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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toker_X1:
I have a N3 and was thinking about switch to G2 or something else.

N3 has flaws too.

1) Build Quality

I am on my 3rd Note 3 and it's still not right. The back cover creaks when i pick up the phone. It's only 5 weeks old. Previous 2 units had major build issues and I had to fight samsung to get them replaced.

If LG build quality is worst then that's worrying.

2) Audio

N3 audio sucks (both external speaker and 3.5) if people are saying G2 is worst then its a deal braker for me.

3) Screen

N3 has color reproduction issues especially Reds and Greys.

If view the phone from an angle the red turns to orange.

4) OS

TW is like marmite, either you love it or hate it. I hate marmite.

Samsung aren't fast on updates either (4 so far on the N3 but these were to fix bugs that shouldn't have been there is the first place)

It's taken 7+ months for Samsung to update S4 to 4.3

Other concerns are....

Region Lock/SIM lock

KNOX

Locked bootloader

+ Points

SD Card

Removable battery

S-Pen

3GB RAM
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilflare:
really missing the KnockOn features from the LG G2

and their awesome battery optimization work
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] siciliano777:
I had this exact decision to make a few weeks ago when my contract was up (imo these are the two best phones on the market atm), and for me the choice was easy. As a gnex owner for two straight years, I was personally looking for something different and exciting...

1. The G2's display isn't *that*much bigger than the gnex, so there's that. Yes it looks a lot better, but it's not an exciting enough jump in size from a near 5"phone.

2. While I love the idea of customizable soft keys and enjoyed them on the gnex, I think the capacitive buttons and home screen button make more sense. The bottom bezel is very small, and that's where the buttons reside, so no screen real estate is lost. Not only that, since they don't take up any of the display, you have to the option to choose soft key on- screen buttons (as soon as ROMs are developed), and simply turn off the capacitive buttons. With the G2 you're stuck with soft keys regardless of preference.

3. The s-pen is awesome. I'm an artist and I'm pretty amazed at the features of the included sketch app. The handwriting recognition is pretty amazing, and slew of other pen features is a huge plus.

4. Features like smart stay and especially split screen are INCREDIBLY useful and are a deal breaker. The single killer feature the G2 has is knock-on, but the n3 has a physical home button, so it's unnecessary...one simple push is all it takes. And you don't have to even like touchwiz... Get a custom launcher.

5. I'd rather have a removable battery and sd card expansion. I don't ever have to swap the battery out if I don't need to, but crucially the option *is* there. And 32 GB fixed non-removable storage in this day and age of crazy high digital media consumption is just substandard.

6. More RAM and better ways to use it. With that extra 1GB of RAM, more things can be running concurrently, and more apps can be cached which means they'll start instantly right where you left off. And with options like pen window and split screen, multi-taking is so intuitive and fun! Pen window alone is such a groundbreaking feature that I could now not live without.

So those are my personal reasons for choosing the note 3. Just my $0.02. Spend them wisely! :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shenaniganz08:
Wow and I thought Apple Fans were anal retentives

No phone is ever going to satisfy you (sad really)
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toker_X1:
No phone is perfect but when you paid $900 for a phone, which would drop calls and have a defective home button, are you telling me to keep it me and shut the f*** up?

If so you're the sad person. I stand up for my rights.

Why are you even on xda, you have nothing productive to say?! You're just pathetic. This thread is N3 vs G2.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoitsjustin:
1) The G2 has a unibody so it would be better and it's a lot more firm.

2) The audio on my G2 is a lot better than on my GS4, and supposedly the N3 has a worse speaker than the S4, so it's safe to assume the G2 sound quality is better. And that's weird... 3.5 one should be fine unless it's a legit problem with that particular phone itself or your earphones.

3) That's AMOLED xD. It is awesome with battery life on blacks, but sucks on whites and color reproduction isn't the most accurate. My S4 would "ghost" when I scrolled with white text over black and it was the most frustrating thing ever.

4) G2 is still on 4.2.2, so no luck there. I flash ROMs so I could honestly care less about stock software. The only good stock software phones are the HTC One, Nexus 5, Moto X/G, and GE phones.

This is all my opinions based off of my research though. I'm sure someone else could tell you something completely different. Personally I think they are both awesome phones, and I've never had an issue with my G2 so I honestly really like it except the expandable storage, which I don't miss because on Sprint the G2 has 32 GB+, so I never have gone over that. Good luck finding your perfect phone!

On a 5.2" you won't really miss the S-Pen, however you may miss the larger screen. Can't help you with the rest really, sorry!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mehdi.moha:
on the paper : note 3 win !

on reaality : note 3 win !

on hardwate : note 3 win !

on S/W : note 3 win !

