exynos bug.

3. Got prompted for Software Update.

4. Undid Chainfire Exynos fix.

5. Used OTA Rootkeeper to temporarily unroot.

5. Ran Software Update - no probs

6. Used OTA Rootkeeper to restore root.

So far... flawless *knocks on wood*
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
Go into settings and try to stop notifications from the framework app and samsung push service you can disable thats how I stoped it for my S3 it might work for this to
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
So after letting my battery drain 3 times til it shut down

And fully charging while off till 100% today I got 9 hrs with 3 hrs screen on time. Horrible I don't know what is going on the other day I got 19+ with 7 hrs screen time this new update has to many bugs
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] pongoface:
Try Garwynn's kernel and look for a rogue app. I've had the same battery life as before. Also have read on the net somewhere that 4.1.2 update that Samsung upped the brightness a bit.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
I'm not rooted really don't want to but it Might come to that I am going to buy a new battery Next week Im thinking maybe it is my battery, but I have never Charged it before 10% and never let it Charge for more than 10-20 min after 100% So who Know's either way it will be nice to have Two batteries. Thanks for the advice .
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] loveshinesthru:
anyone else getting texts over and over? its driving me nuts! I updated last night and this morning it started and has been non-stop all day.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Brodizzel:
Anyone else have this issue??

I use WidgetLocker and I wake my phone via the 'Home' button. When I do this (wake the phone by pressing the 'home' button), the built in task switcher pops up over WidgetLocker. I can find no way to disable this and it's really REALLY irritating. Sure, only one press of the back button dismisses this, it just hacks me off to no end because it didn't do this before the update.

Any help as far as how to disable the task switcher or any other ideas would be HUGELY appreciated.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] egeek1:
Similar problem, when I press Home or power to wake my phone it opens to recent app screen, then press back button for desktop. Annoying. For me, wake lag still present after MA7.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] adclem:
I had that problem a while back even before the update. It went away as quickly as it started.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mike61096:
I have a rooted note 2 on my untouched stock rom. If I flash the rar file from a few pages ago, what does it do? Noob question, but will I lose anything from my current rom? Is this update even worth it or should I just push it off and keep using my phone rooted on 4.1.1?

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I have twrp installed, and when I go to installed the update via the system update menu, the updates says restart and download now, so I do. But then my device boots into twrp. How can I fix this? Also, after I rebooted out of twrp, the prompt to update disappeared and I can't find it under update samsung firmware anymore. :( I'm still on 4.1.1 and now I can't download 4.1.2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
I would not worry about this update I have many problems including battery I wish I did not update I am looking for a way back to 4.1.1 without have to root. Thats my opinion
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Wanderr:
I am sure you cannot run the software update using a non stock recovery. Restore your stock recovery and then follow some of the instructions in other posts in this thread to force a recheck for update by clearing cache etc... Hope that works.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mike61096:
another noob question...do i clear the cache in twrp? Or do i clear it some other way?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] egeek1:
I guess, if you're not concerned about the security exploit!

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Clear cache from stock recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] PsycloneTW:
I've only had to install a post root/custom recovery update once before on my GS3 and in order to update it I had to unroot and install stock recovery to update as the updates will not install with CWM or TWRP. I believe the same applies here for the Note 2. That being said, I'd hold off as it sounds like this update has several problems. I am glad I waited and eventually it stopped nagging me to install it which is odd. I wonder if they've silently pulled the update due to the problems that it has?

I am not too concerned about the security exploit, I only surf a handful of known sites and don't install apps from any source that raises any kind of red flag to me so I think I'm safe.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Wanderr:
I've read most of this thread and I do hear that people are having issues with their battery but haven't seen anything yet about any analysis. Personally my battery seems to be just fine and I haven't experienced anything but improvements (faster response on the lock screen for e.g.) so I'm curious if there is something else at work here besides the software update... any thoughts?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mike61096:
So I guess I should be glad my device booted into twrp and cleared the notification. It doesnt sound like I want this update. Instead I think ill just find a rom I like with google wallet bundled in it and use that. Im kinda getting tired of touchwiz and since this update didnt really change anything graphically I say screw it. But I have so many apps on my phone I'd have to restore if I do use a custom rom.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] yankees45us:
I'm having same issue. I'm buying the anker batteries from amazon and testing those out. I hope it's the battery but what's the coincidence that after this update phones start doing this.

Sent from my Amazing Galaxy Note 2!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] k3v0:
I've found remaining on my rooted stock LJC, with the MA7 radio and kernel, to be the best in terms of features, security, and efficiency (battery drain).

I used Billard412's LJC revert to return from MA7 to LJC. It fixes the hands free activation and chameleon force close issues. Obtained root through the Exynos Abuse app. I then flashed Team WHOMP's MA7 all-in-one and MA7 kernel.

Works great. Rooted and chrooted. Exynos exploit fixed. MHL and Allshare working. Battery life superb. Google Wallet fully functional.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
One of you, run Better Battery Stats and find what is partial wakelocking your phone. Having sudden battery life issues after a firmware update and buying a new battery, is like having a car with a flat tire and solving it by buying a new engine and transmission.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
Is this normal
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
These are horrible to
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] skinneejay:
What is fashion story? Also to those having battery drain. Have you checked your map settings. Is location setting on? What about samsung sync? Turn that off. Some of your battery Saving settings might have been reset.

