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[Galaxy Note 3 General] tclocki:
Happens to me too. What I did was I turned off sync for my google account and so far, I think its been more than a week already and I havent lost my google account yet.

Thats just a workaround though, dunno how to fix it from the inside.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] link144:
Is this happening on what ROM? SVA 3.5 or stock ROM?

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] araby:
I face this with sva 3.5
[Galaxy Note 3 General] tclocki:
Happens to me on stock mk1 firmware
[Galaxy Note 3 General] link144:
I have stock ROM, but I want to go to SVA.

araby, is it much better than the stock?

Do you guys know if there is Brazilian Portuguese on it?

I don't face this problem with my stock ROM, but I hate the Japanese stuff like magazine, but I face the caller ID problems.

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] tclocki:
Its chinese. xD

I believe the sva rom is just the sams stock firmware with just a few additional settings included. I dont want to pay for something thats not significantly better than the stock rom while other developers are offering their roms for free for other devices.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] link144:
Do you guys know if it's possible to uninstall the magazine via Titanium without appearing problems?

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] FireBlast:
Please provide a download link to SVA v3.5 ROM as I can't find it. Thx
[Galaxy Note 3 General] UFO-nec:
SVA ROM 3.5 is not for free, you must pay about 12 USD for it. Than you get download link (download was very slow :( )

SVA ROM 2.0 is for free.

http://www.studenikin.ru/svarom/svarom_N9002.asp

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I have SVA ROM 3.5 Superb and in language menu I see:

Portuguese (Portugal)

Portuguese (Brasil)

For me this ROM is better than stock, cause I was on stock nonrooted MJ6 before. Phone without Gapps and with those chinese stuff was useless. After a month or so of searching for root method without tripping Knox, i have decided to root it anyway since I don't plan to use corporate features and I had enough time to test the phone.

With SVA ROM i have root and no bloatware, no caller ID issue (but before also not) and i saved time.

I use it for few days and no problems so far.

Hope it helped.

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And I forgot, I have no problem with contacts anymore. I can choose to sort and display contacts either by last name or first name now.

On stock chinese FW it was not possible, it was just by first name which was annoying for me.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] link144:
Ufo-nec that's a good thing to hear.

I'm thinking about installing this ROM. I've already paid for it and downloaded it, now I'm just gathering courage to do so.

I know that this is not the place but what is the process you did to flash it? I'm kind of new on this flashing.

I wish there was a stock English ROM.

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] UFO-nec:
Installing SVA ROM on stock MK1(MJ6 modem) N9002

Everything is described on SVA web. I can just add some info what I did.

1.) Backup (efs, titanium backup, etc) - I have just exported my contacts (csv file) to SD card, there was no need to backup anything else for me

2.) Copy rom to your device - download link on SVA pages for free version, I have got link to paid version in about one day after payment (Paypal) per Email. Dont forget to use USB 3.0 when copying ROM to SD card

3.) Charge the phone to 80%-100% (strongly recommended) - my was just about 70%, no problem so far

4.) Flash a custom recovery (CWM Based Recovery by Xiaolu) - download link on SWA web, my was 6.0.4.5 (1121)

-download ODIN, my was v.3.09

-launch ODIN, under AP (was PDA in older versions) choose you CWM recovery file (.tar)

-switch off your phone, switch it on to download mode (hold Vol- and Home and press Power, then press Vol+ when you see some warning text

-plug in your USB cable (both PC and phone of course)

-in ODIN should some rectangle on the left under ID:COM go blue and you should see a COM port number

-hit start and wait, file will be transfered to phone, then the phone will be restarted.

-I am not sure anymore if it was to recovery or if it was normal start (in that case you should restart manually to get to recovery Vol+ and Home and Power).

-Attention! I have not found any info about it but it happens to me. In recovery I have got some mesage (something like.. do you want to flash...you can not take it back) with options Yes, No and back - first time i hit no and there was no CWM after reboot, second time i hit yes and after restart I had CWM. I am not sure if I used "root" option from menu and that mesage come after. Sorry :(.

