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[Galaxy Note 3 General] BarryH_GEG:
I have nothing but respect for the moderators who give up their time to support the community and get little back in return. When I typed the comment you've quoted there was no thought that went in to in terms of a "dig," I was just clarifying where the content that followed in the post came from in case people saw it repeated.

I've gone back and changed the original post that started this thread as I had no intention of if being taken as negative to the mod community. And I apologize if my poor choice of words was offensive to you or any of your peers.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] betoNL:
In the meantime, the price of the GNote2 is already down to 400 euros here in Holland..

Not bad for a new Note series user..

Just saying...

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] betoNL:
You are right.

He probably confused your post with mine...

Never mind anyway...
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Dan37tz:
My S3 both International Quad and US Dual Core Snapper never stuttered and hardly lagged.

My Note 2 never lagged or stuttered.

My S4 lagged and microstuttered like a POS single core Android phone from 2009. Okay maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration but using it was a pretty dismal experience considering the power that was packing under the hood. My HTC One NEVER had any of that lag or microstuttering so I chalk it up to TW. Taking a picture on the S4 even had lag, the HTC One was instant.

I have the Note 3 on order, My G2 comes in today. I really, REALLY have my fingers crossed that it doesn't have S-Lag and the camera would be a quick shooter like the S3 and Note 2 was.

I really loved my Note 2, one of the best devices I've used. I really hope I can keep the N3 as my daily driver but I have no issues with returning it INSTANTLY the moment it stutters or lags and keep the G2 as my daily instead.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] oneandroidnut:
Note 2 was my favorite phone too. Hope the Note 3 can impress
[Galaxy Note 3 General] My1xT:
the N2 was my 2nd smartphone (after Huawei Ideos x3) and of course it is beyond comparison, cam 0,5-2 seconds waiting time (even on Cyano 7.2) vs. instand on TW Stock, and many other things...

Hope for N3...
[Galaxy Note 3 General] br5:
Saving me some buck to get that expensive beast called Note 3

But can you imagine if the Note 2 price go as low 300 box(new and unlocked) ?

Then it will be a lot of phone for that amount of money

The Note 2 will be no longer the best phone, but definitely will be the best buy ...

:good:
[Galaxy Note 3 General] My1xT:
300 what? dollars, euro?

but one thing I can say for sure for 300 yen you wont get a new and unocked N2...
[Galaxy Note 3 General] betoNL:
Another (short) visual comparison won't hurt :

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] barondebxl:
Great job Barry, thanks for the info!
[Galaxy Note 3 General] ramhses:
Yeah, awesome job.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] betoNL:
Just quoting the final thought of a report (link posted on a recently started similar thread on general):

Whole report here:

http://www.idigitaltimes.com/articles/19803/20130906/samsung-galaxy-note-3-vs-2-buy.htm

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] My1xT:
well the 1080 screen has at east one good thing for me. the 1080p 10-bit videos I have can now be played without any problems on my note 2 (due to experience I know that 10-bit Videos are better scaled up than scaled down, at least in terms of performance)...
[Galaxy Note 3 General] BarryH_GEG:
Placebo.

For most people, though, it won't matter. Photos are inherently fuzzy, so it won’t matter whether they’re viewed on a 1920×1080 or 1280×720 smartphone display; you’ll still see their imperfections. "Even the tiniest image detail in a photograph is always spread over more than one pixel," Dr. Soneira explained in a follow-up e-mail. "The image detail is never perfectly aligned with the pixel structure of the display." Videos are even worse: not only are they fuzzy like photographs, but the pictures are constantly moving. Even if the images were sharp, the human brain couldn’t zero in on content that’s appearing for only a fraction of a second on such a small display. "For ordinary viewing of videos, 1920×1080 is really not going to make a visual difference," adds Dr. Soneira.​

This is a great article on the effects of a 1080P display on what a mobile device is typically used for. Bottom line is the human eye is the lowest common denominator.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/10/1080p-on-a-smartphone-screencan-it-possibly-matter/
[Galaxy Note 3 General] My1xT:
Usually I also think 1080 screen are useless but the problem is that the 1080 videos I have dont play fluently on my Note 2, on the contrary they they stop every few seconds and whatnot. as I said performance, not how it looks. and dont ask about converting, the softsubs and everything are not converted as they should by ANY converter I used...

same experience on Tab2 7.0 with many 720p Videos
[Galaxy Note 3 General] betoNL:
no need to be convinced about the bleeding edge improvements.

