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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] AGx-07_162:
Here is a delimma I haven't had since I first bought my G1 (before root was even discovered): Should I root this device?

I'm looking for genuine opinions here. I've owned a G1, MT4G, Galaxy S3, and now the Note 3 and out of all of them, the Note 3 is the only one where I actually have no intention of installing Stock Android (as I'd lose all the features that made me want the Note to begin with). On those older devices, I wanted to OC to speed up the devices or use them for tetheing. TouchWiz on the GS3 annoyed the hell out of me as it seemed unnecessary, it's at least justified on the Note. But now I don't need them for tethering and I don't need to overclock this device, despite the fact that I want to anyway and I don't intend on installing a Stock ROM. What incentives are there to rooting now?

Right now all I can think of is GMD. I'm looking for someone to re-inspire me to root again.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] callif:
rooting is fine at this point. However, as twrp causes an all but irreparable error, you might want to wait for a reliable recovery before installing any modded roms.

Charlie
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] dsmero:
The main reason I rooted last night was to install Ad Block, Titanium Backup to freeze some bloat and run Chainfire's region lock removal. I agree with you though, I bought the Note for the SPen features so an AOSP rom would take that away. There is 1 custom ROM already that retains TouchWiz and SPen features that I am debating on trying. I'm still on the fence of installing a custom rom since its very early into development for the device.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] HughesNet:
I would say rooting imho is mandatory. It doesn't matter how big he screen is Samsung always makes the stuff on it way to large for my use. I have to modify the DPI and use Xposed to remove many of the status bar icons or I would never be able to have enough room on the status bar and notification pull down. I also uninstall some of the bloat, enable call recording, use isis, and more. I don't run a custom rom I just run a DeOdexed stock rom and do everything I need manually for now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] DKYang:
I'm not going to "convince" anyone per say, but just keep following the forums until something forces you to root again. I for one missed Titanium Backup since it can backup everything, I've tried Helium, but for some reason it just wouldn't backup ES File Explorer and Beautiful Widgets on my S4. These are just normal apps and I don't know why it wouldn't work. Also, removing bloat and adding more apps for the Pen Window feature.

I'll be rooting once my 14 days are passed and start flashing again once the recovery's restore feature is working properly again. I don't root to overclock, I root so I can customize my phone even more and add features which wasn't added for stock. Also, I miss the auto GPS on/off by Secure Settings. It requires root and I can't use it just yet!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] CalcProgrammer1:
I still say root, there's a lot of things you can only do with root even on stock. You can block ads, adjust dpi, delete bloat, and manage files better. You can also use the command line for a lot more things when rooted. You can also install the xposed framework to get some of the unofficial ROM benefits on the stock ROM like per-app DPI, something very useful on a high resolution, big screen like Notes have.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] clever comrade:
I am planning on rooting for the sole purpose of restoring my FF3 saved game. I lost a saved game once when my SGS3 bricked (SDS) and am just about where I was when I lost that one.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] bobbyphoenix:
I rooted for the sole purpose of installing AdAway. The stock ROM is so awesome I really don't see me wanting a custom one. I love this beast.

Sent from a Galaxy Note 3 far, far away....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] darkjedi:
Root is definitely mandatory for me. I can install the custom font that I use, get rid of ads (which is 100% worth it for me), I can delete apps I don't want, not just freeze them, and customize the device how I want.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] DAGr8:
I root because I want to own my device.. it's mine I m it's administrator.. not my provider .. not Samsung. . ME..

With that said Samsung s stock roms are solid just like aosp is.. The true need for root has diminished a lot in last 12 months .. I root because I can.. I completely understand there is no real need for it but to deny warranty on those who root is plain wrong... just my 2 cents
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] itsmikeramsay:
Agreed. I root to make it 100% mines! I also do it to under clock a step... Not much into OC'ing anymore. This will probably be the first ROM I stay close to stock with minus some of those extra mods and tweaks that separates my Note 3 from the average consumer...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] mingkee:
Rooting can let you easily backup and restore application data.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] fatboy547:
I root to enable all apps in multi window. So i can watch mnf and candy crush :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Mprince:
Rooting

I personally like the idea of rooting. I'm spending my own hard earned money on this mobile device and I should be able to do what the hell I want with it. I will also root to get rid of Carrier IQ and when I am tired of TouchWiz.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] unlockingsky:
you should only root under the following conditions.

1. check your personality that you are not a person who rush things!