...

so choose your decide ;)
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toker_X1:
I didn't get a G2 but did play with it in store.

I still have a note 3 and added a Nexus 5.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toker_X1:
Are you sure the above info is correct?

Note 3 uses a pentile AMOLED, it's not full RGB AMOLED, also led screens are way more efficient than LCD IPS on power.

Note 3 camera does not have OIS.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dodgebizkit:
Note 3 isn't pentile

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My other phone's a Ferrari.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toker_X1:
http://www.tested.com/tech/smartpho...3s-diamond-sub-pixels-mask-pentiles-weakness/

http://www.sammobile.com/2013/09/17/samsung-confirms-galaxy-note-3-has-pentile-display/

You was saying?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saktoor:
I love my G2
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stanley08:
Wake me up when LG G2 can do this!

My Battery Saving Tips here - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2579075
[Android Apps and Games] cmac458:
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[Android Apps and Games] HwaA18:
Downloading and going to try it out. From screenshots, it looks very nice! :D
[Android Apps and Games] cmac458:
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[Android Apps and Games] cmac458:
Looking at releasing a new version of the app in the coming weeks, looking for as much feedback and feature requests as possible. So please keep them coming.

Thanks,

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[Android Apps and Games] cmac458:
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- Bug fixes
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[Android Apps and Games] cmac458:
Apologies for the large images will size them down later tonight
[Android Apps and Games] cmac458:
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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Talabis:
Hi all,

I recently installed the newest build of Slimbean. I am having a few issues: I am unable to play any media... Music, videos (youtube). My phone app does not work. I cannot receive nor send any calls. And my phone produces no sounds at all.

I tried installing build 7 to see if it was an issue with the build I was using... didn't help.

Internet and wifi work without any problems.

Galaxy S4 i337m

Baseband: I337MUMUAMDL

Version: Slim-4.2.2.build.7-OFFICIAL

Build #: slim_jfltecan-userdebug 4.2.2 JDQ39E eng.blk_jack.20130706.15730 test-keys

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Talabis:
Update: Any ROM I install... Phone and sounds do not work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jd1639:
I'd Odin back to stock and see if you still have the issue. If you do it's a hardware issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Talabis:
I did just that... But it's a bit of a story.

I had just fixed another problem I was having yesterday. Was getting stuck at the S4 splash screen right after powering on the phone. The problem was caused by TWRP 2.6 and formatting /data partition. Long story short, I installed CWM and used it to do a full wipe/format of partitions and then was able to install ROMs, restore backups without issue.

So today, since everything was working, I decided to flash a new custom ROM (which I installed) and the MG1 radio. Wasn't having any luck with the radio. Finally, I was able to flash a radio via mobile odin, but then I soft bricked my phone. Got stuck at the S4 splash screen (same issue I had yesterday, but this time, a different cause). So was troubleshooting it all day. Tried to go back to stock, no luck. Tried to restore the stock backup I had, no luck. Only thing I could do was install custom ROMs at this point to get into my phone (i.e. Slimbean, FoxHound, etc...). But, at this point, although I could boot into Android, I had no sound at all and couldn't play video. So after hours of trial and error, I installed CWM again (replacing TWRP 2.5.0.2), did a full wipe/format and tried to install a stock ROM. No luck. Still was hanging at the S4 splash screen. Then I tried to install this ROM again which I had luck with in the past; |ROM| |★VLUAMG1★| |CANADIAN||i337M||STOCK||ROOTED||July.26.13|. But his instructions said to install a wifi fix or fear soft bricking my phone. So I installed the wifi fix, but selected the wrong file (I know, stupid. Done a lot of stupid **** in the past couple days with this phone). Now, after the phone rebooted, I would see the S4 splash screen for a split second, and it would auto load into download (odin) mode. Couldn't get into recovery at all. So then I decided to flash one of the stock ROMs I tried earlier that didn't work, but this time, SUCCESS!!!!! Phone was booting and all sounds worked. I could make/receive phone calls as well... Everything seems to be working fine now. I find it funny that flashing a wifi fix that I shouldn't have seems to have fixed my issue in a sense. Since it allowed me to successfully flash a stock ROM. So I am making a backup of the stock ROM and will decide what I'm going to do from here.

Holy goalie!!! It's been a very vexing couple of days.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jproy12:
Nice that you got it all worked out, I've found out that if your "status" is custom, it will sometimes give you problems when flashing a "stock" rom via odin.

So what I always do when reverting back to the stock rom, I use triangle away to clear the flash count and make my phone back to "Official". If you want the steps to do this, let me know, it's not hard, but there are crucial steps to get this right!