As you can see I already put a couple of thoughts over there : http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=45666392&postcount=24

And one additional post later...

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] My1xT:
Yay I got to have a note 3 in the hands today and I have to say It's xTremely nice...

except for one thing. you wont believe it but the Note 2 take 13,02GB System Space you hear right THIRTEEN Gigabytes (just a note: FIVE GB More than S4 and about NINE GB more than Note 2)...

and 3Gigabytes of RAM, dont make me laugh, we have "only" 2,38GB RAM.

but let's focus on the better things.

is is not problem to reach the most places with one hand without that much problems since it's about the same size, but IF you had problems getting to the top left corner (or top-right if you use it left-handed) the note 2 has an omni-present one handed mode which can shrink the whole screen, but you can disable it again for whatching videos and whatnot.

here some photos:

RAM size

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3d2r7h1tl9im2c5/2013-09-26 14.47.45.jpg

Storage (Note: i calculated the completely available space with the S-Pen window calculator on the picture)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ihtri6pih5zulen/2013-09-26 14.56.20.jpg

detail view of softbutton bar in one handed screen

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tud4hdmbpfcv7hj/2013-09-26 14.56.39.jpg

One handed screen right

https://www.dropbox.com/s/decbuggskc3rda6/2013-09-26 14.57.02.jpg

and left

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fr7k069r1atjsvn/2013-09-26 14.57.15.jpg
[Galaxy Note 3 General] BarryH_GEG:
So it's pretty safe to assume that all the N3's features won't/can't be passed down to the N2 via updates considering the vast majority have 16GB of RAM.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] My1xT:
maybe it's just for the FUllHD experience THIS much, and if they bring out App2SD then it will be at least less worries...
[Galaxy Note 3 General] betoNL:
Stock Android 4.3 for the GNote2 is in the oven..

Devs are patiently waiting to port stuff from the Note 3 to the Note 2, carefully removing as much bloat as possible...

Specially all the locked stuff, Knox and more

It's going to be lots of fun and lots to do while waiting GNote3 prices to settle down .....or waiting on the GNote4 ......who knows , many possibilities....:cool:

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] My1xT:
but I think knox is intresting. I didnt have the opportunity to test it but locking files is intresting. (I dont know whether it locks apps, data and whatnot too but still not bad)

anyway Note 3 will be not bad and as soon I get my money from N2 and enough pocket money and the price dropped a bit, Note 3 will be mine...
[Galaxy Note 3 General] starche_old:
"Samsung is now locking all new devices to a region, making life hard"

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sams...-devices-to-a-region-making-life-hard_id47790

well done, Samsung... you decided to follow the steps of one "fruit" company to put as more stupid limitations as possible. You breaking the rules of open source community. I'm definitely not gonna buy your products any more. Even more - looks my N2 gonna be sold right after Nexus 5 will be available. I'm officially done with Samsung.

BTW, can some1 confirm the status of bootloader if it locked as well or not?

Sent from SGH-i317m
[Galaxy Note 3 General] betoNL:
Open source community? That's just a small percentage of Samsung devices users//

This time Samsung will piss-off a much larger group as well ....

Already warned some friends that don't even know that Forums like this exist, or what root is, about the region lock....

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] starche_old:
I don't care about the size of community. What I care is how the vendor taking care of it's customers and from what I can see -- I don't like that at all.

How many times and how long community asking to open the code for power saving of Samsung CPUs (4412 for instance) and guess what...

Sent from SGH-i317m
[Galaxy Note 3 General] betoNL:
It's not what I meant.

I knew that Samsung is arrogant enough to no to care about what the community thinks or codes etc...

But now their arrogance is reaching a much larger group.