But you will see and you can report, i can update it after.

5.) Boot to recovery(Vol+ and Home and Power), and Install SVA ROM SM-N9002 Duos (*).

Read the following carefully: SVA ROM SM-N9002 Duos is a No Full wipe rom, but Full wipe is strongly recommended - otherwise can be a serious problem! Rom will auto wipe cache and dalvik cache and preloaded and there is an option to wipe data during rom installation.

-here I did wipe cache and dalvik prior to instal

-choose instal zip from SD card and choose zip with SVA ROM

-after confirm the instalation starts - it is an AROMA installer, so you go through a instal wizard, you can choose language and some options

-after reboot you have SVA ROM and you go through normal setting wizard (Google acount and so on)

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(*)

I was on stock MK1 ROM:

PDA: N9002ZNUDMK1

CSC: N9002CHUDMK1

MODEM: N9002ZNUDMJ6

If you are on older version than MK1, you should flash stock MK1 (download link on SVA web or google it) prior to SVA ROM

Dont forget to hit thanks
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jlevy73:
No wonder, I think I'm getting the laowai cost :)
[Galaxy Note 3 General] bubbl3:
Probably, also those shops are famous for upping the price. Go to a market and show them you know your ****.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] whiterabbitobj:
GApps working just fine for me. If the app works but you have trouble with google, that is probably a great firewall issue. I use a VPN by default here, tho my email thru gmail app seems towork just fine no vpn.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Staif:
All google apps work fine except google now (search) which is blocked. There is a mention: " google now is not available in your country" (im in china).

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] Blizzaa:
I bought my n9002 from an official Samsung store for 5199 yuan in Foshan, Guangdong, China.

Earlier in this thread I had 'out of the box' Chinese version and listed the issues I had. I went to a local mobile phone shop and the confident boy was clueless how to root, because he seemed solely dependent on a Chinese app that looked fancy and easy but hadn't been updated to N3. I wrote about what I eventually did (note3root.com and the links that yatbond sent) and got Google Play installed. You can do it, just go back and see.

I'm OK now, I have Skype, Facebook and a few other apps installed and now I am using it as my everyday mobile. However it's not perfect and here's why:

1: I still have the English/Chinese IME keyboard. Not a big deal but the handwriting doesn't seem to work as I see in review videos.

2: Google Play doesn't really work like I want on the mobile, even with VPN on. It offers me Chinese apps as 'recommended for you' and many apps like Skype and Facebook don't show up in search results. Having said this the desktop version, with VPN, is normal I think (it's my first time android, first time Google play).

3: My magazine is still in Chinese and only offers weibo and renren as partner apps in 'social' but I am not foo fussed about using it at all, and since I turned off 'open my magazine by pressing home on the home screen' it has stopped appearing so much.

4: Google.com redirects me to google.com.hk

5: I would like to get rid of the unicom part in the loader, and when you quit. I don't rate them as a carrier either (500RMB to have access to international calls!)

I'm happy with how it is, these are just niggles really. One thing that is surprising are my benchmark scores: 35914 and yesterday 36213, I haven't seen any higher on youtube so it's cool to know this version is still a monster.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] whiterabbitobj:
Blizza, sounds like we're in the exact same boat. I've been searching high and low for a way to get all the same problems you've listed resolved, with no luck so far. I just finished a stock reset to try to reset the region on the language problematic apps, but it didn't work. It DID retain my root and GPlay access though, so now I just have to re-download all the apps I need. I can't get anything except the app store to show up though, no books, music, or movies. I think it's locked by the chinese simcard. Possibly removing the sim would help this (it does allow the samsung apps to be in english).

Until some of the geniuses around here come up with some sort of full chinese->international flash method, I think we're stuck. Please let me know if you resolve any of the issues you've listed, I'll do the same.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jlevy73:
After living in CHina for more than 2 years, while you may be able to get google apps installed, unlock bootloader and root, the google market will still direct you to the chinese version. The only way to overcome it is if you have VPN and using your desktop go to the Google play store (which will be the US version) and download apps from your phone through the google play website. Now you will access to have all the apps you would normally see in the google play store, you just have to go through the extra step of doing this through the computer.