2. do 10 hour reading about rooting, how to root on your device, its benefits, and its drawback

3. after rooting, you should spend at least 1 hour reading about the rom/mod you want to install

4. optional. have a device warranty with cell provider. they will always change a soft brick phone with you telling them it just died.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] c_est_la_vie:
You wouldn't happen to know if there is a deodexed stock rom out there for the SM-N900W8, would you?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] HughesNet:
Sorry but I don't know anything about that model.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Blkegk:
When I got my note, I took it home, opened the box, insert battery, hit the three keys to download mode, plug phone into my pc and Odin root, reboot and bam first time using my note.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hosehead:
Should I be getting paranoid that the developer support of this device is very slow out of the gate? The hardware is great and beats everything else I tried, but now with S-Off out there for the One on VZW, I am getting worried that I chose poorly.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hd-renegade:
Not sure what you are looking for or what you are missing, but there has been plenty of Dev support for the VZW VS980
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
I am talking from my experience with the G Pro. There are Roms but really all those CM based Roms or other ones are all weak compared to the stock based Roms. U loose so many features with those costume Roms. From dual shot camera and video to quick note to smart screen and smart video to some other great features u only have on stock ROM. U basically gonna cripple ur G2 if u use a costume ROM.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ericdabbs:
OMG another one of these threads that has been answered over and over. If you don't like the current developer support on the G2, then return it. I find it funny that the people that always ask starts these topics are smart enough to find XDA forums to look for development but yet don't look around in the General and Development threads to gauge for themselves on whether it has enough developer support for that phone to them.

How soon do people except a custom ROM besides just a debloated stock ROM in the first few weeks? Since its clear that you are not a developer and don't understand that you can't just whip out pre-alpha custom ROMs that will crash people's phones and it takes time to do this stuff. Remember that the developers are not paid to do this stuff and do this as a hobby. If you can't deal with patience than get the GS4 or the HTC One.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiguy99:
This thread happens with every new phone lol! O.P even the phones you want to exchange with this one at some point had threads just like this one right before ROMS became available
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hosehead:
2 roms is far from other if support. A few tweaks. Nothing to write home about. No OEM accessories except for one overpriced case.

Sorry, but coming from a long line of custom roms on devices I have a higher expectation for my roms. And those CM or AOKP types blow stock out of the water and add tons of other features that outperform the stock.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irishgreen:
Sounds like the OP is the typical "user" anymore. For some reason even tjo they have no idea the amount of work that goes into building a rom or a kernel or mod, they just somehow feel entitled to get it when they want it. Guess what dude, had HTC ONE on release day , and development was slower than the G2 is. Want a rom when you want it.....build it yourself . this **** aint easy, if it was youd be building a rom instead of *****ing about it.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ericdabbs:
Don't know what to say since you feel entitled to have 20 custom ROMs a week after release. If you are so compelled to want custom ROMs, why don't you try developing one and contributing instead of complaining. You seem way too paranoid about developer support for a phone for someone that contributes nothing to the development scene. Most of us are just grateful that we have volunteer developers that want to develop ROMs for the LG G2. I don't demand but rather appreciate all the hard work that they do when they feel ready to release it. I understand that making a ROM is not a walk in the park or else everyone would be doing it.

My advice to you....get a GS4 or HTC One. It has 20 billion custom ROMs that you can flash to your heart's desire right now.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisexv6:
Or just get an iPhone, it seems to have as much development future as the G2 according to the OP ;)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] canecbr600:
Then return it, or sack up n learn how to do it yourself.....
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thewihlygeek:
:rolleyes: It hasn't even been a full month yet, and we have a decent amount of mods and a couple ROMs already. That's nothing to scoff at by any sort of reasonable standard. Slow your roll, bro.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bodom_hc:
im a flashaholic, and once i got root on this bad boy i got all my apps i needed

gameplay is smooth

im really liking lg's UI and stock rom/kernel

Phone rarely even gets warm ,not hot.

Camera is really great

Quick Remote is great as well

Im satisfied with stock rom for once. lol

battery is INSANE checkout post #76 screenshots , no way thatll happen on the ONE http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2470564&page=8
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shook187:
I've owned plenty of popular flagship devices and even though they have plenty of ROM selection, I've found them to be very similar to each other so I only chose between two or three different ones as my daily driver... So ROM selection is usually over rated based on all the copycat ROM available.

