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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] donatom3:
One of the improvements is that they were supposed to fix waking up the phone with the home button. It should no longer pull up the recently opened apps menu. Also they were supposed to have fixed the home screen security bugs.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] IMBAE75:
I can still pull up the recent app menu through the home button....hmmm and my battery has went down a little faster than previously.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] donatom3:
http://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/117907
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mechanicalmetal:
I am running stock rom rooted. If I update am I gonna lose root?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
I lost root when I updated. I had to flash stock recovery before I was able to update too. There are ways to keep root. There are threads somewhere on xda how to do it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] PsycloneTW:
I think it goes without saying that anytime you update you will lose root. I just finally took the MA7 update now the incessant nagging to update has started again :rolleyes:

I guess I'll use the toolkit to unroot/stock recovery then update. URGH.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] donatom3:
I didn't lose root on update. I didn't even need to use Ota rootkeeper, but I do have supersu pro with survival mode.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mechanicalmetal:
Cool, thanks peeps!

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Dude lol, agreed indeed. I've never seen a group of whiny mofos in my entire life. And the get all serious and edjumicated with attitude and proven facts. I feel like I'm at a southern women's baptist convention with all the drama. Had to take a xanax after reading topic Working Google wallet 4/18! I haven't ever seen more whiny *****es in my life. Lol... sorry to offend anyone, grab your teddy bear and clutch onto it if I did.

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Donatom3 appreciate it bro. I'm gonna go the route you did. :D!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] skw5115:
I think what he meant was that when you wake the phone up with the home button it shouldn't take you straight to the recent apps anymore
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Eric1985:
I've never had that problem pushing the home button taking me to the recent apps since the day it came out
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] erk469:
Same here, if this was a big deal they would have came out with an update awhile ago.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] donatom3:
It came up in ma7 for a good amount of people. It happened to me too if I held the button for more than a brief push. Since the update I've been fine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mr.pope:
I had to flash a stock recovery to get the update, but I didn't loose root.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] yankees45us:
Good to know. About to do update now.

Sent from my Amazing Galaxy Note 2!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Chuck_IV:
It's probably because you always had the Screen Lock on. If you turn the Screen Lock completely off in the system settings(so it doesn't require any swipe to unlock when it wakes) waking the thing with the home button ALMOST always brings up the recent apps. I say almost because in rare circumstances, it didn't(not sure why tho).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ProCision:
home unlock 99% of the time would bring up recent apps for me. Not updating till the rom I use is updated.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] bambam126:
doesn't this update break calls
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
No. It has been Perfect for me
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] willbig13:
Gallery speed.

Don't know about the rest of you, but my gallery was getting to be pretty slow when opening, even more so when another app or the system was opening it like when changing Wallpapers. After the update, it is about a million times faster. Hope it stays that way.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] chaotic646:
Im stock/rooted but dont wish to update, is there any way to stop the annoying update available notification?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] PsycloneTW:
Sweet, I'll give it a go.

This alone would be worth updating. How in the hell did they let MA7 out the door with a gallery that is basically unusable?

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Apparently this works for MA7, I assume it would work for this update as well:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38355213&postcount=166
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] guycan:
If on custom recovery accept it. it will booth into recovery and fail then just reboot system. And there will be no more annoying update

SGNote2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] DJB628:
^^ That is correct
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ls3mach:
Mine still wakes with the home button, but I've never experienced the recent app bug.

I've not had this problem.

My "keyboard" was taking forever to pop up in my text it seems much improved. I don't recall if I was having a gallery issue, but possibly.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] PsycloneTW:
This is only temporary, it will start nagging again eventually.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Kelvala:
I am stock/rooted. All I did was use the Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper. I hit "Temp un-root", installed the update and all was fine when it rebooted. Updated and retained root :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ArtooDetoo:
So does anybody know how to stop the nagging if one does the update through TWRP?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] E-POUND:
Anyone that wants to stop the update this is the correct way to successfully stop the nagging notification with the link to the originator of the method. This seems to work on all the Samsung phones Ive ever used.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1856632
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mechanicalmetal:
You the man! Worked great for me :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] llfloyd79:
Seems like my phone has improved the speed of when it rotates to landscape mode. It was somewhat laggy before. I would be in a text message or something and I rotate phone to landscape and it took about 3 seconds to rotate. Seems more fluid now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] yankees45us:
So far I've only heard good things from this update. Only problem is now it's not asking me to update anymore. Oh well. It won't hurt to wait..