I have a market enabler app that used to work in China but it seems China figured out a way to block that.

Now once you get apps like Facebook, twitter, youtube on your device then by using VPN through your phone you will be able to get access to them. I find VPN works fine through wifi and cellular network.

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5199 rmb is a great price. I need to figure out where the heck a samsung experience store in Beijing is.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Pegasusu:
Hi Laowais :cool: (no offence )

may be you could try this: google market access android

It runs properly on my old Galaxy SII, you can pretend to be a T-mobile user by using this to download an app which may not appear in the google chinese market directly from the google play. I don't have a 9002 yet but tend to buy one recently, so just have a try, may help.

samsung experience store in Beijing is on the 8th or 9th floor , Joy City, Xicheng Dist.

If you can't find, just ask someone for Xidan Apple store, there the samsung experience store is.

If anything I can help, just reply this and forgive my Chinglish :(

BTW, now the price is 5099 RMB, samsung's always a dive king.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jlevy73:
Feichang ganxie :D

I will go check out the samsung experience store tomorrow. If I need any help I will send you a PM. Thanks again.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Pegasusu:
Buyong keqi :D

Something need to metion:

samsung experience store is not as big as Apple store, it mixes with other phone brands there in Xidan, but it is really an offical store.

Another samsung experience store I know is in the Zhongguancun, Haidian District, subway Line 4 Zhongguancun Station.

NOTE!!!(Not Note III): Please DO NOT buy ANYTHING in Zhongguancun, NEVER. You may be severely cheated !!! We native speaker won't buy goods there!!!

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1: I still have the English/Chinese IME keyboard. Not a big deal but the handwriting doesn't seem to work as I see in review videos.

Try a third party IME keyboard, i.e., GO keyboard

2: Google Play doesn't really work like I want on the mobile, even with VPN on. It offers me Chinese apps as 'recommended for you' and many apps like Skype and Facebook don't show up in search results. Having said this the desktop version, with VPN, is normal I think (it's my first time android, first time Google play).

Seems that depend on your China Unicom Carrier not your IP, google: market access

It works on my N9100 two years ago.

3: My magazine is still in Chinese and only offers weibo and renren as partner apps in 'social' but I am not foo fussed about using it at all, and since I turned off 'open my magazine by pressing home on the home screen' it has stopped appearing so much.

You could download twitter, fb, ytb after use market access to pretent to be a Tmobile user..., if it works on Note3

4: Google.com redirects me to google.com.hk

Always that, you know the relationship between google and the Chinese Gov, use a VPN, not a big deal

5: I would like to get rid of the unicom part in the loader, and when you quit. I don't rate them as a carrier either (500RMB to have access to international calls!)

Have to close your eyes and enjoy when shut down your 9002 :D

I don't think N9002 can install an offical ROM or CM mod something in the long run, cos it's the mod for chinese market only

I doubt there's been a 'Perfect root' on N9002，all the CWM on the western website is linked from 52samsung(52means I Love in chinese)

and the 52samsung said "it's not perfect yet", so....
[Galaxy Note 3 General] piit79:
Would any of you good xda members in China / HK be so nice and willing to buy one of these N9002s for me and post it via express delivery to the UK? I can pay by PayPal.

eBay prices are high, cheapest around $1130 / £700.

Please PM me if you can help!

Thanks a lot :)
[Galaxy Note 3 General] MarrkDaviid:
Hey Guys,

Does the N9002 come unlocked, or does a Chinese SIM card need to be inserted into the device before it can be used in a different region?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Blizzaa:
gimati cen

Read here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2470551
[Galaxy Note 3 General] bubbl3:
My chinese 9006 is sim unlocked, i guess all chinese models are.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] goes_like_hell:
Sorry but you both do not answer the question of Marrk.