Now the s#%$ is really gonna hit the fan

That's what I meant

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] starche_old:
I see what you mean:D

Sent from SGH-i317m
[Galaxy Note 3 General] BarryH_GEG:
For people who don't have the patience or energy to plow through the 38 pages of discussion on region locking it's turned out not to be a big deal. Here's the statement from Samsung UK which mirrors the statements made by Samsung Switzerland and Samsung Germany. The bottom line is that if you buy a N3 that has region lock installed you have to first activate it with a SIM from its specified region. After that it works like all of Samsung's previous phones with any SIM worldwide.

“In order to provide customers with the optimal mobile experience in each region including customer care services, Samsung has incorporated the ‘regional SIM lock’ feature into Galaxy Note 3 devices. The product is only compatible with a SIM-card issued from a mobile operator within the region identified on the sticker of the product package. When the device is activated with a SIM card issued from the other region, the device may be automatically locked until it is released at the dedicated service centre.

Once a device is activated normally, the regional SIM lock is automatically released. Users can enjoy the roaming service as usual and can use other region’s SIM card when travelling. The regional SIM lock has been applied to the Galaxy Note II and Galaxy S4 devices through a software update in selective markets. The regional SIM lock does NOT affect the device’s features and performance. Users can continue to enjoy all the advanced features of our products.”​
[Galaxy Note 3 General] My1xT:
indeed...

but the stickers on the devices' pakages are quite misleading...
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Dumbo53:
I went in to At&t today and sent 30 min or so with the display model. I even rebooted it into recovery. Before seeing it and especially before the revelations about Knox, I was going to upgrade. Unfortunately I wasn't impressed with the real thing.

Part was the overwhelming amount of crapware! I'm so used to my Cleanrom modded beast that the brand new Note 3 looked like a buggy piece of crap. When i walked out, I realized that all the root extras (Xposed, dpi, Xprivacy, hotspot, Adaway, nandroids, debloat, etc) mean way more to me than the very incremental hardware improvements on the Note 3. Thank God for Xda!

There was one thing I did want on the Note 3 and that was the new camera. I'm tempted to wait a couple months when it'll be possible to get the camera as a part on ebay for $20 and see if I can hack it into my Note 2. By that time we should have 4.3 going and it may be possible to get the drivers to run it from a Note 3 rom onto the Note 2. The connector is the same. The problem is the placement and opening size of the camera are different.

The other thing that impressed me was the Mega! Yeah I wish the specs didn't suck, but the screen even at 720p really looked like an upgrade. Interestingly the camera orientation and size on the Mega is just like on the Note 3. Hmm. I wonder...
[Galaxy Note 3 General] betoNL:
I did read some pages... enough to see reports about normal activation no working,

Today a fellow dutch guy will test his Dutch Gnote3, normally activated in Holland, in China. Just waiting on his report...

Some countries don't even have capable service centers and tons of users don't have any idea how to tweak their phones.

Which information/statement is the correct one, that still remains to be seen

One thing is sure: that's another bad move of Samsung

And the stuff is already hitting the fun (I mean, fan)...

And wishful thinking just won't cut it...

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] starche_old:
Now it's official - Samsung lying about unlock note 3, check this out, guys:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=46073329&postcount=718

What that means? You can not use any other SIM card rather then from your region. like you go in Europe for vacation and you must use your SIM card and pay crazy roaming fees ($2 per minute for Rogers and smth crazy like that for 1Mb of data). Are you nuts, Samsung?

Nice done, Samsung. And please - stop lying your loyal for years customers and make them pay huge $$$ for your stupid decision. And yes - stop that stinky BS about unlock.

Sent from SGH-i317m
[Galaxy Note 3 General] BarryH_GEG:
The only thing official is that guy in the region lock thread you're quoting is nuts. Samsung's explained region lock, there are videos of it working as described, and the media seems satisfied for the most part. There have been some reports of region lock being borked (the Swedish guy with the Thai SIM) but nothing to demonstrate region lock isn't performing (for the most part) as Samsung described. And where it is borked Samsung will remove region lock for free any way. I'm still importing a region locked N10.1-14 for use in the U.S. because I trust Samsung over the hysterical posters in that God awful thread any day.

