[Galaxy Note 3 General] Blizzaa:
When I first bought the N9002 I realised it was full of Chinese apps and missing western ones. At the start of the thread Yatbond shared some links as ways to get around this and I followed those with some success. Mark seems to have done something similar and added a guide. Thanks to you two.

However SVA's release of a ROM made for N9002 was too hard to resist so I tried that. It just seems a cleaner way to do it and you really do get something very close to a western install. I noticed people having some problems, updates were being made, and I also had trouble downloading the file originally so I ended up getting the full version and doing it again yesterday. There are other links available, just contact the guys here http://www.samrusung.ru/ROMing-9002-en.php. I downloaded it in less than 2 hours, without VPN, in China.

This time I installed it with hardly any extras and it's great just like that. Installing without Knox will avoid an annoying warning from popping up occasionally. The great thing about this ROM is you don't have to start installing other things, like Gapps after because it has them. The Samsung Keyboard, with handwriting recognition is just fantastic, and everything is working nicely. One thing to note is that some of the features in the SVA ROM settings only work in the full version. There are some nice tweaks in there, I especially like being able to adjust the opacity of the status bar and the slightly opaque notification panel. I'm not sure how many others I really need but SVA seems to know his way about Android so I can imagine they're just too advanced for my current needs but maybe helpful in the future.

Although I have been happy with the phone for quite a while now, it did take a lot of work to get there! However I downloaded the SVA ROM, full version quickly, installed it easily and it's better than it was and without having to do all the other stuff. I have installed all the apps I have been using in a couple of hours and it's perfect (touch wood).

I recommend this SVA ROM solution to Non-Chinese who have the N9002 and are finding it difficult. My first time with android, but get a PC, Odin and rooting is quite easy. From there just download the ROM and follow a guide (Youtube has quite a few) to install it. You might not be all that amazed, but for me the Play Store is a must, so is the original keyboard, and it's just nice that it's all in English. I think that's all I and some others ever wanted from this thread in the first place; just a nice standard western install with the dual sim functionality, and that is what we've got!

Big thanks to SVA.

I have no real way of being able to tell you if caller IDs are showing up in every country but I'll let you know.

I'm not sure about this guy saying N9002 aren't as good as other versions. I think it's BS myself. I did some benchmark tests and actually the scores on my phone are the highest anyone has reported. My battery is doing great! Basically don't let him put you off - the N9002 is great, SVA ROM has got it working the way we want it, and it's dual sim.

I would have liked to have got more than 16GB though. I didn't know Android only used the internal memory for apps. I've only got 3.5GB remaining and that was from moving the clockwork mod to external. Any advise there would be appreciated.