Sent from my Sprint Note 2.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxLostSoulxX:
Is there a way, to disable the pop-up? As I have root and other things it may eff it up possibly sd card.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
My daughter plays it not sure I think you have to make dresses and stuff like that
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Uchennadi:
Whatever you do, don't update to this! My phone used to feel smooth, now it's jittery. It's like it wants to go but it's caught up chomping thru some bad codes or something. The gallery app is just crap now. It's so choppy and just stutters and skips frames. The messaging app is the same way. Not smooth at all like it used to be. Those Samsung hints keep coming back even after I checked them not to. I hit the menu key in Google search and the menu flickers in and out.

Why on earth they let this out is beyond me. Do they not test these updates before releasing them? This is really bad.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
Life lesson. Your individual experience with something ! necessarily = everyone else's.

Now how did you flash what and what rom are you on?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Uchennadi:
Lesson learned for sure. But looking at this thread, I'm not the only one having problems with this update. I'm on stock. Not rooted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
Evey thing he said I have the same problems thanks to the update its crazy how messed up stuff is now. they need to get on this because a few people are having this major issues I am odining back tomorrow the few extra features are not worth it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bleyten:
The negative comments about this update are puzzling to me but to those hesitant to install this based on negative comments consider this... people rarely take the time to post positive feedback but people will most certainly take time to post negative comments. Considering the 1000s of people who have likely installed this update I wouldn't let the few derogatory comments sway you from upgrading!

I've had zero problems with this update. No lag, everything at least as smooth as LJC with some nice additions plus I can use Google Wallet without rooting. Amazing battery life as well! Today I got over 24 hours on the battery with 2 hours of phone calls and more than 4 hours screen on time. Stock non rooted, no tweaks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
Google wallet is not worth the trouble and people always post how bad ass this phone is. But if theres a problem multiple people are having it needs to be known its nice that you a couple others have no problems but there seem ti be more with problems thsn without so that says its the update and not the people
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] drivenapollo:
Thank you for posting this. I went ahead and did this too after seeing it worked for you. I did not have the exynos fix so I did not have to do this part, but the rest I did have. Worked perfect.

For those that may wonder I am stock with root and stock recovery.

Cheers
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
Ok so I rooted and than installed root explore and put .bak and the end of the giff.demon and a few others I have to look and see but any way im getting good battery life so far. It seems to be doing way better in idle and while screen on. Ill post in a few with all the files I put .bak
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bleyten:
I think you missed my point, just because you read more reviews that complain about the update doesn't mean there are more people having problems with it than not, they're just the ones that take the time to post about it. Most people don't take the time to post about the quality update because it works and they're happy with it. And yes I realize people always say how bad ass this phone is but I was speaking of this update not the phone in general.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 91 Coupe:
I agree with all of this 100%. Same problems here. I am not rooted.

The gallery is jacked up. When trying to post a pic from the gallery on Instagram, it's like being on dial-up. Very strange.

Same with sending pics through texts. When trying to attach them, the gallery takes forever.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
Well if it was a good update im sure people would be sharing it lets start a thread to see who does and who dont that way we can see what the people might have done differently that dont have the problem. I rooted and changed a couple bin files and my battery seems to be good to go. For the gallery I unsynced my drop box google and Facebook pics and it is almost back to normal with a lag here or there.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Domonopants:
I was rooted, with The stock Rom that came with phone, i had clockwork recovery i got the update and it rebooted phone but couldnt install so i rebooted and flashed stock phone recovery through the ToolKit , but now i dont get the notice anymore and everytime i check to see if there is an update i get nada.. Anyway to fix this or another source where i can get download from?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] adclem:
The only annoying problem I have is that when your on a call and you hit the home button it brings up task manager instead of the phone call.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] PsycloneTW:
I had this same scenario play out when I had my GS3. I believe I ended up manually updating after I flashed back to stock recovery/unrooted. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to this. I am stock rooted on my Note 2 and was getting nagged to install the update. After a few days of constantly hitting the Install Later button it stopped nagging me. Then a day later it started up again. So maybe if you wait a few days it'll start nagging you again. :confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
Boot into recovery and clear all csche that should do it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] turbomustang84:
Hi I wanted this update so I unrooted and reinstalled but now I want to root it again but the sprint listed in the program is 4.1.1 will this matter ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] 91 Coupe:
My battery is usually around 80% when I get home from work. Today when I got home it was at 15%. This update is junk.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] yankees45us:
You can use the same root for this update also. I unrooted and ran update and used my Mac to root again with cwm and su. It worked perfectly.

Sent from my Amazing Galaxy Note 2!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] buttered_popcorn:
Worked here too (and on the wifes). We also are stock with root and stock recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] OldNSlow:
I'm with you. Anybody know a way to just disable the notification?

I tried freezing "system update" in titanium, and then clearing the cache. The stupid pop up keeps haunting me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] BrianBaker:
delete the update from /cache>

then go to system/app>

rename FWUpgrade.apk to FWUpgrade.apk.bak

and if you are on odexed>

you need to name FWUpgrade.odex to FWUpgrade.odex.bak as well

-fix permissions

-reboot

-Party like a rock star
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] OldNSlow:
Fantastic. Thank you kind sir.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] GhettoBSD:
So how can we only patch the exynos exploit? Since it seems that the majority of those posting here are against the latest update?

I have stock room, rooted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Skripka:
Remember the nature of internet reviews. Only people who're pissed off bother to voice their opinion. It is true on Amazon and NewEgg and it is true in this instance as well. I'm not having issues with MA7, but that is me and that is not to say other people aren't.

If you're rooted and running Perseus kernel then you're covered against the exploit. Perseus had the exploit patched back in v29 IIRC.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
I would say I disagree I think people just see the bad more than the good.

The good does get pointed out and showed off but people look for whats wrong first than what's not. If that makes any sense