People should believe whatever they want but keep region lock discussions in the thread you linked. One hysterical thread per topic is more than enough.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] starche_old:
Are you serious? Multiple reports is not enough for you? Well, tell me how many reports you need to start to consider that as an issue.

Now, imagine you came in Thailand for a week for vacation. Instead of doing your thing as you want you have to: drop everything and find Samsung service centre, and absolutely not necessary they well do it right a way, they might ask you to leave the phone for a week. Nice :( But remember: very few people in Thailand speak English, you cannot get directions to get there (you need data to work and that's not the case), you cannot even make a call, how kewl is that? Especially when you just paid whoppy £620 (around $900) for unsubsidized N3. And to make things even worst - you came not in Bangkok, but to the smaller city, let's say - Phuket, where there's no Samsung service centre in hundreds of miles around. What would you do?

Don't get me wrong, in NOT trolling, I'm informing XDA members about huge costs and big pain they have to come through. I wanna help them to make right and non-blind decision. I would think that's the idea behind any web forum.

Sent from SGH-i317m
[Galaxy Note 3 General] BarryH_GEG:
You're entitled to your opinion and have made your point. Further region lock conversation belongs in this thread which is dedicated to it...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2457964
[Galaxy Note 3 General] starche_old:
Please put this link in OP,I think that's fair

Sent from SGH-i317m
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jetbruceli:
Man I had the note 2 and was OK with it but this note 3 qualcomm version just blows it away in every aspect out there.

The screen mainly with its high res, the performance, touch whiz and it's features and not to mention this baby came with 32 GB instead of 16
[Galaxy Note 3 General] My1xT:
jet can you get me a screenshot of how much space your System takes, since I heard from someone that on his/her note 3 the system didnt take up 13GB like the device in the Saturn store I way playing with, but only 5,x GB...
[Galaxy Note 3 General] NightOrchid:
This I agree with.. Why oh Why do developers and sales people keep treating us like sheep when it comes to cameras. 13MP means more pixels crammed into a smaller space, therefore creating Noise in Low Light, even if it has an f 2.0 apature lens.

The best cameras on smart phones are 8MP, the greatest being the S3, the One X and the N2.. the N2 was better than the S3 in low light.. don't know whether that was due to different firmware. The S4 LTE I9505 had the camera shutter lag bug in the last firmware, which took some of the worse photos ive ever seen, even worse than a Galaxy Nexus.

So for me, unless it looks better than the S4, a 13MP is a big no no and with the region lock.. I wont be buying a N3.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g3lux:
I am a bit confused by the storage particions on SGS2 or android. Btw starting on android

In my SGS2 when I go to Settings -> Storage I have 3 types of storage.

I have 2 Internal Storages (one with 1.94GB and other with 11.50GB) and I have my external sd card.

My question is where apps and data are stored? Because I seem to have apps installed in both particions.

And when managing apps I get the option to move to Sd card, but since internal storage is the /sdcard/ (alias to /storage/sdcard0) is there a way to move apps to external sdcard /extSdCard/ (alias to /storage/sdcard1). Just wondering

The /system particion where is located? Because I only have 496MB Total on /system (as Link2SD says) and I have that 1.94GB on one of the Internal Storages. And what is stored on /system?

Trying to understand better the android eco-system :)

Sorry for my english...

Using Slim Bean 4.2.2 with Dorimanx Kernel.

Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Adam0524:
I completely hate asking for help and usually just figure it on my own because that's the best way to learn, and have done this before with other phones but that method just doesn't work for me on the s4.

So I've added my own shortcuts to the secsettings from Alpha rom, such as cloud storage (copy, Dropbox, drive), screen recording, pc connections (unified remote, team viewer), IR remote, etc etc and have everything how I want it.... Except one thing. I can not for the life of me change the background to a 50-75% transparent image.

So far I've changed the png, the theme in styles, color codes in colors, color codes in styles, and settings main xml, default theme lines in the Frameworks styles, changed the system background png, and a few other things I can't remember. But none give me what I want. When I first open the settings for a split second I see the transparent image I added but then it's soon covered with a black background.