Of shure chainfire will solve this problem and "guess" is for church. The question is whether with short insert of a local chinese sim and then go to europe and insert a local sim will work? Whether somebody already made experience.

Goes like hell
[Galaxy Note 3 General] bubbl3:
A guess from testing several Samsung Note 3 models (unfortunately not the 9002, but none of them had the infamous sticker) is more than nothing until one of the owners sticks his overseas sim into it and tells us. I am surprised nobody did already.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] psun786:
I have Note 2 dual sim from Unicom (China) and it doesn't have regional lock. As far as I know, all handsets sold in China come unlocked. Most Chinese aren't even aware there is simlock. Keep in mind that subsidized pricing doesn't exist in China, so there is no point for carrier to hold you hostage to a contract. Their so called contract require you pay all monthly fee upfront and then they deduct it from your account each month.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] yatbond:
The 9002 is not sim lock. I am using an oversea (hong kong sim, which is not mainland china).

Everything works.... No worries
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Blizzaa:
I have found a solution to the keyboard/handwriting problem.

1) Download Google keyboard, it's just better I think

2) This handwriting input method is what most Note 3s have https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.visionobjects.stylusmobile.v3_2_store and it's great!

You need to set them up as inputs, and then you can switch between those 2 by holding the space bar. Chinese IME is always on, and it's OK if you are going to input some Chinese but you can't switch back so easily - to do that you need to be in the text input area and pull down notifications and click on the keyboard to reveal the switch options.

It's good for me because i rarely need to enter Chinese (copy and paste :) and I can still switch between a nice keyboard and handwriting input easily.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Blizzaa:
I'm doing all right with my phone now except for one big pain in the backside, and it is still Google Play related.

I can download nearly any free app to my phone, via computer, but have only ever been able to buy 3 apps successfully from a lot of attempts. I was concerned there might not be enough money in my UK account so I moved some money there from PayPal but it still doesn't work properly.

I don't want to post in the wrong place because this may be an issue with Google Play and not N9002 or carrier. I would just like to know if anyone else is running into this problem to help narrow it down, or any advice.

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Pegasusu:
Have you ever try Market Access?

Could it work on the Note3?

I don't have one, so need some feedback.

Thanks
[Galaxy Note 3 General] maxgenesis:
mine device unable to detect the 2nd sim, what could be the problem:confused:
[Galaxy Note 3 General] zohaer21:
no LTE ?

Hi from what I've read so far in this thread .. people are getting HSDPA+ but not LTE ? Specs of the phone say it has LTE .. so what gives ??

Thanks
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Blizzaa:
I emailed Google and they said it was under a security check and it is OK now. Thanks
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jlevy73:
There is no LTE on the 9002 chinese version. It could just be that it's been deactivated and some smart developer will figure out a way to activate that feature. Perhaps the HK 9002 version might have LTE capabilities but I cannot confirm that.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Blizzaa:
I just noticed that the mobile version of Google play is different and doesn't include movies music etc. You can find them as separate apps:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.music
[Galaxy Note 3 General] MarrkDaviid:
Out of curiosity, where did you both purchase the mobile from? China Unicom directly or somewhere else? Someone else is telling me that the mobile is sold locked, so I want to be sure.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] yatbond:
Bought it in Hong Kong. A local shop that imports from china
[Galaxy Note 3 General] desiregeek:
While in Shenzhen I saw on their advertisement banner that their Note 3 has 4G LTE on one of the SIM card slots and 3G on the other slot
[Galaxy Note 3 General] desiregeek:
Here is the other banner
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jlevy73:
I can't read Mandarin, but does it say it supports TD-SCDMA? If so, that right there is worth getting the phone for. From what I understand after being in Beijing about 2 years is that true 4G is still being tested in China. Maybe Shenzhen is a test market. Since I can't read Mandarin you probably know better than I do.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] desiregeek:
I can not read Mandarin either though I can speak the language. If you ask 10 different Chinese people in a China about the 4G LTE Bands you will get 10 different answers lol.. In Chinese most will tell you "Wah Butzuh Dah" meaning "I not know" lol.. I asked them to show me the actual box and they told me that they couldn't which I thought was quite odd.