JP
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Misterowl:
Alright so I ran the firmware update and everything went well. The thing was when I checked to see if everything went alright, the voltage on the battery was different than what was on turge's thread.

Is this something I should be worried about?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] RomsWell:
Both devices were at different charge levels.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Misterowl:
So my one xl charging less than I guess would be turge's one xl?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] RomsWell:
It just reports current stats. So if he had a 100% charge his number would be higher then say if yours was at 80% when you checked stats. Or whatever the case was
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Misterowl:
Thanks for the info :)

Learn a little more everyday.
[Blade General] Skip7:
Hello, I just received my zte v987, and I have a pb, the phone completely off instead of going to sleep (this happens quite often).

Received Rooted, rto2c.com rom, nothing installed, apart from the sd card.

If you know where it comes from. Thank you.
[Blade General] kevinrus123:
Format /system when you flash a new rom , it definitly helps! :)
[Blade General] Skip7:
Sorry Kevin, i don't understand... my english is not perfect...
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] symple84:
Will the Note 3 come with these application like the S4 already has?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leyvatron:
Im sure it will. If it doesnt, you can get watchon from the market and s-healthbfrom the samsung app store.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaptorMD:
You certainly can get Watchon in the market https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.peel.samsung.app I had to look it up since I didn't have my GS4 long enough to actually use it. Seems like a really cool app.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uniqueboy:
Is there a voice input/keyboard replacement with punctuation and arrows as well as the talk button? Voice recognition would be so much better if the punctuation keys were on screen in the panel with the mic button. Period comma semi colon.,; etc. It just gets messed up as soon as I start to say a while sentence, let alone dictate a novel!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uniqueboy:
And here it is in the play store even better than I imagined, nicely done and very useful.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.speechnotes.speechnotes
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Climber104:
Anyone have any idea how to send call forwording information to the network, similar to how cprog does when you update settings?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _RiVeRsIDe_:
So, i get galaxy note n7000. It was running 4.0.4 stock. I flashed kernel with odin with root + cwm. Then i wiped data, tried to install rom (it was miui 3.9.6 from here) progress stucked on /formatting system. Then screen went black and phone won't turn on after that. I founded one user from russian forum who had same issue, idk how he fixed it..:confused:

So, phone won't turn on , go to recovery, pc can't see it. hardly bricked? By cwm flash..?

Phone has got warranty. Maybe i should bring it to them? Could they know that phone was rooted?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _RiVeRsIDe_:
Seems i have the same problem like here...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpyderTracks:
Which Cwm did you use? Was it Cwm. Zip?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _RiVeRsIDe_:
cwm 5. I heard about cwm zip, but no. I got cwm by installing custom kernel in odin. Or you're talking about something else?

And yes, i'm soon going to the carrier where this phone was bought. Which is the best version to tell? OTA update?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpyderTracks:
Yeah, just say it failed doing ota update.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _RiVeRsIDe_:
Okay, wish me good luck.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _RiVeRsIDe_:
Today i've got my phone back with replaced mobo and micro usb port.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxPixX:
Well,be happy you didn't have to pay for that. Now read about the brick bug.
[HTC One X] therac:
After the recent update to 4.2.2 OTA (reverted to stock Recovery, but still rooted), and Sense 5.4.23 i have a weird problem. I have set up 5 screens, and on each I have a number of folders, typically containing 4 or more app icons. These remain in place fine, however a number then disappear after a restart - probably c. 50%. Only thing I can think of is that as I had rather less than 1 GB out of 6, I moved some of the larger apps like angry birds to the phone memory, and it seems to be these that disappear, although i havent tested this rigorously. Switched to Nova launcher, and had the same behaviour. Very frustrating as takes a while to get a useful layout. Only a selection of the shortcuts disappear - the apps are still there. Tried a factory reset without wiping the data, which seems to have marginally improved wifi reliability (another problem) but still have the problem.

Anyone got any ideas - not sure where the data is kept for the layout, however restoring a titanium backup of HTC Sense does bring back an old layout, although it loses the half dozen or so widgets i use?
[HTC One X] Tigerlight:
Use search. This is common and frequently asked!

If you move the app to SD, the icons vanish from user-created folders on reboot.
[HTC One X] Qzar51:
It's a général problems, one issue... waiting a fix for HTC :(
[HTC One X] therac:
Thanks to you both, i did search, atlength on google amd xda fwiw without unearthing anything. I guess i was thrown by the fact that my transformer tf300 didnt exhibit this behaviour...
[HTC One X] focusp:
I am also having problems with the icons disappearing from the home screens after restart since the OTA to 4.2.2 this week and mine are not in folders.