So does anybody know how or where to edit for a transparent image to be the background of the sec settings?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Adam0524:
Bummer nobody?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Spastic909:
Maybe you should ask in the section called q&a, help & troubleshooting

Just a thought?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] elesbb:
Exactly
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Adam0524:
Well let's see.

Apk= application package

Which huh... application

And theme'n the apk aka application in question .... Holy **** theme and application. Which holy **** again we're in. It's probably the Oh I don't know the most appropriate forum for it. Which holy **** times 3 has a bunch of themers in it. Huh who the hell knew.

But thanks XDA mom for the suggestion. You were of much help.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Exel:
What does this xml show?

SecSettings / SecSettings / res / values / styles.xml
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Adam0524:
Has the device themes in it, which I messed with by changing device theme to Device.Light which changes it to a light theme (white background/black letters). On other phones you were able to change it to Device.Transparent or Device.Transparentcy but those 2 error out on recompile.

Having a solid image is no issue by swapping out a png but using a transparent don't work because there's still a background being displayed behind it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Exel:
Right, well.. check this out:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] elesbb:
You're the one complaining about not getting any replies. And before you go flipping out you should really read the rules. This sub topic is for releasing apps you've written or sharing apps specific to the s4. If you need help with something, that goes in the q&a , hence you have a question and are looking for an answer.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Adam0524:
One I wasn't complaining.

Two if that's the case, you have some mall cop duties to jump on in some threads asking for Crap like live wallpapers and etc.

Three if you have an issue with where my thread is, I really don't give a Crap. Use the report button.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] elesbb:
Lol attitudes like that are a great way to get help!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Exel:
Cut it out you two before you both get banned, lol.

Just carry on.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Adam0524:
Only have an attitude towards people who try to play forum rent-a-cops who post useless Crap to what somebody is asking. Like I said kid, if you have an issue or your panties are in a wad of where my or any body's thread is located feel free to use the report button.

Notice no attitude to the one actually helpful guy that didn't play forum rent-a-cop? Yeah.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonskills:
Please friends, I need to know how I can install Google play service on my android phone...

Am using tecno N7
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tunka74:
im noob what is?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] checkmate01:
can't Install now

i'm also using the same phone but i can't install the app. after researching on this i discover that the problem is with the compatibility of the app with the phone Maybe when the app is update we can get lucky
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uchihanisama:
Downgrade d app to It's previous version den unmark auto updating of Google play services from play store...

Once it updates it refuses to install...so I avoided it....guess it actually has compatibility issues
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] checkmate01:
Solution

i battled with this problem for sometime but finally got the solution, log on to this page and read it there

http://imagineproject2.blogspot.com/search/label/Tutorial#.UlPrcNKfgoc

it worked for me
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] free71:
I tried to upgrade the radio of my qtek s110 last week. Unfortunatlly, it faild by mistake and even I can not flash back to the orignal rom. I was told by someone else I can save my phone by use shipped rom. I have downloaded some shipped rom from the ftp. The problem is I use it in the UK, I am not sure which one is suitble for me. I prefer to use the qtek one. I have found one rom from qtek name is:

MA_DT_WWE_DutchRetail_11200_550_11200_Ship.exe. I guess this rom is for the user in Holand. Can I user this for my phone(bought in UK).

Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lfporto:
Hi, I know maybe it's a noob question, but I have installed cyanogenmod 9 in my Sony Live Walkman, and the kernel that comes with it.

Can I install a new kernel (like rage kernel) without having to install the rom (CM9) again? It will work just replacing the kernel?

Thanks!!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SloAngel:
You have to download the kernel onto your sd card (make sure it is for cm9). And then you can just flash it using cwm recovery :laugh: no need to flashing rom again
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lfporto:
Thanks!

Another question: I'm used flash my kernels with flashtool. I entered in CWM in recovery mode, but couldn't find the option to flash the kernel (just the rom). How can I install the kernel without the need of the flashtool (without computer)?

Thanks again!!!