Sent from my Amazing Galaxy Note 2!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] SComp23:
Where can I download this update? I tried installing it via the Voodoo temp unroot method and all it did was boot into recovery. My phone says it's up to date and it is not.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ks-man:
Just updated. So far the screen wake lag is virtually gone. I need to use it longer to feel fully confident it is fixed but very excited it might be.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] androidlebell:
everything works ok
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] yankees45us:
You just need to wait for it to be pushed to your phone or you can do the Google framework trick which I did for the previous update. I just won't do it again because it messes with app notifications and only way to fix them is reinstall. I will just wait.

Sent from my Amazing Galaxy Note 2!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] ks-man:
Wanted to follow up about lag. Not fixed b but does seem a little better
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
You guys may want to try this:

http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=228
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxdejavuxX:
+1
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jreuschl:
Will I receive notification of this update even though I blocked the last one?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Kul_dood:
I have rooted phone with stock rom and the perseus kernel. Can anyone let me know if the update will brick my phone?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lennykravitz2004:
Got hit with the update message this morning. Phone appeared to do its thing and rebooted. Version still says MA7.

Anybody have any thoughts on this? Not rooted, but do have a borked SE (if that matters on updates). Also tried manually updating via System Update / Update Firmware and nada. "Device Status" is "normal" too.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
I just did it with sextapes version and no problems here. Had to reinstall perseus obviously but went off without a hitch.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxdejavuxX:
is it supposed to be different than MA7?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lennykravitz2004:
According to the OP's screenshot, yes.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxdejavuxX:
I guess the voodoo OTA root keeper didn't work then. well At least the annoying message is gone, for now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] SComp23:
Voodoo says it is useless for Samsung phones updated with Odin. I used toolkit to root my phone so perhaps it was my mistake.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxdejavuxX:
Yep I used the toolkit to root and I think it uses Odin so that is probably why. Oh well i will have to find the time and unroot and root again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] itc518:
Anyone know where there is a flashable stock recovery?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] captaingrey:
Battery Life?

Mine auto-updated the other day. I'm on a stock version. I noticed that since then, my battery life has sucked. I don't really use my phone during the day while at work, and I used to be able to make it home after a 12 hour day and still have plenty of battery left. Now, about 12 hours in (after a complete charge), I'm down to 6% battery life. Again, I rarely touch my phone during the day.

Anyone else have a similar experience or is this just a coincidence?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] PsycloneTW:
Sounds to me like something is going on. I'm on day 2 of the update and here's my battery stats.

Granted I've not used my phone a lot today but it's nowhere near draining at the rate that yours is.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jreuschl:
I am still on the PALJC version, rooted using the toolkit (sounds like odin). What is the best method for flashing to this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
You guys seriously don't know about sextape developers and Garwynn's one clicks??

http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=13
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] SComp23:
My last phone was the NS4G, so I'm not used to getting updates :)

Also, after reading what you have to do, it almost seems easier to unroot, install update, re-root.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
Well if you follow that link it'll take you to their site where you'll find all the latest updates. I used it a lot on my epic touch. They usually have lots of leaked builds too before they actually get released by Sprint. Although they seem too have a hard time getting them lately. Samsung has been locking things down as of late.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] SComp23:
It looks like you have to flash the update and modem separately, right?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] jreuschl:
I'm concerned about the possible issues with calls that were reported after updates on that site. I don't know if it is specific to that update method or a bug in this whole ROM.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
Yeah right now it is that way. For some reason since this last update they are update. Zips. Kinda sucks because I don't have a custom recovery. I'm still on ma5 modem though. Seems to work best for me.

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I actually did it today because of that fact. I waited to be sure. And it worked fine for me. The rooted no data btw.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] theoner1:
No different in battery from ma7 for me. It's nice not to open recent app when hitting home from sleep.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] PsycloneTW:
I just decided to check my version after the update and oddly enough it still says MA7 as well. Weird.

Edit: Just to try to verify whether I actually updated and the version didn't get bumped I disabled lock screen security and got the ole recent apps list after waking with the home button. So even though it appeared to apply the update, it didn't actually do it. I wonder if it's because I was rooted. I used the toolkit to root and install TWRP. I used the toolkit to go to stock recovery but did not unroot since the consensus was that it would apply even when rooted and leave root intact after updating. I did notice that I was still rooted after the 'update'. I wonder if being rooted prevented the update from actually applying and this is why I was still rooted after the 'update'. Can anyone who was only stock rooted when they ran the update confirm that their update actually applied?