I personally enjoyed my time more with the smaller and unpopular devices that had fewer ROM's at first but then development picked up. Which I think will be the case with this phone.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jrgilbert79:
Or how about STFU...I think that about covers it ?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Medialunas:
I'm very happy with this phone and the activity in the development community so far. The only two major things I would like to see happen in the future is a port of 4.4 and of 5.0 when they eventually are released into the wild. I don't have much faith in LG but with the new nexus phone so similar I'd imagine this will be done.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
Ya with the nexus phone for sure. But for there non nexus phones.? I don't know if LG can be trusted to update those. Lol
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hosehead:
Lots of bitter smart asses here I see. Wow. I stated an opinion and got flamed. What douchebags.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Damasterjj:
from my experience the best roms out there is the one close to the ship rom. any AOSP or etc. roms will have missing features.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] canecbr600:
U diserve it, whining cause someone else isnt doing work u want on your timeframe....... If its that big of a deal, do some research, and learn.... then u dont have to depend on anyone but u...
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Semantics:
Seems like you have answered your own question and this is the wrong move for you. Return and get the HTC One so you can use AOKP or CM.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android404:
You didn't state an opinion, you asked if this phone will get development. And like the 80 gazillion other people who asked the same question over the last few weeks, you got the answer: yes, it will and if you doubt want to wait for it, try to get active and learn to develop.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gasaraki-:
God, another one of these...

Yes, you made a bad choice. The G2 will have the worst ROM support of all the phones out there. Ignore that the phone was rooted in 2 days and tethering was done in 5 days. TWRP is junk. You should just go to the HTC One. They need your business, they are losing money. Also they have 4.3 out!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BBronst7:
Anyone know of a way (possibly an .apk) to get the lock screen clock right aligned with thin font on Cyanogenmod 10.2 on a Nexus 4? The default clock is centered and I actually prefer the right-aligned clock like on the Samsung Galaxy S4 Google edition. Thanks for the help!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] Diogenes5:
So I noticed on my note 3 that S-Notes is way better than it was on the Galaxy note 10.1 and Galaxy Note II. There are more useful templates and more useful features (mainly, syncing with more services like dropbox and evernote).

As people get more experience, can anyone tell me which service they prefer? I'm split because I prefer LectureNotes for its power and the Cornell Note-taking template. But the S-note app is better integrated into touchwiz and has more powerful options now with automatic evernote and dropbox syncing.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] demz92:
For me i think it will be down to the S-note's ability to flawlessly import pdf's and annotate it
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] iZan23:
For that purpose I think EzPdf is way better than S-Note, at least if you want to make a workflow of annotated pdf's.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] dteg:
what do you mean when you say annotate, because honestly lecturenotes does it flawlessly. you can import and then write on it, type on it, draw on it, insert pictures on it, basically everything you can do on a normal blank paper.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] demz92:
yea, i've heard but im not sure what the widget looks like, the looks of the s note's widget looks pretty nice, like something i'd dedicated a whole home screen to
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] dteg:
i've never used the widget before, but i'm going to fix that right now and fill you in.

ok:

i'm just assuming here but still; i'm gonna assume that S-note has a widget where if placed on a homescreen you can simply type in without opening the app itself. lecturenotes from the few tests i just made can't do that. you can either have a "widget" (really an app icon) that can open to a particular page that you specify or you can have one that just opens lecturenotes, i see nothing that would allow you to edit without opening the app itself. definitely not something worth dedicating a homescreen to....
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] Han Solo 1:
Can you highlight and add sticky notes?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] dteg:
You can use the pen to highlight or underline, but no sticky notes. You can however create a text box and write in any notes, but that's as close as you can get.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] ChrisNee1988:
How do you highlight?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] gina$zanboti:
I got frustrated with S Note and ditched it. I'm using Lecture notes now and really like it. The main thing that killed S Note for me was the way the notes were organized. Felt very cumbersome and non-intuitive. I wish they had left the UI for browsing folders and notebooks the same. Or maybe I just had too much trouble transferring my old notes into it.

Anyways I was wondering if anyone knew how to quickly expend a single page in lecture notes. I know I can go into the settings and change it that way, but I'd like to be able to do it on the fly and on a page by page basis instead of a global modification of the page length.

I'd imagine you just select the marker tip with whatever color, then change the opacity between 10% and 40%. Whatever you're comfortable with. At least that's how I had done it in the old 10.1 model.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] dteg:
gina nailed it, on how to highlight.

to expend a page? you wanna know how to quickly use up a page? don't understand what you're asking but i'll cover a few bases.

to quickly add a page click the "+" on the top right or if you're using a keyboard just press the down arrow.

to delete a page you click onto the page and open menu and delete it from there. deleting isn't as simple as adding unfortunately..
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=3133381]ChrisNee1988[/MENTION]: There is no built-in highlighter, as tastes concerning highlighters differ widely. As described by gina$zanboti, you can make one of the custom pencils to act as a highlighter, choose your favorite color and width, an intermediate alpha, and enable `draws behind other colors´. To quickly change to the highlighter, you can show the pencil toolbox (select `Show pencil toolbox´ in the `pencil´ menu, can be moved around by click-and-hold and setup in the app's tools settings; a single click on a pencil sets the pencil and a double-click on a custom pencil brings up the custom pencil settings) or assign it to your stylus button (in case your stylus has a button).