I have found that all the icons that disappear from the home screens are apps that I moved to phone storage (internal SD card) in the previous system.

In the 4.2.2 under settings -> apps -> downloaded if I click on an app there is no option to move it like there was in the previous system. So I cannot even move the apps back to make them stay on the home screen after a restart. The only fix is to uninstall them all and then reinstall them as that will move them back to the internal phone memory. But then I will run out of memory.

From reading other forums it looks like HTC may have removed the move option from 4.2.2 Jelly Bean because users were complaining about their widgets not working. Apparently we need to request it is put back in so I just tried calling Vodafone and when I told the tech rep my problem he hung up on me!

Would rooting the phone allow me to get the move working again and keep the icons on the home screens after a restart?
[HTC One X] Tigerlight:
Rooting will allow you to install Titanium Backup which will move any app and allow the uninstallation of bloatware garbage.
[HTC One X] Qzar51:
Moving OK, keep The icons after reboot.... NO :(
[HTC One X] focusp:
I have spoken to HTC and they say the missing move feature is an issue they are investigating. They don't give any idea of what or when something will be done though.

In the meantime I have done a factory reset and put all the apps back on. Now to check if they stay there after a restart.
[HTC One X] focusp:
Yes they do stay there after a restart now they are not moved.

I am having problems with the Wi-fi too since the OTA update to 4.2.2.
[HTC One X] Qzar51:
Someone new?
[HTC One X] Juddanator:
I am also having this issue. I created 2 separate games folders, when i restarted my phone, they were all out of the folders. Also some of the app icons on my home screen disappeared. Happens every time i restart. Its really annoying because i am really enjoying the update.
[HTC One X] focusp:
Should this thread really be part of Sense 5 4.2.2 Disscussion at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2419485
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Callavero:
Hi!

I have updated my xperia u to a new rom, and the stock calendar was replaced by Google Calendar!

But i need to add events like birthday´s and other event´s from the contacts in phone (not in gmail contacts), so as far i know the stock calendar does that.

Someane know how to do this with the google calendar or can obtain the stock calendar from Sony?

Thank´s
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ChikeD:
[MENTION=5389481]Callavero[/MENTION]

You can extract it and any other app you want from Stock ROM FTF file if you have it.

First extract system.sin from the FTF with 7zip or other archive software.

Then in flashtool go to tools -> sin editor, select system.sin and extract data.

Get ext4_unpacker and extract whatever you need from system.ext4.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Callavero:
Thank´s ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Alfred1516:
I was using my phone and I decide to turn it off, when I came to turn it on it vibrates a lot and doesnt startup I heard that maybe its stuck power button, help please I need to fix it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Smittiegee19:
The power button is stuck. Google the fix!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jd1639:
Pull the battery and then put it back in. If it tries to start it's a stuck power button.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
read the stickies READ THIS B4 POSTING | THE MOST Common Questions Answered HERE read q.32 to 34
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Alfred1516:
Yeah i've done that

Can be a software problem?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
if reinserting the battery restarts the phone w/out u touching the power button, if so then the button is stuck/broken, its not software
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Alfred1516:
Thanks dude now i know the problem
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
ok, what was the problem, power button?

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[Sprint HTC One (M7)] flimsy888:
Are people still getting hard aosp bricks?
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Kraizk:
Until an actual problem has been found and a solution has been explained I would say yes. (HINT: Neither of these has happened).
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] flex360:
oh shut it

no one knows for sure what caused the bricks

no one hasnt gotten bricks in months
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Kraizk:
Bite me tool. Until someone finds the issue or can confirm it is fixed/not aosp related it is a real risk
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Konfuzion:
Don't get this? If 99.9% of hard bricks are on CM with stock kernel there is a problem.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] flex360:
99.9% of hardbricks huh

how many people reported hard bricks ...... 4

how many people flash aosp roms 1000s
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] sshede:
A problem's still a problem no matter how small. You tend to come across as dickish.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] flex360:
so sensitive. speaking the truth is dickish nowadays huh
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] sshede:
Childish as well, but off topic. I will not continue further with you.

To the OP:

Considering that some people who flashed AOSP based roms ended up with hard bricks, I would advise against flashing AOSP based roms. However, the choice is yours.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Konfuzion:
Way more than 4, but based on your responses I will get further having a conversation with my 2 year old so I'm not going to take the time to link all the bricks.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] flex360:
as the op asked

short answer: no

the rest of you can talk all you want. but people are no getting hard bricks anymore

ive been running paranoid android for weeks now, as with countless other people running other aosp roms

i could care less what you guys wanna think or say

im the only one who answered the question correctly.

truth/fact/what?