Of course now I'm not getting prompted to update so I can't test this theory...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] SComp23:
I moved the update file from /cache to my External SD Card. I'm going to put it on my computer. How do I get it to update on my phone?

Unroot/install/re-root?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] thegregbradley:
Only thing I wanted from this update was Google Wallet. Screw you, Sprint. Nothing worthwhile here.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
No problem here. Mc2. You guys sure you're not just looking at the baseband? You'll notice mine says ma5. Best modem for me so far anyway.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] DualSportDad:
What? We've had Google wallet for a long time.

Edit: never mind.. I just read the wallet thread... I guess I side loaded my wallet a long time ago. Wallet doesn't show up in the play store for me so it won't ever update.

On topic... I still haven't gotten a notification for a update... I have been checking several times a day. I'm rooted but stock otherwise.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] SComp23:
This is garbage- I un-rooted the phone, replaced stock recovery, and it still won't update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] DevilStrider:
Seems like it takes longer to charge my phone on MC2.

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I had to use SPH-L900_MC2_Rooted_Nodata.exe from here http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=228& to get it to install.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] DualSportDad:
Did you ever modify your build prop?

I woke up this morning to the update notification and I used voodoo root keeper to unroot and after update reroot. Everything went fine, I now show mc2.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] SComp23:
How did you root? I used toolkit, which uses Odin, so unfortunately voodoo does me no good. I supposedly unrooted using the toolkit and reinstalled stock recovery but it will not work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] AI101:
I got the update this morning and forgot to use voodoo. I updated to mc2 but lost root. Do I have to re-root all over or is there an easier process to get root back.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
Use the rooted no data. That's what I did and no problems. You need a pc.

http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=228
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] AI101:
Thanks. Ill try when I get to my pc
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] donatom3:
Let me guess your phone status shows modified, and you probably have a flash count. To flash a stock rom the update needs to think your phone hasn't been messed with or it will fail.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mr pnut:
You also can use the same root method from ljc.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
Just make sure you use the rooted no data. You'll keep root and your setup will stay untouched. The others will wipe your data. Internal and external. Just read and follow the directions. It's really simple and only takes about 10 min.

Edit: Sorry I think external would be ok. Not really sure but I always just remove it when I do these things anyway.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] SComp23:
Even running through the "Unroot" process three separate times on toolkit, my phone is somehow still rooted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] austin420:
why would you run it 3 times? if it didnt work after the first one, 2 more wont do it. or did you run it 3 times just to be thorough?lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] SComp23:
That is a great question. I think I was just trying everything and anything (in some cases 3 times) to figure out how to install the update. Eventually I got tired and went to sleep.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] PsycloneTW:
I'm a little confused, the instructions in the link state:

"0) Backup anything important and Disable any PINs

This process will restore you to factory software. All your Android data will be reset.

To be safe, it is best to archive your backup off your phone, ie on your PC or dropbox."

So even if I use the SPH-L900_MC2_Rooted_Nodata.exe [Mirror1] (Keeps user data & internal memory) to update then I will still revert to factory configuration, i.e. wiped/no apps, etc.?

I am currently stock MA7 rooted with stock recovery. Can I just use the oneclick above to update, keep all my data/apps/settings, and be on rooted MC2?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
No not at all. I don't know why it says that our what it means lol but don't worry the no data does what it's supposed to. Preserve user data. I've been using their site since the early jelly bean leaks for the epic touch. I think I even used them for the ics ones too lol. They are fine and safe and I've never had any issues with any of their links ever.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] DevilStrider:
It says thay because the no data method is one of 4 options. 2 of those options kill data.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] PsycloneTW:
Thanks for the clarification. I figured as much but wanted to ask before I got to the point of no return.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] mideastbeast:
Sorry, its been a while since I've done any of this. I am stock rooted with no custom recovery. I used the Rooted_Nodata and it worked fine so Build Number is MC2 but my baseband is MA7. I don't want to bother getting a custom recovery. I assume I just live with MA7 baseband? Is there anything wrong with that?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] t4d73:
No not at all. It's just a modem. As long as it works you're good. The newest one was not available as a tar. Why I don't know but it really doesn't matter.