[MENTION=5463046]gina$zanboti[/MENTION]: I am not entirely sure whether I understand correctly. LectureNotes' pages have a fixed size.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] TheBigSaxon:
Does LectureNotes have handwriting to text conversion? I have been using MyScript Notes Mobile which does do this but it begins to get laggy after 2-3 pages in terms of the screen delay from writing to on screen. When I used LN, it's near instant which is awesome and I really like it overall but converting to text is really big as I export QC scripts a lot.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] Smac7:
My problem with snote is that importing removes searchable test which is a big no-no for me. Otherwise I'd probably use it. I am using it for free hand notes and like it for that.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4060977]TheBigSaxon[/MENTION]: There is no handwriting recognition in LectureNotes, but there are several soft keyboards that provide this functionality (meaning that you write with stylus and the keyboard app does as if you typed it).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] boltor:
tstsubi the

So, if your main storage for notes is Evernote, what is recommended as the front end for capture of notes, including handwriting recognition. Don't want to get locked into s note or lecture notes for the actual storage - just looking for advice on the best way to recognise handwriting, capture info etc, and sync seemlessly into Evernote.

any thoughts?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] ChrisNee1988:
Is there any way in S Note to do a vertical page to imitate a sheet of paper like lecture notes can?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] jmwils3:
Yes, there is a portrait template of ruled paper. Or you can use the default landscape ruled paper template, and then just rotate the tablet into portrait mode and it should rotate the page as well.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] aznxkpx88:
:mad:Here is my 2 cents in using snotes and others working with pdfs

Things I like about snote:

Keeps the use of pressure sensitivity. This is something very special about our spens and I like the feel. I want to keep it when I'm writing.

This might sound stupid but this makes the writing feel the most realistic and not so machine like.

Once I'm in the editing mode I stay in the editing mode. Unlike ezpdf and lecturenotes where I have to hit the pen to start writing again and hand/back to scroll. I found this really annoying. For people annotating it may not be an issue but if you're actually taking notes and such it's a pain.

All the other special tricks with spen work in snotes well because it was made for it.

Negatives:

It has to import pdfs...This was the worst. It can't just open it as a pdf and start editing. Probably creating image type files. Not sure how lecturenotes imports pdfs because it's not available for the trial version. I imported a 200+ page pdf and it took longer than expected but now that

I have an expected time frame I may be able to deal with it.

Since it's not keeping the integrity of the pdf it can screw up some things while importing.

I'm a math guy and it screwed up a few notations here and there.

Scrolling...call me lazy but continuous scrolling is beautiful. Although I didn't like the fact that you can't be in between pages in ezpdf. While scrolling and you let go the page will automatically place itself so you see either the previous page or next page on the screen (depending on how far you let the split go past the screen).

Snote's scrolling is swipe or hit arrow right at bottom of screen. Swipe right is too slow. Animations are nice but unnecessary when turning the page. I usually like keeping the writing area in the middle of the screen. Also a reason why I want to be able to put the bottom of the page in the middle. But my hand being in the middle i think its annoying to go down to hit the right arrow. Just me being an annoying *****.

Hope this helps someone out there. =)

Edit: realized I was missing the add on to import pdfs for lecturenotes.

With short use it has a lot that I wanted. Now I dont know what I should use...

Edit 2 played with settings and im purchasing it now
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4515334]aznxkpx88[/MENTION]: There is no need to alternate between `pencil´ and `hand´ mode in LectureNotes: You can scroll/zoom outside the `hand´ mode if you enable `allow two fingers scrolling/zooming´ in the app's input settings. Since you seem to use an S-pen (in which case you should enable `use stylus (hardware detection)´), you can also enable `allow one finger scrolling´ and scroll with one finger.

The constrain on the maximal number of pages per notebook in the trial version applies also to PDF imports.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] notebooko:
I've always had a problem where lecture notes stops responding for a few seconds whenever it is auto saving a file and just assumed it was normal and never got around to asking about it. I have to wait like to 7 seconds for it to stop saving before I can start writing my notes again. Is there a workaround for this or is it just me that it's doing this for?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] dteg:
Doesn't take 7 seconds for me but I definitely get that same period where I can't type.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Themes and Apps] h8Aramex:
Go into Settings. Reduce the auto-save interval or turn the feature off.