Having a dual SIM card Note 3 with a 4G SIM card in one slot and a 3G SIM card in another slot sounds awesome :)
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jlevy73:
At least you can speak the language lol. I have seen the box but all the writing on it is in Chinese so it's impossible to know what it says. The Note 2 supported China Unicom's HSPA+ and China Mobile's 2G network in the other. So if that's the case it's not nearly as attractive. But having two 3G/4G sim slots would be amazing.

I have not bought the phone because the weekend it come out (during the national holiday) they had them outside of Gomez. I played with one and was not impressed. It probably had pre-production software on it because there was quite a bit of lag on the UI. I've had the S4 (I9500 version) and I refuse to buy another Samsung device that has annoying TW lag. So until I actually get some hands-on time with it, I won't be shelling out 5200rmb for it. Plus as you know, the return policy in China is non-existent.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] desiregeek:
No lag on mine in all honesty (so far that is). I played around with a few in Shenzhen and saw no lag as well. I am very picky too. If you buy from any retail shop that is branded then you can return or switch if your smartphone is bad or defected. You would be surprised by the Customer service that one can get in China these days :)
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jlevy73:
Are you using both sim slots? Which carrier are you using in the first sim Unicom or Mobile? Thanks for answering my barrage of questions :)

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By the way, how much did you pay for yours?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] desiregeek:
I bought mine in Hong Kong. Mine came with 4G LTE and only 1 SIM card slot. Only after I had bought mine did I see the 2 SIM card slotted Note 3 in China.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] hpong:
You should read it as one phone after every semi-colon.

China Unicom

N9002

GSM, WCDMA

Dual SIM

China Telecom

N9009

GSM, CDMA2000

Dual SIM

China Mobile

N9008

GSM, TD-SCDMA (China 3G)

Single SIM

Import from Hong Kong

N9005

LTE (4G), GSM, WCDMA

Single SIM

Available in China

9006

GSM, WCDMA

Single SIM

For most of us, if you require dual SIM, 9002 is probably the right one.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] desiregeek:
Quite a few people in sales at the Shops in Shenzhen were telling me that one of the bands did have 4G and the other band had 3G for international use. I was unable to confirm either way though.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] hpong:
You could have misunderstood them.

4G/3G dual SIM phone don't exist as far as I know.

Maybe in the near future.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] lollercauster:
Why didn't you buy the 9005? I bought my phone in the airport, which was stock full of 9005s. You need the dual-sim access?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Samchien:
How to Flash Google Play fo N9002

Hi Blizza.... I also just bought Samsung N9002 from china. I think it's unlock because I can use the SIM card in my country (Indonesia). There's something I want to ask U, do you already succeed flash the "google play" to the phone and how to do it??? Because I'm still stuck and cannot do anything about. I am still searching how to make my phone just like other type (e.g. N9000 or N9005) have the google play installed.... Also can u give the root file that U used on your phone (is it from galaxy note3root.com ===>

try cf auto root instead

) and for the google play file to download ????

Please give me the advise.... Thanks.....
[Galaxy Note 3 General] raspdeep:
If you guys want to post pics of the n9002 box with specification, i can help do the translation for you. there are so many variants so the banner will not be specific. but someone already stated that there is no 4g/3g dual sim so far in market so that is probably right.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Samchien:
Thanks for the Help.... This is the picture of the box that U asked... Maybe U can help me with my problem????

Can U help me how I should do the make phone normal like other type (Have the GApps)????
[Galaxy Note 3 General] asilak:
SVA ROM SM-N9002 Duos v1.0 Superb ZNUBMI7 - the ROM is almost ready

Available: Changelog description, mods description, flashing procedure.

Missing: Screenshots

Estimated issue: 21-10-2013.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] yatbond:
Asilak,

Is the 9002 capable to use the lte band since it is a snapdragon and should have the lte radio built in?

This will make the 9002 perfect.

Thanks