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Np man. I'd want to be sure too. That was why I waited till just recently myself. Better safe than sorry.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] DualSportDad:
I rooted through the eynos ( or what ever it was called) patch a long time ago. I used voodoo and my baseband got updated as well.

Did you ever modify your build prop? Maybe to get googled wallet working or to change your DPI?

I know with some phones I've had in the past if I modified the build prop at all.... Even to turn the camera shutter sound off it would not update until I changed the build prop back to stock.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] SComp23:
I have not done anything that the ToolKit doesn't do by itself.

As of no my Google Wallet works, which is why I'm hesitant to do anything crazy.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] DualSportDad:
I don't know anything about that toolkit. When I root I usually try to do it through adb. With the note I ordered it through amazon so I had a couple days to see what my options were and at the time downloading a app from the play store that could use the eyonos security fault to root was a no brainer.

I don't know anything about any tool kit but I know one way to get your Google wallet working a while back was to modify your build prop to trick Google play into allowing you to install wallet and set it up. If I were you I'd look into how that tool kit allows wallet to work on your phone.

Also check to see if wallet shows up in Google play as available for update. I installed a modified version of wallet to get mine working so it doesn't show in the play store for me as a app I have installed on my phone. If yours shows up as a installed app I'd be willing to guess you modified your build prop at some point and installed wallet from the market. If so you need to change your build prop back to show its a note 2. The update isn't going to install if your build prop shows its a galaxy nexus.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Xelestial:
Only read the previous post saying to try Voodoo...Wish I had read a bit further since I rooted with Odin and was wondering why Voodoo didn't work. I don't know how to flash stock recovery either, despite having rooted several phones just never needed to I guess. I'd rooted using the firmware from Sammobile and Odin for the Note 2.

So to make sure is this completely 100% stock? No stuff added or custom parts? Unlike my old phone, all I want is stock for this one. I'd seen their stuff before but always shied away because I wasn't sure if it was messed with in any way.

What a pain, considering I had just gotten my phone the way I like it but now will be haunted knowing there's an update I don't have...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Thuqnificent:
HELLPPP

Is there a zip i can flash to update it. Or how do I get this thing to stop buggin me to update. I'm on Whomp 4.2 Rom
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] yankees45us:
The only update available is the modem. Not the rest of the update. You'll have to wait till a version of whomp has it built in.which may already be done.

Sent from my Amazing Galaxy Note 2!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Thuqnificent:
Oh okay thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] humdrum2009:
Anyone having problems with this update

Calls, gps, Etc.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] guycan:
Yes I update the modem to mc2 only and was getting lots of missed calls the phone dont even ring they go straight to voice mail .... went back to ma7 modern

SGNote2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] AI101:
I updated to mc2 and only had 1 problem which was my fault but I re-rooted and all is fine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cknicker:
cant get flash counter reset below 1

Running AMA7 stock ROM and restored stock recovery and ran TriangleAway in prep for installing the update but the triangle won't go away. When I rerun TriangleAway it shows a count of 1 but that may be normal for rerunning Away. Where do I go from here? I plan to run rootkeeper and install the OTA once I get the counter resolved.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] yankees45us:
As someone pointed out to me, this update doesn't look at the binary counter so that won't matter. Only thing you can do is have stock rom with stock recovery. If it still doesn't work like for me then something in the original stock rom was changed that triggers the error. I'm basically stuck. Onlyb way around it is installing a stock rooted rom with mc2. Haven't gotten around to do that since I like using my Google wallet and people are saying the mc2 build screws it up.

Sent from my Amazing Galaxy Note 2!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cknicker:
that worked

thanks. That worked for me! SuperSU wanted to replace the binary even after I restored root with voodoo. That operation reported a failure so I restored root again with voodoo. seem to be succesfully rooted and SuperSU is happy now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] yankees45us:
Are you planning on installing a rooted rom with mc2 built in or are you unrooting and installing stock recovery to accept the ota?

Sent from my Amazing Galaxy Note 2!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] SComp23:
I installed the MC2 ROM and my Google Wallet still works for purchases. I cannot get into the app itself (but then again, I couldn't on MA7 either), but it does still work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] yankees45us:
Got it. Are you using xposed method?

Sent from my Amazing Galaxy Note 2!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] SComp23:
No, I have never used that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] yankees45us:
That's good news that it's working without any adjustments. Are you using the r96 gwallet apk?

Sent from my Amazing Galaxy Note 2!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] SComp23:
Yes.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] budde2:
Do you have a link to the apk your using